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"Shiro-Zangetsu" / "hollowfied vizards"
"Zangetsu-Ossan"
"Other people's zanpakuto talking"
"People mind talking to their zanpakuto"
"The average hollow speaking"
"Tensa Zangetsu"
Chapter 11, Kamigami no niwa,
Kurosaki Ichigo,
Ichigo opened his eyes to somewhere he did not recognise. He was laying down on a smooth surface that was radiating small amounts of heat that had been absorbed from the sun, after some examination it turned out to be a clean stone pathway about five metres wide. On the sides of the pathway were many different kinds of flowers and plants neatly organised by type and colour. No leaves littered the floor and none of the plants overhung the pathway by anymore than an inch, it almost looked as if a gardener had only just come past.
Getting up Ichigo could see over the flowers that had been previously blocking his view. It seemed that I had been randomly placed in the biggest garden to ever exist. The pathways made circles outwards from the centre were there was a pool of clear water filling in the middle circle. Within this area of water was a massive marble statue.
It was a statue of a lady with long hair and a multi-layered kimono, a junihitoe giving of the air of importance. Every inch of the marble fabric was filled with intricate designs of roses, stars and a large crescent moon on each sleeve. In her hand she held a staff that was taller than the entire statue which was made of gold and sekki sekki stone of all things. It was giving of a lot of reiatsu.
I walked closer to it and realised that when I had thought it was huge, it really was huge. Just the feet alone where the entire height of the repentance cell.
When I looked down to see if I was in my soul form or not I realised that I was in my original body scars and all. Except for the fact that I was definitely several feet higher maybe two to three foot taller give or take a few inches.
In fact the only difference with my body was the fact that I was now tall as fuck and I had a clean shihakusho on.
"Oi Zangetsu!"
No answer. But I could still distantly sense them so I saved the panicking for later.
"Ichigo? What are you doing here?" I startled at the voice that had sounded from behind me, it sounded familiar.
"Tsuki! Where the hell are we?" Standing next to him I had something to compare my own hight against. I now knew that the body I currently had was exactly the same height as my soul king friend, right down to the centimetre.
"This place is called Kamigami no niwa, the garden of gods. But I am more interested in how you got here in the first place. You are in an entirely different realm that you shouldn't even know about." Akira looked genuinely confused. Which was how I felt considering I had somehow managed to travel to a different realm in my sleep.
"Look to be honest with you I am not meant to be able to get here myself, the last time I was here was just over one thousand years ago. We should go somewhere else." Tsuki was panicking, he spoke quickly and his eyes were darting about as if watching out for an attack. He took my hand and began running in a seemingly random direction.
We had been running for what seemed like half an hour when we came across an area that was not flowers but trees. Tsuki pulled us of the path and after some climbing through bushes and making our way up a tree Ichigo and Tsuki sat down on the branches. We looked as if we had run a marathon through the woods just after rainfall. Our clothes and faces were covered in mud and our long ass hair was a tangled mess of leaves and twigs.
"What he fuck is going on!?" Ichigo whispered angrily, knowing better than to yell when Tsuki seemed to be trying to hide.
"I should ask the same thing to you! It should be impossible for me to get here and even more impossible for you to get here. You should also not look like that." Tsuki sounded annoyed and irritated but it seemed to be more out of frustration than anything else. "We could be killed just for being here!"
Oh. Well now I understood why we were hiding in a tree.
"So how are we going to get out of here then?"
Tsuki ran his fingers through his hair, a habit that he had almost instantly picked up from being around me, he was stressed. "Look I... I don't know. You said you got here in your sleep? Well I think that you're still asleep and that when you wake up we should both return to where we was before."
"When I wake up?"
"Yes. In order to have the best defence possible this place was built in a way that is similar to a persons inner world."
Kisuke would have a field trip with this.
"So we just need to stay hidden until I wake up."
"Pretty much." Tsuki said in a bored tone. Ichigo sighed.
Sounded like fun to him.
After a few hours,
There wasn't much space in this tree and with two aggitated tall as fuck people it was getting annoying.
"Will you stop elbowing me Ichigo!"
"I don't have many places to hold onto here! I don't want to fall! How about you stop kicking me!"
"Keep losing my footing. How about we both turn around, face each other and grab the braches opposite. No falling of then."
After some swearing and near falls we manged to face each other with our chins on the others shoulder reaching for the branch that was now infront of them. It worked better as now they were leaning against another person and not air.
"Oi who's up there? Fucking hell is that you Mumei?" I heard a groan of pure fustration from Tsuki. And Mumei? That was an intersting thing to call someone.
"You ok?" I whispered to him.
He whispered back, but it was more to himself than me. "Of all people. Not like she will rat us out but she is so darn annoying!"
"Yes it's me but im Akira Tsuki now."
"And he had gained a name! I know you can't give yourself a name so who gave it to you. Was it your time traveling friend up in that tree with you?"
I was not going to have her call me that for the duration of the conversation however long it was going to be,"Its Kurosaki Ichigo!"
"You can come down I am the only person around."
At this we were both pleased. Spending several hours in a tree was no fun at all. We both had small scratches and cuts from the bark and our regeneration had yet to kick in.
"Fucking finally!"
"Tsutsu language! Im guessing you got it from the boy."
Tsuki rubbed the back of his head sheapishly.
"Excuse me for asking but who are you?"
"I cant tell you yet!" The lady seemed overly joyful and happy. She was wearing a white dress that seemed to be covered in... blood, it was tattered and ripped in many places. Around her wrists and neck was heavy looking chains that seemed to cut into her skin. Her hair was bright gold and hung loosely on her shoulders. Her eyes were a deep red and around her eyes were large black circles of many sleepless nights. She wore no shoes but their were more chains wrapped around her ankles, her sickly pale skin blistered and cut from where they had been in place for so long.
"You sound like a god damn zanpakuto spirit."
"Yes but if I told you who I was now I would get bored! And Tsuki don't you dare tell him!" She jabbed her finger on his chest and was real close to him.
"I wont!" Tsuki raised his hands in surrender.
"Ok well..."
She was cut of by me and Tsuki being teleported to a different location. It was a field of white roses. There was no stars, clouds, moon or sun in the sky, it was pure black.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, Akira Tsuki, You have trespassed into a realm you do not belong leave at once!"
We both covered our ears as the voice, or voices as it seemed as if every soul to exist had spoken at once, was far to loud. The sound left my head flowers wilted and my nose was assaulted with a smell I knew well. I could smell the strong metallic smell of blood and the smell of decaying bodies.
Ichigo, Awake,
I opened my eyes to the familiar room on a pile of pillows and blankets. Next to me was Shiro who looked concerned and was trying to shake me awake.
"Oi Ichi wake te hell up!"
"Don't worry i'm awake."
In the corner of my eye I noticed Kisuke slowly making his way towards me. "Ichigo are you ok? Your spirits said that you were not in your body nor your inner world. We was very concerned."
Before Ichigo could answer a senkaimon opened in the same room as them. Out of it came a golden butterfly and Tsuki. He looked just as bad as I did, hair stuck down to his face and an expression of fear over his normally happy features. He was not wearing his normal clothes, he had a normal shihakusho on and a sword in hand.
"Who are you!" Kisuke had released benihime.
"Calm down he's fine!" The shopkeeper looked from me to Tsuki a few times before sheathing his sword back in its cane form.
"Hey Akira please slow down!" From the still open senkaimon came one Kirio Hikifune, "You know your faster than me!" She stood there with her hands on her knees breathing heavily. I felt a little sorry for her.
"Akira? WAIT A MINUTE YOUR.."
"Yes I am I know your a smart person so you get to do all the thinking for the problems that have been popping up."
Kisuke looked depressed that he had just been handed work even though he was an exile.
"Tsuki!" In show of our normal greeting I proceeded to climb him like a climbing frame until I was seated on his shoulders. Even without his haori he still managed to pull cookies from somewhere. I ate them before Shiro could steal them from me.
"Now how can I help the soul king?"
"Well..."
This delved into a lengthy explanation of what had just happened, neither of us left out our anger with the god darn tree and by the end of it Kisuke had filled seven notebooks with information and to my delight I had consumed many more cookies. During the conversation I learnt many more things that Tsuki had been unable to tell me earlier. Where I believed that he had been holding information out on me it turns out that he was missing large chunks of his memory from anywhere before the creation of the gotei 13.
"This is certainly interesting. I will look over the information that you have given me and see if I can come up with anything."
At this Tsuki joined me and Shiro on the pillow pile declaring that he was going to take a nap. I joined him and just hoped that it wouldn't cause any more dimension traveling.
This is short.
Sorry. I have been busy and I will try to get out a longer chapter next time. But things are happening. Any information on Japanese clothing comes from the wiki and any translated words comes from google translate. I hope you have enjoyed and that my storyline will not be two out of whack for bleach.
Anyways..
See you in the next chapter!