Chapter 11
"Bankai." Luis said.
An enormous amount of spirit energy flowed all around him. Once the spirit energy cleared, Luis was now in Ichigo's Bankai form.
Senna looked at him, "Ichigo? Are you really Ichigo?" She kept asking with confusion.
"Let me handle this." Luis said.
He charged head on toward the real Ichigo with full speed. Ichigo lifted up his head showing no sign of his appearance, he was in his complete hollow form and his eyes were completely yellow. Luis pulled his katana back and slashed it down across Ichigo's chest. Ichigo looked down at where he was cut and showed no mark at all.
"What the hell?" Luis asked.
Ichigo swung his arm back sending Luis flying far away. His arms dropped like they were dead weight and slowly walked his way toward Luis's direction.
"Ugh… that son of a bitch." Luis said, while rubbing his head.
He got himself back up and saw that Ichigo was coming right after him. He charged at Ichigo once again, while forming spirit energy into his katana. Ichigo lifted up his arm while Luis swung his katana at him causing a massive explosion. The others covered their heads trying to keep their ground. Luis looked at Ichigo and saw that he caught his katana without leaving a scratch on his hand.
"Hmm… All right then Ichigo, seeing how you lost control over your powers. There's just one thing you don't know. I can take that form as well and yet, I can control it."
"Wait what? Take that form? So… that's not the real Ichigo then?" Senna asked in confusion.
"Apparently not, the one in the released form is the real Ichigo…" Yoruichi said.
"But how? They both have the same looks and same power…" Ryo asked.
"I don't know exactly how." Yoruichi said, while they all turned their attention back to the fight.
Luis swung his katana at Ichigo once again, while Ichigo just caught it with his hand again.
"You're starting to really piss me off!" Luis yelled.
Ichigo couldn't say a thing since he was still out of control.
"All right Ichigo, I'm going to wrap this up." Luis said.
He backed away a bit as an enormous amount of spirit energy spun all around him. Ichigo stood in his spot watching what he was planning on doing. Once the spirit energy stopped forming around Luis, it caused an explosion. Everyone had their eyes on where Luis was standing. Once the smoke cleared, a pair of white arms with red lines on them were shown, long orange hair hanging down the back, a pair of white legs with red lines as well, a piece of his soul reaper outfit was covering his waist and down to his knees, and a minotaur shaped head was shown as well.
Luis lifted his head up now in Ichigo's released form, "Try and keep up." He said in a hollow-like tone.
Luis vanished instantly, while Ichigo looked around looking for any trace of his spiritual pressure. A crack formed below Ichigo catching him off guard as Luis came shooting out from the ground and punching up at Ichigo's chin sending him flying into the sky. Luis quickly vanished again and appeared above Ichigo and slammed his foot down on his head sending him crashing through the ground. Luis remained up in the sky looking down at where Ichigo crashed. Ichigo came floating out from the ground with his arms hanging down dead weight along with his head looking down and with black and red spirit energy spinning around him.
"What the hell?" Luis asked himself.
Ichigo looked up at Luis and lifted his arm up pointing up at him. He realized what he was about to do and pointed down at him as well. They both fired their ceros at each other. As there ceros collided causing a massive explosion sending Ryo and a couple others flying back as well. Luis looked down seeing if he was still down there but then felt his presence behind him. He turned around but then was kicked by him making him slam into a building. Ichigo remained there frozen watching Luis crash through a building and going out the other side. Luis finally stopped himself from going any further dashed through the building again but going right after Ichigo. Luis shot several ceros at him while still charging at him. Ichigo looked at all the ceros coming at him and lifted his arm up, then swing it down causing all the ceros fire right back at Luis. He chuckled throwing his katana straight at Ichigo as it cut through the ceros. Ichigo easily dodged his katana but then was sent flying down at the ground with Luis right on his tail. Once Ichigo slammed into the ground making a huge crater Luis landed right on him making the pain worse. Everyone just remained in their spots watching the fight and was having trouble trying to keep up of who's who. Luis looked down at the back of Ichigo's head and placed his foot on it.
"You see Ichigo, those who can control their power can be stronger than those who can't." He said.
Luis lifted up his leg getting ready to deliver the final blow. Spirit energy started shooting out from Ichigo's back making Luis to shoot himself into the sky keeping his distance, Ichigo's spirit energy was taking a form of large spiked claws. Luis looked down at him with no surprise as spirit energy shot out of his back as well taking the same shape. Ichigo got back on his feet turning his attention up to see that Luis was charging right after him. Luis swung his katana along with Ichigo as their katana both collided at one another causing an explosion of spirit energy. The claws on Ichigo's back reached out in front of him swiping Luis's chest. Luis quickly jumped back seeing a massive cut go down from his shoulder to his gut. Luis looked back over to see that Ichigo was gone and quickly looked around trying to sense his presence. Luis stopped and quickly turned around just for Ichigo to pierce him through his chest with his katana. Luis's eyes widened and looked down at his chest watching blood pour out from the hole in his chest. Ichigo pulled out his katana, while Luis grinned and swung his arm across Ichigo's head sending him crashing into a wall. Luis quickly charged at him before his power vanishes and slammed his feet onto Ichigo's back making the pain worse. Luis grabbed Ichigo by the arm and threw him down at the ground making another crater. Ichigo's hollow armor was crumbling, while he tried to lift himself up slowly then was slammed back down by Luis landing on his back. Luis landed several punches packed with spirit energy in each hit causing to make Ichigo's armor crumble in pieces. Luis pulled back his left arm leaking all his spirit energy into his fist for the last hit and slammed it into Ichigo's back causing an explosion. Once the explosion eased down and the smoke cleared, Luis was still standing on him as his spirit energy has reached its limit and turned back into his true form. Ichigo laid there back in his normal soul reaper form.
Luis looked down at him, "Still breathing huh? Oh well no matter, I'll finish it."
Luis looked down at Ichigo's side and saw his katana. He reached down grabbing his katana then stood back up on his back pointing the katana at the back of Ichigo's head.
"Goodbye Ichigo." Luis said.
He shot his arms down then was stopped by Yoruichi already in her shunpo form and kicked him sending him slamming into a wall. The rest of the gang came up protecting Ichigo making sure Luis doesn't get a hold of him. Yoruichi turned her attention back to where Luis crashed into and realized he wasn't there. They all quickly looked around not feeling his spiritual pressure. Luis appeared behind Yoruichi and swung his leg to the side kicking her in the ribs sending her flying. Luis held out his arm pointing at Ichigo and was absorbing some of his spirit energy and took his form again. Uryu jumped into the air and fired several spirit arrows down at Luis. He looked up at the arrows coming down and swung his sword up shooting a spirit energy wave up at him breaking through the arrows. Uryu quickly dodged it and then was sent crashing into the ground by Luis. Yoruichi appeared behind Luis throwing a punch at him, but he caught her fist and brought her arm to her back along with himself.
He leaned his head in closer to her ear, "All of you don't stand a chance." He said.
He placed his foot on her back and kicked her down crashing into the ground. Soifon charged up at him stabbing him in his chest with her suzumebachi making a black butterfly appear on him. He looked down at it then quickly punched her on her stomach then kicking her down right onto Yoruichi. He covered his chest with spirit energy making the butterfly marking vanish. He turned around to see Chad charging right after him with his right arm covered with spirit energy. Luis held up his arm, while Chad threw his fist right at him causing an explosion of spirit energy. Chad looked up and saw that Luis had his fist in his grasp. Luis kneed him in his gut then threw him down crashing in the ground next to Yoruichi and Soifon. Luis looked back at Yoruichi and lowered himself to the ground making his way to her. He stopped by her reaching down grabbing her by the neck and lifting her up into the air. He looked at her with annoyance and grabbed his katana with his other hand. He lifted up his arm pointing the tip of the katana right at her throat.
"I'll just kill you all." Luis said pulling back his arm.
Yoruichi struggled trying to get free from his grasp, but it was no good. Luis pulled back his arm with the tip of the katana still lined up with her throat. Just as soon as Luis shot his arm forward, the katana he had in his hand was no longer there. He looked at his hand wondering what just happened and turned his attention back at Ichigo's body, which was still lying there. Luis raised an eyebrow curious of how the katana vanished when no one could've caused such a thing.
"Damn it, my time must be running out." Luis said.
After the fight he had with Ichigo, he was still exhausted and didn't have much spirit energy left in him. He turned his attention back at Yoruichi and felt someone right behind him. His eyes widened knowing who it was and slowly turned around with fear. Once he turned around, he was now looking right into the eyes of Ichigo who was in his normal form now. Luis quickly dropped Yoruichi and back away from Ichigo slowly waving his hands in front of him, while Ichigo slowly walked toward Luis with hatred in his eyes.
"Come on Ichigo, all I wanted to do was test out and see how strong you truly were." Luis said, while still waving his hands in front of him and backing up as well.
Ichigo held out his arm as his katana appeared back in his hand and kept walking toward him. Luis's time was up as he turned into his normal form and kept backing up trying to think of a way to get away from him. Ichigo stopped in his place making Luis wonder why he did. Luis kept backing up and was stopped by something keeping him from going any further. He turned around to see that he was stopped and now trapped between a wall and Ichigo. He turned back around to look at Ichigo right into his eyes, which were still flaming with hatred.
"Come on Ichigo, I wasn't planning on killing anyone." He said, while still trying to find a way out of this.
Ichigo pulled back his arm with his katana still in his hand. Luis reacted to this quickly by using the last of his spirit energy to make a katana appear in his hand. Ichigo quickly swung his katana across his neck decapitating him before he could do anything. Luis's head just fell to the ground in front as his body fell to its knees and dropped dead on its stomach. Ichigo looked down at of what used to be Luis and dropped his katana and fell to his knees breathing heavily. Yoruichi along with all the others turned their attention over to him, while Yoruichi got up and made her way to him. As she made her way to him, she was worried that he may not be his normal self and might still be out of control still. She stopped behind him placing her hand on his shoulder hoping that it was the real him. He showed no reaction and kept breathing heavily not knowing what was happening.
"Ichigo?" Yoruichi asked with a worried.
He slowly got himself up, while his breathing started to ease down a bit. She backed up a bit wondering what he was doing. He turned around not looking at her or the others that were a few feet away behind her. He walked right past her then stopped turning his attention back seeing that Yoruichi and the others felt it to. Several of pink small sword fragments were flowing around as Byakuya appeared in the middle of it all. Yoruichi along with the others were all curious of why he's here. On the other hand, Ichigo showed no reaction to this, not even a single movement.
Byakuya looked over at Ichigo, "Ichigo, you're needed in the Soul Society tomorrow. That's all I came here for." He said.
"Who's that?" Ryo asked.
"That's Byakuya Kuchiki, the captain of squad six." Soifon answered.
He turned his attention over to Soifon, "I see you're enjoying your time here captain Soifon." He said.
"Well other than what just happened, yes I am." She answered.
Byakuya closed his eyes, while Yoruichi and all the others turned their attention back at Ichigo wanting to know his answer.
"Fine." Was all he said.
Byakuya nodded then vanished, while Yoruichi walked over to him. She stopped by his side seeing how he didn't move his attention ever since Byakuya appeared.
"Ichigo?" She asked with a worried tone.
"What?"
"Are you all right?"
"I'd rather not talk about it right now, I just want to get some rest." He answered.
Yoruichi sighed but was relieved to see that he was at least his normal self again. She turned around making her way back to the others.
"I think he wants to be alone." Yoruichi said to them.
They all nodded getting back up on their feet walking away and were no longer in his sight. Ichigo just looked at Luis's remains and where he was held captive for a little time.
"Just think about it, since your friends think it's really you, just imagine, those girls going all on him thinking it's the real you when it's really Luis. They'll just keep doing what they usually do with you but with Luis instead."
When Kenny told him that, it kept popping into his head wondering if his friends would've ever found it. He sighed just putting it aside and looked up at the sky. Little did he know though that someone was watching everything that had happened from an alley. The person was wearing a black coat with the hood on, he was quite short but the coat he was wearing was the same as Kenny and Luis's. He walked out from the alley heading over to Ichigo, while grabbing something out from his coat. He stopped right behind him and realized that he wasn't even spotted yet, while he pulled out a giant scythe that had bells hanging over the handle of it.
"You must be Ichigo Kurosaki." The person said.
Ichigo quickly turned around, while the person swung his scythe across Ichigo's neck. Ichigo could still see and move wondering what was that supposed to even do. He turned around to see that he was gone.
"Huh… wonder what that was supposed to do." He said to himself.
He looked around to see if he could sense his spiritual energy or not and then realized that it was starting to get dark. He sighed as he placed his hands in his pockets making his way back home. A few minutes have passed and Ichigo was standing in front of his house. He jumped up through his opened window, then closing it once he was in. He realized that no one else was in his room, not Kon, not Rukia, and not even Nel. He shrugged not caring right now as he took his clothes off except for his boxers and threw himself onto his bed wanting to get some sleep. He closed his eyes drifting into a peaceful sleep, as the night remained quiet.
Morning
As the sun's light lit up Ichigo's room, he slowly opened his eyes wanting more sleep. He shot up out of bed remembering what Byakuya told him yesterday. He instantly turned into his soul reaper form, leaving his body lying in bed. He closed his eyes taking in a deep breath then opening his eyes again. He unsheathed his sword opening a senkaimon making a portal to the soul society open. He walked into the senkaimon as it closed up behind him. As time passed by, Ichigo reached the end and was now in the soul society. Once he stepped out of the senkaimon, it vanished and he was now looking around the soul society.
"It's been so long since I've been here." He said to himself.
He turned his attention to his right to see Rangiku and a few other people, "Hey Rangiku!"
She turned around to see Ichigo and just when she did so, a white spiritual dragon shot up in the air then swooped down at them. They all easily dodged it by shifting to the side. The dragon shot back into the air as it dove back down, but towards Ichigo this time. Ichigo trapped himself inside his own spirit energy, as it vanished, he was in his bankai form along with his hollow mask on. As the dragon was approaching closer to him, Ichigo swung his sword down cutting it in half. The remains of the dragon went past him and formed into two dragons this time.
"What the hell?" He asked to himself.
The dragons didn't come back after them as it made its way around the society. Ichigo turned back around facing Rangiku then was surrounded by all of the people.
"That mask, are you responsible for this?" Rangiku asked.
Ichigo took his mask off, "Rangiku it's me, Ichigo."
"Arrest him!" Rangiku ordered.
"What?" Ichigo yelled in confusion.
The group of soul reapers charged at him with their swords in their hands. Ichigo easily stopped all of their attacks then released a wave of his spiritual pressure sending them all back. He turned around to see even more coming after him. He ran the opposite way trying to find a way out of this. He looked back to see that they were still chasing him, as he turned back to face what was in front of him he bumped into a taller figure. He looked up to see captain Komamura.
"Captain Komamura." Ichigo stated.
"I'll destroy you intruder!" Komamura yelled, while a several amount of spirit energy was spinning around him.
"Bankai!" An entire giant rose up behind him, which is about a hundred meters tall. It wielded a sword with a guard similar to Komamura's, but with a different blade and with a string hanging from the hilt. The giant took the form of an armored samurai, "Kokujo Tengen Myo'o."
Ichigo quickly jumped back and into the sky. Komamura swung his arm, which made the giant do the same right at him. Ichigo easily blocked it holding his katana out in front of him to stop the punch. Ichigo placed his hand on his face again sliding it down to make his mask appear once again.
"Getsuga Tenshou!" Ichigo yelled, swinging his katana shooting out black spirit blasts at the giant.
Komamura was having trouble blocking each attack as the giant kept getting pushed back. Ichigo swung his katana once more shooting another blast which caused the giant to fall back along with Komamura.
"Roar! Zabimaru!"
Ichigo turned around to see Renji, "Renji! What the hell?"
"How do you know my name?" Renji asked.
"It's me, Ichigo!"
"Ichigo? I don't know you!" Renji yelled flinging his sword as Zabimaru charged at him.
Ichigo sighed as he swung his katana down at Zabimaru making it break into pieces. Renji's eyes widened watching his zanpakuto get crushed into pieces. He turned around to see an ice dragon collide against his katana. He swung his katana down shattering the ice dragon into pieces.
"Toshiro!" Ichigo yelled, to see him appear in front of him.
"How do you know my name intruder?" He asked.
"It's me, Ichigo!"
"Doesn't ring a bell." He said, while throwing another ice dragon right at him.
"Why the hell can't anyone remember me?" Ichigo demanded to know.
Toshiro charged at Ichigo catching him off guard. He swung his sword at him, but Ichigo easily blocked it, and kicked him aside.
"Ah hahaha! Someone to actually fight against!"
Ichigo knew that voice from anywhere and quickly blocked Kenpachi's attack. Kenpachi grabbed Ichigo by his neck and threw him down to the ground then charged down right at him. Ichigo got up shaking his head then looked back up to see Kenpachi coming right after him. He quickly jumped to the side as Kenpachi slammed into the ground where Ichigo was thrown at.
"Well Kenpachi, you still seem to act all tough and all, but you still can't beat me." Ichigo taunted him.
"How do you know my name?" Kenpachi asked.
"Not worth…" He stopped his statement and quickly dodged another ice dragon coming from Toshiro.
He turned his attention to Toshiro, which he was now in his bankai form. Toshiro didn't waste anytime and charged right after Ichigo along with Kenpachi coming from the other side. Ichigo looked both ways, as they were about to close in on him then felt another presence coming. He looked above him to see the giant samurai's sword coming down at him. Kenpachi along with Toshiro quickly moved out of the way as the samurai slammed its sword down on Ichigo causing a smokescreen to block everyone's vision. As the smoke cleared, Ichigo was grinning as he had the giant's sword in his hand and just tossed the samurai over his shoulder toward Toshiro. Ichigo brushed the dust off his shoulder and turned his attention over to Kenpachi.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Aren't you going to attack me?" Ichigo kept taunting him.
Toshiro took this chance and charged right at Ichigo from behind. Ichigo showed no hesitation or anything as he quickly turned around and swung his katana up at Toshiro cutting off his left wing. He grabbed Toshiro by the other wing and cut it off as well then tossed him over to Kenpachi. He turned his attention back over to where the samurai was and saw that it was still lying on the ground hopeless then turned back over to Kenpachi and Toshiro.
"Is that all three captains can do? Come on, I haven't even broke a sweat." He taunted again.
"Enough!" They all turned their attention to the left to see the rest of the captains coming up.
Ichigo's eyes widened especially to see head captain Yamamoto, "I want this intruder arrested immediately. I'm ordering all captains to take this intruder down now!" Yamamoto demanded.
"Yes sir!" Yelled all the captains as they charged at Ichigo.
"Shit!" He yelled and jumped up into the sky.
He looked down to see all the captains coming up after him. He stopped where he was and looked above him to see Soifon.
"Soifon, it's me, Ichigo." He tried to get her to remember.
"I don't care who you are, you're going to regret trying to destroy the soul society!" She yelled.
"Damn it!" He yelled then looked back down to see that Shunsui had a grip on his left leg, Jushiro had a grip on his right leg, Byakuya had his a grip on his left arm, and Soifon had his right arm. They all lowered themselves down to the ground still holding onto Ichigo, while head captain Yamamoto walked toward to where they were going to land.
"Captain Yamamoto, please stop." Ichigo was thinking of how to get out of this.
Yamamoto raised an eyebrow, "How do you know my name intruder?"
"It's me, Ichigo Kurosaki, the substitute soul reaper."
"I don't know any substitute soul reaper." Yamamoto stated.
Ichigo kept trying to break free from the captain's grip, "But no matter, put him in prison." Yamamoto demanded.
"Damn it." Ichigo said then released a wave of his spirit energy pushing all the captains back and jumped back up at the sky.
"After him!" Yamamoto yelled.
"Yes sir!" They all replied.
"Guess there's no stopping them." Ichigo said to himself.
He slid his hand down his face again to once again bring his hollow mask back on and waited for the captains to get closer. Right when they were inches away from attacking Ichigo, they all vanished. He looked down to realize that even captain Yamamoto was also gone. He looked around to find out that they weren't in his sight and couldn't even feel their spiritual pressure.
"What the hell?" He asked himself in confusion, while still looking around.
"They won't be back for awhile."
Ichigo turned around to see whom it was and could tell who it was due to what he was wearing.
"You're that… other guy's partner…" He stated.
"Yep."
"What the hell is going on?" Ichigo demanded to know.
"Don't worry about that, you can call me Shizuku by the way, because it's over for you."
