The characters in this fan fiction are property of Tite Kubo, Viz Media, Shonen Jump and the others, I do not own and part of the Bleach manga/anime series. I am not nor have I ever made any money of Bleach series.
This is a fan fiction about Ichigo , Hiyori, and somewhat about Rukia . Many things about this story are the same as in the current continuity of Bleach while some things are vastly different.
Chapter 11
Ichigo couldn't believe his ears, "Soul Reapers LET your grandfather be killed by hollows?"
Hiyori on the other hand, remained silent, she already knew full well what the Soul Society was capable of. She just concentrated of killing the hollows that continued to charge them.
"You see, my grandfather told me about the annihilation of the Quincys, and to him it didn't matter who was right or wrong." Uryu said to Ichigo without looking. "All that mattered, was that he never wanted again to see the sadness on the faces of humans and Soul Reapers ever again."
"My grandfather, who was also my Sensei, was a kind person, and taught me never to hate anyone, without a very good reason…"Uryu said, as he sent another energy arrow into the head of a hollow.
Ichigo jumped and brought his sword down, slicing the head of a hollow off, before saying "Then why was he killed by Soul Reapers?"
Uryu looked down for a moment before answering. "As one of last Quincys, The Soul Society had a constant eye on him… he argued new ways of working together to hill hollows, but they didn't listen, and condemned his Ideas. They just wanted him gone, so he wouldn't be a thorn in there sides anymore."
Ichigo, face was that of confusion as Uryu continued to kill approaching hollows and speak to him. "It wasn't long, however, before an opportunity came for them to be rid of him. One day he was attacked by hollows, and they purposely, didn't show up on the scene for almost an hour later,…. after he was already dead."
"They never listened to him , even though he was right.. He wanted nothing more then for Quincys and Soul Reapers to work together for a common good, of ridding the world of hollows. His ides of cooperation would have worked, if they had listened to him…"Uryu said, looking at Ichigo. "Now do you see?, This is why I must show you the strength of the Quincys!"
"That does it! Shut the hell up you stupid friken moron!" Hiyori yelled, as she jump-kicked him in in the back of his head. "You talk to damn much!"
Ichigo scowled in agreement. "You got that right… And part of what you said doesn't make since though. Didn't you say he wanted Soul reapers to work together? Well when has there been a better time for that to happen then for two Soul Reapers and a Quincy to fight together against hollows?."
"Now, Lets fight back to back!" Ichigo said grinning, with Hiyori grinning back as she gripped her sword . Uryu gave a small almost unseen smile, as he readied his bow. " And kick some hollow ass!"
Close by, on a bridge, Orihime and Chad watched as Ichigo, Hiyori, and Uryu got back to back and begin to fight against the hollows again. "It's hard to take it all in , at once like this isn't it Chad?" Orihime said, staring out at the three fighting the monsters.
"Hmm.. I guess it is, Orihime.." Chad said, standing beside her.
"Are you scared? I am …" Orihime said, biting her lip. " And I'm not sure about what to do either.."
Yeah I'm scared.." Chad said, calmly. "But I've always trusted Ichigo and wherever he goes, I'll follow him. That's the way it's always been."
"I guess your right" Orihime said , smiling. "I trust Ichigo too, and.. I guess I'll also follow him to wherever he goes… Wait, what's that?"
Chad followed Orihime's finger as it pointed into the sky. The crack in the sky was getting bigger and bigger and it seemed like something was trying to break through.
As Uryu, Ichigo and Hiyori continued to fight, Uryu said. " I agree that we should fight together to stop this.. But even though you know my reason,.. What are your reasons for fighting?"
Ichigo sliced sideways through two small hollows that jumped at him, before saying. " I've only been a Soul reaper for a short while but I'm not fighting for no reason either… When I was little.. My mother was killed by a hollow…. It happened right before my eyes."
Uryu's eyes went wide. He lost a love one to a hollow at a young age like I did?…
"That's the reason I'm doing this.. My sisters.. When mom died they were so upset that one of them tried to take over the house responsibilities that mom had, like cleaning and cooking… and my other sister , she became ,.. almost uncaring in a way, withdrawn.. Never showing much emotion other then anger, so very different then she used to be.." Ichigo said, looking down. "When that happened, I made a promise to myself that I would never let anyone one else go through what me and my family had been through. This carried over when I became a Soul Reaper, And I said I would use my power.. To make sure I never again, had to see the sadness on the faces of others ever again."
Uryu smiled , as Ichigo said words that resembled his grandfather's own. But his smile disappeared when he saw the cracks in the sky grow larger and larger by the second. "Ichigo , Hiyori.. The sky!"
Two giant hands and an a white face pushed through, as the cracks became a opening. "What the fuck is that?" Ichigo exclaimed, out loud. "Hiyori do you know what it is ?"
Uryu and Ichigo looked at her as they waited for her answer. She though for a minute, then said. "Hmmm. I'm not entirely, sure.. It's looks like something I once read about in the Soul Society. A giant creature, related to the hollows."
Suddenly a large number of the hollows near them, were blasted away. They saw Ururu standing there with a large, strange cannon on her shoulder. With a blush across her face, she bowed and said, "Um.. he.. hello Ichigo.. Are you alright?"
"Ururu?" Ichigo said with a smile on his face " Thanks for the help. But what are you doing here and what is that thing?"
"It's called a Menos Grande, young Ichigo and friends" Said Urahara, appearing behind Ururu. "but don't worry, we've come to help!"
They looked behind him, and saw Jinta, holding a large club and Tessai ,cracking his knuckles. "do not worry Ichigo, We will deal with the hollows, you three take care of the Menos" Tessai said as he raced forward, and using the palm of his hand he uppercutted and slammed a hollow by it's face, into the ground, killing it.
"Oh no , A Menos!" Rukia said, as she stopped running close by where the others were. "I've got to help them!"
But as she tried to move she found herself being held in place by an invisible, but powerful force. She looked to her right with strained eyes, and saw Urahara standing there, fanning himself. She tried to move and speak, but she found herself unable to do anything but collapse to the ground in her knees, sweating. "Like before , you couldn't help them, even if you truly wanted to ." Urahara said, watching as the Menos broke through the opening. " Besides, this is something that needs to happen, for them.. And for you."
Exactly what he meant.. She couldn't tell, and could only sit and once again be power less to help her friend. All she could think was, Please be alright, when this is over, Ichigo…
Meanwhile, Ichigo decided the best way was a frontal assault against the Menos, and he charged forward at it , before Either Uryu or Hiyori could stop him "Ichigo! Wait, what are you doing, you dumbass!" Hiyori yelled, chasing after him.
Ichigo jump at and brought his Zanpaktou down against one of the legs of the Menos. Even though he cut into it's leg, it didn't seemed to care much, and brushed him aside like a annoying fly. Ichigo tumbled to a stop after being knocked away. He sat up and was almost knocked aback by Hiyori, who was hugging him. She pulled away smiling and said " I'm glad your alright.."
But then Hiyori's happy face turned into a angry one, with her punching him in his nose so hard he though she may have broken it. " … but what the fuck were you thinking? You could have died, then where I be with you gone ,huh?"
"Hiyori, what do you taking about?" Ichigo started, as clueless as always, but was interrupted by Uryu.
"Indeed , just what was your plan, running at it like that?" Uryu asked ,looking at him.
"Plan? What plan?" Ichigo said , standing up, and holding his nose that was bleeding. " Well I guess you could say my plan was to cut it down till it's face was level with me, then I'd whack it on the head!"
Hiyori and Uryu's face vaulted and mentally smacked themselves.
"Your lucky we need you conscious right now, or I'd beat you black and blue for this, Ichigo " Hiyori said, standing next to him. "In fact, to make sure you don't do anything else stupid, crouch down!"
Ichigo looked down at her, " Crouch down,.. why?"
"Piggy back ride." Hiyori said looking away ,with a red face. " If I'm not right on top of you ,you'll end up getting yourself killed on me"
Ichigo grumble something under his breath, but crouched down, and hoisted her up on his back "anyways…" Uryu said, putting his hand on Ichigo's sword. But whatever he was about to say was forgotten, when his energy bow became huge and almost unstable with power. This is.. Ichigo's Spiritual Pressure! It's .. it's impossibly powerful! Uryu thought in surprise. Since my arrows fire are made of Spiritual Pressure, … that's it!
"Ichigo, Hiyori, I think I have an Idea!" Uryu said.
Five minutes later, Uryu was standing in front of him with Ichigo's sword tied on top of his head, while readied a powerful and very large energy arrow. "This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever done in my entire life, " Ichigo said, looking disgusted. "Even stupider, then that time I agreed to that Karate match against Tatsuki, loser becomes the winner's slave for a week"
"It's too stupid for words" Hiyori replied, still on Ichigo's back, holding onto him. "This will never work, four eyes."
"That may be, but this will work" Uryu said, readying himself. " All you have to do is push out your maximum Spiritual energy in to your sword. I'll use it to fire powerful energy arrows at the Menos!"
Ichigo looked at him blankly. "Umm… how exactly, do I release my Spiritual energy?"
"What are you talking about? , you're a Soul Reaper!" Uryu yelled at him standing up. " If you can't use Spirit energy, then how have you been fighting hollows all this time?"
"I guess with instinct and using what Hiyori taught me about fighting." Ichigo said, scratching his head. "And I guess my Spirit energy is always at maximum, I do give off a lot of Spiritual Energy right?"
At full all the time? That's impossible! No Soul Reaper has that much energy! Uryu thought, while wide eyed. While that might explain things… how does he have so much Spiritual Energy? I just don't understand…
Suddenly they all heard a loud growl and they looked up at the Menos. A small, but growing orb of red energy was beginning to form at it's mouth. Hiyori almost panicked when she saw this. "Ichigo, it's going to fire a Cero!"
As he ran up to the Menos again, he looked aback at her. "What the hell's a Cero?"
"It a beam of highly concentrated Spiritual energy! It will disintegrate everything in it's path!" She answered back , as Ichigo came to a stop and she jumped off his back. "We should be running the other way, Dumbass!"
Then as she spoke the Menos fired it's Cero downward at them. She snapped her eyes shut, and snaked her arms around Ichigo's waist hugging him from behind, as prepared for it to hit them. But her death never came, so she opened her eyes. What she, made her gasp slightly, Ichigo was reflecting the Beam with his Zanpaktou!
Not far away, Uryu was equally surprised. I get it now! ,He thought. Ichigo's Spiritual power is always on… In fact I think its like a bathtub filled with water, with the body being the tub and the water representing the Spiritual power.. Most people would plug the tub up somewhat ,to keep the water from escaping too fast. But for Ichigo it's like he doesn't have plug but it's still kept filled to the top of the tub with water, or Spiritual Pressure, by a constant resupplying of water.
Ichigo's Spiritual Pressure began to rise, and with one mighty, upward swing, He made a deep cut into to the Menos, that ran from its feet to the top of it's head. The Menos sent a loud deafening hollow, it was in pain, and grabbed onto the sides of the open it came through and began to pull them up as it began retreated back inside.
The same thoughts ran through the minds of everyone there at that moment, He forced the Menos to retreat! What kind of power does he have?
"He's really amazing isn't he, mister Tessai?" Ururu asked, smiling with her cheeks red.
Tessai nodded to her. "Indeed he is Ururu, no wonder both the boss, and Miss Sarugaki, think so highly of him"
"Ha take that, Uryu!" Ichigo shouted grinning. Then before he could take a single step , he collapsed forward. If not for Hiyori catching him, he might have hit the ground. "Ichigo? Are you ok?" She asked, laying him down.
"He's just exhausted, Hiyori" Urahara said, crouching down near her. "He asleep, and probably will for at least a day or so. Well take him home, and after some rest, he'll just fine, so don't you worry about your little boyfriend at all."
As he grinned, she punch him between his legs, causing him to grunt in pain before collapsing on the ground himself. "Your …. punches… are as painful…. as ever…" he managed to say , while still in pain.
"Come on Tessai, carry Ichigo back to the store, will ya?" Hiyori yelled, to him.
Nearby, Rukia, who was still sitting on the ground, said. "It wont take long for this to reach the Soul Society. I can only hope, Ichigo is safe from…. whatever they decide to do about this…"
Later that night two Figures, dressed in black robes and armed with swords, stood in the sky.
"So this is are mission huh?" One of them with red hair asked as he adjusted some large visor style sunglasses.
"Yes, to locate and capture or kill the target…" The other, a taller, man with long black hair said, in a slow formal tone.
The taller ,black haired man then walked forward in the air " Come lieutenant,.. We must track down our target.. Rukia Kuchiki"
The next day at school, class had already begun 3rd period, when Uryu walking in late. The teacher looked over as he walked in. " Oh Uryu your.. Wait, what happened to your arms!" Miss. Ochi asked, concerned.
Uryu adjusted his glasses, and said, " Over the weekend I slipped and fell down a few stairs. May I take a seat?"
She blinked in surprise, but said " Oh, uh yeah, go ahead. Have a seat and we'll continue where we left off"
Uryu took his a seat, and looked over at Ichigo. He too had bandages on him, as well as a band-aid on his cheek and forehead. "Yo, Uryu!" Ichigo said in a low voice. "What really happened? Was it something from the , uh, "contest" thing?"
Uryu shook his head slightly, and then responded "No , I truly did slip and fall down the stairs. I stepped in some tea, that splashed out from a cup I was carrying." He pulled his book s out his bag, before continuing. "Fortunately, I was on the last few stairs at the bottom when I fell, it could have been much worse."
Ichigo nodded before, trying to stretch his legs, under his desk. This wouldn't have been a problem, except, Hiyori was exhausted from the massive hollow battle from the day before. And she was currently had her chair pushed up close to his and was laying down with her head on his lap, sleeping like a rock.
Some of the girls in the class, like, Orihime ,Michiru and Rukia though this was very cute, but Ichigo just frowned and when he asked how it was cute, when his younger sisters use to fall asleep on his lap when they were younger, they only thought it was even cuter. He shook his head in annoyance, I just don't understand girls, and probably never will.
Meanwhile across town, Ururu and Jinta were sweeping the outside of Urahara shop. Well Ururu was sweeping ,and blushing as she thought about how cool Ichigo was the day before. And Jinta was swinging his sword around, claiming it was his sword. Ururu then heard a meow, and looked over to see a black cat standing there.
She reached over and slid open the store's door. "Mr. Tessai, Mr. Kisuke? There's a kitty outside, a black one."
Urahara and Tessai walked out and Urahara raced over and scooped up the cat into his arms " Why hello there, and welcome back Mr. Yoruichi!"
Jinta, who had stopped fooling around, watch this as he stood next to Tessai. " Hey, what's up with the black cat, Tessai?"
"Hmm? Oh that Mr. Yoruichi, him and the boss are very good friends" Replied Tessai, not looking away from Urahara. "In fact I'd even say their best friends."
Jinta looked up at him funny, "Best friends with a cat huh? That's kinda of weird if you ask me"
Back at school, Keigo raced over to Ichigo, "ICHIGO!" He shouted out happily. "LETS EAT LUNCH TOGETHER !"
Ichigo's response was to hold his fist out, into which Keigo ran into, and fell down. "Your way too loud , moron, your going to wake up Hiyori."
"Uhhgg… to late Ichigo, He already woke me up" Hiyori said, sitting up and stretching her arms. "Besides, I'm starving, and want lunch myself." she yawned as they both stood up.
"Alright fine, we'll join you for lunch after all, but I'm asking another person to join us as well." Ichigo said , as Keigo stood up.
Ichigo walked over to Uryu with a sleepy, Hiyori and a shocked Keigo in tow, who stopped behind him. " Hey, Uryu, come eat lunch with us,"
Keigo freaked out " WHAT? YOU WANT MR. BANDAGE BOY TO EAT WITH US, HE'LL SUCK OUT ALL THE FUN!"
"Stop being so damn loud you moron!" Hiyori yelled as she yawned. She kick him in his ass as hard as she could, knocking him in to the desks.
Nobody still in the room, even bothered looking though. They all knew Keigo was irritating and that you shouldn't piss off Hiyori, only Ichigo seemed to be able to get away with that.
Meanwhile , Uryu stood up , and looked at Ichigo, " Thank you for the offer, but I neglected to bring enough money for lunch today."
While in a bored tone, Ichigo replied "That's fine, It's Keigo's treat anyway"
"Ohm I see, in that case I think I will join you then." Uryu said , adjusting his glasses.
Keigo was about to loudly protest, until he saw Hiyori growling at him, while cracking her knuckles in a very un-lady like fashion. "Say anything, Keigo, and I use your face for a punching bag"
Needless to say, Keigo didn't say anything and followed the others outside onto the roof.
Man, this whole atmosphere is totally negative! Keigo thought, as the they started eating lunch on the roof. The only one's who enjoying it is Hiyori.
Hiyori who was still very tired, only managed to eat half of her tuna sandwich before passing out and using Ichigo's lap as a pillow again, only this time she was snoring.
"So Ichigo, why did you invite me , anyway?" Uryu asked, biting into his sandwich. "If it's because you think my injuries are your fault in some way, I you told I fell down the stairs once already."
Ichigo scowled as he ate some of his sushi roll. "Oh shut up and eat . I only invited you because I felt like it. Just say thank you and enjoy your lunch already"
Uryu pushed his glasses up his nose and said. " I really don't see why I should say thank you, I prefer to eat alone"
"Good, so do I" Ichigo said, in a irritated tone as he absently scratched Hiyori's head gently, as she slept.
Back at Urahara's shop, The cat, Yoruichi was looking in the sky when Urahara walked out and sat done next to him. " Here you go, Mr. Yoruichi, ice cold milk." He said in a happy voice.
" Enough with the funny act, Kisuke" Yoruichi said, looking over at him. "You know as well as I do, they have arrived in the world of the living."
"Yes ,I'm aware of this." Urahara said in a tone that was suddenly very, serious. "So, do you wanna discuss the situation now or after you have your milk?"
Rukia was sitting in a tree outside of school thinking about things, when she heard some voices down below. "Hey, Rukia! Come have lunch with us!" Orihime yelled up to her.
A few minutes later, Rukia, Orihime, Tatsuki, Michiru, Ryo and a girl named Mahana Natsui
were sitting on the ground eating lunch together. Out of no where, Mahana asks " So do you and Hiyori have crushes on Ichigo or something ?"
This question caused both Rukia and Tatsuki , to spit out their juice they were drinking .
"You and Hiyori are in love with my Ichigo.. I mean my friend.. Uh I mean Ichigo?" Tatsuki asked in a jumble of words, that had everyone staring at her. "What?' she asked, her cheeks, ever so slightly red.
"No I'm.. I'm not! Really!" Rukia said, wiping the juice off her mouth . "Me and Hiyori are just really good friends with Ichigo, that's all!"
"Mahana! You just can't ask somebody something so personal like that!" Michiru said loudly to her friend.
"What?, you know you were all thinking it too." Mahana replied back to her. "I was the only one with the guts to ask her though"
"We-e-well I didn't want to know!" Michiru said back.
"Well you wouldn't, would you?" Chizuru said, in a bored tone.
"Yeah, you hate Ichigo don't you?" Tatsuki asked, sipping on her juice again.
"Really, why?" Orihime asked, surprised by this.
"What?, of course I don't hate him. Really!" Michiru said waving her arms in front of her." I really do like Ichigo, he really is a sweet, and nice guy when you get to know him!"
"She's totally in love with him.." Ryo said, reading a book, and not looking away from it when she spoke.
Michiru's whole face and ears turned a red as a cheery tomato, and the others swore they saw steam shoot out of her ears. "I-I-I-I- not in- in lo-lo-lo-love with hi- him!"
"Really, Michiru? You never told me that!" Orihime said, embarrassing her friend even more she already was, if it was possible.
At this point Michiru was too frozen with embarressment to say or do anything.
"This is awesome, Because if Michiru, Hiyori and Rukia like Ichigo, the way I like Ichigo,… Then Ichigo would be like a pimp!" Orihime said, laughing . "Now all we need is Tatsuki, Mahana, and Ryo on bored!"
The faces of all the other girls just vaulted and turned red at her plan. " Please someone stop her, before she starts making any more sense!" Tatsuki said, her face still red. There's no way I'm admitting my feelings for Ichigo… I mean IF I had any at all that is, she thought.
Rukia just smiled as Chizuru blabbed about joining Ichigo on his quest for girls while Tatsuki wasgoing balistic on her . all theses feeling …are only going to make it harder. When I finally leave this place…
Hours later…
Ichigo was getting ready for bed, and he got a plate of leftovers ready to take to Rukia, who had been living in his closet.
" Ichigo, are you getting more food!" Yuzu cried out at him. "You seem to do nothing but eat these days!"
"Yeah well, I'm a growing boy, gotta go, good night Yuzu, Karin!" Ichigo said as he quickly made his way up the stairs.
"I swear, Ichigo's been spending so much time in his room lately," Yuzu said, her hands on her hips. "Not to mention he's been eating like a horse too!"
"Oh relax, Yuzu!" Karin said , flopping down on the couch to watch TV, " He's just growing up, so stop trying to mother him so much, sheesh!"
"But what if somethings wrong? Maybe I should go check on him" Yuzu said, turning towards the stairs.
Karin grabbed the back of her collar, and dragged her to the couch. " Just relax, you no the way are brother is Yuzu, If there is something wrong, he'll want to deal with it himself."
"But aren't you worried about him, at all?" Yuzu asked, biting her nails, nervously.
" Obviously, I am! "Karin said looking at the TV, "He is my brother too and I ..you know.. love him and junk . I also trust him, do sit, relax and stop being a worry wart"
"Hey Rukia,!" Ichigo yelled, pounding on his closet door. " I got your dinner, so come on already."
He didn't hear an answer after a minute, so he pulled the door open roughly "Come on , I go out of my way to make sure your get breakfast, lunch and dinner, the least you can do is…"
She wasn't inside, as he looked in it. "Man she is always running off somewhere,.." Ichigo said sitting on the edge of his bed. "Hey, Hiyori you want this?"
He looked over at her, and she was sound asleep again, and snoring . This time she was under his covers, and using his pillow, not to mention drooling on it. Ichigo made a face at that, She is so washing that pillow case when she wakes up, he thought to himself ,as he went to go get ready for bed in the bathroom. If only she was this cute and quiet when she was awake, she'd much easier to get along with.
Several blocks away, Rukia was running through the streets. "Hey is there she is!" the man with the red hair, and black robes from earlier said. "We finally found you Rukia!"
He was looking at her run with his sun glasses on, that had a computer display on the inside he could see. ' What the! Her synchronization with the Gigai she's in is.. 88.5% !" He put his sunglasses on the top of his head. " I didn't know that was even possible!"
"Why do you think she's been in a Gigai so long for Captain?" The red haired man asked., crouching in mid air.
The other man in black robes ,and long black hair, quietly said. " I do not know, Lieutenant Abarai. But it does not matter. She can explain it herself when we deal with her, in a moment."
The red haired man stood up and gripped the hilt of his sword , that was on his waist, " So,… Kill or capture?.. Kill or capture?.. What will it be?… hehehe Either way, This.. Is going to be fun!"
END OF CHAPTER 11
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