To lalaland 3, it's just what the song's called. I don't know if they spelt it wrong or something. Thanks for pointing it out though.
Well, its chapter 11, and it's the Halloween special! … This is probably the most I've ever celebrated it. KetakoshkaCastlionia, I'm using your suggestion from ages ago, but it's been changed a lot. Sorry, I just need to even up the points more. References to Trigun. If you don't know who Kuroneko-sama is, Google her. And it's not the Fanfiction site. Click on the wiki stuff for the Kuroneko-sama I'm talking about. And there's stuff from the Bleach episode 304, Gaiden Again! This Time's Enemy Is A Monster?, pretty much a Halloween episode. For the people who only read manga, Chapter 279's title page thingy has the required stuff.
Ichigo was sitting at his desk, doing his homework. He'd needed to hand it in the next day, and since today was Halloween, there was a party to be held downstairs, and there were no hollows about, now was the best time to do it. Rukia was in his closet, probably getting dressed for the party and Kon was nowhere to be seen.
"What ya doing, strawberry?" a voice asked.
Ichigo looked up from his homework, and found a black cat sitting on his bed.
"Yoruichi-san?" He asked.
The cat face palmed. "Wrong black cat,"
Ichigo frowned, trying to remember the cat's name. He knew he was bad with names, and he'd only met her once. "Kuroneko?" he asked.
The cat was silent. "Never call me Kuroneko. It is a violation of Kuroneko-sama. It's just Kurohollow."
"Why aren't you wearing your hat, or other things?" Ichigo asked, not bothering with the Kuroneko-sama thing.
"It's so I'm disguised as a normal black cat," Kurohollow pointed out. "No normal cat wears mage hats or cloaks. You can't even feel any reaitsu from me, don't you? In fact, when I was in your inner world, there wasn't any reaitsu from me then too!"
"Good point," Ichigo said. "Wait, why are you here?"
"It's Halloween!" the hollow-cat shouted. "It's a special event! Which is why I'm here!"
Ichigo scratched the back of his head. "But there's going to be a party downstairs and lots of shinigami are going to be there."
Even though it wasn't visible beneath all her black fur, Kurohollow became pale. Shinigami meant mad people trying to send her off to the Soul Society, and destroying her lifestyle that she had worked so hard to get.
"Oh, yeah, why haven't I sent you to the Soul Society yet?" Ichigo asked.
"Because I haven't really killed any humans! You can't really cleanse a hollow's soul of its sins if it hasn't done anything wrong."
"It still doesn't make sense though,"
"Try getting another hollow that hasn't eaten a human's soul yet. I haven't met any others. Plus I'm the writer of this fic, so if you send me to Soul Society, I won't be able to write this anymore."
Then the closet door flew open, and Rukia jumped out of it. She was wearing the succubus outfit, complete with trident thing.
"Oh s-... sugar, I forgot you had a shinigami in your closet," Kurohollow said.
Rukia raised an eyebrow at the small black cat, looking confused.
"Um, meow?" Kurohollow said, trying to cover up her identity, and failing.
"Ichigo... the cat just talked," Rukia said, pointing at the hollow-cat.
The substitute sighed, and said, "Rukia, this is Kuroneko, a cat that can talk, and she came over for the party,"
Kurohollow, being an airhead at the time, hissed, "You idiot! It's Kurohollow!"
Rukia and Ichigo froze, and the black cat instantly saw her mistake.
"Kurohollow?" Rukia asked. "You're a hollow?"
Kurohollow ran into a corner, and shouted, "Please don't send me to the Soul Society! I haven't killed any humans, or shinigami! And I won't be able to write my fics anymore!"
The shinigami dressed in a succubus suit crossed her arms, and said, "You're not a hollow, because you haven't got a hole in your chest, and you don't have a mask anywhere."
The cat scratched the back of its head, and smiled sheepishly. "Yeah, I guess you're right."
"And Ichigo," Rukia continued on. "Why haven't you gotten dressed for this party?"
"What are you talking about?" the strawberry started. "I'm not dressing up for a stupid event like this,"
"But I got you a costume for this party especially," Rukia said. "Don't be such a spoilsport."
"Did you get him a strawberry costume?" the hollow cat shouted.
"No," Rukia said.
"Aww, I would've got him one," Kurohollow said. "What did you get him instead then?"
"This!" the shinigami said while pulling out the Franken Ichigo costume.
Kurohollow deadpanned. "Of course,"
"Why "of course"?" Ichigo asked.
"Nothing, I'll break the fourth wall… again," Kurohollow sighed.
The two shinigami just looked at each other with confused expressions.
"Anyway, put it on, Ichigo," Rukia said. "Or do you want me to get your dad up here, and make you?"
"Or I'll get Alexander!" Kurohollow shouted.
Ichigo's face paled. "I'll get dressed into it then. Now get out of my room!"
The shinigami and the hollow scrambled out of the angry strawberry's room, and went downstairs to help with the setting up of the party. (Kurohollow mainly snacked on everything.)
A lot of shinigami and humans came to the Halloween party. When Ichigo came downstairs, after all of them had come, dressed in his costume, Kurohollow immediately jumped onto his shoulder.
"Kurohollow?" He asked. "Why are you on my shoulder?"
"'Cause I don't like the others," the black cat said, shaking.
"Why?"
""Cause," She pointed at Uryu with her paw. He was dressed as Dracula, quietly sipping some milk. "If he finds out I'm a hollow, he'll kill me, and that'll be the end."
She then pointed to Orihime, dressed as a pumpkin ghost, happily chatting away with Chad, Uryuu, Tatsuki, Chizuru and Rukia. "If I go near her, I risk the chance of being fed her "cooking" which will probably kill me."
Kurohollow pointed at Tatsuki, dressed as a wrestler, and said, "She'll probably attack me, and well, she'll be near Orihime all night."
She then pointed to Chizuru, dressed as a bee, and said, "… I'm not keen on spending my time with a lesbian, no offense to others. And she's too hyper for my liking."
"What about Hichigo, he's hyper on candy most of the time?" Ichigo asked.
"Now he's amusing," Kurohollow replied. "She just wants me to face palm myself."
Chad was dressed as a skeleton, listening to the drabble Orihime was spewing. People knew it was him, because mainly grunts were coming out of the suit, and also because of his large frame. "He wouldn't even talk to me, and I'd get bored."
Kurohollow then gestured to Keigo, talking to an uninterested Muzuiro, texting on his phone. He was dressed as a nurse. "Now, he's just crazy, and would probably collapse if I started talking to him."
Muzuiro was wearing a hockey mask, now pulled onto the top of his head, so his face was revealed, and a white one-piece pesticide thing with fake blood all over it. "Keigo'll be probably near him all night."
The black cat then pointed to Rangiku, dressed as a witch, drinking what was possibly sake with Renji, Yumichika and Ikkaku, with Toshiro looking angry, near them. "I may die from suffocation via her boobs, and I don't want to know what she gets up to when she's drunk."
She then pointed to the others that where joining her with the sake. Renji was dressed as a "mummy" (yes, I do mean the bandaged version, but the anime episode says differently that's why there are quotation marks), Yumichika was dressed as a fairy, and Ikkaku was dressed as a gorilla (his mask/helmet was off). "And they're with her, and I don't wanna go near them because they'll be drunk in a few minutes."
She then pointed to Toshiro, dressed as a werewolf. "Technically he's dressed as a dog, and I'm a cat, so I don't like dogs."
Kurohollow then gestured to Yoruichi and Urahara talking, and also drinking alcohol. Urahara was dressed as a pirate, and Yoruichi was (of course) dressed as a black cat, but was showing too much skin (practically she was dressed like a prostitute). "… Urahara's a pervert, and too sneaky, and for Yoruichi, well, I don't like her dress choice, apart from the fact that she's dressed as a black cat."
Then she looked at Ichigo. "So that's why!"
"What about Rukia?" the strawberry asked.
""Cause," Kurohollow started.
Byakuya then came into the room dressed as the Seaweed (or Wakame) Ambassador, and went over to Rukia, who eyes started sparkling. Both Ichigo's and Kurohollow's faces fell.
"'Cause of him," Kurohollow sighed. "All of these guys are ether human or shinigami. Apart from you though. You're a human-shinigami-hollow hybrid. Hey, why didn't you invite any hollows or Arrancar?"
"What about you, though?" Ichigo asked.
"You didn't exactly invite me; I came of my own accord. Why didn't you invite Grimmjow?"
"Isn't Grimmjow dead?"
"I don't know. We've never seen him again after spoon dude sliced him. Hey, why didn't you check if he was alive or not before?"
Ichigo scratched the back of his head. "Well, I didn't think about him at the time, so I forgot."
Kurohollow sighed. "Hurry up and destroy a pole. Maybe I'll be able to leave you alone."
Ichigo raised an eyebrow. "Do you promise to leave me alone?"
"I'm not promising anything," Kurohollow huffed.
The substitute shinigami shrugged. He'd thought of a plan of how to destroy a pole anyway, and it required one of the people in here. Ichigo was getting strange looks anyway for just standing there and talking to the cat. So he strode over to Toshiro to organize a deal.
"Hey, Toshiro!" the strawberry greeted him.
"It's not "Toshiro", it's "Captain Hitsugaya"," The werewolf snarled at him.
"Could you do a favour for me?" Ichigo asked. "I'll stop calling you Toshiro, and start calling you "Captain Hitsugaya" if you do it."
"What is it?" he responded.
"You'll have to destroy a pole for me, in my inner world," Ichigo said.
Kurohollow opened her mouth to say "Yes!", but at the last moment, she remembered the whole thing with Rukia, and so instead said, "... Meow!"
The strawberry eyed her curiously, and then went back to his deal. "How about it?"
"Why do you want me to destroy a pole for you?" Toshiro asked. "And what is a pole doing in your inner world?"
"Well, the pole's there because of my zanpukto, who likes to stand on poles and, the reason why I need you to destroy the pole his because I'm having a bet with my inner hollow to see how many poles both of us can destroy. We can also enlist other's help too."
Toshiro was starting to decide against it. But then he thought that he could get away from this party that Matsumoto had dragged him to, and as a bonus, he could finally get Kurosaki to start calling him with proper formalities.
Toshiro sighed. "Fine, I'll do it."
Kurohollow meowed, still trying to keep her cover. She then thought about asking Ichigo if she could go in his inner world too, so she could talk to Hichigo, but then remembered about the shinigami everywhere. Shinigami running after you; trying to send you to the Soul Society wasn't a good idea for her.
"Kurosaki, what's with your cat?" Toshiro asked.
"Oh her?" Ichigo said. "She's just a random black cat."
Toshiro eyed the cat suspiciously, and she tried to not show that she understood what was said.
"So, how am I going to go to your inner world, Kurosaki?" the ice-shinigami asked.
Ichigo held up a necklace with a silver metal strawberry with two buttons, one red, the other green, in its side, and a black skull and cross-bones printed on the other side, hanging off the chain.*
"With this," he explained. "I got it from Urahara before, after bribing with him candy." (That was stolen from Hichigo ((the hollow didn't notice it)).)
"So, then how does it work?" Toshiro gruffly asked.
Ichigo pointed to the green button, and said, "If you press this while holding onto my arm, you'll go to my inner world." He then pointed to the red button. "When you're in my inner world, press that button to go out of it." The substitute shinigami the looked at the 10th division captain, and said, "Got it?"
"Yeah," the other shinigami replied and took the necklace from the spiky head.
He the grabbed Ichigo's arm and pressed the green button. Toshiro then became unconscious, which greatly unsettled everybody in the room, causing it to fall silent, and all of the eyes were now fixed on Ichigo and Kurohollow, still on his shoulder.
Ichigo fake-smiled, and said to the crowd, "He's okay. Just fainted,", dashed upstairs and into his room with the unconscious kid.
After Ichigo had slammed the door, Kurohollow hissed to him, "Why the hell did you tell them that?"
"Shut up," Ichigo hissed. "I couldn't think of anything."
*In Ichigo's inner world*
"This is Kurosaki's inner world?" Toshiro asked to no one as he stared out at the blue skyscrapers, with the weird gravity. "I'll have to find the pole Kurosaki was talking about." he then sighed. "I have no clue where it is though."
Then a distorted voice asked, "Are you talking about Kage-chan's old man emo pole, Shorty-chan?"
Toshiro turned around, his face full of rage. "Shorty-chan?" he asked angrily, thinking that it was Ichigo talking.
He then saw what he thought was Ichigo, but his skin, hair and robes were white. Toshiro then remembered Ichigo talking about his inner hollow, and what the 10th division captain had been told about this hollow.
"You're Kurosaki's inner hollow, aren't you?" Toshiro asked.
"Yep," the albino said. "My name's Hichigo. What are you doing here, Shorty-chan? I was busy making more candy before, so I don't know what's been happening outside of here."
Toshiro sighed. "It's not "Shorty-chan", it's "Captain Hitsugaya","
"I know, but I'm not technically a shinigami, so I don't really need to address you like that," Hichigo pointed out. "Shorty-chaaaaaaan, what are you doing here?"
"Don't call me "Shorty-chan"!" Toshiro snapped. "And I'm here to destroy a pole for Kurosaki."
"Oh, you're here to destroy Kage-chan's pole?" The hollow said. "Then what's King doing?"
"King?" The shinigami asked.
"You know, Ichigo,"
Toshiro frowned. "Why do you call him "King"?"
"Because he's the King of this world, Shorty-chan,"
"I told you to stop calling me "Shorty-chan"!"
"Don't bother, Toshiro," Ichigo said while walking towards the two. "He won't stop calling you by it unless you make a deal with him, like my zanpukto did."
"It's "Captain Hitsugaya"!" Toshiro snapped again.
"KIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGG!" Hichigo shouted, and hugged the strawberry. "KAGE-CHAN'S BEING A MEANIE! HE WON'T TALK TO ME!"
Ichigo shoved the hyper hollow away, and said, "I'm not surprised."
"MEANIE!" Hichigo shouted back.
"This is your inner hollow, Kurosaki?" Toshiro asked.
"That's what everybody says," Ichigo complained.
"BECAUSE YOU'RE SUCH A MEANIE!" The hollow shouted, and then stomped off to make more candy.
Ichigo sighed. "Let's go,"
"Kurosaki," the captain said while walking beside the strawberry.
"What is it?" the substitute shinigami asked.
"Who's Kage-chan?"
"He's Zangetsu, my zanpukto. Don't worry; he's not like my hollow."
"Why does your hollow call him "Kage-chan"?"
"He gives a nickname to everybody that he's met, apart from Rukia#,"
Toshiro frowned. This definitely wasn't what he thought that Ichigo's hollow would be like.
Then they found the pole. There was a tall man standing on top of it, and staring out into the horizon.
"Hey, old man," Ichigo greeted him.
"What do you want, Ichigo?" Zangetsu asked.
"We're going to destroy the pole," the strawberry told him.
"Okay," he said while jumping off the pole, and walking off to get another one.
Toshiro was quite confused at Zangetsu's behaviour. "He's okay with you destroying the pole?"
"Yeah," Ichigo answered. "He used to cry and get angry before, but it seems like now Zangetsu isn't bothered."
Not asking anymore questions, the 10th division captain got to work. He got out his zanpukto, and chanted, "Sit upon the frosted heavens, Hyorinmaru!"
He then summoned one of his ice dragons, and directed it at the pole. The old man emo pole instantly froze, covering all of it in a thick sheet of ice.
"Can I get out of here now?" Toshiro asked.
"Yeah, thanks for that," Ichigo responded.
Kurohollow was strumming on Ichigo's guitar, careful to not break any of the strings, despite actually having not played the guitar before. She thought that she should keep an eye out for Ichigo and Toshiro, seeing as they were now unconscious.
Kurohollow sighed. Mainly the fact why she was looking after the two's bodies was that she didn't want to go back downstairs to the shinigami. Or humans, but shinigami were worse. She understood why shinigami did the things they did, but couldn't they take into account that such hollows exist, like herself? Last time she spoke to a shinigami, apart from Ichigo, and told them that she was a hollow (and they believed that she was), was actually running after her, waving their sword about, trying to send her to the Soul Society. The black hollow-cat shuddered. She was close to actually being sent there, thank goodness that she escaped.
She was broken from her bubble of thoughts by Ichigo regaining conscious, and then Toshiro.
Ichigo just looked at her, and asked, "Why are you still here?"
The black cat signalled to the shinigami next to him, and said nothing. She then carefully put down his guitar, and jumped back on the strawberry's shoulder. He scowled at her, and she just meowed.
Toshiro then got up. He glanced at the shinigami and the hollow, and then got up and out of the room, closing the door behind him.
Kurohollow sighed in delight.
Ichigo just looked at her, then grabbed her, wincing when her claws dug in as a reflex, tossed her on his bed, and said, "Why do you hate shinigami so much?"
Kurohollow wasn't pleased by his actions, and replied gruffly, "I don't hate shinigami, it's just that of course you'll dislike the people who are hunting you down. Especially when you haven't really done anything wrong."
Ichigo sighed and scratched the back of his head. "I guess that makes sense."
Then the strawberry remembered the school that was in Hueco Mundo that he passed. "Hey, Kurohollow," he started. "I saw this school-like building the other day in Hueco Mundo. Was it actually a school?"
"Yeah, that's the school I go to, that one I was talking about before."
Ichigo frowned. "There's a school for hollows?"
"Yeah, there is. The school is for Vasto Lorde hollows, like me. It's because that other hollows are too big to fit in the building that was found in Hueco Mundo."
"Why was there a building there? And isn't there not many Vasto Lorde? "
Kurohollow shrugged. "I have no idea. The saying that you can count the number of Vasto Lorde in Hueco Mundo, on your fingers is false. Many of us conceal ourselves, because we've reached the highest you can get for hollows, and so people couldn't really find us too well."
"Is that so? What do you guys do at the school?"
"We get taught the basic stuff that you guys learn at school, and are helped with mastering our powers. Apparently Vasto Lorde powers are higher than a captain's, but I don't think that mine is that high. I reckon that if I ever fought a captain, I would definitely lose. The school also provides us with shelter, because it's a boarding school…"
"Do you have to pay to get in?"
"No. There's no money in Hueco Mundo to begin with."
"Oh, okay."
Ichigo then got up and stretched. "Well, I'm going back downstairs."
Kurohollow groaned, but still stayed on his shoulder. The strawberry went downstairs, and the party was in a mess. Rangiku was being dragged out if the room by her captain, Ikkaku, Renji, and Yumichika were squabbling amongst each other drunkenly, Urahara, Yoruichi, Byakuya, Uryu, Chad, Muzuiro, Chizuru and Tatsuki all had left, and the room was in a mess.
"No, Captain!" Rangiku squealed. "I'm not going back noooooowwww! And I'm not thaaaaaat drunk!"
Toshiro only snorted, and continued to drag her out of the door.
"I'm telling you, nobody's better than my captain!" Ikkaku shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Oh, really?" Renji argued.
"What's that? You saying that my captain isn't better than someone? And who's that?" Ikkaku demanded.
"I'd say that our captain is the best, but not the prettiest," Yumichika said.
"Why don't you go marry him?" Kurohollow mumbled.
"What's that?" Ikkaku shouted. "Who said that?"
Kurohollow didn't own up, and she thankfully wasn't chewed out by Ichigo.
"Tch, pansy," Ikkaku said drunkenly. "Say it to my face next time!"
The black cat just sighed.
"!" Keigo shouted, popping out of nowhere, and sprinted at the strawberry.
Ichigo just held out his hand, and Keigo smacked into it, falling to the ground.
The hollow-cat whispered to Ichigo, so the idiot on the ground wouldn't hear her, "See ya, I'm getting out of here."
She jumped off the shinigami's shoulder, onto Keigo's back, and out the door that Toshiro was holding open while still dragging his Lieutenant, outside. She grabbed her staff, cloak, hat, and mask, and then went back to Hueco Mundo, back to school…
*I looked at the second chapter of this fic, and realised that I just put that Urahara made a "gadget", and didn't say what it looked like. And yes, this is the same gadget as before. Sorry for not providing you guys with what it looked like before. For its design, it's very original, isn't it? First thing that pretty much popped into my head after a normal button, then a chicken.
#Hichigo didn't really meet Kobuto, or Renji or Uyruu. But he's shouted at nearly all of them, so you could say that he's met them... Meh, I'm just going to say that they don't count.
… Yay for me… Yes they have rolls here. And wagging school is not a good idea, because detention is a lot painful than any human one. Let's just say that laws don't exist in Hueco Mundo… This chapter is the longest chapter of this fanfic, and no, I'm not prepared to made more chapters as long as this. It took me a hell of a lot longer to write this one. I was skimming through it, and thinking that it was too boring. And some parts don't make sense. I think it's because I've been trying to fit in too much information about myself, and what people were wearing etc. Sorry that there wasn't enough Hichigo… I've already started on the next one, and what I've done so far looks pretty good. There'll be a bit more Hichigo, but don't count on it. Please give me more suggestions! I'm starting to run out of them! And review while you're suggesting, of course.
Note : This Chapter is 4,283 words long! Most Poles chapters are 1,000 - 2,000 long...
