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The Soul Trio Ch 12
Hikaru's landing was pretty rough. She stood up rubbing her butt. "Ow..." Orihime stood up a few seconds after her.
"Are you ok Hikaru?" she asked her friend.
"Yeah. I think so. How about you?"
"I'm great!^_^" Hikaru sighed.
"Good." Then she looked around. She hadnt been here in a while but she figured she might know her way around still.
"So how do you think the others are doing?" Orihime asked her.
"I dont know. But Hitomi got separated with Ichigo and Kyouko got separated with Uryu. So lets just hope they dont kill each other. Lets go." Hikaru said walking away.
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Hitomi hit the ground hard. "Ow man..." she said. She heard a grumble and looked over and saw Ganju getting up. "Hey Ganju. You ok?"
"Yeah I think so." he said. Just then she heard mumbling.
"Do you hear something?" she asked Ganju. He looked down and sighed. Hitomi looked down too and saw she was sitting on Ichigo. "Oh." she said not really caring. But she stood up anyway. Ichigo got up and glared at her.
"What the hell?!" he yelled.
"Oh shut up strawberry." Hitomi said. He growled.
"Woohoo! What luck!" The three of you looked up and saw two soul reapers on a roof. One was bald and the other had semi-long purplish hair and a thing on his eye. Hitomi gasped. 'Oh no!' she thought as she quickly put her bangs in front of her eyes to try and hide her face. She knew them! Ikkaku-the bald one-and Yumichika-the other one. They were the 4th and 5th seats in your squad.
They two soul reapers jumped down. "Can you believe it?" the Ikkaku said. "First we skip out on our boring guard duty and these three fall right into our hands." He started doing a dance while saying "Lucky, Lucky...Im so lucky!"
Hitomi sweatdropped. 'Idiot....'
"Today Im lucky!!" he finished before pointing his sword at the three of them. "However you on the otherhand, certainly arent."
"Yeah?" Ichigo said
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Kyouko opened her eyes slowly. Apparently she had passed out when she landed. She sat up quickly punching someone in the jaw. "Oh my goodness I'm so-" then she saw who it was. "Oh. Nevermind." Uryu was holding his jaw. Kyouko stood up then felt a pain in her arm. She looked down and saw it was bandaged.
"You got hurt from the impact of the fall." Uryu said holding up a first aid kit. "I was able stop the bleeding but there was nothing I could do for the pain." Kyouko turned away from him.
"Well I didnt need your help."
He sighed and said "We better move. We made a lot of noise and most likely someone heard us." Kyouko nodded reluctantly and the both of them walked off.
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Ikkaku continued his little dance before finishing it with a little flip over his Zanpakto and a nice pose showing his bald shiny head.
Ichigo, Ganju, and Hitomi stared at him like 'WTF?' 'I cant believe he's on my squad.' Hitomi thought sighing.
"What are you doing you fools??" Ikkaku growled. "Come on couldnt you see I was doing my lucky dance for you while I was waiting for you to come crawling out of your stinkin sandbox to fight me! And why are you gaping at me like idiots??"
"What the hells with him?" Ichigo said.
"Well well Ikkaku look there." Yumichika said pointing at Hitomi. She gulped and hid her face more. "It looks like the soul reaper has a girlfriend." Hitomi glared but didnt look up.
"She's not my girlfriend!!" Ichigo yelled.
"Oh, so she's available then?" Ikkaku said smirking. "Hey cutie. Why dont you come over here with us so you dont get hurt?" Hitomi growled and looked up.
"What the hell?! 'Cutie?!'" she yelled. They both gasped when they saw her.
"Lieutenant Zaraki?!" they said shocked.
"Oops." She said.
"Lieutenant?!" Ichigo and Ganju said shocked.
"You mean you're the same level as Renji?" Ichigo asked her.
"Duh!" Hitomi said getting out of the hole.
"What are you doing with the ryoka Lieutenant?" Ikkaku asked you.
"Did you bring them here?" Yumichika asked.
"Uh..." she said. 'What should I say?'
"Hey! Hitomi!" Ichigo said.
"How dare you call Lieutenant Zaraki by her first name!" Ikkaku yelled at Ichigo.
"Are they friends of yours Leuitenant?" Yumichika asked her. Hitomi looked from Ikkaku and Yumichika to Ichigo and Ganju. They were staring at her waiting for her to say something.
"Nope." she said. "I've never seen them before."
"WHAT?!" Ichigo and Ganju yelled. Ikkaku smirked.
"Good. Then I guess I can have some fun." Ichigo glared at her.
"Wait a minute." Ganju said.
"Oh come on." Ichigo looked at him.
"Listen to me!" Ganju said frantically. "Im gonna make a run for it first chance I get."
"So now you're gonna run? What are you some kind of little pansy?" Ichigo growled.
"Those guys have too much spirit energy for an amateur soul reaper like you! Dont you understand anything ya damn idiot??"
"Hey." Ichigo and Ganju stopped arguing and looked at Ikkaku. "What are those two arguing about?"
"Well, it could be that they're both scared out of their minds to fight us." Yumichika said.
"So thats it then." Ikkaku said. "Why dont we just let them take their time and argue about it."
"But then again if we let them take too long, some of the other soul reapers might show up. and they will steal our glory." Yumichika told him.
"Hmm...thats true." Ikkaku said. "I got it. We'll set a time limit. That'll give me a chance to another one of my pre-fight dances so you two can have enough time to make up your mind-"
"You wanna fight be my guest!" Ganju said before running away. Hitomi sighed.
"Aw, you two have a falling out?" Ikkaku asked.
"Something like that." Ichigo said sweatdropping and looking annoyed.
"Tsk, he really shouldnt run away. Get him." Ikkaku said.
"Right. Im on it." Yumichika said as he ran after Ganju. Ichigo jumped out of the pit.
"Hey. So tell me. Why didnt you run away like your friend?" Ikkaku asked. "He obviously ran because he sensed that our powers are superior to his own. You know if you ask me I think your friend made a pretty wise decision."
"If your power really is greater then my own, you'd catch up to me anyway. On the other hand, if my power is greater than yours, then I'd just have to beat you and move on." Ichigo said grabbing his zanpakto.
'Idiot' Hitomi thought. She jumped up on the roof while the 2 guys stared at each other.
"Is that so?" Ikkaku said. "Well, I guess you're not stupid after all." They continued to stare at each other then Ikkaku drew his zanpakto at an amazing speed and brought it down on Ichigo. Ichigo jumped to the side to dodge it. He grabbed Zangetsu and charged at Ikkaku. Ikkaku blocked Zangetsu with his scabbard. Using his other hand that held his Zanpakto, he tried to attack Ichigo, who then used Ikkaku's sheath as a platform to jump into the air and evade the attack, somersaulting and landing on a roof. Ichigo launched himself at Ikkaku and attacked him. They both kept blocking the others attack with their Zanpakto or dodging it altogether. Eventually Ikkaku managed to make Ichigo bleed but Ichigo also made Ikkaku bleed. Both now had bleeding foreheads.
"At least...tell me your name." Ikkaku said.
"Ichigo Kurosaki." he said.
"Heh, Ichigo. Thats a good name." Ikkaku said.
"You think so? No ones ever told me that before." Ichigo said.
"Yeah, they say that guys with 'Ichi' in their names are overflowing with talent and good looks. At least thats what I've heard."
"Hah!" you mumbled from the roof. "Looks like thats not true."
Ikkaku smirked. "Im fourth seat of squad 11 Ikkaku Madarame. Well Ichi, lets say we be friends."
"Aint gonna happen." Ichigo smirked.
Hitomi continued watching the two men from the roof she was sitting on. 'This is getting interesting.'
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Kyouko and Uryu peeked out from behind a wall, and on Uryus command, ducked back inside just as a group of Soul reapers converged nearby, from which they would have been visible. "Things have really gotten serious." Uryu said. "Forget about Rukia's rescue. Its gonna be hard enough to meet up with the others."
"Yeah. But if a fight broke out, we'd know it was one of them." Kyouko said.
"I think we should start a fight. Then maybe the others will find us. What do you think Kyouko?" Uryu said. "Kyouko?" he turned around when she didn't answer him only to find she was gone.
"Lets go Ishida!" she yelled from ahead of him. He sighed and ran after her.
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Ichigo and Ikkaku fought for a little while longer until finally Ichigo managed to beat Ikkaku. 'hm. Looks like he's stronger than i thought.' Hitomi thought watching them. Ichigo took the ointment out of Ikkaku's sword and used it to cover his and Ikkaku's wounds. "He's going to be angry you used all his ointment." she said jumping down next to him. Ichigo looked up at her.
"At least he's not dead! And where the hell were you?! I could have died!!"
"Oh get over it. I cant fight someone on my own squad." she said. Hitomi and Ichigo sat waiting for Ikkaku to wake up. Finally he opened his eyes.
"Why am I still alive?" he asked. He looked over at Ichigo. "Why are you still here?" Ichigo ignored him and held up Ikkaku's zanpakto.
"I never knew that when the owner of a zanpacto loses consciousness, the sword goes back to its original form."
"Give me back my sword." Ikkaku said.
"Relax. I was just using your ointment. Its all gone now." Ikkaku looked down at his body and saw all the cream. "What have you done?!" he yelled.
"Relax Ikkaku." Hitomi said going over to him. "You're still alive thats all that matters." He looked at her.
"Lieutenant?"
"Listen Ikkaku. We need to ask you some questions." she said.
"Alright. I'll answer anything."
"Where is Rukia Kuchiki?" Ichigo asked.
"Well thats a way to go straight to the point." Hitomi mumbled. Ikkaku told them that Rukia is being held in the pure white tower past the 13 squads. Ichigo said he didnt quite believe him until Hitomi said that it was fine to trust Ikkaku.
The two of them started to walk away when Ikkaku said "Wait." They both turned around. "Who is the strongest in your group?"
"That'd be me." Hitomi and Ichigo said at the same time. The two glared at each other.
"Its not you I'm worried about Lieutenant." Ikkaku said. Hitomi then realized what he was talking about. "You should watch out for my Captain. He isnt interested in weaklings so he will most likely come after you."
"Is he strong?" Ichigo asked.
"You will have to decide that for yourself. If you live long enough that is." Ikkaku said.
"What's his name?" Ichigo asked.
"His name....is Kenpachi Zaraki." Ichigo nodded.
"I've paged members of squad 4 to come help you." Hitomi said to Ikkaku.
"Thank you Leuitenant." Ikkaku said as the other two walked away.
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Kyouko and Uryu were watching Captain Zaraki and Yachiru, his 3rd seat squad member from a nearby roof. "We should have gone the other way!" Yachiru said in her cute voice.
"You're the one who told me to come this way!" Zaraki snapped.
"Its bad to blame others for your mistakes Kenny." she said. Then she pointed toward some fireworks. Zaraki kicked down the wall in front of him and ran through. Kyouko and Uryu sighed, thankful he didn't see them.
"He must be like Ichigo. Incredibly strong but lousy with directions." Uryu said.
"Yeah." Kyouko said. "Thats Captain Kenpachi Zaraki. He's the strongest squad captain. And he's also Hitomi's brother."
"What?!" Uryu said. "He is Hitomi's brother?"
"Yep. And he's extremely protective of her." Uryu sighed.
"Well, which way should we go now?" Kyouko looked around for a couple seconds then pointed to a tower in the distance.
"We should go there." Uryu turned to her then saw unknown to her, behind her is a Soul reaper, raising his Zanpakto, which he was about to smash down on her. Uryu grabbed Kyouko right before he hit her with his sword. When she realized what happened, she saw she was over by Uryu who had his arm around her. "Hey! Get off!" she yelled pushing him off her.
"Will you relax?! I just saved your life!" he yelled back at her. The soul reaper laughed.
"Look at you too! You're arguing like a married couple!" Both glared at him then Kyouko realized who it was and sighed. "You must have quite some skill to be able to escape from that range, but if your opponent wasn't me, you would survive longer." he said. "I will give you to the count of 10 to regret your situation.
Preview……..
Kyouko: Well this should be interesting! Next time Uryu gets to fight!^.^
Hitomi:*grumbles*And I'm still stuck with strawberry....
Ichigo:*glares at her*Could you at least call me by my name! And we have to find Ganju!
Hikaru: And, Orhime and I are still wondering around trying to find everyone.^.^
Kyouko:*smirks*And Hitomi runs into her one true love-*gets hit*Ow!
Hitomi:*glaring*
Hikaru:*smile and sigh*
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