Me: I'm just going to get to this one. This is a special chapter that deals with Masaki Kurosaki. Trust me; you will understand when this is over.
Chapter 14: Masaki's Story
The third of August, 8 years ago…
Masaki's POV
It was late at night in Karakura. Isshin had put the kids down to bed and then gone to bed himself. I stayed up and waited for the call from Saigon. I was going to go see about some new girl who had good reiatsu. Isshin's own powers were sealed away in his gigai so the Soul Society couldn't find him. He couldn't even see wholes now. The stuff though would wear off in a few years. I sat down at the family table as I waited for the call. I felt the vibration in my shirt pocket and I pulled out the soul pager.
"Hello Captain Masaki". That wasn't Saigon. It was his hollow; Gonsai.
"Gonsai, where is Saigon"? He hesitated.
"Performing a konsol". I rolled my eyes.
"For whom"?
"The girl's grandmother. She died two days ago. We found out that she could see her grandmother and she could even talk to and touch her. Her reiatsu increased greatly when her grandmother died". That wasn't uncommon, stress and emotions can cause reiatsus to spike.
"How old is the girl"?
"Seven". I nodded my head. She was only a little younger than Ichigo.
"What is her name"?
"Dominique Kudo". My eyes widened a little at this. Her last name meant hollow. How ironic. I smirked.
"Very well. I'm on my way to see this girl for myself".
"Yes Captain". The line disconnected. I put the phone in my pocket and went upstairs to the kids' rooms. I went into Karin and Yuzu's room first. They were so young and cute. Karin had her father's black hair and Yuzu hand brownish blond hair like me. I went to the sleeping two year olds' beds and kissed them both on their foreheads. I made sure they were tucked in and went to Ichigo's room. He was laying there asleep. I could tell he was having a bad dream when I entered his room. His reiatsu was frantic.
Even though he was still so young his power was great. He could already see wholes…like that girl Dominique acording to Saigon. To him though they looked like regular people, he couldn't see the chain of fate on them yet.
He'd asked me about them a few times. I merely told him that I couldn't see them and that he was special that he could see them. I put my hand on his forehead and he immediately calmed down. I felt something pushing on my consciousness. I closed my eyes and felt the presence of a zanpakuto. I actually knew this one; it was that old man Zangetsu. I smirked at the fact that the old man had chosen Ichigo as his wielder. I opened a link and then I felt the zanpakuto's presence in my mind.
'Hello Captain Masaki'. As usual a man of few words.
'Hello Zangetsu. I see you've chosen my son as your wielder'.
'Not just your son, but I have two wielders. She lives in America. I suspect you've already heard of her. Her name is Dominique Kudo'. I opened my eyes in shock. Not only did he have two wielders but his wielders were my own son and the young girl who was going to be a future shadow shinigami. This grabbed my attention and I made my mind that I would definitly come and see this girl Dominique. She would be interesting.
'I'm surprised to hear that but I am glad as well. Maybe they will meet one day'. I stepped away from Ichigo, severing the link. I walked out of his room and shut the door quietly. I walked down the stairs and as I did I popped in my soul candy; Misa. I told her to go to bed and that I would return by morning. I then opened a portal and stepped through into the bright blue sky of an American afternoon. Everywhere I saw were hills that were covered with trees.
If I do say so myself it was pretty. Sakima materialized beside me and grinned. She was much more excited about this little trip, in her opinion things had become incredibly boring around here and this new information seemed to forshadow something big was coming. To tell the truth, I was excited too. I shunpoed at a leasurly pace towards Saigon's and Gonsai's reiatsus with Sakima beside me. I located them just outside of a small town.
"Hey Gonsai, Saigon"! They both turned thier heads toward me and Sakima. They grinned at us and then told us where to find Dominique and what she looked like. She lived in a small trailer park with her parents. She had chocolate brown hair that stopped at her shoulders, deep blue eyes, and she was short for her age. She was playing outside in the park beside her home.
Well I shouldn't say playing, she was swinging on a swing set and singing some sort of song. I landed on a branch of a large pine tree a short distance away from her while Sakima landed on top of her house witch was actually closer to her than where I was sitting in the tree. I listened to her sing for a moment. Her song didn't have any words to it but it was very pretty. She would stop every now and again to change a pitch in the song as if she was experimenting with it.
"Dominique"! I heard someone call behind her in English. I looked back at the same time she did and I be her mother. Though there was a man right beside her. I figured he was her father. Dominique stopped swinging and looked back at her two parents. She looked at the man and her eyes hardened a bit.
"Hey mom. Who's that"? She pointed to the man. Okay so he wasn't her father.
"This is my new boyfriend; Shaun Kenn. We've been going out for three months". Dominique's eyes hardened even more and they seemed to change from deep blue to a greyish green color. Her face though changed into a bright welcoming smile. Her eyes closed to hide her showing emotions.
"Hiya! My name's Dominique. I'm happy to meet you". I gave the kid credit, she didn't like the guy and yet she put on one heck of a show.
"It's nice to meet you too. I hope we can be good friends". She retained her smile but her eyes seemed to turn flat silver. Sakima sonidoed to my side.
"Dang. The kid's eyes change color acording to her emotions. Hehe, but her mother and her boyfriend seem too dense to notice though. This sure is interesting. I mean do you feel her reiatsu? I'm impressed". I agreed with her. If her spiritual powers were this strong at this age then Dominique was definitly going to be a strong shadow shinigami when she got older. Her mother walked up to her to her.
"Come on inside. We're going out to lunch today and I wanted you to get to know Shaun. Oh and Shaun, tomorrow's my mother's funeral, would you like to come"? He nodded seriously. Dominique spoke up, I could hear the rage underlying her happy tone. She was obviously not happy about him coming along with them.
"Okay mom". She walked with her mom back to her house and then they soon left to wherever it is that they're going. Both Sakima and I jumped from the tree and sonidoed to her house. We put on a special bangle that would allow us to pass through solid objects as well as make us invisible to everyone but those who posessed the bangle as well. We walked through the wall and we were immediatly in a child's room.
We both took off our bangle's and put them back in our hakama pockets. It was definitly her room. Everywhere you looked there were animal posters and stuffed animals. She had a small bed, an old dresser, and a stand with a small tv and radio on it.
"Oh lookie what I found"! I sweatdropped and looked over at my pink haired, red eyed hollow. She was holding up a book that was black and had a lock on the side of it. I giggled; it was obvious that Sakima had found Dominique's diary. There was a key on the dresser that was sure to fit the lock and sure enough the lock opened and we looked at the first page.
December 31,
Today was my birthday! I'm now seven years old! My grandma gave me this diary and a black stone necklace. She said it belonged to her grandma when she was a little girl. I got to eat a chocolate cake with strawberries on it today! It was so yummy, I love chocolate and strawberries. Grandpa gave me a set of blocks that he made out of wood himself. Grandpa makes all sorts of stuff out of wood. He's good with tools. Mom gave me a new barbie doll and a sketch book. I put the barbie doll with all the others in the toy chest so that Lady would have a new chew toy when her other one gave out. I love my sketch book though, I love to draw so I drew the rose bush in the front yard. Time for bed, hehe.
I looked in the little box that was in the corner and sure enough, there were lots of barbies and other random dolls. She obviously didn't like girly stuff. Sakima started reading a random page that was set a few months later.
February 17,
Today mom, grandpa, grandma, and me went to the court house. Mom said that she was divorcing my dad. Well she didn't say dad she said something like biological doner or somethin like that. When I saw my dad I felt unusually mad. I felt like all I wanted to do was to run up to the man and kick him in between his legs like they do on tv. I stayed in the hallway while they talked in the big room with lots of benches. I watched as grandma kept looking at me and rubbing my hand like something was wrong. When the grown ups left the room my 'dad' walked up to me and tried to hug me. I jerked away from him. I felt like I wanted to hiss and growl at him like my cats do when they get mad. Then my mom walked up to me and held her arms out for me. I walked up to her and hugged her. She kissed me on my cheek and then they went back into the room. A really long time later my mom and the rest of the grown-ups came out and then we left. I don't know what had happened but I was glad that it was over. Grown-ups are confusing.
March 3,
Today grandma scared me really bad. She was walking with me around the block around her house when she fell and passed out. I was so scared. I ran as fast as I could back to her house and got grandpa. He got me in his van and drove down the street to where grandma was on the ground. Then all of a sudden there was an ambulance and then they took grandma to the hospital. Mom got to the hospital and she sat with me and grandpa in the waiting room. I drew in my sketch book to pass the time. Grandpa told me everything would be alright. We had to go home and grandma had to stay at the hospital. But mom said that we will get grandma back from the hospital tomorrow. I'm scared for grandma.
April 26,
Today grandpa and mom were crying alot, and grandma had a funny look on her face. She looked sad but it was hard to tell. I asked why, but they refused to tell me anything. They think I wouldn't understand but I do, so I tricked my cousin Ember to tell me what was going on. She said that grandma had cancer and that she had fainted on our walk and that was what made her pass out. She also told me what cancer was. They think that grandma's gonna die. I'm scared and I don't want her to die.
I looked at Sakima, she had a soft look in her eyes.
June 30,
Grandma's not getting any better. She's hardly ever eats and when she does she only eats a little bit. She lost all her hair because of the kemo therapy stuff. They said that it's fighting the cancer and helping her. I don't think it is though; I think it's only making things worse. I help grandpa and mom take care of her.
Both me and Sakima knew what was going to happen. We looked at the last page.
August 1,
Grandma's gone. This morning I was feeding her breakfast in bed while mom and grandpa were working outside. She looked at me with her deep blue eyes that matched mine and patted my hand. She told me she loved me and then she closed her eyes. Her cold hand went limp in mine. I thought she went to sleep. I asked her to wake up so she could finish her breakfast and take her medicine, but she didn't move. It felt like everything went cold. I put my hand on her shoulder and shook her gently, asking her to wake up. She didn't move. I put my hand where her heart was and I didn't feel anything. I started breathing heavy when I heard a voice. It was grandma's voice. I saw her standing up right beside me. I looked back from her to her the other her on the table. I asked her what was going on. She smiled at me and told me that she had died. My eyes went wide and I started crying. She put her hand on my shoulder and told me to get grandpa and my mom, and that everything was alright. I ran outside and ran right into my mom's arms. She tried to calm me down, but I dragged her inside and grandpa came too. They saw grandma and then they started crying. They didn't see grandma's ghost standing beside me though. She patted me on my head and said that I was special and that I shouldn't tell them what I saw. All I could do was cry though.
I shut the diary, locked it and put it back on the shelf. I felt so bad for the child. No kid should have to go through that.
"Man that girl sure's been through alot already. She looked absolutely normal though. She must take bad things pretty well. I'm excited to see how she turns out". I grinned at her, even though it was a sad grin for what the poor child.
"Me as well Sakima. This is definitly getting interesting". I put back on my bangle and so did Sakima. We both jumped through the wall back to the outside. We stood outside for a moment. The sun was still up and it wouldn't go down for at least another four hours. I decided to go see something. I stabbed my blade into the air and called out the incantation to open the gate. I then stepped through and landed in the center of the squad 0 realm.
There were squad members and students everywhere. I walked down the pathway to where the dorms were. I saw two students making out and I whistled. They looked up, blushing and greeted us nervously. Sakima was snickering at my side and I was giggling right along with her.
When we finally got to Rose's room I stood at the doorway with Sakima. Rose was reading some manga from the human world with Sero playing a game on the computer on thier desk. I coughed conspicuously to get thier attention. Their heads shot up and she looked back at me.
"Hello captains Masaki and Sakima. Whacha need"? I giggled.
"I have a favor to ask the young captain in training. I would like to look at the future of this young girl named Dominique Kudo. She and my son share a zanpakuto spirit and they happen to be nearly the same age. They will both wield the zanpakuto Zangetsu. So I want to see if they will meet in the future. Only your zanpakuto, Hitarosu and Sero's zanpakuto, Usoratih have the ability to copy any shikai and bankai that has ever existed. I would like you to look into the future for me". She nodded and grinned.
"Now Hitarosu, change. False Shorai no Senken. See the life of Dominique Kudo". Her blade changed shape from its normal katana look to a small mirror with small decretive blades on the side. The glass turned from reflective to pitch black, then it swirled with colors.
Soon we saw a picture of Dominique standing in a meadow of some sort. She had Zangetsu in her hand and she had a deep gash on her left shoulder. Her eyes had fear in them. She was facing a white teenager-like hollow. The hollow looked strangely familiar…it was my son's hollow, but why in the hell was he a teenager and not a child?
Dominique looked older as well, she looked around ten years old here. She stood in front of Ichigo's hollow, looking like she was about to attack him. I looked at her eyes, they had turned a flat silver color. She rushed at the hollow and was able to pin him down to the ground. Just as she was about to deliver the finishing blow, she stopped and her eyes turned back to normal. She smiled at the hollow and then held her hand out to him. He took it and then the picture faded.
When the picture reformed she was older, but not by much. She was standing beside two hollows. One looked like her and the other was my son's hollow from the earlier picture She looked to be sparring with them. They were all smiling like battle crazed fools. She was in a different outfit that looked more like what Zangetsu wears. She achieved bankai, Tensa Zangetsu.
The picture changed again and it showed her standing in front of Rose. Rose was wearing the inverted hiori so that ment by the time they meet; Rose will be the captain of squad 0. The picture changed once again and then reformed.
She was walking down a familiar street in Karakura Town. She was definitely older here and she had an atmosphere of calm authority about her. She walked down the street and saw what could only be my son Ichigo fighting a bunch of skater punks. He then talked to a young whole and then started walking down the street. They looked into each other's eyes and then they both walked away with confused looks on their faces. This proved that they would meet.
The next picture was of Dominique hunching over Ichigo. He was lying in a pool of blood and Dominique was changed into a hollow-like form; she was shielding Ichigo from the rain with her white wings. Tears were streaming down her face along with the rain. That picture there had me worried, but it quickly changed again.
It was showing Ichigo and Dominique sitting together on the roof of the Karakura high school. They were looking into each other's eyes. They both leaned forward and they kissed. All four of us were frozen there in shock. Our eyes wide as we watched Dominique and Ichigo kiss. Then they were interrupted by a group of kids. Then the mirror went black and changed back to it's regular katana shape as Rose fell backwards, laughing her ass off; feet swinging comicly in the air. Sero was right there with her. I rolled my eyes and Sakima was laughing out loud as well.
"Well dang man! Ichigo and Dominique will get together! HAHAHAHAHAHA"! Sakima laughed out, doubling over herself. I couldn't help it, but I giggled too.
"Thanks Rose. Man that was sure something to watch. Get back to your training and I'm heading back for the human world". She gave me a salute.
"Sure thing captain! HAHAHAHAHAHA"! Still as rowdy as ever. She'll make one heck of a captain. I walked out to the center of the plaza as I opened a portal to the world of the living.
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Over the next few years I would alternate watching both Ichigo and Dominique grow. Dominique, since she knew what she was seeing, would help out the wholes. Though unfortunately hollows were attracted to her. I had Siagon and Gonsai keep and eye on her. The kept the hollows away from her and kept me updated when something new developed. She had gained a friend over the years. Her name was Emma Moody who had a boyfriend named Shuan Sata. Dominique's reiatsu caused thier own powers to awaken and they turned out to be future shadow shinigamies as well.
Ichigo had gotten into karate class. He made a friend in Tatsuki. I knew why he wanted to leard karate all of a sudden. He wanted to protect people. He and I would walk home from the dojo every day.
Today was Ichigo's ninth birtday. We all had a picnic at the park. He played with Karin and Yuzu and Isshin acted his usual self. That night I tucked Ichigo into bed.
"Happy birthday my little strawberry". I whispered as he slept. I stood up and walked down the hallway. I could hear dishes clanking and water running; Isshin was doing dishes. I walked down the stairs and came up behind him. I put my hands on his eyes when I snuck up behind him. I laughed out, "Guess who"?
"My beautiful wife". I let his eyes go and he turned around to face me. I put a mock pout on my face.
"Wow you're good. Maybe I should start hiding my spirit energy. You seem to be getting your powers back little by little. I guess that stuff in the gigai is wearing off". He laughed.
"Yeah I guess so. I'm starting to see wholes again. How's the kids"?
"Same old, same old". I waved my hand teasingly at him.
"What about that girl"? I had told him about her when I found out that they were gonna hook up when they got older.
"Oh Dominique Kudo? Turns out that she's been using her ability to help spirits find peace. She's quite mature for her age. Heh, just like Ichigo".
"Yah that did shock me when you said that they were gonna meet one day. Even more when you said that they'd go together. I going to have a third daughter one day"! I sighed and giggled at his sillyness. That was one of the reasons that I fell in love with him. I kissed him before I went upstairs to bed.
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Today was a rainy day. I was walking with Ichigo back home from the dojo. He insisted on keeping me dry from the water that splashed up from the rude people in cars speeding by. We were walking by the river, which was starting to flood but it didn't bother me; we were up on the hill. I had to stop and wipe Ichigo's face dry from yet another asshole.
He told me that he wanted to protect me from the water and that his rain coat would keep him dry. He was such a kind child. After that we walked further down the sidewalk. I got a familiar feeling of a hollow nearby, but I couldn't pinpoint it, and it was beginning to worry me.
Then Ichigo tore his hand away from me and went runing down the hill. I looked down and saw that he was running towards a girl who looked like she was about to jump in the river. Only it wasn't a girl. I saw something that was attached to its head. Ichigo ran down the hill and I called out after him.
"Ichigo no"! Sakima shoved me from my body as she sonidoed down to where he was while in my gigai as I tried to pinpoint the hollow's exact location. The hollow came from the garganta and clawed down the back of my gigai. Sakima luckily got out of it in time and I slashed at the hollow. It ran down a short distance away after she slashed through it's fur. I chased after it, full of rage for that monster even just trying to go after my son.
"You bastard"! Both Sakima and I screeched at the same time. I easily dodged the hollows moving fur and slashed at it's shoulder, meaning to cut it clean in half. It backed away just in time. It dissapeared through another garganta and I stood there in the rain with Sakima, fuming at the lowlife hollow's cowardice. Then I remembered Ichigo.
"Sakima"! She looked back and we were both off to protect Ichigo. When we got there we saw that my gigai was completely useless. I sighed a sigh of relief. When the hollow had slashed open the back, Sakima jumped out of it and it had fallen on top of Ichigo, hiding him from view. The back was completely torn and there was blood everywhere. Urahara would have to make me another one.
But before I could move it so Ichigo wouldn't see, he woke up and saw my dead 'body'.
"Mommy? Mommy"! He was crying and trying to 'wake me up'. I quickly put my bangle on and Sakima re-entered my soul. My head slumped forward in sadness. Soon Ichigo was surrounded by people and they carted my gigai to the hospital while someone offered to take Ichigo to the house.
I followed them to the house and watched in sadness when they told Isshin what they thought had happened. Ichigo was crying as well as Yuzu and Karin. Isshing looked beside himself when he got the kids up to bed. He went back down stairs when the kids were asleep.
I went up beside him. I wanted to tell him, but I think that this is for the best. I will tell him one day but for now...no. I walked up the stairs to the kids' rooms. Yuzu's and Karin's room was first. They were sharing Karin's bed tonight. They were hugging each other in thier sleep. Both had tear marks on thier faces. I gave them both kisses on thier head and walked to Ichigo's room. He was in his bed, sleeping on his back. Tears were still in his now closed eyes. I leaned down and kissed them away. I sang for him quietly.
"Sleep now my child, my baby, my boy,
sleep as the wind carries you,
listen just listen to what I do say,
what I do say to you. ~
Sleep now my child in the darkness of night,
watch for your shadow's first flight,
trust your own shadow for he is truly you,
just in a different light. ~
Sleep and ignore the monsters you've seen,
sleep and ignore them my boy.
Eyes of yellow, trust that fellow,
and hear me sing just for you. ~
Listen just listen for if I do leave,
I will always watch you.
Trust the twin and trust the man,
they will look out for you. ~
So if I do leave,
just remember my song,
this song is so you can meet 'her',
so listen, just listen my boy." ~
His face became peacefull in his sleep. I put my hand on his head and felt Zangetsu once again try to make contact with my mind. I allowed him access.
'Masaki. Ichigo's hollow has fully awakened'. My eyes widened in shock. It was still too early. Wait...damn. The amount of reiatsu exposier today was the cause most likely.
'Yes. I guess I shouldn't be surprised'. I laughed bitterly.
'I was able to seal him away mostly. I sealed him away inside of myself, but not completely'.
'How'?
'I split him in two actually. I was then able to get one half dormant again. I sealed the other half in Ichigo's hollow mask'. The skull like mask appeared on his face, child sized and fully formed. I picked it up gently, my fingers carressing the cold bone. Zangetsu then continued, 'This half had for some odd reason changed into a teenager. I suspect that it deals with my aged reiatsu clashing with Ichigo's younger reiatsu. It changed his hollow into a teenager. I want you to keep an eye on the hollow so that Ichigo will get older before he has to deal with the life of a shadow shinigami'. Something clicked in my head. That vision of Rose's. I knew what I had to do.
"Hey Zangetsu. Why don't I give the mask to Dominique. Her powers are more advanced to I think she can handle it. I know she's still young, but...'. She was in fact younger than Ichigo, but I showed him the vision that Rose showed me. He agreed and I told him goodbye for now and to keep Ichigo safe. I walked through the wall out into the now clear night. I decided to wait for a while before I would give her the mask.
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I waited until the last day of October, almost two years later.
I went to America that night and found Dominique running down the street with another girl chasing her. Dominique was ten now. The other girl was laughing and Dominique, who was much older since I had last checked up on her, had an irritated look on her face. She ran behind a large tree, while the other girl ran further and further away from her.
She sighed as she sat down to catch her breath. I looked down at her appreciatively as I dropped the mask so it would fall through the branches and land beside her. She looked up and then the mask landed right on her forehead. Her eyes went wide in a comical expression.
'Oops. Oh well...hehe'.
I senced all the energy that eminated from the mask flow into the girl in that instant. Her reiatsu changed and the mask held no energy whatsoever. She sat there rubbing the lump on her forehead. She picked up the mask, her face didn't have any fear surprisingly, it had fasination. A good sign.
I heard her mom call for her in the distance, she put the mask in her backpack and raced toward her family. I smiled and shunpoed after them. I kept an eye on her the whole time. She was good at not showing that she had someone talking to her in her head. She dealt with it all pretty well for a full month.
Tonight was the night for her and Emma's slumber party. They were walking home after school when they were jumped by a man who looked like he was in his twenties, but at the same time looked aged as if he was forty. Drug addict, most likely.
He held a gun up to Dominique's temple. I was about to rush over to help them when the hollow's reiatsu engulfed her and her mask appeard on half of her face.
It didn't feel like she was being fully controlled by the hollow, but she was alowing the hollow to attack the man. They broke the man's wrist and shattered the gun that he had been holding. He ran and Emma saw the hollows mask on her face as it desintegrated.
She looked at Emma apoligeticaly, but Emma was gushing over what had happened. I listened as they talked about Emma's powers as well as Dominique's. I pulled up the spirit ribbons and I saw Emma's beside Dominique's. Emma's was white, red, green, and black. The white, black, and red didn't surprise me cause young shadow shinigami who haven't changed yet will have those colors, what did though was the green.
I flipped through my memmories and found that only shapeshifters had green spirit ribbons. Once they died they usually became shadow shinigami or soul reapers, but some never did at all.
Yoruichi Shihoine was the perfect example. She could change into a cat and was a close friend of mine, Kisuke as well and he was like a brother to Isshin. They could always cook up trouble and it was my job and Yoruichi's to keep them in line. Sigh. I was interested to see what this young one would change into though.
As they were sleeping, I felt Dominique's reiatsu spike dramaticaly. This wasn't good. I stepped into her room and saw her writhering on her bed. Emma was on her couch asleep. I put up several kido barriers around both Emma and Dominique. Sound proof ones around Emma so she wouldn't be desturbed and ones to keep Dominique in when she would change.
Her mask had already formed on her face mostly and her body was beginning to transform as well. I quickly used kage bakudo to bind her so she wouldn't destroy anything. It was only a matter of time before she fully hollified. I watched as Dominique's body began to grow and tear itself apart. I binded her arms and legs with a kido as well.
Then as suddenly as it started it stopped. Her body completely rid itself of anything hollow and all that was left was a sleeping human girl. I released the kidos.
'Okay, this was way different. Wierd much'. I had to agree with Sakima. This was so not normal. Then I remembered the show from Rose's Hitarosu a few years ago, how she had over powered Ivhigo's hollow, but didn't finish him off. She must have fought Ichigo's hollow and they made a deal or something. I was deffinitly sticking around to watch what happens next.
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I watched as she kept living her life, but now and then she would seem to zone out and her eyes would glaze over. This was the sign that a newbee was talking with thier hollow or zanpakuto. As they gain more experience they'll be able to hide thier silent conversations better, till they get to the point where they are completely aware of thier surroundings, even when they are talking inside thier heads.
Dominique was pretty good though for a newbee. The moment someone got within five feet of her though she would wake up. I watched as she left her body for the first time. She had already learned shunpo and was good at it. She even preformed a konso that night too so that was good for her first time. I was watching one night that a low level hollow came and attacked her. I had let this one come to her unlike the stronger ones. I wanted to test her.
"Take this you ugly freak"! She slashed downward and cut the hollow in half with one strike. I smiled from my hiding place on the ground. She then called out in joy,"Haha, take that! Booyah"! She threw a victory sign into the air. I sweatdropped and shook my head in amusement.
'Kids...'.
All too soon though she turned twelve. In fact the very day she turned twelve Rose came up to her and offered her a place in squad 0.
Dominiqe excelled in the shadow academy. One day while she was off from the academy she was patroling the area around her home, a gillian attacked her. She had gone bankai and cracked the gillian's mask. Then one of her hollows took over and finished the hollow off with ease.
'Impressive. She'll be a section leader if not a seated officer in no time'. Sakima said apreciativley. I dissagreed with her though.
"No. All the seat positions are full. She'll be a section leader but there is no way for her to be a seated officer for the moment'. She had to agree.
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I sat watching in a tree in one of the many squad 0 training grounds; the forest training ground to be exact. Dominique was going to fully hollify today to see if she would be one to have access to a hollow form at will. She was walking with Rose to the center of the training field.
"You know that if you start the change, you won't be able to stop until it's done"? She nodded seriously.
"Of course. I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't sure". Dominique said confidently. Rose grinned.
"Very good. Just stand there and focus. Good luck". Rose backed up a few paces to give her some space. Dominique nodded and then she closed her eyes. I watched as Dominiques reiatsu began flowing out of her in waves of energy. Her reiatsu was black with red on the edges. It then completely left her body as she opened her eyes and was flowing around her in a ring. Her hollow mask then appeared on her face as her eyes changed from blue to black and gold.
Her arms twitched and then seemed to grow. Claws ripped from her finger tips and horns shot out from her wrist. Dominique gasped behind her mask at the shock of the first pain. The thing about changing into a hollow completely for the first time is that it hurts like a bitch.
Her skin where the claws and horns had ripped out was completely white but there was a hint of blue. Dominique screamed as her hollow hole formed right below her neck. Dominique dropped to her knees as her feet ripped apart and changed to claws. Then her head flew back as she screamed again, her voice sounding like a true hollow's. A pair of huge wing ripped from her back and stretched outward. The wings ripped off most of the back of her shihakusho, showing a large blue mark that started from her back. It reminded me of a dragon, there was even a tail. That was when a long tail ripped from her spine.
Dominique was left crouching on the field as the rest of her normal skin fell away from her, until she was completely changed. The blue marking that started on her back flowed down her arm and I even saw a hint of blue on her ankles so it must run down her legs too. She stood up and her wings twitched. She took off her mask and smiled at Rose. Her shihakusho was almost completely shredded in the back.
"How was that"? She panted. Rose grinned.
"Perfect. I like the blue markings". Dominique grinned as she looked at her arms, down to her newly clawed hands.
"Cool".
"Now release it and change back to normal". Dominique nodded and closed her eyes. Her skin seemed to desintegrate as she changed back to normal. The only thing that didn't change was the dragon mark on her back, though it did shrink until it was small enough to tell it really was a dragon. Dominique swayed a little and fell backwards. She landed on her backside with a huff, but she was grinning like she just got a reward.
"Man I'm beat". Rose laughed.
"Well that's to be expected. You changed for the first time and it hurts. Now lets go get lunch before your next class". Dominique got up.
"Hey Rose, can I get a new shihakusho first, since this one isn't any good anymore"? Rose nodded and they were off.
I continued to watch as Dominique grew. By the time she turned thirteen she had been promoted to section 13 leader. She changed alot during the years. She was calm and collected, but she knew how to relax and have fun. She even started learning how to do other hollow transformations. She, in all had three changes besides her normal hollows mask.
She could change into her original hollow form that had the wings and claws and such. Then she could change into a full hollified dragon. The final form that she learned most reacently was a vasto lorde form. It looked like a mix of her first and second changes, but was unique in its own way too. She was still mastering the vasto lorde form with Rose.
Her friends became members of squad 0 and soon entered her section. Emma was a shapeshifter shadow shinigami. Her transformation was a wolf. There was Emma's boyfriend; Shuan, who was a shadow shinigami as well.
There also happened to be two other shapeshifters in the local area and they saw Emma and they changed into wolves as well. Emma had unintentionaly created a wolf pack like the ones up in Washington in America. There was also another shapeshifter who for some reason didn't have the single change block that all the other shapeshifters had. She could change into two forms. She changed into both a dark fairy and a tiger. She had wierd taste that was for sure.
When Dominique had turned fifteen, I thought that it was about the time for her to head to Japan. I saw a poster around town that the school was asking for a benifactor to pay for a select number of students to have a study abroad trip to...Karakura, Japan. This was the thing that would get her there, I knew it. I got a spare gigai from the squad 0 barracks and went to Dominique's school. I walked to the office and talked to the Principal and offered the needed money to pay for the trip for eight people that included the teachers to go to Karakura.
I told him not to mention my name that I was just an anonymous benifactor. If Dominique was going to meet Ichigo, she didn't need to know that I was his mother or that his mother was alive at the moment. He shook my hand and I was out of there pretty quickly. I was the one who would get Dominique and the others to Japan. Everything was now ready. This was it, time for the real fun to begin.
'Bout damn time'. Sakima thought exitedly.
Me: Okay I know that it has been for like ever since I friggen updated but the dang chapter had been deleted for some reason. Gomen. I don't know why but it just happened and I had to rewrite it all over again. I of course made changes and it took forever. Again sorry and the next chapter will be up much quicker cause I'm just editing it currently, so yah.
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