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 21
Momo Hinamori was waking up, and she wasn't sure where she was.
"Oh, so your awake, Momo" A male voice said.
She looked and Saw Captain Aizen standing next to Captain Ichimaru and Captain Tosen.
"Captain Aizen !" She exclaimed trying to stand up. " I thought… I though you were dead!"
She wrapped her arms around him and began to cry . He simply held her ,and let her cry till she done about 15 minutes later or so.
"Now, as you can see, I'm not dead. I had to fake my death in order to keep myself safe from the others" Aizen said, calmly.
"The others?" she asked confused.
"You see Momo, many members of 13 court guard squads are conspiring to take over everything and destroy everyone, Some wish to kill Rukia to get this power…" He said, putting his hands on her shoulders. "As for the invaders, they are working with some of another set of traitors, and there plans include rescuing Rukia, in order to get there hands on this power in a different way, this power is an object, called the Hogyoku"
"Then ..then what do we do , Captain Aizen?" Momo asked calming down. "How do we stop them?"
"Rukia Kuchiki is going to be executed tomorrow,.." Aizen said, walking several feet. " We must prepare ourselves, to keep her out of the hands of both invaders and traitors alike."
She looked unsure for a moment and then said "Um ..right! Well save the Soul Society!… So, what do we do first?"
Ichigo had been fighting against Zangetsu, and even though he had gotten faster, his control over Spiritual Pressure had increased and he had been able to fight with out having his sword break, he still wasn't close to achieving Bankai. The sword he had in his hand finally shattered while blocking Zangetsu, and he quickly jumped back and grabbed another one from the ground they were stuck in. This training was hard, but it didn't help that he now had Hiyori on his mind. He couldn't help but think about her confession to him, while he was supposedly asleep. He shock his head and tried to focus on his Bankai training as Zangetsu swung his sword at him.
On the other side of the training arena, Hiyori wasn't fairing much better then Ichigo. She was also having trouble focusing on her combat, with her mind continuously drifting to thoughts of Ichigo. She swung her sword at Kubikiri Orochi who ducked and brought her own sword upward at her. Hiyori blocked and kicked her sent her stumbling back. But Kubikiri flash stepped behind her and spun-kicked her in the back sending her flying.
She walked up to Hiyori, who was trying to stand back up. "You really need to stop thinking about your beloved . Ichigo isn't going anywhere for right now…" Kubikiri said, smiling. "Unless you wanna go make passionate love to him right now…"
Hiyori tried to turn her face to hide her beat red face as she said " Sh…shu.. Shut up !"
"Well if you won't talk about jumping him and having your way with him.." Kubikiri said, grinning. "…Then lets get back to training. You can think of it as stamina training to keep up with him when you and he finally.. Well.." She made a rude gesture of repeatedly sliding her pointer finger in between two other fingers.
Hiyori choose to ignore her , and keep her massive blush hidden from view. She gripped her sword and ran at Kubikiri, yelling "Enough talk! Fight!"
Meanwhile Ichigo was continuing to fight against Zangetsu when they all felt foreign Spiritual Pressure nearing the entrance of training arena. In walked the last person Ichigo expected to see, Renji Abarai.
"Well, I was right, Ichigo, you were here." Renji said grinning. "Long time no see."
Ichigo gripped the sword he currently had in his hands and gritted his teeth. Great.. the last thing I need to stop and fight eyebrow man again…
Renji seemed to sense Ichigo's thoughts and said. "Relax, I'm not here to fight.. I've thought a lot about hunting you down and killing you for taking Rukia's powers and causing her to be sentenced to be executed.."
"…But… After thinking about it long and hard.. I realized something ." Renji said, jumping down the ground. " I only have myself to blame, for not doing something to help her sooner, the way you are."
"I wanna help you, save Rukia… in fact I have some important information to tell you regarding her execution." He said, gritting his teeth. " Rukia's execution has been moved … to tomorrow after noon."
Yoruichi, Ichigo, Hiyori, and Yachiru all froze and were wide eyed. At this news. "Tomorrow after noon!" Yoruichi exclaimed… " Ichigo is close to Bankai.. And so is Hiyori,… but to reach it by tomorrow..?"
"We can do it, just trust us ,Yoruichi…" Ichigo said, fiercely. "Me and Hiyori WILL achieve Bankai by tomorrow !"
"I certainly hope so.." Yoruichi said looking up at the high ceiling that was panted to look like the daytime sky. " .. Or else we may all be in trouble…"
The next day…
It was nearly time for Rukia's Execution and Kukaku Shiba and Orihime suddenly found themselves in a jail cell. They didn't remember how they got there ,only that they encountered a Soul Reaper with Braided purple hair. They were both wearing strange things on there hands that suppressed Spiritual Pressure as well. Orihime looked over and saw someone else sleeping on another bed across from hers and Kukaku's. "Hey who's over there?" Orihime asked, the sleeping lump.
The lump moved and turned over to reveal Chad. "Orihime, Kukaku, what are you 2 doing here?"
"Chad? Were not entirely sure.. We just woke up." Orihime said, standing up. " How's you get here?"
"Tried to fight a Captain… didn't get far." Chad replied, sitting up. "By the way.. They moved Rukia's execution to today.. In fact it will occur in about 20 minutes or so…"
Orihime's eyes went big and she said " Oh no! what are we going to do!"
Chad stood up and pulled on his weird shackles until, surprisingly he broke them apart. "Holy shit, kid.. those were spiritual energy suppression cuffs! How you break them ?"
"That's cause Chad is unnaturally strong, even without Spiritual Pressure!" Orihime said, laughing.
Chad easily broke Orihime and Kukaku's cuffs and walked over to the wall of the cell. "Brace yourselves…" he said, putting his foot up.
He kicked the way ,hard and broke away a huge chunk of it. He then punched away enough of the rest of the wall to make room for him and the other's to get through.
"Good now that were free, the execution grounds are near here, so lets move!" Kukaku said, walking away.
Orihime and Chad both nodded and followed along, behind her.
Meanwhile, at Sokyoku hill….
The captains and Lieutenants had arrived to witness the execution of Rukia. Captain of Squad 2, Soifon looked around and only saw a few other captains besides her. "This is kind of pathetic." Soifon stated , looking to her left. "The only captains and Lieutenants present beside me are from squad's 1,4, and 8... Oh ,and there's Captain Kuchiki from squad 6, as well"
Byakuya didn't even look at Rukia while he passed by to join the other Captains. Rukia didn't expect him to say anything, but even still, it hurt her, emotionally.
"Miss Kuchiki.." A guff voice , belonging to Head-Captain Yamamoto, said. " Do you have any final words or wishes?"
"Yes,… Yes I do…" Rukia said, sadly. "I would like you to capture and return Ichigo and his friends to the world of the living, unharmed."
"Very well, I will honor your last request, miss Kuchiki " Yamamoto replied.
"Captain, .. How can the head captain be so cruel, as to lie to her?" Isane asked, her captain.
" Yes it is cruel to some degree, but it matters not, as soon as Captains Kyoraku and Ukitake arrive, it will all be dealt with." Unohana said, in a low tone of voice. " I jut hope they get here in time."
Isane nodded and said. "So do I, other wise it will be harder to stop this on our own."
" Move the prisoner to the correct position." Yamamoto stated.
Rukia was moved to a standing position underneath what looked like a huge doorway. Suddenly.
Three blocks erupted from the ground and rose up. One under each hand, the other under her feet. She rose up, standing straight up in the air, with her arms spread to the side, like a cross.
Before the Head captain could speak again, everyone felt immense Spiritual Pressure from all around them, everyone was visibly effect to some degree, even the head captain, who was every so slightly, sweating.
"Well isn't this just cozy, my little Hiyori-chan!" Said a male voice form on top of the doorway like object.
"I could agree more, Ichigo-kun." a female voice said back to him.
Everyone looked up and saw, Ichigo and Hiyori standing on top of the doorway. Ichigo had the same Shihoin clock and lots of bandages covering his arms and chest (like in the anime and manga when he rescued Rukia) however in stead of a normal top robe like other Soul Reapers wore, he had a sleeveless one and black fingerless gloves on his hands. Hiyori on the other hand wore an outfit completely different from her normal sweat-suit she normally wore. She had a black sleeveless shirt that only went down to just under her breasts. From there to her waist was white bandages, which were also on her arms from her elbows to her wrists. Instead normal Soul Reaper pants she wore the ninja-like ones of the Stealth-Force, and finally , she too had black finger-less gloves.
Rukia looked up and her eyes went wide, "Ichigo….Hiyori.."
"Who the hell are those two?" asked Soifon's fat, lazy Lieutenant. " And what's with at intense Spiritual Pressure?"
The Head captain, Captain Unohana, Lieutenant Isane, and Captain Kyoraku all recognized Hiyori, while Soifon only thought she looked somewhat familiar.
"Quickly release the Sokyoku!" the Head Captain bellowed.
But it never got unsealed, because Captain Ukitake appeared out of nowhere along with his two third seats, Kiyone, and Sentaro, who wrapped a large thick rope around the Sokyoku and drove one of two small pillars into the ground. Captain Kyoraku flash stepped over and pushed the other into the ground while grinning as he said " We though you wouldn't make it , Jushiro"
"Guards stop them!" Yamamoto yelled.
His rank-less Soul Reaper guards raced over only to be blocked by Captain Unohana and Isane.
" My apologies young ladies and gentlemen, but I can not allow to interfere with the destruction of the Sokyoku" Captain Unohana said in her scary but polite voice. She turned her head upward and looked at Ichigo and Hiyori. " If you plan on freeing her, now would be a good time ,you two"
Ichigo and Hiyori both nodded and pulled there Zanpaktous off of there backs and spun them around till they held them upside down, and proceeded to stab them into the top of the doorway they stood on.
"Hey, what are you two doing!" Rukia yelled up.
"Simple, midget, were going to break this doorway thingy, and set you free," Ichigo said, as gathered his Spiritual Pressure and channeled it through his Zanpaktou into the Doorway.. "Right, Hiyori-chan?"
She nodded back and released her Spiritual pressure through her Zanpaktou as well. A few moments later a huge explosion and smoke erupted and when it cleared, Ichigo was carrying Rukia under one arm and Hiyori was standing beside him with one hand leaning on his shoulder and the other holding her now unsealed Zanpaktou across her right shoulder, pointing back.
"I know you won't thank us, but that's ok, we knew you wouldn't." Ichigo said, glancing down at Rukia.
"Uh, Ichigo, what exactly did you plan on doing now?" Rukia asked, looking at him. "Where could we possibly go that would be safe?"
"We already got that covered, .." Hiyori said, turning her head. "Hey eyebrows, hurry it up!"
Renji appeared a moment later, with Yachiru on his back, trying to bite him "Oh shut it, me and the little monster are here already!"
"I'm not a monster !" Yachiru yelled, hitting him.
Renji! You're here too!" Rukia asked in surprise. " And Lieutenant Kusajishi as well!"
"Of course, I couldn't let Ichigo and Hiyori have all the glory" Renji, said smugly.
Yachiru bit Renji's ear, hard. And Renji yelled "Ah! Get it off of me!"
"Yachiru, stop it" Ichigo said calmly. " And get over here."
She immediately stopped, and said "Yes sir!" She jumped off of Renji kicking on her way, and landed on Ichigo's back, wrapping her arms around his neck loosely.
"Ok, you know where to take her right?" Ichigo asked, handing off Rukia to Renji.
He nodded before flash stepping off towards the training cave of Yoruichi ,with Rukia in his arms.
Soifon yelled for her Lieutenant Marechiyo Omaeda and the Squad 1, Lieutenant Chojiro Sasakibe, to stop the intruders, but as they raced forward, Ichigo, Isane and Hiyori appeared in their paths, swords drawn.
Ichigo easily knocked Lieutenant Omaeda to the ground with one swing of his Zanpaktou, Hiyori grabbed Lieutenant Sasakiba's wrist and pulled him down before up kicking him in his chin and knocking him to the ground as well.
Beside them Isane was easily defeat a small group of unranked Soul Reapers, while Yachiru simply unleashed her pink Spiritual Pressure and drove another small group of unranked Soul Reapers to the ground. Suddenly Ichigo told Isane and Yachiru to get back and a split second after they did Ichigo and Hiyori both block the sword of Byakuya Kuchiki.
"Your even slower then last time for us, Byakuya Kuchiki!" Ichigo said , grinning.
"It appears you've gain some speed boy,.. But all I want to know right now is, why you and your friends are so persistent on saving Rukia.?" Byakuya asked, his sword still sliding against Ichigo and Hiyori's.
"You know before I might have answered your stupid question, but there's obviously no point,.." Ichigo replied back. " Instead , me and Hiyori here are going to kick your ass and get Rukia out of here, end of discussion."
"Very well, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Hiyori, I will simply kill the both off you," Byakuya said confidently, "..Before I find Rukia, and slit her throat, myself."
Ichigo and Hiyori raced at him sword pointed forward, while Byakuya did the same., causing them to meet in the middle in a clash of sparks.
Some distance away, Toshiro and Rangiku had tracked the Spiritual Pressure of Hinamori to Central 46, and found the guards and locks to the doors were gone. The made there way inside and found, to there horror, all 46 judges dead.
"Captain ,what's going on around here…?" Rangiku asked, out of breath for running around so much "Nothing seems to make any sense these days!"
"I …I don't know what's-… hey I heard a noise !" Toshiro said, looking around. "There.. It's coming from the sleeping areas for the judges!, come on !"
They ran down the stairs and went into the rest area. They heard talking and one of the curtains at the entrance to one of the judge's rest chamber parted open….. And a very much alive Captain Aizen walked out.
"Ah, Captain Hitsugaya, I was wonder how long you'd stay upstairs." He said calmly. "Long, time no see ,I suppose."
"You.. your alive?" Toshiro exclaimed wide-eyed. "But, I saw your body in the infirmary!"
"That? That was merely…. a distraction…" Aizen replied. "To stop all of you from your destructive goals."
"Goals?" Rangiku asked, puzzled. "What goals?"
"There's no need to pretend.. Right, Momo ?" Aizen replied, stepping to the side.
Behind him was Momo Hinamori, but she looked somewhat angry and dark circles under her eyes.
"Toshiro.. Rangiku.. We won't let you and your friends get away with it!" Momo cried out. "We'll stop you, all of you !"
Both Toshiro and Rangiku were at a loss for words at this point. Momo hesitantly drew her Zanpaktou from it's sheath. "I'm.. I'm sorry it has to be this way.. Lil' Shiro… Snap! Tobiume!"
Before Toshiro could react, he found himself stabbed through his stomach by a crying Momo. "I'm sorry, Toshiro…" She said, tears streaming down hr face. "I didn't want it to be this way, but I couldn't.. I couldn't let you do such horrible things"
"TOSHIRO!" Rangiku yelled running to him. But she didn't make it very far, and instead found her face being shoved into the wall at high enough speeds to leaves cracks and a small dent in the wall.
She slid down and fell onto her back, blood running down her face from a clearly broken nose. At this point, Momo fell to her knees and bawled her eyes out. Aizen out his hands on her shoulders and stood her up. "I know your sad.. But it had to be done" He said calmly to her. ".. Just like this."
Just as she looked up, she found her self stabbed through the middle by Aizen's blade. "Captain Aizen…why did you…" She said before collapsing to the ground. As she bled, Aizen smiled down at her.
"You've been a excellent Lieutenant, and a big help in eliminating the only ones who knew anything at all about where I was." He said calmly as he smiled. " But now your no longer useful to me, ..goodbye, Momo."
He slowly exited the area, with a smiling Gin Ichimaru in tow. "Kaname, finish off Rangiku, would you?, then meet up with us, we still have things to do." Aizen said, not looking back.
Kaname gave a small nod and walked over to the target. He pulled out his Zanpaktou.. But couldn't strike, all he could do was think about his female friend form when he was younger. How would she judge me on this day?… He put his sword back in his sheath and walked away. He wouldn't spill any undeserving blood this day, and perhaps the girl can save one or both of her companions, who are both massively injured… he thought as he walked away.
Meanwhile, at the top of Sokyoku hill…
Ichigo , Hiyori were all clashing swords against Byakuya's sword at high speeds ,using flash step. After doing this for some time they stop for a moment, Ichigo and Hiyori on one side and Byakuya some distance away, opposite of them. They all looked like they had put out barley any energy over the past few minutes, with Ichigo and Hiyori grinning.
"You know this is kind of pathetic isn't it, Hiyori-chan" he said to her casually, while Byakuya merely raised an eyebrow. " If we keep on taking it so easy on him, this is going to take forever, huh?"
"That's for sure, no challenge either, and it's kinda boring too" Hiyori said, nodding. "If he used Bankai.. Well maybe this would be a actual challenge for us, right Ichigo-kun ?"
"So use your Bankai, so can defeat you, and make you apologies to Rukia for what you've done." Ichigo said, pointing his Zanpaktou at Byakuya.
"So pathetic.. Your both too early die by my Bankai," Byakuya said, pointing his sword upward. "Nothing you say or do will change Rukia's fate… so now, it's time for you both too die… Scatter.. Senbonzakura .."
The blade of Byakuya's Zanpaktou,, turned into pink cherry-blossom petals and shot out in a tunnel formation towards Ichigo and Hiyori , who both remained still with neutral expressions on there faces.
At the last moment, Ichigo swung his blade and a huge explosion of light blue energy in the shape of a crescent moon. This destroyed all of the cherry-blossom blades from Byakuya's sword, cause it to reform a blade once again. Byakuya's hand was also bleeding as it held the sword handle and let the blade return to him.
As his blade reformed, Byakuya asked, " That moon shaped wave of energy… was that the true power of your Zanpaktou?"
The smoke, which had erupted during the attack, reveled a huge long, opening the ground ending near Byakuya. Ichigo and Hiyori stood there calmly, and Ichigo said " Yes, it is. My Zanpaktou, Zangetsu, absorbs my Spiritual energy, then it releases it in a highly condensed form. I never use to know what it was called, until I was taught about it. It's called,… Getsuga Tensho."
"Piercer of Heavens?… how pretensions.." Byakuya said, holding his sword upside-down. "However, you do seem to want to die,, so I'll grant you your wish, and show you my Bankai, Ichigo Kurosaki."
He let go of the sword and it sank into the ground "I hope you both try not die too soon Ichigo Kurosaki, Hiyori… now, Bankai."
A large row of giant sword blades rose out of the ground, forming a hall of sorts. He looked at them and said. " Now Scatter, Senbonzakura, Kageyoshi.."
The giant blades glowed bright pink and shattered into billions upon billions of tiny blades shaped like cheery-blossoms petals, these then formed a huge pink mass. Ichigo moved to the side wile Hiyori unleashed an attack of her own against Byakuya. " Haipa-Kaze Tenkuu !" She shouted and swinging her sword in his direction.
"How interesting.." Byakuya said, quietly, as the mass of his tiny pink blades, shot up in front of him, taking the force of Hiyori's attack. ".. Hyper air blades, huh?.. An excellent technique to be sure."
"Damn, he blocked that pretty fast, huh!" Hiyori said, looking over at Ichigo, who nodded back.
Byakuya narrowed his eyes and the mass of blades shot behind Ichigo and Hiyori, and struck down hard. As it did, Byakuya said, in a monotone voice " The strength of my sword's Bankai lies in being able to attack from any direction, at high speeds, even more then one place at a time. "
"While both of you have impressive abilities, your just not strong enough to defeat my blade." He said, looking forward.
Both Ichigo and Hiyori managed to stand up, and were covered in dozens of tiny cuts, that were all bleeding. "It was pretty stupid of us ..*cough* to think we could defeat his Bankai using only our Shikai's wasn't it?"
"Yeah I guess so… the way were going to defeat him, is for each of us to use our own Bankai." Hiyori said, grinning, despite the pain from the bleeding cuts and gashes.
Byakuya actually went wide-eyed for a moment as he asked " What did you say?…."
"You heard her, even if you don't want to believe it." Ichigo said grinning at him. " We're going to defeat you, . And were going to use our Bankai's to do it!"
Ichigo's eyes glowed bluish-white as he said " Pay attention, and try not to die to soon, Byakuya Kuchiki!"
Some distance away form the battle, Toshiro opened his eyes and saw crying Rangiku kneeling over a still Momo. "Rang…Rangiku.." He said slowly.
She looked over , quickly, "Captain,.. Your ok!…. Try,.. try not to move, I'm not very good at healing Kidos and I barely managed to close your sword wound. It will only hold if you don't move around, at least till help arrives."
" I am ok.. Thank you.. Is Momo…?" He asked slowly,
New tears began to slide down her face.. As she shook her head. "I'm sorry captain.. By the time I came to she was had already bled to death, there was nothing I could do….. So I tried to help you the best I could.."
He laid back down, tears welling up as he gritted his teeth and said "I see… Aizen… I will get you for this… I promise… you"
"I sent a hell butterfly to Squad 4, help should be here soon." Rangiku said, wiping the tears off of her face. " Why do such horrible things happen like this..?"
Toshiro stared at the ceiling thinking about his childhood friend Momo. And thought rather then spoke a response ,I wish I knew, Rangiku.. I truly do….
End of chapter 21
Sorry about the longer then usual update time, I've been busy, I hope you enjoy it. Please review and let me know what you think. See ya in a few!