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Guild mark, color, and location: Hinata: Purple on the back of her right arm.
Chapter 21: Orange and Red
A random town in Earthland
Ichigo was sitting on a bench in more casual clothing waiting for someone. He was also currently reading one of his books until the person he was waiting for finally arrived.
"It took you long enough Erza." Ichigo said to the redhead while he closed his book.
"Sorry Ichigo I was busy with guild business." Erza replied. Ichigo looked at her noticing she is wearing her Heart Kreuz Armor and said
"You know Erza you don't need to wear your armor. When we are just hanging out."
"Oh, sorry." Erza said as a light enveloped her body removing the armor. She then took a seat next to the orange haired teen. Ichigo then went into his bag and pulled out a piece of strawberry cake, then gave it to Erza who had stars in her eyes. "Thanks Ichigo!"
"No problem Erza. I just hope you like it." Ichigo said. He then looked to see Erza with a face of pure joy as she ate a piece of the cake. "With that face I guess that you love it." Erza looked at him and nodded. "Its feels good to meet like this when we are not fighting dark guilds huh."
"I agree we haven't hung out like this in what like eight months." Ezra replied. She then accidentally dropped her cake, but Ichigo was able to catch it before it hit the floor. Ichigo then gave it back to her making smile in joy and the orange haired teen started to laugh for no reason. "What's so funny?"
"I just remembered the first time we meet!" Ichigo replied to her. She then starts to chuckle while remembering the first time they met.
"It's also funny that this is the same town we met in." Erza said to him.
"Your right, I remember that day!" Ichigo said.
Three years ago
In a training ground near Water 7
A thirteenth year old Ichigo was training with Luffy and Naruto while they were fighting Kenpachi while they themselves were heavily injured. Luffy tried to punch the eyepatched man, but was caught mid punch by Kenpachi's free hand.
"Kid, you got to do better than that if you ever want to put up a fight." Kenpachi said, as a he threw Luffy to the ground then stomped on the boy's head. He is then hit by a couple of smoke bombs. "Smoke bombs good job, but that won't help you." Kenpachi then put his sword in front of himself to block Ichigo's Zangetsu that came through the smoke. He then grabbed Ichigo's arm and threw him at Luffy, but then Naruto appeared behind him with two clones. "So while Ichigo tried to attack me, you took that opportunity to try a sneak attack." Naruto smirked and said
"Yup. Now get ready to lose." Kenpachi smiled and swung his sword at the blond kid. Naruto was barely able to dodge it was, but his clone weren't as fortunate. Kenpachi then swung his sword again, but Naruto ducks under it, then jumps back terrified. "HEY KENPACHI-SENSAI YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" The eyepatched man then started to laugh at the boy's statement then went for another swing, but is blocked by Ichigo then is punched in the face by Luffy.
"Your lucky we got back up in time, Whiskers." Ichigo said.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY STRAWBERRY?" Naruto yelled at the orange haired boy.
"Do you want to repeat that by me again?" Ichigo said with a murderous aura.
"Strawberry!" Naruto replied. The two start to fight while Luffy looked at them and Kenpachi started to laugh.
"Well, if they are fighting it gives me and you a chance to have a one on one fight." Luffy said then turned back to notices Kenpachi was starting to leave. "Hey, where you are going?"
"I'm heading back to the town. When those two stop fighting come find me when you want all want another fight to the death." Kenpachi said as he left. Luffy looked disappointed then turned back to watch his friends fight.
An hour later at Water 7
The three boys were walking through the town.
"Hey, you two, I'm going to do a job in the next town over, you want to tag along." Ichigo asked Luffy and Naruto.
"Sorry, but no, Luffy and I are going to find Kenpachi-sensai to finish our fight." Naruto said with Luffy agreeing. Ichigo smiled and said
"Ok, good luck with that you two." Ichigo then left as he waved bye to his comrades.
In a town
"Ok, I finally arrived. Now where's the place I'm a post find the guy that put out the quest?" Ichigo thought to himself as he was walking through the town. "Should just ask someone for directions?"
"Shouldn't that be your first thing you do King. Are you an idiot or something?" Zangetsu said teasingly.
"Shut up Zangetsu!" Ichigo replied as he walked by a red headed girl who was wearing armor and was also eating a piece of strawberry cake. Ichigo then suddenly trips and knocks over the girl's cake. Ichigo looks at the cake that was now splattered on the floor then looked at the girl who had a stunned face. "I'm so.."
"YOU SCOUNDREL!" The girl yelled as she punched Ichigo in the face sending flying back. Ichigo got back up to see the girl with a murderous aura. "YOUR DARE HARM MY CAKE. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR BATTLE YOU CAKE KILLER!" She then ran up to Ichigo to deliver another punch, but the orange haired teen is able to catch the fist.
"She's stronger than she looks." Ichigo thought to himself, but is surprised when the girl uses her free hand to pick him up then throws him into a building wall. Ichigo then looks up to see his attacker summon a sword, then points it at him. "Hey, wait a minute I think you are taking this too far for a stupid piece of cake!" This seemed to make the girl more mad. Ichigo then summons Zangetsu and prepared to defend himself.
"That's a big sword you got there, but it doesn't matter you'll pay." the girl said. She then charges at the orange haired boy. Ichigo then swings Zangetsu, but she ducks, then tries to take a swing at him which he dodges. She then spins kicks him making him let go of Zangetsu. The girl then grabs Zangetsu grip, then tries to pick it up, but to no avail. She puts her sword down, then tries to use both hands to pick up Zangetsu, but still it didn't budge an inch. She stopped for a second and looked at Zangetsu then said
"Ok sword I demand you let me pick you up this second." The girl then goes back to trying to pick it up, but still nothing. "I DEMANDED YOU TO LET ME PICK YOU UP!" She continued to for a few minutes until she stopped for a little break then went back to trying to pick Zangetsu up. Ichigo just looks at her while she was still trying to wield Zangetsu.
"King are you just going to look at her the whole day? I always knew you were a pervert!" Zangetsu said to the orange haired boy.
"Just shut up." Ichigo replied with an annoyed look. He then raised his hand as a magic seal appeared, then he said "Return" Zangetsu then flew out of the girl's grip and went straight to Ichigo's hand. "Hey, didn't anyone ever tell you not to pick up anything that doesn't belong to you?"
"I see that you are able to call your weapon back, but that doesn't matter your still going to pay for harming my cake!" The girl replied as she pick her sword up and charged at Ichigo. Ichigo himself prepared to fight back. The girl continued to charge until she tripped over a crack in the floor and landed on Ichigo knocking both of them on the floor. The two recover from the fall only to notice they were now locking lips. Both of their faces become as red as the girl's hair and got off each other.
"Can... we talk now?" Ichigo asked while his face was still red and the girl nods.
A few minutes later
"My name is Erza Scarlet and I'm sixteen years old." Erza said first.
"My name is Ichigo Kurosaki and I'm thirteen years old. I'm also sorry for dropping your cake." Ichigo responded.
"Your name means strawberry?" Erza asked
"NO, it doesn't. It means one who protects." Ichigo responded with a lot of anger in his voice.
"Oh, I see." Erza said then she bent over. "Please strike me for my insolence."
"I'm not going to hit you!" Ichigo said.
"Please, I insist. I must pay for what I said about your name." Erza persisted. Ichigo sighed and said
"How about we just call ourselves even?" Ichigo suggested which Erza excepted. The two continued to talk for a few minutes until Ichigo said "Nice meeting you Erza, but I have to go finish finding the guy that put out this request." Ichigo shows Erza to request poster. Erza then suddenly pulls out the same request poster and said
"Looks like me and you are here for the same job. So why don't we assist each other?"
"Well, if that's the case, then ok." Ichigo said. The two mages then left together go find the person who put out the request. It took them a few minutes until they finally found the person. It was an elderly man whose wife and daughter were kidnapped by a group of rouge mages and asked for a ransom. So he sent out the request out to any nearby guilds to get help, be they legal or not. Erza and Ichigo gladly accepted and left to the location where the man's family are being held.
The rouge mages hideout
"Ichigo I never got to ask you what guild your from." Erza said.
"I'm from a guild called Royal Guard, but it's not a legal guild yet. How about you?" Ichigo responded.
"I'm from Fairy Tail." Erza said. The two then looked at the entrance of the hideout and notice two guards. Ichigo then pulls out a bow and arrow. "You can also use arrow magic as well Ichigh." Ichigo nods to her then he takes aim at the guards then knocks them out one by one. "Good job Ichigo. Now let charge in." The two then enter the hideout. Once inside, they ended up finding out that rouge mages were prepared for an attack and got surrounded.
"So that old man went and got help from the guilds. And to add insult they send you brats." The leader of the mages said.
"So you know why we are here for. So prepare yourselves!" Erza said as a glowing light envelops her. Everybody looks on as Erza finishes equipping her Heaven's Wheel armor. Most of the rouge mages blushed from the look of the revealing armor while Ichigo was trying not to look. Erza then fires multiple swords at the mages knocking a few of them out. While they were distracted Ichigo took this chance to summon Zangetsu and uses it to knock a few of them out himself. The rest of the mages try to fight back, but are easily beaten. The two walk up to the leader.
"Now if I was you I would be considering giving up right now." Ichigo said as he points Zangetsu to then mans throat.
"I don't think so. Now Drain!" The leader said as a magic seal appears under the two mages.
"What the?" Erza and Ichigo said in unison. The two start to feel their magical energy getting drained. Zangetsu and Erza's armor disappeared. The two then try to move, but are unable to.
"That spell I just used on you two drains both your magical and physical energy so you won't be moving for a while. Now men show these two what happens when they cross!" The leader ordered and his men complied. They bombard the weaken Ichigo and Erza with numerous spells. When they were finished with that, they started to kick the two while they were down.
"Hey boss, what do we do with those two?" One of the rouge mages said. The boss looks at the two and says
"Put them with the other prisoners." He began to walk away until he looked back and stared at Erza. "Hey, why don't you send the red head to my quarters. She may be younger than I'm used to, but I'm ok with that."
"You won't get away with this." Erza said, but this just made the rouge mages laugh as they start to drag her away. Ichigo just looked on and yelled out
"ERZA!" Then one of the mages kicked him in the face seemingly knocking him out. Ichigo now in his subconscious starts to think "I got to find a way to save Erza. Even though I just met her I can't let another person I know get taken from me." Ichigo looks up to see Zangetsu standing over him.
"You know King I could help you with that." Zangetsu said as he had on his trademark smile.
"How?" Ichigo questioned.
"Easy, you just have to use a single spell." Zangetsu answered him. Out of Ichigo's subconscious the rouge mages prepared to kill the boy until they heard him say
"Take Over: Hollowed Soul" A bright black light with red lining to it engulfs the boy. The mages and Erza just look at the light slowly disappear, but nothing seems to have changed about Ichigo. One of the mages went to check on the boy's body, but before the mage had any time to react Ichigo had his whole arm through the person's chest killing the them. Everybody looked at this in shock as Ichigo ripped his arm out of the person's chest.
"So this is how it feels being in control." Ichigo said to himself with his voice giving off a much more demonic tone than before. Then three mages prepared to fire some spells at him. "I wonder." Ichigo then quickly summon Zangetsu then swings it at the three mages cutting in half. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ichigo was now laughing like a maniac and smiling like one as well. All the rouge mages and even Erza looked in horror at the orange haired boy. Ichigo then kills two more of the mages in a split second. "I feel alive." Ichigo declared while revealing his eye that now had black scleras and gold irises. "Now who's next?" Ichigo asked sadistically. Two mages try to attack, but get cut down in an instant. As Ichigo continued to cut down one after another Erza starts to notice white fragments started forming around his left eye. "Oh come one scream louder for me!" Ichigo's smile became larger as kill the last mages before turning towards their leader.
"YOU BASTERD! TAKE THIS DRAIN!" The leader yelled out making the same magic seal from earlier appear below Ichigo. Ichigo just smiled and stuck Zangetsu into the magic seal destroying it. The leader now terrified said "THAT DOESN'T MATTER NOW T.." but he did get to finish as Ichigo cut him in half killing him. Erza now as terrified thought to herself
"This magical energy feels dark. It feels like nothing, but pure evil. This isn't the Ichigo I met earlier!" Ichigo then turns to look at her and the whole left side of his face was covered in a white skull like mask. "What have you done with Ichigo?"
"King let me borrow his body to save you and might I say he made a good decisions you are a beauty." Ichigo said. He then began to walk up to Erza and looked her straight in the eye. "Did you enjoy the show? Did I scare you?" Erza looked at him with fear in her eyes, but then she notices a crack appear on the mask. "Aw crap looks like this body isn't ready for me to take over it yet. You can have it back for now King." Then mask shatters and Ichigo falls face first to the floor, but Erza is able to catch him.
"Ichigo are you alright?" Erza said, shaking the boy until he woke up.
"Erza? So I did save you. I can't remember a thing." Ichigo said as he tried to get back up, but couldn't. Ichigo then looks back and see the carnage he did. He looked horrified, then turned to Erza and asked "Did I do this?" The look on Erza face was a he need to see to know his answer. "I didn't mean to kill them!" He starts to cry and Erza began to comfort him.
"Its ok Ichigo. Let's find the clients wife and daughter." Erza said which Ichigo agreed and the two wait till they were able to move.
Back at the village
Ichigo and Erza were able to return the client's family, then split the award. The two talk to each other for a few minutes until they finally decide to say their goodbyes.
"Well, it was good to meet you Ichigo. Hopefully we get to meet again." Erza said.
"Yeah, it was good meeting you as well Erza." Ichigo replied. The two began to go their separate ways until Ichigo stopped and said "Hey Erza we haven't finished that fight we had before. I'm not the type who goes to pick a fight, but for some reason I want to fight you." Ichigo then summons Zangetsu and gets into a fighting stance.
"If that's what you want Ichigo then I'll oblige you." Erza said as she summons a sword of her own. The two smile as the charge at each other.
Present time
"Then that fight was your first victory over me Ichigo." Erza said.
"O come on don't make it sound like I beat you that easily. If I remember right the fight lasted for hours." Ichigo replied. They continued to walk throughout the town. "Well, I had fun today Erza, but it's getting late."
"Yeah, I had fun today, hopefully we get to have these get together more often." Erza said. The two began to leave until Erza tripped over a crack in the floor making her fall on Ichigo knocking him down. Erza looks at Ichigo and says "I'm sorry Ichigo." Ichigo looks at her and says
"Don't worry about it Erza." The two then stop for a moment and started to look into one anothers eyes. They stayed like this for a couple seconds until they start to move their faces towards each other. They got closer and closer the lips were practically inches away from touching until they suddenly stop finally breaking out of their trances and quickly got off each other.
"AWWWW! What the hell King why didn't you go for the kill?" Zangetsu asked in an annoyed attitude, but he got no answer. It took Ichigo and Erza a few minutes until they finally went their separate ways. Both their faces were still red by the way.
At the Royal Guard Guild Hall
Ichigo finally arrived back to his guild. Most of the guild members minus Diedara, Bambietta, and Law.
"So Ichigo how was your date with Erza?" Naruto teased.
"It wasn't a date Naruto." Ichigo answered with an annoyed voice.
"Yeah, right." Naruto said.
"So Ichi-kun did you at least have a fun time?" Giselle asked
"Yeah, I did and how was your day Giselle?" Ichigo asked which he got an answer in a long paragraph of how was her day. What he got out of it it started with a cat and ended with a few dark mages all getting impaled on one wooden pole. "That sounded interesting Giselle." Ichigo said which made Giselle smile.
"Hey Ichigo how about you and me go on a quest tomorrow?" Luffy asked.
"Ok, Luffy." Ichigo answered which made Luffy to make a toothy smile. Ichigo began to walk to his sleeping quarters until someone in a large brown cloak entered the guild. Ichigo turned around to greet the visitor. "Hello there, who are you and do you have business with our guild?" He got no answer.
"Hinata get behind me!" Naruto said as he got into a fighting stance.
"But Naruto-kun your arm hasn't healed yet!" Hinata said.
"I know just stay behind me ok." Naruto responded.
"If you want to start a fight you came to the right place." Luffy said as he was ready to fight as well.
"I would recommend you don't do anything you'll regret." Ichigo said. The cloak figure, then begins to charge at Ichigo at blinding speeds, catching him off guard. Ichigo then prepares to defend himself until he hears the cloak figure say
"Ichigooo!"
"What the?" Ichigo says as he is tackled to the floor by the cloaked figure. The cloak, then falls off the person revealing it to be an attractive woman with long turquoise hair.
"It's been a while since we last met." The green haired women said. Ichigo, Luffy, and Naruto got a better look at the girl then all say in unison
"Nel is that you?" Which the girl now known as Nel smiled.
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