HERE WE GO AGAIN
"Alright class this way", Ichigo said directing his students through a bustling area of Karakura. Currently he was taking some of his students of Current World of The Living Studies from the Shino Academy around the modern world of the living. There was only so much you could show them in pictures and videos until he had to take them to the field for some firsthand experience in what the world of the living was actually like.
"I still can't believe they gave you permission to lead a field trip", Lieutenant Rukia Kuchiki said walking to the left of him. She was ordered to supervise on this little trip and assist if something happened. Things had changed quite a bit in the last few months. Ichigo moved back to his house in the seireitei and got his job back teaching at the Shino Academy, the extra credit course, which now had so many students signing up for it that they had to give him a bigger classroom. He still dressed in his stylized hooded Shihakusho, with top left slightly open, white wings embroidered on the back, two skulls acting as shoulder armor, and black pointed boots instead of sandals.
With some of the Vizards returning as captains Ichigo felt it was safe to openly confess to the Gotei that he possessed a hollow inside him as well, but couldn't use its powers because it managed his bankai. They accepted it easy enough, especially when he told them that this hollow nature is what gave him the ability to detect hollows so fast in the Rukon. With that knowledge Mayuri Kurotsuchi had no choice but to begrudgingly ask Ichigo for advice in improving his own hollow detection scanners. Not only that, but with captain Kyoraku's approval Ichigo was able to go to the head captain with a new patrol program for the shinigami that were guarding the Rukon based on the patterns and locations that the hollows frequently used. With all that, the Hollows were now eliminated quickly and efficiently, cutting down the casualties in the Rukon by a huge amount. The souls in the districts were also made aware that this was all thanks to Ichigo and regarded him as a hero that came from the slums of the Rukon and became an important figure in the Seireitei.
"We have such nice weather for this today", Orihime commented keeping close to Ichigo. Things were going great for her as well. With the assistance and funding of Byakuya Kuchiki and his clan, she was able to get her program up and running properly. There were now over a dozen of her counseling and help centers set up across the Rukon Districts. These centers assisted souls of the Rukon who were having trouble adjusting and dealing with their own demise, but mainly these centers were to register people into a database so they could be eventually reunited with friends and family. Ichigo knew why Byakuya wanted to get behind this program, after spending years looking for the younger sister of his late wife it certainly would have been a lot easier if a system like this was in place.
Ichigo and Orihime had also finally set a time for when they were going to have a wedding. Originally they were going to take their time, they were in no hurry since they would be stuck looking like eighteen year-olds for who knows how many centuries, but a certain incident forced them to pick a set date. Last month Ikumi Unagiya, after not being able to find Ichigo at any of his usual haunts, broke down the door to the Urahara Shoten and demanded Kisuke fire Ichigo so he could come work for her store. Ichigo got an interesting phone call that made him laugh from Ginta that day saying that some crazy lady that owned an eel shop had taken the entire staff at Urahara's hostage and was demanding him. So he headed to the world of the living and had a nice little chat with Miss Ikumi explaining that he was a sort of shinigami and what that world entails. She was upset at first since she couldn't have Ichigo as her employee ever, but perked up when he offered to hire her in planning his wedding. So now they were going to have the whole thing in the world of the living.
"So where to next?" Rukia asked.
"Well next up I'm taking them to a manga shop, then we're going to the movies", Ichigo said happily. That joy was short lived when the group of students started yelling and pointing at something. The three of them in charge of the field trip turned around to see a group of hollows swarming the area.
"What the hell, I let my guard down because they said this whole area would be closely monitored", Ichigo sounded annoyed running his hands through his now longer hair. He had been letting his hair grow out some because Orihime said it looked cool, now his hair just barely went passed his shoulders, still as spikey and as orange as ever. "I need to have a talk with captain clown face later", he said drawing his sword while Rukia did the same.
LATER
"It could have been worse Ichigo", Orihime told her fiancé while holding his hand.
"Yeah I guess your right", Ichigo sighed, as they walked to the Kurosaki clinic. He had easily dispatched the hollows that attacked their field trip. After that Rukia decided to cut the trip short and return the students to the seireitei for their own safety in case more showed up. Ichigo agreed but stayed behind in the world of the living with Orihime, they had already planned on having dinner tonight with Ichigo's still living family to discuss wedding arrangements. Tatsuki would be unable to intend unfortunately, Chad was coming to dinner because Ichigo liked the guy and wanted him to be a part of the wedding, and Uryu was coming to dinner since he was in charge of making the dress for Orihime.
"Hello! Hello!" Ichigo shouted walking through the back door with his girl trailing behind him.
"Ichigo hi welcome back!" Yuzu said from the kitchen.
"Hey Yuzu, where's dad?" Ichigo asked.
"He's finishing up some paper work, he'll be ready in a few minutes", she replied. They all sat down at the small kitchen table talking while Karin was trying to finish her homework.
"Oh great, I need the calculator for this one", Karin mumbled.
"I'll go get it", Ichigo said getting up.
"I wish this homework was easier", Karin said with a huff.
"And I wish I could go back in time and kill the Nazis", Ichigo chuckled walking up the stairs to his sister's room that was once his room when he was alive. Walking into the bedroom he glanced around looking for a little Chappie calculator. "Alright where are you?"
"You mean me, I'm right here", a voice said. Ichigo did a one eighty and saw a man dressed in a white military uniform with a mask fragment covering his eye standing on the bed. "Allow me to introduce myself, my name is"
"No", Ichigo cut him off.
"What?"
"I said no, I'm not doing this. I don't care who or what you work for or what you want", Ichigo waved at him dismissively. "Come back after dinner when I'm in the mood to deal with this", the man was frozen too surprised to say anything. "Get out and get off my sisters bed", that seemed to snap the man back into focus.
"I refuse", the second the words left his mouth he found himself flying across the city with a sore face.
"Hey save me some dinner!" Ichigo told his family walking passed them out the front door. Uryu and Chad had arrived and wondered why he was leaving all of the sudden. Flash stepping over the city he didn't even bother drawing his Zanpakuto as he faced this person.
"Your strong, as expected Ichigo Kurosaki", the arrancar looking man grinned. "I'll have a lot to report back to my superiors",
"Let me guess, big evil organization that wants to destroy the soul society for some, probably stupid reason", seeing the look of shock on the man's face Ichigo surmised that he guessed right. "Yeah this happens quite frequently, sorry, but you're not as original as you think", Ichigo smirked as he continued. "We didn't even get to do the filler arcs, which sucks because I was looking forward to the whole Zanpakuto rebellion",
"What are you talking about?" The man asked not understanding what he was saying.
"I guess you had to be there", Ichigo just shrugged. The arrancar just frowned and pulled a familiar type of pendant out from under his sleeve.
"Oh so you recognize this?" The arrancar grinned as the cross absorbed reishi and transformed into a large oddly shaped bow. For the next few minutes Ichigo merely toyed with him by evading his attacks while pretending like it was a struggle just to stay on defense. The man kept mocking and taunting him into using his bankai the whole time.
"Alright fine, if you want to die so badly", Ichigo pointed his Zanpakuto at his opponent while the man just grinned even wider and reached into his pocket for something. "Bankai", the arrancar laughed, held up a medallion with a star cross on it and began chanting some nonsense. Nothing seemed to happen and Ichigo was the one to laugh before flash stepping up to the man and punching him in the face. "SYKE!" he continued to laugh. "Did you really think I was going to use my bankai on some low level arrancar, what a dumbass!"
"You bastard!" The man shouted holding his bleeding face.
"Espada number four Ulquiora Schiffer was the only arrancar I deemed dangerous enough to use my bankai on and that was after he unleashed his full power on me, but you, you're not even on the level of the lowest ranked Espada", Ichigo mocked him which set the man off. The arrancar charged him with furious mad look in his eye. "Aka Ransu", Ichigo made a claw-like gesture with his hand and slashed horizontally sending four red arching beams from his fingers at the man point blank when he got close enough. The collision caused a small explosion that severely wounded the arrancar.
"Dammit, dammit", he coughed in pain while hunched over in the air.
"Oh my goodness are you alright?" Ichigo said with such fake sickly sweet concern. Before he could make fun of the man any further his shadow seemed to come to life and start to envelope him. In a matter of seconds he was completely gone. "Hm, that was odd", Ichigo decided to figure out who that was later, right now he needed to join his family for dinner. At the table he was of course asked why he left and he told everyone it was nothing, probably some arrancar left over from Aizen's army. It was after dinner that he got some troubling news. Urahara called and when Ichigo answered it the shop owner told him that the seireitei was infiltrated by an unknown enemy that just declared war and that the Lieutenant of squad one, Yamamotto's right hand man, Chojiro Sasakibe was killed. Ichigo didn't know the man personally, but he heard from others that he was a good and honorable shinigami that was fiercely loyal to the head captain. He imagined Yamamotto must be pretty upset by this, enough to pass on a direct order to Ichigo to return to the seireitei by tonight. Ichigo decided to take a short fly around the city to clear his head and think about what all this could be about.
"ICHIGOOOOOOOOO!" A loud childish voice shouted directly above him. Ichigo looked up and smiled, opening his arms wide as he caught the flying green projectile before it crashed into him.
"Nel! Good to see you, you big slobberpuss", Ichigo held her, carefully rubbing her hair while she sobbed into his chest. "Sorry about not checking up on you, but I was kind of exiled to the world of the living for a while", he apologized.
"Hueco Mundo", Nel continued to cry.
"Yes, what about it?" Ichigo had a bad feeling about this.
"Hueco Mundo was attacked!" She finally blurted out. Another figure fell from the sky and would have flew passed Ichigo, if he didn't catch him by the ankle and hold him upside down like a fish.
"Pesche?" Ichigo shouldn't have been that surprised that Nel's brothers would be right behind her wherever she went.
"Yo Ichigo! Hueco Mundo was attacked!" He shouted while upside-down.
"Yeah I know", Ichigo said.
"Really how do you already know?" the bug faced arrancar asked.
"I'm psychic", he said sarcastically while rolling his eyes.
"Alright explain everything to me now in detail please", Ichigo ordered.
ELSEWHERE
"We still don't have much information on Ichigo Kurosaki your majesty", a long blonde haired man said as he stared at the dead bodies of the arrancars with apathy.
"True Haschwald, but even the mightiest forces of nature can be tamed and controlled", a much older man said sitting on a throne. "There's a reason I put him as number one on the list of special threats. Little is known about his Zanpakuto, and we have almost no information on his bankai other than that it was powerful enough to defeat Sosuke Aizen", He stood up and walked up the steps behind his throne.
"How do you propose we deal with him your majesty?" Haschwald asked.
"We, don't be foolish Haschwald. I don't think you or any of the sternritters could stand much of a chance against him. I will deal with Ichigo Kurosaki personally when the time comes, anyone else would merely be fodder to him", he chuckled.
"Shall I inform the sternritters not to approach Kurosaki under any circumstances?" The blonde man asked.
"No need, if anything they'll provide a good distraction for him", Yhwach ordered without remorse for any the potential loss of soldiers in the future.
URAHARA SHOTEN
"Everybody ready?" Kisuke asked.
"Yes, just open the garganta already", Ichigo said impatiently. After letting everyone know the situation in Hueco Mundo, he decided to go there and help Nel find her missing brother Dondochakka. He also figured that whoever invaded the hollow world was most likely the same person that declared war on soul society and now was a good opportunity for him to go and get a measure of the enemy's strength. Ichigo knew Yamamotto would be pissed that he went against orders, but if he came back with some info on the enemy before the war started he would hopefully be forgiven. Urahara was also tagging along, Orihime was of course going where he goes to support Ichigo, and Chad was coming to as back up. Uryu said he couldn't go for his own reasons, but Ichigo didn't press any further not one to be nosey.
"Here we go!" Urahara shouted opening the portal. Ichigo just rushed passed him with Nel riding on his shoulder only stopping when they finally arrived in the pale white desert of Hueco Mundo. They ended up in the ruins of what was left of Las Noches, there was nothing left, the enemy destroyed everything.
"HONEY! I'M HOOOOME!" Ichigo yelled as loud as he could hoping to bring the fight to himself for once instead of chasing people down. Dead silence was his only answer. "Dammit it all, now I have find them".
"Look there are foot prints", Orihime pointed to tracks in the desert that lead away from the ruins.
"That's my girl", he gave her a quick peck on the cheek and took off following the lead with the others right behind him. Ichigo saw the group he was tracking and stopped a short distance away deciding to watch. His anger grew when he saw the captured arrancars be speared to death by a man in a somewhat familiar white German military uniform. Then it got worse when two women tried to fight back and ended up getting brutalized by these bastards.
"Make sure you leave those two alive", the apparent leader of the group ordered while walking away. Kirge didn't get a response from his soldiers so he turned back around. "Did you not hear me?"
"Heard you? No they didn't", Ichigo stood there with several decapitated soldiers laying in a pile behind him. "It's kind of hard to hear when you're…you know…dead", he giggled. Kirge was startled to see a shinigami, not just any shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki, the top of the list of special threats. Such a threat that his majesty ordered him to be eliminated at all cost even at the cost of the sternritter's life.
"I know who you are Ichigo Kurosaki", the Quincy smiled thinking he might have a chance.
"This is the best day of my life", Ichigo said confusing everyone. "It's the greatest gift I could ever get. I get to kill the Nazis", he smirked. "Say Auf Wiedersehen to your life you Nazi piece of shit", in one quick movement he drew his sword and dashed forward in an attempt to cut him down. The sternritter's eyes widened as he barely managed to parry the strike with his rapier, the massive force of the blow still sent him flying back though.
"Ha! Sick em Ichigo!" Urahara and Pesche both shouted a safe distance away.
"By his majesty's orders I eliminate you!" Kirge shouted firing arrows from his sword. Ichigo easily dodged going around the barrage to attack from the right.
"Come on! You can do better than this!" Ichigo said driving his fist into the man's stomach. The Quincy coughed in pain and tried to attack again, but his arrows were once again evaded.
"I see, anything less than my full power just won't be enough", Kirge said with a smirk while reaching into his pocket. "Are you familiar with the Quincy technique known as Letz Stil?"
"My buddy Uryu Ishida told me about it, he used it himself and temporarily lost his powers", Ichigo said humoring the soon to be dead man.
"That is an outdated technique, the new complete version is called Vollstandig", He pulled his hand out his pocket revealing a glove with the five point cross emblem on it. Reishi gathered around him forming a tall tower with a star atop it. When it dispersed it revealed the man now with a set of wings, and a halo all made out of reishi.
"This just got more interesting", Ichigo smiled not the least bit intimidated. He stuck a cherry flavored lollypop in his mouth and popped the kink out of his neck. "Lead us into the light, O no Kishi", he threw his sword up into the air and watched as it multiplied into at least fifty identical angel winged swords that stuck themselves in the sand all around the battlefield. "Sweet, I get to test some of my new swords on this Nazi prick".
MEANWHILE AT THE VANDENREICH
"Your majesty, Ichigo Kurosaki is in Hueco Mundo. Currently Kirge Opie is engaging him", a soldier informed Yhwach.
"He's in Hueco Mundo?" Yhwach was surprised by this turn of events but then smirked. "Perfect, Kirge will keep him busy for a while. Haschwald gather the sternritters, we will now invade Soul Society", a few minutes later the blonde haired Quincy was leading the army through the gate of the sun.
"I heard the biggest threat is not in Soul Society right now", a sternritter with a red Mohawk said with disgust.
"What's the problem with that Bazz B?" Haschwald asked.
"Just seems kind of cowardly that his majesty is nutting up to attack the seireitei when Ichigo Kurosaki isn't even there", Bazz B said cracking his knuckles.
"Don't concern yourself with his majesty's plans", Haschwald said with a cold glare. The Quincies finally quieted down and prepared for their initial assault.
Short chapter, but I'm just getting started.
Nazis are the best villains in movies and in anime, because you can watch the main characters kick the hell out of them and everybody will cheer. Me and my friends watch Hellsing Ultimate and we always laugh watching Alucard tear through the Nazis.
I had a guy I know who speaks fluent German tell me how to pronounce Yhwach's name. Yu-ha-vatch, that's what he said, but I guess we'll never really know how it's pronounced until the anime comes out and we can hear the voice actors say it. Hurry up Viz media.
I'm a little worried people. I read the new BLEACH chapter 672 and it almost seems like Orihime is getting set up to die or be seriously injured. I hope not, it's just I have a bad feeling, people hate her for reasons that I don't understand, but to me she's one of my favorite women in the series.
Big things are happening in the next chapter, so be prepared.
Thanks for reading.