Oh My Kichigai!
By Uchiha Xairylle
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Bow Down To The King
"YORUICHI-SAMA!" Soi Fon's speed was unable to do anything when Yoruichi threw a crystal ball at Byakuya's feet. It broke and the portal opened, immediately consuming Byakuya. Without being told, Shunsui grabbed Renji and threw him into the portal. Soi Fon flash stepped to block Yoruichi but the woman was not called the Flash Goddess for nothing and both women ended up being eaten by the portal. Shunsui sighed as he looked at the still open gateway and looked over his shoulder. A lady in glasses stepped from behind the fusuma.
"Should I close it with my kidou now, taichou?"
Shunsui sighed again.
The Hentai merchandise will have to wait.
"Go ahead, Nanao-chan."
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"WHERE ARE WE GOING! OUR PARENTS AND SADO-SENSEI ARE STILL THERE!" Yui complained, trying to kick out of Kon's hold, "LET'S GO BACK!"
"MRRMPHF!" Ryu was trying to second the motion but Kon had clamped his fingers around his jaw.
"I'm not doing this because I want to, okay?" Kon leaped between buildings in an attempt to flee to as far as he could. Zaraki Kenpachi's reiatsu nearly killed him and even though he had strode so far, he could still feel all the energy from Urahara's place. For as long as he could feel the intensity, there was no guarantee that they were safe and that was why Kon kept on striding like hell after him.
"Trust me! I know these guys!" Kon said again, "This is for your own good!"
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Urahara's place was a wreck. Zaraki Kenpachi had torn out a good deal from it and he emerged from the thick smoke that Uryuu had jumped out of with Orihime. The tri-link shield had not left them for one second and at the same time Orihime was able to heal Uryuu's injuries. For as long as she was able to restore him and Chad to full-strength, they had nothing to worry about.
Who was she kidding?
Hitsugaya had not yet released and they were having trouble already.
"For the last time, I don't want to fight you." Hitsugaya told Chad.
"I don't want to fight you either." Chad replied.
"Then don't."
"But I can not allow you to take Ken'ichi."
Hitsugaya grimaced in disappointment.
"I'm getting bored with this. I should just kill them off." Kenpachi growled and lifted his sword.
"DON'T, ZARAKI-TAICHOU!"
"I REJECT!"
The tri-link shield appeared and blocked Kenpachi's blade but it was not long before it broke like shattered glass. Uryuu was not going to crouch like a stupid duck waiting to be killed. With force and speed, he came between his wife and Kenpachi and Seele Schneider came between him and Kenpachi's ragged sword. Zaraki Kenpachi flashed his menacing mass-murder smile and hurled a great wave of invisible reiatsu at Chad who blocked.
"Oi, Hitsugaya-taichou…" Zaraki nodded at Hitsugaya, "I can take on the three of them. Leave them to me and get the boy."
"But…"
"It'll be fun. You have to get back before I kill them and I have to kill them before you get back." Zaraki sneered, "Let's see which happens first."
"Neither." A calm voice interrupted, "Because no one's going anywhere."
All eyes turned into the house where a raven-haired man with kenseikan had stepped out from the destroyed fusuma of the house and was followed by his vibrant-haired fukutaichou.
"K-Kuchiki… Kuchiki-taichou!" Hitsugaya's eyes widened, "What are you doing here?"
"More importantly, where is my nephew?" Byakuya replied.
"The hell…" Zaraki had not moved from his after-hit stance at Uryuu who was still blocking, "You see him here? What are you? Blind or something? He's with Urahara Kisuke!"
"No, he isn't." Renji replied.
"What do you mean?" Hitsugaya was asking Renji but was looking at Byakuya.
"The underground was empty when we arrived." Renji explained with a hand on his waist, "Ichigo, Rukia and their son are all nowhere to be found. Urahara-san, Yoruichi-san and Soi Fon-taichou are looking for them as we speak."
"Bullshit, I won't get to fight Ichigo!?" Kenpachi had now lost interest in Uryuu and drew his sword back as he stormed towards Renji, "Where the hell are they!"
"That doesn't make sense." Uryuu cut in as he straightened, "I can still feel their reiatsu though but faintly."
"According to Urahara, it is a duplicate." Byakuya replied sternly, "A decoy to cover up their disappearance. Just a trace of their reiatsu. Even their spirit threads can not be found."
"Urahara-san said he left underground to help the three of you fight but as soon as he got out, he felt a strange reiatsu sweep over the place and he could not return like there was a shield over the whole place." Renji added as his Captain nodded only but slightly, "And when the reiatsu that blocked him dispersed, he was able to set foot in the underground place of his but the Kurosaki family was nowhere to be found."
"Who could seal Urahara-san's place like that?" Orihime asked and looked at Uryuu who did not answer.
"This is not good." Hitsugaya crossed his arms.
"Didn't they just sprint out of detection?" Chad asked without sealing his arms back.
"Quite but not quite." Uryuu began as he contemplated, "Urahara-san was sure he left Rukia and Ken'ichi underground, right? If they were to run out of that place with Ichigo still unconscious, it would take them quite some time before they could run out of detection since Ken'ichi is not yet that fast and I doubt Rukia could carry them both."
"Running away with Ichigo conscious is also impossible since Ichigo is not able to hide his reiatsu." Uryuu continued as he rubbed his chin, "So how…?"
"I can only think of one answer." Hitsugaya was still sporting the contemplating look and all eyes turned to him. The small Captain sighed and looked up, "They're not in this world anymore."
"Hey, you mean Ichigo's dead?" Kenpachi complained, "He's dead and I wasn't the one who killed him? Don't joke around like that! It ain't funny!"
"You mean they're in another dimension?" Orihime asked as everyone ignored Zaraki Kenpachi's comment.
"Possible." Uryuu nodded, "Ichigo and Ken'ichi do have those abilities…"
"So he's not dead?" Kenpachi asked again.
"Abilities?" Byakuya queried with what seemed to be a raised eyebrow, "What abilities?"
"But there are only two other dimensions that exist." Chad reasoned out, "Are you saying they went to either Hueco Mundo or Soul Society?"
"If they were taken back to Soul Society, the information would have reached us by now." Hitsugaya replied with a frown of disappointment at the situation, "And granted that they've been taken to Hueco Mundo, it's not like you can open a portal from a sub-dimension in the human world just like that. It's just not possible."
"Sub-dimension?" Orihime asked.
"Damn, I hate thinking." Zaraki Kenpachi scratched his head.
"Urahara's underground place is a sub-dimension." Uryuu explained, "It is a dimension existing within another dimension, which is the living world. To enter a sub-dimension, one must first enter its principal dimension. Simply put, they have to enter the living world before stepping foot in Urahara-san's underground."
"And if they did something like that, we would feel it." Hitsugaya seconded as his arms uncrossed, "Just like how Kaname Tousen and Ichimaru Gin did."
"BUT THERE ISN'T ANY OTHER CRAPPY DIMENSION TO GO TO UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING YOU BASTARDS AREN'T TELLING ME!" Zaraki Kenpachi complained in exasperation and unknowingly released reiatsu that everyone but Orihime ignored. But that stupid statement made Uryuu realize something.
"There is another dimension."
"What?" Everyone chorused.
"The King." Uryuu said, "Only Ichigo and Ken'ichi know how to find the King."
"SO YOU WERE NOT TELLING ME SOMETHING!"
"The King?" Hitsugaya blurted in disbelief and Byakuya wore wide eyes. Renji's jaw had fallen and Chad nodded as Orihime gasped.
"How would Ichigo and Ken'ichi know where the King is?" Byakuya's taken aback expression had not changed.
"What the hell…!" Zaraki Kenpachi complained again, "You're the only ones understanding each other!"
"You see, it's like this…" Uryuu began.
"CRAP SHIT, I'M NOT STANDING AROUND TO BE LECTURED BY A FOUR-EYED MORON!" Zaraki glared at Uryuu and motioned to hit him, "I'm going to go to beat shitloads out of Tousen and Ichimaru!"
Zaraki Kenpachi grunted again and dashed through the house and Orihime bit her lip as she looked at the whole that the Captain had torn through. Restoring it would take time and she sighed.
The Eleventh Squad Captain stopped upon reaching the other end of the house and looked around. There were potholes on the ground, dust, smoke, debris — battle traces. He looked around.
Shit, it looked like he would have to find the stupid ex-Captains.
There was a reason why he wasn't for search and rescue and Kenpachi cursed.
Damn.
This was one reason why he should've brought Yachiru. No, wait, the kid would probably just lead him to the park or something. Actually, the park was kind of good because if Kenpachi did go, he would see two blurs running around and a giant black dome looming over it.
Two ex-captains versus a Shinigami and a Quincy.
Isshin had to admit, he kind of missed doing Shunpo but he had to warm up a bit while fighting not to get killed. Tousen had engaged Ryuken and both of them were in that giant cricket-thing Bankai of his. Well, at least Ryuken could smoke there for all he cared!
"Aren't you going to release, Isshin?" Gin Ichimaru asked as he landed atop a lamppost.
"What, you blind or blinked and missed it or something?" Isshin frowned. Ichimaru tilted his head and Isshin lifted his hand to reveal a handle without a blade.
"You broke your sword?"
Isshin blinked and looked at his Zanpakutou before grinning.
"Oh, so you don't see it?" Isshin turned his eyes towards Ichimaru.
"When did you release it?"
"Well, for starters, you just have to call your Zanpakutou and ask it to come out." Isshin explained, "You talk to it, not the enemy so if you missed my Zanpakutou's name, that's a shame."
"Yare, yare…" Ichimaru scratched his head, "I'm rusting."
"Okay, let's start again but pay attention. I won't do you this favor again." Isshin sighed and the sword reappeared as if being reformed. Ichimaru's expression changed and his fox-face wore out with the replacement of an observant mask.
"Bring down the hand of god as I bring down my sword…"
Ichimaru Gin made sure he would not miss anything.
"…Sekai No Megumi."
And as soon as those words were said, the sword disappeared as if phasing out of sight. Ichimaru was unable to hold back the surprised look on his face.
"Judging by that expression, I assume you still don't see it." Isshin released the handle which remained suspended in mid-air before disappearing like its blade, "Either it's too fast for you or your reiatsu can't follow or both."
There was no reply.
But Ichimaru was not going to be provoked and he wore back his poker face before waving a finger.
"It will have to hit me eventually to find out, yes?"
"Aa."
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Ryuken looked at his hand… or at least tried. He had nothing on him. Sight, hearing, smell, touch — nothing. He sighed. If he were not able to taste anything then screw this stupid Bankai. He was getting out of here as soon as possible.
"Don't despair. I shall make this quick." Tousen's voice echoed within the dome of his Bankai.
"You have it all wrong." Ryuken said lowly, "It's just that I can't find my cigarette and I really want to smoke."
Tousen did not reply.
"And you wouldn't want to make an enemy out of a Quincy suffering from withdrawal…"
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Ichigo grunted as he held Tensa Zangetsu in one hand and his unconscious son in the other. He hated being late, which he was now.
Damn it.
"One down." Andjaliria snickered as the mask phased into her face and she pointed at Ichigo, "One more to go."
"I hate pricks." Ichigo spit and lifted his sword. With one shunpo he was gone and in another he was atop the ball of shadow that was still trying to eat Rukia. Andjaliria gasped, disappeared and reappeared in front of Ichigo. Ichigo frowned and motioned to hit the darkness with his equally pitch black blade.
"NO!" she glared at him and Ichigo grunted, swinging his sword at her but surprise caught him when she effortlessly captured her blade between two fingers.
"W-What?!"
Where had he seen this scene before?
The situation did not allow him to think. A white glistening butterfly made its way out of the small gash it created on the shadow ball. Andjaliria shrieked as she backed and Ichigo leapt away. Seconds after, the black sphere was eaten by light and a thousand white butterflies came out flying followed by Rukia in her white Shinigami robes tearing through the darkness. Ichigo landed with ease to one side and looked up. Rukia's eyes suspended on him.
"ICHIGO!" She exclaimed and she flash stepped towards him and her son, "What happened?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't make it on time." Ichigo handed the boy to her, "But he's not yet dead."
"Ken'ichi…?" Rukia held the boy in her arms. His eyes were open and Rukia wheezed upon seeing her son in this state. Ichigo cursed.
"You…!" Ichigo pointed her sword at Andjaliria who was holding onto her bleeding arm, "What are you! Who are you!"
"She is Aizen Andjaliria, Aizen Sousuke's daughter." Rukia replied as she looked at the little girl. The white butterflies fluttered around her as she glared at Andjaliria.
"His what!?"
"My daughter."
Rukia and Ichigo gasped at the same time and looked up.
Brown hair. White clothes. A man sitting on a dark watery throne hovering above them.
"Aizen…" Rukia began.
"… Sousuke." Ichigo finished.
Aizen smiled as he leaned on his hand.
"Hisashiburi desu, ne, Kurosaki?"
"HISASHIBURI MY FOOT!" Ichigo yelled, "WHAT THE CRAP DO YOU—"
Ichigo was unable to finish. Andjaliria appeared before him and aimed a Cero right at his face. Ichigo lifted his sword to strike but Rukia's white butterfly that landed on the tip of his sword seemed to have done it. Andjaliria backed frantically and flash stepped beside her father. Ichigo paused and looked at his wife.
What? Why was that little girl so scared of Rukia's Bankai?
"Interesting, Kuchi… Kurosaki Rukia." Aizen said as his daughter gripped his sleeve, "You have grown indeed. You can use Shikai abilities while in Bankai. Your Bankai has multiple abilities that can be used at the same time…"
Aizen straightened and looked at his daughter and said, "Plus you have two elements in one sword. Impressive, Kurosaki Rukia."
"How long have you been watching?" Rukia asked him sternly. She was trying to sound convincing and it was all thanks to her Kuchiki upbringing that she was able to hide the shaking in her voice. The feeling of his fingers digging for the Hougyoku in her suddenly came back and inwardly, she shuddered.
"I have been here ever since Andjaliria released."
"Here?" Ichigo looked around, "Where is here?"
"Where is here?" Aizen said calmly as he shifted his gaze towards Ichigo, "Here is here. This is my place."
"Hueco Mundo?" Ichigo's eyebrows furrowed. No, this wasn't Hueco Mundo. Aizen chuckled.
"You see a throne, don't you?" Aizen pointed with his hand, "Who sits on the throne, Kurosaki?"
Rukia's world was shaken like a thousand intensities. It can't be!
"THE KING!" Rukia yelled as she motioned to get up violently, "YOU KILLED THE KING!?"
"Otousama is the King!" Andjaliria glared back at her.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE KING!" Rukia insisted, tightly gripping her son toward her.
"Nothing." Aizen replied, paused and said again, "At least nothing yet."
"I'm currently sitting on my throne, the throne of the one and only King… After I crush his."
His throne? So the King wasn't in the same place? Was the King all right? Rukia was finding it hard to think. Ken'ichi groaned and she gasped, stroking his hair and murmuring to him.
"Your son's Hollow reiatsu is splendid." Andjaliria commented, "I look forward to absorbing him further."
Absorbing… further?
"Like you ever will!" Ichigo grunted and swung, "GETSUGA TENSHOU!"
The black projectile hurled itself angrily at the little girl. Aizen did not move a muscle and Andjaliria sighed in what seemed to be annoyance.
"Pointless." Andjaliria replied and painlessly grabbed the dark crescent with her hand and crushed it to nothingness with her fingers. Ichigo's mouth opened but not a sound came out.
"H-how the hell…"
"Perhaps I should explain…" Aizen smiled at Ichigo, "Andjaliria is my daughter. I made her out of my reiatsu and the Hougyoku. Simply put, she is my clone and more…"
"M-more…?" Rukia stammered. That didn't sound right. Clone? That meant Andjaliria could do everything Aizen could — reiatsu, kidou, shunpo… everything. So that was why she felt like Aizen because the reiatsu she had was Aizen's… And more. More? The girl was Aizen's edited form — reiatsu manifested and tampered upon using the Hougyoku. She was part Hollow. She was part Shinigami.
"Yes, more." Aizen nodded, "You seem to understand somehow but that is all you need to know for now. You will have to ponder further on the details."
"Ponder while I get to work. Shall I, Otousama?" Anjdaliria stepped forward, "The sooner I absorb them both, the sooner you become King and the sooner I become Princess."
Aizen chuckled to himself.
"I will have a problem dealing with that woman, though." She pouted at Rukia.
"Not to worry." Aizen finally got up and Ichigo and Rukia felt their inner selves shudder from the action.
"I will take care of her."
- End of Chapter 28 -
Author: PEOPLE, IF YOU LOVE ME AND THIS STORY, PLEASE GIVE ME A REVIEW… At least per chap. –cries- Okaaaay… I revealed quite something. Lots of stuff unclear. I need my internet connection back. I need my computer back. At least even just my Japanese books! –cries openly like Rukia mourning for Chappy the Bunny- This is hard but I really, REALLY want to continue writing.
Thank you for the messages. I am very flattered. Sorry if it takes time before I could reply. Please bear with me. shoots fist up in the air GAMBATTE! GAMBATTE!
Tagalog Paragraph:
Gaano daw ba ko ka-addict sa animé…? Humihitit ako ng chakra at bumubuga ng reiatsu habang iniinit ng lighter ang batong gumugulong sa papel mula sa pinilas na Death Note (tinatamad kasi kumuha ng foil saka mas practical yung Death Note page kasi reusable) at patuloy ang malalam na liwanag na mukhang munting Hadouken sa cockpit ng aking Gundam hanggang sa ako'y mag-Limit Break at sumayaw ng Hare Hare Yukai na may ternong Sharingan na naka-Bankai. Ngayon, addict ba ako? Hindi naman. Mi ultimo bagot lang,
Ayos. Durog.
Hahaha… I'd translate it if I could but no words could equal the thought of this paragraph. It's a result of my boredom. If you know Tagalog and STILL don't understand, it's okay. You're probably better off that way — unharmed. Um… To those who are wondering, I don't smoke and I don't get drunk... most of the time. It's complicated. My only vices are animé, games and the internet.
Anyway, I hope for a review.
BANKAI!
Sekai No Megumi – World's Blessing
