I DO NOT OWN BLEACH
Hey guys.
Pretty gloomy day so hopefully it doesn't reflect in my writing. Yawning at the moment so hopefully I can get zoomed up and chipper to write this as it's too early to be tired!
Any ways, hopefully the story will be getting way better from this point in. Byakuya will be a serious, serious threat and Kaien will be the biggest I'd imagine (In the future) but at the moment, Byakuya will be the greatest threat Ichigo has ever faced, but when will they face each other?! At this moment it may or may not be Izuru or some shady allies that could be enemies (I made about twenty spelling errors there when writing this, I'm dozey! I need to get into normal clothes and not sleep-wear, for some reason your awakeness just...increases when that happens) any ways, plus Yamamoto and Bach with Haschwald (Spell-check changed it to Auschwitz for some reason :S) are still running around being alive and shit, Ichigo is no-where near victory.
So, as usual, please review! They're the best and it seems to be EmpressMinea keeping me alive! I'm writing a lot more now so hopefully that means something, like over 9000 a chapter! If you've been reading the story for a while, leave one, I won't bite! In fact I'd probably let you bite me because I'm in a short supply, argh! Also, so near the end of the story it's unbelievable! 43-45 like the last story will be the end, so leave a review with a prediction mayhaps? Also, an old character thought dead will return! I'll explain it in a later chap, you'll know when!
Let's go.
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Senzaikyu valley was now completely dominated by the rebels, the large city having two main gates. One that was to the west and led out into the mountains or forests, the last that led out till a beach that had a large ocean to its coast, with a port and docks. Most of the living Seireiteians were chained up in the streets, given scraps of bread to eat and minimal water to drink, although it was a charity the rebels gave anything at all considering the fact that the Aedile spilled the pitch all over the grain, the rebels only had enough food to do them a week, more if rationed and no-one else joined their cause. Ichigo as well as his three generals were confident that they would work through it, as they always did. A caravan attack maybe? Ichigo was unsure if the enemy knew they had taken Senzaikyu valley yet, but either way he would have to find food somehow. He had sent scouts and sentries out to search for any wagons of some sort carrying any food a few days ago and some had returned, having some food that could give them an extra day or so worth of food, but the rest was void.
Ichigo lay in his bed, Rukia laying beside him half-asleep. Last night was one of the now rare nights they made love, which was still as mind-blowing as he could remember. It seemed that with time came desperateness which just increased the excitement and pleasure tenfold, he wished he could return to the old ways, embraced every night not halting for a day, yet his duties and responsibilities was taking up his time as well as his fatigue, which halted his carnal desires. Ichigo felt Rukia stir, her half-lidded eyes opening slightly. Ichigo smiled down and laid a kiss on her lips, pleasantly surprising her.
"I could live a happy life if I gained that but every morning" Rukia smiled. Ichigo gave another one, a longer one this time. Rukia adjusted herself so that his chest was on top of her one, her breasts pressing against his skin was an easy aphrodisiac and he felt himself harden with each second, increasingly so as Rukia's hands roamed his back. His hand slid up her thigh, using the web between his thumb and index finger to his advantage as he rubbed her sex, exciting it and making her bit her lip slightly. Ichigo kissed her neck as her hands were placed firmly against his muscles, feeling herself get wet with desire. "We'll have to make this quick" Rukia moaned "They'll get restless without us"
Ichigo slid inside a second after she said that, Rukia arching her back as he did so. She was quite skinny, so as her back arched her ribs were visible but Ichigo never cared, in fact it was memorizing, she was a goddess. Rukia let out short pants as her thighs spread with Ichigo in between, her knees bent and her feet pressed against the bed as Ichigo pushed in and pulled out, his hands at either side of her head. Ichigo felt her soaking tightness squeeze his shaft and he let out an unexpected grunt, yet his pace didn't whither.
Rukia squeezed his hips with her knees as her feet flopped with every thrust, his pushes getting more powerful with each second, Rukia's hands gripped his ass encouraging him further as he went even faster, Ichigo hooked his arm with one of her legs and quickly gave a single, particularly long thrust that seemed to fill her completely giving her quite a shock, her teeth nipping his shoulder. Ichigo felt her push and realize what she wanted.
Allowing her to roll him over, Rukia's hands slapped against the bedframe and she rolled her hips as a small bead of sweat ran down the side of her head, Ichigo's hands squeezed her hips as Rukia's shaky breaths spurred him. "Fuck" He breathed huskily. Rukia then quickly quickened her pace, realizing that when she said she wanted this to be quick, she shouldn't go against her own statement.
Using all her best techniques; scratching his chest, biting and kissing his nipples, Rukia did her best to make Ichigo cum yet he seemed to rebel against her intentions, which she should have realized. if she didn't have hers, he wouldn't give up until she did. Luckily for him, she was now leaking from her hot, moist sex that slid down his member as her hips pushed back and forth with an expert pace, riding her husband like it was their last day, Rukia felt his arms pull her down into a kiss, a very hot and wet kiss, tongues battling for dominance as she continued to grind into him. As his fingers dug into her buttocks, Rukia felt her orgasm come and like a broken dam, a large, powerful wave of euphoria filled her and she felt her release come, soaking his sex as he quickly flipped her over, pulling out. "No special plants" He muttered.
"I'll take care of you" Rukia purred, signalling him to bring his hips up. Ichigo did so and straddled her chest, in which she took hold of his member, squeezing her two modest breasts against it. Ichigo slowly bucked his hips and gave a few small pumps as he used her fluids as a lubricant. Rukia licked the head of his member every moment she could, which was becoming recurring as his thrusts were getting more powerful. He gripped her shoulders and she felt his nails dig into her skin and with the usual noise of an orgasm that he gave, she felt him cum all over her chest, neck and parts of her chin. Wiping it off nonchalantly, she licked his juices off and sucked it off her fingers, tasting the juices she had done so many times before, yet what annoyed her though was the stickiness. Ichigo, reading her mind gave a smirk.
"You'll need to bathe now" He smiled.
"I suppose you'll aid me in such an act?" She said with a seductive, lustful smirk. "By all means, a poor woman like myself could never do such a thing" Rukia purred, spreading her legs for him to have a good look at her core once more.
In an almost shocking display, Ichigo scooped her up in his arms. "There is a bath across the hall" He said "Yet there may or may not be people outside of this room" He confessed. "We'll just have to see"
With breakneck speed, Ichigo flew across the hall and into the bathroom with his wife in his arms, both as naked as the day they were born. Of course, nothing was seen, but a yelp and a slap was definitely heard.
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After that escapade, the day seemed to go on as normal. Ichigo stood down in Ggio's blacksmith hut as the man himself forged a new sword aside Grimmjow who seemed less interested. Ichigo here, was rather interested as the weapons that Ggio forged were of a special metal that they had in abundance, a metal that he hated. The swords were created by metal thrown in the forge to melt then being cooled and forged into a sword, axe, hammer or whatever Ichigo wanted. The metal, was shackles and chains. Ichigo watched as Ggio forged a brand new sword, cooling it and then putting it in with a group of them, a fourth rucksack that he had filled. Ichigo stood beside Renji, picking up a blade with a seemingly small sense of pride in the man.
"Swords, born from shackles" Ichigo stated. "Your hand forms miracle" He complimented.
"Perhaps you will reward effort with extra coin" Ggio chanced.
"Knowing you serve for a higher purpose seems to be a well-placed payment" Ichigo smirked as he placed the sword down with it's fellow blades. Grimmjow gave a cheeky chuckle and slapped Ggio on the back.
"You chew on fresh bargain only to swallow stale shit" Grimmjow grinned.
Ggio rolled his eyes. "Suck cock you woman"
As Grimmjow made an incoherent noise alongside a rude and immature gesture with his crotch, Ichigo tightened the rucksacks filled with swords and turned to Ggio ready to bark another command. "Aid Grimmjow in delivering your latest offerings to Kugo, should you linger within the city...we shall discuss terms of future benefit" Ichigo offered. Ggio nodded with a seemingly considering gaze and picked up two sword-filled bags made from pelts and reminded Grimmjow that he had to as well, the teal-haired rebel sighing and doing so. Ichigo strolled out of the room and Renji followed, now wearing the same armour Kugo and Grimmjow had wore before him. The shoulder-pad, the strips of leather and the many straps and medallions around his torso, ciruclar arm braces around the biceps. In return, Grimmjow had now donned a single red strap across his torso holding his beloved sica, with black cloth wrappings up to his mid-thigh that had steel plates over the shins, with two brown leather bracers over his wrists. While Kugo had been given a beige square parmula while Renji received Grimmjow's circular shield.
As the walked out, Renji decided to tell Ichigo his thoughts. "I do not lay trust in that little shit" He confessed.
Ichigo rose an eyebrow. "You do not lay trust in anyone"
"Especially those surrounded by their people" Renji informed, signalling to the Seireiteian captives that had survived the taking of the city. Ichigo saw Ayon, the mountain of muscle roughly pull one of the captives across the street as he was struggling. Ichigo walked over, casually calling the man/beast's name.
"How fairs our guests?" Ichigo asked.
Ayon grinned. "They fucking shit themselves!" He beamed "A smell welcome to nose!"
Ichigo nodded and leaned over. "See that they are fed" He ordered, in a rather dangerous whisper. Ayon seemed unfazed, yet still obeyed loyally pulling the captive over and tossing him to the floor beside his fellow prisoners, tossing a loaf of bread at him. As Ichigo walked, Renji followed.
"I question though of keeping them shackled throughout fucking streets" Renji said.
"Is that all you question?"
As they walked around, Ichigo caught sight of Kirio and a pang of guilt struck him, but he kept it quiet and unforeseeable. "We are at war Ichigo, I would see our enemies struck to the afterlife" He said.
"Women and children among them?" Ichigo accused. It didn't seem like an argument, more like a debate. Ichigo looked at Kirio who sat beside three young children, signalling to Renji of what he had just said.
"Many have been killed by Seireitei, they were also robbed of life during the escape of Urahara's ludus? Or the taking of this very fucking city?" Renji questioned rhetorically. Ichigo nodded robotically.
"They were" He admitted. "Yet the few that remain are of no concern"
"They pose concern to fucking stomach" Renji snapped. "Drawing from our food, which already runs low from Aedile dowsing pitch upon grain"
Ichigo looked to the captives and back to Renji. "Let us gauge our stores...and turn thought from needless slaughter" He told his, possibly, best friend. Renji nodded with an annoyed, yet agreeing tone to it. With that, they took their leave.
Just a few metres away, in a small courtyard stood Kugo in front of a handful of recruits, with rebels surrounding them observing their training and giving hints, pointers etcetera. Unohana aided in the doing off it, merely letting people strike her wooden blade while barely moving, testing the strength of their attacks. Yachiru was at a corner, looking at Grimmjow.
"Seek to turn your defense into attack" Kugo told the recruits.
Grimmjow and Ggio arrived, the former aware of Yachiru's never drifting gaze yet indifferent to it. "More steel, towards purpose" Grimmjow said as he set the many swords down on a table. Ggio did as well and Kugo looked to the former Senzaikyu citizen.
"He has been paid with what Ichigo promised, for aid in taking the city" Kugo pointed out.
"Five-thousand gold" Grimmjow nodded.
"Well-earned" Ggio said, with a nervous undertone.
As if he was not there, yet fully intent on the traitor to the Republic hearing it, Kugo said. "Yet why does he continue to darken presence within our walls?" He asked.
Ggio looked to Grimmjow who shrugged. "Give answer I'm not fucking echo" Grimmjow told him.
"To further lend hand to your cause" Ggio said. Grimmjow looked to Kugo, shrugging his shoulders as if asking for his judgement. "In hope of gaining some more coin before I forever leave these shores"
Kugo looked to both of them, accepting the answer. He then turned and called. "Riruka" He called. The girl arrived, now older looking yet her maturity and temper were still that of a teenager. She had wore a red dress, with different parts of leather and belts around it to make it seemed like a battle-dress, yet did not look entirely stupid. "See those unarmed to proper weapons"
As Riruka did this, Kugo took out a single gold coin. Holding it firmly between his thumb and index finger, he handed it over to Ggio. "For your journey" He mocked. As Ggio attempted to awkwardly take it as if trying to avoid insulting Kugo, the hand snapped away, as if a father scolding a son. "Be good now" He warned, before flicking the coin into his palm and returning to his duties.
As if the awkwardness for Ggio couldn't get worse, the bold Soi-fon arrived as bold and as haughty as ever. "I wake desiring cock" She says to Grimmjow. "Yet I find you from our bed" She sighed, kissing Grimmjow hungrily. As they kissed another another rather lustfully, Soi-fon noticed the shy Yachiru watching and she rolled her eyes. "She is a fucking shadow" Soi-fon muttered with a smirk, noticing Yachiru who quickly shot her gaze away from the two and acted indifferent.
Grimmjow looked. "The girl follows heel like errant pup since I took her master's life"
As Soi-fon shot more smirks during the kissing session to Yachiru, a bold and annoyed Ebern quickly pushed passed the pink-haired teen. "Clear fucking path!" He snapped with captives in his arm, pushing them to the floor near the wall. His eyes caught the sight of two people, a husband and a wife. "Your wife?" Ebern asked. "She is with child" The husband protectively and instinctively put a hand over his wife. "She should not be absent nourishment" Extending his hand, a load of bread was handed and he knelt down in front of them.
"Gratitude"
Ebern laughed. "You mistake intent" I do not offer charity, I offer exchange" He said. "Bread, for any coin you know of that has yet been found by any of us" Ebern said. The husband looked to his wife and sighed.
"Two streets west of the centre, with the name Kenzaki above the door...beneath a loose floorboard behind the table" He began "You'll find all I have there"
Ebern grinned "Any more offerings?" He asked the captives. There was no reply and he shrugged. "None, very well then" He said. He turned to leave but Ryusei Kenzaki stopped him. "Oh yes, the bread." He dropped it in front of all the captives. Before Ryusei could grab it, another reached for it.
Suddenly a small scuffle started between the man and Ryusei, rolling around on the floor. Kenpachi saw this and rolled his eyes, Ebern laughed and Kugo quickly grabbed the two by their robes and tore them apart. "Do you wish to see blood?!" He asked Ryusei. "Do you wish to see blood?!" He asked the other. The two were silent, he then turned to the rebels. "Do you desire blood?!" He demanded of the rebels, who cheered wildly. "Then let us have proper contents!" Kugo bellowed. "Bring swords!"
"I know that one, Ryusei" Ggio pointed out. "He is no fighter nor man of distant heart" Ebern grinned, slapping Ryusei's cheek twice almost affectionately before handing him a sword. Riruka walked up and Rukia, who had been standing beside Grimmjow and Soi-fon looked at the magenta-haired girl.
"We fall to fucking games now?" She spat.
"Seireitei forced our men to do such a thing for their amusement" Riruka pointed out bitterly, forcing Rukia to feel conflicted as much as her husband. "We merely return favour" She said before leaving. They looked to Rukia, who merely walked away. Not taking part, yet not halting it either.
Ryusei had a sword in hand and looked to his 'enemy' or his 'challenger'. Kugo stood up on a small stone, Riruka at his side. He held up a small loaf of bread. "Let the victor, claim his bounty" He said rather sadistically, no smile whatsoever. Grimmjow stared and sighed, once Kugo got in a certain mood, he could be as bloodthirsty as himself, or even Kenpachi. "And to see the loser, to join the Seireiteian dead, which we have swept from this city!" Kugo bellowed to the rebels, all cheering barbarically. With one, final breath. Kugo looked on indifferently. "Begin"
The two looked at each other, frightened. Their swords shook in their hands as they edged towards one another, with a small inch their arms moved, the opponent would flinch. Suddenly, Ryusei's opponent swung wildly, each one blocked with much difficulty as the rebels laughed and mocked their low skill. The swords were either dodged or blocked as the pathetic slashes were constantly insulted by the onlookers. As the blades met, Ryusei's was knocked from his hand and he gulped. Another swing and the blade was stopped as Ryusei caught the wrist and tumbled to the floor with the opponent, the latter straddling Ryusei as their hands gripped each-others throats, attempting to suffocate each other.
As this edged, no-one attempted to stop the fight. Ryusei's wife was worriedly watching, shaking with fear for her husband who's left hand was reaching for a nearby blade. The rebels looked as his fingers stretched as far as they could for the blade as his throat was constricted harder and harder, his air running out.
But he got the sword. With a thrust, the fight was over.
"A fight far from worthy arena!" Kugo cried out to his followers. "Yet promise was made...feast upon laurels" Kugo spat, dropping the bread on the ground before Ryusei. The rebels laughed as Kugo walked away and Ryusei turned to him, his teeth gritting in anger. Spitting a curse, he deciding to move towards the area of the bread...and fallen sword.
Before he could grab what he truly wanted, a sword smacked against his hand and he looked up to his magenta-coloured hair above him, looking down to his hand he saw a deep cut in it, the area between his index and middle finger had been slashed all the way through, not decapitating any thing...but serious damage. Kugo turned, looking at Riruka and she read his eyes. "He reached for sword when your back was turned!"
"He reached for the food you mad cunt!" Ggio spat as he walked over, rag in hand to clean the wound. Kugo sneered, defending Riruka by quickly storming over and gripping the dark-haired blacksmith by the throat, slamming him against a stone pillar.
"Hold tongue, or see it ripped from fucking head!" Kugo threatened viciously.
"Take pause, brother" Grimmjow said, coming in between them. "Ggio stands with us"
Kugo glared at Grimmjow, his face softening before giving a final, correctly assessed statement, filled with a deep, compressed hatred that Grimmjow had yet to see. "He stands a fucking Seireiteian"
He then left to follow Riruka. With that, Ggio walked to the moaning in pain Ryusei, wrapping his wound in the little rag. "The man has never raised voice, to slave or any other!" He snapped to Grimmjow. "How does your friends differ from the fucking villain they brand me!"
Out of the yard, Kugo quickly followed Riruka. "Was he reaching for the bread?!" He demanded.
"I did not think it" Riruka said, worried that she may have been wrong, slightly worried with a pang of guilt filling her.
"What if you are mistaken?!" Kugo asked.
"The result the same" Riruka said. "A Seireiteian, that shall never raise hand against us!"
"I have never held love for any of such name" Kugo said, stopping Riruka as she attempted to quickly walk away. "Yet he does not stand a threat" He told her. "He holds none"
Riruka spat in disgust. "Men such as him, hold the greatest" She hissed. "True intent, shadowed by innocent face and polite smile!"
Kugo frowned."...Have you known his reflection?"
Riruka stopped. Kugo watched as she visibly froze, her hand only moving in a shaky way. "B-Before I came to the House of Urahara...two years in fact...me and my sister- did you know I have a sister?" She asked.
Kugo shook his head. "You revealed no such information" He said.
Riruka nodded. "I did, Gina. W-We were brought to a house...this one carried kind smile and a gentle name" She said. "Husband...father of two young daughters" She said. "He saw me fed, bathed, clothed and allowed me to feel safe for the first time since I was ripped from my fucking home" Riruka turned to him, eyes brimming with tears. "When his family slept, he came to me and my sister...bringing us to a room, which I had thought would be our own private chamber...we were set upon a bed, I was so calm I thought it a dream, I was at a place...with a small wood mill and a stable, far removed from his villa, where wagons were crafted and repaired." She continued while Kugo's face went from annoyed to empathetic. "He applied his many...tools inside of me" She confessed, memories of that night flooding back. "The only reason I yet live was because...was because he grew tired after focusing mostly on my sister..who luckily did not survive to continue with the torture"
"I wish I had power to sieze your memory" He began "To tear the thought from your mind" He said. "One day, we will find him...and we will chain him down and use his tools against him, ten times the pain he brought upon you" Kugo vowed. "And the last thing he shall see is the image of me eating his fucking heart"
"What shocked me was not the nights events" She said. "But the morning after...when he greeted his wife, with kiss upon cheek. His children laughing on his knee, the beast that was born on the night before...transformed into a man...who held no threat"
"I have no words" Kugo murmured.
"You do not need them" Riruka whispered. "To have you by my side, to have you always in my time of need...it is the greatest gift you could offer" She said, taking his lips in a kiss. "You...and everyone else...you gave my a strength I thought gone from this world" She said.
"Then let us see it rise higher" He said. "To split the fucking heavens"
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Ichigo stood in the grain storage, Renji beside him as Chad lifted all the sacks of oil covered grain and threw them onto a large pile to the corner. Ichigo helped and Chad scooped a handful of pitch-covered grain. "All of it is drenched"
"How long will it last?" Ichigo asked.
"Two weeks, more if we are cautious and our numbers do not swell" Chad informed.
Renji sighed, kicking himself for not killing the Aedile sooner. "Fuck the Gods" He spat.
Ikkaku and Yumichika quickly arrived in, seemingly worried. Ichigo turned with eyes accusing and eyebrow rose, Yumichika turned to him and revealed what had him so aggravated. "Ichigo" He began "Ships weigh anchor off the coast"
With that, everyone in the room immediately walked to the gate towards the coast. Ichigo walked as he gripped his sword tightly, the rebels in the city following him as they reached the large gate. Rukia quickly caught up with Ichigo, an annoyed expression on her face. "It seems we have drawn notice" She said.
Ichigo looked up to the look-out on the gate, calling up to him. "What do you see?" Ichigo called.
"Four men, armed"
"Seireitei?" Ichigo asked.
"Not fucking likely by their dressing"
Ichigo nodded, he looked to Rukia for advice and after a few moments of thinking, she gave a nod and Ichigo turned to the lookout with a small nod and a bellow. "Open gate!" He called. The rebels quickly armed themselves, about eighty at the gate with weapon in hand. Ichigo stood closest to the gate, yet far from it to not frighten the unknown person too much. Stark strolled up, taking a place beside Ichigo.
The possible leader of the group stood in an eel-skin cloak, hooded. It was dark, covering his shoulders and torso and his blonde-hair, which was revealed as the hood was pulled down. The person had a rag around his head with purplish eyes and smirk upon his face. "What shit is this?" Renji wondered.
"Brigands of the Republic's channel" Stark pointed out. "Pirates...I had dealings with them once..." He said. "Shady...seemingly untrustworthy, I do not know" He said. "They captured and held Kaien Shiba for ransom just five years back, Byakuya Kuchiki himself having to purchase the freedom of the man" Stark smirked. Renji chuckled and the pirate bellowed out, in a very foreign sounding accent.
"I would speak with the man who has taken claim to this city" He called.
Ichigo was already behind him. "You're words fall upon his ear" The blonde-pirate turned. "What business do you bring?" Ichigo asked accusingly.
"You are Ichigo?" He asked. "The same fiend who brought down the arena in Rukongai? The Sokyoku as well? Who murdered Aizen and his five-thousand with just one-hundred men and then swelled it into thousands within a small amount of motnhs?" He asked. Ichigo smirked as he walked closer. "Who has brought, untold suffering to the Republic and it's people?" By this time, his entire back was surrounded by protective rebels while he stood in front if Ichigo, who seemed amused by the pirate.
"Old deeds" Ichigo said. "Claimed with pride"
The city was quiet as the pirate glared at Ichigo, walking right up to the orange-haired rebel, taking his hood off to reveal his blonde hair, before grinning. "Then I call you fucking brother!" He bellowed, pulling him into an embrace and kissing his two cheeks. Ichigo quickly pushed him off, looking at him as if he had seen a ghost and glared. "Let us share a gift of wine!" He said, ordering his man to bring the barrel of what was now identified as wine over to the rebels. "And break words towards destruction of common enemy!"
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On the outskirts of Rukongai, Izuru alongside Kaien walked in the encampment of Amagai's old legion. Walking with their helmets in hand, the walked to the main tent that held the commander, Arturo. They walked up to the turquoise-haired commander. "Kaien" He greeted "It has been too long"
"The years have been unkind to you" Kaien joked with a grin.
"At least I do not stand as a beast" He grinned, mocking Kaien's ragged appearance.
"Byakuya's orders, I am to remain unshaven and uncut until due time" Kaien told his friend. "A personal matter, we cannot speak of it sadly as no-one in his confidence stand here" Kaien said, deliberately in front of Izuru.
"You have received letter of our arrival Arturo" Izuru said.
"We stand ready to move at your command" Arturo nodded with a sip of his cup. "Have use of my tent until such a time" He added. He turned to Kaien with a smirk. "Come, we must catch up old friend, I would leave the boy to his plotting" He stated as he and Kaien left the tent. Izuru stood...boy...had he not proven he was more than such?! He was the word and the will of Byakuya Kuchiki, the second in command! He was a Tribune! He was a Seireiteian of high regard and yet he gets waved away as a boy and a fucking nuisance?!
"Impudent shit" Kira spat "Sweeps me aside in favour of swallowing that fools cock...I pray he chokes upon it"
"A powerful thing" A voice said "Anger" Izuru turned to see a fellow blonde stand before him. "You are Izuru Kira correct?" He asked. "Ichigo had once made attempt on your life, yet you stand alive from the attempt and have joined the military to gain skill to protect yourself in the future? That is something we have in common my young friend"
Kira rose an eyebrow. "Who are you? What is your name and Rank?" Kira asked.
He smirked. "Rojuro Otoribashi, but I prefer Rose." He beamed. "Quaestor, at your service" He bowed.
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In Senzaikyu valley, the pirate captain strolled around Ichigo's stolen villa as he grinned while Ichigo followed with Kugo, Starl and Grimmjow at his side. He called to his men. "Break open barrel we must share drink!"
"I would have words before your mind is clouded in advance" Ichigo said. He turned to his pirate ally Stark who looked to him, Ichigo then looked back to the captain. "If I am correct, you are Findorr, captain of the infamous Pinza Aguda? Did I say that right?"
"Exacta!" He said, forcing Ichigo to raise an eyebrow. "I am at your will, it is an honor to be in the presence of a man who steals an entire fucking city!" H elaughed.
"It was the fucking Seireiteian's who stole freedom from us!" Kugo snapped.
"We merely seize what is owed" Ichigo said, his arms out with his palms flat.
"I favor your reasoning, brothers" Findorr said. "Some Seireiteian's yet live within these walls...do they?" He asked. Ichigo looked to his generals and back to Findorr, giving a nod. "The...Aedile among them?"
Ichigo shook his head. "I saw his death with my own eyes, it was hard not to since I was wielding the spear the was shoved in his mouth" Ichigo smirked. Findorr gave a chuckle, then a sigh. Ichigo frowned.
"I too have been injured" Findorr sighed.
"He speaks in fucking riddles" Renji spat.
Ichigo walked closer to him. "Straighten tongue" He commanded. "Or fall from presence" He added. Findorr sighed, scratching his head and then his recently shaved chin.
"The Aedile and I had an arrangement" He confessed. "He did not do it openly, yet many in the shadow...this fort is a danger, especially for those who consider him a...competitor" Findorr shrugged. "We took them out and...The Aedile would give us his stamp, as well as anything on board the ship" He said.
"A stamp?"
"A seal more so" Findorr shrugged. "That would give us immunity in the seas to do as we wish, under the banner of Seireitei" He chuckled. "But now we no longer have it because you shoved a spear in his mouth" He frowned. A nearby rebel took out a parchment to Ichigo and Kugo asked the pirates.
"What does a thief upon wave need a parchment for?"
"Like I said, immunity" Findorr said. "The official seal breaks any...unwanted attention in any, trading acquisitions in any... let's just say, unhonorable ports" Findorr chuckled lightly. "Advantage snatched from my hand, by actions of your own" Findorr told Ichigo. Renji sneered once these words were said and spat.
"To shit with this grinning cunt-"
"Renji-" Ichigo began
"What threat does he hold?" Renji mocked. "Will he piss upon us from the sea?"
Findorr stood, scratching his nose. "You'd be surprised by the reach of my string" As nonchalant as ever, before even Renji knew he himself was about to attack the pirate, Ichigo stood and extended his arm out to block the path between the blood-seeking Renji and the smirking pirate as the pineapple-haired rebel bounced to attack.
"Let us take breath and remove ourselves from heated words" Ichigo said, lightly shoving Renji back into his seat.
Findorr nodded. "There is yet drink to be had"
"Return to us when the moon arrives" Ichigo told the pirate. "And discover if there is yet cause to share a cup"
Findorr smiled "As you command" Then he mock bowed. "King Ichigo" He then turned and added once more. "As you command" He then left, roughly bumping shoulders with Renji. Grimmjow turned to look at the pirates retreating form in a mix of admiration and amusement.
"The man swings cock as if a God himself" He laughed.
Kugo scoffed. "Close gate upon ass and be done with him!"
Ichigo shook his head, declining Kugo's suggestion. "He may yet be of use, as we all stand with hunger" He said. "Find Aedile's seal and break thought upon shaky alliance" Ichigo said.
With that, they all took their leave to do their duties, well Grimmjow went to Ggio's blacksmith shop and told the coin-loving man of the deeds that had just happened and if he knew of the Aedile's seal or it's whereabouts, needless to say the blacksmith was rolling his eyes. "Pirates?" He scoffed. "I am a blacksmith, I don't trade at ports nor do I know of a fucking seal held by the late Aedile, what use would that be of me?"
"News I would have greeted sooner" Grimmjow sighed.
"Is that what it was like?" Ggio muttered. "Before you gained freedom through force?" Ggio asked. "Where you made to fight as an animal would? As you made poor Ryusei?"
Grimmjow turned with a risen eyebrow. "I prompted no contest" He informed.
"Yet you did naught to stop it" Ggio countered.
Grimmjow was getting pestered. "What fate did you believe he would get when you decided to aid this city?" He asked the blacksmith, who was also getting annoyed with the sword-swinging rebel.
"I held no fucking choice!"
"Every man has a choice" Grimmjow said. "Ichigo taught me that! You hold no love for these people Ggio, do not raise loud and worried concerns now after you betrayed them"
Ggio sighed. "These people, am I now Seireiteian as they were? As some still are?" He asked.
Grimmjow sighed, looking at the ground. "You stand for yourself and yourself alone" Grimmjow said. "As I once stood"
Ggio nodded. "You are proof then...that base clay can yet be moulded into something of worth and need" He grinned.
Grimmjow let out a light smile, putting his hand on Ggio's shoulder. "Turn from past and set eye towards new horizon, far from this place and the man that you were" With a final pat on the shoulder, Grimmjow turned to take his leave.
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At Izuru's encampment, the blonde-haired Tribune stood alongside his new friend and ally, the Quaestor Rose. He had taking a liking to the older blonde, who had also survived attack of Ichigo, as did the deceased Prophetess Yoruichi once did. (Alongside the unknown survival of Stark) The blonde Quaestor told Izuru of his large wound that was equal to Ichigo's during the fight against Yammy and how he survived luckily due to a Seireiteian soldier putting wound to a hot blade and wrapping the thick, deep gash up and bringing him to a Medicus. After this, the blonde had joined the military and rose to the rank of Quaestor easily in the past seven years, through hard-training, natural talent and being born of a well-earned family, after the rebellion of Ichigo he had gained even more modest fame having being a survivor of the rebels wrath.
"I stand here to keep sure that your actions and deeds are well funded" Rose told him. "And also give support, counsel and aid if you see need it, Praetor Byakuya has given me the honour himself"
"Well-"
"Praise fucking God's I found men of worth!"
The cry cut off the two blondes from conversing in the military tent and the two looked outside, seeing a completely fatigued and seemingly begging man on his knees before them. Izuru walked out with Rose at his heel, standing in front of the man. "What crude form do you deposit at my feet?"
"S-Senzaiyku!" He gasped. "Ichigo has taken Senzaikyu valley!"
Izuru's eyes widened. "Summon Arturo!" he snapped to his men. He looked to Rose. "Wine" he told him, Rose quickly gave the man his cup of red alcohol and he drunk it, quenching his thirst finally. He thanked Izuru who quickly snapped. "Repay favour with gift of words"
"I have few of note!" The guard from Senzaikyu told Izuru. "We thought the gate secured...yet as if he was of the underworld, he seemed to have...transported himself through wood and stone!"
"He is but a man!" Rose told the guard.
"I laid eyes upon him! Bathed in blood and gore, the city trembling in his wake! Ichigo is no man!" The guard told the two. "He's the bringer of death!"
"And yet you live" Izuru turned to see Kaien arrive, his arms folded with one of his hands on the butt of his gladius with his expression one of cruel amusement. "Your skill in combat must equal that of the legend himself"
"I-I was paid but a few coins by the Aedile to aid in curfew I am no soldier!"
"Put his questions aside, how many men does Ichigo now hold?!" Kira asked.
The guard gulped, a bead of sweat running down the side of his head as his hands shook as he looked to the three Seireiteian leaders glaring at him for information. "I-I do not know!" He said "The city and streets were filled with them! Slaughtering all in their path! I barely made escape to the bay before they took the docks-"
"Now it becomes clear" Kaien sighed. So instead to fall a hero you chose to flee" Kaien mused out loudly. With that, his hand tightened around the handle of his sword. "And fall a coward" With that his sword tore out from it's leather sheath and lodged itself in the guards skull, halfway down the scalp of the guards skull. A splat of blood hit Izuru's face and Kaien looked on as the body fell back, sliding off his blade.
Izuru turned to Kaien, his eyes glaring. "Have you lost mind?!"
"The man held no worth but his own tongue, which was as useless" Kaien shrugged as he sheathed his sword.
Izuru was getting very, very vexed. "You are not in fucking command!" He hissed.
"Apologies" Kaien smirked. "I slip from reason in the face of the faults of lesser men"
Arturo arrived "Let us-"
"The time for words has ended!" Kira snapped. He turned to Kaien "Go to the Praetor and tell him of-"
"He gave me strict orders to stay at your side-"
"I am the Word and the Will of Praetor Byakuya Kuchiki" Izuru Kira informed him. "I hold the rank of Tribune as do you and in any other situation, we would be equals. But Praetor has chosen me as his right-hand." Izuru told him. "I am the word and the will of Byakuya Kuchiki, you are not at my side Kaien, you serve beneath me"
A glaring content had erupted between the two Tribunes, while Arturo and Rose watched, silently rooting for their friends to win the battle. With a laugh and a smirk, Kaien nodded. "I fall to command" He said, then took his leave. As he left, Izuru turned to Arturo.
"Gather what remains of your men" Izuru ordered. "We move for Senzaikyu valley"
Izuru watched as the lower commander did as commanded. No-one, and he meant no-one, would doubt his command now. By the God's, if Byakuya preferred that fool Kaien over him after this, Byakuya was a lost cause when it came to favouring the worthy friends.
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In Senzaikyu itself, in the Aedile's old home at the front door was Kirio being brought by Ayon, his hand gripping her arm as he pushed her through the door. Kirio felt tears brimming her eyes as she walked into her old home, now dirty and made into a war-room. At her old book table, where she had all her books, novels and stories from her childhood was now a map with two unknown rebels planning there. Then near there...stood him. "Leave us" Her husband's killer told Ayon and the two unknown faces.
She looked at him. "This stood my home" What was she looking to him for? Pity? Comfort? To wreck his conscious some more? She didn't know, nor did she really care...she just had to tell him.
Ichigo was as empathetic as she thought he would be. "No longer" He walked over to her old book table, lifting a jug of water and pouring it into a small wooden cup which he held in his right hand.
"I will not beg for my life" She told Ichigo softly.
Ichigo rose an eyebrow, looking at her as if she was mad. "What?" He asked. "I do not seek it." He said. "Only your aid"
Her eyes widened and she felt herself about to cry. She walked closer to him, her hands shackled as she began to curse at him. "You robbed me of my husband, laid waste to my city and now you call upon fucking aid?!" She snapped.
"We are at war" Ichigo told her. "While your people stand causality, my own men question themselves of finishing off the few that yet live" He told her. "I give you chance, to prove that I am wise in not letting them"
Kirio laughed mirthlessly. "So that we may live out the rest of our days as parting favours for your fucking amusement!" She spat. "As word carries of Ryusei"
"Who's that?" Ichigo asked. "Never mind, what happened?"
"Your men made him fight for crusted bread, then attacked once he sought to claim it as standing victor"
"A thing I did not know of" Ichigo told her. "It shall not pass again" With that, he set down a cup of water for her. She quickly walked over, not enough pride to decline the drink as her thirst was mountains high.
"I once stood believing in your word and now I stand widowed for it"
"I do not turn from what I have done" Ichigo spat.
"He was an honourable man!" Kirio exclaimed. "Forever stricken from this world by you!"
Ichigo could laugh, but he smirked. He rarely laughed nowadays. "You elevate the dead beyond their worth" He told her.
"You did not know him!" Kirio hissed.
Ichigo looked at her, finally a feeling of pity coming up for the busty-widow. "Nor I fear did you" He told her. Ichigo walked away, into another room while still talking to the noble widow. "The name Findorr hold any meaning?" He asked.
"The plague upon the sea" She muttered. "My husband set a heavy amount of coin out towards his capture or death" Kirio said.
"He set heavier sum towards secret pact" Ichigo said.
"You lie" Kirio dead-panned.
Ichigo shook his head, walking out with the parchment that Findorr had given them, reading it as he walked. "Your husband provided seal of office in exchange for dispatching of his rivals" He told the widow, handing her the parchment. "Given to me by Findorr himself" She looked at the parchment, reading it with her eyes widening with each sentence. She looked down, that was definitely her husbands seal. Kirio gukped, two heavy breaths leaving her mouth as she took a seat in shock, her husband...he was a lie! A murderer! Things just seemed to get worse and worse, the weight of the world seemed to fall upon her! "Know that I don't take pleasure in staining cherished memory"
She was crying again. "You tear world from grasp and then whisper of kindness!"
"I whisper of opportunity" Ichigo said, squatting down to eye-level. "Findorr seeks the Aedile's seal, with it I will forge a trade that will see us fed. If you do this and give me the location, I will see your people fed as well"
"It alludes discovery?"
"You know of it's location?!" he asked.
"H-He feared rebellion and took measure to protect what was his, there are many places hidden to eye among his holdings throughout the city." She said. "I will reveal them if my people are fed and you do not lie to me again!"
Ichigo nodded. "I swear it" He said. "If I lie, may my Mother and Father turn from me in the afterlife" He said. "Give me all... and your people will have equal portion of my people in what we gain in bargain with the brigands"
"I would have freedom as price" She urged. "For all of us"
"Aid in this and you will, when we leave this city"
She shook her head. "How am I to trust your word?" She asked.
"The reason is simple" He stated as he stood on his two feet, preparing to move towards the Aedile's seal. "You stand absent choice"
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In the same room four hours later, the lights dimmed and the atmosphere a calm orange color, Ichigo stamped Findorr's parchment with the Aedile's seal as the pirate lurked around the deceased man's wife. "Hidden within villa's shrine to be guarded by the God's" Findorr laughed. "Is it a wonder the God's turned from your husband? As well as the fucking city!"
"Let us turn from past" Ichigo said "And move towards favoured bargain"
Findorr grinned. "And to much needed drink!" He turned quiet once Ichigo handed the parchment to him, the seal on it. He looked to Ichigo with a risen eyebrow and a scepticism. "What would you have for it?"
"I ask for nothing" Ichigo said "On the day we begin abandoning the city, the seal is yours"
"And until such fated day?" Findorr asked.
"An agreement of trade" Ichigo said. "Coin for food, from the shipments you have aboard your ship" Findorr laughed and shook his head slightly.
"You would entreat a God to shun his robes and present naked form"
"If one stood before me" Ichigo smirked. "But he does not and you do"
"My supplies are of finest quality, at least eighteen-thousand gold is what would be a fair trade"
"Absent the Aedile's seal?" Ichigo asked.
Findorr looked at the seal and looked back up at Ichigo with a strange look. Kirio looked to as did the rebels and two pirates that stood among them. "You are not the man one expects" He then turned to Kirio and grinned, stretching an arm around her waist. "Ten-thousand...if Aedile's wife is added to the bargain huh?" He offered.
"You mistake me for her husband" Ichigo said. "I do not deal in slaves"
Findorr gave a chuckle. "Nor would I I suppose...if I were tempted with such" He began, looking at Kirio rather lustfully, his eyes drifting to her breasts and then her pretty face. "Ripe cunt"
"I am married" Ichigo glared.
"When your wife is looking" Findorr laughed. Ichigo thanked the God's he didn't believe in that Rukia was not here, or the Pirate captain would have been thrown out the window or down the steps and then thrown through the thick wooden gate."Twelve-thousand" He said. "An hour before sunrise, outside the port"
"Beyond the city?" Kugo asked.
"It is fair brother" Findorr said. "You are out of your city and I am out from my boat. I would not be set upon as I enter the gates of this fine town" Findorr said.
Ichigo nodded. "Beyond city walls, am hour before sunrise"
Findorr grinned. "It is settled then?!" He asked. Ichigo nodded and he gave out a large burst of laughter. "Now may we have a fucking drink huh?!"
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As it was after a large victory, the rebels were in a high-mood with the pirates as they all crashed their cups together in a salute of their new alliance. As Findorr was embracing a topless woman very drunkenly, Ikkaku and Yumichika were doing a dare Grimmjow had given them by both kissing the neck of Keigo's sister Mizuho very sloppily,very wet. Mizuiro was talking to two older women, as per usual while hand-feeding them more and more wine. A stark contrast to what he usually did during a celebration, Grimmjow celebrated with a male, Ggio.
"What fucking piss has Findorr offered us?!" He slurred, barely being able to hold a sentence together as he and the dark-haired blacksmith wobbled around the courtyard cup in hand.
"A 'member a wine absent a name! I once drained six cups of it and then found myself in a heated and violent argument with an imaginary cat!" Ggio stated, his face as serious and solemn as Ichigo's when he planned battles, but it was shattered when he and the teal-haired rebel burst into a very forceful laughter, almost wetting themselves as their stomachs hurt, embracing each other brotherly.
As Yachiru watched on like a shadow, Grimmjow bellowed. "Then let us drain seven and finish argument before you strike from Seireiteian shores huh?!" He offered. Ggio laughed, agreeing and smacking his cup against Grimmjow's.
Yachiru watched Grimmjow drink his cup, her eyes fond and fool of wonder. She had no idea of the beast that lurked behind her, a shadow that was as dangerous as it was sleek and slithery. "Dangerous thing" A voice shot out, Yachiru gasped and turned around to see Soi-fon behind her. "Eyes upon man...not your own"
Yachiru gulped, Soi-fon looked...she seemed so innocent. "Apologies I meant no offence-" Her mouth was covered by a hand that Soi-fon owned.
"You want his cock, inside you?" She asked, her hand still over Yachiru's mouth as she was pushed against a pillar. "Speak"
"He saved my life" Yachiru confessed. "I desire only to thank him" She said, looking over fondly at the heroic and noble Grimmjow.
"Ebern you cock-eater! Come here you beast of a man!"
Soi-fon looked at her, ignoring the loud and obnoxious drunken laughs of Grimmjow who was a few metres away who didn't even see her nor Yachiru. "Come" She told Yachiru. "I would break these words" Before grabbing her wrist and tearing her away. As they walked away, they walked past a chair that laid Kenpachi with Unohana in his arms, head hidden in neck, her back in-between his legs. "I do not care for these pirates" Kenpachi told her as he watched the rumbustious brigands dancing drunkenly.
"Yet they are preferred to Seireiteians" Unohana muttered.
A naked Quilge walked up to them right before them and stood as bare as the day he was born..right in front of them. He lifted his drink in the air, a grin from ear-to-ear. "My cock is magic!" He grinned. "Blessed by fucking Vollstandig!"
As Unohana disdainfully looked away, Kenpachi smirked. "See it vanished from sight" Kenpachi told him. "Or I fear my woman here will do it for you, with or without your body" He grinned.
Quilge was unfazed and grinningly and drunkenly walked away as Kenpachi let out some laughs, Unohana rolling her eyes in his arms. As the party waged on, in the room, the file room, in the Aedile's old villa sat Kirio as her heart weighed heavy, tears as usual at her eyes. "You are a fool, to lay trust in a man stitched in lies and deceit"
"I'm no stranger to his kind" Ichigo said closing the door.
"I thought myself so as well" Kirio sighed. "Yet I replay every moment, every touch, every kiss and every smile my husband laid upon me, questioning his intent or his sincereness, wondering the truth behind them all...The God's punish me for being so blind" She began crying again. "Would that you let Findorr take me, to see their wrath complete!"
"I place no stock in you" He said."Nor any that would seek injury to crimes of those undeserving" Ichigo walked over to her, kneeling down and unshackling her. She looked to her wrists and looked up to him. "I have given command that you are free to move around the city" He said. "In turn, you will aid me in seeing that your people receive proper fulfilment" He told her. "Tell me if any fall to mistreatment"
Her eyes went to her wrists and she sighed in relief. "It surprises...how so small a weight weighs such heavy burden" She told him. Ichigo looked at her, nodding in agreement.
"A truth known to all who take up arms against Seireitei" Ichigo told her. "You shall sleep where you are"
"My people will turn from me if they know I sleep under your roof" She told Ichigo. "There is a stable, at edge of city. I would take shelter within it's walls"
"Sought only to provide comfort" Ichigo said. She stood up and walked passed Ichigo, exiting the room and as she was about to leave the villa, she stopped and turned to Ichigo, looking him directly in the eye. Ichigo expected an insult or a curse, but she smirked slightly.
"Findorr spoke the truth, at least upon one thing...you are not the man one expects" She said, then left.
Out in the courtyard, the party was still in full swing. Ikkaku and Grimmjow hugging, many people laughing, Kenpachi and Unohana still on the chair while Kugo and Riruka were no-where to be seen. Chad was wandering around, eyes shaky from the drink he had taken and he wobbled, bumping into a pirate. "Apologies" He muttered.
"Share drink and see them accepted" The pirate smiled.
"My cup is spoken for" Chad told him.
"I seek to not claim it as my own" The pirate said. "Merely...grace lips with it's nectar"
Chad noted a hidden innuendo. "You are...bold of words" He smiled.
"I have been too long at sea" The pirate grinned, unaware of Renji catching sight of their smiles and whispers. Renji walked closer, not to interrupt but to merely eavesdrop of sorts, he didn't want to stand a fool and make mistake of friendly smile. "Among...rough company" The pirate continued. "Whilst my favorite kind of company, they are not as...delicate as you seem"
"I do not favour crashing waves" Chad smiled, as he turned to leave, the pirate grabbed his arm, Chad seemed unamused and was about to order him to stop, but a jealous and defensive Renji quickly arrived, slapping the arm away.
"Remove fucking hand" Renji hissed.
"Apologies" The pirate said. "I did not know you were...mired in shit" The pirate spat, looking at Renji judging his looks, mocking the appearance of the tattooed man. Giving a small, short and mock laugh, Renji then quickly slammed his fist into the pirates jaw, knocking him to the floor, then spearing him across a table knocking Grimmjow's drink off, who had have a mind to join in. As they landed on the floor, the pirate threw Renji against a wall, who in turn head-butted him but then received another punch.
The rebels watched and laughed, Grimmjow throwing other peoples cups of wine at them in anger. A swift kick in the crotch from Renji had the pirate on his knees, Renji's hand was wrapped around his throat while his other hand continued to punch and punch the pirate, now his nose his broken and his arms were limp, not ready to fight back, if someone didn't stop it soon, it would end in death.
"Renji!" Ichigo bellowed. Renji looked up as if a kid caught smoking in school. "Fall from sight" He snapped quietly. Renji growled and with a final punch to the nose, he left. Pushing past rebels and walking passed Ichigo, who was apologizing to Findorr, he strode into his room with a jug of wine, pulling his arm far back and then throwing the jug at the wine, smashing violently on impact.
"Ichigo stands displeased with celebrations end!" Chad told him.
"I was not the one who caused offence"
"The pirate overstepped! Yet your response was-"
"As it fucking should be!" Renji roared at the large Karakuran. "The God's themselves would find cause to tremble if he lay a hand upon you" Renji spat. Chad rose an eyebrow and gave a chuckle.
"You'd battle a God for me?" He asked, eyebrow risen.
"I would slay all, who attempt to wrest you from my arms" Renji swore.
"Strike the God's and the pirates from your mind" He cupped Renji's face. "I would have them of no concern to the man...that holds my heart" Chad said. With that, he kissed the red-haired rebel.
The kiss was immediately getting hungrier and hungrier, rougher and filled with more passion or lust that they had ever felt before. Pressing their foreheads together, their hands drifted down to their crotches and quickly unwrapped the cloths that kept their bulging sexes apart. Renji felt Chad kiss his neck lustfully as they fell onto the small bed, tearing away at their armor, within seconds they were fully naked, Renji straddling him as they rubbed their rock-hard members together, grinding. Renji nipped at Sado's skin with his teeth as the dark-haired man pumped his shaft with his hand legs adjusted to keep Renji comfortable.
As Renji took his large girth in his mouth, Sado gripped the sheets with one-hand while his hands entangled with Renji's now free hair, no longer in his ponytail. As Chad's member was well-pleased, Chad lay on his side as Renji sat behind him, easing himself into the dark-haired rebels ass, easier than it used to be as they had done this a plethora of times. With one hand on Sado's thigh and the other gripping his chin as he kissed him passionately, Renji's thrusts became quicker and quicker, Chad moaning as his hand around his own cock pumping it as Renji kept hitting all the right spots, sweat falling from both their brows as he felt Renji's hot, sweating chest hit his back. He couldn't hold his climax in much longer and within minutes, Chad came, as did Renji.
In the streets of the city, Grimmjow was wobbling around trying to balance himself as his hands were placed against walls, trying to move without hurting himself. He found the small place that he and Soi-fon had claimed as his own and opened the door with two-hands, entering to see the woman herself standing there, with a new attire on.
A purple translucent dress, which hugged her curves slightly and showed off all her assets, cleavage and thighs as she walked to her lover, giving a slight twirl in front of him. "You left without words" Grimmjow murmured. "There was a fight...it was loud" He moaned, Soi-fon gave a sympathetic pout and kissed him.
"I leave to make shadow flesh" She informed.
"...'Wha?" Grimmjow asked. Soi-fon smirked and grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him into another room. He nipped at her assets making her laugh haughtily as they walked to another room. Grimmjow and the woman entered and he saw a form, a young one. She turned and he looked, it was Yachiru. She looked at him innocently, wearing a seductive white dress that was also slightly translucent, splitting in two near the belly to cover each breast. He could see the teen's rosy pink nipples and he gulped, she was only...sixteen, seventeen or something? Soi-fon hovered behind her, untying the knot that kept the dress together, making it fall for Grimmjow to see the girl in all her glory.
She felt little kisses at her neck as Grimmjow walked closer to her, blush rising to her cheeks. Soi-fon's hand squeezed her left buttock as her right hand slid in-between her thighs, rubbing her slightly. Biting her lip, she waiting for Grimmjow, who seemed conflicted. Yachiru...didn't seem comfortable at all, she seemed nervous. As he swept a lock of hair out of her eyes, Grimmjow sighed. "Gather your robes and leave us" He told Yachiru. The girl looked confused, but did as commanded and left the room. Soi-fon didn't seem hurt at all and watched nonchalantly as she left.
"She does not please?" She asked.
"She is but a child" Grimmjow answered. "And I would have a woman to tend to my needs"
With that and a smirk, Soi-fon took off her robes, the purple dress falling to the floor as she stood in front of Grimmjow in all her glory, more mature assets with a tuft of tame hair above her sex, small strings of golden thread around her hips and torso to make her seem as a rich Goddess, come to Earth to please a man worthy.
With that, she leapt at him and wrapped her legs around his waist kissing him feverishly.
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After they had finished, Grimmjow staggered out of the room into the narrow streets only to see a more modestly dressed Yachiru waiting for him. Grimmjow turned and saw her, sighing in annoyance, he attempted to walk away but she was not having it. "Apologies, I would have words"
"I would not"
"You have not given opportunity towards gratitude" She said. "I yet draw breath because of you" Yachiru told him.
"Your Dominus fell to an act of war"
"He fell to a hero, sent by the Gods" She replied. Grimmjow couldn't help but laugh, it was almost embarrassing to the girl, did she not know who he was? What he did and how he behaved? She should have, she saw her fair share of his antics when she literally stalked him.
"One that does not even recall your name" He replied.
"My name is Yachiru" She informed him.
"Yachiru" He said, making sure to remember it. "You fear you owe dead Yachiru." He said. Yachiru's heart filled with hope, but was shattered once he continued. "See it repaid" He cupped her chin. "By staying far from my presence, as well as men of my kind"
He left her standing there to go to the gate and finally make deal with these fucking pirates. As he arrived there, seeing Ichigo stand there donning a purple cloak over his armor alongside Kugo who now had a beige-coloured square parmula, Renji was there also donning his new armor Grimmjow had given him with the circular steel shield. As Grimmjow arrived, Ichigo was just asking where he was. "I am here, what's left of me"
Ichigo noticed Quilge murmuring softly and drunkenly, Grimmjow spitting out some imaginary spit and the rebels being light-headed. "Quilge!" Kugo urged. "Fall to task!"
"We are committed" Ichigo said quickly. Rukia stood beside him, a newly forged blade at her hip made by Ggio himself in replacement for her two ones which he had asked for, to use as a sample to look at when creating a sword that the rebels looked for. It had a unique gladius, with a golden hilt. "Chad, take position upon wall"
"I would stand with you" Chad told Renji.
"Go" The pineapple-haired rebel urged, his hair back in a ponytail. "I shall return shortly"
Ichigo turned to Ikkaku and Yumichika. "See the gate closed on my exit and do not see it raised short of my word alone" Ichigo said. As Kugo and Riruka broke silent words, Ichigo turned to his small brigade that will aid him in this trade. "If Findorr and his men prove short of honor, kill them where they stand" He told his men. "Raise the gate!"
In a sort of diamond shape, Ichigo and his three men walked out first. Ichigo at the front with Kugo and Renji at the sides, Grimmjow at the back. Rukia and the rest trailed behind as they walked down to the beach, the beach got clearer while the city got darker. As they marched about half-a-mile, the sight of at least thirty or so pirates on the beach became clear, Ichigo looked back and realized he had a similar number.
At a hill-top overlooking the boat was three people: Izuru, Rose and Arturo. "Pirates or brigands by the look"
"Why would they take landing outside Ichigo's walls?" Rose asked.
"To seek alliance" Izuru said, pointing to rebel numbers that walked down the path.
"Ichigo is a fool if he places trust in them" Rose muttered.
"They are thieves of equal nature" Izuru muttered. "If they gather food and nourishment, it will cease Praetor's plans of starving them out...a thing I shall not see come to pass" He said. He remembered Byakuya's orders to to not attack...but. "Arturo, gather your men to advance"
"Advance?" Arturo asked.
"Fall to fucking command" Izuru said through his teeth.
As Arturo did so, Rose looked to Izuru and reminded him."Byakuya gave strict orders to not advance-"
"Byakuya desires a wolf of battle, not a well-trained dog" Izuru said, remembering Byakuya telling Kaien how much he wanted a 'wolf' and not a 'pup' as he thought Izuru, well he would show him. "This night I shall honour him. With blood and death"
Down in the beach, the rebels and the pirates met up as the sun began to rise. Once they arrived, Ichigo set down the small crate that held the sum that was going to be traded for the pirates "Finest quality' food. Ichigo and the rebels looked distrustfully at the pirates as did Findorr and the pirates look at Ichigo and the rebels. "The price...as agreed upon" Ichigo said. Findorr gave him an odd look and Ichigo rolled his eyes. "Open it"
Kugo walked over, squatting and lifted the crates lid off quickly and getting back with the rebels, feeling unsafe outside the small line that they had. Findorr looked inside, bars of gold, silver, copper as well as small sacks of coins were in there as well. Findorr chuckled and said. "You stand a man of your word! A rairy in such times!"
"Rarer still...to greet my equal" Ichigo told him.
Findorr nodded. "Bring our brothers what they are owed" The pirate captain said. Two of the brigands appeared, throwing a single, large sack of food on the floor. Ichigo looked at Findorr with a glare.
"This is all?"
Findorr rolled his eyes. "Fuck the Gods, No!" He sighed. "The rest is aboard the ship, too heavy and large amount to be brought upon the land, It was a mere sample for your approval, now that agreement has been met I will sail it to port"
"That was not the agreement!" Kugo spat.
"Apologies-" A pirate said, It was the same pirate that Renji had gotten into a fight with.
"Fuck your apologies!" Renji spat, unsheathing his weapon as did everyone but the two leaders, Ichigo having to snap his head slightly to the left to avoid Kugo's when he swung the sword from his sheath.
"Hold ground!" Ichigo roared.
Findorr gave a sigh. "What are your thoughts?" He asked the orange-haired rebel. Ichigo looked at him, eyes judging the man and wondering his worth. With that, Ichigo gave answer.
"That I stand the fool, to trust a man absent honour" Ichigo said.
Findorr looked at him, unhurt by his words. "Then perhaps it is time to, forever part ways"
With that, a spear pierced a rebel.
"We are betrayed!"
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"Ikkaku, what do you see?" Unohana asked.
"Shit and piss, they are too far ahead in darkness-"
Soi-fon came running out, blabbering words in her native language to Neliel who began speaking back to her in the same language, both seemed very, very vexed and distressed. Unohana rose an eyebrow and Soi-fon saw this. "The Seireiteian, you made him fight, he's gone"
"Ryusei" Riruka remembered.
"We must sweep this city!" Ebern called.
"No" Unohana said. "It may be a trap or distraction to get us away from the gate" She said. "If so, they would escape when we leave it alone" She said. "I'll search for him and question fucking suspect"
"Where do you go?" Yumichika called.
"Do not tear eyes from purpose!" Unohana snapped.
She walked around the city, knowing exactly where to go. As she jogged through the streets and narrow pathways she finally reached her destination; Ggio's blacksmithing shop. Opening the wooden door, as Ggio was gathering his coin. "You take leave of the city? Without words of parting words"
"I have said them to all that matter" Ggio said. "When the dealings with the pirates are done, I will take leave of the city" Ggio told the...scary woman. "And buy passage far from your fucking presence"
"Did you also seek to buy passage for your friends as well?"
"What?" Ggio asked, when he turned, he was greeted with a strong strike to the face and then a kick to the floor. Unohana had her sword pointed to Ggio, demanding where his 'friend's were. "I do not know what you speak of!"
"I speak of Seireiteian's and your fucking treachery!" She hissed, swinging the sword down, Ggio rolled out of the way and quickly kicked her out of the way, swiftly standing and shoving her aside into the wall, the woman falling back and hitting her head of the wooden table, growling in response. Ggio quickly picked up a chain and hissed.
"You wish for blood?! Come then! And find greater challenge than that of a simple baker of fucking breads!" Ggio yelled. With a large punch and a shove, Ggio threw Unohana across the room nearby the water that heated up the swords, boiling hot and sizzling. Ggio came at Unohana with the chains in hand, wrapping them around his fist to punch her even harder. As he pulled his fist back, Unohana cursed and quickly leapt out of the way, Ggio's hand landed right into the boiling water and he yelled out, but the yell escalated further as Unohana grabbed the nearby blacksmith hammer and smacked him, sending him to the floor.
As Ggio crawled for Unohana's disarmed sword, Unohana took a breath and quickly leapt over, smacking his hand with the sword before smacking his face. "I have had my fill..." She hissed. "Of men such as you!" With that, she hit him again with the hammer...then again, then again and again...
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Ichigo had Findorr up by the throat, sword pointed at his face. "This is not my hand!" Findorr swore, to consolidate his words, a spear pierced a pirate also. Ichigo turned to look and Findorr smacked Ichigo's hand away, escaping his grasp. Ichigo looked up to see a large amount of Seireiteian's in Tetsudo formation, which was also known as tortoise or 'Shield' formation. Soldiers at the back hurling spears at them, the horn of the Republic blaring as they charged. Ichigo estimated at least one-hundred and fifty men or so there, maybe more. As a spear hit Kugo's shield, a spear went to Ichigo, who cut it in half before it even reached him.
"Seireiteians!" Ichigo roared to the rebels and pirates, with that Ichigo sprinted, grabbing a spear pierced into the ground and twirling while running to pick it up, gladius in one hand, spear in the other. As the Seireiteian's sprinted, Izuru and Rose simply marched with their helmets on, red plumed crests atop a silver helm.
Ichigo charged as fast as he could, seeing a small boulder with the corner of his eye he planted a foot on it and leapt into the air, spinning whilst doing so and once he did a full three-hundred and sixty turn, his sword had slashed a throat. Kugo had leapt into the air, shooting his two feet out and kicking a soldier.
As the fighting waged on, Rukia had quickly jumped and rolled across a soldiers shield, appearing behind his flank and swinging her blade upwards, hitting right under his chin. Izuru was proving his worth and determination, having already defeated four rebels and was now on his fifth- sixth now. Rose was doing impressively as well, as good as Izuru imagined him to be. Ichigo had done double that of Izuru, kicking a soldier down quickly. Ichigo looked up and saw Izuru, his eyes widening.
"The fuck?!" Ichigo muttered. "Why doesn't anyone I kill die?!" With that, he saw Rose kill another rebel. "What the- Fuck!"
In his confusion, Ichigo was pushed by a soldier, when he did his heel hit a rock and he fell onto his back. Ichigo cursed as the soldier pulled his arm back, but saw a hooked axe curl around the soldiers neck and pull him down, it was Findorr, who slammed the axe into the man's gut. Ichigo looked to him, giving a slight nod of approval.
"Ichigo, more come!" Rukia called.
"Arturo" Rose smiled in relief. Izuru grinned also as he caught sight of the soldier marching with the many forces.
Ichigo looked up, hearing another horn blaring. His eye's widened as...at least...now way, fuck! At least one thousand men were descending on him, the rebels and the pirates. They were definitely outnumbered...but if he retreated, they would invade the city...fuck. Ichigo sighed, there was only one thing for it.
Ichigo pressed on. Engaging at least another four men in a fight, Izuru caught sight of this and finally found his man. "Ichigo!" He spat to himself, while gripping a rebel by the neck with a sword at the man's throat, he pulled the blade, freeing himself of the burden to move closer to the rebel commander-in-chief. As Ichigo seemingly attempted to take on the thousands of Seireiteians that were at least half-a-mile away, Findorr found a little wooden stick with wrappings around it, near the fire.
Grabbing the wooden club, Findorr put it into the fire, lighting the cloth on fire before twirling around like an idiot and then throwing the wooden torch high, way high into the air. Ichigo looked at him as if he was an idiot, but his eyes widened as the pirate captain grinned and looked to his ships hopefully.
He couldn't see much, but he saw a small light being lit.
On the ships, large catapult-like slingshots were being readied, boulder-sized objects filled with pitch oil being set on the slingshots, a weak container it must have been. With a small, probably wet with flammable liquid, cloth on top, the pirates set fire onto the oil-filled objects and shot.
Ichigo watched as it soared in the air towards the thousands of men that was led by the man seemingly named 'Arturo' The fiery bolt was then followed by a dozen more and Ichigo could only watch in wonder as the Seireiteian Arturo quickly yelled. "Testudo!" With that, the soldiers entered the formation but it wasn't enough, the oil-filled bolts landed and created a large fire within the Seireiteian formation, burning dozens, then the rest landed, wiping out and incapacitating hundreds of their enemies.
Ichigo was so relieved, impressed and shocked by the pirates display that he couldn't help but let out a loud laugh, somewhat a chuckle which he knew himself he rarely did nowadays. Rukia's eyes widened as they stood and watched as they were winning the fight easily, Grimmjow also laughing as the pirate captain himself turned to Ichigo and Renji, grinning and laughing.
"Did I not fucking warn you of my reach?!" He guffawed. Ichigo gave a grin to the pirate captain, he was boisterous, grinning, annoying and a pest, but fuck it Ichigo thought, the guy was hilarious. "Ha! Yeah!~" Findorr cried, bringing his arms up.
One of the bolts hit Arturo exactly on the head, breaking on impact and burning him as well as his personal guards alive, rather gruesome but Ichigo was too busy watching Findorr go completely bonkers with happiness to care.
The legionnaires were retreating swiftly, Izuru was enraged. If Byakuya found out he disobeyed his orders and lost hundreds of men...it would be frightening. "Stand your ground! Stand your fucking ground!"
Izuru was swiftly hit in the side of his waist by a spear, the edges of the poled weapon cutting deeply into his side as he looked up, he did not know the man, but the rebels called him 'Quilge'. Izuru gasped out breathlessly as pain overwhelmed his side and to the right, Rose cursed and charged towards the young Tribune in attempt to save him. As Quilge took the spear out, he thrusted it again, but proved to drunken and that allowed Izuru to push the spear out of the way despite injury and shove his sword, the sword of the 'Word and will' of Byakuya Kuchiki, right into Quilge's chest.
Rose quickly wrapped an arm around Izuru. "We must go!"
"We cannot!"
"I will not see you fall!" Rose hissed.
Ichigo's eyes caught sight of Quilge's injury and his eyes widened. He heard Kenpachi curse out, yelling the Zealot leader's name in a fit of fury as he then began a violent rampage, cutting anyone he could. Ichigo bit his lip and held his pain in, taking in the happiness of all the Seireiteian's fleeing and the thought of a new, powerful ally.
Findorr ran up to him. "What stands your thoughts now King Ichigo?" He asked.
Ichigo grinned. "Take coin and see your ships to port" He said, patting Findorr on the shoulder. On the now peaceful and now robbed of Seireiteian battlefield, Kenpachi stood before the dead Quilge, his face annoyed. He held a liking to him. Looking at the sword, he pulled the blade out and read the inscription. 'Leg. IV' Kenpachi looked...legion four eh?
As the rebels returned to their city, the dead were set down to be identified by their friends or family. Ichigo wrapped an arm around Rukia, kissing her forehead. "I thought that would be the end of us" He said worriedly, out of breath.
Rukia nodded, placing her head into his chest and breathing heavily "What a battle" She murmured breathlessly. Renji and Chad embraced, saying similar words as did Kugo and Riruka. "It's astounding the so many numbers were lead by a boy, who knew of our position?"
"Answer lay among the dead" A voice said. Ichigo looked up and saw a blood-covered Unohana. "And those we mistakenly name friend" She hissed. With that, Ichigo alongside Grimmjow, Kenpachi and Kugo followed her to the blackmsith shop, revealing a very deformed Ggio, his once boyish face now...hard to describe. Grimmjow knelt beside his friend, looking on in sorrow as he wiped a single strand from the destructed face. "He came at me" She lied. "When confronted of question of where he left to and if he aided Ryusei and the other escaped Seireiteians"
"You had no choice" Kenpachi nodded.
Ichigo wasn't it, he wasn't convinced. "Why did he lay hand in taking the city, only to risk life in reckless attempt?"
Grimmjow sighed. "He but sought to form base clay into something of worth"
"There stands matters of more pressing concerns" Renji said, no sympathy whatsoever, sadly though Ichigo agreed with him. Ichigo turned to Renji and said.
"Let us sweep city in search of Ryusei and the others" He said. "I would not have Seireiteian's begin plotting to seek greater harm to us" Ichigo stated, before leaving aside Renji.
As they searched, a robed and hooded figure walked around near the stable, walking into it and kneeling. The figure pushed away small bundles of hay and then revealed something: A hidden hatch. Opening it the lock and pulling, the figure lifted the hatch, revealing numbers of Seireiteian captives. From under the hatch, Ryusei stood upon and was handed a loaf of bread. "Gratitude" He smiled. As noises of yelling and shouting come closer, the form quickly gasped and closed the hatch.
Kirio Hikifune would take care of her people, even if it meant her own life.
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Wow, that was long.