Bleached Vampire
Chapter 38: New Problems
Yokai Academy
I was a normal day for most days usually were at the academy, as normal as things usually went of course. There were the usually normal problems with some of the students then there were the hollows that came in now and then as well. Thankfully they were only low level ones they hadn't seen any Gillians or Adjuchas since that last time. But they weren't totally complaining since things were relatively quiet for the moment.
The group was currently enjoying the day, classes had been let out and they had finished their after school groups so they planned on meeting up with everyone. Currently Tsukune was walking with Moka and he was enjoying it. Before whenever they were alone something would happen or the other girls would show up, which would have a fight break out as well. Now though things were different since they became officially a couple. He still couldn't believe it but it had happened as he looked at the cute pink haired girl next to him.
It was hard to believe that back before high school when he went to a normal human school he never had a girl look at him twice. Then as soon as he got here he had yokai women clinging to him, but in the end he got the one that mattered most in his heart. Well two if he was honest, having a girl friend who had literally two sides to her. It was going to be a unique relationship to say the least, Moka said that she was planning on having her other side show up now and again so she could have her own time with him.
Currently they were holding hands as they went to meet up with the others. Both were nervous at first but they were slowly getting used to being affectionate with each other. Moka perked up as she waved and called out to the two people coming towards them. Tsukune looked away from her to see Orihime and Ichigo walking towards them. Both were walking very close to each other but it seemed that those two had the same issue with public displays of affection as well.
"Orihime, Ichigo!" Moka called out. "How are things?"
"Things are very good Akashiya-san," Orihime said as she smiled back at the girl. The two girls started to talk together as the boys were left to themselves.
"They seem to be good friends now," Tsukune grinned at the sight of them. In a way they were very much alike. Both were just so happy and cheerful girls that it was hard not to smile seeing them together like this.
"Yeah they do seem like that huh," Ichigo admitted. "Oh well it's nice that they get along." Ichigo wasn't sure how many friends Orihime actually had. He knew about Tatsuki of course and there were some girls she had seen them hang out with but other than that he really wasn't sure. Not that he was one to say he had a lot of friends but the group that he considered friends had grown some more since coming here too.
Suddenly a crash right next to them happened as they all looked to see a very large panda destroying a small sapling. The four of them were shocked to say the least by the animal that roared out at them. Ichigo cursed as he went looking for his combat pass, Orihime threw up her hands as a shield came out of her hairpins in front of them stopping the panda from coming close as it batted against the shield.
"That's enough," a new voice said as the panda seemed to stop as a young student walked out from the bushes. "Sorry about that but I wanted to make an impression I wouldn't have let him harm anyone."
"Who the hell are you?" Ichigo demanded not liking this kid one bit from this stunt.
"I am Wong Fong Fong," the student said to them. From his looks and his name he looked to be from China and not Japan, which made sense from the Chinese style shirt he was wearing and the long single braid of hair.
"What do you want?" Tsukune asked the strange boy.
"Well I came to this school to look for someone special but it looks like I found two," Suddenly he got into a silly pose as he smiled at them all. "Please join with me for eternal employment, I promise to treat you both very well!"
"...What..." Ichigo and Tsukune asked in unison not sure how they liked how that sounded. They weren't sure if the boy knew this but the term to 'eternal employment' in Japanese had a meaning of marriage as well. At least they were sure hoping that it was just a cultural mistake.
"Please I want you both to come home with me to China," Wong asked them happily. "I'm sure you both will enjoy it."
"Noooo!" Moka grabbed Tsukune's hand and ran off with him. "You're not going anywhere with that boy!"
"Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime mirrored her vampire friend taking her own boyfriend from this. She has just finally gotten together with Ichigo and she didn't want to give him away. Although she doubted that Ichigo was that type she was acting on pure instinct at the moment.
"Wait what?" Wong Fong Fong blinked in confusion, "was it something I said?"
-Club Room-
"Seriously, the both of you?" Kurumu was grinning largely trying not to laugh but she was so close. She was currently sitting next to Uryu of course like she normally did when the final four came rushing in. They had explained what had happened on their way to the room.
"It's not funny!" Moka cried out a little disturbed by it all. "Tsukune wouldn't go with some pretty boy, right?" She turned to look at him for confirmation.
"Of course!" Tsukune told her honestly.
"You never know," Yukari spoke up as she was reading a manga although this was one she had recently picked up a Yoai book about two male students she was also blushing a little while reading it. "You know that this kind of love is getting more and more popular."
"Ha!" Renji barked out a laugh at it all. "This is too good, I can't wait to tell everyone back in Soul Society that Ichigo of all guys now has a little admirer."
"You do that and I'll kill you ten times over!" Ichigo shouted at him.
"Like to see you try," Renji smirked. "Hey Rukia what do you think?"
"It would explain a few things," Rukia make a face like she was thinking on a few things. Of course she was just messing with Ichigo the look of embarrassment he had on his face was just too perfect.
"The hell is that supposed to mean?" Ichigo demanded from her.
Rukia tried not to smirk, "Well it took you all this time to get with Orihime, I mean have you two even kissed yet? I mean honestly how much more are you going to make her wait, a girl doesn't like to be kept waiting." She cast a slight glance as Renji who at least had the decency to look abashed by the comment. "She's waited all this time for you and you still make her wait?"
"Kuchiki-san!" Orihime was getting embarrassed where this was going.
"We've been busy that's all," Ichigo wasn't sure how they got on this track but it felt like some of them were plotting against him. That's not to say that lately he hadn't been thinking on it he felt his cheeks heat up as his eyes locked on with Orihime's. They both quickly looked away he just had no experience with this kind of thing it was totally outside of his comfort zone.
"Well if they are going to China I can look after Moka and Orihime then," Gin suggested who quickly dodged an object being thrown at him from Ichigo. That had been close call he had felt it just graze his head. He would have to be a bit more careful with his jokes; ever since Ichigo and Orihime got together that boy had been pretty protective.
Gin had seen Ichigo glare away anyone that looked at Orihime the wrong way thankfully Ichigo was the type that most people were too afraid to go up to and challenge him for Orihime. After the whole Student Police had been beaten again and by the looks of things, disbanded, no one wanted to take on a pissed off Ichigo and company. It also helped that Ichigo had that natural scowl on his face.
"Did you say that this boy was named Wong?" Ruby asked as she had been thinking about something she remembered.
"Wong Fong Fong," Kokoa stated who was reading a book borrowed from Yukari. The young vampire's eyes were glued to it as her nose was bleeding slightly with a light blush on her cheeks. "He's a first year everyone is talking about, he's the son of some mafia family apparently."
"Mafia? You can't be serious." Tsukune asked her.
Ruby seemed to piece it together, "Then he must be from the Wong Family from China after all. You see in China there is a powerful yokai mafia group named Wong."
"There's a yokai Mofia?" Renji asked surprised by that.
"A few actually but it's the Wong's that seem to be in control of the majority of China," Ruby explained. Ever since gaining a job at the school she had been given a lot of material to study up on. Since the school had yokai from all over she had to know about the world. There was a lot more than she had learned back in her old home. She also read up on some of the more troubling things such as yokai criminal groups that could be trouble.
"So why is he here then?" Uryu asked pushing up his classes. "If has to be for a reason why he singled out Tsukune and Ichigo," he paused as Kurumu put a hand on her mouth from trying not to laugh at a certain image in her mind. He had an idea what it was and couldn't help a smirk. "Besides the obvious one."
"It's simple really," a new voice brought everyone's attention to the door as they all saw Fong Fong there. He stood there looking confident as he stood in the open doorway. "It's because out of the entire school I believe them to be the two strongest people here."
He walked into the room, "I've been searching for the perfect person to bring back to China and with my luck I think I've found two. Tsukune-san, I've heard about all the battles you've had last year while also defeating the leader of the Student Police."
Everyone that knew the real story sweat dropped, the rumors were that Tsukune had fought all those battles while at first it had been Moka and the other girls. Although in the end he had started to fight and win his battles on his own power they never did tell the truth about any of it. Mainly because they were trying to keep Tsukune's secret, now it looked like someone wanted him because of all the stories.
Wong looked to Ichigo now, "You were a surprise, you came out of nowhere and in the short time you and your friends have been here you've not only fought the Student Police again but completely destroyed that organization. You even declared yourself the new ruler of the school."
"What! I just said that I was going to make sure crap like that didn't happen!" Ichigo didn't like his words being twisted around like that.
"Well at any rate it was impressive so I wanted to offer you both to come back to China and work for the Wong family. I can promise a large paying job, plus our home is really large and with your strengths my family can keep the peace."
"Hell no," Ichigo said bluntly not even liking the idea of joining a criminal organization.
"I'll have to decline as well," Tsukune told the young boy.
"But you'll both be great men if you join!" Wong was getting a little desperate, there were high hopes that he could find someone strong to help the family. "We can provide you both and your families with everything. As the two strongest students at the school I'll offer you both anything."
"Okay how come they're the two strongest?" Renji spoke up getting irritated that he was overlooked. Okay he would admit that Ichigo was stronger than him, at least for the moment, but he was a lieutenant in the Gotei 13. He busted his ass to get where he was and he wasn't going to be overlooked like all the years (which were a lot) where nothing. "I'm just as good as Ichigo."
"What are you saying?" Rukia glared at him. "Do you honestly want to join the mafia?"
"No I just don't like being overlooked."
Wong looked at Renji as he scratched the back of his head. "Oh sorry I was going to make an offer but I couldn't find which yakuza organization you were working for. It's very bad manners to just try and take someone from another organization at least not without meeting your boss and making an offer."
"Again with this yakuza crap," Renji muttered darkly, ever since Yukari had called him that people kept saying things like that behind his back. So what if he had a lot of tattoos? They were a fashion statement that he kept added them over time.
"I don't think Rukia's brother will like you trying to steal away his employee but maybe if you make an offer Byakuya might do it," Ichigo grinned getting back at Renji for earlier.
"Rukia's brother...ah!" Wong looked to Rukia and smiled. "I didn't know there was another child of a yakuza group here. Is he here to be your bodyguard?"
"What!" Rukia glared daggers at Ichigo as the boy was grinning. To think that her brother was thought be a simple gangster? "My brother is head of the Kuchiki family not some gang!"
"Oh so it's a Japanese mafia family then, my apologies," Wong bowed slightly.
"Wait what? I didn't say-"
"Although I never heard of the Kuchiki family but I'm not familiar with all of the Japanese mafia groups. But it's so nice to know that I'm not the only one here," Wong quickly grabbed her hands with tears in his eyes. "There is so much I bet we can talk about, only people like us know how hard it is to be part of a family like ours. There is so much expected and so much trouble to go through."
"W-well that is true but-"
"And your brother is the head? He must be a great man."
"That's true but-"
"Maybe we can work out strong ties between our families, we've been looking for allies in Japan for a couple of years it would please my parents if I could make contact with a good group. And if Renji is part of your family organization then I bet it's a very good and strong one."
"It is but..well..." Rukia really wasn't sure what to say now. The boy looked so happy and the way he was saying it, she couldn't really disagree with anything he was saying but her family wasn't a criminal organization but a noble house.
"Maybe we can talk later and maybe you can introduce me so I can talk about gaining employment for your bodyguard," Wong turned to Ichigo and Tsukune. "But I have to insist that you two join, what will it take?"
"Look we're not interested get the hint," Ichigo although enjoying the show with Rukia and Renji was now getting annoyed again. There was no way in hell he would get dragged into a mafia family for all kinds of reasons.
"Then you leave me no choice!" Wong pulled out dozens of old style Chinese coins from his sleeve as a magical energy glowed they reformed together to create what looked like a sword. "I'll fight you both and if I win then you both will have to join my family."
"What? Don't go saying things like that on your own!" Tsukune didn't agree to any of this.
"That's a summoning technique!" Yukari had heard of this magic before but had never seen it done until now.
"You're right," Wong said as he concentrated on the magical energies. A third eye started to open on his forehead. "My power allows me to summon friendly ayashi to my side."
Yukai and Ruby both knew about summon creatures called ayashi, they were animal type monsters, sometimes even demons that had long ago been harnessed for magic users to be used in combat.
"Unfortunately...I can't predict which summons I'll get," Wong stated a little worried as the paper charm he placed on the end of the sword started to glow. He really wished he was better at summoning but he hoped that a powerful one would show up. He gathered the energy like he had been trained to feeling it run through his body and sending it through the coins and into the paper at the end. He could summon on a hundred different ayashi for help but every time he reached out to them, he couldn't 'see' them well enough in his mind.
It was like trying to pick out a blurred picture among a hundred and they were all moving, he reached out with his third eye into the other realm and grasped the first one that he felt was a good match. He pulled into this area from the other side and he was pleased with the result as a large winged serpent was now filling up the entire room. It was so large that it was lucky that the room could even contain it.
"Now let's fight!" Wong said.
The next moment was pure chaos in the room as the large serpent lashed out at Tsukune and Ichigo. Everyone either made a move to get out of the way as desks, chairs and other things were thrown around the room. Uryu grabbed Kurumu as he threw them to the ground as a chair sailed over their heads. Chad turned on the power for his defensive arm and turned it into the shield mode in order to protect himself.
Rukia and Renji jumped out of the way of the fight from their years of combat experience as both started to try and find their soul candy dispensers. Ichigo and Tsukune who were the targets both of them quickly pushed their girlfriends out of the way as the snake tried to strike at them.
There was a large crash, nearly like an explosion as Ichigo and Tsukune were forced out of the building through the huge hole in the wall of their club room. Both young teens were used to getting hurt by this point plus they were tougher than they appeared as they landed on the ground. Ichigo rolled through instinct trying to find his combat pass but he had kept it in the green jacket front pocket.
Shoving his hand into it he couldn't feel the small device anymore, looking around he saw it on the ground where he had landed. He mentally cursed as he figured out when he had rolled it had to have fallen out. Without that or Kon he wouldn't be able to get into his shinigami form. Tsukune managed to push himself up having taken a bit more of the fall.
Both boys saw Fong Fong now riding the serpent beast as it flew at them.
"Damn it, run!" Ichigo grabbed Tsukune by his sleeve and hauled the boy up. With luck they could keep running just long enough for the others to get here to back them up, with luck someone would see and pick up his combat pass. Failing that he was trying to figure out how to get to Kon in the dorms but that would require to maybe split up and if he did that. The boy might either go after Tsukune and Ichigo didn't like the fact of abandoning anyone, or Wong would go after himself which would lead to a lot of problems.
"Where are we running to?" Tsukune asked.
"Who cares as long as it's away for now," Ichigo was thankful that he was in good shape because it was taking all his speed to keep ahead of that creature chasing them.
-Academy Woods-
A black gate opened up in the middle of the woods as dozens of hollows came out trailing behind them was the female Arrancar that was leading them. Septima knew that not only her position as one of the heads of the new rulers of the Hollow Kingdom was in jeopardy but her own life. She couldn't come back to face their lord empty handed or her life would be forfeit.
She wasn't taking any chance she would attack the school in force and drag someone back, she wouldn't try to fight if she could. She would get this over with quickly if possible since she didn't want to drag things out.
"I wish we could get closer to that damn school," she cursed to herself. The portals into this realm weren't like the ones that they could take into the human world. It was more like when hollows got into Soul Society the closer you get to the center of power the more difficult and impossible it was to break in. That's why hollows would only get in on the edges of Soul Society, this place had to have the same protections but they weren't as good. The openings kept moving and shifting but she didn't really care about that kind of stuff. She had a mission and she would complete it given her life was on the line.
"Alright we move on the school, grab as many as you can and no snacking." She told them with full authority. "I want as many to be brought back as possible so if I find out that any of you took some for yourselves I'll deal with you all personally. Now go!" She thrust out her hand as the small army of hollows at her command rushed forward.
She would have preferred to get some stronger hollows but this was all she had at the moment. It didn't matter she was here and she was heading towards the school in full force.
What no one knew was that she was heading for a surprise as another battle was already starting up and they were heading right for it.
Next up Chapter 39: Collision Course