Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring you is a new chapter for "A Reaper's Promise", thank you guys for checking out the story and letting me know what you all thought of the previous chapter.
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Last Day of Summer
With Erza and Co.
8/1/2XXX
'Seems everyone is coming along nicely.' Yoruichi noted as he has been making sure that their training sessions have been going smoothly. He has been training Erza the most since she is one of the groups strongest fighters compare to Ichigo and the rest of the group. Since she was able to hear the voice of her Zanpakuto, Yoruichi has told her to continue training under her Zanpakuto Spirit since the spirit would be able to teach her important tips on her swords abilities.
Yoruichi also made notes to the others and most importantly on Yang.
Yang has been showing tremendous progression with her training and the biggest trait that Yoruichi saw was that the more angry or injured she becomes, Yang's powers increase at a slow but steady pace for a girl of her age and size.
Her sister Ruby is showing great progression on her speed, almost making the cat to think that she might need some training to become beyond fast. The martial artiest are blowing their expectations that Yoruichi originally wanted and they will be of great help to Ichigo getting Rukia back.
'Here we go.' Chad gathers some Spiritual Pressure into his right arm and with a simple punch, Chad unleashed a projectile attack at the wall and unknowingly made a large hole in the wall.
"Way the good Chad!" Orihime raises the large Mexican's arm in the air, almost making look like it was Victory or something but...
"You idiots!" Yoruichi shouted at the top of his lungs, "Look at what you did!" The group took a peek outside as they see a group of people outside. "Quick, we need to leave before they find out!" He rushes the teens to get the heck out of the building while also getting Erza out of her state of training.
"What's going on?" Erza asks the black cat while they were catching up to their friends.
"Your big friend Chad blasted a wall down by accident and we have to leave before the authorities arrive and arrest you or something of the matter!"
"Wait you didn't get a permit!?" That was the million dollar question that the group had to question the black cat.
Urahara's Shop
"And that does that." Urahara stops and sheaths his Zanpakuto back into its sheath. "And that was your final lesson."
"Right." Is all Ichigo could say tiredly as he falls on his back after some intense training with Urahara. It has been awhile since Ichigo learned the true name of his Zanpakuto, Zangetsu. Ichigo has also been trying to not hear a different voice besides the Spirit of his Zanpakuto. It for some reason was a lot more dark and evil lurking inside of him but he doesn't know why.
Urahara also sense this dark aura that is in Ichigo and is trying to figure out how to suppress it for the time being with Ichigo and his friends going to the Soul Society. He knows it must be from his early interactions with Sirzechs Lucifer and Rias Gremory when he was a mere child and it unknowingly must have surfaced when they encountered the Menos Grande in the main park of the town.
'Gonna have to ask Rias on a particular item for Ichigo's case.' He can see part of his eyes changing to red and the tattoos on his forehead and its third eye appears similar to a red gem. 'It's only going to get worse as time goes on.' He worries that this dark presence in him will take over his mind.
Once the tattoo eventually disappears, he would then had Tessai pickup the teen and put him onto his shoulders so that the teen could get some rest and head home for the day.
'The Last day of Summer...' Urahara puts his hands in his pockets and wonders what will be the next step for Ichigo and his friends, 'This will also be the last day of their innocence as they will have blood on their hands from their victories or defeat. The Gotei 13 isn't going to take this likely with Ryoka's interfering with their own business.
Kuoh High School, Noon
O.R.C
"Hey Buchou." The crimson haired heiress turns her attention to her friend Gray, "Here's what we got so far on Karakura Town." He hands her a couple of files, "Besides the 'Monster Slaying' that one of your boyfriends friends has been doing, there have been a High Spiritual presence in the town but it's not all from the monsters."
She gives a curious expression to what Gray might say, "What do you mean?" She questions the Ice-Make Devil.
"The Group," He uses the pictures that Rias gave to her brother for the 'KingsGlaive' Initiative that the Devils have been working on, "all of them have been showing a tremendous growth besides your boyfriend."
"Ichigo isn't my boyfriend Gray." She gives off a annoyed expression at Gray, "Ichigo's my childhood friend and I haven't seen him in almost 10 years, to which you should now."
"Yes I know but hell I might as well just say he's your boyfriend." A tick mark appears on her forehead, "Anyways, someone is teaching them from what I believe is their powers. I made sure that my familiar isn't seen or felt by them and all I was given was some picture of this cat." He shows her a picture of a black cat with golden eyes.
"A cat?" She raises an eyebrow.
"The cat for some reason has a very high Spiritual Presence and so far none come up to mind."
"Did you try Nekos?"
"No. She or He isn't a Nekomata."
'That's odd...' Rias cups her chin and begins to think on who might this cat person be and why is he/she around Ichigo's friend, "For now, have your Familiar come back. We don't want that power Jack Frost to melt away." Gray nods his head and takes a bow as he was about to leave until Rias thought of another matter, "Also, did you find out about Tamamo-no-Mae?"
"Nothing yet." Gray answers her, "I'm still wondering why your brother wanted to know the location of the Fox Spirit."
Rias could only shrug as she has no idea what her brother might want with the legendary Fox Spirit, "While I may not know as to why but my guest it must be a deal with the Kyoto Princess, Yasaka."
"Wonder what your brother is up to."
"Only time will tell." Is all Rias could say as Gray takes his leave from the O.R.C, leaving Rias to think on what her brother might be thinking on terms with the Fox Spirit, 'Just what's going on?' Rias wonders as to why her brother is looking for the Fox spirit.
River Stream, 7:00 P.M.
'To think we've been training all summer...' Ichigo says to himself as he looks at the sun now finally setting, the sky turning orange with a bits of yellow. 'One step closer to saving Rukia.' He looks at his younger siblings and his parents all gathered and watching some of the fireworks that are popping in the air, 'At least my parents and sisters don't know what my friends and I are about to do.' Ichigo would then take a look at his hands, all bruised and the calluses on both hands, 'I will not fall to them. My sisters need me to protect them and Erza...'
"Hey Ichigo." He shakes his head and turn his attention to Erza, "Come on, we're about to get something to eat."
"Oh right." He would then get up from where he was sitting and joins his long time friend but while Ichigo was on his way to his friend, Masaki on the other hand had a grim look on her face.
Isshin looks at his wife and wonders what is going through her mind, "You okay?" He asks her worryingly.
"Seems Ichigo's fate is tied to ours..."
"..."
"You know all those deeds you have done are now coming full circle and Ichigo is going through what you've been through."
"In all honestly, I didn't think Ichigo will be this fully aware of my powers." Isshin sighs as he looks at his daughters having some fun, "A child of fate."
"We know he's more than that honey."
"A child of fate that has the powers of a Quincy, a Soul Reaper, a Hollow, the dark presence of a Devil and more."
"Those powers of his will be vital when he comes back." Isshin takes his wife hands and tightens his grip.
"For now, we will let Urahara and Yoruichi train him. If his inner Devil does appear; I'm gonna send word to Sirzechs to help him without Ichigo knowing that I know. As to his magecraft, Aoko is bound to appear and train him along with Erza."
"Let's go home." Masaki then goes to her daughters, making Isshin have to think on a possible move to help his eldest son and his adopted daughter.
7 days later, Kurosaki Clinic/Home,
1:00 A.M.
7 days has passed by for Ichigo and his friends. After spending some time with his family at the river stream 7 days ago, Ichigo right now is waiting patiently for Urahara's message to come by.
'It's almost time.' Ichigo opens the window by his bed and waits patiently for Urahara's message to come by.
7 days from now at exactly 1 A.M., leave your window open.
Those were the words that Urahara told before Ichigo would head out to join his family for some fun.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this..." He says with a somewhat annoyed expression on his face, "At least there's a nice breeze tonight." He mutters to himself as he hears the wind, no accidents or any noise throughout the town, that is until Ichigo saw a light coming his way, "I guess-" What appears to be a water ballon flies by his face and pops on his closet, "The hell?!" He yells quietly as he doesn't want to awake his sisters from their sleep nor his parents.
Soon the blood that splattered onto his closet started to form a message that Urahara told him.
Urgent! Meet us by the Urarhara's Shop now!
"Who the hell contact someone like that!? I mean seriously it looks like some crime scene and the blood is written out from the victim's own blood and it better now stain my wall!" He yells out and felt the urge to strangle Urahara for leaving this kind of message for him. "Hm?" He looks again as the blood is starting to form more of the letter, "P.S."
P.S.: If you think this is the victims own blood from some crime show cliche, you seriously don't have a sense of humor.
"I'm going to kill!" Ichigo throws his own pillow at the closet before he would then takes his leave from the Kurosaki Clinic. Putting on his hoodie, Ichigo was about to take a step but he heard a familiar voice.
"GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD MMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGG IIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOO!" He hears his own father's voice as he was about to body slam the teen but Ichigo took a step back as his father fall flat on his face and leaving a giant hole on the ground from the impact. "Way to dodge your own father's attack my son." He says slowly as he slowly picks himself up, drawing blood on his forehead.
"Is this how you say goodbye?!" Ichigo says annoyingly.
"Not yet my boy." As Isshin picks himself up, he shows his son what appears to be a charm, "Take this with you."
"This? What am I suppose to use this old charm for?"
"Watch it. It was your mother originally when gave me that charm years ago."
"I can't just take it!"
"Who says it was permanent?! You have to give that back when you come back from this trip you told your mother and I a couple of days ago." Once Isshin cleans himself up and putting on a bandage in the form of an 'X' Isshin would continue on, "That charm has always been lucky for your mother and she wanted to give you that since it could have the same effect as I did when we were younger Ichigo."
"Fine. I'll take it." Ichigo then puts the charm in his pocket, "Hopefully I'll be back in a couple of days. Make sure nothing happens to Erza or the girls." With that said, Ichigo then takes his walk to Urahara's shop, leaving his family behind.
'Don't worry about the girls Ichigo. Yuzu and Karin have been influenced by you and the others and as for Erza...'
As Ichigo continues on with his walk, Ichigo is seeing flashbacks of his time with the beansprout he calls Rukia from his earlier trainings with her to wanting to know on Erza's mother being killed to the day that Rukia told him to not even save her. Couple of minutes later, Ichigo arrived at his 'mentors' shop and didn't expect to see this.
"Guys?" He was baffled to see his group of friends all there waiting for him.
"Welcome to the club Ichigo!" Urahara greets the orange haired teen in a tone Ichigo finds creepy.
"What are you all doing here?" He asks his friends.
"Rukia saved my life before. I want to return the favor." Chad said simply to his best friend.
"None of us want our own friend to be killed Ichigo." Ruby spoke up, "We want to help out."
"Yang?" He sees his blonde haired friend with a grin on her face.
"If it wasn't for Rukia helping us out when some giant squid monster appeared, none of us would have been here." She shows Ichigo her own power that she found out as well as did Ruby, "While Rukia doesn't know that we have these by our side, we want to use these powers to save her."
"She is right Ichigo." He turns his attention to Tifa.
"Tifa?"
"All of us want to help." He then turns his head again to hear his best friend Erza approaching him, "Remember that we both awaken our powers because Rukia trusted us to save our sisters from that Hollow."
"Erza..."
"She help trained us to be the protector this time Ichigo. None of us again don't want our friend to die."
"Even I'm coming."
"Uryu?!" Ichigo couldn't believe that the Last Quincy, Uryu Ishida, is joining them.
"While you played a part of saving the town from those Hollows, Rukia played a part as well and I plan on paying my debts."
"What about you Hime?" He asks the auburn haired teen, "Why are you joining us?"
"Because it's simple really." Ichigo looks around for the voice and has a giant question mark forming on top of his head, "Down here." He looks down at a black cat by his feet. "She will be a vital part in your rescue mission."
"A TALKING CAT!?"
"Should had seen that coming..." They all forgot that Ichigo hasn't seen Yoruichi since he has been training with Urahara instead.
"You should have recognized the increase of Spiritual Powers in your friends kid. There have been so many hints and it would appear that you might need training on your Spiritual Awareness." Yoruichi stated to Ichigo, "While you have been recuperating and training to regain your Soul Reaper powers, I have been training them in their own unique ways. Instead of asking stupid questions, meaningless questions, you ought to be thanking them.
"A FREAKING CAT JUST SPOKE TO ME!"
"Alright alright." Urahara claps his hands, making them stop in their chat, "Come into the store and we'll discuss everything inside." Soon everyone goes inside the store and Urahara starts telling Ichigo as to why his friends have been training under a cat while Yoruichi tells the group of Ichigo's case of training.
Soon enough, Urahara shows the group Ichigo's training center and can see the amount of destruction that Ichigo has been up too and they couldn't believe that this is the training scene that Ichigo was a part of. Urahara then shows the group the portal that they are going to enter, the Reishi Henkan-Ki.
"You all are going to have to run for your lives once you are in the Reishi Henkan-Ki."
"Why's that?" Yui asks the shopkeeper.
"An excellent question Miss Rakkuza." He says as he clears his throat, "There is a thing we call the Dangai, a spiritual train in laments terms, is always on the move, cleaning the 'highway' in the forms of Spiritual particles. Every once in awhile, the train stops and that is going to be your way of entering the Soul Society."
"What if that catches us?" Ruby asks the shopkeeper.
"10 points-" Ichigo tosses a rock at the shopkeeper, "Party pooper. Any way, If that Dangai does catch you, you will be trapped in that Dangai for all of your life." The group is taken back when Urahara tells them that. Basically its a one way ticket for them all if they were to get sucked up by the Dangai. "Just keep on running and your bound to reach the portal to the Soul Society." Urahara then has Tessai go to the opposite side of himself as they gather enough energy to open the portal, "Now step on up and run for your lives Ladies and Gentlemen!"
And that ends the chapter guys! Ichigo and co are now on their way to the Soul Society to save their friend Rukia from being killed by her own kind.
Question 1: I have been thinking of having a love interest for Uryu since in the manga, he doesn't have one nor is it implied that he has a kid/children. I want to know who should be his love interest as well as for Chad. I've also been thinking of having him being paired up.
Question 2: Would you guys been down for a Code Geass X Multiverse crossover story? I've been thinking on going back to Code Geass and writing a story like this one (minus the Promise plot line in this story). It will be a Lelouch X Harem story and I want to know what characters from different series to play a part in the story and who should be in the harem.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter, who should be Chad's and Uryu's love interest and as always, I'll talk to you all later.
