Chapter 46- I love this song
"WHY DID YOU JUST LEAVE ME!" Ichigo shouted at Hikaru as he returned with Renji
"I was more efficient this way and now we only need to find four other people, Yamamoto, Sasakibe, Izuru and Iba" Hikaru listed the four off, "and from what I know about Sasakibe he will be with Yamamoto so we only need to go out searching three more times"
"well if you put it like that then fine" Ichigo forgave him, "so where are we going?"
"78 south" Hikaru ran out of the cave with Ichigo close behind
It took a few days for the duo to get to the district and they found themselves in a small town; people were selling things in the market, children were playing in the street and people enjoyin conversation but the two captains couldn't find anyone.
"do you have any ideas where we should to look?" Hikaru asked Ichigo on their second lap of the town
"no ideā¦.." Ichigo stopped mid-sentence when he noticed something across the street
Right across the street from them was one of the new captains he was wearing headphones as he danced down the street, not paying attention to any of the bewildered people he passed, the two captains looked on in bemusement as the other captain continued to walk on unaware of their presence.
"should we attack him?" Ichigo asked as he reached for Zangetsu
"no let's just get whoever we need and leave without him noticing us" Hikaru said turning his back with Ichigo following suit
The two were about to walk off when a sword point narrowly missed Ichigo's head, the captains turned to see the kid in headphones behind them holding the sword, "I'm Kazuo Nori captain of squad 9" he introduced himself
"well since he's in your squad Ichigo I'll leave him to you" Hikaru said shunpo'ing away
"I am Ichigo Kurosaki captain of squad 9" Ichigo introduced himself as he jumped away from the false captain
"well let's fight then" Kazuo pressed a button on the side of his headphones and stood ready for ichigo's attack
Ichigo ran at the captain and brought Zangetsu down on to his head but he simply moved to the left, Ichigo swung for his stomach but he jumped over the blade and kicked Ichigo back, "if this is all you got then I won't even have to draw my sword" Kazuo said as he landed
"I have a lot more" Ichigo muttered as he raised Zangetsu and charged, Ichigo had Zangetsu raised above his head to slash downwards but when he got close to Kazuo he changed his stance and slashed the captain across his chest and sent him back in to a wall, using the confusion to his advantage Ichigo charged to run Kazuo through but he managed to draw his sword and parry the strike.
"you have more skill than I thought" Kazuo commented as got in to a defensive stance
"yeah I do, GETSUGA TENSHO" Ichigo fired an getsuga at Kazuo who just jumped out of the way
"just for you I'm going to go all out, scream out Ongaku" his zanpakuto transformed in to a spear connected to his arm through a chain
"and what does that do?" Ichigo asked holding Zangetsu ready
"this" Kazuo replied as he threw the spear and it landed right in front of Ichigo, he was about to laugh when the spear released a high pitch scream and threw Ichigo back, "you should be careful if I hit you directly with the spear you'll explode"
Kazuo threw the spear again just as Ichigo jumped out of the way but he was caught in the sound wave and send flying, Kazuo retrieved his spear and this continued for a few minutes with Ichigo not being able to get in close without risking a direct hit from the spear, "what should I do" Ichigo thought as Kazuo threw the spear again, "that's it"
Ichigo dodged the spear and wrapped the chain around his arm holding on tight as the sound wave ripped off some of his clothes, "you're mine" Ichigo said as he pulled the chain and Kazuo towards him when the false captain was in range Ichigo ran him through and dropped him to the ground
Ichigo was about to go find Hikaru when the captain appeared next to him with Izuru in tow, "you defeated him" Hikaru congratulated Ichigo as he helped his friend up, "let's go home"
The trio made it back to the cave in a few days and the two captains sat down with the others to discuss their next move, "Izuru got 35 south, me and Ichigo are going to leave soon but we have something else to discuss" Hikaru told everyone
"you're right soon we'll have everyone we need and we'll attack the Seireitei" Toshiro spoke up
"that will be the deciding factor in our war so we need to think this out" Shunsui commented
All the captains just looked at each other not wanting to say what they all knew that if they failed to defeat them in the Seireitei then the entire population of the soul society could be slaughtered and maybe even in the world of the living, "I'm sick of all this staring" Kenpachi spoke up after a few minutes, "you two need to go find the old man so we can take back our home"
"you're right" Ichigo said getting up along with Hikaru
The two shunpo'ed all the way to south 35th district and found nothing but burnt houses and bodies, "well it seems we're a bit late" Hikaru commented as the two walked through the burnt out town
"there is nothing here we should get back and figure out what to do next" Ichigo suggested
"no let's look through everything for any clues" Hikaru said as he started to search
They searched for about an hour before Ichigo noticed a dagger he noticed, he picked it up and realized where it was from, "this is Tetsuzaemon's"
"well at least they didn't get the head captain" Hikaru said as the two shunpo'ed back to the cave to plan their next move
End of chapter 46
The end is coming sorry for not updating for 4 months I was busy with school so review and share
