Author's note – So let me just start by saying this will be my first fanfiction so please let me know your thoughts on it. And I own nothing, bleach belongs to it's creator Tite Kubo and my OC belongs to me.
A Bleached Shark
Chapter 1: In the beginning
I woke up after I had watched some random funny videos on YouTube on my bed due to having a pretty bad day at my job 4 hours ago as a produce stalker. Apparently, it was my phone that woke me up. I decided to just get up because whenever I get up, I usually stay up, so if I ever wake up it takes forever to go back to sleep for me. As I get up, I do the usual as I do in the morning of getting dressed in my black shorts and random t-shirt and make my bed.
I then proceed from my room in my small apartment and head to the bathroom to comb my hair which currently is doing an impression of a beehive being all tangled up due to me rolling around in my sleep. Couple of minutes later it's all clear of tangles and straightened out and pulled back behind my ears and look one more time in the mirror to make sure I look presentable, besides having to shave due to the small stubble on my face which I really dislike facial hair. Otherwise I looked presentable with my dark brown hair that goes past my shoulder blades that goes to the middle of my back. Along with checking for any zits on my tan skin and seeing the discoloration around my brown eyes from lack of sleep for the past week. I then proceed to the kitchen fridge to get myself an apple for breakfast along with a glass of milk. Heading back to my room to check on the phone to see what the notification was.
This is where it gets weird, it's an email from my great grandpa Donald Knight who died when I was only 3 months old of a tumor in his head back in 1994, it's 2020 now. 'this is just great, I get a day off from crappy job and a troll who gets his kicks tormenting people with their dead relatives or anything they can think of to get under someone's skin decides to have a crack at me'. I just trash it and go to my bed and start up the PlayStation 4 and starting up kingdom hearts 3 so I can finally get past the fight with Xemnas and Ansem the seeker of darkness two of my favorite characters in the series.
As I am getting right to the part to fight them, I get another notification from the same troll. I then get killed by the Xemnas & Ansem combo that is a pain in the butt if you don't know what you are doing or what to expect. I look over at the phone and trash the email again. As I am about to press restart my phone goes off again. I finally decide to look at it. 'What the hell is this troll's deal, and do they not know when to give up'. I decide to try and block them, however the phone I have is from 2014 and for some reason doesn't have a block function which is incredibly stupid, or I am just stupid and can't find it. So, I decide to see if the option is available after opening the damn troll email.
I open the email and it said "Congratulations on winning the prize of a lifetime. We are awarding you a once in a life time chance of being sent to a new realm! Not only will you be sent their but we will have a random lottery chance for you to have any aspect of an item, skill or ability fused to you. But we will also give you the chance to change your form to whatever of your choosing within reason, such as a fictional character as an example. Please email back what form you would like and where you would like to go." I couldn't find the option to block so I guess yeah the phone is a piece of crap, so I decide to email back the troll to get back at them by saying to 'go fuck yourselves and while you are at it get my dead great grandfathers name off this email now!' for good measure and get back to my game.
I don't like trolls in general simply because the "trolls" of today are not real true original trolls. It's like bugs bunny for example, a true original troll can get you to say and do things to make yourself look like an idiot which can get me to laugh and be impressed simply because that takes talent and skill. Whereas the cheap knock off trolls just say and do things to get you angry which anyone can do, such as this one trying to anger me by having an email named after my dead great grandpa who I have his gold cross necklace around my neck. Especially when my dad passed away at fifty-five two years ago with the anniversary of his death being last months December. I may have not known my great grandpa personally but my grandpa and dad both talked about a lot of the stories of him they had, which I take as a slight to not only their memories but of my great grandpa as well, if they think of him as a good person and family then so do I. You don't mess with my family or those that I care about, I could give a damn about the rest of the world or those in it after how i have been treated by most others in life, but mess with my family or close friends then I am really pissed.
'This whole week was just bad, but then again, it's these past eight years that are bad if I'm being honest since grandpa's death, then dad's which was a downward spiral after grandpa. He was never the same after his death and was lost without him, as much as I am without him when he went. At least he and grandpa died on their terms, which was dying in their sleep in peace. I got my bachelor's in meteorology so I could storm chase after tornadoes which was proven useless due to how many people were in that field looking for work which was ridiculous…... what the hell am I doing?! Now this troll is getting to me on my one day off this week, drudging up old bad memories that are best left at the back of my head or completely forgotten about'.
So, I started the game back up just to enjoy the rest of the day to take my mind off of such depressing memories. As I attempt to press restart to the fight it won't work, the restart option makes sound when I push x on the controller, but it won't restart. Just as I assume the game is having a blue screen, I see text start happening on the television in my room.
It eventually said "Since you will not pick, we will pick for you. No is not an option, you have nothing left here for you, at least take the chance for a clean slate."
As I read through this the only thing I could think of is this person somehow was able to hack into my PlayStation 4 or something of the sort, again hacking was not exactly something I dealt with in college classes and went through the effort to try and scare me. Having had enough of this person ruining my day and in a hope of making it end decided to try and turn off the PlayStation by unplugging it, and being completely stunned by the screen and remaining on.
Before I could even so much as try to fathom how it is not turning off, the tv screen changes from me playing kingdom hearts to my home screen with Ansem the seeker of darkness model at the top right portion. Then it goes to crunchyroll without selecting the app or even more surprising is the fact I don't have crunchyroll so how the hell does that work? Then the options start showing for all the anime, and rapidly highlighting through all of them faster than I could keep up. It eventually lands on the anime Bleach. I then start to walk away and just attempt to get away from the TV from whatever freaky juju was going on here.
That's when a loud screeching noise akin to the shooters that have flashbangs when they leave your ears ringing, which causes me to stop walking and cover my ears. Eventually the noise stops after who knows how long, and I can feel a couple of neighbors beating on the ceiling and floor yelling for it to be quiet.
The tv showed the anime bleach highlighted with the model of Ansem still in the top right of the screen and then more text shows up saying "Your new life awaits you, and so you may now enjoy it!". 'What are you talking about? New life? I'm still alive, not to mention how crazy you are. Bleach is a fictional Shonen series.' I thought to myself, which was cut short by a small buzzing noise, which I was worried was going to be another loud ringing noise in my ears. However as I was getting ready to cover my ears this time before it goes off I realized it's coming from my TV and just as I see a bright flash come from it and then it was all black from there.
After what may have been an eternity of being what was a dreamless sleep, with no thoughts, no worries, was ended all sudden by my return to consciousness. Fear and anger were the first emotions I had upon awakening, no rational thoughts of any kind for some time as I only felt nothing but fear and anger at anything around me. We humans are interesting when you think about how we can act so irrationally due to a simple chemical imbalance in our minds or just reacting to incredible amounts of stress, such as a life or death situation. Such as a man drowning is said to be dangerous to the rescuers as well due to him drowning and panicking will grab said rescuer in an attempt to save themselves and get them killed as well, yet if they were in a normal calm state they would realize how foolish what they are doing is.
In this case I take after my dad and grandpa regarding stressful situations though a bit differently. They would always lash out at anything that gets their ire when incredibly stressed or angry. For example if someone or something hurt them their first reaction is to hit back at whatever is harming them within reason of course, most people thought that they were bad people when they learned this thinking them as people with anger issues, but it was far from the truth. I however differed in regards that instead of outwardly showing it, I kept it bottled up inside myself and waited for when I can play a game or something that helps me relieve that stress. But with nothing to help me to placate this stress and ease it out of me, it all came pouring out and I just swung at empty air venting my anger and stress at the possibility I had just died, stomping on the ground while striking at anything and everything which funnily enough was just more air.
After who knows how long of this and finally getting a grip when I was on my knees pounding the ground with my fists, I finally calmed down enough to take in the situation after getting several deep breaths in. I first noticed my hair, which was still long going slightly past the end of my shoulder blades with parts in my field of view. Now the part that caught me off guard was that the hair was a very whitish grey. And then I noticed my hands and knees. They were dark, I mean tan dark. That and I was naked, as if the rapture of the bible had come for me and left me in wherever this was as naked as the day I was born, or in whoever's body this was I should say.
"What is going on?" as I said this I realized that was not my voice and that it sounded way to familiar, then looked around thinking that the man whose voice this belongs to is so close to me never mind rationalizing what I heard from myself just after having a full on fear and anger induced breakdown after my possible death. Seeing nothing but what looked like dark clouds with a greater darkness behind those as if it would pull any and all light from the area only being kept at bay by the dark misty clouds with the only source of light coming from an orange crescent moon which somehow didn't have the darkness completely eclipsing it. Which added a layer of eeriness to it all. With me still on my knees on top of these dark clouds pondering what I have been forced into against my will and wondering what or who have I become since I can't see anyone else but myself in this abyss.
"This has to be a nightmare fueled from stress or something!" I said to myself only to stop all thoughts going across my mind at that moment. If I could see my face, I would see a man with eyes looking like a deer that was caught in the headlight of a semi-truck while having his mouth open so much to emulate a fish in the water. This same man doing these impressions would have been the last thing I would think to ever see on his face. For this man sounded just like Ansem the seeker of darkness from the kingdom hearts series. I finally decided after a long period of having no thoughts or anything to stand up and truly examine the rest of myself. I was chiseled with muscle, not like a full-on body builder like Arnold Schwarzenegger body but skinnier but still noticeable none the less if compared to a regular group of people. Having a six pack really threw me off guard though. Mainly because I am still getting used to the idea of having my body be that of Ansem of all people.
Or should I say his body? Was this a copy of his body or did whoever did this to me actually take the legit real body of Ansem and place my soul, the most treasured thing we humans have that makes better than anything and everything god ever created in all of creation inside of his body and hijacked it from him? A thought I don't like at all and think it's best I don't cross that line of thought just yet for even if Ansem was a "bad guy" even he didn't deserve this to happen to him. Leaving that thought behind because I don't need another breakdown or making this situation worse than it already is.
I looked further around at the body, noticing nothing noteworthy besides Ansem not having any body hair at all, like no chest hair or anything. Then suddenly, I hear chiming of bells like that from a church tower, I look around trying to find the source of the noise and looking behind me to find a floating screen. I tried to touch it only for my hand to go through it completely as if I was attempting to touch a ghost. Then the screen had words started fading into existence on the board.
It wrote "Welcome to your new life! You have been chosen by the committee of beings from the beyond due to an annual event where they give clean slates to those of their choosing in a new realm." I interrupted it saying "Hold on for a moment! Beings from the beyond? You mean like gods or omnipotent beings or whatever you want to call them? That can't be right there is only one god, and the angels below him. Unless you mean to say angels?" I said, that is one thing I have always believed, considering I was raised as a protestant all my life with bible stories being read to me as far as I could remember when I was little, like David and Goliath. The board responded with saying that the beings from the beyond are not gods, but they are god like, which further confused me. How do you be god-like yet not a god? It then continued further before telling me not to interrupt until it is finished and then will answer a few of my questions.
It then texts me if that is the right word that it is now going to do a lottery of fictional powers and items, abilities, basically any form of fictional ability or gear from those respective series and take it's properties and fuse it with my soul, giving me access to it's aspects of power. I try to interrupt and try to say that no I don't want that I want to go back to my home, but before I can even get the words out of my mouth I freeze up. I can't move or anything, and I start panicking again while struggling to get out of whatever is holding me in place. The board writes that it cannot send me back and will not tolerate any more interruptions till the process of selecting what aspect I get.
The dark clouds start rising and a portion of them turn into a giant wheel, like out of the wheel of fortune except massive, to the point I think its about as big as the pyramids in Egypt. Then I see all the possibilities on it, ranging from the kaioken technique from Dragon Ball Z to the omega force which I think is darkseid's power from DC comics and so many more of them to the point I couldn't keep track of them. It then starts to spin with no warning, faster and faster. It's like a wind tunnel got a crazy factor of a thousand times its normal output to this insane amount, the only reason I can actually stay where I am position wise is because of the invisible force that is keeping me silent and not letting me move is anchoring me here I think.
A big problem however I realized is that I can't breathe due to the wind being forced in my direction with me facing it. It's like the truck rides with my dad as a kid when we would drive through the back-country roads and drive really fast at night and have the windows rolled down and the wind would take your breath away. Well this was much worse and not so pleasant, to the point that I felt like I was going to drown. However before this went on any longer, the orange light from the moon all of a sudden took on a shape and made itself into an arrow, just like on the price is right show except it seems to have another purpose besides letting us know what my "prize" is, since it's getting closer to the wheel. It starts touching it as I start seeing black spots form in my vision due to lack of oxygen somehow despite me being dead I think? Surprisingly no noise comes from it scraping against the wheel to stop it. Slowly or maybe it's slow because I am about to pass out and every second seems like an eternity to itself. With it slowing down further enough, I can start breathing again, which is a struggle because even slowed down it's like a strong gust of wind one would expect from a tornado, but I was able to breathe at least despite struggling to get as much air in my lungs as possible against the weakened wind.
Eventually it's on the last couple of rotations, and then finally and agonizingly stops on something with the arrow pointing at it, however I can't see it due to it being to high up for me to currently see, me panicking due to lack of oxygen and my current mental state of everything that has happened to me in such a small amount of time and how quickly everything has escalated. The board just fades out of existence only to fade back in at the point the arrow stopped at, then repeats this process to face me all the while the invisible force is still holding me all the while. It writes to 'You are very fortunate, of all the things aspects you could have gotten, this is one of the more useful you could have, not the most powerful by any means but has potential. You will gain the aspect of Samehada, or in case you don't know what it's name means is shark skin. You are familiar with the series from your world called Naruto?'
My pupils have got to be doing the best impression of a deer in the headlights like no other right now. 'I'm fucked.'