Author Notes: Abeseimei is going to be based the characterizations of The Dwarf in the Flask from FMA, Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Diavolo from Vento Aureo- a manipulative, paranoiac who hides his true instability through a mask of sanity.
It was discussed with the 3rd Novel series from Bleach that each of the Noble houses had their own family Zanpakuto. Kuchiki apparently had Masamune and Enrakyōten for the Tsuyanashiro family. The Shihōin and Nārākū likely have ones of their own, though Yoruichi would rather not use that. Given that the Shiba used to be one, they would have one meant to fight the real enemy.
Contains Hard Lewd material such as nudity and rape; as well as intense violence and nightmarish imagery.
Also I noticed the Soul Reapers have a Japanese theme, the Full-Bringers have an English theme, the Arrancar/Hollows have Spanish theme and the Quincy have a weird Japanese/German theme. I thought why not make Akuma have a French theme, something aristocratic sounding.
Chapter 23: Death To Strawberry Take Two
Kurosaki Household
While Kazui and Orihime slept with Yuzu staying at her apartment, Ichigo and Isshin awoke and took on their Soul Reaper forms and slowly walked outside.
"If he's a remnant of Yhwach or Aizen's armies here to mess with our lives- we take him down.," Ichigo said as he looked at his dad.
"Yeah, no man dares to take my Karin-," Isshin said comically with Ichigo kicking him in the shin for the tasteless joke.
"That's selfish. She can date whoever- we tolerate and choose.," Ichigo remarked with an intense look.
Says the kettle to the pot., Isshin retorted in his head.
"I have a feeling he's actually the long-hated enemy of the Shiba clan, the one that outed us, ostracized us and want us dead from the beginning while he weaseled himself into absolute authority. The name was an obvious giveaway- he's mocking us- Abensoke Seimeimaru is an obvious alias for Abeseimei...he's the founder that allowed the Zero Division to create Zanpakuto in their current image and restructured the Soul Society after dethroning the Soul Kings...and likely was the backer for Aizen's schemes and Yhwach's resurrection in hopes of slaying them for good PR...The Soul Emperor in charge of the system...we can be ready for the backlash for killing him...if we really can at this point..." Isshin spoke more seriously.
"The Soul Emperor...wouldn't he be a-," Ichigo said with a shocked realization, recalling the state of the previous Soul King.
"He's too self-preserving to consider that option of being a senseless thing in a jar. So he got three other Soul Kings of different parts of the world in order to serve as the pillars to save the world in addition to the replacement...Honestly, what he did to them was far too disgusting to talk about...the other Branches and our own Branch live in dread for what he'd do in retribution to anyone who dares speak ill of him, speak out of turn or plan to dethrone him. Or see him in person. He likes to remain in the shadows.," Isshin explained with a clenched fist.
"Other Branches?," Ichigo asked.
"Oh, we don't usually meet up with them, being all across the world and all that. Shunsui was left out this time when previously Yamamoto was allowed. Maybe because the Soul Emperor's cautious of the unpredictable man- what actions he would take if he were part of the meeting or he plans to get rid of him and place a more controllable pawn to run the 13 Court Guards in his place.," Isshin explained.
"Soul Society is huge apparently.," Ichigo said with a sigh of annoyance.
"You thought it was just Karakura. The Soul Society is about the size of a planet. No way that we'd be able to cram in everyone on earth in just one area. There's several based in different parts of the realm.," Isshin elaborated with a hint of an insult.
"What's he want with Karin?," Ichigo asked.
"Bait...And the Soul Emperor is rumored to a domestic abuser in both psychological and physical aspects. None of his selected harem survive a night with him...the rare exceptions are mentally incapacitated for the rest of their lives.," Isshin explained coldly, which caused Ichigo to imagine Karin being subjected to such treatment.
Ichigo impulsively ran ahead while Isshin sighed in annoyance for his reckless son.
Kuchiki Manor
Rukia awoke to see men clad in black hold blades centimeters away from Renji and Ichika's throats while the two remained asleep. They seemed off with even their eyes obscured by pitch black, visors, black gloves and no flesh exposed at all.
How did they get in without me sensing it? Can't be the Stealth Force...Soifon wouldn't stoop to this...must be that Soul Emperor bastard...he wants me to do the job..., Rukia thought with shock and horror.
"You were given an order. Someone else will take the job if you can't and you can join these two as mounted trophies for his Lordship's collection.," remarked the head assassin.
"Dance-," Rukia said as she drew her Zanpakuto, but stopped when one managed to draw Ichika's blood from their blade.
Feeling a motherly urge, she gave in externally, with a nod.
"Glad you complied.," said the head assassin as they left Renji and Ichika on the floor and vanished.
I'm definitely sure he already gave the order to others in case I refused...probably to kill us both...Still I have to protect Ichigo..., Rukia thought internally as she got dressed up.
Karakura Graveyard
Abenosuke had taken Karin to the graveyard after doing their respective jobs, being an apparent salesman and a writer respectively.
"I really liked what you did for me a while ago. Telling me to make my own path in the world. So I took your advice and became a writer instead of just remaining in the clinic.," Karin replied with gratitude.
"Yeah...," Abenosuke replied absent-mindedly as if it wasn't his main concern.
"Why are we still here? This is mom's grave...Let's pray-," Karin said with a bow before Abenosuke grinded his foot against the grave.
"This isn't cool. You're not ok...Are you drunk...I'm leaving and you don't hang out with me until you're all-," Karin said before the young man tightly grabbed her hand and tossed her towards the grave marker.
"I'm fucking tired of indulging you. If it weren't for that Soul Reaper, I would've had Aizen have Fishbone D bring your brother, your sister and your corpses to me so I could absorb the energy that the Shiba clan stole from me years ago.," Abenosuke said in a more frenzied and haughty tone of voice that made Karin uncomfortable.
"I'm not liking where this is going...this isn't funny...," Karin said worryingly as she inched away with her back against Masaki's grave marker with Abenosuke blocking her path.
"The dead lose meaning once they die, they're just rotting flesh at this point. I can't understand why people respect corpses when immortality should be the bigger picture. I was sent to hell for not valuing human life, but what are the masses except worthless piles of meat.," Abenosuke said as he slowly approached Karin, with his glasses shining an eerie light,
"You're scaring me...Back off...,," Karin shouted as she went for a kick. Abenosuke grabbed her right leg and twisted it.
"You're normally so tough, but it seems like you're putty in my hands...A good woman needs to comply with her man...," he said seductively as his dull, wide-eyed glare looked directly into Karin's panicked eyes.
Karin tried to kick as hard as she could, but this wasn't a normal person...or any kind of person.
"What's with your Reiatsu...it's nothing like I know...," Karin tried to say before Abenosuke forcibly kissed her.
"I'll move onto your sister once I'm done with you.," said Abenosuke sadistically.
Karin screamed as Abenosuke forced her onto the ground and proceeded to rip off her blouse to expose her exposed breasts. He then forcibly tore off her undergarments as he unzipped his pants.
"Poor little Aberration...You must be feeling guilty knowing that you're bedding with the same being who killed your mother, now lying in that worm infested filth behind you.," he said, noticeably with his speech patterns getting faster and higher pitched- more so than what a normal human was capable of. It seemed for a moment, his glasses reflected a red glare with a pie cut like light.
"What the fuck are you saying?! The Fuck are you!? Ichigo!," Karin screamed as Isshin and Ichigo rushed in to save her, only to be stopped by three now visible entities, each with a single horn protruding from their heads, blocking their path.
"Shuten Doji, Tamamo no Mae, and Sutoku Tennō. Deal with them...it's date...don't bother us...you jealous incestous pigs...," Abenosuke said callously as he continued to rape Karin.
They were a red oni with bushy black hair, large eyes with round black pupils, protruding tusks from the lower jaw wielding a spiked club and wearing a yellow/black striped toga; a pale skinned woman with closed eyes with two scarlet dots on her forehead wearing a golden kimono with nine fox tails trailing behind him and a long nosed green blue skinned tengu wearing an archaic monk uniform with black, feathery wings protruding from his back as well as wielding a Shakujo staff.
Wait, not Hollow, Fullbringer or Quincy...They must be-, thought Isshin with horror.
Isshin hesitated when he saw the sight, almost on primal instinct while his son wasn't so cautious.
"Wait, don't use your-," Isshin yelled aloud, but it was too late.
"Bankai: Tensa Zangetsu.," he shouted as he skipped Shikai and went straight into Bankai without hesitation, generating a khyber knife sword extending from red sword katana handle with black tsuka ito.
The oni blocked the blade, which caused an unusual reaction, the blade began to dissolve on contact, not from an ability, but as if the fundamental nature of the being was detrimental to Ichigo's own existence.
"What the shit?!," Ichigo shouted with confused anger as the handle began to boil in his hand.
"Damn. He's using Akuma. They're to Humans and Soul Reapers like Hollows are for Quincy and Gods. The mere touch causes us to die instantly. Discard it before it's too late!," Isshin analyzed the situation to a bewildered Ichigo.
"Didn't I say it already?! Drop it before it reaches the rest of you! Hurry!," he shouted in concern, which Ichigo subconsciously complied against his conscious shock.
The blade then dissolved into a black puddle as Ichigo felt an intense pain in his chest.
"How am I gonna hit that guy?!," Ichigo said in anger.
"No Zanpakuto would work on that guy and the Rei-Ken meant to deal with these kind of things are a lost art even to the Royal Guard..., but we have a way.," Isshin explained.
"Oh, not that again.," Abenosuke said sarcastically.
"A shame, but I'll hand you the official Shiba Zanpakuto for the time being- its the origin of the Getsuga Tensho technique- Mangetsu No Inoshishi (Boar of the Full Moon- it can hurt Akuma and send them back to hell- worthless against Hollows, which is why it was never used. Really wounded him years ago when we took his full powers away from him.," Isshin explained as he pulled out a katana with a boar head shaped guard with a boar tusk like blade extending from the guard.
Ignoring the implications of what that would mean for Abenosuke- Abeseimei's identity, Ichigo grabbed it and bypassed the other two Akuma entities.
Curses, thought Abenosuke as he glared in irritation.
I wonder Oetsu can repair him if I can explain what's going on., thought Ichigo as he saw a terrifying sight.
Abenosuke had managed to violate Karin while repeating punching her and finishing it off with an attempt to choke her.
"You can join your filthy mother, the one meant to overthrow Ywhach before I intervened at the right moment.," gloated Abenosuke.
Before he could react, Ichigo slashed the monstrous individual in the back, causing the glasses to fall off, but no visible damage whatsoever.
Damn, that should've sealed him in Hell like it did years ago with our earliest ancestor. Guess he managed to generate a tougher shell from his followers hidden within Soul Society giving him power., Isshin observed, feeling something awful was about to happen.
Abenosuke turned to look at Ichigo with wide, blank looking brown iris eyes...that then popped out of his head like some sort of prop he was wearing for Halloween or a movie.
"The fuck are you-," Ichigo asked before two eyes bulged out in the empty eye-sockets that had been there beforehand.
Years Ago- In the Rain
Ichigo flashed back to the event where he went to go help the girl, only for the "girl" to turn out to be a lure created by the Hollow, Grand Fisher.
His mother, Masaki used her Quincy powers to easily subdue the Hollow until she was hit by a light, she then turned around to see the still forming Yhwach and another individual hidden in black except for...
Hideous eyes that looked frenzied as he lunged to kill the young Ichigo as she took the blow with her back. He then projecting a needle like tendril that drained her soul manifested in her shape in a nightmarishly distorted visage as it went into the black figure.
The being then looked jittery as he ran away as the authorities arrived on the scene with the still manifesting Yhwach subconsciously absorbing her energy with Grand Fisher following in tow, looking disgusted as the actions the hidden individual took were vile even for him.
Ichigo cried in the rain.
Ichigo then saw two completely red eyes with a pie shaped like with dark red bulging veins, slit like pupils and emitting an unusual energy that looked like a black, starry night sky.
"The fuck are you...," Karin asked.
"You're-," Ichigo said with a realization of his full memory of his past.
"The jig's up...I, Abeseimei...Killed your mother! AND I just fucked your sister and I plan to do the same to the other! I'm the emperor! I can do what I want!," shouted the repulsive eyed individual whose human flesh was clearly a restricting costume to hide whatever it was actually hiding. His voice took a nightmarishly, creepy high pitch as his eyes protruded outwards like spears. His tone went from polite to childishly mocking.
"ABESEIMEI!," Ichigo shouted with a primal fury before suddenly everything stopped in mid motion.
"This will be disastrous Abeseimei...I will take over...," said a deep voice within Abeseimei's head as one of his pinprick pie-eyed pupils changed into a red sclera eye with fragmented pupils
"Damnable wretch!," Abeseimei screamed before he fell silent and stopped in place as the area became tinted in a golden light. The Akuma then vanished from sight.
All except for Abeseimi who stood composed.
Slowly, a figure then manifested behind the "youth", a taller, physically fit humanoid with golden skinned clad in clock themed samurai armor with sundial shoulder guard, an hourglass abdomen guard, hourglass arm guards, watch-clock knee guards, clocks in the center of his sandals, the kanji for "King" in the center of his chest armor and the Kanji for "Time on his thigh/leg guards and a helmet with a yellow crescent with a stream of yellow feather protruding from the back of the helmet. His most unusual feature was his face that was shaped like an anthropomorphic yellow clock face with the hands serving as a mustache to a round nose, and sharp orifices of a steep inward slant; from which emerge small, round red eyes eyes without sclera, with pronounced eye sockets that possess fragmented pupils in the pattern of a 12 hour clock. In the center of the crescent was a smaller identical face with darker hue of gold. Both were in a constant state of perpetual rage and repressed fury.
"This is a test- a test to overcome the prophecy of dying at the hands of a Shiba. I've accepted this test to stand victorious against my past error of letting that clan prosper enough to become a threat to me once again. A person grows once they are able to defeat their weaker self, becoming stronger than their past limiations and becoming unaffected by them ever again. All remain still in frozen time in the face of the emperor's Rei-Ken- Teitai Shita No Ō (Stagnant Time King).," said the high-pitched voiced individual, but noticeably he got taller, more muscular, with longer hair and his voice got much deeper and demonic sounding as a result. His features were then obscured and shadowed, deliberately to hide his appearance.
"I don't know if you have your Quincy powers activated, so attacking you even in this state would be reckless...then again, you, yourself are your own enemy.," remarked the shadowed figure.
He then grabbed Ichigo's sword, took it out of his hand and then impaled him with that same blade. Ichigo would then bleed from his mouth.
Abeseimei then placed his hand over Ichigo's orange hair and began sucking out the orange from it.
"At long last, at long last! My full power you Shiba stole from me, would one day manifest from one of the succeeding generations in the form of my former hair color..Once more I stand above all .You Shiba were always concerned about how I committed my actions- Only the results! In this world, only the results matter!," Abeseimei declared as he pulled all the orange leaving only a black hair color where it used to be. Not taking any future setbacks, he then had the clock humanoid impale Ichigo through the head and blast off his top torso for good measure.
As the shadowy being's hair glowed a bright orange, he turned his attention to Isshin.
"While I readjust to my powers. My current limit is only 6 seconds, which I can repeatedly use...3...2...1...," He said as the clock being kicked Isshin in the ribs, deliberately into the direction of Masaki's grave out of space.
Isshin became aware of the situation as he saw Karin crying in humiliation and terror while he looked at his son's lower half fall to the ground.
"Abeseimei!," Isshin shouted as he released his Bankai-
"Suisei Engetsu (Comet Scathing Moon)!"
He then became a humanoid engulfed in scathing flame and lunged at Abeseimei only for the latter to say,
"No Zanpakuto born of an Asauchi can harm me...or rather, they are programmed to detain you in any possible to prevent harm to the Emperor."
Suddenly a white face manifested on Isshin's right shoulder, the Asauchi blank face aside from two mouths in place of eye-sockets. The eye-sockets merged into one mouth and proceeded to eat a shocked Isshin alive, giving him a very undignified death.
"Now, then...to cut the loose ends...," said Abeseimei, as he zoomed in front of the Urahara shop, to a shocked Kisuke.
"What's the Soul Emperor doing here?," asked Kisuke as he prepared to fight.
"You could potentially bring back the Shibas I killed. I must eliminate you.," declared the ruler coldly.
Kisuke then immediately went seriously, realizing the implications.
"Bankai: Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame!"
As he generated a giant woman with dark, braided hair arranged in loops on her head and mannequin-like arms who wore a revealing red robe behind him, it suddenly went blank. The next moment- he was a decapitated head looking at his torn deity with hair torn out.
"Colère (Wrath).," declared the orange haired silhouette of an individual as Kisuke's shocked head was incinerated in flame.
Yoruichi rushed outside as Abeseimei summoned his humanoid Rei-Ken to lunge at her, which with her fast speed, managed to escape with a mutilated leg.
"You know what I am...then what I did ended this fight before you can tell others...," Abeseimei spoke with utter seriousness as Yoruichi's wound bubbled.
"You're pretty confident for a Zanpakuto who's owner is so incompetent that he has to have his sword do the thinking for him...then again, he's no longer what you'd call human. Shikai: Kuro no Noroi (Black Curse)...Can't believe I have to use this..so girly..," Yoruichi remarked as she summoned her Zanpakuto Shikai as a black fan with the kanji for "Omen", "Curse" and "Death" written on the folds. Abeseimei's entity managed to zoom past the areas manifesting black cat claw marks with ease.
Sensing the danger, she immediately withdrew the strategy in favor of using-
"Bankai: Ankoku no Satotta Jigoku no Michi: Maitreya (Enlightened Hellish Path of Blackness: Maitreya)!"
She then manifested a Buddhist monk entity of pitch black skin with a purple halo around his head with white eyes with blue irises. He emitted a golden Reiatsu that caused Abeseimei to grunt in pain.
"A dangerous power for the infernal...All the more reason to kill you for knowing what no mortal need not know," declared Abeseimei.
Quickly, the entity extended his limb to grab Yoruichi by the throat and pull the head off as well as burn it.
The entity then dissipated into blackness.
A tall, muscular, lightly tan-skinned man with black cornrowed hair styled with horn extensions, large handlebar mustache, which was connected to his long sideburns. He wore a pair of rectangular-shaped glasses. At this time, he wore an ornate dark blue robe with a large upturned collar and the symbol of the Kidō Corps on it. He also carried a shakujō.
"Tessai Tsukabishi. Forget this insolence. Forget this face and I'll let you back into the Kido Corps.," Abeseimei said insincerely with the intent to murder him regardless.
"So the time has come.," said the man as he summoned a ring of five dragon heads to attack the Soul Emperor.
Suddenly, a powerful Reiatsu, more similar to a Hollow emerged- zooming into Abeseimei's range.
It was Ichigo, except not Ichigo.
It had long straight hair, reaching down to his waist, and a small Hollow hole, decorated with markings stretched from the hole across his chest and shoulders. It had retractable claws on his fingertips and toes, small, furry red tufts, two starting from his collarbone and stretched around his neck and one each on his wrists and ankles, and white skin. A white Hollow mask covered his entire head, with four spike-shaped marks, two of them stopping by the forehead and the other two stretched past the eyes and teeth, going past his chin and joining with the marks on his chest. There were small marks resembling a heart, but with the top and bottom open, extended from the inner corners of his eyes. The mask featured two long forward-pointing horns, with black strips extending from their center towards the tips.
"I was being too lenient with the intent to leave you as a moment to all who dared opposed the Emperor! You will be eradicated beyond atoms-," Abeseimei declared before the being skewered a blade through his mouth, leaving him more annoyed than dead.
"An Emperor? Then I will be the Emperor...sounds cooler than a King anyway.," declared the Hollow as Rukia arrived at the shop through a Senkaimon.
"His father, Yoruichi and Kisuke's Reiatsu are gone...And Ichigo's Reiatsu is darker...And is that...?," Rukia asked as she saw this unusual sight.
Next Chapter: Hollow King vs Soul Emperor
