Strong(Boy): Sorry it took so, its been a really slow month and our minds just overheat on stuffs we got to do.

Kind(Girl): This chapter isn't much but hope you guys read it.

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Chapter – 4

Ichigo P.O.V

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Pull, swing, pull, swing and pull… lately a lot is on mind and the work I was put on didn't even distract me one bit for the past few days.

Nothing normal was happening to me, and this put me on edge the whole time. I had woken up around strangers but fortunately the good kinds, except those girls that tried to stab me the moment I woke up from a slumber like dream a month ago, and with a poison dagger no less… that really pissed me off.

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I died didn't I?

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The war ended… but who won?

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Ishida should've… or Aisen might've…

*!* Damn it! This is so frustrating! Why can't I still remember something as important as that!? *sigh*

The last thing I could remember was dying by that bastard's power.

"…" Speaking of another bastard, I know he's a part of me but why did he had to follow me in my second life too? Couldn't my luck get any worse?

*smack!*

"Ow! What the hell was that for!?"

"I didn't say you could take a break Kurosaki."

"I only stop for like a minute, and why are you even here? I already said that I would get the job done."

Yeah, I couldn't forget about the person who wouldn't leave me alone for the past few days of me trying to pay the damage I made.

"I know but I don't think I could trust someone who injured half of the clan's member without hesitation and please… can't you be gentler on the hoe you're using?"

"How many times do I have to say sorry?" From day one, I always wonder what this girl has against me. I think her name was Clair… I think.

"And this," Showing her the out of shape hoe she gave me, "Wasn't even that good from the start."

"…" Giving me a stink eyes like that won't make me back off. Seriously, this girl has issues.

She did have a point about me beating up all those clan members. But waking up with so many different and unusual things like those animals or weird creatures… really took me by surprised.

The most surprising thing was why the hell did I get younger…? I look like I just got out of middle school. No, the bastard inside me talked about second chance at life and all that crazy thing but it meant that I had been living here in this world for years. That would've been a crazy assumption if the bastard hadn't told me that I was actually living in this world with no memories. Still… that doesn't explain why I don't have any recollection about those times I spent here… he's hiding something.

*smack!*

"Stop spacing out Kurosaki, you won't finish in time if you kept on like this."

"I would finish much faster without you snooping around me like a stalker." I glared back while rubbing my head.

"Whatever."

"…"

"What now Kurosaki?"

Stink eyes again? What is her deal?

"I got one question." I'm bored as hell, so I had to ask.

"Yes?"

"Why are you wearing spandex under this blazing heat?" I am not a pervert but I couldn't help but look when it was her whole casual clothes.

"huh?"

"…"

"….."

"…!" Now, she started shouted out nonsense. I couldn't care less so I tune her out. Her face was also getting red too; she really needs to find some shade.

"Lance was right about you having no control, womanizer he said…"

What is she even talking about? What really happened the past years I was here? Now I have even more reason to get my answers from that bastard.

"Whatever you say…" The old man already trusted me to leave me alone but this girl just doesn't give up. What on earth does she really think going to happen?

"Thirsty…" How long was I working in the fields today anyway? I can already see the sun passed over the horizon. Man, I'm spacing out too much.

"…"

"hm?"

"I was wondering when you'd say that." Now she's handing me a drink? So, she doesn't hate my guts.

"Thanks."

This second chance in life, wonder how will this work.

Do I have a family here and if I do where are they? If only I could get some answers, the bastard's vague explanation was shit as heck and I can't even enter my mindscape to give him a good beating.

"Clair! Still on watch duty I see! How about relaxing here with us?!"

"It's alright! He's not as bad as you think he is!"

And from a few feet away and under some tree shades, a couple of guys and girls from the clan were having lunch. They avoid me and gave me the cold shoulder but I wouldn't blame them, I did beat them up and scared them.

"*sigh*" I guess I feel out of place here…

"Thank you Dragonair, I'll come immediately."

"Finally heading back?" I asked while looking at her pokemon, no matter how I tried to think straight it really does look like a dragon to me.

"Yes, but for a gym battle. Don't think you can do whatever you want while I'm gone."

"I wasn't."

"…" Just leave already, I'm only going to take a nap. I would tell her that but I don't want her to talk back and stay longer.

"Gunther will be watching you, so don't behave out of place."

"…" I wasn't even paying attention since I already lie down on the small hill filled grass we were sitting on and look up to the sky to day dream.

"Kurosaki…"

"What?"

"…"

"Nevermind."

…..

Normal P.O.V

"Clair, no one is pushing you to watch over him like this. He's already proven his lack of any ill intention for the past week. Even Lance vouched for him as a trust worthy person."

"I know grandfather," Clair had stop to stand next to her grandfather a few yards away from where Ichigo was taking a nap, "but I can't help it. No normal human being could do all the workloads he did in just a few days of work. It's just isn't right to left him on his own device."

The work they had put Ichigo on was the tilling of a 1000 arcs of farm land the clan own as well as fixing the damage that had taken placed on his first awaken from his slumber a month ago.

It had taken Ichigo only a few days to finish it all and still have energy to spare. Many of the clan's member were frighten since his earlier actions of no hesitation to kill the intruders stir doubts within the back of all of their minds.

And strangely the only ones that were calm were the pokemons who all had taken a good liking to the orange hair teenager much to the eir of their trainers. They at times always seem to gather around him and relax to pass time by. One kid in the clan also seems to spending most of his free time with the orange hair hero.

"Foolish child!"

"!?" The girl eyes widen at the angry expression her grandfather was making.

"This boy was brought to us by the great dragon and you dare say something otherwise about him like the rest of the clan's youngling? I expected better from you Clair."

"…"

"Now, if you don't have anything else to say, head to the gym. Your challengers have all been waiting for quite a while."

"Of course grandfather."

The girl left with a heavy sigh and guilt. Getting berated by her grandfather/clan head was a little more than she would like her day to go but the feeling of being edgy wouldn't leave her.

"Let's go Dragonair." She left the thought of how to confront Ichigo better in the back of her head.

Life in the Blackthorn Clan wasn't always tense but after Ichigo's arrival by the great dragon Rayquaza as well as his actions upon awakening from his coma like state was not taken kindly by the young men and women of the clan.

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Gunther P.O.V

"Chore boy, get this to the storage."

"After that you need to wash all the clan's pokemon's bowls."

"Don't forget the basket filled of laundry Chore boy."

"But I have my own chores to do."

"You can do ours too." Even though I have a name everyone but the Clan head and his granddaughter Clair call me Chore boy and after a while I just accept it since some of them are just bullies.

Still I like doing the chores in the Blackthorn clan since I owe the Clan head for taking me in when I was a little baby. I feel that even with the sneers from the others doing these choirs kinda makes me think I am doing something like repaying my debt to the Clan head.

I don't know who my real parents were but the nice old clan head told me they had given me to him before they passed away. And the cool thing is that my parents were descendants of Vikings, well that's what the Clan head told me.

*chomp*

"Gerald?" I almost forgot… the small pokemon biting on my head was my partner pokemon I received from the Clan head. Even though I wasn't technically part of the Clan, I still received a pokemon after turning 10.

"Gerald, wanna help me with my chores today?"

*chomp*

"I knew I could count on you buddy!" Usually the kids that turn 10 here in the clan gets to have a dragon type pokemon as their partner or pokemons that could be could turned into a dragon type. The clan head told me that Gerald was a ground type and a pokemon called Trapinch not a dragon type but I was okay with it.

*chomp* Oh, he likes chewing my head. It doesn't hurt that much and it think it's cute.

"Gunther."

"Clair! Hey girl!" One of my favorite people (well she's one of the only people who are kind to me) called out to me and so I dash to her.

"Gunther, after you finished with choirs could you watch Kurosaki for me? I need to head to the gym."

She's really nice isn't she? She's like a big sister to me and always stood up for me to the other jerks here in the clan.

"Okay Clair!" I'm really excited, apart from Clair I didn't really have anyone to talk to until he came, the stranger with strange powers.

Ichigo not only become my friend in only a short amount of time, he also became my hero. One of the many duties I have here is to look after the pokemons and sometimes they get into fights and arguments that I can't stop but then Ichigo appeared out of nowhere to stop it before I could even get a scratch. He also wiped the floor off those jerks without breaking a sweat and it was awesome!

"Hear that Gerald? We get to hang out with Ichigo after choirs."

"…."

"Gerald?"

I look down to see Gerald staring off into space but after turning to where he was looking. I kind of get it, Gerald sometimes stare at Ichigo without any explanation. It's not just Gerald, some of the pokemons in the clan and the wild also stare at Ichigo when he relax somewhere secluded.

The way they all look at Ichigo just look so sad. I mean… I sometimes cry too, I don't know but this almost feels like one of those movies with a really sad ending.

I always knew Ichigo was slightly different from the rest of us. Even though he wasn't obliged he still works hard and in the end of the day, he looks so alienated from the rest of us even the pokemons.

"Come on Gerald, let's finished up and go to Ichigo." Pulling the down mood silent pokemon, I quickly head to my next choir.

Normal P.O.V (Ichigo's mindscape)

"Ichigo!"

"Ichigo?"

"Kurosaki!"

"You barbarian!"

"Ichigo~"

"(Mr. Orange!)"

"Orange…"

"Big brother!"

Cross sitting on the place a certain orange hair teen knows too well, our hero, Ichigo Kurosaki was currently watching the flashes of memories with different feelings to consider.

"…" To his surprise, the first time he watched the short clips of memories surprised him since they all felt really genuine to him and those people were really close to him, especially a kid with raven hair and an everlasting smile.

"Wonder how many times you've seen these same old memories King."

A white color identical of the orange teen came up from behind and grins sarcastically at the hero that was brought to another world.

"So?" Ichigo didn't turned back or retort back at the snarky comment, rather he just stare at the same scenes he's been watching as if they were drawing him into a unknown state of silence.

*grab*

"How long are we going to stay here? King."

"…"

"Hehe… still angry I kept some secret to myself?"

"…"

Still Ichigo would not answer the white identical being and continues to watch the flash of memories though were very limited and had little connection due to a single flash containing only a single but different person.

The white being was not amused and clicks his tongue in annoyance. He felt it was long enough and he needed the orange hero to know that he ain't taking his stubborn attitude or grudge over something so minuscule.

*!* A huge pure white blade both knew well came out of existence and on to the white being's hand.

"You need to be reminded about something King."

"…" Now, the white being had Ichigo's complete attention. There was no fooling here and no jokes as the blade was generating spiritual energy Ichigo knew too well.

*slash!* With one full swing, the white being used the blade to cut the space before them.

"…" The rip in space showed pictures of his past life, his family and friends, the very people he was supposed to protect as the name he was given meant.

"The Quincy King might have killed you but that doesn't mean it's the end!"

Ichigo heard the words of the white being loud and clear but their predicament which was the main cause of his slump days still bothered him to no end.

"I'm really pissed about that too and yet we can't do anything to give that bastard a defeat he won't forget. I don't like to stay defeat King."

"…"

*grab* Being grabbed suddenly, Ichigo wasn't sure why the white being was so edgy. He knew that the white being was here so for years when he wasn't himself but it did not occurred to him how those times would affect the white being.

"But we do have a chance to know what happened by helping to saved this world."

"What happened? You should guess what happened, Ywatch won-ack!?"

*!* Without any time for alert, the white being feet meet Ichigo's face with a powerful swing and for the young orange hair teen to be pushed off mid air.

"We will decide when we see and hear the real truth."

Those words might've been the last thing our hero might hear from the white being for a very long time.

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"!?"

"*huff* *huff*"

Ichigo woke up with a scowl and fast breathes due to the exhaustion of being forcefully push outside of his own mindscape. He was pissed and a little frustrated at the same time with his patience being tested unknowingly.

"Ichigo, you okay?"

"…" Our hero turned to face the kid that had been trying to get his attention to him for the past few days.

The kid was chubby with blond hair but had amazing stamina to do choir all day as well as being really hyperactive at times.

"Your…" Our hero knew the kid well enough unlike the other clan members since the chubby kid always seem to appeared around him.

"Oh, I haven't introduced myself," The kid held out a hand. "Gunther, Gunther Magnus."

"Right, I'm Ichi-!" Ichigo got quickly cut off as the kid rush beside him

"Ichigo Kurosaki, the guy who single handedly beat half the clan's members and their pokemon, also rumour to be the one who beat the Dragon master Lance and his strongest dragon with his bare hands! Not only that-muffff…"

Even though Ichigo reach out his hand and cover the boy's talkative mouth, the kid name Gunther still continued on with hand gestures to make describe his words.

"Oh, sorry hehe…" Gunther felt flustered for looking a weirdo in front of his hero whom Ichigo did not knew about.

"Okay, anyway, could you hand me the water bottle."

"Oh, Okay." Gunther scurries to the water bottle he had brought for Ichigo.

It was the first time the boy had tried talking to the orange hair teen and it filled him with nervousness.

"Did the old man send you to watch me?"

"No, Clair asked me."

"I figure as much *sigh*"

Ichigo wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone but guess something like privacy wasn't going to be on his agenda for a while.

*chomp*

"I almost forgot, Gerald here is my pokemon. Getting your first pokemon is exciting isn't it? Hehe…" Gunther excitingly introduced his pokemon who was still nibbling on his head.

"Hmm…" Ichigo was still a bit weird out by so many different creatures especially how they were like wild animals and yet had good relationship with the humans of this world, "Do you all receive one?"

"huh?" With a confused expression Gunther took a little time to understand what Ichigo was talking about until it hit him, "Oh, you mean starter pokemons? Yeah, anyone who reached the age of 10 can received a pokemon to either help in as a trainer or in his and her carrier. Yep, this Pokemon league rule book says it."

"I guess that's something normal here." Ichigo did not bothered where Gunther had taken out a rule book out of nowhere and just stare back into space without much reaction.

"…"

"….."

"Normal?"

"What are you talking about?" Gunther sat down beside Ichigo not really understand the words of Ichigo and why he said such things about pokemons.

Gunther was confused since no one he knew or would know will ever utter the word 'pokemon' being normal as if it was the first time they'd ever heard. Ichigo was such a strange person to Gunther albeit a good person but still a strange person.

"Do you have a pokemon of your own Ichigo?" The boy asked out of curiosity as he believed someone this amazing would absolutely have a powerful pokemon by his side.

"I-I…" Ichigo clearly saw a black lizard in different forms flashing through his head and yet those images were just feeling out of place to him. "I don't know…"

"…"

"…."

"…"

"Ichigo!"

"!?" Ichigo gasp out a deep breath as if he under water where no one could breath, his hand reach out to his heart only to grab his shirt quite hard. It was painful and intense as if some pressure suddenly hits his mind to only leave in mere seconds.

Gunther on seeing this rush to the older boy's side and shook him off from his trance like painful state.

"…" It wasn't the first time Ichigo had this kind of experience and every time it happened he learned something new about what happened before he was fully awake in this world, all the experiences he gained were slowly coming back but at a very low rate of speed.

"*huff* I'm okay… *huff*" He just learned something and it was painful to point of being mentally exhausted.

"I don't know about this Ichigo. You look… terrible." Gunther tried to convince the orange hair boy to head back and get some rest.

"I'll be fine *huff*" With another deep breath Ichigo tiredly laid back down on the grass field and look up to the sky with much to think about.

Ichigo was curious to what really happened for him to be in such a state. He knows he was given a second chance at life and how much of a failure he was for failing to save the people who were precious to him. But the fact that he was in another world that was out of harm's way while his friends and family were back home with many dangers around that he failed to vanquished.

"I don't know if this is the right time but I want to say thank you Ichigo."

"huh?"

"If it weren't of you those other guys in the clan would've given me a new bruise," The blond chubby boy sat down beside the teen and with a smile he gave his thanks, "You were like a daredevil, man… that was awesome. You weren't even afraid of their pokemons and just beat up every last jerk standing hehe…"

"Oh…." Ichigo was somewhat distracted from his thoughts on how the younger kid expressed his sincere thanks since he felt he didn't deserve it. He only did what knew was right by beating up those punks for bulling the 10 year old kid.

"It's getting late, let's head back."

"Oh okay, want a sandwich?"

"No thanks."

Both got up and along follow Gerald the Trapinch who was now biting his trainer Gunther's butt cheek.

"Ichigo, are you planning on leaving soon?"

"I don't know…" Ichigo was still depressed about remembering his failure that caused him something so important but he felt the little good deed he did for Gunther showed him a way of thinking that there just might be a way to redeem himself or at least continue so he could reach the goal the white being his zanpaktou kept telling him. "But maybe I should really be going, can't think of anything positive staying here."

"Oh, t-that's great for you." Gunther felt a little sad but tried to be happy that Ichigo finally had decided on something since he woke up.

"…" Hiding behind some bushes someone was eavesdropping and she was a bit perplexed. Clair heard it all and wondered what she was going to do next since it still felt like her job was to watch over the boy who just appeared out of nowhere on a legendary dragon.


Violet City

"Hmm… she's taking her time isn't she Charla?"

"….?"

"Let's wait for another few minutes."

Currently in Violet City, a girl with light green hair stood wearing an unusual dress for a girl her age and beside her stood a powerful house of a pokemon many trainers in the region knew well with a pink accessory bow on its head indicating it as a feminine creature of its species.

The girl was indeed waiting for someone by the indication of her frustrated expression and her finger tapping on the outdoor table outside of a café shop. This wasn't her usual mood and hardly anyone ever seen the young lady look so frustrated friends or family.

"She better have a good explanation or some kind of miracle solver…"

"Char…" Her pokemon nudged her trying to get her attention.

"I'm not sleeping in any damn motel or hotel or even under the sky anymore. It's been weeks since I had any good sleep… ugrgh…" The girl was too busy brooding to notice her pokemon's action to gain her attention. But to be fair she was really having bad days, not a bad day but bad days.

"…" Passer-bys saw her moody condition but were to afraid of her as well as her pokemon to tell her to brood somewhere else since not a lot of anyone in the city were experience trainer and were brave enough to tell her.

"Liza!"

Finally, the person the moody girl name Liza was waiting for arrived no sooner than later and this somewhat pleased her since it ended her long waiting which was also killing her self-esteem.

"…"

"ohh…" The girl that arrived and also the one who made Liza wait for a considerable amount of time from their schedule meeting time saw he disaster that was her friend's condition. "You look a little…"

"Beat up? Off put? A disaster? Well you wouldn't know would you!?"

Liza's annoyance or frustration finally burst out onto her friend and said friend understand it all as she just received the bitter words without complaint.

"…." It was rather awkward since no one said anything and moody air Liza created made it quite uncomfortable.

"Maybe you need some earl tea and oranberry shortcake, my treat." The girl that came and tried not to make it more difficult for her friend was actually Clair. She was obviously sort of scared of her tense friend right now.

"That will be good! Thank you!" Don't get her wrong, Liza was indeed happy at her friend's attempt to calm her but she was just too stressed out to show any kind of being polite.

Eventually Liza was finally able to calm down after a cup of tea and a dozen slice of shortcake which her friend happily paid for.

"Sorry Clair, about earlier…" She felt guilty and slump her shoulders indicating she was really tired as well. "I'm barely myself these days…"

"No, no, it's fine Liza. With how things have been going for you I should've been more earlier, I would be like you if something similar happen to me. So it's all okay." Clair might spend a lot of time in her clan and gym where she exerts a profound and powerful character but outside of work and home she's just another girl that would be like any other.

"Thanks Clair." Liza slumps her face down to the café table and groan. Her eyes have bags under them clearly meaning she was also suffering from insomnia too.

"…"

"Liza?"

"…."

"You gotta be kidding me." Clair sweat dropped as her friend just doze off into dream world on the table and in public too.

"Charla, would you mind?"

"…" Unlike her trainer, Charla the Charizard was much better in shape and sane. By the words of Clair, the powerful fire flying type pokemon nods and picks up her trainer onto her shoulder.

"Let's go, Liza will wake up along the way."

"Charr?"

"Oh, she will, beside I did promise to get the nasty powerful pokemon off your valley didn't I?"

The real reason the young lady came to meet her friend was the fact that a rather powerful and troublesome pokemon had invaded their valley resulting Liza not being able to go home to her house as well as many injured Charizards.

"Charr…" The powerhouse pokemon remembered the bad memories as the injuries she too sustained reacted. Her claws were trembling due to the bad experience.

"It's okay, I got someone really amazing coming and if he can't fix the problem no one can."

Clair tried to calm the pokemon and was also somewhat surprised since she knew the female Charizard was very strong. "But I wonder what kind of pokemon could beat so many strong Charizards from the valley… Liza didn't mention what it looks like either. Hmm…"


Charicific Valley

This valley was situated between Violet City and Azalea Town where there are two paths. One is the normal path where it is locally used while the other path trail leads to a valley where a specific type of pokemon owned the land and where they trained to get stronger as much as possible.

"…" Usually anyone that might've visited the valley would see Charizards of different size challenging each other as well as spend their days under the warm sunlight.

"…" But now everything around the valley felt deserted and said all Charizards were either away from the valley or near it while some still appeared but only for few seconds.

"…" Even so, the valley was not completely deserted as a pokemon that could be consider a beast for its actions occupied the place.

A large bolder blocking a cave sudden opens up and there came out a Charizard with the odd color of pure black scales and dark flames. It was not a shiny member of its species since shiny Charizards still have ordinary color flames burning from its tail.

"…" Wherever the beast stepped on, heat seems to simmer out of existences clearly meaning that its fire power was quite something.

"!" It spread out its wings and with one flap flew to the sky.

The moment it was gone, some of the Charizards around felt a little less tense but they all knew it was coming back.


And done!

Yep, if anyone saw it. We added GUNTHUR MAGNUS the worlds greatest side kick/Wingman from Kick Buttowski. We were debating on putting him as Ichigo's side kick since a funny fool like him is a jack of all trades in some way.

Anyway, bye!