A/N: Damn, how much things are different from manga. Damn.
Gotei 13 watches anime – Pendulum Cast
Chapter 4: Episode 4-5
"We have way too many questions actually but I doubt you are willing to answer us." Yoruichi snorted.
"Well, many questions you might have will probably be answered during the course of the story and I really don't want to spoil the plot…" Asagi said.
"What do you think if we watch next two episodes and then have dinner?" Kanzo-iro asked then. "After eating a couple of more episodes before calling the night."
"But no sake parties!"
"Shut up Asagi."
The episode began with sounds of sirens and Sado with his friends sitting and talking about…
"A cursed parakeet?!"
And after a conversation between them, Sado accepted taking the bird with him. Only to have a steel beam fall down of them.
The scene cut to Hueco Mundo where a hollow of some srot was talking about devouring and how Shinigami souls were the most delicious ones.
"No matter how much we fight, there are still some that fall prey to hollows. Sad fact of life." Love sighed.
"Once you taste it, you always crave it."
The parakeet was shown as a black silhouette against red background.
"Is it a bait?" Isane frowned. "Poor bird…"
Back with the humans, Sado took a burnt of the hit.
"How is he still alive?!" Kaien exclaimed. "A normal human would've died from that!"
"I think it is becoming glaringly clear that people of Karakura are anything but normal." Ukitake stated, in mild shock him too.
"Thank you for saving me." The parakeet said. "My name is Shibata Yuuichi. What's yours?"
Silence reigned.
"I'm sensing something really bad and sad going on…" Rojuro murmured. The parakeet didn't sound like a bird at all. It sounded like a little boy. Not to mention the sentences it – he – spoke. Something was going on.
"What's your name, oji-san?"
"Sado Yasutora. I'm 15 years old… still."
"Isn't he from Ichigo-kun's class?" Kyoraku asked.
"I think so." Lisa shrugged. "If this… case is centered around him, we'll probably know more about him eventually, just like with that Orihime-girl."
Next day had Ichigo wondering the healing rate of his own injuries.
"I was among the best in my Kidou class. That was easy." Rukia explained.
"I didn't know they taught kaidou techniques in kidou class. Have they changed the curriculum?" Unohana asked.
"Probably not." Seinosuke muttered. "More likely she picked it up during her time at division. Having good grasp in kidou just helped her… And she is bragging."
"Kidou class? What's that? Shinigami go to school?" Ichigo asked.
"Does it really need asking?" Hiyori sneered.
"Well, considering that Kurosaki-kun knew nothing about the Shinigami previously, he might've assumed that Shinigami knew instinctively how to slay hollows and some such…" Kisuke shrugged. "Just like plus souls have their own instincts and knowledge about afterlife and hollows automatically know what they need in order to survive… He is simply asking questions in order to amend his information."
Rukia asked how to drink her juice carton. Ichigo replied her. The Shinigami in the audience remained baffled.
"What purpose does a packaging like that have?" Jin'emon asked. No one answered.
Rukia and Ichigo were joined by Mizuiro who asked if they were… close. And if Ichigo cared what people talked about.
"Ahou, if I cared about what people thought, I'd have dyed my hair black."
Meanwhile Rukia continued struggling with the juice but flipped into sparkling naivety as soon as Mizuiro addressed her.
"Kojima Mizuiro, 15 years old. I like…"
"Picking up girls." Ichigo interrupted the introduction. "He looks like a dork but he's a real flirt."
"So a more refined version of taichou then." Lisa said flatly, shooting a look at Kyoraku.
"Maa maa, Lisa-chan. I don't look that bad."
"Yes, you do." Chikane said from the other side of the seating arrangement.
Then Keigo arrived, causing mess and being messed with. Like Rukia pretending not to know his name.
And finally Sado appeared too, with injuries and the parakeet in tow. Seeing the injuries and hearing what had caused them, the humans were surprised too.
"What's with the bird?"
"Konnichiwa. My name is Shibata Yuichi. What's onii-chan's name?"
And Ichigo and Rukia both sensed something from the bird. Isane bit her lip and exchanged a glance with Nanao. She really wanted to know what was going on with the bird.
"Chad, where did you get the bird?"
"Yesterday…" A pause. "Somebody gave it to me."
"Wait! You were just about to tell us, but got lazy and cut it short, didn't you?! That's a bad habit you have. Now, explain!"
"Good thing that no one here is like that with their reports." Yamamoto stated, startling many with his sudden comment. It seemed that the old man was relaxing slightly. Finally.
The screen focused on Ichigo but then Rukia spoke, reassuring the boy.
"There's definitely something in that bird, but it's not evil. It's probably a lonely spirit. But we cannot leave it alone. We should perform a Konso tonight."
"Why do I get the feeling they won't succeed…" Rangiku sighed.
"Because of plot purposes?" Gin grinned. "I'm already sensing a pattern here. Asagi-chan said that we will be showed two episodes, so wouldn't that mean this case will last the entirety of it? And we haven't even reached the halfway mark of the first episode so… Troubles are to come."
"Since when did you become so perspective?" Shinji looked down at his third seat.
"Through the academy in one year, taichou. They call me genius."
"Well, with you trailing after Sousuke like some lost puppy, it's generally hard to see."
"Is that so?" Gin opened slightly his eyes for a brief, brief moment but no one saw the irritation that flashed through his light blue eyes.
The scene continued from there on through Rukia's musings about Ichigo understanding the work of Shinigami better and then Ichigo began telling about how he met Sado.
"How old are 8th graders?" Ukitake frowned when the scene showed a flashback of Ichigo fighting a gang of thugs alone.
Speakers crackled as their hosts tuned back on.
"Approximately thirteen or fourteen." Kanzo-iro replied.
"And how much schooling does humans go through?" The white-haired captain asked no that he had the opportunity and actual questions.
"Well… There is pre-school and kindergarten where children around years 2-6 go." Asagi began. "That's because of chance in human society where it's typical that both parents work… Then begins the actual school at years 6-7. The first phase is elementary school and lasts six years. Then it's middle school that lasts three years. Some students quit at this point and start working but some go to high school, like Ichigo and his friends. High school takes three years also typically so… Around twelve years school, until legal age of 18 or so."
"That's quite a lot."
"Well, we have a lot more subjects than your Shin'ou Academy too." Kanzo-iro added. "Subjects that concern the world around us, how it has evolved and why… No killing techniques."
"Enough with the bitterness. They will glare at us if we ever go to see them face to face." Asagi admonished the boy and then they fell silent again, letting the episode continue.
In the fight on the screen, Ichigo was held still while a thug beat him with iron knuckles and was about to toss a tile on his head when Sado intervened.
Isshin let out a sigh of relief. He really didn't like seeing his future son getting beaten like that, no matter how well he seemed to handle the fights in the story's 'present-day'.
Then Sado was getting hit in the stomach repeatedly but his expression didn't change at all.
"Chad never fights back, no matter how much people goad him." Ichigo stated as the scene changed back to the school roof. Sado was feeding the parakeet who eagerly ate the bread offered.
Night fell. Ichigo arrived home.
"Tadaima!"
"Outta the way! Move!" Karin shouted and hurried past her brother.
"Huh? What's the matter, Karin? What's your hurry?"
"Hi, oniichan!" Yuzu greeted him. Both of the girls were dressed in nurse outfits. Not that any of the Shinigami assembled recognized the outfit for what it was.
"What's going on?"
"An accident! There was a car accident at the intersection."
"A car accident?"
"You won't take him?" Isshin's voice floated through. "Do something! There are patients who need more than our first-aid level of treatment! Now listen! Tell your director it's a request from Kurosaki! Then you'll find some free beds! Understand?!"
Isshin didn't really like the way he was scrutinized every time the clinic under his future-self came up. No, neither Unohana nor Seinosuke looked at him. But he could feel the judgement even when they were staring at the screen!
"Oyaji! Anything I can do to help?" Ichigo asked.
"No! Get back in some corner and stay outta way!"
"So…" Unohana began. "You put your two young daughters to work as your assistants and deny your son the opportunity to help even when he is most likely more experienced that Yuzu-chan and Kari-chan combined…"
"Do you somehow think that healing is only a feminine job?" Seinosuke added.
Isshin was sweating.
"Ah… I'm sure there is a reason… Maybe I know about Ichigo's job as a Shinigami and thus am trying to make sure he won't leave in the middle of a critical situation and that's why keep him out right at the beginning?" The answer came without stutter but still sounded too much like a question. The stares and chilling smiles turned away but the judgement didn't. Especially when Ichigo's help was only needed in the next scene where the twins came in while trying to carry Sado's large and heavy frame.
The next scene went from Ichigo recognizing Sado to the parakeet and to Karin who seemed startled by something.
Seinosuke perked up and scribbled yet another note to his papers.
Sado had a mark of a hollow at his back. Isshin continued pretending oblivious while 'diagnosing' the patient. While trying to treat the large boy though, Sado attempted to leave in the middle of everything. Only fall on the floor in dead faint.
"Did you feel it?" Ichigo asked Rukia when he was back in his room in the upstairs.
"Of course. I felt it even here. I didn't sense anything from the parakeet. But the injury smelled of hollow."
"Must be a powerful hollow if a mere mark of it let so strong after impression." Sasakibe stated. "If it's the same than the one we saw talking about devouring Shinigami…"
"As a rookie Ichigo-kun might encounter some trouble." Sojun sighed.
The night fell and the occupants of the house went to sleep. Sado was awake thought with the parakeet. And so was Karin who was haunted by something relating to the bird.
"See, Rangiku. We only now reached the half-way point and this much has already happened." Gin remarked.
"Yes, yes, you were right…" The strawberry blonde young woman sighed.
The morning dawned for the Kurosaki household. Yuzu had made breakfast (thing that wasn't protested for by the Shinigami, so old-fashioned as they were about the roles of the children and women) but Karin was missing, apparently feeling ill which was unusual for her. Then Isshin barged in, informing them that Sado had disappeared from his room at the clinic.
Rukia and Ichigo went to look for him at once. But they could not find anything. Neither by foot nor with the help of Soul Society.
An explanation sketch about the between-space where hollows resided, appeared.
"You expect me to understand with those kindergarten drawings?" Ichigo asked.
"They're not-…!" Byakuya began but stopped then he saw Rukia already retaliating.
"Hollow is chasing Chad! It'll be too late if we wait for it to attack! There must be something…" Ichigo remembered the parakeet. "That's right! The parakeet Chad had! We just have to follow the soul that possessed it!"
"Impossible." Ginrei scoffed. "The boy has had his powers for only what? Three days? Moreover, with the bird's own soul mixing in…"
"That's not possible!" Rukia protested but Ichigo ignored her and concentrated. Light blue of his reiatsu filled the screen. Everyone held their breath to see what would happen.
"Ichi…go… What's this sensation?" Rukia stared in confusion. Spirit particles were lightened up and trailing upwards from the ground.
The scene cut to Sado and parakeet, the bird apologizing for all the trouble he was causing and trying to cajole Sado into leaving him behind. The boy refused.
Then Karin woke up from her nightmares and got up to go and tell Ichigo… something.
It was back to Rukia and Ichigo now.
"What's this? It's such a weak soul, even I cannot sense its presence. And he's trying to find it from this distance?"
The spirit particles materialized into reiraku – spirit ribbons – to the astonishment of many. Even Ginrei's eyes widened marginally.
"I found him! Let's go!" Ichigo grabbed one of the ribbons and dashed off.
"Whoa… It was so pretty…" Isane breathed.
"But how did he do it?" Nanao frowned. "It's a higher level technique. Even if he had enough reiatsu…"
"It is a mystery, isn't it?" Unohana smiled.
"I have a feeling that Ichigo has an instinctual grasp of anything relating to Shinigami work…" Kaien smiled. "He probably won't have that much of trouble with the hollow after all."
With Sado and parakeet, they had sought shelter from an old warehouse. Where a hollow tried to flatten them. He dashed through a window and was then spotted by Ichigo and Rukia. He ran away from them too though.
"Ichi-nii!"
"Karin! What're you doing? You're still weak!"
The girl slumped down.
"Ichigo!" Rukia called. "Take her home first. I'll go and save him."
"What're you saying?! I can't!"
"Don't complain! If you leave her there and go, you'll be distracted when you fight the Hollow. I can't have that."
"Reasonable argument but how will it turn out for her…" Love pondered. "Difficult to say. She is in severely weakened state but… If the previous case is any indication, eventually she'll have help from Sado-kun."
The two parted ways, with Ichigo carrying his sister.
"Ichi-nii… I saw it… Last night… the memories of the spirit that possessed the parakeet. I think it's because I was the closest in age."
"Age? Karin-chan is… how old is she?" Kyoraku frowned.
"I don't know but not older than thirteen." Ukitake was frowning too. He really didn't like the sound of this case.
"The strongest memory that remains in that child's mind. It came flowing into me."
Seinosuke's pen stopped for a moment.
"That child… His mother was killed before his very eyes!"
"Tragic…" Unohana murmured sorrowfully. "There are certain things that no child… well, no being really… should every witness…"
Karin begged Ichigo to save the child's soul and with that the scene changed again. This time to Sado who was being chased by Rukia and hollow both. And Rukia's musings about the gigai she was wearing currently.
"And once again it begs the question where she got that…" Urahara mused. "But she definitely should report to research division about her gigai malfunction instead of berating them…"
And then the hollow appeared, wanting to devour Rukia's soul. The Shinigami fought back, retaliated with Soukatsui that didn't work.
Sado went to Rukia's help despite parakeet's warnings. The girl was cornered while the hollow was gloating about eating two other Shinigami that tried to help the boy inside the parakeet to pass over.
"Hollows always find most distasteful ways to get souls." Jin'emon muttered.
"Why do I get the feeling that this one is more warped than others?" Kaien frowned.
"By kid, you mean the spirit inside the parakeet? It seems you keep chasing after that soul. Why is that?!" Rukia questioned the hollow.
"Well, if you let me eat you without resisting, I'll tell you." The hollow answered before the scene cut back to Ichigo and Karin.
"Tell him… That if he passes over, he'll be able to see his mother. Tell that boy… Don't let that boy be all alone anymore. Please, Ichi-nii…" The girl told her brother.
And the episode ended to that.
Next episode was put running immediately. Ichigo laid Karin to sleep and as he hurried back to the scene of fight, he mused about his sisters and how each of them reacted to their mother's death.
Meanwhile Rukia was pinned to the wall by the hollow and…
"He managed to hit it?" Kensei said in surprise as Sado's punch forced the hollow to let go of Rukia. He wasn't the only surprised one as even on-screen Sado and Rukia were astonished. Rukia even went as far as to suggest the boy could see spirits but was quickly proven wrong when Sado went to punch air.
The hollow got up and began talking, only to get punched again.
"He is really strong." Mashiro complemented.
"Impossible… He shouldn't be seeing the hollow, much less hear its voice… He's calmly facing down an enemy he cannot even sense… Doesn't he have any fear?"
"Brave boy…" Ukitake smiled. "Ichigo-kun mentioned that he doesn't fight for himself though. It seems he has taken the parakeet and Rukia under his protection then."
"Hmm… Very likely." Kyoraku agreed.
The hollow jumped to the air and spread its wings, laughing.
"What are you going to do now, good-for-nothing Shinigami?" It mocked.
"Don't just stand there! Get away! He's up in the air!" Rukia shouted to Sado.
"Transfer student… You can see ghosts?" The boy asked, his only visible eye widening.
"Never mind about that! In any case, at that distance…"
"Where is he?"
"What?"
"He's flying isn't he? In which direction?"
"What is he planning?" Sui-Feng frowned. "He can't see the hollow and even with Kuchiki-san's instruction…"
"We'll see soon, I think. Patience, Sui-Feng." Yoruichi smiled.
"Hai, Yoruichi-sama!"
And then Sado lifted up (uprooted really) a lamppost.
"Now… where is he?"
"Right there! Swing down right there!"
The hollow was beaten down with one swing of the heavy block of wood.
"Now stay down. Someone's on his way to finish you off."
"But it isn't even the half-way of this second episode. It won't be this easy." Gin chirped. He received a couple of glares for the interruption but no one refuted the remark.
The hollow laughed and some strange minions of his attacked Rukia and Sado, pinning them to the ground.
"You Shinigami take us too lightly. That's why you end up like this."
"The ingrained superiority." Gin thought and exchanged a look with Rangiku.
Sado freed himself from the living restraints by sheer strength.
"What? This is crazy! You think you can solve all your problems with muscle? You muscle-headed idiot?!" The hollow protested.
"Sado-kun isn't like the meatheads from the Eleventh so I'm inclined to say no." Rojuro chuckled when Sado went to hit the hollow again.
"He does have a good intuition thought." Love remarked. "Even if it doesn't always work."
"This way, Chad! Kick the air above me!"
And the hollow escaped to the air again.
"With the way Rukia-san needs to constantly tell him where to hit and when he's just hitting air… they make quite the good comedy act." Seinosuke smiled, opening another page in his notebook, this one with the dark-skinned boy's name as the heading. He steadfastily ignored the glares received from Ginrei and Byakuya about the mere suggestion that a Kuchiki would be part of any sort of comedy.
Though with Rukia's next idea, even they had to agree that things were bordering ridiculous.
Lauching oneself to the sky. Really now. The chuckles coming from others were not helping the matter either.
"How is she even planning on taking on the hollow if she can't use kidou?" Nanao asked. "No zanpakutou, no kidou, gigai restraining her to the level of normal human…"
"She doesn't have any choices." Lisa explained. "Currently, she is the only one that can see the hollow. If she can somehow bring the hollow back to the ground, Sado-san can beat it down until Kurosaki-san arrives."
"Despite its ridiculousness, it is a sound plan." Rangiku mused. "No way safe but… with a possibility of it actually working."
"If the hollow doesn't have another ace in its wing-fold." Gin added.
And Rukia was in the air! Everything seemed just fine with even the hollow panicking. Until one of its minions were revealed, spitting leeches at her. She fell from the air but Sado caught her before she hit the ground.
"I hope they are only leeches…" Yoruichi muttered. Hollows could stock up all sorts of nasty surprises but if those leeches only took in reiatsu and didn't have poison or anything similar in them, Rukia should be fine once she got them off.
"They won't come off easily. Besides, they're my targets!" The hollow announced and had its tongue make a whistling noise.
The leeches exploded.
Many curses were let out at it.
Sado stepped up against the hollow but then…
The parakeet's cage had been fetched by the minions. The minions that were ready to explode around it and kill the parakeet.
"I'm sorry, oji-chan… He caught me…" Yuuichi said.
With that the hollow announced his threats which Rukia then relayed to the boy. She ran off then, distracting the hollow and its minions and buying time.
"I really hope Ichigo-kun will arrive soon." Ukitake said. "Rukia-chan can go on for long like this."
And right on cue she got doused with leeches again, which were made to explode. She kept running on though, despite the taunts thrown at her direction.
Until she came to a stop.
"What is she doing?" Mashiro pouted. "She should keep running and running and running. Right, Kensei?"
Her captain grunted as a reply.
"Have you given up already? That's no fun. Come on, run, will you?"
"I've not given up. I have no need to run anymore."
"What?"
"You said that I could attack you, didn't you? In that case, I will take you at your word."
"There you have your half-way, Gin-chan." Shinji teased the boy. "Are you satisfied?"
"Hai, hai, taichou. Now we just wait for the hero to arrive." The boy grinned.
"In that case, I will take you at your word." Rukia said. Ichigo stomped the hollow on the head as he stood on its back.
"Right… Ichigo?"
"So cool!" Mashiro squealed.
"What do you mean, 'Right, Ichigo'? Didn't you promise to not worry me by fouling up?" The orangehead asked in annoyance.
"Fool! That's a line for someone who's even a little bit worried, to say."
"I guess you're right."
"Damn you… How long do you intend to sit on my head!" The hollow shouted and Ichigo jumped off its back.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, 15 years old! Currently a Shinigami Substitute! If you want to chase someone, aren't you running after the wrong person?"
The angered hollow tried to attack again with the leech bombs but Rukia used the chance to separate the boy from his body. And through the smokescreen, Ichigo slashed at the hollow.
"I see. So you used those bombs so pin Chad down so you could enjoy attacking a girl?" Ichigo analyzed the situation.
"Quite quick observation considering that he only now arrived to the scene." Sojun noted.
The scene changed to Chad's point of view where the tall boy could only see Rukia and Ichigo's empty body.
"I-Ichigo? What's going on?"
"Chad. Perfect timing. Go and hide him and the parakeet somewhere safe."
"Transfer student… What is this…?"
"Poor boy, he must be so confused." Unohana murmured.
"Doesn't really matter now, does it?" Seinosuke stated. "Once this is over, his memories will be modified too."
"Very true." His captain conceded.
Ichigo was battling the hollow and its minions which he cut in half before they could spit their leeches at him. But the hollow just exploded the minions itself. Ichigo dashed from the smoke and laid his sword against the hollow's neck.
"There's something I want to ask you. Are you the one who killed the parents of the kid inside the parakeet?"
"Of course…" Ukitake said softly. "Why else the hollow would've been so fixated on the kid…"
"I really don't like this case." Kaien muttered, barely audibly.
"Me neither. And I have a feeling Ichigo-kun will learn yet something new once everything is handled…"
They were back with the parakeet who was trying to explain that everything was his fault. That it was because he wanted to bring his mother back to life that Rukia and Sado had been hurt. Rukia immediately grabbed onto the statement and demanded to know who'd told the boy such things.
Meanwhile, the hollow admitted killing the boy's mother while he was alive. And how he'd died himself back then.
"Oh… It will definitely be a learning experience." Isshin said grimly.
"What do you mean?" Rangiku asked.
"You'll see…"
The story went on about how the hollow trapped the boy – alive back then – into a parakeet and used him as a bait for new victims while the boy believed he would bring his mother back to life if he succeeded in getting away from the hollow for three months.
Ichigo was angered, dropping his guard for a moment.
"Fool." Sui-Feng hissed.
A couple of leeches were spat at the boy who then punched through the teeth of the hollow mask and left one of the bombs there.
"You can have this bomb back." Ichigo said, smirking. "What's wrong? You're going to set it off, aren't you? Come on and click your tongue!"
Shinji narrowed his eyes at the substitute's behavior. It was unnerving and very un-shinigami-like.
"Aren't you going to click your tongue?" The boy continued. "In that case… I'll take it with me!" He ripped his arm out of the mask and took the tongue with him.
And then he struck, slicing the mask in half.
"Quite unconventional fighter." Rojuro mused. "A lot of potential, but very unlike what we've been taught."
"Considering that he seems to get into street fights, he simply learns as he goes." Love replied.
White and red light exploded out of the hollow, youngest watchers gasped as a pair of large doors appeared behind the serial killer. The doors were Prussian blue and had a pair of skeletons holding them closed.
"What are those?" Isane whispered.
"Those… are Gates of Hell." Unohana explained grimly. On the screen Rukia explained how zanpakuto only washed away sins committed after death as the gates were opening. The youngest of the audience had learnt briefly about the hell and it's gates but seeing them was still frightening.
The hollow was impaled but a giant sword held in a giant tattooed hand coming out of the red-glowing insides of the gate. The gates closed with a loud noise before shattering to pieces.
"So… he's gone to hell?" Ichigo stated before the scene changed to evening and Rukia examining the parakeet. Shibata Yuuichi's chain of fate was gone by now though and there was no other option than performing konso on him.
When the parakeet boy seemed sad, Rukia began explaining about Soul Society and how good place it was.
"The way she talks… It's like she is lying to herself… about the conditions of Rukongai." Rangiku said sadly.
"She is a Kuchiki though…" Gin frowned. "How could she know enough to try a delude herself like that?"
"Maybe she has lived around there?" Kaien suggested. "The Shiba's have a lot of houses around Rukongai and my siblings and I have spent a lot of time in them. Sometimes Seireitei gets way too stuffy."
Meanwhile Ichigo joined the conversation.
"At least, if you go over, you'll be able to see your mama. You can't bring her back to life, but now, you can go to her."
"A beautiful thought, except that things don't work like that." Lisa stated. "He'll end up some other district and even if he were to find his mother, it's possible that she won't remember him."
"Oji-chan…" Shibata addressed Sado. "Thank you for everything… You ran around with me in your arms, so I didn't get hurt at all."
"Yes… You're safe."
"Well, I'll be going then." Yuuichi's spirit appeared behind the parakeet. "Thank you very much."
"Yuuichi… When I die and pass over, would it be okay if I carried you and ran around again?"
"Yes!"
There were a couple of females who were dabbing their eyes at this point.
Ichigo performed the konso. And Karin rested peacefully in her own room.
"Touching end…" Asagi sighed. "But now, dinner time… Let's talk later again."
"Are you trying to slip from your responsibilities?" Kanzo-iro asked.
"Not really, the dinner is prepared after all. I just don't feel like answering questions right now."
"The dining area is ready, please proceed there and enjoy."
A/N: Next case is Kon! I can't wait for it. Urahara and Tessai introduced in the living world! What will the gotei think about this? As some of you might've noticed, I've added some stuff from the manga to the narration of the anime. For example the story of Orihime's parents was changed between manga and anime and here I added Rukia trolling Keigo.
Replies to Reviews:
-Rayvanhur:
Great to hear that. I also hope to write till the end. I will be skipping some filler episodes but in general I try to stick to anime. I might be skipping Bount Arc though... But movies will be included as I really like the first two.
Urahara in the next chapter. I'm at two minds about this. At one hand, I'm excited. At other hand I'm panicking because I'm the one who has to come up with the reactions...
Poor Rose indeed.
-Bleach power:
Thank you. Rukia is such a contradiction, isn't she? When you watch the anime as a first timer it doesn't matter because you don't know about the clans yet. But for them... Nje-heh.
Fight? Which one of them? Bleach is full of fights.
-OTrizy:
This will be quite large. What I've planned the chapters, the first story arc should be wrapped up in ten chapters altogether. Kon, June 17, Don Kanonji, Hollow Bait, Rukia taken, Training+Leaving. That means six more chapters before Soul Society. But as I mentioned in above review, I also will be skipping some episodes.
-ultima-owner:
Very true. Umm... 'arm house'? What do you mean?
-Dangai Ichigo:
It will definitely interesting though in far, far in the future.
-Guest:
Yes, that will be interesting indeed.
-The Richmaster (chapter 1-3):
1: Well, there has never been stated when Isshin became a captain. Only in the pendulum arc just before Urahara's nomination it's said that the 10th division captain had retired? Or was it 3rd division captain before Rose that retired and the 10th died... Anyways, there is no info of Isshin's rank back then.
2: Thank you. I understand your opinion. Mostly I'm doing this because I don't want my story being taken down due copyright violations. Other reason is to spare my writing time as you all are already familiar with the story and there is no need for the audience to comment every single thing that happens. They are mostly mature adults after all. And Yamamoto is in the audience too to quell constant interruptions.
3: Great to hear. :)
:
I can't wait for it either.
-Guest:
Thank you!