A/N: Alright, on with the story! And I want to say a lot of thank yous to the people who had generously spend their time reading my fanfic and more thank you's to the people who spend their time reviewing it. Thanks everyone! Especially to Nilmiel and Kenya who give long reviews and advice, which makes me wanna improve more. Anyway, to show my appreciation, I'm making something special, which I hope you guys like it.
DISCLAIMER-BEHIND THE SCENES!
Ok, let's face it. Who, in the world, or more precisely, in the FFN would like to do disclaimers, anyway? Heck, no one does.
But, its because of disclaimers too that allows the author/ess to become more creative with how to disclaim the things that they didn't own.
But, unfortunately, the author of this story wished to become creative with his disclaimer too, but ran out of ideas.
So…let us see how will he try to make a creative disclaimer…by using the help from the BLEACH and KH characters!
CrimsonVerxerk's studio…(Imaginary studio actually…)
CrimsonVerxerk had been sitting in front of his (ah-hem…imaginary) computer for the past hour, trying to get his story into high gear when something was bugging him.
"…." Crimson just stared at the monitor, as if waiting…"Arrgghh! Stupid disclaimer! I ran out of ideas of how to make this chap's disclaimer!"
Crimson then slam his head on the keyboard in frustration. Suddenly, a light bulb went off in his head. "I know! The cast!"
And with that, he rushed out of his (imaginary) room, past the many hallways until he reached a door, which reads 'THE CAST ROOM'.
Slowly, Crimson then opened the door and he could see the many faces he wished they were real…
The Cast Room is the place for the BLEACH and KH characters wait while the (ah-hem…imaginary) 'director' prepares the script for the fic.
Rukia was reading the latest BLEACH manga on a nearby sofa, Sora was playing the KH2 game, Orihime were trying to conjure some weird food and other people were doing their own stuff.
If this room were real, it could be considered a heaven for fangirls.
They all then ceased their activities when Crimson entered the room. Deathly silence filled the room and slowly…all the characters turned their heads to look at him, with fiery death auras around them.
'Why the heck I have the feeling that they somewhat hate me?' Crimson thought. "Urm…guys, I need some help with the disclaimer…" Crimson stated.
"Senbozakura Kageyoshi!"
"Getsuga Tensho!"
"Howl, Zabimaru!"
"Firaga!"
Suddenly, without warning, all the characters in the room attack him. "What the? Why are you guys attacking me?"
The room becomes quite again, but only for a moment when they all screamed 'WE HATE YOU!' at him.
"Whaaaattt? What did I do?" Crimson asked.
"You make me sound like I'm gay!" Yumichika replied.
"Well, you portray yourself as gay, so don't blame me," Crimson said.
"You almost destroy my balls!" Sora said.
"Hey, at least you get something in return!" Crimson replied in defense.
"You didn't show me at all!" Byakuya said with a straight face.
"I was about to! Okay, that's enough! I don't care if you guys hate me or not! I just want your help with the disclaimer!" Crimson screamed at the top of his lungs. "We will do this by picking straws! And that's final!"
And so…all the characters then with gloomy face took their turn to pick straws that has numbers on them. Tousen, was the lucky number one.
"Phew! Finally! Ok Tousen, I've already typed the disclaimer, so all you need to do is to type what I don't own, creatively, alright?" Crimson said to Tousen.
"I'll give my best," he replied. With that, he then ventured to Crimson's room to the computer and start working on the disclaimer with Crimson himself in tow. Few seconds later, Tousen was finished.
"Wow! Thanks Tousen, I really appreciate it!" Crimson patted Tousen on the back.
"No prob…" he said and quickly leave.
"Alright, time to start my story!" Crimson said happily and start typing….
DISCLAIMER: LKVCAUIFGAUCIAJCASCG (A/N: Oh, yeah…I forgot that Tousen is blind…)
"I'm...dead?" Sora said to no one in particular. He is actually referring to the condition he is now, which is bad. Actually, he wasn't sure if he is still alive or not, considering he can't see a thing, hear a thing or smell anything!
He wondered if the ring is actually a one-hit kill technique from the goggled guy. "Okay...where is the so called 'guiding light'?" he said. Heck, if he was dead, where's the light?
"I'm dead?..." Tousen heard. Clearly that even the ryoka isn't immune to his Ban Kai. He could see the ryoka outstrecthing his arms, trying to feel his way in the darkness.
Now, he can proceed with his plan smoothly.
"Don't worry, the harm that will be inflicted to you will not be by my hands," Tousen said to Sora while passing him to Komamura.
"Tousen!" Komamura screamed. He also had difficulty adjusting himself in the void. "This isn't the way! How would you know that Aizen will not start another war?"
"I'll make sure of it..." Tousen then raise his hand towards Komamura. "Destruction Art 31: Red Flame Cannon..."
A red fireball then hit Komamura square in the chest and exploded in a large smoke. The smoke then clears to reveal Komamura still standing. Komamura, realising the direction of attack then charge at Tousen.
Tousen avoided the blow swiftly and retaliates with a quick slash, splattering blood over the black floor. Again, Komamura attack from where Tousen was now but failed and he received another slash.
"Useless...it's powerless people like you that will only cause more bloodshed," Tousen said, directly to Komamura's face and stabbed him on the stomach.
Komamura could tell that Tousen was mocking him, and he couldn't take it any longer. He then grabs Tousen's sword, but Tousen, wasn't going to let history repeat itself again and quickly withdraw his sword, cutting Komamura's fingers who had just grab the blade.
"BAN KAI! Kokujou Tengen Myu-Oh!" Komamura screamed and tighten his grip. A huge living armor then appears and following Komamura's movements, slashes Tousen. A large explosion ensues and a large cloud of smoke covers them both.
Sora were still trying to adjust himself in the darkness but failed misrably. All he could do was feel the air like some blind man withouth his walking stick. Well, he is...
Meanwhile, Sora still wasn't sure if he was really dead, so...to test the teory, he slapped his face, hard. "Aw! Okay, I'm not dead, that's for sure. So...I just lost my three senses, huh? Guess I have to really on my sixth then. Not sure if I had any, anyway," Sora told himself and scrunch his face in concentration. If people could see his face...they would say that he was constipated.
Anyway, he suddenly then heard voices...
Useless...it's powerless people like you that will only cause more bloodshed...
"Huh?" he didn't actually heared the words, but more likely...saw the words. It's just like when that time he and his friends fought the Enigmatic Man at Hollow Bastion. "Telepathy?"
Ban Kai! Kokujou Tengen Myu-Oh!
An explosion then happened and a large piece of debris hit him hard on the head. "Ow..." Sora said while rubbing his head. He then decided to turn his head towards the explosion, hoping to see what cause it when he got quite a shock.
His vision had returned! But not quite perfect. He could see, but only in black and white. But that was standard actually, as he had been in a black and white world before but what's strange was that he could 'see' the sound effects!
Just now, he could see the word 'rumble' lingering in the air before dissipating. It's like he is in a manga or something. "Hmm...maybe being inside this dome is affecting my senses in a way...okay, in two ways actually,"
Tousen had anticipated Komamura's move. Really, people who had lost their senses are a predictable opponent. So, with the large sword coming down on him, he nimbly shifted his body to the right, and felt a rushing wind and an explosion followed soon after. The sword had missed him by inches.
"I'm sorry my friend...if you perceive justice the way I do...things wouldn't be this way..." Tousen then forcefully pulled his zanpakuto away from Komamura's grip and raised it to his neck level. Intending to finish the battle quick, Tousen then swung for a fatal decapitating slice.
The feeling of warm liquid spraying on his face never came, but instead, he heard a loud 'cling' as his zanpakuto was intercepted by something.
"Wha...?" he said but Komamura then dragged his his sword to left across the floor, with his giant armor imitating it and the big sword then grazed the floor.
Tousen had flash-stepped out of harm's way in between Sora and Komamura, facing Sora.
"You...you could see? And hear?" he asked the ryoka. "How?"
"Six sense, I guess..." Sora casually replied,and the Kingdom Key appeared in his right hand. "Anyway...why the heck are you guys attacking each other?"
"It's a long story, which, I'm not too keen to make it short," Tousen replied.
"Don't worry about me, I have all day to listen to your long version," Sora said with grin. He was being sarcastic with him cause he know that Tousen isn't going to tell him anything, but at least he want to tried. Maybe it'll work...
"Anyway...you probably won't tell me though, and it seemed that the problem is for you and the guy to take care of...so could you let me go?" Sora said, almost pleadingly.
Unfortunately for Tousen, he didn't have all day like Sora said he has, and it's true that the problem is between him and Komamura, but he couldn't let Sora go.
"Looks like there have been a change of plan..." Tousen said and he raise his zanpakuto and touch the small ring, "Nake!"
Suzumushi's ring then vibrates to produce a single ring note. Sora 'heard' the ring alright. But nothing happened to him.
Perplexed by this, Tousen asked him. "You said you can hear?"
"Well, technically...no. But literally...yes," Sora replied. 'Things are a bit weird here...' Sora thought. He then took a guick glance at Komamura and realised that he is wearing the same outfit as the other residents before...but Tousen's differrent. In which means...they might be the enemy and the world's residents might mistake him to be his ally!
If he can prove to the residents that he isn't one of thier enemy...by beating Tousen, then things might work out!
"Whoever you are, you're not gonna kill anyone while I'm around!" Sora charged at Tousen.
Sora then slashed downward, which Tousen had backstepped away from, and countered with a slash. Sora ducked and does an uppercut with his Keyblade. Tousen again backstepped it and quickly jab at Sora with his zanpakuto and hit him on the right shoulder.
Tousen then quickly withdraw his zanpakuto and slashed at Sora. Sora then blocked it, which cause Tousen to stagger away as the force the applied returned to him, as if he had just use a hammer to hit a powerful spring.
"What? Your weapon returns the kinetic force applied?" Tousen asked.
"That's the nature of the Keyblade," Sora replied and charge again. Tousen quickly casted the Red Flame spell without chanting it and caught Sora by surprise and hit him on the chest, sending him flying away.
Sora landed hard at the floor and was about to get up when Tousen flash-stepped above him and stuck his zanpakuto through his left shoulder and to the floor.
"Your zanpakuto is most interesting," Tousen said casually, as if he has won the fight.
"Zanpa...kuto?" Sora winced as the blade had pierced thorugh his bones. He can't move his left arm now. Sora then thrust the Keyblade upwards, narrowly hitting Tousen's face., and casted Thundaga.
The lightning spell majority of it to hit Tousen in which he flash-stepped away again. Sora then slowly got to his feet while tending to his left shoulder. Tousen whle on the hand was shaking a little as his body was still shocked by the sudden surge of electricity.
"And not to mention your combat skills, too," Tousen said and and flash-stepped behind Sora.
Sora realized this, Warped behind Tousen in return and slashed him. The Warp caught Tousen by surprise and he didn't have time to avoid the incoming blow and hit him on his side.
Luckily, the Kingdom Key doesn't have any sharp points. Sora intended to use Kingdom Key because of this reason, so that he wouldn't mistakenly kill someone, not by bleeding because of cuts anyway...but rather...internal bleeding from the Kingdom Key's blunt edge.
Sora then finish his blow with a combo that send Tousen stagerring away. Tousen then turned and cast the White Lightning spell at Sora.
Sora managed to block the lightning with his Keyblade, causing the lightning to be reflected like light on a mirror. But unfortunately, the lightning was reflected to the floor and exploded, covering Sora in smoke.
"Nishiki!" Tousen commanded to his zanpakuto. Suzumushi vibrates and Tousen swing it in an arc, leaving behind trails of blades. The blades then charges towards Sora.
"Reflega!"
Komamura didn't know what was happening around him. Tousen had ceased his attack on him. Why, he wondered.
'Maybe...he is conversing with his accomplish...the ryouka,'
Suddenly, a few of Suzumushi's blades hit him. 'Tousen! Wait...the blades is too little,' Komamura wondered and pulled out the blades. Suddenly, his wounds closed as he felt a healing aura engulfed him.
'Is the ryouka...fighting with Tousen?'
Tousen was really surprised today. Not only his Ban Kai failed on the ryouka, the ryouka seemed to know a handful of tricks. He didn't realized that the ryouka are capable of casting a reflective spell., heck, he didn't seemed to bright for spells.
And so, the prize for undermining the ryouka, he got the majority of Suzumushi's reflected blades. The blades then dissapeared, as if Suzumushi didn't want to fatally hurt its master anymore.
"Curaga!" Sora chanted. Healing aura engufled all three of them and Tousen could feel his wound closing. Sora then fell to his knee as exhaustion starting to catch up with him again, but he could move his left arm again.
"What...why?" Tousen asked, again, he was surprised.
"I've told you before...no one's gonna die while I'm around!" Sora replied and throws the Keyblade towards Tousen and ran to him.
"Foolish!" Tousen stated, seeing as Sora were charging at him without a weapon.
"Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" Tousen then slashed at the incoming projectile Keyblade but was surprised again when the Keyblade dissapeared in a bright flash of white and the same light then appeared at Sora's right hand.
Sora, was right now grinning, thrust his Keyblade at Tousen's face. Tousen managed to edged away from the Keyblade by bending his body backwards. Suddenly, the Kingdom Key again, dissapeared in a bright light and was replaced by a longer, blue, yellow and white Keyblade. The Ultima Keyblade.
The keyblade then gained length since the Ultima is longer then Kingdom Key and hit Tousen's goggle directly on its centre, cutting it in two. Tousen could see Sora's grin grew as Sora prepared his last trick.
"Firaga!" Sora casted and two fiery tails emerged from Sora's grip on the Keyblade. The tails then swirled around it and joins at the point to combine into a large fireball. The fireball then hit Tousen square in the face, sending him flying.
Tousen then crashed landed at Komamura, startling him. Komamura then grabbed hold of him. "Who?" he asked.
Sora then leaped high into the air, changed back into the Kingdom Key and bring it downward toward Tousen.
"Damn!" Tousen cursed. He was trapped right now as Komamura's iron-like grip rooted him to the spot and Sora was crashing towards him. The result of course, will knock him out. But suddenly, a black energy appeared and a figure stepped out from it, took hold of his hand and pulled him into the portal. The figure was strong, really strong as he managed to break him away from Komamura's grip.
And then, he was engufled in darkness.
Sora was just about to deal the K.O blow to Tousen when suddenly, like he was in slow mode, a black portal appeared and a figure...a figure he knew so well, stepped out and pulled Tousen into the portal and dissapeared.
'Well, that's just great, I'm about to knock that guy out when the Organization decided to butt in,' Sora thought. Suddenly, the black dome dissapeared and he could see normally again. 'Wait...if that guy just gone...then...Oh-no!'
Instead of Tousen, Komamura got hit instead on the head, effectively knocking him out.
"Argh! Damn Organization!" Sora screamed while tugging at his hair. Things got worst when suddenly, multiple Captains arrived to his right.
Kuchiki Byakuya, Toshiro Hitsugaya and Kyoraku Shunsui all eyed him carefully. Then, their gaze slowly turned to the K.Oed Komamura, and then to him again.
"Wait! I can explain!" Sora said while raising his hands in defense but panic started to grab hold of him as the Captains quickly put their hands to their zanpakutos.
Sora, knowing better, ran.
Meanwhile, the Captains Meeting Room was almost burned to ash and standing inside it were the General himself. The Unknown was nowhere to be seen.
"Coward!" he spat. The Unknown had just ran away when Tousen's Ban Kai dissapeared. His suspicion of the ryouka's involvement with Aizen's side grew. "Kisuke!" he growled to a crimson wall near him.
The crimson wall then vanished to reveal a sweaty Kisuke. "Yes?" he said. It was lucky that Benihime can conjure a shield, if not, he'd been roast meat now,considering the brutal fight between the legendary General with the Unknown.
"Call Isane Kotetsu here, Her skill is needed," Yamamoto said in a fierce voice. Kisuke nodded as his reply and was gone.
"Things have gotten worse," he said again.
"Geez! The ryouka is quite fast!" Toshiro said to his fellow Captains. They were chasing the ryouka now and still couldn't catch up to him, even with shunpo.
"Yup, we need to corner him. And by the way, where are the other Captains?" Kyoraku suggested and asked at the same time.
"Some are away and some are busy. But no matter, we will be more then enough," Byakuya replied and casted the White Lightning at Sora. The spell missed but did slow his taget down for a while.
"Nice trick," Kyoraku said and do the same. Toshiro followed too.
Suddenly, a pillar of white light can be seen at the other part of Soul Society.
"What the?" Toshiro said.
"It must have been the ryouka's friends," Byakuya stated.
"It seemed close to where the 12th Division is. That means Mayuri is there?" Kyoraku asked.
"Seems like it. Plus, that spell is not ours...so that means, he might have lost," Toshiro said grimly.
"Damn Organization! They sure know how to make things worse! Things could have been better if-" Sora complained but stopped when a barrage of lightning almost hit him. "Uh-oh, they're spamming spells!"
And then, a pillar of white light appeared and Sora recoqnise it in an instant. "The Ultima spell?"
Hueco Mundo: Aizen's Throne Room:
Aizen was irritated when the black portal appeared in front of him. The Organization are always like that, always come and go whenever they like. Clearly they don't have any respect for him...or fear him.
Tousen suddenly stumbled to the floor from the black portal and a figure steeped out from it. The figure then withdraw his hood to reveal Xemnas.
"You're fledging here almost cause a dent in your grand scheme. Really, I've conveyed a warning through Saix not to underestimate the Keyblade Master," Xemnas said with wicked smile.
This is what makes Aizen loathe him. He couldn't tell if Xemnas was angry, or not. He seemed to be enjoying the fact that Tousen almost fail, yet at the same time, he could sense that he is angry too.
"How...nice of you to show...concern of my grand scheme. But I can assure you that things will still be fine even there's a dent in my plan," Aizen replied. That's not true though. Tousen' failure could cause more than a dent.
"Oh, really?" Aizen said. "Well, I guess I should take my leave then, as there is nothing of interest here," a black portal then appeared behind him and Xemnas started to turn.
"Wait," Azien said, and Xemnas stopped in his tracks. "Why is it that you concern yourself with my plans? Who are you anyway? You just appeared just as you go, and provided us with the essentials of producing the Heartless, with no price for it at all. And you seemed more then generous to help me in my plan, as evidenced by the Quincy and now, Tousen,"
Xemnas then slowly turn his head to look at Aizen. "Why? Can't a...soul help one another?"
"Like I've said...your help is more then generous. Surely, it is not without a price?" Aizen asked again. This time, Xemnas laughed, really hard.
"Ahahahah! Why do you ask about it? You seemed eager to pay the price. May I ask, why?" Xemnas asked.
It' true, Aizen was eager to pay whatever the price that Xemnas will offer. This is because something isn't right about the Organization, no...Xemnas. It seemed that his plan, is a part of Xemnas's bigger plan, something much more worse than his. And he hoped, that by paying the price now, he wouldn't have to deal with the Organization later.
Aizen only replied by glaring coldly at Xemnas. Xemnas' smile turned into a loopsided one and he stated to walk into the portal.
Usually, Aizen isn't the one who pays the price. He named the prices. And if can, he would have pay Xemnas in his own price. But...
"Alright then, I wish to claimed it from you later, but what's the harm in telling you now, right? The price isn't something that you could pay...infact, I doubt you could pay a quarter of it," Xemnas then stopped directly in front of the portal, and turned to look at him again. "But worry not, you will pay the price, even if you have no worth,"
With that, he gave Aizen another loopsided wicked smile and stepped into the portal and was gone. Aizen then rubbed his temple.
Dealing with Xemnas is like...making a deal with a demon. The price to pay will always be too high.
Sora was doing the best he can trying to loose them, but the Captains are still persistent. He starting to grow tired now, fighting and running, and then repeat it again. If nothing is going to happen to clear up his name, he might get killed.
Suddenly, Toshiro appeared to his right and shoot out the red fireball and hit him. The fireball send him flying and he almost crash to the floor had he not regain his footing and landed safely. But things got more worse as he had just landed in front of a group of people.
It was like in slow motion, as he landed on his legs, and got the group's attention. Zaraki Kenpachi was still arguing with Kurosaki Ichigo when he saw Sora, and his lips curved into a wicked smile. Ichigo then turned to look at him and his expression turned serious. Both of them charged at him and Sora resumed his escape run.
'Great! More!' Sora mentally screamed
Toshiro had just scored a hit at the ryouka and managed to send him flying, but not before he landed swiftly. 'Hm...he's good' Toshiro mentally praised his enemy but cursed as Zaraki also join in the chase.
Well, more Captains will make it easier to chase the ryouka, but not capture them. Sure, Zaraki loved to fight, quality or quantity. He didn't mind fighting multiple opponents at a time but he won't take it for multiple people to fight one a time. Especially in this case.
Toshiro was sure that Zaraki would want to fight the ryouka but wouldn't like the idea of many people gang up on him. Heck, he was sure that Zaraki rather fight them all then all of them fight the ryouka.
Suddenly, a voice could be heard. It was Isane Kotetsu's.
"Everyone, pay attention!" Isane said out loud. "It seems that the enemy had found a way of entering Seretei without overcome it's shield as evidenced by Kaname Tousen's appearance just now. The ryouka is heavily suspected for this, so...use whatever is necessary to capture the ryouka quickly...dead or alive,"
"Looks like he is in big trouble..." Toshiro said. "Everyone, we have to split up!"
Everyone nodded in agreement and went separate ways.
"My, my, my. Sora have been a bad boy, lately," Xigbar said with a smile. He, Saix and Xigbar are atop a high roof, watching the Sora being chased.
"Yes, and I do believe his punishment will be severe," Saix said. He was smiling too, as if enjoying the show.
"A-huh, that's why we are here. To lessen his punishment," Luxord said. "And we all also here to...analyze Kurosaki Ichigo and Toshiro Hitsugaya, are we not?"
"Yes..." Saix said simply. Black energy then engulf the trio and soon, they were gone.
Ichigo went to the ryouka's right but still couldn't close in to him. But suddenly, he stopped chasing.
A person in a black hooded cloak was infront of him, holding a yellow blue claymore. The person then withdraw the hood to reveal a men with an X scar on his face and long blue hair.
"Who're you?" Ichgo asked while bringing his Zangetsu from his back.
"You want to know?" Saix said cooly. "Pay the price, then!"
Zaraki hated when his foe run away from him. Not only he knows nothing about the roads, he suck at shunpo too. And Yachiru didn't help too. Luckily, he didn't have to fret long.
Someone in black was already for him, holding a black Keyblade. "Sorry, but your foe will be me," Unknown said.
"Fine by me!" Zaraki replied and charged at him, with Yachiru jumping away.
Kyoraku didn't chase the ryouka anymore. It was pointless, he thought. More then one Captains are already on his tail anyway. So he sat down somewhere and serve himself some sake that he brought.
A black portal appeared and a figure stepped out from it. "Hm...you still have time enjoying yourself? Do you how long did I have to wait for you over there?" the figure pointed to his behind, indicating that if Kyoraku had gone further, he might meet the guy.
"Who are you?" Kyoraku asked.
"I rather we skip the formalities, don't you think?" Luxord replied.
"Who are you?" Toshiro asked the person in front of him. He was weilding dual a gun arrows.
"Me? Well, what's the point in telling you that? Because you will call me names, anyway, like bastard for instance. Oh, I'm sure you will call me that alot later on," Xigbar said while twirling his guns.
"I will if you don't tell me now!" Toshiro said in anger.
"Oh well, you could call me...your enemy!" Xigbar replied and pointed his gun at him.
Byakuya had finally able to catch up with the ryouka as he had stopped, panting. About time, too. He had grown tired of this endless chase.
Byakuya then draw his zanpakuto and point it at the ryouka. "Time to end this, ryouka,"
"Come one, can't we settle this peacefully?" Sora pleaded. He was tired now. All the people that chase him was fast.
"How? You've already created chaos and you expect it to end peacfully?" Byakuya replied.
"It's not me!" Sora raised his hands in defense. Byakuya then draw his zanpakuto to his chest level.
"Talk with swords, ryouka. For that is the only way, we are going to settle this," Byakuya replied.
A/N: ...nothing to say, really. Oh yeah! Please review!!