Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring you is a new crossover story with My Hero Academia X Bleach called "The Vigilante". Wow, thank you guys for checking out my first chapter of the story and I didn't think that it would blow up in my honest opinion.
Those wondering about the multiverse part, some characters from other anime/games will be appearing as either allies or enemies to Ichigo. Some of the MHA characters will be in the story until a bit later.
Ichigo won't be an active 'Vigilante' until a bit later in the story once he meets the two females of both Heroes and Villains. Also, the female villain will be again a femme fatale.
I do not own either series.
A new friend
Unknown Location
As Ichigo continues on walking through the streets of some town he doesn't know, he notices people are all bundled up in fall attire. He could see the leafs turning red, yellow and orange with this season. Turning his head, Ichigo raises an eyebrow as his eyes landed upon some rather, unique individuals.
He saw a young woman that has her arms completely frozen and see-through, making him think that she is a cryomancer, while another had a point devil tail standing rigidly behind her. He sees another kid that has armor-like scales on his entire body, while the woman that must have been his mother smiled with elbow blades sticking out of her coat. Hell even he saw a guy with a tail coming from his butt!
'Huh…guess there's some kind of cosplay convention in town…' He says to himself as he continues on looking at the different people in 'costumes'. 'Seriously what's with this town?' He still wonders as to the people in their costumes. 'Am I missing something?'
Turning back around to face the street and continuing on watching the people pass by him. Later on, after observing these 'bystanders', Ichigo tapped a passing man on the shoulder. "Uh, sir, could you tell me the name of this city? I'm new in town." He asks the stranger.
The stranger raised an eyebrow and asks, "You came all this way to a new city without learning its name? I thought you Heroes or even upcoming Heroes were supposed to know everything?"
'So Heroes do exist in this world huh?' He might have to find out more on that later but again just wanted to know where he is, "Just tell me where I am."
"You're in Musutafu, Japan, just a couple of miles away from Tokyo." The stranger stated to Ichigo off and continued on his way.
'Wait where?' He asks himself as he has no idea and doesn't recognize the name in his world map. He then goes to find a directory and this confirms it for him as none of these 'cities' are recognizable to him. 'Great...a different world..and I'm stuck.' He sighs. Rubbing his temple, he thinks of possible ways that might get him out of here but the thing is he doesn't know any of the techniques that most of his friends in the Soul Society knows or even Kisuke's.
He then goes through his pockets and finds his wallet, which was filled with the last check he'd received from Ikumi, the next thing he found is his license/state iD, but considering the possibility that there might not even be anyone named Ichigo Kurosaki in this world, he wasn't sure how much good it would do him or any and also has some pictures of his friends and family.
Aside from that, he had his phone, and he was somehow is able to get a signal. He tried calling his dad, Orihime, Chad, and Tatsuki but was always met with no response.
'Damnit...' He sighs as he puts his phone back into his left pants pocket. He walks to an alleyway and tries to call and send a message to his friends but again to no avail. 'How am I going to get back home now?' This is a serious situation for him. Normally he should be able to get into contact with his friends in situations like this, with mainly Kisuke or Yoruichi telling him a way to get out but for some reason, he isn't able too.
"Hey, are you okay?"
Ichigo his head towards the direction of the voice. Standing in the entrance of the alleyway was a young woman who looked to be around his age. She has several bags hung from her hands, and she was looking at him with a somewhat concern expression on her face.
Pale skin, chin-length brownish black hair, and gray eyes. She wears a sleeveless white shirt, a short black necktie with various safety pins and a checkered skirt along with a black belt and a fancy, golden buckle which resembles a heart with wings. Additionally, she has black-striped red fingerless gloves and black-striped white stockings. Her black long, dark gray heeled boots are checkered as well. She carries a deep blue bag, adorned with golden designs and matching her officer's cap with a golden button and a V gravure, like the rest of the people he had seen walking about, she was bundled up in attire suitable for the weather.
He chuckled, "Yeah, I'm good…just got a few things that I need to sort out first."
"Like what?" the girl asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Mostly on where to go from here and elsewhere." He answers her as he continues to think about how he can get back to his world.
"So you don't know where to go?" She asks him and is now wondering as to why he is lost.
"I'm not exactly from around here and I don't even know if I'll ever be able to get home."
Not liking what she is hearing from him, the young woman took several steps in his direction. Ichigo was both impressed and surprised by her apparent boldness when it came to approaching a stranger in an alleyway. Either she just didn't have any common sense, or she knew herself well enough that she could confidently take care of herself.
When she was only a few feet away from him, she stopped, and leaned against that wall he was sitting against. "So, you're telling me that you're alone, cold, and have nowhere to go?" She says dryly
He coughed uncomfortably and nodded. "Yeah, that pretty much sums it up."
The woman nods her head as if coming to some sort of conclusion. "Come on, get your ass up and come with me. You can crash at our place for a while."
Ichigo's jaw fell open and he didn't think that someone would literally bring him to her home. "But…you…you don't even know me!"
She waves it off, dismissively. "Just trust me on this, I can tell liars from their eyes but you don't seem to be one. Besides, you look fairly dressed which means you aren't too much of a bum, and I'm guessing that you came from a moderately comfortable home."
"Uh…"
"Are you really trying to turn down a meal and a nice place to sleep in?" she asked in a somewhat irritated tone and Ichigo could tell that she wants to get him into a home. "You must be a really stupid idiot if you're turning an offer like this down.
Scowling from her words, Ichigo gets off the wall he was leaning on and looks at her. "Alright then, fine. Need any help with those bags?" He asks her.
The young woman waves it off. "I can handle a few groceries like these. Not like it's heavy."
The teen wilted slightly. "I was just trying to be polite."
Her expression slowly morphed into an easy grin. "You can relax; if you're so keen on repaying my generosity, then you can help the Nose with dinner once we get home. He could probably use a few extra hands.."
Ichigo returned her smile, and the two of them exited the alleyway and walked down the sidewalk, side by side.
However, Ichigo suddenly realized something. "Oh, by the way, I'm Ichigo Kurosaki. Thanks again for doing this." He felt bad that some stranger is taking him in to stay at her place for the time being.
The teen beauty waves it off. "Don't sweat it strawberry. Not all of us can be Pro Heroes, but that doesn't mean we can't help each other out now and then, so says my guardian and my 'siblings'."
Filing away the term 'Pro Heroes' for later, Ichigo ignored the typical nickname that he greatly hates. "So, does my Good Samaritan have a name of her own?" He says with a tick mark on his forehead from the name.
"Heh, yeah. I'm Marie." She introduces herself to the teen. She would then lead the way to her residence with Ichigo following behind.
Thirty minutes later, despite the short amount of time it took for the two of them to reach their destination, Ichigo learned quite a few things about his rescuer/new friend.
She seems to be a very cold and antisocial individual. She is sullen, cranky, sarcastic, irritable, very foul-mouthed and often prone to mood swings. and she wasn't the least bit shy in eyeing up nearly every attractive woman that they passed. That being said, he could easily tell that she had a good heart and an honest soul; being a former Soul Reaper and also having friends like her allowed him to internally glimpse at that part.
Soon enough, they arrived at Marie's home, a restaurant for the first floor of the building while the actual living quarters are on the fourth floor of the building.
"Well, this is it," Marie announced. "A nice home and a good paying job all rolled into one nice building that doesn't cost much."
"Wait, you live here?" Ichigo asked in slight surprise to see Marie's home/work.
She nodded and motioned to the set of windows just above the restaurant. "Yeah, there's a little apartment complex right above the shop. It's got everything you really need as far as living luxuries go, and it's all ours."
"By the way, you keep talking about 'us' and 'the old man' on the way here, just who is this guy?" He asks her since he really doesn't have a clear picture of who her family may be.
"Old Man Igor, and his 'daughters' and 'son'; Margaret, Theodore, Elizabeth, Caroline, and Justine" Marie replied, "In case you couldn't already tell based off of my name and my looks, I'm not a Japanese native. My caretakers were from London. I don't know my parents so I got adopted into this family. " He honestly didn't expect to hear that from her and thought of her being a transferred student from a different country.
"S-sorry...I didn't mean-
"Don't be." she simply waves it off, "Anyway, one of my 'sisters' lives here in Japan, so I was given the choice to come here and live with them. But, she mainly works most of the day while Old Man Igor is mainly elsewhere until recently."
"Guess they sound a bit interesting..." Ichigo says as he tried to get the picture in his head of Marie's family.
"Oh, they are," Marie assured him. "I'd recommend trying to stay on his good side as best you can."
That got him to imagine someone like Yamamoto or even Kenpachi looming just through the doorway. "Thanks for the warning." Soon enough, they enter from the back of the building and going up four floors of the building.
Marie could only grin, before stepping forward and opening the door to the shop. "Hey, Long Nose! I'm back!"
They hear the sounds of multiple boxes moving off from within the living room and going upstairs and soon enough, they see an elderly man levitating many more boxes through the doorway. He appears to be a bizarre old man with a long nose, pointed ears, and bulging, bloodshot eyes. He wears a black suit with white gloves. "Ah, Marie my dear. I'm glad to see that you made it back safely. Did you pick up the ingredients?" He asks her.
'Okay, I didn't see that coming...' He didn't think that Marie's guardian would be somewhat based on an old character in some novel he read back at home.
Marie hefted one of her grocery bags up. "Yep." She says plainly.
Igor smiled, before finally turning his attention to Ichigo. "And who might you be?"
The teen in question opened his mouth to respond, but his new friend quickly beat him to the punch. "This is Ichigo Kurosaki. He isn't from here, and he has nowhere else to go. So I thought of offering him a place to stay for a while; I hope you don't mind Nose." Marie response to the long-nosed elder man.
The elderly man waves it off. "Do not about it my child; no one should be left out in the cold for someone that is young. I must warn you Ichigo; I do not allow freeloaders to live here for nothing."
He nodded in understanding. "I was honestly going to offer to do some chores or anything around the house. I can do anything else you need me to do. I don't want to take advantage of your hospitality."
Chuckling, Igor stepped out from behind the corner to clap the younger man on the shoulder. "Well said young man. That being said, we don't really have anything that needs to be done at the moment, so why don't you join us for dinner?"
The teen smiled gratefully. "Thanks, Igor."
"Very well then. By the way, Marie here can make a mean chocolate dessert." He added.
As it turned out, the claim was most definitely true. Ichigo dug into some of the homemade dessert and various other goodies that Marie made and it actually made him eat more of the homemade desserts like there was no tomorrow. Of course, he had only done this after witnessing the 'family' doing the same thing. The amount of food Marie could make actually reminded him of Yuzu.
After dinner had finished, Ichigo offered his assistance with the cleaning, which Igor greatly appreciated from him. While the two men were cleaning the kitchen, Marie was tasked with cleaning up any stray crumbs that might have fallen onto the floor, which she did without a single complaint since she is used to this by now.
It honestly felt good for him to feel useful around the house and it again reminded him of his home. In truth, it didn't feel any different from his own home, minus his idiotic father, the perverted stuffed animal of course and his younger sisters, or even with Rukia during his first 'journey' as a Soul Reaper.
The thought of his family made his heart heavy for a moment, but a quick bump to the shoulder from Marie easily cheered him back up.
After cleaning the dishes with Ichigo's help, Igor announced that he was heading to bed. Ichigo and Marie both wished him a good night's sleep, before settling on the couch in front of the decently sized television.
"I hope you don't mind sleeping on the couch," Marie said a little sheepishly to Ichigo. "If we did have a third room in this place, I'm sure that Igor or my 'sister' would definitely offer it to you."
He waved her concern off easily. "Ah, don't worry about it; I've had to deal with much rougher conditions than this before. Right now, a couch sounds just as good as any."
Marie chuckles, before picking up the remote and turning on the TV. The first thing that flashed across the screen was what appeared to be some kind of a news report with some large individual in front of the camera.
"Don't worry citizens, I have arrived!" Ichigo raises an eyebrow at the brightly dressed man on the TV. Hell, if his outfit wasn't out there, then his ridiculous hairstyle definitely was.
This Hero on the TV is a very large man with an equally muscular and well-defined physique, his design resembling a typical western comic book superhero. He has short blond hair, swept backwards, with two distinct tufts that stick up above his head, leaning slightly to each side, which often casts a dark shadow over his face, hiding everything but his bright blue eyes. This Hero Golden Age hero costume consisted of a skin-tight blue bodysuit decorated with a red symbol that somewhat resembles a "Y", designed with a white diamond at its center, with white lines connected to it that trace from his chest to his back shoulders, the lines trimmed with the aforementioned red symbol. The symbol appeared to have wings on the side that ran from the atop his torso before ending around his back, over which was a similar red and white design absent of the white diamond. Large white patches lined with red covered each side of his hips before ending at his lower thighs, and he wore a gold belt that had a silver buckle with red eyes. His forearm sleeves were colored in gold that each had white lines covered in blue accents over his wrists, and had spiked fins on the sides of his arms, his feet were covered in shin-length gold boots trimmed with white and red accents.
'What's with that hairstyle?' He raises an eyebrow and tries to figure out why that guy's dressed like a comic book character.
Marie on the other hand, has a small smile on her face, giving the hint that she may know who this hero may be. "All Might sure is the best of the best, ya know? Wish I could've gone to a Hero Academy last season…"
'Hero Academy?' He asks himself and may have to find out more on that later but for now, he didn't really know quite how to respond to that without sounding too suspicious. "Yeah uh...me too."
Marie shook her head and offered him a grin. "Speaking of which, do you have a Quirk and what does it do?" She actually is interested to know whenever or not he does have a Quirk.
"My Quirk?" He raises an eyebrow since he obviously doesn't know what she is talking about.
"Yeah, the superpower that you develop at an early age. Don't tell me you're normal…" She sounded a bit disappointed from that.
"Ah...no..." He somewhat laughs nervously and thought of his Supernatural powers, "I, uh…mainly focus on swordsmanship but I'm...super strong and I can walk in the air."
Marie's mouth fell open. "Wait! You can do all of that?!" She honestly hasn't seen anyone that could fly, unless it was those with mutated genes.
He shrugged. "I don't think it's a big deal."
The raven-haired teen shook her head. "It is a big deal! I've heard of some rumors of people that may have more than one ability! You must have inherited all of that from your parents, right?"
He laughed nervously and scratches the back of his head. She honestly wasn't too far of the base with that question. "Yeah, I did. What about you? Do you have a Quirk?" He decided to ask her.
Marie only nods her head to his question, "I call it a 'Persona' and I can summon a being with my book." She shows him a compendium, "I'm still getting the hang of using the compendium but I should be able to master it soon."
He could tell that Marie may be holding onto some secrets but didn't want to know just yet, mainly due to him trying to figure out more on this world. He would also need to know more on these Heroes and Villains in this world as well.
He certainly is not Karakura Town anymore and is now in this town of Musutafu.
While the two of them continue on with their conversation, Igor is in his Velvet room and puts down tarot cards on his desk, 7 cards all facing down. He flips one of the cards and sees a road split in two, making that this young man he just met, Ichigo Kurosaki, is in a crossroad. He then goes to the next card on the right and flips it, revealing that one of these new people that he will meet will be a bad influence on him while another will try to bring him to the light.
He flips the third card and this will be a mysterious journey for him and what his role will be. He looks at the mask in front of his desk, a spiky black and indigo mask with a long variation of the Sigil stretched over its bottom, completely hiding the wearer's face; the mask appears opaque from the outside but is actually transparent from the inside.
'The boy who would become Zero...' Igor knows from reading a lot of his tarot cards, there would be a boy that would change the world through his work as a Vigilante and being the masked Vigilante, Zero. This 'Zero' would both be would both be a symbol of change and a symbol of destruction. The masked Vigilante will be the most dangerous man depending on his alignment of both good and evil. 'He would need to be guided and nurtured and it will go on from there.'
Igor continues on looking at the tarot cards and the next card he flips is the Lovers Arcana. Seems that Ichigo will be encountering a love interest on this journey but for some reason, it is unknown whenever or not if he will be a single person or multiple women. He surely has something that most young guys would want.
And that ends the chapter guys, Ichigo meets his first friend in Marie, who is from the Persona universe. She'll be one of his new allies in this story as she is neutral like Ichigo so far.
I am still going to be building up his neutral party until he meets both the Heroes and Villains in the story.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter, who should be the femme fatale and the Heroine to play a role for Ichigo, and as always, I'll talk to you all later.