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Chapter 46: The Return of Renji

(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")

(Five days later)

Ichigo would never have thought that he would miss school. It wasn't like he hated going to the academy, but it felt relieving for the hybrid to have a sense of normalcy. After all the craziness over a week ago with him and Ruby dealing with their Inner Hollows, going Vasto Lorde, ripping a tear into the Dangai, traveling to an alternate universe, fighting an ancient Vasto Lorde turned arrancar, and then having his full power awakened, Ichigo needed a break away from the supernatural, but not everything was the same.

First off would be that he was in an official relationship with Ruby. Apparently, Ichigo's apparent closeness with the "American" girl was the talk of the entire town. On the first day back to high school Ichigo was barraged with congrats from the male population, though admittedly with some cursing his existence when they saw the drop dead gorgeous girl that captured his heart as they would say. Most of the girls in the school were in fact praising Ruby like a goddess based solely on the fact that she was the girl out of everyone to get Ichigo's special intention, much less be his girlfriend. Even Orihime congratulated, but her smile was a little off to the hybrid, like it was forced. Heck, even Keigo was praising Ichigo for becoming a man, and lost a few teeth for a few lewd comments.

'Was I seriously that bad?' Thought Ichigo thinking over the times girls would be strange around him.

'Yes, you freaking were.' Zangetsu Y barked. 'You practically had an army of girls swooning over you, yet you never paid any attention to them. It was like you were gay. Makes me all the more glad Queenie can be extra... forward if you know what I mean.'

At that reminder, Ichigo yet again cursed Yoruichi for corrupting Ruby like that. Just three days ago, Ruby and Ichigo went on another date at a firework show. Let's just say at the end of it Ruby was the one to initiate a very heated make-out session that Ichigo couldn't resist to. He found himself day by day of his self-control melting away, which was evident on that date when his hands kept roaming where his prudish nature would ban him from going. It made him the more excited that Ruby paid no mind at all, Hollow nature or not. Ichigo just hoped to Kami that he wouldn't start sounding like Zangetsu Y.

'Hey, what makes you think she'll hate that?' Zangetsu Y teased with a cackle. 'Admit it Ichigo. You love her wild side She is becoming more of a hot minx in your eyes, and one day the both of you are gonna lose whatever self-control. Ha-ha-ha-ha.'

BOP!

'I believe that's enough of your perverted fantasies.' Zangetsu X warned.

'OWW!' Zangetsu Y whined. 'What makes you think it's a fantasy when it's true? Sure, Queenie can be all lovey-dovey as much as Kingy wants, but at the end of the day he loves that fierce side of her. Hey, remember when she was putting her friends through the ringer?'

How could he not?! It was the day after they returned and Ruby had invited Ichigo to her team's workout session. Basically, her three teammates ganging up her while she beat the crap out of them to get them into shape. It showed Ichigo the true sadist that was hidden in the sweet woman he had come to treasure. But it didn't make her less sexy at all, if not more.

Ichigo's eyes widened in horror at the thought. 'I blame you.'

'I can neither confirm nor deny it, ha-ha-ha.' Zangetsu Y cackled.

(Flashback)

(Que "Number One")

"Are you sure about this?" Weiss asked.

She was out of her gigai with her weapon Myrtenaster in hand. The Remnanties were fortunate that their weapons they had on person could also change over to their spiritual bodies and could be stored in their physical bodies. They could even summon their weapons to the physical plane through some concentration, and any Dust related attacks now drew upon their reiryoku.

As of now, Weiss, Yang, Blake, Nora, and Jaune were standing at one side of an area in the basement underneath Kisuke's candy shop staring down at a calm Ruby. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and she didn't bother drawing her zanpakuto. Her red cloak billowed in the winds generated in the artificial wasteland, and she flexed her hands testing out her new strength of her arrancar body. Ruby recently discovered that she could change the appearance of her mask fragments and was now adorned with the upper jawlines of a wolf's maw on the sides of her cheek. Off to the side watching the Remnanties were Ren, Ichigo, Kisuke, and Yoruichi, the latter of which brought a literal bucket of popcorn to watch the 'massacre' she knew her student was about to unleash.

"Oh, I'm very sure." Ruby confirmed, flashing a sweet, yet predatory grin with a dangerous gleam in their eyes.

As much as they didn't want to accidentally hurt Ruby, they couldn't help the shiver of dread that went down their spines. Simultaneously, the Remnanties readied into their stances with the click of their weapons activating. Ruby's posture remained relaxed and she didn't bother drawing her blade. The only change was her grin widening to the point her canines were visible.

Ruby in past would never hurt them so bad, would she? How wrong they were.

Ruby started the fight, launching off with a tremendous bang that held enough force to crater the ground. None of them even saw her coming until Ruby planted a palm strike to Yang's gut. She spat out a mouthful of saliva as the air was knocked out of her, but Ruby made sure to not shatter her Aura. Next, Ruby flowed through the motion twisting on her feet aiming to Weiss. Before the Schnee realized it, her arm with Myrtenaster was knocked to the side leaving her open for Ruby to strike her chin. Lastly, Ruby struck Blake in the gut. All this happened in under five seconds and the three were sent off, with Weiss and Blake skidding across the ground and Yang crashing into a rock formation.

"Oh, don't be sour." Ruby giggled, her predatory grin ever present. "That was just a love tap."

Nora came down from the sky with a war cry and her hammer coming down. Ruby crouched down into a lower stance, and, in a shocking display of superhuman feat, blocked the hammer with her forearm. Instead of bone snapping, the hammer hit the limb like it would on a slab of solid steel, thanks to Ruby focusing on her new Hierro. Nora clicked a button, blasting a grenade in Ruby's face and using the blast to go back in the air for another try. Ruby sidestepped the hammer, and once Nora's weapon was stuck in the ground Ruby headbutted the Huntress with enough force to lift her into the air, then pivoted around in a handstand to land a double kick, thus sending Nora crashing through several boulders.

"I'm okay..." Moaned Nora from inside a Nora-shaped hole.

"Man, she is really kicking their asses." Commented Ichigo.

"Bet you love seeing Pup-chan all fierce and ruthless." Yoruichi teased, getting the desired blush that told everything, then thinking. 'Who knew Ichigo was that kind of guy?'

Jaune was the last going for a basic downward swing with Crocea Mors. Ruby looked blankly at the shining blade coming down before whipping her left hand up and stopping it with two fingers. Sweat went down Jaune's forehead, but he kept his nerves in time to use his shield to block a 'tap' from Ruby's right fist. There was a ring of steel like a bell going off followed by Jaune skidding across the ground before tumbling in a roll.

Ruby's wolf ears perked up to the returning combatants that recovered from her blows. This time they brandished different weapons, with Blake and Weiss dual wielding with Myrtenaster and Gambol Shroud. They were Asuachi, blades essential for creating a zanpakuto. Ruby had planned on a full plan on getting her friends stronger than they were by giving them the powers of the shinigami, but she was not going to risk using the Shattered Shaft. She chose a much slower but safer way by simply giving them an Asauchi to use. Ruby's idea in their training goes that the more they use them the more connected the blade will become via their Aura and eventually become zanpakuto. Kisuke was happy to give an Asauchi to everyone of the Remnanties, with Ruby giving Weiss the blank zanpakuto of Baishin, if only to see if this new regiment would work.

That was why Ruby was giving them the rough treatment. Certainly not because she enjoys it, but Ruby took Kisuke's lessons to heart that the more danger the body is in, the more powerful the soul will force itself to become. Thus, the process will become much faster, or at least she theorized. At least she could get a kick out of it.

Ruby flattened her hands like blades as her teammates closed in on her at all sides. While Yang was sloppy with her style focusing on fists, Weiss and Blake were much more coordinated with their sword strikes. Yet Ruby dodged through the flurry of steel like flowing water, occasionally parrying away with her hands thanks to her iron skin.

"Stay still!" Yang exclaimed, making a clumsy sweep with her blade.

The next they saw Ruby she was standing on the flat of the blade with supreme ease before she did a twisting kick that struck Yang's cheek. Weiss and Blake wisely backed off followed by Jaune jumping in the air. The Faunus and Schnee nodded before charging back in at the same time Jaune would end in his swing, cutting off all form of escape for Ruby. It was too late to see the devil's grin on her face at the tactic.

Just before impact Ruby zipped into action first backhanding Weiss, then kicking Blake, and finally launching up into an uppercut to Jaune. The move was done in a span of one second, and there was enough force in Ruby's blows to send her friends rocketing off. Jaune was knocked out of the tor - er, spar when he repeatedly hit his head on his fall and his only saving grace was his Aura that broke in the end.

'Think they've had enough yet?' Cristina said. 'I think they can go for more.'

'I think so too, sis.' Ruby agreed, her grin going full evil as she watched Weiss, Yang, and Blake struggle on their feet.

The fight continued on, devolving into a game of cat and mouse as the Remnanties fled from Ruby who was giggling insanely. Ichigo could almost feel sorry for him if his attention wasn't fixed on Ruby in a certain light and his ears were barraged by the cheers of pride from Yoruichi.

(Flashback End)

The Remanties learned on that day that Ruby could be even more scary and cruel than Professor Goodwitch. Also if being technically full Hollow made him develop questionable fetishes surrounding Ruby's personality, then he knew that his life was going to be more troublesome and more strange than even Orihime's imagination. Thank Kami that her reputation saved them from being found out by Tatsuki.

On a side note and to his loathing, Isshin had involved his little sisters into the supernatural. Ichigo hated it, but he had to admit to himself it was inevitable since the twins had similarly high reiatsu reserves being hybrids themselves between Quincy and shinigami. Karin especially wasn't going to put up with Ichigo leaving her out and practically dragged Isshin off to train as a shinigami. She had already been given an Asauchi, though she was only going through meditation practices in her spiritual form to turn it into a zanpakuto and unlock her powers. He was thankful that Yuzu, being the sweet girl that she is, was more hesitant to join, but he could only hope at least one of his sisters will be out of this.

Ichigo sighed in exasperation at the line of thoughts. To say it would be awkward running into Karin during his patrol would be an understatement. She was too young but she could be even more stubborn than Ichigo and Goat-chin combined. He snapped out of his thinking to return his attention back to the class. Just in time too as the teacher rose from her chair to get the everyone's attention.

"I have some good news to share." The teacher announced. "We will be receiving some new foreign transfer students in our class."

The door slid open to reveal four girls wearing the school uniform. Ichigo widened his eyes and he went still once he processed who it was that transferred into his class. Walking into class was his girlfriend Ruby with a sweet smile on her face followed by the rest of Team RWBY.

The teacher began. "Now I know that some of you are not fluent in English, so I'll-"

"Please, allow me." Interrupted Ruby speaking in perfect Japanese. "Ohayo, everyone. My name is Ruby Rose. These are my friends Blake Belladona, Weiss Schnee, and that is my sister Yang. We all moved from America to live in this wonderful country. So please take care of us."

People were not expecting Ruby to speak in perfect Japanese, then some realized that it was the beauty that caught that resident prude's heart. The room exploded with worship from girls, and to Ichigo's annoyance some whooping. He was still processing the fact that Team RWBY was here that he didn't register Ruby taking the seat right next to him until she, not whispered, not kissed, but nibbled his earlobe.

"Hello, I~chi~kun~." Ruby greeted in a sing-song voice. "Happy to see me?"

"... Yes." Ichigo admitted. "How are you here?"

"Seems Kisuke outsmarted us by making our gigai younger than we should." Ruby said gesturing to her cousin and friends sitting behind the pair. It was small, but Ichigo did notice a small height difference than when they are in their spiritual forms. "The same goes for Jaune and Nora, who are in a different class with Ren looking out for them."

"Why did Hat n' Clogs do this?" Ichigo groaned.

"Beats me, orange-head." Yang said, going full delinquent putting her feet on the desk and leaning back.

"It's not too bad." Blake countered, reading a familiar orange book. "It would be nice to learn about something that doesn't include fighting for our lives."

"That we can agree on." Weiss supported, and black and white shared a high-five pulling out texts.

"Just be careful." Ichigo warned. "There are some people who are just too... bizarre for comfort."

"Keigo?" Ruby deadpanned.

"Keigo." Ichigo confirmed.

"Hey."

All five turned to the voice, and Yang couldn't help but drool at the brown giant that was Chad, who was wearing the biggest size of the school uniform yet the shirt was still tight on his muscles. Chad let a visible eye show on sight of the new faces, and got a nod from Ichigo.

"Chad, meet Weiss, Blake, and Yang." Ichigo introduced while pointing in that respective order.

Chad gave his usual hum of acknowledgement and focused his gaze on Blake. The disguised Faunus was a bit sheepish under the stare, like he was trying to stare into her soul.

"I like your bow."

That was not what Blake was expecting. She expected the giant to come off as abrasive, but there seemed to be a gentleness despite his intimidating presence. Absently, Blake touched her bow, wondering if Chad would like her real cat ears.

"Hey Chad, can I ask you a question?" Ichigo said. "Was I... really that bad with girls?"

"Honestly," Answered Chad, leaning his head down to his level, "yes. Yes, you were."

That caused the hybrid to face plant into the desk and create a cloud of misery. Ruby could only laugh at Ichigo's misfortune. The teacher was giving the pair of hybrids an odd look before shrugging her shoulders and saying something about, "Young love."

Despite Team RWBY's surprising appearance, everything was going as normal as Ichigo wanted. No more dealing with Hollows. No more travelling dimensions. And no more getting random animal appendages. Just his regular life, with Ruby as a love interest, with absolutely no worry-

"Where are you hiding!?" Cried a familiar voice from outside. "Come on out here."

The room snapped to attention, trying to find the source of the voice. Uryu, the resident broken Quincy, recognized the voice. Ichigo and Ruby knew it was familiar and their attention was fully caught when the voice called out Ichigo. The pair with WBY leaned towards the window to find a man with red hair tied in a pineapple-shaped ponytail and wore hippy-style clothing. It took few seconds for Ichigo to process through his mind before he identified the man.

"What the hell!?" Exclaimed Ichigo.

"Ichigo, you know that guy?" Asked Keigo. "He's all hippied out."

Yang glanced to Ruby. "Okay, sis, who is that?"

"I guess he's an acquaintance." Ruby said with a sweatdrop. "I think I know him from somewhere."

"Let me guess, he's from this Soul Society." Weiss said, getting a nod from Ruby. "Does he have to make a scene? Not something you want to do if you are a secret supernatural society."

"You bring up a good point." Ruby agreed.

"Hey Ichigo, is he-"

"A relative!" Ichigo shouted, bolting out the room.

RWBY followed after him, but not before Ruby stopping at the door. "Uh, we'll take care of this, Miss."

Now outside, Ichigo sprinting hard enough towards Renji to kick up a cloud of dust. The lieutenant was completely oblivious to the mood, and as he was greeting Ichigo he was caught in a clothesline and dragged behind the bushes, followed by RWBY. Ichigo didn't hesitate to push him into a tree.

"Oi, what the hell-" Renji complained before abruptly cutting himself off when Ichigo willed the white blade of Zangetsu Y into the physical plane and planted into the trunk of the tree, inches from his face.

"What the hell are you ****ing doing?!" Ichigo snarled.

'What the hell?!' Renji thought as he had a cold sweat. 'He's able to summon his zanpakuto into the physical plane. That's impossible, only captains have that kind of focus to pull that of.'

Renji was about to bark a retort before Ruby arrived planting her zapakuto eerily close to his family jewels, followed by the tip of Myrtenaster aimed at his throat and the cocking of the guns of Gambol Shroud and Ember Celica at his ears with the barrels aimed at his head. His fit of anger turned into a nervous breakdown once he realized that he was at the mercy of Ichigo and four girls. His eyes widened recognizing Ruby that had her zanpakuto aimed at his crotch, and just by a look he could tell just how far apart in strength they were. If he had good sensory skills, Renji would've sensed her reiatsu was that of a Hollow but pure.

"What the-"

"I'll be asking the questions." Ruby interrupted, inching her blade closer. "So... who are you?"

"What?" Renji replied incredulously. "You seriously do not remember me?"

"Mmm." Ruby hummed in thought. "I'd remember someone with a red pineapple for hair."

Yang laughed as Renji got a tick mark. "I'm the lieutenant of Squad 6."

"Nope."

"Oh c'mon. We fought in the Sereitei a few months ago, remember that?"

Ruby snapped her fingers in realization. "Oh, now I remember. You're that guy Ichigo beat up."

"THAT'S SERIOUSLY ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT ME!?" Screamed Renji in shock.

"Yeah, pretty much." Ruby deadpanned, causing Renji to face-fault in shame.

"Oof." Joked Yang. "Gonna need to go to the hospital for that one."

"Yang, seriously, just stop." Groaned Blake, her cat ears twitching within her gigai.

"Mind explaining what the heck you're doing here?" Ichigo growled out, and if he were out of his gigai his tail would be slamming on the floor.

"Why should you care?" Renji replied nonchalantly. "There's no reason to get all upset."

"Oh yes there is, yelling in front of everybody." Ichigo said.

"I have to agree with him." Weiss interjected. "We're supposed to hide the supernatural away from the people as I believe, not yell it out like a bunch of buffoons."

Now Renji actually looked embarrassed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, when you put it like that... Look it's just been a long time since I've been to the human world in a real body."

"Then you need some catching up to do." Ichigo said, pulling Renji to his feet. "So I'll ask again. Why are you here?"

"I was assigned to this Karakura Town." Renji explained, and WBY withdrew their weapons. "Mr. Urahara told me where you were, I came to see you. I'm in charge here."

Ichigo put on a smug grin. "You got demoted, didn't you?"

"I did not!" Renji outraged. "I had to come over here because of idiots like you leaking spiritual pressure."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Ichigo feigned as apologetic while keeping that grin. "It's not my fault that I have more reiatsu than you and Byakuya combined."

Renji wanted to retort, but any words died in his throat. Ruby snickered at Renji getting speechless, followed by the rest of her friends. A tick mark bulged on lieutenant's forehead, but the scene stopped when they heard the familiar wail of a Hollow.

All six spiritual warriors looked behind them to the source of reiatsu as the sky darkened on the spiritual plane. From the sky dropped a regular Hollow two stories tall with grey skin and beefy arms. The spiritual sensitive humans such as Uryu, Chad, and Orihime were keeping their cool, but they were internally panicking as the creature came closer.

"Damn this gigai!" Renji growled as he struggled to get free of his physical body. "Ichigo, can you take care of this?"

Renji was not expecting silence from the hybrid, and when he glanced to Ichigo all he saw was a confident expression.

"Alright, who wants a crack at it?" Ruby perked up, and Yang's hand rose the fastest, followed by Weiss.

"Okay, Yang and Weiss, go break some bones." Ruby ordered with a grin.

The two dispelled themselves from their gigai, shocking Renji that these people could be other shinigami. They were roughly the equivalent of sixth seat, but he knew there was something strange about them with their reiatsu and the weapons they carried. He was too busy in his own thoughts that he didn't realize the duo spring into action in the tactic known as Freezerburn.

Weiss, with her weapon fueled by her Aura instead of Dust, stabbed the ground to make a line of frost on the ground that trapped the Hollow's feet, preventing it from climbing the building. Yang took the next charge and smashed her fist to shatter its knee while Weiss blurred the distance to cut into its legs. As the monster fell, Yang cocked back her left fist and added a shotgun blast for power to send the Hollow back across the field.

"Hey Weiss, I've got a crazy idea I want to try." Yang said with her signature grin.

"Okay?" Weiss said, a bit unsure.

"How big can you make one of your summons?" Yang asked with her grin growing bigger.

As Weiss and Yang planned, the wounds on the legs healed and the Hollow gave a howl. Its eyes glowed with rage at the humans that dared to prevent from eating its prey, and was now intent on making them his next meal. The Hollow slowly stood up, only to met with the sight of a translucent blue warrior over a story tall covered in armor. Weiss was concentrating with a glyph spinning wildly beneath her and controlling the giant's movements. It cocked its right arm back where it held Yang.

"Are you sure about this?" Weiss asked nervously.

"Of course I am." Yang cried. "Launch me."

Weiss sighed and the giant armored construct launched its arm forward in a perfect throw, all the while Yang whooped in the rush of adrenaline. As lost in instinct the Hollow was, even it had to take pause to process the bizarre scene that was a human being thrown towards him. That would cost its life as Yang cocked her fists back and aimed for its mask.

"HERE COMES THE YANG!"

As the pun implied, there was a big bang of yellow fire going off once Yang's fists made impact with the mask. Yang crashed back to the ground like a ball of fire, yet was not hurt in the slightest. The same could not be said for the Hollow with its all head literally blown off. It didn't even make it to the ground before it disappeared into dust.

"Now that was freaking awesome." Laughed Yang, jumping back into her gigai.

"Let's go, we're going to miss our classes." Blake ushered as she, Ruby, Yang, Ichigo, and Weiss walked back to the school.

"Ugh, why did we have to be here again?" Yang complained.

"You should appreciate learning academics besides fighting, Yang." Weiss retorted.

Renji could only stare with a slack jaw as the five spiritual warriors returned to class like nothing had ever happened. He abandoned his wonder when a headache was starting to come up, and now was cursing his captain for giving him this assignment that he knew was going to spell trouble for him.

I am taking this slow and steady with the chapters. When it comes to this story, I want to keep it at least three thousand words per chapter. It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I don't want to type too much in one single chapter. Besides, I wouldn't be able to get the other stories done then.

Up next is Chapter 47.

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