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Chapter 51: Bount Interrogation
(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")
Ichigo arrived at the location in time to see the Bount, a woman to be precise with long brown hair, in the process of eating a civilian's reishi. Trusting his instinct more than forward planning, Ichigo unleashed his Shikai and threw the white blade of Zangetsu Y like a dart expertly aimed at the Bount's head. It worked as far as Ichigo's standards went as the Bount woman was forced to drop the civilian and avoid the tip of Zangetsu Y trying to skewer itself into her head. With shunpo Ichigo caught the unconscious woman and settled her down so he could stand between the civilian and the Bount. At the same time, Ichigo yanked back on the strap of Zangetsu Y, abruptly turning its velocity and direction the direct opposite way towards the vampire. The Bount had only noticed the last second and she dived to the ground to avoid the kyber blade as its hilt returned to his hand.
All of this transpired in just one second, and now the situation was put at a neutral state. Ichigo rested Zangetsu Y on his shoulder while he and the Bount exchanged heated glares. It took a lifetime's amount of temper to not recklessly destroy the woman with a Getsuga Tensho for callously killing a person. The least of Ruby's partnership and mentoring with the three-way hybrid gave Ichigo the sense to find out answers to end the whole debacle.
"What does a shinigami have to do with me?" The Bount asked.
"Cut the shit." Ichigo replied with an angry scowl, summoning Zangetsu X and pointing it at the woman. "The moment you started targeting innocent people to feed on, you were bound to face punishment. Doesn't matter if I'm a shinigami or not, I saw what you were trying to do, and I don't like it."
"I'd prefer you didn't interfere." The Bount spat.
"That's what I hate about people like you." Ichigo snarled as black, red, blue, and white energy surrounded him in a storm of reiatsu. "You can't seem to give a damn no matter how many people you kill. It really pisses me off!"
The Bount's eyes widened at the sheer speed of Ichigo when he launched off with both Zangetsus raised over his head to cleave her down. She barely sidestepped the blow that shattered the wall behind her, but she never left his sights. Her only choice was to make a run for it through the alleyways between the buildings. Ichigo chased her down wherever she went like a phantom out for blood.
To her ire, the Bount was trapped at a dead end and Ichigo was standing in the way of possible escape the other way. He was calmed down now enough to interrogate the Bount now. If push came to shove, Ichigo was willing to show his power to maybe at least stall her till Ruby arrives. His girlfriend has proven to be an effective interrogator.
"Last chance before things get very nasty a.k.a. when Ruby-hime gets here." Ichigo said. "Tell me what's your plan sucking the reishi from the living? And I know for a fact you can eat dead souls, so spill."
"Even if I told you, I doubt your feeble mind could comprehend it." The Bount seemed to insult Ichigo. "Such an annoying boy-"
Her words were caught off by a buzz of static and the female Bount felt the kiss of cold steel touch her neck. A second after that moment of shock did she realize that a pair of legs had intertwined around hers locking them down and her left arm was roughly held back while the right was caught in an elbow lock. She strained her neck back to look at her attacker only to see pitch black eyes with crimson scelera of Ruby Rose in her full Arrancar form.
"That 'boy' belongs to me." Ruby hissed. "And I'd prefer you not insult his intelligence. That is my job."
"Love you too, hime." Ichigo quipped in a deadpan.
"I - won't you tell you anything you want." The woman rejected, but there was a hint of fear in her eyes.
"Wrong answer." Ruby said, putting the blade closer to the woman's neck just before cutting the skin. "Hado 11: Tsuzuri Raiden."
Crackles of blue lightning on the white steel of Ruby's zanpakuto were the only signs of warning to come before the Bount suffered from volts upon volts of electricity. Try as she might, the Bount could not hold back her agonized screams feeling all her nerves were burning in pain. She failed to maintain the strength in her legs and kneeled to the ground to somehow find comfort from the electricity that refused to watch. Ichigo watched mostly with a grimace and a sweatdrop seeing the euphoric smile and the blush adorning Ruby's face as she was actually getting off on it.
'Like I said, she's beautifully insane and you love it.' Zangetsu Y hollered in his head.
At the point that Ichigo was going to tell Ruby to stop, the Arrancar canceled the hado spell. The Bount was left on all fours on the ground with pillars of smoke and the smell of cooked skin rising off her body. She spared a glance of hatred towards the Arrancar and prepared to use her doll to burn her alive. Her left hand went to the rings on her right finger to summon the lava construct, but Ruby was faster and in a blur stomped her foot on top of the Bount's right hand to prevent the usage of her powers.
"If you play nice, then I won't have to... punish~ you, fu-fu-fu." Ruby warned, a growth in her pitch that spoke of unholy desires.
The Bount's heated glare withered as she fully took in of who was standing over her. As soon as she realized as such, no longer did she see some sort of annoyance to run from. No, this woman, this demon, was out for her literal blood to flow on the ground. The glare the Bount put up defiantly was crushed into quivering fear as those crimson eyes drilled terror into her soul the likes of which can only come from the dark pits of hell. Her remaining kin could not compete with this level of joyous malice. Kariya himself would be preferred because while he can turn to torture for his goals he certainly didn't go out to enjoy it unlike the demon woman that looked to be waiting for some excuse to electrocute her. She realized that her situation was hopeless now under the mercy of a true sadist.
"I see you are starting to understand." Ruby whispered as she leaned down, the tone in her voice sending cold shivers through the Bount. "Here is what is going to happen. I am going to ask questions and you will answer them. Stay silent or lie, I get to play with you."
"Fine." Answered the Bount.
"Oh no, no, no that will not do." Ruby said dripping with glee. "From here on out, you will call me Mistress Rose."
"Uh, Ruby-hime?" Ichigo called to the Arrancar, diverting her attention to the three-way hybrid whose face showed his discomfort at the scene. "Look I know that we have to stop this mess, but let's just calm down and back it up a notch. We only need to get some answers. No need to scar her... physically or mentally for that matter."
Ruby pouted. "Mou, Ichi-kun, I just want some fun. But since you've asked, I'll just get onto business. I'll save my... inhibitions for you later."
The chills and jolts running up and down Ichigo's spine cannot properly explain the emotions. It was just in the way how her eyes became half-lidded and her voice carried a hint of huskiness when she said those words sent some rather explicit signals that gave Ichigo a sense of utter terror and yet left a blush on his face. His only hope was that whatever Ruby planned for him would not land him in the loony bin as a result.
'Damn you Yoruichi, look what you did to sweet Ruby-hime.' Ichigo screamed in his head.
'But you know you love it.' Zangetsu Y exclaimed with wolf whistles.
'Juha, shut him up!' Ichigo ordered as his blush grew as his mind wandered to more... unsavory thoughts of what Ruby would do.
'Shutting him up.' Zangetsu X replied.
'#### you. I will not be silenced while Queenie is giving us the 'look'-'
BAM!
'Oh thank Kami.' Ichigo praised to his Quincy half.
"Now, back to the matter at hand." Ruby said, her attention locking back on the Bount below her. "Be a good girl and answer the first question. I'll start off something simple. What is your name?"
"...My name is Yoshino. Yoshino Soma." The Bount gave out her name in the danger of Ruby's foot applying pressure on her spine.
Ruby smiled widely. "See~? Was that so hard?"
'I would think it's hard because I'd have trouble to speak from terror.' Ichigo thought, and Yoshino's own thoughts weren't so far off.
"Next question." Ruby announced. "Why are you eating the souls of living humans?"
However, Yoshino did not give any indication of answering the second questions. Her lips tightened to prevent any accidental words from escaping her mouth and she steeled they look in her eyes as best as she could. Whatever answer was in her head must be so important that Yoshino's composure held true in the face of Ruby's intimidation. Said Arrancar narrowed her eye dangerously and brief anger flashed on her crimson eyes. Ruby twisted her blade in her hand and held the tip at the base of her neck.
Yoshino waited for the pain of lightning surging through her nervous system, but it never came. Rather than pain, it was pure intent that flooded the area. The Bount found the breath in her lungs force itself out from an incredible increase of spiritual pressure. It felt as if gravity had increased over ten times the original amount, preventing whatever struggle to escape impossible from the sheer weight pressing down upon her. Suffused with the spiritual pressure was Ruby's very intent in it, effectively making the Yoshino's heart freeze in fear. If Ruby wanted to, she could make the Bount beg for death.
"I don't take kindly to your silence, Yo-shi-no." Ruby said. "I would worry about if it's worth it keeping your secrets. If it is, I'll introduce to a friend of mine who's itching to see what can kill a vampire. Spoiler alert, she loves her wooden stakes."
Yoshino had the decency to gulp, but still refused to say a word. Ruby let out a sigh and prepared to hit the Bount's head hard with the pommel of her zanpakuto to bring her back to base for questioning. That is until her instincts screamed at her to move, and letting her Hollow senses take control she disappeared in a burst of sonido in time to avoid a rain of snakes that pierced through a stone wall. The dust cleared revealing the snakes turning back into broken pipes.
"To think that I had to save you from the food." Spoke a masculine voice, dripping with arrogance and pride that would make Jacques Schnee blush. "Shame on you, Yoshino."
As Ruby reappeared at Ichigo's side, they saw as a man stepped out of the shadows towards Yoshino. He had short brown hair and a neat goatee, and was dressed formally in a white button-up shirt, a tie, and a vest that presented himself as a noble. Curling about his body were several snakes that hissed menacingly at the two hybrids.
"You!" Ichigo called out, making the newcomer pause in his step. "Are you another of the Bounts?"
The man leveled a blank look at Ichigo, as if he were a mere insect. "Where I come from, food are not allowed to talk."
'So in other words, yes he is a Bount.' Zangetsu X spoke.
'This guy is just asking for a Getsuga Tensho to his face.' Zangetsu Y added.
"Zero to pissed in under five seconds; you have talent." Ruby half-snarled, her eyes glaring at the man like chips of crimson ice.
If there were any sort of people hated the most, it were the ones that regarded life, especially sentient life, as meaningless. The importance of life was key in her own ancestry as Maria had told her from her experience of using her silver eyes. Yet despite the expressive cold wrath from Ruby, the man brushed her off and focused his attention on Yoshino, who was tense in the presence of the man.
"Time to bring you home." The man muttered, licking his lips in a very creepy manner to make the female Bount step back in clear fear.
'I don't care who, but no one deserves to be looked at like that.' Christina commented, clear disgust in her tone.
'Let's fix that.' Ruby replied.
It both irked and shocked the creep of a Bount that as he was about to command his Doll to bound Yoshino down that Ruby was standing in his way. He didn't even sense her move with only the static of sonido as his only warning. No sooner was he glaring back at those crimson orbs did he feel a vice grip from the Arrancar on his right wrist.
"What the-" Cursed the Bount, his efforts to get his arm free proving fruitless from the strength of Ruby's grip. "You insolent bug!"
Ruby chose a glance at her surroundings and noticed several objects around her turning into snakes. Wood panels shifted into life-like scales of slithering bodies that sprang at Ruby like a thrown spear, but she made no effort to move at all. Instead of the snakes skewering Ruby's back, they impacted in a cloud of dust that when cleared revealed the snakes reverted back to inanimate objects that were scrunched up. Ruby was left unaffected thanks to the combined defenses of her Hierro and Aura.
"Let go of me!" The Bount yelled, masking his shock with arrogance. "I am Utagawa, your natural better, and I will not be held down by some lower ingrate-"
His words were abruptly cut off from Ruby backhanding the identified Bount aside into a wall with enough force to crumble it down. Yoshino stood in morbid shock of how easily this one person was dealing with her kin, and was just starting to dawn on her how critically they underestimated the local forces in Kuoh.
"Oh, I'm sorry, were you saying something?" Ruby replied in a mocking tone. "You see, I have this ear problem where I become deaf to entitled shits and all I hear is 'hit me'."
"Damn shinigami!" Growled Utagawa, crawling himself out of the rubble and bleeding from the corner of his lips. "Fried."
After uttering the word, the eyes of the snake on his shoulder glowed red. Reiatsu glowed from numerous cracks and linear objects surrounding the area turning into snakes. Ichigo snapped to action as the summoned reptiles chose to attack at random. He summoned both Zangetsus in their sealed states to his hands and began hacking at all angels to ward off the threats and his Aura mitigated any damage dealt upon him even without the application of Hierro that Ruby had. Said Arrancar did not bother dodging as her natural defenses nullified such attacks. Where Ichigo had more offensive power, Ruby made that up in defense.
"Why don't you just die and get out of my way!?" Utagawa roared, summoning a yellow whip to his right hand and gave a loud crack with it.
It was at that moment Ruby sensed a buildup of reiatsu above her, followed by a bolt of lightning just barely missing the Bount and herself. The blast itself caused a thick cloud of dust to cover the area, giving Yoshino the chance to retreat for the night. Utagawa growled in rage and jumped up to the roofs to make his own escape and possible chase to the female Bount. Ruby would have gone to chase Utagawa to capture for questioning, but she was halted by an orb of reiatsu of familiar Hado spell.
And that attacker proved to be none other than Rukia Kuchiki. Unusually for a shinigami, she was wearing normal clothes of a one-piece blue skirt. Her zanpakuto was not in sight due to her being in a gigai currently. In any given time, Ichigo and Ruby would be thrilled to see their friend. Such feelings were preoccupied by one singular question: Why is she attacking Ruby?
The answer hit Ruby and Ichigo like a train as they both exclaimed in their mental link. 'She doesn't know!'
Ruby was a whole source of Hollow reiatsu that was in control but simply too large to ignore at close range. Her appearance in her full Arrancar form didn't even connect Rukia to Ruby at all, especially the bone shard and the wolf ears.
"Ichigo, am I glad I came in time!" Rukia cried, aiming her arm at Ruby. "Perhaps together, we can take on this Hollow. I never imagined this much reiatsu from a single one."
"Rukia, calm down." Ichigo shouted to the petite Kuchiki. "She's not an enemy."
"She may look like I person, but that reiatsu is no doubt a hollow." Rukia declared.
"He's right." Ruby said, receiving a quizzical look from Rukia. "It's me, Ruby."
Rukia watched in growing shock as Ruby reigned in her Hollow features. The horn and the upper jaw disappeared to leave only a small fragment left. It was only until Ruby's left eye became silver again and both lost the pitch black in their whites did Rukia realize her would-be opponent.
"Ruby!" Cried Rukia.
"Hi, Rukia." Ruby greeted with a sheepish grin.
"Wh-What happened to you!?" Rukia panicked, gripping at her hair in confusion. "Why is your reiatsu that of a Hollow? When did you get wolf ears? Did you know about this Ichi - WHY DO YOU HAVE A TAIL!?"
Ichigo facepalmed. "I feel that is going to be running gag for a long time."
"BANZAI!"
The feminine war cry followed the (crash) landing of none other than Nora Valkyrie, freshly out of her gigai with both hammer and wooden stakes in hand. Followed soon after in a burst of shunpo were Ren and Senna, the latter falling to the floor from exhaustion. Orihime and Chad were the last to arrive turning a corner.
"What the hell is wrong with this woman?" Groaned Senna.
"Where are vampires?!" Exclaimed Nora, darting around the area with a crazed look in her eyes. "I'm ready to stab some vampires! Give me vampires to stab!"
"Nora!" Ren raised his voice as soon as he got a grip on Nora's shoulders. "Calm down. There is no stabbing people because there are not vampires here anymore."
Nora pouted, threw her stakes in a fit, and sat down on the ground with a frown. Ruby sighed before running her hand down her face in exasperation. For Ichigo, he just dispelled his swords away knowing the night of patrolling was over. Now he had to deal with making room for Rukia at his house, and knowing his relationship with Ruby already he knew it was going to go swimmingly with his father.
'Fan-#######-tastic!'
The breaking of Ichigo's sanity and perception of normal life continues.
I finally get a chapter of this out there. Wasn't sure if I wanted to kill Utagawa this early on or not. I'll definitely be restoring Uryu's powers earlier and let him and Ichigo bond as cousins of a sort since Ichigo is part Quincy and they can train together in the arts. This Arc is mostly the same as canon, but the purpose is to show the power of (R)WBY and JN(PR) with their new zanpakuto. For example, Weiss will face off against Koga and reveal her new Shikai in the battle.
Here another idea of an upcoming story I would like an opinion on, but this was requested by Phantom Infinite.
Super Ruby Rose, a Dragon Ball Super/Z and RWBY crossover.
Summary (1): Ruby was going through her usual morning routine. Combat skirt? Check. Bestie? Check. Crescent Rose? Check. Getting ready for classes? Check. Grow a tail overnight, get dreams about a man calling himself Black, and have gods knocking on her door? Not check! Inspired by TheUnknownLegion.
OR
Summary (2): Ruby always knew she was different, and not because of her monkey tail. Mom said the same thing about Dad, but he had died from an illness before she was born. In her dreams however, she always meets a man that claims to be her father. For he was Zamasu from the one known as Black, his body's mind having lost memory and then to live on this planet, but Zamasu's soul fractured as that led to the man's death. But the godly entity endured and focused his spirit in his progeny, Ruby Rose, to forge her into a new pinnacle of beauty. Saiyan/Demigod Ruby.
So that's the gist of it and I am stuck at a crossroad on how to proceed. For the former summary, look at The Demonic Saiyan to understand the direction for that while the latter was provided by Phantom Infinite. Let me know in the reviews.
Up next is Chapter 52.
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