Reset then Restart
Ichigo is going to experience some feels. Soul king? Maybe.
I had to look up squad zero. Maybe I should read the quincy arc.
I have seen the thing in a crystal that is the soul king but im actually trying to make a person here. With a personality. So yeah this is my soul king and i'm actually going to make the guy useful.
Unlike crystal guy.
Sorry it's just I see so many things to do with the quincy arc that could have been so much better.
"Shiro-Zangetsu" / "hollowfied vizards"
"Zangetsu-Ossan"
"Other peoples zanpakuto talking"
"People mind talking to their zanpakuto"
"The average hollow speaking"
Chapter 8, I miss the you I knew, and sweets,
Kurosaki Ichigo, His room, Night time,
It had been a month since he had revealed that he knew about the spirit world. He was on slightly bad terms with Hiyori but I had managed to convince her that I wasn't trying to kill them with their own souls and that it would actually help them.
It was nice to be included in the things to do with the spirit world and not have to pretend he didn't know what all the secret conversations over his head were about. Goat face had told him of his former position as squad ten captain and how he was a Shiba Ichigo actually felt like he was doing things.
The changes showed in the fact that the vizards no longer hid as much as before and his mother was alive. He had even learnt some kido and reiatsu control!
But he was so tired.
The nightmares he used to have during the time in war had come back with more force and he often swapped places with Shiro or Ossan to sleep. Not like anyone could sense that he was doing it anyways. He had also taken to often sleeping on the floor as the bed felt to soft, he had grown used to sleeping on the desert floor or the destroyed and abandoned buildings of the living world.
But his mother had woken up and he had told her about what he knew and that they could stop trying to have secret conversations around him.
He had placed a kido seal on his room that stopped the outside world from hearing what went on in his room. Ichigo had told his mother that it saved them all from Shiro's yelling. I had also invested in a padlock for his bedroom door. Said that if anyone came along they wouldn't see him talking to air or standing in the air. Or sitting he often did that as Shiro had broken his desk chair and had yet to acquire another one.
People no longer questioned if he went missing for several hours.
Probably at hueco mundo.
They were not wrong. I spent a lot of time there as it wouldn't matter if I started to throw about powerful attacks. The place was a desert, there wasn't much to destroy when he had a bout of anger.
He got angry a lot. At the past, future? Whatever. Ichigo also felt like he wasn't doing anything. Now that he wasn't constantly on an adrenaline high from never ending battle he felt as if he was not getting enough done to protect the people he cared about.
I wished that I could just go and cut Aizen's head of and leave it on his office desk for everyone to see.
But he couldn't do that.
If it were not for his mother he would be severely underweight. You had to eat when you were being watched each meal though.
He often threw it up not long afterwards though.
His hair just about covered his eyes though so no one ever noticed the lack of sleep and permanent frown that had grown and was giving him head aches.
When he got dizzy he would just say that he had been practicing reiatsu control and that dealing with so much reiatsu made you dizzy. He was not lying as he had passed out before from practicing it.
There was also the cold of hueco mundo that he could always feel as if it followed him. He was alway cold.
Zangetsu materialised and place me on his lap with Shiro. They were warm. They both fit on the old mans lap because they both had the appearance of a child.
He also missed his friends. Those from seireitei and his mostly human ones too. Missed the vizard as well.
They were not they same people he once knew.
They never would be.
He was crying again. He didn't have the right to.
Shiro sat closer so him and held his hand. He was warmer than Ichigo.
I was currently in my soul form. It felt more familiar. He played with the key that sat around his neck.
Tsuki had never said that Ichigo would have to be careful of when he went there. Only that he had to be careful if he brought anyone with him.
No one was bothered if he couldn't be found for several days.
He stood up.
"Aibou wha' ya up to?"
He would guess that it worked the same as a senkaimon.
"Ichigo?"
I took the key of and held it in front of me. Placing a small amount of my reiatsu within it I turned the key clockwise.
A senkaimon appeared with a hell butterfly.
I followed it through into the glowing light of the senkaimon.
Hyosube Ichibei, Soul king's palace,
He had felt the senkaimon that lead into the royal realm open but everyone that could open it was here with him. All of squad zero and the soul king was here. Their king was currently sleeping, he did a lot of sleeping. Like sometimes he would just nap while standing up and someone would have to move him.
Then he just came along one day declaring that he has a name and that we should use it.
How was this person their king.
But back to topic, people entering through the senkaimon. Should probably go check that considering he hadn't sensed anyone actually come through.
"I'm going to go check that anyone coming with me?"
"YES!" Answer from everyone. It did get boring up here.
When he got there he came across a kid with orange hair, two swords and no sensable reiatsu.
He also had an oken.
"Boy who are you?" Nimaiya had pointed one of his many swords at the boy. Who didn't seem to even acknowledge that the sharp item was there.
"He is a guest, a living person. His name is Kurosaki Ichigo and to put it into simple terms he is from the future. Also don't try to fight him you will lose." Akira had shown up. Then dumped a whole load of information on them.
They would lose a fight against this boy. Squad zero? He was interested.
"Hey Tsuki!" First name? Akira must know Kurosaki well as this earned the boy ruffled hair and a cookie. what the hell was with that haori. Somewhere there king had an infinite cookie pocket. It's just best to accept them.
They had an overgrown child for a king.
"Can I look at your zanpakuto they seem to be very well made!" First thing Nimaiya asks. Perfectly good time to.
"I would think they would be well made if you were the one to make them." Well that's a privilege to have a zanpakuto forged by Nimaiya himself. He had to admit they were always very strong.
"I made you a sword? We knew each other in the future.!"
Something was definitely wrong if the sudden empty blank look was anything to go by. The kid looked exhausted and no child of that age should be capable of shutting of like that.
"Are you ok, did I say something?"
"Ah sorry. It's just that I saw you all die. The enemy was not very friendly. Both of them had some sort of fascination with me and liked to make sure I saw my comrades die. Im older than I look."
Everyone gained a look of both shock and pity. For the enemy to deliberately seek you out so you saw the deaths of the people you cared about most could not be a pleasant thing to experience.
"Ichigo when did you last sleep. You look exhausted." Akira seemed to be concerned about him.
"Yesterday for half an hour. For the rest of the week I have slept no more than three hours a night." How was he even functioning!
"Inemuri."
Akira quickly caught the boy before he hit the floor.
"That is an interesting boy you have found there but is he alright?" It was the first thing Hikifune had said throughout the entire thing.
"I'm not entirely sure myself but if I know anything it is that the boy needs rest." Akira turned around and walked of. Probably to find somewhere Kurosaki could sleep.
They could all agree with that.
Kurosaki Ichigo, Soul king's palace,
He woke up in a room with expensive looking furniture and found himself in a very comfortable bed. Shiro materialised to test this.
"He put me to sleep!"
"Good. Ya need ta rest som' time or another'."
"Still!"
"Look 'ere abibou I 'an tell ya now tha' you would 'ave passed out within t'e next five hour's anyway'."
Was he really lacking that much sleep? He was able to fight for an entire week only sleeping for an hour. Ichigo had slept more than an hour this week.
"Ya not got te adrenaline tha' was keepin' ya awake before."
He made a valid point.
"Go back ta sleep."
But he couldn't. He went to get up and Shiro threw him back on the bed.
"I ain' askin' im tellin'. Go Back To Sleep" Shiro's spoke like a normal person (for once). That meant he sould probably listen.
"I'll try, no promises though."
"At leas' ya gonna try. It's better than ya gettin' ye self killed because ye passed out."
Point made. He would try to sleep. But even though the bed was comfy he could not sleep on it.
He got back up and laid himself on the wooden floor. Shiro laid with his back to him like they used to in hueco mundo.
You should never leave your back unprotected.
A slight breeze was going along the floor and even though he was in a completely different place, it felt familiar.
Hikifune Kirio,
She had been asked to go see if Ichigo had woken up as the spell would have worn of by now. When she opened the door she did not expect to see him lying on the floor with what looked to be his twin (A HOLLOW!) laying at his back as if to act as a shield.
What worried her was not the hollow as he seemed to currently be safe but the violent shaking and mumbling of the orange haired boy.
She went to wake him up.
Within a second Kirio found herself in a wall on the opposite side of the room with a sword touching her neck.
In front of her stood Ichigo who was currently being held back by the hollow and an old man with yellow sunglasses.
"Sorry we should have warned you that it was not safe to try and wake him up. After many attempts on his life in his sleep this is how he reacts to people waking him up. We would normally take over his body while he sleeps in his inner world but we did not do it this time, Sorry."
The sword was removed from it's place at her neck. How many times did someone have to be attacked in their sleep to gain an automatic reaction to stab the person.
If it was not for the two spirits she would be dead. The sword would have gone through her neck killing her.
Akira had not been joking when he had said that the boy could kill them. Kirio hadn't even seen him move.
Said boy was currently half in the hollows lap with a look of fear on his face.
She raised an eyebrow as if to ask why.
"Aibou's killed 'is frien's by acciden' more tha' once. 'e does not react well when it almos' happens again."
That made sense but was sad.
I removed myself from the now broken wall. That would have to be repaired.
"Well thing happen it just means that I should be more careful now!" Picking both Ichigo and the hollow up she walked of.
"Oi wat ya doin!"
"I'm going to give you loads of sweets until you stop being so depressed!" With that she walked of with the goal of lots of chocolate and cake.
Akira Tsuki,
He had gone of in a search for Ichigo and had been following the boys reiatsu. Tsuki had found them being given may, many sweets. Who hadn't invited him! Sweets!"You were having sweets and you didn't invite me!"
"Not like 'e an' aibou were invited. We were kidnapped."
"So no one kidnapped me for sweets!" Why! If there was sweets I had to be invited.
"If you wan't sweets then just come and take some before Shiro eats them all. He doesn't need anymore than what he has already had."
"YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TO MANY SWEETS!"
"My exact point bu' 'e never listens!"
"Alright! Fine! Sweets are good and you can't have to many!"
Kirio walked in to find Akira, Ichigo and the hollow who seemed to be called Shiro was sharing a large amount of sweets and their hands were covered in chocolate.
"See I told you that you couldn't get chocolate better than Hikifune's"
"It 's far better tha' ta chocolate te sweet's shop near us sells!"
Tsuki could once again see that look in her eyes that showed that she was questioning if he was in fact a king and not a child. "Don't look at me like that, not like you can get anything better than sweets!"
Hikifune just sighed.
Feels! And then happy stuff. I made Akira like a child and he is like that because he is quite old and the palace is boring so he finds that acting like a child is fun.
Poor Ichigo is slowly falling into a hole that Akira is trying to stop him falling into.
The reason that Ichigo likes to sleep on the floor is that desert floors are not the softest things to sleep on and neither is concrete and laying on a soft bed feels weird. Shiro sleeps against his back to act like a security camera/ shield for behind Ichigo.
I didn't want to have an entire chapter of depression so I tried to balance it out. I hope it worked.
Anyways I will see you in the next chapter!