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"Shiro-Zangetsu" / "hollowfied vizards"
"Zangetsu-Ossan"
"Other people's zanpakuto talking"
"People mind talking to their zanpakuto"
"The average hollow speaking"
"Tensa Zangetsu"
Chapter 15, Once again I will come save you,
Rukia,
She ran down the path with a look of determination etched onto her face, her brother and best friend would come to pick her up. Excution her mind told her. But not mine she would say back. Rukia would play her part that would set up the stage for Aizens death.
Hopefully it was slow and painful.
There had been no need to leave a note but Aizen kept close watch on Ichigo and she had to leave it in order to not arouse any suspicion. The hybrid already knew how to spot the pesky camara's but she did not.
Her body, now almost human, made it hard to sense others. She continued to run. Ichigo would play his part and she would play hers. Kaien would hide.
Urahara had made a good deal of suppressors for Ichigo to wear but he could only wear them for half an hour max. Any longer would start to tear him apart.
She kept running against the cool air of the night, the clear sky showing the hundreds of beautiful stars. Shame so many of them could not be seen due to the towns light pollution.
"Kuchiki Rukia!" A familiar but angry voice sounded from above her, she stopped and pretended to be surprised.
"Renji!"
"You handing your powers to a human?"
What had she said last time again? Ichigo had informed her of what happened last time, he had been informed by past-future Rukia. She told him no. Denying that she would do such a thing. At least this time she was not lying when she said she hadn't given her powers away.
Uryu had been handed a distraction at the hands of Urahara, a few arrows flew past her head towards Renji who only just managed to dodge them.
Out from the shadows came a familiar face, he was dressed in his shihakusho with a bow manifested at his right hand. A quick look to his back showed that he only carried one sword on him. Rukia knew better though, Ichigo had a special technique to hiding things. He would never leave his zanpakuto behind.
The one on his back was Zangetsu-Ossan.
"Ichigo!"
His reiatsu could actually be felt and his hollow side was nowhere to be found. She could still see the strain the suppressors were under though. They were shaking slightly.
Renji's twisted snarl of a voice came from behind her,"You gave your powers to a quincy!"
Ichigo was either very good at acting or he was currently very calm as a comment that would normally rile him up a little had no effect what so ever. His frozen mask of calm and collected stayed on his face. Not even a twitch could be seen.
"You will not be taking her with you." He sounded calm to, perhaps an effect of his quincy side? She had witnessed herself what he was like when he used his hollow powers, he acted more like Kenpachi when like that. An angry Kenpachi. Now he was just acting like Uryu.
She hoped he knew what he was doing.
Ichigo,
"Shiro could you hide yourself as far down into my soul as you can go? Ossan i'm going to need your assistance with keeping my reiatsu in control."
"Yea i'm leavin'! At least le' me see wha' happen' later!" He sensed the hollow move to the back of his mind where Ichigo could not draw on his power and he would not be sensed.
"I can do that but we will be severely weakened in order to maintain a balance."
"I can handle it. Continue with what you are doing." Using his now clearer and more strategically skilled mindset given to him by his quincy powers he assessed how to run through this and still have them take Rukia and yet still have Byakuya believe that he lost his powers. Ichigo also looked at how much power he should use against the younger versions of his friends. He could use blut to deflect senbonzakura and then use his own reiatsu to carve a hole through him just next to his Saketsu and Hakusui. Once he does that he can let Rukia walk through the senkaimon to soul society and let Urahara pick him up for healing.
Sounded like a good plan.
After shooting at Renji and listening to the mans insults he drew his sword and ran forward (seemed more like a walking pace to him) and pushed against Renji's own sword. The red head only managed to win the fight of strength because Ichigo let him, the hybrid tripping backwards a bit. Moving forward he sliced at the visor cutting it in half and leaving a thin slash over his forehead.
He thanked his quiny mindset that he wasn't getting overly bothered by what the man was saying, keeping a level head at all times. It would have hurt far more otherwise.
He kept this pace up being just slightly faster than his once friend. Renji went into shikai and Ichigo let him slice through his shoulder ignoring the pain it caused.
Eventually Byakuya showed up and tried to remove his powers but Ichigo acted out his plan and fell to the floor, a false look of fear written on his face.
Watching Rukia leave forever keeping her mask of determination on he laid on the hard floor of the ground slowing down his bleeding with his blut.
It didn't rain this time.
Once Kisuke showed up he decided to take a nap and let the man deal with him.
The following day,
He opened his eyes in a daze. Must have lost more blood than I thought and quickly brought his hollow to the surface allowing his to heal.
"Finally ou' of tha dark hell hole."
"Sorry."
"Eh, it's fine."
"What in the name of the soul king is going on? We are sleeping. We are sleeping for several hours with no one else in the vicinity. We are sleeping in a bed. What."
"SHIRAYUKI!" He would recognise that voice anywhere any time. That was Sode No Shirayuki. She was finally awake.
Ossan quickly crawled out of where ever he had been hiding.
"Hello zangetsu, can't say I like what you have done with the place."
"Well if it wasn't for you it would all be like what it is outside of the dome."
In his mind he could see the care the quincy spirit showed in keeping Shirayuki balanced. She was stubbornly refusing to not stand up.
"Well it is a long story but I have time. If we have got anything, we have time."
With that he began to recite his story. Again.
He still had to do this several more times.
Uryu,
"What do you mean Rukia was taken!" He just could not believe what his cousin was saying. The crazy hybrid was far too powerful to let Rukia just be taken.
Ichigo quickly muttered with Urahara huddled into a corner then to my horror he pulled out a blue version of the sho keepers bucket hat and a fan and they both flipped them open and went,"We can't tell you all the secrets of course!"
I quickly vacated to inform Masaki of what had just happened. They did not need another Urahara.
10 Days later,
There were so many questions he wanted to ask right now such as, why do you have an ausichi on you and why did we wait 10 days to go save Rukia. But he was not going to voice any of them. Not until Ichigo got rid of that damned hat and fan he had on him!
The entire group of vizards had cowered in fear of the sight, Masaki had passed out and Isshin just stood there looking horrified.
Ichigo and Urahara stood in front of the group and started to tell us the plan, Urahara began first.
"There will be two groups. Isshin, Masaki, Karin, Yuzu, Uryu, Orihime, Tatsuki, Chad, Keigo and Mizuiro will be going through this senkaimon,"He waved his hand and a large senkaimon appeared covered in paper seals and full of reiatsu,"and you will be following Yoruichi and listening to her. She is your group leader."
This time the next question that popped into my head was asked."When do we go."
With a click of Ichigo's fingers the senkaimon activated,"Right now!" His cousin them proceeded to through them all into it.
Listening to Yoruichi's warnings they all ran through the dangai, they ran even faster when the cleaner decided to show it's face.
"For fuck sake Urahara!" People looked at Orihime in shock of her swearing but just thought of it as Ichigo's influence.
They all fell into awkward positions from the dangai.
"Well wasn't that pleasant. Now to our next stop." The female cat lady spoke with a deep male voice walking calmly onwards.
The poor cat had probably been traumatised so much by Urahara that she just acted as if this was a normal occurrence.
Ichigo,
Acting like Urahara was fun; now he understood why the man did it. Watching their fear was also enjoyable.
Those in he group left behind included Ryuken, all eight vizards, Tessai, Urahara, himself, Kaien and Tsuki. It turned out that Tsuki was in what he called "A god form" Meaning that if he released it he became an average height and had the same hair and eyes as he did in his gigai. He borrowed a normal shihakusho from Urahara and he was good to go.
It was very helpful that no one in seireitei knew what the soul king looked like. Squad Zero was waiting on stand by and would be for the next week or so.
Kaien had been handed a cloak to hide both him and his reiatsu considering he was meant to be dead.
Ichigo walked forwards and began explaining only part of what his group was going to be doing. "Urahara has set me as group leader for us lot! We will be entering Seireitei by a different method. While they will use Kukaku's cannon we will be going by gargantua!" He ended the last part cheerfully just because he knew how much everyone other than a select few vizards, Tsuki and himself who were part hollow and Kaien who was almost all hollow just loved going through a gargantua.
They hated it.
"And that is the only part of the plan I am going to tell you so lets go!" With a slice of Shiro's sword the world slit to allow them passageway to the soul society.
The way there was mostly uneventful other than some complaining at the use of gargantua and how it reeks of hollow reiatsu.
"Quit complaining it's the only way we can take!"
They stopped for less than a minute before continuing.
Once they left the gargantua me, Urahara and Tsu perched on a rock so we sat just above them and told them all to listen up.
"As Ichigo and Akira has deemed you the most mature half of our little living world crew you will be gaining a very important and serious peace of information." At the lack of any fan or hat on anyone's person and the fact that Urahara was actually being serious everyone put their undivided focus on the three.
"Ichigo if you would remove some of your clothes and Akira-sama you revert to how you normally are."
Many people visibly recoiled or covered their mouths at the sight of Ichigo. But no one spoke knowing just how serious the topic was. Tsuki walked forwards with his far too tall and glowy to be mortal look with his very fancy looking Shihakusho and haori on. Squad Zero appeared to take their place in a line behind him.
As had been agreed I was to explain everything as I knew the most about it all."Understand that we are doing more than rescue Kuchiki Rukia we are also going to be killing Aizen Sosuke to avoid a future which I have personally witnessed. Aizen will start a war using his army in Hueco Mundo against the soul society and everyone will die. Everyone did die.
Shinji was the first to gather his thoughts,"So ya trying to tell us ya time traveled kid?"
A sure,"Yes," was heard by the silent group.
"So how old are ya really? Can't call ya a kid if ya the same age as Kisuke now can I?" No one else dared to speak so Shinji, the unspoken leader of the vizards, did.
He gave a small chuckle and said,"Don't worry i'm not that old. I'm 45. Stupid war lasted 15 years and it ended when I was nearing 30."
A few people grimaced at the thought of a child fighting in a war, especially one they had spent time with and gotten to know. If his scars said anything it hadn't been fun; not all of his scars were from fighting.
"Ah is that so. Well ya still Ichigo so that fine."
And their was the one thing I hadn't been expecting to hear. I had thought that they would reject me for lying to them for so long but they didn't. Tsuki put his hand on my shoulder and gave me an,"I told you so." He just hadn't believed that they would.
"Oh, well then. One last thing, I didn't get to say this last time so i'll tell you now. Im sorry Hiyori." Before he lost what was left of his composure he turned around and left.
"Oi Strawberry wha' do you mean by that! The hell you apologising to me for?!" I carried on walking away.
Akira,
"Don't push it. It was hard for Ichigo to just say that." He was worried that this would distract Ichigo so he just hoped that it would be resolved soon. Ichigo would overthink about things and end up affecting himself greatly.
"Well if ya think so mind telling us who ya are." Shinji said both stopping Hiyori and moving the groups attention away from his friend.
"Well i'm the soul king of course!" He answered in his normally cheerful manner."And as soul king I revoke any execution sentences or exiles placed on you."
"Wait, seriously." They were all looking at him incredulously.
"Well I an do that. Especially since the first thing i'll be doing after all of this is over is removing central 46. Don't like that lot." Much cheering happened in response to that.
Since being around Ichigo he could feel those unexplainable rules start to disappear, by now they were gone leaving him to do as he pleased. "The only reason we are doing it like this is to lure out Aizen and Tousen."
Many puzzled looks were directed at him,"What about snakey Gin?"
"He is just after killing Aizen because he hurt Rangiku." Many looks of why am I not surprised were passed around.
"Well i'm going to go do other things now and leave you will Urahara here!" Other things consisted of finding Ichigo and taking a nap. He then walked away from the group before they found any reason to keep him there.
He found Ichigo napping, sprawled on a large sofa, putting himself on the other end of it he placed his legs on top of the hybrids and fell asleep.
Tsuki dreamt of a brother who looked like Ichigo with long black hair and glowing red eyes. He had a like for illusions, pain and death.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I will see you in the next one. -Luna