Ichigo Kurosaki was really running like hell right now.
He had no idea of what happened while he was absent. The world hasn't exploded yet, and that statue dedicated to him almost certainly was a proof Tobi didn't win, but the words of the blue-haired ninja reverberated in his mind.
I just need to make things happen like they would if you never was here, on this world.
Three years, she said. Three years. She also apparently had some idea what would happen without him existing. She wasn't only from the future, it was very probable she had access to technology much superior to him to be able to know something like that.
He wondered from where she came from. She didn't seem to be an Uchiha. She did look like Kurumu, but...
"No, it can't be Kana. Why she would do this to me?"
Then Ichigo began to slow down, and slowly conclude that, not only he spent a lot of more time having sex with girls than spending time with his kids, he had been absent for three years.
"Oh god, is this some kind of stable time loop? Kana is screwing up her own childhood?"
Was in that moment Ichigo realized there was an old man looking at him, scared, like seeing the ghost of his own father.
"Oh my god...The hero who bravely fought Azrael but died so quickly...is alive...Why you have come back?" he said, babbling.
Ichigo rolled his eyes, indifferent. He was going to simply dodge these people worshipping him like a saint.
I hope that, when you return, Kurumu will be milking another guy...
Ichigo began to run again, taunted by these words.
But his superhuman stamina didn't work, despite him, running through swamps, roads or cowgirls.
Ichigo collapsed on the middle of the forest, when the moon was up on the sky, and the owls were flying around, hunting their prey.
But there was another predator active at night. One that didn't want to devour human prey, but certainly sough to extract something useful from their bodies.
"Hum, what a cute boy..." said the monster girl, fawning over her new target.
Delicately she tied him and brought her prey to her nest.
When Ichigo woke up, he felt an warm sensation around his penis. It wasn't a new feeling, a lot of women liked to wake him up that way, but he didn't expect to see...so many legs.
He was over a spider net that seemed new on the middle of the forest, and a spider-woman was pulling his body towards her pussy, his arms tied to the net.
"Oh,ah ah ah you're so ah ah ah ah big ah ah and ah hard, so good" she said, between moans. "Cum inside me, give me babies, please ah ah ah ah ah ah ah..."
Ichigo closed his eyes in pleasure, but the memories of what he was doing before falling in exchaustion came back to him.
"I, I need to go...Please, let me go..." he pleaded to the inhuman but still much human female
"Oh ah ah ah you woke up oh oh oh...Ok, but cum inside me and promise to comeback soon, ok...Or aah I will aaaaah hunt you aaaaah and never let you go AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
She came, and so did Ichigo, hitting the walls of her womb with thick jets of baby juice.
Ichigo had do admit that was the best he had in ages. It reminded him of the first time Kurumu came to seduce him. He wondered if a good first impression was better than any posterior one.
Kurumu...
Nostalgia came to him, even though technically their last time was only a few days ago. He hoped she was well.
After the spider freed him, Ichigo asked her name.
"Rachnera".
"Ok, Rachnera, I'll remember that."
Ichigo was a little more relaxed after sex but he was sure that when he arrived he would discover something really nasty had happened to the Leaf.
He didn't even needed to enter. The holes in the wall could be seen from a distance.
"Goddammit, god dammit, they are recent! She sent me just in time enough for me to not being able to help!"
He asked for permission to enter to a scared ninja guard.
"Hey! Here is Ichigo Kurosaki jackass! Let me enter!"
The guy almost fell out of the tower from fear. Ichigo was really like a living corpse that was somehow walking and talking to him.
"But but but but how the hell are you alive?"
"Dude, just call the Hokage. Call Mikoto."
"Sir, I dunno how to explain to you that, but Lady Mikoto is dead".
Terror ran through Ichigo's veins. This wasn't exactly what he imagined, but it was bad, very bad.
He turned back to the guard, while trying to not release tears.
"Did we elect her successor already?"
"Tsunade, of the Sannin, accepted her position. I guess she will want to know how you survived. And obviously Captain Yamamoto".
Ichigo slowly walked inside the opened gate, and the first thing he looked at was the faces on the rock.
The Leaf was on the Fourth Hokage when he came, and now they were on the Seventh. He had only heard of Tsunade randomly, but he also heard she left the village. How desperate the council could be to chose her?
Then again she may have changed somehow. I'm the one who was "outside" all these years.
He thought about how he personally decided to replace Kushina. Guilt was on his mind.
She could have resolved things in a different way. She was a manipulative bitch, but she was smart. Or that is just a hope I'm grabbing myself to?
A group of jounins then approached Ichigo, ready to answer his questions.
"Mister Kurosaki, we thought you were dead. We thought the man they called Azrael killed you" said the leader of them, a smoking woman called Asuna.
Ichigo suddenly remembered Zaraki's statue. He never liked the guy, or more exactly couldn't like to be with him because he was always searching for a fight, but the realization he was dead really hit him now.
"Zaraki is dead, right? Like really dead? You guys aren't keeping him alive in secret?"
"Oh we wish. He didn't die quietly though. The country may look normal now but he and Azrael tore everything apart including themselves. It was like a tsunami combined with an eartquake, an volcano eruption and a hurricane. They bled like animals. Finally, Azrael opened a hole in Kenpachi's heart and ripped it off, but collapsed. We don't know what happened with him though. He is probably dead now, but we saw a blue-haired woman taking his body after the battle is over. She seemed to be crying."
A growing sensation of terror began to grow into Ichigo, even knowing that giant mass of muscles known as Azrael was gone. Never seeing him dead, he wasn't sure.
"Blue-haired woman..." Ichigo talked mindlessly, but Asuka interpreted it as a question.
"Yeah, very pretty, very busty. Reminded me of your succubus girlfriend. We thought about following her, but it didn't seem to be worthy it".
"Why?" said Ichigo, raising his head. "A guy like Azrael appears from nothing and you guys don't follow the only woman that can give clues about his identity?"
"Oh, but she told us. She said Azrael was the biggest fighter on his world, but gave up on meeting worthy challengers. But then he heard about Kenpachi and went immediately after him. She seemed to be completely crazy about him, cheering him every time. She also claimed to be an outsider, so we assumed she was a ninja from other world".
"Asuka, did you know about our secret mission with Ragna? Where is him, by the way?"
"We presumed he caught you guys in your path and you and Ragna were killed very quickly. We made an investigation and concluded their fight began like 2 kilometres away from the palace".
Ichigo almost laughed. The flying punch was a way to cover their tracks.
"Yachiro?"
"We found her limping, apparently from a punch Azrael gave to her to taunt Zaraki. Then she turned back into a blade when he died. She was apparently a zanpaktou. Did you know that?"
Ichigo dilated his eyes.
"Hell no".
Ichigo then warned them.
"Look Asu...Asuka, that's your name, I think".
She waved positively with her head.
"That girl was with Tobi and Azrael. They're all allies. The reason I disappeared after three years is because she made some kind of jutsu and brought me to this point in time, saying she was trying to make things in a way like they should be if I've never come to this Universe. Do you get it?"
"That sounds pretty bad" said the Sarutobi woman, stoically.
"Yeah, I think. But I guess this don't matters right now. Did you guys investigate the palace later?"
"Seemed empty. Nothing unusual".
"No lines on the ground, any kind of structure aside of ruins?"
"Well, it seemed like an earthquake hit it, but then again, Azrael and Kenpachi..."
"Oh, that. Jesus, I think they never wanted Azrael to kill Kenpachi, they wanted a distraction to cover their tracks".
"Well, it may be news to you, but to us we're back to zero about Tobi for years. Thankfully he never did any moves we could detect, because honestly we dont know of any counter measures".
These words triggered something inside Ichigo's mind...
I have a counter-measure for what you will do with my little lovely Sasuke.
"Sasuke, where the hell is him?"
"Oh, I was waiting for you to say that. Sasuke disappeared three months ago. There is no trace of him."
"The blue-haired woman...The blue-haired woman was interested on him!"
"Well, that sounds bad. Again, we have no clues."
"He made drawings of her. Several drawings. You don't understand, she was on his mind for years, I dunno how they knew each other...There were more than just a female figure there!"
"What you mean? Background, a flower on her hair?" asked Asuka, cynically.
"Yeah, could you find someone who could identify the flower?"
"Look Ichigo, that's a very small clue...Just because she was there don't means..."
"Where is my daughter Kana!?" screamed the shinigami.
"Oh lord, you don't think..." Asuka dilated her eyes.
"Where is she?"
"Kurumu left the village years ago, after we gave up on finding your body. She said she didn't have any bonds left here or something like that. Her daughter went with her. I thought she was just going to search for you in her own way. She left some things, but..."
Asuka didn't complete her sentence, because she knew Ichigo wasn't going to hear. He ran towards the old building.
He wasn't surprised with the reactions in his way. Everyone acting like he was a ghost, desperate questions about if he was alive...But he ignored everything in favour of reaching his room.
He crouched to reach under his bed, and find a special box. He remembered Kurumu doing the same thing every birthday of hers, putting her dominatrix outfit and re-enacting their first time with some differences each time
He opened the box and found something different.
A bondage vest for women, a bull whip, vibrators, nipple clips, a ball gag...She was going to let him do everything he wanted with her, everything...Only if him gave her the gift of being alive.
Ichigo cried over the box, and despair grew on his heart.
Ragna had disappeared with Tobi, leaving him with nobody who had complete knowledge of what Tobi wished to do. Kenpachi was dead and god knows if Tobi had others like Azrael, Ichigo doubted he could deal with them.
"Ahn, sir, you are Ichigo, right? Did you saw my brother Ragna?"
Ichigo raised his eyes and turned to the window to talk to the source of the voice, and didn't understand what he saw.
There was a tiny, petite blonde girl with blue eyes there. She was wearing a sleeveless collared cloth. Her long hair flowed freely on the wind, and there was two weird hairpieces on her head.
The moment Ichigo saw her, however, he felt like having the weirdest of the hallucinations, and his body began to move like he was a object floating in the water.
"Oh, you're dizzy. Everyone here is kind of dizzy when they are near me, but it has been quite a long time since someone on this place felt like that around me. You know my eyes are actually green, but this place..."
"What about this place?" said Ichigo, trying to stop his dizziness by useless putting his hand on his forehead.
The girl closed her eyes, and when she opened them, a different person seemed to be in control. A much less emotive, much less shy, much more older.
Her voice took a serious and mature tone, almost robotic, and talked to Ichigo like a doctor telling a patient about a very serious, or even mortal disease.
"This world is unstable because of the fusion. And you're the most unstable of all individuals here, because there's a thing from a world you not belong to inside your body. This dizziness you're feeling is my Eye actually stabilizing your body. But don't think I can resolve your problems: this world is in the middle of a process of destruction".
Ichigo didn't heard anything else. Whatever that blonde girl was doing, it only became stronger with time, and finally something like a wave hit him, and he fell unconscious.
