Chapter 3
A new dream.
————-/innerworld/———
"I am... ZANGETSU!!"
His white twin says at him with a crazed smile.
Ichigo looks at him with a surprised expression then turns to Smaug.
"So he is my true power?"
Smaug nods as zangetsu crosses his arms and smirks at Ichigo.
"Alright then.. if your my power which feels like a blend of shinigami and hollow... then that means either one of my parents must be one.." he says as he holds his head in thought thinking out loud.
"Well king I do have last life memories but are kinda selective... and hazy..."
Zangetsu states with his hand scratching his head.
"Well what do you remember?"
Ichigo asks as he listens to zangetsu and Smaug leans his huge head closer.
"Well it starts with a memory of me standing over a dead shinigami..."
——/zangetsu memories/——
A black hollow with a hole that was filled with a white substance at the chest stood over a hollow he just killed.
He had black shoulder armor with blades for arms. His mask and hair were white and two bull like horns jutted from his head in sharp angles.
He felt a powerful soul near him and hunger took him and instincts controls his actions.
A captain stood with his sword drawn but couldn't hear him. All he could hear was voices.
Voices speaking in faintly echoing tones saying.
'Kill... must kill... kill him... devour his... return... kill him
... his heart...'
He couldn't control himself and felt his body move at him in a fast pace. His base arms swung with full strength and clashes with the captain. The sound was drowned by the voices in his head and as they battle he felt another power and the scent felt sweeter.
He turns and sees a Quincy...
'Her soul... kill her ... devour... must devour... kill her ... must kill her... DEVOUR HER SOUL...'
The voices get even louder than before. He runs at her as she shot arrows at him which he dodges with ease.
He sees her stop and open her arms and he took the bait and bit her on her shoulder. Then she mutters something that he couldn't hear and felt immense pain and goes black. his last thoughts were.
' she tricked me... I'm glad... the voices are gone. I'm grateful... the hunger was... too much... thank you young girl and I'm sorry... for my bite is venomous... forgive me.'
Then he felt the feeling of her soul in the black darkness and felt his slowly devour hers.
He suddenly saw in the darkness the shinigami who he almost killed holding the girl who killed him in a heroic way.
He heard his words for the first time and he listens.
"Alright hollow you won't devour her soul now that I'm here.. so get lost!"
He felt himself slowly shrink and darkness fell on him again.
End memory-
———-/ichigos inner world/—
Ichigo stood in amazement and realized who he talked about.
"My mom was a Quincy... and my dad was a shinigami... that explains a lot in a weird way..."
Smaug who kept quiet the whole time raises his head in thought as zangetsu looks at Ichigo then Smaug.
"Yeah he is a unique one isn't he Smaug?"
"Yes ... Ichigo.."
Smaug says to him catching his attention.
"Zangetsu and I have agreed while you were asleep and we came to a decision... we will train you and help you become a powerful foe and make sure you will never loose a battle."
"That's right king! We will make sure you don't fuck up and I will train you how to handle me. Hehehe and I will also give you dating advice when you go out with queen again."
Ichigo looks at him and nods.
"Alright but as long as your advice doesn't go too far. I want this to work."
Zangetsu nods with a wide grin and Smaug scoffs.
"Don't worry Ichigo... soon after your training is done, you will become powerful and you need to be in order to protect what is yours. So what do you say Ichigo? Will you train or die and let every worthless worm go after your friends and family and your love? TELL ME AND SHOUT IT OUT!!"
Smaug shouts out to Ichigo who gets into a determined mode and shouts.
"I WILL NOT LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO THEM!! THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL ME AND I WILL MOVE FORWARD!!"
"That's my king..."
Smaug nods in aprovment.
"Good now for your first test you must find a priceless treasure within here. And you have to find it before I kill you!"
"What?! What do you-AAAAAAAAHHHH!"
Smaug roars with a wave of flames at him which he starts running.
Zangetsu laughs as he watches.
'This is only the beginning... soon we will be feared by all... and no one will take anything from us again...'
————/Orihime/————
Orihime sat on her bed holding a bright orange ribbon. She remembers when Ichigo first gave her the ribbon when they were in elementary school.
'We were so little then... now we are dating and it feels like a dream...'
A memorable moment plays in her head.
A smaller Ichigo walks up to a child Orihime who was crying from bullies. He stops and holds out the ribbon to her as she was crying.
"Why are you crying?"
A sniffling Orihime raises her head at the boy and shakily says between sobs.
"T-the other *sniff* girls... say that *sniff* my hair is *snif sniff* ugly..."
The boy says.
"Well they are wrong. I think your hair is very pretty."
Her sobs stop and she looks up at him seeing a smile.
"Here. You can have this."
"Huh?" Orihime looks at himwith tears in her eyes.
"It will keep your hair out of your face and it will look pretty with your hair." He says with a light blush.
She froze at those words and shakes a bit as she reaches for it.
"Here let me." He gets behind her and puts her hair in a nice ponytail with a bow.
"I'm Ichigo kurosaki. What's your name?"
"O-Orihime inoue. N-nice to m-meet you."
Orihime says with a light pink blush on her cheeks
He gives her a bright smile and her heart moved from that. From that day she fell for him and that feeling grew as years pass.
Now she smiles and hold the ribbon to her chest and whispers to herself.
"I wish I could do something in return for you Ichigo... you gave me a beautiful ribbon... I will give you something back.."
Then she looks to her phone and pulls out an app and starts searching for a gift for him.
'Knock knock knock'
She stops and answers the door revealing her best friend tatsuki.
"Tatsuki!! Come in!" She greets with a bright smile.
"Hey Orihime."
She walks in and looks at her.
"I hear that your now dating... who is the lucky guy?" She asks jabbing her in the arm with a sly smile.
Orihime blushes like a strawberry and fidgets a bit.
"I-I'm uh dating... Ichigo."
Tatsuki's eyes widen and shouts.
"Really?! That's great Orihime!!! I'm happy for you!! It's about damn time!!"
She hugs Orihime which surprises her making an eep sound.
"Oh uhh thanks Tatsuki. We Started yesterday evening. And we had our first kiss."
"Really?! Tell me everything!"
So the too best friends talked about their first day and how Ichigo makes the promise and how he kisses her.
"Damn... that was pretty good. Your so lucky to have him Orihime. He is a good guy and probably the only guy I would allow near you." She says as Orihime sips her cup as they drank tea.
"Yeah and it felt so powerful.. I was drawn to him and I knew that I fell in love at that moment and I will always love him." She says as she pulls out the ribbon.
"Hey is that the ribbon he gave you in elementary?"
"Yeah I kept it. I couldn't let go and it reminds me when we first met. On that field trip when the other girls picked on me... he came and gave me this ribbon and told me to keep my head high and always smile."
Tatsuki smiles and remembers watching them from a distance.
"Yeah I remember that day too. Fun times.."
As the two friends talked-
——-/urahara shop/———
Groaning rukia sat up and sees kisuke siting in her room.
"Ah your awake! That's good!
Tessia please bring some tea for me and miss rukia."
"Sure"
A tall man with a mustache walks out to get tea.
"Urahara I want to know. Who is that human?" Rukia asks in a cold tone.
"Well I only can tell you is that he is a high school student and lives with his family and hates people who intrude in his privacy or try to harm what he loves." He says cryptically.
"Is he a hollow? What is he?!" She demands loudly.
"I can't say. I'm sorry miss rukia but I made a promise to him and his family that I will protect them from the soul society. They will see him and his family as a threat and order the soul society to kill him and those who are with him."
Rukia widens her eyes.
"W-what? I didn't know that."
"That's why I can't say. Besides he will kill you if you come near him or his family so stay away from him and just report that hollows are just being more active."
Kisuke says with his Infamous fan infront of his face.
"Wait you want me to lie?! I can't or I will get into trouble."
She says in a worried tone thinking about her captain and her brother byakuya.
"That's the only option miss rukia." He says shaking his head.
A few moments of silence play out then she says.
" fine I will not report it but I expect more answers soon."
" the only answers you will find are with the one in question but he will kill you if you are seen... and don't think of hiding. He is a master at hiding and will see you coming."
He says as if he heard her very thoughts.
'Damn it... if I talk to him and reason with him...'
She nods to kisuke as he gets up to leave.
"Get some rest and I will prepare a ggia for ya."
He says and walks out and sees youruichi in cat form.
"So how was the soul society?"
He asks in a playful tone.
"It was more active now that they are aware of the mysterious power in town and kukaku seems better. Her sake is still good and she says hi."
Yourichi says in a fake deep voice.
He laughs and sits down next to the cat and scratches her ears.
"Well at least they don't know that the fire drake blade is found."
"What?! It's been found?! Who found it?"
She says loudly as kisuke smiles and looks at her under his hat.
"Ichigo kurosaki has it. Apparently the sword chose him and has bonded with his soul. The soul of the blade is Smaug and seems to make that power grow everyday from what I have observed."
Yoruichi nods and licks her paw.
" it seems that the head captain is aware that the sword is found... and now I understand why he was so cranky now."
"Isn't he always cranky?"
"Yes but even more now. He even told mayuri to shut up during the meeting."
"Oooooh yup he is mad. I tried to find out the origin of the blade but found nothing. What about you?" He asks as he licks a lollipop.
"When I snuck into the archives I did find this."
She holds an ancient scroll in her paw.
"It's the only one I found related to the subject."
He takes it and opens and reads.
" year 3738 BC.
First report on lake town in earthland in the north.
A huge soul was discovered and was powerful.
The power recorded was said to be able to kill all who came close to the soul within a mile or so.
The soul king personally changed the soul into one of the first zanpaktuo.
The blade refused all suitable hosts and disappeared during the Quincy war.
The Quincy seem to not possess the blade but have learned of its origin and were seeking it during the war and have fallen.
The blade is missing and probably is forgotten. It's for the best for the blade to be forgotten.
End report year 3738BC"
Youruichi heard the report and thinks as kisukehums in thought.
"So the soul king himself turned the dragon into a zanpaktuo just like horymarriu . That explains a bit but that power... it's said that it was powerful to kill souls within several miles! even more than the head captain."
Youruichi swishes her tail around as she thinks.
"So what now kisuke?"
She asks as she looks at him.
He looks up to the door ." We will wait and see what Ichigo will do with that kind of power. Considering what he is... he will even make it past transcendence. I just hope we won't be his enemies."
He says with hope and worry in his mind.
' I hope that he doesn't kill us all...'
———-/head captain/———
The old man Yamamoto sat at his desk and sighs.
'I'm getting too old for this shit...'
'That's why you need an heir for your place Yamamoto. And I know you worry about the blade of the dragon under the mountain... it worries me too..'
Ryujin jakka says to his wielder.
'I know old friend ... it seems that the blade finally chooses a host... I just hope it's not a crazy one like kenpachi... we have enough crazy ones as it is... no, what we need is someone who will do anything to protect what he or she wants to protect.'
Ryujin nods in Yamamoto's inner world in agreement.
Then Yamamoto hears a captain walk in and bows.
"Captain hitsugya reporting sir." Toshiro says as yama looks at him.
"Report!" He demands.
"Sir, squad 12 has reported that rukia kucki is MIA. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Also a powerful spiritual pressure has been noticed in the living world."
The old captain strokes his mighty beard and slams his cane.
"Very well I will send you and your luitenent to the living world and find the source and rukia kuchki ."
Toshiro nods and turns to leave.
"Yes sir."
As toshiro leaves.
'It seems that the new host is in the living world... let's hope it can be found this time.'
———/innerworld ichigo/——
Panting.
Ichigo has been running and hiding in the sea of treasures for what seems to be like day when it actually was two hours and stops to rest and he hears Smaug.
"Oh Ichigoooo~ where are you?... come on don't be shivering in fear. Find the treasure or you won't be about to protect that you love... step into the light and find it!!"Smaug slithers and crawls around looking for him as he talks.
Ichigo shakes his head and thinks from behind a pillar nearby.
'Ok I need a priceless treasure... it's like finding a needle in a haystack!!!'
He stops when he remembers Orihime and their first kiss.
'Orihime... Smaug said that I have to find the most precious treasure and every time i try... Orihime keeps appearing... our fist kiss'
As he thinks of that moment he sees a glowing stone. The stone glows brighter as Ichigo thinks of her. ( basically the arkenstone)
"This is it! I found it!"
As he picks it up he feels his mind cool down and felt the same feeling he had when he first saw her.
Smaug moves to Ichigo and laughs.
"Hahaha you found it Ichigo! And here I was worried that I have chosen the wrong one! Good work."
Ichigo smiles and looks up at Smaug with the stone in his hand.
"Thanks Smaug. What is this thing anyway?"
He looks at the stone then Smaug.
"It's call a memory stone.
They are formed in here when you form a good memory to remember. Depending on the events in the memory will change the effects of the stone.
It also works the other way as well but you already know that."
Ichigo nods understanding and looks at Smaug.
"So what was the test for anyway?"
Smaug smirks and raises his head.
"You have gained my shikai as shinigami say. Besides I think you will love it. It's time to fly and maybe you can have a date with her in the clouds.
Also when you are in my shikai your senses will be ten times stronger and will have a shorter fuse." Smaug says with a grin with ichigos smile widens.
"I get to fly?! Awesome!!!! So how do I do it?" He asks eagerly.
"Repeat after me.
'For all that is mine I shall be
For my teeth are swords, my claws are spears! My wings are a hurricane! My tail is lightning. My breath is death... for I am fire... I am...
Death to those who wish harm on what I want."
Ichigo repeats his words and his word forms in his hand as he repeats Smaug.
The red blade glows brightly as the two say the last sentence together.
"Desolate with flame...
"Desolate with flame...
"Benimaru!!"
"Benimaru!!
Then Ichigo felt his arms change into red wings that were twice as bing as him.
A long red tail that had a few small spikes near the end forms and moves around behind him and his ears grow and turn up and look like an elf's but we're covered in red scales.(think like Mia's ears from monster musume)
Ichigo looks at his chest noticing that during the transformation his shirt was destroyed revealing his chest that had more muscles and scales on his sides and shoulders and a row of reptile like spines going up his back.
His long orange had didn't change though.
His feet were clawed and as he looks at his reflection in a silver plate he sees his dragon eyes that were like Smaug's but more yellow with a slit then a normal eye.
"I look badass."
Zangetsu forms next to him and nods in approval.
"Yup we are totally badass."
"Ready to fly Ichigo?"
Smaug asks seeing Ichigo fidgeting.
"Hell Yeah!!"
"Go then. Don't let me keep you away. Fly you fool FLY!!"
Smaug says with a lot of enthusiasm.
Ichigo nods at them and nods back and leaves to see his transformed body then stood in his room and opens the window to fly. After a little struggle with the window cuz how big his wings are, he took one flap of his wings and found himself high enough to see the whole town.
"WWOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Ichigo shouts as he flys and does a spin.
"This is AMAZING!!!!"
Ichigo laughs as he flew through the clouds like a knife through butter . Then he flew abouve the night clouds. What seemed for like hours for him was the most exciting thing he ever experience he ever had.
(Who wouldn't! Lol)
As he flew he sees all the houses below him and sees the park where he first met Orihime and decided to land there.
"Woah woah woaaaa-OOOFFF!!" Ichigo lands leaving a skid mark on the ground.
After a failed landing Ichigo gets up and shakes his dirt covered wings and looks at the bench where she sat when he first saw her.
He smiles at the memory and looks to see some people walking in his direction.
"Crap."
He takes flight as fast as he could and flies to see another place.
He lands in the cemetery infront of his mother's grave.
"Hi mom... I hope you are well. Guess what... I have a girlfriend and I can finally fly! I know that I miss you but I came to let you know that me and the family are ok. I will not let anything happen to them like what happened to you mom... I love you. See ya."
He nods and turns to fly and flaps his wings and takes off.
As he flew he felt free and wished this won't stop. But as he knew he had school. So he flies to his house and lands on the rooof as quiet as possible learning from his first landing.
Ichigo then remembers how to seal his power and as he does he felt his body return to normal.
As he crawls into bed he gets a big smile as he thinks.
'Oooh man she is gonna flip when she sees this..' he thinks with a chuckle Letting sleep take him.
That was a good chapter I think. Well anyways I hope you enjoyed it cuz a new one is coming soon so get ready for it.
The sword name Benimaru is mine and it's like kisukes sword name because Of the name.
Thank you for the comments and hope to see more.
The idea of how Orihime first met Ichigo was an idea after seeing how others came up with how they met.
Some were good of course but a few were a bit disappointing so I came up with this and I hope you guys love it like I do.
After all Orihime is perfect for Ichigo.
Merry Christmas to you all and to all a goodnight... or day when you read this lol.
See ya for the next chapter 4: new problems.