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Chapter 3
Of Kings and Rogues
Recap
Ichigo was bored; it was the same thing day after day or rather night after night. Wake train till you drop, rest, fire all his long range attacks, rest, meditate and then sleep. He was sick of it.
"Can we do something different today?" Ichigo almost whined, it probably helped that he would go into meditations for years at a stretch having else to do in his free time.
But everything had limit nobody did the same things for a century and not get insane. No wonder the Arrancar he faced were crazy. Luckily for him he had his spirits to talk to. "Maybe we can make an exception today and you can go near Las Noches. But no fights" Zangetsu warned him, in the recent years Zangetsu had taken the role of a teacher to Ichigo, while the others tended to see him as a sibling.
Fate seemed to hate him, for as soon as he entered the vicinity of Las he was attacked by Barragan's hordes.
"What do we have here, A Vasto lorde" A deep voice rumbled. Ichigo killed the hollow he was facing and looked at the source, it was Barragan.
"A fight with you will be more interesting than having my army kill each other" Barragan smirked as walked towards him. Ichigo sighed he needed to get out of there. So he fired a cero, which Barragan dodged and the cero sailed past him and destroyed a part of Las Noches, a large part.
"Why you insignificant insect ..." Barragan roared as charged head first at Ichigo
The air around him started to glow red as the battle progressed, but none his attacks were going through his opponent's defence, "How is this possible, I am the greatest of all hollows the king of Hueco Muendo" Barragan screamed in frustration as he slammed his axe into the groung creating a crater. The reiatsu from the battle had already left most of his army dead.
" Don't kill him it may change the time line in unwanted ways" Zangetsu cautioned Ichigo. Ichigo gave a mental nod, the fight needed to be ended fast. "You cannot defeat time, prepare to wither and fade away" Barragan laughed as he charged at Ichigo. His axe had started spewing black and purple flames.
"You are right " A voice behind him spoke, Ichigo brought his zanpaktou's hilt down hard on Barragan's skull giving it a crack which went straight across his face.
"Who are you ?" Barragan said in hoarse voice as the light started fading. Ichigo turned and walked away. "I am impressed Kingy, you didn't say ' I have no name'. So you are finally thinking on your own" Shiro said barely suppressing a smirk as he appeared next to him with the other spirits in tow.
" You still holding on to that grudge. It has been so many years since then" Ichigo glared at him. "It has been close to a century to be precise Ichi-nii " Chouka. " Do you wish to save your mother ichi?" Chouka looked at him. "You mean it is possible for me to do that!" Ichigo almost shouted.
Zangetsu sighed "You are in the past, you can do it however you cannot let her know that it is you". Ichigo smiled "I just want to see her alive again".
10 mins later
"Ichi-nii looks so cute" Chouka cooed as they peered through the window at the chibi training with Tatsuki in the Dojo. Suddenly a shrill cry was heard, apparently chibi Ichigo had gotten a punch to the face courtesy of Tatsuki."You cry like a girl, no wonder your mother named you strawberry" Shiro snickered at the scene.
"Shut up" Ichigo growled back, it started raining . Masaki brought out a yellow raincoat, which chibi Ichigo wore and the duo left. Zangetsu was the first one to notice, "Ichigo stop getting so pale. Focus and you shall succeed". Ichigo looked at him and walked towards his new destination.
'This one act could change many things, maybe even Aizen was watching them at this moment, considering how the hollow was his experiment to begin with.' He thought as he watched himself and his mother reach the bend. 'I was lucky that I thought of leaving my cave today' he thought as saw chibi Ichigo pointing at a the puppet girl of the Grand Fischer.
Everything slowed down, Masaki ran towards Ichigo to save him Grand Fischer opend his Mouth to eat the juicy human, both completely unaware of the shadow that was approaching them at a great speed.
It happened in an instant, chibi Ichigo was pushed aside along with Masaki, Grand Fischer felt extreme pain in his face and the water in the river behind him separated as if cut by sword. When Masaki opened her eyes she found a figure standing on top of tree against the moon that had come up, then she noticed the horn like projection on the figure's head" A hollow " she gasped and pulled her son towards her. Just like the figure appeared it vanished right in front of her eyes.
In Serieti
Aizen smiled, he knew the hollow he made was weak, but for it to be defeated in such a manner meant that this Mumei (Not having name) had to be extremely powerful, maybe it could be a transcendental being. 'but why did it kill the hollow' Aizen thought as he exited his secret lab.
' this hollow needs to be recruited, it is time to get some allies' he mused as he ripped open a gargatan in his specially designed room.
Karakura
Isshin was very disturbed when he heard the story from his wife, it left many questions unanswered, who was the hollow why did it save her. 'Urahara might have some answers, for this' he thought.
Back with Ichigo
"Let's get going " Chouka said as she materialised beside Ichigo. Over the Ichigo had come to be very close with his Zanpaktou spirits. They had the freedom to materialise whenever they wanted.
Well they did help him stay sane in his hundred year long isolation. Something he was immensely grateful for. "How about we stay in the human world for some time" Ichigo asked his friends. "It is a good idea Hueco Muendo must have become too hot for us go back" Zangetsu replied after some thought. "KIngy, we need to have that fake body thing" Shiro said as he sat down on the park bench.
Chouka looked at him suspiciously "You are the on saying that I am surprised". "Brat, he dies we all die we are parts of him" Shiro replied with a shrug.
"Were do we get one we can't ask Urahara for it" Ichigo replied looking at them. "who said anything about asking" Shiro smiled deviously.
Half an hour later
Urahara walked back from the washroom to his lab, only to find that his latest piece of work was missing. " Tessai " he shouted "Did you take the gigai" to which Tessai refused. " Who would steal a fox gigai" he thought aloud. "Why did you make a fox gigai?" Tessai asked confused, Urahara shrugged "Testing".
Sometime later in the abandoned hospital
Shiro landed in front Ichigo and the others, he threw the gigai at Ichigo "What the couldn't you at least get me a human one" Ichigo scowled at Shiro. "Beggars can't be choosers, KIngy" he replied.
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