Inner Transformation
Chap.2!
Ku-chan: by popular demand (on the other websites I put this on, not many read it on here) I am making this into a 2 shot!
Old man Zangestu/Hichigo: don't screw this up.
Ku-chan: g-got it…
Hichigo: Kushina doesn't own bleach, she gets sick to easily and it would go on so many hiatis that it would be canceled before I made my appearances.
Ku-chan: he's not wrong. Ya know
Marmusa had been fighting Ichigo and was trying to get his Zanpatou to join him. But something was wrong; there was a great resistance and confusion. Like he didn't have one defeat Zanpatou. Odd…
"zangestu! You have to go! Your Ichigo Zanpatou now! We've both been hearing his voice and his call for instinct! I must stay to protect king! You go and fight him!" the white Ichigo yelled and the old man dressed in black. The two were arguing yet again.
"Perhaps…" said Zangestu.
"Perhaps?! Go! Now!"
"Come now, I know your name. zangestu!" Ichigo screamed as he felt a part of his soul being ripped from his body.
"what happened…" Ichigo muttered as he found himself in a small creator.
"Ichigo" came the familiar voice.
"zangestu, how can you be here?" Ichigo yelled.
Old man zangestu knew now was his chance. He had to kill Ichigo now before his Shinigami powers become too strong. He couldn't let Ichigo become a full shinigami. He couldn't let Ichigo become a hollow. He had let Ichigo have his fun in the afterlife but he must be killed.
Zangestu let loss his version of Gestuga tensho. He must kill Ichigo, to protect him. He drew most renshi from the air and attacked again.
'Zangestu… what are you thinking?' Hichigo moaned. He had let Zangestu out so he could stay and protect Ichigo. Now old man was trying to kill his king. Typical.
Hichigo had enough; he took control of his king's body and began to fight in his place.
Old man Zangestu explained to maramusa that the being that took over Ichigo was another soul.
There gestuga's clash and the two speed off.
The two fought for a while, Hichigo winning only because he was more familiar to the sword (and maybe a few hollow abilities though in).
Once his king's body was hollowfied, he attacked Zangestu once again, with the intent to kill. He knew Zangestu was violable to hollow like attacks, so he went all out.
When Masamusa tried to attack Hichigo simply used his hollow powers. As he closed in, he felt his King trying to regain control. 'No! He can't beat them alone! And he won't let me help! I need to stay out. Hollow powers are the only way to beat Juha!'
The mask started to crack, but still Hichigo resisted.
"I will not let you steal what belongs to me!" Came Ichigo voice from inside his inner world
'No king! You need me! It's the only way to beat Juha!' Hichigo wanted to yell, but he knew it was useless.
Ichigo subconscious tapping into his quincy powers, He took control of his hand and ripped the mask off, destroying the hollow shell.
But the power used was too much for the hybrid, he collapse reaching out for old man zangestu.
Ichigo woke up in his inner world, after remembering what happened he called out for zangestu.
Before him, stood Masamusa. Ichigo, being Ichigo, kept questing Masamusa and his methods. And Masamusa responded with his own questions.
When Ichigo when to attack the Zanpatou, Masamusa simply reached out to Ichigo and the strawberry fell into his own subconscious
'He's calling me.' Hichigo thought. He wanted to go to his king but couldn't put him in danger. But his instinct, like his king, was to protect. After all, he was his zanpatou.
He allowed himself to be manifested in front of Masamusa.
As the black cover disintegrated from over him, he saw the trouble his king had gotten himself in this time.
When Masamusa asked just what this white Ichigo was he gave him the closest thing he could give to the truth while his king was watching, "I'm his true instinct, his real self." But when Masamusa asked if he was the source of the hollow powers, "well who really knows?" in truth he was yet wasn't. He had absorbed the hollow that lived in his kings soul, but he wasn't the true source, more like a medium.
"Now it's time to ask you some question. Just who the hell are you?" When the Zanpatou gave his intro/monolog, he offers the White Ichigo a chance to leave his king.
But what Masamusa fails to understand is that the white Ichigo can't leave his king. His instinct was to protect, and he must protect his king from the unbalance of his soul. Leaving would go against his instinct.
And so Masamusa powers did nothing to Hichigo. If they did, then they only inforst his idea to protect his king.
The two fell into battle, and Ichigo watched from his immobilized position on the ground. But when Masamusa said that Ichigo had been keeping Hichigo suppress, he was quick to say something. Hichigo had been keeping himself suppressed. Stoping the hollow he had absorbed from tacking over his king. No thanks to Old man mind you.
The two began to fight again. But soon Masamusa pulled his dirty trick, trapping the white Ichigo with the reflection of the sky scrappers.
From Ichigo position he could see the reflection and struggled to break free form masamusa spell. Hichigo was still a part of him, no matter how many death threats he gives.
He sent a gestuga at them, creating a dust cloud.
"Why are you protecting me?" asked Hichigo. Ichigo knew him as a hollow, why would he protect a hollow? Masamusa asked the same question.
Well the answer was simple; Ichigo was the king of this world. And a king must protect his subjects.
"What you describe is not the relationship between a shinigami and a hollow."
And Ichigo gave the simplest reply possible, "I'm HUMAN!"
But Ichigo coudnt be more wrong. He was not human, he was a hybrid. A shinigami, a quincy, a hollow, and something else entirely.
He pushed Masamusa from his inner world with pure will power, with a little help from his hoarse though.
The two meat back up in the Seireitei. When Ichigo tried to attack him, old man Zangestu got in the way. 'He can't be weak!' he told himself, 'I can't go on with him being weak!' "I have to find out which one of us is truly the strongest." He said.
"Without Zangestu power fuelling your Zanpatou, you won't be able to fight as hard as your normally can. So I guess I can lend you mine for the time being. But you won't be able to you my power to the fullest either." Came the double edge voice. 'For once King can fight without the restraint of the old man. I will let him draw on as much power as he needs, but no more. His body cant withstand his power yet.'
Zangestu entered Bankai and shot a gestuga at Ichigo. 'So much streanth, have I been able to amit that much power before?' asked Ichigo
No, Ichgo have never done that before. Old man Zangestu had never let Ichigo. He had always restrained Ichigo power. He could do this, but Zangestu would never allow him.
Ichigo tried to draw on Bankai, failing epically. It wasn't because Zangestu was gone, it was as Ichigo had said. He could not use his full power. He couldn't let Ichigo know what his true Bankai looked like, so he blocked it.
After a wile of fighing, Ichigo had asked about the true reason of leaving "my only goal was to make you more powerful. You have surpassed my expectations." He when on to say "And the sad truth is, even if you fall to my blade, I would be content with the outcome." Ichigo was a soul reaper, he was a quincy, he had oringaly planed on killing Ichigo, but had grown fond of the strawberry.
Once again the two fell into combat.
Ichigo began to draw upon his hollow again; he had to, in order to beat Old man.
As Old man Zangestu attacked with another gestuga, Ichigo drew on more of his hollow. Power began to swell up, but it felt natural. The power grew into the shape of a mask behind Ichigo as he prepared to attack.
The two gestuga clashed, the masked gestuga quickly over powered Old man's, Hichigo contently feeding it power.
Both Ichigo and Hichigo fell in sync. Their power no longer crashing violently, but for flowing into one. One mind and one body, this is what a zanpatou was meant to feel like.
Their gestuga over powered and swallowed Old man, leaving Ichigo in a trashed street and a sword by his side.
"You know how much trouble you almost got us in! Ichigo could have found out that you're not his Zanpatou!" the white Ichigo yelled.
"It doesn't matter, he got stronger."
"Stronger? That's what you care about!" he yelled, passing back and forth on the sky scrapper. "You know how much trouble I went through to stop his bankai from coming out? I got to act as his true Zanpatou for once and yet I couldn't let his use his true power!"
"As long as he survives." The old man said
"You were the one trying to kill him a few months back!" he yelled. Then he sighed and looked towards the sky, "Just go, he's waiting."
Ku-chan: I'm so sorry if it sucked! That's what you get when I try to explain a filler when I'm sick and helping take care of my little baby half brother! I'm sorry of there to many OOC moments! I tried to make it long to make up for it! Please R&R