Title: Nightmares
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Rosario + Vampire; they belong to Akihisa Ikeda and Tite Kubo. I am doing this for my own amusement and I do not gain any profit by doing this... I do gain some good reviews and satisfaction.
Pairings: IchigoxMoka
Rating: M
Author Notes: Again I give my thanks to everyone that as been reading Eclipse and leaving me very positive reviews about my work. I myself have been really enjoying writing this each time I seat down at my computer seat, so thank you again for enjoying this fic. When I first start writing this, I made it my goal to try and reach a thousand reviews, but I don't see that likely happening. That doesn't mean I'm not proud of this because I'm very proud of it, I will just have to try even harder on the sequel I plan on writing after this. I hope you all enjoy the next chapter in this wonderful work of mine.
Summary: Everyone he cared about was gone; all wipe out by two men's fear for him. He swore vengeance; not caring if the world itself was plunged into darkness. It didn't matter to him as long as he found those two that took everything away from him. A man appears, inviting him to a school name Yokai Academy as well as information on who he seeks. He takes this deal, and on his search he finds someone from his past. Dark Ichigo!
Hope you enjoy
Onto the Story
Eclipse
A savage growl tore through Ichigo's lips as he stared at the thousands and thousands of Hollow's and Quinces that surround him and swarming in Karakura Town. He was set in a defensive stance and gripping tightly on Tensa Zangetsu that was coated in the enemies blood. His Bankai shihakusho laid in nothing but rags, leaving it in a similar state it was in when he fought against Ulquiorra. Half his upper body along with his forehead was covered in his own blood, wounds that were caused by strikes that he could not block or evade. His breathing was coming out in rags as he glared at each and every last Hollow and Quincy that stepped closer towards him.
Normally if anyone else was in a similar situation with thousands of enemies that wanted nothing but to kill them, fear would be ripping at their heart which would lead them to death. Ichigo knew this and that's why every last bit of fear he had was replace by nothing but rage and a desire to live through this. From the beginning since this day started, he had to watch while fighting harder then he ever had as all of his friends were killed before his eyes. The tears that he had shad for them were long gone and replace by a murderous gaze in his eyes.
The pity he had for his enemies wasn't there anymore; he had no desire to let anyone of them walk out of his home town alive. He didn't care if he uses every bit of his reiatsu he had within his body, none of them was living this place alive. He swore that on his soul, he had to make it out of this place alive to get revenge against Aizen and Alexander, the two bastards that cause this destruction and the death of everyone he cared about. He couldn't let pity enter his body, if he did then that would mean certain death for him if he let anyone of these bastards leave. His eyes narrowed as he caught sight of one of the Hollow's roaring before racing towards him.
He quickly bent low to dodge the blow, charging reiatsu into his fist he thrusted it forward into the beast stomach. The Hollow roared in pain but Ichigo wasn't finish with it, he quickly rip his hand out it's stomach before slamming his right hand around it's neck. He roared before twisting his body in a full circle, knocking back each Hollow and Quincy that got close to him. With a savage thrusted of his hand, he sent the Hollow within his grasp flying towards another pile of enemies, creating a runaway for him. He narrowed his eyes before running through it, Tensa Zangetsu clutched so tightly in his hands that his palms were bloody.
Hollow's and Quinces alike reached for him, sent cero's and spiritual arrows towards him, but none of that care to him. He continued running forward with all the strength he hand left in his body, cutting down each and every last Hollow and Quincy that got within his reach. He quickly came to a stop when a large Hollow made a leap for him; he bent low before phasing out of view and phasing back into view and couple of feet away. Quickly as he could, he thrusted his left hand out and charged as much reiatsu as he could in his hands. A second later a large red ball of energy formed in his hands, creating a dark red glow around the already darken area that was covered in flames.
"RRRRGGGHHHH!" Ichigo roared, releasing the cero within the heard of enemies. Cries of pain and horror screams filled the air as Hollow and Quincy alike was obliterated within the blast. He didn't have time to stare long as a Quincy charged towards him; he jumped and use his attacker's back as a weight. He charged his reiatsu into Tensa Zangetsu and as soon as his feet hit the ground, he throws it as hard as he could into the crowd.
The long black datio was like a dead projectile as it tore through each and every last Quincy and Hollow that stood in its way. It went a mile before it cut down a building and stabbing into the ground, the building falling and killing Hollow's and Quinces that were to unfortunate to stand in it's way. Ichigo wasn't no time in grapping the Quincy he use by the back of his neck, he didn't even pause as he twists the Quincy's neck quickly to break it. He quickly turns around and glares at each Hollow and Quincy that was grinning at him darkly for some odd reason.
"What the hell are you grinning at you bastards!" He roared. "Do you think what you have did to my home is funny? None of you will leave here alive! I swear you all that."
One Quincy step forward, just like her comrades she was dress in a causal white Quincy uniform. She looked at Ichigo with a dark smirk on her face, "I must say that I'm impressed that you are still able to fight with all the wounds you have."
Ichigo growled at her, his eyes beginning to bleed black. "You don't need to worry about me," He snarled. "Because I'm not going to be the one dead by the end of this day"
The woman laughed darkly at him, "And how do you think that Kurosaki Ichigo?" She asked him tauntly. "You are low on reiatsu and you seem to be barley standing right now."
Ichigo said nothing, he raised his right hand over his face before ripping down as hard as he could. His Hollow mask appearing in a instant, his now glowing menacing yellow eyes were filled with nothing but bloodlust and rage. He took a step forward and grabbed two zanpakuto's that were stabbed into the ground; he twisted both of them in his hands before crutching low. The woman was still smirking at him, but he could see the growing fear in her eyes.
He chuckled darkly at it
"What I'm going to do is kill every last one of you," He growled out in a hollow like voice. The woman had no time to react as Ichigo disappeared and phased right in front of her face. "And I'm going to start with you first!"
With a quick thrusted of his left hand, Ichigo stabbed the zanpakuto in the woman's stomach as hard as he could. The woman screamed in pain and looked up into his eyes with a pleading look in her eyes, begging for her life to be spare. Ichigo didn't even give her a glance before he pulled the zanpakuto upward, cutting her in half and spearing her blood all over him. He roared as each and every last Hollow and Quincy came rushing towards him, each intending on killing him before he did them. Both zanpakuto's in his hands were both bleeding black as he continue to cut through them all, bathing himself with their blood and cries of pain.
He had no choice but to fight, if he did stop then he would be killed without hesitation from either of them. As he continues to fight, memories of his friends and family continue to flash through his minds. Seeing their smiling faces and grins, then seeing their deaths before his eyes caused him to get angrier and angrier the more he fought. He began to become more brutal, stabbing one of the zanpakuto's in an enemies throat and letting them sit their and die on their own blood. Cutting them in half from the waist or stabbing a zanpkauto in their throat and twisting it with all his strength.
He suddenly became aware that he was enjoying what he was doing, watching with glee as each of them was cut down before him. He wanted every last one of them to feel pain just like he was right now, he wanted them to regret ever coming here and what they had done. He quickly jumped back to avoided a strike that was aim for his arm before swinging down on the person. He paused for a moment and watched as the Quincy that tried to take his arm off hit the ground. He then snared and raised one of the zanpakuto's on the air, without hesitating he thrusted it down on the fallen Quinces head, killing him instantly without any grief or sadness.
He quickly looked up to see more Hollow's and Quinces rushing towards him, he raised his now right free hand at his side. A second later Tensa Zangetsu phased into his hand, already glowing with reiatsu. He swung it in a arc, releasing a un named Getsuga Tensho that tore through hundreds of them. He watched each of them screamed in pain with nothing but disgust in his eyes, telling himself that they deserve every bit of pain he put upon them.
"Kuro... saki-kun?"
Ichigo's eyes widen in disbelief, never thinking that he would here his name being called like that again. He turns around slowing and gasped in shock at what he saw, his hands began trembling along with tears that fell from his eyes. Standing before him was a very alive Orihime who he had thought died in the sacrificing explosion Uryuu had created for him to try and escape. He looked her over, seeing each wound that ran across her body, never really seeing her injure like this since he knew her. He stepped forward before wrapping his arms around her, his Hollow mask crumbling away as he buried his face in the crutch of her neck.
"Orihime," He gasped out. "I thought you died in the explosion, how are you still alive?"
Orihime chuckled a bit before wincing in pain. "I tired my best to save Ishida-kun with my Santen Kesshun, but the explosion he created was too great for me to handle." Tears were beginning to fall from her eyes. "I couldn't save him Kurosaki-kun; all of our friends are dead!"
Ichigo said nothing a first, he just continues to hug her as she cried. "Don't worry Orihime," He told her. "I promise that we will make it out of here alive." He smiled a bit a she nodded her head, he then quickly turn around gesturing her to get on his back.
Orihime nodded with a small blush on her face, but quickly shook her head thinking it was no time for that right now. She climbed on and wrapped her arms around Ichigo's neck, before burying her face in his neck. Ichigo stood tall and looked at Orihime with a smile on his face, truly happy that one of his friends was still alive. He wasn't going to be alone in this world like he thought he was, he had someone that was going to be with him. He turns his gaze back towards the Hollow's and Quinces that surprisingly didn't make a move to attack him.
He narrowed his eyes at that, not believing for a second that either of these bastards would just sit there and let him talk to Orihime. They were planning something and he knew it, but he had no time to stand and try and figure out what they were planning. He had to find away out of Karakura, he had no time to stay here and try to kill every last one of them like he planned on doing. He had to find away out of here as quickly as he could, he glance at Orihime one more time and felt that she was still breathing. All the wounds that covered her body along with her blood began worrying him to know end.
He also could tell that she hardly had any reiatsu left within her body, saying that she could not use her powers to heal herself like she would have. He turns back around and glared hatefully, he clutched Tensa Zangetsu tightly in his hands before rushing forward. The second he move, hundreds of them rushed towards him but Ichigo continue to do what he was doing before Orihime appeared before his, cutting down each and every last one that stood in his way, using the rage that was fueling him to keep pushing himself forward as hard as he could. Blood falling all over him along with Orihime that clutched him tighter as he race through their home town.
"We're almost out of here Orihime!" He called out to her, "Just please hold on as best as you could."
"I'll... try my best Kurosaki-kun," She coughed violently for a few seconds, causing Ichigo to become even more worried for her.
"Please Orihime," He pleaded to her while dodging a strike that was aim for him. He growled before cutting clean throw the Hollow that blocked his path. "Try to hang just a bit longer, I promise you that we're almost out of town."
He felt her nod to him and felt glad that she still had strength to do that at least. He narrowed his eyes before using his Bankai's speed to get away from the army that was chasing him. He quickly jumps onto a large building before leaping off of it, using that to glide over each Hollow and Quincy. He took a brief moment to look over his now destroyed town that was covered in nothing but flames, he remembered how those flames had began. Old man Yama had use the last bit of his strength to kill about ten Vasto Lorde that had followed the rain of Hollows that swarm in through the Garganta that bastard Aizen had made.
Everything was destroyed; everything that he had once had in his life was gone from his world. He felt helpless while looking over the town, the very town he had sworn to protect was no more like it once was. It was no a battle ground that was filled with nothing but death, bodies of humans that lived in Karakura laid across the town in pools of blood. Never in his life had Ichigo seen so much death before his eyes, no one his age should have to experiences something like this. But he had no time to weep over what as happen, he had to make it out of this now destroyed town and get Orihime to a doctor as fast as he could. He would not allow Orihime to die while on his watch, he lost too much since this day had started to lose her now.
He grinned a bit as the exist of the town began to fill his vision, moment later he slowly approached the ground. "Orihime," He called out looking behind. His eyes widen as he saw that she wasn't moving a inch, panic began to fill his system. "Orihime? Wake up Orihime!" She shouted
The said girl jumped a bit before looking at Ichigo with a tired look in her eyes. "I'm okay Kurosaki-kun," She assured him with a smile. "Just a bit tired that's all."
Ichigo narrowed his eyes at her before sitting her on the ground. "Just hold on as long as you can Orihime," He asked her. "I just have to create a opening in the barrier my father and Kisuke created around Karakura." He explained to her before standing up, he smiled at her before facing back towards the barrier.
Ichigo narrowed his eyes and placed his hands in front of him, an instant later a yellow glow appeared. He had remembered what Kisuke had told him before he too had met his death to those filthy bastards, all he had to do was charge enough of his reiatsu into the barrier and it should cause a small enough opening for him and Orihime to escape from. Charging a small bit of reiatsu into his hands, he then put more force in his hand and waiting as the barrier began to slowly make an opening. A full minute later the barrier had a big enough hole in it so he had Orihime could passed through, he grin before turning back towards Orihime with a grin of hope on his face.
"Come on Orihime," He walked toward her and helps her to her feet. "Only a few minutes left and we'll be in the next-" He trailed off as a unknown reiatsu washed over him. He narrowed his eyes and looked in front of him, looking across the darkness to see two blood red eyes staring back at him. He could see who it is because of how dark it was out, but he could tell that the person was a female and that she was wearing what looked like a coat that was flapping in the wind.
The woman or girl was staring directly back at him, eyes full of mischief and glee as she continue to stare at him. Rage began to overwhelm his body, did that bitch think that what happen here was funny? Hundreds and thousands of lives lost because of two men's revenge and fear of him and this bitch had the nerve to laugh? He clenched his teeth in rage along with his fist, every desire in his body was telling him to rush forward and kill her without any remorse from doing it. He shook the feeling off as quickly as he could, knowing he had far more to worry about then killing her.
"Come on Orihime it-" He trailed off as pain exploded in his left shoulder, he cried out in pain as it felt like needles puncher all over his body. He was suddenly aware that he could fill his left arm at all; he looked at his side to see a Quincy grinning at him darkly and clutching a small blooded sword in her hand.
"Now without that left arm of you're," She said raising the blade over her head. "You no longer have the skill or reiatsu to protect yourself any longer." She swung it downward towards Ichigo who snarled at her in rage.
Not willing to die just yet, Ichigo grabbed the blade in mid swing just before it plunged into his head. The girl gave a surprise gasp and tried to pull it from Ichigo's grasp, but try as she might she couldn't get him to let go. She then heard a crack and the last thing before she died was a broken piece of the blade she was holding being stabbed into her head. Ichigo growled and twisted the broken blade in the girls head, making sure she was dead and wouldn't get back up. The body dropped to the ground, the girl's eyes wide with shock as she didn't see her death coming so quickly.
Ichigo grabbed onto his stop of a left arm, trying desperately to stop the bleeding. He curse himself for his stupidity, allowing himself to let his guard down in the middle of something like this was the stupidest thing he could have ever down. He had to somehow stop the bleed before he die here losing too much blood, something he could not let happen. He looked at the rags he was wearing a quickly tore of a long piece to wrap his stump with, it should be able to hold the bleeding long enough so he could get Orihime to a hospital. Once there he would find someway to stop it completely, but first he had to move fast before more Hollow's and Quinces showed up after them.
"Orihime..." He stopped once he felt a warm feeling on his left side. Turning around, he gasped in alarm at seeing Orihime trying to heal his left arm. He could also feel that she was using the last bit of reiatsu along with her life energy as well. "STOP IT ORIHIME! YOU'RE GOING TO USE ALL OF YOU'RE REIATSU!"
Even through the painful gasp of air, along with the wound that were still covered in her blood. Orihime managed to smile at him like she always did, but this time her grey eyes were filled with tears. "I'm sorry Kurosaki-kun, but I'm not going to make it like you want me too." She told him through a sob, "Even if we do mange to escape from here. I'm going to die before we get to another town."
"Please don't say that Orihime," Ichigo pleaded. "Just please stop! We can still make if I use my Hollow mask to increase my speed."
Orihime shook her head in denial, the smile still on her face. "You know that's not true Kurosaki-kun," She told him. "I know I'm going to die, but I can at least heal you before I leave this world."
"PLEASE STOP!" Ichigo screamed, becoming even more fearful as he saw that her body was beginning to break apart and glow blue. "Don't do this Orihime! We can still make it. Just please believe in me and I will get you to a hospital."
"I have always believed in you," She told him closing her eyes and smiling at him. "From the first day I met you I have always believe that you would do great things. Through all the things we all have gone through, I have mange to fall in love with you over and over again."
Ichigo's eyes widened a her confession, he felt his body go numb as he stared at the orange haired girl before him. All this time he had view Orihime as nothing but a dear friend to him, he had never knew she had loved him. Now through a time like this while everything was dead and gone around him, he found out that she loved him. And now she was going to leave him as well, he grabbed a whole of her and kisses her with all he had. Pleading in his mind and hoping that she would leave him, telling himself that this was just a dream.
He pulled back and buried his face in her neck. He felt her slowly wrap her arms around his neck, squeezing him tightly with all the remaining strength she had. "Don't go Orihime," He pleaded to her feeling tears fall from his own eyes. "I'm so sorry that I didn't see it from before, just please don't die and leave me alone."
Orihime chuckled a bit, feeling the last remaining bit of her strength beginning to leave her. She looked around herself to see small balls of blue energy floating in the air, seeing this she could help but laugh in joy. "I'm so sorry Kurosaki-kun but I must go." She grabbed her hairpins and placed them within his hands before looking him dead in the eyes. "I love you Kurosaki-kun," That was the last words she said before her body faded from view.
Ichigo stood there with his eyes wide with disbelief, not believing what he had just saw before him. The only person he had left was gone, he was finally alone with no love ones or friends by his side. Orihime died looking at him with a smile on his face, using the last bit of reiatsu she had to heal his stupid mistake. It was his fault she died; he couldn't blame no one else but himself for not keeping his guard up. The girl that loved him was gone, dying before him with the kind smile she always had when she looked at him.
Ichigo felt several different reiatsu surround him, not letting him have any opportunity to escape if he wanted too. But Ichigo was far from planning to escape, he felt rage build him as he continue to stare upward at the darken sky. His reiatsu began to leak from his body, creating a circle that surround him from the Hollow's and Quinces that stood where they were observing him. He could feel something unknown within his body trying to break free from his body, reading to unleashed something he had never use within his time as a shinigami. It felt similar to something he had use before, but this time it was ten times darker then it previously was.
He didn't try to hold it back, he let it escape and feel his body with new found power that he had never used before. His skin was getting hot, along with his eyes that was being covered with black reiatsu. Nothing was holding him back now; they had taken everything away from him and left him with nothing. Ichigo stood up clutching his head in pain as his hair began to grow longer and longer. He reared his head back, letting lose a inhuman roar that swarm throughout the entire town.
"RRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!"
"Daddy wake up!" A voice called out to him, "Please daddy you're scaring me. Please just wake up!"
Ichigo's eyes snapped open wide with shock, "AAAHHHHHAAAHH!" He screamed and jumped up from his laying position. His hands instantly grasped Zangetsu that was leaning on the side of his bed, where he had place it the night before he went to bed. His eyes looked around in alarm, looking for anyone that would take this change to attack him. Once he saw that nobody was around, he let loose a breath before sitting Zangetsu back at the side of his bed.
He grunted in pain as his head began pounding, he clutched it to ease the pain but it seems to hardly have any effect at all. His forehead was covered in sweat from the intense pain and frustration he was having while tiring to sleep. How long as this been going on now? He couldn't even think right because of the memories of that day keep flashing through his mind. It was like his own body was trying to make him remember his failure at trying to protect his love ones. He knew he was nothing but a damn failure! So why was his body denying him the right to have a peaceful night of sleep?
For three months now since he arrived at Yokai Academy, he's been having nothing but nightmares each time he went to sleep. Living the horror's he went through that day, having to relive as he watched his friends killed before his eyes. He was the one that was supposed to protect them, but they had mange to protect him with that last breath in their body. He was grateful to all them for doing all they could for him, but deep down within his soul he couldn't help but be a little angry at them.
Why did they have to sacrifice themselves for someone like him? Their lives met far more to them then his own. So why did they kill themselves so he could get out alive? He shook his head furiously and slammed a fist into the side of his head. He was acting stupid! He knew the reason why they did it! They did it so each of them that were still left could make it out alive. But one by one he had to watch them fall before his eyes before he was the only one left, leaving him with nothing left but hatred and rage that filled through his soul.
He had to accomplish his revenge no matter what the cost or what sacrifices he made to achieve it, he wasn't just doing this for him. He had to kill those to bastards with everything he had, to give his friends and families souls so peace for what they had did to them. He owed each of them that for what they did for him and because of that he could not let him fail. He sighed to himself trying to get control of his breathing; he had been going through the same process for over three months now. But he couldn't lie that this memory he had been far worst then the others he had been having every night.
He suddenly felt a small soft hand on his right cheek, he turn to stare at his daughter who was looking at him with small bits of fear on her face. "Kumiko?" He said slowly
"Are you okay Tou-san?" Kumiko asked him with worry, "You sacred me when you began screaming like you were in pain." She clutched the black teddy bear close to her chest, "Are you hurting anywhere Tou-san? I can try to help as best as I could if you let me."
Ichigo chuckled softly at her, 'Even if you don't think you're doing anything to help me Kumiko.' He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close to his chest, 'You're slowly healing all the pain that's within my heart and I couldn't be thankful enough.'
Kumiko became confused as her dad wrapped her within his arms and pulled her close into a hug, his body was extremely warm which she was kind of happy for. She had started sleeping in the same bed with him because of the room he had gave her was to cold and she hated sleeping in a room with no light's by herself. Since she had been sleeping in the same bed with her dad, she had sometimes woke up in the middle of the night and found him twisting and turning in the bed. Sweat pouring from his head and hearing him calling out unfamiliar names that she had never heard before. Each name he had called out was edge in nothing but pain and sorrow, something that she was coming more and more worry of.
"Are you sure you're okay Tou-san?" She asked him again and trying to wrap her small arms around his waist.
Ichigo pulled back and gave her a small smile, "I'm okay Kumiko." He told her before climbing out of the bed. "I'm supposed to be protecting you from the monster that you're scared of at night, but it seems that you seem to be doing that for me."
An embarrass blush found it's way on Kumiko's face as her dad mention her being scared of the dark. "I'm not scared Tou-san," She told him pouting. "I just don't like sleeping by myself that's all."
Ichigo chuckled a bit, "I know you're not." He said putting back on his shihakusho that he made sure he washed, "Go hurry up and go take a bath and put on some cloths. I have to take you to you're mother."
Kumiko nodded before walking towards him, she looked up at him for a brief second before grasping his hands with hers. Ichigo paused at what he was doing and looked down at her, a bit curious on why she was suddenly looking at him like that. He bent down low to her level so he could look her directly in the eyes, "What's wrong?" He asked
Kumiko looked at him with fire burning in her eyes, which cause Ichigo to look at her with a small amount of surprise in his eyes. "I promise when I get older that I'm going to be strong enough to protect both you and mommy!" She declare with a fierce look of determination in her eyes
Ichigo narrowed his eyes, "Don't worry about protecting me Kumiko." He told her before picking himself up, "I can protect myself just find along with you, I don't want you ever having to fight anyone like I had to."
Kumiko looked up at her dad with a shock look, a second later her eyes shifted into a angry scowl. If anyone had saw it, they would have notice that the look she had on her face looked like both of her parents. "But why papa? I want to be strong just like both you and mommy." She told him but stopped once Ichigo slammed his hands on the wall, cracking it slightly under his power.
He shifted his angry gaze towards Kumiko who flinched back at the look in his eyes. "I will not have you live the life that I lived Kumiko!" He told her firmly, "Now I don't want to hear this from you again. Are we clear on that Kumiko?"
"But Tou-"
"KUMIKO!" Ichigo snapped in rage. The small girl widen her eyes before flinching back, her eyes began filling with tears before she rush into the bathroom. Ichigo stood there for a moment and looked at the bathroom door with a scowl on his face. Once he heard the water inside being drawn, he turns back around and sighed to himself.
That's something he had never wanted to do to her, but he wouldn't let her enter the life he had with constant danger over her shoulder. He chuckled a bit, Kumiko was just like he was four years ago when he wanted nothing but power to protect his friends and family. He probably was wrong for denying her chance to do what she wanted; he knew that she only wanted power so she could protect what was important to her just like he did. But memories on how many times he almost died fighting an enemy, or the constant danger he rush into without any plan drove that feeling away. He didn't want her to experience the things that he did and the constant battles he had gone through.
No parent in their right mind would want their child to go through something like that; he was just trying to do something right with her. Keeping her away from things like that would protect her, even though now and down in the future she wouldn't agree with it. Too many stupid mistakes in the life had cost him too much, he'll be damn if he made one that cost him his only daughter and family member he had left in this world. His dad had tried to keep him out of that life as well, but that bastard Aizen had planned his whole life out from the start. He had no choice with the things he had gone through because of that bastard, twisting things from behind the scene like the damn snake he was.
Ichigo snarled just thinking about the last moments he saw both Aizen and Alexander, both of them smiling down on him while they made their escape. That same smile played on Aizen's lips like in the Winter War, telling himself that there was nothing that Ichigo could do to stop him. But Ichigo swore that he was going to regret leaving him alive, that was one mistake along with Alexander that both of them was going to take with them to hell. They created something that they both were going to regret for the rest of their lives and their afterlife for eons to come. Ichigo didn't really care how long it took him to grasp the vengeance in his hands, while crushing them both with his bare hands.
He didn't care if it took years to take revenge on them; age was something that Ichigo no longer needed to worry about anymore. He no longer had a human body like he use to have, his body being destroyed in an attack that killed his two sisters. Suddenly he closes his eyes in pain, remembering both Karin and Yuzu's look of fear in their eyes as they looked at him to save him. He tried with all his might to get back to the house as fast as he could, but even with all his speed his Bankai gave him, he did not make it in time to save them. He only made it just in time to see those look in their eyes before the whole house exploded with them in it, leaving nothing left of them in the house.
Another stupid mistake he made, instead of taking both Karin and Yuzu somewhere safe so no arm could happen to them. He made them stay at the house, thinking that they would be safer at home then any other place. But he should have known better then anyone that they wouldn't, he should have known that the enemy would have came looking for him at his house. But he was too damn eager to stop those bastards from attacking Karakura instead of making sure that both his sisters were okay. He blame himself for their deaths, if only he had though things out Like Uryuu always told him then his sisters probably still would have been here with him.
He snarled as more memories of his friends death ran through his mind, each of them causing him to remember his mistakes. His best friend Chad and the man that as been having his back since he met him in junior high school, die fulfilling his promise to him. Chad had died fulfilling that he would always have his back no matter what fight they went through, and that was just what that giant bastard did for him. Picking him off of his feet and throwing him across a whole block just in time as thousands of spiritual arrow slammed into where both him and Chad were standing. Chad was never going too been seen again in this world, just because of the stupid fact that those damn Quincy Arrows destroys the soul.
That bastard Renji; Ichigo paused for a moment and chuckled just remember all the times the two of them fought over dumb things. Renji died fighting two of those Vanenreich, taking both of them out in a similar way Uryuu had done with hundreds of those Quincy bastards. Both Kenpachi and Byakuya standing side by side, cutting down as many as they could until both of them use the last bit of reiatsu they had in their bodies to take out as many Hollow's and Quinces as they could. Ichigo never would have thought he would have saw Byakuya smiling along with Kenpachi while dying in a blaze of glory.
His eyes became darker and a savage snarl tore through his lips remembering what those two bastards did two Rukia. Both of them torture Rukia over Karakura town, both looking on with glee as both himself and the others try to get to her as fast as they could. But even with using all they had, they couldn't get to her fast enough; they had to watch just like the others died with a smile on her face. Why did she keep her gaze on him of all people? Why did she have to tell him the same words that Orihime told him? Those three damn words caused him to feel even worse because he couldn't even save them/
'I love you baka'
'I love you Kurosaki-kun'
Ichigo clutched his head in pain, stumbling back and knocking over items as he tried to get his footing together. Why did they have to tell him that they loved him of all people? Why when he knew he wasn't a good man when he couldn't even save neither of them. Why did he have to relive these tormenting nightmares each night? Reliving each of his damn mistakes caused him to become angrier at himself. Those were the main reason he had to make sure those two bastards were dead by his hands only, he had to make them suffer for all the blood they had on thier hands. He slammed his right fist into the table, crumbling it to pieces in an instant do to his anger. A snarl tore through his lips as his eyes began to growl and blood red along with his body being covered in the familiar bloodlust reiatsu.
Aono Tsukune
Hearing that name flash through his mind cause another snarled to form across his lips, hearing that name caused anger to flash through his body. That bastard had the nerve to call him a monster after killing those two bitches; no one does or hits Kumiko and thinks they were going to walk away with their lives intact. He should have went through with beating that bastard to death, but that bitch had to scream his name just as he was about to do it. Ichigo scowled just thinking about Moka, if she care about that damn weakling so much then she could have him for all he care. He didn't come to this place looking to fall in love again in the first damn place; he only wanted the information he needed from that damn Headmaster of this damn school.
That was another thing he had to deal with, that bastard had been delay what info he had on both Aizen and Alexander for too damn long now. Spending three months at this damn school was taking to long, that bastard was planning something and all he had to do was figure out what it was. Every time he looked at that damn man or whatever the hell he was, he had a urge to drive Zangetsu so far up his ass that he would never laugh in his face again. The only reason he was still alive was because he was the only think Ichigo knew he would get information on those two and this Fairy Tale group that was after Kumiko for reason's unknown.
He would worry about those things later; first he had other things to deal with before he did what he had to do. "Kumiko are you finish in there?" He called out grabbing Zangetsu and sheathing it on his back. He didn't plan on going to school or staying at this damn school no longer, staying here for so long was wasting too much time. The bathroom door open to show a fully dress Kumiko who was clutching the teddy bear in her hands, she also had a frown on her face as she stared at him.
"Do you have something you want to tell me Kumiko?" He asked her
Kumiko flinched in the coldness in her dad's voice, but pushed it back and looked him in the eyes with no fear in hers. "Why don't you want me to be strong like you daddy?" She asked him
"Because being strong like me always comes with severe consequences," He told her turning around and opening the door. He looked down at her and gestured her to follow him towards the location of where he mother was currently at with those damn friends of hers.
"What do you mean by that Tou-san?" Kumiko asked curious on what he was talking about
Ichigo just glance at her for a moment before turning his gaze back in front of him. "One day you will learn what I'm talking about," He told her simply before continuing on his way. Kumiko only nodded to him and quickly followed after him, a bit eager to see her mother after spending a month with her father.
Newspaper Club...
Moka Akashiya sighed sadly as she looked out of the window, gazing at the sky as thoughts of the last three months since Ichigo arrive ran through her mind. From the beginning since that day had happen four years ago, she never would have thought that she would ever see him again. But he reappeared just like that when she thought that her life was just starting to get back together from the years she had blame herself for his suppose death by her parents. When he had showed up again in her life, she couldn't help but have the feeling she had for him resurfacing to the opening. All the things he had did for her so long ago, playing through her mind like an open book.
She remembered the first time she had told Ichigo that she had feeling's for him, she chuckled softly just remembering the confuse look on his face. Back then he was so dense to things that involve something in a romantic way, trying to avoid it the best way he could. But after awhile he to start to show feelings to her as well, she could still remember the day he had asked her to be his. But all those memories of his smiling cocky self was now gone, replace with someone cold an unbelievable thirst for vengeance for the ones that took everything away from him. She could still see what her inner self did, never before would she think Ichigo of all people would kill someone like that.
She flinched back as she remembered how emotionless his eyes were even after killing someone; he had no pity or remorse in his eyes as he did it. Bathing himself in their blood like it was nothing to him, why did he have to become like that? Why couldn't he stay the same short temper boy he was four years ago. Even if she tried with all she had, she wouldn't be able to change him back into the person she loved so long ago. Even if her mind, body, and soul wanted him to be hers again like so long ago, she knew that from what she said a month ago, he would even look at her again.
She had tried numerous times to try and talk to him, but every time she would try he wouldn't even spare her a single glance and walk right pass her. He would look at her with coldness in her eyes, but it was much darker than it previously was when he first arrived here. It was like he was trying with all his will when he gets next to her to try and hold himself back from killing her. But she notice for some reason even if he wanted to, that he couldn't do it. Something was holding him back from doing what he wanted to do by looking into his eyes, but she couldn't tell what it was that was holding him back.
Was it that he still had some trace of feelings for her from four years ago? Could that even be possible after what she had told him? She didn't even think it could be possible for him to even care for her after that. He probably just held back because he was always in the prescience of Kumiko, or he didn't want to end her life because of how much pain Kumiko would be in. She never wanted herself and Ichigo to end up like this, she wanted them to live together and live a life raising Kumiko together. That was one of the dreams she constantly had everyday back then, each day eager to get up from bed to meet him and school. She giggled a bit to herself, remembering those annoyed looks Ichigo would have on his face when someone would look at her funny.
She sighed to herself, back then Ichigo was kind to her in his own usual way he always mange to express himself. The constant fights he would get in over her, which she notice that he seems to enjoy himself while he fights. When she uses to watch him fight, he always had that cocky smirk on his face as he gaze at any opponent who wanted to fight him over his hair or her. It didn't matter to him at all who he fought, he enjoyed himself in any situation he was in even when the people he was fighting was carrying weapons. He would worry her constantly on how many times she had to bandage his wounds when he came over.
He was no longer like what he was back then, when he fought now he sought out to kill the opponent he was fighting. When she watched him fought her father, she saw that dark gaze in his eyes that was filled with nothing but the desire to kill her father. So why with all the rage and hatred he had for her father, why didn't he kill him like he said he was? What stopped him before he went to silent's her father forever. Those thoughts confused her to know end, she wanted to know why he didn't kill her father like he fully intended on doing.
But she couldn't get near him without him walking away from her, actually trying to stay away from her. She knew he was still beyond angry with her for what she did, but she couldn't help with what she had said. She thought that he had killed Tsukune before her eyes with that blade of his, what was she suppose to say during something like that? Look at him with a smile on her face and shove the fact behind her that she killed the boy she loved? She wouldn't allow herself to do something like that. She winced at what she just thought; she couldn't hide the fact that she loved Tsukune anymore.
From the first day she had met him, he had been nothing but kind to her and helping her out with things that others wouldn't do. Last year both of them had went through so much together, going between life and death to make sure one another along with their friends made it. She could help but fall in love with his kind nature, it was something that she looked up to him for and thought was one of his strongest points. Those brown eyes of his always filled with desire and love for her, even though sometimes she didn't thing that she loved him. Even when she had snapped at him for following both her and Ichigo, he had still mange to say that he only wanted to protect her from the pain.
But even with all those feelings she had for Tsukune, she couldn't deny and tell herself that she wasn't in love with Ichigo either. She felt that it was wrong for loving both of them like that, and she didn't want to end up hurting either one of them for what she might do if she chose between them. But Ichigo didn't even seem to care about her or her feelings; the only thing he care about was Kumiko and his desire to kill the ones that wronged him. He even said himself that he did not care about his own life, the only thing that matter to him that was Kumiko was left with a good life when he died killing those two. She couldn't allow him to go and kill himself to get his revenge on those two, there had to be many other options then killing himself along the way with those two.
"I wish you would stop this Ichi-kun," Moka said to herself sadly. "I wish you would return to the man I once fell in love with so long ago."
"What's wrong Moka-chan?" A voice said on side of her
Moka snapped out of her thoughts and turn to stare at a worried looking Tsukune, she smiled at him assuring that nothing was wrong. "I'm okay Tsukune-kun," She told him before turning her gaze back out of the window. "I just have a lot of things on my mind right now."
Tsukune nodded, "Do you need to talk about it?" He asked. "You know you can always talk to me when you have something on you're mind."
Moka sighed, "I know that Tsukune-kun. I just think I need to deal with this point alone right now," She told him. "I need to try and get my feelings right that's all."
Kokoa looked at her sister from her spot on the window seal with narrowed eyes, figuring out just what she was saying. "What do you mean you need to figure out you're feelings?" She asked through clenched teeth. "You're telling me you still have feeling's for that bastard after what he did too those two along with beating the pervert almost to death?"
Tsukune seat dropped at being called a pervert, but Moka looked at her sister with narrowed eyes. "I just can't erase those feelings I had for him," She protested. "You can't just erase something that you felt so strongly for."
"And how can you not get rid of them?" Kokoa asked. "Do you seriously want spend the rest of you're life with someone that would probably kill you in an instant if you define him?"
Moka narrowed eyes shifted to sadness, "He wouldn't kill me."
Kokoa looked at her sister like she was crazy. "How do you think he wouldn't kill you?" She slammed her hand on the wall. "Have you forgotten what he did two those two a month ago? He tortures both of them and when they gave him what he wanted, he disposes of both of them."
"He must have had some reason to kill them?" Moka said weakly
Kokoa snorted and cross her arms over her chest. "You're to kind for your on good Onee-chan," She said. "One day you will see that he's no good for both you and Kumiko, and you need to leave that bastard alone before he throws all his rage towards both you and Kumiko."
Moka gasped, "I can't do that Kokoa!" She snapped. "You might hate him for some reason but I will not take Kumiko away from him just because you and father seem to hate him."
"Do you know why I hate him?" Kokoa asked darkly. Moka paused and looked at her sister, never actually hearing her talking like that to her. "Do you want to know why I hate that bastard so much? That I wish that he was killed when father and Akasha-san gave him that beating he deserve."
"That's enough Kokoa!"
"NO IT'S NOT!" Kokoa shouted in rage, flaring her left arm out at her side. She glared at Moka who was looking at her with shock in her eyes. "When will you get that he is not good for either you or Kumiko that you should try to stay with someone that deeply cares for you rather then trying to recreate a dying love with someone that could kill you if he snaps."
"What are you trying to say Kokoa?" Moka asked. "Why are you trying so hard to keep me and Kumiko away from Ichigo? Why are you trying so hard to take away the only family he as left in the world?"
"I don't believe that for a second"
Moka snapped her head to glare at Mizore who was looking at her with a face full of determination. "What?"
"I said I don't believe anything he was saying about his family being killed," Mizore said. "I think he's just saying that to get both you and Kumiko, and with the feelings you once held for him so long ago you're too blind to see all the wrong he's doing."
"What wrong is he doing?" Moka asked through clenched teeth. "He never wanted to be near me in the beginning since he came here. I'm the one that wanted to get close to him again, not the other way around Mizore. You're trying to twist this around and but all the blame on him, but he's nothing to be fault for."
"What are you talking about Moka-chan, desu?" Yukari asked her friend. "He almost kill all of us when he first arrived here, if the Headmaster and Ruby-san didn't block that attack of his then we would be dead. I'm not trying to put anything against you but you really need to see that he isn't good for either you or you're daughter."
"I CAN'T DO THAT!" Moka screamed. Tsukune and the other looked at her in shock and took a step back to give her some space. Moka looked at all them with anger in her eyes, "I just can't take away something he cares so much about. What kind of person would I be or mother if I separate a father from his only child."
"You'll be doing the right choice Moka," Kurumu said finally stepping into the conversation. "I'm sorry Moka but the path he's going right now will lead both you and Kumiko to you're graves if you don't leave him alone."
Moka just looked at them all in disbelief, why were they trying so hard to keep her away from Ichigo? What did he do to them to make them hate him so much? She knew that he did some things to them to make them not like him, but they had all brought that on themselves testing him. He had warned each of them to stay away from him, but every time she would try to do something alone with him they would follow her and test the already thin water they were own with him. The only thing she really did see what he did was wrong was when he baited Tsukune into fighting him.
"Why are you trying so hard to keep me away from him?" She asked. "I thought you were all my friends?"
Kurumu sighed and walked over towards Moka and place a hand on her shoulder. The pink haired vampire looked up at her with tears beginning to well in her eyes. "We are you're friends Moka," She said smiling at her. "We're just trying to help you before you make a mistake that would make you're life miserable in the future." She pointed towards Tsukune, even thought this was hurting her inside. "You don't need to hold on to a love you had four years ago because you already have someone that would do anything for you."
Moka's eyes widen as she snapped her gaze towards Tsukune, she winced a bit at the sad gaze he had in his eyes."... Tsukune-kun?"
"Kurumu-chan's right," Tsukune said walking forward and stopping right in front of his pink haired girlfriend. "I'm grateful for him sealing away the ghoul inside me, but that doesn't seat right with me still the way he treats you." He grazed her cheek with his hands and smiled at her, "I promise you that I will protect both you and Kumi-chan with everything I can if you let me."
Moka just looked at the brown haired boy in awe, never believing that after everything she's been doing to him that he would still say something like that to her. She was truly grateful that he would want to do something let that for her, but she still couldn't do it something like that to Ichigo. Even though none of them could see it, she knew that Kumiko was the only think that was keeping Ichigo clingy to life along with his desire for revenge. She took a step back from him, causing the others to look at her with surprise looks on their faces. She looked up and stared Tsukune straight in the eyes, looking deep in them to see the sadness of rejection in them.
"I'm sorry Tsukune-kun," She told him sadly. "But I can't just take Kumiko away from him like that, no matter what either of you say. I'm grateful that all of you just want to protect me, but I just can't do something like that to him."
"Good choice Moka," A voice said from the front of the classroom. Each of them turns to see Gin standing behind the front desk with a hard gaze on his face.
Kokoa growled at him, "When the hell did you get here you perverted wolf?" She asked
Gin smirked, "I have been here since you started spiting that nonsense to Moka." He said chuckling
"None of the things I told Onee-chan was none scene you perverted bastard!" Kokoa snapped through narrowed eyes. "She's just too naive to get it through her thick skull that that monster is not gone for either her or my niece."
Gin eyes shifted back to the harden gaze he had just seconds ago. "I seriously don't believe none of the shit you were just saying." He growled at her, "Tell us the real reason why you want to keep both Moka and Kumiko away from Ichigo?"
Kokoa looked at him in confusion, "What are you talking about?" She asked. "The only reason I want her to stay away from him is because I don't want to see either her or my niece hurt."
"That's a damn lie and you know it!" Gin snapped, "The real reason on why you don't want him around both Moka and Kumiko because you just to damn naive to get it through your damn skull that their something far more powerful out their other than a vampire."
The others widen there eyes and looked over towards Kokoa who had a murderous gaze on her face. "Is what Gin-sempai saying is true Kokoa?" Moka asked
"No it's not!" Kokoa snapped. "I want to keep you away from him because he might end up killing you through this revenge thing he keeps telling us about."
"He only told all of you that once from what I heard," Gin said. "You may want to keep you're sister away from him to protect her but you still have that jealously in you because he has proven that he his stronger than both you, Moka, and you're father."
"He is not stronger than my father," Kokoa said coldly, glaring at Gin. "There's no way that bastard is stronger than my father! The only reason he won was because father was holding back."
"Believe what you want," Gin shifted his gaze towards Moka who flinched a bit under his cold gaze. "Love who you want Moka, don't let people tell you who you should love just because they don't like the person you have feelings for. If you feeling comfortable with being with Ichigo then go for it, but if you wish to stay with Tsukune then that is you're choice and yours along." His eyes became colder as he stared at her, "But if you take that mans daughter away from him then that will be a mistake that you're going to regret for the rest of you're life."
Tsukune narrowed his eyes and stepped closer towards Moka. He turns around to face Gin with anger in his eyes, making sure that Gin's cold gaze was locked on him and not Moka's. "I think you're taking this a bit too far Gin-sempai." He said
"I think you need to shut the hell up Tsukune!" Gin snapped. "You're one of the main reasons on why that shit with down like it did a month ago. Did you seriously think he was going to let those two go from what they did to his daughter?" He snorted and glared at him. "If I was him I would have did the same damn think if I was in his place."
"That gave him no right to kill them," Tsukune growled out clenching his fist. "We defeated both of them with killing them, so why when he fought them did he have to torture them and kill them in such a cruel way?" His glare hardens and his eyes flashed red, causing the other around him to gasp in fear. "No one deserves to die like that no matter what they did."
Unlike the others, Gin showed no fear as he looked at Tsukune. He actually seem to become far angrier then he was, "What they did to both Moka and Kumiko was taking things to far you dumbass." He growled out, "Do you think if Ichigo did let them go that they would just leave and never come back? Those two are not like that and I know you know what the hell I'm talking about."
Tsukune case his gaze away from Gin and glared at the ground. "If they did mange to come back then we would have found a way to beat them like we always do. If he just kills someone just because they tell him something or does something to him then he doesn't deserve to be in the presence of either Moka or his on daughter for that matter."
Suddenly Gin laughed darkly, something that neither of them has ever heard from him. "You are a damn fool," He said harshly. "This isn't some damn fairy tail where you think no one would want to kill you for things you have done to them. Leaving an enemy alive that wants you nothing but dead will leave you with serious consequences, something that will come to torment you later on in you're life. I think Ichigo had to learn from that mistake by losing everything, you're just to stupid to look deeper into it because you think he's trying to steal Moka away from you."
Tsukune's head snapped up and glared at him. "That's not the reason on why I want him to stay away from her," He stated coldly. "He's like a ticking time bomb ready to explode and I will not let him take his anger out on Moka or Kumiko." His eyes turn pure red at that, "I kill him before I let that happen."
Moka looked at Tsukune with slight fear in her eyes, never before seeing him like this before since knowing him. She knew he care deeply for him, but she didn't think he would go so far as to threaten to kill someone for her. She would never want him to do something like that, giving up something like that just to make sure she was safe. He had never tried to kill an enemy before since knowing him, giving each of them a second chance other then killing them. She didn't want him to lose that, which was one of the main reasons that made him who he was.
"Let me give you a fair warning before you do something that will gets you killed," Gin told him with narrowed eyes. "That beating he gave you was stopped because of Moka, and the only reason you're alive is because of her. You come in between that man and his daughter, and then there will be nothing holding him back from killing you."
"You think I care about that?" Tsukune snapped. "I don't care if my life is own the line! I will do anything to protect those two from that damn heartless monster."
"Listen at what you just said Tsukune," Gin replied pointing a finger at the brown haired boy. "Do you seriously think that Ichigo wouldn't do anything to protect his own daughter?" He asked sarcastically, he then looked at Moka. "I also think he would do anything to protect you as well, and for some reason I know you know I telling the truth."
Moka said nothing; she only looked away from him with a sad frown on her face. She didn't try to deny or either confirms what Gin just said, her feelings on that was still confusing.
"How could he want to protect after he tried to kill her?" Tsukune asked through clenched teeth. "You don't know what the hell you're talking about Gin! That bastard wants nothing but to hurt Moka-chan. He's brought her nothing but suffering since he came here, and now he's trying to take Kumi-chan with him as well." He spat in anger, "She was better off with lord Shuzen! At least he showed her some kind of compassion and love other than rage and hate."
Gin snarled in rage, his teeth were clenched in rage as he stared at the brown haired human. He was getting tired of him talking about the man that saved his life, if it wasn't for Ichigo he would have been completely taken by that damn ghoul of his. Over the last month since the incident had happen, Gin had taken it upon himself to try to understand what Ichigo Kurosaki truly was. The only time he would catch the orange haired teen was when he was onto stop of the Academy, looking over the school and at the sky. He wouldn't talk or say a word to him when he try to talk, the only think he did was continue to look over the school and sky.
So having no really other choice, Gin took it upon himself to take a seat over the edge of the Academy buildings like Ichigo was. The orange haired teen would narrow his eyes at him, but said nothing to him and turn his gaze back at the sky. Even though the orange haired teen didn't say one word to him, Gin was able to understand him just a bit. During the hours he had spent with him looking at the sky, Gin came to respect Ichigo a lot with the things he could sense he went through. Even though most of his power was covered in a strong desire for vengeance, he could tell that the orange haired teen was suffering a lot.
Even though Ichigo didn't see him as one and probably never will, Gin had come to see the orange haired teen as a some what friend and comrade. So hearing Tsukune talking about the man that save his life like he was some kind of monster pissed Gin off to know end.
"You sova bitch," Gin growled out. "Is this how you repay a man that save you're life? If it wasn't for him you would have been consumed by that damn ghoul."
Tsukune looked sad for a moment a he looked down at the ground. "As I said before that I'm grateful to him for what he did for me," He looked up at Gin with a harsh glare on his face. "But that does excuse the things he has done since he got here, doing one good thing is not going to erase all the things he has done."
"I never asked for any of you're forgiveness in the first place," All of them quickly turn their head to the front door to see Ichigo standing there with a cold look on his face. His long hair was covering his right eyes from view, but his left visible eyes were set into a solid glare as he looked at Tsukune. "Now did I?"
Gin looked at Ichigo for a moment before nodding his head. "What's up man," He acknowledged
Ichigo gaze a quick gaze towards the black haired werewolf before shifting his gaze back towards Tsukune who was glaring at him. He scoffed a bit, not really caring if the boy hated him or not, that wasn't why he was here in the first place. He looked a Moka and almost snarled in disgust, never would he let himself go and save her after what she told him. He looked down and Kumiko to see the little girl smiling timely at her mother, it seems that she was back to normal which he was a little glad for.
"... Ichigo," Moka called out to him looking quite shocked to see him. "What are you doing here?"
"I've come to bring Kumiko to you," He answered her.
Moka looked at him confusion, why would he suddenly want to bring Kumiko to her? She thought that he would want to keep her to spend a little more time with her. "But why?" She asked, "I thought that you would want to spend some more time with her."
Ichigo narrowed his eyes at that; he wanted nothing more but to spend more time with his daughter. But those two bastards could not spend more time in this world alive, and he couldn't kill them while spending his time here. He had to make sure that those bastards were dead, that was the least he could do for the suffering they had cause his friends. He also had to deal with those bastards from this Fairy tale group who were targeting Kumiko for some reason. His eyes darken at that, making a target out of his daughter was going to be their last mistake they were going to make.
"That is none of you're concern on why I'm bring her to you." Ichigo stated coldly causing the pink haired vampire to wince at the coldness in his voice.
"Tou-san?" Ichigo looked down to see Kumiko looking at him with her large brown eyes. "When am I going to spend time with you again?"
Ichigo sighed a bit, "I don't think that's going to be possible anymore Kumiko." He said
Kumiko eyes widen and she looked at Ichigo in shock, did she do something wrong to make him not want to see her again? "Are you mad at me because I want to be strong like you and mommy?" She asked in a crack voice. "Please, I won't ask you about it again! Just please don't be angry at me."
Ichigo bent down to her level and looked her dead in the eyes. "I'm not mad about that Kumiko," He said to her. "I just have a lot of things to deal with where I don't think I will be able to come back to you."
"... But... why?" Kumiko asked, the tears finally beginning to fall from her eyes.
"Some day you will understand why Kumiko," He reached into his shihakusho and pulled out a small six piece blue hairpin. He softly grabbed a good bit of Kumiko's hair a place the hairpin on it, after he was finish he looked at her for a brief second before picking himself up. "Even if you somehow grow up to hate me, just know that I'm sorry for leaving you again."
Kumiko looked at her father for a brief second before rushing over towards her mother; Moka bent down quickly and pick the girl up into her arms. Moka pick herself up and rubbed her daughter on her back, trying to smooth the pain she was in. She turns her gaze towards Ichigo in worry, she knew what he wanted to do and she had to try and stop him before he leaves. She couldn't just let himself go out there and get kill because he's too impatient to wait; if he died she didn't know what she would do. She wouldn't forgive herself if he was killed and she had a chance to stop him, the pain and suffering she felt these past four years because of his suppose death would be ten times worst.
"Are you that damn selfish?" Tsukune suddenly asked
Ichigo didn't say nothing, he turn around and begin walking out of the room not bothered by a word Tsukune just said. He suddenly stop and turn back to face Tsukune with the same coldness in his eyes when he first met him. "Try to learn how to control that power you have in you." He said
Yukari eyes widen at that, "But I thought the Headmaster said you seal the ghoul away for good?" she asked
Ichigo smirked a bit, "I only seal it for a good amount of time so he could somehow figure out a way to control it." His smirked turn into a solid glare. "I didn't seal that thing away for you if that's what you are thinking. The only reason I did that was because I didn't want you to lose control when I'm not around and cause harm to my daughter."
Tsukune scoffed in anger, "I'm not like you." He snarled. "I won't hurt the people I love unlike you."
Ichigo snarled in rage at that, "You're right. You're nothing like me and never will be." He said, "You're just a weak bastard you doesn't desire to get stronger at all. The main reason on why I have all the power I have now was to protect the ones I love, and even with all my power I still failed like a fool."
"You don't have to do this along Ichigo," Moka suddenly spoke up
Ichigo turn his glare towards her, "I'm the only one that could do it." He snarled at her, "My revenge against those two bastards his not just for me. It's for all my friends and every last person those bastards kill that dad, I have no choice but to kill those two."
"Yes you do have a choice," Moka said softly. "You can choose not to go after them and try to live you're life in peace," She looked at him dead in the eyes. "That's probably what you're friends wanted you to don't instead of living you're life with nothing but revenge on your mind."
"You shut the hell up RIGHT NOW!" Ichigo snapped. "You know nothing of my friends so keep them out of you're damn mouth wench!"
"Don't talk to her like that you bastard!" Tsukune snapped. "If you want to leave then leave! You're not welcome here in the first place."
"Shut up Tsukune," Moka suddenly said
Tsukune widen his eyes and looked at her in shock, "Moka-chan?"
"Just shut up and let me deal with this by myself." She told him coldly, she then shifted her gaze towards Ichigo. "What about Kumiko? Do you want her to grow up without her father in her life?"
Ichigo turn around, facing away from her. "She'll be better of without me in her life." He stated a bit sadly
"How do you know that Tou-san?" Kumiko suddenly spoke up. "How do you think I will be better off without you in my life?" She cried out, "Please don't go and just stay with me and mommy."
Ichigo said nothing, but his fists were clenched tightly at his side. He felt disgusted with himself for making his daughter cry, which was something he never wanted to be the cause of. He wanted to desperately to stay with her, but those nightmares every night and knowing those two bastards were still alive out there was something he could not allow. If he left now he knew there was nothing holding Kumiko from growing up hating him, but that was something he planned on enduring in the afterlife. Someday she would understand why he had to do what he had to do, until then he had to go.
"I'm sorry Kumiko," He said and began walking out of the door. "But this is something I must do, if I don't then I will never be a peace with myself."
"If you do somehow mange to survive this little revenge you're so dead set on," Kokoa said sarcastically, before glaring at Ichigo's back. "Then never return or come near my niece or Onee-chan again."
"Kokoa!" Moka called out in shock
"Shut up Onee-chan!" Kokoa snapped glaring at Moka. She then turns her gaze back towards Ichigo who stopped from walking out of the room. "You're to damn naive to see the truth that this bastard is nothing but a monster and doesn't deserve to see either you or Kumiko again."
Ichigo turn fully around, and looked at Kokoa with an enrage look on his face. "What the hell did you just say to me you arrogant bitch?"
"You heard what the hell I said," Kokoa snapped. "You're nothing but a selfish monster you think the world only circle around you. Thinking that everything you do doesn't have any consequences to it," She growled. "Well let me tell you that the fucking world doesn't circle just around you and everything you do have consequences to it."
"I know the fucking consequences of my action," Ichigo snapped. "And I don't give a fuck about them! You think I care about any of that? Anything that stands in the way of me getting to them will be cut down."
Kokoa scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest, "You still don't understand anything."
"No, I think THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Ichigo roared in rage. In her mother's arms, Kumiko gasped in fear at hearing the rage in her father's voice. "Do you know what it's like not being able to sleep at night without having nightmares about you're friend's death?" He asked her through a snarl. "I can't sleep without reliving their deaths in my mind, so don't tell me a god damn think about that I don't know a damn think about consequences." His eyes began glowing, "Because I relive mine every fucking night."
Moka shivered and looked at Ichigo in shock, having no idea that he was reliving through his friends death. It was like is own mind was tormenting him, making him relive through thinks that she didn't think herself could go through. Anybody else would have killed themselves by now if they had to go through something like that, but he endured it and set himself on his goal. The only think that seem to be keeping him alive is his soul purpose of taking his revenge and...
'Kumiko,' Moka thought sadly. She looked at her daughter to see the girl was still shedding tears as she looked at her father.
"Stop with those damn lies you keep telling us," Kokoa snarled at him. "Why haven't we heard about Karakura being destroyed, or a massacre happening in the human world? You keep telling us that but you have no damn proof that any of that happen."
Suddenly Ichigo became very quite, not saying a word as he stared Kokoa dead in the eyes. His back suddenly hunched over along with his arms falling lifelessly at his sides, his neck bent down making his hair shield his eyes from view. Moka tensed up in fear, dread was suddenly overwhelming her knowing something horrible was about to happen. She looked at Tsukune and grabbed his hand and wrapped his hand around the Rosario, with a pull of her hand the Rosario snapped of with a sudden pop. Tsukune and the others turn to look at her as the familiar red youki surrounded her; a second later the youki disappeared to show a cold looking Inner Moka.
"You have taken thing a bit too far no Kokoa," Inner Moka stated to her sister
Any other time Kokoa would be looking at her sister in awe, glad that she was finally free from the fake her that walks around. But this time she was too angry to care right now, she knew that her real sister was also in love with this damn monster in front of her. She had to save her before she doomed both herself and her niece, and that was something she was not going to let happen.
"I glad to see you're finally free Onee-sama," Kokoa greeted coldly. Inner Moka looked a bit surprise at hearing the coldness in her younger sister's voice, never thinking that she would talk to her like that. "But right now I'm going to have to ask you to shut the hell up!" Kokoa snapped
Tsukune and the others looked at Kokoa in shock, never thinking that the red haired girl would talk to her sister like that. She practically worshipped the ground Inner Moka walked on, so it was hard to believe that she would talk to Moka like that. Inner Moka also was surprise at her younger sister's bold words, but she covered it up by glaring coldly at her. Gin on the other hand wasn't looking at either of them; he kept his gaze focus on Ichigo who still hasn't move from his spot. He was suddenly aware that Ichigo's youki was getting far darker by each passing second, he narrowed his eyes at that but stayed silent.
Kokoa shifted her gaze back towards Ichigo who still didn't answer her. "Are you going to give us some proof that Karakura was destroyed are you going to stand there like a dumbass?" He didn't answer her which got her angry. "ANSWER ME YOU DAMN BASTARD!"
"Kokoa!" The red haired shifted her gaze to see Gin was glaring at her. "I think you need to stop before you go too far."
"Nobody asked for you're opinion on anything you damn wolf!" She snapped then looked back at Ichigo. "Are you going to answer me or not?"
Suddenly a powerful aura filled the air around them; it was so thick that they could practically taste it in the air. Kokoa along with everyone's eyes widen in alarm, they each looked at Ichigo to see he was covered in a yellow aura, something completely different from the blood red that were use of seeing. They looked on in completely awe as the yellow aura seem to shifted, along with what looked like bone like armor start to cover the his entire upper body until only the left side of his stomach and face was left uncovered. The youki surrounding his body incredible and far darker than anything they seen produced from him. Tsukune, Yukari, Kurumu, and Moka shivered in fear as they stared at Ichigo's form.
Kokoa was also shivering in fear, but she controlled it and turns all the fear she had into anger and power. She was tired of being scared of him, she wasn't going to cower in fear just because she thinks he could flare his power and think people were going to back down. The vampire blood in her would not let her do that, she was going to prove right here and now that Ichigo wasn't as powerful and unbeatable as everyone think he was. Behind the desk, Gin walked from behind it and stepped in front of it, ready to stop anything that might happen. Moka also was tense and ready, she wouldn't allow Ichigo to kill her sister even though the girl mouthing off as gone to far this time.
Kokoa tensed herself and shifted into a stance, clenching her fist at her sides and glared at Ichigo. "You think I'm scared of you just because you flare you're youki around?" She snarled. "GET REAL YOU STUPID BASTARD!"
"KOKOA STOP!" Moka screamed
The red haired vampire didn't listen to her sister, to enrage to care what her sister would think of her. Kokoa rushed forward and swung a savage left hook into Ichigo's stomach, the blow connect and the red haired vampire smirked at her slight victory at getting the first punch. She was about to step back and aim a kick towards Ichigo's face, but before she could a tremendous force slammed into her stomach. Her eyes bulged out in pain and she cried out in pain, the suddenly blow sending her body slamming into the back wall and cracking it on impact. The winced as her back collided with the wall, she growled in rage at being so careless.
She shifted her gaze towards Ichigo, but the only think she met was a punch slamming into her face, breaking her nose on impact. The blows didn't stop there, her face was rain with blows and the wall behind her continues to crack as each blow slammed into her face. Blood was flying from her face as each blow connects with her face, she could feel that her jaw was already broken along with her nose which had healed. But each time her healing abilities would heal something, another fist would slam into her face, breaking it again on contact.
From her mother's arms, Kokoa watched the scene of her aunt being brutally beaten by her father with horror on her face. She had never before seen him like this, seeing him doing this caused the fear she already had in her body to increase tremendously. This wasn't her father before her; this wasn't the same man that looked at her with that kind look in his eyes. This was something far darker then she had every seen before, and it scared her beyond anything.
Ichigo had an enrage look on his face, his teeth were clenched in a savage snarl of rage as he rain blow after blow into Kokoa's face. This bitch dare say that he was lying about his friends being killed, and the nightmares he has to suffer every night. She was going to pay dearly for that! He let her get away with to many things but this was something that he was never going to forgive her for. His left yellow glowing eye narrowed even more and the blows he rain on the girl became even more powerful.
"ICHIGO STOP IT!" Moka screamed rushing for and wrapping her arms around one of the enrage orange haired teens left arm. Gin followed her and warped his arms around Ichigo's right arm, trying desperately to hold him back. But even with the both of them holding his arms, it wasn't enough to hold back the enrage shinigami.
Ichigo shook both off his arms, which sent both Gin and Moka flying across the room until they both slammed into the desk. Tsukune and the others rushed forward to stop Ichigo as well, but each of them me the same fate as the other two. Kokoa coughed violently as Ichigo slammed another fist into her face, but stopped for some reason and let her body fall to the ground. She didn't even try to figure out why he had stopped hitting her, she was in to much pain to even care at the moment. She had never been beaten this badly before in her life, she couldn't see anything out of her right eye but she could see that Ichigo was still in front of her.
Suddenly she felt someone brutally grab her by her hair, lifting her up and standing her straight on her feet. She had no time to look up as another blow slammed into her stomach making her cough of a puddle of blood along with spite. She looked up slowing as she could, her body hurting to much for her to move that much. What she saw would be edge into her mind forever, something that she would fear greatly for the remainder of her life. Ichigo stood before her, left eye glowing yellow and his fisted clenched tightly at his sides as he snarled in rage.
'Maybe I took it too far?' She thought staring Ichigo in the eyes. 'Maybe everything he was saying was true and I just took it too far, and because of my foolishness I caused him to snap.'
Before she could even mutter another thought to herself, Ichigo snarled and lunched another fist that slammed directly into her already broken face. The last thing she heard or saw was Ichigo's glowing yellow left eye looking at her, and the screams of her sister and her friends.
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End Chapter Ten
Author Notes: I hope you enjoyed it! I know that some people have been waiting for Ichigo to snap on Kokoa and I just hope I did not disappoint to much. If you're wondering what form Ichigo is using then if you don't know then it's his Hell form, the only think I did was add a little twist too it. Ichigo can not control it at all like he did in the Hell chapter, it is far darker than it was when he last use it and because of that he can't control it. Let's just say he's like he was when Hollow Ichigo first took over, along he is completely lost in his own rage right now. If you want to find out what happen to Kokoa then you will just have to wait until next chapter. Also one more think I have come to notice that I have to come to view.
In no way am I try to make Ichigo insane, I really hope none of you are thinking that. Well until then!
Tensa Zangetsu 17
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