Eclipse

by Ryujin Zangetsu 17

Everyone he cared about was gone; all wipe out by one 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. Dark Ichigo. Every Chapter is going over revise.

15. Chapter 15

Title: A Desire to Protect

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: I think a lot of people may be mad at me for taking so long to update Eclipse! But I have a perfect reason to explain why it took me so long. For the last two weeks or so, I have finally been getting ready for college to start back up. With all that up pile up on me and work, I had no free time to be able to work on chapter 15 none last week or the week before that. Sorry if this made any of you a bit tick off, waiting for the next chapter for so long like this. Since I'm done, I will be updating my fic to the way I use to, hope that at least make my readers a bit happy.

Ichigo's Memories: I'm really sorry for everyone that was confused with Ichigo's memories, but I could not come up with any other way to show them like that. I tried many ways to show them to the group, but none of them fitted right with me like I wanted. I will try to make it more balance so you all can understand, but I give no promises. Other than that, I'm glad you all like the way I'm going with this. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

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

It was starting to make sense now.

From where she was standing, inner Moka was in deep thought in the way she just saw her mother acted to beating Ichigo. Her mother seem generally broken from what she had just done, indicating that from the beginning that she want to never do something like that to Ichigo. But again why would she agree to do something like that? Even though her father was a very power Vampire Lord and one of the greatest from the Shuzen family, is power was still far below that of her mothers. Again why would her mother agree to something like that when she could have refused not get involved in it? All these question were frustrating Inner Moka to know end.

From what her mother had told her and what she remembers, her mother respected Ichigo's mother more than anyone else. Even though she had lost, her respect for Ichigo's mother and everything she did for her grew as time with on. But none of that made sense! If her mother had so much respect for Ichigo's mother, what caused her to want to agree to almost killing Ichigo? Even though she knew who son he was for. What kind of deal or threat did her father do to her mother to make her agree to something like this? It must have been something drastic for her to do something like this. Or just maybe it was...

Love

Maybe her great respect could have been dwindle by the love she held for her father; Inner Moka didn't know if this was true, but she couldn't say that this wasn't one of the reasons her mother did what she did. From what she remembered from the way her mother acted, she cared deeply for her family more than anything. Maybe that could have been the reason why she agrees with her father to do what she did, something that probably took everything for her to do. Moka narrowed her eyes at this, leaning over to losing all respect to her father for something like this.

That another thing she could not understand, why if her father knew what Ichigo was, kept calling him a human when they fought against one another? Could it be that even though he knew what Ichigo was, he did not want to admit that Ichigo was something else other than a human? She shook her head a bit, clearly seeing her father doing something like that. It also could have been his pride, something that could not admitted that Ichigo was something far powerful then he was. That's something that she would not deny no matter how much she wanted to, her family was one of the most prideful vampire in the youkai world and the most arrogant.

That was something that leads to most vampires' death, thinking that since they were a vampire that nothing else could be able to defeat them. Vampires were commonly known as the most powerful youkai to ever roam the earth, something that Moka herself took pride in being a part of. But since Ichigo had showed up back into her life, she had begun to rethink the way she thought about something's. Now knew that Vampire's weren't the most powerful! From what the Headmaster had told them, the clan that Ichigo's mother had come from was even more powerful than The Vampire race, something at first that she could not believe.

But after remembering what her mother told her about Ichigo's mother, she could try to find an excuse to say that this Mibu clan wasn't on par or stronger then vampires. Did her father's arrogance and pride really blind him for the true? Or did he just did not want to believe that Ichigo was truly in fact what he had thought. But why would her father want to kill Ichigo in the first place? Four years ago Ichigo had done everything he could to make sure she was safe going to a human school. Moka could lie and say that it wasn't some of the best time she had in her life, spending it with the person you care the most with. Her father didn't even seem to worry a bit about that she was pregnant at a young age; all he seem to focus on that day was Ichigo and no one else.

The other thin that she wanted to know was why did her father believe that Ichigo was going to destroy the Youkai World? Something she did not believe in one bit. Since Ichigo had been here, he seem to only attack when provoked or being attack, other than that he wouldn't even bother glancing at anyone at this school. Did it have something to do with what Ichigo was? Or did it involve the grudge her father seems to have with Ichigo's father? She suddenly narrowed her eyes at that thought. Her mother did say that her father had lost to Ichigo's, would that mean that the goofy man she had met four years ago wasn't human either? And if he wasn't, then what was he, other than being a human.

Four years ago, she had gone to Ichigo's house multiple times, but did not feel anything out of the ordinary to claim them other than being a regular crazy family. If Ichigo's father was something else, he must have somehow been able to seal off anything around the family like she had thought off before. The only thing that she could come up with was that Mr. Isshin, as she remembered his name, did not want anyone to find out about him or Ichigo's mother's past. He might have just wanted to live a normal life with his family, something that both he and his wife want before they had either Ichigo or his sister's. She took a moment to glance at her outer self, seeing that the pink haired version of herself thinking along the same lines as her.

'Omote!' Inner Moka called out.

From where she was standing, outer Moka looked at her inner self in surprise, not thinking that either of them would be able to communicate with each other like this. 'Is that you Ura-chan?'

Inner Moka nodded a bit, but scowled a bit as she looked at her outer self. 'Who else could it be?' She snapped a bit. 'It's obvious that we would be able to do something like this.'

Outer Moka winced a bit, still feeling terrible and weak after having to relive one of the biggest mistakes of her life. 'I'm sorry Ura-chan, it's just that-' she chocked a bit, not being able to finish what she was going to say.

A sad frown found its way on Inner Moka's face as she looked at her outer self; she knew exactly what the pink haired girl was thinking. Even though she was trying to hold every emotion she had about what she had just relive, she couldn't stand here and say that she was shaking up about what she had watched again. The sliver haired vampire gritted her teeth in frustration, if she would have knew about her father's intentions from the start, then maybe she would have never agree to anything with him. Even if it met her father disowning her, she would have live through it with the man she knew she loved by her side. Anything was better than betraying him like she did, something that cost her daughter her father for the first four years of her life.

'Both of us wanted to see what Ichigo has been doing these last four years Omote.' Inner Moka began. 'We had no choice but to see those memories! Ichigo had already forgiving us for that.'

Outer Moka shook her head, looking at her inner self in sadness. 'He may have forgiving us for that Ura-chan but,' She clenched her fist tightly and squeezed her eyes shut. 'I don't think he will ever forgive us for what we're putting him through.'

Inner Moka looked confused, 'What are you taking about Omote?' She asked. 'We aren't putting Ichigo through anything.'

Outer Moka looked her Inner self dead in the eyes, 'Do you really believe that Ura-chan?' She asked softly. 'Do you really believe that we're not putting him through anything?'

Inner Moka was getting frustrated, she didn't know what her outer self was talking about and it was starting to get on her last nerves. 'What are you talking about?' She all put snapped. 'This thing we are putting Ichigo through, what is it?'

The only thing outer Moka did was out her hand to her chest, then looking her inner self directly in the eyes. She wasn't going to speak a word of it if Ura-chan did get what she was talking about, if she didn't get it, and then she was just as foolish as she was. Since the Rosario hasn't been put back on in three weeks, outer Moka had been able to see a lot of thing from where she was. The main thing she focuses on while she was seal was looking directly at Ichigo, and what she found in his eyes caused her to blame no one but herself for it. If she could just get rid of this love, then maybe she wouldn't be hurting him so bad every time she would be around him.

Ichigo wouldn't dare say anything about it, no matter how much it seems to hurt him the way he looked at her sometimes. His cold chocolate brown eyes would never show he was hurt; he was too proud and prideful to say anything about it to her in the first place. But even though her Inner self did not see it when Ichigo left, it did not mean that she did not see it. Outer Moka saw when Ichigo looked at Tsukune before switching his gaze back to her, it was only a brief moment, but she caught the hurt look in his eyes before he walked out.

She couldn't keep doing this to him; she and Kumiko was the only shred of family he had left in this world. What gave her to right to be doing something like this to him? Loving another man when she knew she said she loved no one but him. Ichigo didn't have that privilege anymore going to a family to be comfort by them; they were all slaughter before his eyes, including his friends as well. If she was hurt or overwhelm with something she couldn't handle, she had a family to back her up if she truly needed help.

Ichigo didn't...

The only family he did left was her and Kumiko, that was something that she could see the way he looked at her and Kumiko for the three weeks they were together. If someone would ask Ichigo about that, he wouldn't even give them a second glance or even answer them, but she knew he held both her and Kumiko close to his heart. But she was going to ruin all that if she kept this love she had for Tsukune! She knew she couldn't just keep doing this to Ichigo, sooner or later he was going to get tired of it and leave her alone forever without a second glance to her. She shook that thought out of her mind, trying not to think about him leaving out of her life again. She did not want that to happen, she wanted him to stay with her for the rest of her life.

She wanted to spend the rest of her life with Ichigo, spending time with each other and their family. She knew that was one of the dreams she truly wish for, but the way things were going between her and the man she loved, she didn't know if that was going to happen if she kept going down the same route she was on. Each day the love she held for Tsukune was hurting Ichigo more and more, and she didn't know how long he was just going to stay with her knowing this. She wanted to give up every ounce of love she held for Tsukune, but she truly didn't know if she would be able to do that. She sighed to herself, she may hold feelings for Tsukune still, but her love for Ichigo was far more powerful then what she had for Tsukune.

She had to make a choice; a choice where she will choose the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. That was something her and her inner self had to overcome, but getting something like that through Ura-chan was going to be extremely hard for her to do. She needed her to understand that she still had feelings for Tsukune, then maybe if she completely admits to those feelings, they both might be able to let go of them if they know what they both have already. This was going to be hard, just not for Ura-chan, but herself included as well. She still had feelings for Tsukune, and unlike Ura-chan, she knew deep down she did not want to give them up for some odd reason.

She sighed a bit and looked Ura-chan directly in the eyes, 'You know as well as I do what we're putting him through Ura-chan.' She stated, 'but you just don't want to admit it cause you don't want to hurt Ichi-kun.'

Inner Moka glared at her, 'I will say this only once more.' She spoke coldly, 'I do not love Tsukune and I never will love him. The only person I will give my heart to is the man that is the daughter of Kumiko! The same man that as shown us so much in this world where we thought we were so alone four years ago.' Her eyes glowed red as she looked at her pink haired self, 'and I will not let you ruin that cause you can't let go of those damn feeling's you have for Tsukune.'

Outer Moka chocked back a sob hearing that, she knew what her Inner self was saying was true. But it wasn't just her fault! Ura-chan still had feeling for Tsukune as well; she just didn't want to admit it no matter the situation. She couldn't do this along no matter how much she wanted to, she needed Ura-chan's help so both of them could move on and be with Ichigo truly. She was tired of hurting the orange haired shinigami; she was so tired of seeing the hurt in his eyes, no matter how much he tried to hide it from her. She couldn't just keep doing this to him, but she couldn't do it all by herself.

'I know you don't love him, Ura-chan.' the pink haired girl spoke softly, still clutching where her heart was.

'Then why would you ask me something about Tsukune then?' Inner Moka asked in a firm voice, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring mentally at the pink haired Moka. 'If you knew, then why would you even think I even had feelings for Tsukune in the first place?'

Outer Moka's head snapped up, glaring coldly at her inner self, which surprise the sliver haired vampire. 'I wish you would stop lying to yourself Ura-chan,' she spoke softly but coldly at the same time. 'You know that I can feel that you still have feelings for Tsukune, just like I do.'

'I do NOT have feelings for TSUKUNE!' Inner Moka shouted mentally.

'Then why do I still have this feeling in are heart?' Outer Moka asked calmly. Inner Moka just looked at her in silent, trying to figure out what she was talking about. 'Why does this heart of ours still feel pain when we look at Tsukune's sad face? I know that this is partly my fault, but you can't sit here and tell me that you don't have some feelings for Tsukune. You can feel it better than I ever could!'

Inner Moka closed her eyes, clenching her fist tightly at her sides as she tried to ignore the words her outer self was speaking to her. She didn't want to believe nothing the woman before her said, the only one she wanted to give her heart to be Ichigo and no one else. But deep down, she knew what Omote spoke to her was nothing but the kami to honest true. She still had feelings for Tsukune, it may be small, but those hard feelings for him were still there in her heart. Finally admitting to it, inner Moka couldn't help but curse herself for her foolishness. She tried to put all the blame on Ura-chan, but she also still wanted to hold onto those feelings even though she knew it was hurting Ichigo.

Her blood red eyes dimmed a bit, overwhelming with sadness at the thought. '... I do,' she said softly.

Outer Moka looked at her and smiled, 'what did you say Ura-chan?'

'You were right,' Inner Moka sighed. 'I've been trying to put all the blame on you, but I do still hold feelings for Tsukune.'

Outer Moka smiled at her, 'Nothings wrong with that either.'

Inner Moka narrowed her eyes at that, looking her outer self with a hardened glare. 'What do you mean nothing's wrong with that?' She all but screamed. 'Those feelings we still have for Tsukune are hurting Ichigo each time we stay with him! I know you see the look in his eyes when he looks at us.''

Outer Moka nodded, a sad frown finding its way on her face. 'I know Ura-chan, but this is just not my heart.' She pointed her finger directly to Inner Moka, 'I'm not the only one who's trying to stay attach to those feelings we have for Tsukune. But you know better than I do that we cannot stay attach to them when we finally have Ichigo back in our lives.'

Inner Moka nodded, getting where her outer self was going with this. 'I know that Omote, but you of all was the most attached to Tsukune out of the both of us.'

'How can I do it?' Outer Moka chocked out, surprising her inner self who saw tears in her eyes. 'How can I just give those feelings up when we have been through so much with Tsukune this past year we have known him?' She shook her head fiercely and clutching both her hand to her chest. 'I just don't know if I can do that.'

Inner Moka looked at the girl before her in sadness, in some way she knew exactly what her outer self was going through. She shook her head at that, scowling herself for even trying to say she didn't know what she was going through. She went through the same thing when she tried to rid herself of the memories of Ichigo out of her mind, but try as she might, that was something short of impossible for her to be able to accomplish. It's not that she didn't want to get rid of them; it's just that she could not get rid of something that was so precious to her. She glanced at her outer self to see the girl still struggling to overcome it, something that she herself could not come over with Ichigo.

What her outer self was saying was nothing but the truth, this past year they have met Tsukune, and they had been through so much together. After the incident that happened with Ichigo, she started to have a strong hate for humans. She knew it was foolish, but she couldn't help but hate humans for what they had done to her. She also blamed Ichigo the most, blaming him for leaving her when he had no right to do. She shook her head mentally at that, angry at herself for even having the nerve to hate Ichigo for something so stupid when it was her that betrayed him.

But even though she was a little wearily at saying it; Tsukune was the one that help her to fully trust humans again. He had taught her that all humans are not the same as the ones she was always around, he showed her again that they are a few humans that are kind. Through the full first year they were together, he had done nothing but try to protect her while she was seal, something that she thought was brave and somewhat foolish of him. He was so kind as well, even giving his enemies a chance at a second start, something she knew Ichigo would never due the way he is. She respected him a little for that, because of that same kindness he mange to become friends with Mizore and the others.

He is always trying to protect someone even though he has no power of doing so, which took a whole lot of courage from someone to do. When they were fighting that crazed Kuyou from the Public Safety Committee; Tsukune had stood in her way and took a full blast from a transformed Kuyou, even though he knew he had no change of living through an attack of that magnitude. But he did it without fear, trying to protect his friends, and most of all her of all people. He had literally got himself almost killed trying to protect her, which shocked her when she witness it before her eyes. So she couldn't stand here and say they haven't been through a lot with Tsukune, because she knew if she did say they didn't, she would be lying through her teeth.

Inner Moka sighed a bit before looking her outer self in the eyes. 'We have been through a lot with Tsukune, Omote.' She began, now looking at the crying pink haired girl mentally. 'But even if we did, what is it that we truly want? Who is it that we want to spend the rest of our lives with? Who is are daughter going to be the most happy with? That is some of the question's you need to answer for yourself.'

Wiping the tears from her eyes, outer Moka looked up at her inner self. 'I-' She was cut off as inner Moka wave her arm a bit.

'Don't bother answering me now Omote,' Inner Moka said. 'Right now your emotions along with mine are overwhelmed right now. You need time to think about what we want and what is truly right for us and our family.' She looked at her before saying one last thing, 'But choose well because if you don't, you will regret the decision you have chosen for the rest of your life.'

With a single wave of her head, inner Moka cut off all mentally link with her outer self. She was done with what she had to say, all both of them needed to do is choose with what they wanted. It wasn't going to be easy, but she was confident that she was going to overcome this problem with her emotions. She couldn't do this along like she thought she could six months ago, after that argument she had with Ichigo, she finally understood that both her and Omote were one being. They share everything together but personalities, she just needed her and herself to pick what they truly wanted and desired for the rest of their lives.

"Moka-chan," A familiar voice called out from close by. "Are you okay?"

Breaking from her thoughts and the conversation she just had, outer Moka glance to her left to see Tsukune looking at her in worry. She flinched a bit as she looked at him, not really ready to see him with everything she was dealing with. To assure him that she was a bit okay, the pink haired vampire smiled at him. "I'm okay Tsukune,' she replied.

"Are you sure Moka-chan?" The brown haired boy asked. "Something must be wrong if you have tears in your eyes."

She turns her gaze back towards Lilith and the others, trying to get her emotions in check. "I'm okay Tsukune," She said. "There's no need for you to worry about me."

Tsukune nodded to her responds, a bit said that she didn't talk to him like she use to do. "Okay Moka-chan," He said, stepping back a bit from the pink haired vampire. He had missed the times when Moka would tell him everything on her mind, even though they weren't in a relationship with each other. Before any of that even began, they use to be the best of friends at the beginning of the first year they met each other. But now ever since Ichigo had showed up here, the girl he loved with everything he had would not even due none of the things they use to do together.

Even with all that, he knew he wasn't going to give up on her no matter what happen between the two of them. The love he has for her was too strong for him to give up on her so easily. He was going to prove to her that he was the better man for her, and that Kurosaki was nothing but a monster bent on rage and hate for the ones that did him wrong. He did not want Moka or her daughter Kumiko to live a life like that; both of them deserve a life where they would have no worries of someone snapping a trying to kill them. The brown haired teen glanced at Moka, just staring at her for a few moments with a determined look on his face.

'I will not give up on you Moka-chan,' He swore in determination. 'I will prove to you that you deserve much more than the pain Kurosaki has been giving you since he showed up.'

He was snapped out of his thoughts as the room started to glow blue with some sort of energy he did not know of. Moka and the others just looked on, feeling the energy that was around them felt the exact same of what Ichigo uses. It was mostly blue, but a good bit of it was white as snow, something that both Moka's thought was nothing short of beautiful. From what The Headmaster had told them, this energy that Ichigo uses was reiatsu; a power source that comes from the users direct soul. Glancing down at her daughter; inner Moka wonder if that weird energy she felt from Kumiko when she gets angry was the same thing as this.

She was Ichigo's daughter by blood, so there was a strong possibility that she could use the same abilities as Ichigo uses when she gets older. But Ichigo may not want her to; he had already told her once through the three weeks that he did not want Kumiko gaining the same powers as he did. He believes that his power was the same reason that his family and friends was murders, because Aizen and Alexander feared his powers. She had try to get him to believe that it was not his fault that none of it happen, but the orange haired shinigami would not listen to a word she said upon the matter. She just wish he would, not only was he still in pain from what happen to everyone that lived in Karakura town, he was still infecting himself by blaming everything that happen upon himself.

"What's going on, desu?" Yukari asked, looking around the room in curiosity. She was a bit overwhelmed at the reiatsu The Headmaster told them about, but held on the best she could.

Lilith looked at the small witch, seeing that the young girl was struggling to stand up a bit. Looking around, she saw Tsukune was beginning to struggling as well along with Kurumu and the others as well. The only two that weren't face as much was inner Moka and Gin; each had serious looks on their faces. Even though Lilith didn't like the way she had to show Kurosaki-sama's memories, this was the only way that she could process the m out right with the help of Zangetsu-sama as well.

"Just hold on a bit you guys," Lilith said. "Because of Kurosaki-sama not being here with us, we had to use the only sourse that had also shared all the memories he had up to this current moment." She informed them, "It's only going to take me a few seconds to put the memories on track."

"How far are you going from what we just saw?" Gin asked.

"About a year ahead," Lilith said. "Along the lines of when Kurosaki-sama first obtain his powers to protect his family."

Mizore looked a bit confused at that, "What do you mean gain his powers and protect his family?" She asked. "I thought he always had the power he now possesses?"

Lilith shook her head at that, "Not exactly." She informed, "Even when he obtain powers, his real powers were still dormant or in his case, wasn't ready to be awakened at the current moment."

"What do you mean wasn't ready to be awaken?" Kurumu asked, also confused at what the small fairy was trying to say. "Why would is powers not ready to be awaken? He should have already been born with his powers awaken from the start."

Lilith sighed before looking the Succubus directly in the eyes. "Let me ask you a question Kurumu," She suddenly said.

The blue haired Succubus looked confused at this, wondering why should would want to ask her a question all of a suddenly like that. Thinking nothing of it, she shrugged her shoulders at it. "Go ahead," She suggested.

"Your power you and your race," Lilith spoke seriously. "What do you feel about them?"

Again Kurumu couldn't do but look at the fairy in confusion, not getting where this question was coming from. Looking on at how serious the small fairy looked, she could help but think about what she was just asked. What did she feel about her power and race? What was the main reason on what she felt about the two? She narrowed her eyes a bit at a question at that. A second later she clenched her fist, feeling a bit stupid at even having to thing about something like this. The second she was answer this, the answer should have come out the second the question was asked to her.

"I feel proud of my power and race." She answered truthfully, looking the small fairy dead in the eyes with a serious look on her face.

Lilith smiled at her, "An honest answer that can be given from anyone." The smile vanished from her face, replaced by a serious gaze. "But the difference with you was that you were born and raised knowing you always had your powers; Ichigo on the other hand didn't."

"That something I really don't seem to get," Mizore asked, stepping forward. "Why would he not know he had powers? And if he didn't know, why would his parents keep something like that from him?"

Lilith sighed at that, "I really can't answer that because I don't know." She stayed quite for a moment the area around them starts to clear, showing her and the others a clear view of Karakura Town. "All I know is what Zangetsu-sama has told me, and what he has given me is that Kurosaki-sama's power from the beginning is based on nothing but protecting what is close to him."

Kurumu snorted a bit from that, "I seriously doubt that." She sneered a bit, "The way he has acted around us as given me no reason to believe that."

"If you would learn how to use your youki right," Gin spoke up behind her in a cold calm voice. "You would see that what the small fairy is saying is true."

Kurumu shifted her gaze towards the wolf, looking at him in anger. "Shut up you baka pervert!" She snapped at him. "And what do you mean using my youki right?"

Gin said nothing to her, only point towards both Moka's and Kumiko who was looking at the scen before her in curiosity. Not getting what Gin was trying to say; Kurumu looked at the three before widen her eyes at bit. She could barely see it, but she was positive that she could see a barrier of what looked like blue youki surrounding the three, almost like a protective barrier against anything that try to harm the three. What she could get through her mind or believe was that the barrier surrounding the three felt just like Kurosaki, no! It felt just like this reiatsu stuff Kurosaki's uses.

"That can't be..." She stuttered out in disbelief. "That couldn't be possible!"

Tsukune looked at Kurumu in confusion and worry, wondering why she was suddenly looking so shocked. He looked around to see Ruby, Mizore, and Yukari were also looking at both Moka's and Kumiko in shock, which was confusing him even more. Why were they so shock as they looked at Moka-chan and her daughter? Glancing at them; Tsukune couldn't see anything that was out of the ordinary to make them looked this shocked.

"What's wrong you guys?" He asked them. 'Why do you all look shocked?"

Inner Moka was getting annoyed at they kept looking at her, wondering why they suddenly just start looking at her, Omote, and Kumiko like they were fools are something. "I suggest you all look somewhere else," She threaten them. "If you wish to keep your lives that is."

Gin chuckled from where he was standing, before looking at Moka and her family with a smirk on his face. "No need to get all snippy on us Moka," He said making her eyes twitch.

"Don't call me that again wolf," Moka said coldly. The only responds she got from the wolf was another smirk.

Outer Moka smiled timely, before shifting her gaze towards Gin. "Can you tell us why the others are looking at us like that Gin-sempai?"

Gin nodded, "Well you might have not notice this, but ever since the battle Ichigo had with your father, he has had his reiatsu protecting you in some sort of barrier." He explains to them.

Inner Moka looked at him in shock, "What do you mean by that?" She asked him. "There's no possible way that Ichigo's reiatsu could be protecting us. If it was, I would have long ago felt it around me or Kumiko." She said

Gin chuckled a bit. "Can't help but say that bastard Ichigo was very impressive with this," He replied, shifting one of his fingers towards his nose. "I only manage to sniff out his reiatsu because of this, and only barley manages to felt it."

Ruby looked at him in interest, never knowing he had the ability to scene youki/reiatsu like that. "I never knew you had an ability like that Gin," She said impressed.

Gin just looked at her before shifting his gaze back towards Moka and the others. "There's a lot you don't know about me."

Ruby narrowed her eyes at that, but saying nothing to try to voice anything about that.

Outer Moka looked at her hands in shock, never believing that Ichigo was protecting her and his daughter even when he wasn't around them. Did he really care about them that much to do something like that? Outer Moka just could believe that he would do something like that. She could understand why he did it with Kumiko, but why her of all people? Why her when he knew she still was holding on to the feelings she had for Tsukune. She began to feel shame welled in her chest, thinking on how foolish she was beginning to even think that.

She should have known Ichigo would do something like this; something like this was something that she should have known he would do in the first place. But she just couldn't see why he would try to protect her? Even though it was hurting him to do so. She glanced at her inner self to see she had a sad look in her eyes as well, indicating that she was thinking along the same lines as her. She shook her head a bit, not even wanting to thing about this anymore. If she did, the guilt and shame she was feeling for what she was putting Ichigo through was going to increase more and more.

Gin looked at the two Moka's with a serious gaze on his face, before shifting his gaze away from them. "I kind of understand what Lilith is trying to say about Ichigo's powers and the way they work." He started to explain, "Just like any man with a child and family; Ichigo has made sure that you two will alway be protected, even without him being anywhere around him."

"He doesn't trust me to protect myself and our daughter?" Inner Moka asked, trying to cover up the shame she was feeling.

Gin looked at her coldly, "You knew better than anyone that Ichigo trust you to protect yourself and Kumiko." The cold look on his face vanished, replaced by a smirk. "It's just his nature to protect what he holds dear in this world, and you and Kumiko are the most precious people to him in this world."

From where she was standing; Kumiko beamed at hearing that her daddy cares for her so must. "I care about Tou-san a lot too!" She chirped cheerfully.

Snapping out of her guilt, inner Moka looked at her daughter and smiled. "I know you do princess, as well as I do." She knew she had no right to say something like that after what she is putting him through.

Gin looked at the two girls; he knew that both of them were hiding what they exactly felt about what he had just told them. They might be able to cover up and hide their emotions from the others, but he wasn't a fool and could tell that both of them were suffering. He sighed a bit at that, even though he wanted to help the two in the right path and all, he knew they had to get through this by themselves. He knew all about what they were going through, it wasn't really hard to see that Moka was struggling with her feelings for both Ichigo and Tsukune. But she wanted a family where Kumiko did not hate her, she knew what she had to pick and wanted the most.

Moka was about to say something, but a familiar voice interrupted her before she had a change to speck. Widen her eyes a bit, she turn toward the direction of the voice and caught site of Ichigo sitting at table with a school uniform on. His arms were cross over his chest along with his eyes close, he also seem to be in deep thought about something. Shifting her gaze a bit, the sliver haired vampire narrowed her eyes at the black haired woman that was sitting across from Ichigo. Was this the reason why Ichigo manage to get over his depression or did he forget all about her and Kumiko after they left? She shook her head, trying to get rid of the jealous thoughts that were starting to cloud her mind.

"I see..." The Ichigo before them started. "You're a shinigami... and you came here from a place called Soul Society to exterminate an evil spirit."

The black haired woman before Ichigo nodded, "That's correct."

With a roar; Ichigo leap up from where he was standing and flip the table over. "YEAH RIGHT, LIKE I COULD BELIEVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, RETARD!"

The woman before Ichigo looked shocked, "You can see ghost but you don't believe in the existence of shinigami?"

Ichigo glanced at her with a bored look on her face, "Of course not!" He replied to her. "Unfortunately I've never seen a shinigami, and I don't believe in things I can't see." He clamped his hand on top of the black haired woman's head and began pushing her a bit towards the window. "Dad couldn't see you, so I'll acknowledge the fact that you're not human. However, quit the shinigami crap! Got it little brat?"

An irritated look crosses over the woman face, not being notice by Ichigo as all as he kept pushing her towards the window. Kurumu and the other just looked at the scene before them in shock, not truly believing that this was the cold killer they had seen over the six months he had been around Yokai Academy. What they were seeing before them was something that they could not believe that were seeing, each of them never thought that they would see Ichigo acting like a... normal person other than trying to kill everything in sight. His eyes were completely lost of the normal coldness and dark look in his eyes, but were filled with what look like boredom and irritation.

"Is this really the Kurosaki we know?" Ruby asked still shocked at seeing a normal looking Ichigo. "He doesn't look like the killer or monster I have been seeing over the six months, he actually looks..." She trailed off not being able to finish what she wanted.

"Normal?" a voice said; finish what the black haired older witch was going to say. Ruby paused in her shock a bit and looked over towards the pink haired vampire, a bit shock to see her glaring coldly at her. "Are you shock that Ichigo isn't the monster you thought he was?"

Getting over her shock; Ruby narrowed her eyes at outer Moka. "Don't think that just this little scene will change my mind on him being nothing but a killer who needs to be destroyed." She snapped a bit coldly, "This right here doesn't prove anything at all."

Moka glared at her but said nothing, getting tired of trying to prove that Ichigo wasn't the same person he is now then he was back then. The only proof she will have if she let them watch the memories of how Ichigo truly was back then, a cocky, honest, protective boy that she fell in love with. She just hoped when they saw all of Ichigo's memories and why he turn out like the way he is now, then they will change their output on him. She and her inner self defiantly was getting tired of the constant taunts about Ichigo, if this kept going on she didn't know how long she was going to last until she truly snapped on one of them. She didn't want to hurt any of them because she still considered them all her friends, but if they kept pushing those taunts and names on Ichigo, them being her friends wasn't going to matter at the end.

"What happen to that ghost?" Ichigo asked in a shocked slow voice. Snapping out of her thoughts, outer Moka turn in the direction to seeing Ichigo on the ground with his arms tied behind his back. The black haired woman was standing before him, sheathing her sword back in place and staring at Ichigo with a calculative look in her eyes.

"I sent him to Soul Society," She replied in a clam voice. "It's called a soul burial, in your language I believe you call it 'going to heaven'. It is one of a shinigami's duties."

Ichigo just looked at her in confusion, not getting a thing where she was going with this. "What are you talking about?" He asked, getting a bit annoyed. "I already told you that I do not believe this shinigami busy you're talking about."

The woman glared at him before reaching into her robe, which Moka and the others finally notice that closely resembled what Ichigo usually wears. I will kindly explain with illustrations so that a brat like you can understand."

"I'm not a brat you bitch!"

If the woman was insulted by that, she didn't bother even acknowledging it. "Shut up and listen," She held up two fingers, gaining a serious gaze on her face. "Now in the world, there are two types of spirits." Moka and the other suddenly sweat dropped and seeing the poorly draw images the black haired woman held up. "One is called a plus and is the most common spirit; you can say that the ghosts you usually see are these. And the other spirits are called Hollows, and these attack living beings and dead beings alike and eat their souls. These are what you call 'evil spirits'." The black haired woman looked up an Ichigo, "Do you have any questions so far?"

"Ummm..." The orange haired teen drew out, with a sweat drop forming on the back of his head. "Can I start by asking why your drawing's suck so badly?" He was about to say something else, but was cut off as the black haired woman drew to lines across his face. "You bitch! Just because I can't move that doesn't give you the right to do this?"

The woman chuckled darkly, twirling the marker she had in her hands. "I will continue with the explanation your highness, Mr. Barom." She became serious again as she looked at Ichigo, "We shinigami have two duties, one is to guide pluses to Soul Society using a soul burial as you have just seen minutes ago. The second duty is to extinguish hollows, that is my current mission."

Ichigo looked up at her from where he was; finally seem to have rubbed the drawn mustache off his face. "Wait a minute..." Picking his head up, he glared at the woman a bit. "If you came here on your mission, does that mean the thing called a hollow is around here?" He asked.

The woman looked at him with a raise eyebrow, "That would be the case."

"THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?" Ichigo snapped, getting a shocked looked from the woman before him. "If that thing is still out there, then go kill it!"

"Well you see..." I do not know why, but I cannot feel its presence anymore."

"What the heck do you mean by that?" Ichigo asked

The woman was about to answer his question, but she paused as she looked over at Ichigo's desk. She gain a look of interest before she walked over towards the desk; Moka and the other just stayed where they were and looked on. They heard an intake of breath and looked back at Ichigo, to see that the orange hair teen and a shock look on his face for some reason. Moka and others were confused at this, wondering why he was so shocked all of a sudden. Looking back in the direction of the woman, they looked as she picked up a fairly large picture off his desk.

"What have we here?" She asked with a smirk. "I see you are a ladies man, taking a picture with your girlfriend and your baby sister."

Ichigo glared at her, "Let go of that picture if you know what's good for you!" He snapped.

The woman smirked and turns the picture in Ichigo and the other's direction, when they saw the picture; Moka's and the others eyes widen at what they saw. Inside the frame was a picture of both Ichigo and Moka smiling widely, in both their arms and squeeze close to them was a baby that looked exactly like Kumiko. Both Moka's eyes widen at seeing that picture before, both knowing the exact time and date they had went to take that picture. She still after all these years had the picture with her, it was the only thing she had to view them still has a family through the four years she thought Ichigo was dead.

"So is this pretty little girl your girlfriend?" The black haired woman asked. "And are you two trying to look like a family with your baby sister in the picture?" She chuckled a bit. "Never knew a brat like you could want a family so early in your age."

"THAT IS MY FAMILY!" Ichigo snapped darkly at her. "That baby you keep thinking is 'my sister' is my daughter!"

The black haired woman looked at him in shock, "You can't be serious can you?"

"And why would I lie about something like this?" Ichigo asked annoyed. "Can't you see that the baby as both traits of me and the girl in the picture."

It only took the woman a second to look at the picture before she looked back at the orange haired teen. "Where is this girl and daughter of yours at?" She asked.

A sad look fell over Ichigo face, before he glared at her. "I'm not worried about the girl at all," He snapped a bit darkly. "The only thing I'm worried about is my daughter, but after something happen both her and my daughter disappeared."

"The way you sound, it seems like you hat this girl for some reason."

"I have a damn good reason to hate her for what she did." Ichigo answered, "Taking my daughter was something that she had no right to do."

"What happen between you two too cause this?"

Ichigo looked away, "I do not want to talk about that."

'So it's true,' Both Moka's thought. 'He did hate us for taking Kumiko away from him.' Both of them shut their eyes, trying to suppress the shame they were still feeling. They still could not see why Ichigo would still care for them, even after what she did to him and still is putting him through even more pain. Each memory they saw, they didn't know how much more they were going to be able to take. But they couldn't give up know! They wanted to see what Ichigo went through for four years without either her or Kumiko with him. Both of them was cut off as a roar of something cut them off, they stopped in their thoughts to see Ichigo with a shock look on his face along with sweat dripping down his face.

Moka and the others looked at the woman to see she had a thoughtful look on her face, seemly thinking about something. The way she was acting, they all could tell that she did not hear the huge roar that sounded through the house they were all in. "What's wrong with her?" Kurumu asked. "Can't she hear that large roar?"

"I don't think she can Kurumu," Ruby said, looking on to see what was going to happen next.

"It as if a great power is blocking my senses," The woman said low.

"HEY SHINIGAMI!" Ichigo shouted.

Snapping out of her thoughts, the woman looked at Ichigo with a questionable look on his face. "What do you want?" she asked.

"What do you mean what?" Ichigo shouted at her. "Didn't you hear that huge voice just now?"

"Huge voice?" The woman asked. "When did..." She was cut off as another loud roar rung through the house, even louder than the last. Her eyes widen in alarm at finally hearing it, "That noise... that's defiantly the noise of a hollow."

"KYAAAHHHH!" A suddenly scream tore through the room, causing both the black haired woman and Ichigo to look towards the door.

"... That's Yuzu's voice!" Ichigo chocked out.

"Who's Yuzu?" Kurumu asked, looking at Lilith for an answer.

"Yuzu is one of Ichigo's baby sister's name." Inner Moka answered, finally specking up.

Tsukune glanced towards the sliver haired vampire, suddenly remembering something. "Is that the one he said was blown up?" He asked. Inner Moka nodded to him, but did not turn in his direction to look him in the eyes. This cause the brown haired boy to frown, but he quickly turn back towards what was happen before him just to see a black haired little girl drop to the ground. Looking at her closely, he could see scratch marks on her and blood as well.

Dropping towards the ground, the black haired woman checked over the little girl before sighing in relief. "Do not worry, she is just unconscious." She told him, "her soul is still..." She stopped in what she was saying a looked over towards Ichigo, too see that he was struggling to get his arms from behind his back. "STOP IT YOU FOOL! What do you think you're doing? You cannot release the incantation with human powers! If you force it, your soul will..." She trailed off in shock to see Ichigo roar in rage before something seems to shatter behind his back.

Ichigo glared forward, not specking a word to the woman before grabbing a hold of a baseball bat. He didn't even stop before rushing out of his room, heading directly towards where his sister told him to go. Moka and the other's followed him, not wanting to miss anything that was going on with what was happening. Both Moka's and looks of worry on their faces as they rushed after Ichigo, followed by Tsukune and the others who were close behind her. Outer Moka looked down in her arms to see Kumiko clutching onto her shirt, a bit scared a hearing the roar they hear a minute ago.

Coming to a stop at the end of the stair case, they looked around to see the house destroyed and a huge hole close by the kitchen. They looked around and stopped on a man that was face down on the ground seemly knocked out or unconscious, he was also laying in what looked like his own blood. Hearing a roar all of a sudden, they looked to see Ichigo rushing towards something that looked... they gasped at what they saw the orange haired teen rushing at. It was something neither of them had ever seen before in their lives, standing at a height that towered over all them. The thing was spotted in black spots that connect with each other; it also closely resembled a fish with a weird skull like mask on its face.

"What the hell is that?" Tsukune asked in fear, taking a step back in fear. Kurumu and the other's weren't doing well either, each of them having a look of fear in their eyes. The only ones that seem to be controlling themselves was Inner Moka, Gin, and Outer Moka, but the pink haired vampire was trembling a bit at what she was seeing only a couple of feet away from her. They watched as Ichigo jumped up a swung the bat towards the large creature, but was quickly back handed away from it in a instant. They paused for a moment and heard the thing roar, but some of them were too scared to move from where they were standing.

"Tsk," Inner Moka growled out before rushing forward, not wanting to waste her time standing there like a dummy. Gin smirked a bit before rushing after her, leaving the others to get over their fear and rush after the two. When they got there, they saw Ichigo standing before the large creature with a smirk on his face, all the fear he once had was completely gone.

"What is he doing?" Outer Moka asked, worry traced in every word. "If he stands there he's going to get killed!"

"Clam down Moka-san," Lilith said. "You must remember that this is nothing but a memory of the past; Kurosaki-sama as already live through this and much more." She smiled at the pink haired vampire, "There's no need for you to be worried about him."

Moka smiled a bit, "I know Lilith-san." She looked back at Ichigo, "But I just can't help but be worried about him."

"And nothing's wrong with that," Lilith said. "You are Kurosaki-sama's mate."

Any other time; Moka would have blushed a being called Ichigo's mate of all things. But after knowing what she was putting him through, she didn't think she even deserve to be called his mate. Being mated to someone means you will never hurt them, be with them for the rest of your life and love only him. But that was something she wasn't doing, she was being nothing of the sort of being a mate to him. She didn't deserve to be call his mate, with her still having love for Tsukune even though she was with Ichigo.

"Hey you," Ichigo called out, the smirk still across his face. "You want my soul right?" He pointed towards his chest and glared at the hollow. "Then fight me face to face you bastard! No one else as anything to do with this! Trying killing me and taking my soul!" He shouted with anger.

"What he just did was foolish!" Ruby stated. "That hollow is far stronger than him, but he his deliberately drawing that thing near him, knowing that there is no possible way for him to kill it."

"That's just the way he is." Outer Moka said softly, "he didn't care if he die in any process, as long as it met protecting what was close to him." Ruby and the other said nothing, turning back in the direction to see the black haired woman wounded. The black haired woman looked at Ichigo, watching as he slammed his fist into the ground.

She sighed, before looking him back at him. "Do you wish to save your family?" She asked.

Ichigo eyes widen at that, "Is there a way?" he asked. "Tell me if there's a way to save my family!"

The woman pulled herself up to a sitting pushing before pointing her sword directly at Ichigo chest, causing the boy to look at her in confusion. "You must... become a shinigami," She said.

Ichigo looked at her in shock, "What?" He stuttered out in shock. "What are you saying? How can I become a shinigami?"

The black haired woman winced before answering, "You can. All you have to do is pierce the middle of your chest with this zanpakuto, and I will insert half of my shinigami powers into you. That way you will attain the power of a shinigami temporarily and will be able to fight the hollow on equal terms."

Ichigo still looked shock, as if wondering if this was okay to do. "Is it really okay to do something like that?" He asked.

The woman sighed, "I do not know." She answered him truthfully, "'of course this is a plan set up anticipating your high spiritual pressure. The percentage of success is not high; if it fails you will die." She glared at him, "however, there is no other way! There is no time to deliberate."

"Ichigo," a voice called out. "Where are you Ichigo?"

Ichigo turn around to see his sister calling him on the ground, eyes still close like she was having a nightmare. Moka and the others gained a sad looked as they looked at the orange haired little girl, feeling sorry that she had to suffer something like this. "Yuzu... are you having a scary dream?"

"Don't come... it's dangerous..." The girl spoke smiling for some reason, "hurry and get away... Ichigo."

Something seems to snap in Ichigo, making the said boy smirk for some reason. Moka and the others just looked at him, wondering why he was smirking all of a sudden. "Give me that sword shinigami," He said. "Let's give that idea of yours a try."

"Watch closely," Lilith spoke up. "This is the very moment that changes Kurosaki-sama's life forever."

Yukari stared at the fairy, "What do you mean by that, desu?" She asked. The small fairy said nothing and kept looking at the scene before her.

"Just watch and you will see."

Turning back towards what was going on; they only had a moment to glance before the entire area lit up in a bluish was light. Each of them covers their eyes, not being able to see as the light cause each of them to go blind for a moment. When the light clear and they could see again, they were shocked at what they saw before them. Roaring and rushing towards the hollow, was Ichigo dress in similar cloths they mostly saw him where. They looked in his hands to see him grasping a huge sword, not a big as the one he usually carries around, but large enough for them to look at it in awe.

"REALIZE THE MISTAKE OF MESSING WITH MY FAMILY, FISH FACE!" Ichigo roared in anger. With a quick downward slash across the face, the hollow only had enough time to roar before it seemly vanish into thin air. Both Moka's let out a sigh of relief that they didn't even know they were holding. They both looked at the orange haired teen just as the moment the whole area turn black.

Inner Moka turn towards the small fairy with a glare on her face, "What do you think you're doing?" She snapped. "That can't be the last of that memory? I want to know the name of that woman that gave Ichigo is powers!"

Lilith chuckled nervously at that, "Sorry about that Moka-san, but that was the last bit of that memory." She said, "But if you're so worry about the woman's name. Her name is Rukia Kuchiki, the woman that changes Kurosaki-sama's life form that moment on." Both Moka's twitch at that, but didn't say anything about what the small fairy had said.

The area around the glow bluish white again, a moment later they were back around Karakura surrounded by what looked like creatures similar to what attack Ichigo's house. From where she was standing; Yukari couldn't help but shake in fear at seeing the creatures before her. Even though she knew it was nothing but a memory, she couldn't help but think that the hollows were just gazing at her and no one else. She shook in fear at that, steeping towards Tsukune and wrapping her arms around his waist. Feeling someone wrapping their arms around him; Tsukune looked down and smiled as he saw Yukari. He smiled a bit at the girl and rubbed her shoulder, trying himself to shake the fear he was feeling.

"Where are we?" Gin asked, looking around.

"We're close to an open area in Karakura Town right now." Lilith informed them, "This is another memory of where Ichigo learned about his powers and overcome something to protect."

"What do you mean by that?" Mizore asked.

Lilith glances at them before turning her gaze forward. "The only memoires Zangetsu-sama are going to show you are the only important one's that change Kurosaki-sama's life. Each one will show you an emotion onto why Kurosaki-sama's wields his powers in the first place."

The other's nodded at that, getting what the small fairy was trying to tell them. They looked forward, seeing Ichigo standing next to someone who was dress in a school uniform similar to Ichigo's. Both of them were looking up a something, following their looks upward, each of them eyes widen a the large monster that was triple the size of the previous one they saw. The thing before them was easily towering over everything before it, easily probably taller them most buildings each of them as saw.

"What is that thing?" Tsukune asked in fear. "It looks nothing like the last one we saw?"

Kurumu to back up in fear; never seeing anything so big before,"... I don't know Tsukune." She stuttered out, 'Just what kind of things as Kurosaki been fighting before he came to Yokai Academy?' She thought to herself.

"That is a Menos Grande," Lilith said, "It's hundreds of hollow gather up into one being."

"You're telling me that thing is hundreds of hollow's all into one?" Ruby asked in shock.

"I have no reason to lie to you," Lilith said before looking back at the scene before them.

They each paused when they felt the area get dark a bit, then lighting up in a red light that covered the area. They each turn around to see the hollow gathering a red ball at the center of its mouth, something similar to what Ichigo had fired at Moka's father months ago. Looking towards Ichigo, they saw him rushing towards the huge hollow with a determine look on his face. Outer Moka gasp, the worry was coming back toward her in full force at seeing Ichigo rushing towards the huge hollow.

"What is he doing?" Yukari asked, glancing from where she was. "Why is he rushing towards that thing?"

"Just watch and you'll see why he is doing it." Gin answered her.

The instant those words left Gin's mouth, the hollow release the huge ball of energy that race towards a surprise looking Ichigo. The orange haired teen only had a moment to raise his blade before the energy slammed into his sword, causing the ground under him to cave and crack in. The backlash of the energy caused a shockwave, blowing a huge amount of wind pressure towards them. Covering her eyes a bit and looking forward; inner Moka could help but feel amaze at what she was seeing before her. She couldn't believe that this was what Ichigo was going through while she wasn't with him anymore.

'So this is what you have been doing while I wasn't with you Ichigo.' She said to herself, 'It seems like you didn't let that incident with my parent hold you down like I thought it did. I was wrong to even thing something like that.'

"Is this all you have for me you bastard?" Ichigo asked smirking. He raised his zanpakuto inch by inch, gaining more ground as each second passed. Tsukune and the other were amazed at what they were seeing, not believing how Ichigo was able to gain ground on that blast that was raining down on him like a hellish storm. Ichigo grunted, pushing harder and harder and glaring at the huge hollow with each step he took. With one final roar of determination, the orange haired shinigami slash upward, creating a huge slash wound across the huge hollows body. Moka and the other's brace themselves as another shockwave tore through the area, making it hard for each of them to see.

"How... how is this possible?" The glass wearing black haired teen said in shock. "Kurosaki... he cut the hollow in half!"

Moka and the others watch as the large hollow seem to roar, soundly wounded as it back away from where Ichigo was standing. They watch as the huge hollow seem to grab the sky and pull it over itself, something that shocked them at seeing. Something like that was sort of amazing to them, be able to do something like that was something that none of the ever heard of doing. With one final roar, the hollow seemly disappeared in what looked like a black hole that appeared behind him. The turn their direction towards Ichigo to see the orange haired teen smirking, looking on as the hollow disappeared from where ever it came from.

"Heh," Raising two finger's in a peace sign. Ichigo screamed in excitement. "VIC... TORY!" He shouted. Tsukune and the other were still shocked at seeing him being what looked like normal, other then what they were usually familiar with seeing him look. Stopping from what he was dong; Ichigo turn towards the black haired teen with a smirk on his face. "Hey, Ishida?" he called out.

"Ichigo..." The boy known as Ishida trailed off.

"Don't you think you should be thanking me for cleaning up your mess?" The ornage haired teen asked still smirking.

Ishida looked at him in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"I helped you out with what you cause," Ichigo said closely his eyes. "You should be thanking me for doing this..." He trailed off and dropped to the ground.

Both Moka's gasp, and rush forward, both seemly forgetting that this was nothing but a memory from Ichigo's past. But before they could even reach the orange haired teen, the area went black all around them again. They both stopped a looked at each other, snapping out of their worry at seeing Ichigo hurt. They both looked away from each other, trying to get it through both of their heads that this was nothing but a memory. They just had to pull themselves together, because some reason they could tell that worst was coming the further they went into Ichigo's memories.

Outside, Yokai Academy forest...

The orange haired vampire sighed to herself as she kept walking behind Ichigo, passing through the silent forest without saying a word to each other. About an hour ago, the two had come back from Ichigo's room to got change his already shredded cloths he was wearing. She had waited outside his room for about fifteen minutes, wondering why the orange haired teen was taking so long to get dress. She glanced at him, looking at the similar but different shihakusho he usually wears when he's not wearing the school uniform.

The shihakusho he was now wearing was similar to the ones he usually wear, the only difference was that the bottom portion was a bit shredded, making it look like flames licking the bottom. The right side was completely gone and from the right side that was gone, he had seemly wrapped the top portion of his entire upper body in white bandages. He still had the black and white body armor that was around his neck, ankles, and wrist, the only thing that was added was a long strap or armor that went down his entire right arm. The last thing he had put on was a long light brown coat that flare out as the wind blew, it also being shredded at the bottom like flames.

Looking closely at the thing, she saw what look like a large pendent that had some kind of symbol on it. From where she was standing and what she knew about a lot of clans in the Youkai world, she had never seen that clan symbol before. The only think she could go with this was that Ichigo had been given that from a longtime friend, or a mentor passing down something to him. She wanted to ask him where he had got it from, but she knew he would he spare her a glance to even answer her. She sighed to herself at that, knowing that he had every right to not wanting to talk to her after what she had done.

She couldn't blame no one like she would have usually done, everything she had did and been done to herself was no one's fault but her own. She knew from the start when he effortless stops her blow from the first time she saw him in four years, that she had no way of beating him if she tried. He had through her away like she was nothing but a toy, something that made her angry just thinking about it. She took pride in her strength, even though she knew she couldn't beat her sister, she could feel herself getting stronger as each day pass. To her sister and out of the little group they had formed, she was the second strongest out of all them.

Even though he did even bother to even be close to them other than Moka, there was no doubting that Ichigo was by far the strongest out of all them. She felt a bit scared that if he wanted to, he could erase them all with a care in this world. She felt a bit sick to herself for being scared of him, but after almost being killed by him by her own foolish mistake, that was something that she could not help. She had never felt something so power, so sicken that it was suffocating her just being near him. In the last four years, just how power had Kurosaki had become? From what she had witness from him, deep down in her should, she knew that was if the tip of his power.

She looked up at him and glance right into his cold chocolate brown eyes, not seeing an ounce of fear or hesitation in them. They were probably heading to a place where they could be leaded into a trap, where hundreds or maybe thousands of his enemies are probably waiting for him. But none of that seem to even cross his mind, the only thing that seem to be on his mind right now his getting back this 'Nel' person he's seemly worried about. That was another thing that surprise Kokoa; she never would have thought that Kurosaki could care for anyone other than Kumiko. But the way he was acting and wanting to go to Shinjuku by himself to save this Nel, she could see that he truly care for her.

From what she remembered, he had said that he considered Nel like a second daughter to him and a dear friend all at the same time. She was curious on who this woman was, maybe she could get some answer on what Ichigo was like these past four years or the time she has been knowing him. She could have just stayed back with the others and watch Kurosaki's memories, but she thought that she could do better here with him. She may not be as much help as she might want to, but this was the only thing she could do without apologizing to him directly. She might feel stupid and sorry for what she had been doing to him, but she wasn't going to allow herself to apologies to him directly, her pride as a vampire would not let herself do something like that.

"So how do you plan on getting us to Shinjuku without taking the bus?" She asked, finally getting tired of the completely silent between them.

Ichigo glance at her for a second, his cold eyes looking over her before looking in front of them again. "I do not wish for you too speck at all right now," He told her coldly. "I see no reason in why Moka wanted you to come with me in the first place after I almost killed you weeks ago." he glared at her darkly, "if you piss me off just once, nothing will stop me from ripping you in two."

Kokoa shiver in fear, looking into his eyes seeing that he was telling nothing but the truth. She could see that if she made on fatal mistake at pissing him off, she knew she was not going to live through if he suddenly went berserk on her again. She shuddered a bit, before glaring at him. "I was only asking how we were going to get there!" She snapped but softly. "Since the bus is the only way to get to the human world from this school, I was only wondering how you were going to get us there."

Ichigo smirked a bit, "That is something you need not worry about." Raising his left hand for Kokoa to see, the orange haired vampire watch as black youki seems to circle around Ichigo's left hand. "I have a technique that can practically send me anywhere I want between the four worlds," He answered.

Kokoa looked at him in confusion, "what do you mean four worlds?" She asked him. "I thought it was only the human world, and the youkai world? Your saying they have two more dimension out there that we don't know about?"

Again the orange haired shinigami glared at her, making her step back a bit in fear of him attack her. "What do you mean 'we' don't know about?" He snorted at her before continue on where he was going. "If you would have stayed back with those annoying friends of yours, then you might have learn about the other two."

Kokoa glared at him, "Onee-sama wanted me to come with you." She snarled a bit, before a clam sad look fell over her eyes. "And I just wanted to see if I could hold up to everything I have been doing to you since you arrived here."

"You could have just apologies to me," The orange haired shinigami replied. "But I guess that feeble vampire pride of yours do not want you to step on a common level." He snorted at that, "you have a long way to go to think that other people in this world will care about you being royalty. Not a damn thing about you being a vampire or higher states will matter on the battle field. It's either you kill your enemy before he or she does, or be killed because of your arrogance."

Kokoa snorted, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring lightly at the orange haired shinigami before her. "Your one to talk," She sneered lightly. "You're the most arrogant person I have ever met in my life!"

"I'm not arrogant." Ichigo replied coldly, "I just beat every last one of your friends down when they think they can beat me when they attack." He snorted, "they should already know that they have no possible way to beat me." He glanced at her with cold eyes, "it's not arrogance, but a fact."

"You almost died by my father," Kokoa said. "So even with being more power than us, you can still be beaten by someone on a higher level than my father."

Ichigo chuckled darkly at that, causing the orange haired vampire by his side to gain a cold feeling at the pit of her stomach. "Someone on a higher level than your father?" He began. "I was holding back a lot of my power when I fought your father?"

Kokoa's eyes widen a large fraction at that, not being able to process the words she had just heard from the man before her. The fight between her father and Kurosaki was one of the most amazing things she had ever saw, if he was holding back, she couldn't help but shiver fear at that. Just how power could he really be if he was holding back against someone like her father? She thinking about it made the fear in her system grow even more. What he just said couldn't be possible! What he did at her father's castle was something short of amazing, no one had ever beaten her father accept Akasha-san. But seeing him beating her father, and then saying that he was still holding back, she just couldn't help but shiver in fear.

"But..." She stuttered out. "The way you were fighting was like you were using all of your power to do so."

Ichigo snorted, "I was actually using all the power I was allowing myself to use at the current moment. I wasn't even using the full power of my shikai," He glanced at her. "The only time I did use the full power of my shikai was when I fired a Getsuga Tensho at him, and even then he was struggling to hold it back."

"But why did you use more of your power if you could have beaten my father like you were?" Kokoa asked. Even though learning about the defeat of her father was humiliating, she wanted to just know why if he could beat her father then and there, then why did he use his full power.

"I was carless at first." Ichigo replied, "I wanted to prove to that bastard that I could match and over power him at any given moment I wanted to. He surprises me to know he had a release state of all things, I should have taken him out before he even releases it."

Kokoa chuckled a bit, "so even you could make careless mistakes." She receives no answer or harsh remark, which confused her. Looking up, she saw Ichigo glaring in front of him for some odd reason. Follow his direction of where he was looking; she became even more confused when she saw nothing there. "What are you looking at Kurosaki?" She asked.

The orange haired shinigami didn't bother answering her; he was too focusing on trying to find out who the seven spiritual pressures were in front of them. He didn't recognize either of them, since when he shown up here he did a full scan of the entire Academy to know all around him. But the seven before him wasn't a part of the Academy, he could also feel killer intent flaring out of every last one. He scoffed a bit, not in the least imitated with the weak killer intent these weakling's were releasing. If they thought that they were scaring him, then every last one of them was for a rude awakening.

"You seven weakling's can come out now." He called out coldly to them, "I could feel you even before you enter this damn forest. So there was no point in you trying to hide in the first place," He said.

Kokoa just looked at him in confusion, "what are you talking about Kurosaki I..." She trailed of when she felt seven youkai releasing killer intent close by. The orange haired vampire tense; shifting herself into a stance.

Ichigo looked at her, "I see you finally felt them." He turns back around towards the front, "try not to get in my way if you can't fight. I you can't fight, then stay directly behind me."

Kokoa head snapped towards Ichigo in shock, not believing that he would try to protect her. "Are you trying to protect me?"

Ichigo snorted at that, "if you can fight then fight, but if you can't just stay the hell away from the fighting if you can do that."

For some odd reason she did not know of herself; Kokoa couldn't help but smirk as she looked at the orange haired shinigami. There was no way of looking around it, the man in front of her who she thought was a monster... just try to protect her just now. He might have twisted his words around so she couldn't get what he was saying, but he couldn't lie to her when she just heard what he said just seconds ago. But even with that; she was never backing down from a fight from anyone! And she'll be damn if she started it now of all things. Whoever it was that Kurosaki just scene, she was going to give anyone of them a beating to even dare they could fight on par with her.

"So you found us even though we hide our youki from your senses," A voice said closely in on the two. They heard a dark chuckle before a teen around Ichigo age walk out of the forest, standing around the same height as Ichigo. "Lord Alexander wasn't lying about you be very good feeling out spiritual pressures." The brown haired teen said.

'This guy...' Ichigo thought, glaring at the tall individual before him. For some odd reason that the orange haired shinigami did not know of, this person reminded him too much of Aizen to his liking. Seconds later, Ichigo watch as five other guys came walked out of the forest and stood next to the Aizen look alike, the last one to come out of the forest was a girl with a smile on her face. Ichigo snorted at her, if she thinks she could hide that sadistic nature under that smile before him, and then she was truly foolish to think she could. His chocolate brown eyes narrowed a bit as he looked at the four, seeing that each of them had on Quincy outfits. Seeing those outfits cause Ichigo to snarl in rage, griping Tenro tightly in his right hand.

"Who the hell are you seven?" Ichigo asked darkly. "And why are you wearing fucking Quincy outfits?"

The brown haired teen step forward; fixing his glasses and smirking at Ichigo. "Sorry about that," he apologies. "My name is Kaneshiro Hokuto, and we are a group called ANTI-THESIS."

Kokoa's eyes widen at that familiar name, she raised her right hand upward and an instant her familiar appeared in her hands, already changed into its mace form. "What the hell are you doing on these school grounds you sadistic bastard!" Kokoa asked in rage. Ichigo just looked at her, but said nothing and let her continue. "When my sister kick your ass you were banish from the academy for eternity for what you did."

Hokuto Kaneshiro chuckled, looking the orange haired vampire directly in the eyes. "You referred to as 'sister'." He said, "I can presume that your sister is Moka Akashiya?"

Kokoa growled, "What is it to you?" She snarled.

The brown haired teen shook his head, "nothing at all really, just happy that I will be able to take revenge on your sister by killing you."

Kokoa glare darken at that, her eyes glowing red as she looked at the man before her. "I would really like to see you try that you bastard!" She snapped at him. She was about to rush forward without thinking, trying to kill the bastard before her as quickly as possible. But she was stopped as a hand pulled right in front of her; she paused for a moment and looked up to see Ichigo glaring darkly at Hokuto. She gulped at seeing the dark look in his eyes, both glowing with rage as he gritted his teeth together. Something was wrong with him, she didn't know why he was so angry all of a sudden, but she didn't want to be in his way when he unleashed all hell on them.

"Why the hell are you wearing Quincy outfits?" Ichigo asked darkly.

Hokuto chuckled, throwing his arms in the air and looking Ichigo in the eyes with a dark smirk on his face. "I thought it was completely obvious from what we were wearing," He said. "We have sworn are completely loyalty to his majesty without fail." He smirked darkly as he looked directly into Ichigo's eyes, "and the first taste he gave us was to wipe you of this world."

As soon as those words left Hakuto's mouth, a fierce shockwave of wind slammed directly into him. He gritted his teeth a bit and slammed both of his feet into the ground, trying to keep his foot together without falling onto the ground. Smirking a bit, he stood up directly and looked up to see Ichigo shrouded in darkness. The only think he could see was Ichigo slowly taking the nodachi out of his sheathe, the blade itself was glowing a dark red just like Ichigo's now blood red eyes. The other's around Hokuto seem to shake a bit, but held themselves together as Ichigo pulled the now glowing red Tenro out of its sheathe.

"Very impressive Kurosaki Ichigo," Hokuto complimented. "But do you think that will be enough to defeat us?"

"You sided yourself with that bastard Alexander," Ichigo said darkly. "There is no other way but to pull you into the afterlife for making a foolish mistake like that. Each and every last one of you will be slaughtered by me."

Taking a step back, the orange haired vampire couldn't help but looking at Ichigo in fear. She had never seen him act like this before; this feeling around him was much darker then what she had felt from him since the incident. Her grip on her mace slacking, making the large item drop to the ground with a large thump. She didn't even acknowledge the fact that her familiar flew to her shoulder, or that it was trying to speak to her. The only thing her eyes were focus on was this... devil that stood before her, a devil that was ready to tear and completely destroy the seven that was before him.

A devil had been unleashed... and there was no way of stopping it.

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End Chapter 15

Author Notes: I already know that I have a lot of people wanting to kick my ass for taking so long to update. Really sorry about that but I had to get ready to go back to college and ready myself for a storm as well. I hope this chapter was enough to satisfy all of you until I get the next one out around next week. Sorry about that but I don't have all that time like I use to now since I'm back in school, but I will not be giving up on this fic. Just hope you will enjoy this along with the next slaughtered that will be happening in chapter sixteen.

Sesshomaru vs. Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto

Victor: Captain-Commander

Reason: I'm sorry, but I really don't see no way of Sesshomaru winning against this badass old guy. Yamamoto his leagues of combat experience in front of him, along with be so much faster than the demon lord. One quick flick of Ryūjin Jakka and it's all over for Sesshomaru, that is what I think will happen. All you might have other opinions on that, but I'm just saying what I think might happen.

Dangai Ichigo vs. BM Naruto

Now, people might instantly say that Naruto is stronger and better because he mange to block five other bijiudama's and destroy a mountain. I really find it funny that people think that Naruto's stronger when he had to fire off his most powerful attack to destroy a mountain, when Ichigo did it by just swinging Tensa Zangetsu. The other funny thing is that he didn't even generally swing in the direction of the mountain, or look like he was either trying to either. Dust and debris were left over when Naruto accomplish this, but as I remember from Ichigo and Aizen's fight, when Ichigo swung at a mountain, he completely wipe a mountains existence from the plan of the world. Nothing was left after he did that, and the badass thing about it that he did that when he as in a Karakura Town that the Soul Society created.

I just wondered what he could do if he was in the human world when he did that. Also Naruto can only stay in that form for five minutes, what's stopping Ichigo from dodging the blast or outright taking it like he did Aizen's cero? Just give me your thoughts on this and tell me who you think will win.

Tensa Zangetsu 17

Signing out