Chapter 5
A/N: Sorry for some of the mistakes I made in the last chapters, I think they were like spelling errors and grammar mistakes. I think they were only a few so I think I'm doing well really! Hope you like this chapter.
Onto the story
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Destiny Hearts
Ichigo open his eyes to find nothing but white filling his sight, he groan and picked himself into a sitting position. He could feel his head pounding for some unknown reason he did not know of, he looked down at himself to see that the wounds he had received were healed. He still had the huge x shape scar he had received from that sadistic bitch. That reminds him, if he ever found that bitch again he would have to give her a similar mark across her chest. Woman be damn! No one leaves a scar on him and gets away with it.
"Where the hell am I?" He asked to no one in particularly. He stood up and stretches to pop each one of his bones back into place, each were sore from sleeping on a hard floor. Looking around, he found Zangetsu lying just a few feet away from him. Picking Zangetsu up, he place it on his back, the familiar cloth materialize and wrap around Zangetsu, acting as an impromptu sheath. Feeling Zangetsu's familiar weight on his back made him feel... good and confident that he will be able to protect his family and friends again.
'That reminds me,' Ichigo thought. 'I have a lot more to protect then just my family and friends now. I have worlds to protect and maybe the whole universe as well! Can just my power alone be enough to protect something so large? So many people! Families, friends, and much more.' He shook his head; he couldn't start douting himself now! He had too many people counting on him now. He just couldn't start douting that he couldn't do it! If he did fail, he will make sure that he tried as hard as he could before he died.
Shaking those negative thought out his mind, he looked around to see that he was in some kind of big ass white basement with a single large pod in the center of it. Looking around for some kind of life or a door to leave the room, he was annoyed when he couldn't find either life or a door. There was no way he could find a door in the first place! Everything in the damn room was white! Why would anyone want a room that's this freaking white in the first place? This didn't make any damn scene to him. He remembered Namine telling him that someone was bringing his body to another world? If she said was true, then why did he leave his ass in a white room with no way out that he could see.
'If I ever found out who left me in this room, I promise to all things that are holy! I will kick is ass and shove him or her into the same room.' He promise, glaring at nothing in particularly. Forgetting on his vengeance for the time being, he had to focus his time on trying to find a way out of this room and find out where he was. Suddenly a heard a noise that sounded like data or something, looking in the direction of where the noise came from, he sweat dropped at what he was seeing before him
It was a man... at least that what he thought it was. The person before him face was covered in red bandages, save for his bright orange right eye and mouth, and two intersecting belts around his head, one passing over where his left eye should be. He was wearing a long red cape with an odd, angular cut taken out at the chest, the edges of which are yellow. The cut exposes a similarly oblong white symbol on a pitch-black shirt.
Overtop this shirt; he's wearing what seems to be gray, segmented armor over his sides and abdomen. His legs are covered by a long, black cloth lined with yellow, which itself has several brown straps pinned onto the front, seemingly for no purpose other than to create yet another angular pattern. On a yellow sash that hangs around his waist are three brown pouches, descending downward diagonally on his left hip. These pouches are all identical, all sporting the same design on the top flap, and all closed by a darker brown strap that attaches to a silver button on the right side, a grey tassel hanging from each button. Around his neck was a dark colored scarf and light colored long sleeves. Having all that on, made no sense to Ichigo whatsoever.
'And what the hell is with all those pockets?' Ichigo thought, he was truly curious onto why someone needed to dress the way the man before him was right now. The man's arms was folded across his chest and for some reason, Ichigo could a sworn he saw the man glaring at him. He glared back at him, and grabbed the handle of Zangetsu.
"Who the hell are you? And where the hell did you come from?" Ichigo demanded. That was another thing! He had not sense the man when he had just suddenly appeared behind him like that. He may be bad at sensing reiatsu, but he could feel when someone was behind him. Right now he felt absolutely nothing from the man before him.
"I see you have awoken from your slumber," The man finally spoke. HIs voice was clam and filled with arrogance and a bit of hatred. "One who resides in both darkness and light?"
Ichigo just looked at the man, not knowing why the man seems to hate him for some reason. He snorted, he had many people that hated him, and he would just be another one in the long line of bastards he had defeated. If the man did seem to hate him, he was the only one around to answer some of the questions he needed answers to.
"Where the hell am I?"
The man seem to glare at Ichigo, his bright orange eyes seem to become darker. "I see no reason why one of the keyblades as chosen a person who resides in darkness more than he does light." the man says.
Ichigo blinked at the man. "How the hell did you know I have a keyblade you mummified bastard?" he demanded. He did get the man's point a bit, his shinigami powers were darker than most shinigami and hollows for that matter. Zangetsu was both light and darkness, his hollow was just... darkness. But it really didn't bother him at all to have more darkness then he did light! It's just how he used his powers to tell what side he was on. If it met using darkness to protect his friends and family, then so be it.
The man seems to twitch at that comment. "The keyblade is a weapon that is used by wielders of light to drive away the darkness from different worlds." the man explained. "But for some odd occasion, blades of light, as chosen someone like you!"
'Is this bastard calling me weak?' A tick mark was forming over Ichigo's head. Who in the hell did this man thing he was? He had no idea the things he went through to gain his powers? He had no right to talk down on him like that!
"But no matter," the man seem to calm down and stare Ichigo straight in the eyes. "You are only a lackey or pawn to help Sora move the realm of light and destroy Organization XIII."
Ichigo growls at that, he takes Zangetsu from his back and point the tip at the man threatenly. "Look you bastard that seem to be obsessed with red bandages and pockets!" the man's eyes twitch at that comment. "I'm no one's pawn, lackey or bitch!" Ichigo growls out. "Now answer my question and tell me who the fuck are you."
"To answer your question boy," Ichigo twitched at being called a boy. "I am a servant of the worlds." He says, then laughs for some unknown reason. "And if I'm a servant, then you should consider yourself a tool at best."
Anger seems to rise off of Ichigo."Was... that suppose to be a joke you mummy bastard?" his grip on Zangetsu tightens and his glare intensifies. "Cause if it was," he suddenly disappears and reappears above the man, Zangetsu held high above his head. "I'M NOT LAUGHING." he brings Zangetsu down hard as he could. Zangetsu tearing up the ground below the man and creating a huge dust cloud.
Once the smoke cleared, Ichigo glares as he sees the man still standing before him with even a scratch or wound on him.
"My apologies." the man said, not sounding a least bit sorry. "This is only a data based projection."
"Tell me your name you bastard." Ichigo demands. "And if you know anything about those Organization bastards and how to find where they resided."
"If you must know my name, then call me Diz." the man answers no revealed as Diz. "And why must you know where the Organization resides?" Diz asked. He was quite curious on knowing why this boy before him wanted answers on the Organization.
Diz? Wasn't that the name Namine and Aqua told me about?' Ichigo thought to himself. He remembered Namine seem to respect the man a bit and Aqua seems to have a dislike for the man for reasons he did not know of. This man seems to be link to both Namine and Aqua in some kind of way.
"Do you know of two girls name Namine and Aqua?" he asked.
Diz's eyes seem to widen a fraction at hearing those names. "How do you know of Aqua and that witch?" he demanded. He was positive that Namine was destroyed by Riku after she gathered all of Sora memories and place them back into him.
Ichigo's glare seems to grow stronger. "I met both of them in my inner world, and if your referring to Namine as a 'witch' you bastard. Then I suggest that you don't call her that in front of me again if you know what good for you!" he threatens.
Diz laughs. "It seems that you have feeling for a Nobody." Ichigo growls. "You are really a hopeless fool!"
"Why the hell are you calling her a Nobody?" Ichigo asks. He was confused on why he would call her that. "She a human being! Just like you are you bastard."
Diz chuckled at Ichigo. "It seems that you don't know what a nobody is." he chuckles again which angers Ichigo. "What a useless Keybalde wielder you are."
"Kiss my ass you mummy bastard!" Ichigo shouts in fury. "Tell me what the hell a nobody is?"
"To answer your question, a nobody is just what it is, a thing or a tool to be used. Nobodies are born when a heart is swallowed by darkness and becomes beings known as heartless. You do know what a heartless is boy?" Diz explains then looks a Ichigo in question
"I know what a heartless is you bastard." Ichigo snaps. "Now finish explaining what a nobody is before I hit you so hard you grow some fashion sense."
Deep in his inner world, Ichigo could have sworn he heard people chuckling.
Diz growled at Ichigo for that comment which causes the orange head shinigami to chuckle. "Nobody's are the remaining parts left behind by the heart: the body, giving a nobody form, and the soul, giving the nobody life. If they have strong wills, they manage to retain human forms to the beings they once were before becoming a nobody. They are born in a world in-between the Realms of Light and Darkness, such as, "Diz flares is right arm around."Where we are now or Castle Oblivion. However, because they are born in-between both realms and lack hearts, they are shunned by both light and Darkness, and do not truly exist. Because of their missing hearts, nobodies are said to be incapable of feeling emotions be every credible source some pretend to possess emotions, fooling others as well as themselves." Diz explains, he chuckles to himself. "
"That does not tell me why you called Namine a witch!"
Diz eyes seem to twinkle with something Ichigo did not like. "She's a special nobody."
Ichigo growls. "STOP CALLING HER THAT YOU BASTARD!"
"I'm only calling her what she is you fool!" Diz says, glaring into Ichigo's eyes. "She's a very strange nobody that was born from Kairi's heart and Sora's body and soul. She's unique nobody because she was born without Kairi's memories, only furthering her status as an unprecedented nobody. Because of the fact she was formed from Sora's body, she has the power to manipulate his memories as well as the memories of those who are connected to him, prompting several others, myself included, even herself, to call herself exactly what she is." the twinkle in his eyes seem to grow. "A witch."
'What he says can't be true?' Ichigo eyes were wide with disbelief as he stared directly at a smiling Diz. He just couldn't understand that a kind, loving girl like Namine would be one of these nobody creatures. He didn't understand on why he would call her something like that! It made the rage he was feeling towards the man grows even more. Suddenly he remembered his last meeting with Namine before he left his inner world.
Flashback
Ichigo smiled at them. "You're welcome!" he then remembered something. "What about you Namine, how were you trapped in the Realm of Darkness?"
Namine swallowed in fear, she honestly didn't want him to find out about her. What if he rejected her and hated her for what she was."...mmm" she stuttered out
Flashback Ended
'Was that the reason she didn't want to tell why she was in the Realm of Darkness?' he thought to himself. It did make sense though, she might have feared that he would hate her or call her names like this bastard before him kept calling her. He couldn't hate her even if he wanted to! He felt a strong urge to protect both her and Namine with all his heart and soul. Suddenly he remembered something that was important.
Soul
Even if she didn't have a heart, she still had the main thing that matter to him and the most important thing to shinigami and hollows alike.
'A soul.' Ichigo smiled. 'Even if she doesn't have a heart, she still as a soul! That's all that matters to me. She reminds me of Nel actually, only taller.' He suddenly remembered Nel's adult form, breast, tone long legs, well developed ass, matured face and all. A huge blush filled his vision, he quickly shook his head to clear the dirty thought out of his mind. 'Must stop thinking like that! Must be hormones or something.'
"Now do you see why I call that thing a witch boy?" Diz says, knocking Ichigo out his thought. "She's a tool that was used properly to restore Sora's memories, after that she is to be disposed of like all useless tools that have been use for what they were made for and no longer needed." Diz continued, not noticing Ichigo's silence and warning signs. "She seems to think that one day she will be her on person and feel whole to herself without having to become whole with her other." he chuckled. "She's just like you really."
Now this got Ichigo's interest. "What do mean?" he asked.
"She's as a foolish dream wishing to be whole without her other, just like you think you will be able to defeat Organization XIII and rescue your sisters." Diz chuckled, not noticing that the pressure in the room suddenly increased. "The moment your sisters were taken by the Organization, they were doom to be erased and used for their planes."
That did it
"YOU BASTARD!" Ichigo shouted in absolute fury, surprising Diz greatly. Blue reiatsu exploded outward around his body in a beautiful glow. He swung Zangetsu in front of his body and pointed it directly at Diz hologram figure. Ichigo was to overwhelm by his rage to remember that Diz was nothing but a hologram. He slammed his left arm on the base of his right arm; Zangetsu's gray-wrappings wrap around his right arm and exploded outward.
"BANKAI!"
Inner World...
"The old man is one really stupid bastard!" Hichigo muttered to himself. He had been fully watching the conversation between his king and the mummy bastard since the beginning. The mummy bastard seem to be purposly trying to press each and everyone of Ichigo's points, and he was doing a pretty good damn job at it to. But it might cost him his life, Hichigo familiar insane girn found its way on his face. It as been a long time since he had been in a fight and shedded some blood of their enemies, and where this was going, Ichigo might destory the man and the whole damn house they were currently in.
"Even you know Ichigo destroying that building would be bad for many." Hichigo turn around to stare at Tensa Zangetsu in all his glory. Since all them had went through some changes since Ichigo got his powers back, Tensa had went through some similiar changes of his own. He seem to bit a bit older and taller as well, his hair was a bit darker and longer then it previously was before the lost of Ichigo's powers. His flame like coat was longer, blowing in the wind in seapert flames behind him. He was currently wearing his hood which was much longer and covering the right side of his face, the hood seem to also have a symbol of a crescent moon on it.
Hichigo snorted. "Pray tell how would it be bad if king lays a can of wipe a mummy?"
Tensa Zangetsu just gazed at him with his cold aqua blue eyes. "If Ichigo does destroy that building, he's going to also kill that boy Sora and his companion who are laying dormant in those pods."
The grin that was previously on Hichigo face suddenly vanished into a frown. "Damn, I really forgot about those three." he muttered. "Kingy might not know about them but I could feel three different reiastu that are very close." the grin found its way back on his face. "But how cares about those three bastards! They shouldn't be in the way!"
Tensa Zangetsu just sighed at the hollow before him who had a murderous glint in his eyes. He odviously should have knew that the hollow wouldn't give two shits about what happen to others that didn't have a connection to Ichigo whatsoever. Suddenly feeling a different but familiar energy close by, he turn around to see Namine walking out of what seem like a Garganta.
Something was wrong and she knew it! She had suddenly felt murderous rage erupt from Ichigo and with warning, rush to see what was wrong. Ichigo's energy was already enrmous from was she saw but it had skyrocket to even higher levels then it was! And his energy was darker... much darker then it was before. The dreadful feeling she felt was clouding her judgement, she was to worried for Ichigo to worry what happen to her. Stepping out of a Corridor of Darkness, she rush foward to ask Zangetsu and Ichigo's other half question but pause once she saw a new figure standing close by Ichigo's other self.
"Sorry for braging in like this," Namine said. "But who are you sir?"
Tensa Zangetsu chuckled a bit, which cause Namine to blush in embarrassment. "I'm Ichigo's bankai, Tensa Zangetsu." he interdoused himself. "I'm still Zangetsu but just a younger version or a prime version of what he use to be."
"Oh, Sorry about that then Tensa Zangetsu-san." Namine apologized, she bowed deeply which caused Tensa to smirk at her.
"You may rise Namine," he order. Namine blush and did what he order. "There is no reason for you to bow to me."
Namine smiled at him but her smile was quickly covered by a worried experssion. "Is something wrong with Ichi-kun." she asked.
Tensa's eyes suddenly became cold again. "I must ask you something Namine."
Namine was quite confused onto why he would suddenly want to ask her a question out of the blue. "What is it Tensa-san?"
"Do you know of a man named Diz?"
Namine's eyes seem to widen at hearing her old partner in returning Sora's memories name. Why would Tensa of all people know of that name? "Yes, I know of a man name Diz." she said. "How do you know of him if you don't mind me asking?"
"Oh, your boys about to blasted by a full powered Getsuga Tensho by making a foolish mistake of pissing kingy off." Hichigo said, cutting in.
Namine gasped at that, even if Diz ha order her to be disposed of, she didn't want him to be kill. "Why? What did he do to make Ichi-kun so mad." she asked
"He told Ichigo of what you are, which caused Ichigo to go into rage." Tensa Zangetsu replied simply.
'No!' Namine gasped and step back in fear at what she heard. Why would Diz tell Ichigo about what she was? Why did that man like causing her so much pain? Now Ichigo will be like everyone else and hate her for being what she was.
Tensa stared at Namine's shaking form, he didn't techcally tell the girl the main reason on why Ichigo was mad but she really needed to find out for herself. She needed to stop hiding things from Ichigo thinking that he would be the same like most of the people she had met in her short life.
Real world...
'Impossible! How can this foolish boy be a shinigami?' Diz mind was practically moving a million times per second. His mind just couldn't see the truth that this boy was weilding a blade that created the keyblade! But how did a boy so young obtain one of his own? It just does seem that possible that a boy so young could weild some of that much power. He had study on zanpakuto and their releases, he knew it took a shinigami a centry to learn its final release. So how could a boy that didn't even look like he was twenty achive something that took other shinigami so long to optain. 'And so much darkness! How could a being that weild such powerful darkness weild a keyblade? It does make any sense to me!'
He looked on as tentacles of black/red energy seem to flare around the dust cloud Ichigo had created once he released his bankai. Once the smoke cleared, his eyes widen baring witness to Ichigo's new form. Ichigo bankai had change drasticly then what it use to look like a year ago when he fought Aizen's arrancar's and Aizen himself. He now wears a white undershirt beneath his black shihakusho coat that was much longer then before, it was separated in three pieces being him. It was now open, ebing held together by three "x"-shaped marks, it ends in a number of coattails. He was now wearing black gloves with white "x"-shaped marks on both the gloves and his forearms. Tensa Zangetsu's blade is now much longer (roughly the length of his shikai) and more curved as it nears the tip, with three protrusions along the blunt end of the sword close to its tip. While retaining its manji-like shape, the tusba becomes more curved and jagged. Tensa Zangetsu's chain is now longer, attacthing to both the base of the sword's hilt and to Ichigo's right glove, forming a wide loop.
Diz gazed at the boys new form, he had study many bankai's and all possesed something huge that the weilder commands. But the boy before him bankai was small, he was very curious on what the boys bankai could do.
"Impressive power boy." Diz said, a scowl was on his face a he looked at Ichigo. "But what do you plan to do with it when you can't kill me?"
"Your in this house somewhere you bastard." Ichigo growled out. "All I have to do is destroy this whole damn house!" he grin. "My blast will hit you, and your going to regret calling Namine a witch and saying I can't save my sisters from those bastards."
Diz eyes widen a fraction as a friece aura of black and red energy blasted around Ichigo's form and covered his zanpakuto. Waves of reiastu was waving around the white room, cracking the floors and walls around him. Ichigo had both hands on Tensa Zangetsu and was holding it in a tight grip.
"Kuroi..." the aura around Ichigo increase, creating a crater into the ground beneath his feet. His glare turn murderous as he looked into Diz's surprise eyes. "GETSUGA!" He thundered, the air rippling as his power pressed out against the world in all directions. "TENSHO!" Tensa Zangetsu sliced the with unstoppable force, a screaming, twisting ray of utter blackness in shape of a crescent moon darkened everything near it, eating away at the light that made up the room.
The unstoppable force of the Getsuga Tensho race foward, tearing up everything end its path. Diz eyes were wide with disbelief as the ray of darkness sped toward him. He couldn't believe that a boy his age could weild such power and not be consume by his darkness.
'Just what the hell is this boy?'
The Getsuga collided, and expanded, casuing a huge ray darkness and covering the whole area of where Diz was standing.
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End chapter
Author Notes: Never did a cilffhanger before, or thats what I thing it is. I really hope you like it and thanks for reading it. Chapter may be short but I promise this will be the only short chapter I have.
Tensa Zangetsu 17
signing out
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