Shinzo-Yay! New chapter, new chapter!!
Ichigo-Really Shinzo, you can't be related to me in any way.
Shinzo-No King, no I'm not. That would be like…incest…err something…EW
Grimmjow-Yeah, then I'd be able to steal him.
Shinzo-Aw, I got ta King before Kitty-boy did.
Ichigo-Does anyone find it a bit weird that the Author isn't cutting us off by now to start the story?
Grimm and Shiro- NOPE!
Ichigo-.:sigh:. How come I'm always put with the idiots?
Chapter 7
Flash. Click…..giggle….
Ichigo desperately tried to focus on his homework.
Flash. Click…..giggle….
Ichigo growled and faced a different direction. He heard scuffling behind him.
Flash. Click…..giggle….
"THAT'S IT!!" He pounced on the panther.
"HEY!! THAT'S MINE!!"
"GIVE IT UP!"
"NEVER!" Bite. "OW!!" Ichigo went back to his desk, the annoying object successfully in hand. "WHAT THE HELL?! YOU BIT ME?!"
"Yeah I did. Now shut up and let me finish my homework."
"I want that fucking Camera!"
"Nope. The camera's over-stayed its welcome." He heard a growl from behind him.
"Fine. Will you give me the camera back if I go take pictures somewhere else?" Ichigo turned his head and eyed him suspiciously.
"And how do I know you'll do that?"
"Because I really want that camera back."
'Aw King, let the poor Kitty have his toy back.' Ichigo mentally smirked.
"We should get him a ball of yarn.'
'Way ahead of ya. Look in the closet. I found it in your sister's room.'
'And what were you doing in there.'
'Putting Kon in Ms. Fluff.'
'…..what?'
'The big, pink, frilly Unicorn thing that Yuzu has.'
'Oh, that's harsh.'
"Hmm…I don't think I'll let you have it back yet."
"WHAT THE HELL?! WHY NOT!?" Ichigo didn't answer as he walked over to his closet. He could hear Shinzo snickering in his head. He opened the doors and found a large, teal blue ball of average-sized yarn. Oh was this going to be fun.
"Grimm, come here for a second."
"You gonna give me my camera?"
"Maybe." Grimmjow came up behind him.
"Alright wha-" He was cut off as he was slammed in the stomach by an unknown object. He fell back onto the ground. "WHAT THE…." He looked down to see what hit him, and a sparkle came to his eye. "FUCKING AWESOME!!" Ichigo fell on to the ground laughing as Grimmjow pounced on the unsuspecting yarn ball. He even got a headache when Shinzo couldn't contain his laughter, but he was so caught up in the moment that he didn't notice.
Until it was time to get up.
"Ow…Hehehe…ow ow ow…Hehehe…fucking funny…ow ow ow…" He slowly and painfully crawled back over to his desk. Grimmjow was still playing with a ball of yarn.
20 minutes later…
"Uh…Hey….Ichi?"
"It must be important if you called be my name. Yeah?"
"Could you…uh…maybe…help? Just a little…"
"Why the hell are you acting…so…timid…" Ichigo trailed off as he turned around. "Grimm."
"Yeah."
"Please. Please. Tell me I'm not dreaming."
"You're not dreaming. I really, really wish you were."
"You just asked for my help."
"Yes."
"You're sitting there, completely and utterly defeated."
"Unfortunately."
"By a yarn ball!" Cue another fit of uncontrollable laughter. Grimmjow was sitting on Ichigo's bed, looking like a rushed Christmas wrapping. Covered in head to toe in teal blue yarn. And growling. There was lots of growling.
"Can you just get your ass over here and untangle me?!"
'KING! TIE A BOW ON 'IS 'EAD!! DO IT NOW!!'
'You don't have to tell me twice.' Just as suggested, Ichigo walked over to Grimmjow, who sighed in relief when he thought he was getting rescued. But a couple seconds later, he groaned.
There was an Ichigo styled bow on his head. Said Ichigo was laughing, walking to his desk.
"Wait! Where are you going?! GET ME UNTIED! HEY!"
"Don't worry Grimmjow. I'm just giving you a taste of your own medicine. The only way I would think you wouldn't like it." He picked the camera up from the desk.
"You wouldn't."
"Wouldn't I?" He held up the camera.
"You planned this didn't you?!"
"No, but it sure turned out well, didn't it?" Grimmjow furiously tried to untie himself, or at least move out of the camera's way. He couldn't move at all. "Say cheese Grimm."
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Flash. Click. "AUGH!!"
"Hmm. We should probably get a couple angles for good measure." Flash. Click. Move. Flash. Click. Move. By now Grimmjow was blinded. Shinzo was laughing so hard that even Ichigo was starting to feel his lungs cramp from the lack of breath. After about eight different angles and even more pictures, Ichigo finally decided that the punishment was enough and put the camera back on his desk.
"So, Grimmjow. I might untie you now. But only if you swear it, right here and now, that you will not attack me upon getting free."
"LIKE HELL!!" Ichigo turned and started walking back to his desk. "OK! FINE! No killing Ichigo. I swear."
"No attacking Ichigo." He growled.
"No attacking Ichigo."
"Swear?"
"Swear."
"Alright then." The yarn was undone and Grimmjow stretched his aching limbs. Ichigo finally walked back over to his desk to get his homework done. But fate, as always, was against him.
CRASH!
"What the hell?" Grimmjow pointed to Ichigo's Hollow alarm. Ichigo scowled. "You had something to do with this, didn't you?"
"How the hell would I possibly do that?! You really that dumb, brat?" His scowl grew.
"Whatever." Still mulling over his foiled plans, Ichigo exited out of his real body, and jumped toward the Hollow menace without a second glance.
He arrived upon a…mutated version of a Wolf Hollow. Or, that's the best way to describe the thing. Unfortunately, not soon after he brought his sword down upon the Hollow's mask, successfully slaying it, did he find himself surrounded. More and more were coming by the second. All of them seemed to be after him.
Not one was even second glancing the surrounding humans.
Putting aside the strange thoughts for now, he focused solely on fighting. But, for every Hollow he destroyed, it seemed like two more would soon come to take its place. There were so much by now, that he could barely feel Renji and Rukia when they started fighting. So far away.
He felt Grimmjow, Uryu, Inoue, Chad, Urahara and his crew all fighting also. They didn't seem to be having as much trouble as he was.
He was brought back from his thoughts when a Hollow from behind slashed through his right shoulder. He cursed himself for getting distracted and made quick work of the thing. He started getting desperate. Firing Getsuga Tensho at the ones in the sky and his movements becoming erratic.
'King! Let me take over! There's too many!'
'NO! I can handle this!'
'Yer bein' dumb! Let me fight! Ya know ya can trust me now!'
'SHUT UP! I know that!'
'Then let me fight!' By now, Ichigo was covered head to toe in bruises and cuts. They were getting braver. Moving closer. Ichigo was having a VERY hard time keeping an eye on all of them at once.
'KING!'
'Shut up!' One slashed at his leg. He barely avoided a fatal wound from another. The more Ichigo killed, the more erratic and tired his moves became. It was taking more then one hit to take them out now. Shinzo was desperately trying to get control, without halting Ichigo's movements any more then they are.
'Please King! Yer not going to win! LET ME HELP!'
'NO! I'm not going to loose!' He was hit again.
'KING! BEHIND YOU!' There was no time. The Hollow's arm went straight through his stomach. His lungs filled with blood and his mind went numb.
'ICHIGO!' Shinzo took over right away.
He barely had time to escape through a portal into Hueco Mundo, before falling unconscious.
Dammit! Grimmjow sliced through one Hollow after another. They barley paid any attention to him. The only ones that did were the ones that were right beside the ones he killed. No screams or attacking. Just glances. But for everyone he slew, more appeared around him. He wasn't getting anywhere. He could still see Ichigo's house.
The kid runs out and there just has to be a hollow that pops up, blocking him from me. Just HAS to be. Why Ichigo didn't turn around when he felt the hollow, Grimmjow didn't know. Unless…
Did he even feel the thing? He tried searching for their reiatsu. Nothing. None of them have any trace of sensible reiatsu what so ever.
What the hell is going on here? What baffled him even more is that Ichigo's reiatsu disappeared. Soon after, the Hollow left. Every single one of them. He was left standing there, baffled, trying to come up with a reasonable theory as to why the hell that just happened.
It didn't work.
Shinzo awoke with a pounding headache. Most of the wounds were already healed, he noticed pleasantly. Just the one on his shoulder, and his stomach were still healing.
Wait…
Sand…sky…wounds on his body…
"WHAT THE HELL?!" He jumped up, ignoring the throbbing pain it caused. He was still out. Still in control of Ichigo's body.
'King?' He didn't hear an answer. 'King? Ichigo? Come on, answer me!' He heard a groan. A groan…that wasn't inside his head. He looked down.
Ichigo was laying; face down, with Shinzo standing on top of him.
"Shit!" He immediately jumped off, landing on his butt beside Ichigo when his body sent a wave of pain at him. Ichigo lifted his face from the sand and started coughing, desperately trying to replace the sand in his lungs with air. Shinzo was in a state of complete and utter mental breakdown.
"OH! I get it! This must be a dream! Then why are we in Hueco Mundo?"
"Shinzo?" The Hollow turned back toward his King.
"Yes?"
"How are you here?" Pause. Rewind. Play back.
"How are you here?" A dream wouldn't ask that. He pinched himself. It hurt. He pinched himself again, for good measure. It hurt worse.
"How…am…I here?" He stuttered out, intelligently.
"I just asked you that." Ichigo looked just as dumbfounded as he was. So, he did what he always did when stumped. Turned to…
'ZANGETSU!!' Said conscience groaned.
'How can I help you?'
'WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?!'
'If you would stop yelling and think, you could probably figure it out. But no, you have to come to me.'
'Yes. Now talk.'
'Alright, alright. As you know, most Vizard have a servant and master relationship, correct?'
'Yeah.'
'And you know that you and Ichigo don't, correct?'
'Yeah.'
'Apparently your minds were unstable. They weren't used to your kinds of relationships. So when you saved him that last time, and took the wounds for him, your minds collapsed under the pressure, and split themselves to keep both intact.'
'So…we're two different people now?'
'If you can really say people, then yes. But, I'm not sure as to if it's a temporary thing or not. It might just be until both of your minds are adjusted to the new idea.'
"YES!!" Ichigo was shocked out of his pondering by Shinzo's shout. Seemingly from out of nowhere.
"What the hell?!" Shinzo practically skipped in joy over to Ichigo and grabbed his shoulders, shaking them happily.
"I 'ave good news. I 'ave good news." He sang, in his own little world of his.
"Wha-at…g-good… news...?" Ichigo said, around Shinzo's shaking. He stopped soon after.
"Well ya see, I was talkin' ta Zangetsu an' we came up with a conclusion."
'You mean I told you.' "You mean he told you." Zangetsu and Ichigo said simultaneously, both oblivious to the other. Shinzo groaned, deciding to ignore Zangetsu and re-focused on Ichigo.
"That's mean King, dun ya have any confidence in yer loyal…err…what is there besides a servant?" Ichigo blinked.
"Why don't you just say servant?" Shinzo smirked.
"Thought ya dun want me to?" Ichigo's scowl grew.
"You know what I mean."
"Well then, if you be quiet I can tell you." He ignored Ichigo's glare and continued. "Our minds dun like us bein' all intimate like," Ichigo blushed, "with each other, so they pushed us apart. Either it's permanent or our minds are gonna grow used to it and pull us back together. FUN HUH?"
Ichigo stood dumbfounded as Shinzo danced around the endless sands of Hueco Mundo. (AN: I think this sentence describes Ichi and Shinzo's relationship EXACTLY!)
Grimmjow was panicking. Him and a search group of EVERY SINGLE PERSON that knows Ichigo was working to the point of exhaustion to find said boy.
He'll never admit that he looked out for the kid, but come on, it was as plain as day. Grimmjow knew he was straight, but hat doesn't mean he can't worry about the kid like…like an older brother or something.
Hehehe…older brother…
NOT IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW! Grimmjow leaves the park for what seems like the thousandth time that night. Everyone besides him and Renji had collapsed or had to go in for the night to not worry their parents. The search has been going on since noon.
It was 9:30 the next morning. Almost a whole day now. Grimmjow still can't stop looking. He passes by Renji again.
Renji stopped asking the panther why he was concerned about the seventh time they passed. This was the 38th. They both looked grimly at each other. Actually stopping. Renji looked like he was about to faint, while Grimmjow looked about ready to kill something.
"No luck?"
"Goes without saying."
They both groaned. Renji took the time to fall back, still breathing heavily. Grimmjow sat down with him.
"Where….where the hell…cou…could he have gone?"
"If I knew that I'd already be there looking…" Grimmjow had a stroke of genius. "Be there…That portal that opened…"
"Did you find something out?!" Renji apparently had rush of adrenaline and shot up, jumping to his feet.
"Hueco Mundo." Both their eyes widened at the new voice. Two blonds, a guy and a girl, step from the nearby trees, scowls on their faces to mask their worry.
"Who the hell are you?!"
"And how do you know about Ichigo?"
"That's what we've come here to say. We're going to need your help. In retrieving him." Grimmjow and Renji brace themselves, preparing for the worst.
Virtual self-serve cookies for anyone who can find out who their guests are…but really…it's not that hard…