((AN: Sorry for the long update. Usually I write more when I'm sick (which I have been for the past week) but all I have been doing is reading. I have a plan to at LEAST update some of my stories…well…that's the plan))
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or xxxHolic.
Later that night, two of our favorite shinigami decided to go patrolling, and no one of them is not Ichigo.
"Nothing." Ikkaku muttered.
"Well, what were you expecting?"
"SOMETHING!"
"Hmm, nope just a lot of nothing." Yumichika said, looking around.
"No hollows, no wing-ed things." Ikkaku muttered, sitting on a roof, "I'm bored."
Yumichika just shrugged and stood beside him.
Ikkaku grinned, "So what do you think of your Initiate clone?"
"What do you think of her?"
"I asked first."
Yumichika sighed, "A hideous pest."
Ikkaku grinned at his friends' troubled face.
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Sneeze.
"Someone is talking about you." Dolf sang out. Dai sent the two out on a daring mission, to go to the corner store and get pop and munchies. Of course Zidyl just skipped along bugging Dolf, and Dolf retaliated as much as he could before actually going into the store. When the objects of their mission were collected the two started off back home.
"Sure whatever." Zidyl said, as she started singing along with a song she was listening to from her ipod.
"Tonight's the night I'll dance like no one's watching, And I'll sing a song like no body is listening, Cause I'm just that drunk and heartaches blurred my vision, ain't it fun? I can't stop laughing" she sang while skipping away from Dolf.
"HEY! Where are you going?"
"I can't stop laughing."
"I think Zidyl looooost her miiiiiind!"
"I can't stop laughing."
"Okay wait up!"
"I'm not even happy!"
Wuggles poked his head out of Dolf's collar and looked over to his right, and bristled.
"Where the hell did you come from?"
Wuggles let out a low growl, which sounded cute coming from such a small creature. Oh sure it would be more terrifying when he's in his bigger form.
"Yeah I know Zidyl's singing is terrible."
"What was that?!" Zidyl yelled, turning around and removing a head phone from one of her ears.
Wuggles seemed to be glaring in Zidyl's directing.
"Oh nothing, just your pipe fox agrees that you should never sing again cuz you suck!" Dolf yelled back.
"Like yours is any better barf head."
"Better than yours!"
Zidyl heard a crack and looked over on her left (Dolf's right), right when the fence the two were beside broke apart.
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"You hear that?"
"A Hollow?"
"Pretty much, time to have some fun!"
The two raced to where they heard the Hollow, to see an interesting sight. Zidyl was sitting looking at the Hollow with surprise; she was knocked over from the initial blast as the Hollow charged the fence. Dolf stood not to far away from her with an equal look of surprise.
Whats so surprising? It's like they've never seen a Hollow…Yumichika thought, until he saw what they were actually staring at.
The Hollow was not attacking them; it was trying to escape the hold of one of those wing things. Yumichika watched as the serpent like Hollow slithered and wiggled, screeching as loud as it could while the wing thing, Ko is what she called it, had its tendrils wrapped around.
"EXCELLENT! A Hollow and one of those wings things, this day just got better!" Ikkaku said with a grin on his face, obviously now having the time of his life.
Of course, things don't necessarily go according to plan, for you see the Hollow managed to get up, and dart off down the street screeching all the way. The Ko took chase as the two shinigami landed by the initiates. One pair looked at the other pair, and then the two pairs darted after.
"Why is one chasing a Hollow? They have no hearts." Yumichika said.
"I dunno, maybe the Hollow managed to piss it off?" Zidyl said half heartedly.
The chase led them by a park, where Dolf and Zidyl stopped, "Well, that's that." Dolf said.
"Whats what?" Ikkaku asked.
"We don't need to worry about the Hollow now, or the Ko. The protecting spirit of this area will handle them."
"Are you serious?!" Ikkaku all but yelled at the two initiates.
"Pretty much," Zidyl said, "don't try and interfere or you'll end up on its menu to."
Ikkaku scoffed and made to move forward, towards the two struggling forms. Only to be halted when he saw what looked like smoke beginning to come out of the trees and ground. It seemed to concentrate in one spot to form the shape of a black frog, the frog turned it attention to the two struggling creatures. Then in a flash it flicked its tongue out and caught the Ko, which it dragged screeching into its mouth. The Hollow looked relieved for a moment, only to realize who its rescuer was. The Hollow tried to slither away, only to get caught by its tongue and dragged back into its cavernous mouth.
Now to say that Ikkaku was not seething with anger was an understatement. He charged at the Frog, only to have it turn to him and launch its tongue. Ikkaku dodged, and swiped his sword cutting off its tongue. The Frog let out an unearthly scream and leaped backward. Ikkaku was about to strike it, but Zidyl grabbed him and dragged him out of the park.
"What do you think your doing?!"
"What did it look like?!"
As the two seethed at each other, Yumichika sighed and Dolf smacked his hand over his face.
"That spirit as been here for god knows how long! It's probably the only reason anything here is growing! And I know for a fact that some of the plants here hold a pure essence!" Zidyl ranted.
"SO?! Then we'll just get the Rukia chick to konso it and send it to a happy after life!" Ikkaku ranted back.
"YOU CAN'T! It's tied to this land when it died! It wants to protect it! If it leaves then the plants will die!"
"So?!"
"You can't!"
Yumichika sighed again, "So this is generally the one main argument between Crimson and Soul Reapers."
"Pretty much, you guys spend most of your time sending spirits away, while Crimson works at keeping them here."
((AN: MAN! This took longer than I though. I would like to thank Smirnoff, for without it this chapter would not have made it out. And I'm sorry if it's short, but this is where I would like it to end so I can start plotting out the next.))