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Flashback!
Chapter 2
Changes
Ichigo P.O.V
I had to watch as Uryuu, Chad, Orihime and Rukia all got close to Karin and Yuzu. I was truly happy that they were friends, but I felt the lose keenly. It was if someone had taken my heart and held it out of reach. I felt more alone than ever. Now the day had come for Rukia to leave the world of the living. It was going to be an interesting night.
I prepare myself as I wait on a roof across from where the senkaimon stands open. I watch as Rukia follows Renji and Byakuya to the senkaimon. My heart stops in place as I watch the scene. I reach up and hold the pendant as my heart throbbed painfully. Seeing them was too much for my broken heart.
Karin and Yuzu appear and confront Byakuya. Renji fights the girls causing light wounds. As had happened before to me, Byakuya takes Rukia's power from the girls and wounds them badly and severs their chain. Karin reaches for Byakuya, she must have the same stubborn streak as me. Rukia warns the girls to not come after her, I know for a fact they will. Byakuya leaves through the senkaimon with Renji and a silent Rukia. Heaving the girls onto my shoulders I head to Urahara's shoten.
Third Person P.O.V
Urahara looks up as a blur runs into one of his back rooms. Following it back he finds Ichigo tucking Karin and Yuzu into beds, while using healing kido on them. Ichigo sighs as he heals the girls. 'Why couldn't they be more careful?' he wonders to himself. Urahara walks up to Ichigo. "What happened Ichigo?" Ichigo turns and rubs the back of his neck. "Byakuya got them bad. They no longer have Rukia's soul reaper powers."
"I'm guessing that you already know that they have their own powers that were awakened by Rukia's powers then?" Urahara asks the young soul reaper. Ichigo smirks and answers, "Of course, but I will restore their power, not you. As much as I like Shiro, I don't think that the girls could handle having an inner hollow." Urahara nods and watches as Ichigo hand begins to glow purple and then he watches as the white robes of the girls turn back into soul reaper robes, along with the appearance of their zanpakto.
Ichigo turns to Urahara. "You can still train them of course, they need the name of their zanpakto, but I helped them with that slightly. I'm guessing when they wake up they will have their names. Don't forget, just ten days. Start the senkaimon preparations." Urahara stood there surprised. Even though he knew that Ichigo came from the future he still finds it weird how he knows exactly what is going to happen.
Ichigo P.O.V
I watched over my sisters while they slept. I couldn't shake the feeling of loneliness I had gotten when I had seen him again. Even though it had been years since the death of my lover, I still missed my Bya-koi. I still missed him and seeing him again sent a pang of sadness straight to my heart. He will see me as a stranger. I won't even be the same person he fell in love with in my past. Then again, I knew this when I agreed to come to the past. My heart and soul have been dead and buried since the day he died.
I look beside me, Byakuya is still fine, thank goodness. Aizen in front of us swings his blade we dodge and shunpo closer for a good hit on Aizen. All of a sudden Aizen appears behind Byakuya. I could do nothing as I saw Aizen pierce Byakuya through the heart. I could hear nothing as Byakuya fell to the ground. Then I hear a piercing scream, it was me. My mask covered my face and my scream turned into a hollows roar. Then I black out. When I come to, Aizen is retreating from the battle field with a huge cut across his chest and I am kneeling on the ground beside Byakuya. A smile graced his face. "Ichi-Ichigo, I...lo-love yo-u...forever and...always..." I watched as Byakuya vanished into the air. I screamed and sobbed my eyes out. I could feel my heart breaking in my chest.
Third Person P.O.V
Karin groggily woke up and shook Yuzu awake. Urahara grins and stands up. "How are you feeling?" Karin glares at him and suddenly remembers Rukia, she left! Yuzu looks at Karin and realises that her twin just remembered what happened. "We are fine Urahara-san. But we have to go get Rukia, this man called Byakuya took her to the soul society to be executed." Yuzu answers him. "Well, I can open a way into the soul society, but it takes ten days to set up. As we work on that, we have to train you so that Byakuya doesn't hurt you again." Urahara looks at Karin and notices the determined look in her eye. "Sure Urahara-san."
Ichigo listened to the conversation and then he went down to the training grounds and found a nice place to watch the training without getting seen be his sisters. He watches as the girls descend into the training grounds with their zanpakto.
Karin and Yuzu spent the first day meditating and talking with their zanpakto and at the end of the day they had the names of their zanpakto. Karin stood up and then called out in a loud voice, "Blaze the skies, Sanjutsu!" Suddenly the two katanas become two nodachi with a serrated edge and they were made of pure flames. Then Yuzu stands up and shouts at the top of her voice, "Freeze the seas, Kanjutsu!" Her two katanas become a shield made of a strong metal and ice, and her second katana becomes a blade of ice that is shaped as a half a circle, with the blade as the curved edge and the straight side was where you held the big weapon.
They got their techniques quickly and spent the rest of the time training their stamina and strength and speed. Yorichi trained Orihime and Chad as they got their powers off of Karin and Yuzu. Meanwhile Ichigo trained with Hanako. Her true power which Aizen never got a chance to use was that she becomes a zanpakto too. As opposed to other zanpakto, she just increased strength, speed, agility and stamina.
"Blossom, Hanako." Ichigo muttered, pulling a knife that was hidden at the base of his neck. Hanako flashes and becomes a flower hair piece that ties Ichigo's long hair in place in a ponytail. It is certainly an odd shikai. Then Ichigo calls, "Blossom dance in the wind." Ichigo runs forward, faster than ever before. 'Well apparently this shikai technique increases speed.' Ichigo concludes.
The training for everyone carried on for the next few days with Ichigo, Karin and Yuzu becoming stronger and stronger. Orihime and Chad becoming better at their techniques. Even Uryuu trained so that he can get better and hopefully help Karin and Yuzu. Not that he'd ever admit to that if anyone asked though. Soon time came for Karin, Yuzu, Uryuu, Orihime and Chad to go to the soul society. As well as an unseen tag along, called Ichigo.
Ichigo P.O.V
As the girls fell out of the dangai, I went to wait for the girls at the gate. I watch with a smirk as Karin fends off Jidanbo with her zanpakto. She is quite strong, but the girls are stronger together. As Jidanbo opens the gate I run inside using a Omnitsukido technique.
When all the rest of the soul reapers had gone and Gin was about to leave I stepped out from the shadows. "Gin Ichimaru. We need to talk, about Aizen." Gin turns around and looks at me with his eyes open, the clear blue searched mine. "Lead the way, Orange." I prickle at the strange nickname, but I lead the way to an abandoned house.
As I explain to Gin all the things Aizen will do and how I am from the future, he gets paler and paler. "...and even though you find out how to avoid Aizen's zanpakto powers, he kills you without a thought, without mercy." I finish. Gin looks shocked, well, as much as Gin can. "Rangiku still loves you, she always has. Don't let yourself be separated from her because you want revenge. I will get you your revenge. I have a lot Aizen needs to account for. Your not the only one that needs to get revenge for a loved one." Gin closes his eyes again as he digests all the information. "How do you know you can trust me with all this, Ichigo?" Gin asks me. "Simple," I reply, "You were there for me."
Third Person P.O.V
Gin watched as the kid with fiery red hair prepared to sleep in the old house. Ichigo had told him to make his own way out. Gin was surprised and angry, very angry. He heard all the stories of the future, or Ichigo's past rather. He had always thought that Aizen was power hungry, but going as far as he did, or will do, is just insanity. Some of the things Ichigo had told him made him shiver-he, the always slightly sadistic one, shivered- he would leave it to the kid. The haunted look in his eyes, the one that said, "I lost everything," made Gin sure that Ichigo could handle it.
At the same time Ichigo was readying himself for following the girls the next day. The battle between Kenpachi and the battle with Renji. Meanwhile the girls were meeting a certain loud-mouthed Shiba and his sister. Karin took an instant dislike to the cannon idea, but then again, her control over her reiatsu sucked worse than Ichigo's used to be. Yuzu found this hilarious and laughed at her sister as she tried to make the bubble work in the practice room.
Ichigo P.O.V
I shifted as the heavy reiatsu of Kenpachi entered my senses, I could smell the scent of blood from here. Years of battle will do that to you. I hop up and jump out the window and head towards Kenpachi and most definitely the battle between him and my sisters. On the way I could tell that something was up, someone's reiatsu was getting weaker. I head in the direction and I find Uryuu and Mayuri in the middle of their battle.
As I watch the fight I know what is going to happen but I don't want Uryuu losing his powers. In my past he was sad about losing his powers, even though he never said so, I could tell. I stood up on the roof and sent a sleeping kido to Mayuri, Nemu, Orihime and Uryuu. I pick up both Orihime and Uryuu and head to where Hanatarou was.
I leap across the buildings towards Byakuya's, Karin's and Yuzu's reiatsu signatures. I watch as my brave little sisters confront Byakuya again. I watch until I am certain everything went like last time. I have a strange sense of foreboding. Suddenly I hear my voice whispered, like a quite breeze, 'Ichigo...' I turn my head as I look around for the person who called, but I could see no-one. I dismiss the thought and I return to planning the next part of the plan. I head up to Sokyoku Hill to find a place to wait, to train as I wait for the morning of the execution.
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