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Disclaimer: I do not own bleach in any ways, Tite Kubo does. All that I own are just the storyline and the OC. I, too, do not own 'Aetherion', it is Hiro Mashima's.
Now, to the story...
The Change of History
Flashback
The crimson eyed female stood up and lifted her right hand so that she could reach Ichigo's face. As the orange haired teenager spaced out, Hikari touched his forehead with her index finger, knocked his spiritual body out of his physical one.
"Gah! I'll never get used to this," the orange haired one grumbled. The other teenager, however, didn't say a thing. Her crimson eyes were focused on Ichigo's reaction, though, there was nothing particular shown on his reaction.
"...w-what's this? I can feel a surge of energy running down inside my body..." he finally realized.
"That was...long. How come you didn't realize that up until now?" she sweatdropped.
"S-shut up! What did you do to me anyway?"
"...I restore some of your former powers and memories. It is about 25 percent, I think..." explained the girl.
"I-I see..." responded the male teenager, nervously.
"So, do you remember something about Aizen? Like his face, maybe?"
"Hmm...let's see," mumbled shinigami. There was a short pause before a groan can be hear, followed by a' right-eye-covering hand movement'. "Ugh...damn! My head hurts..."
"...do not push yourself too hard. You cannot remember those you have never met though..." said the crimson eyed girl, "But, you do remember about tonight, do not you?"
"Eh? Uh, sure..." he replied.
"Well, with your current power, you will be able to defeat the red haired shini – "
"It's Renji," interrupted the orange haired teenager.
The light-brown haired one sighed, "You never change, do you? Fine, you will be able to defeat Renji. The other man, however – "
"It's Byakuya," interrupted the orange haired teenager, again.
"Can't you – uh, sorry," she sighed, "You will not be able to defeat that 'Byakuya' easily, even though three-fourth of his powers are sealed away; he is a captain after all. Moreover, even with your full strength, you could not defeat him; you two fought evenly"
"Enough for the explanation, I think you said that we should hurry..." uttered Ichigo. After letting out a sigh, the shorter teenager jumped onto the taller one's back. The taller one then jumped out of his window, headed towards the place pointed by the shorter one.
End of Flashback
The orange haired teenager sighed, lifted his blood stained giant kitchen knife; pointed at the long black haired shinigami, and said, with a look of sadness in his eyes, "Your turn, eh? Kuchiki Byakuya..."
"Y-you...how could you know my name?" he asked back, distracted.
"It's no big deal. Now, release Rukia."
"S-stop it, Ichigo!" the black haired midget interfered, "He's my – "
"Step brother? I know that..." interrupted the orange haired one.
"...w-who are you. No, I should've asked, what are you?" inquired the other male shinigami.
"Me? I'm Kurosaki Ichigo, a substitute shinigami, as you know. Now, enough for the chit-chat, just release Rukia, or –"
"Or what? You're going to kill me? Don't make me laugh!" he uttered with a stoic face, half yelled.
"...or you'll be sorry."
With that said, Ichigo shunpoed, landed right on Byakuya's right, turned his body left, and swung his zangetsu horizontally, trying to cut the startled shinigami. Unfortunately, the startled shinigami managed to dodge the attack in the last split second, even though the attack did cut his right sleeve.
After shunpoed away, Byakuya unsheathed his zanpakuto, "...fine then. If this is what you want."
The captain then shunpoed – at an incredible speed –, landed on Ichigo's behind, and swung his zanpakuto diagonally: from upper right to the lower left. However, the dazed shinigami managed to miraculously block the attack.
"Senka, huh?" mumbled the orange haired teenager.
'H-how did he?' thought the blocked shinigami.
"Heh, it won't work twice on me."
'Twice he said?' he, again, thought as his slate grey eyes widened.
As soon as the slate grey eyed shinigami shunpoed away, the amber eyed one uttered, "Your tricks won't work on me anymore. Just give up already and hand over Rukia."
"Don't make me laugh. I haven't even started yet," uttered the stoic faced shinigami, arrogantly. He then put his right hand in front of his chest, vertically held his zanpakuto upwards.
"…Scatter, Senbonzakura."
The zanpakuto, surprisingly, began scattering, turned into hundreds of minute sword fragments. Very small that no ordinary creature could see the fragments, though, the light reflected made them as to appear as cherry blossoms. Without any warning, the cherry blossom like sword fragments rushed towards Ichigo. Fortunately, the attacked shinigami managed to dodge the shikai by shunpoing away.
"Senbonzakura…" mumbled the substitute shinigami, followed by a yell, "Oi, Byakuya, it's not the right time for us to fight each other! Right now, we have to –"
"Where does the spirit you showed me earlier go? …I see. You're afraid of my shikai, aren't you?" interrupted the slate grey eyed shinigami.
"Afraid of these stupid petals? No way!" replied Ichigo, 'What's with this bad feeling, anyway? It won't go away; in fact, it's getting worse…damn!'
"Very well. Then, I'll show you what these 'petals' can do. Be prepared, Kurosaki Ichigo!" uttered the captain-class shinigami as his shikai rushed towards Ichigo. As usual, the amber eyed shinigami managed to escape the fatal attack, landed behind the other shinigami, and swayed Zangetsu diagonally, trying to cut the shinigami. The slash, however, was blocked by hundreds of the petals, acted as a shield. Knowing his assault was a complete failure, Ichigo jumped back, preparing for his next attack. Nevertheless, before the jumping shinigami landed on the ground, hundreds of the cherry blossom like sword fragments had already rushed towards him, again. This time, being defenseless, the substitute shinigami turned his body and used the giant kitchen knife like zanpakuto as his shield. Though, Zangetsu couldn't block the attack perfectly, causing the petals to graze his left arm. As the substitute shinigami finally landed on the ground, the other shinigami aimed his left index finger towards the substitute one.
"Bakudou 61: Rukujyoukourou"
Six bars of light came out of nowhere, successfully sealed the strawberry's movement. As the substitute shinigami damn-ing, the shikai rushed towards him from three different directions, leaving him any other choice but to receive the attack. A loud groan of pain can be heard. The Byakuya named shinigami sealed his shikai away, assuming that our strawberry had been cut to ash.
"That's what happened if you overestimate yourself," said the stoic faced shinigami, emotionlessly.
"I-Ichigo!" exclaimed the black haired midget. The wind, however, blew away the dust, revealing a vague silhouette of a young man, holding a giant kitchen knife on his right hand.
"Getsuga…Tensho…"
A crescent moon shaped condensed spiritual energy flied towards the long black haired shinigami. As a respond of the yell, Byakuya turned his body, quickly blocked the attack with his zanpakuto. The crescent moon thing, however, was powerful; the blocking shinigami was pushed several meters away. Being too busy with the blocking, the captain class shinigami failed to realize the tremendous amount of reiatsu released by the floating orange haired shinigami. The once amber eyes turned silvery blue.
"Worst comin'," mumbled the now silvery blue eyed shinigami. A bigger condensed spiritual energy flied towards the other shinigami. Having no time to dodge, the slate grey eyed shinigami used all of his remaining power to block the attack. After being pushed several meters, he managed to stop the Getsuga Tensho thing. But again, he miserably failed to notice the presence behind him.
"Sayonara, Byakuya."
With that said, the blood soaked shinigami knocked Byakuya out. Just as a sigh of relieve released by the teenager, a vast amount of reiatsu was being released. A middle-featured man with a brown scholarly hair wearing square glasses came out of a slide door, similar to the one Ichigo saw earlier. He then clapped his hands and smiled menacingly.
"Bravo, Kurosaki Ichigo."
"A-Aizen…" muttered the orange haired teenager as he turned his body and saw the smiling shinigami. Another stream of memory seemed to have entered his mind.
"Ai…zen? So, this is him. The man who will bring chaos upon the three worlds…" mumbled the light-brown haired teenager.
"Aizen-taichou…" murmured the black haired midget. The substitute shinigami, however, tightened his grip on Zangetsu and dashed towards Aizen, trying to cut the standing shinigami with a single vertical slash. Unexpectedly, the brown haired didn't unsheathe his zanpakuto, instead, he lifted his left hand and stopped the attack, successfully surprised the two other teenager watching from afar. With a single leap, he threw the orange haired shinigami away.
'What the?' thought the thrown teenager as he used his 1.75 m zanpakuto as a lever, trying to get up. Being persistent, he, once again, dashed towards the brown haired shinigami and launched another futile attack, which was blocked easily by only using a hand. Feeling threatened, the attacking shinigami jumped back immediately, perfectly dodge the blow launched by the other shinigami.
"Not bad, I must say. Looks like that you have retrieve some of your powers," said the shinigami wearing a white haori with number 5 imprinted on it. Though, upon hearing the words, the light-brown haired schoolgirl widened her crimson eyes.
'The way he spoke...no. It is impossible; it had to be mere random words,' thought the girl, 'This is weird though, I cannot read his mind. Whatis this man?'
The implied man then smiled, menacingly of course, and uttered, "Me? I'm just a mere shinigami. The name is Sosuke Aizen, the captain of the 5th division," he then gripped the hilt of his sheathed zanpakuto, "My zanpakuto is –"
"Kyoka Suigetsu, right?" half whispered the orange haired shinigami who successfully shunpoed without being realized and stopped Aizen from unsheathing his zanpakuto. The stoic expression on the other shinigami's face disappeared; instead, the more startled one appeared. However, effortlessly, the startled shinigami once again threw the other shinigami away. Being used to be thrown away, the thrown shinigami landed on the ground safely this time. His reiatsu then increased dramatically.
"Getsuga Ten –"
Just before the words finished, the brown haired shinigami had landed right in front of the orange haired one and, using his right hand, launched a painful blow right at the target's abdomen, causing the other shinigami to spewed blood. Nevertheless, before the amber eyed one was able to retrieve his balance and launched a counterattack, the captain-class shinigami had already turned his body and grabbed him by his head, crushed his head to the ground.
"D-damn..." mumbled the defeated shinigami right before he passed out. The Watcher, however, just stood there, watching all the commotion without even doing anything. Aizen then smiled and walked slowly towards the startled violet eyed midget. He then strangled the midget, lifted her to the air, and with a strange device, he successfully separated the Hougyoku from the midget's soul. Being useless, the unconscious teenager was thrown away heartlessly.
"Finally...from now on, I'll –"
"Ice Pillar"
Just before the brown haired shinigami finished his words, a circle of ice formed on the ground and froze all within it. Unexpectedly, the circle expanded upwards, forming a pillar of ice, successfully trapped the brown eyed shinigami in it. The pillar formed was similar to Rukia's First Dance.
"My, my. Whom were you attacking at?" said a voice behind the caster of the spell.
Startled by the voice, Hikari immediately turned her body. A man, a brown haired one, was standing there, unharmed.
"Watchers aren't allowed to be involved if I'm not mistaken," continued the brown haired one.
'H-how does he – '
"Well, it doesn't matter though. Your power is nothing to be afraid of," uttered the smiling shinigami, "Now, die."
The shinigami quickly drew his zanpakuto and slashed the floating girl diagonally. However, the slash was blocked by an unseen force.
"Barrier, huh?" mumbled the brown haired one. He suddenly realized something; It was when he was about to draw back his sword. He couldn't move his body; his hands, his feet, even his mouth. The only thing he could do is to move his brown eyes.
'W-what's this?' thought him.
"Got you," mumbled the girl as she began chanting an incantation, a long and intricate one.
'Th-this is! Impossible! A time spell?'
"With the exchange of my time, I beg you, The Time Guardian, who control the time, to seal away his existence."
'Impossible...'
"Aetherion"
Some complicated symbols formed around the disabled shinigami, revolving around him before then wrap him. Being left without any other choice, the brown haired one could only grieved over his negligence and miscalculation. Several seconds later, a luminous light had already covered all of his body. The light then shrank into a small orb of light before finally dissolved.
"With this, the history has changed and The Fall could be delayed..." mumbled the worn out crimson eyed teenager weakly before finally ran out of energy and fell onto the ground.
Translation
Shunpo: Flash step
Zanpakuto: Soul slayer
Senka: Literally, flash blossom. A special Shunpo technique where one moves to their opponent's back, directly attacking and sealing one's energy flow
Shikai: First release. The first form of zanpakutos
Reiatsu: Spirit pressure
Taicho: Captain
As some of you may know, Aetherion is the most powerful magic in Rave by Hiro Mashima. It can even control the time and space. So, I decided to use it as the time magic used by Hikari. xD
(Though, honestly, I can't think of any other name lol =p)
As usual, review please~ XD
Thanks for reading ^^
-XiN-