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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Hollow/Zanpakuto Talking"

"Hollow/Zanpakuto Thinking"

AN: Sorry it took so long to update but it was hard producing the chap so hopefully you all can forgive me, please?

Chapter Two: The Storms Call

Ryu sighed as he stretched his back and looked at the clock behind the counter "Alright I'm heading out now Boss!" he shouted to the owner of the convenience store.

"Right, see you on your next shift!" The owner called back as Ryu left the store yawning.

'Ugh, I can't wait to fall asleep.' He thought to himself as he walked through the darkened streets on his way home 'I still can't shake the feeling that something is going to happen though.' Turning the corner he froze, there was his home, with a gigantic hole in the wall, Yuzu was on the street, slightly bloodied, Isshin had claw like wounds on his back, and Ichigo was standing wearing what looked like to be a black formal males kimono and had a giant sword strapped to his back his back turned to Ryu talking with a girl who wore a white robe talking with her. Ryu's eye twitched "WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK IS GOING ON!" He shouted in a mixture of anger, frustration, and confusion announcing his presence to Ichigo and the girl who turned to stare at him "YOU BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD EXPLANATION ICHIGO OR I SWEAR I WILL TAKE THAT SWORD AND SHOVE SO FAR UP YOUR ASS YOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN WILL FEEL IT!" Ichigo began to sweat a little as Ryu began to advance on him while the girl stared at him in shock "Well, I'm WAITING!"

"Well it's like this see," Ichigo began explaining what happened as Ryu began to tap his foot.

"So what you're saying is that midget here," Ryu said pointing at an irritated Rukia "Is a shinigami that hunts Hollows and sends souls to heaven pretty much," Ichigo nodded "Then she did some kind of spell on you locking your arms and legs," another nod "and then you heard a roar from one of these supposed Hollows and she went to go kill it when Karin appeared and said something was attacking everyone and collapsed," another nod "Than you broke the spell, attacked the Hollow, both of you got your asses kicked due to Ichigo's stupidity," a reluctant nod "than midget here gave you here powers to slay the Hollow, which you did, only she meant to give you half of her powers only for your greedy ass to take all of it, does that sum it up?" They both nod as Ryu crosses his arms closes his eyes and breathes deeply before kicking Ichigo straight in the face sending him tumbling back "YOU SIR ARE A MORON! YOU HEAR ME A MORON!" Ryu shouted as he advanced on Ichigo cracking his knuckles "And here is going to be what happens, you both are going to help me make sure they all are alright, then I'm gonna go to sleep, than tomorrow after school Ichigo, we are going to spar." Ryu began to smile evilly as Ichigo almost cried when Rukia suddenly appeared in front of him and held up and object that exploded in a poof of smoke and a ducks head appeared on a spring, Ryu stared at her "Was that supposed to do something?" he asked irritated.

Rukia blinked and tried again only for it not to work again "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS THING! YOUR SUPPOSED TO COLLAPSE AND HAVE YOUR MEMORIES REPLACED!" Rukia shouted in frustration throwing the object down and stomped on it.

Ryu sighed "Complain later first aid assistance now." He ordered as he moved off to check Yuzu and pulled a first aid kit out of his duffel bag while Ichigo dragged Rukia to check his father 'Who knows, maybe when I wake up in the morning this will have all turned out be be a bad dream.' He thought to himself hopefully.

Next Morning

Orihime Inoue yawned as she stared up at the ceiling zoning out "Hey your mouth is hanging out!" Tatsuki Arisawa warned "You're too young to be zoning out."

Orihime started and looked up at her friend "Tatsuki-chan." She responded startled "Ichigo sure is late."

Tatsuki blinked "Huh," she responded dumbly "You were just thinking about Ichigo weren't you?"

"N-no I wasn't!" Orihime protested waving her arms wildly in denial.

"I don't know what you see in that guy." Tatsuki stated "I mean he's always frowning and all that."

"Oh like your old crush on Ryu was any better Ikitou(1)." Her cousin Raiden Arisawa teased lightly grinning at her as she blushed, he was sixteen with same spiky black hair as his cousin only his was slightly longer and light brown eyes with a solid martial artist build standing around 5'8" "I mean all he did was lay a smack down onto you when you got cocky."

"S-shut up!" Tatsuki ordered as she fought down a blush.

"They might not be coming in today," Mizuiro Kojima, a friend of the pairs "When I went by this morning they had a huge hole in their house, apparently a drunk driver rammed into their house and drove off."

"WHAT!" Tatsuki shouted in shock "Are they alright!"

A book bag bopped the top of her head catching her attention to see the two godbrothers standing side by side with Ichigo having his normal scowl while Ryu was grinning "Yo, Tatsuki-chan!" Ryu greeted with a wave.

"Sorry we're not dead." Ichigo stated as he moved to his seat "Nobody was injured."

"Are you Kurosaki-kun?" Asked the student sitting next to Ichigo catching his attention, turning his head he froze at the sight of Rukia sitting in the desk next to his wearing the school uniform "Nice to meet you!"

"Ah right this is Rukia Kuchiki, she transferred in today," Mizuiro explained offhandedly "Apparently her family had some problems and had to move immediately, Ichigo?"

Ryu sighed as he watched the exchange between Rukia and Ichigo dully his own thoughts whirling 'I thought the Hollow was killed,' He wondered 'Could she still be here because Ichigo absorbed all of her power?'

"Is it true a drunk driver hit your guy's house?" Raiden asked as he took his seat in front of Ryu.

"Yeah," Ryu responded with a slight grin "You know how I get after arriving home from work."

"That's right, you fall straight asleep." Raiden chuckled "You up for a spar after school?"

Ryu shrugged "Why not," He agreed "I haven't had a good fight in a while."

After School(Ichigo's day proceeds like the anime)

Ryu sighed as he used the school's change room to change out of his school uniform 'I guess I was right about Rukia being forced to stay here,' He mused pulling on his sleeveless tight black shirt and Karate pants before lacing on his dark green runners 'Wonder where they went to?' Shaking his head he pushed those thoughts out of his head and headed off to the school dojo where Raiden was already waiting clad in a green t-shirt white pants and black sneaker loosely gripping a pair of Nodachi sized Bokkens in his hands "You ready Raiden?" He asked while the normal Karate crowd gathered to watch the match.

"Ready to kick your ass Ryu." Raiden taunted as he slid into a ready stance while Ryu did the same holding his arms in a loss boxing stance while his legs spread out.

Tatsuki stepped forward as the acting referee "Fighters ready, Begin!" She announced throwing her arm down before leaping back out of the way as the pair rushed forward.

Sliding to the side Ryu let the first nodachi go past him while smacking the hand holding the second to the side and attempted to elbow Raiden in the gut only for the nimble teen to flip over Ryu and attempt to slash his back. Ducking under the slash Ryu turned to face Raiden as his hand came around in a back hand only for it to be blocked by the side of the left nodachi while the right cam at Ryu's unprotected side, or so Raiden thought until Ryu brought his other hand around and gripped the hand holding the nodachi tightly and threw Raiden over his shoulder.

Quickly recovering Raiden flipped himself in air and skidded along the ground as he blocked a punch from Ryu only to wince slightly as he felt Ryu's foot impact with his shin followed up by a quick left to the gut. Ryu eyes widened as he felt Raiden's nodachi impact into the side of his stomach and gritted his teeth against the pain before rearing his head back and slamming it into Raiden's causing him to stagger back. Regaining his bearings Raiden's eyes widen as he sees Ryu in front of him his fist already moving for the punch. Stopping the blow right before it hits Ryu grins "I win." He announced backing off with a respectful bow "And I might have cracked my head off of your thick skull."

"Your one to talk!" Raiden shouted clutching his head "Geez please remember I have a girlfriend! She'd kill me if I ruined my face!"

"What face?" Ryu asked smirking at his friend "All I see is a washboard."

Raiden twitched "Get your ass over here Hisanaga!" He roared chasing after the brunette who ran while whistling.

Riverbank, hours later

"Had enough?" Ryu asked good naturedly poking the collapsed Raiden with his foot "Or do you want to run another couple miles?"

"I... Hate... You... And... Your... Freakish... Endurance." Raiden wheezed out glaring up at the smiling Ryu.

"One of the perks of having Isshin raise you," Ryu paused for a minute "Although I wonder what the blanks in my memories are?"

Raiden deadpanned at his friend before shaking his head standing up "Anyways I got to go-" They both froze when they felt something approach them, turning quickly Raiden's eyes widened as he felt something impact with his head sending him flying.

"Raiden!" Ryu shouted before looking at the perpetrator, it looked to be a massive gorilla easily double Ryu's size "What, What is this?"

"Hmm? You can see me?" The gorilla-thing asked tilting his head "That's new, I wonder if that means you will taste better?"

Ryu swallowed as he slid into a shaky stance "Are you a hollow?" He asked hesitantly backing up slightly.

"Oh? You even know what I am?" The Hollow asked curiously "Then that definitely means you will be a better meal than the other one!"

The Hollow leapt forward his maw open wide trying to take a chunk out of Ryu only for his teeth to gnash together painfully as Ryu flipped out of the way. Skidding against the ground Ryu leapt forward and smashed his fist against the Hollows face wincing as he felt the bone of the mask tear against his skin, unknown to either of them there was another being watching the fight, a humanoid with a pure white Fox mask and a hole in the center of her chest right above her ample bosom "Oh?" The Woman/Hollow questioned watching in interest "That boy, not only does he have a dense Reiatsu and see Hollows, but touch them as well? This should be amusing."

Meanwhile Ryu dodged another attack from the gorilla hollow 'Dammit this isn't good,' He thought to himself ' I can dodge his attacks easily enough, but hurting him is another matter, think Ryu think.'

Ryu ducked under the gorilla's punch and grabbed onto his arm and proceeded to throw the Hollow away from him howling as it landed on its head "You are annoying human," The Hollow growled as it stood up "So just die and feed me!"

Ryu braced himself as the Hollow charged forward again and moved to dodge only for the Hollow to shift his charge to Raiden's unconscious body "RAIDEN!" Ryu shouted running desperately to stop the Hollow 'No,' He thought 'No, I can't let this happen, why why am I so useless right now!' Even as he ran he could feel something stir, and neither combatant noticed the flickering lights of the streetlamps as surges of electricity were seen along the power lines.

'This is?' The Woman/Hollow wondered watching the phenomenon as time seemed to slow and the gathered electricity surged into Ryu.

Ryu felt new life surge through his muscles as he blurred forward in a massive burst of speed and shoulder tackled the Hollow just as it's jaws started to close sending it flying into the bank wall. Ryu looked down at himself in shock as he saw the electricity coursing along his body "W-What is this?" He asked in shock "What happened?"

"GRAAAH!" The Hollow roared as it leapt back to its feet "That Hurt you bastard!" The Hollow roared again and leapt at him only for its fist to impact the ground with no trace of Ryu.

Raiden groaned as he opened his eyes slowly, when his eyes were fully opened they went even further at the sight of the Gorilla-like monster with Ryu above him his arm cover in electricity "DIE!" Ryu shouted slamming his fist down on the Hollow's head obliterating it. Ryu panted as he unsteadily kept his foot, turning to Raiden he couldn't help but grin at the shocked expression.

"Now that was interesting," A voice intoned making both teens freeze, whirling around Ryu saw a vaguely feminine figure wearing a white tank top stretched tightly over her large chest, a white mini skirt, knee length black boots and had a white Fox mask with black whisker marks covering her entire face, a single white tipped black fox tail swished behind her and a hole in the center of her chest "You have a very interesting power boy, what is your name?"

Ryu gulped as he shifted into a defensive stance "Ryu Hisanaga." He said, outwardly he seemed calm, internally he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown 'T-this chick, Sh-she's far more powerful than that other Hollow, if she attacks...'

"You have no need to worry for me attacking Ryu-san," The Hollow stated "Fighting someone weaker than me is pointless, I am interested to see how far you can go however, so I will be keeping an eye on you. My name is... Amaya, I look forward to seeing you again."

With a static sound Amaya vanished leaving a sweating Ryu and Raiden "Dude, you are so fucked." Raiden breathed getting to his feet uneasily "What the hell where those things, I know they were not human. Not to mention you channeling lightning through your body."

Ryu sighed as he scratched his scalp just as Ichigo and Rukia came running "It'll take a while to explain it," He said and collapsed on his ass "Ichigo will tell you, cause I need to sleep."

Later, Kurosaki Household, Ryu's room

Ichigo sighed as he collapsed onto his bed, Ryu was still out cold so Ichigo had called his workplace and informed Ryu's boss that he wouldn't be in that night. Looking over at his Godbrother Ichigo couldn't help but frown as he recalled Raiden's description of what he saw, especially the second Hollow, according to Rukia they never take on a near-Human appearance, and that worried him if this Amaya had taken an interest in Ryu.

A ringing sound caught his attention "What the heck?" He asked confused as it wasn't his or Ryu's ring tone.

"ICHIGO!" Rukia shouted slamming open the closet door scaring the hell out of Ichigo and jerking Ryu awake.

"Rukia!" Ichigo questioned as Ryu looked blearily around still not completely aware "Why the hell are you in my closet!"

"No time we have a Hollow!" Rukia informed pulling on the red glove and proceeded to grab Ichigo and drag his soul out just as an arm shot out of the wall and made a grab for Ichigo.

"The Fuck!" Ryu shouted getting to his feet "Dammit Ichigo you are so paying if this thing trashes my stuff!"

Ichigo`s eye twitched as the Hollow`s hand crushed his bed "No need to worry," Ichigo growled "Because he is dying now!" Ichigo leapt into the air drawing his sword slashing down onto the Hollow's head unfortunately for him the sword was dragging along the ceiling reducing the power of the attack only chipping the mask. Ichigo and Ryu both froze as the hollow screamed in pain before vanishing.

"Why didn't you finish it off!" Rukia demanded angrily "You could have ended it just then!"

"T-that face." Ichigo said in shock and Ryu nodded grimly.

"Orihime's brother, Sora Inoue." He finished and looked at Rukia "What aren't you telling us?"

Rukia sighed sadly "This is why we are trained to attack a Hollow from behind," She explained "Because Hollows are souls who never get sent to the afterlife by a shinigami and their chain of fate disappears, the zanpakuto of a shinigami purifies the soul of a Hollow absolving it of its sins as a Hollow and sends the soul to the Soul Society, that is the Shinigamis role. You said this one was your friends brother correct, well it may attack her so we better hurry."

Ichigo nodded "Watch over things here." He told Ryu before he leapt out the window with Rukia on his back.

Ryu sighed and looked at the damage "Well thankfully this is nothing new." He commented before flopping back onto his bed.

Orihime's Apartment

Orihime whimpered as she looked up at the towering snake-like monster that had a terrified Tatsuki pinned to the ground, she and Tatsuki had just been hanging around talking about school when Orihime's teddy bear Enraku suddenly fell to the ground with a massive tear on it, they where inspecting it when Orihime felt something hit her causing her body to collapse while Tatsuki panicked, in reality Orihime's soul was forced out of her body by the creature that now stood over Tatsuki, ready to strike her down.

Gulping Orihime stood up and ran at the monster and shoulder tackled the arm holding Tatsuki down "Tatsuki-chan, hurry up and run away!" Orihime pleaded desperately "Can't you hear me Tatsuki-chan?"

"It's useless Orihime," The monster stated "She can neither hear nor even see us."

"H-how do you know my name?" Orihime asked fearfully looking up at the snake-like monster in fear.

"You forget even my voice?" The monster asked "How sad Orihime!"

Orihime clenched her eyes shut as the monster struck at her. After a few seconds on not feeling anything the girl hesitantly opened her eyes to see Ichigo dressed in a black hakama blocking the monster's claw with a massive sword "K-Kurosaki-kun?" She whispered in shock.

"You interfere?" The monster asked in surprise.

"Sorry but that's my job," Ichigo stated glaring at the Hollow from behind his sword "If you want to kill Orihime, you had better kill me first because you are not getting past me!"

The hollow backed off a bit as he looked over Ichigo in surprise as Ichigo took stock of the situation 'It's not attacking, is it because of the sword wound?' He wondered 'Damn, Tatsuki got involved, even though she was just hanging out, what the... Inoue! But she's behind me!'

"It really is Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime breathed in excitement.

"You... can see me?" Ichigo asked in shock remembering Rukia's words that normal people couldn't see Shinigami, blinking he suddenly noticed the chain attached to her chest that lead to her still body.

"Isn't it obvious?" The hollow taunted "It's because that is her soul! Too bad for you but Orihime is already dead!"

The hollow whipped his tail at the shock Ichigo who reacted from basic instincts and blocked it with his sword only for the blade to be rebuffed by the scales on the tail sending him flying through the apartment wall and out to the street below where Rukia was keeping watch. "Dammit." Ichigo swore as he skidded along the air instinctively channeling his Reiatsu to his feet.

"What's wrong?" The hollow asked tauntingly "For spouting such big words you sure move slow. Is it that much of a shock that Orihime's soul has been removed from her body? Huh? Kurosaki Ichigo!"

The hollow spat out a glob of acid that struck at Ichigo's hands making him cry out in pain as his sword fell from his grasp right before the hollow slammed him to the ground using his tail "Kurosaki-ku-" Orihime shouted only to be cut off as the hollow grabbed her "Let me go!" She shouted actually biting at the hollow's tough skin "Kurosaki-kun is!"

"Orihime, Have you really forgotten about me?" The hollow asked looking at Orihime, raising the hair that covered the broken part of his mask "It's me Orihime."

"B-brother?" Orihime asked in shock of recognition "Is, is it really you brother?"

"Yes it is Orihime," Sora Inoue confirmed sounding, almost relieved "You really hadn't for-"

"Why!" Orihime asked cutting her brother off "Why did you do those horrible things to Tatsuki-chan and Kurosaki-kun, WHY!"

"Why?" Sora repeated "It should be obvious, those two tied to tear us apart!" He roared accusingly "After I died you always prayed for me, it made me so happy. I had died, but I felt that with your prayers everything will be alright, but then you became friends with that girl and you prayed for me less and less, and when you entered high school and met Kurosaki Ichigo you stopped praying altogether, before you left and when you came home from school all you would talk about to me was Kurosaki, it was so painful! Seeing myself disappear from your heart more and more each day!"

"That's not true brother!" Orihime denied "I was..."

"It made me so lonely, all I wanted to do was just to kill-" He was cut off as Ichigo leapt back into the apartment leveling a hard glare at the hollow only for him to be knock into the street by the hollow's tail as he followed with Orihime in tow, he turned back to Orihime "Now Orihime, come with me, we can live like we used to."

"Why?" Orihime asked "If you where so sad why didn't you tell me... why did you hurt Tatsuki-chan and Kurosaki-kun like this? My brother wasn't a person who did this!" She accused tears spilling from her eyes.

Sora's eyes widened at the accusation "Who do you think turned me this way Orihime!" He asked squeezing her tightly "It was you! I'll kill you!"

Suddenly the sound of a sword cutting into flesh was heard as Ichigo cut not only Sora's tail but hand as well freeing Orihime "Do you know why the big brother is born first?" Ichigo asked "It was to protect the little brother and sisters that came after him! A brother telling his sister 'I'll kill you!' You would never say something like that!"

Sora roared in pain as he raised his arm "WHY, WHY DO YOU INTERFERE ICHIGO KUOSAKI!" He yelled in pain "I RAISED HER I PROTECTED HER, SHE IS MINE!"

Sora lunged at Ichigo his mouth gaping wide "You fool!" Ichigo shouted back blocking the mouth with his sword "She doesn't belong to anyone!"

"SHE MUST DIE FOR ME!" Sora roared tripping Ichigo with the remaining portion of his tail before lunging at Orihime his maw gaping wide. Orihime didn't move, on the contrary she move into it, hugging her brother even as his mouth bit own are her shoulder shocking everyone present.

"I'm sorry brother," Orihime apologized sobbing "But I wanted you to hear about the things that were happening in my life, the things and people I liked, I didn't want you to see me sad, I wanted to reassure you that I am doing fine, that I was happy, I didn't want you to worry about me. I'm so sorry I made you sad brother."

"Orihime." Sora whispered in shock as Orihime fell to the ground unconscious "No you are not the one who should be sorry."

"Inoue!" Ichigo shouted moving to go to her side.

"Don't worry!" Rukia shouted "The chain of fate has not been broken, so long as that is not broken I can still save her!"

Sora moved away from Orihime as Rukia moved in to heal the girl "You should've looked more carefully before you attacked her," Ichigo stated pointing at her "See the hairpins? She said that they where a gift from her brother, and that she would never get rid of them."

Sora's eyes widened as he spotted the hairpin in Orihime's hair "I thought she had thrown them away," He whispered as he moved over to Ichigo's fallen sword as his mask fell away revealing his full face.

"Ichigo," He whispered picking the sword up in his remaining hand "Please watch over my sister."

Ichigo nodded "You have my word." He said just as Sora pierced himself with the Zanpakuto sending himself to the Soul Society.

Orihime groaned as she opened her eyes to see Ichigo looking down at her in concern "Kurosaki-kun!" She shouted in surprise bolting up into a sitting position "What is going on?"

Ichigo scratched the back of his head debating on how to explain it to her when Rukia used her memory replacement on Orihime knocking her unconscious again "HA! It does work!" Rukia announced proudly as she dragged Orihime back into the apartment "Ryu is a freak of nature!"

Ichigo deadpanned "I established that YEARS ago thank you very much." He said sighing as he collected his Zanpakuto 'And this is just my first DAY as a Substitute Shinigami.' He groaned mentally as he helped with repairing the damage to the area.

CHAPTER END!

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1-Ikitou: Cousin