Sidenote: I haven't seen all the episodes of Bleach, seeing that since I live in MN, the English eps are on 90 something. So if something seems messed up or whatever, I'm sorry since I'm basing most of this stuff on what I found on Wikipedia and the works. Anyway, Enjoy.
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Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 10 Hours, 51 Minutes, and 03 seconds.
Ichigo just stood there for awhile, pondering at the mysterious girl who just vanished. He knew that she was no ordinary Shinigami, but he also knew that she wasn't a vasto lorde or arracnar as well. These thoughts just kept swirling inside his head, trying to figure out who this person is, what it is she is doing here, and where did she come from? So many questions, and so many unanswered. Before he could even begin to go deeper into thought, he heard his friends shouting behind him.
"Ichigo!" He heard Orihime yelling. As he snapped back into conscious, he turned around to see Orihime and the others running towards him.
"What happened? Where's Geddon?" Ishida asked, wondering what's with the weird hole that Ichigo was suppressed into.
"Long story short, hallow attacked, I save her, she repays it by using spiritual pressure to pin me into the ground." Ichigo said, rubbing his head where he was pressed harder on.
"Pinned? How could you not withstand it?" Orihime asked.
Ichigo sighed at her question. He knew she had the right to question him, seeing his last battle with Grimmjow. Even with the high end of the odds against Ichigo, he still managed to pull through even with all the injuries inflicted upon him. But that battle kept questioning him though.
"What was it that helped me win that battle?" Ichigo kept asking to himself. "I was doing it for Orihime's sake, and for the others. But something else happened during that battle..." He couldn't tell if it was the last bit of energy of his hallow form or his normal strength. All he knew is that Orihime's kindness gave him the strength to continue. Ichigo looked back at Orihime, wondering to himself what it was she did. Before Ichigo could reply though, he noticed there was one person missing from the group, and he started get irritated.
"Where's Kaizo!?" Ichigo stammered. His answer came as he heard two girls giggling that were walking on the other side of the wall. He shot out an angry glare as he saw Kaizo with his arms around two girls walking down the street.
"Yeah, beating Ishida at archery wasn't even a contest. I'd kick his butt any day." Kaizo said with his eyes close, explaining why he didn't see the others. "So tell me, how long have you been twins again?" Now, Ichigo and Ishida were shooting an angry glare. The three started laughing again before Kaizo saw Ichigo and Ishida cracking their knuckles together, and they were gritting their teeth as if they had fangs.
"Well, we gotta go now. We'll see you later." The girls said, waving goodbye. Kaizo panicked as he looked at them.
"No, wait! Come back!" Kaizo begged raising his hands toward the girls walking away. He started to panic as he looked back, seeing Ichigo and Ishida walking towards him. He was starting to feel like they were towering over him, knowing how strong they were compared to him.
"I'm going for the eyes!" Ichigo yelled.
"I'm going for his arms!" Ishida replied. Kaizo gulped as he was about to be pummeled into the cement.
Meanwhile, at the Soul Society, a very important meeting was going on...
Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 4 Hours, 2 Minutes, 11 Seconds...
The minute everyone was seating in the main court room, everyone was yelling and shouting at the concern at hand. The only people who didn't throw yells everywhere were the captains of each Squad. They all heard about how the entire Squad Three was wiped out delivering information, and the strange disturbance that has been going around the Soul Society and Human world was throwing a lot of people into panic. Hand after hand was raised, each yelling out a different thing. Yamamoto, founder of Soul Society, crashed his hand through his table, instantly silencing the commotion.
"Silence! We are all well aware of the danger at hand." Yamamoto said. "The trouble of the matter isn't the fact that Squad three was destroyed, and fortunately not everyone of the third division participated in that investigation. The problem of the matter is that resources show that they were killed carrying information, which also means someone was doing something and they don't want others finding out." The room was silent before someone finally replied.
"Well doesn't anyone know who ordered the investigation to begin with?" Renji said, seeing how no one else was talking. Yamamoto just shook his head.
"We don't know who ordered the investigation, nor do we know when the investigation was actually ordered. All we do know, is that something rather powerful took down the entire squad." Yamamoto said, looking at Byakuya. "I believe you felt something on the date of their deaths, Byakuya. What is it that has been troubling you the entire time?" Byakuya just sighed a bit before replying.
"Whatever force created the spiritual pressure, I felt it growing immensely." Everyone gasped a bit as he said this.
"Wait wait wait you mean to tell me, all the way from the forest, which is practically thousands of miles away, you were able to sense the pressure?" Renji replied, surprised.
"The fact he felt the spiritual pressure is not the problem. What is the problem is the fact it didn't stop growing. Reports show that people have been feeling an uneasy increase of these spiritual pressures all around the soul society. And that they keep getting worse by the day." Yamamoto replied.
"Well just how bad is it that we're talking about?" Soifon asked.
"That is what brought this meeting together. I have asked Mayuri to show us the data that he has collected." At the same time, Mayuri took out a laptop, and showed everyone an array of different graphs and data.
"This is the data from yesterday's readings." He started. He then started typing something in and showed it to everyone again. They gasped at the change. "And here's today's readings."
"T-T-That's impossible! The readings doubled over a single day?!" Matsumoto stammered.
"And that was the reading I took a minute ago. Look at the one now." Mayuri replied.
"How is this even possible? There's no way something like this can go unnoticed without anyone finding out." Renji said, looking at the data.
"I'm afraid the news worsen from there, Renji." Mayuri replied. "The data you have all witnessed: This is the reading coming all the way from the human world." Everyone grew a blank stare, knowing that there was only one person they could know with that kind of spiritual pressure. After a few seconds of silence, Byakura spoke.
"So, it's coming from Ichigo?" He asked.
"Unfortunately, that is what the data is showing. We don't know anyone else with this kind of spiritual pressure."
"Then what is the plan?" Everone was silent again. They all looked at Yamamoto who seemed to have his eyes close as if in thought.
"If worse comes to worse...we won't have any choice but to kill Ichigo..." Yamamoto said.
Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 3 Hours, 47 Minutes, 17 Seconds...
After the hassle at school today, the group decided to look into it later, seeing as it was the starting of summer. They spent a few minutes looking around, but had no results as to the whereabouts of Geddon. Finally after awhile, they all decided I'd be best to head home, seeing as there were no traces left from the mysterious girl. Ichigo took the usual way home, but saw that Yuzu and his dad were missing. He did see however that Karin was watching tv.
"Hey squirt," Ichigo started, "where's Yuzu and dad?"
"Dad went out for some walking exercise and apparently a strange visitor came by. She seems to know you. She's in your room with Yuzu right now." Karin replied.
Ichigo looked surprised before he realized who the girl must be, seeing as there was only one girl who lived in his room. As he started walking, he could already hear some giggling and such from his bedroom. But he noticed that the giggling wasn't Rukia's voice; it was someone else's. He gasped a bit as he opened the door, seeing the green haired little girl getting riding onYuzu's back.
"Wow. Itsygo's room is da biggest id sawn in yers!" Nel said, looking around the room. Yuzu just giggled.
"I'm still surprised he saved you from a car accident. That was nice of him." Yuzu replied. Nel giggled to herself.
"Yeath, he'd really a nicest guy." She replied.
"What the heck are you doing in my room?!" Ichigo stammered. Yuzu and Nel turned around surprised, not hearing him open the door. Nel quickly jumped off of Yuzu and jumped up on Ichigo, excited to see her. Ichigo fell on his back from trying to move out of the way in time, but failed. Worse yet, Kon was the one who suffered most, seeing how he was still in Ichigo's backpack when he fell.
"Itzygo!" Nel cheered. Yuzu giggled again.
"Ah, how cute." She said.
Suddenly, everything started to tremble as a massive earthquake was shaking the house. Items hanging on the walls started to drop, and things from shelves crashed to the floor. Yuzu fell from the vibration, luckily not bumping her head into anything. Ichigo was surprised at the sudden earthquake though. There haven't been any earthquakes for years, and the fact this was happening the same day he met the strange girl was a little suspicious to him.
"What dis dit?" Nel asked, scared.
"It's an earthquake!" Yuzu replied, covering her head with her hands. After a few minutes, the earthquakes finally stopped.
"Finally, are you two ok?" Ichigo asked, looking down at Nel and Yuzu. Nel nodded with a bit of watery eyes. Looking back at the room, they saw it wasn't completely messed up. Mostly the bed just had it's covers blown over, and some of the books in his room fell from the shelves.
"Dat was scawey!" Nel said, still holding on to Ichigo. Ichigo looked down at her a little irritated, but somewhat glad she was alright.
"Nel, get off me." Ichigo said, pulling her large green tunic. Nel just continued to hold on.
"No!" She replied. Yuzu just giggled a little. She walked towards Nel and kneeled down.
"C'mon Nel. You can hop on my back again." Yuzu said, trying to cheer Nel up.
Nel just looked at her for a few seconds before nodding. She let go of Ichigo and climbed up Yuzu's back. They went downstairs to see if Karin was alright. She had a couch cushion covering her head, even though nothing fell on her. Some of the glass antiques they had were smashed into the ground, but luckily nothing appeared to be too broken. Karin sighed as she put the cushion back into the couch.
"That was crazy!" Karin said.
"It's an earthquake, everything is crazy when it happens." Yuzu replied.
"That's not quite what I meant." Karin said. Ichigo and Yuzu looked at her confused.
"What do you mean?" Ichigo asked. Karin grabbed the remote that fell on the floor and turned the TV on. She turned it to the news channel, where it showed a reporter with some ruined buildings in the background. Ichigo, Yuzu, and Nel looked at it, surprised.
"This is Kaminta with the news report. There has been a strange earthquake that has hit several locations at the same time. Most of the earthquakes were minor, but as you can see behind me this one was hit the hardest. Scientist are still conducting research, but most people suggest that it was just an effect from the Earth's core. Meanwhile there have been massive shifts in the earth's crust, raising mountains in mere minutes, and causing some of the glaciers to break apart. We'll report to you as soon as more information developes." Kaminta said. Karin turned off the TV.
"All over da world?" Nel said, surprised.
"Is that even possible Ichigo?...Ichigo?" Yuzu asked. As she looked, she saw Ichigo still staring at the TV. He knew for a fact that something was really going on, and all of it was related to Geddon. He snapped out of his trance-like state as he shook his head.
"I'm going to call my friends to see if they're all right. But first..." Ichigo started as he picked Nel up from the back of her tunic. Nel squirmed from being lifted by just her shirt, not wanting to fall.
"Ah! Pud me don!" Nel yelled. Her expression switched to surprised as Ichigo lifted her behind him, having her grab on to his back.
"We need to talk too." Ichigo said, walking upstairs to his room. Yuzu and Karin looked at each other confused before shrugging it off.
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Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 3 Hours, 2 Minutes, 58 Seconds...
Renji and Byakuya summoned a portal. It looked like a Japanese sliding door. Out of it, a crimson butterfly flew out, and into the sky towards the sun. Just as they were about to step inside, they were halted as they heard shouting behind them, running closer.
"Wait! Renji!" The voice shouted. As the two turned around, they saw Rukia running towards them. When she finally caught up with them, she breathed heavily a bit, exhausted form the amount of running she had just done.
"What do you want?" Renji asked, even though he had a slight feeling he knew what the answer was.
"I'm coming with you!" Rukia said.
"No way Rukia, we were ordered directly to go to Ichigo's world ourselves. Besides, even if it wasn't just us, they're be no way they let..." Renji started before Byakuya interrupted.
"Just don't get in the way." He said, walking into the portal. Renji and Rukia looked at him surprised as he left. Renji was confused at his kindness.
"Wait...what did he just say?" He asked Rukia. Rukia just turned her head away.
"He's been acting different ever since the night Squad three was killed." Rukia said, surprising Renji a bit.
"But...he's never shown kindness before. Why would..." He started. Rukia just shook her head softly.
"I don't know. But something is wrong with the human world, and if Ichigo's involved I want to talk to him myself." Rukia said, running into the portal.
"W-Wait! Rukia! God, why doesn't anyone ever listen to me?" Renji asked himself, shrugging.
Countdown To The End Of The World: 1 Week, 1 Day, 2 Hours, 50 Minutes, 12 seconds...
"Ok, started talking." Ichigo said, looking at Nel who was on her pillow. She gave him a bit of a sad look as her eyes started to water. Ichigo began getting really nervous. It was one thing to make her cry, but another thing to have her sisters know.
"No no wait! I didn't mean to shout..." He started. Nel just shook her head as she began to wipe away her tears.
"No...it's not dat..." She said sniffling. Ichigo looked at her, wondering what it was that was bothering her.
"Well could you at least stop crying? The last thing I need is for my sisters to find out." He said. Nel just ignored her as more tears started running down her face.
"It's...my brudders." Nel said. Ichigo was confused at what the problem was. "Dey been actin kinda weird ladly. I woked up one day and dey were gone..." As she told the problem, her cries began to get louder. Ichigo was getting nervous by the minute at whether his sisters would hear or not. He was also nervous as to whether they were killed or not, really making Nel cry.
"Look, please don't cry." He said, laying his arms on her shoulders gently.
Suddenly, the two of them heard a large building collapsing. As they looked out the window, they saw that farther into the city, a giant building was breaking down. Smoke and debris scattered as the building began to fall.
"What the hell is going on?!" Ichigo yelled to himself...