New King Chapter- 4
YAY! I'm actually having time to do this (: Cookies to all the reviewers, especially Amaterasu Ai for reviewing every chapter so far.
Disclaimer:
I don't own Bleach.
Hichigo was soon far away from Yamamoto and Soi Fon and even closer to the Seireitei than ever. He took this time, the time before Yamamoto would be able to send out an order for his capture, to visit his inner world. He had to figure out the last things Ichigo was holding onto, the last threads of resistance that was stopping him from taking full control. Finding an abandoned building was easy, lowering his reiatsu so it couldn't be traced as easily, was not. But he was able to and finally slipped into his inner world.
He landed on one of the many buildings he used to aimlessly wander. The sight of the buildings brought up the memories of his time trapped there. Being trapped there was like being lost in a desert. But instead of hot sand and endless thirst there were cold sideways skyscrapers and only the memories of a grouchy teen/substitute soul reaper. Ichigo was sitting on the edge of one of these skyscrapers, staring out into repetitive nothingness. 'Yo horse? You still there?'he said.
'I'm not your horse.' Ichigo spat, not even turning around. 'Never was, never will be.'
'You can deny it for as long as you want, but you can't forever.' Hichigo replied.
'Why are you here?' Ichigo said, standing up and facing Hichigo with a deep scowl. 'Because if you're just here to gloat, you can leave. You won't get a response from me.'
'No... I'm just here to try to understand you more.' Hichigo said, walking over to Ichigo and sitting down where Ichigo was before. 'All the time I spent here, and I still don't understand why you try.'
'Why I try what?'
'Why you don't just give up. Why did you go through the soul society and fight so many people to save Rukia? Why did you go to Hueco Mundo to save Orihime? When you could have easily just not done anything, you had to risk your life like reckless idiot? I just don't get it...' Hichigo said, trying to get Ichigo to open up to him, to find that one thing… 'Why are you sitting here, trying to find some way to defeat me and become king, and be in control again? I know you haven't given up. If you had, you would be gone.'
'Why I try? Maybe because I have people I care about, that I think are worth way more than my life.' He replied. It was starting to really confuse him why Hichigo would really even care, wasn't all Hichigo wanted was to destroy him?
Hichigo almost jumped up and cheered. Finally the way to break the old king. He stood up and brushed himself off, even though there was nothing to brush off, trying to hide a grin of satisfaction. He played the old king, he got what he wanted. This is why, he was king, and Ichigo was his horse. He left and he could tell Ichigo was going back to sit at that same spot, to try to think of some way out of his current situation. When, he just unintentionally made his situation worse.
When he got out of the inner world, he knew what he had to do first. Find Rukia Kuchiki, the girl, from what he remembered hearing in Ichigo's memories, stopped the rain. 'Whatever that meant, anyways.'
END OF CHAPTER 4
(Short chapter, sorry)