New King Chapter- 5

I'm incredibly sorry for the short-ness of the last chapter. Also for taking a week to get this up, winter break just ended and I'm almost caught up to the anime episodes. Writers block is hitting me like a freight train on this story. Jigokucho means hell butterfly. I'm not sure how they get a Senkaimon, so I said she called it. Anyone wants to educate me, feel free to.

Disclaimer:

I don't own Bleach.

Yamamoto had almost gone after the orange haired hollow controlled teen, but then realized it would be no use. The boy would run, not wanting to engage someone that might actually pose a threat in a fight. He could tell the inner hollow was trying to get something done, and wanted it done fast. So he decided the best thing possible to do would be to order an order for capture throughout the Seireitei. High level, since this wasn't some ordinary criminal. This human/shinigami/hollow hybrid was one of the strongest shinigami he had ever seen in all his time as Captain Commander. Taking down Soi Fon was no easy task, but he did it like it was child's play. He had also achieved all this power in months, not 100's of years.

"Captain Commander sir!" a fourth squad shinigami said, running from the direction of the Seireitei with 5 more comrades. "We where out near this area of the Rukongai when we got this order. What do you request of us?" the shinigami said, trembling in the sight of the Captain Commander. But he was used to this, being in the position he was.

"Heal Captain Soi Fon and if her injuries are extensive take her to the 4th squad barracks for further treatment." Yamamoto said, turning away from the 4th squad members and going back towards the Seireitei. He sent out a Jigokucho to take the order for the arrest of the substitute shinigami. Soon, all high ranking officers in the Seireitei would receive this message. He just hoped that would be enough.

When Hichigo got out of the building, there wasn't the stealth force outside waiting for him, so he had something to be thankful for. He soon found his bearings and spotted the Seireitei walls off in the distance. Knowing that he didn't have much time, he set off in a sprint, eventually shunpo'ing and moving amazingly fast. Knowing that this would give off more reiatsu, but soon he would basically be public enemy #1 in the Seireitei any time now and he didn't have the time to worry about alerting some low level shinigami of his presence. They probably wouldn't be able to catch up anyways.

He tried to remember where the Kuchiki girl might be. In Ichigo's memories, he remembered that she was an unranked shinigami, but in what squad? After thinking for quite some time, he remembered something said about Kaien Shiba. 'But which squad was he in?' he contemplated. Now another name came to mind. Ukitake. Jushiro Ukitake. 'Now who the hell was he?' he wondered.

Hichigo soon slowed down and decided that he would have to have some Rukongai soul tell him. He walked for a minute, knowing that all the souls who had seen his shunpo might be less willing to tell him things. Even though he was sure his eyes would scare off people too, he would get someone to tell him. He saw his chance when a food market came into view. Vendors would be less willing to run away and leave their merchandise unguarded to thieves, he figured.

As soon as he entered the crowd, people almost made an aisle for him to walk through. They where scared of the mysterious stranger with the shinigami robes, the massive sword, and the creepy black eyes with yellow irises. He almost chuckled at these peoples fear. It was so ironic how lower souls could judge fear based on appearance so well. He went up to an overweight cabbage dealer who he could see now was trying to decide between running away and staying with his cabbage.

"I have a question for ya." Hichigo said, trying to keep the amusement out of his voice about all the fretting people.

"Wha-what.. Do you... Need? Just... Here! Have a head of cabbage! Free of charge." The chubby cabbage dealer said, fumbling in fear so much, he even almost dropped it.

"Do you know who Jushiro Ukitake is?" Hichigo asked, hoping that this scared chubby man might know something.

"Y-yeah. My br-brother became a shinigami and serves under that man." The cabbage dealer said, putting the cabbage down understanding that the intimidating man wasn't there for cabbage.

"Which squad?" Hichigo asked again. "Do you know which part of the Seireitei their barracks are?" he also added. He figured he picked the right person. The person who looked at him with fear and a puzzled expression when he entered the market, like this shopkeeper did, someone who turned out knowing what he needed to know. The man did seem to know something about shinigami.

"13th... But I have no clue where the barracks are." The cabbage dealer said.

"Good. That's all I need to know." Hichigo said with a satisfied expression. He then made his way out of the market, taking an apple off the stand at the end. The poor apple dealer almost by instinct shouted at him for doing so, but Hichigo sent an evil smile in the apple dealer's general vicinity. The apple dealer then turned away, seeming to be breathing quite heavily. He took a bite out of the apple, suddenly wishing that Ichigo would just let go so he could have his true form, and then he would really be feared.

Rukia had made it back to her barracks, half-expecting the head-captain to order her back to his office and yell at her for making a hole in his floor. But whatever he had to go do seemed important. Even urgent enough to get him rushing out the door, which she had no clue what that could be. In everything so far he had stayed and gave orders, not really participating till it was absolutely necessary. 'What was different about now?' she wondered.

As her mind drifted back to the incident in Yamamoto's office, it also drifted back to Ichigo, Orihime, Renji… and it all played through her mind. The way he snapped their necks and laughed, his irises turning to yellow and the outer parts turning to black. 'Where's the real Ichigo?' she questioned, 'Does the real Ichigo still exist somewhere?' This she really questioned, because she knew Ichigo couldn't have had a part in what happened, or did he?

Flashback:/-/

The hollow wasn't a normal hollow, and they all knew that much. The strange tentacles, the seeming electrical charges that came off of it at times, and the 4 eyes, they could all tell this hollow had some kind of underlying power, something that could prove deadly if they blindly charg-

"ICHIGO!" Rukia yelled at the blindly charging Ichigo. He was shunpo'ing through the air towards the monster, in his normal hollow fighting way. Ichigo turned around and smiled at her, confidence radiating. She knew he couldn't tell there was something wrong with this hollow. But it was too late. We he was not ten feet away from the mask, the hollow shot a tentacle out at a near shunpo speed and grabbed Ichigo. He was trapped.

"Dammit!" he cursed at the hollow, and struggled to get free, but within seconds he went limp. Rukia was left to look at the limp Ichigo in shock, not really knowing what to do. Renji and Orihime had similar expressions, not really believing what they just saw.

"Kurosaki-kun…" Orihime muttered.

"Roar Zabimaru!" Renji called out, as he immediately went at the hollow with his blade going for the tentacle that was holding Ichigo. The hollow just knocked away the blade with another shunpo speed tentacle, and laughed, while Renji went red with anger.

"You petty shinigami and strange human are wasting your time, you don't compare to my power. Your orange haired friend has had his bad intentions released. All his morals and everything else have been erased. All he has left is the dark side that everyone has, the side that thirsts for revenge, retribution, and is fueled by rage! Nothing will ever stop it! That is my power! Stand before it, and succumb to it, because it is now your fate." The hollow roared, laughing at the expressions that the shinigami and the human were giving, messing with emotions, what he lived for.

Soon reinforcements showed up, five shinigami from squad ten lined up next to Rukia, Renji, and Orihime. They where going to ask about the situation, but they could see it wasn't good right when they saw the insanely powerful substitute shinigami limp in the hollow's tentacle. They immediately unsheathed their zanpakutou's at the sight of this. Rukia put an arm out, saying only "If you go out, you'll be trapped too." At that they without knowing it took a step back, honestly scared of whatever this monster was.

All direction was turned to Ichigo when he started coughing. The hollow was shocked, "You are supposed to be unconscious!" he blurted. Ichigo continued to cough, but this time, he was coughing up a white liquid.

"ICHI-" Rukia cried out, only to have her mouth covered by Renji.

"Don't call attention to us." He said quietly, and then he told everyone go back into the trees. They all found a spot behind various bushes and watched what was unfolding. But they couldn't even see what was happening anymore. A dense dark cloud of reiatsu was covering Ichigo and all that could be seen was the hollow, waving his tentacle around frantically trying to figure out what was going on. Then it all happened, the tentacle just exploded.

"HOW DARE YOU! YOU STUPID SHINGAMI!" he cried out in pain. Then, the dense black reiatsu around Ichigo cleared. What stepped out onto the ground wasn't a shinigami. What was now standing, facing the hollow was a hollow with horns coming out its head, and a hole through its chest. It had parts of a shinigami uniform still left, and a mask covered its face. The sword didn't change, it was still in shikai. The long orange hair and the sword where the only reminders of who this hollow might still be. Now the squid like hollow had a look of real fear come across it's before arrogant expression.

Orihime knew what this was. "Run! Just run!" she yelled at everyone. She remembered that time in Hueco Mundo, when Ichigo went into the same form. He couldn't differentiate friend from foe in this form, as she remembered from him attacking Uryu. Everyone who was still shocked by what Ichigo turned into, didn't even hear her frantic cries.

"Well, well, well. I could say thank you hollow, for finally giving me a way to beat down my weak king." The orange-haired hollow said, before starting a cero in his horns. His voice was strange and hollow like, with an amused tone. Now all those who knew Ichigo knew that this wasn't Ichigo. Instead of a scowl on his face there was only a crazed grin that could even be seen through the mask. When the cero was fired, the hollow was basically incinerated before it had the chance to say anything, or even move. Those in the bushes where feeling a mixture of relief and new worry, 'What would Ichigo do to them?' went through most of their minds.

Renji stepped out of the bushes. Rukia was trying her best to pull him back, but he wouldn't budge. She then sank back behind the bush now worrying for Ichigo and Renji both. "Ichigo." he said, his voice wavering in pure fear in whatever Ichigo had become.

"Ichigo what?" he spat. "Do you think I'm king? If you do, you've got to be kidding me." he said with a disgusted expression, as if even the mention of Ichigo annoyed him. "I'm called a few things, but the only one I can really stand is Hichigo Shirosaki. Got it shinigami?" he said, looking angrier by the second.

"Where is Ichigo." Renji said, fear making him shake, but the reiatsu Hichigo was putting off also might be to blame.

"Not in existence anymore. Now will you stop pissing me off?" he said, raising his voice a bit. "You stupid shinigami annoy me to death, you hear?" as he shouted, his reiatsu raising even more. Renji was getting forced down by just the sheer power of the reiatsu; he was having to fight to just stay off his knees.

"Ichigo don't do..." Renji said, fighting to say anything at all. He was now forced to his knees by just the sheer force of reiatsu.

"For the last time! I'm not that weakling!" Hichigo yelled as he walked towards Renji. "After this you won't ever call me that again." he said, as he sent a foot at Renji's head. When the foot made contact, a loud crack came from Renji's neck. Rukia couldn't think. She wouldn't, no she couldn't believe that Ichigo would.. She kept trying to remind herself it was Hichigo, but she was starting to doubt even herself.

Orihime instantly started sobbing and ran out to help Renji. She soon found herself to the same fate as Renji, forced onto the ground and neck broken by a swift kick to the neck.

Rukia's instincts took hold and she ran for her life just before Hichigo turned to the shinigami in the bushes. But she didn't get far before she also was pressed down by the massive reiatsu. Hichigo walked over with a sadistic grin and snapped the necks of all the remaining shinigami, except for her. She watched in utter silence, not able to even comprehend what was happening. She knew she was next.

As Hichigo approached her all while talking to himself. "This is life king! Being the controller of life and death! But wait? Why do I call you king anymore? I am king. You've been dethroned!" he laughed and his reiatsu soared, sending Rukia even further into the dirt.

"Ichigo! Wake up! Wake up!" Rukia screamed as Hichigo towered over her, maniacal laughter ensuing. She knew it was over, she just hoped someone would be able to stop him. "Save me Ichigo." she said, her words barely past a whisper at the breath being pressed out of her lungs.

Hichigo's hand shot up and grabbed the mask. "Not now! You son of b-!" Hichigo screamed stumbling back, thrashing back and forth. "You can't be king again! I won't let you!" he shouted, with screams in-between.

"Go away Hichigo." A voice sounding of the original orange-haired soul reaper came out. Suddenly, the hollow like creatures out white skin cracked apart revealing a more human skin. The hollow hole disappeared and the longer hair returned to being shorter once again. One difference, the eyes where still black and yellow.

"Ichi-" Rukia started to say, but she was cut off by Ichigo.

"I don't have much time. Run away from here. Don't come looking for me." Ichigo said urgently. "Get out of here! Get away from me. I'll hold him off as long as I can." Rukia complied out of fear and shunpo'ed away in the other direction. She knew her life depended on how fast she could get away. Tears streamed down her face, as she realized the severity of what had happened. Orihime, Renji, and innocent squad 10 members. All dead, with their blood lying in Ichigo's hands. She knew deep down, that it wasn't him, as his appearance and take over in the end proved. But it was still a part of him, was it?

As soon as she was in a clear area, she called for a Senkaimon to take her back to the soul society.

End of flashback:/-/

End of Chapter 5.

((Attention to all of you amazing readers out there. I just changed many things in chapter 1, so I would suggest taking a look.))