New King Chapter-7

I'm baack XD. Anyways, as for a treat I made this a very exciting chapter. Long too. This chapter finally got written because of a long car ride, and a dead cell phone. So enjoy. This story is taking a more sadistic turn, so yeah.. that's all. Review, as it's the thing that brought this story back to life and it's the only thing that will keep it alive. It's like a car... Stop giving it gas and it just stops. Also made some changes to the chapter before this.. Don't really know what was going on when I wrote that...x.x

Disclaimer: If I owned Bleach, it wouldn't do so well, because if Tite Kubo didn't update for three weeks people would get mad. I'm sorry. *dodges sharp objects and cleans the puke off this story*

Even though the man was incredibly drunk, he knew were to go. In just a few minutes Hichigo was at the squad thirteen barracks and the man stumbled back to wherever he had come from. Hichigo just let him, seeing that dealing with him would just waste time.

The barracks were quite empty, other than the occasional squad member running about. But that didn't concern him. Those who noticed him ran off to go tell higher ups. But they wouldn't make it in time. Not to save the life of Rukia Kuchiki anyways. Finally he would be king, once the one barely holding on had no one left to protect. Of course Ichigo's family might still keep him alive, but if that were the case he could just go to the world of the living and kill them. It was all just that easy. 'What a weak weak king.' Hichigo mused as he went towards the personal quarters, making sure to check every single room.

In the back rooms of the barracks everything was considerably silent. Other than Ukitake's labored breathing, the room was silent. Ukitake had worried a bit too much about the special order and was pretty stressed. That's all it took to make him take a long nap. After the incident with Ichigo, Rukia decided she would watch over Ukitake rather than go with the search teams. She wasn't sure she could handle seeing him like that anytime soon. Or ever. But that all changed when she heard some form of sadistic cackling down the hall. He was here.

"Rukia Rukia! Come out wherever you are!" Hichigo cackled, kicking open separate doors and peering inside each one of them. This was fun for him. Like a hunt, a deadly hunt. But what made him even more excited would be the prize at the end. The death of that annoying little soul reaper, and the overthrowing of his king. 'What fun!' he thought, while kicking open another door.

One or two more doors he became bored with knocking them down, and he started devising different interesting ways to beat each one of them down. A fun game it was, and made him even more anxious. One was hit with a Getsuga Tensho, another with a Cero. The third with a Getsuga Tensho/Cero combination. Unlike Ichigo, Hichigo was quite capable of producing a Cero whenever he felt the need. Almost as easy as breathing.

He was almost about to try a Getsuga Tensho in bankai when he felt a captain level reiatsu down at the end of the hall. Curious, he went over and kicked open the door. To his surprise, Rukia Kuchiki, was in the room, looking very frightened. There was even Ukitake also. He guessed a sleeping Ukitake didn't have the ability to mask his spiritual pressure. But that didn't concern him. He would deal with Ukitake after he had finished off Kuchiki. 'Could my day get any better?' he thought, putting Zangetsu on his back. He would make the Kuchiki girl suffer with his own hands.

Soi Fon and many members of the stealth squad had finally arrived at the squad 13 barracks. A frenzied report from some fleeing members of this squad had said that Kurosaki Ichigo had showed up there. For what reason she had no clue, but she had a nagging feeling it had something to do with Rukia Kuchiki.

The first thing they noticed was almost every door was knocked in. Most of them were kicked in, but it was easy to see that some on the end had been hit by Kurosaki's famed Getsuga Tensho. There was no surprise when she felt the huge hollow reiatsu either, no surprise at all.

Rukia couldn't believe her eyes. Ichigo had just kicked in the door, and was now staring at her like he wanted to kill. But then she saw the eyes. This wasn't Ichigo. This was the monster he became back when everyone had died. Back when Ichigo protected her for the last time. She backed up quickly, going up against the back wall. Resisting the urge to scream. But his reiatsu brought her down to the floor, head pressed down under the immense pressure. 'It's happening again' she thought in fear.

Her body forced down the ground by the reiatsu she attempted to get up, but all that work was in vain, since it did nothing. All she could do was lay there, waiting for death to come. In the hands of someone at some point she thought she loved.

Watching Rukia squirm against his ever increasing reiatsu made him laugh even more. "This is what it feels like to be the hunter!" he said in delight. This was like his own personal high, it made him almost dizzy in the sure joy of it all. But there was one nagging feeling he couldn't point out, one that was coming ever increasing, and annoying.

'Stop.. Stop.. Stop..' a far distant voice chanted in his head.

'So I guess Ichigo isn't dead yet.' he thought, sighing. 'I guess I'll have to fix that.' he told himself, as he crouched down to the ground and picked up the petite soul reaper by the neck.

She screamed in pain, it just hurt. It was as if her body just wanted to go down back to the ground, but he, he wasn't allowing it to. Her whole body throbbed in the ever increasing pain. It was excruciating. "Stop.. Please.. St-"

"Begging won't help yah." Hichigo said, then adding, "You sound like a certain broken record in my head, and both of you are annoying me. Do you know what I do to annoying things?" he asked, giving her a sadistic grin. She didn't answer, and he shook her once again, increasing the pain. She was in tears now, not able to handle this anymore.

"Cry some more and maybe you can get the annoying voice in my head to cry too. Do you know how happy that would make me? Do you?" he said, dropping her to the ground. He then sent a sharp kick to her side, sending her rolling towards the wall. All the tears just kept falling even faster than before. She couldn't stop no matter how hard she tried, no matter how hard she resisted. This sadistically grinning monster was becoming the essence of all her nightmares now.

Soi Fon shunpo'ed forward and noticed one thing, other than the ever increasing cries and torment of Rukia Kuchiki, along with the insane laughter of the Kurosaki boy. Ukitake was also in the room, currently unconscious. A gotei 13 captain as he was, her first priority in this situation would be to get him out of danger, and that was were she would use the element of surprise that she still had.

She told her subordinates to stand by to take Ukitake to safety, as she pinpointed where in the room he was. She then saw the section of wall that would bring her nearest to him. She lined up and then, went for it. The wall broke as she practically crashed through it. The reiatsu was heavy in the room, but she did her best to ignore it as she was scooping Ukitake into her arms and shunpo'ing back out. She hadn't even taken a glance in Kurosaki's direction, since even a glance would take precious time that she didn't have.

Once the stealth force had gotten Ukitake, they quickly shunpo'ed off to take him, "Anywhere other than here." as Soi Fon had said. They had also gone back for reinforcements, and Soi Fon just hoped they would return in time.

Now her attention was back to stopping Kurosaki. She just hoped she hadn't been too late.

Hichigo had noticed the second the wall had broke through, and he had tensed up, expecting a fight. But she had shunpo'ed out as quickly as she had come in and taken Ukitake with her. He growled at the thought of his next victim being taken away, but then he reminded himself Soi Fon would be much more fun. They also had a fight to finish, as he remembered.

Hichigo then put his attention back to Rukia, as he still had to finish what he started. He then raised his reiatsu a little more at this point, making it hard for the Kuchiki girl to breathe. He then went over the ways to kill her. 'So many different ways ...' he thought, smiling. Just when he had almost decided, he felt something coming up behind him. Making a quick shunpo to the side, he barely avoided getting Soi Fon's shikai put through his back. She soon was at it again, and he easily shunpo'ed to avoid the attacks. But she was expecting this, and had a plan going. What Hichigo didn't notice, is that he was getting ever increasingly closer to being in a corner. Even though he could easily break through the walls, the split second he spent doing that would be at her advantage, and that advantage she planned to use.

The time came and when his back was to the wall, he directed a punch at it to free more space to move. But when the wall was destroyed he had the small blade of Suzemabachi resting on his neck. "So, are you going to give it up now?" she said, "It will just be easier if I don't have to kill you."

"Who said I was going to let you kill me?" he asked, as he pointed his free hand at her, and his palm glowed with a red light. Soi Fon didn't have time to react as she was blown through several walls by his Cero. She was instantly knocked out cold. But in result of this, the ceiling had finally collapsed, amazingly leaving Rukia unharmed. He was becoming tired of the games, and finally decided. Since she was Ichigo's last thing holding him to this life, he would give her a semi-peaceful death by snapping her neck. It was the least he thought he could do, after all.

He picked up Rukia, and she was silent. She knew what was coming next. Hichigo cackled as he held her up, just basking in the fear once more. But then, he stopped cackling. He dropped Rukia and she was once again pinned to the ground. The once cackling Hichigo now was holding his head, as it was throbbing. It felt as he was about to explode. Just four words he could hear and they were repeated over and over, filling every last space in his mind.

'I will protect her. I will protect her. I will protect her.' The voice repeated.

"NO!" Hichigo hissed, "You aren't…" sinking down to his knees.

'I will protect her.' It repeated once again.

"King.. Is.. no.." Hichigo said, trailing off. He had lost control.

Ichigo's eyes flickered back their normal brown and he stopped putting out the reiatsu Hichigo had been putting on the room, allowing Rukia to move again. She was speechless, 'Could Ichigo really..' she wondered. But he didn't move his gaze from the floor. "Ichigo…" she said softly, trying to get him to say something, anything, anything at all. He started shaking uncontrollably, still saying nothing.

"I k-killed those people didn't I?" he said, finally putting his head up to meet Rukia's eyes.

"Well-"

"I killed those people didn't I? I couldn't protect anyone could I? COULD I?" he asked again, still shaking.

"You protected me Ichigo." She told him.

Rukia and Ichigo were quiet for a moment, until he said, "I don't.. I don't know how long I can…" His gaze then redirecting itself at the floor once again.

"You can what?" she asked him, even though she already had a good enough idea of what saying. He wouldn't be able to stay here with the soul society wanting to capture him. Not even maybe. "I can help you get out-"

"I don't know how long I can keep him back." Ichigo replied, and then explaining, "We both are co-owners of this body now, and until I can change that, you should stay as far away from me as you can. He can come back. So just please.. Go.. It will be better that way." He said, getting up onto his feet once again. But then he was soon doubled over again, clutching his head in pain. "Go.." he croaked. As Ichigo's voice faded out, the cackling.. The cackling came back. The eyes turned back to yellow and the cackling was filling the wall-less remains of the room that used to be. Rukia was frozen in fear, unmoving.

"Oh goody." Hichigo said, smiling. "Weakling wasn't able to chase you off in time." He said, walking over to Rukia.

"Bakudo 61. Rikujokoro" A voice of a certain Byakuya Kuchiki said from behind Hichigo as this kido caused six yellow beams to appear on him, not allowing him to move. But only just for a bit, as Hichigo soon pumped all the reiatsu he had into breaking it, which he did.

"Will you pests ever leave me alone?" Hichigo complained sarcastically, as he grabbed his zanpakutou, resting it on his shoulder in case Byakuya should attack. He was about to attack Byakuya himself when his head started aching once again. "Let me kill him! Stay out of this! I'm saving you also!" Hichigo screamed.

'You. Won't Move.' Ichigo ordered from the inner world. Hichigo was now on his knees once again, as just the sheer willpower from Ichigo was keeping him there.

"I am in control. We don't share this body." Hichigo said, breaking the little hold Ichigo did have for the second there, standing up once again.

But then he heard the swish of several shunpo's and now he was facing not one, but 4 captains of the gotei 13, one of the being the captain commander. Mayuri, Byakuya, Komamura, and Yamamoto were now surrounding Hichigo. Rukia stayed quiet, unsure of what to do in this situation. Everyone was quiet, even Hichigo. Then Yamamoto spoke up, "Kurosaki Ichigo. You have killed many under my command today, and you are under arrest."

"What makes you think I'll go with any of you? Do you take me for stupid? If you capture me, Mayuri here will go wild running tests on me, and I'll be executed. Do you think I'll let that happen?" he said, launching forward in a last throw it all away attempt at freedom right at the captain commander himself. Yamamoto held his blade up to block the blow, and even though the force of it was intense, he was able to stay in one spot all the same. Hichigo then attempted to cut Yamamoto, but every strike was parried by his blade. "Getsu-" he started to say, until he felt something on his wrists. "Reiatsu suppressors! I can break through these! YOU JUST SEE!" he screamed, pumping all his reiatsu into the bracelets, coincidentally making the air in the room much heavier. Rukia wasn't able to breathe, and it was starting to get very uncomfortable for the captains in the room. But within seconds, the reiatsu suppressors did their job, and no more reiatsu was pouring out of Hichigo.

"Byakuya, Komomura, take Kurosaki to a cell in the 1st squad barracks. Then we have an emergency captains meeting. I expect you both to be there on time. You too Mayuri." He said, as he left, probably going to report to central 46 of the day's events.

Byakuya and Komomura dragged the screaming Hichigo away, shunpo'ing once they got out of the remains of the building.

Mayuri soon followed, as he wanted to keep tabs on his new specimen.

End of chapter 7

((All I can say is.. poor Ichi))