"So it has" Retsu smiled sweetly, stepping forward and dropping to her left knee so that she could reach forward with soft hands and cup his gaunt face.
"Ichigo Kun, It's good to see you again, albeit, in a worse condition" Ichigo chuckled, his chest vibrating as his lungs drew in air "heh, good to see you too".
Retsu just smiled and leaned forward, curling an arm around Ichigo's back to pull him closer "hn" Ichigo grunted as her nails drew across the raw skin of his shoulder "you don't change do you".
Retsu grinned. "Should I?" she leaned down, her eyes fluttering closed as her lips met his in a fiery kiss that had them both clawing at each other's clothes.
"Ichi kun" she moaned lightly, her pink tongue darting into his mouth, swirling on the ridge of his lips before sliding over his teeth and curling up and prodding his tongue challengingly.
Ichigo smiled as she prodded his tongue "oh Retsu chan, you shouldn't have" he launched forward trapped her under his toned frame, his arms positioned either side of her head while his lips curled into a small grin "now, how about a little fun?" Retsu stared up with her own smile.
"Very well, koi".
Her haori was shed and her shihakshou untied as she let it pool on the earth beneath her feet.
"Let's get it on" she purred.
Yamamoto grunted as he sped through his daily pile of paperwork, his right hand dexterously tearing over the blanks in the page where he read the sections and signed, stark paper slicing elegantly through the air to silently land on a pile next to his left foot.
"Yamamoto sama!" his devoted lieutenant appeared next to him in a flash of shunpo, the speed of the transition leaving the man slightly ruffled.
"Yes, Chojiro?" he grunted, raising a gnarled hand from its position on his lap to settle on his mahogany desk.
Chojiro bowed at the waist and murmured respectfully.
"Yamamoto sama, what are we to do about the ryoka, it appears that they are more powerful than previously thought, the leader, Ichigo Kurosaki appears to be on the level with a captain if the rumours that have been spreading are true".
Yamamoto grunted in response to the question and stood, his monstrous frame towering over his subordinates "we will do nothing, at least until he reveals himself, better to anticipate an attack than wound our own in a search" Chojiro nodded "very well, Yamamoto sama" the commander nodded and finished off his paperwork "I'm going out" he grunted, stepping past Chojiro and sweeping his hand to open the first division barracks towering doors.
"Hai, I'll hold the paperwork until you return" the old man just nodded and disappeared, a swirl of tumbling air left in the void where his body once was.
She smirked slightly, her lip twitching upwards in remembrance of her decision.
"Soon Ichigo kun, soon" she thought, remembering her conversation with Ikakku and Yumichika.
Flashback
"What are you mumbling about, woman?" her head snapped up, tears bursting from her tear ducts.
"w-who" she muttered taking their appearances.
"The name's Ikakku" the bald man pointed to himself with a slight smirk before shifting his finger to the right to point at the long haired man who sniffed, turning his nose up to the woman who blinked.
"And that's Yumichika, now, why're you mumbling?" Orihime looked down at the question.
"I don't know what to do, I don't know, should I help Kurosaki kun, or hurt him?" she looked down, hands coming up to clench the side of her head "he betrayed me first, but then I betrayed him, should I forgive him, or, or" she trailed off and looked up at the duo with a bloodshot eye
"What should I do?" she asked, completely lost.
"That's up to you"
Her head snapped up to look at Yumichika who spoke from next to Ikakku.
"Do you want to forgive him or not, does he deserve it?"
Music Junkies - Sword Of Damocles (wait for the song to warm up first)
Ambling out of the 11th division barracks she smiled, a poisonous taint to her twitching lip.
"Ichigo kun"
Mumbling his name absently she turned right and, using her control over barriers, used them to float a dozen feet in the air.
"Where are you?" seeing the shrine of penitence she sneered at it in disgust, turning away as memories of her resurfaced.
"Soon, Ichigo kun, soon, you will have everything".
She willed her powers to take her nearer to the sokyoku leaving her a blur of orange light as she flew at immense speed across the soul society.
END Song
With Ichigo
After finishing his session with Retsu he drifted into a light slumber with the aid of her feather light touches and gentle presses at his spine.
"Sleep Ichi kun, your safe here".
He felt a second hand brush his cheek, nails slowly sliding over his slightly sweaty skin "mhmm" he hummed, breathing deep once more to pull oxygen deep into the depths of his lungs before he exhaled it through his nose.
His head fell to the side, a sign that he had drifted off.
In response Retsu shifted out from next to him and rolled over onto her knees from where she stood up silently and padded to the entrance of the cave, sliding it open and stepping out into the sunlight before she closed the door behind her "I'll be back soon, Ichi kun, but in the meanwhile, I must make plans" with but a tap of her foot, she winked away.
Within Ichigo's soulscape
Ichigo stood patiently; while he stood he made idle conversation with his zanpaktou.
"So, tou san, who is it were waiting for?" the orange haired teen looked up at the man who smiled slowly, his cheeks rising slightly as the right side of his lips curled upwards.
"somebody special, son" Zangetsu muttered mysteriously, as, from his crouched position he spread his elbows further and curled his back lower into a less stiffening position.
Suddenly the ground in-front of them began to boil and melt, the outcropping windowsills becoming molten slag as the temperature within the 10 feet radius quickly rose.
"!"
A keening screech broke the morbid hissing of the lava though as the area splintered and the granite quickly rose upwards with the pushing of a powerful force.
The shinigami gasped as a black robed figure dropped from the air, the being seemingly dropping from the fabric of the dimensions.
"Who, who is that?" Ichigo turned to Zangetsu whose head was bowed in respect to the cloaked being who looked through the confines of the cloak to stare at him with piercing white irises and a bladed black pupil.
"Hello, Kurosaki Ichigo, this is not the first time we've met"
With our conniving backstabbing asshole
Aizen Sosuke smirked as he quietly went about his duties, his calloused hands, worn from the perfection of his zanjutsu hidden within the wide sleeves like a magician with many tricks.
Upon meeting his fellow captain, one Gin Ichimaru, he easily slipped on a surprised façade "why hello, Ichimaru taicho, what are you doing here?"
Gin, in response smiled widely, his eyes shutting tightly to avoid showing the deadly intent his cold, crimson eyed gaze would have radiated.
"Nuthin really Aizen taicho, just takin an enthusiastic walk is all" Aizen nodded, his curiosity apparently sated for the moment.
"Well, you better get back to work then if you want to go to bed tonight" Gin nodded at the suggestion "of course" he moved his hand in a lazy salute and vanished in a burst of shunpo leaving Aizen stood alone outside his division, able to muse by himself.
"Maybe it's time to move forward with my plans" he muttered, considering different options before nodding to himself.
This was the best decision, he wanted to leave the soul society is as much turmoil as possible when leaving; it would only be advantageous later on.
Drawing his zanpaktou with a quiet screech of metal on metal, the blade cutting against its securing bands woven into the sheath with ease.
"Shatter" he muttered, the blade shifting in his hand to face forward, a 45° degree angle, adjacent from his wielding arm.
"Kyoka Suigetsu"
Weaving his illusion he smirked and flashed away from his division.
Completely undetected.
Retsu appeared outside the barracks of the 5th division, her arrival left no trace of movement, she didn't want to be found in this position so she decided to make it quick. Raising her hand, she narrowed her eyes to concentrate; it would take a lot of strength breaking through seki seki rock after all.
"Hado #04: Byakurai" she muttered, firing a jagged stream of blue lightning from her right hand, obliterating the wall behind the illusion, leaving it suspended in mid-air.
Nodding to herself she quickly 'once overed' her work to make sure before she disappeared as fast as she came.
Upon arrival back to the cave/training grounds she immediately shifted to Ichigo's side and kneeled next to his head, using one hand to pull it onto her lap while she used her other hand to make contact with his chest and shake it slowly, waking him from his soulscape.
"Ichigo kun, Aizen has made his move" she whispered, leaning down with almost unnatural flexibility to kiss his forehead while he grunted in affirmation and attempted to sit up.
Getting the point she straightened back up and allowed him to sit up and re-engage her in a light kiss.
Pulling away he let a simple smile show (not too much/not too little) "I'll be back soon" he whispered, honey coloured eyes glinting in the dim light.
"I know you will" Retsu replied.
Then he simply vanished.
Brand X Music – Decimate
OR
Epic Score - Make Your Own Fate
Either one is good, but I'd recommend the second one if you're the dark, attentive type of reader.
(By the way this is where it gets really descriptive and epic, thank me later!)
He reappeared several hundred feet above the 5th division barracks, standing on nothing but a sheet of thinly veiled reinforced reiatsu.
"I should be masked by the shadows, and there's no moonlight" Ichigo brought his hand to bear before his face, it position in a tense, clawing pose.
"heh!"
His facial muscles twitched, pulling his pale pink lips into a smirk that brought shadows to the area below his eyes, almost making him look like an insomniac.
"You made your move Aizen" he muttered, his feet shifting from their space 2 feet apart to his right foot bent behind the other in a ready position.
"Now it time to make mine"
Reaching to his back he drew his faithful partner, it's darkened, crisp edge facing the earth beneath his feet as he held it before him.
Eyes darkening several shades in an almost arousing manner he spoke in a smooth baritone, pitch unhindered by any encumbering saliva while he reached up with the other hand to brush back his hair before he brought it back down and clasped the bottom half of the zanpaktou.
"Hn!" grunting loudly, he funnelled rich blue reiatsu into the blade, the shade being royal velvet that swirled and lashed around his form.
Getsuga!" he muttered the initial phrase for his most infamous attack, his palms becoming slightly sweaty as his own power pushed against his hand, slowly undoing his grip on the bandaged hilt.
With his initial phrase said he burst into action, the reiatsu swirling wildly around him quickly coalescing into the soles of his feet as he took off at mind bending speeds toward the barracks below him, his sword, once held in front of him, now flipped to be held length ways at his side, trailing roaring blue flame down his path.
At about 300 feet he was surrounded by water vapour that outlined him in an ethereal white halo for but a second as he shattered the sound barrier, form blurring into nothing but a fusion of colour as he barrelled relentlessly toward the traitorous captains previously occupied barracks.
Shifting is feet either side just a hair he increased the air resistance, slowing him down just enough to not break his legs when he hit the earth.
"TENSHO!"
Roaring the final phrase of his attack he brought his blade around in a deadly arc, its bright steel side flashing quicksilver as it carved into the energy saturated earth, releasing the monstrous amount of energy contained in its reiatsu woven fibres into the soil where, as it reached deep into the ground, trying to disperse the energy, hit a barrier, rebounding the attack and sending it back through the soil in a perfect cylinder that encompassed all of the fifth division barracks entirely. This cylinder of pure power reached toward the heavens, piercing the clouds and melting through the barrier that protected the sereitei from Ariel threats.
With the attack still going strong, and with Ichigo funnelling gargantuan amounts of energy into it, the ground finally reached its limit, and splintered the entirety of the earth that the 5th division complex stood on caving in for dozens of metres across hundreds of meters.
The screams as people were incinerated by his power were music to his ears.
Fuelled by these screams he poured more power into it.
"More" he thought.
"More"
"More!"
"MORE!" smirking he pressed Zangetsu further into the earth and pulsed his reiatsu once, disrupting the delicate structure of the beam that rained down on the 5th division barracks.
BOOOOOM!
The explosion of 5th division shook the earth, the entirety of sereitei rumbling as the power that rained down on soul society lit reiatsu fires wherever they touched.
New song start- Dark Souls 2 Trailer music
After several minutes, the reiatsu stopped leaving only dust hanging in the air.
Within that dust, Ichigo extracted Zangetsu from the earth and remounted it on his back. Stepping slowly forward, careful not to get any of the powdered dust into his socks he drew his hand to the side, the digits relaxed, facing down toward the earth.
With but a burst of his power, the dust swirled around him, creating a tunnel that allowed him to leave the crater of 5th division with a small smirk.
"Your move, Aizen"
FUCK, MY FINGERS!
Seriously, 5 assignments, 30 pages EACH, that's fucking 150 PAGES!
Does my collage think I don't have a life at home? Seriously.
If I get through to the next term then collage will be a little lighter, but if not, well I'll have to find a job then.
Anyway, did you like the chapter, I want to know, c'mon SPEAK people, I can't appease if you don't tell me.
Oh yeah, about Orihime being like she is, I thought I would make her into the sort of character that believes she's helping, preventing future injury to Ichigo and hoping to receive his love in return.
But as you can see, she's fucking nuts! Off her rocker, however you want to say it, It'll be a screwed up relationship that I think will be very interesting.
Anyway, next chapter won't be for a while.
See Ya!
TrueInitiative
Signing out!