AN: next chapter I'll bring Rukia and Renji's relationship back, and see what they've been up to, the death of the previous captain commander (probably), and a hard choice.
Ichigo had woke up early to make sure that Yumai was ready. He sat up in his bed and looked over to hers. She was gone, so Ichigo started to get up and get dressed when he turned around and looked at the shower. She was asleep naked in the shower, the water was off, but she was still in there.
"Damn, is it too much to ask to have a normal morning, like… good morning. Good morning to you too." He spoke to himself as he opened the shower door and nudged her with his foot. He looked at the clock that was in the bedroom, it said 6:45 Izuru would be there for her in fifteen minutes. "Wake up." He pushed her over with his foot and the position she fell into made Ichigo turn around, then turn the shower on and off quickly. She promptly stood up, hers legs still asleep from having to sleep in the shower the way she did.
"Did I really sleep in here?" she asked Ichigo as he handed her a towel.
"Yeah, now hurry up and put your clothes on, you're leaving in ten minutes." He sat on his bed watching Orihime sleep peacefully, while Yumai was getting dressed.
"Hey…about yesterday…sorry for asking you to do that…" She spoke quietly without making eye contact with him.
"I said to never speak of it. And remember, next time, you're on your own." She was going to say something but there was a knock on the door which she opened.
"Yumai-san, sorry for being early, may I come in, there is something I want to say." He looked like he just woke up, but that's how he normally looked so it was no different to her. She motioned for him to come in and he did and just stood between her and Ichigo.
"What is it you want to say?" Yumai was holding back the urge to smash her fist into his face.
"I'm sorry for causing you such trouble yesterday, I meant only to arouse you a little, I had no idea that you had such a low tolerance to the kido I developed. It stimulates your body into increasing hormones by twenty times and increasing the time that your body would need to reach its climax. I thought I used a very small degree of the kido on you, but it seems that it made you sexually torture yourself for however long. I'm truly sorry, I like you Yumai, I promise I won't do that to you anymore." He had closed his eyes in anticipation for a fist to come flying into his face, instead he felt her wrap her arms around him.
"I like you too, just promise me you will never use whatever that was ever again, and we cannot show any affection at the academy, since its taboo, right?"
"Yes, right…but first," he turned to Ichigo to ask something. "Since you are the one taking care of her…may I date Yumai?"
"Yes, go ahead. But don't get caught at by the academy." Ichigo turned back to Orihime and started stroking her long hair.
"We won't, thank you Ichigo, before we leave…" Izuru had walked up to him and placed a hand on Orihime's back and it was glowing green. "…good luck."
"I hate you so much right now...!" he yelled after them as they ran out of the room, he had heard Izuru say something.
"That should keep him busy until two…" After he heard this, he also heard Yumai gasp. He turned around to see Orihime sitting up, staring at him with her eyes slightly closed, and a smirk on her face. Ichigo quickly sent a hell butterfly to each of his squad members, not caring if he woke them. The message was…
'No one is to come near the captain's quarters today; you can do what you want. No training…'
"Come here." Orihime demanded as Ichigo paled and approached her. She grabbed him and threw him onto the bed; she climbed on top of him and started to bite his lips.
'I hate you, Izuru!' He screamed in his head as Orihime started her tyrannical adventures on him.
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"She's not going to walk for a week if you make her and Ichigo do that until two!" Yumai had given him a light punch to the arm.
"Maybe, but Ichigo would most likely be the one who can't walk, I didn't use the kido on him, which he will probably be done in twenty minutes or less, but she won't let him go until she is done, or the kido wears off, which at that strength would be seven hours or so." He explained this to her as they kept walking. Yumai couldn't hold back her laughter as she thought of her dragging Ichigo back into the room as he tried to escape.
"You know, I…never mind." Yumai spoke up, but stopped. Izuru was going to ask something but someone caught his attention.
"Lieutenant Kira, Yumai-san!" the two of them heard a voice from behind them as they were leaving the barracks. It was Koko.
"Yes, third seat Kurosaki?" Izuru replied tilting his head back to her.
"Are you two heading to the academy now? If so, can I walk with you, I was told that I'll be filling in for a Zanjutsu instructor…why choose me instead of Ichigo, he's much better at teaching."
"If that's the case, than sure, and I'm sure they just wanted a Kurosaki to teach there, and Ichigo would probably kill someone by sneezing on them." The three of them shared a laugh as they made their way to the academy.
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Toshiro was sitting at his desk, he was usually an early riser but today he woke before the sunrise for some reason unknown to him. The only other people in his squad that were awake, Nel, and Hinamori, He didn't want to be alone with Nel for too long, so he summoned his childhood friend to come visit him. After a few seconds there was a knock on the door and then it opened before he could say whether to come in or not.
"Good morning! Toshiro!" Her cheerful voice rang in his head, she was always so upbeat, Hitsugaya thought to himself about her.
"Good morning, Momo." As he greeted her, she went and sat on the couch and he got up to join her.
"It's been a while since you called me in here so early…" She said behind her yawn. She turned to him and smiled.
"Well, I woke up too early today, and only you and my new third seat is awake, and I'm not the most comfortable around her. So, I wanted to talk to you instead."
"Aww, does Shiro-chan miss me? I've been in your squad for a little around two year now, you know." She gave a smile and a chuckle, Hitsugaya just returned the chuckle, not caring if she called him that.
"Momo, I…never mind, would you like some tea?" He forgot what he wanted to say. She nodded and he got up and made some tea for them.
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Koko was running her class through some basic drills, they did everything they were told within two seconds of being told, they've heard stories involving the name Kurosaki, so naturally, rumors started about her being some kind of punishment sent to them by Ichigo. They were all afraid of her, it was mainly the bright green eye that bothered everyone.
"Okay, switch, basic #7! squads of three!" Koko shouted as she walked down the combat hall they were in, immediately everyone split to groups of three, each alternating attacking each other and defending from two at a time. After a minute of this she allowed them to cool down from the constant sparring. She went and sat on a bench and two students approached her, a short girl with waist length red hair and a tall girl with shorter red hair.
"Excuse me, Kurosaki-sensei." The taller one said while bowing.
"Yes…"
"Mina Kujokuza. This is my sister, Nia Kujokuza.
"What do you need, Mina, Nia?"
"Is Captain Kurosaki related to you?" Nia said from behind her sister.
"Not exactly…I'm his adopted daughter, I just took his name. Why do you ask?" she said raising an eyebrow.
"I was just wondering if you could pull some strings to get us into his squad when we graduated?" the two girls put their hands together in hopes she would say yes.
"No."
"Buy why? Sensei?" The taller girl looked saddened by this.
"He or the lieutenant approve of all new squad members. If you are not up to their standards then yo-" She was interrupted by the taller girl slapping her across the face. The room fell silent all eyes on Koko and the two girls in front of her.
"Listen to me. Don't go saying I'm not up to standards, I'm at the top of the class!" She was laughing at how easily she was able to hit her. Nia backed away, for she knew something bad was going to happen.
"Is that so…"
"Damn right it is! And look at you, a third seat under one of the best…can't even block a little slap!" She raised her hand and swung it at her again. When her hand made contact, Mina let out a scream.
"There's no reason to stop something that causes more damage to the user than the target." Koko said calmly as Mina grasped her hand tightly. "Most of the bones in your hand are shattered. I suggest looking for medical attention, or it will never heal correctly." She stood up and summoned her zanpakuto which seemed to flake into existence rather than just appear, a little trick she learned to make it more flashy. She turned to the on looking group of students.
"Kurosaki-sensei…Thank you for silencing her, she is arrogant." One student said from the group and scattered nods were seen, even from her sister.
"No problem, ignore her it will be fine." She spoke in a monotone voice. "Get ready! Advance drill #31! Groups of five!" she yelled as they scrambled, around finding their partners. The room filled with the sounds of training katana slamming into one another. Koko was partnering with Nia, since she shattered her sister's hand.
"I'm…sorry…about…my…sister!" Nia managed to say while dodging Koko's swings.
"It's not your problem, she was out of line insulting her superiors. I don't think she knows my squad well enough to want to be in it. We rarely punish, but when we do…it is bad. I just put her in her place is all…Switch! Advance parrying! Groups of three!" She finished her talking and switched their practice. "There is something I need to urgently attend to, drill for five minutes. Then you can rest." She turned and left the room as they started fighting.
"Why are you here?" She said looking at an empty corner of a hallway.
"Honestly…I can't hide from you…" the voice came from the corner as a wall of light appeared then retracted back into Ichigo's palm. "How did you see through kyokko?"
"I felt you enter the building. Why are you here, Kira said you would be busy dealing with his kido for around seven hours…"
"I have my own kido too, maybe I'll show you one day…but what did you do to that girl that ran by earlier?"
"I put her in her place. No more questions. There are some people that you should meet, don't kill them please." She grabbed his arm and pulled him inside, none of the students noticed him go stand in the back of the room and use Kyokko again.
"Kurosaki-sensei! We've finished our drills, what do you want us to do now?"
"I brought someone with me, look around, if any of you notice where and who it is, I will recommend you for a spot in my squad on graduation." Everyone started to look around after a few minutes; they all looked back at her clueless.
"I guess you'll have to get into my squad the normal way…" Ichigo said from the middle of the group, completely unhidden from them. Half of them were started and jumped back. "I just came to get away from the after effects of Izuru's kido, why exactly did you want me to meet them; you're just filling in, right?" Ichigo had still not registered as not an illusion to some of the students who kept poking him to see if he was real or not. "Stop poking me! I'm real, okay!"
"I just figured you could use the instruction of a captain, since he seemed intent on watching us."
"If I have too…" Ichigo drew his swords and attacked one of the students, then he felt a huge power surround the room. "What…wait, no why right now…I have to leave now, or Kenpachi will bring this half of the building down! Bye!" Ichigo ran out of the room and down the hall to find the door leading out. Kenpachi was standing there, glaring angrily at him from one eye.
"You little shit! Just because you're faster than me doesn't mean I can't find you! Now let's continue!" Kenpachi didn't let Ichigo say anything before rushing him down. Ichigo dodged, but didn't manage to prevent Kenpachi from destroying the ground in front of the academy leaving a deep crater.
"Damn, wait until we get back to my barracks, I want to test the new battlefield I have."
"Alright, but no bullshitting me this time!"
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"Yumai-chan! Did you feel that!?" One of Yumai's classmates, Ta Zenku, a short girl with brown shoulder length hair and blue eyes.
"Did that bother you Ta-chan?"
"How couldn't it bother you? What was that!?"
"Oh, it was my friend getting in a fight with squad eleven again most likely…I'm around him so much that his strength doesn't bother me…" Yumai went back to stabilizing an orb of energy in her hands that Ta made her disrupt. Ta on the other hand, her hands were a bit charred from her kido orb from exploding due to her being startled by the outburst of power. Same with most of the others in the class, Izuru just sighed and went around seeing if anyone hurt themselves, only a few students needed to be healed, the others would be fine.
"Yumai-san, Ta-san, do either of you know what that was?" Izuru asked as he approached them.
"It felt like I was being hit by a truck…" Ta said as she regained control of her kido.
"It was my ever-protective captain of a roommate, and that Kenpachi who keeps trying to kill him." At this point Ta's kido exploded again.
"YOU LIVE WITH A CAPTAIN!?" She grabbed Yumai's arms but didn't disrupt her kido controlling.
"She stays with Ichigo Kurosaki, captain of squad five. Is that a problem, Ta-san?" Izuru asked as healed the burns on her face from the explosion, which she didn't even notice until he healed her, Yumai gave him a dirty glance, which he knew that she was thinking that he was doing 'that' again. He turned to her and mouthed the words 'calm down' and smiled awkwardly.
"N-no…I've heard about him…He's got a really nice body, when it's not covered in blood that is." She stammered on her words and Yumai laughed. She leaned in to whisper something to Yumai
"I prefer him with the blood…And I think so, meet me outside after…this is the final class of the day…isn't it? No, theres one more…Meet me outside after that!" Yumai was speaking when the bells chimed to dismiss them to the next class.
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"Yumai-san, has Ta-san always been this slow?" Izuru asked as he waited with her for the girl. There was a large group of students standing around the huge crater Kenpachi made.
"Somewhat…There she is! Ta-chan!" Yumai called to her friend who she saw off in the distance. Ta started to run over to her, and they eventually started walking.
"What's this? Yumai-chan, is Kira-sensei walking you home?" Ta asked in a taunting tone.
"Yes, he is. He needs to talk to Ichigo, so he's walking there with us." The three of them started walking to the fifth squad barracks, Ta was receiving strange looks as she had never been near one of the barracks before and nobody recognized her. Everyone however, knew Yumai, because for a while she never left Ichigo's side. After they walked for about an hour, Izuru didn't want to carry two of them, he was fine with one, but not two, and they had to pass by the fourth squad barracks. They had turned a corner to find Ichigo sitting unconscious against a wall, covered in blood.
"Kira-Sensei! Captain Kurosaki…he is…heal him!" Ta shouted from the rear.
'This is how he broke free from her?' Izuru thought as he bent down to heal him. His hand started glowing and he put it on Ichigo's forehead.
"What the hell? Get off me! Why won't anyone let me sleep, anywhere?" Ichigo cursed as he woke up, but didn't open his eyes, but when he did he stopped shouting. "Oh, hey Izuru, Yumai, and who I assume is a friend of Yumai?" Ichigo stood up and wiped his blood covered face off to reveal no cuts at all.
"If you have no cuts and are fine, why were you covered in blood and hunched against a wall?"
"Because people don't bother me when I'm unconscious after battle." Ichigo gave Yumai a quick glance back and forth between her and Izuru, and she mouthed the word 'no' "I'm sorry, I didn't get your name?"
"My name…name is Ta Zenku! I'm in the same kido class as Yumai-chan with Kira-sensei. Nice to meet you!" her face grew bright red when he gave her a little smile.
"Well, since…Kira-sensei…woke me up, he'll be undoing that kido surprise he left me this morning…right? Kira-sensei?"
"Speaking of which, how did you escape?"
"You're not the only one with an influential kido…" he turned and waved then disappeared after muttering something under his breath.
"I don't like the sound of that…" Izuru and the other two continued walking to the fifth squad, when suddenly Izuru couldn't move.
"Kira-sensei wha-" Izuru saw Ta turn around to ask him, then she froze in place, and so did Yumai.
"What is this…What is this!?" He looked at the two in front of him as they exploded into a shower of blood. He managed to close his eyes, and they were forced open by the feeling of hands on his shoulders.
"Kira-sensei! Are you okay? You collapsed and you looked like you were in pain…" Ta was sitting on the ground next to him and since they were near squad four still, Yumai went and got Unohana.
"Lieutenant Kira, why did you collapse, you seem fine?" Unohana had said as she arrived with Yumai.
"I…don't know…"
"Shiromi Hanten" Ichigo spoke as he leaned against a wall. "As I said, you're not the only one with influential kido." I can make you see and feel what I want you to, but the only drawback is the target must have a distracted mind for them to let me play with the senses…Just like you." Ichigo gave a smirk then walked over to Yumai and gave her a hug; he wasn't covered in blood anymore. Ta seemed really jealous.
"Captain Kurosaki! Hi again!" Ta blurted out not knowing what to say to him.
"Hello, Ta, that's an interesting name…is it short for anything?" Ichigo turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Surprisingly no, my full name is actually Ta Zenku!" she replied with a smile, Unohana had left, since it was an illusion that made him collapse.
"Were you coming back to the barracks with Yumai?" She nodded so, much to her surprise he grabbed her and put her on his back, he didn't have his zanpakuto with him anymore, not since he first disappeared a minute ago. She was stuttering and couldn't form a sentence.
"Wh-a what are- you doing? C-c-c-captain…?"
"Izuru, carry Yumai, let's go…" the end of his sentence was missed because he had disappeared to his barracks. He and Ta waited outside for a while before Izuru showed up.
"You move too fast." Izuru let Yumai off his back and she was blushing a little. Ichigo shot a glare at him and he just shook his head.
"You're too slow, come on, but watch out. Kenpachi thinks he's fighting me still." He led them into his barracks and into his office.
"I thought the only thing in his mind was fighting, that doesn't seem completely distracted…"
"I asked him what his favorite color was." Ichigo sat behind his desk, joined by Yumai in the second one, the other two sat on the couch.
"Tell me more about your kido."
"Well, I can slip a suggestion into someone's conscious with it like a message, similar to how a hell butterfly, or Tenteikura. Somewhat like that, basically this little suggestion grows into reality over a few seconds, once they unconsciously acknowledge the thought, they are trapped, until something form the outside brings them out, or I relea...CRAP! I forgot to release Orihime!" Ichigo ran out of the room and to his quarters. He opened the door and she was lying unconscious, naked in the shower, he quickly ran up to her and whispered the words 'Shatter, release, forget.' And her eyes opened up and she gasped when she noticed Ichigo wasn't on her, and she was on the floor, and he was fully dressed.
"What? We. Shower. Eight hours. Dressed?" she couldn't form a sentence at what she thought just happened.
"I'll explain later, get dressed, we have company." Ichigo ran back out of the room and back to his office, to see Ta holding his mask, which Byakuya had remade as a wedding gift to him.
"What is this?" She held the mask over her face and looked at Ichigo.
'This will be fun.' He thought to himself as he slowly manifests his skull and horns.
"My old mask…" he tilted his head a bit to the sides and leaned closer to her, staring at her eyes. "Which Bya-Captain Kuchiki made for me." He faded the skull out, and she had dropped the mask, cracking it slightly. "I actually like it better when I had cracks in it."
"I'm sorry!" Ta put her hands over her mouth to cover a gasp. Ichigo put the mask back on the shelf and Orihime walked in.
"Oh, Kira-san, Yumai-chan…What's your name?" Orihime said happily with a smile as she sat on Ichigo's desk.
"You're so pretty!" Ta Jumped up and grabbed her hand in hers. "I heard that his wife was beautiful but I've never seen her! Oh, sorry! My name is Ta Zenku!" at this Orihime just giggled and shot a disapproving glance at Izuru who promptly looked away.
"Thank you Ta-chan! You can visit anytime you want, as long as it's okay with the academy or whoever you stay with." Orihime shifted a little to move out of the way, she was directly in front of Ichigo, which means he couldn't see the ones on the small couch.
"Izuru, do you have any offensive Kaizo Kido?" Ichigo asked as he arced a blue wave of lightning between his fingers, which amazed the others in the room, to the point of begging him to do it again, which he did of course.
"No…Just that one, and another one which just removes nightmares for a night or so…not useful as much anymore, since I left the fourth, I'm sure you know about Lieutenant Kotetsu's nightmares, anyway, nobody in my division has frequent nightmares like her, so I haven't had to use it recently. It's actually similar to that…Shitori Hanko…Or whatever you said."
"Shiromi Hanten, and that sounds cool, if you can't tell, I'm trying to develop my own Kaizo Kido, utilizing Byakurai, and something I figured out I could do with my Bankai, so it might as well be a Bankai exclusive Kido…I don't even have a name for it, but at the rate I'm going, I should have it somewhat finished in a few years, the form and execution at least."
"I look forward to it…actually, now that I think about it; we have never fought have we?" Izuru had a little smirk on his face and Ichigo raised an eyebrow to think.
"no…I've never fought you…I did hear that you are a very skilled fighter, but they refused to tell me what your Shikai does…" Ichigo had started scratching his head then thought of something. "Hey, maybe if I can get Kenpachi out of my battlefield in the back, without him attacking me, we could treat the students to a good fight." Ichigo sent a hell butterfly to someone to see if Kenpachi was still there. A minute later, someone had stood in front of the door.
"Captain Kurosaki! Captain Zaraki is unconscious, but laughing furiously on the ground in your battlefield, nobody wanted to go near him, sir!"
"Very well! Tell them not to disturb him." Ichigo called through the door then stood up. "If you don't mind I'll be right back." He opened a garganta and stepped through, he figured that since he could open them anywhere, he could use them to teleport around.
"Did he just…open up a garganta…couldn't only arrancars do that…?" Ta asked, obviously very confused.
"He does that from time to time, he does it because he can move around undetected from place to place, maybe he's hoping to get near Kenpachi without him being noticed and waking him up." Orihime had said as she took his chair. "I'm not sure I need to tell you, but Ichigo is probably the most diverse captain when it comes to how he does things, usually likes to sneak up on people, completely undetectable for a few minutes, teleporting with gargantas…befriending espada…" The part about the Espada slightly bothered Ta. "And how he doesn't want to be healed unless he can't move, which really worries me that he'll overdo it sometimes."
Ichigo Came out of the garganta in the Las Noches Throne room, Tier was gone, and her fraccion were asleep, he planned to ask Tier if another Eletera died, but she wasn't there so he continued on. When he came back out, he was next to the laughing captain.
"Shatter, release, forget." With this Kenpachi woke up, looked completely confused as he looked to where he thought Ichigo was and where he now stood, clean and uncut.
"Red." Is all Kenpachi said before standing up and walking away, because even he did not want to fight after Ichigo had played with his head, he didn't know that of course. Kenpachi just walked away slowly, which of all the things to happen to Ichigo recently, that was the weirdest.
"Huh, interesting…" Ichigo didn't bother with the garganta again, instead he slowly walked through the halls back to the office. When he got there he found a small box with a note that read
'Screw yourself, Kurosaki –from Captain Kurostuchi.'
"Well okay than…" Ichigo picked up the box and went in the office to find the three girls talking about him, Izuru looked annoyed, to which Ichigo couldn't help but let a small chuckle out.
"Whats in the box?" Yumai asked as he set it on the desk. Ichigo just shrugged and started opening it, after he picked up the note and burned it with a little surge of the Kaizo Byakurai he was working on.
"Oh…Unohana must have made him do this." Ichigo held what looked like a sleeve with little mouths on the inside of it. "I won't use it now, Izuru, battlefield is clear, shall we go?" He just nodded and the two of them walked out, dragging the girls with them, Orihime said she had to go ask Unohana something so she didn't follow.
"Ichigo, do you know anything at all about my Shikai?" Izuru looked to Ichigo with a
"Nothing other than the shape, which I think is pretty damn cool." They came to the battlefield and sat the girls on the edge, far enough away so that they would be safe from just about everything, short of a 90's level Kido, but the chances he would have to use that kido were around 0.001%. Ichigo sent a hell butterfly to Unohana to tell her to come and heal Izuru after they finished.
"Alright." The two took their fighting stances, Izuru held his sword in front of him with both hands, however to him, Ichigo didn't have a stance, he just held the left sword pointed at him and the right one nearly touching the ground. After a few seconds of nothing Ichigo flew at him, swinging the right one, causing a sharp sound to ring throughout the battlegrounds. He tried to push Ichigo back but Ichigo stabbed at him with the other one, barely missing his right arm.
"I'm not going to hold back! I want you to do the same!" Ichigo yelled as he stabbed the right sword into the ground and pointed a finger at him, four or five Byakurai shot out at Izuru as he dodged them, Ichigo grabbed the sword and charged him again. Izuru dodged every swing and stab, and had managed to land a small hit on Ichigo's chest, blood spilled out, but what caught Izuru off guard is that the wound closed insanely quick, leaving a small scar.
"Instant Regeneration? You shouldn't be…" He was going to say, that his claw was just what his body had produced to replace his hand, and he shouldn't be able to use that ability without a further transformation. Then he noticed the eyes. They were pitch black. "I see, you are very hard to figure out."
"I have an image to uphold, as the most interesting captain at least." Ichigo said in a joking tone, which even earned an awkward laugh from his opponent.
"I'll give you that one… Raise your head, Wabisuke!" Izuru released his Shikai and the square blade formed. Ichigo stopped rushing him down, since he had no clue about what the ability was. Ichigo shot at him bringing down both swords on his, causing his feet to dig into the ground. Ichigo jumped back when he saw his eye shift to his sword.
"I…what does it do?" Ichigo asked loudly and annoyed.
"I'll eventually tell you!" Izuru charged at Ichigo and swung at him, slightly slower than he should be, but just quick enough that it couldn't be dodged easily, after a few seconds of attacking, he backed off and Ichigo sheathed the left sword, then he fell to the ground under the weight of his two swords, bringing his hand to the ground under his right sword, and his body, because he sheathed the left one.
"What the hell?" Ichigo asked quickly as Izuru walked up to him slowly.
"How many times did you block and strike my Shikai?" Ichigo was silent. "Ten times for the right, and seven for the left. I'm surprised you held them for so long, and that your bones haven't shattered. My Shikai doubles the weight of anything it touches."
"Moon be Black, Heaven's Cry, Zangetsu!" The two swords had dissolved into a light and Ichigo stood up and put his hand into the mass of light, pulling out his Shikai, which wasn't heavy like the two swards were. "Getsuga…" Izuru tried to escape but didn't get out of the way in time. "Tenshou!" the giant wave of energy slammed into his back, causing him to scream, he had managed to turn around and use Enkosen, but it didn't hold the entire attack, only the last half of it.
"How can you hold that now!? That should be twice the weight since it's both merged!"
"Not exactly, it is a completely different sword! When I use my Shikai, this sword manifests as the other two disappear to make the pocket dimension that hold it, at least that's how it seems..." He flipped the blade down and did the familiar hand motion of Gesshoku. The tar like substance dripped to the ground and climbed the blade.
"I'm not sure I like where this is going…" Izuru charged him to hit the sword as much as he could before Ichigo could do whatever he was going to do, but when the blades met, Izuru couldn't remove his sword from him, as if they were glued together, they basically were, as the tar climbed over his sword and onto his back, as soon as he felt Ichigo let his sword go from his, he tried to remove the piece of his uniform with the tar.
"Mangetsu!" The tar spread over his back and around the front of his neck and exploded, sending him flying into the ground making a crater, Ichigo let his sword hang low to the ground, since it had doubled in weight.
"Damn…That's one powerful attack…" the top of his uniform was gone, most of it at least, only some shreds remained, which he brushed off. He sealed his Shikai and attacked Ichigo, who couldn't block every attack since, it seemed the Shikai effect remained until he was unconscious. Izuru managed to cut up Ichigo's chest quick enough to make him lose a fair amount of blood before it healed up. Izuru was about to deliver a giant slash to Ichigo's shoulder when he felt a cracking and a massive pain before flying back into one of the walls, Ichigo had kicked him in the ribs and broke one or two of them.
"I didn't realize you would be this troublesome in battle, glad I'm on your side…" Ichigo raised his heavy sword slowly, it had doubled weight a few times already, causing Ichigo to struggle to keep it raised for a second. "…Time for the finale…" Ichigo was breathing heavily, and paled slightly from the loss of blood.
"Crap." Izuru wanted to distance himself from Ichigo; he knew that being too close to him when he released that Bankai could break your bones, with just the release of it and how somehow he made his spiritual pressure completely solid.
"BANKAI!" The black pillar appeared and subsided, Ichigo's hair got slightly shorter, since it went to how it was in after the Dangai, it got shorter, because Ichigo grew his hair slightly longer so it hung down past his eyes if he wanted it to. Slowly he manifested the rest of his hollow traits, the arms, hands, skull and horns. Although his body wasn't completely white, he had the black markings on his chest now; the release of his Bankai's lightning had ripped up the remains of his top. "Tensa zangetsu."
"Raise your head, Wabisuke!" He activated his Shikai again and stood cautiously waiting for Ichigo to charge him. Instead Ichigo disappeared, this shocked everyone, Izuru, Yumai , Ta and Unohana, who had shown up a minute ago, were dumbfounded, he was gone, not anywhere, suddenly around ten of him appeared surrounding Izuru. They were just standing there, it looked similar to what he did with Byakuya, but he didn't look like he was moving, just like he cloned himself.
"By my will, strike them down, all the while, sustaining the heart. Bring before, the one to end. Six spears, five chains, four birds, three dragons, two wolves, one to end the song." The ten clones all pointed their swords at him, and started glowing in a white light, but it wasn't white, it was black, but not white, it had no color, just form.
"What the hell is this!?" Izuru didn't want to move, since there were ten Ichigos around him.
"Hakushoku Yari Sogi*" Each of the clones slammed their swords into the ground and started to disappear, until one remained, the real Ichigo, the ground started to form a crack that made its way to Izuru.
"What is this!?" He tried to escape only to see that around his feet there was a yellow chain of energy, Ichigo had sent Hainawa through the ground to hold in from moving.
"Sameru**." And six giant white spears of energy started flying at him from multiple directions and pierced him all over his body. Izuru let out a blood curdling scream of pain for the spears broke both his arms as they were the only two spots where the spears went through bone, the other four spears pierced his torso in various places. The three watching could do nothing but gasp as the spears retracted from him. Cauterizing the wounds as they pulled out.
"Kira-sensei!" Ta shrieked as she ran over to him, but was beaten by Unohana who immediately started healing him. Yumai was just standing where they were, just looking empty, not full understanding what she just saw. Ichigo released his Bankai but forgot he had transformed so he kneeled down next to the two of them.
"He will live. My kido avoids internal organs and cauterizes the wounds they make so they do not cause the target to bleed out and die. It's essentially a modified version of Hyapporankan, used as a Hado instead of Bakudo, it forces the target to submission, the only problem is how long it takes to activate, hence my Flash Clones, causing him to think he would die if he made a run for it." Ichigo explained as Unohana had been healing the left arm, Izuru was still conscious and heard this.
"How many Kaizo Kido do you have…?" He asked as he coughed up some blood, a result of the explosion from earlier.
"The two I used today are the only two I have perfected. The illusion inducing one, is similar to a healing kido, which means it can can be used as a painkiller for others. The one you saw in my office cannot be used in combat just yet. I can't seem to get it working for combat without an incantation, which will be difficult, I stayed up a week straight trying to get this incantation to work…"
"It's as you said earlier…I'm glad I'm on your side." Izuru managed to laugh a little, Ichigo started to help healing him, even though his minimal knowledge in healing, he helped anyway, even if a little, it still helped him.
"Ichigo…I'm glad you called me out here, it would probably cause a panic to see a bloody captain carrying a bloody lieutenant full of holes. But I can't help but be curious as to what the other Kaizo Kido you possess is, can you show me?" She asked curiously as she healed his arm still. Yumai had made her way over and started to help, she had a better knowledge of healing kido than Ichigo, since Izuru taught her in healing more than combat.
"Yumai, don't worry, he'll be fine, and plus, he knew what he was getting into when he agreed to fight me…" Ichigo coughed up some blood as he reverted his hollow features. "At least you have a few days off from the academy so he should be able to go back to teaching when it resumes, if he can teach that is, and Retsu, I would rather not show you right now, I'll come by later and show you. Not this one of course, the other two!" Ichigo gave a small laugh and coughed up more blood onto the ground next to him.
"Maybe you should head to my barracks and get healed, Orihime is talking with Isane, I'm sure they would be glad to heal you." Unohana didn't take her eyes off Izuru.
"No, I'll be okay, I am the reason he is like this, even though I can't heal much, I want to help. Oh, and forget what I said by two of the Kaizo are perfected, I forgot that one of them doesn't affect someone with a focused mind." He spoke at Izuru who nodded a little. Unohana was annoyed as Ichigo coughed up some more blood next to her, and she sent a hell butterly to Isane
'Bring Orihime to Ichigo's battlefield, both of you are to heal him, I'm busy with healing Izuru's severe wounds.' Within five minutes the two of them came and were shocked at the blood sustained ground where the group was kneeling. Ichigo coughed up some more blood, which made Orihime rush over to him and pull him out of the pool of his blood and made him lay down, Isane and her started healing right away, all of his injuries were internal since he had been healing his external wounds during the fight.
"What happened!?" Isane asked Unohana as she started on Izuru's right arm.
"As you can obviously see, a bloodbath. It was an interesting fight from what the girls tell me, I was only here for him to activate his Bankai and do this to him, which although seems to have caused a mortal injury, is not fatal at all, the wounds were cauterized, and all internal organs were avoided. Ichigo used a Kaizo Kido that he seems to have perfected without anyone knowing about it, my guess is he started using his Kaizo to one up Izuru's Kaizo kido...you know, that one…which he probably caused Ichigo a ton of problems with." Ichigo remained silent, not wanting to give any information on the matter.
"Something like that, although I had another use for the one I used to counter his, I also used it to distract Kenpachi out of fighting me." Ichigo said from his position on the ground. He was done healing and stood up much before Unohana had managed to finish with Izuru's right arm. Isane and Orihime went on to help heal him.
"Ex-excuse me…Captain…Kurosaki?" Ta was standing behind him crossing her arms a little.
"Yeah? What's wrong Ta?" Ichigo bent down to her, since she was being so quiet.
"It's getting late, and Kira-sensei said he would take me home when he left, but…he can't move at all and…" she wasn't done speaking when Ichigo cut her off.
"Oh, sorry about that, and yes I'll take you home, but do you mind if I clean the blood off first and change?" Ichigo asked as they started walking back into the barracks, and she nodded, he took her to his quarters and told her to wait outside.
"I'll be out in a second, I'm going to rinse off quickly and get some new clothes. I'll be out in a minute." He went in and shut the door, not locking it, he thought she was timid enough to just sit there and not open the door. He was right for the most part. She started to look around and noticed his zanpakuto were outside the door for some reason, so she picked them up and reached for the door. She couldn't hear the shower due to all the soundproofing that was in the room and door. She slowly opened to door with one hand, his swords in her other arm.
"Umm. Captai.." What she saw made her blush and freeze, she let out a little shriek as she watched him rinse his body of the blood, most of which wasn't his. Ichigo heard this shriek and turned around to look for the noise, he saw her holding his swords and blushing, frozen in the same position she had come in to the room as. Ichigo didn't realize what was going on immediately, but eventually realized, he used Kyokko and disappeared. She slightly stopped blushing and set his swords against the wall and turned around and fell to her knees. Ichigo didn't want to get out of the shower and have her see him, but she wouldn't get out, and if he moved, Kyokko would undo itself; he wasn't proficient enough with it to move and keep it active at the same time.
"Ta, are you okay? I can't move and hide with this at the same time…I don't want you to see anything, so can you please step out?" Ichigo spoke from behind his Kido but she didn't respond.
'Why isn't there a door here anyway?' he thought to himself as he questioned the positioning of the shower.
"Fo…forgi…forgive me…forgive me…" she broke into tears and started shaking on the floor.
"Forgive you for what? It was an accident! But can you please leave?" Ichigo was bothered by her sudden tears.
"Forgive me…forgive me…" She suddenly stopped and stood up, she turned around and was facing Ichigo. Her eyes were different. Her eyes had become angry, and the way she stood wasn't like her from what he saw before.
"What are yo-" He was interrupted by her when she abruptly spoke.
"Oh, Captain Kurosaki this! And Captain Kurosaki that! This bitch never stops thinking about you! So I'll just fulfill her wish for her and join you in there! She keeps me held inside usually but what she just saw of you was enough for me to break out! My name is Tamara; Ta is just a sweet little girl who has a huge crush on you! I'll act on her wishes!" Her voice had changed to something more serious and didn't stutter when she spoke to him like she always had.
"What the hell?" Ichigo was still reluctant to move, even when she started walking to him.
"Oh, you will love it, and so will she! I know where you are, just stay there…" she started pulling off her uniform and Ichigo undid his kido, and grabbed a nearby towel, wrapping it around himself.
"Shiromi Hanten!" He held up his hand and she froze for a second and collapsed. He was making her think that she was still with Unohana and the others. He put on some boxers, sweatpants and his coat. He was in a hurry to get her out of here that he didn't have time to put on his full uniform. He carefully pulled her uniform back into place and picked her up, and ran out the door. Eventually finding Unohana and the others, she had started to heal his torso where the other four spears had impaled him, one of the holes was gone, which meant they finished three of the wounds.
"Ichigo…What happened to her!?" Orihime saw him holding her and she ran up to him.
"I have no damn clue! I told her to wait outside my room while I rinsed all the blood off and she came inside to give me my zanpakuto, which somehow I left them outside, and she didn't hear the shower, because Shunsui decided to soundproof the hell out of that room as a sick joke. After she froze and made a noise, I hid with kyokko, and she turned around and stopped, fell over and then she started talking weird and said her name was Tamara, and that Ta wasn't there, she tried to take off her clothes and join me in the shower, I managed to use Shiromi Hanten on her, I made her think that she was with you the whole time with it, and once I release the kido from her, I'm not sure who or what will be there…She is somewhat locked in her own mind right now..." Ichigo was talking really fast, he was incredibly confused by this, Unohana stood up and put her hand on her head and did something as her hand started to glow green.
"She has a sever Dissociative Identity Disorder, I guess the shock of seeing you naked sent her mind into a spiral and brought out 'Tamara'...could you release her from this mental prison you say she's locked in?" Ichigo set her on the ground and stood up and held his hand to her.
"Shatter, release, forget." She woke up quickly and looked around confused, just like everyone else he did that to. "Are you Ta or Tamara?"
"Ta…" she replied as she blushed, remembering what just happened, but soon stopped when she remembered she was over there with them, but now lying on the floor a few feet away.
"It seems she's back, I wonder how she keeps Tamara out during the academy hours…" Unohana said as Yumai rushed over and helped her up and pulled her into a hug.
"She can keep her inside if she keeps her mind relatively calm, at the academy her mind is kept busy by the classes, when she's out, however, if she gets emotional or embarrassed, or some strong emotion, and can't concentrate, Tamara comes out and takes over for a while. She told me about this when I asked if she wanted to do something after the last class one day, she refused and told me that, I was a little surprised when she said that she wanted to meet you, she had a small crush on you so I agreed to bring her. I didn't realize this would happen."
"It's okay, Yumai, I'll still take her back, I know how to bring Ta out again, so It will be fine." He turned back to Ta, who was still confused as to what happened, even though he explained it earlier. "Where do you live?"
"District 1 north Rukongai." Ichigo grabbed her and put her on his back again and sped off to where she lived.
…
"Izuru, I would like to suggest you get some rest for a day or two, would you like to stay in my barracks or do you have somewhere you want to go?" Unohana asked him as she helped him up, this was a few hours later, only Yumai was with her now, the others had gone to talk to Ichigo when he got back.
"I don't know, whatever you think is good." He responded slowly as he still was going to have a horrible pain where he was pierced.
"He can stay in one of our spare rooms! The one next to the captain's quarters is empty!" Yumai had spoken up to the two of them. Izuru just nodded, and Unohana raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure? You would have to change his bandages every few hours, even if his wounds don't reopen, just check, and replace the bandages. Are you okay with that?" She had Isane bring some bandages for him since she didn't want to move him much.
"It's fine, I've replaced Ichi-dono's bandages once, it wasn't that hard to do, and they were covering most of his body…I'll be fine!" Unohana nodded and followed Yumai to the room with him, she lay him on the bed and left, leaving the two of them alone.
"Yumai-san, this isn't an excuse for you to get in my bed is it?" he chuckled through his pain. Yumai looked a little sad as she sat down next to him on the bed.
"I feel bad, I knew Ichi-dono doesn't hold back against his opponents; however I had no idea he was going to do something like that…" She felt a tear roll down her cheek, which Izuru managed to reach up and wipe away. "I'm sorry, I just don't want to see you hurt like that, even though I knew you were going to survive, it was tearing me up inside…"
"Yumai-san…It's okay, I'm fine now, just a little sore, that's all…" he pressed his hand to her cheek and smiled a little. "If he was gentle with his fights…never mind…He doesn't like to acknowledge it, but…" he slightly moved his hand a little causing her to smile. "He soon will be, if not already is, the strongest living Shinigami in any of the squads…he'll probably at one point be asked to be captain commander…But I have a feeling he will refuse the position, he probably already knows he will refuse it when he's offered it…" he stopped speaking when Yumai placed her finger over his mouth.
"Stop talking, you need to rest…" Yumai ran her hand up to his hair and pushed his bangs out of his face, she just smiled and started running her and through his hair, which he seemed to enjoy because he closed his eyes and had a small smile. "I'm going to change and I'll be back, okay?" he just nodded and watched her leave.
"She's different from the rest…she might be right for me." He said to himself as he watched the door for her to come back. After a minute she came back in a tank top and sweatpants. He wasn't sure if she forgot her bra on purpose or not, but he kept his composure and didn't stare at her.
"Izuru, why did you push your hair back down…" she said as she walked up and sat on the bed, pushing his hair back again. "I like it like this…"
"Alright…but, do you…know that you aren't wearing a bra?" he said as he tried to keep looking at her face. She looked down and blushed a little, covering them, but not leaving.
"I guess I'm so used to sleeping without one, I just forgot to put one on…" She slowly dropped her arms back to her sides. "I guess I'll go put one on." She stood up and quickly went out of the room. Izuru reluctantly nodded at her actions. She came back in and sat on the bed again. "Sorry about that…I guess I forgot!" she was laughing as Izuru took her hand in his.
"I didn't mind that much, I mean, whatever you're comfortable with, I'll be fine with." She started to squeeze his hand tighter and stared him in the eyes.
"I'll remember that…do you…do you, promise to stay by me?" she said, her laugh and smile gone to a serious expression.
"Of course! Yumai-sa…Yumai. What makes you ask that?" He looked a bit confused, but proud that he started calling her with just her name.
"Nothing…I'm happy! Thank you…" She stood up and went to the other side of the bed and lay down next to him, she put her arm over his chest.
"Yu-" Izuru was going to ask what she was doing, but he was interrupted by her fingers on his lips.
"I said be quiet…you need rest. What's so wrong with me just laying here?" she didn't move her fingers and they stayed on his lips while she moved closer to him.
"Nothing's wrong with it. I was just surprised…" he said through her fingers, not opening his mouth much as to keep them out of his mouth.
"I'm just going to sleep here…don't expect anything tonight…I still don't completely forgive you." She said as she removed her hand from his mouth and turned over on her stomach, her arm wrapping around him.
"I don't think I could try something even if I wanted to, I mean, I can hardly move on my own right now…but, what about Ichigo? Will he get mad that you're sleeping in the same bed as me?"
"He said he won't interfere, and I'm not a little girl." She had taken off her visor and set it next to the bed, she moved her head to him so it was resting next to his, facing him he was facing her.
"Yumai, I'm really happy that you are here with me…" He leaned in and kissed her forehead, which caused her to smile widely.
"I'm happy about that too…I'm really tired, I'm going to go to sleep, should I move over, am I causing any pain?" She asked slowly and quietly.
"No, right here is fine…" Izuru spoke to the ceiling and he felt Yumai shift anyway, he noticed that he could see her back, she had took off her bra and threw it on the floor, but she forgot to pull her shirt down. He managed to reach over and do it for her.
"Goodnight…" she moved slightly closer to him and started drifting into sleep
"Goodnight." By the time he said this, she was already asleep.
'I wish this happened without me getting impaled by spears…' He thought to himself as he gradually slipped into sleep.
…
Yumai woke up before he did and she reached around and found her visor, she put it on and saw that he was smiling in his sleep, Yumai didn't realize that at one point in the night, she had turned over and her tank top had shifted revealing her left breast. She didn't notice until she stood up and looked on the floor for her bra. With a silent gasp she fixed it and started to put her bra back on, but she stopped.
"No point in wearing this now…we slept together I wasn't wearing it." she spoke to herself as she threw it into a corner of the room, and sat on the bed running her hand through his hair. After a few minutes he woke up. "Hey, good morning, did you sleep well?" She asked softly as he opened up his eyes.
"Yeah... I did, good morning." He tried sitting up, after a few seconds he could do it.
"I need to change your bandages…Can I go ahead and do it now?" she asked as she started to take off his uniform to get to them, they covered most of his chest arms and a little lower than his waist, when she noticed that he was…saluting…her she stopped and sat down on the bed.
"What's wrong? Why did you stop?" He looked at her blushing face and looked down, then realized why she had stopped. "Oh…Sorry! That's what happens in the morning! It happens to all guys!"
'I know it happens to all guys…I've seen Ichi-dono's many times, usually on accident but I never acted like this! Well, if it's the morning that's why he's like this, it could be alright, it will go down eventually…Right!?' She thought to herself as she slowly stood back up and removed his uniform so she could get his bandages off, she only removed his Hakama enough to see where the bandages stopped, not wanting a face full of Izuru. Yet.
"Nothing's wrong!" she went to a shelf on the other side of the room and grabbed a small box that Unohana had left, it had a few rolls of bandages.
…
Izuru was sitting on the edge of the bed while she was putting the box back with a bright red face.
"Maybe…next time I change those…you could maybe catch me if I trip and land on your lap…" While she was changing the bandages on his waist she tripped over something and her face landed in his lap, her lips basically on the last place she wanted them to be, but she didn't move away. After some thinking, she made eye contact with him which basically said 'this is going to happen' and his eyes went wide and he nodded.
"I'm sorry about that! I didn't realize that you tripped, or slipped, also, can you help me walk to Ichigo's office?" She turned and nodded to him, her face wasn't as red as before and she put his arm around her and helped him out. She was getting stares again, probably because of Izuru she thought. Nope, she wasn't wearing a bra again, and the thin material was pulled aside by him and again she was exposed. Nobody said anything to her because if she took it offensively they would have to deal with Ichigo, so they didn't pursue the cause of what she did anymore. She came to Ichigo's office and opened the door slowly came in with Izuru and set him on the couch and went to close the door, then she sat on his desk and waited for him to come.
"I wonder if he'll come anytime soon…" She said as she stretched and yawned.
"You probably shouldn't wear that when you go walking around without a bra on." Izuru said as he eyed her, she sat up and sighed, realizing she forgot to put it back on. She got up and walked to the back of the room to look at the books he had.
"Damn, well it's not like I wanted to do that, 'something' distracted me!" She yelled at him flailing her arms around. Izuru just laughed as she crossed her arms at him after a few seconds Ichigo walked in with his eyes on the floor, still half asleep. He shot a glance at Yumai which couldn't have lasted more than half a second.
"You're not wearing a bra again Yumai. Hey Izuru, sleep well?" he had a small chuckle in his voice at the end when he asked the question.
"That's amazing Ichigo…you didn't look at her for a second and you knew that." He said as she came and sat down without a book, not finding one she wanted to read.
"She shares a room with me and Orihime, I offered her the room you two slept in yesterday, but she refused. She has no modesty around me, which does get annoying, but I don't honestly care, I've spent enough time with Yoruichi for this to not bother me, so I know too much…" Ichigo explained as he put his head down on the desk awaiting Orihime's arrival.
"Didn't get much sleep last night I assume?" Yumai had asked sarcastically.
"I don't think they did anything, I didn't hear a thing." Izuru spoke as Yumai put his arm around her.
"That's just it; you wouldn't hear anything unless you were either in the room or an inch from the door." Ichigo had explained how soundproofed the room was when she confronted him about his loud actions in the shower with Orihime, telling him to be quiet with her or someone would hear.
"I assume you were in the same position, judging from your lack of a bra and red face." Ichigo said, still not looking at them.
"Why do you think that!? And how are you seeing this without even looking at me!?" She screamed at him and he just turned his head to her.
"Because you forgot to put your bra on after that shower session thing, and that was because of him, your face was the same shade of red as it is now, and you just spent the night in his bed, and you show up without a bra again, and are denying it heavily." He put his head back to its original position and her face grew even redder, Izuru was just laughing. Yumai didn't want to say what she had done with him, for some reason, Izuru made her act like a normal girl, with some degree of modesty and embarrassment.
"Amazing…He's good at this." Izuru mentioned as Yumai just sat there with her mouth hanging open.
"No, I heard. When I went to go see if you were up, I heard through your door. I was being considerate and went back to my room and fell asleep." Yumai went to get a book to throw at him and Orihime came in, she locked her eyes on Ichigo and kissed him. Even though her eyes were closed and she was facing Ichigo, she pulled away for a second, still facing him.
"You're not wearing a bra, good morning…Kira-sensei." She laughed and went back to her kiss.
"I don't even care anymore…I get it!" she dropped the book she was holding and removed her shirt and threw it at Ichigo, it draped over his head as he pulled from the kiss, Orihime sat next to him and pulled the shirt off of him and threw it at Izuru, who was busy watching Yumai as she sat next to him and crossed her arms.
"See…no modesty." Ichigo sat up and looked at her. "I hope you aren't pregnant, I don't think I can handle two pregnant women at the same time…"
"Two?" Yumai looked confused, Ichigo smiled and his eyes pointed to Orihime. "Really…You're going to be a dad!" she jumped up and tackled him over the desk, forgetting she wasn't wearing a shirt, she ended up going too far, and Ichigo's face was buried under her.
"Get. Off." Ichigo said, but was muffled. When he moved his mouth she shuddered a little, then jumped off of him and back onto the couch and wrapped her arms around Izuru laughing into his shoulder.
"Now Ichigo, don't sexually harass her! She has Kira-sensei for that!" Orihime started calling him Kira-sensei for some reason that wasn't apparent to anyone.
"But I…Wasn't…I didn't…Whatever…" he got up off the floor from being knocked over by her. "Izuru, is there anything you need? Are you in too much pain, Unohana gave me some strong painkillers if you need them." Ichigo pulled a small bottle from a drawer in his desk and tossed it to him.
"Actually, I'm fine right now…" he said as he wrapped an arm around Yumai and rubbed her back.
"You know, I'm surprised that you didn't get her pregnant sooner, or you always as adept at pulling out as you were th-" She was silenced by Ichigo using Shiromi Hanten. She fell unconscious.
"Ignore that statement. I'm having her think that she's at Shino Academy, but in her current outfit. Minus the shirt." Ichigo stood up and released her. "Adept at what Yumai?" Ichigo said as he ruffled up her hair and went to the bookcase.
"Blasting your load onto Orihime's stomach." Once again she was caught by his kido, this time he put her back in the shower. Izuru held a hand to his mouth to muffle the laughter, Orihime just sighed and blushed a little.
"I can't say I'm shocked at this, but in front of Yumai?" Izuru asked as Ichigo sat back down at his desk.
"She insisted on staying in the room, we woke her, she came to tell us to be quiet and that's what she saw…" Ichigo had found the page he had been on last and started reading.
"Are you going to release her?" He asked as he looked over the unconscious girl in his arms.
"No, you do it. Outside stimulus can break it, just flick her tit-Ah! Why?" Ichigo was talking into his book and when he suggested something for Izuru to do, Orihime smacked him on the back of his head.
"Don't suggest him to do bad things to her!"
"She's doing much worse to herself in her own mind…" Orihime shot him a glare that immediately made him release her. "Shatter, release, forget." Yumai woke up gasping for air and staring at her hands. "Now Yumai, adept at what?"
"I…have no idea what you are talking about…"
* White Spear Funeral
** Wake(Funeral wake)