Hi, it´s Shadow Typhoon. The eight chapter is up. Please review. And enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, but I do own Ryushiro
Dark Ice
Chapter 8: Confrontation
by Shadow Typhoon
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Matsumoto was sitting on the guest bed, which Inoue had found to her. She was in deep thoughts, trying to formulate a plan on how to communicate with Hitsugaya. She wasn´t really sure on how she could do it, but at least she had to try. And then her thoughts fell on Hinamori. Now she knew how the poor girl felt when Aizen abandoned her.
She sighed and got up. She went to the bathroom and when she was finished with changing her clothes, she went down. Renji and Inoue was sitting and eating their breakfast.
"Oi, Matsumoto, ready to fight some arrancar´s and hollows today?" Renji asked with his mouth stuffed with food.
Matsumoto grimaced when some of the food Renji was chewing, was spit out on table while he was talking.
"Jeez, don´t you know, that you mustn't talk with your mouth filled with food?" Matsumoto asked with her hands on her hips.
Renji tried to swallow the food, but ended up choking on it. Inoue had to hit his back to make him stop coughing. Matsumoto laughed, sat down and began eating. When the eating was done, they went out to meet the others.
Hisagi, Yumichika, Ikkaku, Sado, Ishida, Rukia and Ichigo were waiting for them at the school gate. Sado and Ichigo had decided to skip school that day, so Inoue and Ishida tagged along, even if they found it wrong.
"So where are we going first?" Ikkaku said while swinging his wooden sword.
"Be careful with where you swinging that thing", Ichigo said and continued.
"Firstly we are going to Urahara´s shop. We can get some help there, to find out where to start"
And so they did.
Hitsugaya, Ulquiorra, Grimmjow and Szayel were flash stepping through Karakura.
Hitsugaya was in deep thought. He had told Ukitake, in his dream, that he was in the living world along with the 3 other espada. But he still hadn´t told him about Ryushiro and the ice jewel. And it was bothering him.
Why? Because he couldn't explain, why he had acted the way he did. Almost as he was changing. Hitsugaya shook his head to get rid of his thoughts and to focus.
Suddenly he felt some familiar reiatsu´s. He looked and the others and saw a similar reaction.
"Heh, seems to we found the target a lot earlier than expected." Grimmjow licked his lips in excitement.
Szayel pushed his glasses, so the light reflected in them and said: "And now I can test the parasites. It will answer some questions for me"
Ulquiorra nodded and looked Grimmjow in the eyes.
"Remember not to kill the substitute shinigami. Aizen needs him"
Grimmjow growled but had to agree. And then they were off to find their target.
Matsumoto, Inoue, Ichigo, Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Sado, Ishida, Rukia and Urahara were sitting and discussing the problem.
Urahara had designed a new kind of reiatsu locater, which had the all the different kinds of reiatsu stored in it. For example, If Ukitake was nearby, a spot and a name would display on the display.
Urahara powered it up and laid it on the table. Everyone looked at it. 4 spots were moving with an incredible speed towards Urahara´s shop. So fast, that it couldn´t display the names. But the reiatsu was familiar. It was arrancar with very high reiatsu´s, probably espada.
Then suddenly they heard a loud crash. They looked outside and saw the ones, who they had been watching on the display. In front of them stood: Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, Szayel Aporro Grantz, Ulquiorra Schiffer and of course, the ex-captain Hitsugaya Toshiro.
All of the shinigami´s, included Ichigo, popped the small soul candy pill in their mouth and jumped out of their gigai´s/body.
"Getsuga Tensho!"
Ichigo swung his blade and let loose his attacks. The espada dodged them easily and spread out.
Szayel took on Ikkaku and Sado; Grimmjow took on Yumichika, Renji, and Inoue. Ulquiorra took on Matsumoto and Ishida and Hitsugaya took on Ichigo.
And then the fighting began. The whole yards were filled with swords clashing to each other, dust and fighting cries.
Ichigo and Hitsugaya were fighting, but Ichigo could feel, that Hitsugaya wasn´t using his whole strength. He jumped away and launched another attack.
"Getsuga Tensho!"
Hitsugaya unsheathed Hyourinmaru and swiftly cut the attack into bits. Ichigo was stunned when he saw Hyourinmaru´s new form.
"How?" Ichigo knew, that zanpukatou's just didn´t change appearance from one day to another, so how could Hyourinmaru change appearance?
Hitsugaya smirked, but at the inside he was in doubt. How could he implant the parasites, without hurting Kurosaki?
Hitsugaya failed to see the next attack and the attack ripped the right side of his uniform to shreds. And again Ichigo stood with his mouth agape. On Hitsugaya was the tattoo of cero.
"What the hell?" Ichigo muttered. Cero? He only thought that there were ten espada. But cero? He had never heard of cero.
"Surprised?" Hitsugaya asked him while raising an eyebrow. "I am the cero espada. Which means that I´m the strongest of all the espada"
Ichigo was shocked into the core of his soul. But he regained control over his emotions. He then transformed into his hollow form and activated his bankai.
"Tensa Zangestu!"
Hitsugaya calmly watched Ichigo and then proceeded to do the same. He wanted to try his hollow powers. A mask made of pure nontransparent ice began to cower his face. It looked like Ichigo´s hollow mask, but it had a different pattern. Just below his left eye, on his chin, a figure formed as a petal appeared. The mask was made out of light and dark blue shades of ice. The ice from his ice plate now covered his entire left arm, providing it with a protection.
"Whohoooooo! Go Hitsugaya!" Ryushiro shouted from the back of his mind.
Hitsugaya frowned, but at the inside he knew that Ryushiro was proud of him. And he knew, that he had control over his newfound powers.
Hitsugaya jumped forward and lowered his sword. Then he and Ichigo clashed. At first, there were a lot of dust, smoke and damp covering the battle area. Then it cleared up and you could see…
Hitsugaya stood in front of Ichigo, completely unharmed. Ichigo, on the other hand, was covered in ice, from his toes to the base of his neck. Ichigo´s eyes were dull and lifeless, but he weren´t dead. Hitsugaya turned around and left Ichigo.
"Our mission is completed. We shall leave."
Szayel, Grimmjow and Ulquiorra all stopped dead in their tracks and nodded. They were wounded, but their wounds weren´t too deep. Hitsugaya made a portal and stepped into it. Soon Grimmjow, Ulquiorra and Szayel followed him. Before leaving the shinigami´s, Hitsugaya told them something.
"You shall never defeat us. Soon Aizen-sama will rule this world, heaven as well as hell. There´s nothing you can do, so you should just give up."
And then the portal closed and they disappeared.
All of the shinigami were panting deeply; some of their wounds were deep. Rukia rushed over to Ichigo and began to cut the ice covering him. Suddenly the ice dissolved and Ichigo fell. But luckily Rukia grabbed him. Urahara rushed over to Rukia and Ichigo and showed them towards his shop. As soon as they came inside, Urahara told Rukia to fetch his medical items. She did as he had told him and Urahara begin to work on Ichigo. He hoped he wasn´t too late.
But what they didn´t know was, that the now were parasites inside of Ichigo and that was why he was immobilized. The other shinigami came inside and sat down. They needed rest…
I hope you enjoyed my chapter. Sorry for its shortness. The next chapter will be a little fun… Just wait and see. The espada, including Hitsugaya, haven´t left Karakura, so just wait and see. But from now on, I will only update every second week, since I´m working on another story too. So, if you like Ulquiorra, you should read ´s called "Dark Angel."
But, until we meet again, have good dreams
See ya