Chapter Four: Yo Quiero
Soi Fon turned to her Fuku-taichou and said, "I am going to be doing some personal reconnaissance in the real world for awhile, Omaeda. I need you to look after the division for me. Think you can handle it?" She put one of her hands on her hips as she awaited his answer.
Omaeda looked up from his kneeling position on the floor. "Do not worry about a thing, Captain. I will give my all to maintaining this division. If I may be so bold, Captain, might I inquire as to what kind of 'reconnaissance' you are doing in the real world?"
Soi Fon narrowed her eyes, but then closed them and sighed. "I would rather you not know, just in case there is some sort of fallout."
Omaeda simply smirked at his Captain. He raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm assuming it has to do with the 'objective' of the division?"
Soi's eyes widened at this, "How did you know?"
Omaeda simply chuckled, "Your concern for a 'fallout' made it extremely obvious, Captain."
Soi just sighed, "You will tell no one about this, understand?"
"Perfectly, Captain." Omaeda said as he bowed his head in acknowledgement.
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"Why do I have to come here again?" whined Keigo to Mizuiru as he was being dragged down the stairs to the Vaizard training grounds by the pissed of ice wielder.
Mizuiru simply said two words, "To fight."
Keigo looked at him weird, "Who?"
Mizuiru didn't bother replying, instead, he simply dragged his soul out of his body and stood him up. Mizuiru then got out of his own body before going to both and dragging them out of the way. He turned around and proceeded back up the stairs. He then yelled something the Keigo could not make out, before coming back down the stairs with the rest of the Vaizards, including Ichigo.
Ichigo was still in his outfit from before, but he had opted to not where his hood or mask. He walked towards Keigo confidently, as if he was afraid of nothing. Knowing Ichigo as well as he did, Keigo seriously didn't think that he was capable of fear.
Ichigo waved a hand lazily at him as Mizuiru finally answered his question. "You get to fight," said Mizuiru as he pointed towards Ichigo, "him. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to take a nap." He then walked over to where the others were, pulled out a cot out of nowhere, and then proceeded to fall asleep. Keigo then proceeded to have a normal reaction to this, he fell anime style.
Ichigo sweat dropped at this. He chuckled nervously as he recalled the last time he had seen Mizuiru. That had been when he had 'saved' him from the 'enemy'. His normal scowl turned into a smirk as he remembered the interesting conversation he had had with that purple haired woman, Yoroichi.
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We're going back in time…
Yoroichi picked herself up off the ground and turned towards Ichigo. She narrowed her eyes at him, but didn't say anything. She just simply stared at him, without speaking. Not a single word exited from her lips, yet her eyes seemed like they were boring into his soul. Though her gaze did intensify, her crimson lips did not move. She…
Ichigo finally had enough and snapped at her, "What do you want? Speak up, woman!"
Yoroichi's vein on her forehead bulged and throbbed in anger as her grin turned creepy. "What did you just call me?" she said as she began to crack her knuckles.
Ichigo just looked at her strangely before replying, "Woman, I called you woman. I don't know your name, and you look rather like a woman, so I called you woman. Unless you're not a woman?"
Before he knew what had happened, he found himself pinned to the ground, with a foot on his throat.
Yoroichi looked at him even more creepily than she already had and said, "What did you just say?"
Ichigo looked completely unfazed, although he always did because of the cloth mask. He sighed, and decided instead to find his bearings again. He was lying on the ground, check. He was looking at the face of the pissed of woman, if she was a she, check. There was a foot at his throat, check. She was sitting on top of him, check.
She moved a little on top of him, causing him to thank Kami up above that he had his cloth mask on and nobody could see his flaming cheeks. She was definitely a woman all right. A really pissed off woman. Instead of acting nervous with her on top of him, he instead acted like this was an everyday occurrence and replied, "I said, 'woman, I don't know your name. What else am I supposed to call you?"
Yoroichi dropped the creepy grin, but instead brought her foot closer to his neck. "My name is Yoroichi Shihouin, former Captain of the Second Division."
Ichigo nodded his head from his position on the ground and said, "While I normally don't mind being this close to a woman, Yoroichi-san, usually there is a certain amount of nakedness and an 'activity' before we decide to cuddle like we are doing."
Yoroichi had the decency to blush at this, before getting off of him as quickly as possible. She brushed the dirt off of her legs before offering a hand to help him up. Ichigo accepted the hand and stood up. He then crossed his arms and asked, "What did you want to ask me, Yoroichi-san?"
Yoroichi crossed her arms over her stomach and asked, "Who are you? Are you a Vaizard? Why are you dressed like that? What do you plan to do about Aizen? Are you…"
Ichigo held a hand up to forestall further questions, "Peace, Yoroichi-san, peace. I cannot answer all your questions. But I will answer your first four. I am Fuji, I am a Vaizard, It's my own personal style, and we plan to defend Karakura when the time comes. Now if you will excuse me, I need to check on my fellow Vaizard." He then shun-po'd away.
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… Back to the Future!!!
Ichigo withdrew his sword, and walked down towards where Keigo stood. He smirked at Keigo's nervousness, before thinking of a new way to torture him.
"Hey, Keigo, you get to fight me using your Shikai only, and I also will only use my Shikai."
Keigo sighed in relief at this.
"However, I will not fight you. My hollow will fight you." Ichigo's eyes then proceeded to darken, the white becoming black, the color becoming yellow.
The hollow inside of Ichigo sneered at Keigo. He called out Zangetsu, before saying, "I guess I got to thank that Oumono of mine." He licked his lips in apparent hunger, "It's not often that I get a nice, juicy, Shinigami to eat."
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We back in da past again…
Ukitake, Captain of the thirteenth Division, was running as fast as he could. He was not running away from something, however, he was actually running towards something. He was running towards the execution grounds, Shihouin artifact in hand, hoping to get there before it was too late. As he got closer, he could already see the weapon's true form. As he was about to launch the device, he was stopped by a boy in a shihakusho.
The boy in front of him held a finger to his lips, before using that finger to touch the artifact held in Jyuushiro's hands. Ukitake's eyes widened as the artifact started to crack and crumble into dust. Just as he was about to demand why the boy had done that, the young one simply turned around and yelled at the Soukyoku.
"Soukyoku, Attend!" Everyone's eyes widened as the giant flame bird shrunk before racing over to the ryoka. He held his arm, and the fire bird landed on it, taking in the soothing ministrations of its master. It closed it eyes in bliss as it was scratched.
"Who are you? How did you do that?" said Ukitake in astonishment.
The boy simply turned his head towards him and said, "My name is Keigo Asano, and this is my Zanpakutoh, Soukyoku, Kikou form."
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TBC
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