Demonic Infection: Single
By: Amethyst Ichigo
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.
Summary: Rukia and Renji hurt their friendship with Ichigo, and Ichigo learns how important taking care of yourself is, and the value of asking for help. Isshin thinks and the Vaizards move.
Warning: N/A
/Hi/ Hichigo talking
/Hello/ Rei and Zangetsu
Chapter 3 -The Kidnapping of Kurosaki Ichigo
Rukia and Renji stopped a few feet from Ichigo's window, and tried to figure out how they were going to get Ichigo to come to Soul Society in the middle of the night on a Saturday.
"We could use a binding Kidou on him and kidnap him." Renji suggested.
Rukia shook her head at this.
"No, I'd rather he didn't know it was us." Rukia said keeping the part about Ichigo breaking a Kido to herself.
She really didn't want Ichigo to gain any more bad attention (mainly from Mayuri and Aizen).
Renji gulped thinking about the anger Ichigo would unleash when he found out he was a prisoner in Soul Society, and that's not even mentioning the destruction he would impact on them if he found out Renji and Rukia were the ones who kidnapped him.
"I can agree with that." He said quickly to Rukia.
"How about sleeping pills?" Rukia said thinking. "Then we could kidnap him and use the hell butterfly."
Renji nodded.
Though both were mentally praying Ichigo wouldn't find out who kidnapped him.
They wished themselves good luck, and headed towards Ichigo's window.
~*~
Ichigo had finally gone to sleep when his Shinagami badge went off.
Ichigo groaned and got up.
'Another hollow and another night of no sleep,' he thought trying to remember when he last slept, but couldn't remember.
'Oh, well…'
He pressed the badge to his chest and slipped out of his human body, before jumping out his bedroom window and heading in the direction of the hollow.
"Careful Ichigo…something's wrong." Zangetsu whispered in Ichigo's mind.
Ichigo nodded and kept it in mind.
Something was definitely wrong, and he could feel it.
What was going on?
~*~
Isshin Kurosaki father of three felt his son leave the confines of the house. Normally when a teenage boy sneaked out it was to do something his parents didn't approve of…but that wasn't the case for Ichigo.
Since the very moment his family was attacked by that hollow six months ago, everything had changed. He never would have dreamed his own son would become a Shinagami, the very thing he himself abandoned.
His face was serious.
What's more Kisuke (Urahara) had been informing him of all the recent going on with his son. Like the whole Soul Society episode, and the Bountou Incident. (Isshin had nearly killed Kisuke when he found out about the experiments he did on Ichigo, thankfully Yourichi was held him back. Though Isshin was sure Yourichi wasn't very happy with Kisuke after she found out about Ichigo.)
The trouble his son was getting into scared him, what if Ichigo never came back?
What if his son figured out that his father was a Soul Reaper and started asking the tough questions? Would he blame his dad? Or himself?
Though he knew Ichigo would find out sometime about him being a shinigami, hoped that he wouldn't lose his son with it came out…
Ichigo would probably want to know everything, starting from his father's life, Masaki's death, and why he didn't tell him. He didn't think he could take it if his own son hated him.
And then to top it all off, he still hadn't told Ichigo about that.
Isshin sighed.
He deeply cared about his children, and wished for them nothing but happiness, but instead all they got was pain, especially Ichigo.
First seeing spirits, and being bullied, and then Masaki's death, it was hurting him. He knew Masaki would have cried to see how cold Ichigo had become, and Isshin blamed himself for it. If only he had his powers at that time, then it wouldn't have happened, then binding Ichigo's powers after the attack. He didn't think Ichigo would forgive him if he ever found out all that he did.
So in a vain attempt to keep Ichigo unaware of his father's origin's he asked each and every one of his friends to keep it a secret. Hell, he even went so far as to blind his own powers…a decision which cost him Masaki.
But he knew it wouldn't hold out for long…it was impossible to keep it a secret forever.
And then recently Isshin wanted to say something to Ichigo about his sleepless nights but couldn't bring himself to do anything, but pretend he didn't know anything. It frustrated him, and then the bags under Ichigo's eyes when he came down for dinner this morning…it broke Isshin's heart.
"I hope I'm doing the right thing…" Isshin muttered looking at a small picture of Masaki on his bedside table.
~*~
Shinji and Hiyori went to the designated alley and waited for something to happen.
The alleyway the two were standing in was almost completely cloaked in darkness and only one dim lamp provided any light and even that was minimal.
"It so boring, dickhead." Hiyori yawned. She was still pretty cranky and being shaken awake to met some person in an alley in the middle of the night wasn't helping.
"It won't be for long…" An unfamiliar voice said stepping out of a nearby shadow.
Shinji and Hiyori were instantly on guard and unsheathe their swords at a lighting fast speed.
The newcomer was in fact a preteen girl with straight brown hair and had an emotionless tone to her.
"Alveus." The newcomer said quietly.
"Letum." Shinji said nodding and resheathed his sword, Hiyori followed suit.
"What's so important that we're called in the middle of the night?" Hiyori asked bluntly.
"How is the recruitment of Kurosaki Ichigo?" The girl asked ignoring Hiyori, as did Shinji.
Hiyori glared at both, and quietly plotted revenge against them.
"Ichigo is proving to be a hard case, but the results of his alliance far outnumbered the loses." Shinji said.
"How so? It is true Queen-sama has placed an interest in him, but gives you this assumption? "
"His hollow defeat my team without even using any of Ichigo's power's and was able to regenerate parts of his body cut by Zanpaktou, and further more even after the first fight for control Ichigo's hollow continue to disobey Ichigo." Shinji explained.
'It was very surprising, 'Hiyori thought now that she thought about it.
After the first fight for dominance the vaizard's hollow is suppose to obey the master(shinigami), but in Ichigo's case the hollow didn't comply. Even more freighting was the fact that the hollow in question beat Hiyori a fuku-taichou in the special vaizard unit.
"Interesting, very interesting, I now understand Queen-sama's and your interest in Kurosaki Ichigo. I will report this information to our leaders, be prepared to hear back from me in six days…though I doubt you will be reassigned." The newcomer said stepping back into the shadow's from where she came from.
Shinji watched her go, before picking up Hiyori like a rag doll and heading home.
~*~
Ichigo felted a yawn creep onto his face as he journeyed to the Hollow.
"Should be around here…" Ichigo said looking around for the hollow.
On your left King…Hichigo said.
Ichigo complied, and looked to his left; sure enough there was a hollow.
"Thanks…" Ichigo whispered unconsciously as he landed in front of the hollow.
The hollow looked surprising like a human, besides having a mask and pale white skin.
Tch…whatever.
Ichigo unsheathed his soul slayer and charged; the hollow dodged and used its arms to send a fury of attacks at Ichigo back.
Ichigo dodged the on slot of attacks and directed several long slashes at the human-sized hollow, but it had no affect; they were just too evenly matched.
~*~
Time for some Bankai. Hichigo said getting excited as lust for battle overcame him, and the fact that he could influence Ichigo's actions when he used Bankai only made it better for Hichigo.
"No." Zangetsu said observing Ichigo's battle.
Why the hell not? Hichigo asked getting angry that the old man was interrupting his fun once again.
"Zangetsu-san is right, Hichigo-kun." Rei said appearing in the inner world once more.
What you talking about? Hichigo hissed glaring at Zangetsu and Rei. Somehow when those two teamed up they seemed to enjoy making Hichigo feel stupid.
"Tell me Hichigo-kun when was the last time Ichigo-sama had a full night of sleep? Or even got a decent meal?" Rei asked.
Hichigo gave him a look.
What do those questions have to do with Bankai? Hichigo asked Ichigo had gone an entire week without food or sleep when they were in Soul Society.
"Because Hichigo-kun, Ichigo is human, and not eating properly and not sleeping causes him to be tired and affects his soul reaper powers, and before you say it. The reason Ichigo didn't collapse in Soul Society was because it's made of spirit particles. They enable him to go farther than his human body." Rei explained.
Dammit King! Hichigo cursed glaring at the buildings. You better not die.
~*~
Ichigo huffed out of breath.
What the hell was going on? He could tell he was way stronger then the hollow before him…so then why was he having such a hard time defeating him? That's not even adding in his inability to use Bankai.
By this point Ichigo was covered in scratches but nothing too life threatening.
The hollow charged Ichigo this time, and Ichigo seized this chance and slammed his zanpaktou into the irritating hollow's head.
Luckily for Ichigo, the fight ended there.
Ichigo sighed and sheathed his sword.
He was extremely tired, and only wanted to get to bed.
He was so weary that he didn't notice two very familiar people sneak up on him, and land a striking blow to his head.
Ichigo fell into darkness.
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A/N: HA!! OKAY, I really like how many reviews I got so I decided (and Hichigo threaten me) to update again...and what the heck...I done checking it...so enjoy!
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Oh, and did I forget to mention that I included chapter four...too?