Here's chapter three, and thank you for the help xJ11Cx! I laughed again when I read the part of your review when you called the Auburn arrancar 'a pathetic excuse for an arrancar'. I guess i did play up Ichigo's hand-to-hand fighting skills a bit much huh?
This chapter was a little more difficult to write, I'm learning that I am very prone to getting writer's block. but a new idea relating to Aizen is forming up in my head because I think I may have rushed something by accident but may be able to make it work to my advantage, still not 100% sure though, I'm also thinking about how far I should take the AU thing, I don't want to warp to much.
Not a lot of important things are going to happen in this chapter, so it might be a tad boring, okay probably very boring, but please bear with me.
but I must inform you all of something incredibly tragic... I don't own Bleach...
anyhow, I hope you enjoy this chapter! please review if you like it, I am open to any constructive critisism!
Uryu and Orihime had just finished their project for biology class, they were walking back to their own houses together in silence, seeing the four way up ahead of them where they would go their separate ways until school tomorrow morning, the night air was crisp, but not cold, there was an occasional breeze that would make the hair on Uryu's exposed arms stand on edge and give him goose bumps. The night sky was cloudless, giving well deserved screen time to the substantial syndicate of stars coating the navy blue night sky, but no star compared to them moon that glowed a shade of strikingly saturated orange, a harvest moon that was almost the same shade as Ichigo's hair.
The only noises in the neighbourhood were the quiet footsteps of the two classmates, tapping in rhythm. It would've been a perfect end to a decent day if they hadn't sensed the presence of a long forgotten foe, Uryu almost dropped the project he was so surprised.
"Orihime do you sense that?" the seriousness of his tone was very intense, even for him,
Orihime looked up into the sky, searching for the pressure that Uryu was feeling, and jumped in disbelief as she realized what it belonged to, she just nodded in response to the bespectacled Quincey. Not wasting anytime, Uryu wrapped his one free hand around Orihime's curvaceous waist and used Hirenkyaku to quickly arrive at the outskirts of the area where they sensed the spiritual pressure of a breed of hollow no one ever wanted the displeasure of sensing.
Uryu's suspicions were confirmed, it was indeed an arrancar, a very, very weak arrancar. Uryu and orihime were hiding in the shade of some trees, the arrancar had a beak shaped hollow mask fragment, covering his cheeks, nose, mouth and chin, leaving his eyes exposed, his uniform was standard, almost no customizations made other than the lack of a collar. He seemed to be ranting about something, and Ichigo appeared to be zoned out, and was covered in bruises and had some blood near his mouth. Before Uryu or Orihime could run out to help their helpless friend Uryu saw the arrancar use a pathetic excuse for a sonido and impale Ichigo, sending large amounts of blood shoot out of the exit wound like bullets at the nearby trees, and more blood torpedo from his mouth, the arrancar moved his head so he wouldn't get blood on his face. Uryu just let his jaw drop, not sure how to react to what he just saw, it all seemed to happen in slow motion, Orihime's deafening scream was almost incoherent as he watched Ichigo's body limply fall over, his chest expanding and contracting uncontrollably, his body trying to adapt to the sudden narrow hole in his chest and the sudden loss of blood. Although, being perceptive he noticed that the life didn't leave Ichigo's eyes, so the wound wasn't nearly as bad as it looked. When Uryu's view of Ichigo was blocked by Orihime running over to the fallen veteran he regained his senses in a snap and formed his pinnacle shaped Quincey bow of blue Raishi.
"well, well, well" the arrancar started as Uryu used his Quincey flash step variant to rush to Ichigo's side, his glare piercing the confident arrancar, just by looking at him, Uryu knew he was probably the weakest arrancar Aizen ever made. He looked pretty battered, he even noticed a small fracture on the end of his mask, and his right arm was obviously sprained. "It appears you are to l-"the arrancar stopped speaking when he noticed a bright orange light surround the severely injured Ichigo. "What?" was all he could manage as he saw the wound closing at an incredible speed.
Uryu let loose a thin, blue arrow right at the arrancar, piercing his right eye, he purposely shot it with little force so it wouldn't be lethal, an arrancar like this wouldn't stand a chance against a shinigami, and he knew it would be only a matter of time until an arrancar hunting squad would show up and kill it.
"Aaauuugh, gods damn it!" he clutched his right eye as blood trickled through his fingers
"leave now, you wouldn't stand a chance against a Quincey" Uryu said, prepping another arrow lightly, keeping his gaze on the arrancar, he let his hold on the arrow slip and the arrow planted itself in the arrancar's foot, he cringed in pain and let a small grunt escape his mouth.
Although the auburn haired arrancar was young, he knew when he was beat, but it wouldn't matter if he died here or not, Grimmjow would kill him when he went back to Heuco Mundo with news that he failed killing the orange haired boy, who was now standing and lowering resentfully at the arrancar, he would be killed. So instead of creating a garganta, he inwardly grinned and flicked the blood off of his Zanpakuto.
"I'm not leaving until Ichigo has died by my hands!"
Uryu was hoping he wouldn't have to use lethal force, but he was left with no choice, Uryu fully brought back an arrow of his pentacle shaped Raishi bow as the arrancar began releasing his Zanpakuto, he released the arrow and it decimated the arrancar's head, he fell over like a marionette doll that had its strings cut. Uryu let out a sigh, grateful it was over, he hated arrancars, and some of them were absolutely psychotic.
"Thanks for the save, Uryu and Orihime" Ichigo said rubbing the part of his chest the sword perforated.
"You're welcome Ichigo" she still sounded a little upset from witnessing Ichigo get gravely wounded.
"Don't mention it," that was the only casual thing Uryu was going to say, now he had to 'talk' some sense into his thick headed friend. "But what the hell were you thinking fighting an arrancar! Are you insane! Do you have a death wish!"
Ichigo was sent aback by the sudden shouted, but didn't hesitate to shout right back "what was I supposed to do run and have him impale me from behind! Or blow me up with a cero!"
Those were some good points Ichigo made, but Uryu's pride got the best of him, he wasn't going to back down to a shinigami, former or current "if you could hold your ground to the point where he drew his sword you could undoubtedly avoid his ceros and sword lunges!" He hated complementing Ichigo, but it was the only counter argument he could make.
"Yeah" Ichigo agreed sarcastically "then have him sonido in front of me then get impaled!" both boys saw Orihime cringe at Ichigo's statement and silently agreed to save the rest for tomorrow. "Let's get going" Ichigo said blankly "and thanks again you two"
Soul Society
Kanari was on the roof of the barracks, folding paper air planes and throwing them, watching them glide through the air, she was unbelievably bored, she thought being a shinigami would be much more exciting, and it didn't help that Captain Hitsugaya was incredibly independent. After watching the last plane hit the ground, she reached over for another piece of loose leaf, but was startled when she felt hard, warm, clay tile. She let a frown curve on her lips, disappointed. She let out a long heavy sigh and cupped her chin with one hand and put her elbow on her leg, and stared off into the distance, she was so bored she was starting to get angry. What was she going to do now? She definitely wanted to stay away from Rangiku, the last few days with her and the rest of the SWA had been interesting per say, and she witnessed things that scarred her for a very long time, life was definitely a possibility, but she was trying to be optimistic. And that alcoholic drink, Sake Rangiku called it, was disgusting, incredibly bitter, and Kanari was not a fan of bitter. She was snapped out of her trance as she felt Rangiku and some other SWA member's spiritual pressures getting suspiciously close to her, to sat up and looked around below her, scanning the ground, she saw a blonde head look up and point, the figure began jumping, getting the attention of the other people with her, it was definitely Rangiku, "aw CRAP!" Kanari said to herself, pulling back so she was out of sight, she began using Shunpo to get as far away from her previous location, the roof of the tenth division barracks. There was no way they could've told it was her for sure from so far away, so she could tell Rangiku that she was never there and she wouldn't be able to prove it. On the contrary though there weren't a lot of shinigami with light brown hair like hers, which could be a problem if Rangiku were to call her on this event later.
Kanari decided she would wait until the time came, she landed on a building, she wasn't sure which one though, and they all looked the same when you compared them by the appearance of their roofs. She gracefully dropped from the roof and dived into a window, hoping to confuse her SWA hunters. But she was struck stone cold when she realized which room she was in, she slowly moved her head to the left and met the surprised gaze of sixth division captain Byakuya Kuchiki, he had long black hair, it was intricately held up by expensive hair pieces signifying his nobility. His shihakusho was unchanged but he did wear a silver scarf that was worth more than Kanari could hope to earn in her lifetime as a shinigami.
"Third seat Dakuenjeru" he said flatly
Kanari hated being addressed by her last name, "yes?" she asked after a quick gulp,
"What are you doing in my office?"
"Umm, well I, you see Captain" she started, looking around the incredibly organised office.
When she heard a stampede of footsteps getting closer at a rapid speed, both Kanari listened to the noise with interest, but they were both surprised when Captain Kuchiki's door swung open to reveal Rangiku, a nervous Momo, and a small, pink haired Yachiru standing in the doorway.
"We finally found you Kanari!" Rangiku announced "we've been looking for you everywhere; we have something we want to talk to you about"
Kanari wanted to jump right back out that window behind her, but her more adventurous and curious side wanted to know what they wanted to talk about, at least she was hoping that they really did just want to talk. She let herself get grabbed and dragged away by the three members of the SWA. On her way out of the room she apologised for disturbing Captain Kuchiki, who just nodded and returned to the paperwork, what is with all the captains and paperwork?
Once the three were back at the tenth division barracks, sitting on some grass Rangiku was the first to speak up, but as she was opening her mouth to speak, her jaw just hung open, after a few awkward seconds, everyone looked at where her eyes were, and were disquieted at what they saw, there was at least fifty huge black rips in the sky, all of them had people with skulls for heads wearing a sleek white outfit with black stripes creating various designs on the outfits, all the designs were unique, and some designs were much more complicated than others. But in one Garganta stood only 4 people, who were also wearing the white outfits, but only three of them had personalized outfits. There was a person with a bull shaped skull on his face, a blonde girl with a jaw bone mask fragment covering her mouth, she had short blonde hair but three long braids, there was a man with blue hair and half a jaw bone mask fragment, and a pale skinned man with black hair and half of a horned helmet as a mask fragment.
"What are all of those?" Kanari asked
"A-arrancars" Rangiku replied
"There's so many" Momo said quietly, staring at the sky with despair.
"Kenny's going to love this" said an ironically happy Yachiru.
I hope you liked it! please review telling me so if you did!
I knid of took advantage of the AU thing and brought Ulquiorra back, i hope you all don't mind. But in all honesty, who DOESN'T like Ulquiorra? I mean come on.
I'm also thinking of giving Ichigo his powers back in one of the next two chapters should it be next, or chap five? and should he get his original powers back? like the powers before his fight with Aizen? or should he get his powers back but with the fullbring influence (that would be taking advantage of AU I think) or something that I thought of just now, he gets his powers back, but his powers from after the Dungai training! and how should he get them back anyway?
Also, when and how should I bring Senna back in? I did make her the other main character, I'm beginning to think I should change the main characters to ichigo and Toshiro, or just ichigo, any thoughts on that?
I'm really not the most creative person so that's why I ask you readers for suggestions and Ideas, so please review with what you think and any constructive critisism!
random note of the day, I sprained my ankle playing FLAG football! epic fail, I will have lots of time to type up chapters now. until next time readers, see ya 'round.