well, here is chapter 5, sorry for the long wait, it was so hard to write, I couldn't keep track of the amount of times I scrapped the chapter and rewrote it . this is by far the longest chapter yet, and most likely the worst chapter so far . this was my first time writing a fight sequences so please give me some constructive critisizm in the reviews so I can improve on writing them, I will probably make a lot of edits to this chapter after I upload it, so sorry of any inconviences it may cause you. oh and also review if you like it :D your praise motivates me :D oh and a very smart man named Tite Kubo owns Bleach, unfortunately I am not that smart man :(
and to xJ11Cx
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and now to everybody: read on!
"How much longer Inoue?" an impatient Captain Hitsugaya asked, easily keeping the arrancars with human skull heads at a safe distance with the help of Chad, a dark skinned teenager with full bring powers, Toshiro. able to easily fend off the intruders and think about other, less important, things simultaneously he wondered if Chad could see out of the one eye covered by his long, curly brown bangs.
The young girl still wearing her high school clothes was using her unique 'healing' powers to reverse the injuries that Toshiro's lieutenant and 3rd seat had received during combat. "Not much longer, Motsumoto's injuries were far worse than I thought, only another minute Captain Hitsugaya" she assured him, holding her hands on the bright orange light enveloping the two injured women. Who lied down on the uneven stone ground.
Captain Hitsugaya could've lived with another minute, until he saw who was making their way towards them.
"Inoue, we don't have a minute, HURRY!" the Captain shouted
She was startled by his tone but quickly recovered "Right!"
Toshiro watched as an arrancar with black hair and pale white skin and an arrancar with blue hair casually walked over, 20 feet away from Toshiro and Chad, their presence caused all the grunts to wander off.
"You two are supposed to be dead" Hitsugaya accused, pointing his sword,
"Tch, a lowly shinigami, kill ME?" the blue haired one mused "please, I'm Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, the sixth espada, nobody can kill me!" he screamed, letting his spiritual pressure flood the area.
Toshiro waited for the black haired arrancar to say something, but all he did was stare past him, he would've looked to see what he was staring at, but if he did the blue haired one, Grimmjow, would undoubtedly put a quick end to him.
"Does that mean we are fighting you two?" Hitsugaya asked, raising his Zanpakuto to a battle position, and Chad got his black and red arm raised to fire an 'el directo' as he called it. There was an odd silence in the ruined pathway, the orange, clay tiled roofs almost stripped bear, the walls crumbled down and holes everywhere, noises of other fights ringing in the air as the captain waited for his answer.
"HELL YEAH!" and Grimmjow charged with a smile that reminded Toshiro of Kenpachi's.
Back in Aizen's underground cell, his grin was growing as he heard the footsteps get closer and closer, and when the two figures became visible in his vast underground jail cell, his grin grew exponentially.
"Are you sure about this Ukitake?" asked the laid back voice of Shunsui "this seems a little cruel; I mean the man's defenseless"
"Hello Captains, shouldn't you be out assisting with the war?" Sosuke asked conversationally
"We're here to put an end to this war" said the white haired Jushiro Ukitake, captain of the thirteenth division
"And just how are you going to do that by visiting me down here?" he asked politely, Sosuke was playing them like fiddles.
"Like this!" Ukitake began to swing his blade towards Sosuke's neck, but was bewildered to feel it blocked by a pitch black daito.
They eyes of Shunsui and Ukitake doubled in size when they saw who was holding the sword, the hand holding the sword had a black glove on it, and a chain on the end wrapped up his sleeveless arm unnaturally, he had medium-long orange hair and his overcoat had a very long v-neck.
"Ichigo" shunsui started in disbelief
"Kurosaki" Ukitake finished, sharing his long time partner's disbelief
Sosuke grinned, everything was falling in place smoother than he had thought, "How nice of you to show up Ichigo"
Buck up above the Sairaitai, Harribel was fighting against the captain commander zealously,
"LA GOTA!" yelled the blonde female espada, the elderly shinigami set his sword ablaze and the high pressure water blast evaporated before making contact, Harribel grunted in annoyance, just how strong was this man?
"this is pointless hollow, the fires of Ryujin Jakka will evaporate everything you throw at me, you cannot win" Teir Harribel, in her exceedingly revealing resurrection consisting a very short black skirt reinforced by hollow bone, a bra of hollow bone, hollow bone spaulders, gloves and knee high boots, was visibly shaken when she realized that he was right, again she was wishing that Grimmjow and Ulquiorra weren't taking their time.
"Rudbornn!" she yelled, hoping she didn't have to say anymore
The arrancar with the branches of hollow bones sticking out from his back, each one ending in a human skull nodded back to her, and started spawning more of the human skull headed arrancars, who lunged vigorously at Yamamoto, while he was effortlessly slicing them up, the speed at which they were coming was beginning to cloud his vision of the two much stronger arrancars, seeing her chance Teir charged the elder, holding her fin-like weapon attached to hand, ready to strike, but she was expertly blocked by the captain commander, who thrusted forward just slightly but with enough force to send the grunts flying, and pushing Harribel back a considerable distance. "Did you really think that was going to work on me youngsters?" he taunted, still hunched over, giving the false appearance of a frail old man,
"How much longer do you think the others will be Harribel?" Rudbornn asked through his bull skull
Teir heard Grimmjow's yelling directly below them, and looked down to see him and Ulquiorra fighting the same young shinigami that once killed her and a darker skinned boy with two of the strangest arms she had ever seen, and that was saying something. "Quite a while Rudbornn" she replied irately.
back down in Aizen's jail cell, Jushiro and Ukitake had been struggling to keep up with 'Ichigo',
"Ichigo, why would you side yourself with Aizen!" Jushiro yelled, already holding his Shikai, two katana shaped swords with another blade forming on the inside of each, a red rope with 5 charms hanging off of it connects the swords. He was ready to send back his Getsuga Tensho if he chose to send one his way, which he hoped wouldn't happen, he had only fired two so far, and it was an immense struggle to control the crscent shaped waves of black energy.
"Because" he started flatly, his much longer hair slightly obscuring his brown eyes "Aizen is in the right, the soul king is incompetent and a change of rule is in order"
"Incompetent?" Jushiro repeated, something didn't seem right to the exremely perceptive, old, white haired man.
"it seems the boy finally started paying attention in class" Shunsui joked, but Jushiro knew better, if he noticed Ichigo's much more eloquent choice of words, his lifelong partner did to.
Aizen stood up and his Zanpakuto appeared in his hand "I will leave you three to catch up" he began walking towards the only exit and entrance in the horribly huge and empty underground jail cell.
"I don't think so Sosuke" Shunsui didn't even have a chance to point his Chinese styled scimitars at the overly confident Aizen before the orange haired substitute shinigami had appeared in front of him and tangled their swords, visibly shocking Jushiro and Shunsui, how had they not seen him use his flash step?
"I'll be going now" and with that Aizen disappeared up the stairs.
"Ichigo, please listen to me! Aizen is using you, once he has control of the soul society, he will take over the world of the living to!" Jushiro tried talking some sense into the young boy again, he respected and cared for him so much, Jushiro was such a family man he had an odd sense of Ichigo being like his step son or nephew.
"if he tries that I'll kill him, but we'll cross that bridge when the time comes" Ichigo began to raise his right hand to the top left corner of his face.
"uh oh" was all Shunsui said as Ichigo made a ripping motion, making a hollow mask similar to that of a menacing skull, it was white in color other than four thick red stripes that emerge outwards of the wide eye holes, and travel down the lower jaw. Ichigo's scream when he put on the mask had a viscious hollow echo behind it.
"Oh damn, I'm actually beginning to be grateful I can't sense his spiritual pressure" Shunsui said, examining Ichigo, he gulped silently; he would've much rather a fight with old man Yama than this guy right now.
Toshiro and Chad had been fighting with Grimmjow and Ulquiorra in one of the once proud, white and orange, colored outdoor hallways, but now it was unrecognisable and trully resembled a battlefield, and fate seemed to be siding with the arrancars.
"EL DIRECTO!" Chad yelled, firing a blast from his black arm at an impassive Ulquiorra, who caught the blast in his hand with little effort, and redirected it at Sokyoku hill. The blast caused a huge chunk of the mountain to fall off, in a loud roar.
While Chad was getting played with by the black haired arrancar, Toshiro was having his own bout with Grimmjow, and it wasn't going well. "Guncho Tsurara!" Toshiro yelled, swinging his katana in a wide ark, sending dozens of icicle daggers at the arrancar, Toshiro now had no doubt in his mind that this arrancar really was an espada. Grimmjow used a noisy sonido to barely escape the barrage, he reappeared behind Toshiro and attempted to tear open his back with a powerful slash of his katana with an odd tsuba shaped like a crooked 's'. Toshiro swiftly detected the imminent attack and spun around and locked swords with the bloodthirsty espada.
"you're good kid, I'll give ya that" his grin grew, knowing he had a good time ahead of him, their swords were making a metal 'clang' sound as they shoock in their hands, trying to over power one another.
When the espada had called him 'kid' something inside Toshiro snapped, and it was blatantly obvious to Grimmjow when his Zanpakuto was beginning to get covered in a thin layer of ice, shocked, he instinctually jumped back.
"You're mine!" he heard a feminine voice shout behind him
"Motsumoto no! you just recovered!" another female voice shouted, Grimmjow turned around and punched the rather robust blonde woman, sending her flying at an incredible speed, into a pile of large, jagged stone rocks that were once an iconic wall.
"Motsumoto!" Toshiro yelled, when the smoke cleared he saw her unconscious, in a sitting position, and a second later, a deep yell filled the area as Chad was sent flying next to her, but he still managed to get back up, he was coated in blood, his shirt in tatters, barely holding its form.
Toshiro turned back over to Orihime and Kanari, thinking fast, he got an idea, it wasn't one he liked, but one casualty was better than five. "Chad pick up Motsumoto, Dakuenjeru protect Chad and Inoue and get out of here!" he yelled, getting ready to unleash his bankai.
Kanari was unable to believe what she just heard, there was no way he would be able to fight off the both of them, she didn't want to admit it, but she didn't think he would be able to win, she opened her mouth to protest, but Toshiro didn't want to hear it "I SAID GO!" he snapped, she flinched back, reluctantly nodded and ran off with the others.
The pale, black haired arrancar and Grimmjow now stood side by side, the one with black hair was blank, and Grimmjow had a sadistic smile on his face, he was jumping lightly foot to foot, pulsating with uncontrollable enthusiasm at what was about to take place. But he would have to wait a little longer.
"hey there Hitsugaya" said a rough voice "need a hand?" he turned his head slightly to the left and saw eleventh division captain Zaraki and his three most trusted subordinates, the bald Ikkaku, the feminest Yukichika, and his childish lieutenant, the pink haired Yachiru.
"that would be appreciated Zaraki" the four of them walked next to Hitsugaya, a stare from Kenpachi told the small lieutenant to watch from a safe distance, she jumped off of his large shoulder and sat on the pile of rubble that Motsumoto hit, rendering her unconscious only minutes earlier.
"BANKAI!" Toshiro yelled, with Zaraki's sudden appearence his hopes were restored, he was no longer expecting death and was going to do everything in his power to live another day.
Sparks were flying everywhere as Shunsui's and Ichigo's blades were clashing in fast paced combat, Ichigo taking slow steps forward looking slightly bored, Shunsui was walking backwards, getting closer to the rock walls he was incredibly focused on the space in front of them that was a black blur as their swords kept hitting each other, Shunsui would take small cuts on his forearms at times, but he didn't complain, Ichigo shunpoed away from Shunsui moments before Ukitake appeared behind him and tried to cut his back open, only to tangle swords with Shunsui.
"Sorry Shunsui" Ukitake said between breaths "was Kurosaki always this good?"
"I don't know, I never fought him, but I can tell you that it will be a while before I can lift another bottle of Sake" he complained lazily, inspecting his bloody arms.
"you two old men done talking yet?" Ichigo mocked
"old men?" Ukitake repeated in insult, he turned to face Shunsui again "the Kurosaki I knew was a very respectful and respectable young man, something is not right with him, do you think he's being influenced by something, brainwashed maybe?"
"No, but I'm beginning to think this is the work of Sosuke's Zanpakuto" he said conclusively
"How are we supposed to kill an illusion that can kill us?" Ukitake asked uneasy
Shunsui looked up at the boy floating in the sky a few hundred feet away, then looked back at the white haired captain "I don't know" he said with a shrug of his shoulders.
And without warning Ichigo fired a black and red Getsuga Tensho at them, Shunsui shunpoed out of the way, only to run into Ichigo and continue the sword dancing they were doing minutes before, meanwhile Ukitake struggled to control the Getsuga in his Zanpakuto, but still managed to redirect it at Ichigo. He expected this and shunpoed out of the danger zone and fired a wide, horizontal Getsuga, followed by many more vertical ones in only a single second, Shunsui looked helplessly at the black voids that would put an end to his long life of drinking sake, until he looked over at Ukitake and saw his shadow formed by the torches near the only door leading out of the giant jail cell, he used the powers of his Zanpakuto to travel to the shadow, and re appear next to his friend, sighing, thinking he was safe, until a sword ran through his chest, a black sword.
"SHUNSUI!" Ukitake yelled, jumping back, staring in despair as he saw the sword perforating the eighth division captain's exposed chest.
When the sword exited he fell over, revealing Ichigo. Ukitake quickly put his game face back on, "thanks to Shunsui I know you aren't really Ichigo, only an illusion created by Sosuke's Zanpakuto, now I no longer need to hold back" he raised his Zanpakutos no longer needing to hold back.
Harribel watched helplessly as the captain commander of the Gotei 13 loomed over her, raising his sword to put an end to her, Rudbornn had died an hour ago, it was only her, on her hand and knees, burned and cut up beyond belief, the limbs that were still connected to her were throbbing, like they had their own heartbeat, but this black heartbeat, didn't bring life, only immense pain. when Yamamoto brought his sword down, instead of feeling hot steel hit her neck, she heard a clash of metal, and the elder's shocked grunt. She looked up, not knowing what to expect, but she was relieved at what she saw, it was Lord Aizen and his katana, blocking the path of the captain commander's hellish Zanpakuto, she was ecstatic, he had come just in time to save her, she cautiously stood up and bowed to her saviour.
"Thank you Lord Aizen"
"I should be the one thanking you, you and the others put yourself in harm's way to save me, I can never repay you for such kind deeds" this whole situation reminded him of when Kurosaki and his friends had first come to the soul society to rescue Rukia Kuchiki, he chuckled to himself at how similar the two scenarios were.
"now, let's start round two captain commander" Aizen said, staring at the half open eyes of the bald man.
HUMAN WORLD
Back in the world of the living, Ichigo and the mod souls were quietly enjoying their tea, none of them sure what to talk about in such a dire situation. Ichigo couldn't stop worrying about his friends
Ichigo couldn't take his mind off of his friends, they could already be dead, no, he mustn't let himself think like that, he should have more faith in them.
"So Ichigo" the small blonde Ririn spoke, her words bringing Ichigo back to reality "how's school going?" she asked awkwardly.
"Schools fine" was his flat reply, taking another sip of the brown liquid, the scent was invigorating his nose, opening his nostrils every time he took a whiff.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" she asked looking up at Ichigo from her tea with her left eye brow raised suspiciously,
Ichigo flinched back in surprise at the sudden question, spilling a little bit of tea on his jeans. the rise of the question had brought standstill memories of Senna flashing in front of his eyes, why was she popping up? She was still only a friend, she may have been becoming more than a friend, but she was still just that, just a friend. One thing that relieved him slightly was that he didn't have to worry about Senna dying in the war taking place in the soul society, but like earlier, his small relief was stomped on until it was so mangled it was unrecognisable. He didn't have to worry about Senna dying because she was already dead.
"No" Ichigo replied curtly, turning his attention back to his tea.
"yeah, I should've guess that much" Ririn said with a sigh, turning her head away, hiding her hopeful smile.
"and just what is that supposed to mean?" Ichigo snapped at her, he had played right into her hands.
"you know what I mean, what kind of girl would wan to go out with a guy who dyes his hair orange?" she said it as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"I told you!" he slammed his tea cup on the table, shattering it, spilling scalding tea all over his hand and the shards from the cup cutting into his flat palm, he ignored the pain, in his blind rage "that this hair is god damn NATURAL!" and with that he stormed out of the shop, slamming each door behind him
"that was not the reaction I was expecting" Ririn said, still shocked
"well what would you expect? His friends are all risking their lives in the soul society, they could already be dead as far as he knows" Kurodo tipped his top hat in front of his eyes, not liking the thought of a dead Miss Inoue. Even Noba shut his eyes, not liking the idea of Chad dying.
"Yeah, I guess I didn't completely think it through, I was only trying to help him, now he probably hates me" she looked down disappointed,
"It's okay Ririn, Ichigo isn't one to hold a grudge about something as trivial as a comment about his hair color" Kurodo reassured the blue eyed girl.
"Yeah, you're probably right" then Ririn remembered what Mr. Urahara told them to do before he left.
"did you two pick up any of his thoughts through the device Kisuke gave us?" Ririn asked, her slightly disappointed attitude disappearing, turning all business.
"I did" it was the first thing Noba said the whole time.
Ichigo was at home now, his hand was bandaged up and he had also taped ice to it, to help with the second degree burn the tea had given him. He was sitting on his computer chair now. Like he always did when he was alone, he thought about Senna, and her magnificent purple hair, was it naturally purple, he knew orange hair was natural, but not his shade of orange, and Grimmjow said his blue hair was natural, but he was an arrancar, but Senna was a sheninju, did the same concept apply?
"What happened to your hand?" asked a familiar voice,
"It's burnt and cut pretty deep" Ichigo absent mindedly replied
"What happened?" the voice sounded feminine, and slightly concerned
"Well, I smashed a cup of tea on a table" he said it slightly embarrassed, looking down at his bandaged hand.
The voice laughed, and Ichigo fell out of his chair in surprise, it was such an incredibly familiar laugh, its owner was on the tip of his tongue. Who's laugh was that? who's voice was that! Ichigo sprang to his feet at an impossible speed, and swung his head from side to side so forcefully it hurt, but it was only him in his room. He collapsed on his bed, when memories came rushing back to him, she fell off the wire, and had appeared right behind him on a table, watching that grey haired man punch Senna in the stomach knocking the wind out of her, when she was tied to that giant wooden object, her ribbon gone, then another memory, when she was enveloped in those white creatures, and finally, when she was evaporating on his back. it couldn't have been Senna, she was dead Right? but he did just have a conversation with her, and yesterday he had hillucinated her outside of his house.
Ichigo came to a quick and final solution. He was going crazy, he was losing his mind, and his nostalgia about Senna was draining him of his sanity. He couldn't take much more of this, if he killed himself would he still be allowed in the soul society? its not like going to hell would be all bad, he could easily become the strongest togabito, but that would make him an enemy of the soul society, he would put his family through hell, and all of his friends to, but what scared him even more than that was these realizations didn't make him feel any less against suicide.
SOUL SOCIETY
The fighting in the soul society had completely decimated the sairaitai until it was just the largest pile of rubble anyone would ever see, all the separate fights had eventually ended with no clear winner. other than Shunsui and Ukitake's fight over the illusionary ichigo.
foating in the sky on one side, were the 10 captains, their lieutenants, the Vizards, Kanari, Uryu and his group, Kisuke with his group, and about 50 other shinigami, on the other side was Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, Teir, Aizen, and what was left of Rudbornn's spawned grunts. Thanks to orihime the captains and everyone else were completely fine, but the opposing forces were slightly cut up and bruised, except fo Teir Harribel who was missing half of her other arm.
"why are you still here Sosuke, you're no longer trapped in jail, wouldn't it be wise to go back to heuco mundo?" mocked head captain yamamoto
"not like it would matter, he attempted to overthrow the soul king once, we'll just stop him again" said a confident Kenpachi
"you stopped me because of the substitute shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki, who I am well aware is powerless after his last fight with me" Aizen reminded them grimly, he was amused by their changed facial expressions.
"this time" Aizen started, taking a pause for dramatic effect "the results will be different. Ulquiorra opened a garganta and Aizen's party exited.
"he's right" said a befouled Rukia "without Ichigo" she struggled to say his name, "we're doomed"
No one else spoke, Rukia had summed up all their thoughts, except for Kanari, who was slightly confused about the relevense of this 'Ichigo' person. After a long silence of everyone contemplating their imminent demises Kisuke spoke up, saying he and the others will be going back to the world of the living to figure out a solution to the new problem, and everyone knew he wasn't talking about the once great Sairaitai, which was now just a pile of sekiseki rock and clay shards of what were once roof shingles.
Kanari watched the strange, and slightly creepy blonde haired man and the humans exit through a syenkimone a strange device of his made. She looked over at her captain, who wasn't much taller than her, he was just looking down at the mess the war left behind, she was so disturbed by the events that had taken place, it was the first time that she had ever drawn her Zanpakutos in an attempt to kill, and what scared her more is that it didn't feel wrong at all, maybe that was natural for a shinigami, but it still made her question herself, would she turn into a blood thirsty beast like captain Zaraki? She looked around, in full circle, Captain Hitsugaya had said that each division had around 200 shinigami, well if she was right, there was 70 shinigami standing here at most.
"captain" Kanari asked nervously, tugging on his sleeve, he turned and looked down at her slightly, she noticed his flat mouth twitch into a small grin for a half second "what will we do now?"
He looked down at his third seat, her brown hair was still perfect, still soft and silky looking, but her dark blue eyes were scared, and full of worry and concern, but he was releaved that he could finally feel her spiritual pressure, she just must've been subconsciously suppressing it earlier, or had his fights made him so much more powerful that he could now feel it? He trashed that theory as impossible and let his straight face fall into a deep frown as he looked down at the huge mess of rock and clay, for more reasons than just the obvious "I don't know" he admitted.
"Oh" to Toshiro, she sounded crest fallen and let down, and that for some reason didn't sit well with him, he felt the need to make sure she had hope. "But don't worry, we'll pull through, we've been through worse"
Kanari smiled to herself, she was happy that her captain went the extra mile to make sure she wasn't to distraught, but there was no way they could have ever been in a worse spot than this, having the entire sairaitai destroyed was pretty bad.
"well first things first, division captains separate, shinigami, stand aside your respective captains, we need to see whose left" the captain commander ordered
HEUCO MUNDO!
Back in heuco mundo Aizen continued his plan, there was no worry of the shinigami finding his secret lab hidden in his jail cell, it was most likely decimated with the rest of the sairaitai, Aizen knew that Ichigo regaining his powers was unavoidable, there was no stopping a man as clever as Urahara, but he had yet to figure out that Aizen had been crushing Ichigo's sanity, and that part of his plan was almost complete, Aizen took a yellow ribbon from his pocket, and made it rub against his new Hogyoku, then dropped the ribbon to the ground, it began glowing all the colours of the rainbow, and began changing shape to that of a teenage girl, fully clothed in a brown skirt and spring jacket, with a white shirt under and red ribbon tie on its collar, her hair was almost long, but still kind of a medium length, it was held up in a spiky ponytail that was much more elegant and not as sharp looking as Renji's it was held up by the yellow ribbon.
Her eyes flickered open, revealing her amber coloured eyes, all she could feel was the cold ground beneath her, she tried to remember how she got here, but all that she remembered was her time with Ichigo, from the beginning, when she had called him a dumb ass, all the way to the end, when she died on his back. "Ichigo" she whispered, how long had she been gone, did Ichigo give up on her? Was he still single?
She heard a light laugh from above her "close, but I'm Aizen" his voice sounded so innocent and kind, she was instantly drawn to the man dressed in a white shihakusho with black trimming, but she also realized that he sounded too nice. "I, Senna, am the reason you are alive"
and that folks, is chapter five, the longest chapter I have ever wrote, albeit, i only ever wrote five chapters for a fan fic this being my first story and everything. I hope you aren't to dissapointed, I know it probably doesn't compare to my earlier chapters, but plain writing is a lot easier than the fight sequences i find, so next chapter will be better :D but thats also means less fighting D:
next chapter Ichigo WILL get his powers back, in fact the newly reincarnated Senna will be the sole reason he gets them back, or will she 0.o
until next chapter i will see you all around!
random note of the day: My sprained ankle is all better :D or is it 0.o nah, i'm just kidding, it is :D... so many faces in this chapters notes...they're taking over! :D
UPDATE
I went through the chapter and did some editing, fixed some mistakes and added some other details and changed some things that didn't make sense with the help of xJ11Cx, thanks again!