Lucky-sama: My newest chapter is up as promised!
Tensai-san:Yep yep, Team Demon will be updated twice sometime next week, so there won't be an update during the week of Christmas.
Lucky-sama:As for New Years, I don't know if we'll update then or if we'll do a double the week after that so stay tuned!
Tensai-san: Uh-huh, this story's new chapter will be coming out sometime next week as well!
Lucky-sama: We won't do weekly updates on this story but we'll focus more on Team Demon cause we have more readers over there.
Tensai-san: And thank-you to Tuesday,(formerly known as Yume-chan) and Hounds_of_Hell for their reviews!
Lucky-sama: Thank you for pointing out my mistakes in chapter one Hound-san, I'm working on fixing them right now!
Tensai-san: Enought chit-chat, Lucky-sama and myself, Tensai san, does not own any of the animes or manga or ect. shown here, we only own this story plot and our OC's!
Lucky-sama: On with the chapter!
"I have things to do, schedules to run, places to go to, I'm not gonna just sit here all day," Ikasu stared right back at Rukia unblinkingly causing her to flinch and look away.
"How do you feel Ichigo?" Ikasu turned his head towards the orange haired boy suddenly.
"I feel like a giant weight had been lifted off my shoulders,"Ichigo shrugged ad tried to stand but collapsed immeadietly sending Rukia running to his side.
"Why am I so weak?" Ichigo's soul was returned to his normal body.
"That's because I'm no longer in you therefore, my spiritual power does not reside within you and you have less power," Koku appeared in Ikasu's hand.
"WHAT?" Ichigo got up, leaning on Rukia heavily who was struggling to hold him up, his hands curled into fists.
"You heard me, because I have left, you have become weaker than ever," Ikasu drew a lazy circle with Koku in the air. The air shimmered where Koku traced, leaving little trails of blue.
"Get down you oaf!" Rukia tackled Ichigo as a portal opened.
"I'm going to go visit my old sensei, see you, good luck fighting hollows in your current state!" Ikasu grinned and stepped into the portal.
"Stick your sword in there and keep it open!" Rukia whacked Ichigo over his already sore head.
"Alright, alright!" Ichigo stuck his zanpakuto into the portal and the portal strained to close but couldn't due to the ibsatcle keeping it open, "Now what?"
"We go in after him, he's your source of power, without him, you'll barely be able to fight! If he won't come back, he'll have to train you to a point where you can actually fight like you normally could," Rukia pulled the in temporary shinigami after her.
A young boy about the age of five ran down the street crying, his sun kissed hair was messy and unruly, bruises covered his arms and legs. "Why? Why do they always do this to me?!"
"So you're sensei's new student huh kid?" a certain boy ran a hand through his own unruly raven hair as he watched from a building. He had found the kid running and was planning to just swoop down, pick him off the street and vanish without a trace. Then there were complications, the boy was being chased by a mob, there were too many villagers around which meant many witnesses, there were ANBU stationed everywhere. He continued watching the kid's every move from his spot, not moving an inch, he could see pretty well from where he was until...the kid turned a corner and into his spot's blind spot.
"Shit! This is screwed," Ikasu grumbled as he tried to find the kid in the street below, "where the hell is he now?"
"Don't hurt me please!" Ikasu looked over the side of the building he stood on and saw a mob had cornered the boy into an alleyway.
"No way demon," one of the villagers hefted his club.
"This is gonna be messy," Ikasu groaned as he forced enough spiritual power out to make him solid and seeable to normal humans.
"Die demon!" the club swung down but Naruto saw it in slow motion, arching towards his head until...a blade came out of nowhere and sliced the club in half neatly.
"I don't tolerate child abuse," Ikasu shook his head like one would if you caught a child with their hand in the cookie jar before dinner.
The villager backed off, scared of the serrated monstrosity of a blade Koku had transformed into. Several ANBU dropped out of hiding and gripped their weapons.
"Back off morons," Ikasu snarled and brought Koku down in a slicing motion in front of him. The masks immeadietly chipped and their weapons fell to the ground useless.
"Call for back up, he might be an S-rank criminal!" one of the ANBU ordered and one of them vanished.
"Criminal am I? Can you catch what you can't see?" Ikasu let some of the power in his legs absorb back into him making them invisible to the ANBU.
"What are you?" one of them gasped.
"Calm down, it's just a genjutsu," one of the others snapped.
"Genjutsu is it? Well your back up is here, gotta run see ya!" with that Ikasu promptly grabbed Naruto and vanished with a simple shunshin.
"Spread out! Don't let him escape!" The orders split the night as the ANBU sped off, hunting for their prey.
"Don't hurt me mister!" Naruto curled up as sobs racked his fragile body.
"Like I would hurt my sensei's student," Ikasu scoffed.
"Your sensei-? Watch out mister! Behind you!" Naruto pointed a quavering finger behind him.
"Wha-? Hollows, they're here too huh? Stay behind me!" Ikasu ordered and Naruto scrambled to do so.
"Let's go wild Koku!" Ikasu ran his tongue over his sharp canines, a trait he had gotten from his sensei.
Koku promptly grew longer and transformed into a double ended spear. Ikasu simple ran forwards, arms thrown back, a wild look in his eyes. The hollow tried to stomp on Ikasu but found out the hard way that people don't like being squished when its foot was sliced off.
"Helicopter Koku!" Ikasu leapt up towards the hollow's head and whirled the spear above his head like a helicopter's rotors. The blades dug into the hollow and sliced its head off in several quick spins. "Great workout!" Ikasu exclaimed as he landed, neatly tucking Koku aside.
"What was that mister?" Naruto tugged on Ikasu's pant leg.
"You can see them huh kid?" Ikasu ruffled Naruto's hair.
"Yes, they're as plain as day!" Naruto growled indignantly.
Ikasu crouched down so he could look Naruto right in the eye, "Those are hollows, they eat souls, I'm a shinigami, it's my job to kill them, got it kid?"
"Yes sir!" Naruto gave a mock salute.
"Do you want to destroy these hollows?" Ikasu asked him seriously.
"That I do," Naruto's face darkened instantly like he had experienced them before.
"I'll teach you kid, you've got potential," Ikasu returned to his normal smiling face and picked Naruto up, "now how about we get you cleaned up? Oi need some new clothes and a bath too, ugh," Ikasu wrinkled his nose as he placed Naruto on his shoulders.
"Sure nii-san!" Naruto giggled madly, amazed at the view when you were so tall.
"Damn, where are they?" Rukia scanned the horizon from atop the building they were on. All around her, villagers milled about, going on with their dail business, completely oblivious to what was going on. Frowning, she turned her attention to the setting sun, watching as the last few rays of sunlight was fading. But then, out of the corner of her eyes, she spotted a fading blue trail. It formed when spiritual power was used contantly. It led down to the village gates and onto the path beyond.
"Shit, they've left the village, let's get going," Rukia dragged her partner down the path and dashed towards the village gates, their hopes of returning back to their own world lay in the hands of a certain dead shinigami.
"How's that sould cutter coming along?" Ikasu rubbed his hair dry with a towel.
They had reached a wealthy village in the middle of a festival and settled in one of the inns there. As soon as Naruto was out of the shower, he was taught how to use spiritual power and form his own soul cutter. Ikasu believed strongly that the sooner you have a zanpakuto, the more time you had to bond with it, the more you got to understand it, the better you know what your limits were and how to train.
"Nothing!" Naruto banged his fists on the ground in frustration.
"You're putting a hell too much power you idiot," Ikasu whacked Naruto over the head with his towel.
"How would I know how much power I should put in?" Naruto snapped as he continued to steadily push out spiritual power.
"At the rate you're going, you'll make a hammer or a soul smasher not a sould cutter you dope!" Ikasu stabbed into the bubble of spiritual power with his hand and the bubble burst.
"That took me along time to make!" Naruto glared at him.
"You have a ton of time kid," Ikasu slipped on his robe and sandals.
"Meanie!" Naruto pouted and started up another bubble.
Ikasu watched him intently for a while before stepping in, "No, imagine a sword, one that can cut through anything, it's sharp and long. Tell it what do you want it to do? Why are you fighting?" he whispered softly.
Naruto twitched, his brow furrowed in concentration. "I fight to protect, I fight for freedom, most of all I FIGHT FOR MY DREAM!" The power in his hands grew longer, as if responding to his words. It slowly formed a small replica of a shield, then a sword and then it simply swirled around.
'He didn't say he wanted power or reconition, you've chosen an interesting student sensei,' Ikasu noted mentally as he watched.
Bit by bit, a blade started taking shape, it had a ring on the end so it could be twirled like a kunai but it was longer. When it grew to about half an arm's length, it stopped growing adbruptly and dropped to the ground with a clang. The blade was still short and small yes, but it still was pretty good for a five year old. It looked like a minature katana with the ring on the end.
"Nice blade kiddo," Ikasu lifted the blade up by the ring.
"That's mine?" Naruto jerked up in surprise.
"Yes, take good care of it," Ikasu threw the blade lightly at him.
"Ahh! You don't throw swords!" Naruto screamed and ran off, letting the knife hit the ground.
"A blade won't harm their master or partner," Ikasu sighed and scooped the knife of the ground, "a blade will only do what they think is good for you, now don't drop the knife even if it turns into a snake or I'll take the knife away and give you a hammer,"
Naruto sheepishly took his weapon from his sensei, "Gomen,"
"Sooner or later you'll learn your blade's name, when you do, you'll become much powerfuller," Ikasu rubbed the kid's hair fondly, "Now let's go get a sheath for that thing!"
"Hai! Let's go!" Naruto leapt up, his knife held in his hand.
'I swear to protect you,' the thought seem to radiate from the knife but Naruto dissmissed the thought, thinking it was his imagination. It could have been...or was it?
Lucky-sama: There you go!
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