The Son of Death

Bleach and all related characters belong to Tite Kubo. Soul Eater and all related characters belong to Atsushi Ōkubo

Chapter 3: Invasion

Ichigo Kurosaki stood atop a tower. He had made it into Soul Society and made it to where they were holding Rukia. Ichigo had gotten his friends from the world of the living to help in the rescue, and had even finagled a Shinigami medic by the name of Hanataro to help. The little medic had managed to get Rukia out of her cell, but was soon caught. The son of Death looked down from his perch and onto the bridge below. In the middle of the bridge, were two Captains, their haoris gave them away. Of the two, Ichigo instantly recognized Byakuya Kuchiki. The other one had waist length white hair, and had stopped Byakuya from trying to kill both Rukia and Hanataro.

Ichigo had seen enough as he raised his newly enhanced spiritual pressure so it slammed down on all of them, crushing Rukia and Hanataro. Byakuya and Rukia's eyes widened at the spiritual pressure, because it felt familiar to them, but stronger than ever before. It was a spiritual pressure they knew was extinguished nearly three weeks ago. The white-haired Captain nearly had a heart attack when he felt the spiritual pressure slam itself on him like several tons. It was easily beyond Captain level!

A shadowy figure flew high above the bridge, causing all on it to look up. Rukia saw the one man she was secretly in love with, despite the glare of the sun. Byakuya looked up with a frown as he saw the one man he believed should be dead. He saw Ichigo Kurosaki, still dressed in the black business suit he was last seen in, though the jacket was about six inches longer at the bottom, but something was different about him. He landed in between the two captains, right in front of Rukia and Hanataro.

The son of the Reaper landed gracefully with an air of power surrounding him. He had two pistols in his hands, but instead of revolvers they appeared to be semi-auto's. Ichigo's hair was also longer and he had three white lines that cut across the left side of his hair, stopping in a completely straight line along the front and back of his head, and was now was now 6'1 causing both the Kuchikis to wonder what the hell happened to him. The white-haired captain looked at the boy wide-eyed as his appearance reminded him of his late Lieutenant Kaien Shiba. Ichigo went over to see if Hanataro was alright, and to apologize for sending him into the proverbial lion's den. With that out of the way, moved himself to confront Byakuya.

"Rukia, I've come to get you out of here. So just hang tight 'til I beat your 'brother' into submission." Ichigo said, his voice slightly, and took a quick look at Rukia. She had her head down, fighting back the tears as she remembered the last time she saw Ichigo.

"I told you to stay behind Ichigo! I told you that I would never forgive if you came back for me!" Rukia shouted as she fought back her tears.

"Shut up." Ichigo simply said, causing Rukia to stare in disbelief at him.

"Whether you like or not, you're coming with me. Also I'm ignoring all of your opinions and suggestions so don't bother voicing them." Ichigo said, his voice usually calm and collected, but not without some edge to it.

"The rescuer should always listen to the rescuee!" Rukia angrily ranted, but was ignored.

"Why are you here boy, I thought I ended your shinigami career when I brought my sister back here." Byakuya said with his usual stoic facade and bored expression. He was still trying to figure out the enigma that was Ichigo Kurosaki. Ichigo gave a small chuckle and smiled slightly as he said,

"Have you ever met Death?" This caused everyone to stiffen in shock.

"Have you ever seen Death's face? Felt his touch? Stared into his pitch black eyes?" Ichigo continued, doing a great job of making everyone think he was crazy.

"What are you babbling about? Are you trying to say that death gave you a second chance? Childish nonsense." Byakuya said as he drew his zanpakuto. Suddenly Ichigo burst into laughter, again making everyone present think he was insane.

"I'm not saying Death gave me a second chance, because that implies I died. No Death did so much more, and I have the power of Death on my side!" Ichigo said after he was finished laughing. Byakuya scoffed and said,

"And how does a pathetic ryoka gain the power of death?" Ichigo looked the other man square in the eye and replied,

"Quite simply actually. I'm his son." This caused everyone's eyes to nearly shoot of their heads, even Mr. Stoic himself Byakuya Kuchiki!

"My Father wasn't very happy when he found out what you were planning to do to Rukia, he's actually quite fond of her actually. Calls her his 'Third Daughter'." Ichigo said as he spun his pistols by the trigger guard. Byakuya was done listening to this perceived nonsense and charged at the orange haired reaper, who was still just idly spinning his guns. Suddenly three gunshots were heard. Everyone saw that Ichigo was now holding his pistols sideways, and toward Byakuya. Byakuya froze as his kenseikan broke apart, and his zanpakuto was out of his now bleeding hands.

"Now tell me. Do you really want to try and fight me? Please say yes." Ichigo said, giving a sly smirk. Suddenly Yoruichi appeared. Ichigo turned to the dark skinned woman and said,

"Get Rukia out of here. Me and her big bro got a little catching up to do." Yoruichi picked up Rukia as she said,

"Are you sure you want to do this Ichigo?" The orange haired reaper simply said,

"Hell yes." Byakuya retrieved his zanpakuto and glared at Ichigo.

"You'll regret fighting this battle boy." Ichigo simply chuckled and readied his guns as he said,

"Not as much as you will."

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