Hey there people time to upload another chapter in this of my first one got a couple of views and a nice review thx a bunch to answer your question Kusa is a OC not Ichigo I like him but It's hard for me to write anything with him as a main weird I know, I just like making OCs to fuck with the canon can't a guy have fun if it gets too crazy tell me plz and I'll stop okay :3 now off to the story you lot!
Oh and I change the time too 500 yrs it works better for the rest of the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach just this story and the characters I make for it
Chapter 1: The Hunting Really Starts
Forest of Menos Inside a Cave
Kusa was laying on top of a stone slab with some cloth he found somewhere thrown over it for a makeshift bed with the glow for his eye out, a sign that he was sleeping, he didn't have dreams though when he slept he went to a black void where he just kept walking and walking seeing the masks of the Hollows he had eaten counting up 85 of them, every now and then he would hear Zanny calling out to him but when he tried to follow it he didn't get anywhere.
"Damn it this isn't working." Kusa said stopping in his tracks in frustration at the way this was going."Every fucking night it's the same thing! Zanny stop calling me and come here!" He yelled doing so caused him to wake up with a start inside his cave."Stupid dream." He muttered moving his body around to get the sleep out of him.
"Morning Kusa, I see you didn't sleep well!" Zanny sang out loud in Kusa's head stalling him."*sigh* You are hopeless Kusa you've been fighting hollows left and right for months but I still scare you geez."Kusa slapped the side of his head which got Zanny annoyed for some reason."Don't do that!"
"Maybe if you didn't haunt my sleep I might consider it." Kusa said walking out of his cave the first thing he saw was a group of mindless Hollows around his home probably because Kusa's growing Reiatsu from all the Hollow hunting he's been up to.
"Kusa? What was that about haunting your sleep?" Zanny asked not knowing what Kusa was talking about at all.
"It's nothing really Zanny if you don't know what I'm talking about neither do I." Kusa answered walking up to one of the Hollow before it could do anything He grabbed it's mask and crushed it to pieces."Hmm, the breakfast today is lacking, guess that means I'll go deeper this time." Throwing the dead Hollow aside Kusa walked passed the other Hollows without a care while they backed away from him.
"Hey! Murakumo is here." Zanny informed Kusa making him turn to a group of crystal trees where between them stood a Gillian staring at him from afar tilting it's head from side to side. After Kusa had started hunting he and Zanny ran into it almost everyday, it would just stare at Kusa then drifts off somewhere which is why Kusa started calling it Murakumo meaning gathering of the clouds."Has he been there the whole night?"
Kusa Jumped up the branches of a tree getting up to Murakumo's mask which was a little different then other Gillians his had some spiky scales around the face and the nose was shorter than others with a thick yellow running down from the mouth."Maybe? but he's bad guard dog." Kusa said petting the massive Hollow on the nose before hopping on his head."Come on Kumo." With a short growl Kumo started to march deeper into the forest.
After a few hours of walking Kusa and Kumo came to cleaning where there was nothing in sight, Kumo was chewing on a Hollow that Kusa caught for him while Kusa himself was on lookout for anything powerful but sadly there was nothing."*sigh* This is useless the only thing strong I can sense is Kumo, any ideas Zanny?" He asked trying to keep his balance as Kumo swallowed his food.
"Well you could just eat this big guy you're sitting on, I'm sure he wouldn't mind." Zanny answered in rather a dark tone.
"Hmm? Yea but I can't do that, Kumo is too lovable to hurt." Kusa said leaning down to rub his hand on some of Kumo's scales, he snapped his head up sensing something big around him then came the chilling sound of hundreds of Gillian roars breaking the usual silence in the forest getting Kumo in a nervous fit joining in the roars."Woah! Woah! Kumo! Keep it down or they'll come after us!" Kusa yelled smacking Kumo's head a few times then all the roaring stopped when a huge blast of blue reiatsu filled the air tossing sand up everywhere.
"Kusa! whatever that was don't go towards it!" Zanny quivered in fear as the reiatsu grew even stronger than before that's when Zanny noticed Kumo was going towards it with Kusa going along with him which meant Zanny too."Hey! What did I just say! Don't go towards the massive death flag!"
"Keep quiet Zanny." Was all Kusa said as Kumo got closer to the source of the reiatsu."What the?! Kumo stop!" Kusa yelled as another blast of reiatsu came by destroying some trees and knocked the towering Kumo down,Kusa jumped off just before Kumo fully hit the ground kicking up a lot of sand covering Kusa's sight but that didn't matter from how strong whoever this was Kusa could tell they were near keeping his eyes fixed in front of him."Where are you?" He whispered as the sand cleaned up.
"Huh? You two are alive?" Came a lazy voice, Kusa turned slowly to a stone pillar standing on it was a large grey wolf wearing a white mask with two horns and some red flames around it's eye holes with it's hollow hole just above the chest in it's mouth was a Gillian, just from seeing it Kusa could tell that all the reiatsu was coming from the wolf, it felt like a pair of fangs were around him ready to bite down."Hmm? You don't look like much." The wolf had appeared instantly in front of Kusa standing a head above him making him jump back in fear, the Gillian it had in it's mouth fell down shortly afterwards."So are you a smart one or mindless?" It asked eyeing Kusa with it's grey blue eyes.
"Kusa! Say something before this thing kills us!" Zanny yelled in Kusa's head so loud that even the wolf might have heard it.
"I'm Kusanagi! Kusanagi Tsurugi!" Kusa yelled the first thing that came to him with the wolf staring at him it then walked up to him and sniffed him which didn't help him calm down at all.
The wolf then went over to Kumo trying to get back up only to fall back down sniffing him as well."This one needs some help but that's your job I guess." It jumped up to a tree turning back to Kusa it gave him something close to a smile if a wolf could make one."If you and him stay alive long enough come find me up there eh? " The wolf then jumped higher into the tree going through the sand roof above taking it's monstrous reiatsu with it.
Falling to his knees Kusa let out a breath he was holding for who knows how long."*panting* That was scary, Zanny you still with me?" He asked looking over to Kumo still trying to get back up.
"...Yea I'm here sadly and yea that was scary as hell, if we ever find that guy again let's just turn around ok." Zanny answered just as terrified as Kusa was feeling.
"Noted." Kusa went over to the Gillian dead on the spot unmoving and he knew that there were probably a few more dozen of these around where the wolf came from if anything else."But how is that guy so powerful? He looks like any other Hollow I've seen."
"Hmm? If I had to say he must be a Adjuchas a level of Hollow passed Gillian, they're Gillians that kept their minds and feed on others then evolved into a smaller more powerful from ... but he's different I think." Zanny muttered thinking deeply for a second."Hey! At least we got a free Gillian! Go eat that thing now!" Zanny cheered getting it's upbeat tone back.
"Well you sure saw the silver lining in this fast eh Zanny? hahaha." Kusa laughed a little tearing a piece off the Gillian biting down on it."This is going to take a while." He muttered seeing as the head alone was the same size as he was and sweatdropped taking another piece off it before he could eat,Kumo finally got back on his feet and growled loudly a sign that he was hungry."For once I'm kind of happy you want to eat, help me with this thing." To that Kumo brought out his long tongue taking a bit of the Gillian and brought it back to his mouth.
After a grand feast Kusa and Kumo were both staring at the last piece of the Gillian each eyed the other to make sure the other didn't do anything it went on like this off a few more moments until...Kumo lashed out first trying to grab it with his tongue just before it reached it's target Kusa caught it with both hands and pulled Kumo down with some effort.
"Hahaha! Too slow Murakumo, the last bite goes to me!" Kusa cheered as Kumo tried to get back up again for a second time today, claiming his prize and downed it in one go."Whoa that one had bit more kick t-!" Kusa fell to the ground as he felt like someone trying to dig their way out his head and more were coming."FUCK! WHAT THE HELL ARGGGHHHHHH!" He screamed with his hand holding his head tightly as something black came from his mask covering his body.
"Kusanagi-sama! Hang on!" Zanny cried feeling the pain Kusa was feeling even going as far as using Kusa full name.
"ZANNY! WHAT'S GOING ON!?" Kusa was dropped into his black void but now the number of Hollow masks had gone up by the hundreds and all of them were watching him with hungry eyes and some even had bodies to them."This is bad." He thought backing away as some them drew near to him.
"Kusanagi-sama! Kusanagi-sama! Can you hear me?!" Zanny's voice rang out Kusa didn't take time to find where it came from as he dodged one of the Hollows."Please if you can hear me then listen up! I think you're going through something like evolution the Hollows inside you are trying to fuse with you, You need hold them off or you'll lose yourself!"
"Is that all there is?" Kusa asked not expecting an answer as he wrestled with four Hollows at once throwing them into a few of the masks shattering them."Well come then I'll kick all your asses! This body is mine!" To that everyone of the Hollow with or without bodies fell on Kusa turning his black void into a hellish hole of monstrous roars and endless fighting.
And for what felt like days Kusa fought and fought taking down Hollow after Hollow his body wanted to give in to the teeth that wanted to bite his flesh, to the arms that wanted to rip him apart, to the voices that told him he was nothing but another part of the horde but he resisted and kept fighting but fighting for what? He asked himself.
Zanny told him he was a Shinigami but he didn't remember being one, his past was nothing to him plus he was a Hollow they would kill him on the spot from what Zanny told him, all he had now was Murakumo and Zanny that's it.
Murakumo was a good pet if anything else he had gotten Kusa out of some tight spots like warning him about a Gillian herd and as for Zanny it always found a way to lighten up the day with some hateful comments thrown in sometimes but even then are they worth it for all this pain?
"Yes! Deny them! Deny them! Join as one!" One of the Hollow chanted followed by a few others as Kusa's defense weaken."You are weak! Become one to stay strong! Forget everything and become one with us!" They continued on combined with rest still going at Kusa."He will fall,He will fall and then we will be one forever!" They all yelled going into a frenzy.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Kusa roared pushing back the ones around with his reiatsu alone. He was barely holding himself up now, as the hollows got ready for another go at him but they froze up feeling something bad."You keep saying we'll be one, we'll be one! You think I'm going to let that happen just because I started to doubt my reasons for fighting!" He forced himself to stand tall over the Hollows as their mask showed signs of fear.
"NOOOOO! YOU CAN NOT GET CONTROL BECOME ONE! BECOME ONE!" The Hollows all yelled out their echoing voices mixing into a loud hellish noise.
Kusa simply raised one hand and the yelling stopped everyone of them were frozen in place."Heh,You're just prey that wants to huddle together and run around..." Kusa started as some of the Hollow disappeared with each of his words."Fuck that! I'll become something better than all of you and you're just in the way! SO DIE!" Kusa swiped his hand and all that was left was him inside his void.
"Now how do I get out of here?"He asked himself looking around for anything."Maybe I should have kept one alive?" He sweatdropped then a light came to him."I guess I touch this thing." Putting his hand to it Kusa was in the Forest of Menos but something was off, the ground was several feet under him and his body felt rigid like it was made out of stone."What's going on? and why can't I speak?" He asked in his head since his mouth wasn't working.
"KUSANAGI-SAMA!" Came Zanny's loud up beat voice scaring Kusa as usual."Yes! You're back! You're back! Are you alright? Anything hurting? Do you know who I am?..." Zanny bombarded Kusa with such question and more filling his head more than he needed.
"Zanny! keep quiet! Please just tell me what's going on." Kusa answered then felt something rubbing on his right side turning to it and looked down he saw Kumo pushing his head to Kusa's side."And what happened to Kumo?! He got smaller?!" That's when he noticed that his body had change he was now a towering Gillian with the black cloak and spikes around his neck."Moreover what happened to me!"
"Well you turned into a Gillian but your mask is still the same which means you're in control right now." Zanny answered happy to hear Kusa talking even though he didn't know what was going on as usual."And Kumo has being nuzzling on you for hours as you just stood there."
"Hours!" Kusa screamed with his mouth hanging wide open as Kumo continued on.
"Yea, you were just standing there like a statue all day but Kumo stayed by your side and me too not that I had a choice." Zanny said then Kumo looked up at Kusa with puppy dog eyes.
"Mi hermano." He said in young boy's voice using something like telepathy to speak."Hermano you're back Kumo is happy! y que es Zanny?" He asked then went back to nuzzling Kusa without getting a answer.
Kusa and Zanny went silent at hearing Kumo speak for the first time in months."So I guess he can't hear you Zanny but at least I've got someone else to talk to now." Kusa said giving Kumo a hug with his giant white hands form inside his cloak.(plz imagine that)
"*Hmph* Don't get too happy and forget about me." Zanny told Kusa with some hate in it's voice."By the way you and a Kumo should should keep hunting I can still feel Hollows trying to bring you down inside."
"Right, come on Kumo let's start hunting again this time for Gillians!" Kusa ordered walking off with Kumo following closely behind.
Chapter End
Well there you go people Kusa is Gillian and Kumo is a lovable little uh big guy, hope you like what I did for Starrk's Adjuchas form you'll see him and Lilynette again later on. As for the whole black void Hollow bawl that's just what I think happens when a Gillian is born Kumo just took longer to get things in check which is why he acted like a pet and still does kind of.
As for his Name Murakumo it comes from the same story as Kusa's name the sword was originally called Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi meaning Sword of the gathering clouds of heaven then it got change to Kusanagi Tsurugi for... grass cutting Sword :/ japan Y U no make sense So now He goes by Murakumo Tsurugi yea there you go.
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