Finally new chapter! There haven't been time to write ;_;
hitsugayatoshirou1220: That's good for you :) I have vacation now too, but still have too much everything to do, bleh.
Ruhwef: Thanks :)
Althia9: Yeah, I'm obessed to give him some maturity since he have some annoying teenager sides :-D And it's just playing with the thought that how would others react about that.
Ichigo turned to Shinji with questioning look: "What do you mean?" Blonde just stared him with disbelieved look: "You mean that you are older than us?"
"Hmm, seems so."
"So I can't call you to boy or kid anymore!" Hiyori cried out: "How about grandpa?" she frowned and grinned at the same time. Ichigo snorted: "I'm not that old yet!"
All laughed at Ichigo who looked really offended. After they calmed down, orange-head leaned forward: "So, what you want to know?" he raised his eyebrows.
"How about you start from the beginning?" Urahara suggested again, and Ichigo glanced Ryuzaki.
"Ah well… I don't know." Ichigo shook his head. "I can't remember about my childhood at all." Hiyrori frowned: "You can't remember?"
"Yes. It's more like amnesia, but what I have heard, I lived in the normal household. My first memories are from the training dojo. It was Ryuzaki's home, and he took me in when I was young and I needed help." he smiled at older man. "I am always grateful for that. It wasn't anything else but normal life: I trained and trained and when I was old enough, I was assigned in the same corporation as Ryuzaki. As his chief actually." he smirked at Ryuzaki who pursued his lips: "I was the one who found your skills!"
Vizards and Urahara noticed that he didn't tell everything. But they kept their mouths shut.
"How 'bout that scar of yours?" Hiyori asked.
"Ah this. It's complicated, but when I needed to… rise against my friends." Ichigo let his head drop and didn't say anything. It was Ryuzaki who started talking:
"It was when some of us decided to change the system in there. So they needed to kill our boss." Ryuzaki shook his head: "We weren't with them. We really thought that system worked pretty well, it wasn't perfect but so what? Higher you try, higher you drop."
"The situation got worse and it came to that point that Ichigo… Needed to fight against them." Ryuzaki sighed.
"I killed six my closest friends." Ichigo started in the empty wall. Vizards gaped.
"I needed to slaughter people who were almost my family, just for the corporation. And", he pointed his scar: "This was done by my brother."
Others didn't know what to say, and you could hear nail dropping on the floor. Then Ichigo took a deep breath:
"But that was long time ago." he stood up. "No need to remember them."
Love just shook his head: "I'm sorry about what you had gone trough. I don't wish something like that to anyone."
Ichigo waved his hand and shook his head: "No worries. But I was thinking that since you all are here right now, you could help us?"
"With what?" Shinji lifted his eyebrow.
Grin spread across Ichigo's face.
Ichigo came to school in the next day. He didn't talk to anyone and no one asked questions. Teen seemed to be somewhere far away with his thoughts.
Ichigo was grunting after the school that he needed to go to shopping for Yuzu. "Like my back wouldn't hurt enough!" Ichigo cried out while rubbing it. He just wanted to go to sleeping.
They had finally found his body under the stuff. It was pinned between the bed and freezer. His back was still covered with reddish-black lines and bruises.
Inoue offered to come with him and Ichigo nodded with approval. They left others at the school gates.
"So… should we go to Urahara today?" Ishida lifted his glasses. Others shrugged and they started going. "Maybe he is there today."
Group walked familiar road to the shop, and they heard that there was others too before stepping in.
"Oh! Ichigo's friends are here!" Blond man stood up: "Sup?"
Ishida and Chad gulped but others just raised their eyebrows: "Who are they?"
"Kurosaki-kun, is there anything else you need?" Inoue asked tilting her head. Ichigo and her were walking in the shopping street. Orange-head thought a while: "I don't think so. We have the cooking stuff and… was there anything else?"
Inoue pursed her lips. She had difficulties keeping up with Ichigo, who had used to walking fast.
"I guess that we have all!" she smiled with gray eyes blinking.
"Good. Well thank you then. I owe you one." Ichigo stopped and Inoue needed to take few steps back.
"Oh right… No problem!" she smiled, but was disappointed. Girl still wanted to hang out with him.
"I need to take these to Yuzu. Well, see you later!" Ichigo smiled at her and left. Inoue just stood there. She was shocked about seeing his smile and felt a stab in her heart.
It was great to see him smiling, but in the other hand, it wasn't like him. What are you hiding from us?
"Kurosaki-kun…"
Ishida and Chad sat across the table, other side sat Urahara, Shinji and Hiyori.
"Why do you all seem to be sore?" Ishida lifted his eyebrow. All of them were moving carefully and sometimes whined a bit when some muscle cramped.
"You would be too if you had been moving that same massive pile of stuff!" Hiyori snapped and Shinji grimaced.
"I still can't believe how Ichigo…" Shinji started rubbing his back.
"What? You were with Ichigo!" Ishida focused and his head snapped up. Shinji cleared his throat.
"I mean… Oh well, yeah we were helping Ichigo."
"Can you tell us that what is going on?" Chad asked quietly. All turned to look at him. Hiyori just crossed his arms: "Nah. He asked us to keep our mouths shut."
"Yeah?" Ichigo squeezed his eyes shut and rubbed his forehead. When did he get this bad headache? Ryuzaki raised eyebrows: "Take a burana, I tell you. Your eyes are red."
Ichigo snorted.
"This will go away. Don't worry. It's just my hollow making mayhem in my head. Nothing big."
"WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP?" he thought and sent imaginary glare at his hollow.
"BUT KING! IT'S SO BOORIIING. I have taken a look to your all memories and now there is nothing to do!"
"Hmm? Why did you suddenly decide starting whining now? You haven't done that before."
"It's because I tried to find some of your weaknesses. Now they are all gone too! What the fuck am I going to do now? Break more windows, huh?"
"You have been doing what! And no, don't break the windows. I try to figure out something to do for you too."
"Your hollow? It actually speaks to you?" Ryuzaki asked with widened eyes. Ichigo smiled: "He have always done that. Actually he's not complete hollow, more like a part of my soul."
Older man was nodding: "I see. Can you use your hollow's powers like the Vizard? Can you show me?"
Ichigo licked his lips and narrowed eyes: "Yeah, I can. But I haven't tried after the war. There hasn't been any need for that."
"What do you think? I'm still capable of using mask?"
"Of course? Why not? What else activity I have here than waiting that when you are going to bring out your mask!"
"Do I still hear some whining? I will think something for you like I said! Just be patient!"
Ichigo blinked and turned to Ryuzaki when Hichigo still whined on the background.
"Here we go then…" Ichigo pulled his hand across the face, gathering black reiatsu which formed to be white mask.
"Woah…" Ryuzaki stood up. It was like a human skull, but with sharp fangs and two red lines going down.
Ichigo grabbed mask and flipped it around to see. "Yeah, it changed since war." He thought with himself and dissolved it into bunch of red-black reiatsu. He played with it with his fingers before it disappeared.
"That's impressive. How much it helps while fighting?" Ryuzaki asked.
"It gave me about… 50% more power before. I don't know now though."
~~Hope ya like it.