Thanks to all the people who've favourited or subscribed to this new X-over so far. It's been a lot more popular than I expected so far. Shame there ain't more Bleach/Sailor Moon X-overs but perhaps this story will change that. Anyway I won't keep you for too long today and let you enjoy the next episode.
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~In this world, there exists two types of souls: those that are sustained through a pure heart and able to guide themselves to through the outerworld. We can equate these souls to the majestic shooting stars of our cosmos.
However there are also those whose souls are deprived of a heart, unable to sustain themselves without feasting upon others – forever hungering the satisfaction of a heart – but never able to fill the dark void which tears through their chest each and every waking moment. They are the black holes of our galaxy, consuming the stars and all in its path.
...But some posses a hunger far greater than a mere human could withstand...It is this immense yearning for fulfilment which drives some of the darkest forces to plague their misery on earth...It is these forces which the Sailor Senshi must thwart in order to save those of pure heart...and to save the very earth itself from becoming a Hollow's Domain...~
Sailor Moon B
Episode 2: Transfer Couple! Usagi's New Interest!?
Usagi woke up and left her room for the first time in nearly a month. After last night's incident, she had been brought back to a reality that – as much as it pained her – she had to accept.
The reality of evil forces threatening innocent lives.
"Oh thank God you've finally come down Usagi!" The moment Ikuko saw her daughter downstairs and packed for school she literally leapt up from the breakfast table and gave her a huge hug. "I was so worried you'd never come out of your room again. I even had this horrible dream where a big black monster came into our house and grabbed you. I was so worried..."
Usagi thought it was probably for the best if her mother only thought that was a dream. But what Usagi wanted to know was why that monster targeted her family. Could this new enemy have known my true identity? What did they plan to do with Mama and Shingo if those mysterious pair hadn't shown up? And of course, the question which burned on Usagi's mind the most.
Just who was that boy who saved me last night?
At least if she went to school, Usagi could find out more from the other girls. She would return to the improvised shrine for Mamoru that was now the entirety of her bedroom later.
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Meanwhile, in a dark and eerie dimension cut off from earth, the pigtailed menace named Loly returned with a look of disgust on her face. Tapping her feet violently with each stride along the white, marble-tiled floor of this dark-lit palace.
"I've gotta see him before that other stupid woman catches me again." She thought out loud as she swung her arms, pacing along that long tiled corridor.
"Oh, now why wouldn't you wanna bump into me?" A voice echoed from the darkness as another white clad vixen pushed her back off the wall she was leaning on. "Is it because you didn't want me to see you lose yet again?"
"Grr...Cirucci..." Loly raised a fist and was ready to land one on her suspender wearing rival when another hand caught her much tinier punch.
"Now, ladies, how about we stop fighting eh?" And without exception, their male conspirators also donned the white. This one spoke with a strong Spanish accent as he rubbed his hand along Loly's raised arm. "How about you let a gentleman find that Great Soul eh?"
"If I knew a gentlemen I would! Hmph!" Loly snapped back as she pulled her hand away from the Spanish guy. "I'll show you pair, I'll get that Great Soul before you old farts!"
As the angry pigtailed girl made her way down the hall and out of earshot, she two older warriors in white began their banter. "Such a shame eh, how much our Espada have fallen in power?"
"Hmph," Cirucci smirked in agreement as she watched Loly's hips swing with each departing step. "You're right Dordoni, it shows just how weak we've become if someone like her can make the Espada."
Cirucci gawked in odd amusement at the number 10 tattooed crudely just underneath Loly's right butt cheek.
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Usagi was still occupying her mind with last night's encounter with the monster – and of course that mysterious orange haired boy with the giant sword. That monster took care of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter without much fuss, yet that boy managed to cut him clean in half with one simple strike.
At one moment, she wondered if Tuxedo Mask's strength would even rival that boy's. In a way it was frightening for Usagi to know someone else out there could rival the passion and strength of her Tuxedo Mask.
She worried and processed and analysed all these thoughts; and of course in Usagi's fashion, did so without even focusing on where she was going until she eventually bumped into a-
"Hey watch it Dumpling Head!" came the voice of an irritated adolescent boy.
"Sorry...Hey wait a minute!" Usagi snapped back at the bleach-haired teen when she heard that familiar name-tag. "Only one person can call me 'Dumpling Head'!" At least, 'could' call me that...
"Well they kinda look like dumplings – those pigtails of yours." The teen unreservedly pointed out, leaning his head down to get a closer look at the strange buns of hair. "Or maybe they're like Meatballs or Pork Buns or something tasty."
"Grr, stop staring at my hair you creep!"and with those blasting words, Usagi stormed off, too angry to recognise the boy had been wearing the uniform of her own High School.
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Minako and Makoto were off their chairs as soon as they saw Usagi enter the sliding doors of the classroom. "Usagi, we're so glad you finally came back to school!"
"Huh? Oh thanks I just..." Usagi held her tongue in an airy daze for a second. "Kinda wanted to leave the house for once y'know."
Makoto and Minako were well aware to play Usagi's return carefully thanks to some earlier discussions with Ami and Luna. They were informed that whenever Usagi came back to school not to make a huge fuss about it. If they made too huge a fuss, it would most likely make things worse and cause the poor Bunny to return to her den.
Minako decided to offer a different topic for Usagi to join in. "Hey, do you guys know? Some new transfer students are enrolling in our class? Do you reckon they'll be as handsome as those Three Lights transfer student were?"
"What makes you so sure they're both guys Mina-chan?" Makoto sneered a little.
"Well uh, ahaha! Just a hunch!" Minako held out her tongue in embarrassment just as the teacher came into the classroom and all the other students went to their chairs.
After the students performed their bow, the teacher adjusted his lenses and made an announcement to the class. "We'll be having two transfer students entering our class from today." The teacher looked over to the door and gestured for them to come in.
Nearly all the girls (and guys) reacted in some way or another at the pair of transfer students entering the room. The guys nearly all had nosebleeds as a stunning, petite, raven-haired girl made her way toward the blackboard; her cool, deep blue eyes were separated by a large bang drooping down her fringe.
Next to her was a boy far too tall to be considered a match for her – yet standing side-by-side they almost appeared to be the perfect odd couple. Contrasting her cool, dark looks, this boy had bleached orange hair and sharper features. The girls were mostly shocked at his orange hair, but many were impressed by his appearance – blushing red as opposed to any red from the nose.
Usagi had the most interesting reaction out of everyone as she jumped off her chair and stabbed a finger at the bleach head. "Hang on! You're the rude hair obsessed creep I ran into this morning!"
The boy's straight face lifted into a slight smirk. "Oh hello Dumpling Head – I guess we both go the same school now eh?"
"Why you!" Usagi nearly threw her table in anger but was made to sit down by the teacher as the two new students wrote out their names on the blackboard.
"My name's Rukia Kuchiki." The tiny raven-haired girl went first. "I like Bunnies and drawing, I hope to make good friends with all of my classmates. Pleased to meet you all." And with a curtsy, she went for her seat just two away from Usagi.
"Yo, my name's Ichigo Kurosaki and I'm from Karakura. I don't remember too much about that place so I guess I'm starting fresh at this school. Hope to get to know a few of you well along the way. Pleased to meet you too."
"How rude is he?" Usagi snorted to herself. "Won't even use polite language for his self-introduction...I hope he doesn't- GEH!"
What Usagi hoped would not happen had already to her disgust occurred as the casual speaking teen pulled out a chair in the space right next to her seat – taking a spot between the Bunny and the Bunny lover."
Unbelievable, my first day back and I'm getting all stressed out and irritated thanks to this brat. Usagi would occasionally throw a deathly glare at the boy as class commenced. Surprisingly, the boy didn't seem as delinquent as his appearance might have suggested and actually wrote down all the notes and answered most of the questions correctly when the teacher instructed him.
Rukia, was in a league more like Ami's. Her handwriting was beautifully flawless and she answered every question correctly with not much hesitation. Usagi thought that it was a shame she couldn't be in Ami's class instead of being stuck with this orange-haired jerk.
At lunchtime, the two transfer students mainly stuck to themselves, secluding themselves from the others by eating their lunch on the roof. But by the time P.E came along they seemed really sociable and friendly; Rukia blitzing the track and field and just about every other athletic event.
"Wow, Kuchiki-san must be one of those all-rounder girls – good smart and super fit." Minako said in awe as Rukia cleared a two metre high jump.
Usagi didn't talk much to the other girls as she noticed the boy's P.E class playing soccer in the nearby field. Ichigo was goalkeeper for the team and managed to catch and save all the goals from the enemy team, leaping and stretching his body to limits not normally evident in normal schoolboys of his age.
By the end of the boy's soccer game all the other guys went over and praised their invincible goalkeeper – even the captain of the High School's official soccer team went and offered Ichigo a position on the team for their next match.
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Having the student's out for P.E gave Tanaka Sensei a perfect chance to tidy up the Home-room classroom. He wanted to finish tidying up quickly and marking off these tests so he could open that second drawer of his and enjoy some 'active reading' later.
"Um, excuse me Sensei, are you by any chance Mr. Ginza Tanaka of class 2-3?"
The teacher put down his papers and drew his attention to the shy young voice coming from the doorway. "Um, yes I'm Mr. Tanaka. What did you need to see me for?"
The young girl with black pigtails and a rather customised version of the High School's uniform tugged at her skirt, searching around the room to put her shyness at ease. "Well, it's uh...I uh, you see I uh-"
The simple act of the teacher standing up frightened the petite young High Schooler as he asked her, "is something the matter? Are you looking for your class or something?"
Suddenly the pigtailed girl's shyness turned a shade pinker as she tried to hide her blushes. "Well you see Sensei I uh..."
She trailed off before she suddenly fainted, collapsing in the very confused teacher's arms.
Her head felt so warm against his body, but as much as the teacher held those desires, he had to maintain his professionalism – and his employment prospects, and called out for a nurse.
But it seems this strange girl's behaviour was entirely a corny, cheeky (and maybe a few other colourful words) act when she suddenly opened her eyes and displayed a sinister smile. "'A teacher who doesn't take advantage of his female students'...you must be a Great Soul indeed!"
"Whagh!" The teacher vented his surprise when he was pushed back into some desks by the eccentric teenager. She suddenly tore off her uniform, revealing some more risque garments underneath. "Who are you!?"
"Man, that last performance of mine almost makes me wanna throw up!" The girl behind the uniform was revealed to be none other than the menacing Loly who had tried unsuccessfully to claim the souls of Usagi and her family. As she imitated a girl inducing vomiting, she called in her pet Hollow. "Hexapodus, fetch me out a Daikon would ya?"
"Teehee, with pleasure..." If the teacher wasn't already frightened by a rebellious and deceptive teenage girl, he had certainly lost all sense of composure at the sight of this multi-limbed behemoth squeezing his way into the classroom. His screams only echoed for a few seconds before he was impaled through the chest by one of the Hollow's limbs.
Hexapodus extracted the soul from the unconscious teacher's body as Loly checked it over again in her usual manner. In a few seconds she shook her head with a tusk. "Nope, this one's a dud too. Oh well have at it boy."
Hexapodus licked his lips (or rather his bony mask-like face) with delight. "Yes thank you Mistress Loly."
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Usagi had left her uniform in the classroom and so had to return to Home-room as the other students went and changed out of their P.E uniforms. It gave her a chance to think more about last night and imagined what would happen if only Tuxedo Mask had been able to help her instead.
She was probably at her lowest point when that monster was about to devour her.
"It's alright. I'll get to see Mamo-chan again soon."
She would make herself cry again if she recalled that possibility too much. She still missed him dearly and was desperate to see him again. But at the same time, she had to consider what Mamo-chan would think of her giving up and leaving her friends behind.
Such dilemmas for Usagi would remain on hiatus for a while longer when she went into her Home-room. "Sensei, sorry I forgot my uniform and I-AGH!"
"Well, if it isn't that crybaby whore from last night." Loly recognised the face she despised most immediately. "Don't worry, if you're still hoping to die, Hexapodus will take care of you when he's finished with your teacher."
"NO!" Usagi no choice but to transform. She never thought she would become Eternal Sailor Moon again since Mamoru's demise, but she knew she could only face enemies like this in her Sailor form.
She raised her heart shaped brooch in the air and made that command only times of crisis called for:
"MOON ETERNAL: MAKE UP!"
Loly was a little struck by surprise when she noticed the crybaby's outfit transform; with white sleeve warmers and knee-high boots, puffy pink shoulder sleeves, a three-layered frilled skirt and angel wings behind her modified sailor tunic.
She had transformed into something unfamiliar to both the Espada and Shinigami. But Loly's impressed reaction was as shallow and breif as her last performance as she held that warped grin again. "So you can sprout wings and change your clothes in some weird way, I'll fix those clothes and that face of yours while I'm at it."
Sailor Moon gasped as the little pigtailed Yandere formed a ball of red energy in her right hand. The heat and ferocity emanating from the ball of energy drew sweat and fear on Usagi's brow even from her distance.
Sailor Moon had to fight back if she was to survive. But she was trembling and hesitating again, flashes of Mamoru clouding her thought processes as the terrifying teen laughed in the sadistic thrill she was creating.
"HAHAHA! Goodbye preppy princess piece of sh-"
SHOON. Before the blast of energy could be released and with it all its havoc and destruction, a dark blur came along and slashed across the devilish girl's right shoulder, making her squeal in pain and double over as the blur stopped in front of Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon looked up at that same striking orange haired saviour from last night as he offered her a helping hand up off the floor and a smile. "Good thing we came just in time."
"So the Espada sent their little errand girl out again eh?" another voice came into the room. perched in the open window was the second black-cloaked swordsman; the raven-haired girl of the sword wielding pair. "I'll take care of her, you go and finish that Hollow."
The orange haired warrior nodded as he lifted his sword over one shoulder and went for the Hollow. Meanwhile the two raven-haired midgets squared off as black fought with white – though their colours didn't seem to match their disposition.
"Gngh! I'll get you two one day." Loly cursed as she blocked the girl's sword with a mere pocket knife. She managed to parry away her opponent with a boot to the gut, allowing her enough time to form her dark portal and escape. "HAHA! I'll be more prepared for you Shinigami shitheads next time!"
"Damn I let her get away." the other raven-head cursed as she checked on her partner's battle. He had already sliced off four of the monster's six limbs and was trying to nab his fifth. "What are you doing? Just finish him off already!"
"Well can't you see that we're in a bit of a cramped space!" The boy retorted, looking away long enough to give the Hollow an opening and swipe at the boy's torso.
"OH NO!" sailor Moon shouted as the boy impacted against the classroom wall, turning over a few desks along the way.
But the boy didn't seem injured or swayed at all as he held a grimace. "Well, I guess I should put this thing to bed then..." And with that he dashed forward until he was positioned underneath the beast's belly before he shouted those powerful words.
"GETSUGA TENSHOU!"
The blast of energy coming from his blade managed to contain itself within the beast's body as it exploded in a frenzy of flesh and giblets before they dissolved into black mist like before. Thanks to his bloated underbelly, the explosion was almost entirely contained and there was minimal damage to the classroom.
With the Hollow dealt with today, the pair turned their attention to the awe-struck Sailor Moon. "Are you one of those Sailor Senshi too?"
"Huh? Oh um...Yeah, I'm Sailor Moon," the warrior for love and justice answered, a bit dumbfounded.
"Didn't those other Senshi of yours tell you not to get involved with this enemy?" The girl said as she sheathed her blade. "I don't know whether you guys do some sort of vigilante super-hero game or whatnot, but this enemy is something way beyond your calibre. Just leave them to us Shinigami okay?"
Sailor Moon was too mesmerised to nod or shake her head and simply stared at the mysterious new warriors as they leapt out of the window and literally melted into the skyline like mirages.
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"Where the heck have you been Usagi?" Rei was waiting with the other girls at their favourite restaurant hang-out spot after school. "I'm glad you've decided to go back to school, but you're later than ever!"
Usagi lifted her head out of her daze. "Oh sorry Rei-chan I was just...doing some catch-up work in class."
"Now that is a surprise." Rei said with a smile. Despite her scolding attitude towards the crybaby of their group, she too was very happy to see Usagi hanging out with the group again like old times. "Well, if you need help catching up on your work, we'll help you out."
Usagi suddenly scratched her head and hid a sly grin. "Oh hehe, well in that case, if you could help me with...this...and this...and all these...oh and..."
After their table was completely weighed down by stacks of textbooks, Rei looked as though she were really about to burn up as Ami, Makoto and Minako all held nervous smiles.
"WE DIDN'T SAY WE'D DO IT ALL FOR YOU USAAGIII!"
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And as Rei scrunched up Usagi's pigtails and the other girls tried to hold her back, a couple of High School students watched the act unfold with keen interest.
"Looks like we've got some interesting classmates, Ichigo."
"Yeah Rukia, that Dumpling Head seems to be in a category of her own." Ichigo lifted his bag over his shoulder as the pair began to walk into the Juuban sunset. She reminds me of someone I might have known once...Shame I can't remember who she was now...
Usagi: That orange haired guy is such a twerp!
Rei: Oh that guy? I think he looks alright.
Usagi: How can you understand where I'm coming from? He's totally annoying and rude and-
Rei: Hide it all you want Usagi, I think you've gotten a little...
Usagi: Rei-chan!
Rei: Anyway, I think we should get those two transfers to hang out with us one day.
Usagi: *Sobs* Rei-ch-a-n...
Next time on Sailor Moon B: "Ichigo and Rukia. A Run-in at the Mall!?"
~The Moonlight carries the message of love~