BEFORE STORY NOTES: Thank you for the reviews.
Not naming anyone (cough, cough, sami217) the questions were stupid. Read the story if you wish to find out.
Ichigo stood atop the peak of one of the many small mountain ranges within Urahara's basement, having asked for permission first of course. Ichigo was currently not only on the peak of one of the mountains but the pointy ten metre tall tip that decided to make it's place at the centre of the small cluster. Bending over carefully trying not to slip and injure himself he slid the only foot capable of being placed on the point to the side and slightly down the point while placing his other foot on the exact opposite side. Placing his right palm carefully atop the point Ichigo raised his legs up and balanced there.
Unfortunately however Urahara had decided to make himself present to observe Ichigo's training and couldn't help but notice the small bursts of energy coming from Ichigo's feet to help him balance. With a mighty jump Urahara struck Ichigo's midsection with his cane causing him to fly off and force him to regain balance in mid air. "You were cheating Ichigo-san. You weren't using your own body strength and balance to keep you there."
"The hell I was! I was doing fine." Ichigo complained wondering why Urahara said he hadn't been balancing there by his own power.
"What I mean Ichigo-san is that you," Urahara pointed his cane at Ichigo, "were using reiryoku to keep yourself balanced. You were cheating."
Urahara could also some streaks of green energy every now and then but they felt too abstract to be called reiryoku. It didn't feel natural to his experiences, but maybe that was one of the perks of being a hybrid, however it looked all too familiar to some other spiritually powered humans that he hadn't been able to catch up with, so it was possibly the same technique. Urahara just continued to watch as Ichigo went back to his after school training wondering if he would actually get to see what Quincy training was like. A scientist needed to know these things after all.
Some time later though and a severely disappointed Urahara Ichigo gave up on simple practices like reiryoku control and decided it was time to test out how far his control had come after a few days of practice. Approaching Urahara Ichigo pulled out his Shinigami badge and let out some green trails of light from his hand to try and spark Urahara's interest.
"Hey Hat'n'clogs, care for a spar?" Ichigo asked approaching the man as he raised an eyebrow in question.
"I have a store to look after Kurosaki-san," Urahara said waving his fan in front of him while grinning stupidly, "besides, I'm much to scar-eek." Urahara said jumping backwards from a black propeller like disk that suddenly flew towards him with some speed.
"Liar." Ichigo stated plainly before continuing with a flash and reappearing behind Urahara bringing his right leg around for a kick, as green trails came out of his foot continuously accelerating his foot as it made impact with Urahara's form sending the surprised man tumbling along the ground before his feet found anchorage and he stabilised himself with his reiryoku while sliding back a few more feet.
"That was a strange technique." Urahara stated not having seen anyone perform the feat that Ichigo had. Never had he seen someone combine his or her own high speed technique into a combat movement like Ichigo had. The kid was obviously full of surprises. Urahara chuckled a bit before unsheathing the blade stored within his cane. "Maybe I do have some spare time at hand after all." Urahara stated before breaking into a run towards Ichigo and promptly vanishing after the first few steps.
Ichigo smirked as green light sparked to life across his torso as he turned rapidly to his right with the badge in hand while activating the black Tsuba shaped projectile. Ichigo brought his right hand up and blocked a backhanded swing from Urahara surprising him greatly as his blade unexpectedly stopped even though it didn't strike one of the black spires. The spot he struck however gave off a slight red glow that seemed to channel around the entire six spires. This gave Ichigo a split moment where green light sparked across his body again, starting at his feet and trailing up his body and into his left fist.
As Urahara observed Ichigo swing his fist forward he held up his own left hand, across the right arm that still had his blade connected to the reiryoku shield and attempted to block the punch. Urahara was successful for the most part but was unprepared for when Ichigo brought his right hand across his body taking Urahara's blade with it before crashing into Urahara's left forcing him to spin a little. This gave Ichigo the chance to kick around from his left accelerate his foot again and strike Urahara in the chest this time sending him back a few metres.
Urahara shrugged indifferently, seemingly unaffected if not for the small (really small) bruise appearing under his clothing, as he stood on both feet again. "I must say Kurosaki-san, that kick of yours is quite strong, the punch as well mind you. The capabilities of the human body continue to surprise people don't they?" Urahara stated. "Now I can tell you aren't taking this seriously, but neither am I, so how about you show me your full power, hm." Urahara looked on anxiously to see what Ichigo's full power would be.
"Alright." Ichigo said grasping the badge he held a little tighter as a white substance burst from it and covered his body, but not before a black undercoat appear on Ichigo's skin. The badge having almost completely covered Ichigo's body with the white substance now ejected both a hilt and blade from either end of it, giving it a machete like appearance. The hilt looked like it was wrapped in a tightly wound bandage while the blade was mostly straight it curved to a point with it's silver edge before coming back and and curving inwards and back out to a straight, directed towards the hilt. Grabbing the hilt, the badge in the centre of the new construction spun into a different position. When finished a black X was on both sides.
"Hmm, it looks like Kurosaki-san's, fullbring I believe he called it, is made more of hollow constituents than anything else. The armour itself is a prime example of this, a similar reiryoku deposit is found within the mask of a hollow, though the type on Kurosaki-san seems to be much more flexible. Although I must begin to wonder why Kurosaki-san has Hollow reiryoku in the first place." Urahara thought to himself as he observed the transformation.
Ichigo gave the machete he held a few practice swings before he looked back at Urahara and grinned a little. Not waiting for Urahara Ichigo vanished with even greater speed than before as he left several after images behind him as he 'jumped' to random locations around Urahara. Getting behind Urahara Ichigo lunged forward with his blade out towards Urahara's right shoulder, his sword arm.
Urahara, no longer surprised as much as before and expecting the unexpected tracked Ichigo's movements carefully and quickly threw his right arm over his shoulder and scooped Ichigo's blade out of it's course before flicking outwards sending the blade away from himself making Ichigo flash away again.
"Getsuga," Ichigo said holding the blade across his body and around his left side, having reappeared on Urahara's left causing said man to turn his head with curiosity, "tenshou!" Ichigo roared unleashing a crescent wave of white energy from his blade sending the attack forwards at blinding speeds. Ichigo watched as the attack exploded upon impact slightly concerned for the man that would be his teacher.
Moments before though Urahara's eyes widened at the speed and power of the attack and raised his left hand pointing a finger in front of him and casting a spell that would save him from some serious injury if what the attack boasted was true. "Bakudō eighty-one Dankū." Urahara muttered causing a translucent barrier appeared before him and stop the attack. As the crescent attack hit the barrier an explosion occurred that caused the ground to vibrate slightly even from its distance above the ground. The barrier though appeared to sustain no serious strain as it acted, as it should. "Awaken Benehime."
Ichigo stretched out with what senses he had and sighed a little at the fact that Urahara seemed to be unharmed before going around to the other side and releasing a barrage of black and red cross shaped attacks from his blade directly towards Urahara. Ichigo was met with his own surprise however as Urahara had interpreted his move and sent out a red wave of energy that easily wiped out the disks and continued towards Ichigo albeit weakened severely due to the impacts.
Raising his blade Ichigo countered with another getsuga causing the rest of the red to dissipate. The battle so far had been rather slow. Maybe it was time to pick up the pace. Crouching low Ichigo's feet sparked with green luminescence while sheathing his blade on the small sheath on his back.
Urahara, having released the Bakudō was covered in a small smoke screen and failed to see Ichigo's attempt, but with renewed vigor he decided to try and find the limits of this ability Ichigo possessed. So jumping forwards out of the smoke he was surprised to see the blade that Ichigo had sheathed on his back. Continuing through anyway Urahara brought his sword down in an axe like movement.
Ichigo stepped to the left at the last moment and grabbed Urahara's hand with his right, holding the Zanpakuto in place as it struck the ground unearthing a small section. Striking out with his palm Ichigo struck Urahara in the gut only for seemingly nothing to happen, not noticing the small green spark, causing Urahara to smirk somewhat before he was sent shooting away and into one of the small mountains causing the place where he landed to shatter and break upwards like splinters out of timber.
Ichigo himself smirked at his success before sprinting towards Urahara and jumping up for an axe kick. Ichigo watched as Urahara raised both hands, having released his sword, to defend himself against the kick by what appeared to be him attempting to catch it. Deciding to make it even more difficult, Ichigo began spinning forwards. After gaining momentum Ichigo struck Urahara Causing the ground to yet again shatter and some parts, crumble to dust.
Urahara's arms shook underneath the impact, his own natural strength not enough to withstand the force. Having to resort to using his reiryoku Urahara shoved Ichigo off and jumped out of the rubble with a small trail of blood coming down one of his arms.
Landing on both feet Ichigo took off again and struck Urahara with a fist to the abdomen. Urahara however reacted in time and blocked before trying to redirect the force to lessen the blow. Ichigo however just vanished again and reappeared behind Urahara spinning around for a kick.
Urahara quickly raised Benehime in time and raised a blood mist shield only for it to shatter upon impact. Expecting the kick to come through Urahara turned around quickly but saw nothing. Only a moment later did he feel Ichigo's presence behind him causing his eyes to widen considerably. "So that's his tactic now." Urahara thought as he barely avoided a back fist from Ichigo that was aimed at his temple. Feeling Ichigo move again Urahara jumped up off the ground to avoid what he assumed to be a sweep to his legs but was surprised when Ichigo showed the ability to change course midflight and instead strike with his…blade.
Spinning around Ichigo swiped across Urahara's midsection scoring a shallow cut before flashing away again and reappearing on the ground twenty metres away panting lightly. Standing up again Ichigo watched in slight confusion as Urahara sheathed his blade after having resealed his blade. Conceding Ichigo too powered down and walked towards Urahara.
"Mah, Kurosaki-san," Urahara sighed looking down at the cut in his clothing where Ichigo had struck blood as it was now gaining red die. "You ruined my clothing." Urahara whined a little. "Although, other than the new clothes you owe me,"
"I don't owe you anything for that!"
"You are impressively strong for a human." Urahara said. "More so than I would have thought possible for a human." Urahara continued in his thoughts. "However, I must ask how you did some of the things you did. That move where you struck me with your palm, I hardly felt anything from your strike yet it sent me flying through the air. Please explain."
"Ah that was kind of a spur of the moment thing," Ichigo said scratching the back of his head while looking up in thought, "but from what I can recall, what fullbringers do to accelerate themselves and increase their strength is by manipulating the 'soul' of an object like the ground to manipulate it's elasticity or the muscles within the users body to provide greater jumping force, strength and speed. It can similarly be used to stand on water or stand in the air." Ichigo explained allowing Urahara to have a slight grasp of the idea.
"So what you're telling me," Urahara said trying to guess the answer, "is that you tried…or rather should I say, what you did, is that you used my 'soul' to propel me instead?"
"I…guess." Ichigo said scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "I haven't got all the details. The guy who taught me tried to take my powers and kill me." Ichigo said before coming to a sudden realisation. Urahara gave him his powers back and then tried to kill him. What's with people wanting to kill him? Damn, why couldn't it be future Urahara instead so he could beat the crap out of him.
"Huh." Urahara made out hearing about Ichigo's problems yet again not caring in the slightest. "Well, in any case I suspect that's how you delivered that kick as well." Urahara muttered to himself using a contemplative look while stroking his chin, seemingly now lost in thought.
"Hat'n'clogs…hello…ah screw it." Ichigo said giving up on dragging Urahara out of his thoughts. Turning around Ichigo waved over his shoulder before leaving the underground cavern. "See ya later Hat'n'clogs. I'm going home." Ichigo muttered the last part to himself.
(Next day: Karakura high)
Ichigo strode through the corridors of the school not really caring much for class today. He was, after all, the only one left in the corridors. Moving along silently without making a sound Ichigo was disappointed when he heard a bell ring and saw all the students pile out of class. He didn't miss the head of orange that joined the mass and tried to make his way around the girl without being noticed.
His attempt was fruitless however as the girl caught site without him noticing and trailed him to the school rooftop where he sat and began to eat. Pausing, Ichigo looked up towards the door hearing an 'eep' before he let out a sigh. Ichigo turned his head away as he again bit into the sandwich he held waiting for Masaki to walk through the door, which she did so slowly and with a guilty smile on her face. Despite the talk she had had with her Aunt the previous night her curiosity still continued to play along.
"What do you want?" Ichigo said with a bored tone. It was probably best he avoided conversation with his mother in the past, but it turns out it can't be helped. What a nuisance.
"You can see ghosts right?" Masaki asked Ichigo causing him to raise an eyebrow and pause as he went back to take another bite. Masaki, feeling now comfortable around Ichigo, moved to stand in front of Ichigo.
"What of it Quincy?" Ichigo snapped rudely trying to deter his 'mother' from making conversation with him.
Masaki displayed shock at first rapidly turning her head from side to side as though Ichigo were talking to someone else trying to throw Ichigo off. "Who?" Masaki said before pointing to herself, "Me?" she said incredulously. Laughing nervously and waving a hand with a stupid grin on her face Masaki continued, "Don't be silly. I couldn't be a Quincy even if I tried."
Before Masaki could react however Ichigo appeared before on his two feet towering over her making her eyes widen slightly at the closeness. Her instant reaction though was to jump back, the hastiness though revealed a poorly done Hirenkyaku making Ichigo smirk. "Point proven don't you think?" Ichigo said rhetorically.
Seeing Ichigo sit back down, Masaki realised what she had done and cursed silently to herself her hand balling into a fist. "Fine, I'm a Quincy." Masaki admitted to Ichigo. "The real question though is why do you have that Quincy pendant?" Masaki pointed at Ichigo's chest where the pendant hung from the silver chain, "Your reiryoku control is so bad that you can't be one. So why?" Masaki asked. Despite theories and what not Masaki had gone to the source and asked for answers personally unlike her aunt who insisted that Ichigo had no spiritual powers. It was proven false when he did 'that' again.
Ichigo's face softened a little when Masaki asked the questioned him about the pendant, "It was my mothers." Ichigo said making Masaki rear back in shock. A Quincy with such poor control, how? "She died before I could be taught anything." Ichigo said before realising how much he said, "Why am I telling you this? Go away!" Ichigo said shooing away Masaki to which the girl unexpectedly complied. "Ugh." Ichigo grabbed his head with both hands.
(Later that night: Ishida mansion)
Masaki and her Aunt once again sat at the table in the dining hall eating silently, yet Masaki seemed troubled again much to the annoyance of her Aunt who had an almost perpetual frown adorning her face since dinner began. Having enough of watching her niece making strange faces of thought she began the conversation.
"What is it this time Masaki?" The woman asked her niece sighing somewhat, hoping that it wasn't about the boy again.
"The boy that I told you about yesterday," Masaki began causing her Aunt to place down her utensils and cup her face with her hands and shake her head, "it turns out we were wrong." Masaki revealed causing her Aunt to pull her face away from her hands in mild confusion.
"Wrong? What does she mean?" the elder woman thought watching Masaki carefully.
"Ichigo is a Quincy, albeit an untrained one." Masaki said causing her Aunt some mild shock, but before she could ask her question Masaki answered it for her. "No he is not an Echt Quincy, from the sounds of things anyway. He only referred to his mother when he spoke about how he got the pendant. He didn't say anything else after that, only to tell me to go away."
"That insolent brat should treat his superiors with more respect!" the elder woman said angrily. "I'm going to go make him apologise tomorrow. If he's lucky I might accept him into the family as a servant and we can teach him about his Quincy heritage." She continued before going back to her meal.
Masaki just smiled wryly at her Aunt's behaviour knowing that she wouldn't be able to convince her otherwise and went back to her meal as well. Time ticked by slowly for the rest of the meal and both left when they had finished to go to their own rooms.
(Next day: Ishida mansion – Crack of dawn)
"Really, you don't have to Aunt." Masaki said waving her arms in front of her frantically, only to be ignored by her as her Aunt walked straight past her and towards the front door.
"Masaki," the elder woman said not turning her head to face to her niece as she picked up a navy blue coat with grey fur on the edges to keep her warm during the cool morning, "I'm not doing this only to make him apologise. If what you said is true and he is a Gemischt, I want to know how. His reiryoku signature is too dark to be a simple Quincy. Besides you should begin to learn that you are an Echt Quincy and he should treat you with respect."
With that done and said the elder woman walked straight out the door, well before school hours to track down the boy that Masaki said was a Quincy.
(Urahara Shoten)
Urahara sat down on the small cushion that was near the counter at the front of his store, bored and with nothing to do. Well, that wasn't entirely accurate, he had spent the past couple of hours analyzing the wound he had received from Ichigo. It turns out that because of the hollow reiryoku used to fuel Ichigo's attacks, the wound he had received was healing at a slightly slower rate than that of a regular wound. Needless to say Urahara had been intrigued by this particular thing and had tried to study it further but was unable to as his own reiryoku had shortly afterward overpowered the foreign reiryoku and ejected it leaving nothing to do for the poor man.
Resting his head in hand as his elbow rested on his knee Urahara looked blankly at the doors that threatened to never open to a customer, until a little black cat walked in through the door that is.
"Ah," Urahara gasped jumping up from his seated position, "Yoruichi-chan! Where've you been?!" Urahara said grasping the poor cat in his iron like grip and hugging it tightly to his chest. "You let the big bad mean delinquent break into my store the other day," Urahara pouted crying fake tears as he held the cat back in front of him to look at it's face, which was quickly ignored as the cat turned it's head away in a tone that said 'I don't care', "and worst of all, he decided to beat me up!"
Well that was news, someone other than the Visoreds that beat up Urahara. "He probably deserved it." Yoruichi thought, snorting at Urahara's antics making Urahara cry even louder.
"How could you say that Yoruichi-chan!"
"I have my reasons. Now put me down before I hurt you as well." Yoruichi said to Urahara not in the mood for his antics at the moment. She needed her daily cat nap after all even if it was early morning. Having been put down Yoruichi resolved to herself that she'd find out just who this mysterious orange haired teen was…and possibly test out how good he was to take on Urahara, heh, it'd be nice to stretch her muscles. She'd been cooped up for too long.
Watching the black cat leave to her room Urahara sighed. So Yoruichi was a failed source of entertainment then, what next…maybe he should've taken that fight with Ichigo a little more seriously and then he would've had more credible data to go over concerning his abilities. He did just jump around most of the time after all avoiding and analyzing all of Ichigo's attacks. His speed was definitely impressive and enough to give most a run for their money. "Gah damnit."
(Some place in Karakura)
Ichigo casually jumped over the rooftops, not afraid that someone would spot him as he headed around the neighborhood. He'd had a close run in with a Shinigami but managed to avoid him through some carefully planned jumps, skirting just below the Shinigami's line of vision as the Shinigami looked out for hollows around town.
Stopping for a rest of one of the taller buildings around Karakura town Ichigo laid down on the glass paneling that was used to construct the centre of the roof. Pulling out some school textbooks Ichigo began to revise all the information in the books he had within a matter of minutes due to his well developed perception abilities, or at least he would have, had a certain Quincy not just shot a hole through the book he was reading.
Looking up Ichigo had an annoyed expression on his face as he faced the black haired middle aged woman that seemingly shot his book with an arrow of blue light. "Do you mind?" Ichigo gestured to the book he was just reading.
"No, not at all." Was the snide reply. The woman stopped talking for a moment as she studied the young man in front of her, her face slowly warping into confusion and incredulousness. "You are a Kurosaki, but you are also something else, a Shinigami perhaps. But a Kurosaki," the woman muttered to herself as she continued to observe the man not noticing the increasing discomfort Ichigo was showing.
"Ah crap, how does everyone determine the species or relation of someone else through sensing their reiryoku?" Ichigo panicked slightly although not showing it as he packed his things into the bag next to him.
Shaking her head slightly the woman failed to realise Masaki catch up and was now standing next to her aunt. Looking at her Aunt's confused look and back to Ichigo who left the smoldering book on the window pane Masaki laughed a little guiltily while looking at Ichigo, "Sorry. My Aunt can get a little protective and overreact sometimes." Masaki said drawing an incredulous look from Ichigo.
"That's your Aunt?" Ichigo asked and once he received a nod in reply asked another question to either calm his fears or come to realise that that pompous ass Uryuu was of some relation to him.
"Yeah, her name is Yuki Ishida and she has a son called Ryūken…" Masaki paused noticing the sudden downfall and metaphorical dark grey cloud appear above Ichigo's head as his shoulders slumped. "Ahh, is there something wrong Ichigo?" Masaki asked only to receive a shake of his head in reply. Masaki was about to continue when her Aunt pushed her aside gently and grabbed a hold of Ichigo's face before twisting it side to side as though to try and check he wasn't some kind of trick.
Ichigo was in slight shock at the woman's move but quickly regained his posture and wrenched the hand off of his face, "What's your problem?" Ichigo said angrily. He didn't like it when people just openly touched him for seemingly no apparent reason, and this woman had already destroyed a textbook of his.
"You're coming with us." Yuki said sternly before turning around to leave. Walking to the edge of the building and off of its side to stand in thin air. "I assume you can keep up." She said before taking off, completely confusing the hell out of Ichigo and Masaki at her almost complete one-eighty in mood.
Turning to Ichigo, Masaki decided to warn him of something. "I suggest you come along otherwise you might get an earful if you don't. She wanted you to apologise originally." Masaki began either not noticing or not caring of the expression that was displayed on his face going, 'what for?' "But now it seems she dropped the incident that happened yesterday where you told me to go away. She actually said something about possibly helping you with Quincy training." Masaki revealed causing Ichigo's eyes to widen slightly with anticipation, and Masaki to smirk when she saw it. "Hook, line and sinker." She'd easily caught his attention with that last part.
"Come on now you two." Yuki said reappearing just off the building again standing on thin air, "My patience grows weary."
"Coming." Masaki called before reaching out to Ichigo, "Come on." Masaki said grabbing Ichigo's wrist and yanking him off the building with her, his green flickering footsteps glowing brilliantly in the dull hue of the dawn of morning light.
AFTER STORY NOTES: Sorry if the fight scene was too slow or not long enough. I have yet to write a fight scene that I consider very good. (I think it's good but could be better)
Ichigo's Aunt wants him to go with her. Why? "\('o')/" (Kinda obvious) I made up a name for her since one isn't presented in the manga.
For pairings, I think I'm now tempted to go and think up of an OC if an appropriate pairing from the list of characters currently in the anime/manga doesn't come to mind (or I use don't agree with other people's ideas, which it may ultimately come down to). Not completely random stupid OP OC (I've seen a few here and there and they ain't that good). I will try to make her stand out a bit but, meh don't know how yet.
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