The third kidnapping!
Ririn gets kidnapped!
episode 3
A/n third episode! The action's finally gonna get started! Again I wrote a lot. I don't know how my words just come out of me. I just can't stop writing! Hope you enjoy! I don't own bleach still.
"Do you really think this will work?" Ririn asked Yuru.
"It might." she replied.
Ririn read it over. The plan was for her to pretend to die. Then, like he usually does, Akito would ask Yuru to go and see if she was dead. Yuru would go in, give Ririn a knife, and then come back to Akito, and confirm her death. Then, when they took her out side to burry her, Ririn would run away, and if she got caught, fight them with a knife.
"Yeah, it might. But let's come up with a back up." Ririn said. She actually didn't like the plan. She wasn't very good at killing people. She always hesitated unless it was a hollow or something. And with a guy with speed like Akito's, she was in big trouble.
"Okay." Yuru said.
"Well maybe, if I could break down the door quite enough, I could run away, and use illusions to escape!" Ririn suggested.
"Illusions?"
"Yeah, I can cause illusions! Watch!" she made the walls of the room change colors.
"Whoa! That's so cool!" Yuru exclaimed.
Ririn smiled.
"But still, Akito's a genius. It's really risky." Yuru warned.
"It's worth a try though," Ririn claimed.
"Anything's worth a try," Yuru agreed. "Oh, I forgot to tell you one thing. Akito can shape shift. He can make himself look like anyone else that he wants, and sound like them too. He can even disguise his spirit energy, so it would feel like them."
Ririn's eyes opened wide. That was almost like Kroud! Only Kroud couldn't disguise his spirit energy. "How does he do it?" Ririn asked.
"You know how he can use his energy to make any type of person he wants?"
Ririn nodded her head.
"He can also use it to make himself what ever he wants. I don't really know the secret to how exactly."
"Oh. Um, let's think of more plans." said Ririn.
"Okay." Yuru agreed.
* * * * * * *
Ichigo woke up from the sound of his alarm clock. He got up, and got ready for school. Rukia got out of the closet.
"Oh, hey Rukia." Ichigo said.
"Hi. Your going to school right?"
"Yeah, I said so last night."
"Just making sure."
"What ever, I should go now. Bye."
"Bye." she said, and Ichigo walked out the door. Rukia knew Ichigo wouldn't listen when she told him not to fight hollows. That's why she didn't give him the chance to. She clutched his hollow detector in her hand, as she watched Ichigo disappear into the distance threw the window. And for once, she felt utterly sure, that she had done something good.
* * * * * * *
Ichigo walked into his class room, but before he could even see what was going on, he felt some one kick him in his stomach. He thudded to the floor and then looked up to see who did it. Tatsuki was standing right in front of him with her arms crossed, and she was frowning.
"Owe, what'd I do?" Ichigo groaned.
"Don't act as if you don't know! Where've you been all this time? How was I supposed to know if you were alright!?"
"T-Tatsuki, you could've asked me if you wanted to know so bad!" Orihime called from behind her.
"When did you see him? He never came to school!" she glared at Ichigo. "What've you been doing with Orihime?" she looked as if she was about to kill him.
"N-nothing I haven't been doing anything!" Ichigo and Orihime said at the same time, only Orihime said "he" instead "I."
"Look, I'm sorry, alright!" Ichigo said and stood up. "I'll start coming when I can. I've been really busy lately."
Tatsuki softened up a little. "Alright." she said. "Will you be here tomorrow?"
"Well, actually…"
She didn't even let him finish, she kicked him down again."
"Dow! C'mon! I gotta go some where, it isn't my fault!" he stood up.
"Yeah Tatsuki, I won't be here either!" Orihime said. "We've been really busy lately, and…" she pulled Tatsuki aside and whispered something in her ear. Tatsuki looked as if she understood, and left Ichigo alone.
"Orihime, did you tell her about the soul reapers?" Ichigo whispered to her.
"Huh? No silly, I wouldn't do that! I told her we were under cover agents for a spy agency!" she smiled proudly.
Ichigo sighed with relief. He took his seat.
The school day passed by fast. Ichigo realized everything he missed about being a normal teenager at high school. Sure, it was a just a school, sure it was boring, and sure, he really didn't need to go. But, going just made him feel like a normal kid. And seeing his friends made him realize that he had a life out side of fighting.
When the school day was over, he went up to his room. Rukia was reading a chappy book in her closet. When Ichigo passed by, she opened the door suddenly.
"How was school?" she said in a startling voice. Ichigo jumped back.
"D-don't just pop out of the closet like that! That's so freaky!" He complained. Rukia smiled. He was acting like himself again. She hopped down.
"I asked you a question, at least answer it!" she said.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, it was fine."
"Good. We have to go now, Urahara has the gate open."
"Already? Alright let's go!"
Ichigo went out of his body, and put Kon in it. "Take care of me body, kay Kon?" he said.
"B-but I wanna come too!" Kon pleaded
"Why, I thought you hated Ririn?" Ichigo wanted to know.
"Well, because Rukia's going! And sides, I don't hate her, just dislike her. And any way, you won't let me go to school in your body, so what's the point in keeping me in it!?"
"He does have a point." Rukia said. "And he might come in handy."
"Yeah! Listen to Rukia!"
"He might, but most of the time he'd be slowing us down! But I don't want him in my body for so long. I'll take my body to Urahara's, but Kon, your still not coming." Ichigo said.
"Awe! Puh-leeeeeease! I promise I'll be good, and quite, and I won't slow ya down one bit!"
"No. No means no!" he took Kon out of his body, and put him in the lion. He went into his own body, and headed towards Urahara's house.
Once he got there, he came out of his body, and brought it inside.
"Urahara, can you take care of body for a while?" he asked.
"I always do! Just leave it here."
"Hey, I always wondered, how does my body keep from rotting with no soul in it?"
"You didn't know? I put it in a conserving place. It sort of freezes it, but in a safe way that wouldn't kill you."
"Oh. Thanks. Let's go Rukia."
Rukia nodded, and they both ran out the door, to the gate. There, Orihime, Renji, Kroud, Nova, (In their gigais) Uryu, and Chad were all waiting.
"Ready?" he asked them all. They all nodded. Ichigo began to run up, but then he turned around to face Rukia. "It won't blow me back again, right?" he asked.
Rukia smiled. "Just go!" she said. Ichigo rushed up and grabbed the handle. It didn't blow him back. He jumped in side, and everyone else followed. Just like that, they were gone from this world, and the gate disappeared.
* * * * * * *
Tatsuki had been watching the whole time, but didn't have the guts to run up until she saw them disappear. But where had they gone? She ran up, and felt for the place that they had disappeared into. She found nothing but vacant air. "Ichigo, Orihime?" she called. "Where are you!" she started getting frantic. She looked around, panting frantically, and finally, got this feeling, some sort of gesture, that they were alright. She didn't know where it came from, or what it was. She just knew, that some how, they would get out alive, without even knowing where they were.
* * * * * * *
The passage through the gate was easy actually. Well, easier then the others. It was still hard, because he couldn't see where he was going. The ground was see through, and it wasn't very thick. It was like a balance beam, only you could fit both feet on it. A couple times Ichigo's foot slid of a bit, but then he got right back on track. The walk wasn't to long. In no time they were through the gate, and into the new world.
Yuru and Ririn both sensed it. Some one was there.
"It's so strong!" Yuru said. She sensed Ichigo's energy.
"Ichigo…" Ririn whispered. She ran up to the window. She couldn't see them. She turned to Yuru. "Is there any other way to see outside?" she asked.
"Yeah! I have this camera screen thingy I could get! I'll be right back!" she ran out the door, and came back within seconds, holding a portable screen. "There are cameras hooked up to it outside." she turned it on, and passed it to Ririn. "Use that button to focus on different places."
Ririn pushed the button four times, and on the fourth, she could see them. Rukia, Renji, Uryu, Kroud, Nova, Orihime, Chad, and Ichigo… they had all come to save her. Tears welled up in Ririn's eyes. She felt so dumb. If only she hadn't run away. None of this would of happened. But now Ichigo… Ichigo always went over board. Her tears started to pour out.
"Ririn!" Yuru ran up to her. "What's wrong?" she asked
Ririn tried to stop her tears, but she couldn't, so her talked over them. "I know those people!" She began to say. "They're all my friends from my world. They came to save me, and now they'll probably get killed!" she started crying harder.
"N-no they won't! Not for sure!" Yuru said. "And, you can keep that screen, so you can always look to see if they're okay. Okay?" she tried to cheer Ririn up.
"Thank you!" Ririn said. She kept watching them.
* * * * * * *
"Ririn's here, I can feel it!" Ichigo said, looking around as if she was right there.
"Well that is a good thing, now we know for sure that Ririn is still alive!" Kroud pointed out.
"That ride was scary!" a voice said that sounded like Kon's.
"Shh!" Orihime said, pushing something down behind her.
"Orihime… what was that?" Ichigo asked.
"Huh? Oh, I just thought the ride was scary, that's all, ahaha!" she laughed suspiciously.
"No, I mean, what's behind your back?" he asked, trying to see behind her. Orihime kept turning around as Ichigo did.
"N-nothing there's nothing there! Ahaha," she laughed again.
Ichigo couldn't see it, but Rukia could. She grabbed Kon off of Orihime's shoulder.
"Kon." She said, holding it up for Ichigo to see.
"Ah, ah, I'm sorry!" Orihime put her head down, and then pulled it up. "He came up to me and told me that he really wanted to come, and that you and Rukia wouldn't let him. And I felt really bad for him, so I took him along, and tried to hide him, but you guys found him, so…" she trailed off.
"It's okay Orihime, you didn't do anything wrong." Ichigo explained. Then he stared at Kon. "YOU'RE the one that did something WRONG!" he yelled, and through Kon on the floor.
"Owe! How, all I wanted to do was help!" he argued.
"All ya do is slow us down! C'mon guys, let's go." he said. He started walking leaving Kon behind. Kon ran up and jumped onto Rukia's shoulder. "Wait for me nee san!" he called.
"Do you really have to come?" Ichigo groaned. Kon just ignored him, and enjoyed his ride on Rukia's shoulder.
"So how exactly should we go about finding Ririn?" Kroud asked.
"I don't know. Can't you sense her? I thought you guys can sense spirit energy, can't you?" Ichigo replied Kroud.
"Well, I can, but even though I know she is right there," he pointed to the castle. "There would be no point in mindlessly barging in without a plan or-" before he could let Kroud finish, Ichigo started darting towards the castle.
"Wait, Ichigo!" Rukia called and ran after him.
"N-nee saaan! Slow down!" Kon held on tight. Soon, they all disappeared into the distance.
"What're we supposed to do now?" Renji asked.
"I think we should split up!" Orihime pitched. "So I guess Rukia and Ichigo are in a group. Let's see, there's one, two, three, four, five, six of us!" she said counting them all. "So two groups of three! Every team should have a mod soul with them to sense if some one is coming."
"I think I should be on Orihime's team, just because we were already pared up in the past." Kroud suggested.
"Good idea!" Orihime agreed. "So I guess Nova should be on Chad's team right? This is fun!"
"Yes, quite!" Kroud agreed.
"Okay, so Uryu, I think you should be on Our team, witch leaves Renji on Chad's." Orihime decided.
"Wait a second, I'm not having some girl pick out the teams for me, I can do it my self. Besides, what made you make that decision?"
"Well, I made the teams based on how strong people are. Kroud and Nova are about the same, so I considered them like the team captons. Then, sense me and Kroud get along and Chad and Nova get along, I put them on the same team. But, sense I'm not that strong, we needed a strong person on our team, so, um…" she thought that Uryu was stronger then Renji, but she didn't want to say it. But, he got the message.
"Err, so your saying I'm weak?" he asked angrily.
"No no, I mean,"
"New teams! I'm by myself, and all you pathetic losers will just have to be on one team!" Renji demanded.
"But that wouldn't work out at all! Orihime's teams were well thought out, and very smart! I agree with them all the way, and…"
"I think they need work." Nova cut him off.
"Really? What needs to be changed?" Orihime asked curiously.
"If you want to do it by strength, you have to consider more than just attacks. The teams should be Me, Orihime, Renji, and Kroud, Uryu, and Chad.
"Why? That doesn't make much sense at all! I should definitely be on Orihime team! Explain why you feel otherwise." Kroud said to Nova.
"Well, think about it. Think about attacks and abilities."
"…I see! Even though You and me can both attack at the same amount of power, you can also absorb and teleport yourself, and others. And then, sense Orihime can heal, she is with the most reckless one out of us, which is Renji, and um…" Renji looked mad so Kroud stopped talking.
"So either way you guys are gonna insult me, huh? I'm sticking with the teams that I made up my self!"
"You're just showing how reckless you are by doing that." Uryu pointed out."
Renji stopped in his tracks, and turned around. He ran up, grabbed Uryu, and held him up by his shirt. "I DARE you to say that again." he growled
Uryu wasn't surprised, he knew that Renji would do that. How predictable. "If you insist," he began. "You're showing how reckless you are by doing that" he repeated, smirking"
"Why you!" Renji raised up his arm to punch him, but Uryu ducked and tripped him before he got the chance.
"Which goes to show again how reckless you are." Uryu again said. "Besides, Ichigo is the most reckless, you're just the most reckless out of us."
"Y-yeah! And Ichigo's very strong, so, so, being reckless doesn't automatically mean that you're a bad fighter." Orihime pointed out.
"Fine. It doesn't matter any way." Renji sighed.
"Alright, let's go!" Orihime cheered.
* * * * * * *
"Ichigo, wait already!" Rukia called for about the fifth time, but he wouldn't stop. There was only one way. She crossed her fingers together, and called out "Backuto, number one, SIFE!"
Ichigo's arms went behind his back and he fell to the ground. Rukia walked up to him.
"I broke this spell before I even knew what soul reapers were, and I can definitely break it now!" he insisted. He was right. He broke it, and got up, but before he could run Rukia stopped him.
"Of course I know that." she said. "Now listen, you don't even know what to expect! You don't know who the enemy is, or what his powers are. So tell me, what exactly do you plan on accomplishing by mindlessly attacking them?"
"I plan to find all that out! Who they are and everything."
"But you should at least wait for everyone else! Is this how you always go into battle? No one can win like this!"
"Well, actually, I always do it like this…" Ichigo said.
"Well it stops here! We're going back to the others!" she started pulling him along.
"Gyah! Wait but, I gotta, c'mon! she's right up there!" he complained. Rukia blocked him out, and kept pulling.
Akito was sitting in a dark room, watching them on a screen. He had over a million screens on. One for each and every inch of the castle, and one for each and every inch of the outside. But he focused on one in particular. He grinned hugely.
"Your so hopeless, what would you do if I wasn't here?" the black haired girl's voice came from the screen.
"I would save her already!" The orange haired guy said.
Akito started chuckling. His chuckle turned into a laugh. That laugh turned into an outburst. And it wasn't a happy sort of laugh at all.
* * * * * * *
Rukia had dragged Ichigo all the way out to the field that they had started out in. At first when they looked around, it looked like no one was there.
"Where is every body all a sudden?" Kon asked. But then they heard a cry, coming from behind a tree… It sounded like… Orihime! Ichigo rushed out of Rukia's grip, and up to the tree. Sure enough, Orihime was there, crying.
"Orihime?" Ichigo asked. He bent down like she was, and put his had on her shoulder. Orihime looked up.
"Ichigo?" she popped up. "It's terrible! They're all gone, we have to do some thing!" she said frantically.
"What happened?" Ichigo asked. He jumped up too.
Orihime replied, "Well, we were just standing here, and then the sky all of a sudden got really dark, and I knew it could've just been a cloud or something, but the sky was clear! And then, this guy came down. He had dark purple hair, and he was wearing all stripes. He had this creepy smile, and it was really scary! Then Renji said 'who the hell are you?' and then he didn't answer, he just kept coming towards us slowly. Then Renji said 'I asked you a question punk! Answer it!' and then he didn't answer, he just kept coming. Then, Renji said, 'HEY! PUNK!'"
"Make a long story short." Ichigo told her.
"Well, when he started attacking, Uryu told me to hide behind a tree. I wouldn't go. Then the weird guy pushed me down and I was knocked out. When I woke up every one was gone, and I didn't know what to do, so I looked for them and all I found was this." she held out Ishida's Quincy bracelet. Ichigo's eyes widened. He looked around.
"We gotta find them! Stay here for a sec, there's some where I need to check!" He flash stepped out into the woods. He searched in there for a bit, had no luck, and went back. But things weren't the same when he got there.
Rukia was bleeding. Not only that, but her sword was on the floor next to her. Orihime was chocking her. But Rukia wasn't the only one who looked scared. Orihime was crying.
"Get…away…Ichigo!" Orihime struggled to say. She pushed Rukia aside, and she fell on the floor and coughed, gagging for breathe.
"Rukia!" Ichigo ran up to her. "You okay?" he asked. She nodded. And got up.
"I've got to save Orihime. The way she saved me when I was being possessed." she panted.
"Get out of here, both of you!" Orihime pleaded. She gasped as she kicked Ichigo in the face. But, this wasn't her! This wasn't Orihime's power, she wasn't that strong! Ichigo thudded to the floor.
"Please. Leave. I can't control my self!" she cried. She drew out a sword. "What's… happening!" she screamed. The sword came from no where. It was just there in fact, it looked like a zanpactou! But no way! Orihime didn't even have one! She started running towards Ichigo with it, but Ichigo could out run her. He used flash step to escape. Or so he thought. Who ever was controlling Orihime must've been smart. They made it look like she could only run, but when Ichigo flashed away, she flashed right up in front of him, and cut his shoulder. She dashed towards him again. But Ichigo was ready this time! He blocked it with his own zanpactou. Then, she raised her weapon up. It was a move that would be easy to block by cutting her, but not by blocking the sword. And Ichigo would never cut her. She brought the sword down on his head. It started to bleed, but he grabbed her arm to stop her movements once he got a chance. It wasn't much blood. But it was in the head. And there was no way he would cut her. Rukia came up and pulled Orihime's hair, to get her away from Ichigo.
"Rukia that's the actual Orihime, she's just being possessed!" he yelled to her.
"Shut up! I know that, but don't you think Orihime would rather get a little hurt then have you killed! Don't kill her, just hurt her, and not to badly either. I'll just knock her out!" she raised her hand to hit Orihime, but Orihime Grabbed it, and Rukia over. She banged her onto the floor.
"Rukia!" Orihime called. Then she faced Ichigo. "Rukia's right! You can hurt me. I can't stop myself! All I can control is my voi-AHHH!!" she started to say, but she broke out screaming when she ran up to Ichigo with her zanpactou up.
"Fight her with the back of your sword!" Rukia called to Ichigo.
Ichigo did this at first. He banged her down by the back of his zanpactou. But then, seeing Orihime fell down hurt, he couldn't bare it. The next time she ran up, he let her cut him-deep! It was in the shoulder. The opposite one then before. He couldn't do this! Eventually she would kill him. There was no way he could bare to see her like this. He wouldn't hurt Orihime to save his life! He needed help!
* * * * * * *
"Are you sure you sense them Nova? We've been running for ever!" Orihime panted. Her, Renji, and Nova, were all running. Nova nodded "It's straight ahead," he pointed to them. Orihime studied them carefully. It was Ichigo, Rukia, and who was that other girl? She had orange brown hair, a pink shirt, gray sweat pants and blue berates. It was, her! But that was… impossible! How could that be her if she was right there? It could've been Kroud. But no! She, or he, or whoever that person was, was hurting Ichigo! Kroud would never do that! And she KNEW that she would never do that! Then who was doing this?
"Ichigo!" she called out. "Tousen gashuen, I reject!" she made a shield in front of Ichigo, and the other Orihime's sword was blocked by it. Rukia, Kon, Ichigo, and Orihime looked over at Nova, Renji, and Orihime. Ichigo kept looking at both of the Orihimes back and forth. Two Orihimes? What the… what was going on?
"Why is there another me? Is that Kroud?" the Orihime said that was attacking Ichigo. Now Her sword swung at a new target. The other Orihime.
"Watch out Kroud!" she cried as she almost cut Orihime.
"Who are you?" Orihime asked. The one that didn't have a zanpactou. "Kroud, is this a joke?" she asked again
"What? But you're Kroud!" the zanpactou wielding Orihime claimed. Then she screamed and ran after the other Orihime, with her sword ready. "Watch out Orihime!" she screamed.
"That one isn't some one we know." Nova said pointing to the Orihime with a sword.
"What are you talking about? You know me, Nova!" she claimed.
"But if she's not Orihime, what do we call her?" Ichigo asked.
"Does it really matter?" Rukia wanted to know.
"Yeah, this is getting confusing!"
"Fine, call her Gorihime."
"Gorihime, got it!"
"B-but name's Orihime!" Gorihime insisted.
"But I'm Orihime!" Orihime said.
"Yeah! Your just a fake! And I'm gonna kill you, unless you tell me where Ririn is!" Ichigo stated.
"But, Ichigo, I have no idea were Ririn is!" Gorihime said.
"Yeah right!" Ichigo ran up to her with his word ready, but then Gorihime started to cry. Just the site of it-Orihime crying-made him stop dead in his tracks.
"Watch out!" she screamed as she stabbed him in the stomach. Blood gushed out, and Ichigo fell down. He coughed.
"Damn it!" he whispered under his breathe. He just couldn't do this ti her, not when she look like Orihime!
Gorihime was about to bring the sword down on his head, and kill him for sure, but then Rukia came by, fast as lighting. She stabbed Gorihime in the same place she stabbed Ichigo. They both lay face to face on the floor.
"Rukia…" Gorihime said, her eyes flooded with tears.
Rukia started feeling bad for doing what se had just done. Even though she knew it wasn't Orihime, the appearance was so convincing! Tears welled up in Rukia's eyes to. She got up, and left Gorihime lying there.
The real Orihime ran up and started healing Ichigo.
"Thanks Orihime." he said.
"No problem! It's all I can do to help, so, just relax, it'll only take a minute!" she smiled sweetly.
Gorihime stood up, flashed over, and stabbed Rukia in the back. Rukia screamed. The second Ichigo saw this, he tried to jump up and save her, but he hit his head on Orihime's healing bubble.
Renji ran up almost the second he saw it sense he didn't have as good reflexes as Ichigo. In a flash, he was face to face with her, ready to kill, and in a flash, he had a gaping cut on his shoulder, and Gorihime was far away. She grinned hugely. An evil kind of grin that Orihime would never wear! She flashed away to the castle, and then revealed her true self, or his true self. Akito. And he had just found out more about this group of kids. They were all out for each other. No way would any of them stand by while one of them were being hurt or killed. Even if they acted like enemies.
Orihime rushed over to Rukia and Renji. Ichigo was still trapped in his healing bubble though. "Are you guys alright!?" she asked out of breathe.
"I'm fine. I've had much worse." Renji assured her. "If you're going to heal some one, heal Rukia."
"Yeah, I'm pretty much all healed already." Ichigo lied. His cuts were closed a tiny bit, and that's all.
"No they're not." Rukia said. She sat up. She wasn't that hurt either, she thought that Ichigo and Renji were over reacting. "Ichigo is the most hurt. Finish healing him first."
"Okay." Orihime nodded.
"No, heal Rukia!" Ichigo demanded.
"Why, this hardly hurts! You could die from your cuts, I can't!" Rukia pointed out.
"I won't die from this, this is nothing!" Ichigo told her.
"Don't lie. I know you probably won't die, but still your is worse."
"Oh so now your being all noble and considerate! I don't need this!"
"Just shut up, and lie down, before I knock you out, you idiot!" Rukia yelled. "Stop fighting over Orihime's power as if it's a toy!"
Ichigo sighed. "Fine."