Itachi – Okay, I was reading over my very first fan fiction which just so happened to be a Bleach/ -Man crossover, and then BOOM! A new idea popped in my head! So here it is! My second Bleach Fan Fic : Silent Dying - Beyond the Double!
+After an unexpected attack by an unknown Arrancar who left him with a suspicious message, Ichigo Kurosaki has been seeing things…differently. It started with colors changing, orange becoming white, and brown becoming gold, friends seeming like enemy's, enemy's seeming as allies…but when he takes a look into a mirror, he learns the Arrancar's words left him with more than truth…
-Silent Dying-
Beyond
The
|Double|
Chapter 1 – Mirrors
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…It was like nothing ever happened.
No one had remembered the damage done to the Soul Society, or the orange-haired man who closed his eyes forever, or the blinding light which erased everything. Every memory of that day was forgotten.
Reset in a way.
It was past noon when he finally started walking home from his long day at Karakura High School. With a short look at the scenery of the setting sun, the orange haired teen slung his bag over his shoulder, and proceed to walk his way home. Not so later had noon turned to night. The crescent moon hung in the air with the stars, adding to the tranquil feeling of the silent darkness. Street lights flickered on then off. But it was not too long until the presence of another soul was felt nearby. With surprising caution did he turn his head to glace to the side, something inside made him stop walking as he turned around to face nothing, "Huh…" he sighed, "'Must be tired…" thinking his mind was playing games with him, he turned and started his walk once again-
"Found 'ja Ichigo..!" The sudden realization of the inhuman presence came too late as Ichigo turned blindly to come face to face with an arrancar, "Shine! Daburu Miraa!" – And in a split second, pain. With a curse Ichigo found himself frozen as he starred at the now green and gold stripped Zanpackto which was lodged in his chest. It pierced his heart…he could feel it there, he felt the pain, the panic…but he noted that he wasn't bleeding.
"Wha…who the hell are…you?!" Ichigo found it futile to transform into a soul reaper, his body wouldn't move. The orange eyed, silver haired arrancar smiled as he pulled the blade from Ichigo's chest, allowing his frozen body to fall to the ground.
"Now you'll become your double," My Double? What the hell? Thought Ichigo, "You may not understand, but cha' really an'it got no need to Soul Reaper, with you we can win this war! Become your double, and seek out conquest – look for me once the change is complete…" As the arrancar started to disappear into the fading dark, Ichigo found that his own eye's closing in to the darkness…
+Beyond the Double+
"Ichigo…"
A…voice? Thought Ichigo, as he tried to respond to the voice in the pulsing darkness.
"Wake up! Ichigo!..."
There it is again…who's…who's calling me?
"Ichigo!-"
"Huh?!" Conciseness rushed back quickly as his eyes opened, flinching as the bright light of his room burned his eyes.
"He's awake!" The voice of Rukia brought back the attack not so long ago – panicking, he tore away the blue cover, patting his bare chest looking for the scar of the sword – there was none, "Ichigo," the soft hand of Rukia was lightly stroking his back calming him little by little, "Renji and my brother were patrolling and found you unconscious…what happened out there?" Renji and Byakuya both stood on the opposite side of the bed, Orihime at the foot of the bed next to Chad and Ishida, and standing next to Rukia was Issin. Ichigo sighed as he relived the moment in his head. Would they believe him? Or would they think he's crazy? Taking a look into the honest, concerned eyes of his trusted allies, with a slow breath, he spoke.
"It was an arrancar…I think…" Ichigo started slowly, trying to lower the growing feeling of something greater coming from the seemingly random attack, "He snuck up on me…and stabbed me – with his Zanpaktou! But then…" Suddenly, Ichigo stopped talking, slowly he backed away from the ones around him, from the people he thought he knew…and heard something…someone talking…
"Oi! Oi! Ichi-go~!"A sing-a-long with a voice that made him feel sick,
"Who said that?..." He spoke aloud and looked only to see the eyes of his, "Who said that?!"
"Ichigo," Rukia's calming voice broke in, while Renji patted the orange haired boys shoulders, "None of us said anything, you need to rest, whatever injured you must've really left a mark…" Her voice trailed off as Ichigo felt the pull in the dark depths –
"Don't be such an idiot!" Frantic brown eyes darted throughout the room, searching for the familiar voice," "Only you can hear me, thanks to whoever the hell that guy was, I can finally be free..!"
"What do you mean 'only I can hear you?!" Ichigo yelled once more as the other in the room only grew more and more worried over the injured soul-reaper, "Being free?! Who are you?!"
"Ichigo! Calm down please!" Ishida stepped in with Renji to try and bring their suddenly insane friend back to the real world, "Get yourself together!"
"What do you mean?!" Ichigo gripped his orange hair tightly, paying no mind to Ishida or Renji's calls of his name.
"It's cause your me…and I'm you," A silence took over the young man as he processed the information, and finally, did it all make sense, "Happy Birthday to me! As of now, this hallow's officially laid claim on the body of Ichigo Kurosaki! In due time, we'll be one soul, one mind and one body, so accept or not, I don't really care…just know we are the same, Ichigo."
After processing the information, did Ichigo let himself fall back on his bed.
His hallow…was…free.
BTD – TBC
Itachi – Hello everyone! Remember that one-shot story I call 'Silent Dying'? Well, it's no longer a one-shot! It'll be very slowly updated. I'm not super sure how many chapters it'll contain, but here's the jest of it: Ichigo has been fused with his hallow that will soon start to cause danger to those around him, and that mystery arrancar? Yeah I won't tell what his motive is…it should be obvious.
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