Chapter VI: I Want To Be Strong

Good day, my fellow fanfiction fanatics! ^^ This chapter is a special one to me because I'm dedicating it to my lil' sweet sis'XD (you know who you are) Happy birthday and sorry for no posting this chapter sooner ^^'! Ok, so Aizen is a fucking Shinigami lol... Well, I had to choose between a Shinigami and a Tengu and.. oh, well... Anywho, I hope that you'll all enjoy it and see you next time!

A familiar image appeared before Ichigo's eyes: a pink, little face, orange, spiky locks of hair and mocha, big eyes, all similar to his... this was Kon, his twin brother, when they were younger. His brother's hand was patting him on his head while heavy tears were eolling down his cheeks. Kon had always taken care of his slightly younger and weaker brother, Ichi, who had always been bullied for his not so brilliant physical performances and also peculiar hair colour. Well, the same problems also occured to Kon, but he had learned how to deal with them; he became stronger and stronger, all just so he could defend both himself and his brother. He would always fight back the mean kids who were picking on poor little Ichi, then he would smile and pat his brother's head. Ichigo would then smile and stop crying instantly, admiration showing up in his eyes. He loved his older brother who always protected him and was kind to him, he loved his reassuring smile and his touch, but Ichigo wanted to be strong... just like Kon, so he could protect the things most precious to him. He wanted it so bad that he felt like drowning in a sea of despair.

Now, as he stood in the dark cathedral, he got the same feeling. His breathing started going faster and his blood started boiling in his veins. This is it, he thought while staring at his brother. After all these years, Kon had not changed... he was as strong as ever, only his smile was replaced by a scowl. This time Kon won't be the one protecting Ichi... No! This time was Ichigo's turn... even the Urahara guy said so, right? The powers within himself, that Ichigo hadn't known about until moments ago were going to be used in order to protect all the precious things to him. He was determined, that was his resolution! All that was left was for the odd man before him to tell him his job... he was ready.

Urahara sighed, but his face became firm.

'I see... Well then, if you're sure about it, then there's no point in keeping things from you anymore... So I previously told you that there are god creatures out there, but then again, there are also evil ones. A couple of years ago, a new leader among the ghouls in this area had been chosen. His name was Aizen, a Shinigami... a youkai who enjoys pushing people to their own death. It was said at the time that although he had many people around him, no one had ever seen his face because he covered himself into dark cloth, including his face. And I can confirm this fact since I was at the time one of the men assigned to take orders from him, but I have never seen this man's face, nor did I hear his voice. Well, it might not seem much, I mean a lot of people are strange nowadays, but it seemed to me that this man was dark... I mean besides his clothing, I could sense his dark presence. And as a full fledged dragon slayer I know what I'm talking about when I say that someone's aura is dark... it means that person is up to no good. Of course, his other men did not notice his evil presence since they were all youkai and do not have the power of a dragon slayer to distinguish an evil aura from a pure one. Of course when I tried to warn our headmen from the Order of the Dragon, everyone despised me since this man had relations within the Order's members, influential ones that is, and they couldn't care less about a senile underling such as myself.

As predicted, Aizen formed an army of youkai, mostly onis, and turned against the Order's members. Apparently his purpose was to take down the Order that had seemingly been plotting to destroy all the youkai. He claimed that if the youkai would join him then they would lead a care free life alongside human beings. The Order of the Dragon had managed to supress the riot and had allegedly killed Aizen, but I have a hunch that it is not over. Actually I'm quite sure about it. My suspicion is that Aizen had not been killed, since he is a Death God, I'm pretty sure he won't go down so easily, I mean death has always been his friend, but... he is somewhere, hiding in the dark, crawling around, looking for an opportunity to show up again, uneleashing the chaos again. My theory is that he wants us, dragon slayers, to fight youkais so he can take over the command more easily and therefor not only rule over the land of the dead, but over the one of the living as well.

Well, that's the enemy, Ichigo. And since the Order of the Dragon doesn't seem to give a crap, we'll have to deal with it in our own way. And now, the reason why you're needed, Ichigo-chan... So, I've been searching these past couple of years since Aizen has disappeared for someone powerful enough to help me out in the following battle against Aizen. That's how i found these two men, Shirosaki-chan and Kon-chan. But it was not enough... I needed someone who had an aura and a heart so pure and strong that could light up even the darkest of the nights. I have to say that when I first heard about you from Kon, I thought that you might end up to be just another ordinary dragon slayer. Kon-chan obviously knew that you have some dragon slayers powers since this kind of poer runs in the family, but what he didn't know just how powerful you were. The moment when he mentioned that when you were little he would always try different things to make you laugh because he loved your laughter... because it was so warm it literally warmed him up, I started wondering... maybe you were the one. And then Shiro-chan had also told me some time ago, when we first met, that when he was a kid he had this good friend, a ginger head, that was just like a sunray, it was like he could light everything up around him. So I decided to look for you and since there aren't so many gingers in Japan, I found you. Now , the problem was how to get you to come here... But it seems that worked out alright!'

The little berry blushed slightly when he saw the man's amused smirk and lookd down. Well fuck it, now it was not the time to be embarrassed! He pulled himself together and crossed his arms.

'Ok, so the story so far is that an evil Shinigami is trying, at this very moment, while we're still talking, to take over the world of the living and turn it into a reign of terror... Sooo, what do we do?