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Chapter 13: Pride

"Kujou-san!" Nozomi turned around to see Chad walking towards her.

"Sado…" She said as Chad reached her. "Do you know where Ichigo is?"

"Yes, I do." Chad answered before his phone rang. "Excuse me."

Chad answered the phone and immediately asked. "Is Ichigo there…? … What!?" He said in shock as he hung up, "This is bad! They're making Ichigo do Fullbring training already!"

"Fullbring…?" Nozomi asked.

"I'll explain on the way! Right now, we have to hurry!" Chad ran but stopped upon seeing Nozomi not moving and looking at the ground. "Kujou-san!"

"I…"

"No time for that now! Ichigo might be in danger!" Chad said as he continued to run. "Let's go!"

"R-right!"

…

"You don't have to understand, cause I'm gonna show you right now!" Riruka said to a perplexed Ichigo. "My Fullbring is called Dollhouse! It allows me to freely move people and things in and out of anything I adore or think is cute."

She flicks her finger and a red heart appeared, which flew and stuck to Ichigo's jacket. "That is your pass. Okay you can go inside now. I permit you" Riruka said as she opened up the roof of the dollhouse.

"What are you talking ab-" Ichigo attempted to ask but was sucked into the dollhouse. He coughed and dusted himself after regaining orientation. "Ow, what the hell was that?"

Ichigo stood up and saw a giant pig doll. "… Hey now…"

"Well isn't he cute?" Riruka asked, peeking through the dollhouse's roof.

"Isn't he cute my foot! What the hell is that!?" Ichigo yelled at her.

"Defeat it!"

"Huh!?"

"I said fight and defeat it! He's not that strong so it should be easy!" Riruka said. "If you can use Fullbring that is!"

Ichigo asked her again when suddenly, the pig doll stands up and approaches him. Ichigo and the doll then screams at each other. The doll raises its arms and slams it on Ichigo, who manages to evade.

"This is pathetic! Why're you running!? You're a man aren't you? Stand and fight!" Riruka commented.

"You little… I don't even know what's going on!" Ichigo replied "Why did I get small? And why am I in this dollhouse!?"

"I told you, that's my Fullbring, Dollhouse." Riruka answered. "Fullbring is an ability of love! It's the ability to draw out the maximum power of anything you fall in love with!" She further explained. "Ginjou only likes his pendant. People like him who only like one thing change it into a weapon and fight eensy-weensy battles!"

Ichigo focused on dodging the doll's attacks, completely ignoring Riruka's rantings. It took a while before she finished.

"Don't be such a scaredycat! It's okay! You can easily defeat him with Fullbring! Go on!"

"Don't ''go on'' me! Why do I even need to learn Fullbring!?" Ichigo complained as he dodged another attack.

"Oh, you're a pretty good dodger…" Riruka side-commented.

"Shut up! Give me a hint instead!"

"We've been Fullbringers since birth. I don't know any tricks. What a moron. Morooooonnn."

Ichigo cursed internally but suddenly, he heard a creepy voice groan.

"… hey, get it together, punk." Ichigo turned around to see who produced the voice only to find out that it was none other than the doll. "Quit running around and bring it on!"

"Whaaaaa? It can talk!?"

"It sure can! That's because Mr. Pork there has a Yakuza that I abducted from the neighborhood inside!" Riruka proudly revealed.

"What the hell is wrong with you!? And Mr. Pork? Where's the love in that!?"

"You know…" Mr. Pork interrupted. "They said if I don't kill you within 15 minutes… then this thing will become permanent and I'll be stuck in this weird plushie forever!"

"What do you mean weird?" Riruka lashed out as she chopped Mr. Pork on the head. "Okay, that concludes the advice! Call me when you're finished!" She said before returning the roof and closing in the dollhouse.

"Hold it you bastard! I'm gonna kill you!" Mr. Pork yelled as he chases Ichigo.

"Damn, I guess she isn't planning to help me out. Well it's no use just running, I gotta think of something fast!" Ichigo thought as he dodged another attack. "She said Fulbring is an ability of love. The ability to draw out the maximum power of something you love. But frankly, it doesn't seem that Ginjou is in love with his pendant… Then that means, for me to able to use Fullbring, I need something, at the very least, something that's always been with me… what should I use?" Ichigo thought as he noticed the thing in his pocket.

Riruka, who was eating desserts, observed the dollhouse carefully.

"Why don't you help him if you're that concerned?" Jackie asked her, startling Riruka so much that she nearly jumps.

"I-I'm not concerned at all! If he dies, then that just means he wasn't worth it in the first place!" She replied defensively.

"Oh I see…" Jackie said. "But you know, Riruka, are you sure about this? You outfitted that stuffed animal with a timer right?" And the 15 minutes… are already over."

Riruka looked at the dollhouse for a while, but Chad and Nozomi suddenly barge in the room, startling everyone inside.

"The girl from last night!" Nozomi thought as she saw Riruka.

"Chad! Who's that?" Riruka asked him, and then looked at Nozomi, causing her to look away.

"I'll explain later! Where's Ichigo!? Why're you making him do Fullbring training already?" Chad asked as he looked around frantically.

"Huh? He's in that dollhouse. And what do you mean by already!? It's better to train him sooner!" Riruka answered.

As expected, Chad and Nozomi rush towards the dollhouse and open the roof, immediately seeing a miniature Ichigo running from Mr. Pork.

"Ichigo!" Nozomi called out, full of concern.

"The Substitute Shinigami badge!" Chad shouted out. "There might be something else you always have in your person, but if you're gonna get a Fullbring for fighting, then I can't imagine anything else that would be a better trigger for that!"

"Nozomi! Chad!" Ichigo greeted as he ran. "You know, I've been thinking the same thing!" He said as he pulled out his badge from his pocket.

"15 minutes have passed." A strange voice was emitted from Mr. Pork. "In accordance with the conditions, no manifestation of Fullbring was recognized within 15 minutes. And as such, Crazed Beast mode will be activated."

The voice ended, and Mr. Pork starts to change into a grotesque form and creep the hell out of Ichigo.

"What the hell is this…?" Ichigo stated as he watched his adversary transform.

"Oh dear… it seems that the timer has activated." Giriko commented from the sidelines.

"Ichigo! Watch out!" Nozomi said as Mr. Pork finishes transforming.

Mr. Pork roars loudly, catching the attention of Riruka, and increasing the worries of Nozomi and Chad. Riruka runs towards the dollhouse and after seeing what happened, turned to Giriko.

"Hey! I've never heard of it getting this gross before! Just what did you do!?" She demanded from him.

"My goodness." Giriko sighed. "You were the one who told me to lend my ability to Ichigo-san's training, were you not? Riruka-san?"

"Yeah but! There has to be a way that isn't this gross!" She protested.

"Oh? Nothing is coming to my mind though." Giriko answered, furthere angering Riruka.

"Oi! This is dangerous! Shut it down!" Nozomi demanded.

"Riruka! Get Ichigo out of this box, fast!" Chad said to Riruka, who only managed to stare at him in fear.

"She cannot." Giriko intervened. "That box also has a timer. If the creatures inside are able to survive for 30 minutes, they will then be able to get out."

"What kind of condition is that…?" Riruka asked him.

"You were the one who left me to the conditions were you not? In any case, removing Ichigo-san now would amount to a breach of conditions. And if that happens, he will receive the wrath of the God of Time.

"Wrath?" Nozomi questioned.

"Now that you mention it, this is the first time I've mentioned this. In the event that someone commits a breach of conditions of a timer that I have installed, then all the targets of the timer's effects will be incinerated without a trace by the flames of time."

"You're bluffing." Chad expressed his disbelief.

"You may take it how you like."

"He's not." Riruka admitted."I've seen it plenty of times."

"I shall say it again, so that you may understand. In the event that we extract either Ichigo-san or either Mr. Pork from the box before another 15 minutes have passed, then both of them, and the box, will be incinerated by the flames of time. That is my Fullbring, Time tells no lies."

"Disengage it…!" Chad demanded.

"Impossible. Once Time tells no lies has been activated, it is impossible, even for me, the weilder of the technique to deactivate it. Any violation of the established conditions leads to instant death. You must never make light of the powers of time, for meddling with it is a truly terrifying affair."

Ichigo dodges another attack from Mr. Pork, still unable to figure out how to activate his Fullbring. He hides behind a wall. "Damn, what should I do!?" He tries to think of a plan, but fails to notice Mr. Pork approaching him.

"Ichigo! Behind you!" Nozomi warned Ichigo, who managed to dodge just in time.

He plucked one button from Mr. Pork's body and threw it at him, hitting him square in the face and disorienting him long enough for Ichigo to be able to find a better hiding spot.

"Woah! That was close! Thanks, Nozomi!" Ichigo said as he glanced at his badge once more. 'Darn, how do I activate this thing? Ginjou said soul of the object, but how am I supposed to pull out and manifest the badge's soul!? " Ichigo thought carefully.

"Pride!" Chad shouted to Ichigo. "Pride was within my heart when I first used Braza Dereche Del Gigante!"

"Pride…?" Ichigo turned around to see Chad pulling his sleeves to reveal his arms.

"The matter that serves as the basis for my Fullbring… is the skin on my arms! My skin is dark right? Because of the Mestizo blood in me! I may have run into a lot of trouble because of my appearance and my huge size… but I never lost my pride in this skin of mine!" Chad said out loud, pride evident in his tone. "I was able to hold on to that pride… because of Abuelo! He was what was in my heart the first time I used my powers! It was the time when he instilled that pride in me!"

"Chad…"

"Remember, Ichigo! The times when you held pride in your Shingami powers! The badge will surely respond!" Chad gave his final advice before giving him a thumbs-up, and Nozomi gave him a smile.

"The times I held pride in my powers…?" Ichigo thought as the memories of his time as a Shinigami flashed in his mind. "Rukia, Ishida, Chad, Inoue, Renji, Dad, Yuzu, Karin… Nozomi…" "I can't even… begin to count!" Ichigo said out loud, causing his badge to respond.

Black Reiatsu surrounded his badge and stretched out in 4 tendrils in the shape of Tensa Zangetsu's sword guard. Everyone was shocked to see this sudden development, while Ichigo stood up, ready to continue the fight.

"You did it… Ichigo." Nozomi said with a smile.

Well, that's Chapter 13. I might not be able to upload for a few days because of college, but I'll do what I can. Thanks for reading! Ja mata ne.