D-F: Woot! Back with chapter 12! So last time a nightmare turned on Ichigo and Kyo while they were in Kyo's dream plane. So what's gonna happen next? And what's with Ichigo spazzing out when Kyo does certain things? All will evetnually be revealed! And onto the chapter!
Chapter 12
Ichigo opened his eyes feeling a bit groggy. "Ugh." He moaned and tried to sit up but a slight weight was restricting him. Looking down the teen blushed severly at seeing Kyo sprawled across his chest, still out cold. Ichigo poked her, calling her name softly, "Kyo, hey Kyo wake up." With a groan the small girl's violet eyes fluttered open and she sat up. "Gah! My head's pounding." She turned to look at Ichigo, "Now you know why I said the dream plane is so dangerous." The orange haired teen nodded, his eyes still holding the look of surprise from seeing what the nightmare had become.
A thought struck him just then, "Hey Kyo, you've got an awful lot of nightmares in your dream plane." Kyo's vibrant eyes dulled a bit as she looked away, "It's not really important." Ichigo frowned at her, "You know Kyo, you have friends now and you can talk to us about anything." The arrancar nodded, "I know, but like I said it's not important." Ichigo decided to leave it at that then as a small noise outside his door caught his attention. Getting up the teen crossed his room and yanked open the door to see his father and Yuzu kneeling outside the door, Karin was standing behind them with an annoyed look on her face.
"What are you three doing!" Ichigo yelled, "I swear you automatically think something's going on when I bring a girl into my room!" Ishiin gazed at his son, "But son! You hardly ever bring girls home, at least not without the rest of your friends." Karin glared at her brother, "Hey! I'm not perverted like them!" Ichigo glanced at her, "You're out here too though." Before either of them could say another word Ichigo slammed the door shut. When he turned back to Kyo his eyebrow was twitching, "Sorry about that, they can be so moronic sometimes." Kyo giggled, "It's okay, and I like them." Ichigo shook his head, "Yeah, but you don't have to live with them." As soon as the words left his mouth Ichigo was kicking himself at the look in Kyo's eyes.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean.." Kyo put up her hand and smiled, "It's okay, don't sweat it." Suddenly the small arrancar felt something, she glanced towards the window as the intense familiar spiritual pressure washed over her. "Ichigo, you feel that?" She asked glancing back at him. At first he didn't feel it, then the spiritual pressure washed over him as well. "Who is that? It's not familiar to me." The substitute soul reaper stated. Kyo shrugged, even though she was sure she knew it, she just couldn't place that energy. But neither had the chance to investigate for as soon as the spiritual pressure appeared it was gone. Ichigo and Kyo locked gazes, "Oookay then, I'm sure it was nothing." Kyo grinned, and Ichigo nodded though he wasn't so sure. Even though he hadn't known the spirit energy he could still distinctly tell that it had been an arrancar, and by the look on Kyo's face he was sure she'd known who it was. The young arrancar yawned loudly then and grinned at Ichigo, "Well it's getting late and we've got school tomorrow, I should probably head home now."
"Yeah, it is rather late." Ichigo stated as they both stood from the bed. Ichigo saw Kyo to the door to make sure his father didn't hassle the girl about what obviously did not go on in Ichigo's room. "See you tomorrow Ichigo!" Kyo called as she skipped down the stairs. As she got to the last stair however the klutzy girl tripped and began to fall. Luckily for the arrancar Ichigo's reflexes kicked in and he sprung forward to catch her berfore she faceplanted the ground. Of course at the exact same time Isshin happened to be passing by the front door and saw Ichigo bent over and holding a blushing Kyo who was tipped over almost touching the ground. At seeing Isshin both teens blushed an even darker shade of red.
"OH JOY! Ichigo's holding a girl!" Isshin cried out in excitement. Ichigo helped Kyo to stand upright before turning to yell at his father, "Dad she just tripped and I couldn't let her fall so I had to catch her!" Karin and Yuzu appeared by Isshin, Yuzu had hearts in her eyes and Karin was looking at her brother in disgust, "Sure Ichigo, that's why you were holding her." Kyo giggled and when Ichigo turned to look at her she shrank back in slight fear at the ferocious scowl that was plastered on his face. With a grin Kyo pointed towards her house, "I'll just get going, see you all later!" And with that she dashed across the yard to her home.
"Hi guys! I'm home!" Kyo called out as she entered through the front door. "Hey you'll be excited to know I've finally been able to use my dream walker powers diliberately!" She told her parents happily. Even though they weren't there she was sure they were listening. She went about doing her homework and cooking herself supper and cleaning before she went to bed.
'What is this?' Kyo thought to herself as she looked around. It was Ichigo's dream plane, she could tell from the blue sky and sidewyas buildings. A few dreams swirled around, there were a lot of white and grey ones, but a few nightmares slinked around as well. "You are the dream walker who was here before." A deep voice stated behind her. Kyo yelped as she jumped almost a foot in the air. She turned to see a tall man dressed in a long black and white cloak of some sort with long dark hair and sunglasses of some sort. "Um...Hi?" Kyo said timidly and gave a little wave. The man gazed at her but didn't say anything so the arrancar ventured to ask, "Um, exactly who are you and how did you get in here?" The man gave her a curious look, "I was about to ask you that same question." Kyo gasped, she hadn't even thought about it. She had unintentionally entered Ichigo's dream plane without even saying the incantation.
"Sorry, I have no idea how I got here. My name's Kyo Flynn." Dark eyes stared into violet ones as the man answered her previous question, "I am Ichigo's zanpaku-to, my name is ********." It was weird but it seemed as if Kyo's ears stopped hearing the man as he said his name. She shook her head, "I'm sorry but I didn't catch your name." The man gazed at her curiously as if he couldn't believe she hadn't heard him say his name; he tried again, "My name is ********." Once again it was as if something was blurring his name from being heard and Kyo couldn't understand why. The man sighed when he realized she still hadn't heard it. 'Strange, she should be able to hear my name...unless...' His train of thought was interrupted by the sudden change in surroundings.
The sky was no longer blue and almost cloudless, clouds now covered the enitre sky and torrents of rain poured endlessley from them. Kyo and the man were standing on a river bank in the slick grass. They stood gazing at the raging river when all of a sudden they heard someone cry out "Ichigo!" Both turned to see a child Ichigo running towards them wearing a yellow raincoat and a young woman running after him. The woman, Kyo could tell, was Masaki Kurosaki. Kyo turned towards the river as Ichigo ran past her. She could see a young girl wearing white standing by the river looking like she was going to fall in. As Ichigo reached out to grab her Masaki reached out to grab her son and in the next instant there was a flash of lightning. Neither Kyo nor the man saw what happened next, but when the light died down there was little Ichigo kneeling next to his mother who was lying on the ground, covered in blood.
Kyo wiped away a few tears as she stood there completely helpless. There was nothing she could do to take control of the dream as it was technically a memory. "So she was killed by a hollow right?" She asked, forcing herself to look away from the crying boy. The man nodded, "Yes." Suddenly everything began to fade into black and Kyo was sure Ichigo was waking up. As the last of the dream faded away she could hear the man talking, but it was all just murmering to her.
Grimmjow stalked the halls of Las Noches feeling pretty pissed off. Aizen had called him back and sent out another arrancar to capture the girl. "Who does he think he is sending some weakling to do my job!" the blue haired hollow growled. "It's only because Akira knows the girl. Lord Aizen feels that he will be able to bring her back without too much hassle." A smooth voice stated behind him. "Shut up Ulquiorra." Grimmjow turned to see the pale skinned Espada standing with an air of authority. 'He thinks he's better than me because he's the fourth.' Grimmjow growled as he turned to continue walking, "What's so important about this kid anyway? I've seen her fight and she's not a very strong level arrancar, though her zanpaku-to is slightly impressive." Ulquiorra didn't give any response. "She's so important Grimmjow, because she has a power that was once thought to no longer exist." Both arrancar turned towards the authoritive voice. Aizen stood tall and overpowering as he said, "She is much more powerful than you could even imagine."
D-F: Awww! How cute Ichi didn't want Kyo to fall! LoLz. Anywho so what happened for Kyo to enter Ichigo's dream plane by without even being close to him? And why can't she hear the name of the man in Ichi's soul? And what exactly is it that Aizen has planned? All will eventually be revealed! So stick around ~.^ And R&R too! -^.^-