D-F: Hey again! I'm back with chapter 16! Wow so many chapters and I'm nowhere near the end yet lol. So last time we found out why Kyo could use Zangetsu, and will her bond with Ichigo through her powers become something more? It's possible, this is an IchigoxOC fic after all. Well lets get on with the fic! R&R please and thanks to all who are faveing!
Also I was alerted that I had Hitsugaya call his lieutenant Rangiku instead of Matsumoto. Sorry about that! I'll do my best to keep the characters in character!
DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry I keep forgetting to put this in here. I do NOT own any of the Bleach characters but I DO own Kyo and all other OCs in this fic.
Chapter 16
Kyo let out a sigh of relief as she slumped against the front door of her house. "Boy am I glad he didn't bring up what Akira had said about my ressureccion." She mumbled. She didn't want to ever have to use her release and the less people who knew she couldn't control it the better. With a yawn she headed up the stairs, "Man I'm exhausted, I'll just go to bed and worry about all of this tomorrow."
Ichigo on the other hand was still wondering what Akira had meant. Now what was it he said about her release? Ichigo could faintly remember the arrancar saying something about Kyo ressureccion but he couldn't quite get it. He was sitting on his bed trying very hard to think of what was said. Soon he found himself getting really tired, his eyes drooping and he started leaning over until he fell over, asleep before his head hit the pillow.
"Akira!" a little girl about seven years old with red streaked brown hair screamed, tears streaming from her violet eyes. Ichigo stood watching her cry over the prone body of a green haired boy. "Please wake up! Dad come quick! Akira's not waking up!" the girl cried looking around for her father. A tall man with white hair and violet eyes ran over, he had a bone fragment on the left side of his face. The bone covered most of the left half of his face with a hole for the eye and large menacing teeth where at the mouth of it. "What happened Kyo?" The man asked. The little girl looked up at him with tears running down her face, "Dad, Akira wanted to have a battle with our releases but I lost control of mine and hurt him really bad! He won't wake up dad!" The girl's father put a finger to the boy's throat to check for a pulse and found one. "He's still alive Kyo, but you're going to have to use your healing abilities to save him, there's nothing I can do." He said firmly. The girl nodded, "Okay dad, I'll try." She turned back to the boy and placed her hands on his chest where a deep wound was cut. Tendrils of lavender energy began to weave around her arms and sew the wound back together.
Suddenly before Ichigo knew it the scene changed and there was the seven-year-old Kyo staring at her father, tears once again falling down her face. "But dad! I can't leave you here, please come with me! They'll kill you if you stay!" She was crying. Her father shook his head, "I'm sorry Kyo but you have to go without me, they won't come after you if you go to the world of the living." Kyo grabbed onto her father, "No! It's not fair! Why did Akira have to go and tell on you! It was my fault he nearly died, my fault that I can't control my ressureccion!" The white haired arrancar shook his head again, hugging his daughter tightly, "No it's not your fault Kyo, and it's going to be alright." He brought her face up to look him in the eyes, violet bore into violet. "Kyo you have to run from here, get to the world of the living and stay there. Please Kyo, never come back here again." Kyo shook her head but her father had already pushed her away from him and had turned away.
Ichigo could tell Kyo's father was also crying but he wouldn't let his daughter see. "Get out of here Kyo, NOW!" Kyo gazed at her father in silence, there were voices in the distance now and they were getting closer. The little girl turned to walk away saying as she did, "Good-bye dad, I love you." Her father turned back in time to see her run off. "I love you too." was his quiet response.
Once more the scene changed but it wasn't a long time frame. Kyo was standing atop a hill not far from her home, watching a group of arrancars surround her father. The group summond a collective cero and fired it. Kyo cried out, "Father! No!" But the cero had already done it's job. The arrancars looked up at the sound of Kyo's scream and pointed, beginning to run towards the hill. The little girl turned and ran as fast as she could. Just when it seemed they would catch her a garganta opened up and swallowed the girl, closing before the others could even get to it.
Ichigo sprung into a sitting position so fast he almost launched himself out of bed. Sweat pourd down his back and face and his breathing was ragged and fast. What the hell was that? He questioned to himself. It felt like a dream, well it was a dream, but it wasn't one of his dreams. He looked out his window, bright sunlight filtering in and washing over his floor. "It must have been one of her dreams, one of the many nightmares that was in her dream plane." Ichigo said outloud. It made sense, it involved Kyo and that arrancar Akira. That tall one she called dad was obviously her father, so it must have been more than just a nightmare.
"It must have to do with why Akira wouldn't let her use her zanpaku-to." Ichigo mumbled, then it hit him, "That's it! She had said she couldn't control her ressureccion!" So that's why Akira had taken her zanpaku-to and that had to be what happened when they were kids. "I'll be sure to ask her about it later." Ichigo said, he had to find out everything she was keeping from him.
When Kyo walked out of her house that morning she looked absolutely exhausted. Ichigo glanced at her and said, "You look terrible Kyo, you okay?" Kyo glared at him, attempting to flatten her hair with her hand. "Using your zanpaku-to really drained my energy yesterday and I still feel crazy tired." She said, still glaring at Ichigo for his comment. The orange haired teen sighed in mock anoyance, "Well no one said you had to use Zangetsu." Kyo looked up at Ichigo sharply and abruptly tripped on her untied shoelaces. Lucky for her Ichigo caught her.
"Geeze you're such a klutz, I'm always having to save you from falling and breaking something." Ichigo joked. Kyo blushed then pushed away from Ichigo, "Nobody said you had to keep saving me, besides Zangetsu is the one who told me to use him!" The girl snapped then took off running in the direction of the school, leaving Ichigo behind to wonder what exactly he had done to make her angry. "Well I guess I won't be asking her about her dream last night."
Kyo was already seated when Ichigo walked into the classroom. Keigo was sitting on her desk laughing, no doubt at one of his own lame jokes. As Ichigo approached he heard Kyo laugh as well causing him to nearly have a mini stroke. Wasn't she really angry earlier? The tall strawberry had no idea what to make of this so he just took his seat behind the little arrancar halfling.
"So Kyo, I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me sometime?" Keigo asked looking over at Ichigo to see his reaction. The orange haired teen just sat there scowling as usual, he would not give Keigo the satisfaction of seeing him jealous. Of course Ichigo couldn't understand why he was jealous, did he like Kyo? Of course he did, but only as a friend...right? Kyo grinned while looking at the brown haired teen sitting on her desk, "I don't know Keigo, I'll have to think about it. I am rather busy at the moment after all."
Keigo looked genuinely hurt by this, "Aw please don't tell me you're already dating someone! Is it Ichigo? You two spend a lot of time together!" Once again Ichigo nearly had a mini stroke but he was able to keep his usual scowl on his face. Kyo laughed loudly, but it was a fake laugh, "No of course I'm not dating Ichigo." Keigo was suddenly happy again so he jumped up from Kyo's desk and said good-bye as he ran off to find Mizuiro.
Kyo sighed as she slumped back in her chair, she really didn't want to go out with that guy. He seemed nice enough but she just wasn't interested in him. After all, there was someone else she liked. Ichigo poked her in the back with a pencil and she turned around. "What do you want?" She asked, scowling slightly. Ichigo shrugged, "I just felt like poking you. And it'd be a good idea for you to turn down Keigo's request." Kyo raised an eyebrow, "And why is that?" "Because he can be a bit strange." Ichigo replied. Kyo shook her head and turned away from the teen. Keigo's not the only one who can be strange sometimes. The girl thought to herself.
"Well what makes you think I was gonna accept anyway?" Kyo snapped slightly as she turned away from Ichigo. "I dunno." was Ichigo's only reply. Kyo rolled her eyes and sighed again. Ichigo couldn't help but grin at her attitude. His grin vanished though when he thought that it might have been caused by her dream. I'll have to ask her if she wants to talk or something.
It wasn't long till the bell for dinner rang. Kyo grabbed her lunch and near ran from the classroom, she really wanted to be alone. Uryu ran to catch up with her. He grabbed the small girl's arm causing her to whip around angrily. She didn't snap at him like she had planned, mainly because she had thought he was Ichigo, instead she said, "Oh it's you Uryu, how are you?" The dark haired teen just looked down at her, his blue eyes trying to make contact with her purple ones. "Actually I was going to ask you that, are you okay? You seem rather angry." He asked. Kyo pulled away from him and shook her head, "I'm fine, I just had a bad night and I'm kind of tired."
Uryu wasn't sure if she was telling the truth or not but he didn't want to make her more angry than she already seemed to be. He'd seen first hand what a cero could do and he didn't want to find out if this halfling could fire off a cero as powerful as a full arrancar. Instead he asked, "Would you like to eat dinner with me?" Kyo looked up at him, nodding as she replied, "Sure, that'd be nice Uryu."
The two teens had decided to eat up on the roof of the school. "It's always so peaceful up here." Kyo commented, a small smile playing on her lips. Uryu nodded. Kyo glanced at him and smiled, causing his cheeks to go a light shade of pink momentarily. The girl giggled at this and Uryu chuckled a bit as well. Suddenly their quite dinner was interrupted by Ichigo plopping down beside Kyo. "Hey there Uryu, hey Kyo." The teen greeted.
Uryu looked mildly unhappy with Ichigo's intrusion and Kyo just wouldn't look at him. "What's wrong with you two?" Ichigo asked looking back and forth at them. "Nothing, we were just enjoying a quite dinner, what brings you here?" Uryu said, glaring slightly at Ichigo. The orange haired teen looked at Kyo, "I had actually wanted to ask you if you were okay Kyo." The small girl looked back at Ichigo and said, "I'm fine, I just didn't get much sleep last night."
Ichigo contemplated bringing up her dream and dream walking powers in front of Uryu. Then he remembered that the entire Seretei would know eventually anyway so he decided to go for it. "I'm sorry to bring this up but did it have anything to do with your dream last night?" Kyo, who had looked away, whipped back to stare at Ichigo with wide frightened eyes.
The look she gave him startled the teen. "You saw..." She said, trailing off. Uryu just stared at the two trying to figure out what was going on. Kyo looked back up at Uryu and sighed. "I guess I should explain to you that I'm a dream walker and then tell you what that is exactly." Ichigo looked over to the quincy, "Actually how about we go to Urahara's tonight and bring Chad and Orihime as well so you won't have to explain it more than you need to." Kyo nodded then said to Uryu, "If you can wait, besides right now I need to talk to Ichigo alone. I'm sorry about this interruption, maybe we can do this again some other time." Uryu nodded only saying, "Sure that sounds fine."
Kyo quickly packed up her dinner things and lead Ichigo to a an empty class so they could talk. "So you saw my entire dream last night?" Kyo asked. Ichigo nodded, "I saw what happened with Akira and with your father." Kyo's gaze dropped to the floor, a shadow crossing over her face. "I'm sorry, I..." Ichigo didn't know what to say, he felt that sorry didn't really cut it for intruding in her dream.
Kyo suddenly laughed harshly, "Well now we're even right? I saw your tragic memory and you saw mine." Her voice wasn't happy sounding though she had laughed. Ichigo could tell having that dream had the same effect on her that the dream of his mother's death had on him. Without saying a word Ichigo wrapped his arms around the small girl and hugged her. He felt her go rigid as soon as he'd hugged her and he almost let go, but before he could Kyo wrapped her arms around him and hugged back.
They stood there for a few minutes, not saying anything; of course neither had to say a word. When they pulled away from each other Ichigo saw that there were tears running down Kyo's face. She looked up at him and gave him a small smile saying, "Th-thank you Ichigo, I'm kind of glad you where there." Ichigo nodded, smiling back at her, "You're right, it does feel kind of nice not being the only person who knows what happened."
Kyo nodded as she coughed a couple of times. "Yes it does, and you're right I do have to tell the others what I am, I just wish I could control it better." Ichigo gazed down at her a question in his eyes. "You didn't realize? The reason you were in my dream last night was because I accidentally pulled you in there. The bond between us from my powers is really strong and with my inability to control the dream walking we'll probably end up doing this again and again until I can control it." Kyo explained.
Ichigo shook his head in confusion, "I'm a bit confused by all of this but I'm sure it'll work out eventually." Kyo nodded then grinned widely. Both teens looked at the clock and realized it would soon be time for them to get back to class or they would be late. Without another word they took off towards their classroom, getting there just in time for the bell to ring.
It seemed that time flew by after dinner and before Kyo knew it she was being dragged to Urahara's shop by Ichigo. Uryu, Chad and Orihime were following behind the two while they argued. "But Ichigo! I don't want to go to Urahara's!" Ichigo was hauling her along by her arm and he wouldn't let go, "Oi, you said you'd go to Urahara's today so you could explain to the other's you dream walker abilities. Besides, Mr. Hat'n clog's wants to see your fighting styles again anyway."
Kyo stopped trying to get away, knowing full well she wasn't going to be able to talk Ichigo into letting her go. It didn't take them long to get to the shop. Jinta and Ururu were outside sweeping up as the group approached. "Oh, hello." Ururu greeted, "Are you here to see Mr. Urahara?" Ichigo nodded to the little girl, "Yes we are, is he in?" Jinta laughed, "Yeah but he's probably sleeping!" Tessai suddenly appeared behind Jinta, "Actually he isn't sleeping, he's wide awake and waiting for you."
Jinta jumped and ran over to Ururu as Tessai motioned for the group of teens to follow him inside. Once inside the shop the group were brought to a back room where a trap door stood open. "We're going into the basement?" Kyo asked, quite sure nothing would happen under the building that included her fighting anyone. Tessai chuckled lightly, "It's a lot bigger down there than you think." Kyo just gazed at him skeptically.
That is until she saw the size of the room under the shop. Halfway down the ladder she freaked out and almost let go. Ichigo had to assure her that the room was there and she wasn't hallucinating. It didn't help that Kyo was terrified of heights. Luckily Ichigo had gone down first so he stood at the bottom of the ladder coaxing the petrified girl to keep climbing. "It's fine, if you fall I'll catch you!" Ichigo called up to her. Kyo looked down at him, standing about twenty feet below her. "No! Don't look down!" Someone called to her but she couldn't tell who it was as the world went black.
"Hey Kyo! You okay?" Someone was calling to her. "Wake up already." Kyo's eyes fluttered open and she stared up into the brown eyes of Ichigo. "Strawberry." She stated simply and Ichigo scowled looking at someone Kyo couldn't see. "Are you sure you can't heal her Orihime?" He asked. Orihime's voice came through the slight haze that was clouding Kyo's mind, "No I can't, something about her keeps blocking my power." Urahara's face appeared next to Ichigo's and he stared down at Kyo, "It's fine, she seems okay."
"I think she was just trying to say your name Ichigo, but strawberry was the only thing that came to mind." Uryu's mocking tone came trough the fog. Kyo giggled, a little giddy from the haziness of her brain. Ichigo didn't bother to argue back about the meaning of his name, instead he looked back down at the girl he was holding in his arms. "Kyo, are you okay?"
With a groan Kyo nodded and tried to sit up. She felt a little light headed but she managed to sit well enough. "I don't think you should be sitting, you had quite a fall there and you hit your head off the ladder pretty hard," Urahara suggested but Kyo didn't listen as she attempted to stand, Ichigo jumping up to help her. "What about a concussion? You might have one," Tessai said. Kyo shook her head, instantly regretting it as she lost her balance and fell into Ichigo.
"I'm fine, really," She looked at Ichigo, "So did you catch me?" Ichigo grinned, rather proud of himself, "Yes actually, I did." Kyo grinned as well. "Thanks," then turned to Urahara, "So should I explain to them what a dream walker is first or do you want me to fight first?" Urahara contemplated that for a moment then replied, "You should do the explaining first, give yourself a few moments to recover from your fall." Kyo nodded, he couldn't argue with that. She then turned to the three who still had no idea what everyone was talking about, "Chad, Orihime, Uryu, you know that I am half arrancar but there is something else, I'm also a dream walker..."
"So you can walk in the dream plane of other people?" Orihime asked. "Yes, and I can enter your dreams and control them if I wanted." Kyo replied. Chad hadn't had any questions, he just stood there quietly taking it all in. Uryu was staring at Kyo, a question burning at the back of his throat, "You said the dream walkers were all wiped out, was it by..." Kyo shook her head, "As far as I know all the dream walkers are gone, but it wasn't like the quincies. Soul reaper's didn't get rid of them, hollows did." Uryu looked confuse by this, "You mean to tell us that hollows got together and decided to take out an entire race? That's too smart for hollows unless they were arrancars."
Kyo giggled at the comment then became serious again, "No that's not it, to a hollow the soul of a dream walker tastes like the best sweet in the world. They love soul reaper souls but they crave the soul of a dream walker." Uryu nodded, that did make sense. Urahara put his hand up to interrupt any other questions, "So now that you've given your explanation how about showing me your fighting techniques now."
Kyo looked at him reluctantly but nodded. The ex-soul reaper clapped his hands then took out a life size doll out of seemingly nowhere. "What the heck is that and where were you keeping it?" Ichigo freaked at the man. Urahara grinned, "This is a special gigai I made myself, it's designed for training and it's specifically designed to hold a mod-soul." Then he took a small green pill looking thing and put it into the gigai's mouth. Suddenly the gigai's eyes opened and it stood up.
It was close to Kyo's height and was female, it wore a black track outfit and had long blonde hair with green eyes. "Hello!" The gigai shouted cheerfully waving at Kyo. "Kyo this is who you'll be training with, you don't have to worry about hurting her as she won't feel any pain." Urahara assured her. Kyo nodded then looked at the gigai, "Does she have a name?" The gigai nodded her head enthusiastically, "Yep! My name's Perry!"
Kyo raised an eyebrow at the name but didn't say anything. She stepped out of her body and caught it before it hit the ground. She placed it near where Ichigo and the others were standing and walked back to stand in front of Perry again. Urahara clapped loudly getting the attention of everyone, "So here are the rules of this fight. Perry can use whatever techniques she has and Kyo you are to do the same. Use your arrancar powers, zanpaku-to and also I want to see your ressureccion."
Kyo gasped at the last word and Ichigo drew in a sharp breath. "There's no way I'll use my ressureccion!" Kyo stated, crossing her arms over her chest. Her hat created a shadow over her face as Urahara shook his head and said, "I need to assess all your fighting abilities, including your release." Kyo shook her head again, "I'm sorry I can't, not unless there's someone here strong enough to restrain me once I loose control." The group all looked at Chad, the tall muscular teen allowing his arm to change into its stronger version.
"Don't worry, if anything happens Chad has the strength to stop you and Orihime can heal any wounds." Ichigo assured her. Kyo looked at Chad, "I get really animalistic, I can't control it at all so please be careful." Chad nodded, "Okay." Kyo really didn't think it was a good idea to use her ressureccion, and she didn't think Chad or anyone could actually restrain her when she lost control. Urahara put a hand on her shoulder and said, "You haven't used your release in years right?" Kyo nodded and Urahara continued, "Well maybe now that you're older you might have gained more control over it." The arrancar girl still didn't look sure but she nodded anyway saying, "Okay, I'll use my ressureccion too."
Perry was bouncing up and down in excitement, "Alright! I finally get to fight someone." Kyo couldn't help but grin at the mod soul's enthusiasm as she took up her stance. "Okay, whenever you're ready." Urahara said. Kyo blinked and Perry was gone. Whoa she's fast. Looking around quickly Kyo tried to locate the girl. She felt a sharp pain as she was kicked in the side and sent flying, skidding to a halt about twenty feet from where she had just been standing.
"That's some kick you've got there." Kyo said as she slowly got to her feet. Perry was grinning from ear to ear. Kyo grinned too as she used sonnido to bring herself behind Perry. She charged a cero and called, "Cero release!" The cero flew at Perry who turned and dodged it just in time.
"She's really fast for a mod soul, not to mention that was a powerful kick." Uryu commented as he and the others watched the fight. Ichigo nodded, a little bit worried about Kyo. She wasn't very strong and even though she had defeated Akira she had been using his bankai at the time. Orihime smiled up at Ichigo, "Don't worry Ichigo, she'll be fine." The soul reaper looked down at her realizing it must have been plain on his face what he was thinking. "I'm sure she's strong enough to take care of herself."
Kyo had drawn her zanpaku-to and was attempting to cut the super fast mod soul. "C'mon! You gotta be quicker than that if you want to cut me!" Perry taunted Kyo. The shorter girl growled as she thrust her arm forward and sliced cleanly through Perry's track hoody. Perry leaped backwards and looked over at Urahara. The shop owner just said, "Keep going." Perry nodded and turned back to Kyo in time to dodge another cero blast.
Perry vanished from Kyo's view again and the girl felt another sharp pain as she was kicked in the same spot as last time, once again sent flying this time hitting a large rock jutting up from the ground. Kyo groaned as she stood up slowly. Ichigo had almost called out, biting his tongue to keep from swearing at Perry to be more careful. His scowl deepened as Kyo took up her stance again and launched herself towards Perry.
About an hour had passed and both Perry and Kyo were bruised and bloddy, but niether was backing down or close to giving in. "Kyo it's been a rather long time now, would you please use your ressureccion? I would like to study your fighting style in that form." Urahara called out to her. Kyo glanced over at the group watching the battle, fear of hurting her new friends tugging at her mind. But what if I hurt them? What if I kill someone? What if I hurt him? She sighed and shook her head. She had agreed to use her ressureccion so she would use it now.
Kyo held her zanpaku-to in her left hand and brought it up horizontal in front of her. She she ran her pointer and middle finger across the blade as she called, "Howl to the moon Lobo!" Then she turned the sword vertical in front of her allowing it to hover as she brought her arms out on either side of her, "Ressureccion release!"
There was an explosion of lavender light and it was minutes before the dust settled, revealing Kyo standing before them in her true form.
D-F: Ooooh! Ichigo saw Kyo's dream and now we all know what happened between her and Akira and what happened to her dad. And now we get to see her release state! What does she look like? And how bad will it be when and if she loses control? Will she even lose control? Find out next time! R&R please!