Chapter 21: Anger + Vampire

Shuren gotten back to his feet and smirked at Moka saying, "Oh that's right, I forgot you were still here. Allow me to change that, unlike Ichigo I can eliminate you right now." Shuren fired some fire blasts at the vampire and Moka quickly avoided them. Moka then tried to kick Shuren but he used his fire whips to block the kicks. Moka was about to kick Shuren again but Shuren managed to hit Moka with his fire blast, sending into the rubble close to Ichigo. Shuren appeared into of the captive Yuzu and fired multiple at Ichigo. Ichigo walked into the barrage of arrows and got surrounded by smoke and dust. Once it cleared, Ichigo was unharmed and he was hollowified.

"Excellent, now go and destroy those gates." Shuren fired an arrow at Ichigo and he dodged it with no problems. Ichigo then charged in towards Shuren and he fired more arrows at the substitute soul reaper. Ichigo jumped at Shuren and swung his zanpakuto at him. Shuren used his flames to block the blade as best as he could. Then Ichigo disappeared and was found running the pillars towards Shuren. Shuren fired his arrows at Ichigo but none of them connected. Ichigo then flashed step in front of Shuren and fired his Getsuga Tensho at him in close range, defeating him.

Ichigo landed on the ground, breathing heavily from the battle. Moka slowly returned to her feet from a distance. She was in awe of the power Ichigo displayed. "He did it." She said. "Now let's get…" She cut off when she something hit her neck. She fell to the ground unconscious.

Ichigo deactivated his hollowification and turned toward his sister. "Yuzu, it's time to get you home." Then Ichigo got stabbed in the chest by a sword, a sword that looks familiar. A huge explosion erupted as Ichigo falls to the ground.

Kokuto walked up to Ichigo as if nothing happened and said, "That must've hurt. Are you okay?" Ichigo didn't respond to the question. Kokuto went down and pulled his sword out of Ichigo, making said soul reaper winch in pain. "Oh please, a wound like that should be nothing to you." Kokuto swung his sword down to the ground, nearly missing Ichigo.

Ichigo was shocked of Kokuto's change in attitude and said, "Why? Why did you…"

Kokuto smirked at Ichigo's question. "Why did I stab you? I wanted to see how you would react. As I said before, here you're brought back to life even if you die." Then a blob of lava came out of the pot of lava, ready to bring back someone who just died and Kokuto walked the blob and quickly tried prevent that from happening. "Stay out of this, you hot mess! Stay dead for a while!" Kokuto continues to destroy the lava with his blade.

"You're a traitor." Ichigo said to Kokuto, still a little about what Kokuto did to him.

"A traitor to whom? Everything went exactly as I planned. All you have to do is cooperate with me and this game will be over. You see the last step is for you to hollowify and help me out, just you promised."

Ichigo tried to return to his feet, but he couldn't. "That story you told me, the one about your sister…"

"That story was entirely true. My sister was murdered and I made the guys who did it died a slow and painful death." The destroyed lava blob still tried to resurrect and caught Kokuto's attention. "Quit bugging me!" Kokuto continued to destroy the blob as he continues to give his explanation to Ichigo. "At the time it felt good, although it was only temporary to bring back my sister. I lived with that pain every day, it worst than any other pain I could've imagined. The only way to get revenge was to make to feel the same pain I was going through!" Kokuto finished destroying the lava blob and ripped off the headgear he was wearing, revealing that his right eye closed and that part of his face was burned. "Was that so wrong?! Was that the reason to send me to hell for all eternity?! I tried countless times to escape but every time a guardian crushed me and dragged me back to the depts. Then one day, I saw you in battle and realized in your hollowified state, you'll be strong enough to break through this realm's barriers. I've passed that information on to other sinners and my plan started to take shape. I'll do whatever it takes to get out of here. Even if it means turning the world of the living into a living hell, so beat it."

"Damn you!" Moka shouted, getting back to her feet. "Traitor is too good of a word for you! I knew you can't be trusted! You're nothing but a deserter who needs to learn his place!" Moka charged in to attack Kokuto but was for the vampire and he cut her down.

"Ichigo! Moka!" Rukia shouted, running to their direction. "What happened?!" Kokuto appeared in front of Rukia and cut her down as well.

Uryu appeared with his Genrei Kojaku, ready to fire his Steele Schneider. "SO YOU WERE WITH THEM AFTER ALL!" He yelled. Then Kokuto appeared and Uryu's bow with ease, knocking out the Quincy.

"They were just to be manipulated." Kokuto said to Uryu.

"Uryu! Moka! Rukia!" Ichigo shouted to his friends after seeing them defeated so easily.

"I…chi…go…" Rukia said before she lost consciousness.

"Rukia!" Renji shouted just arriving, then Kokuto appearing to do to Renji what he did to the others. Renji dodged it and tried to hit the sinner but some chains appeared in front of Kokuto and stopped the attack. "What the…" Then Kokuto struck Renji and cut him down as well.

Ichigo saw enough and charged in to attack Kokuto with so much anger and rage he has towards him. Every time Ichigo hit Kokuto, the black chains appeared to block the attack. "That's it Ichigo, unleash the power of your hatred. Let the force of your inner hollow come out and break these chains!" Ichigo continues to swing at Kokuto with all of his force without using his inner hollow but he could hit Kokuto. "It's still not enough. Unless you can unleash that monster, you can't win." Ichigo continued to strike but still cannot hit Kokuto. Kokuto vanished before Ichigo could strike again and reappeared on top of the skeleton in front of him with Yuzu in his hand. "What a shame. It looks like your poor innocent sister couldn't withstand the atmosphere here. See, a chain has started forming." Ichigo widen his eyes when he saw a chain anchored on Yuzu's chest. Then a large amount began to erupt from him in a rapid rate. "Yes, get angry. In this place, passion is unnecessary. Bury your heart in darkness!"

Renji started to stir when all of Ichigo's angry is poured in his spiritual pressure. "I…Ichigo."

Kokuto smirked and said, "Yes, welcome to Hell." Kokuto dropped Ichigo's sister and let her fall down into the lava pit. Ichigo quickly moved and grabbed her in time. But it was no use; Yuzu still had a chain on her. Enraged, Ichigo immediately transformed into his full hollow, the same hollow form he use to defeat Ulquiorra, and started to form a cero. "Yes, USE THAT POWER AND BREAK THESE CHAINS!"

To be continued…

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