Opposites Attract
Chapter 5 New partner
-Ichigo's Inner world-
A woman was setting atop one this inner world's skyscrapers watching Shiro and Zangetsu bicker. She hopped down to them, her long silver hair was flapping behind her. "Hey there Kyōka Suigetsu." Shiro said taking notice of her.
"Hello there Shiro, Zangetsu when will Ichigo return to this world I want to see if he will accept me?" She asked with worry.
"He will be in her soon and don't worry if you explain Ichigo will most likely accept you. He usually is a reasonable person."
"Zangetsu is right the king is very likely to accept you. So don't sweat it and if you are so worried why don't you distract yourself by giving me a blowjob." Shiro said suggestively.
Shiro soon regretted those words as he got punched in the face by Zangetsu and Kyōka.
"Owwww! Learn to take a fuckin joke!" He said while gripping his bleeding nose.
"You need to learn not to joke about a women's body." Kyōka told him calmly. "Gees you are so uptight, Kyōka."
"She isn't uptight she just doesn't want to get involved with you witch I can understand." Zangetsu said towards Shiro who got angry."What the hell did you mean by that Zangetsu!"
"Relax you two and Shiro can be fine sometimes when he isn't so suggestive."
"Hah she supports me on this one Zangetsu so suck my dick." Shiro said while sticking jis tongue out to taunt Zangetsu.
"A very disgusting thought." Zangetsu said while cringing at the thought.
Just then the three spirits heard the sound of Ichigo arriving into the world. Ichigo was shocked when instead of just seeing Shiro and Zangetsu, he saw another spirit. "Who are you?"
"I hope I don't frighten you by you knowing my name. It is Kyōka Suigetsu." Ichigo remembered all the times Aizen slashed people down using that blade.
"Why are you here? Is it to get revenge for your previous master?"
"No! I hate that man for discarding me like I was just a tool! I want to be your partner. I want to help you protect your loved ones, help protect your soul mate."
"You know about Tia." Ichigo said with a blush on his face now thinking of the tan arrancar that he cared for so much.
"Of course I have been in here for a while waiting to inform you of my presence. So while you accept me as a new partner to help you?"
"Of course I accept the more the better. Plus I need someone to help Zangetsu keep Shiro under control." Ichigo said joking around. "Fuck you, King!" Shiro said acting like he meant it but didn't.
"Thank you Ichigo for accepting me and you know what is next right." "Yep just get it over with and stab me to transfer your powers already." Kyōka obeyed and stabbed her sword into Ichigo's heart.
Ichigo didn't feel pain from it only power as a light surrounded both him and Kyōka as she gave him her powers. Ichigo now looked down at his waist where his new zanpakuto was.
Her sword form looked the same as it did with Aizen and Ichigo inspected it carefully not used to having a weapon he could use with one hand. "Me and Shiro will leave you to let you train with Kyōka." Zangetsu said while grabbing Shiro who was letting out vulgar protests.
"For now Ichigo I will help you master me in Shikai. All you have to do is point me towards the ground and say, "Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu!" Ichigo then attempted it and his natural learning skills activated.
"Shatter, Kyōka Suigetsu!""Good job Ichigo! Now whoever sees the Shikai will see whatever you want them to see. All you have to do is think it and they will see it, unless they grab my blade then the hypothesis is broken."
Ichigo nodded understanding. "You are free to exit this world now Ichigo. See you in a week or two when we will begin your Bankai training."
-Ichigo's house-
Ichigo woke up and heard the sound of Tia humming. 'She has a great humming voice.' Ichigo thought as her humming surprisingly soothed him. The humming then stopped once Ichigo let out a yawn.
"Ichigo are you awake?" Tia's voice called out.
"Yeah I am, what is it that you want, Tia?" Ichigo asked tiredly.
"Could you throw in a towel for me?" Ichigo grabbed a towel and quickly threw it in the room trying to resist the urge to peep. Luckily Ichigo had a will of pure steel.
Tia quickly wrapped the towel around her waist and walked out of the bathroom. Ichigo was surprised how absolutely attractive she looked.
Her hair didn't have the usual braids on as she was just taking a bath resulting in wet short, messy blond hair which defiantly added to her attractiveness. He could see a little bit of her cleavage resulting in a tiny blush. The towel also helped reveal her perfect tanned legs.
"Tia there is a question I would like to ask." Ichigo asked nervously.
"What is it?" She said with curiosity.
"How come you always have a the same color of a tan on it never changes at all?"
"It's because a arrancar's body stays the same as when it has died as a human. I was this tan when I died as a human so I stayed this tan. So my whole body is forever tan."
"Just wondering. I wonder if that is the case with Visords as well." Ichigo pondered starting to get lost in thought.
"That is a interesting question." She said as she grabbed her school uniform and headed back into the bathroom to change into them.
After she changed as she came out of the bathroom she tripped and Ichigo caught her while holding her close. 'He is so muscular.' Was all Tia could think as she felt Ichigo's muscles pressing against her now that he was holding her so close.
"Are you okay Tia?" Ichigo asked concerned.
"Yeah I am fine just I didn't expect to trip."
"It happens to the best of us." He said smiling at her which she returned back as Ichigo got his school uniform.
He headed into the bathroom leaving Tia to her thoughts, 'Why did I enjoy him holding me so tight and his concern for me. Am I really falling for Ichigo. I guess only time will be able to tell.'
Ichigo then came out of the bathroom and headed downstairs with Tia at his side. Both of them were completely stunned when Isshin didn't attack Ichigo at all. Ichigo just shrugged it off and was happy he didn't get attacked by his dad.
After Ichigo and Tia ate breakfast and were heading towards their school, Ichigo had to ask something.
"What did you talk about with your fraccion." Tia now had a blush on her face remembering the conversation.
"Nothing."She said while looking away though Ichigo could still see her blush.
"It obviously wasn't nothing I can tell from the blush." He pointed out.
"Fine they were asking what I thought of you." She said while half twisting the truth.
"So what did you say you thought of me?" Ichigo asked hoping for a positive response.
"I told them I think you are*blushes* handsome, kind, protective in a good way, and sweet at some times." She said making Ichigo grin ear to ear with a grin that could put Gin and Shinji to shame.
Tia saw this and started thinking, 'Does this mean he likes me? He has a huge grin on face from just hearing what I thought of him.' Tia was immensely shocked when she felt Ichigo suddenly grabbed her hand. She smiled at him enjoying their close contact.
The two then walked into the school not caring who saw them and what they thought because all that mattered to the two of them was each other. When they walked into the classroom gasps could be heard and rumors were being started.
Orihime was utterly shocked and pissed Ichigo was holding Tia's hand. Uryu was also angry at the sight, because while he wouldn't admit it he thought of Ichigo as his best friend. Chad sort of expected it and was the only one who was passive about it.
One thing was clear and that was everyone was thinking, 'Ichigo Kurosaki has a girlfriend.' Ichigo and Tia took their seats getting glared at by every student but Chad. The rest of school day passed by as usual(except the a lot of glares) until lunch.
"What is wrong with you Ichigo!" Uryu exclaimed at Ichigo now that he could bring up the fact that Ichigo and Tia were holding hands before.
"Shut up four eyes!" Ichigo exclaimed with a little anger.
"Ichigo why were you and Halibel holding hands?" Orhime said with jealousy in her voice.
"I don't know about Tia but it just felt right to me." This caused Tia's heart to skip a beat. 'Did he just say it felt right to be holding my hand?'
"Well why are you holding his hand Halibel?" Uryu said with much venom when he said her name.
She responded while blushing .
"I just held his hand because I enjoyed the feeling it gave me." Orhime clenched her hands and decided she needed to try to make a move fast on Ichigo.
"Hey Ichigo would you like to go to the winter dance with me?" 'Hah he is already going with me.' Tia thought in her head.
"Sorry Orihime but I already am going with Tia."This got a disappointed look from Orhime.
"How did that happen Ichigo?" Uryu said not believing his friend would honestly go with a arrancar.
"It started when she told me that there was a winter dance. Then I asked her if she was taking anyone and she said no she wasn't going with anybody so I asked her." Ichigo said summarizing when he asked her.
"Why her?" Uryu said anger lacing his tone.
"Because I want to go with her." Ichigo said with a completely serious face. Tia felt her heart soar when she heard this. 'He said he wanted to go with me. What could this mean? What is this feeling I am experiencing. Why do I feel like my heart is soaring.'
When he said this Orihime's fists were clenched and barely constrained anger. She couldn't believe Ichigo said he had wanted to take Tia to the dance.
The rest of the lunch passed by quickly with Ichigo and Tia sitting very close together. They meet as usual after school and started heading back to Ichigo's house when Tia stopped at the window of a shop.
In the window was a beautiful scarf with wavy ocean lines on it. Ichigo saw Tia looking at the scarf with a look of admiration.
"Do you want that, Tia?" Ichigo said very suddenly causing Tia to turn around and look at him.
"What?" She said pretending not to know what he meant because she didn't want him to go and spend more money on her.
"Don't "What" me I said what said do you want that scarf." Ichigo said a little frustrated.
"No... I don't want it." Tia tried to say firmly even though Ichigo could tell otherwise. He signaled for Tia to stay where she was and he went in the store grabbed the scarf, then headed towards the clerk.
"This for your girlfriend." The clerk said with a all knowing tone in his voice.
"Well she isn't my girlfriend yet but in a few weeks I am going to ask her to be."
"Is she that pretty lady outside you were with?"
"Yeah she is." Ichigo said while handing him the money for the scarf.
"Well good luck is all I have to say and that you will be really lucky if you actually get that girl." The clerk said while making very inappropriate motions with his hands.
Ichigo just sighed and took the scarf and his change and went outside the shop where Tia was waiting.
"Here!" Ichigo said shoving the scarf into her hands while holding the cloth on top of her hand. She grabbed it and he let it go.
"You didn't have to get it for me, but thank you." She said while her emotions were now harder to read under the scarf.
"I did have to get it for you, because I need to be able to see you happy." Ichigo could see she had a blush on her face just barely. Ichigo then led her towards a graveyard. While Ichigo led her she wondered why they were heading towards a graveyard.
When the two of them reached the graveyard she saw Ichigo kneel in front of a headstone and begin saying something she couldn't hear. She then looked to see who's grave it was and was shocked at what it said: Masaki Kurosaki a loving mother and wife.
"Ichigo I am so sorry." Tia said putting her hand on his shoulder.
"I despise them for taking my mom away from me." Ichigo said forgetting who he was with.
"Who Ichigo?" She said wondering who did it.
"Those damn hollows for killing her." When she heard this it hurt her more than any betrayal, any sword slash, or any disease. It felt like someone ripped her heart out and a pain was in her throat. She realized now she would never be able to be with Ichigo as her kind killed his mother.
"I am sorry then I am one of those heartless beasts." She rasped out with a few tears coming down her face. Ichigo now realized who he told this and panicked.
"No I didn't mean it and Tia you aren't heartless." Ichigo said hating himself for saying he despise hollows. ' Real smooth king, real smooth.'
"Yes I am. I am a hollow and just as heartless as all the rest of them. So why don't you kill me right now." She rasped out between sobs as tears were falling in cascades now.
"No you are not Tia, you are not a monster, you are not heartless, and most all you are a incredibly important person to me." Ichigo said grabbing her shoulders and shaking her.
"How do I know you are telling the truth." Tia said still with some tears coming from her eyes.
"you just have to believe it." Ichigo said and did a extremely bold move and kissed her cheeks where the tears were coming down. He was kissing away her tears on her cheeks.
Tia couldn't believe it and was blushing a crimson red on her cheeks. Ichigo withdrew from his kisses on her cheek and before his head was no longer in the hunched over condition one of his cold breaths reached her neck through the bottom of the loosely tied on scarf.
Tia did something Ichigo didn't expect and that was she put her head into his chest. Ichigo wrapped his arms around her and the two just stood there.
"Thanks you for helping me know I am not like other hollows." Tia said softly her head still lying on Ichigo's shirt. Ichigo then run his hands through her messy blond hair.
"Tia... Today I make a promise to you, I will always try to protect you from anything or anyone. I would give my life for you, you know that right." Ichigo told her very gently.
"Yes I know that and I would give my life for you as well." Tia said looking into his eyes to show she meant what she said. The two just stood together for a while like that until Ichigo broke the silence.
"Let's go home Yuzu should be making dinner by now." She nodded and followed him. What Ichigo didn't know was that while he was leading the way Tia was checking him out. 'I never noticed it before but he has a pretty nice butt and I saw how defined his arms are.'
The two walked in a almost complete silence till Ichigo's badge started ringing.
"Tia I am going to go after this hollow. You can meet me back at my house okay." Ichigo said turning to her for her confirmation.
"Yea go ahead and beat this hollow. If I went there and fought it then some of my reiatsu may get detected." Tia said nodding and continuing off to Ichigo's house.
'King please allow me to fight this hollow. I need to stretch my legs.' 'I am not letting you control my body right now.' 'I won't posses your body. Let me manifest like those Zanpakuto do.' 'Fine go ahead.' Then Shiro appeared right next to him.
"Let's go king." Shiro said while getting a nod from Ichigo. All of Ichigo's friends could fell Ichigo and another's reiatsu. The other one was a hollow's with a trace of soul reaper and then Ichigo's now almost completely a soul reaper's reiatsu will small traces of hollow energy.
'Who's reiatsu is next to Ichigo.' Everyone thought and Uryu headed to investigate this new reiatsu.
-Meanwhile with Ichigo and Shiro fighting the hollow-
Shiro and Ichigo ran into a tall hollow. It was about the size of a medium size house. It had a mask with strips going vertically across it. It had two large hands with 4 scythe like claws on it. It had a tail with 1 large spike at the end. Shiro grinned at the sight of this obviously powerful hollow.
"Let's go!" Shiro said with his maniac grin growing even wider. He charged the hollow which let out a roar and charged him. Once it was in close quarters Shiro took out Zangetsu and sliced off its giant legs.
Shiro laughed as the hollow slashed his shoulder. The manifested inner hollow then grabbed one of the scythe glows and pulled it off of the hollow blood gushing everywhere.
Shiro's wounds on his shoulder were healed quickly and her jumped up while slashing the hollow's chest. The hollow turned around and sent its hand with all four claws towards him.
"Getsuga Tensho!" Shiro yelled slicing the hollow's whole arm off. Shiro Sonidoed onto the hollow's other arms and slashed it off. With a evil grin Shiro finished it off by throwing Zangetsu into its mask.
Uryu arrived just in that moment and saw a white Ichigo kill the hollow very brutally. He listened in on what Shiro said.
"Well partner I got to say thank you for letting me have some time to roam about like this." Shiro said with his smile still on his face.
"No problem after all now I have your full cooperation on giving me power." Ichigo said confusing Uryu as he didn't know yet of Ichigo's full power given to him by his hollow.
"You deserve it after all you need all the power possible, after all it is your job not mine to protect the queen." Shiro said with a hint of caring in his tone.
"You like Tia as well don't you?" Ichigo said a little angry his inner hollow liked Tia like Ichigo did.
"Well of course it's because of my hollow blood you have a soul mate bond with her. Plus we sometimes have similar opinions like us both agreeing the Queen is very hot."
Uryu's eyes widened at this conversation he was hearing and quickly left the area not wanting to deal with listening to Ichigo and Shiro talking to each other.
"I agree." Ichigo said reluctantly and Shiro faded away heading back to Ichigo's inner world while laughing. Ichigo then headed towards his house.
-Ichigo's house-
Ichigo arrived and it was about after dinner time. Ichigo walked in very slowly into his home, his eyes scanning around waiting to counter his father.
"Helllo Iccchhhigggooo!" Isshin said trying to roundhouse kick Ichigo in the face to which Ichigo promptly grabbed his foot and slamming him into the wall.
"Why must you do this every damn time I come home?" Ichigo asked angrily.
"You left your guard wide open!" Isshin said while trying to do a slide kick. Ichigo reacted quickly by jumping up and landing his feet on his dad leg making him yell in pain.
"Good job my son." Isshin said while trying to give a thumbs up. Ichigo saw a rice meal on the table with a note on it.
I saved you some rice since you didn't arrive for dinner. From Tia. This made Ichigo grin like a possum eating shit. 'She saved food for me.' Ichigo thought very happily as this was a good sign to him.
Ichigo then ate the rice Tia gave him and headed up stairs. When he arrived in his room he saw Tia hugging one of his pillows while she was sleeping.
Ichigo walked over to where the sleeping Tia was and smiled softly at her. 'Seeing her makes me remember how much I care about her. She looks beautiful even in her sleep.'
Ichigo lied down on the floor and fell asleep.
A/N Sorry this chapter was so short my brain was dead at the time I was writing this.