Chapter 7: Shocking! The True Identity of the Fullbringer Ginjo!

Ichigo widen his eyes when Uryu summoned his Quincy bow and then narrowed his eyes. 'So then, you're one of them huh?'

"Uryu…"

"Ichigo, don't you get it?!" Ichigo widen his eyes at what Uryu was trying to say. "The guy who attacked me is standing right behind you!" Ichigo slowly looked behind his shoulder and saw Ginjo standing on his feet with a murderous look in his eyes. Uryu fired an arrow at the fullbringer and it was deflected with ease. Ginjo lowered his sword towards Ichigo, cutting him down. "NO!" Before Uryu could save Ichigo, Tsukishima appeared behind him and slashed him in the shoulder.

Ginjo started to mechanically as both Ichigo and Uryu fell to knees. "Ginjo…" Ichigo said weakly. "Why…"

Ginjo places his combat on the guard of his sword and the sword started to transform with a skull in the middle of the newly repaired guard. "Now your fullbring is mine." Ginjo picked up his sword and Ichigo stabbed in the middle of his chest.

Ichigo looked at the sword that just pierced his chest with widen eyes as his arms gotten limb. Uryu looked up at Ginjo with a glare. 'Now I remember...everything.' Uryu thought, thinking back to when he was attacked.

(Flashback)

Tsukishima charged towards Uryu with a sly smirk on his face. 'Damn it!' Uryu thought, looking behind his shoulder as Ginjo appeared and cut him down. Uryu fell to the ground as a pool of blood started to form where he was cut.

"Oh dear, he's one of Ichigo's friends right?" Tsukishima asked. "I think that it would've been much easier if I cut him with my fullbring instead."

"What are you talking about?" Ginjo asked with a smirk, confusing Tsukishima. "He's going to be the key to everything. Kurosaki's fate depends on whether or not he can tell the difference what happened to this guy and what's going to happen to our next targets. Think about it, it won't be any fun if the game fixed so we won't lose." A smirk appeared on Tsukishima's face, understanding where Ginjo is going with this. "Alright then, hurry up and cut me! Once this is finished, you and I will appear to become enemies who betrayed each other."

"You're determined to do this." Tsukishima said. "I guess that I have no choice."

(End of Flashback)

"That's how we got here." Ginjo said, finishing his explanation to Ichigo. Uryu gritted his teeth in frustration as Tsukishima walked towards Ichigo.

"It's like I said, the Book of the End allows to me insert myself into a person's past." Tsukishima explained. "But if I cut that person again, they will return to normal."

"As we laid out our plan, we realize that I would be the one working closest to you." Ginjo continued. "So I had Tsukishima slip his existence into my past as an enemy so you would believe that I was on your side."

"Correction Ginjo, I cut you because you couldn't pull it off on your own. After all, you're such a terrible actor."

"Get out of here! My acting has always extremely believable!"

"Well you don't remember your lines very well. You refer to Ichigo as 'Kurosaki' right I cut you."

"So you saying, you cut him…before you've cut any of the others." Uryu said weakly, getting the fullbringers' attention.

Tsukishima turned towards Uryu and said, "Well now, you catch on quickly. Now I don't have to explain as much. After I cut Ginjo, I slipped off the other Xcution members as well. I didn't make them hate me as much as Ginjo did. It wasn't necessary. I didn't have to worry the acting abilities of the other quite as much."

"Shut up." Ginjo said offended.

In the room below Ginjo and Tsukishima, the other members of Xcution were listening in Ginjo and Tsukishima explaining their plan.

"Did you hear that?" Jackie asked. "Looks like Kugo did it."

"I believe you're right." Kutsuzawa agreed. "Everything we've done to date has been designed to get to this moment. Yes, and it finally paid off. I think we can safely that everything gone his way."

"Yeah, so what exactly are we supposed to do now?" Shishigawara asked bored.

"For now, we just have to wait." Yukio said, getting Shishigawara's attention. "That's right. Once Kugo puts in the final touches, our mission will then be complete."

"Yeah, I thought as much." Uryu said. "In order to make this plan work out, you had a lot to accomplish. You had to change Chad, Orihime, and Ichigo's sisters' memories to corner him"

"Interesting, you sound as if you figured it all out before you even arrived here." Ginjo said.

"Expect that I didn't realize that Tsukishima had power to change people's past. But I realized something was wrong from the spiritual pressure lingering around everyone. I just wasn't able to identify who was responsible. You each took different actions to take down Ichigo, didn't you?"

"You came to this conclusion while you were immobilized? I'm impressed. But you only observed the end result."

"What do you mean?" Uryu questioned as roars of thunder was heard.

"What you failed to realize is that Tsukishima and I have been the same plan to achieve a single goal even since the beginning."

(Flashback)

"So that's what you're going to do, ok?" Shishigawara said, cornering a thug in the ally.

"No way!" The thug said. "It seems like it's way over the top, don't you think?"

"You little punk, are you refusing to take direct order?!"

"Take it easy, Shishigawara." Tsukishima's voice sounded off in the ally. "We shouldn't force to do things." Then Tsukishima appeared between Shishigawara and the thug. "However, there's something you remember isn't there?" The thug started to run but he tripped over himself as Tsukishima slowly towards him. "You do remember once in the past, I saved your life."

(Fast-Forward)

Tsukishima watched from the top of Xcution's building as Ichigo left and went him. "It seems a single incident wasn't enough to convince him." He said.

(Fast-Forward)

"Now then, it's time to move on the next stage." Tsukishima said, looking at the apartment building where Orihime lives. Then Tsukishima used his fullbring on Orihime, Chad, Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro, and Ichigo's sisters.

(End of Flashback)

"The bottom line is that I'm not really interested for what his reasons were for thinking to get our help." Ginjo said. "Whether he liked it or not, we put this thing in motion so he could up with us from the start." Ginjo drove his sword deeper into Ichigo as the blade started to glow. Then the armor from Ichigo's fullbring started to turned a liquid and pour into Ginjo's sword. "Good, here it comes." Soon, Ichigo's fullbring armor disappeared and Ginjo removed the blade from Ichigo's chest. Ichigo's combat pass fell to the ground as it started to rain.

'My fullbring...' Ichigo thought. 'It's gone…I wanted to regain my power bit I couldn't figure out a way to do that on my own. I just have to tolerate my condition, powerless for seventeen months.'

To be continued…

Next Chapter: Meeting Again After Seventeen Months! Ichigo and Rukia!