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Chapter 7: Welcome to Seireitei
The group looked around them, it looked… peaceful for the most part and very very old. Orihime frowned and poked her chin as she looked around.
"Mmm… now thinking about this I don't think going straight to the line between this district and Seireitei would be a good idea." Yoruichi said looking at the border line.
"Why?" Karin asked as she looked at the perfectly open area.
The black cat looked at the teenage group.
"Because once we get near the wall will come down and the gate guard will be in our way. It will take longer so I suggest we use my plan B.
"Plan B?" Karin asked looking confused but the cat just smiled mischievously.
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Ichigo held the cloak in front of him. "So basically you want me to go to Soul Society and just cause mayhem?" Ichigo asked glancing at the still bespectacled man. Aizen nodded watching Ichigo's eyes as they went from confused to suspicious to mischievous.
"Oh… what a great birthday present!" Ichigo drawled out making the three men look at him in shock.
"It's your birthday?" Gin asked while Ichigo slid the cloak around his shoulders and tied it around his neck, he then flipped the hood over his head masking the upper part of his face and his reiatsu.
"Mmm… well it's soon anyway so don't worry. Akira promised to bake me a cake." Ichigo said grinning widely, showing off his sharp incisors.
Gin smirked as the three made a Senkaimon. Ichigo moved with them as they returned to Soul Society with their plus one that wouldn't be picked up. Aizen smirked wondering what his Cero Espada would get himself into.
Once the bright light faded and Ichigo could see the other world he would never see unless he was cleansed. He whistled as he took in the sheer size of Seireitei from where they stood on a cliff overlooking the entire shinigami realm. He could see the white tower where the Shinigami to be executed was, he could see the Execution hill with the strongest blade ever resting in sealed form. He could see the different divisions.
"It's… big and… old lookin." Ichigo said tilting his head making the bones pop.
"Alright so just cause mayhem that would allow you to easily fake your death, keep most captains away from the Execution site and when you do your whole 'Look at me I am an evil overlord' act, then come to the execution site to insure no one gets their limbs cut off. That about it?" Ichigo asked not even looking at Aizen who was looking at Ichigo as if he had lost his mind while Gin looked close to bursting a seam.
"…Yes… that's all you really have to do other than not dying."
Ichigo looked over his shoulder. The two seeing Shinigami froze when they saw Ichigo's eyes practically glowing with glee. "Trust me Aizen-sama I ain't easy to kill." With that he disappeared from their few.
The remained there for a minute before the long white wall surrounding Seireitei came down. Gin snickered. "I knew he' go fo tha gate firs'. Goo' way tah show his powah." Gin tilted his head. They all nodded to one another before going off to the other gates that would be opened for captains caught outside the wall when it came down. Each took a different gate to make it less suspicious.
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Jidanbō looked down at the cloaked figure. He was tall for the small ones; he also had a very long sword.
"Halt you may not enter Seireitei without authorization." Jidanbō looked confused when the figure just stood there before him; well he assumed it was a 'he' from the wide shoulders and tall body build.
"Is that so?" the figure asked before he started to glow a bright orange reiatsu that looked like fire. Jidanbō was startled as he couldn't feel a thing. "Sadly for your part I need to get in there. Ya know boss's orders and all." The figure spoke as he cocked his fist back and released a mass of reiatsu in the form of a bala but Jidanbō didn't know that but what he did know was that he was overpowered easily as he was sent into the gate that luckily held up but made a very… noticeable dent.
He could hear the commotion on the other side of the gate as the Shinigami most likely wondered what the hell just happened.
Jidanbō looked down at the figure that had his one hand on the hilt of the long Nodachi. "I assume you have a weapon of some sort?" the man asked making his blood boil with the idea of a challenge.
"Of course I do!" He billowed and hopped up unleashing his two axes making the man whistle. "Damn how much does one of those weigh?" He asked in a friendly manner that caught Jidanbō off guard for a second. "I don't know." He answered truthfully.
The man shrugged and unsheathed the long blade with startling ease. By then they had an audience. Ichigo looked behind him to see the people looking worried at the guard as if they were scared he would get hurt. If that was true then he wouldn't kill this guy. After all he was just the gate keeper.
Looking back up at the keeper he went into a defensive stance.
"Come at me!" he yelled with a smile on his face.
Jidanbō grinned before he swung his left axe over his right shoulder and swung down hard but instead of just meeting the ground he was shocked when the small male took the full blunt of his swing in one fluid block. One hand holding the hilt what the other supported the blade on the dull side where the two blades met.
"Nice strength you have there." The man commented before he pushed the giant away.
"Come on show me what you got!"
Jidanbō clenched his jaw and lifted both axes before he yelled out. "Prepare yourself for my Ten Buffalo-Red strikes festival!" he yelled before he slammed his axes down where Ichigo stood counting as he went on. Once he was done he raised his axes and gawked with those who were watching as the man stood there with his sword raised over his head.
"Huh that was way better but you gotta have more than that."
Jidanbō growled and lifted his axes higher and yelled.
"Ten thousand Buffalo-Red strikes festival!" with that he hammered down on the man and the ground around him making the slab of stone lift up and block the few for those watching.
Jidanbō counted the number and those who were watching and the Shinigami on the other side wondered how the man was able to do it. Ichigo just wished he would hurry up as he was getting bored.
Once the larger man finished and lowered his axes huffing a little his eyes went wide when he saw the clocked figure standing without a scratch holing the sword in a block stance all the while.
"Mmm… I see why you are the West side gate keeper but sadly I have things to do people to terrorize." With a battle hungry grin he lowered his sword before both hands gripped the sword's hilt; he moved the sword over his left hip with the sharp side facing away from him. With a hefty upwards swing Ichigo released a mountain's worth of reiatsu from the blade in what was shockingly a lot like a certain spiky haired captain did.
The blast hit Jidanbō full on making him fly into the gate again but this time it came down as the force of the blast knocked into the gate itself and thus making it splinter. When the dust settled Jidanbō looked down at his axes he had gotten up just in time to block only to gasp when he saw his axes had shattered.
"You broke my axes!" he wailed making Ichigo feel a little bad. He hopped onto the large man making him look up at him yet he couldn't see anything besides the man's strong jaw line and deep red eyes. "Can you fix them?"
Jidanbō knew he could but was surprised that the man asked. He nodded dumbly. The man nodded before he bowed and walked over his shoulder to jump off said shoulder. Jidanbō tried to move but found he couldn't move a muscle.
"Don't try to move, you have taken a heavy hit and your body should be given a chance to get rid of the mass of Reiatsu rushing through your system." Ichigo said not bothering looking at the other Shinigami who were looking at him like he was a monster. He grinned when he turned away from Jidanbō.
He was a monster all right.
He bowed before the Shinigami and waved before he sonído'd out of their sight. The cloak making it impossible to follow after him, he chuckled when he ended up on a random roof out of sight for the moment. Oh he would have so much fun now.
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Byakuya was busy with Renji doing some drills with his men when the alarm went off that there was an intruder. They all stood stock still.
Someone had gotten through the gates? Just a minute after it went down?
"What the hell?" Byakuya heard Renji mutter beside him, inwardly he agreed fully.
With the first division things suddenly became hectic as hell butterflies fluttered out in swarms out the head captain's office window.
Captain Yamamoto frowned at his table.
This wasn't good.
An intruder had beaten the west gate keeper just moments after the wall came down, the intruder defeated the giant and ruined the heavy door before captain Gin could even get there.
And all while being hidden behind a cloak that hid their reiatsu completely making them untraceable. He wanted to swear but kept it inwardly. His lieutenant was busy sending out his orders. They had to act quickly.
In the second division Seí-Feng was barking out orders for her men to start scouting in groups immediately. She was angry that the gate keeper had been defeated but at least he was alive for answers. She draped her haori over her shoulders before walking out the door with her fat lieutenant following behind munching on a bag of crisps.
They reached the gate and were shocked to see Jidanbō sitting while being attended to by a medic while his broken axes rested next to the destroyed gate. It was broken into more than two pieces which wasn't easy as it was thick wood. The giant was explaining to Gin what had happened and Seí-Feng frowned when she saw that the man was even smiling now.
"So tha' wa happen'd?" the silver haired captain asked with a tilt of the head.
"Hold on I want to hear this tale too." Seí-Feng said narrowing her eyes at the duo.
Jidanbō swallowed before be retold the tale, Seí-Feng's face remained the same throughout the tale till the end. "So he allowed you to go full out and didn't even get a scratch then proceeded to attack you with one attack after the first one he gave sending you through the gate and allowing him inside yet he didn't kill you?" She asked looking confused as to why this intruder didn't just kill Jidanbō.
Jidanbō rubbed his head.
"I don't know why he didn't kill me either captain Seí-Feng." He said looking perplexed as well.
"Did you see anything about his face?" she asked looking at the giant's face as it scrunched up in concentration.
"Just his lower face and that his eyes were red. Almost like blood." The female captain watched as the large man shivered. "I saw… something in his eyes I hope I never see again." The two captains shared a look. "Oh?" asked Gin.
The giant man nodded. "He looked determined, to do what I don't know but it does not bode well for us."
Seí-Feng frowned when she saw Jidanbō look down at his feet.
Gin looked at the woman he knew he had to be careful of. He was honestly curious as to what Ichigo did and was impressed by what he saw. His orders weren't to kill but to just cause confusion amongst mayhem and he was doing so now wonderfully he had to admit.
In the fourth the Shinigami sent to aid Jidanbō returned relying to his captain that the giant suffered a mighty blow with a potent Reiatsu that made him unable to move. He also suffered a nasty gash that would take a month at least to heal and his axes of course that broke.
Captain Unohara blinked as she took in the information.
"How odd that he wasn't killed." She said with a confused face.
Aizen was smirking behind his folded hands. All was going to plan.
Momo was ordering their troops to mobilise into more organised patrols as they now knew that the intruder was at least strong enough to get through a gate keeper. The petite Shinigami with brown hair styled in a bun looked at her captain. He looked to be deep in thought.
She wondered what he was thinking about.
The sixth division was busy with similar organisation. Renji was throwing himself into his work with everything in him just to take his mind off the execution date that was nearing closer and closer.
Byakuya was watching his lieutenant with hidden concern. Renji was working himself into the bone training harder, working harder and sleeping less. The vibrant mane of red hair was limper as was the healthy skin that was now a little paler added with darker skin under his eyes as if he was struggling to sleep. He knew that Renji held a flame for his adopted sister but now he knew that Renji was fully in love with her and this was killing him inside.
He sighed as he signed a few more documents before he stood to help his lieutenant.
The seventh division was busy as the rest making more use of their group in trying to be helpful but they all couldn't go out and look. Nothing would get done.
The eighth division was put on stand-by which suited Shunsui perfectly as he lounged on the roof of his office. The ninth division captain was busy in his office doing his work while his lieutenant Hisagi did his duty as a lieutenant. Kaname was keeping an ear out for Ichigo's next move curious as to what the man would do next.
In the tenth Hitsugaya was frowning at his lieutenant who was lying on the couch complaining about a hang-over. Knowing well enough that arguing would only give him the headache he just sighed and took on the extra workload before telling his lieutenant Matsumoto that it would be deducted from her pay.
Matsumoto bolted up to yell but groaned when a spell of vertigo hit her along with a nice throb of the head. She just moaned that he was a meanie.
Kenpachi was out and about like a dog with no sense of smell looking for prey with his ever directionless lieutenant sending him whichever way. He had ordered his men to form groups and look for the intruder.
He wanted to face someone new, someone strong.
The twelfth division captain Mayuri was glaring at the screen that showed nothing new. He had tweaked his sensors as many times and as efficiently as he could but they were still not picking up anything… AT ALL. The last bits of left over Reiatsu left on the giant Jidanbō were inconclusive and revealed nothing to him only that it was potent with power.
Nothing more sadly.
Nemu looked at her father and creator and wondered what the man would do now.
Jyuushiro was informed of the situation by his two third seats and blinked at them in shock. "Oh dear is Jidanbō alright?" he asked flipping his long white hair over his shoulder. The two nodded their heads so fast the man wondered how they remained on their necks.
"He was injured but he is alive and well apart from his axes that broke. The last attack shattered them in one blow!"
Jyuushiro blinked again wondering what would happen now that this intruder was inside. He couldn't be much of help as he was bedridden.
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Karin and Ishida both had matching looks of utter disbelief written on their faces making it rather funny for the three watching them.
In front of them were two large arms holding a sign.
Under the sign was a small looking house and behind it a long wide chimney.
"What… the… hell…" Karin mumbled as two identical men popped up seemingly out of nowhere. "Halt who goes there?" they said getting into offensive stances. Karin just looked at them as if they were out of their minds. They looked identical and had odd cap like hats on with traditional garbs.
The two men looked down and saw a black cat pointing to itself and their whole mood just changed at the drop of a dime as they slid on their knees to coddle the black cat that was lapping up the affection.
They were rushed inside before shoved in front of a door, the two men went on their knees.
"Shiba-sama! Yoruichi-sama has arrived with guests!" they shouted before they opened the door to show a pretty brunette woman lounging on a very pig pillow missing an arm. Her ample bosom was barely held by a low v neck halter top with a white draped bottom; her head was wrapped with a single strip of white fabric making it look like a headband.
"Yo Yoruichi long time no see!" the woman said loudly chucking a cup of sake down in one gulp. The cat smiled before it was gone and a serious look took its place.
"We need your help." That got the easy going smirk off Kuukaku's face. "Oh? With what?" the brunette asked with an arched brow.
"We need to get into Seireitei."
Kuukaku looked to the side then back at the black cat.
"The walls came down a few hours ago, was that you guys?" the woman asked only to get confused and shocked faces. "I guess that would be a no."
Sighing, the woman stood up and walked over to another door before yelling loudly. "GANJU get your ass here!" after a few seconds a loud series of footfalls before a louder thud of someone landing on their knees and skidding the rest of the way was heard before the door opened revealing a man with a bandana over his head and traditional clothes as well. "Yes Ne-sama?" the man asked still not raising his head. Kuukaku huffed before she ordered the man to show them how to do a Reishūkaku. The man looked up and nodded once he took in the four teenagers before him.
Ganju led the group to a large room, once there he was given a light blue glass like ball with a red figure on it that looked almost like a dragon.
"Right so all you have to really do is channel your reiatsu into this. It will form a sphere around you and this is part of what we need you to know for us to get you into the hell of a place called Seireitei." Ganju said with a grin. He along with the twins gave each teen a ball and watched as they did as instructed.
Orihime and Chad had no problems while Ishida's was very… narrow.
Karin who was still slightly struggling with getting the hang of her reiatsu had to try more and got frustrated. When it was dinner time Karin grumbled that the rest should just go and eat.
Ganju watched the girl who looked somewhat like Kaien. She was looking at the ball in her hands. A haunted look was marring her face as if she was thinking about something bad. "Why do you want to go into Seireitei?" Ganju found himself asking before he could stop himself.
Karin looked up at the man sitting opposite her.
"To return a favour. A Shinigami saved my family by helping me, because she did she got in trouble."
Ganju looked at the girl and saw that there was more to her, something else was bothering her.
"That can't be why you look like you're going to a funeral." Karin looked at him with a blank face.
"Today back in the world of the living is the day my brother died ten years ago. A few days back I found out that my brother didn't die of an accident but of suicide." Ganju felt a bit like an ass. That reason could be why the girl was struggling.
"I-I'm sorry I didn't know." He said looking at Karin as she shrugged.
"Sucks more now that I know he is most likely a hollow." Ganju's heart sunk with guilt and the painful remember of his own brother that died.
He was about to say something but a look of pure determination settled onto Karin's face, she rose to her feet and walked a little bit away while holding the ball between her two hands. Her eyes closed as she breathed slowly to calm herself. She imagined her reiatsu as the light purple she had seen it as and visualised it going into the ball.
She wouldn't be a failure; she would make her mother proud as well as her brother. She would honour their memory by becoming stronger, strong enough to protect what she held dear to her.
Ganju watched somewhat amazed as the sphere started to form over Karin, the girl didn't look like she was even trying. The purple glow of her reiatsu was rather… soothing for some weird reason as the girl wasn't a soft girl.
The sphere solidified and there Karin stood in her light blue glowing sphere. Dark brown eyes opened looking at the sphere.
"I did it…" Karin said awed slightly as she looked at the blue walls around her. "Well done." The two looked at the door to see a smirking Kuukaku and Yoruichi who was sitting on her shoulder. Orihime was clapping her hands while Chad gave her a thumbs up.
"Well… let's get to it then."
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Ichigo looked around where he was only to see warehouses filled with rice and other things to eat and he grinned.
"Perfect."
With a careless shrug he unsheathed his sword and charged his reiatsu into the blade before he whispered. "Arde, El Fuego." The sword released a fast amount of fire that couldn't be put out by water alone at the largest warehouse which to Ichigo's surprise was filled with rice… and alcohol. Meaning it blew up into a large fire ball.
Ichigo started at it like a child seeing something amazing for the first time with his mouth making a small 'o'. He grinned and sonído'd off to watch the chaos unfold.
As he predicted Shinigami swarmed the warehouse with buckets of water but nothing worked on the fire. Ichigo watched curious as some of the Shinigami came with odd looking devices that spewed white frothy liquid onto the fire but that didn't work either.
The cero Espada watched as an odd looking captain showed up. He had a white and black painted face with an odd looking headpiece on his head. He had weird knob like appendages sticking out where his ears should be. Ichigo blinked as he watched the man he knew to be the twelfth division captain from what Aizen and Gin told him.
Mayuri looked at the blazing fire that had spread to the next building. It didn't feel natural at all. In fact that his invention to easily stop a fire didn't even work made him realise that it was Reiatsu induced fire. He looked to the side and barked at an unseated Shinigami.
"Go and get me captain Hitsugaya!" the unseated officer yelped and nodded before running off to get said captain.
Mayuri looked back at the fire to see it had spread again and the original building was now just a skeleton of a building. He frowned; this must have been the intruder's work. He got out his sampler to get a sample of the reiatsu of the fire.
The small machine beeped and he pocketed back into his haori that mad many hidden pockets inside.
"What the hell is going on here?" a deep voice said behind Mayuri making him look around to see captain Hitsugaya. The small young teen like captain was looking at the fire as if it were alive but then again Mayuri guessed fire was in a sense alive.
"I need you to use your ice technique on this fire. It is a reiatsu based fire so normal methods will not affect it." Hitsugaya nodded and unsheathed his blade.
"Sit upon the frozen heavens! Hyōinmaru!" with that Ichigo watched fascinated as a large Asian dragon sprouted from the blade and rushed at the fire. The moment of impact was an explosion of steam and hissing noises.
Once the steam cleared they all saw that two of the three buildings that caught fire were burnt completely down while the third was only half way burnt down.
"That was no normal fire." Hitsugaya said looking at the smouldering carcases of once filled warehouses. They had lost a lot of their food and would have to cut back on portions. He sighed rubbing his face. The sun had long since set so there wasn't enough light to actually look at the burnt down buildings. It would have to wait till the morrow.
Now sure that the building is not going to light up again they all left the cleaning for the next day, as they were walking back the shield around Seireitei suddenly lit up as a glowing blue ball made impact with it.
Hitsugaya watched with wide eyes.
"What the…?"
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After Kuukaku explained what they needed to do and that Ganju would be coming along they readied themselves.
Each placing a hand on the blue glass ball they channelled their reiatsu into the ball. The blue shield formed and Kuukaku and the twins did the Kakaku Hō technique sending them into the air and straight at the shielded Seireitei. The blue ball made contact with the shield and Yoruichi ordered them to put more reiatsu into the ball so it wouldn't break.
The rest of those inside the shield watched in shock and awe as the shield lit up around the ball, fighting to keep it out. Ichigo looked up from where he sat on a empty warehouse. "Hooo… Nice one Urahara-san." A grin appeared on his face.
"This should be fun."
The ball broke through and stayed whole falling into a lesser used area of Seireitei much to Yoruichi's delight. The ball's walls went down after a few seconds of landing. Knowing that they had to get the hell out of dodge they moved away from where they landed.
"Right what now?" Karin asked once they reached the warehouse district. Yoruichi didn't answer at first but that wasn't what bothered them. It was the look of worry on the black cat's face.
"Someone else invaded Seireitei. Look." The cat jerked its head at a row of burnt down buildings.
Karin frowned; this could complicate things or make this easier.
"For now we take shelter and rest in one of the empty warehouses till morning." The four teens nodded and ran to the very warehouse Ichigo was resting on top of. Said man smirked as he felt them closing in. Sighing he lowered himself to lie on his back. He would wait till tomorrow for Aizen to make his move.
He knew what it as so all he had to do was wait and cause a little more panic, with the human shinigami and her friend it would be a lot easier however he knew she wasn't strong enough to fight a captain. A lieutenant maybe but a captain? No way.
The next morning came and with it…
The news that Rukia's executing would be bumped up from fourteen days away to two.
The news shocked Renji and Byakuya to their cores. Ichigo who had moved early morning so he wouldn't be spotted by the annoying cat, watched with glee as the people were confused. Ichigo saw the head captain and his lieutenant alone and heard that even the big man himself was confused at the Central 46's orders.
He too knew that Rukia had done a lesser offence that didn't need to be so severely punished. He did however growl softly at the nerveless idiots for just following orders blindly, not wondering or even fighting for a fellow Shinigami's life. He frowned heavily.
No he didn't like these Shinigami at all but they were needed.
Karin looked at Yoruichi in shock.
"They did what?" She nearly yelled only remembering that she needed to be quiet.
The cat sighed.
"Her execution as been rescheduled. It is in two days now. We need to hurry if we want to save Rukia. We need to get to the Senzaikyū. That is where she would no doubt be. We have to be careful about this. We do not want to get caught by a captain. None of you can possibly beat a captain."
The look on Yoruichi's face was dead serious.
Karin nodded even though it irked her that she was so weak.
They got out of the warehouse and used lesser used paths and hallways. It did take longer but it was safer.
When they reached an area that looked like it had lots of tall block like buildings with no windows or doors they froze when a heavy reiatsu landed over them. Yoruichi's eyes were wide with panic.
Just then the large man of the eleventh division, Captain Kenpachi Zaraki stood before them with the widest, most insane grin on his face that Karin as ever seen. The man was massive at a six foot nine height, his hair was spiked into long spikes with small bells at the ends. He wore an eye patch that had thee straps all leading to the back of his head. His swords was balanced on his shoulders. The blade was long and in its Shikai stage suggesting that the man had too much reiatsu flow to keep it in check or he just didn't care. The edge was jagged and looked like the blade had been chipped away. The hand guard was a diamond shaped guard running horizontal with grooves running along the hilt of the sword.
A sudden flash of pink make the teens blink. A small child with bubblegum pink hair and dark pink brown eyes with childish happiness in them, popped up out of nowhere from the man's shoulder. She waved at them and asked.
"Are you going to play with Kenny?"
Karin gulped. She understood now what Rukia and Yoruichi said.
Captains were on a whole different level.
Kenpachi grinned as he looked at each teen to try and see who was the strongest. He was about to make his move on Chad when the tall light blue rectangle block beside him tumbled down as a figure broke through with amazing force. Kenpachi was glad he always had his sword out as the figure slashed at him with a nice looking Nodachi. Yachiru jumped off Kenpachi's shoulder and landed a few paces away.
The ones watching were shocked when the figure suddenly kicked Kenpachi while still in the air. The kick sent the large man flying. The man landed on his feet allowing everyone to get a look at the cloaked figure. He stood at six foot two and wore a light tan cloak with the hood drawn up so nothing of his face could be seen. What bothered Yoruichi was that she could feel nothing from the figure making her believe that the cloak was also a suppressor.
"Wanna fight?" the figure's low voice asked Kenpachi when the man got back on his feet. Kenpachi gave a blood thirsty grin and laughed.
"Oh yes I wanna fight!"
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So yea…