Chapter 4: Chaos

It didn't take long for the four soul reapers to make it back to the soul society with their captives in tow. When they came out of the Senkaimon, there were murmurs as to why they captured two humans. It wasn't until people could see the spirit energy resonating from the woman was when they knew that she had to be the one that unleashed that energy earlier. Then why was the kid here as well?

Mayuri and Aizen went inside the captains meeting with their lieutenants and the two. The moment both Nemu and Momo laid the two down in front of everyone, there was a little unrest among the captains. Some like Ukitake, Kyoraku, Unohana, and Komamura were uneasy with two humans, one a child and the other most likely his mother, being captured. Some others like Gin and Kenpachi were curious as to why these two were brought back and wondered if they were strong or not. The others in the room were simply just wondering why bother with two humans anyway. That was when the head captain banged his cane to get this meeting started.

"Captains Aizen and Kurotsuchi. What is the meaning of this? Bringing two humans into our world like this." The head captain was not the most overjoyed individual right now, and this was the reason why. Everyone knew that hurting or capturing a human was strictly forbidden, so why exactly has two of the smartest captains broken that law?

"Well head captain," Mayuri started with an evil-like grin that didn't go unnoticed as he looked to the two. "If you all don't know by now, then I might as well explain it to you all." He pointed at the unconscious boy with his white finger and gave another evil grin. "This boy was the source of that rampant energy we detected earlier today."

Not everyone in the meeting room was all too impressed or believed his words. The thought of a child having that much power was simply preposterous, and not worth the effort of taking both he and his mother. Before the head captain could dismiss this whole situation, Aizen stepped up and explained in detail, much to Mayuri's annoyance.

"With all due respect sir, what captain Kurotsuchi says is true. We went to the source in the spike of that energy and then found that it came from this boy. We only took proper measures not to injure him or who we can safely assume is his mother." He finished speaking and his words sunk into everyone in the room. Usually Aizen had a good record of finding out the truth in things, so him saying this was a little harder to understand now.

"If that's the case with the boy," Toshiro started. "Then why take his mother as well?"

"Simple." Mayuri started with that sick grin of his again. "Because she is a Quincy."

The word resonated through the minds of the older captains quite well as they recalled the last time a Quincy was present in the soul society. Not everyone knew of what a Quincy was or just what that meant to them right now. The word didn't have as much weight on them as it did on the others. The head captain sighed out to get everyone's attention for now.

"If that is the case, then what is the meaning of bringing her here as well?"

Mayuri never dropped his grin for a second and even grew it wider. That look made a few of the captains a little uncomfortable to think of what was to come out of his mouth now. That was when he said only one word that they all knew could only be a fate worse than death itself. "Research."

The head captain sighed out once again as he knew that could only mean one outcome for the Quincy woman. Despite her being a Quincy and therefore already an enemy by that merit, she was still a mother and simply tried to protect her child. Reluctantly, the head captain nodded to Kurotsuchi, much to the shock and discuss of a few of the captains. Mayuri was beyond ecstatic at the idea of finding out so much about this woman's power. He wasted no time ordering Nemu to lift her up and follow him back to his lab to see just what wonders this Quincy holds within her. As the two left, some of the captains dreaded having to tell this boy of what has happened to his mother. The idea of telling him was enough to make a few visibly ill at Mayuri's twisted mind.

"Head captain." Aizen started after clearing his throat to get the old mans attention. "If it is all right with you, I would like for this boy to reside within squad five under my surveillance for now."

Before the head captain could respond, captain Unohana stepped up and interrupted him. "No. If this boy sees one of the men that's harmed his mother holding him for whatever reason, then who knows just what his unknown abilities would do."

"Do you have an alternate idea then, captain Unohana?" Aizen started to her, slightly surprised to see her of all people concerned the most.

"I suggest that the boy stay with either me or captain Ukitake." She started while looking to the surprised captain in question. "Both he and I have more experience handling children than most of the other captains here. We could calm the boy down for a short time."

Aizen couldn't argue with her logic. If he did, then he would most likely give himself away. All eyes turned to the head captain for some type of conformation. He banged his cane on the ground and decided to make a decision.

"Very well. Captain Unohana you will be tasked with caring for this boy until we have a better understanding of his powers. Dismissed." With another bang of his cane, the captains started to disperse.

Captain Unohana went over to the boy and carried him back to her quarters in squad four and set him down onto her bed. It didn't take long for him to wake up and notice a woman he had never seen before smiling down at him. Ichigo sat up from the bed quickly and stared her down before frantically looking everywhere around the room. Unohana could tell that the boy was severely distressed from being in a room with someone he didn't know and it was even more apparent when she saw that he was darting his eyes in every direction. Ichigo was both dizzy and terrified all at once. His vision was blurry from whatever had knocked him out earlier, his head was swimming from disorientation, and he felt sick to his stomach right about now. After a few minutes to recover his bearings, Ichigo finally decided to speak to the woman in the strange outfit sitting in front of him.

"Who are you?"

Unohana put on a kind and warm smile to calm the boy down. "My name is captain Retsu Unohana of squad four." She said in a soothing voice. That didn't help all too much.

"Where am I? Where's my mom? What did that freak clown guy do to her?!" Every question he he asked started to get louder and this golden energy started to slowly resonate from his body.

"Calm down child." Unohana said to him in a still calm tone that was dipped in a bit of seriousness. As much as she wanted to help him, she also didn't want him to lose control of whatever this strange power of his was. "I may be kind, but I'm no fool."

Suddenly, a seal formed over Ichigo's back and calmed his energy down drastically. He was surprised by this since he had little to no experience really testing out his abilities. Ichigo looked to Unohana with slightly tired eyes as his vision became blurry once again and he felt Unohana place her hand on his shoulder to lower him back down to the bed. As the seal started to relax his body and energy, Unohana used another kido to ease the boys mind. Ichigo started to drift off into unconsciousness despite his growing anxiety to where his mom was. He was worried heavily for her, yet because of this woman, he couldn't go to her. As his eyes started to glaze over and his mind fade into sleep, the last thing Ichigo could hear was a scream. The voice sounded so familiar to him as he opened his eyes only to see that he was floating in darkness. He looked around and heard the scream again, but when he looked around, he saw to his horror, his mother lying on a table with that clown man standing over her. He had a crazed grin on his face as he held up what looked like some kind of long needle. He stuck it in her right arm and she howled in intense pain from whatever this man was doing to her. As Ichigo watched this all happen in front of him, a structure started to take shape in front of him. It was a large building that looked like some kind of factory to Ichigo. After the building took shape, he was moved back to the room he was in and without any warning to Unohana, he snapped his eyes open and his energy spiked.

"What the-" Unohana started before Ichigo rose up and stood on her bed.

The energy he was emitting easily destroyed the seal on his back and the effects of the kido were easily diminished. He looked over to her and his eyes changed to the way they were when he met Grand fisher. His hair had changed to its golden color with black/red trims to it. Unohana felt an energy that was completely foreign to her. This kind of energy had never been felt before in the history of the soul society before.

Ichigo's energy dissipated and he now stood there in his new look. He closed his eyes and breathed in deeply before looking back to Unohana and seeing her stunned look. He smirked before turning to a window and seeing the building that he knew his mother was in. Without wasting anymore time, Ichigo leapt through the window and landed outside on the grounds of squad four. He was met with confused eyes of the squad members before running as fast as he could towards a wall. With one leap, he cleared the wall with ease and landed on a rooftop not far from the room he left. He stood up and saw the department of research in the distance. He scowled when he remembered the pain his mother was put under by that clown faced freak. His anger boiled as his gold and black/red energy started to flare up again. Everyone from squad four saw him and were confused by just what they were seeing. This human boy was emitting energy that was never seen before. Ichigo didn't care what everyone thought of him at this moment, because after envisioning what clown face was doing to his mom, he snapped. He screamed loudly into the air and his energy flared all the way to the very dome of the Seireitei. Everyone inside saw just what was happening. A large mass of golden and black/red energy overlapping each other in the sky and covering a portion of the dome.

The energy could clearly be seen by Mayuri in his lab via a security monitor. He looked to the monitor and saw that there was a foreign energy signature inside the Seireitei. He went over and saw that the energy was moving and from what he could tell, it was heading towards his facility.

"What in the hell?" Kurotsuchi started as he continued to stare at the footage. He turned back to Masaki who was writhing in pain from the injections he had done to her. One was pure hollow reiatsu, while the other was hollow blood. "It seems that that boy of yours is full of more surprises than I anticipated."

Masaki could barely comprehend anything that Mayuri was saying to her. The moment Mayuri turned back to the monitor, all he saw was smoke and fire. Back outside, there were many soul reapers attempting to stop Ichigo from proceeding to wherever he was heading to. Ichigo easily plowed through them and continued to rush towards where his mother was. When he was only a few more streets away from the building she was in, a wall of flames circled around him, stopping the powerful boy in his tracks. Ichigo looked around and noticed that the fire was closing in on him. He gritted his teeth and rushed over to the edge of the circle to leap over it, but the fire simply followed him and stopped his motion.

"That is enough boy!" An old voice said from outside the ring of flames. Ichigo looked over to see an old man with a long beard, a black outfit with a white coat on his shoulders, and a sword covered in fire standing there. He was joined by other people wearing the same white coats and they all circled the flames around Ichigo. The fire started to die down as more and more of these people started to join the others. Ichigo didn't know what to do or what was going on, but one thing he knew for sure, was that the clown faced man in that white coat wasn't here. "Stand down child and we will not have to use force against you!"

The old man may have said that and sounded like he meant it, but Ichigo could tell that not everyone surrounding him was thinking the same thing. He didn't care about any of these people surrounding him, all he cared about was finding his mom. He looked around for any sort of opening but couldn't find one as the mass group made sure to block all escape routes for him. Ichigo could feel her again. His mother was in an intense amount of pain once more as he could practically see her screaming body. He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth as his energy started to swirl around him. Everyone there took a defensive stance and waited as this boys started to grunt in anger. Every time he did, the ground would crack and an unknown pressure hit the area. At first it was nothing, but as he continued to grunt and ball his hands into fist even more, the pressure drastically increased. First the regular squad members were floored, then the Lieutenants were brought to their knees with ease, then the captains found it hard to breathe or even move, and finally the head captain even looked visibly effected by this boys energy. Then, without any sort of warning at all, Ichigo roared loudly into the air, releasing an enormous amount of his foreign energy everywhere. Everyone there were in shock and bewilderment as this boy managed to even floor a few of the captains and even made the head captain himself stagger before taking a knee. Ichigo flared his energy high into the air and a golden light started to ensnare the boy completely. The light was blinding to the soul reapers there as Ichigo continued to release this energy like he had entire oceans of infinite energy. When he finished roaring and letting his energy out, he was standing there with some kind of golden energy swirling all around him. His hair had started to glow with that same golden energy while only shimmers of his black/red energy were seen around it now along the trims still. He looked to the department of research and leapt straight to it, leaving a large crater as he did.

Back in the lab, Mayuri and Nemu were just now getting off of the floor. Nemu taking a little longer than her father had. Despite that intense and unfamiliar energy though, for Masaki it felt nourishing. Almost as if it was washing her of all her pain. The hollow blood and reiatsu seeped out of her body and she was rejuvenated. Mayuri saw this and was in awe, but that awe turned to terror when he and the two other females in the room heard a loud crash. Mayuri looked to the wall and noticed that the boy had blown right through it and now had him by the throat. Ichigo forced him to a wall and held him up, squeezing the very life right out of him. Ichigo's eyes had clear intentions to them, make this freak suffer for even touching his mother.

"Ichigo, stop it! NOW!" Masaki's voice cut through to her sons rage. Ichigo looked to see her no longer lying on the table and standing far away with a look of fear for him. "Please. I'm okay." She said in a soft tone that caused Ichigo to drop the near dead captain. His hair and energy faded away and he just ran over to his mothers loving arms with tears in his eyes. He sobbed into her shoulder as he was so happy to see that she was alright. "Shh." Masaki mused to her brave boy while stroking his hair soothingly. "I'm okay. I'll always be okay."

The moment was slightly ruined when the captains all appeared around the two and saw that the boy had indeed calmed down. True, some of the captains thought that he should be put in a hole somewhere, but most objected, stating that his energy was unlike anything they had ever felt in their entire lives. Masaki noticed the old head captain slowly approach them and she swallowed the lump in her throat. True, she didn't want to be turned in to the central 46 to be executed, but she also didn't want her child to go on another rampage like before. She could see it in the old mans eyes as well. He knew that if he were to order her execution, then this boy would easily destroy any and everything in his wake.

"Everyone stand down." He said to everyone with a sigh. All of the captains did as they were ordered despite the surprise. The head captain approached the mother and son and stopped right in front of them. "It seems there is much to discuss about you child Quincy." He said to her as Ichigo had tired himself out and was now resting on her shoulder.

Done. Next Chapter Will Have Some Of Aizen Plotting His Scheme In It. Hope You'll Enjoy That.

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