January 3, 2014 - Friday
Rated M for language, violence, and some sexual situations.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Freezing. Bleach is the property of Tite Kubo, TV Tokyo, Dentsu, Viz Media, and Studio Pierrot. Freezing is owned by Dall-Young Lim, Kill Time Communication, Funimation and A.C.G.T.
Author's Note: Everyone seemed pretty happy that Chad would be joining this story. That's a relief. I don't know why, but I though Chad's Fullbring would go really well in a Freezing crossover because it would probably do some serious damage to a Nova. Also there needs to be more strong guys in Freezing. No offense to the Limiters, but they really need to man the hell up!
I've written at least a thousand words a days since my last chapter and here it is.
"Regular speech"
'Thoughts'
"Hollows/Hollowfied Ichigo"
Chapter 5: The Soul Reaper and the Fullbringer
Edited Version
"No. Not again."
Dark gloomy cloud blocked the Sun from showing its self in the city sky. Heavy rain poured down on Ichigo, who was frozen in place. He stared down at the scene on the river bank; a scene that had been printed into his memory for the last nine years.
On the side of the river, laying in a pool of blood, was the body of Masaki Kurosaki. Fresh blood still poured out of the large wound on her back, the blood spreading out and dissolving as the rain fell to the earth.
They had told him many time before that it hadn't been his fault. Isshin had said that he couldn't be held responsible for her death. The Hollow, Grand Fisher, had been the one that killed his mother. He didn't need to beat himself up over the tragedy. Masaki had given her life to protect her son.
But it had been his fault. He tightened his fists in anger, unable to tear his eyes away from his mother's body. If he had chased after that girl, who had been nothing more that Grand Fisher's bait, his mother wouldn't have had to put herself between him and the Hollow. Her death was his fault and he regretted it every day.
"Mom...I'm sorry." The rain continued to pour, doing little to wash away the teen's grief.
"There is more to her death than what is plain to see."
"What?" Ichigo turned his gaze from the body and looked around for the source of the voice. "Who said that? Zangestu is that you?
"Another had a part in her death." the voice continue, ignoring Ichigo's questions. "You will learn soon enough."
"Show yourself dammit! What do you know of my mom's death. What are you not telling me?!" He received no reply as the landscape dissolved and everything went black.
Ichigo sat up in jolt. He breathed heavily and cold sweat poured down his face as he looked around his dorm room. "A dream." he breathed. "The same damn dream." He wiped the sweat off his forehead before glancing over at his alarm clock. 10:53 PM. He groaned and layed back down on his pillow.
After all the that had happened today, Ichigo had turned in early to his dorm room. As soon as he was able, he'd layed down on his bed and was hoping for a good night sleep. It had been fine till the nightmare had started.
"I'm not going to be able get any more sleep tonight." Ichigo grumbled. He folded his hands behind his head and stared up at the ceiling. The day's memories started pouring through his head.
Not long after exiting the arena, Arnett had said bye to Ichigo before running off to look for her friends. She had said she'd hangout with him later. It wasn't a minute after she left that Chiffon and Ticy showed up. They congratulated Ichigo on his performance and officially welcomed him to West Genetics Academy.
"But they haven't told me how I did." Ichigo had stated. It hadn't been five minutes since the end of the battle, and the were already acting like he'd passed. "We didn't win."
"No but," Chiffon raised her index finger. "You showed off the power of your Freezing field and you worked well with a Pandora partner. That's more than enough for you to pass the exam." Her smiling face seemed to brighten up more. "Not to mention you managed to fight to a draw with one of the top five Pandoras in the World. If they don't accept you after that, then I'll march up to Sister Margaret myself and demand you be allowed to attend."
Ichigo's sweatdropped. "I don't think that'll be necessary." Chiffon laughed while Ticy stood behind the President with a small smile. Ichigo leaned a little to the side to get at better look at the Vice President. As soon as she notice him looking, Ticy turned her gaze towards the floor; a small flush rising on her cheeks. The Substitute simply raised an eyebrow. So she was the shy and quiet type.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
Ichigo shook his head, bringing himself out of his thoughts, and looked over at the phone resting on his nightstand. Groaning in annoyance, he reached over and picked it up. "What is it Kisuke?" he questioned, bringing it to his ear. "Why to you insist on calling me late at night?"
"Ichigo you need to hurry up and get outside quick!" Kisuke said in an urgent voice. Ichigo sat straight up and pressed the phone to his ear tighter.
"What do you mean? Why, what's going on?"
"I've picked up a large phenomenon that has occurred near West Genetics. From what I can tell, the sensors that I set up around your school picked up a tear in the Space-Time continuum. It was about the same size as the one you caused when you entered this time. It's gone now, but I want you to investigate the site. We may have company."
The gear started working in Ichigo before he replied. "So I should probably get going now?"
"I'd recommend that. If some did come through that Rift, than I doubt they'll stay close to it for very long. Just travel directly north from the school campus; it's only about a fourth of a mile from the campus grounds." There was a pause, but Kisuke quickly finished. "Call me back as soon as your done checking out the site." There was click and the line went dead.
The Strawberry let out a sigh. "What? No please or thank you?" He pinched the bridge of his nose and chuckled. "That's Kisuke for ya. Well better check out this place of his." He threw on a t-shirt and blue jeans before slowly opening his door. He peeked his head out and looked down the hallway and sighed in relief; it was deserted. It was past curfew so most of the students were already in their rooms for the night. Using Flash Step, Ichigo moved down the hallways as quietly as he could. He'd never been one for stealth, but it did come in handy sometimes.
He eventually reached the school gates. Taking one last look around, he jumped over the iron gates and landed with thump on the ground right before the sirens went off.
Alert! Alert! Campus perimeter breached by unknown personnel. Facility staff mobilize and move to north side perimeter.
"Shit!" Ichigo cursed under his breath. "How the hell did I blow my cover?" He paused. "Wait, the front of the school is the facing east. They said it was the north side that's been breached." He smirked. "I guess whoever came through that time rift decided to come to me instead. Makes my job a whole lot easier." With that happy thought in mind, he quickly disappeared in a Flash Step.
"Stop and identify yourself!"
Who are these people? That thought ran through Chad's mind as looked at the several women that surrounded him. Each one looked to be in their early or late twenties and each one held a different weapon. One that asked him who he was held a long lance, while the green haired woman next to her had twin daggers. Who went around armed like that?
The Mexican raised his hands in front of himself to show that they were empty. "My name is Yasutora Sado." he stated. The woman holding the lance looked at him as if expecting him to say more, but the Fullbringer just left it at that. She finally picked up the slack.
"You are trespassing on West Genetics property. This is a military owned area, so why is a...boy like you doing her?" It seemed like it took her a few seconds to decide if boy or man was a better way to address Chad. He looked like a teenager, but had the body of a pro athlete.
"I'm looking for my friend." he simply stated. He lowered his hands and nudged his head towards the main building. "I thinks he's somewhere on this campus."
The women looked taken back by this but the lance wielding one shot back. "It doesn't matter. This is a restricted area to anyone without access to it. We will escort off the premises, by force if needed."
Chad looked out the corner of his eye to see the other women raise their weapons. What was up with that seriously? If it was a military base than wouldn't the guards be carrying guns. Not spears, swords, and daggers. Chad took a deep breath before continuing. "I'm sorry, but I have to find my friend. I know he's here and I'm not leaving till I find him."
Lance wielder shook her head and motioned to the others. "Apprehend him and get him off campus as soon as possible." The green-haired women and a lady wielding a battle-axe made their way towards Chad, but stopped when he lifted his hand in a halting position.
"Again I'm sorry," he repeated, "but I'm going to look for my friend even if I have to go through you." With that said, he marched forward and planned on passing by the women, only to have the lance-wielder raise her weapon and point it at his chest.
"If you make anymore attempts to make it farther into the area, I will hurt you." Before she could blink, Chad reached up and grabbed the point of the lance in his fist. He held it tightly for several seconds, before she watched helplessly as her spear tip shattered in his grip. The broken pieces fell to the ground and dissolved out of existence. All the women let out a gasp of shock as the rest of the lance crumbled away
"Please excuse me." Chad lowered his hand to his side and proceeded past the woman, who only looked at him in shock as he pasted.
He'd made it several feet past her before the green haired one barked. "Stop right now!" She charge charged forward towards him with her daggers ready to strike. In a split second, Chad activated his Fullbring and summoned Brazo Derecha de Gigante defensive form. The black liquid that spread up his arm took up the shape of a shield with Hollow teeth just as the dagger hit. He felt a small pain as the dagger tip lightly pierced his arm, but he stood his ground.
The dagger wielder looked in shock as Chad three his arm outward, pushing her backwards into the air. She did a back flip in the air and landed back on the ground with the grace of a cat. She narrowed her eyes on the Mexican and growled. "Just who the hell are you? What's that thing on your arm?"
"It looks very similar to a gauntlet Volt Weapon." one of the other women replied. "But that's impossible. There is no way a male can create a Volt Weapon."
'Volt Weapon?' Chad raised his arm to his chest to give them a full view of his right arm. "I don't know what a Volt Weapon is. This is just my right arm, Brazo Derecha de Gigante." he informed them. He watched as they studied the black and purple markings that spread over his arm. The green haired woman finally broke the silence.
"If it's not a gauntlet Volt Weapon then what the hell is it? My Doppelganger didn't even make a dent on it."
Out of the corner of his eye, Chad saw the lance wielder resummoned her weapon, a Volt Weapon as they seemed to call it, and replied to the green haired one. "He's obviously not a normal human being, if he's even a human. We better capture him Elize; Chevalier will want to know about his abilities."
Alright he wasn't liking where this was going. He'd never heard of Chevalier before, but the way the lance wielder said they wanted to him, made him feel like they saw him as a science experiment that needed to be studied. 'Looks like this isn't going to be as easy as I thought it would.' They'd made it clear that they were prepared to use force to capture him if need. Well he wasn't about to give up and surrender, not when he was so close to finding his lost friend.
"No fucking way!" a loud a familiar voice yelled.
Chad's eyes widened as he turned around to look at the source of the voice. Standing just a couple of yards away was the Strawberry himself, with his trademark scowl in place. His eyes however were widened with disbelief as if he really didn't believe he was seeing Chad.
"Hey Ichigo." Chad gave him a small wave. "I knew you were around here somewhere."
"Just how in heck are you here Chad?" Ichigo questioned. His eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Don't tell me you've been here the whole time and just decided to show up now."
"No actually, Kisuke was going to send Uryu, Orihime, Rukia, and myself to find you, but it looks like the machine only sent me." He shrugged. "Sometimes I wonder if Mr. Urahara things about are safety."
Ichigo pressed his lips together and nodded in understanding. "So that striped hair wearing idiot screwed up again. I got to say I'm not that surprised." He allowed himself one of his rare smiles. "But boy am I glad to see a familiar face again. I'd thought I'd be stuck here with just Kisuke for a couple of months."
"Ichigo Kurosaki." the lance wielder said. There was a cutting edge to her voice that showed she was ready to take action if needed. "How do you know this boy? Are you the friend he kept saying he needed to get too?"
The Substitute looked at her and nodded. "I guess so Ms. Kim, Chad and me have been friends for a long time now." He stole a glance at his friends right arm and continued. "We've even fought beside each other more than once." He ran a hand through his hair nervously and chuckled. "Were you giving my teachers a hard time buddy."
"Teachers?" He stole a quick glance around at the women surrounding him. "These people are your teachers? When did this happen?"
"Well it's kinda of a long story and," he nudged his head as the women he'd called Ms. Kim. "I don't think now is the time to tell."
Chad nodded silently. They were surrounded by heavy-armed women, so right now might not be the best time to sit down by the campfire and tell a story. But if these women were Ichgio's teachers, then maybe it was best not to continue fighting them. He deactivated his Fullbring.
Ms. Kim took note of this, but she kept her Volt Weapon in a ready position. "I take it that you're giving up?"
The giant replied with a nod. "It wasn't my intention to get anything started and I apologize for destroying your weapon. Like I said, I was just looking for Ichigo here."
"I understand what mean, but I'm afraid that this can't be simply dismissed." Yu-Mi had serious look on face as she said this. "You've trespassed on a military academy and we can't just turn a blind eye on this. You will be taken into custody until Chevalier decides on what to do about this."
"What?" Ichigo shouted. "But you can't ju-."
"And you Mr. Kurosaki." Yu-Mi said, cutting him off. "It doesn't matter if you are a Fourth Year and considered a special case, you are still out more than an hour past curfew. I don't know how you knew where to find us, but by school policy you will return to your dorm room."
Ichigo gritted his and was about to object again when Chad placed his had on his shoulder. "It's alright Ichigo, I'll go with them." Ichigo paused before opening his mouth to talk some sense into his pal, but notice Yu-Mi place a finger to her ear piece and nod as she listened to whoever was calling her. Her eyes widened and it looked like she wanted to argue, but she kept her mouth shut and just nodded. She finally said understood and removed her fingers, before looking at the two teens.
"Well Mr. Sado, looks like you caught a break."
"What?" Both teens asked in unison.
"Sister Margaret had requested we bring you, Mr. Sado, to her office. It seems she wants to talk with you, as does Doctor Urahara." At the sound of Kisuke's name, Chad looked gave Ichigo a questioning look, but the strawberry only mouthed "You'll see." as a reply. The Mexican just sighed and walked up to Yu-Mi. He needed to talk to Kisuke to find out what was going on. The Korean motioned for him to follow her as she lead the way. Two other teacher quickly flanked Chad, making it clear that they did completely trust him yet. He gave one last glance over his shoulder at Ichigo.
"Don't worry man," he gave his pal a thumbs up. "Kisuke will explain it all. Just try not to strangle him when he's done explaining. That probably wouldn't make either of us look good." Yu-Mi turned around told Ichigo to return to his dorm room again. A tick mark appeared on his, but he gave in and slowly turned around before heading back towards the school.
It had been a long day for both of them.
"So what was up with the alarms last night?"
It was the first period of the day and news of the security alarms going off had already spread around the school like a plague. Not much was known except a few rumors that were vague at best.
"Beats me," Arnett said, leaning back in her desk without a care in the world. "It couldn't have been a big problem or we would've been called out." Ever since her battle with Cathy the previous day, she'd been floating on cloud nine. Fighting a draw with a world ranking Pandora will do that to ya.
"Still, I heard the teachers were scrambling to the north perimeter. But I guess you're right; if it was urgent than we would've been called out." She looked around the classroom and smirked. "Looks like your carrot top Limiter isn't here yet. I but you're disappointed."
"What!" Arnett practically yelled, causing several students to turn their heads and look at her. "W-what's that's suppose to mean? You know Ichigo isn't my Limiter; I already have Morrison. Yesterday was just a temporary thing."
"You sure about that?" Attia asked in an amused tone. "You may have not notice, but Ichigo has become a very popular Limiter since yesterday's mock battle. A lot of First and Second Year girls have got their eyes on him, not to mention a couple Third Years as well. Even I got to admit that his Freezing area was very impressive. I just wish I knew how he did it without an Ereinbar Set." She tapped her chin in thought, but carried on. "But you're saying that you've got no interest in him at all?"
"I already told you no!" Arnett stated, blushing madly. Why was Attia accusing her of this. She'd paired up with the new student for one mock battle for his entrance exam test. She'd just been the randomly picked Pandora that had to fight alongside him. Why make things complicated with rumors and hunches.
"At rate," Attia continued. "if you want him or not, I don't thing I'll matter much to ones that have got their eye on him. Speaking of the our strawberry classmate," she looked around again. "we only have a minute till class starts. Where is he?"
"Who knows?" The red head was about to make some sly comment about Attia noticing Ichigo's absence when Yu-Mi walked in the room. Trailing behind her was one of the tallest people she'd seen in her life. He towered more than a foot over Ms. Kim and, judging from his dark skin, was from Mexican descendent.
"I've got an announcement class, so settle down and get in your seats." The students filed into their seats before she continued. "We'll be having another new student join us today." Arnett noticed Ms. Kim shoot the tall boy a nervous look. She kept stealing nervous glances at him even though her voice remained normal. Was she worried about something?
The new student bowed to class before turning around and writing his name on the board. He wrote at a leisurely pace and when he finished, turned back to the class with a neutral look on his face. "Hello, my name is Yasutora Sado. It's a pleasure to meet you all."
"Please take a seat where one is available and we'll begin today's lesson." Yasutora nodded and walked over to a seat that was near the back of the class room. As he passed, Arnett could hear the students around her whisper, but she could make out what they were saying. She did hear something like "he's got to be the biggest Limiter I've ever seen." That was true. Most Limiter were about as tall as their Pandora partners, but this guy was well over six foot. If you got past his height, then came the muscles. The guy had the body shape of a bodybuilder and something told her it wasn't for show.
Another strange thing was the fact that he kept looking around the room like her was looking for someone. He looked over at an empty seat, by the window that Ichigo had sat in, and looked as if he'd expected someone to be there.
"..Volt Texture can be used to make clothing as well.." Ms. Kim's voice caught Arnett's attention making her look back the board. Two new transfer students in two days; go figure.
"Ah shit oh shit ah Godammit! I'm so late! Oh shit!"
Ichigo stumbled out of his room cussing like a sailor, his hair barely combed and clothes wrinkled, while trying to get his stubborn shoe on his left foot. The piece of junk alarm clock hadn't gone off and he'd woken up forty-five minutes pass his normal time. After finally getting his shoe on, he now had to face the challenge of getting his pants zipped. After cursing and tripping down the hallway, he finally finished that task and started sprinting towards home room.
After sliding past several hall monitoring teachers, Ichigo reached the door of his class and opening the door. "I made it." he said out of breath. He hung his head and placed his hands on his knees as he took time to catch his breath. 'Out of breath form a short run? I'm falling out of shape.'
"Mr. Kurosaki." Ichigo looked up to see Ms. Kim giving him a stern look. It looked like she'd been in the middle of something before he'd come in. "I'm sure you have a good excuse for being late."
"Eh...broken alarm clock." He shrugged.
The teacher closed her eyes and shook her head. "Please take your seat, and try not to be late again. I'd rather not have you get off on the wrong foot when you just got here."
Ichigo apologized and headed towards his seat, but stopped went he saw someone at the back of the classroom. The fuck?
"Hey Ichigo." Chad waved to him. He gave Ichigo a thumbs up, while the Substitute just stared with a gaping mouth.
"Chad? Why are you here?" he questioned. He'd almost forgotten about Chad's arrival the previous night, with everything that'd happened that morning, and he hadn't even think thought was possibility of him being his class; much less attending West Genetics. This was no doubt Kisuke's idea.
"Mr. Urahara signed me up." Of course he did. That guy already had Ichigo enrolled in this school and now he's added Chad. He had angle, Ichigo knew that, but trying to figure out what it was was something else.
"Mr. Sado and Mr. Kurosaki, I know you both are actuated, but please wait until after class to catch up. We're in the middle of an important lesson." She turned back to the blackboard. "Now as I was saying..."
"So spill it Chad, why'd Kisuke enroll you here too?" It was five minutes till the end of class, so Yu-Mi had allowed the students the rest of the time to talk. As soon as she said this, Ichigo moved his desk over next to Chad. They had a lot to discuss.
"I should probably start at the beginning. I told you that Uryu, Rukia, Orihime, and myself were going to use the teleporter to come look for you?" Ichigo nodded. "Well I'm the only one that made it through, and-."
"Whoa wait a minute." Ichigo interrupted. "Kisuke said he knew I was coming because when I return to the present, I tell him what happened. He never mentioned you showing up."
"Kisuke was just as surprised as you were." Chad said, catching Ichigo off guard. "He doesn't know why I came here, because he has no knowledge that I every left the present. That's got him worried." If Kisuke was worried, than something must be up.
"I'm surprised you're taking all this so well." Ichigo whispered. "I was pretty freaked out when my ass got dumped here."
"I was a little shocked, but Kisuke got me up to date on what's going on. Than he introduced me to this academies headmistress. She seems like I nice lady."
"So you talked to Sister Margaret? Did she ask you anything?"
"Just some questions on how old I was and if i'd ever been to a Genetics School before."
"And did you answer them?"
"Mr. Urahara did most of the answering. He came up with some school registration papers some how and here I am."
Ichigo raised an eyebrow in question. "Just like that?" He nodded. The two sat in silence while they went over the events again, but were interrupted by the bell signaling the end of class. Both stood up and walk over to the teacher's desk.
"Ms. Kim?"
"Yes Ichigo?" she asked looking up from some paper work. "Something you need?"
"Is Chiffon going to show Chad around the school grounds?"
"Chad?" She blinked. "Oh you mean Mr. Sado. To answer your question, I'm afraid not. Chiffon has some Student Council business to attend to and will be busy all day. But I'm sure you can show him around. You're familiar with the area from your tour?"
The orange haired teen scratched his head sheepishly. "I guess I could manage." He turned to Chad pointed over his shoulder with his thumb. "Come on pal, I'll show you West Genetics."
Things went pretty good from there. For the next couple classes Ichigo lead Chad from each one to the next. No doubt Kisuke had a hand in his schedule, because they both had every class together. They eventually reached the end of the day and Ichigo felt proud of himself. He'd successfully got Chad and himself to every class without getting lost or late. Considering the size of the school, that was a miracle.
He began debating whether to show him the places on the school campus that they hadn't toured; the gym or the pool. He instantly crossed the pool off. Chad wasn't a pervert by any means, but Ichigo wasn't sure how'd he react if Elizabeth was there. Best take baby steps before diving into that mess. That left the gym.
"What's wrong with you?" Ichigo asked. They were standing in the middle of the gym, and Chad was staring around with something like a disappointed look on his face. Than again, that was his usually facial expression.
"I don't know why, but I thought it would different. A big school like this must be load, so I wasn't expecting it to look so...normal." He finished.
Ichigo shrugged and looked around before a smile spread across his lips. "I just had I good idea Chad."
"Hhmm? What is it?"
"When was the last time you and me spared?"
The Mexican thought on it a moment before replying. "I don't know. Have we ever spared with each other?"
"No, unless you count the time that you and Orihime got all confused from Tsukishima's "Book of the End". I don't know if you were trying to kill me or just wound me."
"I'd rather not think about that." Tsukishima's Fullbring ability had really messed up with Chad and Orihime's memory, and he'd like to try not to thing about what he did.
"So how about it buddy? I haven't had a good work out since I got here, and I want to know how much stronger you've gotten. Plus this gym was made for fights. I heard a couple of months back some Pandoras got into an ugly fight in here and did some major damage. If we hold back, we want cause that much damage."
"I'm not sure that's a good idea. Urahara told me to keep my Fullbring hidden. What if someone comes in while we're fighting?"
"This building is only used during P.E. and everyone's probably just chilling or in their rooms during this time." He walked to the over side of the gym court and turned to face his friend. "How bout it?"
Chad sighed and nodded. "I guess I do want to know how my strength matches up to your's since you regained your Soul Reaper powers." He activated his Fullbring; a liquid spread up his right arm and solidified into purple and black armor. "So where's your Substitute Badge?"
"Don't need it," Ichigo replied. "That freak Kisuke injected me with a modified Stigmata that lets me use my Soul Reaper power while in my human body. You know about Stigmata right?"
Chad nodded. He'd been there for less that a day, but he'd already been filled in on Stigmata, Pandora, Limiter, and Nova by Kisuke and the teachers. He still found it strange that aliens from another dimension would invade Earth one day, but he was a magnet for strange it seemed.
Ichigo raised his out in front of himself. "Zangetsu." The Zanpakuto materialized out of nothing, resting itself in the teens hand before he gripped the hilt. He made a few practice swings before taking his stance. "Ready when you are. I still remember all that Fullbringer training I did with Ginjo to strengthen my body. I was worried I'd get out of practice here, so I'm glad you showed up when you did."
Chad took his stand. He pulled his right arm back and the shoulder extensions opened, blowing out spirit energy like flames. Ichigo raised Zangestu over his head as he charged up Getsuga.
"El Directo!"
"Getsuga Tenshou!"
They both fired at the same time, sending the two attack barreling towards each other. The two connected, resulting in a massive explosion that filled the entire roomed with smoke. The lights flickered and larger patches of the court were scorched. As soon as the smoke clear, both teens disappeared with their respective speed techniques before clashing with another boom.
Ichigo slashed with Zangestu, but it was easy blocked by Chad's arm that had some how transformed into its defensive form without him noticing. 'How did he release his right arm's true form without me noticing?' He went for a stab, but Chad disappeared again with Fullbring only to reappear behind the strawberry. Ichigo only had a few seconds to block his punch, that would have nailed the back of his head, with the lower part of Zangestu's blade. Ichigo gritted his teeth. 'Damn Kisuke and his restrictions. I can barely see his movements. He must have been training a lot more that I thought.'
Chad broke contact with the blade and jump back, putting some distance between himself and his opponent. He charged up another El Directo and fired it. The Substitute slicing through the attack before Flash Stepping his way towards Chad till he was directly in front of him. As quickly as he could, he made an uppercut slash; nicking the giant on his left shoulder.
Chad grunted, but used the momentum from the hit to body slam Ichigo. The hit sent the Substitute sailing back and crashing into the wall. Dust stirred up around the Ichigo shaped crater that was now tattooed in the wall. Chad kept an watchful eye on the dust cloud knowing full well that Ichigo was not relaxing. As expected, the dust was parted as a massive attack of blue spirit energy came sailing towards the Fullbringer. He stared wide eye at the attack and manage to shield himself seconds before the Getsuga hit.
Rising up out of the rubble from the wall, Ichigo stood looking unfazed. His Zanpakuto rested on his shoulder and a smirk rested on his lips. "Not bad at all Chad. I didn't expect you to go full out and body slam me after I cut you." A few feet in front of him, Chad stood with his arms crossed in front of himself in a defensive position. Besides the steam rolling off his body and bleeding shoulder, he look completely uninjured.
"I'm starting to realize how much stronger your powers have got Ichigo. That Getsuga Tenshou felt a lot stronger than the one from seventeen months ago." He reared his arm back. "Your want to continue?"
"You bet."
The two charged forward at each and clashed, Ichigo Zanpakuto pressing hard against Chad's shield. Both grunted as the tried with all their power to press the other back.
"Uh...what's going on here?"
Both stop dead still. They turned slowly towards the sound of the voice and gulped. Standing in front of the doors was Chiffon and Ticy, each one with a different facial expression. Chiffon had her eyes closed as usual, but her mouth was gaping a little in shock. Ticy looked down right scared. She was hidden mostly behind Chiffon, but Ichigo could make out her wide eyes and could have sworn she was shaking.
"Eh eh." Ichigo eye twitched. "Oh hi Chiffon and...Ticy. We're just.." He looked to still see Zangestu in contact with Chad's arm. "Well...the thing is..." He looked down in shame. "This isn't going to end well..."
To Be Continued
Author's Note: Word of advice, don't play Dragon Age when you have to write (It's so addicting that you don't want to stop to write.)
Ichigo and Chad's sparring match in interrupted by Chiffon and Ticy who now know about their powers. You'll have to wait till the next chapter to find out what Ichigo's going to do about this. (I'm sure it'll be something clever.)
I think I kept Chad in character mostly. He doesn't usually say very much, but then again he's usually just listening to Ichigo and Uryu butting heads.
Don't know when the next chapter will be out, but I'll get it to you as soon as possible. Are y'all liking 5000+ word chapter, or would you like more or less?
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