Chapter 5: Chibi Hollow(LOL)

Ichigo wasted no time heading to the gate to leave the Seireitei. He flashed over to where the seventieth Rukon district was and sure enough saw Yoruichi and Soi-Fon standing around. Or more like Soi-Fon standing around and practicing her sword techniques while Yoruichi was noticeably sulking on a tree. She looked visibly frustrated, most likely from the way that Ichigo had talked to her earlier. Ichigo could see it in her body language, she was thinking about what he had said to her, and it was getting to her badly. With a smirk on his face, Ichigo flashed down to the two and shocked Soi-Fon, causing her to fall to the ground.

"I truly do hope that that isn't going to happen when we find and kill this hollow, Soi-Fon." Ichigo said to her while offering her a hand. He still had on his stern look that she was used to, but Soi-Fon could tell that he genuinely wanted to see her succeed.

Soi-Fon took his hand and was pulled up. She looked Ichigo in the eyes for a split second before looking down in embarrassment. Yoruichi noticed her small blush and chuckled lightly under her breath. She stood up straight and went over to her squad member.

"Bout time you showed up, captain." Yoruichi said while crossing her arms. She started walking away toward one of the districts followed by Soi-Fon. "You comin or not?"

Ichigo huffed and walked along after them. They went over to the first district and searched for for awhile before moving on. To Ichigo, this was a waste of time, seeing as though he already knew where this hollow should be by now. They searched a few of the other districts before Ichigo became frustrated and made a declaration right then and there.

"Alright, I've had enough of this." He said as he went off from the two confused women. "I'm gonna look for this thing in a different district. It's faster this way."

Yoruichi tried to protest against this but was too late. Ichigo flashed away from the two faster than she could track and left her seething to an extent. Soi-Fon had never seen her captain like this before. It was a little nerve racking to see her frustrated for once and taking someone truly seriously.

While the two were standing there for a few seconds, Ichigo had already made his was to the district he remembered Rukia telling him about. He flashed a little was off and saw the sight in front of him. He saw her after all this time, he saw Rukia. She was being attacked by a large man that was clearly possessed by the hollow in question and he could also see those two kids from before. They were cowering behind Rukia while she had fired a kido at the man. He was down and Rukia thought she had defeated him. Stupid girl. She went back to the two and knelt down in front of them. Ichigo couldn't tell what they were saying, but he saw the two kids hugging Rukia and instantly remembered his own two sisters. Despite being in the past and being an all around cold person to others besides Sosuke and Gin, deep down he truly missed his sisters.

The man stood back up and slowly approached the three. He grabbed Rukia from the back of the neck and the kids screamed, knocking Ichigo back to reality.

"RUKIA!"

Ichigo saw the man turn Rukia around to face him and a hollow like entity had tried to force itself into Rukia. As much as Ichigo would've loved to see Rukia suffer, he had other ideas for this hollow.

He flashed over to them all to their surprise and grabbed the mans arm holding Rukia. He squeezed a bit and the mans arm completely shattered. He dropped Rukia and screamed in pain. The entity started to circle around the man and it didn't look all too happy it was interrupted.

"You will regret that soul reaper!" It yelled in a deep and distorted tone.

Ichigo was completely unfazed by the hollows outburst. He was able to defeat it when he was younger and less experienced, now it would seem heavily unfair to go even half force on it. He turned to the three and saw the two kids consoling Rukia.

"Rukia, are you okay?" The girl asked her.

"Please be okay Rukia." The boy begged as he started to cry.

"I'm okay you two." Rukia said in between breaths. She looked up at the soul reaper who saved her and noticed the white haori with an eleven on it. She went wide eyed as she realized that this was a captain of the thirteen court guard squad.

Ichigo noticed her look of surprise and huffed. He turned around and faced the hollow. "If you don't want to die today, then I suggest you three run and don't come back here." He said in his monotoned voice.

Rukia nodded and scooped the two up before running away from the incoming slaughter. She could just feel the killing intent coming from this captain and didn't like it at all.

Ichigo watched them leave for a brief moment before looking back to the hollow. He crossed his arms and knew that there wasn't a single thing this hollow could do to harm him. The hollow took his bored stance and expression as a challenge and rushed over to him with the mans zanpakuto in his still functioning arm.

"Don't take my power lightly, you bastard!" The hollow yelled before it leapt into the air and went for a forward slash. Ichigo didn't even move as the blade came into contact with him and shattered. "What!?" The hollow yelled out before Ichigo grabbed the man by the throat. The hollow felt a strange power going into the man and flowing into it. "What are you doing to me?" It asked Ichigo.

"Ichigo didn't bother answering as the Hogyoku glowed in his chest. He smirked and released the energy into the hollow and watched as the body fell to the ground, lifeless. In his hand now, was the hollow in its snake-like form and flailing around in the captains iron grip. Ichigo grinned at the hollow and it could feel an almost sadistic like aura resonating from Ichigo's glare at it. The hollow stopped flailing and just hoped that it would at least be quick and painless. It shut its eyes and waited for some kind of final blow of some sorts, but it never came. It opened its eyes again and saw that the captain's eyes were glowing a purple color.

"What the hell?" The hollow thought to itself before it felt that same energy going into it and it could feel its body changing on it. The hollow could feel the intense energy and felt itself start to grow in the captain's grip. The once small snake like hollow with a scythe for a tail had now grown into a small child with a snake mask, pale skin, red hair and a snake's body for legs with the red scythe for a tail. Ichigo dropped the boy and could sense that Yoruichi and Soi-Fon were on their way to check out the spirit energy that he released. Luckily for him, it was spirit energy that nobody has ever felt before aside from possibly Kisuke.

"Well then." Ichigo said as he opened a garganta in front of the now child like hollow. The boy was definitely terrified of the soul reaper that had just given him power. Why though? The boy felt like a vasto lorde class hollow now. Ichigo pointed to the garganta after drawing his own sword. "There's two ways this can happen. Either you leave to Hueco Mundo and become stronger the next time I find you. Or I can just kill you now and that be the end of it. Your call kid."

The boy was looking from both the garganta then back to the captain. He swallowed the lump in his throat and scurried into the garganta quickly before Ichigo closed it.

"Smart move kid." Ichigo thought to himself. He sheathed his blade right when Yoruichi and Soi-Fon showed up, swords drawn and ready. "You two just missed it." Ichigo said to them.

"What happened here captain Kaiyo?" Yoruichi asked him while sheathing her blade. Soi-Fon followed suit.

"Nasty little thing, I'll give it that." Ichigo said to her, obviously lying to her. In his time, he was a terrible liar, but here, he was pretty damn good at it. "Had to kill the host first before I could cut down the hollow. It faded away with that energy when I did that." He started to walk away from the two only to be stopped when Yoruichi flashed in front of him.

"Where do you think you're going?" She said as she placed a hand on his chest. She went from very irritated to a little surprised when she felt how muscular Ichigo was through his uniform. She shook her head to clear it and took her hand off. "We'll need to report this to the head captain. I've never felt any energy like that one before."

Ichigo smirked at her and walked to her side and leaned down so he was right next to her ear and whispered. "And when was the last time you ever reported something, Yoruichi?"

She shivered from his voice and turned only to see that he wasn't there anymore.

"Sorry I couldn't get you to see any action Soi-Fon." Ichigo said as he appeared away from the two. He still had his back turned, but Soi-Fon could tell that he was actually sorry.

"Next time captain Kaiyo." Soi-Fon said in a determined tone.

The two may not have been able to see his face, but Ichigo was actually smiling. He flashed away and was making his way back to his squad.

Just as Ichigo re entered the Seireitei, he was met by another blast from the past, or future in his case, Kukaku was walking up to him. She looked different than how he was used to. She had shorter black hair that stopped at her shoulders and she still had her right arm. She went up to him and bowed, much to Ichigo's surprise. He would never think that she would ever show respect to anyone.

"Captain Kaiyo." She started as she rose her head to look up at him. "The head of the Shiba has invited you to a little party at our clan's house. He would very much appreciate it if you attended captain."

This could be a problem. Ichigo had made it his life objective now not to get too involved with his father. He never talked to him other than a few brief greetings during meetings. Now that he was being invited to a party by the very man he would rather not get involved with now was inviting him to a small party, what exactly could he do now?

With a sigh that caught Kukaku's attention, Ichigo looked her in the eyes and asked. "When does it start and how do I find the house?"

Kukaku smiled at that and answered him. "It starts in about ten minutes actually." Ichigo looked at her in surprise as she grabbed his hand and pulled him. "I'll show ya where our clan house is."

Ichigo didn't have a choice in this matter, so he just let it happen. He was pulled along for quite some time before Kukaku stopped in front of a large gate with the words 'Shiba' on it. Ichigo wasn't surprised at the large and ridiculously large banner. He was used to it when he first met Kukaku before.

"Here we are captain. Welcome to the Shiba clan house." She opened the door and Ichigo immediately smelled the vast amount of food that was being served right now. The various scents was heavy on his nose as he saw the large table covered in food along with the various amounts of people all standing around and talking to each other. They all had some very excited looks to their faces as they went over ant started to tear apart the food and lay out large amounts of sake all around the place. Kukaku tapped Ichigo on the shoulder to get his attention and pointed over to a table over by a wall that had Isshin, Ganju, Kisuke, and another man that looked almost like Ichigo only with black hair.

"There they are right there!" She had to yell because of the noise happening around her.

Ichigo nodded and decided to make his way over. While he was walking, he was drawing a lot of attention to himself because of his hair and height. He was the tallest person there, that was no doubt, but the orange hair was a dead giveaway. The men on the grounds had shown him some respect and pats on the back for attending, while the women had tried to get closer to him to cop a feel at his toned body. Even the little kids found him interesting. His hair was what was drawing them to him. After a while of trying to get to the table and being stopped at every turn, Ichigo just decided to flash over to the table. He sat down and took a deep sigh as he looked at Isshin.

"You know, the girl you sent told me it was a little party." Ichigo said to him.

Both Isshin, Ganju and the other guy laughed while Kisuke simply smiled.

"Technically this is a small party, captain." Isshin started as he poured Ichigo a cup of sake. "There's usually way more people here than this."

Ichigo smirked a little at his words and took the sake cup. He downed it with no problem. For the past fifty years Ichigo had started to drink sake whenever he had any down time. It helped calm his nerves when he was feeling stressed running his squad.

"So." Ichigo started. "Why exactly did you invite me, captain Shiba?"

"Please, you're in my house captain." Isshin said as he poured more sake for Ichigo. "You can just call me Isshin."

"Alright then Isshin. Then you can just call me Ichigo." Ichigo said to him.

"Is that alright if we also call you that captain?" The other guy asked.

"That depends." Ichigo started. "What's your name?"

"Kaien Shiba, lieutenant of squad thirteen." He said with a bow.

Ichigo remembered this guy. Rukia said that he was her mentor and she had to kill him. So no wonder she was so cold when she stabbed Ichigo, she's had practice stabbing a friend before.

"Well since I'm in your home, then I guess it's alright." Ichigo said as he unclipped his zanpakuto from his belt and leaned it on the table. He now had a genuine smile that surprised both Kisuke and Isshin.

"Well if that's the case." Kukaku started as she flung her arm around Ichigo and handed him a larger cup of sake. "Drinks on us, Ichigo."

Ichigo shook his head but took the cup anyway and downed the sake easily. Everyone was surprised that he was able to drink so easily without the least bit of effects. Kisuke nudged Isshin's foot to get his attention. Kisuke motioned over to the orange haired captain and Isshin nodded in response.

"So Ichigo." He started, getting his attention. "You don't really like to talk to people all too much, mind telling us why?"

Ichigo could tell where this was going and sighed as he saw that all eyes were on him, even Kukaku took a seat to listen in. "Let me guess, you're finally just going to ask me like I've been saying for the past few weeks now?" He asked as he crossed his arms.

"Yeah. More or less." Isshin said bluntly.

With another sigh, Ichigo leaned back in his chair and answered them without revealing too much. "I'm not really what you'd call a people person."

"Yet you seem pretty comfortable when you talk to people like Sosuke Aizen, Gin Ichimaru and even that Soi-Fon girl." Kisuke started. "I'd say you're pretty much a people person to certain people."

"I can see potential in them." Ichigo said quickly enough to stop Kisuke's analysis but not fast enough to draw suspicion. "They have potential, and I want them to get stronger so that one day I can really test them. It's more of pride thing than what ya'll think it is."

"And who taught you something like that?" Kukaku asked with a grin as she downed a cup.

"My father."

"So your old man is a man of pride huh?" Isshin asked. "I like him already. Where exactly is your family anyway?"

That was when Ichigo's smirk went away. He looked down to the table for a bit and everyone else could tell that that was a touchy subject. with a sigh, Ichigo leaned forward and answered him.

"He's gone now. Same with the rest of my family."

That was when Kisuke and Isshin could tell that if they pressed on just right, then they might understand Ichigo a little more.

"What happened to them if you don't mind me asking?" Isshin started.

Ichigo looked up at him then to the rest of the table. "My mother died protecting me from a hollow." That wasn't a lie, but now it was time to lie about the rest. "My father hunted it down and never came back, so I was left to protect my younger sisters. One day when I was out picking fruit, I felt my fathers presence but it was different. I went back home and saw that he killed them." There were gasps from the five at the table as Ichigo continued. "When I saw that, something in me snapped. I saw that the man in front of me wasn't my father. Just an empty shell possessed by a hollow, and I killed him."

"That's why you were interested in the hollow today." Kisuke said in a subtle tone. "You wanted revenge."

"Pretty much, and I got it today." Ichigo finished as he leaned back into the chair.

"So now that you did, at least your family can rest easier now." Kukaku said to him with a smile of her own.

Ichigo smirked to her then looked down at the table. "Yeah, I guess they can now." He stood up and took his zanpakuto. "Thanks for the drinks Isshin, but now I really need to rest. I hope you understand."

"Of course. Hopefully we can do this again sometime." Isshin said with his own goofy grin.

"We will." Ichigo said to him with a grin of his own. He flashed out of the clan house and made his way back to his squad barracks. The lie that he told should keep them off of him for now at least, but he could tell that Kisuke was a little skeptical. That could be a little problem, but for now, he needed to see something real quick.

Getting to his barracks, Ichigo went to his room and placed a barrier around it so nobody could get in. He's done this before and it usually meant he was asleep to his other squad members and didn't want to be disturbed. When the barrier was up, Ichigo opened a garganta and went in it. After a short time he made it to the sands of Hueco Mundo where a massive battle was taking place. He looked over from a hill and saw the small snake hollow he freed only a few minutes ago fighting against a very familiar blue eyed panther. Ichigo smirked at this and decided that it would be best to get involved. He released a massive amount of his energy that stopped the two dead in their tracks and flashed down to them. The boy looked at him in fear, while the panther looked at him with a feral grin.

"This is gonna fun." He said right before he charged at a new adversary.

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