A/N: And I'm back with Chapter 2 of Shark and Berry Rewrite.
Fans :YAY!
Me: Now before I keep going maybe I should explain things a little. I will keep the same appearances as I had originally but I will try to tweak it so it goes a little smoother.
Unohana: So I still make an appearance in this chapter? *Creepy smile*
Me: *Sweats like a man in hell and nods really fast giving myself whiplash.* Owe!
Zero: Let me take over...*clears throat* Characters will be introduced, a little more detail will be added. Story will be easier to follow and the fast pace will be taken care of that people seemed to dislike in the original version of this story.
Hichi: Hell yeah that means I get a bigger part then just his Resurrection control!
All: Shit! Ikusani!
Me: *being healed by Unohana who is muttering something to herself.* Help me!
Chapter 2: Berry, Maiden and Shark
Kurosaki Clinic Next day:
Ichigo slowly opens his brown eyes as the sun shines into his room, the bland look of his room hardly shows that a teenager lives in it. He sits up and stretches as he rolls to sit on the edge of the bed. Rolling his shoulders and twisting his back, he feels no pain that he had last night after that Fish head hollow attacked. His family seemed to have no memory of it and he just told them a truck slammed into the house. As he dresses for school he rubs the back of his head and wonders about the mysterious blonde woman clad in white armor.
As he leaves the house he looks around and notices that there aren't any spirits around. 'Wonder where they all went?' He asks himself as he starts to head to school with his bag by his side.
'Don't worry Kingy in another day all the spirits will come back since the Hollow is gone.' The dark voice from last night says, causing Ichigo to stop and look around. Dark cackles sound in his head as he looks around. 'Hey genius I'm in your head stop looking around.' The dark voice says as Ichigo scratches the back of his head.
'Wait if you're in my head then that means…' Ichigo started to think but the dark voice responded.
'Yep I'm part of you Kingy, also watch it car.' The voice warns and sure enough Ichigo stops and a car zooms by him.
'Thanks…' He mentally says and continues onto school.
'Not a problem but we got a lot to discuss.' The voice says and slowly a bleached out version of Ichigo materializes next to him. 'So Kingy, what do you remember of last night?' He asks and walks beside Ichigo before said teen jumps and looks around. The double shakes its head and punches Ichigo in the head. 'I'm in your head dumb ass stop freaking out just because I let you see me!' He shouts and flails as he puts his hand into his bleached out school uniform pants pockets.
'Owe you son of a… wait last night?' Ichigo looks questioningly at his double before remembering everything up till he passed out on the floor and then was woken up by his dad and sisters.
'Yeah and here is what you missed… Blondie healed your back but do to her energy I woke up. I'm you but I'm also not you.' The double says and Ichigo looks confused as hell at him. Cackling the double shakes his head. 'Ok well let's just say I'm a darker you that you suppress and don't let see the light of day.'
'So you are my evil side?' Ichigo asks and to this the double nods but also shakes his head. 'Then what do you want?'
'I want you to wake up to what is really in front of you the human world and the spiritual one.' The double says and cracks its neck as it looks to the sky. 'Hmmm looks like my play time is up talk later Kingy.' With that the double dissipates like a mirage.
'Ok then…' Ichigo thinks as he looks around and then heads to class. Unbeknownst to him that a set of wooden doors opened in the sky above Karakura town.
Sky just above Karakura town:
In the blue skies over Karakura town a set of wooden Shushi doors materializes, the old sliding doors have a white glow coming from behind the windows. Slowly the doors slide open revealing a blinding tunnel of white, and a figure walking toward the exit. As the figure nears the Exit all that can be seen is ebony hair braided down her into her rather large cleavage, she wears black Hakama robe and pants but atop the robe is a white jacket with a Japanese number four on the back of it in a diamond. Attached to her hip is a katana like weapon about 3 feet long from hilt end to blade tip, wrapping on the hilt being a lime green with yellow diamonds in the handle.
"Hmmm so this is where the Vasto Lorde was reported, along with another hollow and a very strong spiritual pressure. Odd that they send me here but what can I do when Central 46 gives the order…" She says to herself as she looks around through nearly closed eyes, she looks down to see an orange haired teen running to the local school. "Hmmm that must be the strong spiritual pressure the Research and Development (RnD) crew mentioned in the report. I can sense him from here no wonder the Vasto Lorde and other hollow wanted him." She said as she took off and followed him silently.
Karakura Town Park around 4PM:
A crack forms under the shadows of a tree as the sun slowly sets, soon enough the crack rips open and becomes a black hole that leads to nothingness. Soon after opening fully the blonde woman clad in white armor comes walking out and yawns. Looking around she closes the hole and disappears in a static buzz. Landing in front of the teen's house, she looks at the boarded up hole and runs her hand along the spot that still had blood from his back injury on it.
"I wonder if he is alright." She thinks aloud before hearing a person land in a whisper of wind behind her several feet away.
"Well now this is interesting…What is a Vasto Lorde doing in the human world again?" A woman asks, only to have the blonde swing around and the three fins on her back shift to make her arm blade on her right arm.
"Mind your own business Shinigami!" The blonde growls and glares at the Ebony haired woman.
"Oh my so mean…but now you either be purified or well there is no other option." The woman says as she vanishes and strike at the blonde, their blades clashing and releasing sparks before they feel an enormous pressure hit them.
"The boy!/The boy!" They say in unison and look at each other. "So you are here for him too?" The ebony woman asks as she keeps her weapon at the ready to defend or strike.
"That doesn't concern you Shinigami." The blonde says before vanishing and landing in the playground a few blocks from the high school. Soon after she arrives the Ebony haired woman arrives in a whisper of wind and they look around. A black spider like Hollow had a leg pierced through Ichigo's chest and both women turned pale.
"NO!" They shout in unison before black energy swirls around the hollow and Ichigo.
The playground about 15 minutes before Mysterious Blonde and Ebony Shinigami arrive:
Ichigo is walking by the playground heading home, his mind on what he just picked up the night before. The bleached out him and what it said was starting to concern him, but that was soon the last thing on his mind. A loud howl comes from inside the playground and crying can be heard as well, without a thought Ichigo jumps the railing and runs toward the sounds. When he arrives he sees a small boy dressed in a blue shirt and shorts hiding in the monkey cage as a Spider like Hollow slowly moves toward the kid. Flashes of the fish head one hit him as he remembers how weak he was to stop the thing before, the boy cries loudly as the spider slices the monkey cage open and pipes fly everywhere.
'Let's go Kingy, we got this.' The double says to him mentally as a pipe lands in the ground sticking out at a slant as the spider howls again. 'Do it you pussy or this will happen to Karin or Yuzu later cause it's still alive!'
With that realization Ichigo grabs the pipe and charges toward the Hollow, blindsiding the monster with a sharp blow to the side of its mask and sending it flying into the trees.
"Kid get out of here now!" Ichigo yells as he readies himself to fight so the kid can get away from it. As the Hollow stands up it turns toward him revealing a crack going through the left side of its mask and splintering over to its right side. Slowly the crack started to reseed and fix itself. Ichigo cussed and gripped the pipe tightly.
'Easy Kingy this thing is fast but you are faster and stronger, just watch the way it's moving you can see when it's going to attack. Tensing in the joints, the position it takes as it moves, the way it looks and the direction it looks.' His darker half comments and sure enough the way it was moving showed caution and rage.
Soon Ichigo started to move in a mirror of its own, circling each other and sizing their opponent up. Ichigo made the first move and darted toward the hollow, it reared back on its rear legs and launched its front ones down to try and impale him. Ichigo weaved between the two front legs and slammed the pipe straight into the right side of its face and launched it for the second time. This time he didn't stop at just one attack he went for a follow up strike down on the center of the creature's mask, it connected hard and sent the hollow to the ground dazed for a few seconds.
'Now Stab it through the mask!' His darker half commanded, but Ichigo hesitated and stopped with his arms back. The hollow now took its chance and thrust its left arm into his exposed chest, the only thing Ichigo registered was the initial pain of his bones being broken and the sensation of blood coming up his throat again. The last thought he had was of the mysterious blonde and not being able to thank her properly.
Unknown location:
Ichigo wakes up in a slightly odd setting, there are skyscrapers everywhere but that's not what struck him as odd. The fact was he was laying on the side of the building, with utter surprise he jumps back and holds onto the ledge of a window.
"Easy Kingy we are inside your mind." his double says as he looks to his left to see him sitting on the flagpole, well more like squatting and using his toes to keep balanced.
"Why am I here?" Ichigo asks before feeling a great pain in his chest and noticing a hole where he had been stabbed in the real world.
"That's because you hesitated and were killed, not bad for a rookie but you need to remember its kill or be killed. Now do you want to go back and live or do you want to die?" His bleached out double asks as he jumps off the flagpole and lands on the glass surface and walks over to Ichigo.
"I don't want to die, and my sisters won't be able to live with my dad the way he acts." Ichigo jokes slightly and smiles to his double, who shares the smile.
"Good answer Kingy but first..." With a push Ichigo falls through the glass and everything around him starts to turn into Cubes. "Find your power Kingy!" His double calls and vanishes as more cubes fill the area he is falling in.
"How the hell am I supposed to find my power?" He calls only to remember what his double said prior to the events in class, about sensing spirits without being near them. As he focused several white ribbons started to form from each of the cubes, he opened his eyes and looked around for some kind of ribbon that would be different from all the others. That's when he notices a black and red ribbon leading to a Box and a blue ribbon leading to another, the two had gotten wrapped around each other and were floating next to each other.
"Fuck it!" He cussed and pulled the two ribbons and watched as the boxes fused together into one box, soon as it gets close the box opens revealing a black and red wrapped sword hilt.
"Good Kingy now, CLAIM YOUR BIRTH RIGHT!" His double shouts and the power resonating from the box swirls around in a cyclone. Ichigo looks around for a second before grabbing hold of the hilt and pulling with all his might, a blinding flash and the cyclone of energy formed a ball around him.
Back to present in playground:
The mysterious blonde and ebony shinigami looked on in horror as the teen was consumed by black and red spiritual energy, the Hollow screeched and jumped back with its arm now missing. The next thing that happened stunned both women, a orange and black blur zoomed past the hollow and landed a few yards from it. The hollow didn't move for a second but as it did a long line formed in its mask and down the center of its body, soon the body started to fade into particles. The women looked past the dissipating Hollow and saw standing in the same outfit as the ebony woman minus the jacket was the orange haired teen with a black and red handled sword, with a pitch black blade that was roughly his own height in length. The last thing that caught their attention was the demonic looking mask that he was wearing as well, the almost human like appearance with red and black tribal markings on the left side.
"Ugh fuck that felt good...but why the hell do I feel like there's something I'm forgetting..." He asks himself as he moves the mask off his face and just to the left side.
Still another thing surprises the two women. "Well Kingy maybe if you look behind you, you might figure it out. Maybe even get some ass while you're at it." The mask says as he looks back and notices the two of them.
"Oh hey blonde lady and...Who are you?" Ichigo asks as he places the katana on his shoulder and scratches the side back of his head as he tries to figure out who this woman was.
"Hmmm interesting a human with Shinigami powers and a hollow mask that talks..." The Ebony haired woman says as she looks at Ichigo with interest.
"Lady I'm not sure what a Shinigami is but I do know this much I'm not a hollow." Ichigo says with a glare till his mask coughs and whistles to get their attention.
"Actually Kingy you and Blondie are more alike than you think...She is a hollow but she is the highest evolution of a hollow." The mask says before Ichigo looked to the blonde and scratched the back of his head. "But your part hollow hence me...I was made a long time ago but you're definitely more than just a human kingy." It says and then he looks to the ebony haired woman, and shakes his head.
"So what are you doing here?" He asks with slight hint of anger as he sees her sword drawn.
"Oh well I was sent here by the Soul Society and told to purify the Vasto Lorde and inspect the high spiritual pressure was." She says and that's when she gets the shock of a life time. Ichigo vanished in a whisper of wind and landed in front of the blonde woman.
"Sorry lady I owe her so you can go back to your SS and tell them she is being protected." He says with a spike of his spiritual pressure causing black and red whisps to float around him.
"Yeah Blondie is our piece of ass bitch, though I'm sure you are welcome to stay and join..." The mask says and starts to cackle as Ichigo face palms himself and mutters about his stupid perverted double.
"Boy its fine I'm your enemy now anyway." The blonde says before Ichigo turns to her and chops her on the top of the head. The loud thump causing the ebony haired women to cringe for the poor girl. "Owe..."
"If you think we are cold hearted Blondie you don't know kingy then, he pays his dept and also I think he likes you..." The mask says before Ichigo slides it back over his face.
"Remind me again why you have to be manifested? Also my name is Ichigo not boy."
"Cause I saved your ass Kingy." The mask cackles and Ichigo brings the blade up in a defensive stance, left leg slightly adjusted so his weight is balanced on it and the blade blocking most of his body as he readies for a fight.
"So you plan to defend her boy?" The ebony haired woman asks as she watches the exchange between the two.
"Ichigo for the second time now and yes I will. But first what is your name lady?" He growls out still watching for any sign of movement from her, but it never comes the ebony haired woman puts her sword away and sighs.
"Well Ichigo I am Retsu Unohana of the thirteen court guards' squad, 4th division captain to be exact, and will leave you two be for now though I have one question." She says and with a nod from Ichigo she asks. "Why do you owe her?"
"She saved my family and me last night, she also healed my back." He said seriously and then his mask spoke up again.
"She also woke me up and have you seen her-" It didn't get a chance to finish as Ichigo covered the mask up with his left hand as he turned red from embarrassment.
"I swear I don't know what is wrong with him." Ichigo groans as he shakes his head.
"Well then till another day." With that she vanishes in a whisper of wind and leaves a bright red Ichigo and a slightly confused blonde.
"So...you just saved me?" The blonde asks as Ichigo takes a deep breath and nods.
"I guess but for some reason I don't feel that it's saving. I think that's re-evaluating the situation." Ichigo states as he lets go of his mask's mouth and turns toward her.
"Agreed Kingy now let's take Blondie and head somewhere to chat." The mask states as Ichigo moves it to the side of his head again. The two vanish from the playground in respective buzz and whisper, only to reappear in front of Kurosaki Clinic.
"So tell me, what is your name?" Ichigo asks with a slightly stern look in his eyes.
"Well Ichigo, my name is Tia Halibel, and thank you for defending me." She says to him and inclines her head slightly in respect to him.
Blushing lightly Ichigo coughs and starts to talk. "Y-Your welcome, so you're a hollow... well to be specific a Vasto Lorde." He states and she nods.
"Yes and to clarify I am not a hunger driven monster." She states as Ichigo blinks blankly and she points to his mask. "You seem to have your own hollow...but how?"
"That my dear blonde bombshell is a long story for another time." The mask says as Ichigo smacks himself out of embarrassment.
"Can't you oh I don't know...be nice and use her name?" He asks as the mask cackles at its host's displeasure.
"Hahaha yeah sure maybe next time instead of worrying over a piece of ass you can remember your body!" The mask laughs as Ichigo goes pale now and vanishes in a whisper of wind, as he arrives at the park he finds his body leaned against a tree with a letter stuffed into his pocket. As he enters his body he finds it's fully healed oddly and his clothes are fixed to. As he opens the letter he blinks and double checks the contents before groaning.
"Dear Mr. Ichigo,
I have healed your body for you and also mended the clothes. I hope you will sit and listen to what I might have to say when I come back to you. Maybe you will let me do a full check up.
Sincerely, Retsu Unohana"
'Why do I feel like I have a bulls-eye on my back now?' He asks himself and sighs as he heads back to his house, only to find Tia gone and another note of some sort.
"Ichigo,
Went back to Hueco Mundo to rest, thank you again for sending the shinigami away. Next time we see each other I promise to explain the two sides.
Tia"
'Well at-least she isn't dead.' He thought and decided to go back into his home, dodging his father's normal welcome home before walking up to his room and laying down falling asleep for another night.
A/N: And let's leave it here for day three to begin. To answer questions yes Unohana will return in the next chapter but I doubt it as you all expect.
Unohana: Ikusani don't spoil it. *Dark creepy aura*
Me: Nope sorry no more hints as far as her role, however Ichigo may meet a new enemy.
Dark voice: Yes and this time I will make sure there's a really big bang! HAHA!
Me: Yeah maybe I should go with the other one...
Kinder Dark Voice: Does that mean sister and I get to reconnect?
Me: mmmmmm Fuck it coin toss... Head the first idiot tails the other. *flips the coin and it lands on the flat side.* Well shit...