A/N: Ok welcome to Chapter 3 of my rewrite, now I know what you all are thinking.
Everyone else: Really?!
Me: Yes...You all want to know why the fuck I didn't give more detail into what Unohana has planned or as to what Tia has planned. OR even better what I have planned…
Tia/Retsu: Stop talking...
Me: As much as I'd like to tell you all, I value my life over your desires and will just say this...Read and find out.
Chapter 3:
Berry and the Orangette Crisis
The next day Ichigo wakes up to a loud cackle, but instead of waking up in his bed he wakes up on the skyscrapers of his inner world. His double sitting over top him on the flag pole holding an all-white version of his current katana, with the sharp point aimed down at him.
"Good morning Kingy, ready to train?" The white version asks as he spins the katana in the palm of his hand and readied to strike. Ichigo rolls and reaches for his katana on his back and spins just in time to block a side swing that sends him barreling into another skyscraper and cracking the glass.
"First thing in the morning, man you're a fucking slave driver." Ichigo sighs as he rolls his shoulders and stretches a little before defending himself from a crazed strike aimed at his head. Now he was wide awake and his eyes were almost bulging from his head.
"Yes I am, now Kingy, G ET OFF YOUR ASS!" The double yells and charges Ichigo with the sword pulled back and ready to slice down on him. Rolling out the way Ichigo brings his sword up and slashes at the double only for him to dodge it lazily and kick Ichigo in the chest. "Not bad Kingy you're getting better, but I think you need more than me teaching you." The double said as his white hakama top splits to reveal a large slash, Ichigo skids to a stop and his eyes start to glow blue. The double looks to him and starts to sweat. "Kingy we can sto-" The double doesn't finish as Ichigo slashes down and sends a blue arch of energy at his double, the arch slices through the skyscraper's glass surface and leaves a wide rift behind it.
"What the hell did I just do?" Ichigo asks as his double lands next to him and smacks him in the head with an angry look on his face.
"You fucking went and attacked even though I said we could stop!" His double yells and hauls his fist back but stops and takes a deep breath. "That attack was compressed spiritual energy that gathers subconsciously or consciously depending on how trained you are, but it will put a drain on your own reiatsu reserves. So until you get used to it you shouldn't use it more than once a fight in the real world."
"So what's it called?" Ichigo asks as he holds the katana in his hand and looks it over.
"You will learn that when you can hear my name. -" The double says and Ichigo glares at him. His double cackles and shakes his head. "Still can't hear my name, well don't worry it can take years for a soul reaper to hear their zanpakto's name."
"Zanpakto? I thought you said you were my hollow..." Ichigo says giving the albino double a skeptical look.
"Hehehe yes, I am your Hollow spirit but I'm also fused with your Zanpakto spirit. So you won't just have a zanpakto you will have a ressurection. Both will have a command but to balance out the reiatsu of them you need to learn your shikai and bankai before you can use the ressurection."
"Makes sense Hollow reiatsu is as you called it the darker more corrupt, whereas the Shinigami reiatsu is pure and lighter of the two." Ichigo says as he nods remembering the previous conversation they had. Just then his double swung his blade and sent Ichigo falling through the building.
Ichigo's Room
Ichigo wakes up in his room and looks to his left to find Yuzu sitting there with her finger against his shoulder. As Ichigo wakes up he notices that
"Morning Ichi-nii!" She says enthusiastically and stands up with her arms behind her back. Ichigo groans and pats her on the head as he sits up and stretches.
"Oh what time is it?" He asks his sister as he rolls his shoulder and cracks his neck.
"Uh about 6:40 am why?" Yuzu says before Ichigo goes bolting out the bedroom door, the sound of water from the bathroom and rushed brushing and other things.
"I slept in!" Ichigo says in a panic as he hurries to get dressed and ready for school.
Yuzu giggles as she watches her brother and goes to make breakfast for him as he rushes. About 10 minutes later Ichigo runs past the kitchen and grabs his toast from Yuzu giving her a quick thank you before slipping his shoes on and running out the door. Giggling more Yuzu walks over and shuts it before she walks over to her dad who has been hiding behind the wall.
"Now dad what happens when he remembers that his classes delayed due to the meeting?" Yuzu asks as she looks to her crazy father.
"That sweetie we will get too in due time, for now let your daddy enjoy finally pulling one over your brother." He says as he smirks and sits down to enjoy his show before opening the clinic doors.
Karakura High School Gym: 8:00 AM
All the students were gathered in the gymnasium for an announcement, as the teachers took the floor and discussed their classes for the year Ichigo was elbowed by his friend Yasutora "Chad", he nudges his head to the door causing Ichigo to look back and see an orange haired girl named Orihime Inou limp in and take a seat next to his childhood friend Tatsuki Arisawa.
"Wonder what happened to Orihime?" Ichigo mutters to Chad as the Principle starts to talk.
"Students we have a new Nurse here at the school after Ms. Kushimi broke her leg last week on her hiking trip…" The Principle says and beckons for someone to come to his side. "Allow me to introduce Ms. Retsu Unohana our new school nurse till Ms. Kuchimi is back." He says as the Ebony haired woman with a braid going down the center of her rather large chest in a white doctor's robe and black dress stands next to the principle. Sitting with the other students Ichigo's right eye starts to twitch as he realizes the woman now standing next to the principle is the exact same from the almost 2 nights prior.
"What the fuck…" Was all Ichigo could say before he felt a sharp pain in his neck and reached around to see who it was, grabbing the area with the pain he found a very small needle. "Oh you…bitch…" Was the last thing he said before passing out and scaring the students around him.
Looking at the boy Unohana sighed and shook her head. 'I have a lot of work cut out for me.' She thought before making her way to the orange haired teen. "Move let me take a look at him." She told the students as she placed her hand on Ichigo's forehead and "Checked" his temperature. "He seems to have a rather high fever and just collapsed, I'll take him to the Infirmary and let him rest there." She said as she pulled him up so his arm was slung over her shoulder, as everyone moved she made her way to the Infirmary and smiled to herself. 'Next time I have to remember to use a spirit needle…' She had to grab the needle from the boy before it was seen and now her hand was numb.
About 30 minutes after being stuck by the needle Ichigo wakes up and looks around. "Ugh my damn head feels like it wants to split open…" He says as the light shines into his eyes through the open window.
"Well then I'm glad to see my first patient is feeling better." Said a creepily happy voice that made Ichigo freeze in his spot. Sitting off to his right was Retsu Unohana balancing a scalpel on her finger by the blade. "Now Mr. Kurosaki tell me…what do you and that Vasto Lorde plan to do?"
With that question Ichigo turns red as his name sake and glares at the woman. "For the 4th time already I don't know what my hollow was talking about…" He says and looks away from her, Retsu starts to giggle after a few seconds and then sets the scalpel down.
"Well my dear boy it's quite simple, what do you two plan to do? You are a shinigami, she is a hollow, relationships of friendship don't work that way…" She states to him as he just glares at her and pointed to the needle she had placed on the table.
"Like drugging someone into a private interrogation is any better of a relationship, but to answer you I plan to keep her safe since she saved my family and myself…a dep't I can't repay easily." He says with a heavy look in his eyes as he looks to the floor. The woman tilts her head as she can understand his predicament, a life dep't can be a strong bond but for good or bad purposes.
"Then how's this tell me what you know of the spiritual world, what you don't I will try to fill in from a shinigami's perspective." Retsu says as she crosses her legs in the chair she is in to get comfortable sadly the dress she is wearing leaves little to the imagination as it rides up her thighs. Ichigo blushing intensely as he clears his throat and looks away from her.
"Well I guess I should start with I have been able to see ghosts since I was really young…" And so Ichigo explains to her about his life, leaving out some of his past but also giving her a perspective of him in general. As he finishes with his meeting his first hollow and then Tia saving his family, Retsu actually opens her eyes in surprise and starts to reconsider the termination of this hollow.
"So in all, you have only met two hollows and myself…" She states as he nods, she lets out a small sigh of frustration and looks at him. "This would probably be best if you had both sides explain together…" She states before a knock comes at the door. "Come in!" She calls as an orange haired female walks in.
"Unohana-sempai is Ichigo-kun ok?" The girl asks as she limps in, as she comes in both Ichigo and Retsu gasp as on her left shin seems to be a large bruise in the shape of a hand grasping it.
"Orihime you ok?" Ichigo asks her with concern in his voice, the bruise was almost new by the color of it. She nods and looks at him shyly.
"Yeah I-I'm fine, I just got tapped by a car is all…" She says and looks away from them as Retsu walks over and examines her leg.
"Miss I suggest you take it easy your lucky your leg isnt broken." Retsu says as she stands up and looks to Orihime with a concerned look on her face. Orihime nodded before Retsu spoke up. "Let me bandage it so that it heals up properly." With that offer Orihime sits on a vacant bed and pulls her skirt up a little to give Retsu room to work. After 5 minutes of conversing and wrapping up her leg, Retsu sends Orihime on her way with a kind smile and a farewell.
Ichigo waits till Orihime is gone before speaking up. "It's a hollow isnt it?" His question was met with a small nod. "Someone close to her or maybe someone she doesn't know?" He asks and again met with a nod.
"Might I ask how you know that?" Retsu asks him as she turns to face him.
"My Zanpakto/Hollow told me, Human souls that suffer because they don't cross over. The Zanpakto of soul reapers cleanses the hollow and allows it to become hole when it reenters the reincarnation cycle." Ichigo says to her as he notices a small twitching of the left side of her face. "Also he says that some hollows do retain their "Heart" but intern they lose something else. So instead of losing anything they feel is important, they lose their emotions."
Retsu looked at him for a second before finding herself looking back toward the door. "If you are going to have Soul Reaper powers do expect the inevitable slaying of Hollows." She said before Ichigo walked toward the door. "You may end up sending someone close to you into the Soul Society."
With that said Ichigo headed out and went home. Retsu sat there a little longer before heading out too but her destination was one that most didn't really think of.
Ichigo's Room 8:30 PM
Ichigo looks at his ceiling and sighs as he thinks back on Orihime and the possibility of the hollow attacking her. His Hollow on the other hand was slowly mulling over what Retsu had said focused his senses on the energy around them.
"Hey Hollow got a question…" Ichigo finally said breaking the silence he had been sitting in for almost 40 minutes after eating dinner with his family.
"Yeah Kingy what's up?" His Hollow replies as it still focuses on the energies around them.
"What do you think about Orihime's Hollow problem?" Ichigo asks and his hollow looks down at the glass of the building that he is standing on in Ichigo's inner world. The question threw him for a loop but he couldn't help but admit that it was a valid question.
"Well Kingy I have a feeling that her little Hollow problem will soon become ours. You do remember that your spiritual energy is vast and if anything I have yet to teach you to control it…" He says before he senses something coming from the home of the hollows and yells into Ichigo's mind. "Roll and separate your body!"
With that said Ichigo rolled off his bed and forced his soul form from his body and watched as a large red and black scaled arm came from a small black portal, soon widening to allow a black haired snake like hollow with a white mask closely resembling a tiki, climb through and let loose a howl.
A/N: And I will stop this chapter here because I have been working on college stuff and I have yet to actually post anymore to this so Sorry for the wait!
Ichigo: You better be sorry I was freaking out when you left it at the notes. Unohana scares the hell out of me and you just leave it on a cliff hanger like that!
Retsu: Oh Ichigo that's so hurtful, why im not scary. *Creepy aura that also threatens anyone to death should they question her.*
All: Yes Captain!
Me: Ok well till next time Orangette Crisis 2: Oh Brother Where Art Thow!