A/N: Well we are finally up to chapter 5 of the Shark and Berry rewrite.
Ichigo: Yep and this chapter everyone gets to be freaked out by an extremely dark scene with me and another person.
Screamer: Hahaha stupid shinigami you can't get much darker you're already wearing all black…
All: …Not that kind of dark.
Me: Allow me. *clears throat* This chapter will induce a dark side that isn't really shown in Ichigo until he fights Ulquiora in the Los Noches arc. Just a lot of tweaking.
Hichigo: Yeah bitches I finally get to let loose and its actually with Kingy's ok.
All: Ikusani!
Me: *Sweat drops* I own nothing but a few character's of my own creation and this story twist. Tite Kubo eat your heart out…in a good way. Also for those who wonder why i take so long, writers block is a bitch and my father just had a second surgery on his back, if anyone is feeling generous and willing to assist in getting him a adjustible bed the help would be appriciated. If not...*lets go of Hichigo's limiter*
Hichigo: Fuck yeah bitches! *continental destruction* AHHAHAHAAHAH!
Chapter 5:
Berry, Shark and a Screamer
Same night:
Ichigo flash steps from roof to roof as he heads toward Karakura park, sensing the reiatsu of someone he had started to grow closer to, get closer. Sitting by a large oak tree was Tia who seemed to be playing with a strange looking cat like hollow. It was really small about the size of a cat but...also seemed to have three tails. Tia humming to herself as she moves a twig around making the kitten-hollow jump around and pur as it tries to catch the leaves on the end, seemingly oblivious to Ichigo floating above her.
"Having fun?" Ichigo calls out to her as he lowers down to the ground. Tia jumps slightly throwing the stick away which in turn makes the kitten like hollow chase it.
"I-ichigo...you startled me..." Tia says as she pants a little and takes a few deep breaths moving her left hand to her chest as she tries to calm down.
Chuckling Ichigo lands infront of her and sits across from her. "So...you purified another hollow?" she asked with slight confusion since he would normally meet her in his body.
"Hmmm?" Ichigo hummed before looking at his body and then facepalming himself. "Yeah...one of my classmates brother came back and tried to kill them..." He explained lightly as he rubbed the back of his head. Though thats not before his mask decided to remind them of its presence.
"Yeah that prick deserved what he got...hurting his own sister that way...lucky kingy here was holding back..." It said in a very pissed off tone before changing into a very lecherous one. "So Blondie question...when you gonna let kingy here bang you?"
And at that point two things happened at once, Ichigo went paler then his hollow in his inner world, and Tia seemed to get even darker in color. Both sputtering at a loss for words before the mask starts to cackle. "Oh this is priceless...alright hey kingy you notice anything strange in the air?" The sudden change in topic catching both their attention and they start trying to sense whatever the mask was refering too. Sure enough there was a low spiritual pressure that neither knew but they passed it off as a new hollow.
"Strange but nothing to worry about...but first..." Ichigo says as he pulls his fist back and slams it into the mask. Both grunting in pain as obsenities fly from the mask. "Thats for the comment earlier..."
Just as he finishes that Tia smacks him across the face and sends him tumbling to the ground fully with a large glowing red hand print on his face. "I will kill you should you ever mention that again mask..." Tia says in a very cold tone, only to get a groan in reply as she blinks and then covers her face with her left hand again. 'shit i think i knocked him out...' She thinks and sure enough Ichigo has small hollow masks floating around his head and his own mask has her swirling around in its eyes as well, lets just say Tia wanted to hit them again. Sensing a strong reiatsu getting closer Tia leans Ichigo against the tree and then quickly opens a Garganta and leaves the Living World.
Unohana's Apartment before Tia leaves:
Captain Unohana finally walks back into her small rented apartment after healing and giving orihime and tatsuki new memories. She sets a pot of tea on the stove and goes to change when a knock comes at her door. Sensing the reiatsu on the other side she gives it a puzzling look before going to the door and opening it.
"Yes how can i help you tonight, Sosuke Aizen?" She said in her normal sweet tone as she looked to her fellow captain and smiled.
The man in question smiled back and pushed his glasses up on his nose. "Good evening Retsu-san may i come in? I have orders from the captain commander." He asks and then tells her as he pulls a scroll from his sleeve and offers it to her.
"Of course please come in, I was about to change and have some tea if you dont mind waiting a minute." She says as she opens the door for him and steps to the side, nodding back at her Aizen walks in and takes a seat on her small couch. Quickly Unohana goes back to her room and then comes back out as she is now dressed in a white silk night gown hardly hides her curvy figure. "So what has the Captain Commander said?"
"I am to meet with the boy...but also i am to try and convinse him to come to soul society." He lies smoothly as he walks into the kitchen as he hears the tea pot whistle. "They want to see if the boys powers are his own or if he stole them from someone." He places the pot on a pot holder and turns to her. "The first contact is just to try and show him we are no threat...but you will observe him till another person comes to get you." He says as he moves out of her way as she pours them cups of tea.
"This makes a little sense but as i said in my recording and in my report he didnt have any contact with a soul reaper until after he changed and as for the hollow mask...it bugs me but at the same time its not a issue...i dont know how to describe it..." she says as she hands him a cup and then sits at her small dining room table.
"Well first i have to meet him face to face and explain to him of the shinigami and the hollow..." He looked at Unohana for a second and smirked before laughing. "Are you in a Gigai?"
Puffing up her cheeks Unohana looked into her cup and muttered some in comprehensible words before answering. "Yes it was the only way i could talk with him the first time i met him...second time..." She said and sighed as she looked to the clock on her wall. it was almost 10 pm and she had to go to that dreaded school.
"Hmmm well why dont you give him this," He pulls out a small wooden pass with a skull and a black 'X' behind it on both sides of the wooden pass. "And tell him that should he like to talk just push a little of his reiatsu into it." With a nod from unohana he smiles and thanks her for the tea, as he is going for the door a thought hits him. "Have you seen the Vasto Lorde yet?'
Unohana shook her head and sighed as she lied on a equally smooth manner. "Sadly i feel that the sensors may have been faulty its been almost 2 weeks and i have yet to see any sign of it." She said in a sad tone, her smile turning to a slightly depressed frown.
With that Aizen nods and walks away into the night leaving Unohana to contemplate her next conversation with the young orange haired teen.
Karakura High the next day:
Ichigo walked onto the campus with a swollen jaw, he woke up at 5 in the morning still under the tree in the park with the three tailed cat hollow sitting on his head asleep. Now he was in class listening to the teacher as the damned thing kept rubbing against his leg.
'Hey kingy look your at least getting some tail.' His hollow commented without laughing for once as the kitten like hollow meowed and rubbed against his leg more.
'I dont know if i should be proud that you couldnt laugh at that or horrified you made the joke to begin with.' Ichigo replied mentally as his teacher continued on with the lesson only for the intercom of the school to interupt her.
"Ichigo Kurosaki please report to the Nurses office, again Ichigo Kurosaki report to the Nurse's office." The secritary said before with a loud click the mic cut off.
"Wonder what thats about?" Ichigo said as he got up from his desk and walked to toward the door, As he reached for the door the kitten jumped up onto his shoulder and sat purched on it, with a sigh he opened the door and headed to Unohana. Before he opened the door he could hear her voices inside, it was deffinitly Unohana, the creepy smile in her voice that almost always had that hint of blood lust in it echoing though the door.
"You may come in Mr. Kurosaki." Unohana called as Ichigo felt his skin crawl as she said his name before grasping the handle and sliding the door open.
"What can i do for you Ms. Unoha...whats wrong?" He asked as he saw her twiddling her thumbs as she watched him walk in, her face didnt have the normal sweet smile she would wear daily.
"Well theres nothing wrong persay...but you may want to tell miss vasto lorde to stay away for a few days." She said with a slight displeased tone after talking with the vasto lorde and him she had found the other woman was almost as human as he or her were.
"Dont tell me..." He started as he raised a hand to his orange hair and ran it through as he let out a exasperated sigh.
"They sent another Captain here and he is primarily here to speak with you, but if he senses her i have no doubt that he will kill her." Unohana stated as she watched Ichigo shake his head and grumble something before sitting across from her.
"So whats he want me to do in order to contact him?" He asks this time in a slightly aggrivated tone.
"Take this, I've looked it over it seems official." She pulls out the wooden pass and holds it out to him as he looks it over and takes it. "He said when your ready to talk push some of your reatsu into the pass and it will signal him to meet with you."
"Well I'm not doing this at home but i thank you." He stood up and started to walk toward the door when the lunch bell rang. "Huh guess ill go have lunch with the gang." He thought allowed before heading up toward the roof.
Already sitting on the roof were, Tasuki, Orihime, Keigo, Mizuro, and Sado "Chad". Everyone was around Chad and surprisingly hiding him from Ichigo's view. "Hey guys whats up?"
Mizuro turned back to Ichigo and spoke as the others pretty much ignored him. "Oh hey ichigo, Chad got a new pet." He said as he moved a little and let Ichigo see a parakeet in a cage. He also saw Chad with bandages on his head, wrist and one on his cheek.
"Ichigo..." Chad says as he waves to him casually. Ichigo for his part waves back and smiles at chad.
"What happened to you man?" He asks as he kneels down and rubs the caged birds head.
"A steel beam fell and I caught it..." Chad said as everyones eyes almost bulged out of their heads, for his part Ichigo just shook his head and chuckled a little.
"Chad i dont know what your made of but more to you." He said as he scratched the birds neck, "So whats your name little guy?"
"My name is Yuichi Shibata, nice to meet you mister." The parakeet says in a very young and innocent tone. To everyone else it just seemed like the bird was well trained and really cool, Ichigo however froze with his hand still extended as he looked over the bird in slight horror. With a hard glance Ichigo began to see a small boy roughly 8 years old coming from the bird.
"Oh shit.../Oh shit...' Both Ichigo and his hollow thought.
Before long lunch had ended and Ichigo made up a excuse to go talk to Unohana, knocking on the door gently Ichigo waited patiently as he heared her walk over to the door. "Oh Mr. Kurosaki how can i help you?"
"Can you tell me what you sense in this building currently?" He asked her as she nodded and started to reach out with her spiritual awareness, only to freeze when she found the soul of the boy in the bird.
"What...in the world..." She replied as Ichigo nodded and leaned on the wall. "I would say Conso would be the best action but..."
"You get the same feeling too? Something more is going on?" He asked her as she nodded again before they knew it the school day was over and Ichigo and her went their seperate ways.
"Hey Kingy you know what i sense?" The poor victim of over bleaching says as Ichigo walks home.
'Hmmmm whats that?' Ichigo asks as he can already guess what it is.
"A Hollow and a strong one at that...becareful Kingy I get the feeling something bads gonna happen." With that his hollow went silent and Ichigo couldnt help but nod as he also felt it, in the pit of his stomach.
Kurosaki Clinic 11:30 pm
Ichigo sat on his bed as he finished up the last of his homework, when the sound of sirens and the red and blue flash of lights came past his window. Running into the hall Ichigo found his dad on the phone as people were being carted into the clinic. "No i dont have the room for a mass casualty incident send them to the hospital, I can only take a few!" His father yelled into the phone before growling and slamming it back onto the reciever.
"Dad is there anything i can do?" He asked his father only for him to walk by quickly and yell back.
"No just go sit in the corner in fetile position till its over." His father said before going into the clinic again, pretty much just like his dad had ordered Ichigo was instantly there with a rain cloud over his head.
"Hahaha this is priceless, Kingy your useless in a clinic. Well unless your the one picking.." Before his mask could finish its statement Ichigo's dad came in with a very large tanned skin teen on his shoulders.
"Ichigo get over here and help me get him on a gurny!" His father yells causing Ichigo to quickly get up and rush over.
"Ironic i was about to say that...Haha." His hollow says as he rolls his eyes and helps lower the guy onto the gurny only to find it to be Chad.
"Chad what the hell?" Ichigo asked as his father carted him into a room and took off the injured teens shirt. On his back was a large bleeding burn mark in the shape of what looked like a webbed foot of a duck. 'Shit did a hollow do this?'
"Yeah it did kingy focus on the energy around the wound you can almost smell the taint of a hollow."
The next morning
"ICHIGO CHADS NOT IN HIS ROOM!" His father yelled as he stood by a open window and scanned for any sign of Chad. Ichigo for his part rushed out the door and started to run down the street looking for his friend.
Small construction building that's almost done
Chad sat with the parakeet infront of him in its cage. "I'm sorry mister, please leave me here and run. I'll be ok just save yourself." It begged as it flapped its wings and paniced a little.
"Its ok Yuichi I'm fine..." Chad reassured as he looked up and noticed something clang above them. "Its found us..." He said as he jumped and took the caged bird before a steel beam fell where they were just sitting. Rushing out the building Chad couldnt help the cold feeling as something brushed by him going the opposite way.
Just down by the river roughly outside the building before the beam falls
A garganta opens and Tia slowly walks out the swirling portal of darkness. She looked around only to sense the hollow attacking a large tan skinned male teen. Rushing past him as he exited the building she stopped and tried to find the hollow with her senses, but to no avail as she walked around inside with her blade arm at the ready.
"Mmm you smell yummy...and really strong too." She hears behind her as little ugly gremlin looking hollows jump on her and start to shoot pink sticky leeches onto her. "Hehehe this should be fun..." With a sharp whistle they explode and throw her from the building.
"Aaaah!" Tia yells in pain as she is lauched through the wall and into the street. As she gets up she can see this wierd looking hollow with black fur around its neck. "How...did you do that much damage?"
"Oh that would be the leeches, they drain some of your spirit energy and use it as fuel for the explosion." The Hollow said as more of its minions jumped out and landed beside it. "So how about a little game?" With that they all started shooting leeches at her and Tia could only keep dodging them as best she could. With so many of the little hollows just appearing from no where she was starting to get pushed to the limit of her stealth skills. "Yes thats right keep running!" The hollow laughed before whistling again and causing the few leeches on her to explode.
Again with a screech of pain Tier fell to the ground with several pieces of her white armor blown full of holes her legs didnt want to move and her arms were weak from trying to cut the swift little minions. "Any last words slut?" The hollow asked before feeling something very deadly approaching from behind. Tia for her part started to shake in fear when she saw the skull like mask grow two large horns protruding straight out of it. the markings of the mask alter to go from the eye sockets and down the skull, as it changed more the orange mane it had grew longer before the figure vanished before the hollow could turn around. The feeling of impending death growing each second.
"So...you like...torture?" A distorted voice asked from behind the hollow, causing it to panic and swirl around only to find nothing there.
"Hehe nice try bitch, but you'll have to do bet-" Its words died in its throat as it turned to see a orange haired hollow dressed in full shinigami robes standing between it and the downed female hollow. The mask it wore petrifying bomb user.
"Dont make me ask again..." With the flick of its wrist a long gash appeared along the bomb users right arm, causing it to scream in pain. "Do you like torture?"
With a nod of yes the bomb user tried to heal itself only to have the hand of the horned hollow go into the long gash and grab hold of its bone. "AAAAH! FUCK TAKE IT OUT!" The bomb user screamed as the horned hollow chuckled darkly still holding the bone in its arm.
"Oh pull it out? Are you sure?" The horned one asked as he kept hold of the bone and slowly slid its arm lower into the Bombers arm.
"AAAAAH YES YES TAKE IT OUT!" The hollow begged as it spread its wings and tried to swat at him. Only to feel something that made even Tia wanted to puke from, The bone that kept its arm from being nothing more then limp muscle, veins, tendons, and artories, was ripped from its home only to have the gash heal itself almost instantly afterword. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Screamer yelled as the horned Hollow threw the dripping bone away and flicked its wrist causing another long gash to open on the left arm.
"Hehehe whats wrong screamer, I thought you liked torture..." The poor bat like hollow could have sworn the horned one was giving him a malicious grin as he moved closer. Fear struck it before it launched several small minions at the horned one and watched as its minions were cut down their leaches still covering it.
"Haha now you di-" Before it could finish the comment a arm slammed into its masks teeth grabbing a hold of its tongue.
"Whats the matter? You wanted to blow me up right?" The horned demon asked as it tightened its grip. "Well if you wont use it...then im taking it!" With that he made one violent jerk and ripped the tongue straight out of the hole between the teeth its arm made.
Screamer for his part was almost beyond words as blood spilled from his mouth and he paniced as cuts formed on his legs, and left arm again. "This is gonna be really painful for you but now you know...dont ever hunt my friends again!" With that the horned hollow ripped out each of the largest bone from each leg, and the last remaining arm before letting its wounds heal. The bones in a small pile off by a light post as the horned hollow stood over screamer.
"Who...who are you?!" The brutalized and maimed hollow demanded as the mask reverted and returned to its demonic skull like look, the orange hair seemed to shrink back and a Zanpakto sheath appeared on his back. The blade of the Zanpakto in his right hand. Moving his left hand up he grabbed his mask and shifted it up and off to the side of his head.
"My name is Ichigo Kurosaki...and you can go to hell!" Ichigo said before slamming his sword straight into the noodle limbed bat hollow before screamers mask sent a bolt of energy up and formed into the gates of hell. Screamer only continuing to do his name sake as a larger sword stabbed him through his chest and lifted his limp body up and into the gate. Turning back from the gate Ichigo heard one thing before it closed.
"Well done Human though next time...leave some fun for me..." The voice says before the gate closes and then chatters like glass.
Ichigo for his part felt a very cold chill run down his spine as he looked around then to Tia. "Uhm...sorry i was late..." He said as Tia sat there dumb struck by what she had just witnessed. This boy had just brutally tortured a hollow into being a noodle before sending it to hell.
Ichigo stood there as he saw the wide eyed look Tia had as he waved his hand infront of her. His mask still sitting on the left side of his face. "Uhm Kingy I think you broke her..."
Ichigo started to sweat as he felt like he did something wrong, looking around as he tried to figure out what. Soon he jumped when he felt bone plated arms wrap around his chest and the same plated breastplate press into his back.
"Thank you Ichigo..." Tia said as she hugged him and smiled under her mask, before letting go of him and moving away. When Ichigo turned around he could see that some of her armor was chipped and her mask was cracked.
"Are you going to be ok?" He asked her only to get a nod as a garganta opened up behind her. "Well rest well..." He said before she back stepped into the dark portal and let it close
"Well kingy i guess you and her are gonna have one hell of a adventure..." His hollow mask commented as he walked home, the two bickering back and forth over other comments later made before he got back to the parakeet and chad, kneeling down Ichigo looked at the boy's spirit and smiled.
"Time to send you to soul society so you can be with your mother." He stated to which the boy smiled and nodded thanking Ichigo before he was tapped on the head with the hilt of Ichigo's Zanpakto, a large burst of light before the boy vanished leaving a black butterfly to fly into the sky.
On a roof top a few streets away
Aizen and Unohana sat on a roof top having watched everything before, Unohana sat wide eyed as did Aizen who was trying to determine wether or not Ichigo would be able to be talked to at all. "Interesting boy, i have to give him that. But how does he have both shinigami and hollow powers?" Aizen asked as he looked to Unohana trying to see if she had any assumptions.
"To be honest I have no idea but there is one thing..." She said before Aizen started to scoot away from her as she seemed to writh in a strange excitement.
"I want to have a indepth check up..." her breathing soon became pants as she was fidling with her hakama pants.
'Kurosaki i dont know wether your lucky...or very unlucky right now...' Aizen sweat dropped as he flash stepped away from his Co-Captain. one thought however made Aizen smile, Ichigo was progressing perfectly.
A/N: And so ends this chapter of our story...
Unohana: *mutters to herself as she seems to be drooling*
Everyone: *takes several hundred steps back*
Me: Yeah this wont end well...anyway soon another character will make their appearance one that made himself known in the original mess up of this story of mine.
Cast: HEY! *killing intent*
Me: Anyway introducing my original character version 2.0 Zander E. Roland or AKA Zero.
Zero: ...Just going to say it...I hate you...
Soifon: I hate him too...
Ichigo: Agreed.
Me: TRAITORS!
Tia: Oh i have to agree as well...but i must say he knows how to make things interesting...*looks over me and i sweat horribly.*
Me: I'm not your prey...'I hope...' Also you should be after Ichigo not me!
Tia: True...*She sonidoes over and hugs Ichigo causing him to blush.*
Me: Few...ok anyway next chapter, Ninjas, Quincy and a Menos Grande sized Head Ache!