Chapter 6: An Unpleasant Deal

Ichigo saw that the woman was staring at him with wide eyes and froze. How could he be so careless when he was told not to let anyone see him? That's when he heard a snickering in his mind and immediately knew that it had to be Zangetsu's doing. She must've been the reason he always got into his fights now like this.

He looked over to the woman and saw just how shocked she was. He sheathed his cleaver with the bandages and tried to put everything into words.

"..." Obviously, he had nothing.

The woman quickly stood up and ran away from him without even looking back. Ichigo sighed and knew that this wasn't going to end well. He flashed up above the tree line and sat on one of the thick branches.

"I am so screwed." He said to himself.

"Oh come on Ichi." Zangetsu started in a his mind. "Maybe being the apple of everyone's eye won't be so bad."

"Yeah, and maybe my pelvis will be shattered completely by the time we attempt to leave." Ichigo said to her. He started to get a little comfortable and leaned against the tree. When he did, he fell asleep pretty fast.

The woman ran back to her village in a dead sprint and stopped in front of a building.

"Toka. You okay?" A woman with short black hair asked her as Toka rested on her knees.

"Yeah yeah yeah." Toka said in between breaths. "I'm fine Akira, but I have got to tell you something incredible."

"What is it?" Akira tilted her head in confusion as she asked.

Toka took a deep breath and answered with a smile. "I saw a man."

Akira went wide eyed at what Toka had just said to her. There wasn't supposed to be males in this world at all, and none of the women there that weren't soul reapers had ever seen a male before. If it wasn't for classes taught by elders, then none of them would know what a male would even be.

Toka had a massive smile on her face as Akira started to think of the various things they could do with this man.

"Toka." She started with a lust filled grin. "Where is he?"

The two noticed that others had overheard what their conversation and were wondering the exact same thing.

Toka smiled and said to them. "Follow me."

Shiba Compound

"Alright girls, this is Kukaku's place." Yoruichi said to the three as they approached the large building with strange arm shaped pillars holding up a sign that said 'Shiba' on it. "Now remember what I said about her girls. She can be a handful unless you know her well enough."

With that, the four walked along to the front entrance and were stopped by two tall and muscular women. They looked practically the same aside from hair length and stood in front of Yoruichi with surprised expressions.

"Lady Yoruichi?" The one on the right stated.

"This is very surprising." The one on the left stated. "If you are here to see Kukaku, then she's inside in her usual spot."

Yoruichi thanked the two and went inside. The four went through a few halls before getting to a door that they could hear yelling from.

"Will you shut your damn Genji!" A voice yelled out.

"I said I was sorry Kukaku! What else do you want me to say!?" Another voice yelled out.

"Well it sounds like Kukaku is in a good mood." Yoruichi said to the three with a smile. She opened up the door and walked in to see Kukaku and her sister Genji.

Genji was as tall as her sister and almost looked the same as her. She had fair skin and short black hair that she kept under a white and red do rag.

Right now, she was being man handled by Kukaku as she had her by the collar of her top. The two were arguing over something most likely before they noticed Yoruichi standing in the doorway.

"Yoruichi?" Kukaku said as she dropped her sister and went over to her old friend. She stood in front of her and grinned from ear to ear. "Well well well, haven't seen this sexy side of you in a long ass time. What brings you hear my sweet little pus-" That was when she saw the other three girls behind Yoruichi and visibly deflated. She looked back to her friend and saw that devious grin that usually always said one thing in particular for the fireworks specialist. "Oh no." She started as she walked back inside.

"Come on Kukaku." Yoruichi started as she went inside followed by the three. "You haven't even heard my offer yet."

"I don't care." Kukaku said as she turned to her friend. "You show up out of the blue and have that fuckin look on your face. That just means you want something and refuse to stay over when I give you what you want." Her voice was getting louder and angrier by the word.

"I know." Yoruichi started as she raised her hands in front of her. "But I promise you that this'll be worth it, and I'll be staying here for the next month if that sweetens the deal."

"Oh no." Kukaku started again as she walked toward the exit. She was followed by everyone else. "There is no deal this time. You are not gonna use whatever it is that you need from me and then disappear again. I refuse to help you no matter what your deal is."

Yoruichi had a smirk on her face as she was about to speak. "Well then I guess you don't want to meet him then."

This caught everyone's attention as Kukaku stopped and turned to Yoruichi. "Did you just say him?"

Yoruichi crossed her arms. "I did. His name is Ichigo Kurosaki, and he is the first and so far only male soul reaper."

Both Kukaku and Genji stared at the flash goddess in disbelief. A male soul in the soul society? If what they were hearing was true, then they would be fools to at least not hear her out.

"It seems that that caught your attention." Yoruichi started as she motioned back to the room. "Lets talk over some sake and discuss just what we need Kukaku."

Kukaku hesitated. She didn't want to be putty in Yoruichi's hands once again, but she really wanted to know just who this male was. If there was any shred of defiance in her being, it was all taken away from then on.

"F-Fine."

The Forest

It had been pretty quiet now ever since Ichigo fell asleep. He was in his inner world once again training with Zangetsu. For a hollow, she sure was rather docile when it came to Ichigo's soul. From what Ichigo could remember Rukia telling him about hollows, they lived to consume souls and were nothing but mindless monsters who lived to cause chaos. Zangetsu was not like that at all. Sure, she was a little mischievous at times when it came to battles, but all in all she's a pretty reasonable and strong woman. Ichigo saw no type of savagery or mindlessness to who she was. Was that a lie to get him to eradicate all hollows that he saw?

"Heads up!" Zangetsu yelled out when Ichigo spaced out on her. She had thrown her cleaver, which were opposite colors of Ichigo's, at him and he wasn't blocking.

Ichigo quickly focused and did his best to repel the attack. He raised his cleaver in front of him to block it. The succeeded in blocking it, but the force of the throw caused him to fly back into one of the sides of a skyscraper.

"Ichigo!" Zangetsu yelled out as she ran over to him. She was clearly concerned for his well being from the tone of her voice, and that bugged Ichigo. He stood up through the dust and rubble and met her worried eyes with his own. She sighed before yelling out. "What the hell was that?! You can get yourself killed out there if you just suddenly space out like!"

Ichigo stood up fully and patted the dust off of him. "Sorry Zangetsu." He said in a somewhat defeated tone. He planted his cleaver into the ground and sat down next to it.

Zangetsu raised an eyebrow before placing a hand on her hip and asking him. "Okay, what's wrong Ichigo?"

"I just don't understand." He started. "I was told by both Rukia and the girls on occasion that all hollows were mindless monsters, but you're different. You've been nothing to me but helpful by training me and pushing me to get stronger. I'm just so confused."

Zangetsu looked at him wide eyed before sighing. She sat next to him and placed her head on his shoulder as they looked out into the rest of the world. "They're wrong you know." She started, getting his attention. "They're wrong. Not all hollows are monsters. You just have been fighting the lower class hollows that run on pure instinct. It's not their fault that they're like that. They eat souls to evolve, and the more you evolve, the more powerful you become. The more powerful you become, the less of that hunger lingers in your soul. And the less that the hunger lingers in your soul, the more human you become."

Ichigo raised an eyebrow to those words. "Why would they want to be more human?"

"Every hollow has their own reason for wanting to achieve the status of an arrancar in their lives." Zangetsu started. "Some seek the power, some wish to get rid of the hunger for souls, some seek it out to discover a new purpose for living, and some seek to remember who they were before they died." She looked to Ichigo and saw his confused look when she said that. "Remember Ichigo, all hollows are just souls that were corrupted and became that way. They used to be people just like you are, and they sometimes retain even a small fragment of who they used to be. Those types of hollows are the ones who have the most drive to becoming an arrancar."

"So what does that make you?" Ichigo asked her as she finished.

"I'm a part of your soul Ichigo." Zangetsu told him with a smile. "I'm alive because of you. I know you have a lot of questions for me Ichigo, but I'm honestly not ready to tell you the answers yet. And you're not ready to hear them yet, so I'll make you a deal. You become stronger. Strong enough to protect the people closest to you, which will be a lot by the way, and always strive to be better. You do that and I'll tell you everything, I promise." She stood up and extended her hand out to him. Ichigo smiled and took her hand into his. She lifted him up and smiled as well.

"Deal."

"Good, cause right now you got company." She said as she started to fade away.

Ichigo was confused for a second until he was in darkness and felt hands all over his chest and abs. The hands were roaming his body and gentle enough to be soothing, but rough enough to also feel a little uncomfortable. Especially when one hand was going to his crotch. That was when Ichigo opened his eyes and saw several women sitting around him. They were caught off guard by his sudden awake and backed away slowly. Ichigo sat up quickly and a few things happened at that moment:

1: He felt a sharp pain in his back.

2: He noticed that there were around ten or twelve women around him.

3: His shihakusho was opened up to reveal his body.

And 4: His zanpakuto was still in the tree where he was laying down at before.

"What hell happened?" Ichigo said to himself as he saw that he was down here and Zangetsu was up there.

"He's awake.

"What do we do now?"

"I want to see just what a penis looks like."

"You and everyone else that lives in the village."

Ichigo caught a couple of the low talking conversations around him and didn't like where this was going. He had to act fast before he would be reversed gangbanged by these curious women around him. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on who you ask, the sound of a hollow roaring several meters away deterred the women's advances. They all turned to see a large, bird like hollow that was coming towards them all. Everyone stood up and backed away slowly as the hollow approached them. They were all too scared to really do anything, even scream, and that was making this whole situation even more unbearable.

The hollow got a glance at the soul reaper on the ground behind the women and grinned. "A soul reaper eh?" It started in its distorted feminine voice. "I guess I'll take the main course now rather than these appetizers."

The hollow charged forward and there were several shrieks from the women for a second. Then suddenly and without warning, Ichigo stood up and grabbed the hollow by its throat with his bare hand. Albeit his hand was the color of his hollows and shrouded by the feathers of the hollow so no one could see it.

The hollow looked at Ichigo in utter disbelief as it looked up and down his still exposed chest. Ichigo smirked and threw the hollow into the air with sheer force. He flashed up to his zanpakuto, grabbed it and slashed the hollow before it could even comment about his abs. He landed a little ways off from the stunned women and placed Zangetsu on his shoulder.

"Damn. I needed that." Ichigo said to himself. He turned to the women and saw their stunned expressions. He had grown used to seeing females surprised when they saw him nowadays so their looks mostly had him chuckling under his breath.

After a few seconds Ichigo tightened his shihakusho to its normal look and placed Zangetsu back in her place. He looked over to see that they had all moved closer to him without him even knowing. They all looked amazed and awestruck by what he just did and how nice he looked doing it.

"You were amazing!" The one named Toka said to him before the rest broke out in an outroar.

Ichigo had tried and failed to tone down the situation but was only making it worse every time he spoke. His voice was enough to get the girls riled up and surround him. Ichigo had tried to get out of there without hurting a single one of them, but that option sounded a lot better than being groped by almost a dozen women. Ichigo was about to really start swinging when he felt a hand on his crotch, but luckily for him he was rescued by Yoruichi.

"Wait a sec." Ichigo thought to himself as she lifted him up with one hand and started to flash out of the area. "How is this any better?"

"Dammit Ichigo." Yoruichi said in what sounded like an irritated tone of voice. Ichigo actually thought that maybe she was more angry than her usual self. That would've been great for once out of her. "How could you let that happen Ichigo? The only woman who can grope you is me." One can dream.

Yoruichi flashed them both over to a building with large arms in front of it holding up a banner saying 'Shiba'. Ichigo shook out of Yoruichi's grasp so he could land on his own. Yoruichi apparently didn't mind, because now she can run alongside him now, very closely.

After the uncomfortable closeness, the two landed in front of Orihime, Chad, Uryu and four other women that Ichigo didn't know. They stared at him in shock and Yoruichi started to laugh.

"I told you Kukaku that he was real." Yoruichi said in between breaths. She regained her composure for only a brief moment and quickly lost it when she saw Genji approaching Ichigo slowly. "It's not like he'll bite." She said in between breaths again, before she latched herself on his back, surprising the four. "Unless you want him to."

Genji blushed madly at her words while Kukaku had to look away for a moment.

"Just out of sheer curiosity." Ichigo started as he shrugged Yoruichi off of him. "Just what exactly is going on here? I thought we were going to save Rukia, not flaunt me around like some kind of decoration."

That was when Kukaku spoke up to him. "You have yourself a deal Yoruichi."

Orihime was hopping for joy while Uryu and Chad simply smiled at her words. Yoruichi was ecstatic at what Kukaku said and hugged Ichigo, again.

"Alright then. I guess now the only thing to do is wait for the morning to get this started." Kukaku said with a big toothed grin to Ichigo that sent a cold shiver up his spine.

"What just happened?" He asked but nobody answered.

"Remember the deal though Kukaku." Yoruichi started in a sultry tone. "You may get him when we're about to leave, but I get first dibs beforehand."

"Whoa hold up!" Ichigo yelled out when he heard that.

"You just better damn well make sure nobody, especially my idiot sister, gets to him before you do." Kukaku continued.

"Oh I'll make sure none of them get their hands on my berry." Yoruichi said as she started to feel Ichigo up like the times before.

"Okay, wait one damn minute!" Ichigo yelled out even louder than before and shook Yoruichi off of him. This time it got everyone's attention. "Just what the hell did you do Yoruichi!? Pimp me out to a woman I don't even know!?"

"Actually that's exactly what I did." Yoruichi said with a smile. "Kukaku is gonna help the six of us get inside the Seireitei, and in exchange for her help, when we get back you're gonna do whatever she ask you to do to her."

Ichigo looked over to Kukaku and saw a very wicked smile from her. "Oh and I'm gonna enjoy you berry boy."

Ichigo visibly deflated at hearing this. At least it can't get any worse now. Right?

Yeah It Can.

Chapter 7: Ichigo Vs. Ikuko, Renka, & Kenpachi

Sucks To Be Ichigo. I'm Gonna Have The First Fight Go By A Little Quickly And Focus The Majority Of The Chapter On Ichigo. Just FYI.

The Next Chapter Will Also Have The Soul Reapers Reaction To News Of A Male Inside Them - Er Seireitei.

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