Chapter 14: Meeting Xcution

It had been a few hours since that fight Ichigo had with Grimmjane, and he was still a little sore afterwards. More from how hard she fought without having to go full force and getting in some good kicks and jabs. Ichigo and Kon did tell Kisuke about what happened and she had informed them that that was an arrancar. At first, Ichigo had no idea what to think of the whole thing of a hollow with soul reaper powers, as he was a soul reaper with hollow powers. It was strange to think that, but what confused Ichigo the most was when he saw those other woman standing on a building and watching the whole thing. Were they friend or foe? Were they another group the head captain warned Ichigo about? Whatever the case may be, Ichigo had a nagging feeling he would be seeing them again fairly soon.

The Next Day

Ichigo was already wide awake by the time the sun was getting ready to come up. He made sure not to wake up Kon and carefully got out of bed to get ready for the day. After yesterdays battle, Kisuke had informed him that he should be more vigilant and not simply rush into danger. Ichigo joked to her that dangers seems to just fall onto his lap at random moments in his life.

After a quick shower and getting dressed, Ichigo decided to go down a make something to eat on this Sunday morning. To his surprise, his father was already there and drinking some coffee. He looked tired and warn out from his job at the clinic and so Ichigo decided not to really do anything and let him rest for now. After making some toast for himself, Ichigo left the house with said toast in hand and decided to take the time to get a relaxing walk in. He did have his combat pass, but that was more on instinct than anything else.

Ichigo walked along a few streets just enjoying the actual peaceful day so far. "Man, it would be great if today just stayed this way." He said to himself as he stretched his arms up and took a in a deep breath. Of coarse, with Ichigo, nothing ever went his way.

As soon as he said those words, his pass went off on him. A hollow wasn't all too far away from him and from what Ichigo could tell, he could probably take care of it as he was now. For a while now, Ichigo has been able to summon small parts of Zangetsu onto himself to defend himself from hollows if he didn't have a way to get into his soul form. Ichigo ran over to where the hollow was and saw it walking around a street full of people. Since that was the case, Ichigo went into an alleyway and pulled out his pass. He freed his soul from his body and went over to deal with the hollow. Before he did though, the hollow had jumped up just out of his sight. Ichigo sighed out and flashed up to meet it only to see a woman wearing a white shirt and black pants standing in front of the hollow. She looked very calm as she was reading some book that Ichigo couldn't fully see. When she looked up from what she was reading, she looked over to Ichigo and smiled to him. Ichigo felt a shiver up his spine as she looked to him with that look on her face. The hollow in front of her roared and charged at her. Ichigo was about to stop it but stopped when he saw her pull a sword from her bookmark and she cut the hollows arm off completely. He looked at her, surprised at what she did and decided to cross his arms and watch what she did next. She didn't disappoint as she suddenly disappeared and slashed the hollow in its mask before reappearing in front of Ichigo.

"Huh." He started as she made her sword turn into a bookmark again. "So what? You use the power of reading to kill hollows or something?"

She chuckled slightly before placing her bookmark in her book and closing it. "Not precisely." She started as she started to look up and down Ichigo. He expected this to happen and simply let her look at him the way she was. When she finished, she continued. "My name is Shizuko Tsukishima, but you can just call me Shizuko. I already know who you are, Ichigo Kurosaki."

"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me." Ichigo started as he scratched the back of his head. "So, what exactly do you want exactly? I'm getting the feeling that that hollow was just to get my attention."

Shizuko smiled to him again and turned around. She started to walk away and turned her head to look at the orange haired teen. "Are you coming or not?"

Deciding to see what this was all about, Ichigo sighed and followed her. As they were going, traveling from rooftop to rooftop, Ichigo could feel some kind of familiar energy coming from this woman. It felt somewhat similar to Chad's energy. Was she somehow related to what Chad was? Well whatever it was, Ichigo didn't have enough time to think about it as he followed her to a rooftop with a door leading inside that had a girl standing next to it. This girl had magenta hair tied in long ponytails and was looking at Ichigo with a slight blush. She felt the same way as Shizuko did.

"I-Is this him?" She asked, nervously and without looking at Ichigo whatsoever.

Shizuko smirked at the girl and answered her. "Yes Riruka. This Is Ichigo Kurosaki." Riruka looked at him and saw him smile and wave to her. She gave a wary smile and waved before quickly going inside. Shizuko giggled under her breath before turning to Ichigo. "Please, follow me."

Ichigo shrugged and followed nonetheless. After a few turns down some halls, they came upon an open door leading to, what Ichigo could guess, a bar like room. He stepped in and looked around for a second before seeing more woman standing around and staring at him.

"Wow." He started as he rubbed his hair a little. "I gotta admit, a bar in an apartment. Now I can cross that off my bucket list I guess." He looked around and saw that only Shizuko giggled at the joke while the rest simply kept a stern look to them. Except for Riruka, who was still just looking away from him. "Okay, so is this supposed to mean something, or am I just here to be more eye candy. Cause if that's the case I could do poses if ya'll like."

"This is the male soul reaper?" A dark skinned woman sitting on a couch said in an annoyed tone. "He doesn't look anything like I imagined him to be."

"I would say he's just as boring as any other soul reaper." A blonde girl said as she started to play some kind of hand-held game system.

"Yeah, boring, but pretty hot." A girl with a shaved head that had a Mohawk said with a grin.

"Even I must agree miss Ginjo." The older woman at the bar started as she continued to clean some glasses. "We were to expect him to be strong, but from what I can sense, he does not seem as powerful as you said he was."

That was when this 'miss Ginjo' made her presence know to the insulted teen. "I say that he is." She stood from her chair and walked over to Ichigo. "I'm Kiku Ginjo, Ichigo, and I can tell you have many questions right now. But for now, we need to make sure what we saw before wasn't just a fluke." Ichigo tilted his head to what she was saying and then noticed that the others, minus Riruka, started to walk up to him.

Ichigo wasn't one for having to fight a bunch of woman outright, but if they simply brought him here to prove he was strong, then that was what they were going to get. Before Ichigo could really do anything though, suddenly a pink heart just floated towards him and landed on his chest. He looked at it for a moment in confusion for a second before he was suddenly being pulled up into the air. He turned into some kind of pink energy and flew into some kind of structure. The second Ichigo got his bearings, he drew Zangetsu from his hip and looked around. He was in some kind of watery area with some mountains in the distance.

"Okay." He started in a confused tone. "Not how I thought my Sunday would be going."

"Pretty interesting, isn't it?" A loud voice boomed from above him. Ichigo looked up to see Kiku and the others standing above him. The only problem with that was that they were giants compared to him.

"What the hell?" Ichigo said to himself before suddenly, the dark skinned woman and Kiku turned into pink energy and flew down to meet him.

"Now then." Kiku started as she reached for her necklace. The symbol on it started to glow and change. It went to her hand and formed a large blade in her grasp.

The dark skinned woman started to glow a little and she looked at Ichigo with a scowl. "Dirty Boots." Suddenly she was surrounded by this glowing light that swirled around her. When the light faded, Ichigo saw that she was wearing a new outfit that covered her arms and legs. She also had on a hat with some sort of silhouette in front of her eyes.

"Now then Ichigo." Kiku started as she went into a stance, same with the other woman. "Lets see just how strong you are."

Before Ichigo could protest, the other woman disappeared and reappeared behind him. She went for a kick and water kicked up as a result. Ichigo leapt up past the water and landed not too far away from it only to have to black an oncoming strike by Kiku. Her strike was strong and was forcing Ichigo back a little. She had a huge grin on her face that reminded Ichigo a little of Grimmjane and Kenpachi. Before he could really get his bearings, the other woman appeared next him and delivered a devastating kick to his side. The attack sent him into one of mountains, causing it to crumble from the impact. The woman shook her head and looked to Kiku with a disappointed scowl. Kiku sighed in frustration and looked away or a moment. Even the other woman looking on were unimpressed by the boys performance.

"That, was pathetic." The woman said to her. "You honestly thought that just because he's a male that he was automatically powerful? Hmm. He was weak and absolutely pathetic."

That was when they all heard a very bone chilling chuckle. The woman and Kiku looked to the rubble as well as the other women and saw Ichigo standing up with a huge grin on his face. His eyes had changed to a much darker color and he started to laugh at the two, much to their surprise.

"You call that a kick?!" He yelled out to them. Almost as if time had stopped for the two, Ichigo was right in front of the woman much to her surprise and horror at that look in his eyes. "This is a kick." He front kicked the woman, sending her through every mountain in the way until she hit what Ichigo could only presume was a wall. The woman fell to the ground gasping for air.

"Jackie?!" Kiku yelled out as she was about to go and check on her only to be stopped by Ichigo's black blade coming straight for her face.

She blocked it, barely, and was pushed back a considerable distance in the process. "Oh no you don't." Ichigo said to her as he lowered his blade and continued to grin to her. "You wanted to see how strong I am. Don't start gettin cold feet now."

He rushed over towards her at a considerably fast speed that wasn't shunpo, and clashed with her again. This forced Kiku down to the ground, barely able to hold the force of Ichigo's strike. He continued to press down onto her until she was trapped under her own blade. Ichigo stepped onto it so she couldn't move and flipped his blade upside down. Before anyone could respond, Ichigo stabbed the ground mere centimeters away from her face. His eyes went back to normal and he looked at Kiku with a smile that was genuine this time.

"Now that you know just how strong I am," he took his foot off her blade and picked up Zangetsu, "what exactly do all of you want?"

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