It's been a whole month since you've seen Ichigo. You've gotten way stronger. Even to the point Urahara had even mentioned once for you to attempt bankai someday soon.
You don't really train with Renji anymore, Sado needs it a lot more than you do. Orihime and Rukia recently left to go train on their own in the soul society, Rukia told you not to mention it to Kisuke unless he asked.Renji walks out of his room yawning and stretching his arms.
"Where's Urahara?" He asks walking up to you. You hand him a cup of some tea you just made.
"Went to go and grab some stuff." You reply.
"Oh, thanks." He says taking a sip. You both sit down.
"Aren't you going to have any?" He asks you.
"I already had some with, Kisuke. It's kinda our thing to have tea and talk in the morning. Just made ya a cup." You reply. He nods, smiles and takes another sip.
"You uh, you wanna play more games?" He asks all silly.
"You bet!" You say jumping up. "We haven't in like a week. All we've been doing is training and more training." You said while unpacking the box full of the game console things you and Renji had bought together over the past month while on errand runs for Urahara.
You both sit down ready to play the game, controls in hand, when you get the feeling. The feeling of one- no three arrancar. You and Renji shoot right up into shinigami form, ready to leave.
"No, you stay here and protect Jinta and Ururu." Renji said to you when you were almost out the door.
"We don't need any protection." Jinta said smug.
"These things are as strong or can even be stronger than a seat officer. Don't play tough." Renji says. It's the most serious you've ever heard him. He looked at you and you silently agreed to stay with them. You knew he was right. He was the one who needed to go, he came here for this very purpose.
He left and was gone for a little bit. You could sense Toshiro's and Rangiku's spiritual pressure. You can tell they are in battle.
You, Jinta and Ururu all wait by the door. Guarding. Weapons ready. The wait was eerie.Nothing happened for a few minutes. Then- then you felt someone just suddenly there. He started to walk closer and closer. He looked kind of creepy with this blue hair and mustache and tall, lanky body.
Once he started to get close, Jinta and Ururu burst out the door.
"Stop! This is no place for your kind to come!" Jinta yells. You follow slowly behind them, trying to stay calm.
"I'd listen to him, please leave." You say staring dead into his eyes. But he just kept walking.
"I hear that someone here knows how to use the Hogyoku." The arrancar says, completely ignoring your threats. "I'd like to meet him..."
You flash over to him. You put your sword to his throat. This didn't really seem to faze him.
"You'll have to get through me first." You whisper. You harden your grip on your sword and put it closer to his neck.
"He's not here right now. (Y/N), I got this." You hear Renji say.
"Ohh so there's more of you." The arrancar says. "Who are you?"
"I'm Renji Abarai, Lieutenant of division six."
"Where is the man who knows how to use the Hogyoku?" The arrancar asks.
"I told you, he's not here. He's out." Renji repeats himself.
The arrancar suddenly grabs you by the neck and throws you to the ground. Renji, Ururu and even Jinta, are yelling for you. You barely saw it coming, you had let your guard down. "I'm afraid I'll have to wait here until he's come back."
Renji starts to get furious with the arrancar. "I can't let you do that. Roar! Zabimaru!" He yells releasing his zanpakutō. He took at swing at the arrancar and it completely dodged Renji's hit.
"Why you.." Renji murmurs angrily.
Junta has run up to you to see if you were fine.
"Take Ururu inside. Don't worry. Renji and I got this." You say. He nods and runs to rush Ururu inside the shop.
The arrancar and Renji begin to battle above you. You start to regain full consciousness, that arrancar is strong. He really caught you off guard. You begin to stand up again.
You notice the fight above you has paused. Then Renji comes violently falling to the ground by a flick of the arrancar's sword.
"How weak... I have 20 levels to my sword skill. That was the lowest. Level one. But you are nothing if you can't even keep up with the lowest level." The arrancar said. He then let out another hit on Renji. This made you furious. You shot up and flashed right behind him and attempted to give him a good hit but he dodged it, barely.
"Think you can sneak up on me?"
"Sing. Kasai Kōri." You say intensely. Your shikai taking form. You've completely mastered your shikai in training, even learned it's signature word to ignite it. You were ready to use it in real battle. The wind flowing from your spiritual pressure was going through your hair.
"Is that supposed to scare me?" The arrancar taunts.
You then flash by him. You land and skid a little behind him. You turn around and he is still. His shoulder on fire then blood comes gushing out of it. He turns around and flings one of his incredibly fast sword swings at you. You took the hit and fell next to Renji.
"You alright?" He says looking at you.
"I'm fine. Let's go."
Renji gives you a smile and you both shoot back up. Renji releases his bankai and takes a full swing at the arrancar. He pushes him down into the training ground, letting out a loud yell. The store is mostly destroyed at this point. You run to Jinta and Ururu.
"Go find Urahara. Quickly." You say.
"But-"
"Just go!"
"Please, be careful." Jinta said.
They both then started to run away to go and find Kisuke. You then follow Renji underground by jumping down the hole he created. You aren't to strong right now. You didn't land completely on your feet. A big crash happened right by you. You barely flash stepped out of the way.
This arrancar was already fully released.
You suddenly felt him behind you. By the time you could give a reaction he grabbed you.
"Pathetic. I only hit you once and your power is already severely depleted." He says to you.
"You put her the hell down." Renji says sternly. The arrancar turns his head to face him.
"Or what?"
"Or this. Hinomi Hiema Shiage" you yell.
A tower of fire surrounds you and the arrancar. He starts to scream. You get free from his hands and jump out. The fire being yours, it has no effect on you. Then the fire wall turns to cold ice. Surrounding the arrancar completely.
Renji begins to relax a bit. You do too.
"Amazing." Renji says. "I really wanted to see you try that for real. It was so amazing."
"Thank you Renji. I-"
The ice began to crack. Faster and faster.
Then
Shatter.
It seemed like it was in slow motion you watched your ice fall and scatter all around you. You were looking up at the ice fall, when you felt it. Another hit from the arrancar's swing. This time, it was 15 times stronger than the last one. You went flying. Then hit the ground violently.
Your on the ground and your ears are ringing. You can faintly hear Renji yelling with complete anger while taking a giant swing at the arrancar. You begin to get up. You can't let Renji do this himself. Besides, you think you saw what the arrancar's weakness is being up so close to him when he attacked you. You have to tell Renji.
You get up, barely able to stand. You look around for Renji. There's dirt kicked up in the air. It's hard to see. You walk for a little bit and find him on the ground, covered in blood.
"No!" You yell kneeling down to him.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." Renji says.
"You can't go on much longer, Renji. Do you have one more big hit in you? I've found his weakness."
"But look at you, if you go on you could-"
"No! I will continue. This is what we were meant to do, Renji. It's our duty."
"You're right. I'm sorry. What's your plan?" "You have to hit perfectly when he goes to put back his sword. All his spiritual energy is kept in his swords sheath. When he goes to put it back, it's recharging. I'm going to stop him, and you hit." You explain.
"Amazing." He says getting up and swaying a bit. "Let's go." He says determined.
It didn't take you long to find the arrancar. Once you did, after the dirt calmed down. You flash stepped behind him.
"You are slow." He said grabbing your foot but you were able to cut your way out. You barely scratched him but it was still enough. He begins to pull his sword out to hit you.
He fell for it. You say to yourself.
You flash step to dodge his hit. Just milliseconds before he put his sword back to recharge, you blocked it.
"Renji, NOW!"
"Hikotsu Taiho!" Renji yells.
You have to keep the arrcancar in place. You realized a fault in your plan. You won't be able to move in time.
You see Zabimaru's red beam coming your way, fast. At the very last second, you flash trying to get away. Some of it hit you, but you got to watch that terrible arrancar be wiped away. You landed on your feet, barely. Watching the stolen Hogyoku fall to the ground.
"(Y/N)" he says, dropping his sword and running to you.
"You did it Renji." You say smiling at him, starting to collapse.
But then suddenly your caught by someone behind you. You look up in tired confusion.
It's Kisuke. You smile at the sight of his calming exposure.
"Sorry I'm late." He whispers to you and kisses your head lightly.
"Mr. Urahara..." Renji says out of breath.
"I just got back, you guys did a fantastic job." Urahara says.
Then Toshiro, Rangiku, Ikkaku, and Yamichika all flash step into the training ground at once.
"Are you two okay?" Toshiro asks.
"Yeah... somewhat." Renji says looking at you, laying in Kisuke's arms.
"Looks like you four got beat up yourselves." Kisuke says.
"What's up with all this?" Ikkaku asks.
"Well, it seems they're all dead now. I believe Aizen was toying with them." Kisuke replies.
"Toying?" Toshiro says.
"That Hogyoku they brought..." it begins to shatter. "It's a fake."
"What?" We all say.
"He probably let them believe they were stealing the real Hogyoku with his Kyokasuigetsu. There's no way they'd be able to steal it so easily."
"But why let them steal a fake?" Renji asks.
"Who knows? Maybe they let them come here because they had a different plan, to create a front, knowing we'd go after them. So they can do something else. Or he could have just for the fun of it. He's that kind of man."
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Opia (Ichigo x reader)
Hayran KurguDuring when the Bounts are attacking the Soul Society, Ichigo meets someone. At first sight he knows that she is special and needs to protect her over everything else. Over time they grow closer. Ichigo begins to train her for the evils of this worl...