Disrupted🪭

2 - Namely Confused

“So what is it you want me to try and find while I’m in there?” Ichigo asked as Tessai sat down some tea for him and Urahara.

Urahara picked up the small glass and sipped out of it.

“It’s not necessarily what I want you to find but more of what is going on. You see, fixing the Precipice World is for a reason because time flows through it and such.”

“Yeah, I remember. My old man stopped it from reaching me in order to buy me some time to learn how to do the Final Zangetsu.” Ichigo said, remembering how long it had seemed while he was there.

“Exactly. Time flows differently in there and thus is why The Cleaner is in place, to keep Soul Reapers from lingering and gaining powers beyond the control of the Soul Society. People like Aizen, who were already powerful, needn’t be held up in there to gain more power.”

Ichigo nodded, understanding their reasonings. Urahara’s though, he never could figure out. He was such a conniving man to be so trusting as well.

“So what are you wanting me to do?”

“I need you to just go in there and figure out what they are doing. I’ll send you through and all you have to do is run and when you see them, you’ll know to stop and just have a glance at what they are doing… Oh, and I want you to take a sample of the koryu so that I may study it a little.”

“Okay… When do you want me to make this little trip?”

“As soon as possible so today, preferably but if you have something to do then tomorrow will work as well.”

“And there’s no funny business, right? Just me taking a quick survey of what’s going on and a sample of the koryu?”

“That’s all I need.”

Ichigo thought about it for a moment and then nodded.

“Might as well get this over with.”

Urahara smiled and they went to his underground lair.

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Ichigo adjusted his zanpakuto on his back and looked at Urahara as he looked at his Reishi machine and at his cane. He shrugged and thrust his zanpakuto into the air, turning the sword. A crude looking gate showed up and opened but it was dark. Ichigo looked at it and made a face at Urahara.

“You should be fine to just go through here. I apologize that I do not have any Hell’s Butterflies to greet you but since I have been banished from the Soul Society, I was not permitted to have complete access. This allows you to go straight into the Soul Society but you have to go through the Precipice World.”

He walked up to him and handed him a vial with some tongs at the end of it.

“When you get in there just take a little scoop and then run.”

Ichigo nodded, taking the tongs and breathed in. He knew this was a very bad idea but if Urahara could tell him when the feeling he had was, he would be more at ease. He braced himself and ran into Senkaimon.

As soon as the darkness enveloped him he began to run a little, knowing that he was in the Precipice World. He stuck the bottle into the roryu, thick goopy smoke looking stuff filling the vial in an instant. He wondered how Urahara was going to be testing it when he saw a light flash behind him. He looked back and was surprised to find The Cleaner heading toward him full force.

“What the- I thought this was gone! They fixed it already?!” he yelled at no one as he ran as fast as he could toward where the opening was. It was starting to close and he pushed himself so that he didn’t get stuck in the Precipice World forever and finally felt air around him. But what he didn’t realize was that he was a few hundred feet in the air and yelled as his balance wavered and he began to fall. He tried to catch onto the air but the force of gravity on his falling made it impossible to do.