99I DON'T OWN BLEACH.
Darkness.
That was all that was visible if you looked at the sky. It wasn't because it was night. This dark sky had always been there since 9 years.
9 Years of war.
The brave soldier held his sword in front of his eyes. Noticing the cracks in the glimmering metal of hope. And he then turned around to meet the battle screams of the enemy.
He swung the sword, hoping it would not break, just like how his broken soul had.
"Ichigo?"
Ichigo was bought out of his thoughts as he stopped staring at the sky and focused on the voice that had called him.
With a tire full sigh, Ichigo walked over to the said man as he put back his swords into his sheath.
Kisuke looked at Ichigo with admiration and pity. The boy he had seen grow beyond his expectations for 13 years. The boy who had earned a power so great that mighty men will fall at his feet. The boy who had helped soul society so much that nobody could thank him enough even if they had put their life in front of him.
Yet this boy was broken beyond repair.
"What is it Kisuke?" Ichigo asked as he tried to maintain his irritating tone which he had faked since the last few years.
"Aizen. . .Yhwach. . .I don't know what that is but he is awake. But we should meet Lisa first" Kisuke said as he pointed at the 'thing' with his right arm, his left being gone a year ago along with his cane, now replaced with a fake arm. That was when he finally considered using a normal sheath.
Then he pointed at the dull green tent that lied admist the rubble that was once known as the foundation of soul society.
Aizen-Yhwach. They had been calling him that because they couldn't put a finger on what they would call him.
When Aizen was 'released' from his prison, he had first decided to decieve everyone (soul society) into thinking that he was on their side, that he was going to protect them along with Ichigo.
But when Ichigo was hurt enough, he combined Yhwach with himself using the Hogyōku that was still embedded in him.
The Hogyōku in want of a new master decided to use Yhwach but Yhwach who had made a deal with Aizen decided to change some plans.
They fused.
The Hogyōku, Aizen and Yhwach fused. The three most powerful beings fused and created something that could be known as 'death' itself.
That was when the war took a turning point.
Everyone died in the 9 year long war. And Ichigo was just 18 when he has rushed into it. Now him being 27 did change a lot of things, but not his desire to protect.
Aiwach was so much stronger than everyone that it was nearly impossible for even Genriyusai Yamamoto to see his flash steps.
Aiwach had even halfway become the soul king himself.
Just like Ichigo, Aiwach had broken the boundary between Shinigami, Hollow and Quincy.
Ichigo had tried so much to power up and kill 'him' before he kills anymore but he failed.
The only ones left alive right now were Ichigo, Kisuke, Lisa and Aiwach.
And it pained Ichigo that he ended up being the useless trash he thought he was.
"Ichigo. . ." Lisa called out weakly and Ichigo again started walking.
Ichigo walked into the tent and the strong smell of blood hit him instantly.
He glanced at the puke-bucket and saw nothing but blood.
Ichigo turned to look at Lisa who was lying on the makeshift bed and his eyes softened.
'So Kisuke knew. . .' Ichigo thought as he looked back to see that the guy was waiting outside the tent.
Kisuke knew she was going to die so he stayed outside.
Lisa's weak posture tried to sit up on bed but Ichigo quickly walked over and with a light push at her shoulders he made her lie down.
He then wiped some of the blood vomit on Lisa's chin with the end of his shihakusho sleeves.
"Stay down Lisa, you have already lost enough blood" Ichigo said as he sat on a small wooden stool next to the bed and started removing the bandages around Lisa's exposed waist.
He grimaced as soon as the bandages were off.
Bood poisoning.
Not that this was the first time he had seen or dealt with it, but it was never a good sight.
Lisa stared at Ichigo's head, waiting for him to look at her once.
Ichigo never did. He picked out a fresh roll of bandage and some cleaning medicine from a small table on his left and started cleaning her wound.
But when he saw that the yellowness wasn't fading, he knew what was going to happen next.
'This requires a surgery. . .' Ichigo thought.
"I am going to have to sedate you. You need a surgery and i think i can try to do it. Damn, what wouldn't i give to have Unohana taicho right now" Ichigo said with a small smile.
"Ichigo you know that i am-"
"But i will save you" Ichigo said as he did not want her to continue the statement and took out some surgery equipment from a box on his right.
"Ichigo-"
"I said i can do it. You don't need to wo-"
Before Ichigo could complete, a pale yellow and sweaty hand reached out to Ichigo's right hand and he froze.
"Ichigo, it's okay to let go" Lisa's calm yet wavering voice called out.
"No, I am not letting you go. I promised Captain Shunsui that i would protect you" Ichigo said as his other hand crushed the roll of gauze. The obvious truth had finally started to weigh down on him.
"And this is protecting me Ichigo. I am in so much pain, I don't want it anymore. I want this to end" Lisa said as she squeezed Ichigo's hand.
"Orihime had said the same thing. . ."
"And your wife died peacefully Ichigo"
"But i cannot do the same to everyone-"
"Ichigo, there is nobody left" Lisa interjected.
Ichigo closed his eyes tightly at the statement.
Sensing her own harshness, Lisa continued more calmly.
"Ichigo i want to be with my captain and for the first time I don't want to yell at him for drinking. I want to wear contacts instead of my glasses. I want to eat that rice cake Ukitake san made once more. I want to hear Yamamoto yell at Captain Zaraki. . .i want to do so many things with the people that are on the other side. . .and the only way to do this would be to let go. . . you have done so much for soul society. . . you have tried to protect each and every person but now it's time to relax Ichigo. . ."
"But i h-have done nothing! Everyone is dead and i couldn't even protect you or Ru-Rukia from that last attack and i have been completely usele-"
"Ichigo, you have done so much. You don't realise it yet but what you have done is more than enough. For once Ichigo, protect yourself" Lisa said as a small smile graced her face as Ichigo dropped the gauze.
After a few minutes Ichigo held Lisa's hand firmly as he felt her pulse fade. As if he didn't want to let go of that smallest beat of her pulse.
"How can i repay you?" Ichigo's small voice wavered slightly as he asked that.
"You already have Ichigo" Lisa said in her last breaths as Ichigo finally looked at Lisa as she smiled at him and her hand loosened around his own.
A few minutes passed as Ichigo continued to stare at Lisa's face that had a calm wash over it.
Ichigo set Lisa's now limp hand beside her and abruptly got up.
He then took out Lisa's lieutenant batch from his arm. When Lisa had got hurt the first time, She had insisted that he should wear his own own lieutenant batch along with Lisa's. Just in case he lost his, which was stupid cause Ichigo would never lose a thing that might be this important to him. But considering how he had already lost so many things that were important to him and of course, his friend's condition, he agreed without any further argument.
He walked out the tent, now wearing only his batch as he left Lisa's behind, right beside her and without even noticing Kisuke that was standing outside, he started to walk towards where Aiwach was.
Kisuke stared at Ichigo's back for few seconds before he continued to walk behind Ichigo.
'He didn't cry. . .' Kisuke thought grimly.
It didn't even take the both of them a minute to reach where Aiwach's half dead body lied.
Ichigo stared down at the man who had mercilessly killed each and every person he ever loved. He wanted to smash the body into pieces.
But that wasn't what he was meant to do.
Looking at the half detached form which was engraved on Aiwach's body by Ichigo himself, it didn't look like Aiwach was going to last long.
But he had lasted in this very form for the last two days.
Ichigo looked at Kisuke with a questioning look who just shook his head, clearly saying that Aiwach was going to die soon.
"Ah Kurosaki Ichigo, so you have come to finally kill me off?" Aiwach said in Aizen's voice with a smirk.
"Don't speak Aizen, your body is already half dead. Or Yhwach's body is already half dead. I don't know what you are anymore. At least die without opening that damn mouth of yours" Ichigo said with his normal scowl as he sat on the ground beside the half god.
"Well if this is what i can do to repay you so be it, i won't speak" Aiwach said.
"Repay me? What are you tal-"
"The only time i had come this close to death was when we had fought earlier and you had used Mugetsu. Yet this time it seems more close to death than unconsciousness. Now that i look at it from the victim's point of view, it does seem like i was a bit too harsh" Aizen's voice in Aiwach said as he continued to stare at the sky while blood formed a pool around his body.
Ichigo's left arm crushed a small stone that was lying beside him as anger boiled within him, but he never let it show.
But it didn't go unnoticed by Kisuke.
"Anger. I have felt it before. When my race was being wiped out, just how yours has right now. But i guess being a hybrid, you must feel a mix of emotions. I don't know how to say this but it would have been nice if all of this had never happened" Yhwach in Aiwach said.
They were blabbering, they would lose their mind soon. Aiwach that is.
Ichigo just sighed and looked at Kisuke who understood in an instant.
Kisuke was going to ask Aiwach to remove the Hogyōku from himself before he dies but was interrupted as Aiwach raised an fist while never trying to sit up.
Ichigo's and Kisuke's hands went directly towards the hilt of their swords at such abrupt moment and Aiwach chuckled.
"I see, so the damage i have done is beyond repair. But don't fret as i am planning to do something else for a change" Aiwach said in an overlapping voice of both Aizen and Yhwach.
Ichigo and Kisuke relaxed but their hands never left their hilts.
Aiwach opened his fist of the arm he had raised, to reveal the Hogyōku itself.
"What are you doing?" Kisuke asked as he backed away a few steps.
"Don't worry. You came here for taking it, so why are you running away from it?" Aiwach said.
Ichigo thought for a second and then stepped forward and picked up the black orb of doom from Aiwach's hand.
Ichigo felt the Hogyōku wanting to climb into his heart and find his deepest desires, but he turned it away easily.
Because of being fused with two evil beings, the Hogyōku was now tainted and if a opposing energy doesn't desire to accept it, then it would be easy to turn it away.
If the Hogyōku had been in its previous form, then it would have easily reached Ichigo's heart.
Nobody said a word as Ichigo took the marble and put it into a small brown leather pocket that was hanging from his obi.
"Now Kurosaki Ichigo, i will reveal to you the last part of my plan" Aizen's voice said.
"Your plan isn't over?" Ichigo asked in a bored tone.
'Fake tones and expression. . .What have i done with this boy?' Kisuke thought.
"You see, when the Hogyōku was embedded in me, i was at such a level of power, that it was impossible for me to think rationally. But as the man i was, planning was my forte. Even though i KNEW i would not fail or i would NEVER desire for the good of others, i still had a plan at the back of my mind for a scenario like this" Aizen's voice said.
"You knew there was a possibility that Ichigo might defeat you even when you, Hogyōku and Yhwach might be fused?" Kisuke concluded.
"Precisely, so as i wa- agh!" Aiwach said as he suddenly felt short of breath.
Aiwach tried to compose himself as the pain was killing him from inside out.
Ichigo never thought he would see Aizen die like this again.
Yeah it was Aiwach, but Yhwach was inside Aizen's body. It was just one of the complexities of fusing. So it basically looked like Aizen with Yhwach's power.
"So as you can see, i don't have much time. Kurosaki Ichigo you do remember the Royal Guards right? What i mean is Ichibē, Kirinji and-"
"Yes i do" Ichigo interrupted.
"Didn't they grant you the Ōken?"
Ichigo and Kisuke's shoulders tensed up. Questions started to arise in their minds, making them wonder if this was just another one of his tricks.
But sensing no other openings, Ichigo said,
"Yeah"
Kisuke slightly glanced at Ichigo but as soon as he saw the confidence in Ichigo's eyes, he knew it was going to be okay.
"So just like the Royal Guard, your flesh and bones and every other aspect is now consisting of the Ōken? Or should i say made of Ōken?" Aiwach asked
"Well at first they had only made my clothes using a bit of Ōken, but later they told me that the soul king had decided to make me the 'Ōken itself' just like Ichibē and the othe-"
"Just tell me if you are a Royal Guard or not?"
Ichigo looked into Aiwach's eyes as he tried to catch the trick but he found none.
"Yes, I am one of the members of the Royal Guard" Ichigo firmly declared as he crossed his arms.
"Then i am going to tell you about a way with which you can win this all back. Everything you have lost" Aiwach said.
After what Aiwach said it just took 10 seconds for Ichigo to lose his composure.
"Why in the world do you keep fucking with me?! Save everyone that YOU have killed?! Why would you say something that isn't possible?! Haven't you fucking done enough?! Why can't you just die already?! Why do you-" Ichigo snapped but was stopped by a hand on his shoulders.
Ichigo looked behind to see Kisuke standing there with a serious expression on his face.
'So this is. . . possible?' Was Ichigo's first thought.
Ichigo looked at Aiwach and narrowed his eyes harshly as if he wanted Aiwach to speak now or Aiwach wouldn't live for the few minutes that were left for him to live.
"The Ōken you have in you. . .or from which you are MADE of, is used to travel to the King's realm, which is another dimension that was too high up into the sky. But it can't just be used to travel to that one dimension" Aiwach said.
"What do you mean by 'that one' ?" Kisuke asked.
"When i wanted to create the Ōken by destroying Kakura town, i had studied it's each and every aspect. And it was just impossible for a thing with so much power to only be the key to one dimension, it can be used to travel to different ones"
"So you are proposing that there is another dimension where everyone isn't destroyed by you?" Ichigo asked bitterly.
"No. A different dimension doesn't mean that the major things will change. This war was a major change in the history of Soul will be only some minor dissimilarities"
"So what's the use of this?" Kisuke asked with a tired sigh as he began to lose hope again.
"That's where the Hogyōku comes in, doesn't it?" Ichigo asked flatly as he now looked at the ground.
Kisuke's eyes widened as the realisation of what Aiwach was proposing finally came down on him like a river of rocks.
"A-Are you proposing ti-time travel into a dif-diffrent dimension?" Kisuke asked as he used his fame arm to remove his hat in surprise.
"Yes and No. To be honest time travel isn't possible, it's just different dimensions with the things occuring at different times. In another dimension the Soul Society might be destroyed by now along with it's Kurosaki Ichigo in it, for the other dimensions the Soul Society must not even exist till now or for some, the captain Aizen they know, hasn't gone rogue till now. So i have roamed different dimensions cause i had the Hogyōku and i was half soul king and i have found a suitable dimension for Kurosaki Ichigo" Aiwach said as he took in sharp breaths.
"Well for someone from this dimension it would still be time travel. . ." Ichigo whispered under his breath.
"So you are telling me that you wandered into different dimensions just because you thought i might need it. Annddddd you want me to believe you?" Ichigo asked in dry sarcasm.
"Believe it or not but even though i was in that monstrous form of mine, i still had a bit of humanity left in me. And i created the joint that was needed to travel into another dimension" Aiwach said with the iconic Aizen smirk everyone knew.
Ichigo wanted to punch the man right there. Humanity and Aiwach haven't marched together for a single second of the last 9 years.
Kisuke sensing the killing intent Ichigo was giving off, decided to continue with the questions.
"So you have made a tool that joins a being possessing Ōken to the Hogyōku and then let's it travel into another dimension. So what about this one? There is no way to bring this one back to life?" Kisuke asked.
"No there isn't" Aiwach said cause there was no way to sugar coat it.
Kisuke and Ichigo looked at the ground grimly as the thought of everyone they knew being finally gone.
"But don't fret. You can save all the others of that dimension from us" Aiwach's overlapped voice said.
Ichigo and Kisuke shared a look.
Kisuke's face telling that Ichigo shouldn't do this.
Ichigo's eyes telling that he has no choice.
"Ichigo. . . you won't be able to handle this" Kisuke said.
"But i am stronger now. If that's the case then i will train to get more strong and then i will go back and fix this-"
"I meant mentally Ichigo. You are very strong physically and spiritually but you won't be able to handle seeing everyone again Ichigo"
"But Kisuke-"
"You stop this drama this instant Kurosaki Ichigo" Kisuke said strictly as he drew back his hat to show Ichigo how serious he was.
Ichigo flinched. This wasn't the first time Kisuke had yelled at him but it was the first time Kisuke was serious about it.
Kisuke backed away and looked at Aiwach and said,
"So this joint you are taking about. . .It must be at this hidden lab of yours which you have hidden under the rubbles of the Sōkyoku Hill?"
"I guess i am not as intelligent as i thought i was if you have known where my lab was all this time" Aiwach said as his eyelids slowly started to close.
"Yeah but all the things inside were pretty useless. . ." Kisuke added.
"And you have entered it as well" Aiwach added weakly.
"Sleep Aiwach. . . It's your time now" Ichigo said.
"Why are you nice to us Kurosaki Ichigo? After all we have done?"Aiwach asked.
"Well if I tourtured people when they are obviously dying then there won't be any difference between you and me"
"I see...If you are so kind then will you forgive me?" Aiwach asked.
Ichigo felt Aiwach's reiatsu fading as he asked that.
"I usually forgive and forget. . .but this time i can only forgive" Ichigo said grimly.
"Half truths hurt Kurosaki Ichigo, not me but you. . ." Aiwach said as he finally died with the typical maniac smirk still on his face.
"Well i fucking hate you but everyone deserves to die peacefully"
Ichigo sat there, kneeling beside the being that had cost him so much that he would like to kill the man again and again.
"Ichigo. . ." Kisuke said as if he gestured Ichigo to get up.
Ichigo got up and started walking towards the direction Kisuke knew well enough.
"You are going towards the Sōkyoku hill aren't you?" Kisuke asked but Ichigo didn't reply and flashstepped away.
Kisuke sighed and followed silently.
Ichigo saw that the door to the underground lab was beneath some rubble.
"Hadō: 31 Sōkatsui" Ichigo said and a blue ball of light fired from Ichigo's right palm and struck the ground.
The big rocks cleared up and revealed a steel door.
"We would have never known about his lab if Renji hadn't destroyed the Sōkyoku Hill during his fight" Kisuke said as he landed bedside Ichigo.
"Yeah. . .That guy had gotten hella stronger if i compare it to the first time we met. It would have been like i was comparing a god to a dog" Ichigo said with a small smile but his eyes were as dull as ever.
Kisuke stepped forward and held onto the steel handle of the door. He opened it and a gush of air exited the lab.
"That's a lot of stairs" Ichigo said as he looked down into the dark pit while only the first few steps were visible.
"Let's go" Ichigo said as he started walking while he kept a half released hadō in his hand to provide light.
It took them 10 mins to reach down.
"Aiwach probably had lights in this whole route but i guess it died somewhere in between the war" Kisuke said as he tried to flick the light switch that was beside them on a wall.
So they continued to use Kidō for lighting up the room.
"Most of the things here are major weapons that would be useless without electricity or a reiatsu source" Ichigo said.
"Ichigo, i found it" Kisuke said out of nowhere.
Ichigo quickly walked over to where Kisuke was.
Kisuke was standing at one of the corners of the lab. It was dark so Ichigo crouched and bought his hand closer to the corner and noticed a small cupboard in the right wall of the corner. It was open.
Ichigo picked out the instrument with his Kidō free hand and stood up and examined the 'Joint' as Aizen called it.
"I-It looks like the hilt of a Zanpaktō?" Ichigo said unsurely.
The covering around the handle was yellow and purple in colour. And the cap and guard of the hilt were golden. The blade collar was black. But there wasn't a blade.
"Where is the blade?" Ichigo asked as he gave the hilt to Kisuke.
Kisuke looked at Ichigo as if he was asking "Are you serious?"
"What? I am not good at such stuff and you know it" Ichigo said with a light scowl.
"The Hōgyoku is the blade while the weilder will be the one having the Ōken in them" Kisuke explained as he took the hilt from Ichigo's hands.
"How can the Hōgyoku be the blade? It's a sphere" Ichigo said as he took out the orb from his leather pouch.
Kisuke stopped using his other hand for Kidō and Ichigo just put energy into his own Kidō.
Then Kisuke took the Hōgyoku from Ichigo's other hand.
He bought the Hōgyoku and the hilt near his eyes but his arms were stretched as he kept them a safe distance away. His hands made a right angle with his body.
Then slowly, Kisuke bought the Hōgyoku slowly near to the hilt. Just when the Hōgyoku was 3 inches away from the blade collar, the blade collar suddenly melted and then turned into a bowl like shape while the golder guard which was rectangular turned into a circle.
There was a blast of wind and light so Ichigo and Kisuke shut their eyes tight.
Then everything calmed down after a few seconds.
Kisuke then held the hilt that had the now returned to it's earlier form of rectangular black guard and the Hogyōku.
Kisuke had stopped trying to join them just in time.
"And so what does it do if we had embedded the Hogyōku?" Ichigo asked hoping that wasn't it.
"Well the Hōgyoku has some energy left it into. That 'some' is alot but it's less for Time travel, so it can only send us back once" Kisuke said.
"It's not time travel, it's dimensional travel" Ichigo said proudly at his scientific skills.
"Don't mug up what Aiwach said. What he said and meant was just to confuse us. He just used dimension as another word for time. Instead of time slots he said dimensional slots, it's the same. Cause you won't find another dimension with same time as ours" Kisuke said.
Ichigo who didn't understand much decided to jump into another topic.
"But didn't he say that as soon as we get the peices together then we will time travel? So how do we decide how far back both of us would go? This thing doesn't have a dial does it?" Ichigo asked.
"The amount of time we will travel will depend on the wilder's will and the amount of energy thar is left in the Hogyōku. Well i am not the one with Ōken here"
"So i will have to hold the hilt and the Hogyōku in their joined form while you hold onto me so that we can go back?"
"Yes, you will hold the hilt but i cannot cause i don't have the Ōken"
Kisuke looked at Ichigo with a grim expression and it was at that moment Ichigo knew.
"You won't be able to come with me?"
"Look Ichigo it's impossible if i don't have the Ōke-"
"But we can figure something out! W-we will try to infuse you with something or some weird shit Mayuri would have d-done or we can modify this hilt-"
"Ichigo"
Ichigo looked up to see Kisuke but his vision was blurred.
'Wait. . .No i won't cry, i cannot cry, I-' Ichigo thought as he vigorously wiped his eyes.
"Ichigo, deep inside you realise it too"
"But it's not how this shou-"
"But it's going to be okay since you won't be going" Kisuke added.
Ichigo paused.
"What?"
"You think i am going to send you into the past just because i can? It's not going to happen" Kisuke said as he gave the hilt and the Hogyōku to Ichigo as he started to walk towards the exit.
Ichigo quickly put the items in his pouch and without waisting another second he started walking so he could catch up to Kisuke.
"But Kisuke this is our only chance to save everyone! We can get every person back. . . including Yourichi" Ichigo said as he saw Kisuke pause in his tracks.
Ichigo knew he had struck a chord that wasn't supposed to be struck but he was ready to do anything to save everyone.
"And not only Yourichi. . .I can save Orihime too" Ichigo added as he looked at his feet, not wanting to look at Kisuke if he turned around.
"Ichigo, you aren't powerful enough to go back-"
"Then i will get stronger"
"I meant mentally. You may not go insane or something like that but seeing the people that once died makes you emotional Ichigo. That is something not everyone can handle and obviously something we don't need when we need to have our minds straight. Trust me, I know" Kisuke said as he mentioned about that time during the war when everyone thought Yourichi was dead and a year later she shows up again saying she has found another alternative for killing Aiwach.
Which of course did not work.
"And when you go back, you will have to refrain from killing Aizen or Yhwach on spot Ichigo. You will have to find the perfect time to attack them. You will have to find someone you can trust so that you can tell them you have time travelled. And doing even that would be almost impossible. And people in the past won't recognise you, that will hurt you more than you can imagine. And nobody would trust you either" Kisuke added.
"Then i will be patient, i will make a plan once i reach there. And i will build my bonds again and make everyone trust me again" Ichigo said without flinching.
Ichigo didn't want to behave like a brat who didn't obey anything. He understood each and every word Kisuke was telling him but he had to go back. . .he HAS to fix everything.
"Kisuke, I have to do this" Ichigo finally declared.
Kisuke turned to look at Ichigo. He looked into his eyes and he noticed they were the same ones that Ichigo held when he had decided to save Rukia from Soul Society.
And therefore he also knew that there was no stopping Ichigo.
"Ichigo, do you know what you are getting yourself into?" Kisuke asked one final time.
"Kisuke, i have to do this. There is no other less insane way than this" Ichigo said as he gripped harder at the hilt of his own sword.
"Okay then i will make the necessary changes required to make the both of us go back" Kisuke said as he finally let go of his serious demeanor, pulled his hat down a bit and smirked.
Ichigo smiled at Kisuke but then Kisuke said,
"But you have to talk to your Zanpaktōs first. . . before leaving that is"
"Yeah i will do that. They would probably yell at me for not talking to them for so long" Ichigo said as he scratched his head sheepishly.
"How long has it been exactly?"
"It's been a. . . year"
"Well good luck with that. Now let's get out of this lab"
This time they decided to flash step on the stairs and they were out in a second.
"And there are some things i must tell you about time travel before you go. Not that important cause i am coming with you but still required" Kisuke said and Ichigo just nodded.
They then continued to walk towards the tents when Kisuke halted midway.
"What's wrong?" Ichigo asked as he stared at Kisuke's head and waited for him to turn around.
Kisuke turned around rapidly while his eyes were being so wide that Ichigo thought they might pop out.
"What's wrong Kisuke? What's up with that freaky expression?"
"Ichigo don't you feel the Hogyōku's power?"
"Now that you say it. . .yeah i kinda do"
"Ichigo, i am going to have to ask you to not move an inch and answer me one question. Remember, I don't want you to move at all" Kisuke said as he kept one palm on his Zanpaktō while the other pointing towards Ichigo.
"Okay, ask away" Ichigo said without moving an inch.
"Where did you keep that hilt of the sword and the Hogyōku?"
"Oh i kept them together in my pouch. . .oh wait" Ichigo replied as he soon had the same expression Kisuke had.
Suddenly the air around Ichigo started fluctuating. Images of Ichigo two steps behind and then being back at the same place started reoccurring. The sky started to go from dark to blue again and again. Ichigo's expression kept changing from a smile to that same broken one.
And then he was gone.
As if he disappeared with the wind.
Kisuke looked at the spot where once Ichigo stood.
"You can never take a simple route can you?" Kisuke said with a sigh.
Suddenly the world around him started to shake and Kisuke covered his eyes with his fake arm as he took out Benihimē.
Everything started to fold into itself, as if bending space-time itself.
"The other thing I wanted to tell you Ichigo about time travel was. . .The second you go back, time changes and the reality which you once knew, won't be able to exist anymore" Kisuke whispered as the folds had started to come closer to him.
"And i am not the one who would die from such a pitiful cause as changing of reality. I would rather die by my own hands while Benihimē reads me" Kisuke said as he held the sword in from of his stomach.
In his mind, his Zanpaktō provided reassurance that this was the right choice.
Kisuke stared at the tents which were at a distance one last time before they folded into themselves too.
Then he gave one last glance to his reflection on his sword and smirking, before thrusting it towards his stomach.
Hence Urahara Kisuke commited Seppuku while the world around him vanished from existence.
And the cracked metal broke as the soldier swung it onto the enemy.
It's pieces scattering across the battlefield, where the corpses of his fellow soldiers lied.
And another metal pierced the soldier's skin.
But it never left him in fear or agony or the pain of loosing.
As there was nobody left to save.
Writer of "Avenging the souls lost" here! (Those who don't know, " Avenging the souls lost" is a MARVEL and BLEACH crossover) Yeah i know I haven't completed that. . .BUT i will. And so as to achieve that, i will only write a chapter of "Unfocused Paradox" once a month. Yeah i know it's lame but i am writing TWO fics together people, so uhh Please? And yes, this is about time travel if you didn't understand the scinency shit i had written up. This is mostly going to be a hurt Comfort pain action drama and actually. . .I haven't thought about what THIS is particularly, but you get the idea right? Anyways,PEACE! LOT'S OF LOVE!P.S. I will complete the next chapter for "Avenging the souls" lost in the next few days! Stay tuned!P.P.S. Please review if you don't like OR like anything!