After Houryu disappeared from the scene, Urahara looked at the spot he stood before disappearing for a few seconds before telling Tessai, Ururu and Jinta to clean up the location.
Elsewhere the wheel of fate keeps spinning...
Houryu had reappeared on top of a building a bit farther than the one he was on before, with Sylvia in his arms. He looked towards where he just disappeared from and saw the remaining hollows were being taken care of by Urahara's little helpers.
"Tch… there's really no point in even bothering to attack them now, he's way to weak right now for it to be any different from killing an insect." Houryu clicked his tongue as he looked at Ichigo still lying on the floor, his eyes now slowly swirling in its mangekyou sharingan form.
'Not to mention the many different variables, it'll mess up the whole reason why I didn't want to show up in the first place, the story has to go on it's already predetermined route until I at least get the hogyoku.' He thought.
'Also, who knows which heavenly daddy is protecting that Ichigo... maybe that kubo guy. Even if I did bother myself and killed him now, who is going to take care of troublesome people that come out of their holes later. It's better for him to just stay alive to be the vacuum cleaner for annoying people, so I can focus on my own matters.' Houryu thought as he turned away from the view and disappeared from view again, this time making a beeline towards his house.
A few hours later…
In front of an old looking and worn-out shop were two kids sweeping, or at least they were supposed to be sweeping. Only a little girl was sweeping while the little boy was swinging his broom around like a gladiator.
"Jinta, can you focus on sweeping…" Ururu meekly said to the boy.
"Be quiet! This is the soccer that men go crazy for! Shoot!" Jinta answered back, loudly and rudely.
"Really… Hm?" Ururu noticed something and then went into the shop.
"Tessai… Mr Kisuske… There's a cat…" Ururu claimed as she pointed to the entrance of the shop where a black furred cat stood.
"Oh… Isn't this Yoruichi! You're back!" Urahara said with a smile as he went to pick it up and raised it high.
"It's name is Yoruichi, it is the boss's only relative." Tessai explained to the confused Jinta and Ururu who were staring at the ongoing scene.
"Heh… His only relative is a cat… seems our boss is… very pitiful." Jinta commented.
"... Sigh… I guess you could say that." Tessai sighed as Urahara took Yoruichi inside the shop.
Behind the shop…
The black furred cat sat on it's hind legs and looked up into the sky. Urahara also came out holding a bottle of milk and a bowl.
"What's going on Yoruichi… Is it going to rain." Urahara asked in a playful voice.
"Stop acting Kisuke. You should know very well. *They*… have already come." The cat turned to Urahara and suddenly said.
"About that… I have somethings to update you about as well… You want to talk about it now or wait until you're done with your milk?" Urahara answered back and asked.
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Nighttime…
On the lone streets of Karakura town, a girl ran. With a flower dress as clothing and a backpack, she braved through the dark streets.
As she ran, she thought of some previous happenings in her life in the last few days,
"Am I… getting to attached to this world?" She asked herself as she ran.
Surprisingly her rhetorical question was answered with a very loud "YES!!"
"So, you knew after all?! Maaaan, you're talking backwards. Because you've been in this world for too long. You can only live for just a lit-tle longer! RUKIA!!!" The man who answered back the question said as he pulled his sword out and stood on the electricity pole.
"YOU!! Renji!! could that be you… Abarai Renji…?!" Rukia started to say but was cut off by the attack made by Renji at her small frame.
Barely dodging the attack, she stepped back a bit, but Renji didn't attack her immediately as he began to call her out for her dulled instincts as she was a trained Kuchiki rookie who shouldn't have human like thoughts that deviated them from their paths as shinigami.
"Don't you agree, Kuchiki-sama?" Renji asked as a shadow appeared behind Rukia, towering above her small stature.
"Byakuya Aniki…!!" Rukia turned and barely whispered out as soon as she saw his face.
"Rukia…" Byakuya called out to her but was interrupted by Renji attacking Rukia again, but this time she reacted faster and managed to get out of range of the blow.
Renji asked Rukia to call out the human who took her powers as it was obvious now that she didn't have them and the only place they could have gone is to another person.
"Call him out Rukia… this time my attack will be serious." He said as he got into his stance, to prepare his next attack at Rukia when suddenly out of nowhere an arrow came and almost hit him in the head, prompting him to make a last-minute dodge to get out of the way of the arrow.
It was Ishida that had fired an arrow as he had felt the spiritual energy of shinigami and had come to find out what was happening.
The story then followed canon as Ishida ended up fighting with Renji.
Meanwhile at Ichigo's house…
Ichigo had ended up finding Kon who Rukia had strapped up at the back of the toilet seat and freed him. Kon then drew Ichigo's attention to the letter that Rukia had left for him on his table, that he somehow had not seen.
Ichigo opened up the letter to find words in a code, that was not that hard to decode, as Ichigo could easily decode it and read the letter to find out that Rukia had run away, to prevent trouble.
Ichigo then decides to go into his shinigami form to go and find Rukia, but he can't as the soul hurling glove that he usually uses to get into his soul reaper form was with Rukia. It was here that Urahara made an appearance on Ichigo's windowsill.
Back at the fight Ishida was now lying on the floor with blood flowing from his side.
"I guess I should end this now… remember this before you die… Abarai Renji!! This is the name of the man that will kill you!!" Renji said loudly as he raised his sword high for the final strike.
"REMEMBER IT WELL!!!" He screamed as he swung his sword down, but he was interrupted mid swing by someone else swinging their sword at him.
"Kurosaki Ichigo… the name of the person who will defeat you… remember it well!." Ichigo said as he brought his sword over onto his shoulder with a thug like look on his face.
They then began to fight but their first exchange ended with Ichigo injured on his shoulder, Ichigo also managed to nick Renji on his chin, annoying him enough to use his shikai.
"ROAR ZABIMARU!! LOOK IN FRONT OF YOU! IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES…!! THERE'S FOOD FOR YOU!!" Renji shouted as he used his zanpakutou's shikai form to attack Ichigo, cutting deep into Ichigo's left shoulder and tearing his flesh out and bringing him to his knees.
Renji was about to attack again but was interrupted by Rukia holding his arm from behind, but he shook her off and was about to attack again when Ichigo's spiritual energy suddenly spiked up and he attacked Renji twice in quick succession, breaking his glasses in two and injuring his forehead.
Ichigo was about to attack again when his sword's blade disappeared. Byakuya then moved again with a flash step and walked past him.
Suddenly a bloody gash appeared across Ichigo's upper body with blood spilling out of if and he fell to the floor.
Inside Houryu's house…
Houryu's eyes opened wide bringing him out of dream land because he had sensed something he hadn't expected to sense, something he didn't expect to ever sense.
He quickly rose up from the bed and left the house through his bedroom window.
'Why would there be phoenix life force on people from soul society… MY LIFE FORCE!!!' He raged in his mind as he ran towards the scene of Ichigo's fight.
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Yeah peeps, it's your lovely author-nim, It has been a couple of boring chapters because I wanted to make an arc of the beginning but you guy's should be able to see my intentions of the last few chapters from the way this one ended.
So please bear with me and Please keep reading, I've got tons of surprises for y'all.