Hey, this is Crashmanboy, back at you with another story and this time I will attempt to do the entire Bleach anime (and only the anime) in my own vision. Ever wonder if Ichigo had brothers and they were all triplets, not just our favorite Strawberry having two younger twin sisters, but having four siblings under the same roof as him? And his brothers were substitute Soul Reapers as well? Well, that's what I am attempting to do. Now I am only a watcher of the anime, and only the dubbed version because I can only watch TV or movies when they're in English, and I know very little information on the Thousand Year Blood War arc (which I really hope with Kubo being at an anime convention in late March in Japan and having a panel on an upcoming Bleach project that the announcment being featured in the panel is the anime will be coming back), so much so that I know only a few bits of basic information like for example, Isshin Kurosaki was a Shiba and was captain of Squad 10, Masaki was a Quincy, Ichigo's Inner Hollow is his Zanpakuto, basic stuff, so I will only do the anime so I don't get flamed by someone saying that "I don't know shit about Bleach" and "You are an idiot for writing about stuff that you have barely any knowledge on" and I don't want that to happen to me.
If you have read "Undead", then you know about the two OCs that I created, Randy Isaacson and Bennett Bordeaux. They will be Ichigo's brothers and I already have the pairings in mind so don't ask who will be with who. Bennett will be with Tia Halibel, Randy will be with Nel, and Ichigo will be with Yoruichi. Since Bleach is set in Japan, they will have Japanese names. I have already found the Japanese equivalents for both OCs first names and their nicknames will be their English names since the Quincies have European origins and I suspect that because Masaki was a Quincy, she would probably be bilingual speaking both Japanese and English. In my story, she does and gave my OCs names when they were born that had both an English version and Japanese version. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an English equivalent for Ichigo's name that started with an I. So Ichigo's the only son that won't have an English nickname. But if someone does happen to know or find out what his English name equivalent would be, please PM me or leave a review saying what the name is. I would greatly appreciate it.
Just so you know beforehand, Randy's Japanese name is Randii and Bennett's is Benetto.
And on a side note, readers: If you are on Deviantart or an artist, please create some fanart of the three brothers with their girlfriends (again, if you have read "Undead", then you know who their girlfriends are going to be) and send it to me so I can use it as the cover art for this story. I also want to find proper translations for original Zanpakuto for Randy and Bennett, but I cannot find the translation I am looking for. I need for both of their Zanpakuto to have getsu in the name because they're Ichigo's twin brothers and since Isshin has a getsu Zanpakuto, it would make sense that it runs in the family, so they would have original getsu Zanpakuto. Bennett's Zanpakuto will be named Screaming Moon and his bankai will be Demonic Edge Screaming Moon and Randy's Zanpakuto will be named Reaping Moon and his bankai will be Godly Death Reaping Moon, but I don't know the actual Japanese romaji translation for these names since it is hard finding a trustworthy and accurate Japanese Romaji translation tool online that actually works. So I need some help finding the translation. If anybody knows a trustworthy app or website that I can use for this, again, please send me a PM or leave a review telling me the translations or website or app. As I said before, I would greatly appreciate it.
Alright, let's get this show on the road.
Hollow speaking or thinking
Zanpakuto Spirit speaking or thinking
Normal speaking or thinking
Karakura Town. A small city in western Tokyo, Japan. Home to about 100,000 people. And school had just let out for the day at the local high school and its students were eager to be going home to their families. They were tired and wanted to get their homework done for the night before dinner. Most did not have any trouble walking home, except for three boys who were kicking the asses of a bunch of the city's gang members. The gang members had decided to harass the boys because of each of their hair colors, as well as try to pick a fight with them. Unfortunately for the thugs, fate was not kind to them. Again. Seriously, the same three boys would get harassed by different members and each time that happened, the gang members would not walk away cleanly from their fight, all with huge purple bruises and other injuries and sore everywhere on their bodies. Frankly, it was getting old to the boys, but it would never change.
After the three boys finished handing the older males their backsides on a silver platter, they picked up their bags and walked off, leaving a pile of broken and beaten men behind them. In the light of the sun, their hair could been seen, then their faces showed themselves, followed by the rest of them. In the middle was a tall 6'1" boy with tanned skin and a shock of spiky orange hair in the Karakura High School uniform, just as the other boys were. Ichigo Kurosaki. One of the four prime targets of gangs and delinquents in the city. To his right was his twin brother, Randii "Randy" Kurosaki, an equally tall male with blond hair in long spikes and the sides of his head shaved. On the left of Ichigo was his other twin brother, Benetto "Bennett" Kurosaki, the tallest of the brothers standing at 6'4" with black locks gelled into a full fanned mohawk with the fan dyed blue, red, green, and auburn. Many students knew not to get in a fight with them, but the gangs weren't smart enough to heed that advice.
All three boys were labeled as delinquents by the teachers and it was not easy for them to get through life with their looks. Even though Bennett was the only one born with a hair color that was typically attributed to the Japanese, he had started spiking his hair at the start of his middle school years in addition to the hair dye he put in because he had heard about the trends in the US and Britain and wanted to be unique, so he lived a punk lifestyle, always wearing his trademark black long sleeved overcoat with gold shoulder pads, white sleeveless shirt, gold pants with silver outlines tucked into his black boots, and white fingerless gloves along with a black and white belt with a silver buckle and straps that looked like suspenders which hung at his sides, after school hours and around town. Ichigo and Randy, on the other hand, each had an unusual hair color that Japanese did not normally have. Blonde and orange, colors that foreigners had. While Ichigo's attire was made up of a blue shirt with a 15 on it, blue jeans, white high top Converse, a black studded belt, and a heavy black coat with a fur lined hood and Randy's outfit consisted of a gray hoodie, green t-shirt, black jeans, a pair of blue Adidas basketball shoes, and a white puffer vest, it just was not enough to keep the idiots from harassing them for looking different and supposedly bleaching their hair. It had been like that for as long as they could remember. People would look at the brothers and think, 'What kind of parent bleaches their kids' hair at 6 years old?' and later on in life, they would try to steer clear of the three because they looked like "thugs".
The brothers were about halfway home when Randy started talking about how he was going to play the new LEGO Universe game he bought. It was in English because LEGO did not make the MMOG in the Japanese language. Luckily, that was not an issue since he spoke both English and Japanese. He said he wanted to play it as soon as possible, but had to pick it up at the LEGO store across town.
"I got all of us copies. We can play when we have downtime. It looks like a good game." said the blond Kurosaki.
"We might as well play, you usually have a very keen eye on what is a good video game. If it can keep Goat-chin away from us, then I'm all for it." Ichigo added his two cents, scowling at the image of his crazy father attacking them in order to "make them into strong men and not whiny babies."
The third brother chuckled, "I still don't get how that man is our— oh, are you freaking serious?!" his voice yelling at the end.
The others looked at him like he had lost his marbles. "What?" said Randy.
"Tell me, what do you see up ahead?" They looked in front of them and saw what he meant and why he was angry.
Ahead was a group of skaters circling around attempting to do tricks on their boards, but that wasn't why Bennett was pissed. Over to the side was a vase on its side and the flowers originally inside of it were crushed, most likely from the skaters running over them. Seeing the flowers on the street tossed like they were trash got the siblings angry. Those flowers were for a young girl who was killed there. You just don't disrespect the dead like that. It was insulting and extremely despicable.
They walked up to the skaters and Bennett cocked his fist back and decked the leader straight in the jaw while Randy roundhouse kicked another in the head and Ichigo superkicked a third in between the eyes. The older boys fell on the pavement groaning holding their heads and faces.
The fourth skater shouted, "Hey, what's the big idea, man? What did you do that to my friends for?" That ended up being a mistake.
Randy pointed at the vase and shook with fury. "That vase of flowers was a memorial for a girl who died here. Anyone want to tell to us why it was on the ground with the flowers completely obliterated?!"
The other boys had gotten up and were looking for a fight, but nearly pissed themselves seeing the evil look in the triplets' eyes. If looks could kill, the skaters would have been six feet under in a wooden coffin. "W-w-w-w-we p-p-probably kn-kn-knocked it over while we were s-s-s-s-skating." They whimpered in fear. Forget going six feet under. If the looks were anything to go by, they would have been wiped from existence completely without so much as a word.
The orange haired teen kicked one of the skaters in the face with a punt. "Correct! Now apologize!"
The boys cried out, "We're sorry!"
"NO! Not to me, to the girl!"
"Huh?" The leader questioned. Chalk up another mistake for the skaters.
"DO IT!"
"Okay, okay! We're sorry for knocking over your memorial!" They broke down in tears from being so scared of the boys.
"Now get out of here, and don't come back here again!" yelled Ichigo. The skaters scrambled to pick up their boards and run away with their tails between their legs. The siblings watched them sprint out of the area, content that they made the skaters regret their actions.
Bennett said to seemingly no one, "Hey, you okay?" and a young girl came out of hiding behind a wall and nodded at him. She was strikingly adorable for someone who had died so young, but a unusual feature about her was the hexagonal plate in the middle of her chest with a moderately sized chain connected to it. The strange thing was, she was the same girl Randy was talking about earlier, but only the brothers could see her because of the fact that she was dead. That was what was unique about the 3 Kurosaki boys, they had the ability to see dead people and also interact with them.
Randy bent down to pick up the vase and flowers and set them upright on the street. "Don't worry about those guys. They won't be coming back. We'll bring you some new flowers tomorrow."
The girl said very timidly, "Thank you."
The 3 teens continued walking down the street. They continued talking about the game Randy bought them. After about 10 minutes, they arrived at the LEGO store a couple of blocks from their house. Randy told them to wait outside while he went inside to get the game discs and pay for them. He came out a few minutes later and showed off the disc boxes to his brothers. He approved of the look of interest on their faces and thought to himself, 'Hook, line, and sinker.'
They walked to the block the Kurosaki Clinic, which their crazy nutjob of a patriarch ran and owned, and household was on. They opened the door and immediately after they walked in, Bennett was attacked by a flying Isshin Kurosaki and put into a Full Nelson lock. "Damn it, old man! What the hell's wrong with you?! Every day it's the same crap with you, attacking the three of us nonstop." The older male tossed his tallest son into the wall and leaped into a dropkick position, hitting his other sons with one leg in each face.
Their father said, "You are late! You were supposed to be home 30 minutes ago for dinner." The Kurosaki men started fighting with each other. Their scuffle continued until Ichigo landed an axe kick on Isshin's cranium and he went down, resulting in the fight dying down.
A young girl's voice called out, "Ichigo, Randy, Bennett, stop fighting with Dad and come get dinner. It's getting cold." They all looked over at a cute little light haired girl in a dress and apron, Yuzu Kurosaki, their younger sister by 4 years and the one in charge of the chores of the household ever since their mother died sometime ago. They sighed and shook their heads at her innocence. The brothers walked over to the table and picked up their food, intending to take it to their rooms to eat.
Their other sister sitting at the table, Karin, a tomboyish black haired girl in gym shorts and a t-shirt, then stated, "You guys have another ghost following you."
They looked behind themselves in surprise. "Wha— again?" There was a floating spirit attempting to be discreet in following the boys. "Yo, you can't just follow me and my brothers home like that just because we can see you! It is wack and creepy, man!" said the blond brother. The spirit just looked at him. Randy sighed, "You don't even care, do you? Figures. We seem to attract more ghosts than ever before."
"Forget it, Randy. Let's just eat in our room, then go to bed." said the punkish teen while walking up the stairs to the triplets' bedrooms with his twin brothers trudging after him, each of them carrying a plate of food.
Unfortunately, Isshin chose that exact moment to act like an utter man-child. "Uwah, uwah, uwah! Why won't my delinquent sons listen to their handsome father?"
Karin closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She was already getting a migraine and a kid should not be able to get a migraine at such a young age. "Probably because you are so completely immature. Nobody wants to listen to a grown adult who behaves like they're in middle school, Dad. It's hard for them enough being teens in the ninth grade and being outcasts in life and seeing dead people does not make it any easier either. I'm pretty sure they have been seeing a lot more ghosts lately. And that is not improving their mood, in fact it is making them more pissed off than usual. And Ichigo, Randii, and Benetto definitely will not talk to you because you are a childish 10 year-old in a man's body!"
Yuzu pouted. "You shouldn't be mean to Dad like that, Karin. He's just looking out for us." Her twin sibling frowned. Leave it to her to make excuses about Isshin's antics. Karin couldn't blame her. After their mother died, Yuzu took over cleaning the house, cooking meals, and other daily tasks around the house. And she still believed their father was taking care of them. From the younger raven haired Kurosaki's perspective, the man was a baby in adult form and could not take care of a pet fish, much less himself. The girl had her suspicions that he had something to do with her fish, Guppy, dying when she was younger, which in her mind proved her right about his inability to take care of a single living thing. She looked over at the aforementioned buffoon. He was in a fetal position on the floor and crying about 'how his sweet little Karin didn't care about her awesome dad and what would Masaki do' right under the giant memorial poster of their mother.
"That man couldn't tell the difference between his butt and his face. What makes you think he can take care of us by himself?"
"..."
"My point exactly."
Meanwhile, Ichigo was putting the LEGO Universe game disc inside his computer in his room while the others were doing the same. They had already eaten dinner in their respective rooms and opened up each of their disc boxes containing the MMOG and turned on their computer. The orangette watched the game start installing on his desktop and waited. After about an hour of everyone finishing homework and subsequently waiting, the game was done setting up. He clicked on the icon and Lego Universe booted up. Ichigo set up his gaming headset and did a quick test on the mic. Seeing that it was functional and transmitting sound properly, he went to Bennett's room and asked, "Bennett, got yours set up?" The boy nodded and Ichigo called down the hall, "Randy, you good?"
"Yeah, it's ready. I already created my account, but you two need to do that as well. Once you do that on the LEGO website, just sign in to your account in the login screen and create your minifigure. Let's come up with names that are similar in design and tell each other that way we know who each other is. If you create another character, tell us and what scheme you used to make your custom name. That way, we can identify each other's characters in-game."
They agreed and decided on the naming scheme for their first characters. The result of that was them naming their minifigures a combination of gaming characters. Bennett's was Hanzo Kenway, Ichigo's was John Ryu, and Randy's was Drake Marcus, each containing references to Mortal Kombat, Assassin's Creed, Halo, Uncharted, Street Fighter, or Gears of War. They each played for about an hour until each of them reached Nimbus Station as well as the mission to choose a faction to join. After that, they logged off their accounts and shut off their laptops, crawling into bed with each falling into a dreamless sleep.
A small figure stoop atop a hill on the outskirts of the town, seemingly waiting for something to occur. They were dressed in a black kimono and had a sword strapped to the side of the outfit. The person in question was a petite black haired teenage girl with amethyst eyes with an indifferent expression upon her face. She frowned as if trying to sense something in the town. If there was anything to sense, it was being blocked by 3 immensely powerful signatures that she could not identify. 'There are multiple other spiritual pressures interfering with my senses. I thought I was the only Soul Reaper assigned to this city. What's more is they are extremely high. I am sure no captains were told to enter the Human World in the area. And if these signatures are not captains, then what or who does they belong to? Could this be related to why my spirit energy is somehow disappearing from my body in this specific town?' pondered the female. Wanting to find answers to her questions and predicament, she jumped off the hill and disappeared in a flash.
The next day, the 3 brothers decided to go walk around the town just to talk and chat. Isshin had gone to a series of meetings at the local hospital to discuss some things and would be back later in the day, so the siblings had time to themselves. But something had unnerved them quite a bit earlier in the morning. The news had reported a series of explosions happening in the area and they noticed it was right in the middle between the school and their residence. They attempted to ignore it, however. 'It's probably a coincidence. Just because it was close to the house does not mean someone decided to blow up a bunch of bombs and cause an attack.' Ichigo thought on the subject.
Bennett went off to buy flowers for the dead girl while the others waited for him at the memorial site. The strange thing was that the spirit was nowhere in sight. Ichigo half-heartedly commented that the girl might have moved on. Randy didn't think so. Something didn't feel right to them. There was a foreboding feeling crawling up and down their spines like a bunch of venomous spiders had made their home in their backs. Bennett returned sometime later and the feeling still lingered.
Just as the midnight-haired boy placed the flowers in the vase, a loud roar shook the area. The boys went bug-eyed and looked in the direction the sound originated from which was in the business district. Ichigo shouted to his brothers, "What was that?!"
"It sounds like a wild animal, but what's an animal doing in the downtown area?" yelled Bennett. They broke into a mad sprint and rushed downtown, their legs going as fast as they could possibly run. The three teens made it just as a mob of people were running past them to get away from something that was engulfed in a large dust cloud. The brothers looked on in horror as the dust cloud dispersed to reveal something horrifying.
A large creature stood in the middle of the street, but it looked as if no one but them could see it. The distinguishing features about the monster was the freakish bone white mask covering its head and face and a hole centered in the middle of its chest. It was very freakish and looked like an oversized insect. The monster walked slowly toward the boys, stalking them like a predator hunting its prey. They looked on in shock and slowly started to back up.
A second figure jumped out of the cloud of dirt, surprising the boys who were startled by the sudden appearance of the second organism. A short female wielding a sword and dressed in black slashed at the creature, cutting off its arm which resulted in the appendage falling to the street. The demon roared in pain at the loss of its limb, but the girl merely looked at it in disinterest before lifting her weapon in preparation for another attack. She leaped into its direction and swung downward, the sword colliding with the white mask and cleaving it in two with the monster disintegrating into absolute nothingness like it was never there to begin with. The teenaged woman gracefully glided down to the street from the air and flicked her sword to eliminate the blood from the blade nonchalantly as if she had gotten mere dust on the beautifully crafted piece of steel and wanted to get rid of it.
The teens blinked dumbly like a bunch of owls. Many questions were swimming through their minds and they tried opening their mouths to formulate a sentence, but could not speak due to the shock of what they had witnessed. The girl looked back at them through the side of her vision and saw them staring at her, but scoffed and simply assumed that they were only humans and were gawking and stupidly looking at the damage around them instead of her.
She disappeared in a single movement, leaving the teenage boys to wonder, 'Who was that and what exactly was she fighting?'
They heard sirens in the distance and gritted their teeth, knowing the area would about to be swarmed with medics, firefighters, and irritating police officers who would immediately assume they had something to do with the damage because of their history of fighting with gang members and try to question them, and they did not need to deal with that. Looking at each other and nodding, they sneaked out of downtown without being noticed by the authorities and returned home.
When Randy, Ichigo, and Bennett came home, they went straight to Bennett's room and each sat down on the bed or in a chair. No words were exchanged, but it was clear they were all thinking about what they witnessed in the city. A couple minutes passed and finally the silence was broken.
"So, what did I exactly see downtown? I wasn't seeing things, was I? I mean, I thought I saw a—" started Bennett, but he was interrupted by his red-headed brother.
"—petite teenage girl in a kimono use a sword to destroy a freakish monster with a hole in its chest and bizarre white mask? I saw that too," finished Ichigo. "Although after seeing that creature disappear into thin air, I'm not entirely sure that it was destroyed because there was nothing left over. What happened to it, that looked more like it was dissolving."
Randy said, "What was up with the girl though? It was like she was invisible to everyone but us. Same with the monster. People were running away in a general direction from it, but not once did someone go inside a building to hide. If they saw it, they would have gone for cover, but no one did. I think the people running thought something had exploded or blown up. The people certainly did not act like a demon was terrorizing them."
"There's something else that's bugging me. The hole in its chest, it looked like something was originally there, but was forcefully removed. What ever was there must have been very important."
The mohawk-sporting brother then remembered something that pissed him off. "If I ever see that midget again, I will give a piece of my mind for giving me that damn look! She looked at us like we were lower than dirt!"
The blond triplet gained a angry look. "That little brat! Does she get off on looking down on others?! That girl probably has a giant pole stuck up her ass." growled out Randy, obviously not pleased and very much ready to go on a rampage looking for the puny bitch. He hated it when others looked down on him, especially when they thought he was a thug who would not amount to much in life because of his looks. Ichigo, on the other hand, did not care what other people thought about him, because he knew himself better than a bunch of prejudicial bigots did. And Bennett? He would tune it out and ignore them, not budging and not giving in to what they expected him to do when proving them was much more satisfying.
The rest of them laughed at what he said. No matter how true it was, it was so absurd that it was absolutely hilarious to the other two. After they were done with laughing (Randy eventually stopped being mad and started laughing too, causing Bennett and Ichigo to laugh even harder to the point they fell off the bed and ended up on the floor) and the laughter had died down to snickering, Ichigo said, "Well, let's hope we don't meet someone like her who has an even bigger pole up their ass."
Meanwhile, in an unknown location, a certain black-haired man dressed in a white haori was sipping his afternoon tea and relaxing when he suddenly sneezed. 'Which blasted individual is talking about me this time?'
The sun had set in Karakura Town and the boys had decided to think on the event sometime later, so they continued playing Lego Universe on their desktops. Right before their previous collaborative gaming session, Ichigo had set up a private voice chat channel so they could talk to each other while playing. This session, however, was much longer than the one prior. As a result, they explored more of the game and each chose a faction and a specialty kit, with Ichigo choosing The Sentinels and the Samurai kit, Bennett staking his claim on The Paradox and the Shinobi kit, and Randy selecting The Venture League and the Daredevil kit.
The voice chat, unfortunately, led to them throwing (colorful) insults at each other when someone would steal a kill on certain worlds like Crux Prime and reaped the rewards or other things that they considered "complete bullshit" according to them.
"Oh come on, you putz! You got more faction tokens than when I killed that stupid dragon. That is literally mining for cryptocurrency in this game, you mentally challenged rooster!"
"Oi! It is not! And considering that you are part of the only faction that can block any attack and take no damage whatsoever, I am entitled to taking more tokens, so kiss my punk ass, Captain Crunch! And— wait a minute! RRRRRAAAAANNNNDDDYYYYY! You stupid ball muncher, you hung me out to dry with the freaking Spiderlings! You traitorous bastard!"
"Yeah, well you shouldn't have ditched me at the Ninjago Monastery and tricked me into trading all my consumable items for a useless weapon, so ha! Serves you right, crackhead wannabe!"
Yep, colorful insults to say the least.
Eventually, they calmed down and instead started made bad jokes in the voice chat, laughing their asses off at the absurdity of it all. About the end of the session, Randy was cracking a joke about their teachers and a fellow female classmate who had a habit of trying to grope other girls when the short girl from the incident earlier in the day phased through the ceiling of his room while not seeing him at all and the blond Kurosaki heard a sound behind him, proceeded to turn around in his chair, and widen his eyes at the sight of the petite female standing in the middle of the room.
"Where could it be?" the girl questioned to herself, not knowing he could hear, and unknown to Randy himself, his brothers heard the unfamiliar voice through the headsets on their heads and shot out of the chairs in each other's rooms, dashing towards the third boy's habitat to protect him.
Randy took the opportunity to tap the girl on the shoulder and she whipped around, shocked that he could actually see her. He merely raised a blond eyebrow at seeing how surprised she was. "And what is it exactly that you are looking for around here?"
She began stuttering. "Y-you can s-see me?"
"Yeah, why is that so surprising to you?"
Before she could answer, the door flew open and Randy's two brothers burst in. They saw the girl standing there immediately and Ichigo exclaimed, "You're the girl we saw attacking that masked creature downtown!"
It suddenly clicked in the female's mind where she had seen these boys. "You're those boys that were in front of that Hollow," she inspected them closely, looking at the teens like there was something wrong with them. "You don't look any different from a normal human. So how is it possible you could see me and the Hollow?"
Ichigo, Bennett, and Randy stared blankly at her. "Excuse me? How could we not see you and whatever you just called the monster downtown? If a normal human couldn't... wait, are you saying that you are a ghost?" said the tallest brother, becoming a little worried at the possibility that a ghost, and a female one at that, was standing inside one of their rooms. The thought of a teenage girl inside of their rooms made him start freaking out that the Kurosaki patriarch would see her and start to bawl about "One of my delinquent sons finally brought my third daughter home and now I'll have grandchildren!" However, Bennett remembered that their father could not see spirits and he mentally breathed a sigh of relief. He did not need to have "The Talk" when he was still only in his first year of high school and he knew that Randy and Ichigo didn't want to deal with that crap either.
"Yes, I am a ghost, or Soul Reaper more accurately." the Soul Reaper confirmed. The term at the end made Randy express that he wanted a little more clarification on what this girl actually meant by that word. Sighing in resignation, she began to sit down when a stray thought crossed her mind. 'Why did these three humans see the Hollow? What is it that is different about them?' she sent out a pulse of spiritual pressure and what she discovered made her awe-struck. 'It's them, the three captain level presences I felt last night! And what's more is that their energy is siphoning off my own. How?! They're just humans! Well, no time to dwell on this, I'll just get answers from Captain Ukitake and Byakuya when I return from my assignment. Now, back to the matter at hand.'
She told them about what her task was as a Soul Reaper and what that monster, a Hollow, or a corrupted dead soul, was, giving a short explanation about what she was supposed to do here in Karakura Town, such as purifying hollows in the area as well as guiding dead souls nearby to a place called the Soul Society. She also introduced herself as Rukia Kuchiki, a member of Squad 13 of the 13 Court Guard Squads. Seeing as they never told Rukia their names, they introduced themselves. After that, the small spirit finished her explanation and took a deep breath. "So that is the basis of my job. "
The three teens wondered if she had seen the girl they visited the day before, but their thoughts were interrupted by a wail coming from outside and each of them went rigid. Ichigo exclaimed, "Well, if your task is to purify hollows that appear in the human world, then go stop the one that just came near here!"
"I can't, not until my senses are unblocked and I can sense their presence clearly, and what are you—" And then she heard the wailing from the street. "That came from down below!" A crash and screaming could be heard a few seconds after.
"RANDII! ICHIGO! BENETTO! HELP!"
"That was Yuzu!" shouted Randy. All of them rushed downstairs, only to find a gaping hole in the wall of the house and broken furniture strewn across the room. Isshin was slumped against the opposite wall with a gash on his head and blood trickling down the bridge of his nose. Yuzu had only small scrapes on her arms and legs and covered in dust, but she would be fine. And Karin... oh god, where was Karin? Yuzu managed to gently lift her head, but descended into a fit of coughs, probably from the dust in the air.
"Bennett... Randy... Ichigo... Karin's in trouble." she continued coughing, trying to sit up to look at her older brothers.
"It's going to be okay, Zu. We'll keep you and Karin safe. You need to rest."
"Alright..." Yuzu promptly fell into a blissful state of unconsciousness.
Bennett rushed outside with Rukia following and saw his younger sister being grasped in the hands of a ugly Hollow, squeezing the life out of her. She screamed in pain. He got pissed off and called Ichigo and Randy outside and the two boys came and witnessed what was happening before their very eyes. They grew angry as well and roared in fury and the siblings began to charge the Hollow until Rukia shouted out a sort of chant three separate times. "Bakudo #1. Sai!" Instantly, their arms went behind their backs and they fell down at the sudden loss of momentum. "You can't just charge in blindly like that, you'll be killed! I put that Kido spell on you three to keep you away from this fight. This is what I was trained for, stay there and don't move!" she drew her sword and flashed to the Hollow, slashing at its arms and legs in an attempt to immobilize it, eventually freeing Karin from its grasp..
The fight started out fine with the Soul Reaper keeping the hollow on the defensive. However, what she did not account for was it to start moving towards her acquaintances. She turned toward them to get them out there and she saw a flash of golden light come from each of them while pulling their arms from behind their back. They were breaking the Bakudo! The light ceased and the boys stood there unharmed, but with the hollow bearing down on them.
Unknown to Rukia, the spirit energy inside of her reacted violently and it pulled away from her. She immediately felt it and before she could say anything, a beam of light shot from her body and raced towards Ichigo, Randy, and Bennett before splitting into three separate beams of equal size and engulfed them, covering them entirely. 'What's happening?! They were breaking the Kido, which, for a human, is an incredible feat, even if they have captain level reserves and pressures, and then my spirit energy just tore away from my body! No, it didn't tear away, it transferred to them. That's why it was disappearing in the first place, it was being transferred from me to them. That's why that first hollow was walking toward them in the city, its targets were the Kurosaki brothers!' The light covered her as well for a couple seconds, then died down. When it disappeared, she was revealed to be wearing white robes and subsequently collapsed in a heap.
She looked up and saw the remaining light columns vanish. Seeing what had happened to the teenagers, the Kuchiki princess could only stare in shock and wonder as her jaw dropped to the floor. 'No way... I have only heard rumors about transferring powers to a human, but how is it possible without a Soul Reaper's Zanpakuto piercing the recipient's heart?'
The triplets stood there in front of the hollow, which had backed up upon the show of light, each wearing a variation of the standard Soul Reaper robes and in possession of a standard katana. Ichigo wore a black uniform with the sleeves ripped off as well as a black bandana-like mask covering his lower face and all of his neck and bluish-gray bandages wrapped around his forearms while Randy was dressed in a modified uniform with only the right side of the top present and the left missing with white bandages covering all of his torso and arms while reaching his neck and black straps over top of the bandages wrapped around his chest and arms, not to mention the sport face mask on his face and Bennett did not even have a top to the uniform, it was just black wrappings covering all of his upper body and lower face, obscuring his nose and mouth, and small chains dangling from the straps attached to his wrist.
All in all, the sight was pretty damn intimidating to anyone who saw them. They exuded a powerful presence that promised pain, suffering, and an agonizing death to any who opposed them. It was frightening to the Soul Reaper present and she did not want to be around them any more than she needed to be. She had never felt this level of power before, the only Soul Reaper that could claim to be just as powerful was Head Captain Yamamoto and even then she felt they could give him a run for his money and still be rearing to go again.
Bennett flash stepped towards the Hollow and cut off its legs in one single motion. Randy copied and sliced through its left arm while Ichigo made sure the corrupted spirit no longer had possession of its right arm. The demonic creature fell to its knees and screeched, but the newly christened Soul Reapers ignored the pitiful excuse of a monster's cries of pain. Together, they brought down their katanas down on the mask, bisecting it, resulting in the Hollow dissolving into nothingness.
The victory was short-lived, unfortunately. Due to the strain on their teenage bodies from gaining newly found power that would grow in strength and intensity, the three brothers collapsed and passed out on the spot.
"My god, who are they? Three humans who gain the powers of a Soul Reaper from siphoning off spirit energy from another Soul Reaper and have captain-level pressures and reserves. Just what have I stumbled upon?"
A mischievous voice said, "Boys who will one day be greater men than anyone can possibly imagine, Miss Kuchiki."
Startled by the answer she was not intending to receive, the Kuchiki girl turned to the location of the origin of the voice. Her eyes gazed upon a shifty-eyed man in an odd attire made up of wooden clogs, a green-and-white-striped bucket hat, black haori, and green robes.
"Who are you?"
He sported a lazy grin. "Who am I? Nothing more than a humble shopkeeper. Now let's get the boys back in the house and remedy this mess, shall we?"
So, how'd I do? Please don't criticize me if I got some of the Spiritual Pressure and Energy details a little mixed up, I always had trouble following how the two terms worked in certain things, not what they were, but how they were incorporated in different techniques and which term was actually used.
This is my first attempt at a Bleach story that is like the universe established in the manga, consisting of Soul Reapers, Hollows, and Quincy instead of an all human universe. I will try to work on both Undead and Power of Three one chapter at a time, basically writing a chapter for Undead, then PoT, then Undead, then PoT, you get the idea. It won't be easy and this will take a long time to complete, but I will do my best to get it done. If anyone would like to help me write this story and be a co-author, then PM me and ask. This is a long project, I may certainly need a partner to help write this story.
I forget to mention, I need a suggestion for a Sternritter to use as Randy's Quincy powers Manifestation, one that would fit his personality well. I have one already in mind for Bennett. If you can guess who I am using for him, then you get a virtual cookie.
Crash, out.