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[Log] Story time!

Who: Ichigo, Della, and Glorfindel
What: Talking about Ichigo's past and powers
Where: Quiet car, second level
When: Grasshopper 16
Warnings: Discussions of war, massive bodily injury, death

Having gotten some tea and water and carrot cupcakes together, Ichigo waited for Glorfindel and Della to arrive. He knew some of what he was going to say would be a repeat for Della, but he planned to go into more detail for them both. And while he was a little worried how they would look at him after hearing it all, after the mission, he felt like he could trust the two of them to really know him. At least he'd already managed to go get his new little kitten, and it was sleeping on his lap.

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Glorfindel stopped petting the tiny kitty tummy so Ichigo could, as it was his cat, after all.

"You have children running around with no adults in their lives, and you say that isn't the point?" Humans were so strange at times. Elves would not allow that. If the parents were unable to care for their children, usually because they died, there would be Elves coming from miles to volunteer to help care for them.

"And how did your sisters not notice their clothes disappearing? Or that there was a person living in your closet? Did she not need to eat? Or bathe?"

He looked at Della. "Wouldn't you notice if one of your sons had some strange woman living in his closet?"

Actually, Glorfindel put up a pretty good point. Della wasn't as up to date on how her boys lived, but even she thought she'd notice something was off.

"Was it some magic reaper soul stuff that made sure they didn't question it... or are you just an amazingly good liar?" Not to them, of course, but to the family.

"Yuzu absolutely knew her clothing was going missing, but it could have been some kidou I wasn't able to detect. Because apparently, the reason Rukia hadn't sensed the hollow she'd been hunting when she met is because I leak reiatsu like sieve. And I still have yet to learn how to control it fully."

The kitten got tired of the belly rubs and rolled over to start washing his paws, so Ichigo sat upright again. "Before a soul reaper learns the name of their blade it's called an asauchi. Basically it translates to empty blade. As a soul reaper develops their reiatsu and grows more powerful, the spirit of their sword will start to develop and form, and channel into the asauchi. They are supposed to be the size of a regular katana, so not quite two feet long. Mine was actually a little bigger than my larger sword is currently."

He thought for a moment about what else would be an important tale in his past, and remembered the parakeet. "So a couple days after I had saved Inoue from her brother, my best friend Chad started having some suspiciously bad luck. Around the same time, he had found a parakeet that talked with the voice of a little kid."

"Have you spoken to Piccolo about lessons on learning to control it?" Glorfindel asked. His own power wasn't quite the same as the ki that Piccolo used, but the lessons had been quite helpful, nonetheless.

At Ichigo's words on how much larger his sword was, Glorfindel had to cover his laugh with his hand, shooting Della a look. Young men, so concerned about the size of their swords.

He tilted his head at the description of the parakeet, though. "I suspect this parakeet was a bit paranormal?" He moved on to giving the kitten head scritches.

"So it was a para-normal-keet, huh? Huh?" ... Listen, Della thought she was funny. Though she definitely did catch Glorfindel's look and stifled a laugh. So very mature.

She let the joke die and cleared her throat. "So, was the bird an evil monster, a ghost, what have you?"

Ichigo snorted at the joke and shook his head a little. "Nah, the bird's story was pretty damn sad, actually. He was the ghost of a little kid that got shoved into the parakeet's body by the man that killed him and his mom. Only spirit I've ever heard of going hollow immediately after death, by the way.

"The hollow had been a serial killer before he died, and was using the kid's soul as bait to keep on killing. When I cut him down, he didn't purify like most hollows. The actual gates of hell came down and sucked his soul in." It had been a fitting end as far as Ichigo was concerned.

Turning to Glorfindel, Ichigo raised an eyebrow for a moment. "Think he would be able to help? I've heard a little about what he can do, but it sounds worlds away from what's possible with reiatsu."

"And what happened to the child?" Glorfindel was an elf, he spared no pity for the evil being, but children were precious to Elves.

"Maybe? What I have is also different from his ki, but I find the meditation and focus techniques to be quite helpful in learning to control the powers I have. It couldn't hurt to try?"

And he didn't see how he and Della were wrong about the parakeet.

Well now, Della felt bad about making a joke! She tugged at her scarf a bit, mentally noting not to make anymore jokes without knowing the full story.

"I gotta agree with blondie on this one, couldn't hurt to try. Worst that could happen is you find out it doesn't work, and you both move on."

Speaking of moving on, on with the story. "I won't accept anything less than a happy ending with the kid and your friend, by the way."

"Oh yeah, I gave the kid a proper passing on. We ended up seeing him when we went to Soul Society to save Rukia's ass. Which I'll get to." Ichigo smiled warmly at Della and took a drink before continuing.

"Eventually, Ishida confronted me. He hated me on sight because he knew I was acting as the soul reaper for the town. He's got plenty of reason to hate soul reapers, since he's a Quincy. Also, his grandfather had been abducted and experimented on by a soul reaper who is the absolute worst ever. But he's still a captain because he gets results.

"Anyway, back on topic with Ishida. He challenged me to a competition to see who could take out more hollows. He had this tablet, hollow bait, and he crushed it. It went into the air and drew a bunch of hollows to town. Rukia got attacked but was able to defend herself somewhat. Chad got attacked, but couldn't see the hollows. Karin was close to him and could see them, so with her help he was able to start fighting back. And this is where Inoue comes back into the story.

"A bigger hollow went and was at the school. It attacked a few of our classmates, one of whom I used to take karate classes with when I was little named Tatsuki. Tatsuki and Inoue are best friends, and Tatsuki sees spirits as well. So she saw the hollow and tried to get Inoue to run. But instead she stayed. She wanted so badly to protect Tatsuki and fight the hollow, that the flower shaped hair pins she'd gotten from her brother transformed into these little fairies. Three of them can form a shield. Two of them she can use to heal. And one of them can attack. So she was able to beat the hollow at the school."

Glorfindel blinked.

"Three things, one - please think about talking to Piccolo. Two - who is Ishida? And three - so in your world all souls go to this Soul Society? Do they stay there and become soul reapers? Wouldn't that cause there to eventually be more soul reapers than living humans?

"Ah, and a bonus fourth thing - You said Quincies hate Soul Reapers...what happens when Quincies die then?"

Honestly, Glorfindel had all the questions covered. So she merely shrugged, and openly gestured to him.

"What he said, but uh, doubled! Or else we'll quiz you later and it'll be super annoying." She finished with a grin, trying to keep it light.

"I will make a note to talk to Piccolo. Or at least find somewhere to meditate more in quiet." Ichigo smiled at Glorfindel before raking a hand through his hair.

"Ishida is...well, at first we were just classmates that didn't talk. Now? He's a close friend. If Mom hadn't been infected with hollow reiatsu and ended up marrying my dad, Ishida and I could have been brothers, because Mom was arranged to marry his dad.

"As for what happens to souls...well, it kind of depends. If you don't have any reiatsu, you don't feel hunger or thirst at all. So you just make your life the best you can depending on what district you live in. Outside of the soul reaper offices and barracks, and the Noble districts, it's...not great. There are 80 districts, and the higher you go the worse the conditions get. It's awful, and I can't do shit about it."

Ichigo sighed and frowned a little before shrugging. "As for Quincy souls? Far as I know, they've got their own secret enclave where they go and stay isolated. They really don't want anything to do with soul reapers, after all."

"Maybe we should ask the Train for a meditation car, but we make do, I suppose. There are times you might walk into the Training Gym and only see people meditating. Or the Greenhouse, or the Garden car...if the Prinnies are out. There is the Quiet Car also, but those rooms fill fast."

Brothers if their parents had married? Glorfindel was pretty sure genetics didn't work that way, but he wasn't going to be the one to have to explain how babies were made to the young human. He gave Della a look to see if she wanted to do it.

Glorfindel titled his head to the side. "So this Soul Society is the "Heaven" that is touted so highly amongst humans? Sounds...disappointing."

Honestly, Glorfindel didn't blame the Quincies if that was how the Soul Reapers treated the souls they 'saved' from the Hollows.

Offices and bureaus in the land of the dead? Della snorted, way more into that area than baby-making. (Also, if she wasn't ready to tell her own kids, she certainly wasn't ready to do it with someone else!)

"I know after several different afterlives, and so far yours sounds the most.. organized." It was the most gentle way she could put it.

"Yeah, it's a pretty crap version of heaven." Ichigo had to agree. When he finally made it there, he was going to force change on them until they killed him or chased him to Hueco Mundo.

"Where was I on my history... Oh, yeah, the competition to see who could cut down more hollows. Apparently, I am a broken tap of reiatsu, because we started attracting larger and more powerful hollows, called Menos. We had to drive them back to their world, but I didn't know how to harness my reiatsu to move in the air yet. So we ended up strapping my sword to Ishida's head, dull side to his skull, of course. I channeled my reiatsu through the sword as much as I could, and he took that and put it into an arrow. Between the two of us we were strong enough to drive the Menos away."

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