Bleach: Home Of The Hidden Ancients - Chapter 3 (Fan Fiction)

Bleach: Home of the Hidden Ancients - Chapter 3 (Fan Fiction)

Chapter 3: To Teach Or Not To Teach…

Karin went through her mental checklist for the fifth and final time standing just around the corner from Mr Urahara’s shop:

-Kick goat face- check

-Tell Yuzu that she’s off to play soccer- check

-Run through arguments for becoming a soul reaper- triple check

-Run through arguments that might be had with Ichigo after becoming a soul reaper- afraid to consider

 She took a deep breath. That’s usually what you’re supposed to do when you’re nervous, right? Karin found out that the more “deep” breaths she took the more awkward and annoyed she got with herself. So scrapping that idea, she turned the corner and strode up to the shop. Surprisingly the courtyard was quiet. Ururu stood obediently sweeping the courtyard but Jinta was nowhere to be seen. Well at least she didn’t have to worry about that bonehead screaming in her ear. He was probably off playing actual baseball somewhere.

“Hey Ururu!” Karin called out. Ururu flinched then glanced at her

“Oh… hello Ms Kurosaki…” She mumbled nervously.

Karin sighed. It was always “Ms Kurosaki” with her.

“You know it’s fine to call me Karin?” she said walking into the shade of the shop’s eves.

Ururu gave a small smile in return and answered, “I know that… So what can we do for you Ms Karin?”

Okay, she thought. This is it.

“I need to speak to Mr Urahara,” she commanded.

“Um… I’ll just go around to see if he’s awake…” Ururu muttered as she quickly whisked away to the back of the store.

“He better be,” Karin quietly threatened.

Eventually the curtains opened again to reveal the hat and clogs man, himself.

“Good morning Ms Kurosaki. What can I do for you today?” He asked lazily. A polite smirk framed his face and his hid eyes under the shade of the hat. He waltzed over to a chair in a cramped corner and kicked back in it.

Karin stepped forward with a sense of purpose. Her composure was firm and unrelenting: shoulders back, feet hip width apart and furrowed eyebrows. She may only have looked like a scrawny middle school girl but her aura (if you would call it that) sent out the message of “I know what I want and I want it now”.

 “You know what I’m here for Urahara. I need to become a-“

“We talked about this already and the answer’s still no. I’m sorry but there won’t be any further discussion on the topic,” he interrupted bluntly, hoping to drain her confidence. But Karin was only fuelled more by his rude interruption.

“No discussion. Just decisions. And I have decided I want to become a soul reaper. Teach me and make it quick or I’ll find out how on my own,” she supplied.

Urahara just sighed tiredly. He didn’t exactly want to commute with anyone or anything until at least 11 o’clock in the morning. Anytime before that he was classified as ‘unfit to work’.

“Look, you’re just too young and inexperienced to become a soul reaper. Anyway there are probably heaps of rules and regulations against informal soul reaper training in the Soul Society…” he gave as his decent sounding answer.

 “Since when do you follow rules? Ichigo was only about two years older than me when he became a soul reaper! And besides, I already fend off hollows with my school bag. If I had training I could actually take care of all of it and cleanse them instead of just giving them a bad hair day. Wouldn’t that help the Soul Society?” She fired back. Urahara was slightly impressed despite himself. She had thought this out well.

“Ichigo was a special case and he was in dire circumstances so you can’t compare your scenario to his,” He countered.

 Karin huffed knowing that some of the stuff he said was true.

“I am in dire circumstances. Just yesterday Yuzu and I were attacked. We were lucky enough to get away with just a graze. But you of all people should know the damage that can be done.”

“That’s why Ichigo became a soul reaper in the first place; to protect the two of you. You can’t just throw his dedication to you guys away like that,” Urahara said. He knew he had almost won when he saw Karin’s face. She stared at her feet with guilt. Hopefully that was enough to knock her out of the argument. But as she looked back up, her eyes had hardened. They were bitter.

 “Ichigo is barely ever here. Sure we all understand why and we still love him but that doesn’t stop us from being hollow bait. His circle of protection has increased. But I need to protect Yuzu and myself. That’s how I’ll protect him… from himself. If we were hurt while he was away you know who he’d blame,” Karin looked at Mr Urahara sternly. “That’s not going to happen. Not if I can do something about it. I want to use my spiritual powers, I want to protect others and I won’t let my family be broken any more than it has been.”

 Mr Urahara stayed silent absorbing everything he had heard. Then he muttered something almost inaudible.

“Is this what you want or what Ichigo wants?”

Karin replied clearly, “I want it.”

Finally he sighed then laughed.

“Oh damn, if Ichigo ever finds out about this I’m going to get cut up into little pieces…”

Karin relaxed her shoulders then replied, “well let’s hope he’ll never have to find out.”

Hawkeye deals with The Flame (more like puff of smoke) Alchemist.... again....

Another Keya Shaen line art (Star Wars OC).Will colour in when I get the chance:)

Arya Stark To Winterfell

An small idea of if / when Arya ever makes the trek back home to Jon, Sansa, Rickon and hopefully Bran. Her struggle with what she’s been through.

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“The girl is no one”

As the girl rested her eyes on the snowy forests she’d once known so well, this mantra echoed in her mind.

“The girl is no one”

Once a girl had played here with her dire wolf. Once a girl had hidden here from her ginger sister’s wrath. Once a girl had secretly trained here with dreams of becoming the best swordsman in all of Westeros.

“The girl is no one”

That girl is no one now. She isn’t trudging through the woods broken boned and bleeding across the pale snow. She’ll never have anymore desires of reaching her home once more. Arya Stark is dead.

But a different sort of chanting started to echo in her head. Chanting from the depths of her memories of better times, of hopeful times. The girl had her family. The girl had her sword. The girl had her name. And a dancer had taught her another kind of mantra that filled her very being. As the memories of Arya Stark’s life began crashing back into her mind, the girl stood taller despite her weakened knees. She walked faster despite her ripping muscles.

“The girl is no one” echoed an ancient voice.

But the fire within her was already released.

“What do we say to the God of death?”

Arya Stark fiercely muttered under her ragged breath: “Not today.”

Music to the season 2 finale in Star Wars Rebels “It’s Over Now” could actually also go with where we leave Ahsoka, Rex, the clone army after order 66, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan heck even Hondo, the bounty hunters etc.in the would be series finale to The Clone Wars

Imagine these images to the song:

Previous scene finishes

At about 0:13 we see a long shot of the ruins of Mandalore from the siege but we are panning to a crowd gathered around the old Palace of the Duchess. It’s a new day on Mandalore

When music swells at 0:30 we see Bo Katan standing tall as the new appointed leader of Mandalore (Shots of her, her overlooking the crowd)

At about 0:38 we pan over to a long shot of a republic clone base which is also in ruin. Troopers lay dead on the ground whilst other troopers rush to obey their orders and the flickering of a lightsaber in the distance disappears.

0:45 Close up of Rex looking around at his brothers in a panic confused, sad and scared at what they have done

0:52 in the distance we see long shot of Wolfie through racing troopers 0:55  mid shot Wolfie gazes at his blaster and then to Rex hopelessly. He knows and we know what he’s done

0:58 mid shot Rex takes a breath and races over toward him and a fighter away from the camp to get them out of there

1:04 Close up Darth Maul walking on some unknown planet suddenly shudders and looks over his shoulder. He senses a newly born Sith lord

1:08 we see the legs of the newly created Darth Vader and panning up to his helmet overlooking the stars 1:16  Obi Wan night time on Tatooine looks up at them with his hood up

1:21 we see Hondo and his crew drinking with bounty hunters like Embo, Bosk, Boba and Sugi in a cantina somewhere, seemingly oblivious to what’s happened in the universe

1:25 Padme’s funeral. Long shot we see Bail, Chu chi and Lux watching her from the march 1:29 Mid shot Bail’s hand rests on Lux’s shoulder whilst Chu chi stands strong

1:32 we watch side on from a top of a mountain (at a ledge) overlooking the vast Ryloth plains, we see Ahsoka on the back of a giant wolf like creature. She’s looks conflicted after sensing of her master and the Jedi order’s passing

1:36 We see her back as she stares up at the Republic cruisers in the sky preparing to land. They are no longer republic cruisers though. They are Star Destroyers

1:40 She looks back at Ryloth now with determination and resilience in her eyes

1:43 the wolf races up to the edge of the ledge and leaps off showing Ahsoka seemingly going to face off against a dozen Star Destroyers above the horizon. She is on the Horizon, Rytloth is below her

1:51 cut to black

I don’t really know how to do these images justice by myself so writing it down is a lot easier. 

Btw I know that Wolfie got his chip out but he always seemed so anxious to me and since he was such a “solider” I wasn’t sure what would make him take out his chip. And I always wanted to see how these clones after they carried out order 66 would react. Killing your general and friend and potentially children? That’d leave major mental and emotional scars. So I thought what if they got Wolfie’s chip removed after he’d done it. It was a depressingly interesting concept to me.

Found at on a toilet door at a fish and chips restaurant. Something makes me think that L may have frequented this establishment...