I claim no rights or anything associated with the Bleach series and/or its characters. As they are owned by Tite Kubo. This story is completely my own idea as it will be an IchiHime love story. Some of the characters maybe a bit OC so please don't hate. Please leave me your comments and reviews telling me what you think. Thanks!
Key Guide: "regular speech", 'thinking to ones self', *mental speech*, (author notes/translations), hollows/demons speaking, italics attacks
Eight: training
After Tier and Toshiro had left, Ichigo transformed back into his normal form and alerted his people that he was going to his room to rest for a while.
"Ulquiorra you are on guard. Szayel see about arranging a room for Toshiro until he and Tier can complete the mating process." Both men nodded their heads as Ichigo went to his room.
*I kind of feel envious of Tier. She can mate with her soulmate anytime she choses while we have to wait.*
*Shiro..... don't you know that good things will happen to those who wait.* Ichigo replied earning a moan from Shiro.
*God I hate when you get psychological with me.* Ichigo couldn't help but to laugh.
Ichigo was awoken from his sleep by him sleep by human screaming and a telepathic cry for help. Ichigo bolted out of his room heading for the source of the sound. He found Toshiro hunched over in pain as ice covered his body. Tier whom was with him was frozen almost to the core. When the others tried to get close to the young human, the ice would lash out at them as if alive.
"What's going on?" Ichigo asked.
"It seems that the kid's powers kicked in. None of us can get close to him." stated Grimmjow. Ichigo nodded his head that he understood. Ichiog first went over to Tier freeing her from her icy prison.
"Lord Kurosaki......." Tier moaned out weakly.
"Take it easy Tier. I will have you free shortly." Ichigo stated as he began to cause his dark energy to surface. He allowed his energy to coat over Tier melting the ice.
"Toshiro....."
"Don't worry about him. I will help him through the transition and to get his powers under control." Ichigo stated. Once Tier was free, he made sure to have the woman go with Szayel in order to check up that she was all right.
Ichigo then turned his attention towards Toshiro. Ichigo kept his dark energy active in case the ice attacked him. Ichigo could see that Toshiro no longer looked like a young kid but now an older teen. Ice covered him giving him a draconic look. Toshiro's eyes widened when he saw Ichigo.
"Don't fight the changes Toshiro. Allow them to happen. I will use my powers to help coach you though the changes." Toshiro nodded his head that he understood. Ichigo helped Toshiro stabilize the changes happening to the young human as Toshiro now looked to be at least eighteen years old. "The ice is a part of you Toshiro. You can control it. Make the ice obey you and your will." Ichigo stated. Toshiro closed his eyes as he could feel a warm energy pulsing into his body. Toshiro managed to find his ice core making it obey him as the ice began to break away from his body. Toshiro opened his eyes as his body lightly swayed from his newfound powers activating Ichigo caught Toshiro in his arms as he carried the young man to Szayel's lab. "Rest for now Toshiro. I know that you have a lot of questions and I will answer them once you are feeling better." stated Ichigo as he watched Toshiro close his eyes falling asleep instantly.
After bringing Toshiro to Szayel's lab, Ichigo opened up a senkaimon to get Orihime and tell the young woman what Toshiro had discovered. Ichigo had also asked Coyote to set up the training grounds. Both Toshiro and Orihime needed to work on controlling their newfound powers. Ichigo had no idea of how many sun people could have been reincarnated. He knew that there was a good chance that not all of his people where going to have soulmates. Ichigo hoped that there was a possibility that all of his people actually had their mates out there in the world. Since there was so few of his people left. He hoped that the others could find their mates. After existing the senkaimon, Ichigo made his way to see Orihime. Meanwhile in the palace, Jushiro was happy that Orihime was showing an intrest and attraction towards Ichigo Kurosaki. Jushiro couldn't understand why he trusted Princess Orihime to go with the young man without any guards. The young man complete mystery as Jushiro couldn't help but to feel that he meet Ichigo before but he couldn't remember where.
Ichigo was lead to where Orihime was at as she was in the garden with an older woman.
"Princess Orhime...... You're guest has arrived." spoke the guard. Orihime looked up smiling softly.
"Ah thank you Nnoritora. I am sorry Retsu. But could we continue another day?" asked Orihime.
"Of course princess." Retsu stated as she bowed her head towards Ichigo. Almost instantly, Ichigo could feel Shiro grow restless within him.
*Shiro....... What's wrong?*
*Two more sun people. The guards that lead us here and that woman that Orihime is speaking with.*
*How can you be certain?* Ichigo asked.
*All of the sun people have the same energy wave length. I was able to pin point it more clearly when we helped out Toshiro.* stated his inner demon.
*Are you able to tell who are their mates?* Ichigo asked.
*No........ Not yet.* replied Shiro. Ichigo was close enough to the two humans to mark them before alerting his people that there was a possibility of their mates were found.
"Ichigo?" Orihime asked breaking his link with his people.
"Sorry Orihime. But it seems that a few of your people are much like you." stated Ichigo. This caused Orihime to look at Ichigo in confusion. "I will explain once we get to the moon." Orihime nodded her head as Ichigo lead her away from the castle that way he can open a senkaimon without being seen. As the two traveled, Ichigo explained what Toshiro found out about the sun princess and the sun people. "My inner demon managed to sense the same energy coming from the two people that were with us. It seems that Toshiro happens to be Tier's mate as his powers awakened when he came back to the moon."
"Is Toshiro all right?" Orihime asked in concern.
"He's fine but I don't think that he will return back to the earth realm any time soon."
"Why do you say that?"
"You will see when we get to the training grounds. Both Tier and Toshiro are going to meet us there."
Orihime and Ichigo made it to the moon kingdom as they both went to the training grounds. Tier stood outside as she bowed greeting both Ichigo and Orihime. Orihime's eyes widened when she saw an elder Toshiro.
"Toshiro?!" she asked in shock.
"Hello Princess Orihime." answered the white haired young man.
"What happened?" she asked.
"When his powers awoke, it caused a jump in his age. I think that he was actually supposed to be this age when he was reincarnated. It turns out that you and some of your people are actually from the sun kingdom that had been destroyed by the hollows. The sun people are our destined mates." Ichigo stated. Toshiro went more into detail about what he read as the four of them entered into the training grounds.
As the four of them trained, Ichigo told Orihime that he found two more sun people thanks in part to Toshiro's transformed. Toshiro and Orihime caught on quickly how to activate and use their powers. Both could create weapons that matched their essence. Orihime was light and healing while Toshiro's was cold and ice. Neither human was very skilled at fighting but, they learned fast. by the end of the training session, both were a bit more confident in their skills.
"Come on Orihime, I should take you back home. I should stay with you and take a tour of your palace while trying to find the other sun people. Hopefully the two that I had marked belong to one of my people." Ichigo stated as he and Orihime left the training grounds. As they did, Ichigo got hugged tackled by Nell. "Nell!" Ichigo yelled out in shock.
"Thank you Lord Ichigo!" she exclaimed.
"Let me guess that skinny guard with the eye patch is your mate." Ichigo smiled as he broke free from Nell's hold. Nell nodded her head smiling.
"What is his name?" she asked.
"Nnoritora Gilga. He's very rough around the edges but also very loyal. Both Nnoritora and Kenpatchi Zaraki are two of my strongest guards." stated Orihime. Nell's smile widened even more.
"I want to meet him. But how?"
"I can say that you are a friend of Ichigo's if you come to the earth world." Nell hugged Orihime thanking the process over and over again.
"Nell enough!" snapped Ichigo forcing the older woman to let the princess go. "Did the others check on the woman I marked?"
"Ulquiorra, Grimmjow, and Coyote did as she isn't theirs which means she belongs to Szayel." answered Nell.
"Make sure that you all keep an eye on your mates as I feel that the hollows will attack them if they get a chance." Ichigo stated as Nell nodded her head leaving to pass the message along.