One Year
One year had gone by in the blink of an eye. During this year, Ichigo was quite busy, caring for Maki and Mai, looking for a way back home, Investigating heavenly pacts, and practicing his hollow abilities.
Unfortunately, Ichigo didn't have any luck when looking for a way back, one of his hollow abilities gave him hope, but in the end, it was useless, and he had the same luck with investigating heavenly pacts.
"Good thing I was able to make progress with my powers."
Ichigo didn't have a hard time using his hollow powers, it was only a matter of practicing.
"Well, practicing wasn't the key."
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"King, what are you trying to do?"
White, Ichigo's inner hollow asked Ichigo who was training in his inner world.
"Huh? Can't you see and figure it out? I am training my hollow side."
"No, I know that. What I mean is, why are you training so hard?"
"Want me to hit you, obviously to improve my abilities."
"That is why I am confused. Do you forget what kind of creatures hollows are?"
"What are you talking about?"
"It looks like being in this world made you lose some of your edge, not that I blame you. Since coming to this world, you become stronger than anyone else. The only one we know who can give you a run for your money is your friend Gojo Satoru, but of course, you two don't go all out when you practice with each other."
"If we went all out, the city would be destroyed, but he is leveling up pretty quick."
"Yeah, but that is not my point. I want you to understand that, right now, you are more hollow than shinigami."
"What?"
"Did you forget? What mixed with the curse energy was the hollow energy, not your shinigami or Quincy side."
"Oh, now that you mention, when the curse energy was creating my body, it didn't accept my other sides, but what about it."
"Right now, you can only use your full strength in your inner world. Here, you have access to all your abilities, Shinigami, Quincy, and Hollow, but outside, it is different right now your physical body is half human, half hollow, which is why until now, it has been hard to train your abilities to certain point, because you are relying too much on your human side."
"I am still lost."
Sigh, I am trying to say that you should practice more with your body, and remember...."
White looked at Ichigo with a wild smile.
"The instinct of a hollow."
Loss for words, Ichigo didn't say anything and stood there, and the next moment he was gone."
"Heh, It looks like he remembered our last lesson."
The real world
Ichigo was standing in the middle of a field, looking at his hands.
"My body."
Suddenly his curse energy started to leak out in huge amounts.
"My power."
Raising his hand up with one finger pointing to the sky, the curse energy started to concentrate on the tip of his finger, creating a cero, but there was something different about it.
"MY INSTICNT!"
The cero was becoming unstable, but instead of exploding more lines started to gather around the center of the cero and slowly but surely the color of the attack was changing and with a final shout, Ichigo shot to the sky.
"GRAN REY CERO!!!"
The attack was released, and the clouds split with the might of a hollow power.
And the world was dyed blue.
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'Since then, I had an easier time understanding and improving my abilities, well the same goes for Satoru.'
Chew chew chew!
'Speaking of the devil.'
"Hey!"
"Chew!Chew!"
"Oi! Stop eating your damn snacks and look at me."
"Hmmm? What?"
Sitting on the couch as if it was his own house, Gojo was distracted from his bliss and looked at Ichigo.
"Don't 'what' me, do you live here? Why the hell are you here every day? go bother someone else."
"But I am bored, and Suguru spent more of his time with the girls or Riko. Who knew he was the type to choose hoe over bros."
"He has more responsibilities now, you should understand. You have Megumi and Tsumiki."
"Yeah, but those kids are too mature for their age. Sometimes I feel like they look at me as if was the kid."
"Pffff, Sometimes you say."
"Anyways, how are Maki and Mai?"
"They are fine. Mai made a lot of friends, and Maki..... well, she is Maki, the only kid she gets along with is Yuji."
True, the only kid that played with Maki was Yuji, not because Maki had a bad attitude or didn't want to interact with the other kids. In fact, she was pretty friendly, and once you get to know her, you will find out she is very kind, brought but kind.
"Not that weird. He is the only one who can keep up with her. It is not fun when no one can play with you."
"Yeah, it can be pretty lonely. I am grateful Yuji is here."
Itadori Yuji, when Ichigo first met the kid, he thought that he had some connection with the Jujutsu world, but his family was clean.
'I am curious about his parents, but his grandfather said they already passed away.'
Ichigo became acquainted with Yuji's grandpa, Itadori Wasuke, a pretty rough old man, but he didn't dislike him.
"Anyway, I am bored, so how about we go and bother Yaga for a while."
"Why would I?"
"Got something better to do?"
".... I don't have anything else to do anyway."
"Okay! Let's go then."
"Wait a second."
Ichigo stood up and waved his hand
"Descorrer"
Suddenly, there was a rip in space
Swoooo!
A sound kind to something being torn apart was heard, and a black hole appeared in the room.
"Man, no matter how many times I see it, I can get used to it, what is this call, G-Garganta."
"The technique to make the hole is name descorrer and the hole is called garganta."
"Why Spanish?"
"Beats me."
This was the skill that gave Ichigo hope of a way back home, but when he tried to cross over he found himself in front of Shoko.
'She got so scared she puch me back then, no that I blame her.'
Ichigo later discovered that his garganta didn't connect to Hueco Mundo as he had hoped. No matter how often he tried to do it, the results were not what he wanted.
'Well, not everything was terrible. I can teleport anywhere I have been before. I just need to think about it.'
Ichigo was crossing the Garganta but he had one last thought before crossing the other side.
'At that time, why was I thinking of Shoko?'