CH 1

Summoned

Ichigo looked around. What was going on? One second he was fighting a hollow, a pretty weak one when he thought back, and the next he suddenly felt himself being pulled into something. Falling through a void, because he couldn't call it anything else, and suddenly landing before a group of children was not what he expected when he finally landed safely on the ground. Then seconds after he landed an explosion occurred that cracked the ground around him, covering the surrounding with smoke, as well as him. He quickly cleared the smoke with a quick burst of his reiatsu before carefully watching his surroundings. Behind him was a building that could only be described as castle and before him stood a mass of children, probably students since they all wore the same. Before him stood a pink haired young girl, who watched him with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open, near them stood an adult, probably the teacher of the students. What made Ichigo uncomfortable was that he couldn't feel any familiar reiatsu, none at all. He knew that he was bad when it came to reiatsu, but he wasn't as to not at least feel his friends, having remembered the feeling of their reiatsu completely. What exactly was going on and where was he?

Louise spoke her chant, calling upon her powers, using even the last drop that she could to pour into her spell before she stopped, watched and hoped that something had heard her prayer and would answer it. She didn't need something as big as a dragon, or as strong as a golem, even thought that would be great, she just wanted to have something appear, that would show everyone that she wasn't a complete failure, the zero. The tears that were about to flow out, when she noticed that still nothing had happened were stopped when a door, well something that looked like a door at least, appeared in thin air. The door was somehow wrong; instead of being straight it was horizontal and opened not by pulling it, but by pushing it to the side, which happened on its own. Something, they still couldn't see what it was, it looked like a color blur to them, fell out of it and landed soundlessly on the patch of grass before them. Before they could identify what it was exactly the expected explosion occurred, which surprisingly had come unexpected to the most of them, having let their guard down when they noticed that Louise had summoned something.

They waited for the smoke to disappear before looking at the being that had been summoned. Which wasn't there?

"Louise, where is your familiar?" Kirche asked, knowing that Louise had summoned something she did not say it with irony but with curiosity.

"Maybe it run away when it saw who its summoner was?!" a girl made fun of her, but Louise wasn't listening. Before her stood a, well it could only be called a human, but his clothes (think about his shinigami clothes after the full bringer arc!) looked different, bizarre, well in a nut shell weird, not fitting the clothes of their culture and he had bright orange hair, something she had never seen before. She couldn't really say so, with her pink hair and all, but even thought pink hair was rare, it still existed, while orange hair didn't. Still it was not his clothes or his hair that grabbed her attention. It were his eyes, which seemed to radiate power and knowledge and kindness at the same time. Still she felt like he was judging her, seizing her up if she was even worth looking at and it scared her. Her mother had always done the same and Louise feared those eyes above all else.

She moved toward the being that resembled her mother so much and gave him a quick peck on the cheek, having not enough courage to do much else, even thought she really didn't know why.

Colbert didn't know what to fell or think. He couldn't see anything but Louise seemed to have kissed something just now, completing the contract. He couldn't see anything, but he knew that something was there. The children didn't feel it, they had never seen war and death, but he could. He felt a shiver running down his back. The feelings when he stood before the dead, looking down on them and knowing that he may soon by one himself, dead and lifeless and unmoving. Those dead eyes staring at him as if they were accusing him of killing them, of not protecting them when they needed protection still haunted him even after the countless battles he had lived through. Now those feelings and memories had resurfaced. He shivered again, overcome with the feeling that death itself stood before him and was waiting for him to finally accept that he as well would one day part this world. Whatever Louise had summoned had lived through countless battles and had resurfaced victorious. It scared him, the battle hardened wizard, this being that felt like blood and death.

Slowly before every ones' eyes a shape, which before invisible, became visible. It was of a young man, with bright orange hair, deep brown eyes and a giant cleaver strapped to his back. It was a beautiful piece of metal, since it couldn't really be called a sword, glowing a beautiful black color. It almost looked like it was absorbing all the light.

It was a human, but humans weren't invisible to the eyes, so that meant he had used a spell right? They did not know that a spell for invisibility existed. It shouldn't. Was this a noble who had created his own spell? It couldn't be anything else, right?! Why had Louise been one of the only ones who had been able to see him, or had she seen him? They just couldn't find an answer to their questions.

Ichigo, after having recovered from the kiss, he thought about it like when his sisters gave him one, looked around and noticed that everyone was watching him. Why? Could they see him? At what were they looking? His hand hurt and he looked down to discover that something had burned itself on his hand. What was that? Ichigo felt that something, it was something foreign try to invade his body, no his soul, which noticing the intruder did the only natural thing. It tried to expel it. His reiatsu, he was reacting on instinct, tried to push the intruder out with all the power that he possessed, which wasn't really small. The thing, he could call it runes, was glowing. It was the intruder, which was futilely trying to hold its ground. The runes began to fade. Slowly one after another the runes disappeared from his hand till he heard a scream and stopped, looking up, noticing that he was squashing everyone with his spiritual pressure.

The human looked at his hand and frowned, well he had frowned even before that but his frown had deepened. Then suddenly he started to glow. Blue clouds (dust particles?) started to surround him and swirl almost lazily around him, till it a dam seemed to suddenly explode and the swirling became a tornado and the blue dust flew in all directions. Only then did they notice that it was his power, suddenly visible for the human eye that was now starting to push them down. At first it pushed them to their knees, followed by their whole bodies meeting the ground, slowly suffocating them. One, no one was sure who, let out a scrambled scream and the force abruptly stopped, as if it hadn't even existed in the first place. This being was not a human! They slowly stood up, looking at him with fear and awe, quickly followed by quick looks toward the 'zero'. How could she have summoned something with such power? He looked at his hand, this time with distaste, again. Then he opened his mouth for the first time and spoke:

"Explain!" It was not really a request, but a command and he waited for it to be fulfilled. He held out his hands, which to their surprise showed cracked and broken runes, some missing all together. Had the being tried to destroy them with his power?

No one answered, all staring at the runes in awe and fear. The familiar had such power that it could even destroy the runes?

Ichigo waited for someone to explain, it was funny how he had grown up. Normally he would have already lost his patience about now and started to shout. The teacher began to talk.

"Those are familiar runes; they appear when the contract is sealed with a kiss." Colbert tried to explain as best as he could. Not knowing if this being knew what a familiar is he continued to explain, hoping to get on its good site.

"A familiar is a being that is summoned to serve the summoner. The familiar is summoned to serve his caster and help him or her with different problems. The familiar stays with his caster until one of them dies. In exchange for its work the familiar is provided with shelter, food and in your case clothes." Colbert told Ichigo matter of fact, but something must have gone wrong because he seemed to have angered him even further.

"So you are telling me that I am, what one would call a slave, to do everything for my 'master' in exchange for things, like food and shelter, that I would have been able to easily provide myself with? I am forced to work for something that I already had and was rudely ripped away with when she cast her spell and now she forced me, without me accepting, into a contract that will force me to stay with her and away from my family and friends for the rest of her life? Even going so far as to use a contract that tried to invade my very own soul and tried to suppress my memories and powers?" The blue aura became visible again, slowly swirling around him. Small stones and dirt started to rise up from the ground and gravity seemed to have strengthened all of sudden again.

The students and the teacher became deathly quiet, thinking about what it really meant to be a familiar and out of fear as well, not wanting to anger the being any more.

Ichigo calmed himself down, slowing his breath. He knew that he could break the contract with his power and he could force it back, so it couldn't affect him like the caster had hoped. The blue reiatsu swirling around him became invisible again and the surroundings returned back to normal.

Louise, having collected all her courage, finally asked a question that had been bugging her this whole time.

"What are you exactly?" Ichigo looked down and thought about it. Should and could he tell them? Well they had already felt his powers and how it looked they could all see him. There also weren't any shinigami around that would notice that he had told them their secret so there probably wasn't any harm done.

"I am a shinigami" it was a short and straight answer, one which they despite that didn't understand.

"What exactly is a shinigami?" Ichigo thought about it. Shinigami also possessed other names, maybe they would help them understand better.

"Another name for shinigami would be a death god or soul reaper." Again, a straight and short answer, this time with the anticipated reaction.

"You are the god of death? You reap souls?" Came the loud shouts from the masses. Ichigo had almost flinched at the volume, but had controlled himself.

"One could say that" he said thinking back at them times where he had sent the souls to even or killed the hollows. Where he had gone through hell and gone to heaven.

"Does that mean that Louise summoned a god of death?" Someone meekly asked.

Louise didn't hear anymore, the exhaustion from the spell and the occurrences finally kicking in. Her world went black.

Sorry, the idea came when I read the famfictions of familiar of zero and I couldn't control myself, needed to write it down. Am working on the others.