Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ Letting Go ❯ Nice to meet you ( Chapter 1 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: broken_angel 
Axel and Renji meet. Chaos coming your way.
Anime/Manga: Bleach Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 01.21.2008 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 230 | Status: Work In Progress
Axel and Renji meet. Chaos coming your way.
Anime/Manga: Bleach Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Romance | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 01.21.2008 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 230 | Status: Work In Progress
Axel shook his head as he sat up after being knocked down by Sora for what seemed like the hundredth time. Only, this time, he wasn’t where he had been before. He wasn’t sure where he was, but it wasn’t anywhere he had ever been before. Which was pretty impressive, considering all the worlds he had traveled to before meeting Sora.
He stood up and started to brush off his clothes, but stopped short. He was no longer wearing the long black coat of Organization XIII. Instead, he was now wearing a what looked like a black skirt and what could only be a white shirt, but it was completely open in the front, just hanging on his shoulders.
Japan, his mind threw up before him. I must be in Japan. He had visited the country once before and saw similar clothing on some people at a shrine. But that didn’t explain why he was in Japan or why he was suddenly wearing clothing that was so different from his normal wardrobe.
Looking at his surroundings, Axel noticed the pristine white buildings rising up around him. In fact, it seemed everything was white. Buildings, ground, walls, even the sky suffered from being covered in white clouds.
It seemed that the only thing that wasn’t white was the group of men dressed in the same black skirt-type pants as himself and black shirts. The group was made up of about a half dozen men, led by a man with blazing red hair and some crazy tattoos on his forehead.
“Who are you?” the leader of the group asked when they reached him.
Axel smirked at them. “I am a Nobody.”
“That’s nice. I want to know your name,” the leader responded.
“You can call me Axel. Got it memorized?”
The red-headed leader’s eyes widened. “So rude,” he muttered under his breath. “What are you doing in the Court of Pure Souls?” he questioned.
“Good question. When you find out, don’t let me know. I’ve got a fight to go finish with a brat,” Axel said, calling up the darkness around him to transport him back to his fight. Only, the darkness didn’t come and he didn’t leave.
“I’m afraid that’s not an option.”
“Why is that? What have you done to me that I can’t leave this place?” Axel asked, starting to feel a little cornered by the men.
“I haven’t done anything to you personally. It happens to everyone when they die,” the red head said.
“Die? Oh, that’s a great joke. Now, mind telling me what you’re barely talking about?”
“Geez, I hate this part. I’m terrible at this part,” the red head muttered, rubbing a hand over his face. “You died during whatever fight you were fighting,” he said. “You’re dead and there’s no going back to where you were before.”
Axel looked down at himself and held his arms out to his sides so that he could look down at himself. “So this is what it’s like to be dead? I thought it would have been a bit more painful, or more pleasant. More something, at least.” He spun around in a circle as if that would let him see his own back.
“Not more; less,” the red head said. “You return to your original age.”
“So, I should be an infant if that’s true,” Axel said, looking skeptically at the red head before him.
“Usually. But you must be unusual if you’re here right after your death. I should take you to my captain. He’ll know what to make of you,” the group leader said.
“Well that’s all fine and dandy for you, but why should I trust you. You said I was rude, but you haven’t even introduced yourself yet. Now who’s the rude one?” Axel said.
“Uh, right. Sorry ‘bout that. Name’s Renji. Vice-captain of the 6th division of the Seireitei. Nice to meet ya.”
“Nice to meet you, Renji. What’s up with those eyebrows?” Axel asked with a smirk.
There were a few snickers from the members of the group behind Renji, and one rather indignant snort. But all of that was drowned out by a loud ‘That’s enough’ shouted by Renji.
“Touchy subject?” Axel asked, leaning to the side so he could look at the men behind Renji.
“You really are rude,” a young member of the group spoke up. Axel noticed that he had some of the same markings streaming from his eyebrows as Renji had.
Axel raised an eyebrow and shrugged. He watched Renji glare at the man who had spoken up and then turn towards a white building, the whole group following after him. Axel decided it couldn’t do him any harm, if he was in fact dead, as he was told, so he followed after the group.
“We found him in the Pure Souls Court while on patrol. He just appeared there,” Renji said, a respectful tone to his voice that hadn’t been there when he had just been talking to Axel.
The man sitting behind the desk turned his attention to Axel. “Where did you come from?”
“I am nobody. I come from nowhere,” Axel responded.
“His name is Axel,” Renji spoke up. “He died fighting.”
The man’s eyes flicked to where Renji stood and then back to Axel. “A noble death,” he said, insincerity dripping from his words.
“I would have gotten back up and beaten the little shit if he hadn’t killed me. I didn’t even know he had until this genius here,” he said, motioning at Renji, “told me. Now, mind being just a little polite and telling me who you are, since you know my name.”
“Byakuya Kuchiki, captain of the 6th division.”
“Nice to meet you. Just out of curiosity, is everyone here so nice?” Axel asked.
“Show some respect,” the squad member that had spoken up earlier shouted.
“And you are?” Axel asked.
“Rikichi.”
“Nice to meet you,” Axel said. “See, that’s how it works. I give my name. You give yours. We pass off some polite nonsense that we really don’t give a hoot about and we go on about our days.”
“You really are rude,” Rikichi said.
“I suppose that all depends on where you’re standing,” Axel said, moving to stand over by the door of the office, near where Rikichi stood. “See, from here, it could look rude. But from over here,” he moved back to his original position, “it’s fine and your actions are rude.”
“Uh, wait a minute. That doesn’t sound right,” a random member from the group said.
“Nope. It’s right,” Axel said. “So, what do you intend to do with me?”
“That has yet to be decided,” Byakuya said. “For now, you will remain under surveillance of the 6th division, until a decision as to your fate has been made.”
“Wow. You almost make it sound like I’m under arrest,” Axel said. “Why don’t you just put me in shackles and a cell?”
“Tempting as the thought is, I don’t think that’s a necessary step to take,” Byakuya said.
"Wow. I think I'm insulted. You don't think I'm dangerous enough to do more than just watch me," Axel said.
But Byakuya wasn't paying him any mind. He had made some kind of dismissive hand wave movement and then turned back to the piles of paperwork on his desk.
Axel turned to look at Renji. "That our cue to get lost?" he asked the vice captain.
"Yes. I'll show you to an empty room you can use for now," Renji said.
Renji, he'll be staying with you. I don't want him free to wander about as he pleases at night," Byakuya said, never looking up from his desk.
Axel just stared at the captain for a minute. "Wait a minute," Axel yelled.
"What a minute," Renji shouted at the same time.
"You ignore me when I speak directly to you, but you pay attention to him when he isn't even talking to you. How does that figure?" Axel demanded.
"Captain, I really don't think ... HEY! Why aren't you mad about having to stay with me?" Renji yelled at Axel.
"You must not be thinking. He's being incredibly rude," Axel said.
"He's a very busy nobleman."
"That doesn't excuse his rudeness."
"Is there a problem, Abarai?" Byakuya asked.
"No, Captain," Renji said, pulling Axel out of the office. "Do you want to die?" Renji asked Axel. "You piss him off and he'll shred you to pieces.
"He's too pretty to be that strong," Axel scoffed as they walked away from the office. "Though, I suppose, you get to a certain point and you either have to get stronger or get a big, strong boyfriend to protect you," Axel said. He paused for a minute, a thoughtful look crossing over his face. "You aren't his boyfriend, are you?" Axel asked.
"What?!?!?! Hell NO!!! I don't bottomo for no one!!" Renji screamed.
Axel laughed. This was going to be great. Getting to pick on Renji almost made up for being dead. Which promptly sombered Axel.
"Now what's your problem?" Renji asked, noticing the rapid change in the other redheads mood.
"I'm dead. I'm really dead," Axel said, coming to a stop. He leaned against a wall and ran his hands through his hair.
"Yeah. Sucks, huh?" Renji said.
"Aren't you just the kind-hearted softie," Axel said, pushing off from the wall. "I think your heart died when you did, and it didn't stay with your soul."
"People die. You can either wallow in your greif or get on with your life," Renji said matter-of-factly.
"In case you didn't notice back there, my life just ended about an hour ago. Not much to get on with anymore," Axel said dejectedly.
"You're not the only one who's ever died here, you know. Everyone here has died. They've had to give up a life they knew and loved," Renji said, his eyes downcast.
"Who did you have to leave behind?" Axel asked, stopping to lean against another builing. There were plenty of tall, white buildings crowding the streets, all just fine for leaning against.
"My entire family. I try not to think about them anymore. I have a new life with a new purpose now. It's not the same, but it's right for me," Renji said, leaning up against the wall next to Axel.
"There's someone that I just can't leave behind. Someone precious to me. I have to see him again. Maybe, once I do, maybe, then I can move on," Axel said crossing his arms over his chest. "I just want to hold him in my arms, one more time."
He stood up and started to brush off his clothes, but stopped short. He was no longer wearing the long black coat of Organization XIII. Instead, he was now wearing a what looked like a black skirt and what could only be a white shirt, but it was completely open in the front, just hanging on his shoulders.
Japan, his mind threw up before him. I must be in Japan. He had visited the country once before and saw similar clothing on some people at a shrine. But that didn’t explain why he was in Japan or why he was suddenly wearing clothing that was so different from his normal wardrobe.
Looking at his surroundings, Axel noticed the pristine white buildings rising up around him. In fact, it seemed everything was white. Buildings, ground, walls, even the sky suffered from being covered in white clouds.
It seemed that the only thing that wasn’t white was the group of men dressed in the same black skirt-type pants as himself and black shirts. The group was made up of about a half dozen men, led by a man with blazing red hair and some crazy tattoos on his forehead.
“Who are you?” the leader of the group asked when they reached him.
Axel smirked at them. “I am a Nobody.”
“That’s nice. I want to know your name,” the leader responded.
“You can call me Axel. Got it memorized?”
The red-headed leader’s eyes widened. “So rude,” he muttered under his breath. “What are you doing in the Court of Pure Souls?” he questioned.
“Good question. When you find out, don’t let me know. I’ve got a fight to go finish with a brat,” Axel said, calling up the darkness around him to transport him back to his fight. Only, the darkness didn’t come and he didn’t leave.
“I’m afraid that’s not an option.”
“Why is that? What have you done to me that I can’t leave this place?” Axel asked, starting to feel a little cornered by the men.
“I haven’t done anything to you personally. It happens to everyone when they die,” the red head said.
“Die? Oh, that’s a great joke. Now, mind telling me what you’re barely talking about?”
“Geez, I hate this part. I’m terrible at this part,” the red head muttered, rubbing a hand over his face. “You died during whatever fight you were fighting,” he said. “You’re dead and there’s no going back to where you were before.”
Axel looked down at himself and held his arms out to his sides so that he could look down at himself. “So this is what it’s like to be dead? I thought it would have been a bit more painful, or more pleasant. More something, at least.” He spun around in a circle as if that would let him see his own back.
“Not more; less,” the red head said. “You return to your original age.”
“So, I should be an infant if that’s true,” Axel said, looking skeptically at the red head before him.
“Usually. But you must be unusual if you’re here right after your death. I should take you to my captain. He’ll know what to make of you,” the group leader said.
“Well that’s all fine and dandy for you, but why should I trust you. You said I was rude, but you haven’t even introduced yourself yet. Now who’s the rude one?” Axel said.
“Uh, right. Sorry ‘bout that. Name’s Renji. Vice-captain of the 6th division of the Seireitei. Nice to meet ya.”
“Nice to meet you, Renji. What’s up with those eyebrows?” Axel asked with a smirk.
There were a few snickers from the members of the group behind Renji, and one rather indignant snort. But all of that was drowned out by a loud ‘That’s enough’ shouted by Renji.
“Touchy subject?” Axel asked, leaning to the side so he could look at the men behind Renji.
“You really are rude,” a young member of the group spoke up. Axel noticed that he had some of the same markings streaming from his eyebrows as Renji had.
Axel raised an eyebrow and shrugged. He watched Renji glare at the man who had spoken up and then turn towards a white building, the whole group following after him. Axel decided it couldn’t do him any harm, if he was in fact dead, as he was told, so he followed after the group.
~*~
Axel stood before a desk in an office that Renji had led him to. Behind the desk sat a rather stiff-looking man with long black hair, held back from his face by a strange, white hair piece. The man looked at Renji with an expectant look, waiting for something.“We found him in the Pure Souls Court while on patrol. He just appeared there,” Renji said, a respectful tone to his voice that hadn’t been there when he had just been talking to Axel.
The man sitting behind the desk turned his attention to Axel. “Where did you come from?”
“I am nobody. I come from nowhere,” Axel responded.
“His name is Axel,” Renji spoke up. “He died fighting.”
The man’s eyes flicked to where Renji stood and then back to Axel. “A noble death,” he said, insincerity dripping from his words.
“I would have gotten back up and beaten the little shit if he hadn’t killed me. I didn’t even know he had until this genius here,” he said, motioning at Renji, “told me. Now, mind being just a little polite and telling me who you are, since you know my name.”
“Byakuya Kuchiki, captain of the 6th division.”
“Nice to meet you. Just out of curiosity, is everyone here so nice?” Axel asked.
“Show some respect,” the squad member that had spoken up earlier shouted.
“And you are?” Axel asked.
“Rikichi.”
“Nice to meet you,” Axel said. “See, that’s how it works. I give my name. You give yours. We pass off some polite nonsense that we really don’t give a hoot about and we go on about our days.”
“You really are rude,” Rikichi said.
“I suppose that all depends on where you’re standing,” Axel said, moving to stand over by the door of the office, near where Rikichi stood. “See, from here, it could look rude. But from over here,” he moved back to his original position, “it’s fine and your actions are rude.”
“Uh, wait a minute. That doesn’t sound right,” a random member from the group said.
“Nope. It’s right,” Axel said. “So, what do you intend to do with me?”
“That has yet to be decided,” Byakuya said. “For now, you will remain under surveillance of the 6th division, until a decision as to your fate has been made.”
“Wow. You almost make it sound like I’m under arrest,” Axel said. “Why don’t you just put me in shackles and a cell?”
“Tempting as the thought is, I don’t think that’s a necessary step to take,” Byakuya said.
"Wow. I think I'm insulted. You don't think I'm dangerous enough to do more than just watch me," Axel said.
But Byakuya wasn't paying him any mind. He had made some kind of dismissive hand wave movement and then turned back to the piles of paperwork on his desk.
Axel turned to look at Renji. "That our cue to get lost?" he asked the vice captain.
"Yes. I'll show you to an empty room you can use for now," Renji said.
Renji, he'll be staying with you. I don't want him free to wander about as he pleases at night," Byakuya said, never looking up from his desk.
Axel just stared at the captain for a minute. "Wait a minute," Axel yelled.
"What a minute," Renji shouted at the same time.
"You ignore me when I speak directly to you, but you pay attention to him when he isn't even talking to you. How does that figure?" Axel demanded.
"Captain, I really don't think ... HEY! Why aren't you mad about having to stay with me?" Renji yelled at Axel.
"You must not be thinking. He's being incredibly rude," Axel said.
"He's a very busy nobleman."
"That doesn't excuse his rudeness."
"Is there a problem, Abarai?" Byakuya asked.
"No, Captain," Renji said, pulling Axel out of the office. "Do you want to die?" Renji asked Axel. "You piss him off and he'll shred you to pieces.
"He's too pretty to be that strong," Axel scoffed as they walked away from the office. "Though, I suppose, you get to a certain point and you either have to get stronger or get a big, strong boyfriend to protect you," Axel said. He paused for a minute, a thoughtful look crossing over his face. "You aren't his boyfriend, are you?" Axel asked.
"What?!?!?! Hell NO!!! I don't bottomo for no one!!" Renji screamed.
Axel laughed. This was going to be great. Getting to pick on Renji almost made up for being dead. Which promptly sombered Axel.
"Now what's your problem?" Renji asked, noticing the rapid change in the other redheads mood.
"I'm dead. I'm really dead," Axel said, coming to a stop. He leaned against a wall and ran his hands through his hair.
"Yeah. Sucks, huh?" Renji said.
"Aren't you just the kind-hearted softie," Axel said, pushing off from the wall. "I think your heart died when you did, and it didn't stay with your soul."
"People die. You can either wallow in your greif or get on with your life," Renji said matter-of-factly.
"In case you didn't notice back there, my life just ended about an hour ago. Not much to get on with anymore," Axel said dejectedly.
"You're not the only one who's ever died here, you know. Everyone here has died. They've had to give up a life they knew and loved," Renji said, his eyes downcast.
"Who did you have to leave behind?" Axel asked, stopping to lean against another builing. There were plenty of tall, white buildings crowding the streets, all just fine for leaning against.
"My entire family. I try not to think about them anymore. I have a new life with a new purpose now. It's not the same, but it's right for me," Renji said, leaning up against the wall next to Axel.
"There's someone that I just can't leave behind. Someone precious to me. I have to see him again. Maybe, once I do, maybe, then I can move on," Axel said crossing his arms over his chest. "I just want to hold him in my arms, one more time."