After Mūnroau has said that Ichigo has been talking English the whole day. He couldn’t stop writing and repeating the Japanese alphabet and basic lines like ‘Good Morning’ or ‘Thank you’, ‘How are you today?’ etc. Just to be clear, this wasn’t easy to say all the basic syllables and the additional ones.

Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Hentaigana. Everything he has learned, he repeated just in case he would forget it. Ichigo thought that because he has been transported to this world, and he has landed in this familiar to the western world like country, he hears their language that isn’t English, as if it was English.

Of course, not everything here looks western like, but most things are based on them. As Ichigo has thought before, it can be a coincidence, or it is somehow linked to his world. In this case he could maybe have a small chance getting back? He worries to much and thinks to much about getting back, if he will just dramatize over it, he will do nothing towards returning home.

Ichigo spent two hours repeating most of the Japanese basic grammar. He could rest, it wasn’t taken from him and if needed he could write in Japanese, so only he can read what he has written. Maybe, who knows, he could learn the Princesses Japanese? One thing for sure, he won’t use it for now, as it would bring questions, for now he doesn’t want to be asked questions.

Its weird he didn’t saw he spoke English the whole day. Until Mūnroau mentioned it, maybe something more has changed, and he didn’t detect it? Getting back to the fact he won’t speak Japanese, it isn’t because he wants to reject it from his life, no, he just wants to assimilate and merge with the Equestrian culture.

Japan will always be in his heart, it will never leave him. It's important to remember who you are, and to what country you belong to. His national identity needs to be kept. Maybe if Celestia or Luna gave him the possibility to become a citizen of Equestria for his good deed in saving the monarchs, he would probably reject it or refuse it for some time. Until he is ready to enter a new society and a new civilization.

For now, he needs to have a purpose to live and work as human being. He can be called an Arrancar, he can be called a Shinigami when the times comes, and they will get the truth. But he will be a human, no more or less, but a human. A human, no Shinigami could defeat Aizen, and no hollow could face him. But he did, and he wasn’t a hollow nor a Shinigami, as much as you can force this on him he isn’t one of them. He was a human, a human who defeated that bastard.

Its selfish to say, but it's true, he can hold the title of a Shinigami and he could have the title of a Arrancar or a Vizard. Anything actually. But what hides under these names? He hides, and he isn’t this or that he is a human. The fact he is a human made him special, the fact he was a human made him fight more didn’t it?

Enough of this, tomorrow he will ask for some advice, there needs to be some place he could live and work, so that he won’t be like a parasite. A loafer without any reason just existing and making them spend money on him. Fancy Pants has told him he could becomea guard, and it isn’t the worst idea, but what kind of guard? Like a military guard, or a guard that stays in one place and gets paid for looking nice?

Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad on second thought, as long as he won’t be send on a war to fight. One war has ended his life, he won’t help the war out by helping her kill other life’s. It is the worst, it has its own rules and ethics. No love for life, no love for whoever fights in her, war is horrible and its unbelievably badly impacting the world. In this world there is magic, and if he knows anything about magic, really bad things can happen.

He could be called crazy and all but look. This world has magic, right? Ichigo has watched plenty of movies where some magic exists, and it was a destructive force. Yes, in some cases they used magic to create beautiful things. What about now, it can all be true or worse, everything people have thought about magic can be true here. That you can raise entire continents if you are powerful enough. Even then his own ‘magic’ which is his reiatsu and reiryoku, won’t be enough to stop this.

Not only that, but he is bad at controlling his own reiatsu. He is skilled enough to not release it on random targets, but if he wanted to master it, it would take some years of training and pure concertation. Without Zangetsu teaching him, he also needs to teach himself various things, and he doubts Mūnroau would teach him anything, he wants to take over his body.

Ichigo laying on his bed turned over to the other side. He had his hand below his pillow he had his head on, it was a red pillow, scarlet red. His sheets were warm and thin. But they kept him warm, he didn’t put his jacket away, as he feared he might be potentially seen. And he wouldn’t want anyone to see his hollow hole.

He would have been seen as a heartless thing that somehow lives and walks, eats, sleeps, drinks and is sentient. More problems would occur, he needs to stop constantly repeating the same thing, it’s like the fifth-time he thinks what would happen if someone saw his hollow hole! Maybe he should go to sleep? But he isn’t tired physically, but mentally.

Ichigo changed his position and laid on his back, his hand on his chest. He stared into the darkness, it reminded him of his situation here. Alone, with nothing but dark and sadness. Void that stretched from the corners of the world to the smallest openings in his mind. So big, but so useless.

‘Like me’ He thought

‘King, please, stop this bullshit, think positively!’

“If only I had reasons to” Ichigo whispered, his voice weak, like he is now without help, he is so weak that without anything to support him he falls.

‘You have plenty of reasons, the Princesses like you! You can get something about of that!’

“Like what? Money? They said that money doesn’t bring true happiness and love, and it wouldn’t bring any of it now”

‘These ponies! These guards, they thank you, you are a hero King! Look, what you did was a noble thing! They should call you King like I do!’

Ichigo smiled weakly and almost snickered “Maybe” his response was so blank, without any color, not even white or black, it was like nothing, like air that fills his missing heart.

‘King’

“Mhmm?”

‘You need to be strong, or I won’t allow you to lead me’

“What?”

‘You heard right, I don’t want to face a weak cry baby who doesn’t know how to deal with his loss. I want to face someone stronger, I want to face the same person who once defeated me, I want to see Ichigo Kurosaki who is the rightful owner of the crown that gives him the Authority to talk to me.’

Maybe weird, maybe not so powerful, but really moving was what his hollow have just said. He is weak right now and he can’t get over about his loss, it’s too much to bare for him. He won’t recover from his loss, but he is nothing without his friends and family. He doesn’t know how they feel and how are the doing, he wants to know what happened to Aizen.

Ichigo Kurosaki is down for now, he has no power to stand up, he has no reason to stand up. He had his plans he wanted to do. But he has no reason to stand up and go, he has no power that is being given by a goal in his new life. He has none of it, and there won’t be anything for a long time. He is like a furnace, he only works on wood, but there is wood around.

‘Then I will change you, I will make you better King!’

“What now” Ichigo grunted in annoyance

‘This wood was your previous life and goals you wanted to achieve. Now you need something new, I need to upgrade you King! Now you will run on oil. I will make you universal, you need to produce the heat, the power you always had, I won’t allow you to just sit in one place’

“You have no reason to help me, you won’t get anything from it”

“I will, in my interests it lies King! You know why? Because the more you think you are miserable, the less you are eager to stand up and do something, the weaker you are and the easier it is to eliminate you. And for my bad luck, your life is my life, and I want to live like an Emperor, and you are in my way to have such a life.’

“Yeah, yeah continue”

Mūnroau stopped in his speech as he was anxious and angry. Ichigo didn’t her him out, and Mūnroau knew how to make his King stand up, he knew exactly how to get him up, he knew exactly how to give him a good shot of energy. The problem is, it is very risky, and he would get only troubles by doing so.

‘King, get your bitch ass up, or else…’

“Or else what?”

There was a long and dramatic pause in between both of them, the tension tight like a four-year-old girl in kindergarten. The amount of pressure from both of their minds colliding and only making the situation worse. It was like two planets colliding, or more like a moon hitting a planet. Ichigo being the planet, and Mūnroau the moon, as he had the force and power.

‘I have to tell you, that your friends would be so ashamed to see you like this.’

Ichigo eyes widened, his breath stopped, his heart skipped three heartbeats as it also stopped from the sudden shock. Ichigo, he didn’t accept this, he didn’t accept this! No, no, this is unacceptable. He won’t allow him to insult him with the use of his friends he has lost, there are borders of his patience and forbearance.

“Take this back right now”

‘No’ was Mūnroau’s simple response

“Take this back” Ichigo growled

‘FUCK-‘

Ichigo’s spiritual pressure caused the mirrors in his room to break, and it also caused the marble floor to crack under him, his bed he was laying on also cracked under his pressure. Not long until the bed sheets started to rip themselves apart, Ichigo stood up, he placed his feet on the ground and more cracks this time up to his doors followed.

“One last chance” Ichigo stood tall and said to Mūnroau

‘-YOU’

Ichigo looked right and left, he walked left and right, as more and more of his reiatsu impacted with the world. The four-poster bed he has been laying on started to break, and the columns started to shake. Ichigo has looked at the balcony as the glass doors have broken under his pressure. Shooting the glass shards everywhere, probably injuring random ponies going under his balcony.

Ichigo went on the balcony, ignoring the frames of the doors he has broken and just stepping outside and placing his hands on the metal barrier. When he placed his hands on this metal barrier, he slammed his hands so hard he almost managed to bend the barrier with the force of his slam. The barrier shook, and the sound of its vibration was heard, and the cracks on the balcony also appeared, dangerously damaging its supporting foundations.

“You have started something really bad” Ichigo said, and he looked at the horizon

Ichigo breathed heavily, but he bit his lip and he was gone in a booming sound from the balcony heading towards the forest from where he came from. Ichigo with unrealistic speeds headed there, he flew there, and he with the speed faster than sound, sprinted while using sonido, he was so quick that even Rainbows didn’t have time to appear behind him.

Ichigo moved between the trees, he ignored all the animals in his way, that ran when they sensed something really weird, they knew something just flew past them, but they didn’t see what or why it did. So, the animals ran.

Ichigo tried to go back the same way he came out of the forest, it did take him some time to find the same path, or at least to find a familiar area he remembered. He found the area with no trees, and from he was very close to getting to the crater he used sonido for the first time to get out.

Ichigo used sonido to go further and head south. He has stopped a few times to look around the forest and maybe locate the crater he has been in for the first time he was transported here. But he didn’t find anything. All he saw were trees and more trees, nothing special was here.

If he won’t find that place, then he will use any other less populated with animal’s area. He will confront Mūnroau, he will use Jinzen and get inside his inner world. So that he might talk with Mūnroau. Ichigo came to the forest, just in case a battle would occur and not to destroy the palace.

Why did he look for the place he first appeared in Equestria? Because in a way Mūnroau was right. This wood that were his friends and the gave him power and happiness is gone, but there he could be as close as possible to them. And this will help him to talk with Mūnroau. It can look stupid, but even things like that give some hope and some warm feelings in your chest.

Ichigo scouted the area two times, he didn’t see anything, it angered him. And the feeling of again being miserable and useless filled him up. But he doesn’t mind it, he will take the first better area with flat terrain for him to sit on, or a rock.

Ichigo used sonido to get down, and he was on the ground, sweat came down from his forehead and dropped on the dirt he was standing on. Ichigo breathed heavily and he took great inhales. His breaths rhythm was interrupted by small pauses. But Ichigo wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand.

He took out his Zanpakuto and he held in his hand. He sat cross-legged and placed his sword on his legs, his Zanpakuto was on his lap. He placed his both hands on the tip of the sword and on the hilt. Ichigo bowed his head. He ascended into his inner world, to confront his hollow that dared to insult him while using his friends as a weapon against him, they would never think like this. This was a lie.

Ichigo opened his eyes, he saw a place udder water, sunk somewhere. It wasn’t Karakura town it was a forest? More like a wasteland, all the trees seemed to be cut down. There was no green, everything was gray or blue because of the water. The tree stumps were grey, and the further he looked the darker it was.

Ichigo still cross-legged looked around, he didn’t see Mūnroau. He didn’t see anything just open space and great plains with some minor small hills with tree stumps, there were paths and there were areas with no trees, but this was weird. Since when his inner world has become a cut down forest?

Is this Mūnroau’s doing? Did he somehow get Karakura town out of his head? Was it his fault? Or is it him who has changed the place he is in, it couldn’t be. He wanted home, and he wanted to go home, so he should have his home, not this!

Ichigo stood up, he looked around ne again, this was horrible. Panic, sadness, anger and every bad emotion came to his head. He got back on his knees, what did he do to deserve so much pain?! What did he do, he did good, he helped, he did good things. Why did this happen, why not Aizen?! Why not that Bastard?!

Ichigo started to cry, he hit the ground with fists, he punched it, and he cried. Tears, tears flooded his eyes. Ichigo yelled and sobbed, he sniffed and begged. Mūnroau didn’t appear, he didn’t know where he is, he didn’t know how it is too loose so much.

“W-Why” Ichigo asked in between sobs

Like his happiness and his reasons, so did the tear on his cheeks go down, from his eye, from his eye that saw his family, that saw his friends and held them on the vision to always protect them if needed. So down his cheek they fell, on the ground, his tears heavier than the water surrounding Ichigo.

What will he say the next day? Ichigo, he was depressed, he already wanted to end this, he wanted back, he wanted to get back if only he could somehow open the same portal or that path that sucked him in. He needs the Hōgyoku for this, and that thing exploded, or disappeared after it merged itself with him, after it gave him a new life.

“King”

Ichigo looked around, he stood up and wiped the tears from his eyes, this didn’t stop him from crying as more tears appeared and watered his eyes. Like a tsunami, hiting Japan, so were the tears hitting him, hitting him hard destroying sanity and reasons, destroying happiness and pride, achievements, family, memories, and the purpose to fight.

“Where are you?!” Ichigo screamed, his echo, the incarnation of the strength that build up for this moment

Ichigo took his Zanpakuto, his grip was hard, and strong just as hard as his grip that has on his past world. Unbreakable, immortal and imperishable. Nothing will cut him away, no force will ever make him forget, he will live for like three thousand years, thanks to the fact his spiritual form and body have merged. Shinigami’s can leave very long, maybe they won’t be immortal, but the lifespan is very big.

Ichigo cried further, wiping more tears that came to his eyes. He wanted to see Mūnroau, he wanted to show him he isn’t as weak as he thinks he is. And if he is, then he is even more, as his state and his own power also reflects on his own power. He wanted a King, he will get a tyrant and not a King. He wanted him to show some instinct, he will get so such he will choke with it

“Stop this!” Ichigo heard Mūnroau’s hollowed voice

Ichigo turned back, and he saw him. In white and black, with those golden eyes, glowing and hallucinating, strong and scary. He had his own version of Zangetsu in his hand, back in Kurakara town, he had a white one and now he has a black Zangetsu. While Ichigo is the one having the white Zangetsu.

“Look at yourself! You came to this place for what?” He looked around, and gestured the dead forest to Ichigo “No wood, no friends and nothing left”

"I came here, because you!” Ichigo yelled “Through the use of an excuse that my friends would be sad to see me as I am now” Ichigo closed his eyes as he was so angry he couldn’t say it with open eyes “Insulted me again!”

“I did it a few times before and only after the time I mentioned y-“

“Don’t say that word, I outlaw that you can use it” Ichigo warned him

“…-Them” Mūnroau ended “Y-” He was interrupted

“Why would you even? You know how it hurts me? You really like to see my suffering, don’t you?” Ichigo said, disappointed “We don’t like each other, it can be changed, we don’t like to cooperate, we can work on that. But not the way you do this, so I ask you. Please stop this, not this way”

Mūnroau Looked at him, his head to the right, he looked at Ichigo at his watered eyes. True, maybe he has gone to far, but he can’t allow him to be weak, he can’t be weak. He wants him to be strong, or else as he once has said. He will take the wheel and he will lead him, and Ichigo will be the horse he is now.

“You don’t know how it is” Ichigo said “To never again see your father or sister run to you and hug you if needed.” With his hand raised, he held his Zanpakuto high

Mūnroau got into a more aggressive position, but Ichigo did something rather unbelievable. He threw the Zanpakuto on the ground. Ichigo hold back his tears, Ichigo could fight with Mūnroau if he needed to only defend his friends by defending their name and how important they are to him. Because the defamation which Mūnroau allowed himself to do, it was too much, and he pointed it towards wrong people.

Mūnroau Just looked at Ichigo, as Ichigo collapsed on his knees, with his Zanpakuto right beside him. Mūnroau behind his mask looked at Ichigo, Ichigo with his hands placed on the ground, he sobbed. He continued to cry. To get these emotions out of him, so that they can stop feast on his emotional crisis and him alone.

“Why is this a cut out forest?” Ichigo asked, hoping he would get some sort of response

Mūnroau Looked around and nodded to himself. He himself didn’t know why this was a forest, and why it was cut out, it was weird. It was horrifying if you ask him, he liked nature. And seeing nature like this only disgusted him with something he likes, dead, without purpose, useless, weak.

“I dunno, when we first arrived I noticed something has changed. But I didn’t want to bother you, so I didn’t tell you because I knew you would be very tense about your inner world. And what happened to Karakura town, just after you have been stripped from the possibility of returning there.”

Ichigo looked at him, did he just hide the fact this was his inner world? To push the possibility of him becoming almost depressed, or even depressed? He doesn’t even know if he is or isn’t. Mūnroau has ‘protected’ him? This still doesn’t mean he is helpful, he surely only had one thing in his mind. To see him strong and powerful, he didn’t care about him purely.

“What would you have said if I finally entered my inner world?”

Mūnroau Looked at Ichigo, he hid his Zanpakuto to his scabbard and placed his hand on its hilt, he then seemed to narrow his eyes, and he turned towards the plains. He looked at them, he was thinking. He didn’t have an explanation. He looked for something that could help him in this, who would have thought that from yelling at each other it has come to Mūnroau responding to Ichigo's questions?

Ichigo changed his position, he wasn’t on his knees anymore, this time he was sitting, with his head hidden. Folded arms, and he continued to cry the last few tears he had in himself. Mūnroau didn’t response to this moment, he had nothing to say. What would he even say? It’s the Hōgyoku’s fault? It’s the new worlds fault? Its Ichigo's fault?

“I think it's because…” He said out loud

Ichigo concentrated to hear out what Mūnroau had to say. He was interested what will he say this time, he has the best reponses, a monolog with him would be filled with life teaching lessons truly. No shit, it would be filled so much that even Zangetsu would be like a sponge and absorb his lessons and teachings.

“I like nature and you like Karakura town. The Hōgyoku has merged us together into one and you became an Arrancar. Because me and that old fool both like nature, so maybe it collided. Both desires mine and yours couldn’t decide which one should win, and because you are sad, and in a city, you don’t have too much trees. We were left with a cut out forest, that is grey and dark just like Kurakara town would be because you are sad.” Mūnroau Explained “And Voilà, we have this”

“Maybe”

“You wanted your response and you have it, do you want anything else?”

Ichigo stopped hiding his face “You still don’t get it do you?” He asked

“Get what?”

Ichigo tilted his head left and right “You want to give me a purpose. You want to make me forget about my friends so t-“

“I never said I want you to forget about them, I just want to give you something new you can run on” He interrupted him “I’m not stupid to think you would even do that! I know when things are impossible”

Ichigo sighted, if he didn’t want to make him forget about his friends then what? He wants to replace them with new ones? It's even worse, it would like a treachery and he isn’t Aizen to do that. Forgetting something is one thing, but betraying is another thing, he will never replace them. Maybe some new things will be as equally important, but they will never replace them.

“Then what do you want? Replace them?”

“Replace them” Mūnroau rolled his eyes, and he looked away. “What I want is to give something new so that you may have some kind of platform to held to, I don’t require you to love them. Nor do I ask you to find a new family, or new friends. All I want is you to find something useful, something that would bring you out of your depression King! Or else we will lose contact, your voice won’t be clear for me, and mine won’t be for you.”

“What?”

“If you get badly depressed we will lose the clearness of our conversations. Beside that we will lose us, me you and you me. Then we will be even weaker than I could have ever imagined”

“So, you still look only to power and don’t care for me?”

Mūnroau stopped, this was a blocking question, he didn’t know how to respond. The feeling of being unable to do something annoyed him greatly, he wants Ichigo to stand up. Until he doesn’t get back to his old self, it's pointless trying to take over.

“It depends how you look at that.”

“So how should I look at it?” Ichigo asked

Silence, Mūnroau didn’t find a good enough response for Ichigo, he didn’t know how to respond. He looked forward, and he wanted Ichigo to become powerful because it meant he would become too, the more powerful Ichigo I and the more skilled he is, the better for him when he defeats Ichigo. Not only will he show him he is stronger, but when Ichigo will be under his command, he himself will have more power, just like Ichigo uses him.

Nothing more or less, but maybe there was something more than just that. Maybe Mūnroau did feel something more than just that towards Ichigo, it was probably Ichigo's question making him think like this. He wants a strong opponent, Ichigo needs to be strong so that he could survive anything this world can throw at him. As said before, without Ichigo, he doesn’t exist, and he doesn’t live.

“I don’t know, you ask to hard questions” He yelled at him

“Tch” Ichigo grunted and looked to the side

Mūnroau in annoyance that he couldn’t respond to Ichigo, turned away and kicked a rock. It flew far away, Mūnroau is close and he won’t give up. He is a hollow and they fight, they don’t surrender, it’s the hollows way to fight ad to win. If the foe is stronger than him and he still wins it means he was stronger from the beginning.

Mūnroau gave up for the moment and sat, opposite Ichigo, cross-legged. He didn’t know how to bring him up again, so that he could build Ichigo, so that he could be as good as the old man he loved to talk to. There needs to be a way, there always is, force didn’t help. He has no other means then force.

“You know” Ichigo started “Did you ever think what your help does to me?” Ichigo asked weakly

“Other then help you? No, no I didn't

Ichigo nodded “Your ways of helping me are weird, you try to anger me, so that I could feel the energy and get a reason to move, to run on something as you said yourself.”

“And?”

“While as you said, that I’m like a furnace that works on wood which were my friends and family, and this gave me the energy because I wanted to protect them.”

Mūnroau nodded, this was exactly what he meant. Ichigo can’t run on one thing, he needs to change the source or be universal and run on everything. That’s what Mūnroau wants to do. Trying to make him forget about his friend would be pointless, and it wouldn’t work. Not only that, but also it would cause him to be depressed more than he is now.

“Didn’t you think” Ichigo looked at him “That you may worsen the case? That you sabotage your own attempts to help me by getting me angry and using them as an excuse to keep me working on hatred towards you? It wouldn’t work, because as hard as you would try…I think that” Ichigo stopped and he looked at the ground

“That?”

“That it would only still remind me, they aren’t here, and that I couldn’t get back.”

“What do you mean?”

Ichigo shrugged “In a way, you cut your own veins open. I don’t know how to explain it better.”

They stared at each other for some time, they didn’t say anything to each other, Mūnroau has looked at the horizon. The water surrounded them, Ichigo felt the cold surrounding him, it was really weird to be underwater for so long. An hour or more has passed, he has lost count of time, and the same did Mūnroau.

Mūnroau used Sonido and appeared behind Ichigo, his shadow was over him. Ichigo sighted, he tried to explain how bad his methods were, but it seems he didn’t understand. He doesn’t know how to explain it better, more correctly and with more detail, he doesn’t have the sources for it. He is cut of any rational and deeper thinking.

‘I think that's all from this meeting’ Ichigo thought

Ichigo was ready to stand up, but he felt a weak kick, he looked up and then slightly to the right and saw Mūnroau looking at him. He blocked the sun that shined in his inner world and gave some light in this sunk forest. His horns, pointed at him, he looked as if he wanted to shoot a cero at him, any moment, to start a fight.

“King…let's look for some saplings”

Author's Notes:

I didn’t know how to name this chapter since I didn’t have an good idea. But I looked at it and I thought it would make you speechless, or at least some of you. I know the grammar is really bad, I’m very sorry about it.

I have hard times making conversations like this, as I don’t know if Ichigo's hollow would do such a thing, or not.

And I just want to say, that I thank you guys for support on this story while I myself am surrounded by haters. In real life, having problems nad here also having some nasty douchebags.

I had a way different idea for this chapter, where Ichigo is like:

“You don’t know how it is” Ichigo said “To never again see your father or sister run to you and hug you if needed.” With his hand raised, he held his Zanpakuto high

There would be a dramatic moment where they start fighting, and the everfree forest would get damaged, Shining Armor would be called to investigate, he would feel Ichigo's reiatsu and his presence, but he won’t connect it to him, and later in the story he would see it was him, but he would doubt it and forget about it. In the end he would tell Twilight who will cry like almost all characters in the future, and she would slap him.

From this chapter on Ichigo will rehabilitate o his own, and maybe make some friends. His partner will...be himself what can I write more. Idk

Anyway, write a comment, it always warms me up to see you are active in the comment section. Check out my other stories, and see you next time.