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It all happened so fast.
Ichigo had been turning around to greet someone who called out his name, releasing Rukia from a hug and coming face to face with Grimmjow. He had blood all over his head, his clothes were in shreds but his smile was the largest Ichigo ever saw in his life.
Grimmjow tried to take a step without Nel helping him stand but he just stumbled, not something Ichigo thought he would see him doing in this lifetime, right into Ichigo.
His hands by reflex caught Grimmjow’s shoulders, steadying the man.
“Tripping, Grimmjow?”
“Little tired, I guess. I just helped you save a war, Kurosaki.” His tone was serious but he still smiled.
Nel hugs Ichigo all happy with the outcome, people sometimes were still a little uneasy being in their presence because they were hollows but Ichigo trusted them.
Even the blue hair idiot still wavering in his hands.
Grimmjow slapped his hands away when he regained his foot, then his body was rigid and his nose wrinkled.
Something in the air shifted, Ichigo was already in his human body because his reiatsu was drained after the final battle. He needed time to recover so he was slow and didn’t see some invisible pressure yanking him from the ground and throwing him inside a portal that just opened. He reached out to someone, yelling while suffocating for a brief second.
Ichigo had seen Nel, Grimmjow and Rukia trying to reach him, Grimmjow’s fingertips were the last thing he felt before being eaten by nothingness.
Then a bright light blinded him suddenly.
And he could hear the sound of cars, the rumbling of the pavement underneath him and the blazing sun making it impossible for him to properly open his eyes.
He sat in the middle of a crowded sidewalk, people rushed from one side to another. Brick buildings surrounding him, and a different air entering his nostrils. He wasn’t in Karakura. He was in someplace with humans, he noticed seeing the people around him...but something was off.
There was some sort of power...some sort of odd presence deep within.
Also, for a second he thought he saw a big strange bird coming to his direction…
It wasn’t a bird.
A dragon?!
Ichigo tried to stand but his legs didn’t obey him, when the dragon was almost reaching him with a strange purpose in its red eyes, he was dragged by thin arms away from the animal.
He saw that he was flying, another animal carrying him and the raven haired girl holding him. Ichigo passed out before he could register anything else.