A Different Life

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER OR BLEACH. I DO THIS OUT OF FUN AND NOT PROFIT.
Me: Okay, so I’m late. You can shoot me later on. I’m sorry about the delay. For now, enjoy this chapter known as ‘A thought, a plan, a binding and a hello.’

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Sitting comfortably in Xander’s room, it being one of the largest and having all of his spell books, Xander and Ichigo searched through the spell books, trying to find the teleportation spell, the anchoring spell and the translation spell, all at the same time. Eventually Xander just shuts the book he was holding, setting it aside and pulling out a leather bound book. Opening it, he picks up the pen next to him and began to write while Ichigo continued to shift through the books.

November 5
I have met 5 Shinigamis, 3 Taichos, a Fukutaicho and an exiled Taicho. They are Byakuya, Taicho, Renji, and Fukutaicho for Byakuya and lover to him, Shunsui, Taicho, Kenpachi, Taicho and lover of Ichigo, and Urahara, exiled Taicho and all around pervert.
They seem nice, if a little weird. But I guess living for over a few hundred years does that to one.
Anyways, also today, I found out just how idiotic Willow and Buffy are. Apparently Buffy slept with Angel, and the way the curse that put his soul in charge works is that Angelus would be released should he have a moment of perfect happiness. Angel had that perfect moment of happiness and it released a crazed vampire demon bent on killing all those who are close to Buffy, starting with her friends.
It just makes me glad that he can’t hurt me with the treaty in place. No matter how insane he is; Angelus knows that the moment he attacks me or has someone attack me there will be a price on his head that all Demon Hunters will gladly go after. But that leaves Giles and Oz in the line of fire.
So with the help of Byakuya, Renji, Shunsui, Kenpachi and Urahara, I was able to come up with a plan and get it set into motion. The four Shinigamis will be opening up a portal in 3 hours to Sunnydale Park where Oz and Giles will be meeting us. From there we will bring them back here where they will live with Urahara until they find a place of their own.
After we get them settled, I have to figure out a way to merge Angel’s demon and soul together, like all the other vampires that aren’t Hellmouth tainted. I also have to figure out how to get all of the books that Willow and Buffy have that are Oz’s and Giles’, and to bind Willows power until we can figure out what to do with those two.
I’m thinking with the binding, it should be easy. All I need is a current picture of her, which I have, a black ribbon, an indigo ribbon, a moonstone, a black candle and an indigo candle. It shouldn’t be too hard, I hope.
For the transportation, I suppose a mix of Wicca, witchcraft and what I like to call, Harry Potter magic will work. Some candles, white, chartreuse, and magenta, lavender and an oak and birch, well, I suppose you could call it a wand, if you call two sticks wound around each other such. It should work, but I will need to do this with Ichigo, and I can only hope he is willing to embrace his powers, both dark and light. I can only hope that he does.

Stopping for a moment, he glances up at Ichigo and sees him staring out the window, a far away expression on his face. Placing the book to the side, Xander gets up and sits back down next to Ichigo, leaning against his side and winding his fingers together with Ichigos.
“What cha thinkin’?” he asks quietly, staring out the window with Ichigo. Ichigo turns his head and looks at him, indecision evident on his face.
“Xander, do you think that Soul Society would have something in their libraries about merging Angel’s soul and demon? And something to help with the Willow and Buffy problem?” he asks, his voice equally quiet. Xander looks at him, his thoughts flowing through his mind fast and furious. Suddenly he smiles, and gets up, hopping over any of the books that happen to be in his path. Stunned, it takes Ichigo a moment to react. Finally, he gets up and follows Xander out the door and down the stairs to the living room where everyone is still sitting, but this time looking at family pictures.
Walking over to where Byakuya and Renji are lounging, Xander bends at his waist and looks Byakuya in the eye before smiling. Byakuya raises an eyebrow in response, waiting for Xander to say what he came to say.
“Can I go to soul society tomorrow?” Xander asks his tone one of begging. Byakuya raises his eyebrow, this time in curiosity about the request, while Renji blinks at Xander and the other, including Ichigo who had arrived just as Xander had made his request, watched the interplay between Xander and Byakuya. Finally, Byakuya sighs lightly and pulls out his phone, calling soul society to speak with his boss.
Xander stands back up and waits for the conversation to finish. He notices the open photo album and walks over to it, flipping it to a page with Christmas pictures. He points to one and turns back to where Byakuya is speaking with his superior. The others look at the picture and see that is one of Xander and Ichigo, both of them with giant sweaters on, standing in front of Ichigos mother. They can’t help but smile at the giant smiles on the boys’ faces and the indulgent look on Masakis face.
Ichigo looks at the picture and smiles sadly at the memory that it pulls up. Sitting down next to Kenpachi, he leans into his side and points at the picture.
“That’s the first time that we ever got an oversized sweater from our family,” Ichigo says, his voice filled with sadness. They look at him, knowing that any memory that dealt with his mother was a bittersweet one for him and Xander.
Suddenly a squeal of delight, followed by ‘oomph’, cuts through their thoughts. Looking over at Byakuya, they see Xander cutting off his oxygen with a bear hug chanting ‘thank you’ in his ear, before getting up and glomping Renji, doing it again. Finally Urahara speaks.
“Hey, what’s going on? And why do they get hugs and not me?” Urahara asks, trying to pout. Xander looks at him with a blank face.
“I’m going to Soul Society. And as to why you don’t get a hug from me is because you’re a pervert,” Xander says, his voice icy, making Urahara shiver. Nodding quickly, he shrinks back from Xander. Xander in turn smiled brightly and walked off towards his room to get ready for the arrival of his friends.
Looking at the clock, he decides to go do the spell to bring all of the items that Willow and Buffy had and to bind Willows powers. Going up the stairs, he gathers the items he needed, including herbs, candles and an onyx ball, the light shining off it. Quickly casting a protective circle around him, he sits down and starts to call the items back.
“I call upon the Goddess above and the God below. Hear my plea and answer it this day. Bring forth that which is not theirs. Buffy and Willow, sticky hands and lying mouths, I ask you to bring that which is not theirs to me. Hear my plea this day,” he says quietly, throwing some herbs into a small copper bowl. Picking up a candle, he drips the wax upon the herbs, making the smoke a bit. Suddenly feeling the power around him flare, he sees several magical ingredients, books and magical items appear before him. “So mote it be, I thank you for hearing my plea this day.”
Sighing and seeing that he still had a good 2 hours before he had to be at the park, he decides to bind Willows power. Taking a red ribbon, a black ribbon and a green ribbon, he layers them together. Lighting a black candle, a red candle and a green candle he moves the ribbons over each candle three times asking for them to be blessed for his work.
Pulling out a 9x9 picture of Willow, he starts to wind the ribbons around the picture chanting out “I ask to bind her powers so she may do no more harm.”
Finishing the wrapping, he puts the picture down and very gently seals the ribbon end with first the wax of the black candle, then the red candle and then finally the green candle. Seeing the wax flare up brightly, then settle down to a purplish color he knows that the spell worked.
Closing down his circle and putting away his spell workings take up another hour. Looking up, it was time for them to get going to the park where they would be going to get Oz and Giles. Standing up, he locks his trunk and walks down the stairs, seeing everyone was looking at him.
“Hi! Ready to go?” he asks quietly, smiling at them. Smiling in return, the others just nod.
“Yeah, we’re ready. We were just waiting for you. Dad, Karin and Yuzu will be staying here for the time being,” Ichigo says from Kenpachis side. “I doubt you want your friends to be crushed in a hug of hello.”
“No, I don’t think Giles or Oz would like that very much,” Xander says, laughing quietly. “Let’s go get them. I have the earrings for them to wear so they won’t have to worry about trying to understand everyone,” he finishes, holding up to clasps that would sit on Ozs and Giles upper ear. Nodding, every one heads out side and towards the park. 20 minutes later, everyone was standing at the spot, waiting for Byakuya to open the portal.
Watching as Byakuya opens the transportation portal, Xander smiles and bounces next to Ichigo. The moment that Byakuya told them that they could go through, Xander walked through quickly, wanting to see Oz and Giles again. He had missed them, even if it had only been a couple of days since then. Seeing Oz standing there waiting for them, Xander smiles brightly and pounces on him, hugging oz tightly.
“Hey,” Oz says quietly, hugging Xander back just as tightly, smiling down at his head.
“Hi,” Xander replies pulling away from Oz and hugging Giles in greeting. Feeling the others come out of the portal, Xander turns to them and introduces them, pointing them out too.
“This is Byakuya Kuchiki, Renji Abarai, and Kenpachi Zaraki, my cousin Ichigo Kurosaki, Shunsui Kyoraku and Kisuke Urahara,” Xander says, smiling up at Giles and Oz. “Every one Rupert Giles and Daniel Osborn, affectionately known as Oz. Giles, Oz, you’ll be staying at Uraharas shop along with Jinta, Ururu and Tessai until you guys find your own place. Now, put these earrings and you’ll be able to switch back and forth between English and Japanese like I can,” he finishes off with, holding out the ear clasps.
Smiling at him, Oz and Giles both take one and place it onto their ears, where they become invisible to the normal eye. Smiling again, Xander turns to the large group behind him and bounces lightly.
“Alright, let’s get the stuff and head on home, shall we?” Xander says while turning towards the boxes and bags sitting nearby. Grabbing a couple of boxes and some of the bag, Xander watches as everyone grabs everything else and waits for the two.
“Yes, well, how are we supposed to get back?” Giles asks a bag in one hand and a suitcase in the other. Smiling at Giles, Xander points at Byakuya.
“He’s going to be opening a portal back here in two minutes,” he says, feeling someone coming closer to the field, steadily tensing.
“Seems like the witch and the bitch are coming,” Oz growls out, his wolf not to happy with them at the moment, seeing them as a threat to Xander and his family. Blinking at Oz, Xander nods, feeling them to. He also felt Angelus coming, but he was still a while away and wasn’t a very big worry at that time.
“Let us gather the items and get ready to go,” Byakuya says, while Renji nods and looks in the direction that the girls were coming from. Smirking, Kenpachi watches that way to, while pulling Ichigo close to him, pressing Ichigo against his chest. Urahara pulls out his fan and holds it in front of his face, while Shunsui just looks bored with it all.
Suddenly Buffy and Willow arrive, both looking more than a little pissed off. Turning and smiling at them Xander moves closer to Ichigo and Kenpachi, making sure that Shunsui was behind him, Urahara was to his left, and Byakuya and Renji were in front of them.
“Hi, what a surprise,” Xander says, waving at them, a strained smile on his lips. Ichigo grabs Xanders wrist gently and tugs him closer to them, before lacing their fingers together, giving them a comforting squeeze. Smiling quickly at Ichigo, Xander quickly turns his eyes back to the girls.
“What are you doing here?” Willow finally gets out after doing an impressive job of a gold fish, bugged eyes and gaping mouth included. Xander just smiles and shrugs before replying.
“Eh, I thought I would come save a couple of my friends from a psycho vampire because someone didn’t study up on a curse, the way to release the curse or the consequences of releasing the curse, and didn’t listen to Giles when he told us about the curse,” Xander says, going into full babble mode. Ichigo puts his other hand over Xanders mouth while softly smirking at him.
“Slow down. I think you just confused Byakuya and Renji over there,” Ichigo says quietly, drawing curious looks from Buffy and Willow, seeing as they didn’t speak, much less understand Japanese. Xander just nods and smiles behind Ichigos hand.
“Gomen,” he says, the word muffled by Ichigos hand. Smiling and nodding, Ichigo removes his hand. “Now, since someone didn’t listen or do her research, we have a psycho vampire. I’m just here to collect Giles and Oz and we’ll be off.”
“But, who took my spell books, and my ingredients?” Willow asks shrilly. Xander looks at her, his eyes disappointed.
“Willow, they weren’t your books. They were Giles and I took them from you. You shouldn’t be playing with such things, especially since you don’t know how to do them,” Xander says, his voice coldly polite, before turning to Byakuya. “Can we go now?” he asks his voice soft. Nodding, Byakuya opens the portal and waits for Xander to walk through first, followed closely by Giles and Oz, who hadn’t said a word to the two girls. Looking at them with disdain in his eyes, Ichigo snarls at them.
“I suggest you rethink what is important to you,” Ichigo says, before walking into the portal with a smirking Kenpachi following close behind. Shunsui looks at them, then dismisses them as nothing more than little girls with a bit of power, before walking into the portal, intent on watching Xanders hips swing as he walked. Renji cocks an eye brow at them, and then smirks.
“Both of ya are bakas,” Renji calls out as he turns and walks into the portal, waving his hand over his shoulder in a bored manner. Byakuya looks at them coldly, before turning and following his lover into the portal. As soon as Byakuya had walked through, the portal closed, leaving two stunned females standing in an empty field.
“Buffy, I think we screwed up big time,” Willow says, hurt and regret filling her eyes as she turns to the blond was glaring at the spot that Xander had stood.
“No, we didn’t screw up. Xander did,” Buffy replies, her voice full of bitterness and hatred. A dark chuckle sounds out in the night, causing Buffy and Willow to spin to where Angelus was leaning against a tree.
“Ah, but you did. You fucked up royally,” he purrs out, his eyes glowing in the darkness. “Because of your attitudes and cruelty, you pushed Xander away, and lost the greatest power you could ever find. Along with a loyal friend who, would have gone to hell for you.” Standing up, Angelus prowls closer, a smirk settling on his lips as he watches Buffy and Willow stiffen.
“I don’t care. He was weak, no matter what he says,” Buffy replies, scowling at Angelus, wondering how the hell she was going to get her lover back. Angelus just shakes his head as he walks past them and into the tree line behind them.
“You truly are a blond, aren’t you, Buffy? Let me tell you this now, if you were still friends with Xander, I wouldn’t be able to touch you. But now that you’re not, you’re fair game and I plan on having fun,” floats out behind him as he disappears into the darkness, causing the girls to feel a sliver of fear works its way into their hearts.