AN: First fic written since I was like 15. Only uploading it here now cause people who aren't on AF can't read it. Pick it apart to your hearts content, I know it's awful
Uryuu Ishida sat bolt upright in his bed. His eyes were wide open and his heart was pounding a mile a minute. It felt as though he had been running at a great speed and come to a sudden stop. He looked around the small room in the semi darkness but nothing seemed out of the ordinary and there were no mysterious noises that he could hear. He sat there waiting for his heart to slow, trying to think what had woken him so suddenly. He didn't have to wait long, the noise that had awoken him was the long, drawn out cry of despair of a Hollow. Ordinary spirits that turn into monsters, if left to wallow in their misery. They wander the human world, trying to devour any souls they can find. Ishida leapt out of his bed with his glasses in hand and threw on the nearest pair of jeans and grabbed the first shirt in his wardrobe, he left it unbuttoned as he checked that his Quincy bracelet was still around his wrist and he darted out of the front door.
Ishida was running in the direction of the Hollow's presence, trying to pin point exactly where it was. He could sense that he was close to it. He picked up his pace of running, as soon has he did though, the Hollow's presence disappeared. Ishida stopped. It couldn't be gone, there was no Shinigami reiatsu so it hadn't been destroyed. It had just vanished. Ishida frowned but decided to continue running tin the same direction, to find out what had happened. He had been running for a few minutes when the Hollow appeared again, this time in the opposite direction. Ishida turned around and started running towards the Hollow again only for it to disappear again. He stopped and waited.
"You won't get me running about like a fool."
Surely it would appear again. It did, this time, to the east. Ishida didn't run, he was determined to find a pattern in the Hollow's appearances. After ten minutes of waiting and making mental notes where the Hollow appeared, he figured that it must be teleporting, and that it could only move from one shrine to another. Ishida hoped his hypothesis was correct as he headed to the nearest shrine. His only hope was waiting for it there and defeating it on one shot.
Ishida ran into the grounds of Karakura Shrine, it was quiet and beautiful. The moonlight filtered between the clouds casting shadows over everything. Ishida walked up to the steps of the shrine and sat down, he was out of breath and tired. He pushed his glassed up his nose and tried to still his shaking body. He did not start when he felt a Shinigami's aura drawing nearer, he assumed that they too were confused as to the Hollow's behaviour and had come to ask questions. He looked up when he heard them land. He looked up into hazel eyes and orange hair. It was Ichigo Kurasaki. A classmate, now turned Substitute Shinigami. Ichigo was looking at Ishida with a mix of surprise and confusion.
"I didn't expect to see you here." Ichigo said after they had both been staring at each other. Ishida composed himself before replying.
"Why ever not? You think that you're the only one allowed to deal with Hollows?"
"N-no!" Ichigo stammered. "I just thought that if you were on it's trail, you would've dealt with it by now!" He replied hotly. Ichigo disliked dealing in conversations with Uryuu Ishida, he unnerved him and made him feel stupid. Even though they had agreed to an alliance after their little competition, Ichigo had the feeling that Ishida would always dislike the orange haired youth.
Ishida coughed to hide his smirk, it was sometimes too easy to dent Ichigo's assertive manner.
"Well, the reason it hasn't been dealt with is that fact that it seems to be teleporting." Ishida jumped down from the steps and continued. "I've come to the conclusion that it's only moving between shrines, hence why I'm waiting here."
Ichigo nodded at the explanation. "Well, I'll wait with you. If we miss it, it'll probably teleport again and not come back here."
The words were barely out of Ichigo's mouth when the Hollow appeared right before them.
"Quick! Now!" Ishida shouted.
He stuck out his right arm and called on his powers as a Quincy as the bow materialised. Ishida moved his left arm to draw away from the bow and an arrow appeared. He kept this stance as Ichigo rushed forward to distract the Hollow. Ishida waited for an opening appear, they only had one shot afterall. Ichigo was darting around the Hollow, drawing attention to himself. He jumped up, above the beast's head. He raised his sword to strike and both his attack and Ishida's arrow hit the Hollow's head. The Hollow let out one more roar before dissolving into the darkness.
Ichigo jumped down to land in front of Ishida. He stood up straight and returned his sword to its scabbard.
"Nice shot!" He smiled at Ishida. Ishida felt a slight blush creeping across his face. He went to push his glasses up to hide it.
"Well, thank you for your help." Ishida went to walk around Ichigo. Before he walked away, he turned back to Ichigo. "Goodnight. I'll see you at school." And he walked away.
Ichigo stared after him. He smiled again and headed of towards home.