Ichigo Kurosaki did not begin his week like any other week. Typically, went to school, ate dinner with his family, did his homework and went to sleep. Somewhere between those he found time to talk to the dead people he could see. Then, without warning, a young woman brought to his attention of a place called the Soul Society and Shinigami. In the desperate attempt to save his family, Rukia, the Soul Reaper, gave him her powers which in turn made him a Soul Reaper. In the morning his family had forgotten what he had done to save them and what had happened.

"Ichigo, how do I use this?" Rukia held up a package of pantyhose

"WH-what?! Rukia put those away!" Ichigo panicked. He looked all around at his usual lunch time spot, atop the roof, but it was only himself, Rukia and Chad. When Ichigo momentarily made of eye contact with Chad, he could they were wide with fear.

"The magazines in your sister's room said that no woman should be without a good pair of these. But when I was looking at the picture I couldn't see what they did-"

"Shut-up, Rukia!" He covered her mouth," You don't ask a guy what to do with women's panty hose! Ask Orihime!"

"I don't understand what the big deal is. I haven't seen her yet today." Rukia stuffed the package back into her bag. "For someone with two sisters, I thought you would understand."

"I've never understood why girls do what they do. That's why I have two sisters." Ichigo seemed to calm down, but there was a faint blush to his cheeks as he sipped on his juice box.

A bouncing Orihime shouted, "Ichigo! Rukia! Chad!" She walked towards them with Tatsuki.

"Orihime, I have a question to ask you," Rukia reached inside her bag and Ichigo dived over crushing and trapping Rukia's hands inside.

"Wait till after school! You don't ask those things out loud!" Ichigo steamed.

"Well I was hoping Rukia would want to come and hang out at my place after school, with Tatsuki too of course." Orihime beamed.

"Perfect, you can walk Orihime home and ask her all stuff you want." A sense of relief spread across his face.

"Has Ichigo always been so demanding like that?" Rukia asked as she watched Ichigo and his friends walking ahead of them. Tatsuki laughed.

"He was such a little cry-baby when we were little. I could kick the crap out of him in minutes." As she punched the air and kicked. Orihime agreed, scratching her head nervously.

"But you said that his cousin would always-"

"I don't want to talk about her. I forgot to ask, is she going to be there today?"

"Ichigo has a cousin? He's never mentioned that before."

"What does that matter to you?" Snapped Tatsuki

"She's on our class!" Orihime seemed to find a new level of excitement when anything about Ichigo was mentioned. "She sits in the back row, closest to the window."

Rukia's jaw dropped in awe. She then began to recall who and where everyone sat in the class. "Is it that girl with purple hair? She said straining from memory.

"Yes! That's her! She's also my roommate" she said proudly

"But why doesn't she live with the Kurosaki family?"

Tatsuki who seemed to be brewing with anger every word mentioned of her burst out: "She and Kurosaki used to be really close, I mean their mothers were twins, who had them at the same time. They did everything together. Then when Ichigo's mother died, she left with her father. Then a year ago she shows up again. I haven't seen them talk once."

"It's horrible." Orihime whimpered. "Ichigo does sometimes show up, asking her to come over for dinner one Sunday a month. But she hasn't once said yes."

"She's a stupid brat and a jerk." Tatsuki seemed to want to end it. Rukia was so unaware of how many things she did not understand about Ichigo. She never knew he had a cousin that was in their class. Somehow you would see that mentioned. Although it makes sense why she would never question it from roll call. They don't have the same last name.

"You didn't answer, is she going to be there?"

"Oh no, she said that she wouldn't probably home till late. It's funny how I've never seen her come home early." Orihime seemed not bothered at all to be living with this girl. Rukia would need to investigate further.