Four-Year Reunion

A/N: This is my second fic and I'm really hoping it turns out well. It's set in the future and I have only read up to chapter 281 of Bleach so any thing that I say that goes against some thing that I haven't read yet I would like to be told about. Please read and review. Criticism is welcomed.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or any of its characters.

Chapter One

Ichigo was sitting in his apartment finishing up the last of his homework. It was about midnight and he was hoping that he could go to sleep and not wake up an hour later when he sensed a hollow. If he didn't get some sleep soon he would end up sleeping in and not be able to make it to his finals in the morning.

"Damn teachers. They give us this much homework and expect us all to get it done and study for finals." Ichigo said out loud. Right as he was putting his stuff in his bag, he sensed a hollow. And probably a huge hollow, too, Ichigo thought as he pressed his shinigami badge to his chest and exited his body.

When Ichigo got there it was a huge hollow, as he had thought. He quickly jumped up and slashed it with ease, then watched it disappear. He really missed the war, there he had strong opponents that took more than one slash to defeat, but now and for the past four years he just had multiple weak hollows to kill. It was really dull being a shinigami now that the only thing to do was kill normal hollows instead of arrancar. Ichigo actually hadn't really made any contact with anyone from Seireitei in the past four years. He wondered who they replaced Aizen, Ichimaru, and Tousen with. But he pushed those thoughts from his head as he used shunpo to hurry to his apartment.

The next day after his finals Ichigo decided to head by the nearest fast-food place to get a burger or something because today was his day off from work at his dad's clinic. The place was noisy but he got his food pretty quick. He ate his food and left. He figured he'd go back to Karakura to visit his family (even though he saw them everyday at work). He began to walk to the parking garage he kept his car at when he heard just a clip of a sentence that made him whip his head around.

"…Yamamato-sou-taicho thinks he should be…" that was all he heard but it was enough to make Ichigo wonder if his hearing okay. Ichigo had turned his head in the direction it came from but when he looked he didn't see anyone. There's no way that I just heard what I think I heard. They couldn't be talking about the first division captain of the Gotei 13. Not after all this time, Ichigo thought, eventually deciding that he was hearing things. But still, that voice had sounded so familiar.

Thirty minutes later Ichigo had decide to call his family before visiting to make sure they were home. When he called nobody was there so Ichigo decided that he'd go out and see what there was to do, maybe go catch a movie or just head to the mall a check out the latest CDs. Finally Ichigo decide that either of these meant that if a hollow showed up he'd have lo leave his soulless body in a crowded place, so he decided he'd leave his body here and just shunpo around town and go just see if there were any souls that he'd need to konso. Even if it wasn't the best thing to do, it was better than doing nothing all day. Also he figured a couple hundred shunpos would be good for him considering the hollows he had to get rid of now were not work out.

Two hours later Ichigo decided that he'd made the right choice. He'd gotten rid of a few more hollow that came to him because Ichigo didn't have his reiatsu concealed, which he'd learned to do in the war. So from there Ichigo had been concealing his reiatsu and continued to shunpo around, performing the occasional konso. When Ichigo decided to stop for a bit he realized that he was in the middle of the nearby park. He'd just sat down on the grass when he heard the same familiar voice again, and this time in a whole sentence.

"Damn it! We felt his reiatsu earlier, so where the hell is he?" And once again by the time Ichigo looked the person who'd spoken was gone. This time Ichigo was certain of what he'd heard. There were shinigami in this town. But who were they looking for. Once again Ichigo pushed those thoughts out of his head and looked up and the mid-June sky.

Ichigo had fallen asleep at the park and it was now an hour later. Ichigo looked up and saw the reason why he'd woken. About ten huge hollows were coming out of the sky and straight into the park. Ichigo jumped straight to his feet and began to fight the hollows. Within minutes only one was left. Ichigo leaped at the last one and easily destroyed it. Then Ichigo managed to pick up n someone else's reiatsu. He wasn't sure where it was coming from because he was bad at picking up people's reiatsu but it didn't take him long to find out where it came from.

"The hell? They're all gone! Who the heck…" Ichigo turned around and saw who had spoken these words.

"Renji."

A/N: Well there you have it, the first chapter of my first multichap. Please review. I will update as frequently as possible, which might be just about every day. Also, does any one know where to read past chapter 281 of Bleach?