"What're you yakkin' about!?" The orange haired shinigami barked at the red headed lieutenant. Both hands slammed down on his dining room table which was plated with breakfast foods thanks to Yuzu.

"Would you just quit yer' whinin' and come with me already?!" Renji yelled back. Of course, he probably could have prevented the yelling had he not barged in and wrecked the Kurosaki family's breakfast. It didn't help that he was in his stuffy gigai from Kisuke. The thing made him itch.

"I ain't going to help you right now, come back later! I gotta get to school and now I can't eat!" Ichigo yelled even louder than before, his nose only inches from his soul society friend's face, but as he did Karin stood up and punched him square in the head.

"If you and your boyfriend are gonna fight do it outside!" She bellowed, and with that Ichigo rubbed his assaulted head and patted Yuzu's shoulder.

"Sorry I'm missing breakfast sis, put it in the microwave, I'll eat it later." Ichigo said as he grabbed his bag and ran out the door dragging Renji along.

Karin then sat back down now that the cause of the noise was gone, and quickly finished up her food with her sister.

"Um...Karin..do you..." Yuzu started but then looked down, an almost embarrassed aura clung to her as she twiddled her thumbs together in her lap.

"Huh?...Do I what?" Karin stated as she took another bite of her sausage.

" I mean, do you think that red headed guy is really..y...you know..Ichigo's...erm..well.."

"Ya mean his boyfriend? In the literal sense? I have no clue, but it wouldn't surprise me at all." Karin said with a shameful side glare. "With our dad I'm surprised we don't all have problems.."

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Renji was in a ridiculous hurry as he yanked Ichigo along by the arm. Once they'd run outside the house they had started yelling back and forth once more, but Renji seemed to be done trying to convince the strawberry that he needed his help. Ichigo was stubborn as hell, and he knew if he didn't want to help, he wasn't going to. So he was just going to have to show him what he meant when he said there was a "problem" in soul society.

"Renji! Dammit! Let go!" Ichigo yelled as the red head ran him all the way to Kisukes, Ichigo was starting to wonder if there was a 'real' problem and not just something stupid but as soon as they had arrived at hat n' clog's place the orange headed teen ripped his hand away and landed a devastating kick to Renji's gut sending him flying across the road in a mass of dust.

"If it's anything to do with hat n' clogs it can wait! Dammit!" Ichigo ranted as he looked down at his watch and sighed with an irritated tic above his brow. "Shit, now I'm ten minutes late!"

"Why do you gotta be so damn stubborn! I told you there is a problem in soul society and captain Kuchiki sent me to get you personally!"

"I don't give a damn about- uh...wait...Byakuya sent you to get me?" Ichigo restated, having been left dumbfounded. Renji growled and hit Ichigo in the head.

"Stop calling him by his name! It's captain Kuchiki!"

"Why you little...!" Ichigo retorted but then he heard the bell from his school toll and he semi panicked. "Gah! Whatever it is it can wait unti-uuwah!?"

Suddenly Ichigo fell forward and faced onto the ground.

"Tch!..." He muttered in pain as he lifted his face from the array of rocks and dirt. "The hell!?" As he stood though he found the reason for his incident with his equilibrium. Kisuke Urahara stood right behind where he had stood, holding his body and still pointing the end of his cane at his new shinigami body.

"Hmhm..I think perhaps you should listen to Abarai-san this time..hmhm.."

Ichigo jumped to his feet with a speed that only an anime character could achieve and had an accusing finger jabbed in the shop owners direction.

"Don't just knock me out of my body without my permission! I can't miss today! I've got exams!" Ichigo somewhat flailed as he jumped about and tried to get his body back from the once-was captain of squad 12. To his dismay though Kisuke managed to all too easily evade the substitute shinigami's attempts. Finally he sighed and stopped jumping around like an idiot after his seemingly lifeless body.

"I've already got that taken care of Kurosaki-kun." Urahara smiled as Ururu brought out Kon who was all tied up and had his mouth taped. Ichigo stared at the stuffed bear..erm...lion in shock.

"Kon?...Why were you-..you guys went to my place!? What if my sisters saw you!? Uhhhg...you guys are really a pain in my ass.." Ichigo sighed in defeat as Urahara just smiled and ripped the tape off of the stuffed animals face without regard of the pain he plunged him into.

"GYAAAAHH!" Kon cried out with chibi tears in his eyes. "...W...W...Why!?"

But Kisuke gave no answer and simply shoved his hand into the lions mouth and searched for the mod pill.

"Gwwaagaaakgaa!?" Kon protested as Kisuke's hand searched him for the little green marble-like pill and finally found it, pulling it out of the distressed lion.

"Ah..here we go." Kisuke said and put the pill in the body of Ichigo's mouth. The group watched in silence as the body slowly seemed to wake up from a forced sleep.

"M...Mmm..." Kon muttered as he woke up in Ichigo's body. "..uh...tsk! Why you crazy old fart! Why'd you go n' kidnap me?!"

"Yeah hat n' clogs. Why'd you put him in my body?"

"Well to go to school for you of course. Hmhm.." The man smiled innocently and put his fan in front of his face.

Instantly Ichigo's shinigami form tackled his human body.

"COUGH IT UP KON!" Ichigo yelled but Renji yanked him off.

"Look! You said you can't miss your exams..so Kon will take them for you!" The pineapple haired soul reaper instructed as he kept Ichigo in a head lock.

"Like HELL! I'll fail for sure if he does it!"

Kisuke sighed and became serious once more, catching Ichigo's attention and halting his struggles against renji, thus resulting in his friend releasing him.

"Kon will act in your absence..the probability of you failing the exams because of it is almost a 100% possibility, but souls society needs your help now Kurosaki kun." The man said with all the focus.

Ichigo was suddenly a little more worried about what could be really going on.

"Alright...let me hear it then." Ichigo accepted and focused on listening to what the former captain could have to tell him.

"The gotei isn't sure how it came to be, but a gas has found it's way into the seireitei. Actually, it's only within the barrier of the seireitei. It's seemingly made up of a subatomic particle that will instantaneously burn a victims skin to the point it falls off of the body. Several victims have fallen to their graves from this gas. Research and Development concluded the make up of the gas but cannot fight it because everyone has been quarantined in the lower tunnels beneath seireitei."

"What? No way...well, what has Kurotsuchi done about it?" Ichigo questioned as he thought about how people had already been killed from the poison.

"He hasn't been able to do anything, that gas showed up yesterday morning, Kurotsuchi managed to conceal himself long enough from it's poison but even his defenses were breached and he had to evacuate and go beneath the seireitei. The worst part is they suspect that the gas was administered in capsule form somewhere..so it may be buried in the ground and slowly seeping out."

"Damn...thats- uh..wait! What do you want me to do about it!?" The strawberry panicked suddenly.

Kisuke simply laughed detecting his distress.

"Kurotsuchi found that the subatomic particles in this gas is made up to strictly destroy the soul data of a shinigami. Or any soul for that matter that is within the spiritual realm."

"Yeah so?"

"You're not a complete shinigami Ichigo." Kisuke smiled. " There is a chance the gas won't effect you because your subatomic make up is still living. Even though we mask it with this soul release. Plus you're initially half hollow. Meaning that you should be the opposite of what the gas is intended for. Hmhm..of course...that's just theory."

Ichigo's eye twitched in confusion and irritation as he tried to put this together in his mind. What was he asking?...

"What are you getting at Urahara?" Kisuke asked inquisitively as Renji opened up the Senkaimon.

"Hmhm...We need you to go to the seireitei and fix the problem. Kurotsuchi will let you in on the details. The chances of you being killed by the gas as well is aproximately 78.6% but again it's just theory! Haha!"

"FORGET IT!" Ichigo bellowed and made to take off but Renji grabbed him around the waste and pinned his arms. The substitute shinigami fought with all his might to escape.

"Don't be a coward Ichigo!" Renji snapped as he dragged him towards the Senkaimon.

"It's for a good cause Kurosaki-kuuuunn" Kisuke attempted at his comforting but Ichigo simply glared daggers at him.

"Are you insane!? I ain't gonna do it!" Ichigo flailed but in the end Renji managed to drag him into the gate to the souls society.

"..Hmm...I wonder if the boy wonder can save the day again..hm?.." Kisuke snickered to himself as he turned to Kon. "Well...off to school mod soul. Hmhm...remember..I'm breaking all the rules by not exterminating you."

Kon wore a large sweat drop and sheepishly smiled and put his hands up in defense, then saluted and grabbed Ichigo's school bag and took off towards Ichigo's high school. All too glad to get away from the shop owner.

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