Ok. Here is the new story: My Best Friend's a Shinigami!? What the HELL, Man!? Ok, I don't own Bleach. Bleach belongs to Tite Kubo. And I don't own Bleach... No matter how hot some of the guys are. Anyway Read and Review. If you send me a flame I'll just use it to make ramen, s'mores, or cook a steak. OR if it's a flame so good that it makes me laugh, I'll just burn it in my fireplace. And the books mentioned in this chapter are books I read and are reading in real life. I already finished The Looking Glass Wars, if you must know. The song that is being sung by my Oc in this chapter is 'Miss Murder' by 'A.F.I.'
Just so you guys don't get lost: Harumi knows Yoruichi because she ended up with a job at the Urahara Shop. When Harumi comes into work, Yoruichi is in her human form and waiting to greet her because Kisuke is a lazy bum and doesn't know when to greet his employees. Or help a customer. So then at the end of the day Yoruichi ends up having to kick Urahara's ass from Karakura town to the Soul Society for not giving Harumi any more work than sweeping up the floors, dusting, sorting his books, doing his laundry, and cooking dinner for everyone before she left.
So yeah... Read, Review, No Flames, And Enjoy The Story!!
P.S. I have typed 3,372 words for chapter one. (And did some editing!)
It was a beautiful day in Karakura Town. You know those days, the sun is shining, there isn't a single dark cloud in the sky, and you could sit outside with friends and eat lunch at school. A teenage girl dressed in a school uniform walked down the street. She had tuned out the sounds of the morning traffic with a song on her I-Pod. She was singing part of it under her breath.
'...Dreams of his crash won't pass
Oh, how they all adored him
Beauty will last when spiraled down.
The stars that mystify
He left them all behind.
And how his children cried
He left us all behind.
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Hey Miss Murder can I?
Make beauty stay if I,
Take my life?
Whoa-oh-ohh...'
To her, Friday's were the best day of the week. She could stay up late and go to a friends house or even spend the night partying with a few friends from school. Over her shoulder was a school bag and under her left are were two books. One titled The Looking Glass Wars and the other was titled Maximum Ride: The Angle Experiment. If another child her age saw her, they would think that she was the perfect daughter or sister. A book-worm, punk-rocker, tomboy, with an attitude problem. But if they were to look 'underneath the underneath' then they would know that she has a secret that only she and her closes friends knew. 'What's that secret?,' you may ask? Well...She can see ghosts.
Ichirin Harumi is a fifteen year old girl with shockingly yellow hair, light grey eyes, and a piss poor attitude. That may be true, yes, but if she's with her friend Kurusaki Ichigo, then she's as moody and mellow as he is. Though on Fridays though, she's has happy and hyper as Inoue Orihime. She's as calm and quite as her friend Yatsutora "Chad" Sado. She's as good a fighter as her classmate, Arisawa Tatsuki and she even come up with a dress design and make it a real one in five minutes. She even beats her friend, Ishida Uryu in sewing. And he's one of the best when it comes to sewing. And she likes romance/horror/drama novels like Rukia and as an odd affinity for usual foods like Orihime.
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But anyway it's a Friday in Karakura Town and Harumi is on her way home with (our favorite hero) Ichigo. Ichigo had his hands in his pockets and was looking around his surroundings while Harumi was looking through her bag for something. Ichigo sometimes heard 'Yes... Wait that's not it.' 'Did I find it... No that's my cell phone.' 'Damn you, Keigo!' And the most used phrase 'Ichigo! Will you wait for me?! My lord! Your worse than the new kid, what's-his-name! I think it was Orenji or maybe it was Kenji.' When he looked over at his friend, he saw her throwing out condoms, candy, cards, a bottle of lube that her brother threw in there as a prank, and poems.
"Your brothers are mean." Ichigo said as he saw the strawberry flavored lube fly at his head.
"Asshole! Wait for me next time! You know at the end of the month I clean out my bag!" Harumi muttered as she pick up the bottle. She then punched Ichigo in the shoulder.
"Are you going to keep that? I mean it's..." he started but stopped when he saw a mother and her five-year old walk down the street.
Harumi watched the mother and child walk past, popped open the bottle, and waved it in Ichigo's face. "I can't find my pocky! I'm freaking hungry! You know I have a box of pocky with me on Friday's! And besides Ichigo, it's strawberry. You know that I like strawberry!"
Ichigo shook his head and took the bottle away from her before she could squeeze the gel into her mouth. "I don't care if you're hungry. You can't eat this. Even if it taste like strawberries. If Uryu, Rukia, Orihime and everyone else saw you eating that think of what they would say! If your hungry, then stop at the store and buy some pocky there. I'm not gonna let you eat this stuff." Harumi watched in sadness as the bottle of strawberry lube was thrown into the trash can.
Harumi glared at Ichigo. "I hate you. Go to hell."
Ichigo smiled at that and shook his head. "Love ya too."
The whole 'I hate you. Go to hell/Love ya too.' thing is an inside joke between them. For as long as they can remember, Ichigo and Harumi have been friends for life. They met in kindergarten and were friends even since. Their moms were child hood friends too. It should be considered ironic. Harumi stepped in the store right behind her and ran out with a box of pocky a few minutes later. She smiled and pulled the box open and ripped open the bag holding the cream covered sticks.
She held the box out to Ichigo. "Pocky?" Ichigo glanced at the box and saw that it was pink.
"Do you always have to get strawberry? There are other flavors of pocky. Like...Um...Let me think for a minute...Marble Pocky. Caramel flavored marble pocky. Maybe you could try that instead of strawberry. Or maybe that so-called 'Grape?' The one that's made out of a purple sweet potato. When you see it you think 'Grape' but when you taste it, you taste Milk Chocolate. Cool, huh?" he said after thinking of the most recent box of the cream covered snack he saw when shopping. But he still took a stick anyway.
"It's sad. I can't give up strawberry. But guess what?"
"I think you buy the strawberry just to spite me because my name means 'strawberry.' Or maybe you're just hooked to the stuff like a crack addicted is to crack."
"Did you even hear what I just said?!"
"You don't have to yell in my ear. I'm right here beside you."
"Guess what tomorrow is?!" Harumi said in a very excited voice.
Ichigo closed his in thought and went through his mental calender. "Halloween?"
Harumi nodded. "Yeah! And it's Saturday. And my birthday!"
Ichigo stared at her in surprise. "Really? You turn fifteen then?"
"Oh Yeah! Dad said that I can invite who I want and...hold on." she started but stopped to reach in her bag for something.
"And this is for you!" she handed the carrot top an invitation.
Ichigo pulled the invitation from her hand and pulled it open. He saw that it was hand drawn. It was black and orange with a pumpkin, with the number fifteen written on it. In the background were two bats holding a blood red banner that said 'You're invited to...Harumi's Fifteenth Birthday. Come If You Dare...'
"The others that are coming are Orihime, Rukia, Chad, Uryu, You... um...Give me a second. OH! Urahara-san and Yoruichi-chan. And I think that new kid. I can't remember right now." she listed the people she invited to her birthday.
"Yoruichi lets you use 'chan' at the end of her name? What the hell!" Ichigo looked at her in shock.
"Yeah. I've been working at the shop for so long she said to call her whatever I felt comfortable with. So I call her 'Yoruichi-chan. And get this: Dad said that I can play host. You need to come in a costume too! Uryu said he'd make his own." she said.
Ichigo knew that he had to take Karin and Yuzu trick-or-treating and figured out that this could be a way to get out of it. What he heard next from his friend shocked him. "I think Uryu-kun said that he'd make you a costume. I don't remember."
"NO! If Ishida's making me a costume then I'm not going to wear it! I already have one anyway! I don't want to go to your birthday dressed like Strawberry Shortcake!" he yelled remembering an incident that happened in the third grade with a costume found in her basement. "And why did you give us all an invitation a day before the party? Most people would send them in advance."
"You know how good I am at procrastinating, right? Well...Heh Heh. I did those last night and gave them to everyone today." she muttered sheepishly.
Ichigo shook his head sadly. "You really need to stop doing that. That's a bad habit. It could follow you to college or even be passed on to your kids."
She just glared at him and shoved him in the shoulder just as they walked up to her house. "It's not a genetic trait! I don't even care if it'll follow me to college. It's just a really bad habit." She unlocked the front door and dropped her bag inside and nudged Ichigo forward. Both took off their shoes and Harumi ran up stairs to her room with a shout to her dad thrown over her shoulder. "Hey otosan! I'm going over to Ichigo's after I get changed!"
Ichigo sat down in the near by chair and watched as Harumi's dad walk over to the stairs. "Ok. You gave out the invitations, right?"
A muffled 'Yes' was heard from up stairs followed by a "Dad, Where are my black jeans?"
"The leather, denim, or the shorts?" he said while looking over Ichigo.
From her room Harumi rolled her eyes, knowing her father was looking over Ichigo to see if he was the 'one.' The 'one' meaning her boy friend. "The denim! And quit sizing up Ichigo! He didn't do anything, He's my friend and you know it!"
"The denim jeans are in the laundry room. The shorts are in your closet and the leather ones are there too." he said.
"Thanks!" she said running down the stairs in a sports bra and pajama bottoms. 30 seconds later she came out of the laundry room dressed in a pair of black jeans, sneakers, and an orange shirt with different pictures on it. Ichigo recognized some of the objects: there was Orihime's hair pins, a strawberry, and Spanish coin. Each picture stood for a different friend and his or her hobbies or personal objects.
"Come on let's go! I wanna go over to your house and watch you kick the crap outta your dad." She said while dragging Ichigo towards the door. The carrot top had enough time to pick up his shoes and was only able to get one on before she dragged him out the door.
"Poor Ichigo. He'll let Harumi do anything to him. If she wanted to, she could probably make him look like a girl." said Tatsuki as she watched Harumi hit Ichigo with a paper fan as they raced towards the carrot top's house. Tatsuki was on her way home from school with her friend, Inoue Orihime. At some point their classmate, Asano Keigo, joined them and listened in on their conversation.
Keigo nodded. "It's true. Those two could make the perfect couple. Ichigo will do anything for Harumi, except probably kill someone." At this Orihime's eyes winded a good deal at this, know that Ichigo killed a good deal of hollows, and she reached into her bag and pulled out an invitation.
"Tatsuki, Haru-chan invited me to her birthday and she said I could bring a guest! Would you like to come?" she asked her raven haired friend.
"What kind of party is it?"
"It's a costume party! I wonder what Ichigo and Harumi are going to be? Maybe Ichigo will come dressed up as a strawberry and Harumi will come as an apple! Maybe they'll come to her party as a horse!" she said listing possible costumes for the duo. Tatsuki and Keigo tuned her out. With a wave Keigo turned corner and headed towards his home.
"Sure. I'll come. I can't wait to see what Ichigo is gong as." she said with a smile. Tatsuki waved goodbye to Orihime, when she turned the next corner to her house. Tatsuki placed her arms behind her head and thought about what to wear to the costume party. On the other hand, Harumi and Ichigo made it to the Kurosaki Clinic. Before Ichigo could pull his keys out of his bag Harumi dipped her hand in it and pulled them out her self. She smiled and unlocked the door while counting aloud.
She slowly opened the door. "Five, four, three, two , one, DUCK!!" And out came Ichigo's father, Kurosaki Isshin, with a leg extended to hit his son in the face. But sadly, that would not come to reality, for you see, when Harumi and Ichigo landed on the ground, Isshin just sailed over their heads and using Newton's Laws of Motion we can see that:
A) Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
B) The relationship between am object's mass (m), its acceleration (a), and the applied force (F) (F is F mass times acceleration). Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in a slanted bold font.); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.
And C) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
That and the laws of gravity. But that would be consider as: D) What goes up must come down.
And therefor:
A) Isshin ended up hitting the light pole in front of his home.
B) We have no idea what B has to with anything involving Isshin or anyone else for that matter.
C) Once Ichigo gets up, he and his dad will start to kick the crap put of each other and in turn Harumi will suffer from what Uryu, Chad, & Tatsuki call 'Laughing Her Ass Off, Rolling On The Floor Until She Hyperventilates, Letting A Giggle Or Two Out, Then Calming Down To Talk.' Or the shorter form which is still longer but with out the words 'LHAOROTFUSHLAGOTOTCDTT.'
D) Isshin will be thrown against the pole once again, will slide down, and land on the ground in pain. Holding his family jewels. While in pain.
"Heh. Heh. Ha ha ha. Ah, Ha ha. It hurts! It hurts, (gasp), so bad! You really need to control your anger better Ichigo." Harumi said while trying to catch her breath. Ichigo just glared at her and grabbed her by the shirt collar, his dad's collar in the other hand, and dragged them inside. One was tossed on one of the beds in the clinic part of the house and the other was thrown into a wall.
Isshin whimpered and found himself in one of the clinic's beds. While Harumi found herself against a wall in the Kurosaki household. Harumi looked up to see Ichigo's hand in her face, offering to help her up. With a swiftness known only to the ninjas of ancient Japan, she pulled a pair of chop-sticks from the pocket of her jeans and shoved them in between her teeth. She bent down and stood back up, doing a very fast hair flip. Harumi quickly pulled her waist length blond hair in to a bun and with a flick of her wrist had the chop-sticks holding the bun into place. She kept a few strands lose and had those framing her face. Ichigo thought that she looked amazing. But he wouldn't say that aloud either.
"Hey Ichigo, Harumi. What happened to dad?" Ichigo's little sister, Karin, asked as she came into the room.
"You know. Your dad tries to hit Ichigo, he fails badly, and gets the crap beaten outta him. And I end up thrown into a wall by Mister Cranky." she said off offhandedly. She started a conversation with Karin about the Japanese soccer team and how they lost to United States while Ichigo went upstairs to his room to grab his Halloween costume.
Ichigo, changed into his Halloween costume, heard Harumi's loud voice on his way down stairs. "Girl, with your skills in soccer you could join the Japanese team and help them win a couple games!"
"Hey." Ichigo said to make his appearance known.
"Dude, what the hell are you wearing?" Harumi said. Ichigo had on a black gown and a black hood with a cloth covering his face.
"I'm the grim reaper."
"You're not going to my party dressed like that. Come on, I know a guy who could help you." Harumi dragged Ichigo upstairs and shoved him in his room. He came out a few minutes later dressed in a pair of jeans and a tee shirt that said 'Leave me alone. I'm happy right now.' and a pair of high tops. With a very charming smile, Harumi dragged Ichigo down the stairs and flew out the door. "Kurosaki-san! I'm taking Ichigo to get a better costume for my birth day! He'll be home around 7!"
Ichigo pulled out of her grip and stopped to talk "Why must you do this? I'm fine with that costume."
Harumi shook her head. "I'm not. I want you to have the best costume at the party! I can't stand looking at a black cloth and not your face."
Ichigo sighed, knowing it was a lost fight and followed his friend to the costume store.