The New Girl
A/N: I decided to write this after re-watching the Bleach movie "Memories of Nobody". If you haven't seen it yet I would recommend watching it before reading to get a sense of the character in it. I think that Senna is a good match for Ichigo because she can easily tolerate his sarcastic attitude and give it right back to him.
With a final swing of Zangetsu, Ichigo slashed the hollow in half. The two pieces fell to the ground and then dissipated into the air.
"Good work Ichigo." Rukia said
"Thanks," he replied, "but we better get back to school before Kon does something stupid and ruins my reputation again."
With that, the two soul reapers ran through the woods back to the school.
MEANWHILE
Kon sat in Ichigo's seat waiting for the next class to start while thinking of jumping out the window again to run around town and have fun. Before he could make a move and put his plan into action, the teacher walked into the room and so did a girl Kon had never seen before. The whispers started almost immediately about who this girl was.
"Have you seen her before?"
"No I haven't, she must be a transfer student."
"She's pretty cute. I wonder where she's from."
The girl stood in front of the class looking around the room with an excited look, taking in the new scenery. She was average height around 5'6". She wore the school's uniform and had her purple hair tied up in the back with a yellow ribbon.
"Go ahead and introduce yourself." The teacher told her.
"Hello everyone, my name is Senna. Nice to meet you all." She said with a bow.
"Thank you Senna, as for your desk…" the teacher looked around the room to see which desks were open, "why don't you sit next to Ichigo."
Kon sat nervously as the new girl sat next to him; he couldn't help but feel like she was looking at him strangely the whole time. After a few minutes class started and Kon tried to focus on taking notes so Ichigo wouldn't fall behind while he was fighting the hollow. However, out of the corner of his eye he could tell that Senna was still giving him a weird look.
"What is it?" he whispered to her.
"What's up with your hair? Is that its natural color? I bet you get made fun of a lot with your hair like that." She said without any pause between questions.
Kon couldn't believe that's all it was. The way she was looking at him, he thought she had figured out that he wasn't exactly normal. As he was about to respond Ichigo and Rukia came in through the window. No one else noticed them since they were in their soul reaper form, except for Orihime, Uryuu, and Chad. Ichigo jumped back into his body and discreetly coughed up the pill containing Kon and put it into his pocket.
"Whew, glad that's done. Now I can relax." he thought to himself.
"Well, are you just going to sit there or are you going to answer me?" Senna asked, starting to get frustrated with this guy.
Ichigo looked at her and replied without giving it a second thought. "Who are you?"
"Ichigo you idiot, try thinking about what might have happened while you were gone." Uryuu sighed to himself. He sits a few desks away from Ichigo so he could he the conversation Senna was having with Kon and now with Ichigo.
"HUH?" Senna replied with a stupefied look on her face. "Were you completely zoned out when I gave my introduction in front of the class? My name is S-E-N-N-A, I just transferred here dumbass."
Ichigo sat there for a minute trying to process what she told him. Senna, finally deciding to give up on the conversation, closed her eyes, crossed her arms and turned away from him with a "HMPH!"
Ichigo put two and two together and realized what happened, "Hey, I was just kidding. You know, it was joke. You don't have to be mad. C'mon I'm sor-" He was interrupted when a piece of chalk struck the side of his head.
"Ichigo, stop picking on the new girl! Turn back around and pay attention!" The teacher yelled at him, causing the rest of the class to snicker.
"Yes ma'am."
He took another glance back at Senna and when she turned back to him she pulled on her bottom eyelid and stuck her tongue out at him. Ichigo, defeated, slumped down in his chair and waited for class to be over.
Later on, during lunch, Ichigo, Rukia, Chad, Uryuu, and Orihime were eating together.
"Can you believe that girl?!" Ichigo exclaimed.
"It's your own fault for not realizing it sooner." Uryuu stated.
"I noticed her when we first came in the window. It was pretty easy to figure out that she transferred in since the desk next to you had been empty for some time and now a new girl was sitting in it." Rukia told him.
"C'mon guys, I just reacted on instinct. I didn't know she was just talking to Kon before I came back."
"I would have said what you did too Ichigo. I thought you put it all together pretty quickly too." Orihime added with usually smile she gets when talking to Ichigo. "Just don't worry so much about it. Here, would you like to try some of my squid ink ice cream?"
"Uhhhh, no thanks, I'll pass. I think I'll go and try to find her and talk to her again."
Ichigo wandered the hallways of the school looking for Senna. As it neared the end of lunch he decided to check the roof before heading back to the classroom. If she wasn't there he would still be able to look around the outside of the school quickly without having to run around the whole school. He opened the door to the roof and there she was walking along the top of the fence that surrounds the edge of the roof.
"What are you doing?!" Ichigo said shocked as he ran over to her.
"What? I'm just walking." She replied.
"But why are you walking on top of the fence?"
"I dunno. I just like being up high. It relaxes me and I love looking out in the distance."
"Ohhhhh ok . Well anyways, I wanted to find you to talk about earlier in the classroom."
"Oh yeah! You mean when you returned to your body from your soul reaper form and didn't know about the conversation I was having with the Mod soul in your body?"
"Yeah about tha… WHAT?!" Ichigo exclaimed.
"You thought I couldn't tell that you and Rukia were soul reapers? I could sense your spiritual pressure before you even entered the classroom. You should really work on controlling it better."
"If you can sense spiritual pressure, then that means…"
"I'm a soul reaper as well, DUH! Wow, you can't control your own spiritual pressure and you can't sense other's, how do you survive your fights with hollows?" Senna mocked.
During the whole conversation Senna continued to play on top of the fence. She walked, balanced on one leg, and spun around on it looking completely graceful the whole time. However, when she tried to leap, her foot landed only part way on the fence and she started to fall over the edge.
"Senna!" Ichigo ran and caught her in his arms before she could fall very far. Senna clutched onto Ichigo as he pulled her back in. She opened her eyes and saw they were far from the edge, feeling relieved, she loosened her grip and look up at Ichigo. They looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds before blushing and looking in opposite directions.
"…thanks for saving me." She said in a slight whisper.
"Yeah… no problem." He replied, scratching the back of his head.
The bell rang signaling the start of the next class.
"Crap, we're late. We better get going." Ichigo said, but when he turned to find Senna she was already gone.
He ran down the stairs and back to his classroom. Opening the door he saw Senna was in her seat giving him a giant grin and holding up her hand in the V for victory sign.
"You're late Ichigo Kurosaki! Hurry up and take your seat." The teacher scolded. He scuffled across the floor and mumbled to himself how annoying this new girl was.
"This girl is nuts. She is mad one minute, blushing the next, then gets me in trouble and rubs it in my face. I can't wait until this day is over."
Class let out a few hours later and everyone went home for the day. At dinner Ichigo and his father had their usual fights where his dad trying to give him a sneak attack. Afterwards Ichigo just lay in bed and stared at the ceiling mulling over the thoughts in his head.
"Man that girl is so annoying. Why did she have to end up seating next to me? What was that moment just after I caught her and we looked at each other? Damn it! This is so stupid, why can't I stop thinking about her?!"
"So did you find out what squad she's in or anything useful like that from your talk with Senna?" Rukia asked from inside the closet. She opened the door so they could talk face to face.
"Let me guess, YOU were able to feel her spiritual pressure?" Ichigo replied.
"Of course, you were the only one who couldn't tell. You were too preoccupied during lunch for anyone to tell you. So did you find anything out about her as a soul reaper?"
"No, I didn't."
"I asked Urahara about her and he didn't have any information either. There was no notification from Soul Society that another soul reaper would be coming to this town so that means she probably came here without Soul Society's knowledge." Rukia thought out loud.
"What's the big deal if she came here? It's not like she is hurting anything by just being here."
"That may be true, but whether she just decided to come here for fun or she ran away from Soul Society, either way means that someone is going to come looking for her. I just hope her captain is one of the ones who actually has patience or else there might be trouble."
A/N: Please give me some feedback on this story because I'm not too sure how it is going. Sometimes I like it other times I wonder why I started it. If I keep going there will probably be a lemon scene later on mainly because I like writing them and that is probably what everyone has come to expect from me. If people seem to like it I will keep the story going so please let me know what you think.
