While on a normal hollow extermination Ichigo and Rukia hear crying. Rukia goes over to investigate while Ichigo takes care of the hollow that is wrecking havoc. After purifying the hollow Ichigo goes over to Rukia to see why she hasn't come back, he finally understands when he sees two kids, Aiko and Keitaro.
Disclaimer: I don't own it... But I own the Twins
Chapter One: Aiko and Keitaro
Ichigo Kurosaki in the human world he is best known for his bright orange hair and his 'I don't give a shit' attitude. But the thing he doesn't know is that he is also known for hanging out with Rukia Kuchiki the short petite raven haired girl who is known for her politeness, which if you knew her you would know that her politeness is completely fake. But there is something else that Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki are known for but this world is unknown to most humans except for a select few, they are known as Shinigami, Ichigo is one of the most powerful Shinigami that has ever been known while Rukia is also getting up there.
The select few that know of the Shinigami world are Uryu Ishida, Orihime Inoue, and Yasutora "Chad" Sado. Uryu Ishida is one of the last Quincy's to be known of, while Orihime Inoue and Yasutora "Chad" Sado have unknown and unique powers of their own, Orihime has the power to heal while Chad has abnormal strength.
It has been little over two months since the 'accident', the accident being the 'Betrayal of Three Captains' Sosuke Aizen. Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tousen, and the place where all of the Shinigami reside called Soul Society is slowly being rebuilt to its original grander. Since then Ichigo has been given a badge and is known as the 'Substitute Shinigami', along with him is of course his best friend Rukia, who has been assigned to Ichigo's home town Kakaura, on a just about permanent mission.
Anyway today the hero and basically the heroine are doing the usual patrolling around the small town, but instead of dawning their soul forms, for Ichigo in his human body and Rukia in her gigai have just gotten out of school. They both are walking in a comfortable silence that they usually just end up falling into, both of them though they would deny the fact enjoying the company of each other, as they made their way around a corner Ichigo's Shinigami badge and Rukia's Soul pager both went off simultaneously, immediately Ichigo grabbed his Substitute Badge that was in his back pocket and slammed it into his chest, meanwhile Rukia went into her backpack and grabbed a small candy dispenser with a head in the shape of a bunny, she then popped the candy into her mouth. After both of the effects went through their body they were both wearing their Shinigami forms.
"You know the rules Kon!" Ichigo yelled as he raced off towards where the hollow was.
"Chappy the same goes for you!" Rukia too yelled as she too raced off towards where the hollow was, catching up to Ichigo easily.
"Go home, immediately!" The two yelled simultaneously. Chappy who was in Rukia's body saluted, while Kon who was in Ichigo's body just nodded, Kon was going to run off to look for girls but Chappy happily grabbed him by the ear and walked off towards Ichigo's home.
Ichigo and Rukia had finally arrived to where the hollow had appeared and was quickly causing a lot of damage. The hollow had the usual white mask but the body was defiantly one that they would want to forget, but would probably never, slime was oozing out of every single square inch of the hollow's body, it had six arms and the legs were none existent but it did have a tail which it was using to move around, almost as if it were a slug.
"What the hell?" Ichigo said as he reached behind his back and grabbed his Zanpakuto.
"I think I have to agree with you there Ichigo, that thing is just hideous." Rukia said as she also grabbed her zanpakuto but she reached with her right hand to her left side. Ichigo ran towards the slimy green monster and slashed at his back, only to find that he couldn't remove his sword from the creatures back.
The creature then began to chuckle. "Stupid Shinigami, they always make the same stupid mistake!" He yelled the last word and suddenly his back exploded the green slim going everywhere. That's when Rukia noticed that the slim, wasn't really slime but it was acid.
"Damn it! Ichigo don't let him hit you with his slime! It's acid!" Rukia yelled out to Ichigo, she hasn't moved yet, which unlike her partner she actually was analyzing this hollow before she attacked. She then smelt something foul, and she heard Ichigo hiss in pain.
"Shit, that hurts like a bitch." Ichigo mumbled. "You dumbass ya told me too late!" Ichigo replied to Rukia as he landed on the ground in a crouched position winching as the acid started to eat at his skin. Rukia's eye twitched.
"Well if you didn't rush into everything, and would have actually analyzed it, then you wouldn't be injured!" Rukia yelled back as she narrowly dodged a burst of the slimy acid. Ichigo was about to yell back at her but Rukia shushed him. "Ichigo do you hear that?" Ichigo strained his ears but he couldn't hear anything.
"What I don't hear anything." He said as he disappeared within a blink of an eye using the skill shun-po. Next thing Rukia knew he was standing right next to her on her left. Ichigo once again strained his ears, but again he didn't hear anything when he was just about to give up after again dodging the hollow he heard it; whimpering. He lifted his eyebrow. "Go check it out midget while I fight slime ball, he is starting to get on my last nerve." Rukia was about to argue with him but decided not to since her curiosity was starting to get the better of her so she shun-po-ed out of the battle and tried to locate the whimpering, while Ichigo finally getting pissed off enough his eyes turned from their golden amber color to a shocking electric blue he jumped up and appeared in front of the annoying hollow.
"This is where you die ya pain in the ass." Ichigo said as he slashed downward effectively cutting the mask and destroying the hollow. He landed on the ground put his sword back on his back and began looking for Rukia.
"Rukia? Where the hell are you?" Ichigo heard her intake a breath, and immediately he could feel his heartbeat speed up and his breathing started to increase.
"Damn it!" Ichigo thought, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes and started to concentrate onto where Rukia would have gone but his concentration was quickly broken when he heard her voice, but the just started pelting rain could have a minor contributing factor.
"Ichigo! I'm over here!" Rukia's voice was yelled out against the rain, Ichigo quickly followed her voice and his eyes widened with what he saw, Rukia was kneeling down in front of two small children. One boy and one girl, twins from what the two of them saw, the little girl was on the right being hugged by the little boy. From what Ichigo could tell the little girl has black short hair just a little bit above her shoulders, and violet eyes, her frame was small and she had on a white cotton dress which was already soaked. The little boy's hair too was black and was plastered against his face but he had molted amber eyes, he too wore a dress but he had on long pants and his cloths too are soaked. Ichigo sighed as he ran his hands through his soaked hair trying to get the pieces of hair out of his eyes.
"Ok. What about them?" Ichigo asked as he crossed his arms over his chest. Rukia stood up and turned towards the orange haired man.
"What do you mean what about them?" Rukia asked her voice rising in volume.
"Exactly what I said, what about them?" Ichigo said as he looked towards Rukia, his eyebrow twitching.
"We can't just leave them alone, out here by themselves!" Rukia yelled as she took a step towards Ichigo.
"Why the hell not? Their parents are probably around here somewhere and anytime now they will come here and get them. Now c'mon we're leaving." He said as he glared at Rukia and then began to turn around when he felt a tug on his pants; he looked down to see the little girl.
"Pwease hewp us." Ichigo faltered, she reminded him of his little sister Yuzu when she was smaller, also at times the midget he was normally hanging around with. But he shook his head, being his stubborn self and started to walk away.
"Pwease." The little boy asked this time, his voice quivering. From behind Ichigo's back Rukia motioned for the kids to come towards her and she winked at them, with her fingers she began to count from 3, as soon as she reached one Ichigo turned around his eyebrow twitching.
"Fine. C'mon." He said, he then looked at Rukia who gave him a small smile, her eyes twinkling. Ichigo only shook his head a minuet smile on his face but it was quickly wiped off when he heard Rukia cough. Ichigo grumbled something about annoying midgets but he shrugged off his shirt of his Soul Reaper uniform and handed it to Rukia who in return draped it over the twins.
"So what are your names?" Ichigo looked over to Rukia his mouth a gape and his eyes wide in shock. Rukia glared at the gaping boy telling him to shut up, just by the look. Ichigo decided just to glare at her; he'll get his revenge later. Suddenly he turned towards her again.
"There is no way in hell they are coming over to my house! Do you know what my dad is going to do?" He said his voice started out loud but got softer as Rukia's glare increased.
"You idiot! Don't curse in front of the kids!" Rukia whispered harshly, while Ichigo just rolled his eyes.
"They'll get used to it. But there is no way that they are coming over to my house." Ichigo said in a puff while crossing his arms over his chest, his gaze still at Rukia the said girl huffed but nodded.
"What about Urahra?" Ichigo nodded.
"He owes me anyway." Rukia nodded.
"Oi! Hat 'n' Clogs where the hell are you?" Ichigo flinched as he felt a kick go to his shin. "Ouch! What the hell, ouch! Stop kicking me you stupid midget!" Ichigo yelled as he glared at Rukia.
"I thought I told you not to curse in front of," Rukia stopped at looked down at the twins. "You know you guys never told us your names." Rukia said as she crouched down to the twins' level.
The little girl looked up towards Rukia her violet eyes shining with child innocents. "Aiko is Aiko's name!" The little girl said as she pointed to herself, she then pointed to the little boy. "Keitaro is Keitaro's name! Keitaro is Aiko's brover!" Rukia smiled as she looked at the little girl. Ichigo could only imagine what she was thinking; actually when he thought about it he really didn't want to.
"Ah! Kurosaki-san, Kuchiki-san what a-" A male's voice rung out but stopped when he opened the door, Mr. Hat 'n' Clogs, Kisuke Urahra is his real name but since Ichigo isn't to good with names and faces he usually ends up to saying Mr. Hat 'n' Clogs. Urahra is always seen wearing this green and white striped bucket hat on this golden hair and is always seen with a fan in front of his face, which is rarely even shone, his clothing attire is always a long green shirt that is unbutton with a white shirt underneath, he also wears green shorts. "Kurosaki-san I didn't know you had it in you." He said, and the said boy blinked.
"What the he- what are you talking about?" Ichigo asked with a frown, while Rukia smirked, good he was starting to listen. Urahra just pointed to the twins, while Ichigo blinked as he looked down, finally realization dawned on him and a huge blush quickly painted over his checks, Rukia getting the jest of it after he said it was looking the other way after standing up, a blush too on her face.
"It's not like that you perverted old man!" Ichigo quickly yelled to the store owner. While the other man just waved a hand in the air.
"What's with all this damn noise out here!" this time a woman's voice rang out and the door opened again reviling a tall, slender woman who was very tan and had purple long hair that was in its usual ponytail and instead of the usual clothing attire she wears she only had on, nothing, when noticing that fact Ichigo quickly turned around, not before grabbed the kids by the back of their collars and dragging them in front of him, them too facing away.
"Would you put on some cloths you insane woman!" Ichigo said, his back sit facing away; the woman standing now behind Urahra chuckled.
"You know Yuroichi it's not good to show a man, already with two kids, your naked body." Urahra said.
"Two kids!? I wanna see!" She said as she began getting up.
"Not before you get on some damn cloths!" Rukia kicked the boy in the shin again, and Ichigo glared at the petite woman next to him but immediately regretted it because he saw out of the corner of his eye Yuroichi so he quickly turned around.
"Ok I'm dressed now I wanna see these two kids." Ichigo casted a glance at Rukia, whom saw his glance, nodded. Ichigo grabbed the kids again, this time taking his shirt back and put them in next to him where they were in the beginning, he then put his shirt back on.
"There you see them. Rukia can we leave yet, I don't know what Kon has done yet." Ichigo said as he turned around and began to leave.
"Ichigo we haven't even asked them yet!" Rukia said as she turned towards her partner, Ichigo sighed and got ready for the questions that were sure to come. Yuroichi blinked as she shifted in Urahra's large green shirt, her gaze shifting from Ichigo to Rukia to Aiko and to Keitaro before repeating, finally her gaze landed on Rukia who was glaring at Ichigo because he mumbled something about her.
"So Rukia how is Ichigo?" the said girl blinked.
"He's right here you can ask him yourself." She said as she jabbed a finger in his direction. Yuroichi sighed and smacked her forehead.
"No, how is he in bed?" Rukia and Ichigo's faces inflamed.
"Don't talk like that in front of these two! And how would I know? We're not in that kind of relationship!" Rukia said as her face grew redder. Yuroichi cocked her hip and raised an eyebrow, while Urahra chuckled.
"Then how did these two come here?"
"I don't know! I found them while we were out patrolling!" Rukia said her face slowly going back to her normal color. "Anyway we were wondering if Aiko and Keitaro could stay here for a while, just until we can find their parents."
"Kuchiki, Kurosaki, how are these two kids able to see you even though they are very much alive, but you guys are very much into your soul forms?" Urahra asked as he continued to wave his fan in front of his face. The two young adults blinked and looked at each then down at the two kids who were playing what seemed to be tag around there legs.
"I hadn't actually thought of that." Rukia mumbled to herself as she crossed her arms looking at the pair that was across from herself and Ichigo, while Ichigo just scratches the back of his head.
"I didn't really either." Ichigo yawned. "So can these two stay here or what? I'm tired and we have a test to take tomorrow that I need to study for."
"Yes they can stay." Urahra said as he got up, Rukia nodded and bent down to the twins level again, the twins stopped playing tag and walked over to Rukia.
"Aiko, Keitaro you two are going to stay here for now ok?" The two looked at one another and nodded, Keitaro then grabbed Rukia's hand.
"You are staying, right?" He asked his voice soft, Rukia nodded her head.
"I'm staying somewhere else." Rukia saw the disappointment in both of their eyes. "How about tomorrow? Both me and Ichigo will stay with you two ok?" Aiko and Keitaro nodded their heads still slightly disappointed, Rukia heard Ichigo sigh.
"If you two don't cheer up then you won't get ice cream tomorrow either." He sighed with a cross of his arms as he stared down at the two, who immediately brightened and ran towards the other pair that was standing and watching the whole thing. Rukia blinked as she stood up, and glanced at the now leaving boy.
"Are ya comin' or what midget?" She blinked again, but this time she glared at the boy.
"Don't call me midget you stupid Strawberry!" She began to march after the boy, who was casually walking away from the store and its occupants.
"Hey Ichigo, where did you learn that from?" Rukia asked as she settled into her gigai, stretching, finally they were at Ichigo's house
"I have to twin sisters remember." Rukia blinked then nodded.
"Well goodnight, Strawberry."
"Goodnight, midget." With that Rukia left Ichigo's room to go into his sisters, while Ichigo shoved Kon the stuff lion into his closet and changed into flannel pajama pants, he then shut off the light in his room and went to sleep, well tried to anyway because as soon as his head hit the pillow he jumped up out of bed and went over to his desk, he had homework to do and a test to study for.
After showing the twins to their bedroom for the night, Urahara and Yuroichi both sat in Urahara's lab, unreadable expressions on their faces.
"Isshin, we have some interesting news to tell you." Urahara said as his expression turned emotionless. "It's started."
Well that's chapter one of 'AIko and Keitaro', review if you can please!