"Pffft!"
"Don't say a fucking word." I growled glaring at Keigo, who is currently doubled over in laughter after seeing my freshly formed black eye courtesy of misplaced elbow during wrestling practice.
"Y-you look like Rocket Racco-Ow!" Keigo pouted rubbing his head unable to keep the grin off of his face. "You didn't have to hit me."
"Did you want to go to the party or not?" I asked digging through my make-up bag for cover up.
"Yes!" Keigo became starry eyed. "My first high school party! I can see it now! Girls will flock to me thanks to my new body spray~"
Keigo stepped closer shaking his shirt out. "Take a whiff!"
"Oh, That's what that smell is? I thought James was trying to cook again."
"You're so meeeeeeeaaaannnnn, Karissa-chaaaaaaan!" I just laughed slathering on an unnecessary amount of foundation around my eye. "You're never going to get any men with that attitude."
"Said the guy wearing Axe! That's for twelve year olds."
I turned to get a good look at Keigo hoping he didn't wear something as obnoxious as his cologne. To my relief, he wore a dark red button up shirt with a white v-neck underneath and plain dark jeans.
"Oi, how late are you allowed to stay out?"
I headed out towards the front door followed closely by Keigo, who was practically skipping with excitement.
"I have to be home by one." That was a pleasant surprise, Mizuho wasn't usually so lenient.
James was standing by the front door with a cell phone in his hand. He grinned tossing it at me.
"No way!" I grinned while Keigo admired it from over my shoulder.
"It's all yours kid. Don't get in to much trouble tonight." He warned. "In fact, don't get into any trouble. At all."
"Yes, Sir!" I grinned hugging him tightly nearly matching Keigo in my excitement now.
You probably wondering why I was so excited about getting a cellphone. Six months ago, I went to my first party and drank way more than I should have. Instead of calling home like I set a reminder on my phone to do, I shut it off and got a tattoo done by some guy and his shady kit.
The tattoo was hideous. It was some kind of dragon creature that resembled Trogdor, the Burninator.
When, Pops found out he was angry but more disappointed than anything. I lost all my electronics, I ended up selling majority of my videogame collection, and had to work for Pops colleagues clean their houses and work stations until I saved enough money to get it covered up. Legally.
Now, I had tribal style water currents swirling around my shoulder with light pink lotus blossoms floating. I'm pretty proud of it and the fact they trust me enough to let me back out again. Even if I had to bring a friend along whom they could contact at anytime.
They don't need to know that Keigo is irresponsible and prone to trouble as I am.
"Later, James!" I grinned waving back at him while linking arms with Keigo, "I'll be good~"
Keigo snorted earning a sharp elbow jab to the ribs.
"It was a joke! A joke!"
"Your face is a joke."
"Jerk. Anyway you're lucky you have cool parents who let you have fun! My parents only want me to study. When Mizuho is in charge she makes me do her chores then locks me in my room!"
"You're out now aren't you, Cinderella?"
"Only because Mizuho wanted a night alone with her boyfriend!" He made a disgusted face. "With her track record this will be the only night I can go out!"
"In that case, lets party hard~" I grinned high-fiving him as the house came into view.
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"This bitch again?" I groaned watching the small woman perched on a street lamp like some kind of demented bird.
For the past three days, I've seen her running around clad in a old fashioned Japanese attire running around with a katana. Other people seemed to ignore her presence even though it's illegal to run around with a potentially deadly weapon.
"What? D-do you see something?!" Keigo panicked looking around fervently. "Is it a serial killer?! An asteroid like the one that killed the dinosaurs?!"
"Oi, cool your tits!" I barked turning his head to look at the chick on the light pole. "It's just some wacko pretending to be a vulture."
Keigo turned and looked at me in horror. "I don't see anything. Were you drugged?! Are you seeing demons?! Do you need an exorcist?! We can go ge-"
"Oi, oi, oi!" I covered his mouth with my hand muting his tirade, they're nearly impossible to stop. "You can't see her?"
He shook his head. I furrowed my eyebrows turning back to the strange woman, who was now removing her katana from its sheath. I frowned feeling a strange pressure bearing down on my entire body like I was being covered in cement.
"Kyurururururu!"
We both flinched at the sound. It was shrill and reverberated through your entire body. The cry was loud enough to trigger a car alarm and send the neighborhood dogs into a frenzy.
"Wh-what was that? Was it the bird woman?!" Keigo asked peering out from his hiding place behind my shoulder.
"You can't see that either?!" I shouted pointing at the creature the black haired woman was approaching. "It's a huge fucking monster! How can you not see that?!"
It was a large dark purple creature shaped like a gorilla with a distorted with a porcelain mask landed on a roof near the katana wielding lunatic letting out another shrill anguish filled cry.
I shifted uncomfortably feeling like I was in immense danger but I was way too interested in what was going to happen next.
The black haired woman fought off the monsters attacks with practiced ease. The creature swung it's thick arm at her and missed smashing it's fist into a building.
"An explosion? Was it a bomb?"
I frowned at Keigo. "You really don't see anything?"
"Nope."
"You should probably invest in some glasses.
Bird lady sliced it's arm of before gracefully twirling around and cutting it's mask in half. The creature let out a pitiful cry falling on top of a car before fading into the night.
"Karissa-chan?" Keigo shook my shoulder looking extremely distraught. "W-what's happening? Are you playing a practical joke on me?!"
"…Yes. Yes I am. It's your incitation into the wrestling club! Congratulations you passed!"
"Well, that's a rel- w-w-wait! What?! I don't want to join the wrestling club! Fail me!" He cried. "I'll die! Do you want me to die?! I thought we were friends?!"
I smirked slinging an arm around his shoulder noticing a transparent elderly man touching flowers in front of a barber shop.
"That's a ghost! A real mother fucking ghost!" I flinched when he swiveled around towards us touching a small section of chains on his chest.
"Oi, would I have brought you along if we weren't? Besides we only need you as a substitute."
I gripped Keigo's hand making him walk faster. I want get as far away from whatever hell we walked into as I can.
"Reeeeaaaally? Are we BFFs?!" He asked. "I'll be the coolest for having a girl best friend! It means I'm good with the ladies~"
"No!" The old man shrieked sprinting past us. " I don't want to go there! I'm not ready!"
I could feel the black haired woman coming up for behind us. When she was close, I lashed my foot out effectively tripping her. She executed a perfect tumble before flipping around and glaring at me.
"Oi, what the fuck is going on?!" I snapped at her.
"You really can see me." She stated bewildered while the elderly ghost gave me a thumbs up before disappearing.
"Could you stop being creepy?! I don't wanna be BFFs if you're gonna be weird all the time." Keigo whined tugging on my arm.
"Hold up a second will ya?" I told him. "I gotta figure something out."
"I don't have time for that, you little fool!" The woman barked blurring out then reappearing on a balcony railing. "His chain is about to disappear! Forget what you saw tonight."
"That little twat." I growled flipping the bird in her general direction. "The next time I see her I swear I'm going to give her a taste of these knuckles!"
"Ooooookaaaay~" Keigo drawled "Someone needs to start taking crazy pills."
"If you never mention this again I'll ask Kyoshi to take you on a double date."
"Deal!" Keigo glomped me bouncing in excitement. "Have I ever told you how awesome you are? I'll say it again. You're awesome and I love you!"
"I am the coolest person I know." I laughed.
"Chad!" Keigo yelled waving up at a balcony window with said man hanging out of it.
Chad was looking in the direction the woman left before smiling and waving down at us.
"You saw her too, didn't you?" I waved up at Chad.
"Quiet!" I hissed covering Keigo's mouth. "Somebody is going to call the cops if you keep yelling."
"I already did you little hood rats!" A woman shrieked from her front porch waving her for menacingly.
"Let's get the fuck out of here!"
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"Gooooooood morning, best frieeeend!" Keigo shouted barreling down the hall knocking books out of a few innocent bystanders hands.
Ichigo tripped him before he could reach his destination and yelled at him for not helping pick up the books he knocked out of peoples hands.
"Iiiiiichiiiiigoooooo~" Keigo shrieked trying to pull him into a hug only to be thrown back onto the floor.
"Listen Ichigo, I've got something really cool to tell you!"
"Not interested."
"You're soooo meeeaaan!" Keigo whined until Tatsuki showed up punching him in the head to make him stop.
"Good morning everyone!" Orihime chirped with a wide smile. Everyone chorused a good morning as we waited in front of our classroom.
"Kurosaki-Kun, you've got dirt on your shirt."
Ichigo brushed off the dust. "That must have be from the office accident this morning."
"Huh? What office accident?" Tatsuki asked checking Ichigo over for wounds much to his consternation.
"You haven't heard?" Mizuiro asked looking up from his cellphone. "There has been a couple of unexplained explosions since last night."
"We saw one last night!" Keigo boasted hanging off my shoulder not even noticing my elbow jabbing into his ribs. "Walking home from an awesome party!"
"Ehhh?" Chizuru blinked before pouting at me. "You took Keigo to a party but not me? That's too cruel, my Yankee Doodle Dandy."
"Oi, What the fuck? Don't call me that!" I grimaced slapping away her grabby hands. "And it wasn't even that cool."
"Hey, she's my BFF!" Keigo shouted indignantly. "Only I am-"
"I saw it too." Chad said quietly bring us back to the topic at hand. Chad gave me a meaningful look. "It was an old house. The owner refused to get it re-shingled with the heavy rains recently it collapsed."
"I wonder if he has any idea what she is. What It was." My eyes widened slightly. "Maybe she's only noticeable to foreigners? No. that's fucking stupid. Unless…it's a government cover up!"
"That makes sense." Ichigo nodded following our sensei into class. "The offices were old too."
"Old my ass." I grumbled crossing my arms and slumping into my seat. "It was a mother fucking Kaiju."
I glanced at Ichigo. "I wonder if he saw It too."
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"I'll be back later, Pops." I said kissing him on the cheek. "I'm going jogging. I gotta make weight for the next tournament."
"Alright. Be careful out there."
"Sure thing!"
I sprinted out the door trying to follow the sensation that those creatures and that woman bring out in me. I was going to get to the bottom of this no matter what.
I listened for the screams of the monster and followed the increasing sense of impending doom. Growing more and more alarmed, realizing the creature was close to Ichigo's home.
Turning down his street I spotted the girl laying on the ground covered in blood being shielded by Ichigo from the shrieking
"It's not 'Shinigami'. It's Rukia. Kuchiki Rukia."
"Give me your sword Shinigami! Let's give your idea a try!"
Rukia lifted her sword, Ichigo gripped it before pulling it into his chest. My jaw dropped.
Why the hell would Ichigo commit seppuku in the middle of the street? How is stabbing himself going to help solve anything?
"Ichigo!" I shouted stunned as he took on the same attire as the woman and even managed to get his hand on a massive sword. "What the fuck?"
"Karissa!" He yelped after cutting off the monsters arm. "Take Rukia and get out of here! It's not safe!"
"Don't look away from the monster until you kill it, dumbass!" I barked watching the creature take a swing at him.
"It's a Hollow."
"Oh. Thanks that really clears things up!" I snapped sarcastically noticing how stunned she was by Ichigo.
"It's an evil spirit. They are drawn to souls with high spiritual concentration." She turned to look at me. "Like him. Like you."
"Fucking peachy." I sighed wondering what the Ka-bar knife hidden in my jacket pocket could do against something like that.
Ichigo somehow managed to destroy the creature. Not surprising, considering he has a sword that would make Cloud's look like a letter opener.
"I can't believe it."
"He has a huge sword. It shouldn't be too difficult to hack something in half with it." I shrugged .
"He had it for a whole three minutes!" She argued. "He shouldn't have been able to defeat the Hollow that easily."
"He took kendo as a kid."
"Yo Karissa!" Ichigo seemed to be in a better mood then he was this morning. "What are you doing here?"
"You're really nonchalant for someone who just committed suicide in the middle of the street to fight a monster."
"Eh? Suicide?" Ichigo blinked touching where they had stabbed him. "I didn't com…" Ichigo trailed off before fainting into my arms.
"Oi…"
"He's lost a lot of Reiatsu." Rukia said standing up shakily coming over to help me carry Ichigo back into his house. "He's not dead either. He just borrowed my Shinigami powers. Why are you here?"
"I was hunting you." I shrugged feeling incredibly off about this situation. I don't believe it's going to work out the way they planned. "I wanted answers. I got some then gained more so you better start talking."
We managed to place Ichigo on the couch. She began to work on his injuries while I went to grab his sisters, Yuzu and Karin. They weren't too badly injured.
Rukia had Ichigo wounds bound up by the time I brought the girls inside. She work on them while I went to help Isshin. His eyes snapped open and he held his finger to his lips before I could yell in surprise.
"Why are you faking injuries?" I mouthed at him. "That's not suspicious at all."
He just smirked and shook his head watching Rukia carefully. I motioned for him to play dead again, he did.
"This shit it getting more complex by the second."
"You can care the girls up to their room. I'll get him." I gestured to Isshin, she nodded picking up both girls up with ease despite being close to their size.
Isshin stood up when she disappeared down the hall and helped me carry Ichigo into his room.
"Thank you." He said quietly giving me a brilliant smile. "Don't mention this to Ichigo please."
"Sure…"
"And please look after him."
I blinked in confusion. "Will do…?"
He pat the top of my head gently before sneaking into his own room moments before Rukia walked into Ichigo's room.
"You got both of them up that quickly?" She asked stunned.
"Of course." I smirked at her. "I am the magnificent Karissa Evans and you better start flapping those gums before I shake the answers out of ya."
"You think you can intimidate a Shinigami?"
"Death god or not. I have the upper hand here."
We stared each other down for a couple of moments before she sighed and gave in. "I'm going to be in so much trouble."
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I started to jog back home thinking about everything that Rukia told me. Hollows being evil spirits out to consume souls. Shinigami were there to banish the Hollow and purify their souls and also to ghosts to the other side. She was a part of squad thirteen. There was thirteen other divisions all living in a place called the Seireitei or Soul Society.
She told me about humans normally being unable to see them and the katanas were known as Zanpakutou's. Ichigos was abnormally large. That's where I made a 'that's what she said' joke then had to explain it to her for a good hour.
Rukia advised me to be careful since my Reiatsu was high enough to attract a Hollow and she wouldn't be able to rescue me. The nerve of that woman.
I learned that sensations and pressure I was following was actually Reiatsu and I seemed to be hypersensitive to it. I shouldn't have been able to find her so easily.
"What have I got my self caught up in this time?"
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"Yes~" Chizuru purred. "This class gets all the eye candy a girl could ask for!"
"I'm with you on that one~" Keigo sighed dreamily. "Do you think she'll let me show her around the school."
I looked up and burst into laughter at the horrified look on Ichigo's face as Rukia walked to the front of the classroom and introduced herself as the new student.
"Good luck with that one." I grinned deciding that today was going to be interesting.
I glanced at Chad while the other introduced themselves to Rukia and questioned how she knew Ichigo. Chad nodded at me. Confirming that he managed to see Rukia that night as well.
"Is he in danger?" I wondered tuning out the teachers lecture on Japanese History. "Chad wouldn't hurt a fly. He won't even fight back for himself. What would happen if a Hollow went after him?"
"Evans!" I snapped back into attention. "I asked you a question!"
"I probably don't know the answer."
A couple of students giggled earning a glare from the teacher.
"Since you don't want to listen, why don't you just wait outside for Okumura-sensei."
"Crap. Detention again."
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"This way." Rukia said grasping my wrist with her free hand. Her other hand was occupied my a grumbling orange haired boy.
"Where are we going?"
"That's not the problem!" Ichigo barked "The problem is what the hell do you think you are doing here?!"
"Oh my, you are scary." She laughed unfazed by Ichigo's infamous scowl. "Whatever is the matter?"
"Oi. Use normal Japanese!" I barked hardly making out her formal, Feudal styled words.
"Oh? Do you not think it is good considering I learned it overnight?" I flicked her forehead.
"Enough!" Ichigo snapped pointing angrily at Rukia. "Why are you still here? I thought you were going back to that soul society place?"
"Fool, only Shinigami can go back there" Rukia suddenly got serious narrowing her eyes at Ichigo before sighing sadly. "I can't go back in my current state."
"Wait. What happened to your powers?"
"Instead of borrowing he stole my power." I cheered on the inside realizing my hunch was right.
"It's not like I meant too…" Ichigo grumbled indignantly.
"Thanks to you, I have to rely on this Gigai" I tilted my head to the side.
"What does a gay guy have to do with anything?" Rukia looked at me dumbfounded, Ichigo just laughed.
"Gigai." she repeated
"Gay guy?" She slapped her forehead.
"What's a Gigai anyway?" Ichigo laughed looking at me.
"An artificial body used for emergencies. Disempowered Shinigami inhabit one of these until their power return." I furrowed my eyebrows wishing that my Japanese was a little bit better or Rukia would stop talking in old tongues.
"So that's why our classmates were able to see you" Rukia nodded
"Anyhow, until I regain my powers, you have to do the work of a Shinigami" Ichigo shook his head furiously.
"What's the problem? You have the powers of a Shinigami now. You can not refuse because -"
"I refuse!" Ichigo made an X with his hands glaring at her. I snickered at their faces.
"Excuse me?"
"Tell Karissa! I don't want to face anymore of those monsters!"
"Oi! Don't get me involved with this!" Ichigo turned to glare at me.
"What's the matter? You like fighting!" I returned his glare.
"Yeah, humans not monsters I can barely see! I'm not suicidal, ya know!" Lightning cracked between our heated glares.
"Karissa's not the one who stole my powers! So it's up to you!" Rukia intervened. Ichigo glared at her for a second.
"You successfully fought one off yesterday!" Rukia pointed out.
Ichigo calmed down but the idea of me fighting off monsters suddenly sounded good to me. It's not that I want to be a hero or anything lame like that, I would just mean more practice for me which would make me a better ass kicker!
"Only because my family was in danger. Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not fighting monsters for complete strangers" Ichigo crossed his arms a hint of finality in his voice.
"This is why I brought you. Please keep an eye on him." Rukia smiled at me while shoving a red glove on her hand.
"What?"
Lightning quick she slammed her palm into Ichigo's face forcing his soul out of his body which once again fell into my arms.
"Oi, what exactly do you want me to do with that?" I asked setting the soulless body on the ground. Not feeling a soul in there was giving me the creeps.
"Ahh, my body! Be careful with it!" He yelled pointing at it in terror before directing his finger to Rukia. "What the hell did you do?"
"Come on" Ichigo grumbled something about her being a bitch and trekked after her.
"What the fuck am I supposed to do now?"
"Evans! I've been looking for you everywhere!" I flinched hearing the very angry voice of my wrestling coach.
"Sensei!" A girl shrieked. "Evans killed Kurosaki!"
"God dammit."
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"Keep running Evans~" I scowled at Akuma, the head of the wrestling team, while running back up the set of bleachers. "I don't want to baby sit you all night."
"Hey don't get huffy with me I'm not the one who knocks out my friends for fun." He laughed. I flipped him off which just made him laugh harder.
"Another Hollow?" I shook my head ignoring the fact the their was three pressures near the Hollows location. "Is the third person Chad?"
"Did you hear? Sakuya is opening her gym up to us."
"No way." I grinned.
Sakuya is the mother of Fuzen, another member of the wrestling team, and an owner of elite wrestling and MMA training gym. The whole family take the sport extremely seriously.
She also happened to be the wife of our everyday gym teacher and detention monitor.
"Yep! It's exciting isn't it?" Akuma cheered running a hand through his short brown hair. "I heard they trained Rumina Sato!"
I motioned for him to continue talking to distract me from a fight that was lasting too long between Ichigo and a Hollow and the weird pulling that's trying to drag me to Rukia.
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Rocket Raccoon is a super hero from Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. He's literally a raccoon.
Trogdor is an internet meme? I'm not sure what you'd label it as but you can got to you tube watch?v=7gz1DIIxmEE . Or type Trogdor in google. Whatever floats your boat.
Rumina Sato is a lightwieght MMA fighter. Is known as a submission master.