Bleach and all the characters in this content belong to Tite Kubo. I do not claim anything except for Ren, Shu, and Katsuya which are my OC.
This is my first fan-fiction, so please go easy on me.
An Unexpected Turnout: Chapter 1
He was looking out the window, watching everything that was happening outside of the small classroom. It was the last day of school, so who cares what the teacher has to say? The only interesting thing that was happening outside was the leaves falling and cars passing by ever so slowly.
"And that's what happened!" Miss. Ochi said with a smile. She looked up at the clock for a second and back at the students. "Well we have about 10 minutes until the bell rings so do whatever you want." The class looked at her puzzled, but then got out of their chairs and started talking to one another. Ichigo was still looking out the window.
"ICHIGOOOOOOO!" Keigo yelled dancing over to Ichigo. He jumped, looking at Keigo like he was crazy. "Wow, I actually scared you. HA! Ichigo gets- ACK!" Ichigo slapped him with his bag standing up, sending Keigo back a few steps holding his head.
"What the hell?" Ichigo growled.
"AH! Why'd you hit me?" Keigo screamed. Ichigo just looked at him with a blank stare. Keigo recovered and walked over to Ichigo normally, being cautious of his bag, still in hand. "So! What's your summer plans?"
"I don't know. I've got nothing planned right now."
"Hey Ichigo!" Mizurio called to him.
"What's up?" Ichigo asked, "Any far away trip with your girlfriend this summer?"
"Well, we're going to the Bahamas! Her, her friends and I. I have a vacation home there so we'll all stay there. It was a gift from my grandfather; surprisingly it has a lot of rooms so I go there often with my relatives. It's a first with my girlfriend though." He smiled.
"Oh, well that sounds—"
"WHAT?" Keigo interrupted. "You didn't invite me to this? How many times are you going to leave me out Mizurio?" Mizurio looked at Keigo and smiled.
"I didn't forget you; I'm inviting you this time. One of my girlfriend's friends has had their eye on you."
"FINALLY! Her eyes on me? Thank you Mizurio!" Keigo pranced around the room cheerfully leaving the two alone. Ichigo and Mizurio watched for a while, then the bell rang.
"Well I'll see you all after vacation is over! Have a good one and don't forget about your assignments!" Miss. Ochi called as everyone stormed out of the room. Ichigo and Mizurio walked out behind everyone, seeing Orihime, Tatsuki, and Chad walking down the hall. Mizurio ran to them waving, telling them to wait for him. Ichigo hung back, looking around the hall.
"Shouldn't you be with them?" A familiar voice asked from behind his back. He kept walking but turned his head a bit to one side and looked out of the corner of his eye. It was Uryu.
"I guess, but I'm not really in the mood to talk right now." Ichigo answered. Uryu pushed his glasses up on his face and spoke.
"Oh, interesting," He said walking by Ichigo now. There was an awkward silence for a moment or two. Ichigo looked at him for a few seconds, earning him a stare from Uryu. "What? I'm not really curious about why you're not in the mood for talking. So I'm not asking, if that's what you're thinking."
"O…kay…So, what's your plans for this summer?" Ichigo said, changing the subject.
"Well, all I know is that I'm probably going to be training," he said. Orihime, Tatsuki, Mizurio, and Chad were rounding the corner up ahead. "And kill all the hollows your too slow to kill." Ichigo twitched at the answer. Uryu turned his head, pushing his glasses up on his face again smiling a bit.
"Well, that's some nice plans you got there," Ichigo groaned. They both were approaching the corner now. When they turned it, the others were out of sight.
"You?" Uryu said, throwing the question right back at him.
Ichigo really didn't want to talk to Uyru at the moment. He thought by saying he wasn't in the mood would get rid of him, but Uryu didn't take the hint. It was either Uryu was to slow to get it or got the idea but stayed, and kept talking to Ichigo just to annoy him. He was going to just tell him straight up, but this was one of the rare times Uryu actually started a conversation with him, so he allowed it for now, even though he really didn't want to.
"Nothing that I know of, protect the town from hollows..." he replied. "Not unless something random happens like the last summer vacation and I have to go away on "business" again."
After Ichigo received his soul reaper powers from Rukia, he had to go to the Soul Society to get her back before her execution. Since last summer, he hasn't had a break from going too far off places, missing school a lot. Kon would replace him, but his soul wasn't in his body. Who knows what will happen this summer.
Ichigo and Uryu were now outside in the school yard, keeping a steady pace toward the road.
"Mm, well if that happens, I'll have to step in and take over your duties; but I'll do them better." He remarked. They were both at the street now, standing.
"Heh, well I'll be sure that doesn't happen," Ichigo said.
"Right… well, I guess I'll see you." Uryu said turning right out of the school yard.
"Yup…" Ichigo watched him walk away toward his home. After he was out of sight, he turned the opposite direction and made his way to his house.
...
Above the park in Karakura Town, a Senkaimon opened. Smoke came out of the door way and faded. A few moments later, a shadowy figure stepped out of the doorway. It walked about a yard away from the doors as they closed. It stepped into the sunlight, revealing the details on him. He had straight dark brown hair that came to his shoulders. He wore black rimmed glasses that were narrow and had a chain attached to them. His clothes were that of a soul reapers, except his uniform, which had a captain's haori, or what looked like one, wrapped around his waist. It didn't have any specific pattern on it. Just lines going around the bottom of the piece of clothing. His sword was hanging from his back. It looked like a regular kantana. This tall man was holding a black box with bone like accessories under his left arm. It looked somewhat like a gift box, except it had no wrapping paper on it, and there wasn't a bow on the top of the box.
The man looked around for a second, taking in the scenery, and took a deep breath.
"Well well," he smirked, "looks like I'm in the right place." He lowered himself from the sky and landed next to a park bench on a trail. There were a bunch of trees around the trail, making it hard to see with so little light shining in from the small spaces between the leaves rustling in the afternoon breeze. He walked down the trail, noticing it was getting darker with each step. He saw a light approaching, meaning that he was getting closer to an open area; possibly an open field. He observed the area around him after going into the light, shifting the box from under his left arm to his right and then held it down on his right side. He saw more benches, circling the open space. He picked one all the way on the other side of the field, taking a seat. He sat the box beside him and folded his legs and laid his back on the back of the bench. He folded his arms behind his head and closed his eyes. He sat there for a minute breathing in deeply and letting out a big sigh. One of his eyes opened lazily.
"I hope you don't disappoint me, Ichigo…..Kurosaki," He said snapping his finger once, smirking and closing his opened eye as slow as he opened it, chuckling a bit. The chuckle ended with a soft outward breathe.
The air started to fog up around the area. A figure appeared in the fog, opening and closing after letting out a bigger figure. The fog thickened as the creature gave off a frustrated howl. The wind started to blow and then stopped, clearing the fog.
...
Ichigo walked up to his front door step, getting the keys to unlock the door. He got a quick glance at his watch to see that it was already 5:00p.m.
What took him so long to get here? He walked at a normal pace. And the route he always takes is the fastest route home. It shouldn't have taken him over an hour to get here.
He held off on opening the door to figure out why he was so late. Thinking back to his normal route, he remembered turning around for some reason. He scratched his head and thought harder.
...
The cars were turning the corner rather quickly to get out of the area as fast as possible. It was building up traffic, making Ichigo unable to cross the street.
What's going on? He thought. Usually, when he was coming home from school, there were little to no cars at the intersection. If there were some, Ichigo would dash across the street before they came, nearly getting ran over in the process if the driver either didn't see him or wanted to run some kids over that day. Overall, there really shouldn't be this many cars over here.
He got curious and walked down the side walk where the cars were coming from. A few steps down, he heard metal clanking on something. A trashcan maybe? Who knows, but Ichigo was going to find out. When he reached the end of the street, he noticed the cars had stopped coming. Also he heard some talking.
"Ugh! Where's that damn kid?" A rough voice said.
"He's not on this street dude! You screwed up again!" Another voice came. There was a loud banging noise and shouting between the men.
"Crap!" The man yelled.
"It's the other corner! We needa go there before we miss him." A different more nervous voice said.
What the… Oh! Ichigo remembered those voices. He had chased off some men a few weeks ago for tagging the wall where a spirit girl stayed. He beat the thugs and made them clean the wall up. Ichigo stayed there and made sure they did too. They were back for revenge on him now.
Ichigo sighed. Suddenly he heard footsteps, they were faint, but he heard some. He heard someone saying something with a commanding voice and the footsteps quickened. They were coming. Ichigo thought for a second knowing this. He started moving back to his street corner, the traffic not there anymore, getting a smirk on his face. He looked back around the corner of the wall to see if the thugs were coming and dug in his bag for something. Then he pulled out a doll.
"AH! Fresh air! Finally!" The stuffed lion gasped. Ichigo held him by his head, poking him to get his attention. "What?" He said.
"Hey, I got an idea, and unfortunately I need your help." He said looking a bit serious.
"Oh?" Kon raised his brows. "Seeming that you never ask me for help, besides watching your sisters, this is a shock."
"Yea, so? Are you going to help me or not?"
"Depending on what's up." Ichigo pulled Kon closer so he could whisper in his ear. He looked a bit pleased with what Ichigo was saying, and agreed.
A few moments later, the men from down the street appeared. There were three of them. One was holding a metal rod. That was probably the object that was making that noise earlier. The other two were holding spray paint cans.
"KUROSAKI!" The guy with the rough voice holding the metal rod said. The orange haired teen was leaning on the wall, looking up at the man with the rod.
"Oh, your back." He said, standing up straight.
"Yea, with pay back." The guy said. He tapped the rod in his left hand, holding it in his right, making sure he saw it.
"Oh really? And I suppose you're going to beat me with that?"
"You sound rather confident Kurosaki." He looked at the other men behind the guy who was talking and looked back at him.
"Hmph." The men started getting angrier. "Listen, I got stuff to do, so let's make this quick."
"You think you're so tough? I won't get beaten by you a second time." The young teen looked off for a moment, nodding, and refocused on the task at hand.
"Tell you what, I'll give you a handy cap," He reasoned. "I won't move from this spot, and you can hit me where ever you want, if you can." The thug scoffed, holding the rod tighter in his hand.
"Tch! I don't need a handy cap, but hey, it's your funeral." The guy dashed over to the defenseless teen. Suddenly, getting hit by something. "AH!" He started receiving invisible punches, getting knocked to the ground then thrown into the two men with the spray bottles. They looked at him with wide eyes realizing that he hadn't moved at all. "Wha-what the hell?" They moved back, scrambling to their feet. The other men received a few punches or kicks as well. "Ok, Ok we give!" They said in a desperate voice.
"Good," He said,"now get out of here before I kick your ass up and down the street!" The men screamed running away, dropping their objects.
"Heh, straightened them out." A voice said from behind.
"Yo, Ichigo!" Ichigo stood behind Kon in soul reaper form.
"That should do it," He said getting his badge from his pocket.
"Most exciting thing I've done all week," Kon smiled.
"Yea I'm glad you had fun, not get outta my body."
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He unlocked the door, remembering his conflict on the way home. If he told his dad that for an excuse for not being on time, most likely he wouldn't believe him or he'd just jump on him like every time he's late getting home. Either way, he had to be prepared for what's on the other side of the door waiting for him.
Ichigo opened the front door a bit, to peek inside to see if there were any surprise attacks waiting for him. Seeing that it was safe, he walked inside. So far so good. He closed the door ever so quietly and tip toed up the stairs to his room. He noticed that Yuzu and Karin were in the kitchen, Yuzu cooking and Karin just sitting at the table. No Isshin. Was he at work? Ichigo looked back down the stairs to make sure he wasn't creeping up behind him. Big mistake. Suddenly, Ichigo feels something kick his side, and gets knocked back down the stairs by some feet. He looked up furiously at the top of the stairs.
"Where have you been? You're late! Just because it's the last day of school, doesn't mean you can lollygag, and not come home on time!" Isshin yelled.
"Ah shut up! It wasn't my fault I couldn't get home on time! There was traffic."
"So? Traffic doesn't make you this late!" Isshin jumped down the stairs and started to pick Ichigo up to throw him. Ichigo kicked him in the stomach trying to get a loose from his grasp. He dropped to his feet, unhurt for the most part. Isshin, however, hit the stairs on his back.
"You two stop fighting! Ichigo just got home so the least you could do is hold off on that!" Yuzu said, peeking around the corner.
"Fine." Isshin agreed, getting off the floor. Ichigo just walked up the stairs without a word, holding his side where his dad kicked him. Yuzu went back in the kitchen and her dad followed, interested in what she was making for dinner.
Ichigo went into his room, closing his door behind him. He threw his bag on the floor beside his bed, making Kon fly out.
"Hey!" He barked.
"Sorry," Ichigo apologized, shrugging. He plopped himself on his bed, face down and laid there for a minute. Then he flipped over putting his hands behind his head, bored. Kon climbed up on his bed and sat beside his pillow.
"Ugh, I'm so bored! Why can't we go out to see some ladies or something? I haven't seen a real woman in ages!" Kon whined.
"Shut up! What you would do to them would be illegal."
"You don't know that!"
"And I don't want to either." They sat in silence for a while. Ichigo took his badge out of his pocket, looking at it. He never really did pay attention to the details on it. He just shoved it into his chest, or Kon's head and either forget about it or just drop it where he was at, at the moment. It wasn't that interesting to look at though, so he put it on his desk beside his bed.
"I hate to admit it, but I kind of wish something "super natural" would happen." Ichigo said sitting up.
"Be careful what you wish for." Kon said. After saying that, there was a howl coming from inside Ichigo's room. It was his soul reaper badge, flashing and making a whole lot of noise. Kon jumped and Ichigo grabbed it to try and shut it up.
"Yea, Yea I get it! Shut up damn it!" Ichigo shoved it on his chest and popped out of his body, turning into a soul reaper. He looked at his body and then at Kon. He grabbed him and took his pill out of the plush toy and put it in his body regretfully. "Watch my family Kon, and don't do anything illegal while I'm out!" Ichigo said opening the window.
"Yup! You bet," Kon smiled waving to Ichigo. Ichigo jumped out the window and bounced off to find the hollow.
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