Chapter 1

"I'm home!" Ichigo called out.

"Oh, hello, Ichigo."

The teen looked over to his right and saw his dad's secretary sitting at the small front desk to the clinic. "Peri, I thought today was your day off?" Ichigo asked.

"It was, but your dad had to rush out for an emergency."

"So that's why you left school early today."

The young girl nodded before pushing the glasses further up on the bridge of her nose. "Yeah, he should be back soon though. He asked me to man the fort."

"Have we been busy?" Ichigo asked.

"Not so much…" Peri said, scribbling something down on a piece of paper. "How are you feeling, Ichigo?"

"Huh?"

"Are you feeling better?"

"I feel fine, why do you ask?"

"You've been out of it the past few days."

Ichigo's eyes slightly narrowed at the girl who was still writing. "How so?"

Peri shrugged. "Spacing out, paranoid, twitching from time to time, looking around as if something is following you, sweating… You were having similar experiences back in Freshman year." Peri glanced up at Ichigo. "Have I missed anything else?"

"You know, you're scary with how observant you are sometimes."

The teen smirked. "That's my job!"

Something beeped in Ichigo's pocket and he cursed. "I'll be back, Peri. Something I have to take care of."

"Have fun," she called after him, filing something.

Isshin came home twenty minutes later, relieving Peri from work. "Sorry about calling you in at the last second like that," he apologized.

"Not a problem."

"Have you seen Ichigo?"

"He left about twenty minutes ago cursing about something he had to take care of."

Isshin sighed. "Thanks, Peri."

"No problem, Mr. Kurosaki. I'll see you later."

Peri walked down the street towards her home. The streets were really empty, which was odd at this time of day. The teen looked up at the sky, which was beginning to cloud over. Only one thing could force human nature to kick in and tell them it's not safe out here.

Something came skidding around the corner. Peri's eyes flickered towards the approaching figure, but then glanced back up at the sky. The person in black ran past before she heard them skidding to a halt. "Peri?" the person called out.

Ichigo.

The girl ignored him, and continued to walk forward. A roar filled the air as a Hollow came around the corner of the building. It was huge. "Peri!" Ichigo yelled, rushing forward as the young woman continued to approach the oncoming Hollow. The monster's eyes landed on her walking figure and roared, approaching. "Get away from there!" the teen yelled, even though he knew she couldn't hear him.

Peri lowered her head from the sky, seeing the Hollow in front of her. The Hollow roared again and Peri glared menacingly at the Hollow. It froze in mid-advance before it was sliced right up the middle by an invisible force. The creature fell to the ground and disappeared. The girl, not even stopping once, continued her walk as if nothing had happened.

Ichigo stood in the middle of the street, confused. What had happened to the Hollow? He looked around, searching for Spiritual Pressure, but he found nothing. "What was that?" Ichigo asked himself out loud.

"I'm home!" Peri called into the shop as she removed her shoes.

"Oh, welcome home Miss. Peri," Tessai greeted her. "How was school?"

"Short. Isshin needed me at the last minute over at the clinic, so I missed out on two classes due to that. Is Urahara around?"

"He's downstairs with Miss. Yoruichi."

Peri opened up the cover to the underground training room and began to climb down the ladder. There was a large explosion below. The girl walked to the edge of the cliff that over looked the area, finding Urahara and Yoruichi a few feet away sparing.

"Oh, hello Peri," Urahara said when he noticed the young woman.

"Don't let your guard down," Yoruichi cheered as she came down from the sky and slammed the shopkeeper into the ground face first. "How have you been?"

"Good. I need you guys to look at something for me."

Urahara got up and the conversation turned serious. "Is it bothering you?" She nodded. "Let's go up to my lab and see what we can do."

Peri laid chest down on a table, chin resting on her overlapped hands. She had removed the shirt, leaving her upper body in only a bra. A large black tattoo that stretched from the shoulders down to the tailbone was clearly visible.

"Alright," Urahara said, pulling on his gloves. "Let's see what the problem is." He began to examine and test the tattoo on the skin before taking two electric pads and slicking them at the base of her shoulder blades. "You just need a little bit of Spiritual Pressure…"

"That's not all, is it?" Peri asked.

The man sighed. "No, we're going to need to extend the tattoo."

"Great," she grumbled.

A slight tingle went through her body as Pressure pulsed though it. Once done Urahara got out his supplies and began to ink her skin once again. Peri grunted when he hit a sensitive spot.

"You okay?" the ex-Captain asked as he blotted in the black outline.

"Just get on with it," she grumbled.

When Urahara was done he placed a bandage over the new addition to the tattoo. "Boss, someone here to see you," Tessai said.

"I'll be right there. Hungry?"

"Like you have no idea," the girl answered, balling up the shirt in hand.

"I'll tell Tessai to start making dinner."

"It's okay. I was about to head home, anyway."

Urahara left the room and Peri followed close behind. "Ichigo, what can I do for you?" Peri heard the shop owner speak.

"Cut the act, Urahara, I need some help."

"Well, I'm kind of busy right now."

"What do you-?"

The young woman was walking down the hall past the open door. Ichigo's cheeks turned red at seeing the girl in her bra. She lazily looked over at him before smiling. "Hi, Ichigo," the assistant greeted, leaning in the doorway.

"Urahara, what the hell?" Ichigo yelled.

The man smirked behind his fan, knowing he could really have some fun with this. "Why Ichigo, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter? There's a half naked girl in your house whose half your age!"

"What do you think we were doing?"

Ichigo's face turned red in embarrassment. Peri tried to hold back a laugh as she slowly pulled on the shirt. Her back was still stinging from the tattoo. "Relax, Ichigo, we didn't do anything," the girl stated. "I was helping Yoruichi in the back with something."

"You know these people?" the teen asked, his face returning to its normal color.

"Yeah, I work here part time when I don't work for your dad."

"Why?"

"I need to make money some way if I'm living on my own." Peri then walked towards the two men. "I'm going, see you guys later."

She disappeared down the street.

A/N: I don't own anything

I found this on Quotev and really liked it, so I decided to upload it here. Hope you like it just as much. Anyway, I own nothing and all the credits go to Animemadness10.