Chapter 1

"Don't touch me!" Ichigo screamed as he tried to kick nemu away from him. She hooked one of her arms around his legs and used the other to press a sharp drill to his throat.

"If you keep moving like that you'll further complicate your fracture." Mayuri said as he calmly stepped over to Ichigo and crouched down to get a better look at his arm. Ichigo tired to pull away but he wasn't strong enough to fight Nemu off of him.

'when I find Renji I'm gonna kick his ass." Ichigo thought as he continued to curse Renji in his mind. if it wasn't for that pineapple headed idiot he wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. If Renji wouldn't have insisted that they race back to 6th squad from rukongai then he wouldn't have run in Mayuri and Nemu, and he wouldn't have broken his arm when Nemu knocked him from the top branch of a tree and he went crashing down to the ground as if he weight a thousand pounds. Before he could get up and run away Nemu was already on top of him holding him down; his escape route was ruined and now he was going to be torn apart and turned into a test subject.

"Whoa! What is that!?" Ichigo asked as he started at a syringe full of a glowing green liquid that Mayuri had in his hand. He did know what it was, but whatever it is it didn't look like something that you wanted to do inside your body.

"Calm down, it's only pan medication." Mayuri scoffed. Ichigo struggle to get away from Nemu with no success; All he could do was watch as Mayuri pushed the needle into Ichigo's broken arm and emptied the contents into his body. it only took a second before Ichigo started feeling the effects of the so called medicine.

His entire body started to get hot and he started to sweat. The only thing that the medicine did was make him even more uncomfortable than he already was.

"What the hell kind of medicine is this?" Ichigo asked barely able to speak.

"With you temperature so high you don't even notice the pain from your arm, now do you?" Mayuri asked with a small laugh. Mayuri turned his attention from Ichigo and went to work trying to find something that was hidden among all the clothing he had no.

"I swear….when this is over….I'm gonna…kick." That was all Ichigo could manage before the pain in his arm and the fever he had acquired from Mayuri's medicine had knocked him out cold.

When he awoke he wasn't in the woods anymore. He knew this because the woods weren't so brightly lite, and they didn't smell as good as this place did. Ichigo sat up and waited for his eyes to adjust to the change in light before he tried to go anywhere.

"Where the hell am I?" Ichigo asked as he looked around the extremely white room he was now in.

"You're in the 4th squad barracks." said a calm voice from across the room, he looked over to see Unohana walking into the room with a handful of bandages.

"How did I get here?" he asked.

"Renji went back and found you in quiet a predicament. He said he waited for you at the gate and you never came so he went to look for you. That's when he found you passed out on the ground with Mayuri crouched over you. Renji was able to stop him before he used what looked like an elaborate scalping tool on you." She replied as she walked over to him and stood next to his bed. She placed the bandages down on the bed before she started to undo the ones around his broken arm.

"Can I go home after this, I told my dad that I would only be gone a few hours and I would be back in time for dinner." He said searching the room for a clock but finding only bar wall all the way around.

"I see no problem with that, after I get this hard cast on you you're free to go." She replied with a smile.

He watched silently as Unohana wrapped his arm in another cast that went all the way up to his elbow.

"Alright, you're all set and ready to go." Unohana said as she finally finished the cast and stepped away from Ichigo to give him room to stand from the bed.

"Thank you Unohana," Ichigo said as he headed towards the door.

"You need to come back in two weeks so I can look at your arm again." Unohana said as she watched Ichigo leave the room in a rush.

Ichigo was so eager to get home that he didn't even go by to tell his friends that he was leaving. He went straight home and he didn't stop for anything.

"Hey dad I'm home!" Ichigo yelled as he walked through his front door. it was well past dinner time when he got there so everyone was already at the table eating.

"Hey Ichigo, what happened to your arm?" Karin asked as she watched her brother take a seat at the table beside their father.

"Had a little accident while I was in the soul society, nothing big." Ichigo replied as he grabbed his fork and started eating. His food had already gotten cold but he didn't care. He was way too hungry to even think about stopping to warm it in the microwave.

"Ichigo are you sure you're okay?" Yuzu asked as she watched her brother shoveling food into his mouth like he was an animal. He looked up at her and shook his head 'yes' before turning his attention back to the plate in front of him.

There was suddenly a small tickling feeling in the back of his throat making him caught violently. He covered his mouth to prevent himself from spitting chewed food all over the table and his sisters. After the coughing fit had subsided he swallowed the mouthful of food and reached out for his water.

"You shouldn't eat so fast, you could choke on your food." Isshin said. Ichigo rolled his eyes at the fact that his little tidbit of advice was giving far too late for actual use. Before he could pick up his fork to eat again he was coughing some more.

"onii-chan, are you okay?" Yuzu asked in a soft voice, a look of concern plastered across her face.

"Yeah, I think I might be coming down with a cold or something." he said as he raised his hand to scratch his now itching chest.

'What the hell is going on?" Ichigo thought as he reached for his water again. He brought the glass to his lips and took a sip hoping that it would sooth is burning throat.

"Do you want some medicine?" Yuzu asked.

"Nah, I don't think I can eat anymore though." He said pushing his plate away from him. He backed his chair away from the table and went around the table to hug both of his sisters goodnight.

"You sure you're alright?" Karin asked.

"Yeah, I just had a really busy day. I think I just need to catch up on some sleep." Ichigo replied raising his hand to scratch his chest again.

"Alright…..goodnight Ichigo." She said as she stood from her chair and began collecting empty dishes from the table and going to the kitchen with them. Ichigo nodded before going upstairs. He walked into his room and sprawled out on the bed, he didn't even bother to change into his pajamas before he got into bed. He was too tired to do anything else.

The next morning he was awakened by a soft tickling feeling on his nose like someone was rubbing his nose with a feather. Ichigo rolled out of bed and went over to his closet. He grabbed his school uniform then walked into the bathroom. He dragged his feet on the floor not noticing that his pants were dragging on the floor in a way that they've never done before. He walked into the bathroom and flicked on the light, passed the mirror and went directly to the toilet. He lifted the lid and undid his belt buckle.

Karin

A loud screamed ripped through the silence of the morning snapping me out of my dream. I rolled out of bed and quickly untangled myself from my bed sheet and ran for the door. it sounded like Yuzu had screamed but when I saw her running up to the bathroom door from the other direction I didn't know what to think.

"Yuzu, that wasn't you screaming?" I asked as we both skidded to a stop in front of the bathroom door.

"No. I thought it was you." She said. Goat face finally entered the hallway and trotted over to us as just as late as he always was.

"What happened? Are you girls okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, we're fine." Yuzu said but I was sure that I heard a scream. I went down the hallway to Ichigo's room and pushed the door open. The room was empty. Ichigo was standing in the hallway so that had to mean that he was in the bathroom. I walked away from his door and back over to the bathroom.

"Ichigo, are you in there?" Yuzu asked as she knocked on the door softly.

"He probably just slipped and fell or something." I said folding my arms over my chest. I reached around Yuzu and opened the door not caring if Ichigo was decent or not.

On the other side of the door was a small girl dressed in Ichigo's cloths from the day before. She was leaning into the mirror, her hand gripping her long orange hair tightly. Her eyes were wide with confusion and fear.

"What the hell is going on?" she said as she continued to stare into the mirror. Her eyes went wide at the sound of her own voice. She let go of her hair and grabbed her throat with her good hand. When I say good hand I mean the hand that wasn't covered in a cast.

"Ichigo, is that you?" I asked as I took a step forward and eyed the girl in front of me. She looked very familiar, almost like…..

"My darling wife! You look just like your mother Ichigo!" he said as he galloped forward, arm wide open. I reached out and grabbed him by the back of the shirt and threw him back out of the bathroom.

"Would you stop being a weirdo goat face?" I screamed placing myself in between my idiotic father and my…..sister.

"Is this really happening?" Ichigo asked as if he was in shocked. He grabbed the color of his own shirt and pulled it forward to look down at his chest.

"No, this is really happening." He said. He put his back to the wall and slid down until his butt hit the floor underneath him.

"I'm never going outside ever again!" I whined.

"Will you stop it," I said to him. "Jeez you're acting like a baby."

"That's right, I'm acting like a girl, cause that what I am!" She whined she put her head in her hands and started to cry loudly.

Whack!

Everything was silent as the echo from my slap faded away. Ichigo looked up and me with tears still brimming in her eyes.

"Why did you do that, you didn't have to hit me like that." She said sounding as if she was about to break down and cry again. I rolled my eyes before putting my hands on my hips.

"Snap out of it! if you're going to figure out what happened to you then you need to get your sorry ass up off the floor and get over to the soul society to try and get some help." I said to her. She whipped her face as she stood from the floor and smiled down at me.

"Your right, I'll go right now." she said.

"You should probably change your cloths first, because you're still in your clothes from yesterday and that's really gross." I said before walking out of the bathroom and shutting the door behind me.