Senses
By: Animekitty
Must be at least in the later chapters of the manga to fully understand Will contain slight spoilers.
Note: Ruduka Tishimoto is my own character that I have created myself to go along with the bleach series. Ruduka is a purple haired young boy who is truly a wolf. He has the powers to transform into a human Ruduka lives with Ichigo disguised as a normal housedog.
"You'll stay here and that's that!" shouted the substitute shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki.
"And why's that? I'm not so injured as to not be able to simply walk to the school and back!" Argued the now repowered shinigami, Rukia Kuchiki.
The female shinigami had been injured about 3 days ago. Just a small fry hollow masking his energy, and that was all. Still, it was a little too late when she realized he was behind her. A few cuts and bruises, but nothing major, at least not to her.
"Just stay here! Ruduka or I will come back early. There are no really important classes today anyway… Just stay put for once would ya?" Ichigo said as he walked out, not leaving a second for her to respond.
Rukia watched out the window quietly as Ichigo met with the wolf Ruduka and started walking. "As if.." she thought to herself. She began packing up her bag and getting dressed. She quickly glanced at her cell phone's clock, "7:49…" she said to herself. "I'll be a little late.. But that just means Ichigo will get in trouble if he freaks out that I'm there.." she chuckled to herself. (A/n We're going to pretend school starts at 8:00 here, 'k?)
She grabbed her bag and jumped out the window wincing a little as she landed. She decided walking would be better then running, seeing as though she would be late anyway, why bother? Not noticing, as she walked along, a tiny pebble on a stonewall broke off and silently found it's way towards the ground. A nearly inaudible growl came from the wall.
Ichigo, unaware of his approaching companion, sat at his desk bored.
"Ichigo!" yelled Ruduka approaching him. "Did we have to leave Rukia behind? It's dull here -.-" Asked Ruduka with an unpleased tone.
"Yes. If a hollow comes around she might get caught in the middle of it, we can go home later." He replied.
"Sure sure. Then she'll kill you for leaving" Said Ruduka back. Ichigo just stared at him, knowingly.
Rukia kept a fast, yet not too fast pace as she kept checking her cell phone. "At this rate I might make it on time." Still going unnoticed a ways behind her where the pebbles falling from the buildings. Pebbles began to fall heavier and larger as time grew past. Interested in only time at the second, the female shinigami paid them no mind.
Suddenly her cell phone beeped loudly, repeating the process to warn of only one thing, a hollow. She jumped back and looked around, suddenly aware of the dark aura around her. "Damn.. I didn't sense this because?" she thought to herself. Suddenly, breaking her thought, a blood-curdling howl sent shivers threw the busy town. A building wall exploded and out from it, emerged a gigantic hollow.
Rukia, knowing exactly what to do, pulled out her gikongan and swallowed it. Rukia changed instantly into her soul reaper form as Chappy took control of her gigai.
"Oi! Chappy! Get somewhere safe, I'm going to take care of this hollow." Rukia yelled to Chappy.
Chappy nodded as she quickly ran a ways away from the fight scene. People around the area scattered instantly as the remaining walls of the building collapsed, leaving dust abundant in the air.
"I smell the scent of a soul reaper…" the hollow growled. It turned to Rukia. Readying her blade for battle she suddenly felt a twinge of pain from her last battle. "This shouldn't take long at least. It seems to be a small one as well…" thought Rukia.
Quickly, Rukia dashed behind the hollow, hoping to confuse him. Believing to have an upper hand, she jumped into the air and towards the hollow readying her blade for the first strike. To her surprise, the hollow wasn't as weak as she had planned him out to be, He quickly turned and swatted her away like a common fly.
Rukia, having taken a strong blow to her arm, crashed into a nearby wall. Quickly regaining her composure, she got back to her feet and held her blade out again.
Chappy, watching from afar began to run to get help the instant she noticed the blood running down her master's arm. The only thing she really knew was she had to find someone stronger, and the only power she knew of was Ichigo's, who luckily had no talent in hiding his spiritual energy. She then began trailing Ichigo's spiritual energy, leaving Rukia behind.
Rukia, staring down the now bigger looking hollow, began to breathe deeper. "This may not be quite as easy as I had thought.." she said to herself. This time, the hollow came after her. Just narrowly avoiding it's next attack she rolled out of the way. As she got up she launched kidou at the hollow, sending it into a frenzied howl of anger. The hollow suddenly attacked in the middle of it's drawn out howl. Lunging at the surprised shinigami.
Ichigo, now in the middle of class, was listening as the teacher read some boring grammar out of a Japanese textbook. Barely listening at all he began to doze off the slightest bit. That is, until he saw Chappy outside the window poking her head up so she quickly could be seen. He instantly knew it was Chappy by her expression. A dead give away. Chappy looked at the teacher confused, then looked at Ichigo and waved her arms towards him.
Ichigo, terrified of what would happen if his friend's or sensei saw this, immediately sat up and asked to be excused. After getting "permission" he dashed out of the classroom. Ruduka, still sitting in the class, knew of Chappy's antics when she was in Rukia's gigai, so didn't bother to follow. She once stuffed lip-gloss in Ichigo's bag when he was gone, fighting hollows, just for the fun of it the next day at school for her master. Ruduka kinda wished he would have thought of it first though, for the fun of it.
"What are you doing here?!" Ichigo shouted at Chappy.
"You have to come with me!" Chappy explained. "Rukia was on her way here, at least I think… And was attacked by a hollow! She's fighting it as we speak!" Chappy told Ichigo.
Barely able to make it to her feet, the female shinigami struggled to regain her composure. She clutched the bloody wound at her side inflicted by the hollow. The hollow roared loudly as he prepared his next attack. The shinigami though, still barely standing, held her ground firm ready to face the attack. She did the only thing she could think of and used nearly all of her remaining strength to call out her zanpakuto. "Sode no Yuki!" she yelled out. As she was about to call it's release, she was interrupted by the hollows attack. Completely taking her off guard the hollow hit her full force against a wall.
The shinigami stood, breathing heavy, barely able to keep conscious because of her wounds. She didn't know exactly what her next move would be. In a last ditch effort; she stood firm in one spot and waiting as the hollow lunged towards her.
The hollow dashed towards the shinigami, who had seemed to give up. Rukia stood completely still, still standing firm with her blade out and ready. The hollow drew nearer and nearer towards her. Crimson splattered, and red swept across the streets. The hollow bit deep into Rukia's shoulder, just as Rukia drove her blade deep into the hollows mask at the last second of the attack.
The hollow cried in fury and pain. The shinigami, however, only doubled back in pain as she watched the hollow disappear. With one last cry of fury, the hollow disappeared into particles. The female shinigami, covered in crimson blood, and gasping for air, began her struggle back home. With no energy to cure herself with kidou and no help seeming nearby, she began to walk wearily back in the direction she came, back to Ichigo's house.
Later, after Rukia struggled to walk back, Ichigo and Chappy arrived.
"Oi… Chappy… Didn't you say Rukia was here…? Is this another joke?" Asked Ichigo.
"No! I swear she was here! Maybe she beat the hollow?" Chappy asked Ichigo.
"Maybe. I guess it must have been small. I didn't sense it." Ichigo told Chappy.
"Or maybe it's just because your powers suck…" Chappy said under her breath.
"Whatever. You go back and make sure she's ok. I left Ruduka back at school. Kami knows what he's doing…" Ichigo told Chappy, unhearing her last remark. "Just tell her we'll head home soon." Ichigo told Chappy as he began walking back towards school, unknowing of Rukia's condition. Chappy waved to Ichigo and started her now merry walk back. None of them noticed the blood on the street however.