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Hikari Shinigami

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Chapter 1

"Rukia why are we here again?" asked a highly annoyed Ichigo Kurosaki as he and his co-worker exited the plane. Near the terminal entrance a sign said 'Welcome to Akihara!'

The raven haired Shinigami turned around a stared at the orange-haired teen and sighed. "We are here because," she looked around to be certain that nobody was listening and then continued, "The Soul Society detected the presence of a powerful Hollow in the city. It's our job to hunt it down and destroy it."

"Yeah, but that doesn't explain why we are the ones doing this. Shouldn't there be someone local that can handle the problem?" While waiting for his answer Ichigo walked over to luggage claim and grabbed his bag that had a suspicious lump in it.

Rukia spotted the lump as well and waited to see what Kurosaki would do. "That little idiot never listens." she thought eying the lump. She watched as Kurosaki pulled back his fist ready to punch the lump when she reached out and stopped him. She gave the other Shinigami a look that said 'let me handle this' and grabbed the bag.

Taking Ichigo's bag Rukia proceeded to dropkick the bag making sure that her foot connected right where the lump was. The black bag smashed into the wall of the terminal and a well known voice growled. "OWWW!!! That hurt!" The zipper unzipped and out came none other than Kon.

Ichigo grabbed the lion plushie around the throat and lifted it into the air lifting it to eye level. "Kon why are you here?" he groaned.

The mod soul pointed his finger accusingly at the young Shinigami and said, "Because if you have to fight a Hollow then someone has to take care of your body and I seriously doubt that you'd want Rukia 'taking care' of it." The lecherous smirk on the plushie's face told everyone of his real meaning.

The older Shinigami crushed Kon's head and said, "I think that you are confusing me with yourself perv." She looked towards the orange-haired teen and added, "He is already here, so we might as well keep him. It'd be too much of a hassle to turn around and take him back."

"Right. So how much do you know about our current mission Kon?", he asked the mod soul.

Kon sweat dropped and answered, "Just that a Hollow's involved. What else is there to possibly know?"

Rukia sighed and said, "An upper level Hollow has been appearing and disappearing within Akihara. It's devoured the souls of three Shinigami and caused considerable damage to the city itself. Our job is to stop this Hollow scum and prevent any more fatalities."

The high school student nodded and picked up his bag and stuffed Kon back in it. "Well Rukia where do we start?"

Kuchiki pulled out her cellphone and open a map showing twelve red dots and three black ones. "Ok each red dot represents an area attacked by this Hollow."

"And the black ones..." Ichigo asked.

She closed her eyes and answered, "Those are the locations where Shinigami were devoured" Opening her eyes she surveyed the map again looking for likely areas for another attack. "Hmmm. It seems that the attacks are centered around Sci-Labs. We should start our investigation there."

"Oh great! I might actually have to learn something on this trip." thought an aggravated Ichigo.

"Hey dad mom wanted me to remind you not to be late tonight!" shouted an energetic brunette.

Yuuichiro winced remembering the conversation this morning with his wife. "I know Netto and I promise that I will be there on time. I promise both you and your brother that I won't get caught up in work."

"Just be careful coming home. There have been a lot of strange explosions around here lately and I don't want anything to happen to you." Netto said while walking back to the door.

As the door opened Yuuichiro looked up from his work and turned to his son. "That sounds more like my line than yours Netto. You really are growing up into a fine young man."

Netto blushed slightly hearing his father give him such praise. "Uh...thanks papa." With that said Netto dashed out the door and started heading for the security checkpoint just before the exit. It was never a problem for him to get through since all of the staff knew the boy and his navi well.

"You must be so proud of him." said Meijin as he entered the run after almost being rundown by the NetSavior.

Dr. Hikari smiled with eyes full of pride. "He's growing up so fast these days that it's hard to keep up with him. Thanks to Rockman Netto is finally becoming a mature young man. He's studying like he should, helping his mother with chores, and even dating Meiru...though he won't admit it to me or his mother."

Meijin smirked and pointed an accusing finger at his colleague, "You've been using Saito to spy on him."

"Well I had to find out some way what is going on in his life. And since Netto shares everything with his big brother I knew that Saito would know." Dr. Hikari returned to his work trying to finish it as quickly as possible so that he wouldn't be late for his boys birthday party.

Slowly Netto made his way to the exit and he saw several large trucks moving Dimensional Area generators and other heavy equipment around. "I guess things are finally getting back to normal around here. I wonder what our next adventure will hold for us."

"Don't jinx it little bro. I for one enjoy the peace and quiet." said Rock.

The young NetSavior nodded but added, "And that is usually when everything goes wrong. It's been too quiet and peaceful lately with the exception of those strange explosions."

The blue navi agreed with him there. "Yeah and you've almost been hurt many times during those explosions. What's really weird though is that the officials couldn't find any kind of explosive residue, nothing at all that could explain what caused them."

When Netto reached the curb he saw a shadow looming over him. The thing is that this shadow didn't resemble anything human. "What the hell?!" Before he could turn around something hit him in the back shoving him in front of an incoming truck.

The trucker saw Netto in the middle of his lane and immediately tried to hit the brakes, but found that the couldn't. It was like something was holding the brake pedal up and forcing the gas all the way down.

"Ah crap! I'm gonna die!" Before the truck could hit him the brunette's brain kicked in and he dropped to the ground and rolled himself between the tires. As soon as the truck had passed over Netto pulled himself up. Inside of the truck he saw the shadow of something disappear.

"Son are you all right?" asked the trucker once he'd managed to stop the truck. He immediately looked the boy over to make sure that he wasn't injured.

"Yeah, I'm fine." The NetSavior brushed himself off and felt a sharp pain in his back. "I suppose that I hurt myself when I ducked. I'll have it looked at later if it starts to become a problem."

The driver seemed satisfied that the teen was ok, but he wanted to play it safe. "You really should be checked out. I can take you or call someone if necessary."

The brunette smiled and said, "No thanks. Other than a sore back and wounded pride I'm just fine."

­­-We'll see about that!-

Netto saw the shadow again out of the corner of his eye just before the cable snapped that was holding a large Dimensional Area generator. The generator immediately started to fall towards the boy and would have hit him if the driver hadn't shove him out of the way. "Mister? Yo-you, you save me. Why? Why did you do that?"

Massive amounts of blood could already be seen pouring out of the innocent man and his spine was clearly crushed. It was certain that this man was going to die here after having saved Netto's life and if by some miracle the driver survived he would face the last days of his life paralyzed.

Coughing up large amounts of blood he tried to answer the question. "He.heh...I..couldn't...leee-tt..a...kid...ge...hu..t" His eyes rolled back as his soul was released for it's prison of flesh.

Nearby workers saw what had happened and immediately rushed over to Netto and the trucker driver. Before being moved he read the name of the driver that had saved his life and engraved it into his heart. "Jiraiya. Thank you, Jiraiya." The next thing that he knew he felt people around him trying to make sure that he was ok and asking what had happened. "I don't know what happened. I felt something shove me out into the road and then I saw something inside of the truck with Mr. Jiraiya. He got out to make sure that I was ok and that's when I saw the shadow again. It was next to the dimensional area generator...I think that 'it' caused the generator to fall, but I didn't get a good look. When the generator fell this man pushed me out of the way and saved my life."

After having summarized what had happened and insisting to everyone that he was fine Netto looked back at the truck to see a boy with orange hair looking over the cables that had once strapped down the generator. He wasn't wearing the usual Sci-Lab outfit, but he was wearing a visitors pass around his neck. When the boy looked at Netto he said, "This cable looks like it was ripped to shreds by something. Has this kind of thing been happening to you a lot lately or something?"

Before he could answer a raven haired girl bent down next to him and said, "Can I take a look at your back?" After giving her a funny look she quickly added, "There seems to be bruising on your back and I'd like to take a look at it. My name is Rukia by the way."

Nodding he said, "My name is Netto Hikari." He felt that he could trust her so he removed his vest and lifted his shirt over his head. Immediately he felt her cold fingers examining his back and he heard her along with many others gasp. "What? What is it?"

Refusing to look the boy in the eye Rukia answered, "This bruise mark on your back is huge and it's shaped funny. If I didn't know any better I'd say that it was a giant hand print."

Ichigo immediately caught the other Shinigami's subtle hint. "There is no doubt that the Hollow was after this boy. Looks like we'll be keeping an eye on him for the time bein--Wait a second! Did he say that he saw something?!" Deciding to get answers he jumped down and walked over to his partner and Netto. "Did you say that you saw something in the truck and near the generator?"

Rukia's eyes widened and she stared at the boy for a few moments before locking eyes with Ichigo. Before they could do or say anything more Dr. Hikari and Meijin came running out of the largest building. Rukia and Ichigo were forced to back away since their ID's were fakes and a skilled eye like Yuuichiro's could have spotted the smallest defect. She watched as Netto's father examined him as she had done. Rukia walked over to Ichigo and whispered, "We are going to have to watch him closely and wait for the Hollow to come back."

Ichigo nodded. "My question is why does this Hollow seem to have this grudge against Netto." When he saw the demanding look Rukia was giving him he added, "All of the recent Hollow attacks in Akihara have one thing in common...Netto Hikari. He was at every location at the time of the 'explosions' and almost killed each time. I'm surprised that the authorities haven't figured out that someone is trying to kill the kid yet."

Hovering between the land of the living and the realm of the dead a snake like creature with a white mask sensed that his prey was still alive. "So be it Netto. The gloves have come off and this time I will not leave until you are dead. I don't care if I have to destroy every Shinigami on the planet so long as I take you with me."

"Now, now with that kind of an attitude you will be killed." said a spider-shaped Hollow.

"BE SILENT REGAL! I DON'T NEED YOU TELLING ME HOW TO KILL A SNOTNOSED LITTLE INGRATE!" The snake Hollow's eyes glowed crimson red for several seconds. "I will kill him regardless of the costs. The traitor will die by my own hands and I know just how to do it. Hehehe, a fitting end for one such as him indeed."

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