nausea A pure evil laugh arose as ichigo woke up suddenly, he wiped the sweat that dripped from his brow, it was still dark out and he was in his bed, rukia stared down at him with worried eyes "what's wrong ichigo?" he stared back at her with his brown, chocolate eyes "it's nothing, I just felt like I was falling out of bed", he gave her what was meant to be a reassuring look but ended up with a quivering lip. How was he supposed to tell her that he heard his inner hollow, as it laughed at his distress, "it won't be long now 'king" the hollow teased as ichigo tried to ignore him but the hollow only laughed harder as rukia leaned in to check his temperature as she noticed the sweat. After she was convinced that he wasn't ill she glanced at him to find that he held his head in his hands, she was clearly concerned but didn't think much of it, ichigo waved at her to say that he was going back to sleep and that he was fine, so she left and closed the closet door without a word, ichigo didn't fall asleep after that. In the morning, he stretched and lazily climbed out of bed rubbing his sleep deprived eyes when isshin came barging into the room "Gooood morning son!" he shouted while elbowing ichigo in the face, isshin thought it was weird when his son hadn't bothered to dodge or deflect his attack, ichigo slowly got up kneeling on all fours, staring at the floor, that worried isshin but then he jumped up and punched his father straight under his chin "what the hell is with you old man!" he shouted as he threw isshin out of the room, "and stay out!" he cried as he slammed the door shut, with a sigh he walked back to his bed to get dressed for school. He wondered if he really should contact the visards to help him with his hollow but then dismissed the idea, what a load of crap, he can fix his problems himself! he scowled at the thought of being defenseless. Rukia opened the closet door to find ichigo still undressing, she blushed as she closed the door silently hoping ichigo hadn't heard her open the door. After breakfast he began walking to school, it had been ages since an arrancar have appeared in the human world and it was starting to worry him, but the usual hollow it two still appeared, so he wasn't too concerned, anyway, rukia wanted him to catch up on school, being how he was almost never there ever since he became a substitute shinigami but no matter how much he protested he ended up giving in. As he walked along he met up with orihime and Chad who were talking next to a vending machine and waved at him he waved back, he caught up to them "so ichigo, are you excited about coming back to school?" asked orihime with a smile that looked too big for her face ( if that was even possible ) he chuckled at his own joke and Chad just looked surprised, he had never heard him smile or chuckle for that matter and wondered what might have caused it, "yeah, it's been a while though". As they arrived at the school gate when ichigo felt a kind of uneasiness in his head, like he was being shaken by an invisible person trying to violently persuade him to wake up, he began to sway and felt suddenly nauseous, both Chad and orihime looked at him as he just waved his hand and smiled a bit "I'm fine, really, I just didn't get much sleep that's all" they both stared at him but walked on ahead, then he heard HIM "what's up 'king' not feeling well?" the hollow teased as it laughed maniacally "shut up!" he growled as he put on hand against the gate to steady himself and the other to his head to try and block out the sound of his hollow. Ichigo could see Chad and orihime meet up with uryu up ahead, then the hollow suddenly went quiet as he approached them "hey guys" he said with an almost slurred pace they all looked at him this time, feeling that they knew something was up he continued to walk towards the classrooms, avoiding their eyes as his friends walked slowly behind him trying to figure out what was wrong with him. He went to the mens wash room and splashed some water onto his face using the basin, then he heard his hollow again "hey 'king' why don't you let me out for a bit, i'm sure it'll make you feel a whole lot better" the hollow joked and saw in his mind that the hollow was smirking insanely again, but there was something different, if you looked behind the wicked smile you saw nothing but a lust for freedom and bloodshed, ichigo got a chill just thinking about it. He approached the classroom and noticed that his group of friends had gone completely silent as he walked towards them "what's wrong guys?" he asked in a so called 'genuine' kind of way, they all knew too well that there was something up and they wanted to get to the bottom of it, ichigo sighed and walked towards his desk.
As class began ichigo felt the same nausea sweep over him like a breeze as his vision began to blur, he tried to refocus on the board but his vision was getting worse, then he heard it "you know king, I don't even care anymore, so I'm just gonna have some fun here and now!" the hollow laughed "and it'll be fun to see the terror stricken faces of your friends!" his hollow began to laugh maniacally now as he began to panic "not now, not like this!" he shouted in his head but it only made the hollow laugh harder, in a desperate attempt to escape without looking too suspicious he shot his hand up to catch his teachers attention "yes ichigo?" she said lazily but with a hint of annoyance, the whole class stared at him as he began to shake, it was too late, his eyes glazed over and became lifeless, his body slumped as his consciousness faded away. His head shot up as he began to scream, which caught some of the students by surprise as he clenched his hair, orihime, Chad and uryu came running over to him as his eyes started to seep black from the corners, everyone saw what was happening because he wasn't in his shinigami form and didn't know what to make of it. A student screamed as ichigo's eyes changed from brown to yellow and a white mask appears on the left side of his face, everyone was screaming now as hichigo rose from his desk with an insane look across his face the teacher however was already out of the room screaming for help, hichigo turned to face the class who had retreated into a corner of the room in a desperate attempt to escape the lunatic that was before them, he began to walk slowly towards the group as his zampakt materialized on his hand as it scrapped across the floor as he walked, creating a dragging noise worse than fingernails on a chalkboard, suddenly he felt an electric shock go through his system as a bright orange shield appeared in front of the cowering students he turned around to see orihime with another shield up infront of Chad and uryu who had both armed themselves though still in shock of what has occurred before them "what do we have here?" he smirked as he lifted the massive cleaver over his shoulder, "kurosaki-kun?" orihime whispered as the words flew straight past him "sorry babe, there's none of the so called 'king' in here" as he gestured to his head "in that case, we won't feel guilty when we pound some sense back in you!" uryu shouted as he fired an arrow at the hollow, he smoothly dodged it and ran towards uryu who was too late to fire another arrow and was grabbed on the face and thrown across the room, Chad fired his right arm at ichigo's hollow mask as ichigo was turning around and smashed it to pieces, the hollow screamed and slumped to the ground unconscious, it was over...but for how long? They got lucky this time...
Ichigo woke up panting to find himself in his bed, "was it all a dream?" he whispered between breaths then rubbed his face but a shock of pain stopped him, he got up to investigate and found a hideous black mark on his left eye "how dare that over sized dickhead attack me!" he heard his hollow screech and realized it was no dream. Rukia opened her closet door to find ichigo inspecting the black eye he had just received and turned out of her gigai, ichigo turned to see rukia holding her zampakt wearily as she moved towards him, he glanced at her with a confusing look but then was pulled onto his bed, "why is she using kid on me?" he thought as she approached him "ichigo, I know what your thinking but don't panic" she whispered as though she feared his family might hear him "what the hell is going on rukia!" he shouted as he tried to break free, "your under restraint after the incident at your school" she calmly answered. He stared into her eyes and stopped thrashing as he suddenly remembered what happened the screams, the fear, he remembered bits and pieces he shuttered and looked out his window "I didn't mean to" he whispered as he diverted his gaze from the window to her eyes again "but why am I here, and what happened to my class?" he began to panic, he might have seriously injured one of his classmates "don't worry ichigo, everything is fine" she sheathed her sword and moved next to him "we can help you, all you need to do is tell me what is going on with you" she whispered, ichigo realized there was no use in keeping the truth from her any longer "i guess I should tell you from the beginning huh?" he took a deep breath and told her everything.
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