TITLE OF THE STORY: LIGHTS OUT

Summary: Ichigo is all alone at home when he has a guest... What will happen during the night? This takes place somewhere after the war against Aizen and Ichigo had his powers back already. So, basically maybe where anime stopped...?

Pairing: Kenpachi and Ichigo

Important: I don't own Bleach, all the characters and the world and credit belongs to Tite Kubo. This is pure fanfiction! I do this for fun! And another important thing is that english is not my mother language so one will notice it when reading my stories: grammar mistakes, missing words etc. I always do my best when writing but please try to undestand that it is quite difficult for me since I'm not writing my mother language and I have to think all the time how to write something...

This is the first story which I'm about to write about this pairing (Kenpachi X Ichigo) and the first chapter of this first story. I don't know when I'm going to finish the next chapter or the next stories (it may take days, weeks or months), but I was planning to publish three stories. I just love these two... :)

I hope you like! Please review! :)

"We're leaving now, Ichigo", Isshin said. "Are you sure you want to stay here all alone? I can always call to the granny who lives next door and you can go to her place."

Ichigo sighed heavily: "Dad, I'm almost adult now. I can manage this."

Isshin looked slightly worried. He was leaving for a seminar for two days. He was taking Yuzu and Karin with him since the seminar was being held in Kyoto and the girls wanted to see the old capital. Ichigo was not eager to go along with them so he had decided to stay home.

"Well, if you're sure", Isshin said. "We'll be back on Sunday."

"Okay", Ichigo smiled and waved. "Have a nice trip!"

"Bye, Ichigo!" Yuzu smiled. Karin smiled too but did not say anything. They closed the door behind them. Ichigo sighed and checked that it was locked: he did not want to face any burglars now when he was alone.

It felt strange. Rukia had went to Seireitei. Kon was... somewhere. Ichigo assumed he had hidden himself in Rukia's backbag since he always complained how he wanted to spend more time with her. The reason Rukia had left was that Ichigo's substitute shinigami badge had not been working properly lately. She had taken it along with her – so Ichigo felt slightly... naked when he was not being able to turn into shinigami form.

It was already late so Ichigo decided to take shower before eating dinner and going to bed. As he was standing under the hot water he thought it was actually quite nice to be alone for a while...

After the shower he put only pants on: he rarely slept in pyjamas. Usually he only had trousers or underwear on when he was sleeping. As he walked back downstairs it felt weird: the house was quieter than he had thought now when there was no one expect him home. Ichigo sighed: he had to get used to this! Someday, maybe really soon, he would move away from home. Even so, he switched the TV on so there would be even some noise. He was kind of hungry and decided to eat dinner as soon as he would take dirty clothes to the utility room. As he opened the door he froze: backdoor was hanging slightly open...

Ichigo frowned. He was sure he had closed it. Or had he? He had not actually even opened it for a while so he had assumed it had been shut... Carefully he tiptoed closer, glanced around - if there would be anyone outside. No one. It was raining slightly. Ichigo murmured something about locks and shut the door, this time locking it for sure: he double checked it before leaving.

For some reason he had uncertain feeling when he walked past the washroom. It was dark. There were no windows so it was really dark without any lights on. Ichigo ran past it, shutting the utility room's door behind him. Was he sweating slightly?

Ichigo sighed: he really had to spend more time alone in this house. He really hoped he would not have watched all those horror movies with Tatsuki on the day before yesterday. Tatsuki had won a huge pile of horror movies from some draw – and had been too scared to watch them all alone. So she had asked Orihime and Ichigo to tag along. Right now Ichigo regret that. Not that he was scary cat but... still...

Ichigo ate dinner, watched TV for a moment before decided it was late enough. He walked upstairs, yawning. At the top of the stairs he cursed: he had left his cellphone on the kitchen table. He turned around and walked back down. An open utility room door caught his attention. It was still slightly moving, like it would have been just pushed open a minute ago...

"S... stupid... old house", Ichigo walked to it and pushed it shut. For some reason he had really uncertain feeling. He did not sense hollows or reiatsu – but... Sixth sense? His skin went on goosebumps. Actually, now when Ichigo was thinking about it, his skin had been on goosebumps ever since he had shut the backdoor. He had assumed it was just chilly... but it was warm inside.

Ichigo grabbed his cellphone and ran upstairs. He stopped at the top of them, trying to calm down. He was acting like a girl. He growled and decided to man up. What was that? Ichigo turned his head slightly so he could hear better: almost like he would have just heard thump from downstairs. Steps...? It stopped. For a moment Ichigo had nasty feeling that something was standing at the bottom of the stairs and listening him.

Ichigo however knew that he was alone in the house. He had fought against hollows and had seen some horrible thing in while being a shinigami. Even so he noticed his heart rate escalating and fear starting to rise it's ugly head.

Ichigo was fearless warrior: he left the lights on in the corridor and slipt in his own room. Did he push the door shut a slightly quicker than usually? Did he kind of hid under the sheets of his bed? Ichigo listened closely. The house was quiet. He glanced to the door and saw light coming under the door from the corridor. It was still very quiet.

Maybe he should just shut the light off? Dad always told Ichigo to shut the lights off when he was not in the room and save energy and save the planet Earth.

Ichigo sighed and sat up. It was right then when he heard floor boards creak. Ichigo froze. He listened. Someone or something was in the corridor. Ichigo gulped.

The lights turned off in the corridor.

It was suddenly a little bit too dark.

Ichigo was now really sweating. Slowly he laid back on his bed. What should he do? Rukia was not here, nor was Kon. He could not get in his shinigami form. He was – Ichigo shivered – helpless...

Someone or something touched the doorknob.

Ichigo did as any other brave warrior who had faced countless battles: hid under the sheets. When hiding he heard how the door opened, it creaked slightly. For a moment there was silence. Ichigo hoped, prayed that whatever was standing in the doorway would go away. He knew, he just knew something was standing there and looking at his direction.

Steps. Rather heavy ones.

It was coming closer. Ichigo was now really panting and as his heart was pounding like crazy he tried to figure out how to get away from this situation but panic blurred his mind and -

Strong hands slammed on him. Ichigo literally screamed and kicked like a rabbit in a trap! He was pulled to the floor. A black figure knelt next to him, pushing him down – and suddenly Ichigo heard familiar husky laugh.

"Kenpachi!" Ichigo screamed, heart still pounding, skin all wet from sweat. The tall shinigami laughed, still holding Ichigo down against the floor. "That's not funny! I almost died! Idiot!" Ichigo punched him straight on the chest and sat up. "The hell you're doing here in the middle of the night?!"

"I was sent here to get rid off some hollows", Kenpachi still chuckled. "I defeated all of them but there's something wrong with Senkaimon so I'm stuck here for a while. They told me you live nearby so I decided to bunk here this night."

"So you decided to break in without calling me first and sneaking around the dark house like a ghost or something?!" Ichigo was still trembling.

"It was fun", Kenpachi had wide smile on his face. "Since when you're being so jumpy?"

"Since Tatsuki forced me to watch horror movies with her", Ichigo wiped sweat from his face. "Idiot!" he punched Kenpachi again when the taller man chuckled. "And what's with all that you just decided you could stay here? Ask permission first!"

"I stay here", Kenpachi shrugged. "I have nowhere else to go."

"Fine..." Ichigo gritted his teeth. "I think you won't fit in my closet", he murmured more to himself than to Kenpachi.

Kenpachi frowned: "What?"

"Nothing", Ichigo sighed and stood up. "I guess you can sleep on my dad's bed since he's out of town."

"Oh", Kenpachi looked somewhat dissapointed but stood up also. "Okay..."

Ichigo escorted Kenpachi to his dad's room. When he switched the lights on he noticed that Kenpachi looked terrible: his clothes were partly torn and he had bloodstains both on his skin and clothes. He reeked, something of a mixture of hollow, blood and sweat.

"I'll give you towel so you can use shower", Ichigo sighed.

Kenpachi glanced himself and grinned: he obviously had not noticed how filthy he was until now. Ichigo pulled out the first towel he found from his dad's closet and threw it to Kenpachi who snatched it easily.

"You're leaving as soon as possible", Ichigo murmured. "I really didn't plan on having guests over the weekend."

Even though Ichigo was quite pissed he still could not bare the thought of leaving Kenpachi without food. Maybe it was his big brother-mode or something? He preapared some sandwiches for him while the taller shinigami took a shower.

Ichigo sighed and looked at the clock: 1 am. Great... And he had planned of going sleep early...

The door opened. Ichigo turned around and saw Kenpachi. Since Kenpachi's own clothes had been so dirty Ichigo had given him Chad's trousers: he had forgotten them at Ichigo's place a couple days ago. It was Ichigo's only option: there was no way any of his or Isshin's clothes would fit Kenpachi.

Kenpachi's hair was down and he had taken his eyepatch of: he was in fact holding it in his hand. He had still some water dripping down from his long black hair. The drops ran along his muscular chest...

"What?" Kenpachi frowned. Ichigo jolted and realized that he had been staring him: he blushed. "Oh, sorry. I'm just tired..." he coughed slightly. "Uh, eat up and... go to bed..."

"Yes, mommy", Kenpachi grinned as he sat down. Ichigo sighed: "I'm going to sleep. Goodnight."

"Night, Ichigo."

Ichigo yawned as he walked upstairs once again. He was too tired to think about how his home alone evening had turned out to be like this. He just hoped Kenpachi would leave at morning. He almost collapsed on his bed and closed eyes. It felt strange to think that Kenpachi would be sleeping under the same roof with him. Ichigo's final thoughts was about sandwiches and boogeyman before he fell asleep.