Sadness. Greif. Sorrow. These are what Ichigo felt when he woke up to the glowing red lights of the police vehicles. He was covered with a wet cotton blanket and was shivering. An officer came up to the teary-eyed boy to question him.
"Hey there." She said with a sweet tone. "How're you doin'?" All Ichigo could do was sniffle.
"What's your name?" She asked as he looked up at her. His deep chocolate eyes just stared at her.
"Ichigo." It was barely a whisper to her.
"What was that?" She asked trying to coax out the name.
"Ichigo. My name's Kurosaki Ichigo." He said in a louder voice.
"Well then Kurosaki. Do you know what happened to your parents?" The officer asked pointing at the white stretchers going into the ambulance. Ichigo pulled a blank on the question. He didn't even know what happened it happened so fast. A blur as it were.
Just then a man with the biggest Afro you could ever see started walking towards him and the officer.
"Excuse me ma'am. Hey there kid. This person bothering you." Ichigo looked up at Afro man then at the kind lady and shook his head.
"Who are you?" Questioned the confused officer.
"Oh sorry." He bowed to the officer. "The name's Aikawa. Aikawa Love."
"If I may ask what relation do you have to this boy?"
"I am a family friend that has been asked to take care of the boy in case of any…accidents that may happen to them." The officer looked at the man and nodded. She then went back to the car and drove off with the intent to look the man up in the directory.
"So. Now that she's gone lets get you to your new home." Love then picked up Ichigo and carried him to an old, rusty, and condemned warehouse. Ichigo could see a ghost get close to the warehouse then suddenly turn the other direction.
"Did you see that?" Asked Ichigo.
"See what?" Love looked at Ichigo with a twinkle in his eye.
"That person just walked up to that warehouse then turned the other way like it wasn't even there.
"You can see the warehouse?"
"Yes."
"We're going to have so much fun. If you have so much Reiatsu that you can see the warehouse then you'll be a monster when you grow up." Ichigo looked up and wondered if he really wanted to be a monster.
Love, carrying Ichigo on his back, opened the door to the warehouse and walked inside. It was dark and musty inside as light filtered into the room. Several floors could be seen rising into the air. Almost as soon as they walked in human-esc silhouettes appeared in the rafters and on the upper levels.
"Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in." A small girl with pigtails and a serious case of buck tooth landed, with a puff of dust, on the warehouse floor. "Who's the baby?"
"That Isshins' kid, right?" Asked one of the remaining 5 silhouettes.
"That's correct. My I present to you Kurosaki Ichigo the son of Shiba Isshin and Kurosaki Masaki. One of the most powerful 9-year-old's in existence." Everyone gasped at the new knowledge. This little kid could, with the proper training, become much more powerful than any of them especially with his grandfather's lineage.
"Interesting. Very interesting." A man with long crookedly cut hair jumped down from the rafters and landed right in front of Ichigo. "Hello. And welcome to the gang. My names Shinji." He pointed at himself as the other silhouettes followed his lead. "And in order from the right are Mashiro, Rose, Lisa, Kensei, Love, Hachi, and Midget." Ichigo laughed at the longhaired guy as he was smacked by said Midget.
She walked up to Ichigo and kneeled down to meet his eyes all the while pulling longhaired man with her. "My name is Hiyori and this baldy is Shinji and I would like to be the first to welcome you to the gang."
"Already did that." Said Shinji only to be on the receiving end of another punch. "Hachi. Why don't you show him to a room he can be in?" As they walked away Shinji looked at everybody else with a gleam in his eye. "We aren't going to tell Urahara about this kid. He would rather take him and train him himself but we are going to play a little prank on him. We will train him instead. Let the fun begin."