Ichigo waived to his dad and walked up to the group to help his father carry some of their equipment back to their shop. When he got to his father in the group, he walked a little bit further into the water but no more than halfway up his shin. Ichigo grabbed some of the air tanks from the three women that were in the group and they all started their way back to the shop, "Kurosaki swim and snorkel shop".

"Ichigo, why don't you help me with the next tour group they're just snorkeling at the edge of the sea, it's only going to be about 3 to 4 feet. It's easy for you just to stand up and have your head above the water or did you forget how to swim?" Isshin said trying to get his son back into the water. Well he had been trying for the past 10 years, as far as he has gotten with him was up to his knees.

Later that night, Ichigo did not want to the restaurant in town, with his family. He did not feel like dealing with people who worked along the shore with his dad. He knew what would have happened if he would have gone. He had heard the stories of how he used to love swimming and diving into the sea. Why was he afraid of the sea? He was a great swimmer, as if he belonged in the sea.

Ichigo sighed and went to find his dad. "Hey pops, I'm getting a headache, so I'll pass on dinner tonight, I just want to go to sleep."

"Is it a normal headache or a storm headache?" Isshin questioned his son.

"It's a normal headache." Ichigo said as he started to climb a flight of stairs.

The shop that his father owned had two levels, on the first floor was the shop itself, a back room with supplies, and one of two bathrooms, on the second floor of the shop was the office, a bedroom of sorts, and a second bathroom.

"Okay, I'll call you later before we leave the restaurant and see if you want anything." Isshin yelled upstairs.

"Night," Ichigo yelled back to acknowledge what his father had just said. Then Ichigo found a pillow in the closet, placed it on the bed and then he climbed into bed for a nap. He fell asleep with a smile on his face because he heard his two sisters yell, "Sweet dreams Ichi-nii-san." As he heard, his family leave to go to the restaurant for dinner.

About an hour later Isshin and the girls were enjoying their dinner while watching the news. The newscaster was saying something about a storm, that just popped up suddenly and it was going to be a bad. Then they all saw a flash of light, and heard a loud crash. Before the thunder had stopped, the lights went out the kids started to cry because of the restaurant suddenly going dark. When the backup lights came on and the TV was back up, the same newscaster was still on.

"I have no idea how many people are watching out there because of the power outage, but if there is one person watching I will continue." The newscaster said as he pointed to his right than the camera panned over to his left in the direction of the newscaster's hand, and the field showed the beach being flooded out by the sea. "As you can see the 'Kurosaki swim and snorkel shop' is being flooded out? That is telling us how high the sea is right now."

Isshin got up to get to his jacket from the coat rack. He needed his cell phone, walking back to the table with the cell phone waiting for Ichigo to answer his phone.

Ichigo started to toss and turn in the bed gripping sheets in pain. He only awoke because he heard his cell phone, which sat on the bedside table, going off. Sleepily he grabs the phone flipped it open. "Hello?" Ichigo answered.

"Ichigo, good you're wake. Where are you?" Isshin asked hoping the answers he would be is 'I'm home why?' not I'm at the office.

"I'm right where you left me, at the office, why?" Ichigo stated as he swung his feet over the edge of the bed onto the floor, only to see them sink into about 3 inches of water. Ichigo's eyes doubled in size, when he realized that his feet hit the water and he was on the second floor of his dads shop.

"Ichigo, listen to me and do exactly what I say!" Isshin said trying to calm down his son. "Go to my office and grab my snorkel set and swim towards the street."

"Okay, I can do this," Ichigo said trying to calm himself down.

"Shit!" Isshin said over the phone.

"What! What is happening? Dad!?" Ichigo yelled over the phone to get his dad talking again, hopping things were okay.

"Sorry Ichigo, the power went out again. Place your cell phone on a high shelf and go get my snorkel set." Isshin, himself took a deep breath, "Ichigo, you can do this. I know you know how to swim."

"Okay dad, I'll be at the restaurant soon." Ichigo said his goodbyes, then powered down his cell phone and put it on the top shelf in the closet.

He looked out of the window to see how high the water level was. However, the sea had receded back into the ocean. He was then able to breathe a sigh of relief because the sea now looked too far away. Walking towards the door, "the water is far away?" Ichigo said aloud. Running back to the window to hear and see a wave, a very large wave moving in. "A tsunami, shit!" running to the office to grab the scuba tank and a mask. Placing the scuba mask over his face, and tank onto his back, then he turned the tank on and covered his ears with his hands as he heard the roaring of the sea right above him.

Meanwhile

Isshin turned to his girls, "don't worry Ichigo will be here soon." Isshin looked up to see the lights turning back on and heard the newscaster once more. He turned around to look at TV once again.

"Shit!" was all that the newscaster said, as he stared out over at the beach. The camera moved back to point towards the beach. There was a very large wave just about the crush onto the shore. The wave hit the shore hard smashing all the shops on the edge of the beach.

Isshin just stared at TV, as the thought that kept running through his head, "my son, my son is in there, he still in the shop?"

One of the other shop owners on the beach said, "Damn there goes my store."

"My son was still at the shop; my shop is under the water." Isshin's voice was shaky as he said those words.

"Wait, what did you say Isshin?" The server said as she walked up to him.

"I just lost my son, I had just called him, and he was still at the shop. I told Ichigo to grab my snorkel set and swim to the streets because the beach was flooded out. Even if he saw dry land he would have walked to the streets, and he still would have been crushed by that wave." Isshin said as he backed up into the table, where his girls were sitting staring at TV in shock.

Isshin started to cry slowly moving a hand over his open mouth as he continued to stare at TV. Other people that had shops along the beach with Isshin came over to comfort him and some of the women came over to the girls as they started to cry for the loss of their older brother.

Somewhere under the sea

Hichigo was talking to his brother Grimmjow about the island he had found unpledged by the humans and the storm that was occurring right now. Hichigo was swimming backwards so he could face his brother while they talked. That is until he swam into a rock. Cursing at his clumsiness, he turned around to face where he was going, moving around the large rock. Then he saw an adult human male's floating at the bottom of the sea with his hand tied to some seaweed.

"Don't you even dare go near that thing? You were so lucky 10 years ago; all you got was a slap on the wrist; for saving a little human boy. If you go near that thing, the elders will have your head. So we'll just go around and take the long way." Grimmjow said to his little brother to warn him about the stupid thing he was just about to do.

"I'll be careful, it might be dead already. I'll just let him go so he could float to the surface, so the other humans can find him, and if he's alive. I'll just let him float to the surface, so that he could be found. If he is awake I won't go near him." Hichigo said as he started to swim over to the human.

"Get back here you stupid idiot!" Grimmjow yelled as he tried to grab Hichigo's tailfin. Watching and waiting as his little brother moved closer to the human, Grimmjow wished Hichigo had more common sense.

Hichigo slowly moved closer and closer to the human. As he got closer it came to him that was the same human that he saved 10 years ago! "Hey Grimmjow, this is same human from10 years ago!" Hichigo yelled.

"I don't care if it's the "lost mermaid princes" over there; you need to get back over here!" Grimmjow scolded at his brother once more.

But Hichigo didn't listen; as he moved closer and closer to the human. He smiled to himself, when he realize, it was even the same wrist that was tied up 10 years ago. Moving even closer and save the human, again, that he knew his name is Ichigo and he was unconscious. Grabbing a hold of the tied wrist and the seaweed he yanked on the seaweed and freed this human from the sea floor. Then he grabbed him from under his shoulders slowly swimming up to the surface. Then he noticed something was hanging off of the tank, he knew the humans used that for air. Grabbing it as he looked at it and saw it had a pointer and three colors red, yellow, and green.

"Hey Grimmjow, if the pointer was pointing at the color red. What does that mean?" Hichigo asked his brother who was hiding behind a large rock at he crashed into only moments before.

"How the hell should I know I don't use air tubes?" Grimmjow yelled from behind the rock.

Hichigo saw that the bubbles coming from his mask had stopped. And figures it was a very, very bad thing. So he swam to the surface of the sea even quicker. Once he broke the surface he ripped Ichigo's facemask off, and Ichigo started to cough as fresh air flooded into his lungs.

Hichigo let go of Ichigo to see if he could float on the surface, but he notice Ichigo sank back into the water. He grabbed him before his head went back under the water, to bring him closer so they could stay afloat. Thinking for a moment Hichigo took off the air tube off of Ichigo's back. Taking a moment to look at the sky, seeing the dark and angry clouds, then he remembered how much he hated the rain hitting his skin.

Thinking that human wouldn't drown if he just floated on the surface of the water, he decided to take his human friend Ichigo to the untouched island he had found.

Hichigo reached the little island using the waves to help propel himself onto the shore leaving his friend on the beach. After he made sure Ichigo would not drown when the tide came in or out, he pushed himself back into the sea and left for the night.