Well at long last, here's chapter 2. I do apologise that I have taken so long to get this up, I'm lazy and had some things to worry about as of late. I hope you enjoy.

The tournament grounds were buzzing with people, who came to watch or to compete. Although most excitement was about the upcoming fights, four of its contestant's minds weren't thinking of their coming bouts.

"Man where are Goku, Gohan, and Goten? If they don't hurry they'll be to late for registration." Krillin said to Tien, Chozue and Yamcha.

"You know Goku, he's probably enjoying some of Chi Chi's home cooking and not watching the time. I swear when there's food in front of him the world could blow up and he would probably barely register it." Tien mused causing them to laugh. Just then their old friend Bulma, showed up with her son Trunks and Goten in tow.

"Hey guys how's it going?" Bulma asked.

"Hey Bulma, hey Trunks… Goten?. Why are you with Bulma and Trunks, aren't Goku and Gohan showing up?" Krillin asked looking around for his long time friend and his other son.

"Dad and Gohan are coming, I had a sleep over at Trunks' last night. It sure was fun." Goten said smiling; a big goofy grin like his father would always have.

"Yea it must have been." Yamcha said as he saw a grumpy look on Bulma's face.

"Hey Krillin, where's 18 and Marren?" Bulma asked, trying to change the subject.

"They're around, 18 didn't won't to compete this year." Krillin explained.

It was then Yamcha saw a familiar face off in the distance behind Bulma. "Hey there's Master Roshi over by the registration booth- uh oh, guys I think we may have a problem."

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"Alright here's what I think, Renji, Ichigo, Chad and I will enter the tournament and we'll fight our way through to the finals, and since they probably won't allow weapons you two should let the girls hold on to your Zanpaku-tos ."they all seemed to agree to this plan save Rukia, who suddenly got in Uryu's face.

"Why is it your only suggesting that you boys compete, why not me? I'm one of the best here who excels at hand to hand combat, as well as kido."

Uryu backed up against the wall and put his hands up defensively. "I was only suggesting that, well with Orihime be our only means of healing it would be best if she and one other sat out, and hold on to the weapons of the ones competing."

"That's true, it probably would be for the best for her not to fight. No offence Orihime." Rukia said turning to her good friend. Just then she spotted an old man slowly approaching Orihime from behind, hands raised, blushing while his nose bled profusely. Following her gaze the boys also saw the old guy and it was Chad who was the first one to realize what his intentions were. So he immediately got between the old man and his friend, who was still unaware of the old man approach.

"Ah can I help with something?" The old timer stopped his approach as he studied the tall youths face and his companions closely before answering.

"Actually I was hoping to get to know that lovely girl whose with you. Do you think she'd consider going on a date with me?"

Ichigo stared at the old man before scowling, grabbing him and pulled him out of ear shot. "What kind of old man would even think of trying something like that to a young girl. Your sick."

"Hey easy there young whippersnapper, I'll have you know that I'm a master of the martial arts, I've also trained some of the worlds strongest fighters." the old man said seeming unfazed by Ichigo's anger

"So what? You think that gives you the right to hit on young innocent girls?" Ichigo would have continued to yell at him but suddenly a fist flew in to his vision, hit the old man and sent him flying into the nearby wall.

"You never seem to learn do you, you old pervert, well I hope that was a good reminder to be less of a lecher." Ichigo stared at the speaker and owner of the fist. Who was a blue haired woman, looking like she was ready to kill the old guy.

Standing behind her were two men and a young boy, dressed in orange gi. Another boy with purple hair stood next to them. There was also a bald man with a third eye in green and a kid whose hole face was white save two red circles on either cheek. The shorter, bald man, dressed in orange was the first to break the awkward silence.

"Sorry about him he never could keep his hands to himself, I'm Krillin by the way. Are you guys entering the tournament?"

"Ah- Ya some of us are competing. I'm Ichigo Kurosaki and these are my friends Renji Abarai, Rukia Kuchiki, Orihime Inque Uryu Ishida and Chad Sado." When Ichigo gave each of the names, the boys each waved, while Orihime turned her attention to the boys.

"So are you boys excited about watching you dad's competing in the tournament ?"

"Ya, right after we fight in the kid division, though it may just be me and Goten in the finals again this year. All the other fights before that will be boring." Trunks said, but Bulma was not impressed with his attitude.

"Trunks! You should show more respect to your fellow fighters, even if their not as strong as you two." she scolded before turning to Orihime "I'm Bulma Briefs by the way, this is my son Trunks and his good friend Goten." it was then the others realized they hadn't introduced themselves, which they quickly solved.

"Hey you guys better register quick, the registration booth will close soon." Yamcha said looking at his watch before looking at the sky. Uryu also looked up trying to figure out what he was looking at but didn't see anything.

"Ya your right, so Rukia, are you still wanting to enter or not?" Ichigo asked as he fallowed Chad to the back of the line.

"Yes I am, or is there a problem with that?" she snapped.

"No problem at all, but about what we had been talking about- "Ichigo didn't want to go and mention Orihime's powers in front of these seemingly nice strangers, thankfully he didn't have to.

"Don't worry about me Ichigo I'll just stay with Bulma, so you all can enter. If that's ok with you?" Orihime asked her.

The older women smiled. "Not a problem what so ever, she'll be fine with us. You all just go and fight your best, ok?"

They all thanked her and got in line to register well Krillin checked on Master Roshi. When Ichigo and them were done, they gave Orihime their weapons. When Krillin had Master Roshi back on his feet, Ichigo and company followed the others to the were the preliminary rounds would be held. Just when they were out of sight Goku, who was carring Chi Chi, and Gohan landed not too far from the line up.

"Hey Chi Chi, Goku, Gohan, you made it." Bulma said as she went to hug them, well Orihime openly stared at the three in disbelief.

"How'd they do that?" She asked Bulma as she followed her well trying to keep a hold on the weapons she was caring.

"Its simple, they just used there chi. Come on and say hello, you'll really like them." she led the younger girl over to the three of them.

Izuru lead his squad to the location of the reported disturbance, expecting to see bodies or Hollows but there was nothing. There was no sign of battle, no scuffle not even a clue as to why there were no people around.

"Spread out, check the houses find someone who may have saw what had happened. There should have been a group from squad nine here already." He order his men, they quickly obeyed. He waited as he started his own search in a near by home.

He checked every corner, under beds, any possible place a person could hide, but all he found were clothes lying on the ground.

"Lieutenant!" a subordinate called to him as he exited the home. "We can't find any of the people who should be living here but we did find something odd." the man looked a little nervous as he said this last bit of information.

"Show me." he ordered.

He led Izuru down a street to were a small group of his men had gathered, their backs facing him, whispering to themselves.

"What is this?" he snapped at them as he got closer to them. "I told you to search the houses." as he finished his statement he pushed them aside and finally saw what it was that had them on edge.

Lying on the ground, like at the house he had searched, were more clothes but these were that of a Soul Reaper's Shihakushos. Lying there like the owners had fallen, turned to dust in the wind, leaving the clothes behind. Now that he thought about it all the clothing back at the house had looked like that.

"I want men from Research and Development out here immediately, and gathering as much information as they can and until they arrive we secure the area. I want you in pairs of two and lets keep your eyes on the look out for what has done this." he ordered not taking his eyes off the abandoned uniforms, counting how many there were in total.

"Yes sir." they all said before following his orders, or so he thought until he turned around and found one of his newbie's standing there waiting for him.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her. "I gave everyone the same orders."

"Yes you did sir, you ordered that we should secure the area and split into groups of two, I felt I would stay with you sir. So I am following your command, sir." she told him. He smiled as he shook his head at her.

"What's your name?" he asked

"Its Roseanna Kisica, recent addition from the academy." she said standing at attention.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Roseanna but you know you can be a bit casual around me." he said as she relaxed a little.

It was at that exact moment they heard someone yell out for help, Izuru took off running with Rosanna right behind him. They followed the shouts and soon came apon a terrible sight.

One of his men had been stuck with what appeared to be a tail with a stinger on the end that was currently injected into him- no it was sucking something out of him as his body was shrivelling up. Meanwhile the creature doing it was strangling another one of his men at the same time, while blocking his appearance from him.

"Stop what your doing and release my men and surrender or else." Izuru said as he and Roseanna drew their swords. It was then they heard the laughter. The bizarre creature was laughing.

"And what might I ask is so funny?" Rosanna snapped.

"You., you're what's funny. You come out here to the Rukongai district, and start to make demands of someone you don't even know anything about." the creature was defiantly male by the sound of his voice.

"Sir?" Roseanna asked, looking at him unsure.

"O-k fine, who are and what do you want?" Izuru asked just then he noticed the man that had been stuck with the tail was now gone, leaving his clothes behind. The creature threw the man he was strangling aside, revealing his form. Both soul reapers stared at him in shock as they took a step back.

"I am one of Aizen's arrancars from a different dimension, my name is Cell."

The Z fighters and Soul Reapers soon reached the gymnasium and their two groups split up, after wishing each other good luck. The Z fighters had just started to warm up when Tien made a discovery. "Hey, look who I found."

The group looked were he was indicating and saw Vegeta leaning against the wall. He had his arms folded as he seemed to study the other competitors who were around him. When he spotted them his eye narrowed as he walked over to them, and stopped next to his son.

"I see one of his sons is here, so were is Kakarot?"

"Easy Vegeta, he'll be here. He wouldn't miss this tournament for anything." Krillin told the Saiyan prince.

"Well he better be, these fighters are too weak for my liking, the bouts leading up our fight will be boring." he complained.

"Well at least we know where Trunks learned his lack of respect from." Yamcha muttered to Tien, who quietly laughed so as to not draw the prince's attention.

"Hey guys there you are, thank Kame we didn't have to look so hard for you." they all turned as Goku and Gohan ran towards them.

"About time Kakarot, I was beginning to think you weren't going to make it. Contrary to what your friends were saying." Vegeta said with a evil grin on his face.

"Are you kidding we wouldn't miss this for anything in the world. By the way have any of you seen Vidle around?" Gohan asked as he looked for his girlfriend.

"No sorry Gohan haven't seen her." Krillin told him.

"Well there's still some time before the preliminary rounds start, I'll go see if I can find her." and before they could stop him Gohan disappeared into the crowd.

Meanwhile on the other side of the gym Renji marvelled at the fighters around him as he went through his warm up routine. "I can't believe how many of them there are, this may not have been such a great idea after all Rukia. We may not even make into the finals."

Ichigo grinned. "What's the matter Renji? scared? I thought you were once a member of squid 11, and they would jump at the opportunity to be involved in this."

"Me scared? Ha, I don't easily scare. You on the other hand, you'll probably run at the first sign of trouble, your pretty weak without Zangetsu in your hand, amateur." not liking this jab made at him, Ichigo quickly got in Renji's face.

"What are you implying?" he snapped.

"Only that you probably aren't going to even get pass the first round of fights before your thrown out of the ring. You maybe good with a Zanpaku-to but you never had the training that me and Rukia received at the Soul Reaper academy. Plus you have no control over your spiritual pressure."

"Oh Ya, well I'll have you know that I've been training a bit with Yoroichi lately so you better hope that we don't get in a fight ,you wont last very long." they would have argued more but a girl with short black hair grabbed their shirts, getting their attention.

"Unless you two want to be watching this tournament from the hospital wing, cool it. Save the hostility for the ring, got it?" she snapped, well glaring at them.

"She's right you two, save your energy for the fights against your opponents." Rukia also told them before turning her attention to the girl as she let them go. "Sorry, about them, they've always been that way around each other."

"Sounds like and interesting friendship, I'm Vidle Satan by the way." she said well shaking hands with Rukia, it was then Gohan found them.

"Hey Vidle sorry I m late my parents took forever to get going today." he said giving her a hug.

"Its ok. Oh by the way my dad is looking for you, I think he still wants to "talk" you out of dating me." she said, before turning back to them.

"Well it was a pleasure to meet you and good luck with the tournament." she said as Gohan lead her away.

They exchanged looks as they continued to warm up and soon the people in charge called everyone attention to the center ring.

"Hello and welcome to the World Martial Arts Tournament!"