Hi! This is my second chapter! Please remember to leave your comments after you read it! Anyway, this chapter is more of action than romance so... Erm... Enjoy!

P.S. Action stories are not my major... :P


Chapter 2

Late in the night, in Ichigo's room, everyone was falling asleep. The rustling of the leaves could be heard when the leaves danced to the rhythm of the wind. The cries of the crickets were not loud enough to wake up the sleepyheads in that particular household. A little girl with golden hair of age ten was cuddling a lion head push toy in her arms, sharing her bed with Hinamori. Her twin on the opposite bed was sharing her bed with a cute taichou that she admired. Back in Isshin's room, three drunken man slept in an unruly manner on a bed. The long white-haired was lying at the bottom most, with the fanciful one and lastly, the crazy one on top. In Ichigo's room, he was forced to sleep with Hisagi, the most 'normal' one and Kira. Komamura and his squad, and Kurotsuchi had left earlier as they could not stand the stench of drunken in the room.

Such a peaceful night was called off when all of a sudden, the substitute shinigami badge and all the other shinigamis' cell phones rang at the same time. Ichigo immediately change into his soul reaper form while hearing what Hisagi had to say about after talking to the other party. Kira, on the other hand, search his cell phone for any hollows or enemies around the area.

"What is it, Hisagi-san?"

The sounds of the cell phones ringing had obviously alerted all members in the family from their sleep when Kyouraku asked Hisagi about the current situation. All except the twins.

"Looks like all the captains and Ichigo have to report to Inoue Orihime's house for a meeting with Sou Taichou," Hisagi replied as he hung up the call.

"What about you, Kira-san?" Kyouraku turn to ask the blonde who was busy punching in letters in his cell phone.

"Looks like there would be a sudden wave of hollows that would be invading the real world… That includes the Menos too… All the taichous had gathered in Inoue's room while the others had rooted themselves in their respective places."

"Then, let's go, Hisagi-san, Kira-kun," a soft purr coming out from Hinamori broke the silence as the three vice-captains went out from the window.

"I'll be here to protect Yuzu and Karin. Ichigo, bring them to Inoue's house," Isshin commanded.

"B-but…" Ichigo's face turned red from embarrassment. Although it was not the first time he went to Inoue's house, but it was the first time he went there after they became a couple.

"Embarrassed huh?" Isshin could guess what Ichigo was thinking about straight away. Ichigo's was his son after all.

"Fine!" Ichigo commented and led the taichous to Inoue's house.

In Inoue's room….

Byakuya was leaning against the wall. Renji and Rukia sat next to each other, in front of a gigantic screen, a screen that seems creepier than what was happening outside. Zaraki was standing in the middle of the room, with Yachiru on his shoulders. Unohana sat next to Soifon against the wall that was adjacent to the wall of the screen.

A young lady hurried into the room when she found out that she was the only one in the room. It was surprising that all those ringing of the cell phones could not wake her up. Ichigo gave a small chuckle as he walked towards and slid his hand to her waist, keeping her tight beside him.

"What is going to happen, Kurosaki-kun?" Inoue purred while rubbing her sleepy eyes with the back of her hand. The way how cute she looked when wearing her pyjamas and her reactions when she was half-awake was an unbearable sight for Ichigo. No sooner or later if Inoue were to continue acting spoilt in front of Ichigo, he would definitely be unable to resist the temptation to kiss her at least, built up by the activation of the sudden gush of release of his male hormones.

Trying to avert his gaze off her, he looked at the weird screen right in front of them. That brought Inoue to follow where his eyes were looking at in curiosity when she too had noticed the huge screen. She remembered seeing it when Matsumoto and Hitsugaya had carried it back home and placed it at the exact same position where it is now. Maybe, she thought, the screen could only work at that specific position.

An old man on a walking stick greeted the shinigamis who were at the scene right that when Hitsugaya activated the machine. Inoue immediately recognised the old man as the Sou Taichou as she tried to evade from the scene as she bet that it had nothing to do with her. For some reasons, Ichigo did not stop her.

"Inoue Orihime-san, you don't have to go out as it concerned about you humans too," the old man's facial expression had never changed once. It is always as stern and as hilarious-looking for all the while he had made his appearance in Bleach.

"H-hai," Inoue made her way back to Ichigo's side as he no longer held her in his arms. Instead, he had her in his hands as he knew the seriousness of the matter and it was no time for romantic moments.

The old man allowed another man, recognisably from the twelfth squad as seen from their outer appearance. To Inoue, as expected, she had always referred them to as aliens who had invaded Soul Society.

"According to our research, it showed them a huge number of hollows with humongous reiatsu had been notified around the area of Karakura town. The number of hollows kept increasing at a high rate mainly due to the reiatsu left behind after the fight between Kurosaki Ichigo-san and Captain Aizen Sosuke. It would be advisable for captains or the other shinigamis to work in pairs to avoid the number of injured. The forth squad had been notified by this and would be sent to the real world shortly. The other vice-captains had also been notified. As for the remaining fighting force in Soul Society, they would not be sent out before further notice due to the difference in level between them and the hollows and we could not afford to lose many lives in this episode. Report over," the alien-like man in white suit commented as he read off the data he had collected through his analysis.

Without further ado, the captains split themselves into different pairs and went off to fight the hollows at their destinated areas. Ichigo had been assigned with Inoue to work at the area near a construction site where the most number of hollows were. Ichigo held her on her waist with his strong arms as he was prepared to bring Inoue to the site with his shunpo. However, Inoue struggled out from him.

"Kurosaki-kun, p-please go alone and leave me here. I would only cause you more trouble…" Inoue was reluctant fight alongside with Ichigo as she herself was aware of the difference in their power. Her being there would only mean a burden to Ichigo. Given Ichigo's character, he would strive his very best to protect everyone dear to him from the enemies. Inoue knew it all too well and so, she did not want fight with him.

"Y-You wouldn't, I promise," Ichigo could feel the meaning behind those words.

"B-But…"

"No buts," Ichigo insisted.

"Al-right…" Inoue gave in when she sensed the seriousness in her boyfriend's eyes and words. However, she could not help but doubt his promise. For as long as she knew him, he was someone who would rather risk his life to even help a stranger from danger needless to say it was now she herself, his girlfriend.

Ichigo swooped Inoue into a princess carry and carried her with him to the designated site with his shunpo. Along the way, Inoue was taking small glances at her handsome boyfriend and was unknowingly touching his chest with her delicate hands. Ichigo could sense her looking at him every now and then but more importantly, the tingling sensation her hands was giving him with every touch on his chest. It invigorated him way too much that he knew if she were to touch him even faster, he would be able to take control of his male hormones. His heart was beating a little too fast and was afraid and embarrassed if Inoue was to find out that he was blushing. For obvious reasons, he was glad that it was dark then.

With excitement, embarrassment and enjoyment, it soon came to an end when they reached their destination. Ichigo had chose to put Inoue down on a spot that was not very near from the hollows so as to allow her more time to prepare for her attacks. The screaming of the hollows could be heard and that ached Inoue's ears a little. On the other hand, Ichigo had withdrawn his sword, preparing for any sudden attacks.

"Are you ready, Kurosaki-kun?" Inoue asked, placing her hands over her shun-shun-rikka.

"Ah~" Ichigo replied with his signature smirk as he saw the hollows approaching them at lightning speed. Although not expressing it out, Ichigo was quite worried for Inoue as given her speed and abilities, she might not be able to win against those hollows. If she had not requested him to not protect her, he would have gone all out to protect her while killing those hollows out with just a mere swing.

"Tsubaki-kun, koten-sansshun! Santen-kesshun!" Inoue bawled her lungs out as she shot out four petals at one go, protecting herself from behind her shield and slicing the hollows row by row. Ichigo looked at her and felt more at ease. At least, she had showed him that as long as she tried her best, she could still protect herself and he should care more about himself. He smirked and pointed his sword at the enemy closest to him.

"Getsuga TENSHOU!" he exclaimed, blasting out blue flames that came charging at the hollows at light speed. That did all the jobs that he should do while Inoue was still struggling to kill all the hollows at her side. He then leaned against the trunk of a big tree and sighed, thinking about random stuffs, reminiscing the days when he was fighting with Aizen Sosuke.

Just then, an ear-piercing scream jolted him to his senses. His eyes turned to the direction from where the sound was coming from when he saw his dearest girlfriend getting caught by a hollow… No, it should be an adjuchas!

Ichigo was shocked by the scene. He was angry by what the adjuchas was doing. It had its hands on her breasts while its tail haughtily moving down to her sensitive part.

He could not stand his girl getting touched by the others and that includes the monstrous hollows or adjuchas or what-so-ever. He was livid to the extent that he could no longer care about what he was doing or what he was going to do.

Nevertheless, all he did was to use the same tactic again, this time round with more reiatsu and emotions, which solved the problem in a minute. With that, he went over to pick up Inoue back into the princess carry again.

"Ku…ro…saki-kun…." Inoue struggled to pronounce his name. Her breath was getting heavier and heavier with each minute pass and Ichigo was very worried about her. Cold sweats were beginning to form on her forehead and soon rolled off her head and reached Ichigo's robe.

"Hai," Ichigo forced out a gentle smile from his worried-ness. He knew Inoue would not like him to be all worried about her unless she was badly injured.

"I'm alright…" Inoue weakly smiled at him. It made Ichigo felt more reassured and immediately brought her to his father's clinic while Inoue passed out in his arms.

"What happened to her?" Isshin asked his son who looked at extremely worried.

"…I.. I d-don't know either… I heard her screaming and the next moment I knew… she was strangled by the hollow and passed out…" Ichigo tried to explain to his father.

"I get it. I'll do a blood test analysis for her to check her current condition," Isshin said turning his back to face, "Don't worry much. Orihime-chan is a strong willed girl and will definitely to alright. Trust her."

"Trust me, Kurosaki-kun. I would be alright…"

'Yea… She would be alright… She definitely would…' Ichigo tried to assure himself but to no avail. Inoue was after all someone dear to him.

Meanwhile, the others were fighting…

"Taichou~, why wouldn't you let me take part in this fight?" Matsumoto grunted.

Hitsugaya had thought that it would be faster if he were to keep Matsumoto out of the fight and handle the hollows in a swing than allowing Matsumoto to fight alongside with him, interfering his moves.

"Just shaddap can't you?" Hitsugaya's ears was beginning to ache from all of Matsumoto's grunts and he blew up in the end. Sometimes, having an old lady as your subordinate would be of great nuisance.

On the other hand, Renji and Byakuya seemed to have no problem in dealing with the hollows together…

"Howl, Zabimaru!"

"Scatter, Senbonzakura."

An extended sword cut through the hollows one by one, while thousands of pink petals danced in the atmosphere as if it was of no harm. In fact, with those little petals of his, Byakuya managed to kill more hollows than Renji.

"As expected from Kuchiki-taichou, you've killed one more hollow than me!" Renji showed a good-job sign with his thumb at Byakuya.

Byakuya, although baffled by his compliements, decided to remain calm and unaffected, and told Renji to move off then…

Back to Karakura Town Clinic, where Ichigo was waiting for Inoue's report…

Ichigo immediately jumped up from the sofa when Isshin came out of his room with a handful of papers.

"How's it?" Ichigo asked with worried-looking eyes. Isshin was almost stunned by it as it was the first time Ichigo was acting like this, after his mother's death.

"It seems like Orihime-chan was poisoned by the enemy… Relax, this poison had already been removed out from her body so she would be coming around in a moment," Isshin commented while giving a pat on his son's shoulder.

"Thanks, Dad!"

For the first time, Ichigo called his own father, dad.

'But what could that poison be? No matter how I look at it, it just seemed more than ordinary to me. It is a really strong one but to think that Orihime-chan could survive from it, that's ridiculous…. Or could it be that the poison would only cause harm to shinigamis?' Isshin thought.

"Kurosaki-san! Ikkaku seemed to be poisoned! His face had changed colour!" Ayasegawa came charging in with an unconscious, purple-faced Ikkaku.

'Just as I thought… A disaster is coming…' Isshin thought.


End of chapter 2 :X Reviews please and thanks for reading! Stay tuned for chapter 3 as it is coming up soon! I would try to upload one chapter every two days!