Alright well the count was 4 to 3. the storyline of Ichigo going to search for the cure won got the 4 votes. To clear up things about the Rukia storyline: In the first story I wrote a part about how she would hook up with the strongest shinigami. I was going to incorporate that into this story. I was going to have Rukia take the journey to get the cure, and while she is searching, she runs into a shinigami she knows. Then as they travel together, the other shinigami starts to ask her if she really has feelings for Ichigo or not. She is reluctant to answer, because she herself does not know if she got with Ichigo because of that or cause she really did love him.

So anywayz. On to the story.

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"Ichigo look out!"

Ichigo kneeled on the ground. His eyes widened with fear. He quickly focused his attention on the fading hollow and struck it with such great force, the street beneath it split where his sword landed. He stood there and waited for the hollow to disappear completely, and then he quickly ran back to the injured Rukia. He kneeled down next to her body and ripped off some of his clothing so he could wrap it around Rukia's left arm, where the needles struck her.

"Idiot. Why did you do that!?" Ichigo yelled. Rukia smiled at him as she held onto her arm. He looked down at her arm. Her blood thoroughly soaked her clothes. He held her in his arms as he tried to stop the blood from flowing.

"Stop bleeding!!!" Ichigo had a bewildered expression on his face. Rukia was struggling to move her body. The injury was much worse than it had appeared to be. Ichigo had no idea why until Rukia spoke.

"Ic…chi..go… It..s… poi…son" Poison. The words struck him hard. Ichigo froze up. He didn't know how to react. He began to shake his head repeating over and over again "No… no…" Just then Kon-Ichigo came running out of nowhere.

"Ichigo! What happened?" He yelled as he ran up to them. "Rukia-san! Quick! We need to get her to Urahara's shop." Kon-Ichigo said. Ichigo looked up at him. He had that facial expression that showed he felt weak in this situation. Kon-Ichigo quickly picked up Rukia and began to carry her on his back to Urahara's shop. Ichigo stood there watching as Kon jumped from building to building. 'Poison…'

When they arrived at Urahara's shop, Kon quickly ran inside. Urahara could see he was worried about something as Ichigo landed outside of their store. He quickly led Kon-Ichigo into one of the rooms. Ichigo slowly walked into the store. He had a distant look in his eyes. He couldn't get that word out of his head. 'Poison…'

Kon-Ichigo quickly, yet gently laid Rukia down on the mat. Urahara took a long look at her injury before he started to tend to it. He went into the other room and came back with a bag of medical equipment. He began to inspect Rukia's gash in her arm. Ichigo stood outside of the store staring up at the sky.

"This isn't good." He said. "It Tsu-getsi Poison." Everyone loudly gasped.

"Wait." Kon-Ichigo said. "What's so bad about that?" Urahara turned around and glared at him. His eyes were on fire. "I was going to get to that before I was rudely interrupted." Kon-Ichigo took a step back, feeling weak in the knees.

"Now, as I was saying, Tsu-getsi poison is one of the worse types of poison because the antidote is an herb that is only found in soul society."

"So… we can just go to soul society and go look for it."

"Baka!" Urahara hit Kon-Ichigo upside the head.

"It's a very rare herb I'm afraid. It's found only in one place. It's surrounded by a very strong force field. There's no way we can get in." Urahara's eyes were covered by his hat. Kon had a worried look on his face. He looked over at Rukia who laid there helpless.

"So there's no way to get that herb?" Kon-Ichigo asked. Urahara sat there for a moment before he coughed

"It's nearly impossible to get to it." He simply said. Kon lowered his head as he walked out of the room.

"Kon." He stopped in his tracks and turned around. Urahara threw a map at him. He told him to give it to Ichigo so that he could find the way. He went outside and found Ichigo standing there still looking up at the sky. He walked over to Ichigo and placed a hand on his shoulder. Ichigo didn't move. His eyes never left the clouds.

"Ichigo…" Kon said. He tried to think of words to comfort him, but nothing came to him.

"Ichigo. I wish I knew what you are feeling right now, but being a mod-soul, I wasn't raised to have feelings for other beings. But, Urahara said that there might be a way to save Rukia." For the first time Ichigo took his eyes away from the skies and looked at Kon-Ichigo.

"He told us that it's a rare poison, and that there is a cure. The only problem is that there is a force field surrounding it and it will be impossible to break through."

"Bullshit. Nothing is impossible." Ichigo said abruptly. Kon knew that he would say that so he figured it was no use in fighting back. He reached into pocket and withdrew a folded piece of paper.

"Here." Kon stated. "It's a map that leads to the herb. Hurry up and get it before Rukia dies. Urahara said he would stay and take care of her. I'll stay here and keep a watch over her." Ichigo nodded as a sign of thanks as he ran into the store to find Urahara. When he did, Urahara used Benihime to open up the portal to Soul Society, and Ichigo jumped in.

When he arrived in Soul Society, he took out the map and began to read it. When he got a sense of where he was, he started out on his journey. 'I'll get that antidote, Rukia. Just hold on. I won't let you die.'