Note: I am redoing some chapters. Fixing bad grammar mistakes which I can see and putting in words I may have left out or missed in these beginning chapters. Enjoy the touch up!

Hellllllllooooooo everyone! Orion is back once again and updating her stories along with releasing a band knew one! Now I notice something... every time I try to be serious with my themes people stay clear so i come to learn that all of you like my witty humor. So Now I plan to give you more of it in the form of a bleach fanfic!

Now do not fear. As this may be a IchigoXOC fic you will not be handed some goddess like being who is so powerful she is like old man yamamoto mixed with grandma Tsunada from Naruto. I refuse to do that!

So I hope all of you will come to love Rei. A girl we can relate to personality wise. Who has a slight ability (Like everyone else in the bleach world) and teenage issues.

Also do not fear. I do not plan to hack the bleach story line to pieces. You shall get your bleach and your romance too.

Enjoy!

P.S. Your reviews get you chapters. I tend to delete stories that get no reviews. XD

This is rated M for violence, cursing, and future... well why spoil the surprise.

Welcome to chapter two. This one is a hell of a lot longer in my book. Personally I think it is, I worked on this chapter for a week. Anyway.

If you have made it pass my crazy humor then power to you. This time our main character makes it to her new home. Now as I said before she will not be Mary Sue... in fact her relationship with our young hero will not start off all peachy.

Why I am telling you this...oh yes to make you read excitedly. Now the first two chapters are usually my slowest. If you have read my other stories you know they tend to pick up faster around chapter 3-4ish.

Anyway enjoy.

Chapter 2: Home Coming

You know what's weird; being on a plane and everyone next to you is an American tourist while people in the other rows are natives going home. It's like we were grouped into these seating arrangements just so we can fit in with the people we're around. I don't know how many times I had to explain I wasn't a tourist or how I managed to learn how to speak Japanese within a year or how I still can't read Japanese symbols yet. Yes I can't read symbols; I don't even know how to write them correctly! But if it's in English letters I can read it even my speech isn't completely correct. Yeah sorry I am not some wiz at Japanese after all this was all forced on me.

As all of you may already know I am moving to Japan for safety issues; my mom is insane on using that as a reason for moving; and I am on a God forsaken plane with a whole bunch of tourist and people chatting away and I have to deal with this for two days. A two day flight of this; someone! Help me!

Okay maybe the flight wasn't all that bad. I happened to be able to pass out during much of it due to the boring movies they decided to give us a choice on watching. Landing was simple enough; we hit the ground, parked, and slowly got off. Not much too it expect watching a grown women hug a huge pillar inside the airport for a whole ten minutes. That woman was my very own mother. Did I mention she's afraid of heights; funny really. Now much to my surprise this wasn't farm country. I thought I would be seeing cows go by once I stepped out of this place and I saw roads. Telephone poles. Houses that aren't made of wood panels. Okay this I can deal with; looks like a suburban normal place. Maybe I won't stick out as much!

Well so much for that idea. As we loaded the cab with the few pieces of luggage that we did have people kept staring at us; namely me. Maybe red does stick out in a town filled with blacks and browns. So I stood out like a sore thumb; awesome. Maybe I should nickname myself cherry and put on shows twice a week; I am sure I'll get a good crowd. After the long ride of the cab driver staring at me and my beast through his mirror; I told you they were my worst enemy; we finally made it home. My mom seemed to conveniently moved across the street from a doctor's office. Well, there goes me playing sick.

Unpacking was uneventful but finding our bedrooms was. My brother and I just happened to want the second biggest bedroom and we just happened to get into a huge fight and then we just totally start insulting each other but in the end I won the room. Why? Because I was a girl. Now I know that sexist but hey, as a girl I have a lot of things which I need a place for. Now after we got most of our packing done the next step was to sit on the floor and eat dinner. It wasn't our choice; our furniture wasn't going to delivered till next week and we wouldn't go food shopping till Friday so we had take-out!

"Now I am sure you both are wondering about school." How my mom loved to talk about education.

"I know it's hard for us since we are in a new country and the language will be difficult to fully understand but I found a public school that promised to treat you both equally and help with the language barrier."

"Mama you are so thoughtful! I don't know what Rei and I would do without you."

What a god damn suck-up!

"Thank you Patrick. Now the high school is the local one about five blocks or so away. I figured public school would help you socialize better." Why is she staring at me as she says this? I am sociable…sometimes.

"Oh mom, we won't let you down! I promise we won't!"

Rolling my eyes I took a bite out of my sandwich. "Suck-up"

"I may be a suck-up but at least I don't talk with my mouth fill."

So my manners aren't classy? I am with family damn it! I will do what I want!

The doorbell ringing stopped me from sending an insult to this moron. The look on my mother's face told me she wanted me to asker it so I did. Only to be greeted by… nothing?

"Welcome!"

Looking down I saw a short girl. Her hair was...brown? Dirty blond? I wasn't sure. "Hello?"

"Welcome to the neighborhood!" She held up a cake which I gladly took. It looked good!

"We are your neighbors from across the street! I am Yuzu Kurosaki! I welcome you on behalf of my family." Awwww she's cute. That smile and innocent glow. I could hug her to death!

"Tha-nks." I still wasn't use to speaking Japanese.

She just smiled brighter, bowed and left. Guess from my accent she could tell I was a foreigner. I watched her cross the street and greet a boy walking her way. She hugged him; most likely her bro; but dude; his hair. It's freaking orange! Like not a red-orange or a pale almost blond orange it was freaking carrot orange! Like… the orange from a candy carrot you get on Halloween! Was it a dye job gone bad? I couldn't tell from where I was. All I know is that it had me staring with intense interest.

He then turned and our eyes met. Well… I was still amazed by the hair. He seemed to notice that and glared. Ok so maybe it wasn't a bad dye job and meant it. Ok I am all for it. I then gave him the rock and roll sign and nodded. He looked confused but who cares. This was my way of saying "Screw the norms of society your hair is cool!" and walked inside. Rock on orange boy, rock on.

There are some things I would never understand about Japanese culture and society. I am going to a public school. P-U-B-L-I-C….public; why do I have to wear a uniform? Haven't they heard of freedom of expression? I can't even wear a boy's uniform; I have to wear some weird mini skirt that I am going to freeze my ass in during winter and they act like it's no big deal. How crappy. My brother however seemed to love his new uniform. I can understand why, this bastard was making every girl go hearty eyed and follows him like lost puppies. One day I will break that bubble of his. Its Tuesday, we spent Monday shopping and getting ready for school. My brother and I will be in different classes and to that I am grateful. Last thing I need is having girls asking me questions of my prick brother.

"Well I leave you here Rei; I have to look good for the ladies and let them know I am the new single cool kid. So catch you later."

I think I just developed an eye twitch. Yup I did. "Jackass."

Getting to class was fun. I got lost like twice and when I got to my homeroom the teacher or sensei… which ever told me to wait outside. Looks like I have a fun teacher who wants me to introduce myself once the whole class is settled down; oh goody!

"Class today we have a student joining us all the way from America! She's not use to our culture and hasn't spoken the language very long so I want all of you to help her."

Yay I sound like a hopeless sheep to all my classmates. "Please welcome Thomason-chan." Chan? Dah hell? Oh never mind.

Walking in I felt the stare of every student. It started from my height, to my eyes and lastly my hair. "Thomason-Chan, please introduce yourself."

Now I never bowed before and I wasn't about to. Hell if I did it wrong I am sure it would offend them. So standing up straight I took a deep breath.

"Hi, I am Rei Thomason; please call me Rei for I am use to my first name being used not my last. I hope to get the pleasure of eating all of you."

That's when they all looked…scared? What? Did I have a bug on me or something? Did I come off scary and loud?

"Tho-Rei-Chan." Even the teacher seemed nervous. "Eat all of us?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I want to eat and get along with everyone."

"Don't you mean meet?"

I blinked and thought about it for a second. Digging into my pocket I took out my Japanese to English translation booklet. Don't judge me.

"Ooooh I got the words mixed up." I said this in English which threw more people off.

"Sorry, my Japanese still sucks." I tried my best to explain in their language which they seemed to understand for a few nodded.

Clapping the teacher went back to her happy self. "Now that's cleared up! How about we sit you next to Orihime Inoue. Inoue-Chan please raise your hand."

She did and I went to the sit next to her-HOLY CRAP! I thought my boobs were huge! She freaking beats me! Well then…note to self, the breast problem could be worse then what I first thought. But at the same time I was depressed, I was no longer the champion of cleavage. I have finally been beaten. She smiled and waved to me once I sat down. Being nice and putting aside my defeat I waved back with a smile. This won't be so bad after all. But then I noticed something orange behind Orihime. A ball of fluffy orange. Two desks down to Orihime's left was Orange boy! We're in the same class! Sweet! Maybe I find the reason behind the hair! Damn! From this far I still can't tell if it's dyed or not! Orange boy…I will find what is up with that hair! Oh hey! There's a ghost hanging outside the window next to him. Damn, I wish I could tell if it was a girl or boy. I hate seeing these burry shades.

Shrugging it off and started paying attention to the class. I had to focus extra hard. Hmmm what kind of math of this? Oh I seen this math before; it was in my dad's old college math books. Wait…college math?! Don't tell me American's are that far before behind! Oh Damn. I know what I am failing.

Want to know something cool about Japanese schools? They have twenty minute breaks between every class! I always wondered why their days were so long and hey I don't mind! It's lunch time now and thankfully I have lunch with me. I have to say I really stick out. Everyone else has that lunch box thing. I have a poptart, a ham-sandwich, and a Pepsi. I feel like a dork.

"Good afternoon Thomason-Chan!" Whoa! Where did the preppy voice come from? Oh; its Orihime.

"Hi Orihime, please call Rei. As you can tell I am not familiar with Japanese formals…" I spoke as slowly as possible. I really didn't want to screw up this time.

She just smiled and sat down next to me with some girl with short black hair. "It's ok. We understand. This is Tatsuki Arisawa. "

The girl named Tatsuki sat next to me with a grin. "Hi! So what's it's like in America? What are the sports like?"

"Hello Tatsuki" always make it a point to say a name so you can remember. "Sports are very big. Like what you call football we call soccer and there's a channel for every sport."

Tatsuki seemed to be enjoying the thought of having every sport at her fingertips. I hope she doesn't ask me more about them because I really hate sports. I find them very boring to watch and annoying to play mainly because I suck at all of them.

"That has to be cool." She mumbled to herself.

"So Rei-Chan!" Please don't use chan. Makes me feel like a kid; but I guess I'll just leave it be. "How do you like class so far?"

"It's different. In America classes are back to back unless you're in college. We never get breaks like this; only for lunch."

They both looked scared of that idea and who wouldn't be if they're not use to it. Ah the culture gap. Isn't it wonderful?

"Wow; so what did you bring for lunch." Before I could answer Tatsuki Orihime answered.

"I brought bread and red bean paste!" She was seriously holding up a loaf of bread and a huge tube of what I guess to be the paste.

"Your lunches are as weird as ever Orihime."

Would it be odd to say I wanted to try that?

"Oh, hey, Ichigo!" Tatsuki waved her arm over. "Stop being a stick in the mud and come say hello to the new girl!"

And there he was. The boy who's hair was as orange as well…an orange! Up close and personal! I could get a good view of it now!

"Ichigo; this is Rei. Rei; this is Ichigo Kurosaki."

"Oh hey, your that girl I-HEY!"

I had to do it! I stood up and grabbed his head. I had to see if it really was what I think it was.

"WOW! Your hair is really orange, orange-boy!"

Well…this won't end well.

As you can see Rei... is not so bright... at all. And she has a comment about everything. XD Chapter 3 will be out shorty do not fear. I have many ideas and I want to get them out quickly before they fly away.

Thanks for reading and please, your reviews and crits are always welcomed and used.