So it's frowned upon to work with a blind eye due to surgery (Stupid, I know) so more frequent chapters since I'm stuck here with the unemployed Samanchan.
P.S. She's my roommate. And she's been typing nonstop for two days. So I expect something interesting coming out of it.
This chapter is short because, I dont have a reason, this just felt...right?
"How did you do it? How? How I ask!?" A girl in their class kept asking to Momo, it turned out that Ichigo was one of the most sought after guys at the school, and Momo caught him.
"Kiyone-chan is right! How did you of all people get Kurosaki-kun as your boyfriend?" Momo was being bombarded with questions since new of their relationship spread like wildfire. Ichigo and Rukia were in the principal's office explaining why Gin was stabbed and Sosuke almost thrown off the building.
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"So it was completely self defense? Wait no, that doesn't matter, how long have you two been carrying weapons to school?" Principal Kyoraku was questioning them with the vice principal Jushiro Ukitake.
"I carry a sleeve gun, I've carried the same one for five years. Here." Ichigo rolled up his sleeve and removed the revolver and took the remaining two bullets out of it and put it on the desk with the bullets next to it.
"Where is the third?"
"In someone's head somewhere. I'm sure you saw the news. Yes, that was my gun that got him."
"Uh-huh…that was self-defense, clearly. He had a gun at your head. Now would you mind telling why you fractured one of Gin Ichimaru's ribs and nearly threw Sosuke Aizen off the roof?"
"He asked Mo-Hinamori-san to do indecent actions, and he verbally abused her. I did what any good boyfriend should do, I took out the trash for his girlfriend. And don't put it all on me, Rukia was the one who stabbed Gin. Speaking of which. Give him the knife."
"I…fine…" Rukia didn't like when she didn't have that knife, it belonged to her real brother and Ichigo kept it until Rukia was fifteen then he gave it to her. She put the knife on the desk, she didn't even clean the blood off of it yet.
"So why are you two carrying these weapons…?" Ukitake asked as he picked up the knife and started wiping away the blood with a blank paper.
"You need to promise that nobody will know about this. I honestly hate this, but it's the reality of it." Ichigo thought they would overreact so he really doesn't want to tell them.
"Yes, nothing leaves this office."
"I'm the next head of the Shiba Syndicate. My father is Isshin Shiba, or Kurosaki, I use my mother's name because I don't like being Yakuza. The gun is merely for protection, I haven't fired it for about a year until that day. Rukia carries that knife around because it belongs to her real brother, he died a long time ago." Ichigo explained slowly, Rukia has yet to even make eye contact with anyone, she was still hurt about what Ichigo said to Momo. He would never leave her.
'I need to make her leave him. He said he wouldn't stop her if it's what she wanted…but he's perfect, there isn't anything I can tell her that would…No. That would do it.' Rukia was busy ignoring the others and trying to think of a way to get Momo to leave Ichigo. She wasn't going to sit by and let a new girl swoop in and steal him before she had a chance to say anything. But she didn't know that Ichigo knew she liked him. She didn't know that he thought she was pretty, that he might have small feelings for her, despite him believing her his sister.
"Well. That certainly opens a new window. Is that why your official record is blacked out, you don't have an address, a phone number, any contact info, just a picture and a birthdate." Kyoraku said as he opened a file with many black marks on it and a picture of Ichigo next to his name and birthdate. Behind that paper were the many offenses he has got against him in the past two years.
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"I would like to introduce a new transfer student, she comes from America. Please treat her with respect. You can come in now." Nanao Ise, the acting homeroom teacher started and introduced the new student to everyone. The door opened and the blue haired heterochromatic girl walked in.
"My name is Apacci Emilou, nice to meet ya." She wrote her name on the board and went to an empty seat.
"Ah…excuse me Emilou-san, that is Kurosaki-kun's seat." Orihime spoke up.
"Well that idiot is probably going to jail, so I think I'll sit here." She smiled at Orihime and then put her head down, not caring for much of anything.
"Apacci, out of my seat." Ichigo and Rukia came in like nothing happened, he got his pistol back and she got her knife after he explained that his father requires them to carry some protection because people might try and kill them. However, he did agree to start carrying a knife instead of a gun. He didn't get the bullets back. Rukia went to her seat and Ichigo was standing next to Momo and his seats, they happened to sit next to each other.
"Oh, Ichi-kun, don't be like that…" Apacci complained.
"I will be like that, I was one bad excuse form the police taking us away. Don't push me right now."
'He seems really mad…Oh…I wish he sat next to me…' Tatsuki thought as she watched Ichigo stare down his cousin.
"You guys seem close, what's the deal?" A boy came up and asked, short brown hair, green eyes. Ichigo doesn't look at him but responds anyway.
"She lives with me, we're cousins."
"WHAT!?" Everyone shouts at the same time, a few girls pushed Ichigo aside to get over to her and ask questions. Ichigo sighed and found what should have been her seat. Behind Tatsuki.
"I guess I'll be here today." He said to her with a smile.
"Ah, eh…y-yeah…that."
"Are you okay?"
"Mhm…" she gave a fake smile and looked at his eyes. She loved the color of them, brown with a bit of yellow.
"Hey, I was wondering, are you going to be home or at the dojo tonight?" Ichigo asked as he waved his hand at her.
"Uh…my house…why?"
"Good."
"Eh?! What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, there's something I want to show you, I'll come by tonight and show you at your house, less chance of an interruption if we're there."
'What does…WHA…My house…alone with Ichigo…and he doesn't want to be interrupted?' Tatsuki blushed and her mind exploded with a sudden realization. She thinks he's talking about sex. Of course he isn't, but she thinks he is.
"G…great…what t-time?" She asked while turning her face from him.
"About…nine. I have some things to get done before I can do anything."
'Nine!? Why so late!?'
"HEY ICHIGO! Why didn't you tell me that your cousin that was visiting you was so cute?" Keigo Asano. Ichigo's most annoying friend who is a large pervert, shouted.
"Because it's you Keigo! I didn't want you following her around like a lost puppy!" Ichigo joked back and laughed, he never smiled for real at school, just a fake one to fool his friends. The only one to actually get him to smile is Momo. A few times Rukia, because of something stupid she did and he was laughing at her, and once in a while at Orihime's childish ways. Never to Tatsuki.
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"Okay…come on…I…guys, I have to go home…" Apacci was trying to get away from the crowd of boys she attracted.
"Wow…Hey Momo, do you want me to walk you home?" Ichigo said as he approached Momo and Isane.
"No, that's fine we aren't going home right now, I'm going with Isane to her stupid candy store."
"URAHARA'S SHOP IS NOT STUPID!"
"You actually go to him? I was beginning to think I was his only customer. Tell that Idiot I said hey." Ichigo bent down and kissed Momo on the cheek before leaving. He went over to the group of boys and cleared his throat, they all moved, he took Apacci by the arm and started walking, Rukia was doing something with a club so she was staying after school. So it was jut Ichigo and Apacci, he didn't want to be alone with her, but his father would chew him out if he let her get lost.
"So…Ichi-kun…we're alone now…so now I can ask you something I've wanted to all day."
"Eh, great…what?"
"When we get home will you fuck the shit out of me again?" She didn't know that it wasn't him who did it. It has always been Shirosaki who did anything with her. Ichigo said nothing but kept walking. "HEY RESPOND TO ME!"
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"Hello Urahara-san." Isane greeted the eccentric candy shop owner with a smile.
"Ooooh, Isane-chan~! How nice to see you again, and you brought Momo-chan again, did you force her to come back, I don't remember her as much of a sweets lover, although…I did get a shipment of watermelon by mistake if you would like some."
"W-watermelon? Yes, how much!? Oh, Ichigo says hi!" Momo loves watermelon. If she could, she would eat it for all meals.
"Oh, that's right Isshin told me that you two started going out…in which case…the melon are free for you. I'll make Mr. Strawberry pay for them when he comes for his Manga tomorrow."
"Oh…he likes manga?" Momo asked, she still doesn't know much about his hobbies.
"Yeah, he comes in every Tuesday, buys some Manga, and about a few pounds of candy. Enough to kill someone as skinny as he is, I guess that candy is for his sister. I think she said she has a sweet tooth." He waved his trademark fan at Momo who looked like she had just won an award. She loved learning new things about Ichigo, well, the things that didn't involve Yakuza.
"Thank you Urahara-san!" Momo took two watermelon from the basket that he had. One in each arm. Isane was browsing the candy selection, she had a big sweet tooth. Usually it would be her mother to go with her, but her mother was working this afternoon.
"No thanks needed. Oh, how is Retsu doing?"
"She's fine, she's just a bit paranoid about Ichigo since nobody knows about who he is except me and maybe a few others."
"Not many people do…Does he still carry the pistol in his sleeve…doesn't he get bored of long sleeves?" Urahara is one of the people who know about Ichigo.
"How do you know?"
"I've known his father since high school, so it's only natural to know about your friends when you know them that long."
"Okay! I got what I wanted!" Momo turned to Isane to see what she got. In her arms was about four pounds of chocolate and other candy.
"Eh…Urahara-san…do you mind making Ichigo pay for this…? I still don't have a job and I didn't get much money from my mom."
"Ah, that's no problem, with his job he makes a good bit of money, he doesn't want me to tell people where he works though, I might suggest that you try to work at that karaoke place downtown, it's called Gotei 13, an interesting name to say the least. I know that they are hiring." He gave her a goofy smile and pushed them out the door.
"he's so weird…" Momo mumbled to herself.
"So, Gotei 13, I heard that its popular with the third years." Isane said. "you should go by once you drop off the melons at home."
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"Hmm…This is the place?" Momo was standing outside of Gotei 13, it was a small building with a white sign with music notes. She went through the door and there were people laughing and signing some listening to one person in the main room, there were private rooms with people in them, not very crowded, but busy enough.
"Welcome to Gotei 13! Do you need help finding a party?" A girl in a black kimono came up to her and smiled. She had long turquoise hair and her eyes were closed so Momo couldn't see them.
"Umm…no, I'm here for the job, is there still an opening?" Momo asked, looking around, noticing that there weren't any other people who looked like this girl.
"Ah yes! All you need to do is greet people and seat them, can you do that? Oh and be friendly!"
'Her voice is that of a child…' Momo thought to herself.
"I can, um…don't I need to speak to the owner?"
"She's not here right now, but I'm sure she'll like you, you're pretty cute, I doubt there would be any problems…hmm…can you work tonight? We're understaffed, and I'm the only host here right now."
"I…guess so, till what time?"
"Only until eight! You look like you're a high school student so I don't want to keep you out too late. Follow me!" She grabs Momo's hand and takes her through a door to the side. "I never got your name, what is it?"
"Momo Hinamori, and you?"
"Nelliel Tu Oderschvank! Nice to meet you!"
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"Nelliel! Thank you for giving me the job! I'll be back tomorrow to talk with the owner about what days!" Momo called as she left, it was eight and her shift was over, Nelliel waved back and smiled. She turned and went to tend to a customer who wanted another drink.
"Hinamori-san? Is that you?" The voice was Orihime's.
"Hime-chan? What are you doing here?" Momo asked as she hugged Orihime.
"I was just walking around, buying some stuff." She held up a bag with mushrooms, broccoli and chocolate.
"Oh that's nice…hey, do you know if Ichigo has a job?" Momo asked her friend, they started walking back in the direction of their houses. Orihime lived a few blocks away from Momo.
"Hmm…Kurosaki-kun said he…was…I don't remember…he said it so quietly and wouldn't repeat it…I think he might have said busboy? Not sure…?"
"Oh that's okay, he isn't one to share with people…I just wish he would at least tell me." Momo sighed and looked up at the sky.
'I wish I could fly, the clouds and birds are so care-free…'
"Hey! I have an idea! Why don't we go visit him!" Orihime knew about Ichigo's family, in fact she was one of the only people that he allowed to even enter the grounds of the huge mansion like house. Rangiku, Orihime, Renji and now Momo.
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"Huh? What do you mean he isn't here?"
"I'm sorry, but he left a while ago saying he was going to a friend's house!" One of the men in the syndicate was kneeling before them.
"Oh…okay then, can you make sure he gets this when he gets back?" Orihime dug in her bag and pulled out a piece of broccoli and gave it to the man.
"Eh? I…Of course! Young Master will receive this broccoli!"
'I wonder what he is doing…and with who?' Momo thought to herself. She couldn't help but still be jealous of Rukia. 'Wait…'
"Whose house did he say he was going to?" Momo asked him as he stood up; he got back down and answered.
"I believe he said something about Tatsuki Arisawa."
'Oh that's good…but still…'
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Tatsuki was going insane cleaning her room, and putting away her clothes, picking up her underwear off the ground, shoving it into drawers. She was cleaning too quickly and noticed that she was sweating.
"NO. I need a shower!" Tatsuki shouted as she looked in the mirror. She was really nervous about having Ichigo over, sure he's been there other times, but with Renji and Orihime. Never alone. She ran into the bathroom and stripped down. Turning on the water and jumping in, luckily she didn't mind the cold, anyone else would have jumped right back out. After washing for about ten minutes she jumps out and wraps the towel around herself. She ran across the hall and into her room.
"I'm Here!" Ichigo called as he opened the door.
"The hell do you think your doing, not knocking when you enter my house!?" Tatsuki shouted and then slammed the door.
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"That…was amazing…when did you learn how to do that?" Tatsuki was lying face down on her couch and Ichigo was standing above her.
"I wanted to learn how, since…I don't need to explain, so you liked it, right?"
Ichigo gave Tatsuki a massage; he wanted to know if someone found it pleasurable before he tried it on Momo.
"So, you couldn't have told me you wanted to give me a massage earlier?"
'It was amazing…I just wish tha-'
"Yeah, I didn't want anyone to hear me in class, and…OH RIGHT! I brought you something, here." He reached into the bag he brought and pulled out a Manga and video game. "You said you wanted to borrow these, right?"
"Uh, wow, you actually were listening to me?"
"I hear everything my friends say. I have to go now. I need to give something to Momo." He picked up his bag and left.
'Just…what was he accomplishing in giving me a massage…?'
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"Momo! You have a visitor!" Isane shouted from the door, Ichigo stopped by to give her something.
"Who? Oh, Hi Ichigo!" She ran over and threw her arms around him, he did the same, rubbing the top of her head.
"Hey Momo, hope you don't mind that it's so late, I brought this for you. Oh and I heard you got a job at Gotei 13. Good luck, the owner is a bit crazy."
"How did you…" Momo was beginning to think that he was following her.
"Nel thought she recognized you, she lives near my house and saw you go in the other day. So she called me and told me." Ichigo started digging in his back and pulled out a small box. It was a new phone in the same model of her old one.
"You actually got me a new phone…you didn't have to." Momo blushed a little and turned to her mother who was just watching with a smile.
"Yes I did. And I'm sorry you had to watch that earlier. I promise it won't happen again in front of you. See you tomorrow its late. Good night."
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"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, it was just a little poke." Gin was sitting in the hospital bed on the phone with Aizen. He called to see when he would be released.
"I'm sure…well, when you figure out when they are releasing you, tell me, then we can get the show on the road." Aizen said, with an evil overlord type feel to his voice.
"You got it. Oh, before I forget, you said you knew his secret? What would that b- No, just talking to my sister!" Gin was interrupted by a nurse asking if it was his parents she wanted to speak with them for something. "What would it be?"
"No idea. But I know he's hiding something. And I'm pretty sure I can get little Momo to tell me it."
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"Akira-chan, hi!" Momo saw her friend and ran up to her, it was really early, her clock was wrong and she got to school too early.
"Oh…Hinamori-san you're here early." She said coldly. She didn't like how it was Momo who Ichigo chose.
'Why did she call me Hinamori…?'
"Do you mind following me for a minute?" Akira Homura. A girl in class 2-3 who also likes Ichigo. Momo nods and follows her into the school. And through the halls into the girls bathroom on the third floor.
"What did you need?"
"Break up with Ichigo Kurosaki!" Her words struck Momo like an arrow. They have been friends since before high school.
"W-why…Why would I do that!?"
"You don't deserve him! You're not even that pretty! Short. He's six feet and has to bend over to kiss you! He doesn't even like you, I bet! Just another replacement for her!"
"I…don't…replacement…what are you…what are you talking about!?" Momo's face was red with anger at her friend, and twisted in confusion.
"You don't even know about her! And you call yourself his girlfriend! How dare you! You foul bitch!" On her last sentence she slapped Momo across the face. "How dare you play around and show him off like a trophy!"
"Akira-chan…wh…why a-are you doing this!?" Momo fell to her knees and started to cry, she really believed Akira was her friend.
"WHY AM I DOING THIS!? I told you bitch! Two years ago! I said that I liked Ichigo! And you said that you wou-"
"What's all this yelling?" A teacher shouted from the hall as she came in to see Momo on her knees crying and Akira standing there with a balled up fist pulled back about to strike.
"Cyan-sensei!" Momo called out to the tall woman with olive hair and lavender eyes which both surprisingly were natural.
"Homura-san, if you don't give me a good reason why she's crying and you were about to hit her, you will be put before the principal." Sung-Sun Cyan, the Chinese born history teacher was calm and collected about nearly every matter.
"I…" Akira could not come up with anything to say to the woman who gave of an air of 'do what I say' instead she just lowered her fist.
'Damn it! If that bitch teacher hadn't come…!' She thought to herself.
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"Now, now, Akira-san, you were a model student, top ten in the class, and now you're violently assaulting smaller girls in the bathroom? What sent you over the edge?" Kyoraku was wearing an eye-patch because he got attacked by a cat and it got blinded. He was questioning Akira while Momo was in Ukitake's separate office.
"She called me a…"
"It's okay, I won't punish you for foul language, speak up.
"She called me a foul bitch and so I put her in her place."
"I don't think Momo would do such a thing, for one, you're a foot taller, two, you're a second degree black belt… and lastly…she doesn't say the truth if it hurts someone."
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"Now Hinamori-san. Is this true? She cornered you and verbally assaulted you, then slapped you, that's when Cyan-sensei found you two?" Ukitake asked Momo who still had a red face and teary eyes but wasn't crying anymore.
"I have no reason to lie to you. That's what happened." She didn't know that in the other room Akira said that Momo insulted her. Momo didn't say what she said about Ichigo.
"Well, now all that is left is to see if the stories match. And then we'll act on which we feel is true."
"Yes."
"Jushiro, we're done." Kyoraku poked his head in and said he was done asking Akira questions, Ukitake nodded and motioned for Momo to get up and follow him into the main principal's office. Ukitake and Kyoraku whispered to each other what they had heard and then nodded.
"Both of you…told opposite stories. And we decided that Momo is not lying."
"That's bull! How do you come up with that?" Akira shouted with her hands in fists.
"We figured we would test reactions from you, Momo is still sitting there politely silent, looking sad. And you just look angry and yelled at us. I'm sure if I said that she was lying her reaction would have just been surprised, not violent like yours. Akira, we're going to have a little talk with you, Momo, you can go home for today, I'll say you were sick."
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"Damn, Rukia…Apacci, just ignore each other, can you? For me?" Ichigo was getting annoyed at the constant fighting from the two. He was on his way into the school and wasn't paying attention when he bumped into Momo, knocking her down.
"Ah…who? Ichigo?"
"Oh, sorry! Momo, are you okay?" He offered his hand down to her and she reached for it, but as she got closer she pulled away.
"Ye-yeah…I'm fine! I just feel a bit sick, so I'm heading home…" She got up and tried going past him but he grabbed her arm.
"Wait…you look like you were crying, is something wrong?"
"N-no! I'm fine! I just need to go home and rest…" She pulled her arm away and kept walking.
'A replacement. Am I just a replacement? Would…does he like me…or am…who am I replacing?' Momo was beginning to doubt Ichigo's feelings, and her own. 'What if what she said is true…I'll go visit his father…'
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"Oh, Momo-chan? What do you ne-wait, school, why aren't you at school with everyone else?" Isshin was walking around when he found Momo looking lost in front of a room.
"Oh…hello…and no, I was sent home, I'll explain later. But I have a few questions about Ichigo…"
Isshin lead her into a room that was empty and they sat down, Momo explained what happened this morning and asked Isshin about Ichigo's past girlfriends and he revealed that he only had one in the past.
"I remember her, how do you know about her, surely he didn't tell you?" When he started talking about his last girlfriend his expression changed to a sadder one.
"I…no. But…who was she? Does she go to our school?"
"N-no…I doubt she goes to any school anymore, you see…she committed suicide after Ichigo saved her from those two guys, I guess what they did to her was too much for her already fragile mind to handle and she couldn't stand life anymore."
"Wh…what happened to her?"
"Promise me that you won't bring this up unless Ichigo does…"
'Is it that bad? He looks like he's about to have an emotional meltdown.'
"I promise."
"They killed her father in front of her and made her watch as they raped her mother, then killed her. and then they took turns on her eventually just leaving her there. She lay there for probably three hours until Ichigo found her. About four days later someone found her in a cemetery dead on her mother's grave with a note in her hand that said… 'I can't exist with these memories. Ichigo Kurosaki…I love you. Goodbye until the next life.' He then stopped even giving his name to people unless he really needed to. He was depressed, I think he loved, no…still loves, her too. But he stopped being depressed when he started high school. I'm starting to think because of you."
Samanchan: Aahaah, relationship doubts! Wondrous, wondrous doubts! And who is the first girl!? BAH! TELL ME!
