Artemis: WE'RE BACK!

Vervada: Not much new to say to you.

Disclaimer: It's not mine. I don't know why Aletta makes me keep telling you this.

"Who are you?" I returned, "How many Soul Reapers are in this Karakura town?" The guy set his giant zanpakuto against his back and walked up to me.

"I am Kurosaki Ichigo, Substitute Soul Reaper. I don't believe there are many more Soul Reapers here, most of them returned to Soul Society. Who is Kurumadani?"

"The Soul Reaper assigned to Karakura town. I am to report to him." I say a little sheepishly, looking at the ground. Something about the guy's name seemed familiar. When I looked up, the guy was gone, "HEY! I WASN'T DONE!" I yelled, but he had left. I sighed, but I needed to report to Kurumadani, I've been laying it off too long. I ran into the city and headlong into another Soul Reaper. Really, there's noone else I could run into except Hollows and Pluses.

"Watch it!" He said, rubbing his head. He had an afro going, his hair almost perfectly round. He seems the kind of person who'd talk hair with me.

"Sorry." I said, looking at the ground, then looking up at the Soul Reaper, "Wait, are you Kurumadani?"

"Yeah. You the replacement?" He returned.

"I think so."

"There's not much to it. The Kurosaki kid gets most of the Hollows, so don't mess with him."

"Where have I heard that name before?"

"He was one of the ryoka back when Kuchiki Rukia was being imprisoned." All the stories people have told me, of the ryoka with orange hair defeating Vice-Captain Abarai and stopping the Kikoo phoenix and destroying it, they all fit.

"Later" Kurmadani ran off back to Soul Society, and I still had my mouth hanging open. I quickly shut it and ran off to find my gigai and see what kind of people are in Karakura town.

I found my gigai, stuffing her face with sweets. It was disgusting. My lovely purple hair, the hair I spent hours dying before I came here, the ends were sitting in some sticky syrup. Some man was standing over her, his arms crossed over his chest, looking very angry at me. I could figure out the situation pretty easily. I tried to slip into my gigai without too many strange gestures, spitting out the Soul Candy and putting it in a pocket. I stood up.

"You finished?" The man said, uncrossing his arms to rest his hands on his hips. I nodded, muttering a "thank you" and pulling a small wad of bills and placing them on the table with the sticky syrup and sweets. The man picked up the bills, running his thumb along the edge, and seemed pleased.

Now I set out to find something to do with this gigai. I wonder if this little town has hotels. I wonder why in the world Captain wanted me to bring a gigai. I wonder where the Kurusaki sleeps when he's not playing Soul Reaper. The night air tastes good here, so I ditched finding a hotel and settled for a tree.

After the incident with the sweets man, I took all the money with me when I left my body and gave myself a long lecture on proper behavior. We managed to agree on getting cookies every evening so long as she doesn't eat too much. I spent the night looking for Hollows that Kurosaki may have left for me. He can't get them all, and I'd like to do my job.

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Morning came, and I sat on a rooftop, hugging my knees, watching all the different colors in the sky and a few people getting out of their houses and heading early to work, scurrying into their cars with their breifcases and driving off. Later, teens and little kids grab their backbacks and run to get the bus or catch their carpool among their friends. I get up and wander the city some more until a Hell Butterfly catches up to me.

"You are to enroll into Karakura High School to keep an eye on Kurosaki and the other ex-ryoka." It told me. I sighed and nodded. Great, I have to spend my time here following Strawberry head and his friends. I wonder what'll happen if I just don't go to school. I wonder how long I'd last against Captain Kuchiki, and I head to my gigai, then the high school.

I spent forever getting my uniform and making up the lie that I have parents here. The good thing was that the actual school wasn't hard at all, I knew all the answers. The bad thing was all the people here giving me strange looks and pointing at my hair and some kid named Mizuiro trying to make a move on me. I actually feel a little bad for breaking his nose, but it was before he told me he like fiesty girls.

Maybe I should have opted to fight the Captain instead.

Artemis: Okay. That's it so far. Don't worry, there will be more.

Vervada: Review, Read Aletta's other story.. blah,blah,blah. 'Bye.