Chapter 2

A/N: First of all I would like to thank everyone who wrote a review for this story. I am going to continue it because of all the positive feedback I got. Secondly, I would like to apologize for the grammar and spelling mistakes in the previous chapter. I was feeling lazy when I submitted it and only glanced over it, while reading it again to see where I left off I found way too many errors. I personally hate reading stories that have really simple grammar/spelling errors that should have been caught right away. I hope you enjoy chapter 2 of The New Girl. I don't own Bleach or any of the characters in any way, shape or form.

"Italicized words" = thoughts

UNDERLINED WORDS = change of setting

I forgot to put that in Chapter 1

"Renji"

"Yes, Captain Kuchiki" Renji replied, standing at attention.

"Where is Senna?" He questioned with his usual serious tone.

"I haven't seen her for a few days. The last thing I heard from her was how bored she was around here."

Byakuya thought for a moment then gave Renji his orders, "go get permission from Commander Yamamoto to go to the living world. We are going to bring her back."

"The living world?! Captain, how do you know she went there and why do you yourself have to go get her?"

"The living world is the only place she could go without anyone sensing her presence. Going through the Senkai Gate without permission is against the laws of the Soul Society so I will go to make sure she is brought back quickly. Now go." Byakuya looked at Renji with his icy stare for questioning him.

"Yes Captain!" Renji replied quickly.

LIVING WORLD

Ichigo was still on his bed, nodding off, when Rukia's hollow detector went off.

"Huh?! What?!" He awoke quickly and rummaged through the closet to find the source of the noise. "There's a hollow, but Rukia is still in the bath. Oh well, I don't need her to take care of one hollow." Ichigo held his substitute soul reaper badge to his chest and he separated from his body which fell back onto the bed. He went out through his window and raced to where the hollow was.

Ichigo found it walking down the road in the middle of the city. It stood 15 feet tall with large muscles on its body. Its footprints crushed the road as it walked and destroyed street lamps his large hands. Ichigo drew his sword and was about to attack until…

"ICHIGO!" A loud voice was heard.

"What the?!" Ichigo turned to where the voice was coming from.

The voice caught the hollow's attention as well, but it found Ichigo first and swung at him. The blow knocked Ichigo into the side of a nearby building, stunning him. While he was down, the owner of the voice flew down from the sky and sliced the hollow's arm off. Ichigo came to, and found Senna standing in front of the hollow with blood dripping down her zanpakuto.

"Call forth the twilight, Mirokumaru!" Senna called out. Her zanpakuto began to glow and grew longer. It turned into a gold staff with rings through one end and a spear tip at the other. A thin tornado grew underneath her feet, raising her into the air until she was above the hollows head. Senna shot out another tornado from her zanpakuto which ripped the hollow's other arm off. It screeched as its arm fell to the ground with blood flowing right behind it. While still controlling the tornado, Senna whipped it through the hollow's mask cutting its head in half. The hollow disintegrated into dust and blew away with the wind.

Senna lowered herself back to the ground and returned her zanpakuto back to its normal state. Ichigo stared at her with awe at how powerful and graceful she was during the fight, but that soon faded.

"Woohoo, I did it. Go me, go me!" She chanted and danced around.

"What did you think you were doing?!" Ichigo scolded after getting to his feet.

"Saving your butt! That hollow knocked you to the ground; you should be thanking me for rescuing you."

"Rescuing me? The only reason the hollow knocked me down was because you came out of nowhere and distracted me! I could have finished it off easy if you hadn't come around!"

"Whatever." She puffed and started to walk away from him.

"Wait." Ichigo called out. He reached out and grabbed her hand.

They both looked down at their hands and turned a slight shade of red. Both pulled away quickly and looked to other waiting to see who would say something first.

"Listen, I…" They said in unison. "You first." Ichigo told her.

"Well… I …" she said nervously, but after a deep breath had her confidence back, "to pay me back for saving you, you will take me on a date and show me around town."

Before he could respond Senna took off through the city leaving Ichigo looking dumbfounded.

"… A date?! Did she just ask me on a date?!"

"She asked him on a date?!" Another voice said quietly to herself.

EARLIER

Ichigo had only been gone a few minutes before Rukia entered his room with her hair wrapped up in a towel to dry.

"Hey Ichigo, I thought I might have heard the hollow detector go off." She saw his body lying limp on the bed and realized he must have gone to fight it already. Rukia popped a piece of Soul Candy in her mouth, separating her soul and leaving a mod soul in its place.

"Watch over Ichigo's body." Rukia ordered the mod soul.

She leapt out the window to track down Ichigo. Since he can't hide his spiritual power and always puts out a huge amount, Rukia was easily able to find where Ichigo had gone. By the time she got there the hollow was already defeated and all she saw was Ichigo calling to Senna and grabbing her hand.

PRESENT

Rukia ducked into an alley after seeing the scene between Ichigo and Senna. When she saw Ichigo run back to the house, relived that he didn't see her, she slid down on the side of the wall and sat on the ground.

"Why do I care if Senna asked him out on a date? It's not like we have anything between us. If that's true then why do I have this sinking feeling in my heart? I guess I always took for granted that Ichigo would just always be there, I never thought someone else would come into the picture." She thought to herself.

Rukia sat up and slowly walked back to the house, still in her own thoughts she almost walked into three different telephone poles. Ichigo was already back in his body by the time she got home.

"Hey Rukia, did you come after me to help fight the hollow? How come I never saw you?" Ichigo asked.

"…What?" She said, coming out of her thoughts. "Oh, no I … uh… went to go get some… milk. Yeah that's it; I noticed we were low so I went out to get milk." She laughed nervously.

"Milk? You went out in your soul reaper form to get milk?"

"Yeah, well you know, the store is far away and I thought it would save me some time by using shunpo."

"Ok…so where's the milk?"

"What?"

"The milk, you said you went to get milk so where is it?" Ichigo asked pointing to her empty hands.

"Oh well, using shunpo wore me out a little and I was already pretty thirsty before I left so I wound up drinking it all before I got back." She got out with quick nervous laughs in between. "Boy am I beat, I think I'll go to bed." Rukia yawned, got back inside her body and climbed into her bed in the closet, shutting the door behind her.

"Why is Rukia acting so weird? For that matter why are all the girls around me acting weird? I don't think I'll ever understand them. I better get some sleep too; I don't know what is going to happen with me and Senna tomorrow."

SOUL SOCIETY

"Captain, we have received permission to go to the living world." Renji reported as he ran into Byakuya in the hallway outside his room.

"Good, be ready to leave tomorrow." Byakuya replied and walked away. "I have to bring her back before anyone finds out she is gone she could be in great danger."

A/N: Thanks for reading. I will try to keep updating and writing new chapters but it will probably be about the same length of time. I plan to have a battle scene at some point but those have never been my strong point so if anyone has any tips on writing them please put them in a review or PM me, I really appreciate it.