A large hollow who resembled a troll in size and shape howled loudly as it chased after a middle aged looking male with a chain of fate attached to his chest. The beast shrieked and wailed as it chased after the man, finally cornering him in an ally where he curled up and began to shiver and scream. "Finally I caught my meal" the hollow said as it reached down to pick up the soul, only to feel a sharp pain in his shoulder. Blood shot from where his arm met his shoulder and soon his right arm fell off and the hollow screamed as it held the bloody stump where its arm once was. The soul looked to see an orange haired figure with a large sword on his shoulder, standing in front of him, facing the hollow.
"Who are you?" the soul said in fear.
"My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute soul reaper" Ichigo smirked as he held his sword out in front of him with one hand. "Run now, I will handle this thing" he said causing the soul to nod, get up, and run away from the scene.
"Y-you interrupted my meal!" the hollow screamed before it saw a quick flash in front of him. "What the hell?" he said as his mask split open and he faded away into black dust. Ichigo stabbed his sword into the ground in front of him and leaned on it as he held his side in pain.
"Damn it! These wounds from my fight with Hikari still haven't healed yet" he groaned as he saw Rukia approach him from the other end of the alley with a book satchel in her hands.
"You're gonna be late you know" she said as he just noticed she was in her school uniform.
"Shit!" he said as he darted past her to find where he left his body.
In another part of town, the Senkaimon opened above the drop off near the river that runs through the middle of town. A hell butterfly passed through first, followed by a tall figure with his left hand resting on his sword which was strapped to his side. "So this is the world of the living huh? Not too impressive" he said in a deep yet soothing voice. He walked out of the gate with the butterfly and it shut behind him as he jumped down to the concrete below. "Now to find him…" he said flash stepping away.
At Ichigo's school, he and Rukia were walking down the hall talking but Ichigo stopped when he heard something coming up from behind him. "IIIIIIIIIIIII-chiiiiiiiiii-gooooooo!" the voice said until a cloud of dust appeared behind him, and leading it was none other than Keigo Asano with a stupid smile on his face.
"Here we go again" Rukia sighed as Keigo jumped up behind Ichigo to get on his back only to have him duck and Keigo to fly right over him and slide on the floor. Keigo pealed himself off of the floor and looked at Ichigo with a face that was red from sliding on the floor.
"You jerk! You did that on purpose!" he yelled.
"Well duh, if you run up behind someone screaming like an idiot, they aren't gonna stand still" he said in a neutral tone while holding his book over his shoulder.
"I swear this happens every morning with you Keigo" a female voice said from behind Ichigo. He turned to see Tatsuki standing behind him with her arms crossed. "Don't you think by now that you would learn that whatever you are trying to do to Ichigo isn't going to work" she sighed as she walked into the classroom right before the bell rang. All of the students filled the room and took their seats and all but Ichigo were paying attention. He sat resting his chin on his hand and looking out the window.
"Now we have a transfer student here today and I want you all to treat him with respect" Misato Ochi said getting the attention of the class. She walked over to the door and opened it and in walked a tall shaggy blonde haired male with deep blue eyes and paler skin. He wore the grey and red uniform the rest of the students wore except he had his jack undone a bit with a skull shaped necklace around his neck., with some of his hair hanging in front of his eyes, just below his eyebrows, and going down to the base of his neck in the back.
"I would like you all to welcome Hikari Okami, our new student" she smiled. Ichigo's eyes went wide at hearing that name and he turned his head to see Hikari with his head down, not looking at the class. "Please introduce yourself to the class" she asked causing him to look up and slowly over at Ichigo.
"My name is Hikari Okami, and I hope to get to know all of you" he said in a somewhat nervous tone with a bit of sweat rolling down the side of his face.
"Is something wrong Hikari?" Misato asked.
"I don't do so well talking in front of large groups" he chuckled a bit as he saw an empty seat beside Tatsuki and behind Ichigo who was still looking at him in shock.
"Well then why don't you have a seat behind Ichigo near the window" she said to him. He nodded and walked over beside Ichigo and whispered something.
"I need to talk to you after class Kurosaki" he said before he sat down and leaned on his hand, looking out the window with both Keigo and Tatsuki looking at him weird.
After the bell rang, Tatsuki got up to leave but accidently bumped into Hikari who was going the opposite direction. "My bad" he said picking up her book she dropped and giving it to her. She just nodded and walked away, standing outside the door of the class to see Hikari and Ichigo talking.
"What the hell are you doing here!? And why are you in my class?!" he yelled pointing his finger at Hikari who had his eyes half closed.
"There has been an issue in the soul society, and now both our worlds might be in danger" he said getting Tatsuki to come back into the room. She approached the two of them and Hikari changed the expression on his face from serious to a happy expression. "Thanks again Ichigo for helping me with this" he chuckled.
"Calm down Hikari, she knows about soul reapers, even about hollows" he said crossing his arms. Hikari's expression went back to normal and he just looked at her.
"I see…I do detect a small bit of spirit energy in her" he said bending over a bit to get a look at her face. "She is very pretty as well" he chuckled as he stood up straight while causing her to blush a bit.
"So what was it I heard happened?" she asked.
"Apparently Kurotsuchi screwed up big time" Ichigo said scratching the back of his head.
"And who is that?"
"One of the 13 captains, kind of a mad scientist" Hikari chuckled.
"Mad? He is freakin' insane!" Ichigo added. There was a moment of silence after that and Ichigo looked at Hikari with a serious expression. "Why do you need my help to stop this?" he asked.
"We don't, I just asked for it since you were the only one to have ever beaten me in a fight, so I asked if I could come here and get you to help" he said looking out the window. "So can I count on you for help if they come here?" Hikari asked only to be answered by a nod.
"If who comes here?" Tatsuki asked feeling a bit clueless.
"The clones of all the visored soul reapers" he answered.
"Visored?" Tatsuki said.
"Ichigo will explain it to you, but right now I have to leave for my next class" he said as he picked up his stuff and left.
Hours later school was let out and Ichigo was by the gate of the school with Rukia, Chad, Uryu, and Orihime when Hikari walked over and pulled a cell phone from his pocket. "Hey guys, I got to deal with this and I don't have any soul candy so watch my gigai for me" he said as he left his body and was in his soul reaper gear.
"I'll go with you" Ichigo said.
"No it's fine, I think I can handle an Arrancar by myself" he said walking away with his hand on his sword.
"An Arrancar?!" Chad said worried.
"He can more than handle himself" Rukia said crossing her arms.
"Maybe one of us should go with you Hikari" Uryu said.
"No, this one is on me" he smiled. "Leap from the Shadows, Iroaseta Sora " he said as he drew his sword, turning it into its hook sword form and releasing a large amount of spirit energy. The others felt weak and found it a bit difficult to keep their balance.
"I thought soul reapers had their powers suppressed to 1/5 their normal strength in this world?" Uryu said.
"It is" Rukia smirked as he flash stepped away.
In another part of town, Tatsuki and Keigo were walking down the same street and heading home. "I don't like that Hikari guy, there is just something off about him" Keigo said with his hands on his head.
"Sure" Tatsuki said thinking about the compliment he gave her. Both of them stopped walking when they saw someone in their path that was wearing black and white robes with part of a hollow mask on his chin with rows of sharp teeth on it. He was shorter than them and had red eyes, dark skin, and purple hair and no sleeves on his uniform and he had a hole in the center of his chest. His sword was in a bright purple scabbard and the guard was shaped like a swirl pattern with purple grip wrappings. "Shit" Tatsuki said as she saw the number 2 tattooed onto his neck.
"My name is Viscarde Tukatsi, Espada number two, and I know that you two can see me, so I want info" he laughed under his cracked mask.
"Oh crap! It's one of those hollow things!" Keigo said freaking out and waving his arms around. Tatsuki dropped her books and took a stance as if she were ready for an attack.
"Hmph, you humans are brave, I will give you that, but I don't have time for you" he said as he ran over and picked her up by her neck and knocked Keigo to the ground. "Where is Ichigo Kurosaki?" he said gripping tighter on her neck.
"You never put your hands on a lady" a voice said from behind him. He turned his head to see Hikari holding a sword to his back.