"Rukia," Ichigo yelled at the person on the roof. "What are you doing here?"

The person jumped down from the roof landing in front of Ichigo. When they stood up Yoh, Morti and Anna realized it was a female. She had short black-blue hair and was dressed in a white, button-up blouse with a grey mini skirt, and knee high black socks under brown dress shoes.

"Ichigo, I thought I told you that you can't just go killing people," She growled with her arms crossed over her chest. "Don't you remember when we first met?"

"Yea I remember," Ichigo said as he remembered the day he first met Rukia and that she could have killed him if it were for the fact that she needed authorization to do so. He put his zanpakutou away and Amidamaru left Yoh's body. "I can't fight you, but I still have to send the spirits away to Soul Society before they turn to Hollows. It's my duty as a Soul Reaper"

"Actually Ichigo," Rukia said. "You're only a substitute Soul Reaper, remember?"

"I'm still a Soul Reaper, nonetheless," Ichigo yelled at her.

"Whatever," Rukia growled. "Even as a substitute Soul Reaper you should have known about the Shaman race just like you recently learned about the Quincy race." Rukia glared at Ichigo with a serious expression. Rukia changed her attention to Morti and Anna. "Is it all right if we continue this conversation inside," she asked the two.

Anna nodded and led everyone into the Inn dining hall. Morti head towards the kitchen to grab dinner and served it. Unfortunately he only made enough for three which ended up being Anna, Rukia, and himself. Ichigo wasn't hungry, Amidamaru was a spirit and Yoh had to suffer for lying to Anna.

"I was told this problem between Soul Reaper and Shamans was settled with 1000 years ago," Anna said as she ate.

"It was," Rukia said after she swallowed. "Soul Reapers are to stay at least 500 meters away from any Shaman unless given direct orders by a captain of the Gotei 13." Rukia basically then inhaled the food Morti made. "This is good," She said with food still in her mouth. She swallowed the food in her mouth then suddenly burped. "Excuse me," She muttered blushing slightly. "As you probably know, Shamans use ghosts as partners but the job of a Soul Reaper is to send ghosts to Soul Society. As you said, 1000 years ago the Shamans got tired of their partners being sent to Soul Society and decided to do something about it. They called a meeting between the head Shamans and the Gotei 13. The Gotei 13 agreed to force their Soul Reaper to learn to sense a Shaman's presences so that no partners were sent to Soul Society." Rukia then glared at Ichigo. "This is why I wanted you to wait for my order to go because as substitute Soul Reaper, you are not likely to sense the presences of a Shaman like I can," She growled at him.

Ichigo groaned and turned his back towards her.

Yoh scooted closer towards him. "Don't worry," He whispered in Ichigo's ear. "I get yelled at worse by Anna."

"What was that Yoh," Anna growled not even looking at him.

Yoh was freaked out. "I said that I get so worry about you," he nervously said.

Anna looked dead into his eyes with anger. "Yoh Asakura," she growled. "You are the saddest liar to walk this planet. I think 600 pushups along with 700 sit ups will fix your lying." Yoh dragged himself to an open area in the dining hall. "You don't have all day, you know," Anna pointed out and Yoh started to whimper and laid down and started to work on the pushups. "I want to hear you counting," Anna ordered and Yoh responded with a groan.

"1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4," Yoh counted as Anna and Rukia continued their conversation.

"We're sorry for interrupting your training," Rukia stood up as she apologized for her and Ichigo. "It will not happen again, right Ichigo?"

Ichigo looked at Rukia as she evilly glared at him and gulped and stood up as well. "I'm sorry," he said as he bowed toward Anna. "Until now I never heard of Shamans, but now that I know, this misunderstanding will never happen again."

Anna crossed her arms and looked down. Morti and Amidamaru saw a smile appear of Anna's face and knew something bad was going to happen. "I think you should be punished for breaking the Shaman and Soul Reaper agreement," Anna coldly said to Ichigo. "You can start by sending all the ghosts, except Amidamaru of course, to the afterlife."

Ichigo dragged himself and groaned as he worked on sending the ghosts to Soul Society. "First I come here to send the ghosts to Soul Society," Ichigo muttered as he sent ghosts away one by one. "Then I'm told I can't and now I'm doing what I came to do in the first place."

"You know, it isn't a good sign when you start talking to yourself," Morti said from behind Ichigo. Ichigo freaked out and jumped in to the air and landed on his butt facing Morti. "Especially when there really no one around to listen to you," Morti finished saying as he helped Ichigo up on his feet.

"You shouldn't do that," Ichigo yelled as he dusted himself off.

"So eventually I will be the only ghost here," Amidamaru said appearing behind Ichigo.

Ichigo once again jumped into the air and landed on his butt. "What is wrong with everyone here," Ichigo yelled getting up on his feet on his own. "Do you all enjoy scaring me by appearing out of nowhere behind me. First shorty here does it then you," he said pointing at Amidamaru.

"My name is Morti," Morti corrected him and crossed his arms. "Not shorty, got it?"

Ichigo ignored Morti and continued sending the ghosts to Soul Society. "Will you two just let me do my job," he said not even facing them. "There are tons of ghost her that need to head to Soul Society before they turn to Hollows and it is going to take awhile." He then looked over his shoulder. "Why don't you save your Shaman friend from that crazy blond?"

Morti and Amidamaru huffed and headed back to the dining hall and sat beside Yoh. "Hey . . . 53 . . . Morti," Yoh grunted as he pushed himself up. "54 . . . what's . . . 55 . . . up?"

"I don't understand this situation," Morti told Yoh as Yoh continue to count. "First we were told that Soul Reapers are not allowed 500 meters within a Shaman and they are not allowed to send souls to that Soul Society place that are near Shamans. Why Anna is having the Soul Reaper sending all the other souls to Soul Society and why does the Rukia girl know more about Soul Reaper than Ichigo?"

Yoh looked over toward Anna and Rukia and noticed they were busy in their conversation. He motioned Morti and Amidamaru to follow him and he led to the front yard. The three of them quickly got far away from the En Inn.

"I can't stand her intense training," Yoh complained as his put his hands behind his head. "I swear she is the meanest girl, no person, ever to walk this planet."

Yoh led Morti and Amidamaru to the nearby graveyard. Yoh sat under the only tree there and leaned against it. Morti sat beside him and also leaned against the tree while Amidamaru floated in front of them sitting. Yoh stared up at the night sky and Morti and Amidamaru did the same.

"To answer your questions Morti," Yoh said. Morti looked at him but Yoh still stared up at the sky. "Anna is just plain old complicated person and I gave up years ago on trying to figure her out. The one thing I know for sure about her though is when she changes her mind she'll want that change to happen immediately. As for that Rukia lady knowing more than Ichigo I know that too. She was telling Anna as I did my pushups that she meant to transfer a little bit of her powers to Ichigo but because of his high spiritual awareness he obtained all her powers. Now she has to teach Ichigo everything about being a Soul Reaper until her powers return, or something along those lines."

Yoh looked over at Morti with his goofy smile and laughed a little. A nice cool breeze blew but Yoh noticed that the tree's leaves didn't rustle. Yoh looked towards the direction the breeze came from and noticed the silhouettes of two men standing close by. When Morti saw the two people he got shivers up his spine. Yoh stood up and face the two men as they approached them. As they got closer, Yoh noticed something familiar about them.

"Morti," Yoh whispered and Morti stood up. "Go get Anna."

Morti gulped and dashed back to the Ed Inn. Right as Morti reached the graveyard entrance he noticed Anna and Rukia entering. Yoh sensed Anna's presences and looked at her and she gave him an evil glare and Yoh's legs started to shake a little. Morti stood next to Anna and watched him glare at him.

"Go keep Ichigo busy," Anna ordered Morti.

Morti looked at Anna then at Yoh then back at Anna and nodded. He left for the Inn and ran as fast as his little legs could take him.

"He sure is one weird fellow," one of the two men said to the other who just stood there without saying a word.

Rukia stepped in front of Yoh and Amidamaru. "What are you two doing here," Rukia demanded to know from the two.

"You of all people should know why we're here," the same man that spoke before said. "We heard you gave all your powers to a human which would explain you not being able to return when you were suppose to. In short, we're here to bring you back to Soul Society and take care of the human you gave your powers to."

Anna approached Yoh and noticed his confused expression. "So you decided to skip your pushups and sit ups to fight more Soul Reapers," she growled. Yoh jumped from her sudden approach. "They aren't interested in you, me, Morti or Amidamaru. They came for Rukia and Ichigo," She muttered. Yoh stared at here then returned his attention to the two men. "This is why I told Morti to keep Ichigo busy."

"What now Lord Yoh," Amidamaru whispered into his Shaman's ear.

"We fight," Yoh replied and both Rukia and Anna stared at him in shock. Yoh stood in front of the two females. "We can't let them take our new friend."

"You mean Mr. Ichigo," Amidamaru asked.

"He may not be my friend yet," Yoh said. "But I'll still stop these two from going after him or taking Rukia." Yoh and Amidamaru made eye contact and Amidamaru nodded as he transformed into his spirit flame form and Yoh integrated with him.

"We shall not let you get your hands on Miss Rukia or Mr. Ichigo," Amidamaru said threw Yoh voice.

The two Soul Reapers looked at each other and the one that talked headed toward Yoh with his zanpakutou. Amidamaru looked around but saw no sign of a sword like weapon anywhere. The man was getting closer and Amidamaru to franticly search for something of good use but there was nothing that could help. Amidamaru noticed the man was about to strike and braced himself for the attack as he couldn't escape in time. Just as the Soul Reaper's attack was going to make contact Amidamaru shut Yoh's eyes tight. When he felt nothing Amidamaru opened Yoh's eyes to see a large spear holding back the man's zanpakutou.

"It seems you could use some help," said the man wielding the spear. He had dark purple hair with a part spiked up in the back and gold eyes and was wearing a red sleeveless turtleneck vest with black pants and slip on black shoes. He then threw a sheathed sword at Amidamaru. "You should know how to use that, no," he rhetorically asked and pushed the Soul Reaper backwards.

Amidamaru unsheathed the sword and gripped it a bit tightly. He gazed at the swords blade and smiled. "Thank you, Lord Ren," Amidamaru had Yoh say.