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Chapter 2

15 years later...

A 40 year old Ichigo woke up to his alarm clock he shut it off and reluctantly got up. Sleepily he got dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. Then he walked up to his bedside table and got a necklace that had a locket and a wedding ring on it. Ichigo put it around his neck and started at it in the mirror sad as he remembered the events of this day 15 years ago...

*Flashback*

Ichigo woke up and noticed that Tatsuki wasn't there right next to him or anywhere in the room for that matter. 'I wonder where she went?...' he thought. Ichigo got dressed and looked around the house still not seeing her anywhere even calling her name didn't work. He started to get worried but thinking that maybe she went somewhere like to the store or something. So he sat down and waited for about two hours for her to return but Tatsuki hadn't came back and he became more worried that something had happened to her so he decided to call one of his old friends.

"Hey Orihime it's me Ichigo." He said into his cell phone.

"Hi Ichigo, do you need something?" Orihime said cheerfully.

"Well...It's about Tatsuki..." Ichigo said not wanting worry her.

"What about Tatsuki? Is she alright?..." There was a long pause "...Oh no the aliens are taking Tatsuki away in their spaceship!..." Orihime cried out.

Ichigo sweat-dropped. "um...Orihime I think now's not the time for daydreaming... and no there is no such things as aliens. Anyway what I was gonna say was that I can't find Tatsuki anywhere so I thought maybe she had gone over to your house but now I see that's a negative."

"What do you mean you can't find her?...You mean the aliens turned her invisible?"

Ichigo sweat-dropped some more. "No...there are no aliens ok...Well since Tatsuki is not over at your house. Then maybe she's around town somewhere. I know Tats doesn't want me to worry about her so much but...she's been gone for a few hours now and that's unlike her. So could you help me look for her."

"Of course I will Ichigo. If Tatsuki got you this worried then I would glad to help you find her." Orihime said cheerfully forgetting all about the 'alien daydream'.

"Good then meet me at the park in 10 minutes." Ichigo said hanging up.

At the Park

"Ichigo!" Orihime called running over to him she was wearing a long skirt with a short sleeve shirt and had her ginger hair tied back in a ponytail. While Ichigo was wearing a soul reaper's outfit with the squad 5 coat.

"Hey Orihime." Ichigo said as she stopped in front of him.

"So where should we start looking?" Orihime asked

"Well I guess since we're here we can start our search here. You take the left side of the park and I'll take the right. Ok?"

"aye aye captain!" She yelled cheerfully making people stare at her strangely for yelling that out for no reason when she there was noone there. Orihime ran off to the left. While Ichigo flashed stepped to the right. Then had began the search for Tatsuki Kurosaki.

1 hour later...

"We look all over this park and still no sign of her..." Ichigo said sadly.

Orihime noticed the distress in his eyes and tried to cheer him up. "Well have you tried her cell phone yet?"

Ichigo face-palmed himself 'why didn't he think of that in the first place.' "No but I'll try.." Ichigo dialed Tatsuki's phone number and waited for her to pick up. After a few moments the phone said that the number was out of the area. Which that either Tatsuki had her phone off or something had happened to her.

Orihime saw that her first idea was a failure and thought of trying idea two. "You know we only looked in the park. That still isn't half of the town maybe she's somewhere in town." Orihime said with a comforting simile. She knew that her idea worked somewhat cause some hope came back into his eyes.

"Yeah maybe she is...you take the north side of town and I'll take the south side. And we'll meet up at my house later." Ichigo said with confidence once again. He flash stepped away. Orihime was glad that her idea had made him somewhat happy. Then she ran off toward the north.

Ichigo looked everywhere he knew she would probably be the riverside where his mom had died and where he had confessed and proposed to Tatsuki, The graveyard where his mom was buried, The dojo she did work there after all even though it was closed on Saturdays which was today, He gone to her parents house but he did not see her there either (A/N: he's in soul reaper form so noone can see him including Tatsuki's parents.) And the last place to look was his house. RING RING BEEP...

"Hello Kurosaki Clinic can I help you?" A woman's voice asked.

"Karin it's me Ichigo."

"Ichi-nii! How are you and Tatsuki?" A 21 year old Karin asked.*

"Well...you see I was calling because...um...I was wondering if Tatsuki had came over to the house." Ichigo said running his hand through his hair nervously.

"No she hasn't...Why? What's wrong? Has something happened?" Karin asked urgently.

"No...nothing wrong...It's just well..." Ichigo sighed 'I guess it's better to just come out it with' "Tatsuki has been missing since this morning and me and Orihime checked everywhere and we can't find her anywhere."

"You know Ichi-nii she can't be with you 24/7 she as a life too you know." Karin said shaking her head at her brother's stupidity.

"I know that. I even tried to call her cell and it says out of area." Ichigo said so seriously that Karin found out that he wasn't joking.

"Ok then I'll help you try to find her. And I'll also get Yuzu to help."

"Thanks Karin." Ichigo said smiling. He hanged up and flash stepped home to see if she really was at home. When he got there he still couldn't find her but then he did notice something that he probably hadn't notice because of his panic. He picked up two things from untop of his bedside table one was a locket and another a wedding ring. Ichigo stared at them from awhile before it started coming back to him the locket was something he given to Tatsuki on her birthday it even had her name on it. And the wedding ring was hers...Just then something registered in Ichigo's mind...She isn't coming back...That day Ichigo cried for the first time in a long time since his mother's death.

*Flashback*

Some tears leaked from Ichigo's eyes as he recalled the memory. He opened the locket and there was two pictures the right picture was a picture of him and Tatsuki as kids at the dojo. Then the left picture was about him and Tatsuki on their wedding day. 'I didn't stop looking for you then and I'll never stop looking for you even after my death.' He then closed the locket and sealed the sad memories. "Well time to go to work."

*1. To clear some things up in the past which means 15 years before this story Ichigo was 25 (In the flashback), Tatsuki was 25, Karin and Yuzu are 21. I think thats right what I did was in the manga right now Ichigo is 17 so add that by 8 years and you get 25. Also Karin and Yuzu are 13 in the manga right now so add that by 8 years and you get 21. But in the story right now the ages are these (just add 25 or 21 by 15.)

Ichigo= 40 years old

Tatsuki=40 years old

Karin= 36 years old

Yuzu=36 years old