The third kidnapping!
Ririn gets kidnapped!
episode 2
a/n don't know how I wrote this much more, but chapter 2 is longer. Anyway, the long awaited, (for one person) chapter 2 is out! I don't own bleach.
Ririn woke up in on a big bed. She sprung up, thinking it was a dream, but then she saw that she was in her gigai, so it all must have been real. Then she looked around the room. It looked like a nice room, but she couldn't see much, because the room was really dark. She got up, trying to search for a light. She found a lamp. She turned it on. The room was nice! It looked as though it was decorated for some one special. Why would a kidnapper put me in a room like this? She thought.
Then, she saw the only thing stopping her from escaping. A narrow wooden door. It was locked, but just wooden! Ririn smiled to herself. Idiots! They think this is gonna stop me? She got in a good stance to break it down. She ran towards it, and kicked it hard. The paint chipped. Then she ran up and kicked it again. This time, the wood broke a bit. She started running up to it again, but then she heard a hissing noise. She stopped in her tracks, and looked around. Pink steam was coming out of what looked like an air vent. It made her feel dizzy, and drowsy.
"No!" She screamed. She went over to the door, as fast as she could. She hit on it lightly. She was trying to do it hard, but she was so drowsy that she could hardly move at all.
"I'll just break out… tomorrow…" she said to herself. She fell too her knees, and then her whole body tumbled down onto the floor, and she was unconscious.
* * * * * * *
Ichigo woke up to the sound of the hollow detector. Rukia opened the door to Ichigo's closet.
"Ichigo!" She called.
"I know I heard the alarm!" He looked at his clock. "Damn, 1:20 in the morning! Can't a guy get some sleep!"
"Stop complaining! Let's go!" She said.
"Alright. Hey Ririn, ya coming?" Ichigo asked and looked around the room. "Ririn?"
"Where'd she run off to?" Rukia asked.
"I don't know, she's probably asleep, or just ignoring me. Let's go, we'll find her when we get back"
"Good Idea!" Rukia said. Ichigo put Kon in his body, and Rukia put chappy in hers, and they both ran out the door to fight the truck load of hollows waiting for them.
They got back from fighting the hollows. When they got into Ichigo's room, Ichigo took Kon out of his body, and put him in his lion stuffed animal. Then he went in his body. Rukia did the same to chappy.
"Hey Kon, do you know where Ririn went?" Ichigo asked.
"I-I don't know, b-be-beats me!" He said, in a tone that made it obvious that he was lying.
"Then why were you stuttering, Kon?" Rukia asked.
"W-what are you talking about! I'm not stuttering! N-not one bit!"
"Kon, you are so bad at lying." Ichigo said. "Now where is she?"
"I can't tell you!" Kon said.
"Why not?" Ichigo said.
"Cuz she told me not to tell you, that she ran away!" Kon covered his mouth. "Oh no! I just told you!"
"Wha… She ran away? In her stuffed animal? Damn it! That idiot could get really hurt! Why didn't ya stop her Kon!"
"No! No! Not in her stuffed animal, in her gigai! Me and her snuck out, and went to Urahara's, and I changed her into her gigai!"
"You helped her run away!" Ichigo asked and punched Kon's head.
"Dow! No, she would've killed me if I didn't!" He said
"That Dammed brat! C'mon, let's go find her." He went into his soul form, and so did Rukia, so they could flash step, and grabbed Kon. Then, him and Rukia and Kon went out to look for her. They looked all over the place. They called her name, over and over again, but got no response.
"Man, Kon didn't she even tell you where she was going?" Ichigo asked Kon.
"No, she didn't tell me anything, except, 'Ichigo's being mean, so I'm running away!' and then she stormed off on you skate board!" Kon claimed.
"That's why she ran away?" now he just felt guilty. Ririn could be lost and hurt out there, and it was all because he was being mean.
Rukia noticed how guilty he looked. "Ichigo, you know she's probably fine, right?" She said, trying to cheer him up.
"Yeah? What makes ya think that?" he asked.
"It's not like she's a wimp, she can defend herself! Your underestimating her again Ichigo, that's why she left in the first place. No humans, or any animal from this world are strong enough to really stand a chance against a mod soul. I bet she's just playing at a park, trying to make you worry."
"Damn, why do you always gotta be right?"
"Because I'm a genius." she smiled.
"Whatever. Let's go see if Urahara has any idea where she'd go."
"Good idea."
They started running towards Urahara's house.
"Hey! Don't run so fast Rukia! I can't hold on!" Kon said. He was holding onto Rukia's shoulder, and was almost flung off.
When they got to Urahara's, Ichigo didn't even knock, he just opened the door.
"You can't just barge in like that!" Rukia yelled.
"Well we need to hurry, I gotta find her and get home already!" Ichigo replied.
"Well still! That was really rude!"
"Shut up! I don't give crap about being polite!"
"Oh, you don't, do you? Well I suppose that's probably why Ririn ran away, now isn't it?"
"Well… But… You… She… Ahh! Just shut up!"
Urahara woke up from they're yelling, and walked out of the his room.
"Oh, Ichigo and Rukia." he said. Than he yawned, and put on his hat. "What brings you here so early? It's three in the morning."
"Ririn's missing. Kon helped her get in her gigai, and she ran away" Ichigo said.
"We were hoping you knew where he was, or where she would go." Rukia added.
"I have no idea. But I do have a tracker, of all of the mod souls. We could see on there." Urahara suggested.
They looked at the tracker. The tracker was of the real world. Ririn didn't show up anywhere. Nova and Kroud were on there, but no Ririn.
"What the hell…?" Ichigo said.
"I guess that means she's not in this world. But she's not able to go to the soul society on her own." Urahara said. "But if she did, I or some one took her, I have a tracker of that too."
"How do you get so much trackers?" Ichigo asked suspiciously.
"I--t's a secret!" Urahara replied.
"Wait a minute do you have ones with me on there to…? Ichigo asked. He knew he probably didn't want to know the answer.
"But of course! I have one for everyone!" Urahara said.
"What the hell! How'd you do that!" Ichigo yelled.
Urahara just laughed, and got the soul society one for the mod souls. He showed it to Ichigo and Rukia, and the sight was scary beyond relief: Ririn wasn't there.
Ichigo couldn't speak. For all he knew, Ririn could be in the Heuco Mundo, the place where hollows were made, and where there were Hollows and Minos Grande crawling around everywhere. He couldn't speak. He just looked at the tracker, as the unbarring swarm of guilt roamed in his mind.
"Then what happened? Could she be in the Heuco Mundo?" Rukia asked.
"Probably not. Not only can she not make it there by herself, but it is very hard for any one to pass through the Heuco Mundo except hollows, who wouldn't bother taking her back to they're world, they would just devour her right here. Witch is still unlikely, because Ririn would usually win against a hollow.
"Then what do you suppose happened?" Rukia asked again.
"There's only one explanation. Some one took Ririn."
* * * * * * *
Ririn woke up again. Now she was in the bed again. She got up, and looked at the door. They put in a new one. A harder one. She could still break it, but she decided to do that later. If they heard her again, they would just put more pink smoke to make her fall asleep.
Then, all of a sudden, some one came in. Ririn was shocked, so she jumped, and looked over at the door. A girl had opened it. She also had some sort of common look with the other men, as if she was related to them too.
"So you're next huh?" she asked looking at her with a sympathetic look. She looked about sixteen. She had dirty blonde hair, and brown eyes. Ririn was to confused to answer. The girl came in, and closed the door behind her. She sat down on the bed, next to Ririn. Ririn backed away. The girl looked nice, but she must be working for that creepy guy if she was there.
"What do you mean, 'next?'" she asked.
"Oh, so you don't know anything about Akito yet, huh?" she asked.
"Who?"
The girl laughed. "Okay, you really know nothing about him. I don't blame you, he keeps to himself a lot, I observed all the information I have on him. He's the one who brought you here.
"You mean that guy with a creepy smile?" Ririn asked. Now she got off the bed completely. If she mentioned him, and studied him, she really must be working for him!
The girl laughed again. "Yeah, he's pretty creepy. What are so scared about? Don't worry, I'm your friend!" Ririn wouldn't believe that. Not a chance! But then the girl looked at her in such a trusting way. She had to believe it.
Ririn went back on the bed. "Then how come you're here? Don't you work for him?" she asked.
The girls almost-constant-smile faded. She tried to force a smile, but it was obviously fake. "Well, Akito has a unique spiritual pressure. He's not typically good at controlling it, but he's great at making it into some thing else. All of his people, his workers, apprentices, servants, they're all fake. Who else would worship a man like him, other then the people designed to!" Now she couldn't even fake it. Her smile was gone completely.
"But if you work for him, how come you're not brain washed too?"
The girl laughed. "He doesn't brain wash us! It's a long story, I'm getting to that right now. Here I go: He gets all of his power from absorbing souls. But he can't like suck them out like a hollow can, he has to kill a person, and then when they're soul comes out, he kills the soul, and then sucks it up. He uses his power for making people, and things. Akito can make the people look like anything he wants. They could have an eye patch, wear a dress, be a boy, be a girl, have extra limbs, you name it. But no matter what, they always look some what like him. That's his only flaw that he's trying to get rid of. Usually, when he creates people, their only emotions are to worship him, or any other emotion that he decides to put in there. There isn't a soul in there. They are merely a body with emotions put into it, only the body is made out of his spiritual pressure. But that's not what happened when I was reborn.
"Reborn?" Ririn asked.
"Yeah, yeah, it's just a little hook to make you keep reading!" she said, and then cracked up. "Sorry, sorry, I laugh to much!" she made a straight face again for ten seconds, and then burst out laughing again. "Sorryyyyyyyyyyy! I'll be serious now! Well, most peop-" she started to say, until she thought about what she had said before, and burst out laughing. "Okay! I'm seriously gonna be seriously serious!" she said. "Well…" and then she laughed more. She finally let out all of her laughs, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I have a laughing problem. Even though this isn't a funny topic, if some one, or me makes a joke, I can't stop laughing. But I'm done now. Serious!"
"Okay!" Ririn giggled. She thought it was funny how she laughed so much.
"Any way," the girl said with a seriously serious face, "I used to be alive. I still have a soul. A real soul." her eyes looked distant, as if she'd slipped into her own little world of memories. "I was killed be Akito. He killed me, and sucked me up. Even though I look like sixteen, I'm really only around ten. He just wanted me to look sixteen, so I could be his teenage made/speaker/person who keeps the people who are held captive company/ person who brings him tea girl. But anyway, when he made me, it was right after he had just sucked up soul. When he made a person, that soul got put into the artificial body. That soul, was me. I was then a sixteen year old servant to him, designed to worship. I still had a mind of my own, because I had a real soul, but I still worship him a bit. It's part of me now, he made it one of my emotions to worship him. So now, I can't be rude to him, I can't kill him, I can't run away, and I'm sorry, but I can't set you free."
Ririn looked down at the floor, trying to picture everything she had just said. "But… if this Akito guy is so evil, then why would he give me such a nice room like this? And why would he send people to keep me company if he hates people so much?
"He doesn't really hate people. To him, he's better then every one else. He thinks that his life is more important then anyone's. To him, everyone is like a tool, or an animal on a farm or something. We're just some thing you use to get the job done, but it's not like you won't take care of the tool or animal before you throw it out, or kill it for food."
"Oh…" Ririn started. "So what does he do to people anyway? Like how does he, k-kill them?" She had a hard time thinking about some one trying to kill her. She could hardly say it.
"He usually poisons their food. Once he starts poisoning it, I'll tell you, and bring some of my food. I know, because I prepare the meals, and watch him poison it. Don't worry, I won't let you eat it. But, if you don't eat the food and die, he eventually kills them in any way really. But, he usually gets one of his worker to do it. Like when you eat meat, like chicken and stuff, you know your eating an animal, but wouldn't it be so hard to eat if you saw them suffer as they died?" The girl replied.
"I think I'll be a vegetarian now." Ririn said. She curled up a bit. Now the vision of her dying was fresh in her mind. She kept on trying to forget about it, but the thought was stuck with her. She stared to cry.
"Don't cry! I didn't mean to scare you!" The girl said.
"I-I'm not crying!" Ririn said and wiped away her tears. "I'm fine! Really!" She wanted to seem strong.
"I'm sorry. Let's get of this topic. Um… What's your name? We never even introduced our selves yet. My name Yuru."
"I'm Ririn."
"That's a nice name! How old are you?
"Nine."
"Cool! We're just about the same age!"
Ririn smiled a bit. Maybe this girl would become her friend… If she would live through this… and that thought made her sad again, so her face drooped. "Hey Yuru, why is Akito keeping me alive right now? Wouldn't he be trying to kill me right away, so I don't have a chance to escape?"
"Like I said, he's not completely evil. He probably wants you to live a little longer, so he doesn't feel as guilty. He does that to everyone. He keeps them alive for about two weeks," Yuru explained
"Two weeks… that's more then enough time to make up a flawless plan to escape!" Ririn said, finally feeling hope.
"Great idea! Hang on a sec!" she reached into her pocket, and started shuffling around. "Mmm… here it is!" she took out a note pad and a pen, and handed it to Ririn. "We'll start brain storming! Write it all down."
Ririn nodded, and smiled, and then went to the desk. They started to talking about their plans to escape.
* * * * * * *
"Took… Ririn?" Ichigo asked. He understood perfectly, he just felt so guilty, that that was all he could say.
"Who did this?" Rukia asked.
"I have no idea." Urahara replied.
"That's all you have to say about it!?" Ichigo yelled at Urahara.
"Ichigo calm down, your just mad because it's your fault! Anyway, all you had to say was, 'Took… Ririn?'" Rukia imitated.
"Shut up! That's not all I got to say!"
"Oh yeah? Well what else were you gonna say then Ichigo?"
"That… That I'm not gonna waste time telling you! I'm gonna go save her!"
"I knew you would say that! Always so predictable!" Urahara laughed.
Ichigo didn't reply, he just headed towards the door.
"Wait!" Rukia called and rushed up in front of him. "Don't be so reckless! You can't just leave all of sudden you don't even know where she is!"
"Well I'm gonna go find out!"
"How! She's not in the real world, or the soul society! She's some where else that you didn't even know about until now, and you still don't know how to get to, so what makes you think you'll find out where that place is!"
Ichigo didn't know what to say, he just felt pathetic. Then, all of a sudden, the hollow tracker alarm went off.
"At a time like this!" Ichigo groaned. "C'mon!"
"We don't have a choice, we'll find Ririn later." Rukia said.
"But they already could've killed her!"
"If they would kill her that fast, then there would be no point in thinking for hours how to reach her. She's probably still alive, what's the point in taking some one and then killing her right away? They probably took her as a slave or some thing. Let's go."
"But…" Ichigo began, but before he could finish, Rukia grabbed onto his sleeve, and pulled him along, towards the hollows. She just pulled him along for a while, and then when she was pretty sure he would follow, she let go.
"Fine, but we have to kill them fast!" Ichigo said.
"We'll do the best we can. We better hurry up, lets do flash step." Rukia replied.
They both flash stepped over to the hollows.
When they got there, Renji, Uryu, Chad, Orihime, Kroud, and Nova were already fighting.
"Renji? What're you doin' here?" Ichigo asked.
"What does it look like, I'm killing hollows!" he said.
"Oh yeah, I told him about all of them, so I guess he decided to come." Rukia said.
"Damn, we don't need his help!" Ichigo yelled.
"OH YEAH! You suck so much you need all the help you can get, you amateur!" Renji yelled to Ichigo.
"You're the one that sucks!" Ichigo yelled.
Orihime heard Ichigo's yelling, so she turned away from the hollow she was facing, even though she was in the middle of a fight, and waved to Ichigo. "Hi Ichigo!" she called. The hollow was just about to stab her, but Ichigo flashed over and blocked it with his Zanpactou before the he got the chance.
"Don't pay attention to me, pay attention to your fight." Ichigo said.
Orihime nodded. "Sorry!" she said, and continued fighting.
They eventually defeated all the hollows.
"So are you okay as a stuffed animal Ririn?" Kroud asked and looked over at Ichigo's shoulder. It was empty.
"Where's Ririn?" he asked.
"She… um…" Ichigo started.
"She ran away and got kidnapped." Rukia finished.
"What?" said Orihime.
"How are you so straight-forward?" Ichigo said to Rukia.
"'Cause I'm not a wimp like you are!" she said. "Anyway, we're going to save her."
"Yeah." Ichigo said.
"Well where is she? I'm coming too!" Kroud joined in. Nova nodded.
"I'll come!" Orihime chimed.
"Me too." Chad said.
"Yes, I'll come." Uryu agreed.
"Well, I don't really know that girl, but I'll come too." said Renji.
"We don't need your help!" Ichigo grumbled.
"We need all them help we can get." Rukia pointed out.
"Mmmfmfmfm!" mumbled Rukia's back pack.
"Open that thing up." Ichigo said. They opened it, and Kon popped out. He coughed and then said, "I'm in if Rukia is!"
"Alright! Then let's go!" Ichigo said. He started to run, but then Rukia stopped him.
"You still don't even know where she is! What's the point in running and wasting your energy? What is it for dramatic effect?" she asked sarcastically.
"Shut up! You got a better idea!?" Ichigo yelled.
"Well, we could always find out about if there are any other worlds, other than the world of the living, the Huceu Mundo and the souls society…" she drowned out into thought.
"That's correct Rukia! It is probable that there are many other worlds out there, besides the real world and the soul society! If we could just learn where they are, we could find Ririn in a jiffy! Uh, metaphorically speaking of course." Kroud poached.
"Fine, let's ask Urahara." Ichigo agreed grudgingly. He really wanted to find her, kill the criminal, and save her already, but he had to admit: Rukia was right. There was no point in running off into the distance, searching, when Ririn obviously wasn't in the real world, or soul society. But, there was a point in rushing to Urahara's. He began to flash step over, but then he remembered that Chad, Orihime, Kroud, and Nova couldn't flash step. So, he just ran as fast as he could.
When they got to Urahara's, Ichigo was about to barge in again, but Rukia was prepared, and stopped him before he got the chance. She knocked on the door, and Ururu came up and answered it.
"Hello everyone, please come in," She said as she held the door open for everyone.
"Thanks. So where's Urahara?" Ichigo asked.
"Oh, he's coming, he'll be out shortly." she said. "Just wait here."
"Kay."
Urahara came out.
"MAN I'm STARVING!" Renji groaned.
"Shut up Renji." Ichigo said.
"You shut up! Your not the one who missed out on dinner to fight hollows!" Renji pointed out.
"Yeah, your right, I missed out on lunch and dinner!" Ichigo replied.
"Well as least you were fighting for your own world! I had to leave the soul society to fight for your stupid old 'world of the living!'"
"This world is so much better than the dumb soul society!"
"In what way?"
"The technology, the fun, and that we're actually LIVING!"
"Shut up! I don't care! I'm still more hungry than you, so I have the right to complain!"
"Oh yeah, well.." Ichigo started but then Rukia interrupted him to say, "Will you two stop bickering! Urahara's been here for a while, so Ichigo, if you really want to save Ririn so quickly, stop your stupid quarrel so we can discuss how to save her!"
"Fine. What'd you find out Urahara?"
"Not much. I tried picking up spirit ribbons from other worlds, but none of them consisted with one that belonged to a mod soul. But I did disco-" Urahara was saying before Ichigo interrupted, "Wait, how do you tell a mod soul ribbon from a regular one?" Ichigo asked.
"You don't know yet? Wow, such great powers, but yet still an amateur." Urahara joked.
"Just tell me!" Ichigo groaned. He wasn't that mad, because he couldn't decide if what Urahara said was an insult or a compliment.
"Well, Mod soul ribbons are black. It's as simple as that." Urahara replied.
Ichigo didn't say anything after that, he just ran towards the door.
"Ichigo! Wait!" Rukia called. She ran after him.
"No!" he said and turned around to face her. "How many times are ya gonna try stop me? You say the same things over and over. 'slow down! Stop and think! Wait! Don't be so reckless!' well I'm tired of hearing that crap! I'm gonna go look for her spirit ribbon, and I'll tell you when I find it!" he went out side.
Rukia decided to let him go search for her, since getting it done quick seemed to be so important to him.
She came back into the room. "That idiot," she sighed.
"I agree, we would find Ririn much faster if we all came up with a strategy. What were you going to tell us Urahara? Was there anything else you discovered?" Uryu asked.
"Yes actually," Urahara began. "It appears that there are many other worlds out there. Probably over a million. Most of the are disserted. The only way to sense spirit ribbons from other worlds is by going up into the sky as high as you can. The higher the better, but just go as high as you can while still being able to breathe. After that, you have to think about the person who you want to find really hard. Make almost all of your thoughts about Ririn. After that, a world will hit your mind almost instantly, like when you get a chill up you spine. You'll see the world, and what it looks like. Then, try to connect to the world. It's something so simple that it's practically impossible. I predict that the one who would be best at it would be Orihime. But she can't see spirit ribbons, can you Orihime?"
"N-no, I can't." Orihime replied.
"Well, anyway, despite his strong powers, Ichigo will be the worst at connecting to the other worlds. He'll try to hard. Actually he's just wasting his energy right now, running around trying to detect spirit ribbons from here." Urahara stated.
"I knew it." Rukia replied.
"Yeah, but anyway, once you find the spirit ribbon, try to summon up the portal. It's usually a gate."
"A gate?" Orihime asked.
"Yes, a gate. Like the one to the soul society, and the depths of hell. The Huceu Mundo is actually very unique to have a sky travel. Anyway, what you do, is grab onto the spirit ribbon, and follow it down to the floor. Once you get there, Imagine the person who the spirit ribbon belongs to being right there. Again, this is something only a simple thinker could do. After you've convinced yourself that Ririn is there, the gate will appear. Then, get me, and I'll help you open it."
"Sounds like a plan." Uryu agreed.
"Every one get it?" Rukia asked.
"Yeah!" Orihime said, and they all nodded their heads.
"Good, let's go find Ichigo."
They found Ichigo at the park that Ririn was at before.
"What are you doing at a place like this?" Rukia asked.
Ichigo turned around, and saw that everyone was there, Orihime, Rukia, Chad, Uryu, Kroud, Nova, and Renji. His face was lit up for a bit because he was surprised, but then it just drooped again.
"I don't know. I just sensed her spiritual pressure here. And then I found my skate board, and Kon said that she took of on it. So, I thought she might've been hiding here or something, but she wasn't any where insight.
Wow… Uryu thought, If the skate board is here, that means this must've been where she was taken from. Ichigo sensed her spiritual pressure just because she was here before, she's not even here anymore. It's amazing… he thought jealously.
"Oh yeah, speaking of Kon, we left him at Urahara's." Rukia said.
"Oh, what ever, we'll get him later." Ichigo said.
"Anyway, Urahara told us how to get Ririn, we have a plan." she said.
"Great, tell me what I have to do!" Ichigo insisted.
"Actually, your pretty useless this time, considering you have to be a simple thinker for this to work." Uryu said, pushing up his glasses.
"Hey, I can think simple!" Ichigo said.
"Your only simple in the idiotic way." Uryu replied.
"That's not true! I come up with really good simple ideas! Ichigo claimed.
"Really? Like chopping away at a Menos Grande like a giant tree, so that it would come to the ground low enough for you to kill?" Uryu reminded him about his previous plan.
"That's really simple!"
"And idiotic."
"Just shut up! I'm gonna try!" he yelled.
"Everyone who can go up into the sky is going to try." Rukia said.
"Oh yeah, good point." Uryu said. Even though he planned on doing the whole thing by himself.
"Witch doesn't include you Uryu, because you can't fly!" Ichigo said.
"Well… oh, that's right." Uryu agreed. He slumped his shoulders, realizing that he couldn't be the big hero.
"So I guess the only ones who can do it is me, Rukia and Ichigo. Of course Ichigo doesn't really count, 'cause he won't do anything." Renji said.
"Whadya mean! You're the one who's absolutely useless!" Ichigo argued.
"Well you've been uselessly sitting at a park! Yeah right, you sensed her, I bet you were just coming here to play like a grade-schooler!" Renji replied
"Your both useless if all you do is fight." Rukia rolled her eyes.
"Y-yeah she's right. Let's go." Ichigo said. He darted up into the sky, and then came down again. "So what are we supposed to do?" he asked.
Rukia told him the directions that Urahara had given them. Then, Rukia, Renji, and Ichigo took off into the sky.
"Bye!" Orihime called from bellow, waving to them.
Ichigo would've said bye back, but he was already to high up in the air once he heard it.
Once they got high enough, Rukia and Renji stopped, but Ichigo tried to keep going. Rukia grabbed him and stopped him.
"You won't be able to breathe up there." she sighed. "Next time you do something reckless I'm not stopping you."
"What ever. Let's start!" he replied.
They started right away, trying to imagine that Ririn was right there.
For this part, Ichigo was the best at it, sense he knew Ririn the most, and was easily able to imagine her.
"I see the world!" he exclaimed.
"Go figure." said Rukia. She was the next to imagine her good enough, and soon she was able to see the world to. It wasn't that big… well it was big, but not close to as big as the Soul Society, Heuco Mundo, or the world of the living. It wasn't very civilized either. Most of it was woods. Actually, at first, Rukia thought all of it was woods. Then she came across a tiny little village, with about thirty houses, and a big castle. It wasn't really a castle, but you could tell that it was meant for a king.
Then, Rukia felt as if she had just woke up. But what had happened? The pictures were fading! She got it now. Seeing the pictures and connecting to another world was practically like dreaming. She was waking up from the dream! At first, she thought so hard to try to get back, but the pictures kept fading! Then she remembered that she had to think simply, or hardly think at all for it to work. So she just thought about Ririn again. The pictures came again. They got clearer, and clearer, the more Rukia thought about Ririn being there, and then, something she had made up her self, her being in the same world as Ririn. Once she felt apart of that world, the spirit ribbons appeared. Rukia grabbed it started dashing down to the floor.
"Hey Rukia wait!" Ichigo yelled and ran after her.
Renji, who hadn't even seen the world yet, headed after them.
Once Ichigo and Renji got there, Rukia had already summoned the gate. You could hardly see it. It was see through, (all except the handle) unless you looked at it in a certain angle.
"Thanks Rukia." Ichigo said.
"I didn't do it for you." she replied.
"Yeah, I know. Lets go!" He ran forward and grabbed the handle, but it just blew him back, and sent him flying away.
Once he got up, Rukia said, "Told you I wouldn't stop you next time."
"Ah, shut up! Then what are supposed to do?"
"Didn't you have some what of an attention span? We have to wait for Urahara to open it, we don't know how." Uryu backed up Rukia.
"No I didn't remember that, 'cause I wasn't there!"
"What ever, go get Urahara." Rukia said.
"Kay, fine." Ichigo grumbled. He darted out into the distance.
Ichigo got back with him. Urahara brought all these materials that he needed to open the gate. He started to work right away. Ichigo everyone waited, expecting it to take a couple minutes. After they had been waiting there for at least forty five minutes, Ichigo broke out, "Ah! Why is this taking so long!"
Urahara turned around to face all of them. "Oh, your all still here? The process of opening a gate takes up to twenty for hours. So go home. Get some rest. Go to school tomorrow, what ever ya want. I'll get you when it's ready."
"Wha, that long! Fine!" and then he started to walk towards his house.
"Oh, and get Kon and your body from my shop!" Urahara called.
"Yeah, I know!" he turned to Urahara's shop's direction, as if he had been planning to all along. Everyone else went home. Rukia caught up with Ichigo, and followed him. He hardly even realized anymore, because he was so used her hanging around. She wasn't going with him for any particular reason, she just had nothing better to do. Besides, she couldn't go into Ichigo's house with out him, she'd get caught.
After Ichigo got his body, and Kon, (why did he have to bring that annoying lion?) he went to his house, into his room, let out a big sigh, and flopped down on his bed.
"I'm skipping school tomorrow." he said to Rukia.
"Why is that?" she asked.
"'Cause I don't feel like goin there's nothin to do there!"
"But don't you like seeing ally your friends? You never do anymore, don't you miss Tatsuki? Or Keigo, and all those people. Besides, If you don't start going to school, you'll eventually get into big trouble, so…
"Yeah, yeah, alright, I'll go."
"Good. I'm not going though. But don't worry about the hollows, I'll take care of them. Just stay at school, like a normal kid would."
Ichigo was confused for a second. Why would she do that? Then, he got it. He smiled a bit. "Thanks Rukia." he said.
She nodded, and shut the closet door. He deserves another day. She thought, as she lied down in Ichigo's closet. Ever since he first started being a soul reaper, he hasn't gotten to really do anything. He never sees his friends. He never goes to school. Practically his whole life is fighting now. If I hadn't have been so stupid… If I hadn't have given him my powers, or better yet, even stepped into his house, I wonder if his life would've been better. Some ways I helped him, but now… all he does is fight. He's hardly a part of this world anymore. I bet he misses it, but he's so far that he doesn't know how much he misses it! That's why he needs ones more day, like before, to act like a normal kid before he sets off on another long journey of fighting.
