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By the Stars Light
Chapter 3 Whose the New Guy
Kurosaki Ichigo was not having a good day he walked to school looking exhausted a perfectly chipper Kuchiki Rukia walking next to him.
"Oy Rukia I know it's my job and all but do I really have to go after every Hollow. I didn't get any sleep last night." Complained Ichigo
"Really I feel perfectly fine." Replied Rukia
"But you didn't even fight!"
"Well when you get caught up in all the details then yes I didn't."
"Fine whatever, c'mon were going to be late." Said Ichigo as he rounded the corner he bumped into another person.
"Hey watch where you're going Kurosaki!" yelled the kid, he was about Ichigo's age. He had black hair gelled into short spikes, he wore dark sunglasses covering his eyes and a leather jacket with spiked metal studs on the shoulder, but underneath he was wearing the Karakura High uniform.
"What the hell how do you know my name!?"
"What the hell kind a question is that? I'm in your class." Ichigo had a look of confusion.
"You are, man I really have to pay attention more." He put his hand behind his head. "So what's your name again?"
"Hoshi, Juuni Hoshi. Guess I can't blame you for not knowing I haven't been at Karakura all that long." Suddenly Rukia's cell phone rang.
"Ichigo we have to go now." She ran up to Ichigo and dragged him away.
"Okay, talk about whipped." Hoshi said shaking his head and walking away when he heard Ichigo scream loudly. "Kurosaki!" Hoshi ran in the direction Rukia had dragged Ichigo. As he was running he saw Rukia. "Hey Kuchiki-san."
"Juuni-san you shouldn't be here it's dangerous." Said Rukia. Hoshi looked in the direction Rukia was starring.
"What's so dangerous about Kurosaki in a weird outfit fighting nothing? Other than he's going to hurt himself his swordsmanship sucks."
"Nothing dangerous that's a… You can see Ichigo?"
"Uh yeah that hair's kinda hard to miss, that and that sword can be seen from space." He took of his gym bag and took out a wooden training sword. "If its practice you want you should have asked me, I'm captain of the kendo team, been fighting since I was nine." Hoshi walked up to Ichigo who was swinging his sword around.
"Hoshi get out it's dangerous." Yelled Ichigo.
"Yeah whatever." And Hoshi stood in front of Ichigo, oblivious to the Hollow behind him.
"Behind you." Hoshi looked nonchalantly behind him.
"Oh yeah the big bad monster, I'll play along." Hoshi turned around and swung his sword down. "Take that monster!" Ichigo and Rukia watched in amazement as the wooden sword struck the Hollow right on the head its mask split open and it disappeared as it was returned to Soul Society purified. Hoshi turned back around. "There the monster's all gone." He said jokingly and he pointed his sword at Ichigo. "Now for the main event." He ran at Ichigo, Ichigo still shocked didn't react and was hit upside the head by Hoshi's sword and he stumbled backwards dropping his sword.
"What the hell man?"
"I thought we were sparring, but you're not worth my time Kurosaki." Hoshi walked over and picked up his belongings. He looked at Rukia and bowed. "Sayonara Kuchiki-san." He said before turning and walking to school.
"Damn, that kid packs a punch." Said Ichigo now back in his body rubbing his head. He looked to see Rukia staring at the direction Hoshi went. "What's with you?"
"That boy, he could see you Ichigo, he killed a Hollow with a wooden sword and purified it."
"He's like me; maybe his spirit sense is high."
"Then why couldn't he see the Hollow, his strike was dead center, it couldn't have been coincidence."
"You worry too much, and they say worrying stunts your growth, but too late for that."
"Ichigo!" she yelled as she chased him all the way to school.
At school
During her lunch break Rukia sat next to Orihime.
"Excuse me Inoue, do you happen to know anything about Juuni Hoshi." Asked Rukia
"Juuni-kun? He hasn't been here that long, here came here just after Kuchiki-san two months ago. He's second in class only to Ishida-kun and he's almost as good at fighting as Tatsuki-chan although he could beat her if he had his sword that's what he's best at." Inoue said as bubbly as ever. "But why does Kuchiki-san want to know?"
"Well I um…" said Rukia fumbling with her words, she couldn't let Inoue know the truth.
"Could Kuchiki-san like Juuni-kun!" gasped Inoue. "But then if Kuchiki-san likes Juuni-kun, then Kurosaki-kun will be alone, and when you're lonely that's when the guilt goblins get you."
"Uh yeah." Rukia laughed nervously at buxom bubbly brunette's rant. "Excuse me Inoue." Rukia got up from the table and walked across the schoolyard, she looked around for awhile before she spotted Hoshi sitting under a tree, now bereft of his leather jacket and sunglasses as they were against dress code. He was hunched over a drawing pad a pencil in hand. "Mind if I sit here." Hoshi looked up showing his vivid jade eyes.
"Not really." Said Hoshi. Rukia sat down next to him.
"What are you drawing Juuni-san?"
"You don't have to be so formal Hoshi-kun is fine Rukia-chan."
"Okay Hoshi-kun, but what are drawing?" Hoshi handed the pad to Rukia. Rukia looked at it, the pad was surprisingly old judging from the paper but was kept in good condition and it was thick she guessed the oldest drawings were years old. She looked at the most recent one. "This is."
"That thing from this morning."
"But you said you couldn't see it."
"Up until this morning I thought I was the only one who saw them."
"What do you mean?" asked Rukia. Hoshi closed his eyes.
"Imagine being seven years old waking up in a strange hospital with no memory but your name, then you tell them you see giant monsters all the time."
"They would think you were crazy."
"They did. I spent two years in and out of hospitals before moving from foster home to foster home. I was on more pills than an old man. I never took them because they didn't work anyway, but I always thought it was in my head until I started being attacked. That was when I started seeing those guys in black they killed the hollows."
"You mean Hollows attacked you that often?"
"Well more like drawn to me, I was only in danger once from one Hollow as you call them." Hoshi took back the sketch pad. "But then one of those swordsmen saved me, she was the reason I took up kendo." He began flipping the sketch book, he found the page he was looking for and handed it to Rukia. Unlike the others this picture was colored in, it was shaded perfectly, from the shadows cast by the Shinigami's hair on her face to the pure white Zanpakuto in her hand.
"This…this is." She looked up at Hoshi. "Me!"
Well another chapter down, incase anyone is wondering this chapter is right before Ishida summons all the hollows.
