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"Yo," Hichigo talking

Summary;

Warnings; The usual cursing associated with our favorite hollow, and slightly mature themes here and there...Or maybe not…

Edited; June 11, 2010

Chapter 3

The three instructors waited until they couldn't feel Ichigo's spirit energy before turning to the youngest member of their group.

They (two of them) looked at Togichi Miyako, the instructor who had test Ichigo.

"Why did you start him off with a practical kidou?" Takai and Ayumu asked.

"Because I had a feeling he could do it." Miyako replied. "And I always trust my feelings."

Ichigo finally navigated to his dorm room, after twenty minutes of traveling thought out the school.

How the Hell did anyone get anywhere in this place?

It was freaking huge, nearly everything was in the same color: brown. Maybe that was the reason everyone from Soul Society was twisted. They sent too much time looking at brown.

It made Ichigo smile trying to imagine Toshiro ran away from a horde of fan girls.

Come to think of it...Ichigo really didn't know much about his soul society friends...maybe he didn't know them as well as he thought he did.

Ichigo very slightly sighed, and opened the wooden door to his 'new' room. Inside was a smallish room containing a decent bed, a desk, and a bedside table that were all colored light brown.

Ichigo sweat dropped; did dead people have no sense of color? Or did they just like the color brown?

'Oh well,' He thought. 'I'll be here for a year might as well get used to it.'

Ichigo closed his room door, and laid on his bed, surprisingly there was a small window next to it.

Ichigo looked out it, remembering...

FLASHBACK

Ichigo watched from his bedroom window, the very battle going on outside.

The secret that his father was a captain level shinigami was short lived, Ichigo had thought he's father would help in the war...but he was wrong.

Instead his father put up some strong kidou barriers around the house, trapping Ichigo and his sisters inside.

Ichigo confronted Isshin immediately after he set the barriers up, Yuzu and Karin happened to be in the room when it happened.

"WHY?" Ichigo yelled at his father.

Right now, even as he was yelling at his father, dozens of people were dying, when he, Ichigo could have stopped it. So why was his father doing this?

"Because," Isshin started. "I promise Masaki I would protect you three."

Ichigo's eyes darken.

So that's why...

Isshin closed his eyes and prepared himself for the on slaughter of painful insults from his son.

But nothing came.

Ichigo bent his head shadowing his eyes.

So he was still trapped, but by his own family.

Karin and Yuzu didn't say anything, because they didn't know who to defend, or argue with. They could understand both points of view, and yet both knew they didn't want to lose their brother.

Ichigo walked past all three of them and was at the doorway to the stairs when he said something.

"...another prison cell... and betrayal..." He whispered.

His sentence froze the heart of all three, it had hurt them far worst then any insults Ichigo could have yelled.

Ichigo had basically said he's family had betrayed him.

Isshin slumped down in a chair and Yuzu started crying.

And it was true...they had betrayed him...to keep him safe.

-A few days later-

Ichigo stayed in his room for the most part.

He couldn't believe his own family had trapped him. His friends were dying out there and they only wanted him to live. Couldn't they see that his friends gave him reason to live?

Tatsuki taught him how to move on after mom died.

Chad extended a hand of friendship.

Rukia gave him the power to protect his family.

Keigo and Mizuiro gave him a reason to be himself.

Orihime...he swore to protect her.

Renji was another person who understood him.

And Uryuu... he really couldn't think of anything...

KNOCK. KNOCK.

Yuzu entered slowly and tried to smile at Ichigo, but her attempt did nothing to make Ichigo happy. In fact it only steeled his resolve to fight.

"Here's your dinner Ichi-nii." She said placing it on his desk, before she quickly walked out of the room.

She couldn't take those haunted eyes of his.

Yuzu burst into tears outside Ichigo bedroom door.

Was it so wrong to keep her brother safe?

No one had the answer...

FLASHBACK END

Ichigo yawned and went to sleep.

Tomorrow would be his first day.

A/N: FINALLY it's done...sigh. Now only a few more stories to update...

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