(A/N: I am awful at writing battle scenes so I'm just gonna wing it. a.k.a. write a battle as a psychological. Apology in advance. Also, Ichigo is one of the hardest characters to write. Ever. I'm calling Urahara "Urahara-san" 'cause that's what Tatsuki would call him. Also, please review? Don't own Bleach, don't own anything, but I dreamt I owned a doughnut.
My spelling in this thing sucks, 'cause my spellcheck says everyone's names are spelled wrong so I don't bother going through it to find actual mistakes, since everything's red anyway. On another note, I'll probably change the genre, change the Humour into General, 'cause I suck at humour. If anyone has any suggestions of humorous anecdotes to use, I'd gladly use them.)
Ichigo was in his human body now. Tatsuki had won second place in the girl's karate competition in Japan. Of course she could beat him. Of course, she thought. But as their arms clashed, as the blows were exchanged she felt herself be pushed to her limits. Ichigo used to be a wimp, even recently, he was still a wimp. She hadn't noticed before but when she thought about it, he had gotten visibly stronger in the past months. Visibly so, very visibly. And Tatsuki had only gotten so far in the WOMEN'S competition. She could do quite well against most guys, but a supernatural one, she wasn't too sure of.
He was very fast, she could almost not keep up. He jumped higher than a normal human should be able to, she was no match. I have to be a match. I have to be even better than one. If I don't beat him I lose my best friend. Maybe I should start calling him my ex-best friend. Maybe I should have already started. Damn! If you lose focus and determination you really will lose dammit! She mentally yelled at herself as the karate fight continued. (A/N: I know nothing about karate so I can't really write the real fight...)
She was distracted by herself, he caught her off guard. She gasped as he managed to pin her down. She had lost. It was over. She wouldn't be surprised if they never spoke again. I can't give up yet! Dammit Ichigo, I don't go down without a fight and this was next to nothing. Motivation raging, she knocked him off her. Everyone knows how strong Tatsuki is in a rage, right? The battle continued. Ichigo took a moment to glare at Urahara-san's mocking grin, and that proved his downfall. She stood above him now, pinning him down. Evil aura emanating strongly from her body.
"Now tell me everything, Baka." she said through gritted teeth. Ichigo wasn't cowering like most people would be. Then again, she couldn't expect him to have been, could she? She had seen the monsters he'd fought. On his face was a mask of worry and determination somehow articulately combined.
"Fine." he mumbled as they both stood up. Urahara-san was no longer wearing his smile-mask. He sat on a rock, head tilted down, observing the teenagers from the shadow of his hat. "I'm a shinigami." Ichigo said.
Tatsuki wanted to mock him, or hit him for saying something so stupid and unreasonable, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. For some reason, she was believing him.
"I got my powers from Ru-...Kuchiki-san when a hollow, that's the monsters, attacked my family. She lost her powers so I had to help her do her job. Hollows are dead souls who were not sent to Soul Society, that's heaven. I saved Orihime and you from her brother's hollow. They go after the people they love first."
"I remember that vaguely," Tatsuki mumbled to herself, squinting as if to better see the past.
"Y-yeah," Ichigo mumbled. It was obvious he didn't know what to do with his hands as he was fiddling with them awkwardly. "Well, the people from Soul Society came to get Kuchiki-san because it's illegal to give powers to a human. Her brother took my powers and nearly killed me, but Urahara-san saved me." Ichigo continued in a low voice, nodding slightly at Urahara-san, who when Tatsuki turned to him, spread a coy smile. Tatsuki shook her head and turned again to Ichigo, who was hanging his head. "I got my powers back. and went to save her." he continued. Tatsuki noticed he put an extra emphasis on "powers". She looked around, but the cat was still emotionless and Urahara-san had not yet dropped his smile.
"That was after the fireworks festival?" Tatsuki half-asked, half-pointed out.
"Bravo!" was Urahara-san's call while Ichigo just sat there.
"Orihime, Sado-kun and Ishida-kun went with you." Tatsuki said. Ichigo nodded.
"They chose to, I had no say in it!" he responded grumpily at seeing Tatsuki's face switch to "protective-of-Orihime." mode. Tatsuki was still mad, but she didn't freak out. That much was good. "Whatever."Ichigo mumbled. "So we went with... Yoruichi-cat-person." he continued, pointing at the former. That's a person? Tatsuki thought.
"That's not very nice, Ichigo." the cat responded in a flirtatious voice, all of a sudden female. And stark naked. (A/N: I'm serious, there was no pun intended.) Tatsuki yelped and turned around. If there was anything she didn't need it was to see a naked woman. Chizuru forcing herself onto her was bad enough. Urahara-san laughed loudly. Tatsuki opened her eyes to see Ichigo also turned around, the back of his neck was bright red, obviously his face would be. He's strong now, but he's still innocent. "Fine, I'm back now." the cat said, masculine voice returned. Urahara-san was still laughing. Tatsuki slowly turned around. Surely, the cat was a cat again. "Yes I have a masculine voice in cat form." 'Yoruichi' said in a 'Thank-you-Captain-Obvious' tone of voice.
"Um-um, continuing." Ichigo stuttered, red-faced. "So we met a bunch of crazies and got split up. I ended up with the biggest crazy. Then we fought a bunch of even crazier people, shinigami," he corrected, "I nearly got killed more times, but I was saved by cat lady and myself. We saved Rukia, and there was a big plot centred around this thing that stupid Mr. Hat-and-Clogs created." Ichigo glared slightly. Urahara-san smiled sheepishly. "Some captains betrayed Soul Society and I got into the Soul Society good books. Rukia stayed." Tatsuki noted that his sarcastic account wavered slightly in the speaking of the last phrase.
"The bad captains made an army of Arrancars. I'll explain that later. Orihime is with them now. Suposedly she went of her own will, but it's not possible. She wouldn't betray us. Not with the usefulness of her power. She woldn't let her friends die." Ichigo was ranting now, his fists were clenched.
"What power?" Tatsuki asked, before Ichigo could get carried away by himself.
"She has six faeries who give her powers. Two heal, three shield, and one rejects." Ichigo rambled.
"She has powers!" Tatsuki repeated incredulously. "How, since when?" Ichigo would have laughed if the situation hadn't been so grim.
"Since she was exposed to the Strawberry in shinigami form." Yoruichi-cat said. Ichigo defended himself.
"It wasn't my damn fault! She would've died if I didn't do that. Her and Tatsuki! Ah, damnit, I'm not going through all of this with her!"
"You have to, you lost!" Tatsuki objected, running after him.
"She's right, y'know." Urahara-san said from behind his fan a little too joyfully for the situation. Tatsuki was fast and that one girl in their class was even faster, but Urahara-san had moved to in front of Ichigo faster than Tatsuki could follow with her eyes.
"Holy shit.." she mumbled as Ichigo flew into a rage.
After Ichigo calmed down, Urahara-san finished the story. So Sado-kun and Orihime both have powers because of Ichigo. Tatsuki stood pondering for only a few seconds after the account was finished.
"Ichigo, I'll train alongside you." she said with determination. Ichigo recoiled.
"What? No way! I'm not ruining someone else's life by dragging them into this! No fricking way!" he yelled. Tatsuki smiled in spite of herself.
"You would be ruining my life by not letting me." she responded.
"You don't know all that happened. You don't know what you're getting yourself into."
"Yeah, I do. You and Urahara-san just told me!" she said, her voice rising slightly, "I'm getting into an otherworldly fight which Sado and Orihime can both handle! Remember that I beat you just now. Remember the one who always beat you. I'm not weak, y'know." Towards the end her voice had calmed, but her teeth and fists were clenched. She and Ichigo glared at each other until Urahara-san started laughing. Then they glared at him.
"I'm not gonna let you." Ichigo said.
"I don't care if you let me." Tatsuki retorted. They went back to their argument ignoring the blonde man behind them, "I'm not gonna let YOU take away Orihime, and put her in danger, and take away yourself even! I'm not some damned damsel in distress that's gonna watch you fight! And I don't care whether or not you let me, I'll help you. I'll help you with or without powers!" Tatsuki's menacing aura had risen again, the second time that day. Well, night. This was not Ichigo's day it seemed. He clenched his teeth and fists and nodded.
"Fine, but you better not get in my way." he accepted. Tatsuki smiled.
"Will do, baka." she replied. Urahara-san cheered.