Bleached Soul Chapter 2: The Other Side of Black Lake
Ichigo was having a blast dunking Kon under the water jokingly. Rukia and Orihime were tanning in their bathing suits on the little beach that surrounded Black Lake. Kon couldn't quit staring at the girls' bodies tanning, I mean what normal guy, or in this case talking stuffed animal wouldn't quit staring. Ichigo then tossed Kon up into the air Kon screaming, "AGH! Ichigo what are you doing!?" Ichigo then batted Kon towards the girls like a volleyball. Kon smashed the sand facefirst saying, "AGH! You orange haired little..." He then heard Rukia's throat clear. Kon smiled but Rukia didn't buy it and kicked Kon back out to Ichigo. Ichigo then caught Kon and said, "Hey Rukia, Orihime! Why not come in and have some fun!" Orihime then said as she was getting up from her tanning spot, "Sure thing!" Rukia then said, "Well, I'll pass on that even though I want to." Orihime stopped in her tracks and asked, "Why aren't you coming in with us? It will be fun. Plus all you've done is tan today anyway!" Orihime then grabbed Rukia's foot and drug her to the water, Rukia crossed her arms and frowned the entire time. Orihime got to the water's edge and tossed Rukia into the water next to Ichigo, SPLASH! Ichigo then said, "Orihime, you didn't really have to do that you know?" Orihime then puffed up and said, "Well, when we're trying to have fun she's always a sour-puss. I want that to change!" Rukia came to the surface gasping for breath and said, "Orihime! What was that for!?" Orihime tilted her head, closed her eyes and said, "Well, I just told Ichigo this. When were having fun, you tend to be a sour-puss. So I thought, I would change that!" Ichigo agreeing with Orihime said, "Actually, Orihime has a point you know. Everytime we go to have fun you seem to never have fun. You sit back away from us." Rukia then apoligizes, "I'm sorry, I'm just always worried that a hollow might interrupt us and cause my mood to shift abruptly." Ichigo then says, "Rukia, look. We can't always be fighting hollows, you said it your self. We need this break from it all. Fighting hollows does get boring after a while. It's free time we've been needing not more training." Rukia calmed down and said, "Alright! We should enjoy this free time! What shall we do?" Ichigo offered this idea, "Why not you create a spirit ball and we can use it to play volleyball?" Rukia agrees and they play volleyball all afternoon. Later that day Ichigo was drying off and sat down on the couch to watch tv. Orihime sat next to him to do the same thing. Rukia was off in another room drying off listening to japanese music while getting dressed for bed. Ichigo and Orihime stayed up until 11 o'clock watching some weird movie. They got through with the movie and Rukia already had gone to bed ten minutes before. Ichigo walked into his room and noticed Kon was asleep in his bed already. Ichigo hollered, "KON GET OUT OF MY BED!" Kon fell to the floor with a loud thud waking Rukia. Rukia stomped in the room and said, "What is going on in here!?" She noticed what had happened and said, "Nevermind, I'm out of here." Ichigo then pointed his finger to the mat on the floor and said calmly, "Kon. That is your bed. Why on the blessed blue Earth did you think this was your bed? I don't know or care. But tomorrow is a special day cause we're going to go back to the Soul Society for a little bit to try to get Rangiku, Momo, and the others to come here too. Kon's mind went to the gutter when he heard that, his thoughts ran wild as he imagined all of the girl shinigami in their swimsuits. Kon then said, "Well, alright I'll just go to sleep on this poorly made matress then. HMPH!" Ichigo then said, "Whatever man." He then laid down and thought about what tomorrow would be like with everyone there. Then he started to wish that Chad and Uryu was there having fun too. That would have been the best Spring Break ever. Ichigo then thought, "Well, it still couldn't top that one Spring Break where the hollow's horn caught on Yoruichi's shirt and ripped it off." Ichigo's face then looked perverted with closed eyes and a grin that went from ear to ear. Kon overheard this and said, "What about Yoruichi's shirt coming off." Ichigo threw one of the extra pillows from his bed at Kon knocking his head back pretty hard, making Kon fall backwards with a twitching foot. Kon just groaned and said hoarsely, "Well, sorry I said anything." He then falls asleep forcefully from the pillow hitting him. Ichigo then lies there awake for an hour more and thought about how awesome it would have been for his family and other friends would have been. Backing the story up a little bit in Death City's Black Lake, Maka just got done cooking up some ramen when Black Star was looking in Black Lake just staring. Tsubaki then asked him, "Hey, Black Star? Might I ask what you are doing?" Black Star answers, "Well, Tsubaki." He then turns around to talk to her better, "I was just seeing if there really is another world on the other side of this lake." Maka then said, "Yeah, there is you just can't see it. It's visual appearence is blocked due to an enormous amount of Soul Power that was put there by Stein himself. Remember the history lesson on it he told us about last week?" Soul, being the boy he is said, "Oh yeah, he woke me up from a nice dream I was having with Blair in it that day." Maka grew angry and said, "I swear Soul, you may be as old as you are but you still act like a little kid sometimes." Soul just shrugs his shoulders and says, "Eh... I don't care what you think anyway." Maka then goes, "PHT! Figures!" Soul opens one eye and says, "What was that Maka?" Maka then denies what she said, "Nothing, nothing at all. Anyway, anyone want a bowl of ramen, I just made it for you guys." She then looks at Soul with a scowl and says jokingly, "Well, almost everyone." Soul just sits there and mumbles under his breath, "Whatever, small chested little..." Soul stopped when he realized Maka was standing there near his left shoulder with a knife and she said, "If you know what's good for you. You'll not finish that sentence." Soul gasps and says waving his arms in denial, "Oh, no no no... I was just thinking aloud, I'm sorry." Maka then smiled and asked, "Are you sure you don't want any ramen Soul?" Soul said spooked, "No, no, I'll pass. I'm not really hungry anyway." Maka then walked off saying, "Oh well, your loss." Later, on Soul was walking the little beach that surrounded Black Lake. He noticed a little shimmer in the lake, he then walked over to the edge of the water and took a deeper look into the lake to find out what the shimmer was. He nearly fell in until Maka tapped his shoulder nearly scaring him to death. Maka then asked, Are you alright Soul?" Soul looked at Maka and said, "Yeah, I just saw something in the water. It shimmered somewhat." Maka then said, "Wait! Where did you see it, we can do our little bet tomorrow if it's what I think it is." Soul then remembered what the bet was and said, "Hey! I bet it is a spiritual rip in Stein's Soul Seal around the Dementional Rift between own world and that other world." Maka's jaw then dropped and she said, "Wow! I never heard of you using those kind of big words. Kudos to you." Soul scowled at Maka only to change looks staring off into the water once again. The water was shimmering more than it was before and Soul was in a trance from it. Soul then started walking into the water without warning. Maka noticed and said, "Hey Soul! What are you doing?" Soul just kept walking into the water and not bothering to notice his meister calling him back onto the beach. Black Star noticed as well and hurried to stop him but Soul was too far into the trance to stop him. Tsubaki was there in a flash as well. Soul just kept walking. Black Star was trying to hold him back, but it wasn't doing any good. Black Star's feet was being pushed into the sand beneath him as he tried to stop Soul from proceeding into the water any farther. Maka then yelled, "Hey, I know what's wrong. Hit him in the face. He has the Black Lake Spell on him. It calls the nearest man with bad intensions to walk into the water and never be heard from again." Black Star hit Soul in the face farely hard but it didn't faze Soul in the least. Black Star then said, "Hey, something's up I don't think thats what's going on at all!" Maka then gets in the water and grabs Soul's hand and tries to transform him into his scythe form, but it fails as well. Black Star then suggests, "Well, hows about we go on and let him go through? I mean that's what the bet you was trying to pull wasn't it?" Maka then says, "Well, how about we all go that way we'll be going together?" Black Star then tells Tsubaki, Maka, himself to hold hands and he grabbed onto Soul's shirt a milisecond before Soul finally started getting sucked underneath the water itself and they went through a small little portal the size of a beach ball. There they fell for at least an hour. Whilst falling Soul came to and said, "What the hell Maka?! What are we doing!? Skydiving!?" Maka then got frustrated and hollered, "No, why do you think I did this?! You were the one walking into the water you dope!" Soul then remembered what she was talking about and said, "Oh yeah. I forgot. My mind must have been stuck in a transe while looking in the water for too long like the myth says." Black Star then replies, "Actually Soul, it's not a myth since it's happeing to us right now." Soul then smacked Black Star's head and said, "Well, no duh you moron. I didn't know that's what was happening to us." Black Star then grabs his head where Soul hit it and said, "Ow! Well, I'm just being a smartass anyway." Maka then steps in, "Boys! Is this anyway to act when we're stuck in a situation like this? Anyway, Black Star, now isn't the time for your smartass remarks. We need to figure out how to get back to our world when we get to this one." Soul's face went blank and said, "Uh-oh." Tsubaki then asks, "Uh-oh what?" Soul then explains, "Well, you remember reading the book on Black Lake right? Well, it said, in chapter 9 I believe, 'Only a descendant from Lord Death himself can go between either worlds for free. For others to cross through the portal once is free, traveling back to the opposite world is not. One human soul is to be sacrificed for each individual to return. What if the world were going to has no human souls?!" Everyone else freaks out and Maka remembers something as well. Maka says, "WAIT! We can use telepathic thoughts to tell Kid to come rescue us right?" Soul then replies, "I hate to admit it but your right. But your the only one able to do that right?" Maka then remembers, "Yeah, and I haven't mastered it yet so we might be stuck in this world for a while." Everyone at once freaked out but stopped when they noticed a small light beneath them growing as they fell through the demensional portal. For a second everything sat still until they were taking on water and fast. they came to the surface to find out where they had wound up.