Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or Rurouni Kenshin.
Shima: Hey people of the living world. I am Shima. Now you know me, so now I want to know you. Well I really want to here from you. That's all. So you guys please review to Kono-kun's story! If you like it, TELL HER! She knows she has a few right now, and she really grateful to you guys for that. She says thanks to all you people who took the time to write something in that deep dark void you people call a review box.
A/N: Adding to Shima's note above. Sorry this took so long. I have been really busy. High School is a pain.
A black hole appeared in the sky and Renji fell hitting the ground hard. He laid there waiting for the pain to subside. He really didn't want to move. His body hurt all over. It was like when do a belly flop, but landing on the ground, instead of water.
Kenshin and Ichigo were walking into town at the time because Kaoru needed some things to make lunch. Ichigo wasn't really excited to try Kaoru's cooking again. After what happened last time. He figured he would skip lunch today. When they entered the town they saw a large crowd gathered around in the middle of the street.
"What do suppose is going on?" Kenshin asked Ichigo.
"I don't know. Lets find out." Ichigo and Kenshin both ran over to the crowd of people and Ichigo pushed through to the middle of the commotion. "Renji?" Ichigo asked confused.
When Renji heard his name he looked up to see Ichigo staring at him. He got up from the small crater he made when he landed and looked at Ichigo. Renji didn't notice Kenshin or the other people staring at him. He was just looking at Ichigo. "I have been looking all over for you!" Renji yelled pointing at Ichigo. The crowd of people back away at his sudden out burst. "What the hell are you doing here!?" Renji demanded.
Ichigo gritted his teeth. Renji just gets here and already he is yelling at him. "What do you mean what am I doing here!? What the hell are you doing here!?" Ichigo yelled back.
"Some freaking girl sent me here for no god damn reason!" Renji yelled.
Ichigo blinked. "Really? That's what happened to us." he said.
"Us?" Renji asked confused.
"Yeah. Rukia, Uryuu, Orihime, and Chad. We all get sent here by that same girl. I think here name was Shima."
Renji blinked once, twice, three times. "So your all here?"
"Yeah. Were staying with Kenshin and his friends." Ichigo said pointing to the swordsman standing next to him.
"Yes Ichigo and his friends are staying with us as miss Kaoru's place." Kenshin said smiling. Then Kenshin remembered why they came into town. "Oh, We still have to get miss Kaoru's lunch ingredients."
"Oh yeah. I guess we forgot." Ichigo said then looked over to Renji. "You coming?" Renji nodded and followed them through the crowd of people.
After they got all the things Kaoru told them to pick up, they headed back. Ichigo told Renji about everything that had happened since they got to the Meiji era.
"So, this Shima girl can use time travel?" Renji asked his voice growing louder. "And she sent a hallow here and she made it so that these guys." Renji pointed to Kenshin. "Can see Hallows and soul reapers?"
"Yeah, that's pretty much it." Ichigo told him.
"Do you guys have any idea why she is doing this?" Renji asked taking an apple from the bag of food he was carrying. Ichigo and Kenshin both looked at him and he put it back.
"No." Ichigo told him. "We have no idea what's she is planning."
The three arrived at the dojo and put the bags in the kitchen. Yahiko came out from the hallway and said hello to Ichigo and Kenshin. He came back and pointed at Renji "Who's that?"
"Oh, this is Renji." Ichigo told him. "He's from my time period. We found him in town."
Yahiko stared at Renji for a minute. "Who's the kid?" Renji whispered to Ichigo.
Yahiko heard this and yelled at Renji. "I ain't a kid!"
Renji patted Yahiko on the head. "Sure your not."
Yahiko stomped on Renji's foot causing Renji to yell. "Don't treat me like some little kid!" Yahiko told him, then he left the room. Renji was hopping around the kitchen holding his foot. "Renji?" He stopped and looked over to see Rukia, Orihime, Chad, Uryuu, and a few other people he didn't know standing in the kitchen doorway. Not watching where he was going he tripped over a bag of food that was laying on the floor and hit his head. Kenshin and Ichigo both sighed.
(A few minutes before)
Out in the back yard everyone was relaxing after cleaning all day. It was a nice day. The sun was shining and it just seemed so calm. Well until they heard someone yelling and then a loud thud. "What was that?" Kaoru asked.
Rukia thought for a moment then got up and walked inside the house. Everyone followed her. Yahiko came stomping out of the kitchen. "Yahiko what's wrong?" Kaoru asked. Yahiko said nothing and walked past her. Everyone followed Rukia to the kitchen. There they saw Renji holding his foot and hopping around the room cursing 'the god damned kid for stomping on his foot.' "Renji?" Rukia said surprised. They watched as Renji turned to look at Rukia and then fell backwards over a bag of food and hit his head on the floor.
"Thank you for coming over miss Megumi." Kenshin said.
Megumi smiled. "It seems like I am coming over here quite a lot." She laughed.
Renji sighed and placed a bag of ice on the large bump on his head. He hit the floor pretty hard when he fell.
"So your a friend of Ichigo's?" Sanosuke asked.
Renji nodded. "More or less."
"What do you mean by that!?" Ichigo yelled standing up.
"Nothing! So quit yelling at me!" Renji stood and yelled back.
"I should have just left you in the middle of the road!" Ichigo yelled.
"I probably would have been better off!" Renji and Ichigo had sparks flying from there eyes at this point.
"Lunch time!" Kaoru and Orihime chimed. Ichigo's hair stood on end at those words. He forgot about Renji and turned around to see Kaoru and Orihime with plates full of food. Or what he thought looked like food.
"We did a good job this time." Kaoru smiled. Orihime nodded. "Here Ichigo!" Orihime said happily.
Ichigo said nothing he ran out the front gate leaving a trail of dust behind him. "THERE IS NO WAY I'M EATING THAT STUFF AGAIN!" Ichigo yelled back horrified.
Kaoru turned to everyone else with a look of doom. Everyone backed away slowly. Except Orihime who was smiling, thinking god only knows what.
Everyone else was thinking they would rather take chance with a Hallow, than eat the 'food' made by Kaoru and Orihime. But that didn't happen so everyone sat down and ate their lunch.
And hour later, everyone had bad stomach pains and were throwing up. It wasn't good. Even Megumi was sick after eating the food. They all agreed that Kaoru and Orihime were NOT allowed to make any more meals. Ever. Again.
After everyone got over there sickness. Thanks to Megumi. They all sat outside waiting for Ichigo to return.
"Ichigo sure is taking a long time." Orihime said worried.
"Think we should go look for him?" Uryuu suggested.
"Yeah. It's getting late." Sanosuke said.
"We should split up and look for him." Rukia said. Everyone agreed. Rukia split everyone into a team of two. "Renji and Kenshin. Uryuu and Sanosuke. Chad and Yahiko, and Me and Kaoru." Rukia turned to Orihime and Megumi. "You stay here in case Ichigo comes back while were out looking for him."
"Alright." Orihime said.
Megumi nodded. "Sure."
Yahiko looked around for a moment. "I just remembered something."
"What?" Sanosuke asked.
"We haven't seen Kon all day." Yahiko pointed out.
"Oh yeah!" Rukia said looking around the yard. "I'm sure he's fine and just sleeping some where. We have to find Ichigo before it get to dark." Everyone agreed and left with there partner to find Ichigo.
"Damn it! How the hell did I end up in the woods!?" Ichigo yelled frustrated.
(Flashback)
"THERE IS NO WAY I'M EATING THAT STUFF AGAIN!" Ichigo yelled back horrified. He ran past the front gate and kept on going. Ichigo ran down the hill and fell into the river. The fast current pulled him a long way down river and he finally made it onto shore. He climbed out and sat on the ground trying to catch his breath. He looked around to see that the road, the town and Kaoru's house was no where in sight. "Now where am I? Ichigo asked himself. "Guess I should follow the river back." So Ichigo followed the river up stream. Everything was going good until he reached a small problem. The river split into two different directions. "Ah come on! Which way do I go?" He thought for a minute and then with careful thinking. "Eeny meeny miny mo…" He finally he chose the left side and followed it.
(End flashback)
"Oh, yeah. Guess I should have went right." Ichigo sighed.
"Looks like your lost." a voice said teasingly.
Ichigo looked around but didn't see anyone. Then he remembered the voice from last time. It was Shima.
Shima appeared in front of Ichigo. "Hi Ichi!" Shima said smiling.
"What the hell are you up to Shima? Why did you bring us all here?" Ichigo asked his voice was getting louder.
Shima thought for a moment. "I was board. I needed something to do." Shima smiled. "I can tell you how to get home if you want. You just have to play by my rules."
"Were not some toy you can play with!" Ichigo yelled.
Shima looked at Ichigo. "If you don't win the game than you can't go home." Shima explained.
Ichigo thought for a moment. "Fine, we'll play your game."
Shima giggled. "Alright. Here it's on this paper." Shima handed the paper to Ichigo. "All you have to do is decode it and then follow the instructions. It's really that simple. Good luck." Shima said smiling and then disappeared.
"Hay wait!" Ichigo yelled, but Shima was already gone. He looked the paper in his hand it looked like a bunch of weird letters. It didn't make any sense to him. 'How the hell do you decode this?' He wondered.
"Ichigo! Damn it Ichigo you better come out!" Ichigo looked up and saw Renji and Kenshin walking through the woods.
"Maybe you shouldn't yell like that." Kenshin tried to calm Renji down. They had been walking for about two hours now and Kenshin could tell Renji was getting frustrated.
Renji wasn't listening to him. " HAY ICHIGO!" Renji yelled louder.
"Quit your yelling Renji." Ichigo said stepping out from the bushes and hitting Renji on the head.
Renji spun around and hit Ichigo back. "Don't hit me! I've been walking all over these damn woods looking for you, because you ran off!" Renji yelled at him.
Kenshin sighed. He noticed that these two didn't seem to get along very well. Then he noticed the paper that Ichigo was holding in his hand. "What's that?" Kenshin asked looking at the piece of paper Ichigo held.
Ichigo looked at Kenshin and then held up the paper Shima gave him. "it's some message from Shima. She said the only way we can get out of this time era is if we decode it." Ichigo explained. "I think we should have Uryuu look at it."
Renji took the paper from Ichigo's hand. "I bet I could figure it out." Renji said then looked at the paper. Renji focused on the paper for a mimute then sighed and handed it back to Ichigo. He couldn't even figure out the first sentence.
Back at the house everyone was gathered around the small piece of paper. "What do you think is says?" Orihime asked.
"How do you even decode it?" Kaoru asked. Everyone looked at Uryuu.
"Fine." He sighed. Uryuu took a clean piece of paper and copied the note. So it read.
Olleh enoyreve. Fi ruoy gnidaer siht naht uoy snamuh erew trams hguone ot erugif tuo eht edoc. Snoitalutargnoc! Won I wonk uoy lla ylbaborp tnaw ot teg emoh ot ruoy nwo emit, os ll'I llet uoy woh. Ereht era eerht erom srettel ekil siht eno, tub yeht evah tenreffid sedoc. Ti t'ndluow eb nuf fi yeht erew lla eht emas won dluow ti? Og nwod ot eht okebaka dna rednu eno fo eht selbat ereht lliw eb a yek. Eht yek seog ot a xob. Eht xob sniatnoc eht txen tsil fo snoitcurtsni. Uoy nac dnif eht xob ni a wolloh eert eerht teef ni eht sdoow morf s'uroak esuoh. Doog kcul gnitteg ti.
Amihs.
"So what did that do?" Sanosuke asked.
Uryuu sighed. "I just made a copy so I don't write on the original."
"So do you think you can figure it out?" Ichigo asked.
"Yeah, but it will take me a little while." Uryuu said looking at the copy. He sat down with the copy and wrote down some things on another sheet of paper.
After about three minutes everyone was board. Ichigo was playing a card game with Sanosuke, Kenshin, Renji, Chad and Yahiko. Kaoru, Orihime and Rukia were…well Orihime and Kaoru were talking about different ways to make Rice balls, Rukia was just listening. Then Kon came out of no where and ran over to Rukia who squashed the small stuffed animal under her foot. When Rukia left Kon on the floor Megumi picked up him up and hugged him saying he was so soft and cute. Kon felt better after that.
"Finished." Uryuu said ten minutes later.
"What's it say?" Ichigo asked.
Uryuu read the letter out loud. "Hello everyone. If your reading this than you humans were smart enough to figure out the code. Congratulations! Now I know you all probably want to get home to your time so I'll tell you how. There are three more letters like this one, but they have different codes. It wouldn't be fun if they were all the same now would it? Go down to the Akabeko and under one of the tables there will be key. The key goes to a box. The box contains the next list of instructions. You can find the box in a hollow tree three feet in the woods from Kaoru's house. Good luck getting it.
Shima.
"So we have to get this key and the box to find one of the three other letters to get home?" Ichigo asked.
"That's pretty much what the letter says." Uryuu told him.
"So lets go get the key." Renji said
"But the Akabeko is closed." Kaoru said. "It won't open until tomorrow morning."
"Then we could get the box in the tree." Ichigo said.
"It's to dark out. We would never see it." Sanosuke told them.
Everyone sighed. "Alright then." Ichigo said. "First thing tomorrow morning we will go to the Akabeko and get the key. Then we can go find the box in the tree."
"But what if we sent the girls to get the key and we can go get the box." Sanosuke suggested. "It would be quicker that way." Everyone agreed and then decided to go to bed and get some sleep. They were going to be busy tomorrow.
Shima sat under the window listening to their conversation. Then when the lights went off in the house she stood up. "Let the games begin." She giggled and then disappeared.
A/N: Alright that's it for this chapter. Hope you liked it.
Shima: Why am I the bad guy?
Kono-kun: Because you love to torment others on a daily basis. So I thought you would be perfect for this.
Shima: Oh yeah.
Kono-kun: Here read this paper to the readers. I'll be right back.
Shima: Why do I have to…Never mind. Kono-kun says to give a big thanks to the people who made a review to this story. Didn't I already tell them that before the story started?
Kono-kun: Just read the damn paper Shima!
Shima: Alright, don't bite my head off! To 9tail-Naruto, thank you so much for being the first to review! You rock! Also to tangune. Thanks for the idea. Sorry I didn't make it Ichigo and Rukia find Renji though. But still thanks SO MUCH! And to BloodyNekomata and yume girl 91 Thanks so much for the review. I'm glad you like the story so far! Have a great day everyone!