"Hey Ichigo,"

Ugh… What?

"Ichigo, wake up,"

Wha… Who?

"Come on Ichigo, wake up."

Ichigo opened his eyes. Rukia was sitting next to him. He sat up.

"How are you feeling?" Rukia asked him. Ichigo scratched the back of his head.

"Right now I feel like crap, but so what else is new," Rukia relaxed, he was his usual irritable self, so that usually meant that he was okay.

"What the hell did Urahara do to me?" He asked. When he found that bucket headed bastard he was gonna…

"It was a sleep inducer so you could rest," Rukia told him plainly.

"Ah, don't give me that crap. You don't inject people with Nyquil. Now what was it really?" Rukia frowned

"It was a sleep inducer, However, Urahara said you might remember something, from our attack. And he said something about your brain being able to procces the information it got." Ichigo stared at her.

"Huh?," Rukia shrugged.

"I don't know, that's just what he said. I kinda phased out" Ichigio snorted.

"Great, It's good to know you pay attention when people are telliing you about the state of your friends. It's nice to know you care so much."

"I care...more than you know..." Rukia had wispered this and had was looking at the ground. Unfortunatly for her, Ichigo had shap hearing and had heard her.

"What do mean by that?" Ichigo asked, looking at her quizicly. Rukia head shot up. She looked supriesed. and blushed.

"Y-you heard that? Uh...well, I" She was cut off by the sound of a door opening.

"Ah… He's finally awake," Kisuki Urahara said as he saw Ichigo. Ichigo greeted him by throwing a bottle at his face.

"Owww… That hurt…" The now bent over Urahara whined.

"You're lucky that's all I'm gonna do!" Ichigo yelled at him, "Next time ask before you play doctor with me,"

"Ichigo, it's time to be serious," Rukia said to him. Ichigo looked at her. She looked pretty grim.

What's going on?

A few minutes later they were all sitting around a table. Tessai had just given everyone some tea. Ichigo sniffed his tea. Rukia rolled her eyes and told him that there was nothing in it. Urahara sipped his tea and looked at him.

"Now then Ichigo, Is there anything you can tell us about the time you passed out. Any images or sounds that you remember?" Ichigo nodded. Urahara had been right,( though he would never admit that to anyone!) He still remembered the image of the monstrous creature, but there was another image now.

There was a gate in front of him. Just a gate…surrounded by darkness. It was huge, at least three stories tall. It was red, blood red. There were two skulls on each door, but they weren't human skulls. They looked like the skulls of dragons like in fairy tales, only not quite as cute looking. There were thorns wrapped all around the gate. And the handles, they were chained together and there was a lock on the chains. The lock was the only thing about the gate that didn't look evil. It was white with the symbol of a star engraved on it.

What does it all mean?

"There are two things I remember," Ichigo started, "I remember a person, no wait, not a person, it wasn't a human or a soul reaper, but it wasn't a hollow or an arrancar. It the main part of the body looked human but it had horns growing out its head, and claws and a tail." Ichigo glanced at Urahara, half expecting him to look at him like he was crazy, but all he did was nod and say,

"Anything else?"

"Yeah… There was a red gate, it was huge and has two dragon like skull on it. The handles are bound by chains and a white lock with a star on it." This time surprise showed in Urahara's face.

"Are you sure there was a star on the lock," He asked. Ichigo nodded. Rukia looked at Urahara.

"What does that mean Urahara?" She asked. Urahara stood up and walked toward the hall.

"It means, that our enemy is a nentou, and we'd be lucky if that's all we're dealing with. I have to alert the Gotei 13. They need to know about this." He walked out.

"Rukia what's going on, what the hell's a nentou." Ichigo asked Rukia. Rukia turned toward him and Ichigo almost gasped. She looked… afraid. Ichigo frowned. It took a lot to scare Rukia Kuchiki, and if she was scared. Then they were in for one hell of time.

"Ichigo, listen carefully," She said to him, "What we're dealing with are…."

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There was only one light in the room, and it only gave off enough light to see 10 feet from it. It was a room that would make haunted houses look like Disney land. It wasn't that it looked scary. It was just that the aura coming out of it would have frightened a Menos. There were currently two people in the room. They had horns, claws, and tails. And they were waiting for another one of them. Finally, he arrived. He had red hair and horns that looked like they could impale an elephant.

He stopped before one of the other creatures, and kneeled. He couldn't see the one he was bowing too, and he was thankful.

"My mission was a success, Master." He spoke the one before him. The other spoke back.

"I understand that it was two soul reaper you interrogated, a young man and woman," the one knelling shuddered. It frightened him that his master could already know this.

"Yes," Was all he said.

"The girl…" His master said.

"Was an open book, and completely worthless to our cause." There was a pause.

"And the boy…"

"Yes… He is the one." Even though he red haired monster was in the presence of the one who frightened him most he smirked. Finally, after thousands of years, they would be…

"Did you have trouble with the boy?" His master asked suddenly. His smile faded instantly.

"…. Just some, master, he was very strong willed and…"

"Did he get anything from you?" His master asked him, his tone had not changed at all, and it was scaring the hell out of him.

"Possibly," He stuttered, "But nothing more than an image or two, nothing that can hurt us." The seconds passed agonizingly. The Red haired one was scared, his master was not known for being… forgiving.

"Do not make another mistake." Was all that his master said.

"Yes, master, I will not."

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"Ichigo, listen carefully," Rukia told him, "What we're dealing with are…." She paused,

"Demons," She finished.

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Authors note- sorry if these past two chapters haven't been very exiting and the next one will probably be the same, only with more humor(which is always good), but I have to set up the demons history and everything. Trust me, Ichigo will be swinging his sword soon enough, I promise.