Sorry for the extra wait between chapters! I kinda had a ton of tests at school. But here's the next chapter, and I tried to make it longer. Enjoy!
[and here's the disclaimer I nearly forgot
Ichigo's day sucked. No really-so far it sucked. Currently he was hiding from the very angry mob mentioned last chapter, Including:
1x Angry Rukia, angry at him for insulting her art.
1x Byakuka, who was angry at Ichigo for insulting his "art" as well. And Rukia's.
1x Zaraki Kenpachi, who wanted to fight.
1x Lieutenant Yachiru, who was staying to watch Ken-chan fight.
And the 13th Squad, who were demanding fights as well.
No, not a good day at all.
"Ichigo!!!" A very loud bang followed this. However, one would expect Ichigo to get flattened under his attacker. But instead there was a huge hole was revealed in the wall after the smoke cleared.
"Great. Now they'll be after me for the wall too..." with that, Ichigo resumed his running away from the mob.
Isshin remained buried under the rubble. "Son...I haven't finished talking to you...or fighting." Of course, no one heard this.
As he got out form underneath the remains of the poor wall, Isshin heard shouting. And was the ground rumbling? He poked his head out from the rubble... just in time to get trampled underfoot by the mob. Ah, poor Isshin Kurosaki. Unfortunately for both him and Ichigo, the mob had gotten bigger. It now included almost all of the Kuchiki Clan, seeing as Rukia and Byakuka were the best "artists" out of all of them.
He was getting closer to the gates of the Shinigami Academy. This was where the man Isshin Kurosaki had told him to go. Apparently for his 'training'.
Someone seemingly came out of nowhere and crashed into him.
"Ack! Get outta my way! I'm trying to...aren't you that guy from before? R...Ry...something."
"Ryuuzaki. You are..."L searched for the name. "Ichigo I believe."
"Oh, well..."
Sadly Ichigo never got to finish this sentence.
"THERE HE IS! GET HIM!"
Not even time to have a quick talk with someone! Ichigo ran off again. L shrugged it off. After all, he was quite sure that he'd run into the teen again.
A few hours later...
Ichigo was quite sure he had lost that mob by now. He slowed a bit, and allowed his thoughts to wander to Ry...whatever his name was.
What was so important about the guy? Usually, a soul would just go to straight to the Academy. And the Death Note thing he had overheard him mentioning to his dad. For the Goeti 13 to be involved, it must be very important. He decided he should mention it to Rukia next time, if she wasn't busy trying to kill him.
Meanwhile...
L was getting a little tour of the Shinigami Academy. Not that he was really focused on what the Shinigami was showing him. Instead he was trying to figure out a little case of his own. The 'Death Note' case he would call it. Perhaps the reason he had spirit energy was because he had touched the notebook? If it had allowed him to see the strange Shinigami that owned it, then could it let him become a Shinigami (the human type) as well?
He knew he had to be careful. The Kira case had gotten him killed. This could do worse. And this time he had no Wateri or cover of any sort.
The man leading L stopped.
"This is where you'll stay" With that, he left.
Seeing as the mob had decided to leave him for now (except for Kenpachi, but his sense of direction was so bad it didn't really matter), Ichigo found a nice rooftop to relax on. He wondered what his friends on Earth were doing. Orihime was still trying to recover from her experience in Hueco Mundo, and he hoped the others were okay.
Most importantly, did the "Death Note" have anything to do with the Arrancar? Dammit! Why couldn't people tell him what was really going on for once!
Sighing, Ichigo got up and walked home. He didn't want all of Seireitei looking for him.
That night, there was a dinner at the Shiba's.
"Ichigo, what's on your mind?"
"Rukia, there's something I've wondering. What are Death Notes?"
All the talking in the room stopped. Except HanatarÅ, who just looked confused.
"Son, ...how'd you...hear the term?"
"I overheard you and the soul from before. So what are they?"
Seeing the look on everyone's faces, Rukia took Ichigo outside. "I don't know why you want to know, but Death Notes are..."
PREVIEW
L: "Oh. Well looks like I'm doing the next episode's preview! In the next episode, the mystery of the Death Notes are finally revealed (somewhat)! And I'm finally going to be allowed the sweets I have been denied so long!" (Shows clip of him eating some strawberries)
Ichigo: Stop looping that clip of you eating!"(He has a horrified look on his face)
L: "Ah, yes. In that case..." (Shows clip of him eating strawberry cake) "You see, I get cake next episode as well!"
Ichigo: "Ugh! You're wasting our time! No-we're out again!"
Hope you enjoiyed that little cliffe I put in!
Reviews will get the next chapter out sooner. Tell me if you like the longer chapters or short, fast updates.
-Kichi
