Chapter 4. Epic Holiday.

Let's start a riot

Nobody's right

Nobody's wrong

Life's just a game

It's just one epic holiday.

For the rest of the day Ichigo suffered. He had to keep reminding himself too use a slightly more formal mode of speech, and he really had to keep reminding himself to act vaguely feminine. Of course, everyone thought he was related to Renjii, and, well, himself. No one really thought of anything anymore.

Cool, they've desensitized his classmates!

"Neh, Tsuki-chan~?"

Ichigo turns to look at Inoue. He had told her to call "him" that, after she stumbled on his name ("Sorry, but all I can think of is Abarai-kun!").

"Aa, yes, Inoue?"

"Do you want to come over to my house later? Kuchiki-san and Ishida-kun and Sado-kun are all coming!"

Ichigo quickly thinks. He isn't scheduled to see Urahara-san till tomorrow, and he can't go home till…well, till tomorrow either. So he's free.

"Eh, sure."

As the group walks home, Chad taps Ichigo on the shoulder. "Ichigo".

"Yeah?"

"Do you know when you're…turning back?"

She looks up at him. "Urahara said he's working on it as fast as he can. But he can't do much until he studies me, which he'll do tomorrow." Ichigo rolls her eyes. "I'm kinda scared, he kept staring at my chest. Stupid pervert." Looking at the rest of the group who, in turn, are staring at him, he cocks his head to the side, confused. "What?"

Ishida looks at him, eye glasses shining. "You seem rather…calm about your…predicament."

Ichigo sighs. "I'm not thinking too deeply about it. I just think of the fact that I', in a gigai…like, being in the body of someone else. I guess it's how Kon feels, sometimes." He grins, and rubs his hands together. "Plus, imagine fighting my dad! He won't stand a chance!"

There is a collective blink among his friends.

It is Chad, again, who speaks. "Where will you be staying?"

Ichigo rolls his eyes and crosses his hands behind his head. "Urahara talked to my dad. Told him it was a spiritual accident."

Everyone stops moving. "What?" Is exclaimed, in varying levels of curiosity and surprise.

"Well," he continues, scratching his neck, then continues walking, his friends following. "Me and my family have been able to see spirits for a while, and Karin suspects me. Urahara came to my house and explained that I was "in a ghostly accident, yes I know about spirits Kurosaki-chan, and I swear that your son is not hurt, Kurosaki-san, but instead he was switched with an alternate dimensional self-what do you mean, Kurosaki-chan, that alternate dimensions don't exist? Oh, I forgot, you are in denial about even ghosts-I am sorry, Kurosaki-chan. We are working very hard to get him back, yes, we have contact with them, yes, yes…" Ichigo stops speaking in his imitation of Urahara.

"And then he called me in, and Yuzu (after she got over her surprise) hugged me so hard, it was so cute…" Ichigo smiles. "I don't think that Urahara actually explained anything, but they accepted it surprisingly easy."

"That seems too…convenient" Ishida says, looking at Ichigo, who nods in agreement. "Yeah. Oh well, I'm not complaining. I mean, would you rather stay at my house, or Urahara's?"

"Point taken."

Everyone else agrees.

"Speaking of your house, are you staying there?"

"I have to wait till tomorrow. I was actually wondering if I could stay at one of…your…houses…"

He looks around, eyes wide. The responses are varied. Rukia chuckles again, and Ichigo is wishing that she didn't find his problem as funny as she does. Ishida and Chad balk, and Ichigo rolls his eyes (gosh he seems to be doing that a lot lately). Orihime's response, however, is the funniest…yes, let's go with amusing: she clasped her hands together and jumped once, then-

"Oh, you can stay at my house, and we can bake cookies and paint each others nails and watch scary movies and it'll be fun-"

"Orihime?"

"Uh?"

Ichigo looks at her. "In my mind, I'm a boy."

He blinks.

"Cookies and movies would be fun, but I draw the line at nail painting."

And this sentence is so shocking, that when Ichigo turns around and asks him again, Chad accepts.

[Just a reminder. There will be NO romance, however, I may put some awkwardness, just for the halibut.]

[Heh, halibut.]

[And I've just typed awkwardness twice recently-I just put a little AN in the bottom of the last chapter.]