Don't own Bleach.

UPDATE: I thought I'd let you guys know that I've finished writing this story. It WILL be posted. However I'm taking a break from writing in this universe as I do so. I wanted to let you guys know that I'm burned out at the moment. BUT I will come back to it.


It's been a week since Ichigo had the incident with the Mod Soul. He had started to get his reputation back after Kon had tried his hardest to sabotage it. He had found that the little green pill can work in a stuffed lion toy much to his amusement. He had fun throwing him against the wall if Kon annoyed him too much by being a pervert to Rukia. He took great pleasure in planting his foot right in Kon's face if the stuffed lion get's too touchy with Rukia.

Utsumi had spent the week keeping an eye on Chad and Orihime just as he said he would. He told himself he would stop if nothing happened. They had been fine, nothing out of the ordinary had happened to them, he would tell Kisuke that everything is fine and not to worry about them and that he would keep an eye on them. He worried about them, if they can see hollows, it means that they could be targets for them he told himself when he would begin his day of watching them. He was pretty sure that they were beginning to think something was up when he turned up out of nowhere.

Today was the last day he was to follow Chad but Utsumi wanted to spend some time with Yoruichi. It was a warm spring day, the trees were beginning to wake up after winter, the buds blooming. They were walking through the park. when they spotted Chad with his friends, they both agreed that they may as well keep and eye on him seeing as they were there. They walked up, hand in hand to speak to him, "Hey Chad, what are you doing here?" he asked, "This is ,my girlfriend." He gestured to Yoruichi with his free hand.

She smiled and waved, "Hi Chad. Or is it Sado?" she questioned lightly.

His eyes widening at the beauty before him, that is Kaito's girlfriend? he thought to himself in disbelief, "It's Sado, but everyone calls me Chad." He explained. "I'm just here with some friends, but they just left."

Utsumi nodded, "Want to hang out with us?" he asked. Hoping that he won't feel too much like a third wheel.

He didn't particularly want to go home, nor did he want to act as third wheel but he chose to hang out with his friend. "Ok." he said simply.

The trio headed off through the park talking about school, the group of people they are friends with, how wacky Keigo is acting. Yoruichi listened intently as the two talked about the people in school. Well Utsumi plied conversation out of Chad/ Utsumi hasn't spoken much about them and she was curious what they were like. She listened to the stories of Tatsuki kicking everyone's asses, Keigo annoying Ichigo, they got to laughing until they all sensed a Hollow. Chad excused himself a ran off to seek the Hollow. "We best follow him just in case" Yoruichi said.

They took off running in the direction Chad went. They found themselves running along the roads until they reached the sports fields, they jumped down the stairs, to find Chad running away from the Hollow with a little girl on his back, Utsumi squinted to see and it was Karin Kurosaki. "Run Chad!" Utsumi yelled. The big man ran as fast as he could.

Karin was watching out for the Hollow's movements as she could see it clearly and Chad could not. The Hollow appeared suddenly to their left, "Dodge left." Chad dived as hard as he could away from it, turning his body so it took the brunt of the fall. She crawled out of his grasp, and made sure he was okay, "Hey big guy, are you alright?" She asked. Getting no response, "Big guy? Get up!" she yelled.

He pushed himself up, listening to his Grandfather's voice telling him that his size was for protecting others not hurting. He got up with determination and charged at the Hollow and shared a punch with the Hollow. As their hands make contact his right arms begins to transform. It wasn't painful, it didn't tingle. It just did. His arm muscles expanded and turned black with dark red stripe down the middle. He charged at the Hollow with an eagerness to protect his friend's sister. As his fist swung it started to get a white aura around it, as it picked up pace, the aura increased in size. When he made contact with the Hollow, the Hollow flew up in the air and began to disintegrate.

Yoruichi and Utsumi ran up to Chad to make sure he wasn't hurt. They looked at each other as the Hollow disappeared and had the same thought, that was impressive. Utsumi check on his friend, "Are you okay, Chad?" He asked

They were all looking on as Chad gave them a thumbs up hand gesture, Karin's reaction lightened the mood until Chad fell to the floor. Utsumi rushed and put Chad across his shoulders, "We better get him to your Father's clinic." He said as Karin, Yoruichi and Utsumi headed to the Kurosaki clinic.


Orihime was just leaving the dojo with Tatsuki when she saw it. The creature lurking on the rooftop. What is it? It looks like Sora if it was what she thought it was she had to get Tatsuki out of here. "Hey Tatsuki, could you go an..." Just as soon as the idea popped in her head, the creature shot down, knocking down everyone and injuring Tatsuki. She couldn't take anymore, Orihime got up, "You hurt Tatsuki, that's unforgivable." She walked away from Tatsuki towards the Hollow, feeling brave with determination. She would not allow this creature to get away with hurting her best friend. Tatsuki has always been there to protect me, she's my best friend, I'll do anything to protect her.

The Six Flowers of The Hibiscus shield introduced themselves and explained their abilities of rejecting. Some three of them, Hinagiku, Baigon and Lily, create a shield and reject all that's outside the shield. Two of them, Shun'ou and Ayame, reject all that's inside the shield and restoring it to a state before it was destroyed. Then there is Tsubaki, the attacking side of Orihime's power.

She looked at the Hollow in disgust, Tsubaki, Koten Zanshun, I reject!" the little creature flew like a bullet towards the Hollow. He penetrated the Hollow's tough exterior armor. Then as it exploded from the inside.


Urahara watched on as Orihime took out the Hollow. Interesting, we'll have to intervene now, it seems. He watched Orihime use her new-found powers to heal her friends that were injured by the Hollow. Things around here are never simple, are they? he thought to himself.