Thanks for all the reviews that I got for this story and because of that I'm going to do this chapter instead of my other story.

To Phantom Claire (don't read this unless you understand le French): j'ai compris ce que vous avez dit car j'apprends le français à l'école donc merci!

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Chapter 7

"So dad, where are we actually going to again?"

Ichigo had asked the question. They had been running through the air now for a few minutes in complete silence, everyone, apart from Isshin, thinking about the Inoue situation. The words Isshin had spoken a few moments ago had settled heavily in their minds and had taken their breaths away, leaving them also very wide-eyed. Isshin knew where Inoue was or at least had some idea where and he was just walking out on them, acting like it was no big deal. He had also mentioned that he was going to save her himself. That meant she was in trouble and if Ichigo's dad had been pulled into this that meant that this was big, not something they could just leave or let someone else handle. Orihime was their friend and no way were they going to leave her in the hands of danger, especially with that green guy in town.

"We're going Urahara's place," Isshin finally replied after a long silence.

That was the other thing worrying Ichigo, the green guy (the nickname which Ichigo had begun to tag him with), could be behind this. He could have been the one who had kidnapped Inoue and was somewhere keeping her captive. The thought if it made his blood boil and dark thoughts clouded his mind. If he had touch her then it doesn't matter his strength or speed, he would kill him.

Ichigo had been so engrossed in his own head that he had missed the question Uryu had asked just now to Isshin.

"I don't know what this has to do directly to Miss Inoue but this morning, Urahara had detected a strange shift in the town's atmosphere and a few seconds after it closed," Isshin replied towards Uryu.

"What are you guys talking about," Ichigo asked looking at his dad then Uryu.

Isshin turned his head to look over at his son whilst continuing to run, giving Ichigo a slightly irritated look. "Shut up kid and let me finish," He snapped.

Uryu adjusted his glasses, making it flash as it reflected the sunlight. "Your dad was was answering my question," Uryu paused. "I was asking him how does he know Inoue is involved."

"Yes I was," Isshin said, still slightly grumpy. "As I was saying, the shift. The disturbance actually lasted for about a couple of seconds before it vanished, into thin air. That means two things: someone was using kido or a spiritual technique. Or..."

He paused, looking back to see if anyone was catching on to his train of thought or actually, Urahara's train of thought. Sado and Ichigo looked as confused as he was this morning when Urahara had said the same thing to him. Ishida looked like he had an answer but was keeping his mouth shut for the mean time. Isshin sighed, they had all not understood what the significance of this and they still won't even after he tells them the answer.

"It means something or someone, has just entered our world,".

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Urahara stared at his computer in silence. It was one of those rare times he got to be on his own and be his true self. Something he always wanted to do when he was little and still enjoyed being after all these years. Something he would never change even if he was human or didn't have his powers. He loved it with all his heart and hope he could change the hearts of people with it too.

Urahara was a scientist.

And right know was the time he was proud to be one. Yesterday, he had picked up traces of some kind of energy that had affected the atmosphere and caused an unbalance - if you say - in the world. The energy hadn't been spiritual or hollowific or even human. It had been nearly like...magic, something Urahara knew couldn't exist in this world or the afterlife. Magic was just a word, a fools dream, a story, even a myth. The stuff the Shinigami did wasn't magic, it was just spiritual energy transformed into what they called kido or things like that, it certainly wasn't magic.

But here the energy was like magic because it certainly wasn't something he had encountered before. Urahara had gone to the sight of the disturbance yesterday night and started examining sime kind of clues around there. He had found the sight had been nearly destroyed and a mass amount of hollow energy scattered around. He had even found another hollow, dead, but it's body hadn't been dinsintigrated yet. Urahara quickly scanned the energy used to attack this hollow then left, before performing a konsō and sending it to the sereitei. Even if he was exiled didn't mean he stopped being a Shinigami.

When he got back to the lab he had began immediately examining the contents of energy used to attack the hollows and after a whole night without sleep, Urahara discovered something. The energy used was called ki, a basic sort of energy that every living form have. Why this was so hard to come to this simple conclusion was because that the energy had been transformed and manipulated into a sort of offensive energy, similar to spiritual energy but not quite right.

Urahara had studied this for the rest of the night, wondering what matter of living being could control their life energy in that sort of way that it could actually become a weapon, and since they could do that maybe they could share that knowledge with him, considering if they weren't hostiles. If that was the case then he would have to use one of the basic medical examinations: dissection.

The morning came later and Urahara was soon interupted by a loud beeping noise emitting from his computer. At first he ignored it, too fascinated in the work he had come across to be bothered to look at anything else, but after a few moments later the sound became annoying, disrupting him from his work. He walked over to his computer, looking for a way to turn off the sound that was coming it. He casually glanced at the screen to see what the hubba had been about only for his eyes to stare wide-eyed back. He had seen something very important.

He quickly went over to one of the things he hadn't used in a while: his cell phone. For now he needed to call someone. Someone who might help him.

"Hello? Is this you Kisuke?" Isshin Kurosaki said on the other side. He sounded tired, like he had gotten up from bed not too long ago.

"Hello Kurosaki," Urahara said quite quickly, urgency in his voice. "I need you to head over to Inoue's house quick."

With that he put down his phone, quietly hoping he wasn't too late to save her.

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"Kurosaki, Sado, I need to detour. There's something I need to check out," Ishida said from behind, looking really distracted.

"What do you mean? Where're you going to?" Ichigo said looking back at Uryu. Ichigo didn't understand why he would leave now. They were going to save Orihime and he wanted to go somewhere...to do what?! He didn't understand how his head worked sometimes.

After a few seconds of silence, Uryu decided to reply. "I...don't know exactly where to?" He started, speaking quite slowly like he was unsure of how to put it.

Isshin, who had been listening too, turned back to look at Uryu. "Listening kid, Kisuke said this is going to be really important. What we're up agaisnt he isn't too sure, and that's why we gotta be careful and come at this with a clean head. So its either you're in or you're not."

Uryu waited, thinking about his response. Everybody else waited too because they wanted to hear his response. After a moment, Uryu stopped in his tracks causing everyone else to stop apart from Isshin who kept on running before realising that the others weren't following him. Uryu looked down at his feet before looking up at the group again. He steadied his breath as he began to think carefully about the situation. It was either to go save Inoue or to go do this. He knew Ichigo could probably handle this by himself and plus he had his dad and Chad to help. But what he wanted to go see could require them, he didn't know if he could handle this himself. "You guys go on without me. I need to check this out. I feel its just as important as Orihime's situation." He said the last bit to himself, the others didn't need to know about this. They obviously hadn't been feeling the same energy being built up like he had, and after a while it was becoming too obvious that he couldn't ignore it anymore, he had to take a look.

"Look Uryu, do you need help. If what you're saying is true then this will be important to us too," It was Chad who had spoken, the first time in a while.

"No we need all the help we can get and it's a problem already if this kid leaves too. So no, you can't go." Isshin cut in.

"It's ok guys, I think I can handle this myself, and you're dad's right, you need all the power to save her." Uryu said looking sure with himself. Of course he wasn't but he couldn't show it to them, it just wasn't necessary.

The others had gone as soon as they heard him say that. Ichigo and Sado had given him a quick nod before going off. Isshin stayed behind, looking Uryu in the eye before going off too to catch up. Uryu wondered. Could Isshin have felt it too?

Not waiting to think too heavily about it, Uryu left, heading west away from the direction Ichigo had taken, and going off on his own.

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Bulma had quickly set up a small camp just outside the town. The 'camp' was just about the same size as a small house but not as wide. She had set this place up using one of her special capsule she always kept with her. You never knew when she could go on vocation or, in this instance, be stuck on her own with nothing to do but wait. But Bulma was a very resourceful woman, not just waiting for Goku to save the world again and congratulate him when he came back. No, Bulma would rather be helping him fight if she could but because she wasn't strong enough to help them so she had to use her first and most important weapon: her brilliant mind.

Bulma had everything a scientist could need in her 'little camp'. She had very advanced computers to help towards research. A force like bubble that kept her invisble so that people couldn't see her, also not just people but machines as well and recently she had moderated it so it kept her ki hidden too. The camp was also like a home. It had food, a bed, a tv (although that wouldn't have been cabled yet), bathroom and some other sort of entertainment. Although all this was rarely used as Bulma was barely away from her actual lab in CC, which had actually reanimated itself in heaven.

Bulma started on her computer. The computer whirred for a few seconds as it began to load up. The screen flashed and it was ready. Bulma didn't want to waste time using her voice for the computer. She clicked no on the message that had asked her if she wanted voice control on. She quickly began tapping in some words in the search bar such as the things that had attacked her and the others yesterday. She scrunched her brows together in annoyance as she had remembered how Vegeta had rudely carried her off like that. Even though she knew it would have been safer for her to be in a safe area, she couldn't have just accepted it, it had stung her pride, and her pride was what made her such a strong woman.

Those things, she had only glimpsed just before she was carted off. Then later Trunks had described them for her. She began writing in the search bar, typing in their key features such as a white mask, huge frame and a whole in their chest. It came up with some results almost immeadiately. She saw at the top of the search list some stuff about people dressing up in black outfits and wearing masks on their faces, but that was only for special occaisons such as halloween and festivals.

Bulma sifted through the results quickly, anaylsing the things that seemed close to what she had seen yesterday. After a few minutes of looking, Bulma still hadn't found anything that was even close to what she was looking for. She had pretty much had it and was just about to close it when she spot something at the bottom of a page. There was a blog about something that had caught her eye. It had a cheesy title to it but it was one that many people would use in a situation like this. It was called They walk among us.

Bulma quickly read,

Hi guys its me Blugirl44. If you've read the title of this you'll know what its called and if you're thinking this is slightly nerdy... Ok really nerdy, then I guess you're right. To be honest I was never really much of a writer. I kinda liked to just punch something because I do Karate and its kinda in my nature. I just didn't undrstand the use of writing stuff... I was never going to really use it unless I was writing down my details for a tournament or an autograph then I guess that would be important but thats not the point of this article. The point of it is to just unload. I've been...well seeing things. Things that people wouldn't understand. Things I have been keeping to myself and that's why I'm here. What I'm trying to say is that I've been seeing this monsters with white masks and a hole in their chest and their HUGE, like as tall as a house. And the scary thing is, that I'm the only who seems to see it.

Wow, I can't believe I just wrote that! That's really depressing but I hope you can get a glimpse of what I know or what I think I know and just how badly its affecting me. Call me crazy or anything like that but what I saw is what I saw and however much I try to deny seeing it, even pretending that I was hallucinating, I can't. The image always returns in my mind and for the forst time in my life I actually feel scared. This blog has probably lifted the feeling from my shoulders a bit and I realize how much writing is important to people, maybe I should get a diary or something... Actually on second thoughts nah!

I know this will be insane but if you've seen anything like this before then please leave a comment. Then I know I'm not the only one going crazy.

From BluGirl44

This was posted over a year ago.

Bulma blinked as she finished reading this article. If this had been something else, Bulma would have laughed it off and said something stupid in the comments, but this was something else. This could be sort of clue to what they are dealing with. Well it looked like this things weren't common in this world, or if they were then people didn't exactly notice them. Bulma needed to find this BluGirl44 quickly and ask a few questions. She quickly - using her advanced mind - traced the place where the computer had posted the little blog.

After a few seconds she had found it. It was actually quite close to the hotel where her and the others had been staying, it was along that block. She pinponted the house using her computer and found the resident living there. Actually there was only one person there and her name -as Bulma found out- was actually called Tatsuki Arisawa. It looked like her and Bulma were going to have a big chat.

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Ok I know this was a long chapter and maybe not very interesting but it was necessary - well to me it was. I will tell you now that every character you see in this will be very important and if you have a favourite character from either of the two shows then you can ask me to write about them, you know, to show their feelings and stuff like that.

Anyways the next chapter will be out next week so stay tuned for that and any new followers will be welcomed.

Read and review. BrainXplosion out.