"(…)" Gohan talking to Kysako.
" (…) " Kysako talking to Gohan.
Chapter 7
When lunch came around Asano ran to where Ichigo was and asked, "Ichigo, are you ready to go?"
Ichigo looked at him and said, "I guess but can I invite a couple people?"
"Oh I bet you want to invite the new girl, but who is that other…" Asano trailed off as Ichigo walked passed him and up to Ishida.
"Hey Uryu do you want to have lunch with me?" Ichigo asked Ishida.
Asano began protesting but stopped when Ishida replied with a blunt "No." But before Asano could celebrate, Ichigo told Ishida, "Come on now don't be like that, besides Asano is paying for it."
Ishida then replied while moving his glasses, "I shall join you."
"What?!" Asano exclaimed. "You moocher." After a few moments he sighed in defeat. He then looked at Ichigo and asked, "Who else are you wanting to invite? Is it that girl?"
"No," Ichigo told him as he looked around trying to find someone. After a few moments he sighed giving up, "I can't find him so let's just go and get lunch."
Ishida looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "Who exactly were you looking for Ichigo?" He asked as they left the room.
"I was trying to find the new kid," Ichigo stated with a shrug.
"You were going to invite the little kid?" Asano asked Ichigo. "Are you trying to bring our coolness level down?"
"Asano?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes?"
"Shut up."
Gohan walked down one of the many halls of the school. Luckily he was able to get out of the classroom before Ichigo caught him. He still needed to come up with a cool plan to annoy the hell out of Ichigo. Now what should he do…
He was brought out of his thoughts when someone called out his name. Turning he saw the principal waving him over. Blinking in confusion he walked over to him. That is when he noticed the principal was holding a package in his hand.
"You called for me sir?" Gohan asked politely.
The principal gave him a smile, "Yes, I wanted to congratulate you on doing an excellent job on the entrance exams but for some reason you left in a hurry before I could tell you."
Gohan rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, "Sorry for leaving you so suddenly sir I was…in a hurry."
The principal shook his head with a laugh, "There is nothing to be sorry about, you probably were so ecstatic on how well you did that you wanted to go out and tell your family and friends."
"Yeah…right." Gohan let the principal believe that. He wasn't about to tell the principal the real reason he left was because the principal was acting weird.
The principal then looked at his watch, "Oh well it looks like I have to go, but before I do." He handed Gohan the package.
"What is this sir?"
"Well since you did such a good job I decided to get you something."
"You didn't have to…"
The principal cut him off, "Oh nonsense you deserve it for doing such a good job."
Gohan sighed from the looks of it the principal is set on giving him this gift. "Well thank you sir."
"Well open it." The principal told him.
"Aren't you leaving sir?" Asked Gohan.
The principal waved that comment off, "I have enough time to watch you open the gift before you leave."
"O.k." Gohan then stared at the package for a moment before opening it to reveal…a tickle me Elmo toy. Gohan sweat dropped this was something he would never expect getting from his principal. Of course this is the first time he was in a public school so maybe this is normal?
Gohan could hear laughter in the back of his mind.
"(I can't believe he actually gave you a tickle me Elmo toy!)" This was followed with more fits of laughter.
"(Kysako? Is that you?)"
"(Yep!)" Gohan had a feeling Kysako was grinning widely.
"(How come you didn't tell me we would be able to talk like this?)" Gohan asked him.
"(I didn't know if it would work but obviously it does.)"
"(That's cool.)"
"(Yep, hey you better pay attention your principal looks like he is about to speak again.)"
"So do you like it? My children love Elmo so I thought you would as well." The principal told Gohan.
"How old are your children?" asked Gohan in curiosity.
"One of them is five and the other is seven. Why do you ask?" The principal asked him.
"(Well that explains why he got me Elmo.)" Gohan thought. He could hear Kysako snickering in the back of his mind. "No reason sir, I was just curious. I like the gift, thank you very much." It wasn't a full out lie; Gohan thought it was nice of the principal to get him something.
"Really? That's good. Well I best be off, take care." With that the principal wandered off.
Gohan then looked down at the tickle me Elmo in his hand. "(What am I supposed to do with this?)"
"(I say we should burn it.)"
"(We can't do that Kysako.)"
"(Why not?)" Kysako said while giving a mental picture to Gohan of him pouting.
"(Because the principal took time out of his life and got me this er…nice gift.)" Gohan mentally said trying to come up with reasons to not burn the Elmo.
"(You know you want to.)" Kysako told him with a smirk.
"(I would never do such a thing!)" Gohan replied with a huff.
Kysako gave Gohan a mental 'yeah right' look. Gohan sighed in defeat. No matter how much he tried to deny it, deep down he wanted to burn the infuriating thing. Gohan used to like Elmo and actually had one in his own world when he was little. That all changed though, when he went on a camping trip with Krillin and the others.
They were all sitting around the campfire and Gohan was holding his stuffed Elmo. Yamcha then decided to tell the 5 year-old Gohan that Elmo eats babies and molests little children as a joke. Everyone there laughed at the joke except for Gohan because Gohan was too young to realize Yamcha was just joking around. Scared out of his wits Gohan threw the Elmo in the air and blasted it with a ki blast. The others had to comfort Gohan the rest of the night with Yamcha apologizing non-stop.
Even though Gohan was told that what Yamcha said about Elmo wasn't true, till this day Gohan was weary of the thing. But what can Gohan do? No matter how much he wants to he can't burn the thing it would be rude.
"(What if you make it so someone else is blamed for destroying it?)" Kysako suggested.
Gohan liked that suggestion, "(But who should be the victim?)" The image of an orange haired teen came across his mind. Gohan grinned evilly, causing some passing students to walk a little faster away from him.
Kysako seeing the idea grinned inside Gohan's mind, "(This will be fun.)"
On the roof
Gohan looked at his prey from a safe and hidden distance behind a wall. At the moment Ichigo was eating while arguing with a kid with glasses and bandages on his wrist.
"(I seem to recall some random student say his name is Ishida.)" Gohan gave a mental thanks to Kysako for the information, "(No problem.)"
Gohan then stared back at where Ichigo was. "(How am I going to get Ichigo to be seen with the soon to be burning Elmo without him catching me?)"
"(Why don't you turn on the Elmo, the noise is loud enough for him to hear and humans are curious creatures. So he would no doubt investigate.)"
"(Good idea.)"
Gohan then set the Elmo on the ground in front of him and then coated it with gasoline he took from the chemistry lab. Putting what's left of the gasoline aside at a good distance, because he didn't want a big explosion to happen. Gohan then took one of the two packs of matches (which he took from the chem. Lab as well) in his pocket, took a match out and placed the rest of the pack a couple feet away from the Gasoline covered Elmo. Taking a breath he then turned the Elmo on and quickly wrapped tape on the button that made the Elmo laughing. So it would never stop laughing. Hearing footsteps Gohan quickly jumped on top of the wall he was beside.
Just in time too, because after he was securely on the roof Ichigo came around the corner.
"What the hell?" Ichigo asked himself as he walked up to the toy Elmo that was on it's back laughing while kicking its legs. He had heard laughter coming from here while he was arguing with Ishida and he thought whoever was laughing was laughing at him so he came to investigate. He wasn't expecting to see a laughing Elmo.
Walking up to the toy he noticed a pack of matches and curiosity made him pick it up, "Why are matches here?" He looked around and that is when he caught site of a gasoline can, "What is a…"
Asano and the others calling out his name cut him off. He turned towards the direction of their voice, matches still in hand. Gohan from atop the roof lit the match he took and silently threw the match at the Elmo causing it to light up. Ichigo didn't notice because he was too distracted by Asano screaming out his name. Finally the others got to where he was.
Asano was the one who spoke "Ichigo why did…WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
"What?" asked Ichigo in confusion. "I didn't do anything."
"Turn around Ichigo." Ishida said bluntly.
Turning around to the Elmo, Ichigo's eyes widened at the sight of a burning and laughing Elmo. "What the hell?" Then he realized he was holding a pack of matches. Turning to the others he said, "It's not what it looks like."
"Let me guess a ghost told you to burn Elmo?" Ishida said with sarcasm.
Ichigo glared at Ishida, "I didn't do this."
"Didn't do what?" A voice asked. Turning towards the voice the group saw the Principal coming towards them.
"Ah crap," Ichigo whispered to himself. He then raised his voice, "Oh hi principal…um…what are you doing up here?"
"Well I felt like coming on the roof and getting a breather." The principle then took a deep inhale, but paused when he smelt smoke. Looking for the source he found the Elmo he had given Gohan on fire and Ichigo with matches in his hand. Glaring at the orange haired teen he asked, "What is the meaning of this young man?"
Ichigo stuttered trying to explain that he didn't do it but the principal was giving him unbelieving looks. Gohan looked at the scene before him trying not to laugh.
"(Phase one of destroying Elmo and blaming it on Ichigo complete.)"
"(Now on to phase two.)" Finished Kysako with an evil laugh.
While Ichigo uselessly tried to make the principal understand, Gohan silently walked along the top of the wall out of sight until he was above the door that leads into the school. Making sure no one was around he jumped down. Then with a mask of slight worry he went back to where Ichigo and the Principal were at.
There he saw the principal shaking his head while Ichigo was staring at the principal like he was an idiot. The group of teens that Gohan guessed were Ichigo's friends had amused looks on their faces.
It looked like the principal was about to say something, when Gohan decided to butt in with a tone of relief, "Thank goodness I found you sir."
That made everyone turn in his direction as he walked up to the principal.
The principal seemed to sweat a little, "Hello Gohan, you needed me."
Gohan nodded his head, "Yes have you seen my Elmo? I put it down to open my locker and when I looked back it was gone!" Gohan then made his eyes tear up.
The principal looked at him sadly, "Yes I know where your Elmo is but…it's not in the greatest condition."
Gohan gave the principal a confused look, "What do you mean by that?"
The principal stepped aside so Gohan could see the burning Elmo…or what was left of it. All it was, was two kicking blackened legs, a blackened stomach, and surprisingly it was still laughing.
Gohan put a hand over his mouth faking shocked. "Oh my poor Elmo." Then Gohan's eyes saddened as he looked at the principal. "Who would do such a thing?"
"It seems like a teen with orange hair would do it." The principal told Gohan with pity.
Gohan turned to Ichigo in shock, "Why would you do such a thing?"
Ichigo growled angrily, "I didn't burn the stupid toy. Besides why the hell do you even have that thing?"
"For your information young man," The principal began with a glare, "I gave Gohan that Elmo as a gift for getting a perfect on the entrance exam. I am going to call your parents to tell them what you have done and about the detention you're receiving."
"But.." The principal cut off Ichigo.
"No but's Kurosaki, or else that will be two detentions."
Ichigo grumbled in response but said nothing else.
Turning to Gohan the principal then said. "Ichigo's cruel act must have effected you greatly, therefore I will allow you to leave early today so you can get over your loss."
"You got to be kidding me." Ichigo said in disbelief.
The principal glared at Ichigo, "Not another word young man," Turning to Gohan he said in a kind voice, "I'll guide you out of the school."
Gohan gave sad smile, "Thank you."
As Gohan and the principal headed to the door leading into the school, the principal told Ichigo from over his shoulder, "Kurosaki I want you to clean up the mess you made."
When Gohan and the principal left Ichigo growled in frustration, "This is totally unfair." His friends only laughed at his demise.
After the principal lead Gohan out of the school. Gohan inwardly grinned.
"(That worked better than I thought.)"
"(Not only did you burn Elmo, you also got out of school early.)"
Gohan began walking away from the school heading to his apartment. "(I know another added effect was that I got Ichigo in trouble.)"
"(You know if he ever finds out you set him up, he will be angry at you.)"
Gohan shrugged.
"(So what are we going to do now?)" Kysako asked.
"(I am going to pick up some money from the apartment and then take it to Ichigo's house, because I did promise them I would pay them back.)"
"(What if someone's there?)"
"(I am just going to put the money in an envelope and then place it on the doorstep.)"
"(I have a bad feeling about this.)"
"(Stop being a worry wart, everything is going to go fine.)"
"('stop being a worry wart, everything is going to go fine.')" Kysako imitated. "(Well it looks like this worry wart was right in being worried.)"
"(Shut it Kysako. How was I supposed to know this was going to happen?)"
Gohan was in a predicament. He thought that it would be easy to drop off the money without getting caught, he was wrong. When he was about to set the money on the doorstep of the Kurosaki home the door opened to reveal who Gohan guessed to be Ichigo's father.
He was then coaxed into coming inside and having a talk. No matter how much Gohan protested Ichigo's father would hear nothing of it. So here he was now sitting across from the very intimidating figure of Ichigo's father.
"First off," began Ichigo's father, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Isshen."
"Gohan."
"Nice to meet you Gohan. Now onto business." He saw Gohan tense. He laughed causing Gohan to stare at him weirdly. "Don't worry I am not going to hurt you or anything I just have a few questions that need to be answered and then you can go."
Gohan relaxed at that so all he had to do was answer a few questions? So maybe this isn't so bad.
"First question, who were you battling? Those wounds you had were from a battle so don't try to say it was from a car accident."
Gohan stared at Isshen with realization, "You are not a normal human are you?"
"Nope," Isshen said with a grin. He then put a finger to his lips, "I'll tell you what I am if you keep it a secret from my family."
Gohan looked surprised what is so secret he kept it from his family?
"I used to be an active Shinigami…but one thing led to another and here I am being a normal human."
Gohan wanted to ask why but didn't because it would be rude, so all he did was nod in understanding. Then with a sigh Gohan began, "I was in a battle but do not worry I am pretty sure the evil…thing I was fighting is dead." At least I hope so, Gohan thought to himself, he continued, "I…I am going to be straightforward with you. I am not from this world."
Isshen eyes widened in shock for a moment but then nodded because it does make sense. If the battle had taken place in this world the Shinigami would have been alerted.
"How come you are here?" Isshen asked curious.
"At the end of the battle a ripple in time and space appeared and swallowed me bringing me here. I have no idea how to get back to my dimension." Gohan's eyes saddened at that.
Isshen couldn't help but feel sorry for the kid. Isshen looked at his watch, Ichigo wouldn't be home for a little while because of the detention he got. Why in the world did his son set an Elmo toy on fire? Ichigo used to love Elmo. Looking at Gohan he decided that what he had gathered is good enough for now.
"You can leave if you want and I will try to help you get back to your own dimension kid."
Gohan looked at Isshen with greatful eyees. He was unsure if Isshen could actually help but him trying to help is nice. "Thank you." Gohan said as he got up. Before he left he asked Isshen, "Would you keep the fact I am not from this world a secret?"
"Sure kid as long as you visit every once in a while got that?"
Gohan grinned, "Sure."
Ichigo grumbled as he entered his home. It is no fair that he got blamed for something he didn't even do!
"Ichigo we need to talk." Isshen said as he went over to his son.
"Why?"
Isshen slung an arm around Ichigo's shoulder, "I got a call from the principal. He told me that you lit a fellow student's Elmo on fire." Isshen then began to fake cry, "Oh woe is me, why did I do to deserve a child that is a pyromaniac?"
Ichigo growled as he threw his father's arm off him, "I am not a pyromaniac and I DIDN'T SET THE ELMO ON FIRE!"
Yuzu's voice came from the kitchen, "Dinner's ready."
"I guess we'll talk about this later son." Isshen said as he headed towards the kitchen ready to eat. Ichigo just growled as he followed his father.
Ichigo walked into his room with a plate of food for Rukia. He finally got his father off his back about the Elmo incident. Man, when he finds out who set him up they are going to regret it.
"Rukia here's your food." Getting no response he went over to his desk, "She must have gone out to take a walk."
Rukia stood outside of the Kurosaki home and looked at it sadly before jogging off. She didn't belong there. She was so deep in her own world that she didn't notice two people up in the sky looking down at her as she ran off.
"Looks like we found you…Rukia." One of the figure's whispered.
End Chapter 7((A/N)Well it looks like I got over my depression period and I hoped you guys liked it. Oh and for those of you that are wondering Gohan can still use his ki and fly and stuff. See ya and I hope you will review!)
