Ichigo's Room
The girl, now known as Kuchiki Rukia, began to explain her function and duty as a Shinigami while Ichigo and Tsuna sat on the ground, listening intensively.
"So you're a Shinigami?" Tsuna repeats.
"And you've come all the way from a place called the Soul Society," Ichigo adds.
"To vanquish evil spirits like that monster from earlier."
"Which was after that little girl."
"I guess that's kinda-" Tsuna started only to be interrupted by Ichigo.
"-Like hell, we'll believe that sh*t!" Ichigo exclaims hurling the table over Rukia's head and across the room. Tsuna sweatdrops as Ichigo goes ranting to Rukia how such things couldn't exist, she shuffles away to avoid being hit or involved.
"You simple minded fool!" Rukia snaps getting right into Ichigo's face, "you, the both of you, can see spirits yet you deny the existence of Shinigami."
"Because such things don't exist!" Ichigo retorts.
Rukia made some sounds at the back of the throat which indicates the anger she's suppressing and makes some very interesting gestures like attempting to strangle Ichigo before sighing and turning to Tsuna.
"You!" Rukia points out curtly making Tsuna squeak and sit up straight in fear. Her plan to go unnoticed was unsuccessful.
"Y-Yes?" Tsuna inquires nervously.
"Before this thick-headed child-"
"Child?!" Ichigo reiterates indignant but is promptly ignored by Rukia.
"-interrupted, you believed my story," Rukia reminds.
"No, she didn't!"
"Well, it's not completely impossible," Tsuna admits falteringly, sweating harder when Ichigo throws her a look of betrayal, "I mean just cause we haven't seen you before doesn't mean you don't exist."
"Tsuna!"
"What? I'm just stating the truth!" Tsuna argues.
"It's nice to know that there is only one person in this room is a complete imbecile," Rukia snickers, pointedly glancing at Ichigo out of the corner of her eye.
"Why you-?!" Ichigo made move to hit her when Tsuna intervened by pushing him back.
"Ichi-nii just doesn't believe in things he can't see. He's more logical than spiritual or imaginative," Tsuna explains hoping to ease the tension between the two.
"But you two can see me," Rukia adverts which were a really good point.
"I can admit when I can see a non-human," Ichigo alludes surprising the two girls before he bends down to her height and mockingly says, "but it's an absolute crock that a little midget like you could be a 'Shinigami'. Why don't you play with kids you're age? There's an elementary school not too far from here," Ichigo taunts patronisingly, placing his hand on top of Rukia's head and rocks her back and forth.
"Why you..." Rukia grits her teeth before put her arm in a straight position and chanted, "Bakudo no.1: Sai!"
Suddenly Ichigo's hands were tied behind his back which makes him topple to his knees.
"Ichi-nii!" Tsuna gasped as she rushed to him. "What did you do?!"
"Paralysis. I used Kido on him. Hopefully, this will teach him to be more respectful," Rukia divulged loving how the arrogant prick was bowing right at her feet. "It's a high-level incantation that only Shinigami can use."
"I'll kill you," Ichigo grits his teeth as he glares up at her in hatred.
Rukia ignored him and continued, "Despite the way I look, I lived nearly 10 times as long as you and yet you continuously insinuate that I'm nothing more than a child. Normally I would eliminate you but I am forbidden to harm those that I have not been ordered to harm. So you better be grateful, bastard."
"And while I'm here..." Rukia lifts her sword above her head before swiping it down through the air intending to slice Ichigo but Tsuna throws herself right over him sacrificing herself to take the blow.
A gasp grabs their attention so Tsuna and Ichigo look up to see the hilt of Rukia's sword pressed against the centre of a ghost guy's forehead. It was the same ghost from yesterday, no one had realised that he never even left the house.
"Please, no. I don't want to go to Hell," the ghost whimpered terrified with what lurked on the other side
"Do not be afraid," Rukia consoles smiling kindly which the duo astounded with the unfamiliar emotion exhibited by the ageless girl who only exposed a cold side. "You are heading to the Soul Society. Unlike Hell, it is a relaxing place where you'll be at peace." A bright light enveloped the room and the ghost sank through the floor, completely at peace with himself.
"What happened?" Ichigo questions his face burning red though it was known if it was because he was struggling with Tsuna's weight or the fact that her chest was pressing tightly against his head. "Tsuna, please get off," Ichigo beseeched, his voice unusually high.
"Oh sorry," Tsuna stammered as she avoided looking at Ichigo.
"You can relax, I've sent him to the Soul Society," Rukia informs, sheathing her sword, "it is the equivalence of Heaven in your language. That is one of the many duties of a Shinigami."
"That's nice," Tsuna admits visibly relaxing, noting that Rukia didn't really seem as dangerous as she initially appeared and it was clear that Rukia preferred to be in Tsuna's presence rather than Ichigo's.
"So that even an ungrateful bastard like you will be convinced, I'll be nice and draw it out," Rukia brings out a sketchpad out of her kimono and shows the duo some very simplistic yet unusual drawings which left Tsuna and Ichigo absolutely dumbfounded. The page was split into half, one side was of a happy Chappy with hearts all around while the other side was of an angry bear with bolts of lightning to represent evil. "In this world, there are two types of souls. The first is called 'Plus', the ordinary spirit which you two typically see. The other is called 'Hollow'. They attack the living and dead indiscriminately and eat their souls. In other words, they are bad spirits. Do you have any questions so far?"
"Let's see, I'll start with why your drawings suck so bad," Ichigo retaliates coolly.
'Really?' Tsuna sighs inwardly, 'only Ichi-nii would provoke a girl with a sword.'
"What the f*ck are you doing?" Ichigo promptly freaks out, struggling in his bonds when Rukia draws a moustache on his upper lip. "Tsuna, why are being all buddy-buddy with this b*tch?!"
"You did kinda deserve it," Tsuna admits shrugging before pointing out, "plus, she has a sword. What can I do?"
"You could grow a spine!" Ichigo snaps though it lacked any bite so Tsuna didn't really take offence then, out of nowhere, a pen flies through the air and hits Ichigo's forehead dead centre causing blood to spray out, "Agh!"
"Hieeee!" Tsuna scrambled away so the blood wouldn't stain her clothes.
"Now that I've got your attention I'll continue my explanation," Rukia pipes up paying no mind to Ichigo's screams of pain. The drawing showed a Chappy with a bright red arrow pointing to the word 'Soul Burial' then to a blackened page with a bear in the centre that's been crossed out. "We Shinigami have two jobs. One is to lead Pluses to the Soul Society through the Soul Burial I just used and the other is to kill and purify Hollows."
"Why was it after that girl?" Tsuna inquired.
"That I don't know," Rukia admits placing her hand on her chin, "even we don't fully understand them."
Out of nowhere, an ear-piercing shriek caught the attention of both Ichigo and Tsuna who whipped their head in the direction of the sound.
"Hey, you hear that?!" Ichigo demanded as he struggled against his restraints in desperation.
"In any case, it is certain that a second Hollow is roaming this area," Rukia continues as if she didn't hear Ichigo.
"Then why don't you hurry up and kill it?!" Tsuna questions urgently.
"I can't. I don't know why, but recently, I haven't been able to sense its presence," Rukia reveals, "as if some huge power was hindering my senses."
"Bu-But the shriek..." Tsuna mutters in absolute shock and disbelief, her shaking index figure pointing to the Shinigami, "didn't you hear it?"
"Yeah! It's a loud a** howl!" Ichigo practically screams to Rukia who appears calm to him. "That's your friggin' monster!"
"Loud howl?" Rukia reiterates in worried confusion before another thunderous shriek pierced the air which Rukia heard before standing up abruptly and placing her hand on her sword handle, "no doubt. That's the shriek of a Hollow."
A high pitched scream came from downstairs which petrified Ichigo and Tsuna.
"Yuzu!" Ichigo fought harder against his restraints.
Rukia rushes out of the room and is immediately met with a tremendous amount of Reiryoku that is so suffocating it took all her will not to fall to her knees. 'How could I have not heard it before?' Rukia curses her inadequacy before a battered and bruised Yuzu stumbled and collapsed outside Ichigo's door.
"Onii-chan, Onee-chan... Karin-chan and Nana... please save Karin..." Yuzu pleads weakly before falling unconscious. Tsuna rushes to Yuzu holding her in her arms trying to wake her, begging not to die.
"Let me go dammit!" Ichigo curses to Rukia who sprints downstairs when there was another scream which belonged to Karin. Tsuna immediately hurried to help Ichigo back to his feet and assist him in getting downstairs.
"Kaa-san!" Tsuna gasps when she's sees her mother lying near the bottom of the stairs under a large piece of debris. Tsuna instantly got to work in a shoving it off her, to her relief her mother was simply unconscious instead of dead. Ichigo shoved Rukia away and stared out the gigantic hole in the side of the house where a Hollow with an unnerving grin, it had black skin with fins on its back. It stood with Karin in its grip, slowly crushing her which it obviously took enjoyment in.
"Is that... a Hollow?" Tsuna slowly inquires traumatised by everything that's happening at this moment. "This can't be happening, this can't be happening," Tsuna muttered in a mantra as if attempting to convince herself that this was all a dream.
I'm going to cut it short here. Mostly because I need to update.
