"Who knows?" Urahara said as he pulled out his fan. "One moment we're in Karakura Town and the next we're across the globe in the middle of America, quiet strange it was." He said as he waved it.
"So you had nothing to do with how you guys got here." I said as I began to eat another cookie.
"Nothing at all." He said.
"Okay so what were you guys doing when this happened?" I asked.
"Well I was in the shop along with Tessai." Urahara said.
"I was at home studying." Ishida said as he pushed up his glasses.
"I was cooking for Tatsuki." Orihime said.
"I was walking around town." Chad said.
"Wait, so you guys weren't all together?" I asked.
"No but we all ended up in the same place." Ishida said.
"Same place as in…." I said.
"As in we all ended up here." Ishida said.
"The shop?" I asked.
"Yes, including Ichigo." Urahara said. "We think it might be Soul Society's doing."
"But why would they send you here if they're trying to kill me?" I asked.
"Well maybe at first they were going to ask us." Orihime said.
"But wouldn't they have asked you before you guys teleported? Even then why would they have asked you guys? That's not how Soul Society works." I said.
"She's right." Urahara said.
"And even then, it's not possible that you guys were simply teleported across the globe, you guys were teleported across dimensions because….."
"Because…. Because… so close… I almost remembered." I thought.
"Because of what?" Chad asked.
I let my head fall on the table. "I forgot." I whined. I waited for a response but there was none. I lifted my head to see them in a freeze frame type of thing. I raised an eyebrow thinking that they were just messing with me. I reached across the table and was going to snatch Urahara's fan out of his hand.
"I wouldn't that if I were you." A feminine voice said.
"Please no, anything but that." I thought as I turned my head. "And I'm dead." Behind me was someone in a cloak sitting on a scythe in midair while swinging a golden pocket watch back and forth. She also had a white fox tail with red stripes that swung back and forth along with the watch.
"Hhhmm, five minutes should be enough." She said as she caught the watch in her hand and opened it. I had two options that would both probably get me killed but details, I could try to inch away or I could make a run for it, either way I'd probably get killed. I glanced over at the door and tried to estimate how long it would take for me to get there and get it.
"You wouldn't make it there before me." She said. I snapped my head back towards her. "Don't worry though; I'm not here to kill you." She said as she began to mess with the watch.
"You're not?" I blurted out. I mentally face palmed myself for my brilliant outburst.
"No, after the third time of failure, things get complicated not only that but as you probably realized Soul Society has come into the equation." She said.
"So you guys aren't working together?" I asked hoping that I don't make a mistake by talking to the enemy besides she already said she wasn't going to kill me.
"Oh no, we might both want to kill you but it's for two completely different reasons."
"What two reasons?" I asked.
She giggled a bit "Now that would be telling you too much now wouldn't it?" She said as she moved her just enough so that one brown eye was showing but right afterwards she moved it so that I couldn't see her face anymore. "Besides we have other things to talk about."
I narrowed my eyes just the slightest bit, not very sure of how to feel about this. "Like what?"
"I have proposition for you." She said and jumped down from the scythe. "Soul Society made quite a mess back at the game, all the bleachers fell down to the ground." She said as she shook her hood. "It was terrible."
My eyes widen, I had completely forgotten about that, about the people, the band… my friends.
"But no to worry I managed to save them all including the others who you didn't even know." She said as the scythe folded down into a pole. "Here's the where you come in." She said as she caught the pole and pointed it at me. "All those people right now are in a hideout frozen just like your friends right there." She said as she motioned at Chad and the others. "I'll let them escape safe and sound without a scratch on their body but I will keep one of them in my custody, I believe her name was Selana."
"Leave Selana out of this!" I blurted out, again.
"Don't worry I won't do anything to her, yet…" She said as she moved the pole back to her side and began to walk as her tail swung behind her. "If you hand yourself peacefully to us, I'll let her go safe and sound."
I looked at her not trusting a word she was saying mostly because of what I've seen on TV, you know they say something like I'll let them live if you do this but they end up killing them and you. I looked at her trying to estimate how trustworthy she seemed. She must have noticed because she turned around to look at me and then walked up in front of me. She was just a few inches taller than me.
"Don't trust me? That's okay I wouldn't either." She said and took my hands. For a moment I thought she was going to make them explode or something until I felt something cold touch my hand. "You have one week from today to decide or I'll kill her and just so I won't kill her you can keep that." She said as she let go of my hand. I looked down at my hand to see the pocket watch she had earlier. She let the scythe unfold in her hand and held it up against my neck. "Now remember this is something that stays between you and me only." She pressed it against my neck and I tried to lean back but she just kept pushing, it felt like she was about to cut into the skin. "Tell anyone and I'll kill you both." She threatened. "Do we have a deal?" She questioned as she pushed the scythe just enough so that it started to sting, I flinched at the stinging. "Do we?" She asked as she pushed just a little more.
"Yes." I almost yelled.
"Good." She said as she drew back her scythe. "Now remember you have one week." She said as she held up her index finger. "After that I'll kill you both." She said as she cut a hole in the air. "See you then." She said as she went into the hole and faded away. As soon as the hole closed I fell back onto the table.
"Jebus, I thought I was gonna die." I thought as I looked over to the side and saw the plate of cookies. I took one and began to nibble on it. "Cookies… you don't want to kill me right?" Just as I thought that I began to choke on the cookie. I sat up straight as I dropped the cookie and began to cough, just as I did time unfroze.
"Arg! Stupid cookie!" I said as I grabbed the plate and threw it across the room.
"I love how my mood just plummeted for no apparent reason what so ever." I growled at my genius mood swing.
"Well someone is mad." Ichigo said as he came in and used the towel to continue to dry his hair.
I glared at him "Someone is very mad."
"I'm lost." Orihime said.
"So are the rest of us." Ishida said. "There's no way to comprehend her logic."
I narrowed my eyes at Ishida as I turned to face him. "Do you want me to throw you across the room like that plate of cookies?" I said as I grabbed the collar of his shirt. "I promise you I will." I growled.
"Now, now let's not throw people across the room like plates of cookies." Urahara said as he stood up. "I would also love to keep the table the same way it was before we teleported."
I let go of Ishida's shirt and rolled off the table like a ninja. "No one likes your table anyway." I mumbled and walked out, purposely pushing Ichigo out the way.
"Hey watch where you're going." He said.
"Watch where you're standing, idiot." I replied.
"What?" He said and grabbed my wrist.
"Let go of me, I'm not in the mood for this and I will slap you." I growled.
"What's wrong with you?" He asked as he let go of me.
"Everything." I said and walked away. I was going to go to the room I previously had been staying at. Once I was in I accidently slammed the door shut.
"Okay sure why not? Just let everyone know you're mad."
I face planted the bed and groaned. I rolled over and laid flat on my back with my arms spread out. I then realized that I still had the pocket watch in my hand. I brought it up close to my face since I was feeling lazy about moving. I looked at it closely and studied the design of it. Carved into the front side there was a fox with a few swirls going around the edge. Then it decided to attack my face and fall right on my nose.
"Ow." I said as I picked it back up. I noticed that what I thought was a fox was now a tiger. I took a closer look at it and noticed that at different angles it was either a fox or tiger. "Weird." I said as I put it under the pillow. I yawned and rolled over on my side as I got comfortable. "Oh well." I said as I closed my eyes and drifted to sleep.
***
I looked around and once again I was back in the forest.
"I don't wanna be here, not right now, I'm too tired for this." I whined. I then realized the clock was still in my hand. "... okay? I have a pocket watch." I began to swing it and almost flung it out of my hand. "oops." I said and decided to stop before I break it.
"Well look who's here." A too familiar voice said. Fear struck my body and I felt like my body entered a state of paralysis. "What's wrong? Fox got your tongue." The me but not me appeared in front of me. I clenched the watch in my hand. "I'll take that as a yes then." She said as she turned and her long hair slapped my face.
"Uhm, well excuse you!" I blurted. I slapped myself for saying something like that.
"I'm going to die now."
"I guess you can talk then." She said and turned to face me.
"No, no I can't." I said.
She fell back and started to float in the air, kind of like in a pool. "You're a bad lair." She said.
"So what's with the personality change? Or is it just me? It's just me right?" I thought as I watched her float around. "So I've been told." I said.
She looked at me "You're boring."
"More like terrified." I Mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing." I said and looked over to a tree. There was silence and I was getting worried that she might be getting ready to pounce at me. I turned around to see her right in my face. If it was anyone else I would have pushed them away. "… uhm… what are you doing?"
"So you didn't notice." She said as she brought her feet down to the ground.
"I was supposed to notice something?"
"Hn, you're not as clever as I thought you were." She said.
"If it's the personality change then I got that." I said.
She raised an eyebrow at me it wasn't till then that I noticed that she didn't have the blue eyes, she had green eyes. I then looked her over and she was a completely different person. She was older, way older and had mid back dark brown hair and was wearing a long dark green robe with random brown root looking designs going around the edges.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Someone." She said shrugging.
"Does someone want to kill me?" I asked.
"Nope." She said simply and began to twirl a strand of hair.
"Does someone want to help me?"
"Nope." She said.
"Hhhmm." I said as nodded my head. "Okay so I found someone who doesn't want to kill me, yet. Alright I think I'm making progress."
It became silent again, awkwardly silent. I would have started to whistle but one that didn't sound like a good idea and two I can't whistle. So I began to rock back and forth.
"Do you want to know my name?" She asked.
"Yes." I said. She stayed silent and walked over to a tree. I looked at her and waited for an answer. "Are you going to tell me?"
"Nope." She said.
My shoulders dropped and I face palmed. "So you're just gonna stare at that tree?"
"Basically."
"Okay, cool whatever I'll just go over there." I said and pointed behind me.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." She said as she began to scratch at the bark.
"Why?"
"You'd be in danger." She said.
"Danger?"
"Yup, and I won't be going out of my territory to help you." She said.
The sound of her scratching the tree was starting to annoy me. "Can you please stop that scratching?"
She looked over at me with a questioning/threatening gaze. "Or not, you know either way." I said holding my hands up in surrender.
She stepped out the way of the tree and where she had scratched at was now an upside down triangle with a line going through it. It looked familiar but I couldn't put my finger on where I had seen it before.
"There are four triangles, look for these and try to stay in the one marked with this triangle." She said. "Go into the any of the others and you might as well consider yourself dead." She said and began to walk away.
"Wait, are you going to leave me here alone?" I asked not liking the idea of being alone in an unknown place.
"Yeah, I'm not your body guard. I have more important things to do." She said and walked into the forest.
I looked around and inched over to the tree with the triangle on it and kept my back against it and slid down it, I let out a yawn. "Soo sleepy, I thought I fell asleep though." I said and looked around. "Well maybe I'm dreaming? Meh." I said and lay down. "Who says you can't fall asleep in a dream." I said and closed my eyes. "If I die I'll die sleeping, I'm okay with that." I mumbled.
***
I felt something warm on my eyelids; I knew that feeling all too well. I groaned and rolled over in the bed but rolled the wrong way and fell off the bed. I groaned and threw the covers off me. I looked around and realized that I was in my room, in my house. I looked around with a questioning gaze.
"Was I dreaming? Well I know that was a dream but was everything else before that?" I thought. I crawled over to my door opened it and poked my head out and looked out into the hallway, I could hear the faint sound of the TV in the kitchen. "Am I out of danger?" I mumbled as I crawled through the hallway with the cover barley hanging onto my head. I went into the living that was empty and quiet beside the parakeets in the cage singing. Then once my cockatiel saw me and began to start singing like Jesus was coming back. "Shhh!" I said as I tried to shush it but it just kept going.
"Addie, is that you?" My mom called from the kitchen.
"Yeah it's me." I said as I stood up with a sigh and wrapped the cover around me. "What are you making?"
"Come look." She said.
"Whatever it smells good." I said as I trudged to the kitchen. I looked over at the stove. "You made bacon?!" I said and I glomped her. "I love you forever."
"Okay, okay, Ya dejame." She said as she shoved me off her.
"Okay, okay, no need for violence." I said as I got a plate and stood right beside her looking at her with pleading eyes. My mom looked at me with an expression that said 'what are you doing?'
"Canz I haz food?"I asked.
She sighed and took my plate "Go get changed and I'll get it ready." She said.
"Thank you." I said and glomped her again.
"Agh." She groaned.
"Sorry." I said as I let go of her and ran back to my room. I looked around the mess I called my room. "I should really clean this… eh, later." I opened up the closet and looked around. "I'm too last to put pants on but I hate dresses…. Ehhh… oh well." I said as I pulled out a white summer dress. I changed into it and found the black sash that I usually used to tie it around my waist. I found my brush and tried to comb through the jungle called my hair. Once that was done I looked for shoes because my feet were cold. "Slippers where are you?" I said as I looked under my bed but found sandals. "Close enough." I said and slipped them on. I then skipped out my room back to the kitchen. "Tada!" I said and struck a model pose.
"Ten." She said and handed me my plate of bacon, eggs, and fried potatoes.
"Thaaank youuu." I said as I took the plate. "I love you forever and ever and ever." I said and went to sit down at the table. "And ever." I said and took my seat. "Wait… I need a fork." I said as I stood up and walked back into the kitchen to get a fork. I sat back down and drooled over my food for a while. I stabbed the eggs, potatoes, and bacon with my fork and just as I was about to take a bite out of it there was a knock at my door. "I'll get it." I groaned as I stood up and went over to the door. I opened the wooden door and guess who. "Ichigo?!" I said as I opened the glass door with iron bars.
"So it wasn't a dream. I don't know if that's good or bad."
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Quien es?" My mom asked.
"Oh no one." I said. "I'll be right back." I said and went outside. I closed the door behind me and wenth out the way of vision. "Are you trying to get my mom to kill me?! I already have enough people trying to kill me." I said.
"Calm down I'm just here to come get you." He said.
"Wait where are we going?" I asked.
"Back to Urahara's." He said.
"Right now? But I was about to eat food." I whined.
"You can eat food over there, now come on." He said.
"No, I like my food better." I said as I stomped my foot. "Wow I feel like a three year old… oh well this is my food on the line!"
He let out an aggravated sigh "Fine bring your food."
"I can't do that! I have to eat it then leave or else my mom will be like blah blah blah."
He groaned "Fine go eat." He said and sat down in the chair beside the door.
"… you're just gonna sit there and wait for me…" I said not sure about how my mom would handle this.
"Yeah, is there a problem?"
"No, not yet." I said as I opened the door. "I'll figure something out." I said and went inside.
"Who was it?" My mom asked as I sat down.
"A friend." I said.
"A friend? What are they doing here?" She asked as she sat down beside me with her plate of food.
"Uhm… apparently they want me to go hang out with them."
She raised an eyebrow at me.
"I mean i-if you let me." I said feeling myself shrink. She might be shorter than me but she sure can scare the bejebus out of me.
"Who are they?"
"… a friend…" I said looking away, knowing how she gets about me hanging out with guys.
She stood up and went to the door.
"uh… wait, wait! Madre! " I said as I stood up but she wasn't going to be listening to me now. I let my head hang down in defeat as she stepped outside. I looked at the plate of food I had, I took the fork and ate some bacon. "Bacon." I said as I continued to eat in a depressed type of manner. A waited for a bit and then I heard the door open, I looked over to see my mom letting Ichigo in.
"Mom, whatchu doin." I thought.
"Please excuse the mess, this house is always so messy." She said. I looked at her then at Ichigo trying to figure out what happened. "You must be hungry let me get you something to eat." My mom said kindly.
"No thank you I already ate." He said and sat down beside me. "I'm just waiting for her."
My mom smiled at me but not in the good way. I feared for for my life.
"Ichigo if you get me killed I will haunt you." I thought as I glanced over at him
"Addie, come here." She said as she went into the kitchen.
I looked at Ichigo and glared at him and mouthed the words 'I'm going to kill you.' He only smiled. I didn't like that, not at all.
"Addie." She said.
"Huh?" I said softly not wanting to die.
"Porque no me dijiste que tenias un novio?" She said and folded her arms.
"Que? Que?! What?!" I said. "One moment please." I said and went over to Ichigo. I glared at him with all my soul. "I will kill you." I growled.
"It worked didn't it?" He said shrugging.
"I. Will. Kill. You." I said again then walked back into the kitchen to see my mom still standing there with her arms folded across her chest. I almost wanted to shiver.
"Well?" She said.
"Well... Lo que pasó era que... pues... como nunca me preguntastes nunca se me ocurrio a decirte..." I lied.
"Por cuánto tiempo andaba pasando esto?"
"Uhhhmm... Una semana..."
"Y a donde van a ir?"
"No se."
"Como que no sabes?"
"I dunno, I'm sorry I love you." I said and held my hands over my face.
She sighed "Okay."
"...okay?" I said and moved my hands down. "I mean... okay! Uhm... I'm going to finish eating now." I said and started to inch away.
"Okay." She said.
"I love you mommy." I said.
"I love you too now go, don't keep him waiting."
I walked back into the dining room and sat down. "You sir are going to die once we leave." I said with a smile and began to eat.
"Okay, whatever." He said and shrugged.
I glared at him while I ate my plate of food. I was devising my evil plan of how I was going to kill him, one thing for sure it was going to include marshmallows and a canon. I finished eating and my mom stayed in the kitchen which made me feel really bad because she probably took something the wrong way. "I'm going to wash my plate and then we can leave." I said as I stood up. I went into the kitchen and where my mom was just standing there. "Mom..." I said softly. "Don't be mad at me..." I pleaded. "You know I don't like seeing you like this."
She rubbed her eyes and shook her head "It's not that it's just that you've grown so much. It seems like just yesterday you were a small little girl that I could hold in my hands and now look at you all grown up."
I smiled those words were touching. "Awww, mami." I said and hugged her. "No matter what happens I will always be your small little girl." I said.
She sniffled "Okay, go on." she said and shoved me softly.
I smiled "I'll see you when I get home." I said and let go of her.
"Okay, take care." She said.
I walked out into the dining room. "Alright come on strawberry, we got things to do and places to be." I said and grabbed his ear and began to drag him away.
"Ow, ow, ow." He said.
I Jackie Chan the door (I kicked it open) and walked out into the world.
"Let go of my ear." He growled.
"No, this is what you get for lying." I said and yanked on it.
"Ow!" He said.
I smiled evilly. "Prepare to die." I said and pulled on is year a little more as I dragged him.
"Ow! OW!"
I began to laugh at his pain. "I have too much fun, and I didn't even know that was possible."
He glared at me. "Let go or else."
"Or else what?" I challenged.
He glared at me and in one swift movement he swung me over his shoulder like a potato sack.
"Noooo! Anything but the potato sack." I said. "I'm going to sue you for rape!" I said as he began to walk.
"Whatever you say." He said and shrugged which felt weird because he kind of shouldered my stomach.
"Arg my stomach don't move your face." I said as I decided to let myself hang like some sort of rag doll, well until I realized that I was staring right at his butt. "Ack! It burns! My eyes! Mur eyes! It BURNS!" I said as I started to thrash around like some sort of idiot.
"Hey stop that! Hey!" He said but I just continued to thrash around dramatically. Probably not the best idea but when your eyes are about to die it's the only thing you can do. "You're going to make us fall!"
"I don't think you understand, sir." I said as I stopped for a second. "IT BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRNNNNNNNSSSSS SSSS!" I said and thrashed around again which caught him off guard causing us both to fall, luckily strawberry broke my fall but no I didn't stop I rolled on the ground with my eyes closed. "Aaaaaaahhhhh!" I said as I rolled down the small hill I forgot about. I rolled down into the ditch and landed face first into dirt. "Ooowwww." I whined. "My... face." I said and rolled over on my back.
"Are you okay?" Ichigo asked worriedly as he jumped down into the ditch.
"Does it look like I'm okay?" I growled as I sat up and rubbed my head. "Ow, ow, ow." I said and put my hand over my forehead and felt something on it. "Please no." I said as I moved my hand off my forehead and saw blood on it. I sighed and put my hand back on my forehead.
"Can you stand up?" He asked.
"I think so."
"Here put your arms around my neck." He said as he put one hand around my wait and the other under my legs. As he began to pick me up he stopped, I stopped. I felt like there was something suffocating me, like all the sudden I was carrying a thousand pounds on my back. "Ichigo…" I mumbled. "I can't breathe."
"We have to get out of here." He said as he stood up with me in his arms and began to run. The more he ran the more light headed I began to feel, all the sudden it felt like my neck couldn't support my head anymore so I laid my head against his chest.
"It hurts." I mumbled. It felt like I was going to explode.
"Hang in there." He said as he tightened his grip on me and began to speed up. I could tell he was thinking about something even though I felt out of it.
"Who is it?" I asked.
"… there's only one man in Soul Society with reiatsu this crazy." He said as he looked ahead with a serious face. "Zaraki, Kenpachi."