.Chapter 10

When I opened my eyes, the entire room was dark and I felt a blanket on top of me. I sat up and looked out the window, only to find that it was night time. I stood up and walked out of the room with my bag over my shoulder as I heard Rikokou's voice ask in tired tone, "Santona? Where are you going this late at night with your school bag? It's your turn to stay with mom."

I turned around and kissed Rikokou on the forehead as I whispered to him, "Rikokou, honey? Go back to sleep. You must be awefully tired."

I saw Rikokou's eyes shining brightly in the moonlight as he cried out with joy, "Mom! You're awake!"

As I hugged him tightly, I heard several doors open. Renji's voice called, "Rikokou! Keep your voice down!"

I quickly kissed Rikokou on the forehead again as I whispered in his ear, "Let's keep this a secret between us two. I'll see you inside the class in the morning."

With just that, I quickly ran off and headed straight for my old home. I climbed the wall and went through Sakura's window, but landed with a small crashing sound. Sakura sat up and stared at me as he hissed, "What are you doing here? You should be at a hospital!"

"Don't worry! My friend Orihime healed me with her power," I whispered. "Now move aside for me? I'll just go into my small room above your bed." When he moved aside, I quickly told him, "Don't worry about waking me up. I'll manage to get up in time by myself." Once I closed the door, I looked around and realized it looked just like a regular bedroom. I sat down on the bed and started to think about what Toushirou told me about Aizen and Ichimaru. I took out my cellphone device from the Soul Society and messaged them to send me the communicating technology. It was time to try to keep in touch with the Soul Society every now and then.

When I got to school in the morning, Renji's voice asked me from behind, "Where'd you go last night?" I turned around to face him as my felt my face burn up. He was frowning deeply at me and I knew that he was more serious than he ever was. He repeated, "Where'd you go last night? Rikokou came running into the room where I was after I told him to stay quiet and he said that you left. Where'd you go?"

"Akira and Sakura's place," I told him quietly. "Sakura has a spare room in his bedroom so I'm using that as my own bedroom. I mean, if it isn't my old spare room where I kept my private things as a child, I don't know where else to go."

He hugged me tightly as he snaped, "Do you even have any idea how much I was worried about you? I'll tell you! I was worried sick that something might have happened to you!"

I hugged him back as tightly as I could as I whispered, "I'm sorry, Renji."

I heard Yakiru's voice hiss in my ear, "Mark my words, Kurosaki! I'm going to kill you when you have your guards down!"

As I turned around to look at him, Renji held me in a protective way. My dad appeared out of nowhere with Kenny and Kenny growled at him, "If you're gonna kill her, good luck getting past me, because I'll act as her body guard. Oh, and here's a reminder. Anything that has sharp blades, it's like there's no blade at all when it's used to attack me."

I tore myself away from Renji as he and I walked up to Kenny. I hissed, "What are you thinking, Kenny?"

"From what I've heard that Urahara told me and the others, you still have a lot of things that you need to reteach yourself, Ichisan," Kenny told me. "But from I can see, you have the ability to be in the captain seat of the eleventh company, but perhaps even in one of the highest seats of Center 46. Just work on being used to be back in your human form." With just that, he walked off.

I looked at my dad and he told me, "He's right, you know." He snapped his fingers as he said to the rest of the group, "Let's go. I ain't getting in trouble because of you lot. It's not like I'm in my old high school days any more, you know! It would've been better, though."

As they all walked into the classroom, Rikokou and Santona quickly stopped in front of me. Santona asked in worried tone, "Why'd you go off in middle of the night?"

"I just didn't want to worry all of you," I told her with a smile. "Don't worry about me, Santona. Just worry about yourself and make sure you don't get jumped on again. Okay?"

As she nodded, Renji put his right arm over my shoulders as he said, "We should get inside the class now, guys."

As we started to head towards the door of the class, we heard someone getting kicked from behind us as Rikokou said, "Don't think about attacking Ichisan Kurosaki, boy!"

I looked back as I told Yakiru, "Yakiru, I'm not sure what kind of stunt you're trying to pull on me, but it's not going to happen."

When I was so close to entering the classroom, Yakiru yelled, "I know your secret, Kurosaki! I know Ichigo's secret as well! That's why I was trying to kill you yesturday! Because I knew that once I killed you for good, I would have been able to kill Ichigo!"

I told Rikokou, Santona and Renji, "Go inside." I called, "Ichigo! Kenny! Get over here right now! I need your back up!"

When my dad and Kenny came out, Yakiru snared, "Oh, did I forget to mention that I know what Rukia Kuchiki is as well?"

I snapped at him angrily, "Can you shut up for a minute or two? Let's just go outside and talk about this!"

Kenny grabbed him and said, "Let's go to the court yard. It'll be easier if we took him like this out there."

As we walked past our teacher, I quickly said, "The four of us will be back in a few minutes, teacher dude." When we were outside, I asked Yakiru, "What is our secret that you know about?"

Yakiru looked up at me as he snared, "You're really a Shinigami! Along with Ichigo! Oh, and guess whatelse I know! Ichigo's real last name is Kurosaki and he's your father! You're both the best hoodlums known in this town from over a century ago!"

My dad and I were both shocked that he knew all this. My dad asked, "Who told you all this, kid? I mean, there's no way that you could've known that we were Soul Reapers!"

"A guy named Aizen came every now and then," Yakiru replied. "He said that you guys were evil! He even told me if I joined him and the arrancar, I would become the strongest creature known to earth!"

Kenny and my dad both took this as a great shock. Kenny asked, "Ichigo, the Gotei 13 beat him when you were part Shinigami yourself, didn't we?"

"I'm pretty sure we did," my dad replied in a mutter. He turned to Yakiru as he asked, "I have several questions about Aizen. Did he mention anything about trying to declare a war on the Soul Society sooner or later?"

"Yeah, he did. Why?" Yakiru asked with sudden interest.

"Dad, we should be warning Renji, Matsumoto and Toushirou," I told my dad as we all ignored Yakiru's question.

Kenny replied for my dad, "That would be the logical thing to do, but we need to warn all the other captains in the Soul Society first. Especially Center 46."

"Not only that, I don't see why Aizen wants to declare a war again," my dad added. "I mean, Orihime and Chad was already put into danger once and if there's another war, then that means that they have to be put into another rough training."

Kenny and my dad suddenly turned to look at me and I cried out, "What?"

"You're stronger than Renji, so it means you'd be the one mostly likely chosen to train Chad if he needs to be brought forth to fight by the Soul Reapers' side again," my dad told me.

I yelled, "No way! I'm not training my own godfather! As strong as he may be, I am not taking responsibilities of training him! If it was Tatsuki-san that we were talking about, fine! Other wise, forget it!"

Kenny changed the subjects by asking me, "Can you just bring Chad here? He's the one who will most likely put some senses into this boy."

"Gladly," I responded and got into my Soul Reaper form. I poked Yakiru in the eyes and his hands flew over his eyes as he screamed. "You better not fool around here, Yakiru," I told him.

"And you better not poke me again, Ichisan Kurosaki!" he hissed as he looked at me directly in the eye.

I jumped back as I cried out, "You can see me?"
"Of course I can! Ever since you guys arrived, Sakura and Akira's ghost seeing abilities rubbed onto me! The night you arrived, I met Aizen for the first time ever! That's when he offered me the spot as a arrancar!" Yariku yelled with frustration.

I quickly said, "I'll get Chad and Urahara!"

"Make sure you leave Orihime! She might go crazy if she sees us beating this kid up, if that ever happens!" my dad called back.

I quickly ran towards Mr. Hats-And-Clogs' place and found Mr. Hats-And-Clogs with Chad in the training area. When Chad caught a glimps of me stopping at the entrance, he said with surprise, "Ichigo's kid!"

As Mr. Hats-And-Clogs turned around to look, I said, "Urahara, Chad, come with me to the high school. We have a new problem that'll be heading to this town or the Soul Society sooner or later. But first, there's something you need to hear from a student in my class named Yakiru."

Mr. Hats-And-Clogs frowned suddenly as he responded, "This sounds serious, Kurosaki-san. What's this all about?"

"Aizen's going to attack and he offered Yakiru, a normal human being, a spot of arrancar," I replied and both Mr. Hats-And-Clogs and Chad looked shocked at the news that I have delievered to them. "And we need you, Chad, to talk some sense into the boy. As for you, Urahara, I don't know why but my dad and Kenny asked me to bring you along as well."

They were silent for awhile, but Mr. Hats-And-Clogs said, "Very well. Let's go, Chad. We'll continue the training after we come back."