Thanks for all the reviews guys I love them, hope you all enjoy :D
In advance I apologise for my lack of knowledge of Japanese schools. I did attempt to look it up but well you'll see how that went :P
Almost forgot to add, they're all acting familiar-ish with each other because they live together.
I own none of the rights to bleach, that goes to Tite Kubo
'Chouko'
'Shiro'
'Tensa'
A Normal Day….
'Guess what day it is Ichi-ni!'
'Kid, do you have no sense of time?'
'Course I do.'
'Then why are you waking us up at 4:00 in the morning?'
'Urmm…'
'….sleep….'
'If you'd woken him up then we'd be in for it, go back to sleep child.'
'O-okay Tenny-chan.'
And with that small interruption of Mugetsus sleep on his first day back at Katakura High School, the spirits in his mind went back to their slumber for a few more hours. Unfortunately it was too many hours.
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Mugetsus home, 8:30am
"CRAP! We're going to be late!" Roared Mugetsu as he pulled on the familiar uniform he'd found on his desk along with other school things, courtesy of Urahara.
"What's all the yelling for it's the morning!" A voiced ranted back at the long black haired dashed out of his room and into the body of said voice. Apacci was not happy with that. She could deal with living with a Shinigami, but would not tolerate him crashing into her like she wasn't there.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" She yelled in his face, thankful they hadn't been sent flying onto the floor.
"We're going to be late! It's the first day back to so go get ready!" Mugetsu ordered pushing her in the direction of her room, only to receive a hard punch that sent him flying down the hallway and into the kitchen/living room.
"Don't order me about." Apacci growled as she strode into the room she shared with Sung-Sun and Mila-Rose. They'd been living in their current accomidation for about two days and found it creepy how the shopkeeper had known to have three bedrooms in the house they shared. Alas the creepy, green hat wearing man had failed to acquire more than one bathroom for them. Mugetsu had to wait until midnight last night before he could use the shower for 5 minutes. And now they were running late.
"Good morning, Ichigo." The ladylike voice of Sung-Sun called from the table as she sat drinking tea, evidently ready to leave.
"It's Mugetsu and, uh…hey." Mugetsu replied still getting used to how completely different all the fraccion were. Just after he spoke the argumentative voices of Apacci and Mila-Rose broke out from down the hallway.
"If they're not careful they'll wake up Harribel-sama." Sung-Sun said calmly as she got up and put the empty cup on the side. She picked up a small bundle from the counter and then put it away in her bag which she hung on her shoulder.
"You best be ready, she'll be kicking us all out the house soon." No further prompting required Mugetsu grabbed a piece of toast and went to put on his shoes.
He'd just put them on when a mass amount of spiritual pressure came pressing down on everyone, even Mugetsu could feel it.
"You should be gone, not arguing over pointless things." The voice wasn't raised but Mugetsu and Sung-Sun could still hear it from the front door. There was a threatening edge to it which was enough to send the two offending fraccion shooting down the hallway.
"We're sorry Harribel-sama!" The flurry of black and brown hair called as the came darting past Mugetsu and Sung-Sun. Sensing the simmering reiatsu was about to come round the corner Mugetsu pulled the door open and with the fraccion at his heels they all jumped out into the street. As they hit the floor they heard a soft click as the door shut.
"It's scary when she doesn't yell." Commented Sung-Sun who was smirking at the other twos horrified expression.
"All your fault, Apacci." Mila-Rose muttered.
"It was-" Apacci attempted a retort but Mugetsu cut her off.
"We don't have time for this! We're late as it is. They're probably going into assembly now." Mugetsu sighed, they were supposed to be introduced in the assembly and as much as he wanted to miss it they'd get off to a bad start with everyone if they did.
"Well how'd suggest we get there in the next few seconds?" Mila-Rose smirked before starting to stroll down the street.
"I can give you all a lift!" Squealed a familiar childlike voice from Mugetsus back. Chouko was plaiting his hair. Again.
"You can?" He asked her ignoring the girly plaits that were taking over his hair at a startling rate.
"Sure I do Ichi-ni! Three. Two. One. GO!" Cried the purple haired girl as a purple bubble surrounded Mugetsu and the fraccion immersing them in a bright light in the process.
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Katakua High, Backstage Main Hall 8:40
The light cleared from their eyes and they found themselves to the side of a well-lit stage. There was currently someone on stage droning on about some nonsense that the group weren't paying attention to. They were busy recovering from their sudden transportation.
"What the hell! Chouko give warning next time." Mugetus scowled at the child that stood before them.
"I did give warning." The girl said innocently before disappearing. Apacci was about to demand that Mugetsu bring the girl back out before them but at that moment a student appeared.
"What're you four doing here? You should be in your seats." They chastised, clearly a member of the student council as Mugetsu recognised the armband.
"We're the new transfers." Sighed Mugetsu. Surprise lit up in the students face as he nodded and walked on the stage to whisper something to the person who was currently talking. The person looked over at them and then nodded before announcing something. Running back over to them the boy ushered them onto the stage muttering something about being introduced and that they shouldn't have been late in the first place. Not that they paid any attention.
"And here are the new transfer students that will be join class 2-B!" The girl on stage roared enthusiastically, waving for them to come on. Reluctantly Mugetsu, Apacci, Mila-Rose and Sung-Sun walked onto the centre of the stage.
The crowd was quiet when they walked on. But soon there were whispers as people caught sight of the extraordinary group that walked on. There were even gasps in the crowd making Mugetsu mentally face palm.
"So if you could all introduce yourselves," called the enthusiastic host as she darted over to them, microphone in hand.
"Zangetsu Mugetsu." He said into the microphone earning a few screams from the girls. Sighing Mugetsu searched the crowd for his past self. There he was sat in his usual place and of course scowling up at Mugetsu, just what he needed.
"Anything else to add Mugetsu-san?" Prompted the host silently.
"No."
"And what about you lovely girls?" She grinned appearing next to Apacci with the microphone. Mugetsu tuned out of the rest of the introductions only paying attention when it was time to get off the stage. Which he was thankful for.
"What was the point in that?" Growled Mila-Rose, "You made us rush just for that?"
"Not turning up would make us on the number one teacher hate list." Mugetsu scowled at her, "I'm sure Harribel wouldn't be too happy either."
"Why you-"
"Don't argue its un slightly." Sung-sun cut in interrupting Mila-Rose which only ended up making her more enraged. The amazon like girl opened her mouth as she was about to start an argument with the olive haired fraccion, but she was stopped by the appearance of a familiar person.
"What're you doing here?" asked the soul reaper Ichigo from behind them.
"Shouldn't you be listening to the assembly?" Sung-sun sighed though clearly recognising that this was Mugetsus younger self. The girl had to stop herself from laughing at the power difference in the two.
"What? Wait you can see me?" Scowled Ichigo, noticing the smirking fraccion.
"Ignore her, look I said before I'm not here for trouble. I'm here to help if you can't handle things." Mugetsu said honestly as he smiled at the brashness of his younger self. Back then he'd just wanted to protect his friends, he still did of course but there was more at stake even with Aizen gone. And he had a feeling the Arrancar he left in Las Noches wouldn't stay quiet. Of course he'd leave some of them to Ichigo, after all he needed to get stronger. Then there was the matte of all the other events that would happen, he wouldn't directly interfere but he'd be around to aid if needed.
"What things?" Ichigo asked annoyed with how cryptic Mugetsu was being. The question remained unanswered as Mugetsu along with the others had already begun to walk away.
"You'll see." He called out as they left the backstage area and proceeded to their classroom.
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The rest of their day comprised of normal lessons which they could all handle.
Hollow appearances which they could handle, but left to the others.
Socialising with the people around school they could handle. To an extent.
Being bombarded with questions all day about where they came from among other things were something that got on their nerves, not some much Mugetsu more of the arrancar who'd barely interacted with humans before. They'd gotten so fed up with the repeated questions Mugetsu had to drag them out to the field at lunch before they lost it. The cool down didn't take long as they spent most of it chasing Mugetsu round the field with plastic swords which Chouko had made them. The swords were visible to humans so it didn't look completely strange from a distance, that was until Harribel appeared in front of them.
"I see you're all enjoying yourselves." She said before turning to Mugetsu, "Ichigo we have a small problem."
"It's Mugetsu. What is it? The arrancar?" Mugetsu quizzed grabbing a soul pill from his pocket, hoping it wasn't the arrancar.
"No, I don't know what it is but something's been feeding on the souls of humans and it's not a hollow." Harribel said holding her hand up to stop him changing forms.
"Oh, it's the bounts. You don't need to worry about them they won't be able to find us." Mugetsu dismissed putting the candy back in his pocket as Harribel disappeared. With Harribel gone the group resumed their lunch, eating the food which Sung-Sun had made that morning while they'd all been asleep.
"We're going out hollow hunting today Ichigo." They said in unison when they'd finished eating. Glaring at each other as they put the lunchbox's away.
"It's Mugetsu, how many times have I got to tell you guys? Anyway just make sure you keep out of trouble." Mugetsu sighed regretting letting them call him Ichigo for the duration of their first two days.
Soon after finishing their lunch they were joined by Ichigo and a few of his friends, including Ishida. The Quincy could still somehow detect their spiritual pressure even with the faux bodies concealing their spiritual pressure. He'd have to have a word with Urahara about that later. They all talked for a while until the bell went to signal the end of lunch and the day resumed.
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The remainder of the day went well. Other students still bothered them but they'd learnt to deal with it knowing it would pass. When they were leaving Mugetsu decided to give Ichigo a brief warning about the bounts.
"Ichigo," he called his would be double over, "If I were you I'd keep an eye out for disturbances, and go see Urahara."
"What's this about?" Ichigo asked the empty space where Mugetsu had been, "Why does he always do that?"
Mugetsu and the fraccion walked home. It wasn't a long walk and throughout the whole of it Mugetsu felt as if someone or something was watching him. The likely answer was that it was Ishida but there wasn't the same familiarity he recognised as Ishidas spiritual pressure. This one was foreign and was thankfully not hollow-like. The others seemed to notice it too, their stances became more defensive and they appeared more on alert.
Nothing happened. Nothing appeared. Nothing tried to attack them. The presence simply disappeared.
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Seireitei, Research and Development Lab
"I've got data coming in saying there's lots of high level hollow reiatsu in the area, along with some other unidentified reiatsu!" Rin called as she read the terrifying high reiatsu levels on the screen.
"Have you checked the data?" Hiyosu sighed.
"Checking now….The data is right! We need to tell the captain." Rin confirmed.
"Here's Lieutenant Kurotsuchi, go tell her." Hiyosu said before returning to his work.
"Umm, Lieutenant Kurotsuchi there's been significant high hollow reiatsu in Katakura town. It's above the level of a Vasto Lorde!" Rin said bowing to the Lieutenant who showed no sign of alarm at the news.
"I shall inform the Captain." Was all the Lieutenant said before walking out of the room quickly.
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Katakura, Mugetsus House, Evening
The arrancar had gone out hunting for stray hollows leaving Mugetsu alone in the house. Unfortunately he wasn't completely alone. His spirits had decided to manifest themselves complaining that they'd been ignored too much lately.
"You should talk to us more Ichigo," Tensa said from his position lounged on the sofa.
"It's boring with just those two for company!" Shiro complained from the other sofa, his eyes half open.
"That's not nice Shrio-chan!" Chouko wined from her usual position in Mugetsus hair as she was re-plaiting it.
"I can't talk to you when I'm in school," Mugetsu sighed, having repeated himself for the third time. "And that takes up most of my time."
"You should find time for us, after all you're talking to us now aren't you?" Tensa murmured.
"I guess, so what do you guys want to do?"
"Humm, can we play a game of tag?" Chouko pleaded from his back. The other two shook their heads furiously but Mugetsu decided to indulge the girl and agree with her request.
"Sure we can, who's it?" Mugetsu asked as he swallowed a soul candy and left his body.
"Shiro-chan!" Chouko cried jumping off Mugetsus back and running to the door.
"Nooo," Shiro moaned, "I'm not a kid kingy so I'm not playing this shit game."
"You have to idiot, or do you want her to lock you in a cage again. Like she did after the game of poker you cheated in." Tensa muttered as he got up and walked to the door.
"Damn brat." Shiro cursed, "Fine I'll play, you get a 5 second head start."
"Stay in the house." Mugetsu ordered the soul in his body before he shunpoed out the house with Tensa and Chouko.
Let the game begin.
Well there we have it, wonder what's in store for them all now…
Thanks for reading
Next time: Bount Arc: Missing Souls