"Hm." With that the messenger shunpoed off and left the Captain-Commander alone.
The Captain-Commander shunpoed from his position on the balcony across Seireitei and ended up in front of Captain Unohana's office door. He knocked briefly and slid the door open. He entered to find his comrade with her one hand holding her head up and the other on her desk. Paperwork littered her desk and Yamamoto was actually considering giving her some time off. Unohana picked her head up and Yamamoto saw it, she was exhausted.
"Please sit Yamamoto-san," she said wearily. She stood from her desk and walked over to one of her windows and showed her back to Yamamoto. "I," she stopped as if choosing her words carefully. "I think it is time we have Kurosaki Ichigo join us once again. I'm afraid we may not hold out much longer. Our spirits are strong, but our bodies are saying otherwise." She turned around to face the older. He sighed and closed his eyes. His only hand gripped his cane a little tighter than usual.
"I know the time has come, but we do not know his whereabouts. I don't know how the 12th division has failed us."
"As I do recall before we headed into battle Lieutenant Kuchiki mentioned she had found his current position. Along with Isshin and his adoring daughters." Yamamoto nodded in response. He shook his head, he had forgotten. His old age must be catching up with him. Though he had to wonder he's been leading the Gotei thirteen for so long, why now? "Do not worry Captain-Commander, with everything that has been happening, no one will blame you if you forget. It's too much stress for one person to handle." He looked up at her and smiled at her encouraging words.
"I shall send for a captain's meeting." He stood and left his friend and comrade's office.
It literally only took an hour for everyone to gather within the room. Captains and lieutenants all lined the room, with the exception of Isshin and his daughters, which Yamamoto had sent for as they had information for the discussion. All was silent as their forces had lost the battle in Karakura prior and that pricked at everyone's spirits. Yamamoto banged his cane onto the floor once and watched as all eyes fell upon him.
"Lieutenant Kuchiki step forward," he voice carried through the room. Rukia stepped out from where she stood next to her captain, Ukitake. "I am aware you and Kurosaki Isshin have some information regarding the whereabouts of the Substitute Shinigami, Kurosaki Ichigo." Rukia nodded and Isshin hanging off to the side came and stepped next to Rukia. "Please, enlighten us." Rukia nodded again.
"Of course Captain-Commander. It has come to my attention the Substitute Shinigami Kurosaki Ichigo is residing within the United States of America, but unfortunately I don't know where." Yamamoto nodded to her answer.
"That's where I come in Yama-jii!" Isshin said happily. "You see while I was generally chilling out in my clinic my beautiful daughter Karin-" He was caught off as a burst of reiatsu hit his face and he fell backwards and landed on his back. He sat up rubbing his cheek and glaring at the notorious Karin standing next to her innocent sister, Yuzu, crunching her knuckles on the other side of the room. She was also glaring at her father. He stood up and tried not to look at the amused faces, which surrounded him in the room. "As I was saying I was called into my living room and came face to face with a familiar face as it pierced my television screen" He paused and looked to floor, but then stared Yamamoto straight in the face. "My son has turned into a hippie!" He yelled as fake tears rolled down his face. "His hair is shoulder length it is so ridiculous!" His hands covered his face in embarrassment. Yamamoto cleared his throat as he wanted to get back to the subject. "Well then as I held an interesting conversation on the phone my beautiful children were looking up information for their missing idiotic gone hippie brother. He is living in the state known as Maine."
"Why was he on television?" Toshiro Hitsugaya captain on the 10th division spoke. Isshin smirked and looked at the now taller captain.
"My son is so epic that he is a professional boxer and is the current champion!" Isshin grinned like an idiot and everyone rolled their eyes, even Yuzu.
"Captain-Commander, what would you have us do?" Shinji, current leader of the 5th division, asked.
"I know Urahara Kisuke has been working upon a device, which should help Kurosaki Ichigo obtain his reiatsu once more. I would like to keep a close eye on him if he should come within danger. Lieutenant Abarai and lieutenant Kuchiki, care to pay a visit?"
A day later from where we left off.
"Okay, motorcycle or Mustang?" Ichigo asked as the group of four followed him out into the night lit world. It was currently 7:00 pm.
"Are you seriously going to ask that question?" Natalie groaned. "Ichigo," he jerked his head back a little as they were walking. "Which is bigger, a car or a motorcycle." Ichigo slumped in defeat.
"A car," Ichigo answered.
"Ha, I win," Grimmjow boasted. Crystal scoffed next to him.
"Yeah, you were going to win in the first place big guy," she said hitting his arm.
"Well it was fun just to announce it." Grimmjow held up the remote to the blue Mustang and clicked the unlock button for the doors to open up. He first opened the door behind the driver's seat for Crystal, who hopped in.
"Thank you blueberry!" She laughed as he glared at her and shut the door. Ichigo also did the same thing for Natalie as she would sit in the back with her sister and behind the passenger's side.
"Such a gentleman Ichigo, I had no idea," she thanked him. Ichigo rolled his eyes and chuckled. He got into the car the same time Grimmjow did. He turned the key in the ignition and started the car up letting the windows down.
"Alright ladies buckle in." Grimmjow said and Ichigo cleared his throat. "And gentle ladies." Ichigo glared at him, but buckled his seat belt and so did Natalie and Crystal. As Grimmjow backed out of the driveway and into the street the eerie silence was already awkward enough; though the wind filled it.
"So, you guys are pretty buddy-buddy already. Why?" Natalie asked.
"Because he's actually a cool guy when he doesn't want to kill me," Ichigo responded on his behalf.
"You did ask for those beatings I might add, you were very, very annoying," Grimmjow said as he pulled into traffic. Ichigo sighed and responded, "Yeah you're probably right." Grimmjow smirked and kept his eyes trained on the road.
"So what time does it start?"
"At 7:30, why?" Crystal asked.
"Oh, well I want some pretzel bites or nachos."
"I want popcorn," Natalie said.
"I want Dibs!" Crystal exclaimed. "They are delicious! Chocolate covering with vanilla ice cream in the middle. Mm delicious!" She laughed.
"Okay. Something is wrong with you," Ichigo said and Grimmjow laughed. Crystal slowly turned her head towards him and looked at him with her narrowed green eyes and in a creepy voice she said, "What gave you that idea?" Ichigo looked back at her wide eyed and slowly but surely looked forward and didn't look into the back for the rest of the ride. Grimmjow pulled into the parking lot and parked.
"We have arrived, with fifteen minutes to spare!" Grimmjow said happily. The group got out of the car and walked into the building. "I haven't been to the movie theater in a while and I do mean a while."
"Shut up Arrancar," Crystal said. Ichigo walked up to the cashier selling the tickets and got out his debt card.
"Hi," Ichigo greeted the male employee. "Can I have four tickets to see the Avengers for the 7:30."
"Sure thing, that'll be 26 dollars sir." Ichigo handed him his debt card and took it back. "Thank you and enjoy your movie." Ichigo nodded and took the tickets. He placed his card back into his wallet and handed each member of the group a ticket.
"Grimmy-poo you're up," Ichigo said mockingly Grimmjow glared at him momentarily, but looked away knowing it was useless.
"So what does everyone want?" He asked already getting out a wad of cash.
"Dibs with a large cherry coke." Crystal said with a little more demand in her voice.
"I'll take a medium root beer and some sour patch kids, thank you Grimmjow," Natalie said smiling making the attempt to like him.
"I'll have water and pretzel bites," Ichigo said lastly. Grimmjow nodded and walked away to buy the food. "You guys are making a difference tonight."
"Free food," Crystal responded.
"I'm trying at least he's less vicious then all the times he has attacked us," Natalie said. Crystal and Ichigo both nodded in agreement. "Oh my god! I'm so excited to see Mark Ruffalo!" She squealed like a fangirl and multiple people looked their way.
"Chris Evans is so much better!" Natalie just rolled her eyes. "Who wouldn't look at that sexy body and be like, no," Crystal countered.
"Dudes?" Ichigo suggested.
"This is a fangirl talk you, out!" Ichigo held his hands up in defense and took a step backwards. Grimmjow joined the group with his hands filled and his coat jacket flooded with items. Ichigo took his water from the pocket and grabbed his tray of pretzel bites with nacho cheese as a side. Natalie was handed her root beer and sour patch kids and Crystal received her Dibs and cherry choke. Grimmjow himself got a sprite and a sticky bun. They headed into their theater and sat at the tippy top and the theater wasn't even that filled up. It barely had anyone there (except for five people). Ichigo sat next to Grimmjow, Natalie sat next to Ichigo and Crystal sat next to her sister. They sat through previews and finally the movie started.
"The Tesseract has awakened. It is on a little world, a human world." A voice spoke to someone as a blue or purple place was shone and the camera zoomed up some stairs.
A white portal opened at the top of the sky and two figures stepped out, both cloaked in black. One tall and the other short.
"It's a wonder to me on why Karin actually didn't want to come," the taller one said.
"Why do you think Renji?" The shorter one said. "She's probably preparing his punishment when we bring him back."
"I don't think we should bring him back then Rukia," Renji said as he took his hood down and revealed his long red hair currently being held up in a ponytail.
"Well we have our orders." Rukia argued back as she too let her hood fall revealing her short black hair to the moon lit sky.
"Since when have we actually followed them?" Rukia laughed.
"I sense some high reiatsu across the city. Where are we?" Rukia asked. Renji pulled out a cell phone and clicked a few button.
"We're in Bangor." Renji looked up from the phone and glanced down below to the city. Light were lit up and the ocean was a beautiful as the lights shone upon it. The two Shinigami shunpoed towards the source of high reiatsu.
Two hours later the group walked out of the movie theater with large grins upon their faces.
"He killed 80 people in two days," Natalie said in a normal voice.
"He's adopted," Ichigo said putting an arm around her shoulders. They all laughed.
"So, was this some kind of date?" Crystal asked and Grimmjow stopped dead in his tracks.
"If it was who was I with because I am way too old for any of you," he said with a weirded out face on.
"It was team bonding or building, whichever is okay," Ichigo pointed out.
"Oh, is that why you have your arm around my sister's shoulders?" Ichigo's eyes widened and pulled his arm back and blushed.
"Sorry," he muttered and Natalie laughed. They got to the car and everyone got in and buckled their seat belts in.
"So now that our team bonding session is over how bout we talk about our strategy," Natalie offered. Grimmjow backed out of the parking space and drove into traffic.
"I know my plan of attack!" Crystal said happily. "Attack!" Natalie faced palmed and the two males that sat in the front chuckled.
"Here we go you're just going to repeat lines aren't you?" Crystal nodded to her sister. "Well if you're done, first we need to get sir strawberry trained."
"I know how to fight hand to hand combat. But I guess you're saying you want me to gain my reiatsu back?" Ichigo asked. As Natalie opened her mouth to speak Grimmjow honked the horn and yelled, "Watch where you're going asshole!" Ichigo turned to him and smirked. "Little road rage Grimm?"
"Shut up Kurosaki! I'll fuck you up," he said obviously pissed. He turned into the left lane to turn.
"Yeah you proved that yesterday." Ichigo laughed and received a punch to the arm.
"Fine." He switched his attention from the pissed off Arrancar to the two sisters in the back seat. "I have tomorrow morning free and I have yet to show you a place in my awesome house. "
"We shall start then. What do you say 6 AM?" Natalie asked.
"If I get to have my coffee."
"Deal, I'll have it already brewed for you before you wake up."
"6 AM sharp?" Natalie nodded and Ichigo groaned into the leather chair of the passenger's seat. They made it back to the house after ten minutes in traffic solely thanking the radio as it played some music. The silence was awkward. They got out of the car and walked into the house. Ichigo automatically walked up stairs to his room and he heard everyone else behind him. He turned to go down to his room and Grimmjow followed him as his room was adjacent to his. He got into his door and stripped down until he was only wearing a white tank top and black boxers. He got underneath his covers and basically died right there.
Renji and Rukia traced the source to a blue car holding four occupants. They followed the car until it parked in a driveway to a big house. When two of the occupants stepped out of the car they froze. One head of hair being blue and the other orange. The two stalking Shinigami looked at each other in disbelief. Then a woman stepped out of the car and Rukia's eyes narrowed.
'So, they even have Ichigo too?' The small Shinigami thought.
Oh no I didn't! Ha Soul Society bout to freak.
Thank you so much, Gamzee the Clown Girl, for editing my horrible writing skills. Ha, this is short! I told you I'd stop writing long ass chapters. I've decided to tease you.
Next time:
"Mind telling us why you have an ex-Espada and two Fullbringers in your household?" He finished. Ichigo merely shrugged and said, "Meh, I get lonely."