Two Hearts, New Soul: Hell Butterfly of Doom
Karakura town around 7 pm
Ichigo found himself fighting against some punks who were skateboarding.
"Alright you want to tell me what you see?" Ichigo asked them as he pointed towards a lamppost behind him.
"A vase of flowers." One of them answered.
"And what's different about it?"
"We must have knocked it over when we were skateboarding."
"That's right and why do you think it was placed there?" Ichigo kept asking them questions.
"Someone must have put it there in memory of a person who died here."
"That's right now beat it!" Ichigo yelled as he punched the first guy again.
As the punks left a young girl soul appeared behind the lamppost as to be hiding behind it. Ichigo scratched his head as he walked back to the flower vase. The girl watches him as he picked the vase up.
"Sorry about that." Ichigo said as he smiled at her. "I'll bring you some new flowers tomorrow."
'Thank you." The girl soul smiled back at him.
Rika smiled as she came out of her hiding place after Ichigo was long gone. "Here." She said to the girl as she put some new flowers in the vase that Ichigo left.
"You didn't have to do that Ichigo would have come back tomorrow with some new flowers for me." The girl soul said to Rika.
"I know." Rika said as she felt something coming.
Rika turned around as if she was looking for something and just started to stare.
"Um, Miss? Is something wrong?" the girl asked Rika.
That's when Rika saw it, a hollow. "Get down!"
Rika pushed the girl soul to the ground as the Hollow's claw rushed passed them. Rika and the girl got back up as the Hollow roared.
"What is that?" The girl asked as she grabbed onto Rika's leg.
Meanwhile, Rukia Kuchiki was entering Ichigo's bedroom via his window, which happened to be opened.
"What the?!" Ichigo yelled as he looked at the girl dressed in black.
"It's near." Was all the girl said.
"Hey what the hell are you doing here?!" Ichigo asked the girl as he kicked her. "If you're a burglar for starters you shouldn't talk to yourself!"
"You kicked me?" Rukia questioned Ichigo. "But I can't be seen by ordinary humans. Are you saying that you can see me?"
"Well considering the fact that I just kicked you I would say so." Ichigo answered.
"How very strange. You look normal, but you must be defective in some way." Rukia commented, as she looked Ichigo over.
"I'll show you defective!" Ichigo tried to kick her again, but she jumped over him. "Who are you?"
"You want to know then I'll tell you, I am a soul reaper." Rukia answered.
"What is that?" The girl soul asked as she grabbed onto Rika's leg.
"It's a Hollow. An empty soul that eats other souls in order to survive." Rika explained to the girl.
"So it wants to eat me?" the girl asked clutching Rika's leg tighter.
"No, I think he's after Ichigo." Rika answered her as the Hollow laughed.
"I smell a soul reaper standing in front of me!" The Hollow seemed to lick its lips as it looked down at Rika, "Brother go after the other one. I'm going to enjoy this girl and the soul reaper here."
Rika gasped she didn't even sense the other Hollow, that jumped pass her and the girl. Rika watched as the second Hollow ran towards Ichigo's house. Rika suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach.
'The Sogyoku! It is acting up again so the Hogyoku must be near!' Rika thought as she searched out the other soul reaper. 'I just hope I can still fight this Hollow before I have to get out of here.'
"Heh, come on little Soul Reaper. Release yourself from that prison of a fake body." The Hollow slammed his hand down where Rika had been standing. "I've always wanted to try a female soul reaper, for I heard they were taster than the males."
Rika gritted her teeth as she felt Ichigo's spiritual pressure spike a bit. 'Karin and Yuzu must be in trouble due to that other Hollow.'
"Hey girl, get out of here if you don't want to be eaten by this monster." Rika ordered the girl soul to run. "Hado 31 shakkaho!"
"Heh, heh, heh. Guess I was right you are a soul reaper." The hollow laughed as he rubbed his mask.
"Shoot I've been in this gigai for too long. I'm too human to attack effectively without a release chant." Rika cursed as the Hollow stepped on the vase of flowers.
Rika started to run towards Ichigo's house. 'Idiot why are you running towards Ichigo's house?!' She asked herself, 'Maybe it's because you know that the soul reaper with the Hogyoku is there.'
Back at Ichigo's, Rukia had placed a restraint on Ichigo and was starting to explain her job to him.
"Okay there are two types of spirits the good ones or wholes that you usually see." Rukia explained as she showed him a picture of a bunny face. "And bad ones call Hollows who eat the good souls. Any questions before I go on?"
"First of all why do your drawings suck so much?" Ichigo asked.
This ticked Rukia off and she then drew a mustache on Ichigo's face. "Let us continue with our lesson misture."
"Fight me you little soul reaper! Or was that little attack all you had?" the Hollow attacked Rika again.
"Nope, Hado 31 shakkaho!" Rika took aim with her kido spell and nailed the Hollow right in the eye.
The Hollow bellowed in pain as it left. Rika sighed as the hollow left. "What the hell is happening?!" Rika asked as she weakly got up and ran towards Ichigo's house as Ichigo spiritual pressure flared again.
Rika collapsed a block away from Ichigo's house. She couldn't move as if she had been attacked with a restraint kido spell.
"Ichigo…" Rika whispered as she looked towards his house to see the other Hollow with Yuzu in his hand.
Ichigo rushed out and stopped looking towards Rika as if he had felt her before he turned back to the monster with his sister. Ichigo hadn't seen her. Rika watched as Ichigo attacked the hollow only to be knocked back by it.
"Ichigo get out of there!" Rika tried to yell at him.
Suddenly the soul reaper cut off the Hollow's arm. Rika gasped as she recognized the soul reaper. It was Rukia Kuchiki!
'So Kisuke chose Rukia to hide the Hogyoku in. I have a bad feeling about this.' Rika thought as she watched Ichigo catch his sister.
"Don't lose your focus! This hollow hasn't killed any of your family yet." Rukia told Ichigo.
"Wait but didn't you tell me that Hollows attack humans to eat their souls? Then why did it attack my family for if it didn't want a snack?" Ichigo asked.
"That's because the Hollow is after you Ichigo." Rika whispered as she desperately tried not to pass out.
"Hollows wander searching for humans with high spiritual pressure to fulfill their hunger for souls, but I've never seen anyone release a binding spell like you did nor a human with such high spiritual pressure." Rika heard Rukia explain it to Ichigo. "For that reason I believe that you are this Hollow's target."
"You mean that this whole thing is my fault?" Ichigo asked her. "It came after me that's the reason it attacked my family? It only wanted me. This is all my fault…"
"Wait I didn't mean it…" Rukia tried to re-explain herself as the Hollow attacked her.
"Soul Reaper?!" Ichigo watched as Rukia was hit by the hollow.
Rika moaned as she tried to get up, "Please Sogyoku let me help Ichigo. Stop reacting to the Hogyoku inside of Rukia." She begged as the Hollow roared at Ichigo.
Rika managed to stand up only to find herself in a restraint. She looked up to find Neji, Shikamaru, and Yori standing in front of her.
"You should know better than this, Rika." Shikamaru sighed, "Urahara told us to keep an eye on you just in case Rukia showed up."
"Please Shikamaru, there's no way Rukia can defeat that Hollow now nor can Ichigo for that matter! I need to help him!" Rika pleaded for Shikamaru to release her.
"Damn Isshin's kid looks like him." Neji commented as he watched Ichigo. "No wonder you developed feelings for him Rika."
"Heck Ichigo is a more colorful version of Kaien who would have thought." Yori laughed as he picked Rika up.
"Yori let go of me!" Rika yelled as Yori slung her over his shoulder.
"You know I can't do that Rika." Yori told her as he started to walk away.
Rika grabbed onto Yori's shoulder with her mouth and bit down. "Ow! What the hell?!" Yori yelped as he dropped Rika.
"I can't believe you just bit Yori." Shikamaru laughed.
Rika had crawled her way to Neji's side to see Rukia risk her life for Ichigo.
"Those two are both brave and stupid I have to respect that." Neji commented as he looked down to find Rika next to him. "What the hell Yori?! I thought you had her!"
"It's not his fault Neji, Rika bit him." Shikamaru informed his comrade.
"I am unable to fight anymore, so now all of us can only wait to become his food." Rika heard Rukia tell Ichigo.
Rika muffled her own pain for now she felt Rukia's pain in her shoulder from the hollow's bite. "You idiots! Get out there and help them!" She managed to yell at her restrainers.
"What the hell?!" Neji turned back around to see a bright light come from where Ichigo and Rukia were.
The light faded revealing the Hollow with his other arm slashed off. The arm fell revealing another soul reaper. Rika gasped at the soul reaper, it was Ichigo. Rukia had transferred her powers to Ichigo in order to let him fight.
"Damn this is getting too complicated." Shikamaru scratched his head as the sound of clanking wood came towards them.
"Well this looks interesting." They turned to find Kisuke Urahara.
"Kisuke how'd I guess you would be showing up here." Yori huffed at him as Kisuke fixed his hat.
"Why don't you three take care of Rika while I help out dear Miss Kuchiki out." Kisuke walked passed them towards Rukia.
"Yeah after all what else can go wrong. This is such a drag." Shikamaru said as they left.
"Looks like you could use a gigai." Kisuke said to Rukia.