Fighting the Past

By Amethyst ichigo

Disclaimer: I do not own this.

/Hiya./ Rena and Zangetsu talking.

/Yo./ Kuroji talking

Chapter 12- Next up...Kon!

Last Time

About thirty minutes later Ichigo Konsoed the parakeet, and at the same time set the wheels of time moving.

(0o0)

-Nighttime-

Rukia sits on the top on an abandoned building thinking... and wondering.

'It happened again,' Rukia thought frowning. 'For just a second I could of sworn Ichigo's reiatsu vanished...but that's impossible. He has learned how.

So then how?

Rukia put her hand to her head.

Something was going with Ichigo. But what?

She put her hand down on her lap, noticing that as she did that her hand was shaking.

"Crud." She whispered to herself. She sighed.

"Time to go shopping."

(0o0)

The next morning Ichigo lordly knocked on his closet door.

"Rukia!" He half yelled half whispered.

No answer.

Ichigo knew she wouldn't be there anyway.

/Hurry and eat Ichigo-nii Kuroji starting to drool(1)./ Rena said sweat dropping.

/Shut up woman./Kuroji growled.

/What did you say-!/ Rena started.

Ichigo toned them both out. It was too early in the morning for them to be starting with this crap.

/I agree./Zangetsu seconded.

Ichigo let a faint smile show on his face as he headed down to breakfast.

'Time to deal with idiot number one.' Ichigo thought.

No doubt his father would start saying perverted things about him.

Though somehow...he didn't feel too bothered by it...

(0o0)

Rukia meanwhile had arrived to the early batter of the Urahara Shoten.

"Shut up, I'm older then you!" Jinta said swatting Ururu with his broom.

Ururu tried to protect her head. "But I'm three years older." She said back.

"I meant level. I'm your superior." He made up, even thought he was technically lower then Ururu.

Rukia grabbed Jinta's broom.

"Can't behave...shorty?" Rukia asked.

Jinta glared at her but welcomed her into the shop anyway.

A customer is a customer.

(0o0)

Ukitake had long went off to find them a place to stay (he hadn't been feeling well), while Hitsugaya continued his search of Karakura for the mysterious reiatsu, that continuous kept evading him.

A vein popped on Toshiro's head.

Heck, at this point he couldn't even tell if the reiatsu was hollow or human. When the spirit energy could be sensed Hitsugaya couldn't get to it even with shunpo. But was most strange was the fact he could sense very small traces of hollow in the reiatsu. Though not nearly enough to be the same vaizard that soul society detected,it was the only led they had.

Then about eight o'clock the energy vanished again, Toshiro rubbed his forehead.

This search appeared useless. Even if he did catch this strange being, what would he do with it? Putting the hollow traces aside the main focus of the reiatsu was human. He couldn't just hand a person,a human over to the twelfth division. They'd have a field day with it.

Toshiro sighed.

His only option at this point was to do further surveillance and try to actually find this person, and maybe solve what it was, because it wasn't a vaizard(1).

"Another mystery..." He said as he jumped in the general direction of where he would be sleeping.

The scary thought was that it almost seemed the reiatsu was avoiding him...

Toshiro mentally shook his head.

He shouldn't assume anything.

Perhaps he'd figure out this mystery yet...

(0o0)

Ichigo had arrived at school as usual, but what wasn't usual was that every time the door to the classroom opened, he jumped.

He knew Rukia went to Urahara Shoten, but unfortunately he couldn't seem to remember when exactly she showed up. All he could remember was that she made her appearance during break.

/ Patheic, the great defeat of Aizen, and victor over the espadas, is scared of a shitty door. Pansy./Kuroji said scoffing. /I can't believe I'm stuck with such a weak-assed Aibou./

/Funny I was thinking the same thing about you./ Rena told him. /Remember the time you took control and lost to Kenpachi?/

/Bitch./

/Stop it you two./Zangetsu said calming them before they really got started.

'Thank you Zangetsu.' Ichigo thanked.

/R'kia's in the school.(2)/Rena said to Ichigo. /Time to play your part./

'I'll try.'

Ichigo took a deep breath, and waited.

Sure enough it came two minutes later.

"Ichigo!" Another voice called.

"Hey, its Rukia." Keigo said blushing madly. "Ah, a beautiful girl has entered our presence."

Rukia smiled at him,silently thanking him for his comment.

"Oh, Ichigo...may I borrow you for a second?" She asked.

It took all of Ichigo effort not to start laughing at her very bad understanding of living world fancies. Though it wasn't so horrible now (it got worst later), it remind him of the time she asked him to show her how to paint. The end result...she was covered from head to toe with rainbow colors.

Ichigo shook himself mentally. He really needed to stop reminiscing.

Time to play his part.

"Why? Anything you need to say,can be said right here." He told her.

It was quite possible the right (and wrong) thing to say to her,as fast as lighting she smacked him hard knocking him to the ground.

"Oh, dear. Did Ichigo faint? I better get him to the nurse's office." She told the surrounding area picking up Ichigo and dragging him out of the classroom.

"Did she just hit him?" Mizuiro asked,trying to confirm was he saw with his own eyes.

"Huh? I didn't see anything." Keigo said still in a daze about Rukia's presence.

Mizuiro sighed.

Keigo was useless.

(0o0)

Outside, Rukia waited for Ichigo to get himself off the ground before throwing an object with a duck face at him.

"Here." She said offhandedly.

Ichigo looked at it for a second before asked the very dumb question, he already knew.

"What's this suppose to be?"

"Gikokon(3), substitute soul pills tablets that force the soul from the flesh. Shallow one, and a proxy soul will enter the body while the really soul roams free. Like with our last hollow there will be time when you need to turn into a soul reaper, and I'm not around, these will transform you into a soul reaper." She said explain yet another Ichigo knew.

Ichigo just toned her out for the most part, and focus on the fact it had soul candy pasted on the container.

"Why's it got soul candy on it?" He asked somewhat curious. (He didn't pay attention the first time she explained it in the previous time line).

"Oh, that's because the Soul Society Woman League complained, they didn't like Gikokon, they said it didn't sound cute, so they changed it."

"All right...but why's the top a duck?"

"Shut up! I didn't even order that one. I wanted Chappy the rabbit!" She defend.

Ichigo gave her a weird look.

"So you wanted a rabbit..." Ichigo said in a exasperating voice.

No matter how many time Ichigo heard Rukia go on about her love for rabbits, he still couldn't believe it.

"What'd you say?!" Rukia demanded. Her face was very red. "How dare you make fun of me you idiot!" She slammed her foot into Ichigo head.

"Its not that." Ichigo tried (and failed) miseribly to defend his actions. "I...I just didn't understand why you wanted the rabbit was all."

Rukia ignored him, still jamming her foot into Ichigo's orange hair even more.

"Go head, try one then you'll understand what I mean." She ordered.

Ichigo warily complied and pressed on the duck's head,shallowing the pill.

Almost instantly Ichigo was seperated from his body.

"What the-? I'm a shinigami?" He said in his best confused voice.

Rukia rolled her eyes.

"Oh don't be so shocked, now then inside your body a substitute soul dwells." She pointed at Ichigo's body.

In a very slow mode way, Kon moved, and stood presenting himself to Ichigo and Rukia.

"Hello, good afternoon," He started. "Nice to meet you, I'm Ichigo Kurosaki."

Ichigo rolled his eyes and started to make a face at the very lame greeting Kon said that didn't even sound like Ichigo himself.

Kon continued. "Early to bed and early to raise that's my motto."

"Early to bed and early to raise...what the hell?!" Ichigo said in disbelieving voice.

"Amazing isn't it?" Rukia said proud of Kon.

Ichigo turned to her. "Amazing my ass, he couldn't pretend to be me to save his life." Ichigo pointed at Kon.

Rukia glared at him, but stopped when her soul phone started to beep. She took it out and looked at the address.

"Perfect timing, we just got a mission, right now we'll leave him here." She said grabbing Ichigo by the cuff of his shihakusho and dragging him away.

"GO TO MY NEXT CLASS!" Ichigo yelled at Kon.

Kon waved at them, and turned to walk into the school.

(0o0)

Urahara was checking though boxes in the back of his shop when he noticed an opened box.

"Wait a second..." He said. He read the side. "Oh, man."

(0o0)

Hitsugaya warily jumped out of his bed ,and headed towards the exit as soon as he felt the strange reiatsu one more.

'Time to end this game of cat and mouse.' He thought shunpoing in the general direction of the reiatsu.

(0o0)

Ichigo tentatively slashed though the pathetic excuse of a hollow he was up against.

/What a weak assed dip shit./Kuroji commented.

Ichigo couldn't agree more.

'Time to return to school.' Ichigo though frowning he could already imagine the mess that Kon was making.

"Hurry up Ichigo," Rukia called once again dragging him to their destination. "I don't want to miss fifth period."

Ichigo groaned in return.

It occurred to Ichigo that trouble seemed to be following right behind him with all the crap he was in.

/I would agree./ Rena seconded.

/You never disagree,brat./

Rena growled at Kuroji.

/Jerk./

/Oh you hurt my feelings/Kuroji said in a slippy voice.

Rena gave him a disbelieving look.

/Kuroji we've over this you don't have feelings...you're a hollow./

/I hate you and Aibou. That's a feeling isn't it?/ He said in a supior voice.

/Grrr./

Zangetsu wisely cut off the connection between them and Ichigo as they neared the school.

CLANG! BANG! CRASH!

The sounds coming from Ichigo's classroom didn't bode well for the pair.

Ichigo hastily pushing away the urge to straggle Kon, as he entered was was his homeroom.

All the desks were slammed against the wall, and Tatsuki was glaring at Kon. Apparently things were bad enough that Chad along with Ichigo's other friends wee staring at his body with something close to surprised.

Ichigo mentally groaned.

'He was so screwed.' He thought as he entered a fight with his very annoying mod soul friend.

(0o0)

In the deep depth of the hollow world a call was going out to all the Vasto Lordes...

(0o0)

Hitsugaya cursed quietly as he encountered a nest of Menos' near the edge of Karakura. At this rate he wouldn't get to catch the mysterious person.

Damned hollows.

(0o0)

Hitsugaya wasn't the only one cursing as Ichigo's body..um..Kon jumped out of the window and escaped right in front of Ichigo's eyes.

He really hated pretending to be weak, as it really irritated him, but he let it happen anyways.

"What the hell was he think?!" Ichigo yelled jumping out the same window Kon did, Rukia trailed along behind him, later they would deal with the spectators but for now they had to catch Kon. est they lose his body, and mess up everything.

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(2) Rena gives nicknames to everyone...

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