The characters in this fan fiction are property of Tite Kubo, Viz Media, Shonen Jump and the others, I do not own and part of the Bleach manga/anime series. I am not nor have I ever made any money of Bleach series.
This is a fan fiction about Ichigo , Hiyori, and somewhat about Rukia . Many things about this story are the same as in the current continuity of Bleach while some things are vastly different.
Chapter 25
Ichigo took a deep breath and said, "…My answer is- Ow! , hey cut it out Hiyori!"
Hiyori had jumped up and smacked in the back of his head. "Come on we haven't got all day, it's bad enough reader of this story had to wait a few days on a cliffhanger, so spit it out already!"
"Yeah I was about to .. And what do mean readers?" Ichigo asked, staring at her, as he rubbed the back of his head.
""Speak, moron!" Was her only response, as she crossed her arms.
"Oh yeah, well, I accept your invitation t become the Captain of Squad 5." Ichigo said, finally. He straightening up wait to be told what he was suppose to do now. "Sooo… now what?"
"This is excellent news, young .. No, Captain Kurosaki." Replied Captain Yamamoto. "Now, comes the matte of picking a lieutenant, have you thought about this?"
"Actually Me and Hiyori talked about this last night,." Ichigo said, putting his arm around her shoulders. "I managed to convince her to take that honor and be my Lieutenant, unless there are any problems with a Vizard being in this position?"
"Not at all, you yourself are a Vizard, are you not?" Yamamoto asked, looking at him. "We have already acknowledged those who became Vizards, did so against their wills, by Sosuke Aizen, we have no problems with this is of course and encourage new relation between our groups."
"Now then, you'll need instruction on etiquette as a official Soul Reaper, and as a Captain of one of the 13 court guard squads. The head Captain stated, folding his hands. Now the one who has been chosen to "teach you" or guide in the proper duties of a Soul Reaper Captain, will be the Captain of Squad 2, Soifon"
"What, me? Why me ,Head Captain?" Soifon asked, folding her arms. "I have far more important things to deal with then training some kid, no matter how skilled he may be"
"Be that as it may, Yoruichi herself requested you do this, and that she would be assisting you in this endeavor to train Captain Kurosaki" The head Captain said. " Now I Suggest you go visit your squad, they have been eager to learn who will replace their Captain and Lieutenant. Now then, this meeting is dismissed!"
Soifon tried to look annoyed by this news, but she was actually curious about Ichigo. She had been ever since Yoruichi had told her about him. He had become an intensely powerful Soul Reaper in such a short amount of a matter of time, it was true boggling and incredible. Not that she would tell him that , of course.
"Well, Captain Kurosaki, I need to get back to my squad for now, I'll meet up with you and Lady Yoruichi later" Soifon said, flash steeping out of sight.
"Um, any one know where Squad 5 barracks are?" Ichigo asked, before getting tapped on the shoulder from behind.
" Ichigo, my boy, the head Captain asked me to give this too you, it's your Captain's Haori" Captain Kyoraku said, handing the white jacket to Ichigo. " And here's your Lieutenants badge, Hiyori"
"Oh, thanks, Captain Kyoraku," Ichigo said, taking it and slipping it on.
"Well, how does it feel Ichigo?" Asked Captain Ukitake, walking over to them.
Ichigo smiled at him and said "Not bad but I don't like the long sleeves.. I got it" he said, and preceded to tear the sleeves oof, leaving them jagged and ripped. "That's better!"
"Somehow I'm not surprised, Ichigo" Said a voice from above. They all looked up on the roof and there sat Yoruichi." you've always been a rule breaker… though there's not actually a rule about modifying your coat or anything"
"And you up high, spying on people, that's right for you too" Hiyori says, saying what Ichigo was thinking. "What do you want, anyway?"
"We'll I'm here to congratulate you and Ichigo as we'll as tell you two, that I'm meet you and Soifon at the Cave where you got your training" She replied, jumping down. " Bye the way, good to see you again, Jushiro, Shunsui, how have you two been all this time?"
" Not bad at all " Captain Ukitake said, smiling . " Yourself?"
"Yeah same, Yoruichi, right as rain, considering what happened recently" Captain Kyoraku replied, lifting the edge of his hat up. " How's Kisuke too, by the way?
"Still hard to believe you and Mr. Hat and Clogs were Captain's once. And that Tessai was a leader of that Kido thing the old man mentioned" Ichigo said, folding his arms. " Hey, if you knew them.. Did you know Jinta and Ururu too?"
"Jinta?" Ukitake asked, confused.
"Ururu?" Kyoraku inquired a moment later. "Who are they?"
"Some friends of ours who work at the shop, I'm sure you'll meet them eventually, now come on I need to show you and Hiyori where the Squad 5 barracks are, Ichigo" Yoruichi said, pulling him along
"Uh sure, I'll see you two later, captains" Ichigo said, as he was dragged away.
"Sure thing, Ichigo and call me Jushiro, all my friends do" Ukitake replied, smiling.
"Same here, kid, call me Shunsui" Kyoraku said as well.
"well I guess we need to ge to our own barracks, huh? " Kyoraku asked his friend.
"Yes I suppose we do" Ukitake said, coughing slightly. "And perhaps a lay down is in order as well, too much excitement it seems. I'll see you later, Shunsui"
"Sure thing, take it easy, hope you feel better later" Kyoraku said, waking at his friend as he walked away. " Now then, I need to hide from my little Nanao, I just know she'll have paper work waiting for me if I go back the barracks"
"No need to go all the way back, sir." Said Nanao, standing behind him " I brought it with me!"
She then smacked him in the head with a huge stack of papers and dumped even more over top of him and he lay on the ground. " There, now you can do your paper work sir, I'll be back at my office, finishing my own"
" But who's gonna help me gather this up, and carry it back, my little Nanao? " He wined, " And for that matter , where were you keeping it?" he asked grinning.
She kicked him in his head and walked away. " Figure it out yourself, you old perv" She said, walking out of sight.
"Ouch! My little Nanao can be so cruel to me, .. " he said hold his head. " Oh well,, maybe I'll take a little nap right here… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
He was out like a light, with Nanao shaking her head as she watched this from afar. She stood to leave and before she flash stepped off, she looked back and said, " My captain is such an idiot, how Lisa put up with him before me, I'll never know"
Some ways away Ichigo ,Hiyori and Yoruichi were walking to the Squad 5 Barracks. " Hey, Yoruichi, how come you acted so strange when I mentioned Jinta and Ururu?" Ichigo asked, looking over at her.
"It's.. complicated Ichigo," Yoruichi said, looking forward. " Lets just say for now, that Jinta and Ururu , aren't exactly normal"
"Uh, ok.." Ichigo, replied as there came to a stop. "So this is it?"
"Yes, here it is, Squad 5, now you two go ahead and introduce yourselves, while I take care of something." Yoruichi said, prepare to jump away. " Oh and meet me and Soifon at the cave, tomorrow morning at about 6:30, Ichigo"
"Why so early?" He asked, looking at her along with Hiyori who seemed equally thrilled about the idea.
"Because, the faster you start the sooner it's over " She said turning around and hoping up on the ledge of the railing. "Besides, Aizen has the Hogyoku now, and there's no telling what it's capable of doing for him."
"We'll come on ,lets go in already!" Hiyori said, sliding the door open. "Get ready, there maybe some here who won't like you replacing Aizen and Lieutenant Hinamori , just be warned."
"Right, I'm ready " Ichigo replied, walking in with her, and found a single Squad 5 member carrying paper work in his hands.
"Hi there, I'm the new Captain of Squad 5, Ichigo Kurosaki" he said, holding out his hand. "Nice to meet ya"
The Soul Reaper looked at him with one eyebrow raised. "Oh, the Ryoka Soul Reaper" He said, "I guess they'll let anyone become a Soul Reaper these days. I expect you want me to gather the other Squad members"
Ichigo felt a tick of anger as he gritted his teeth. " Yeah I do," he said walking up to the Soul Reaper and yanking him up to his eye level. " You know, you show me more respect then that, or I can make your life in Squad 5, a living hell…. Go, get everyone, now"
Ichigo let some of his Spiritual pressure leak out, and this made the rude Soul Reaper go wide eyed.. As soon as Ichigo dropped him, he darted out of the room like his life depended on it.
Hiyori gave out a deep laugh, reached up and playfully smacked him on his back.
"Not bad, and here I thought you were going to go soft on him, in order to impress old man Yamamoto." Hiyori said, grinning evilly. "I'm glad you didn't though, … I thought he was going to piss himself for a moment there, though."
"Yeah well I already impressed the head captain , that's what got me this position, why would I need to impress him further?" Ichigo asked, adjusting the strap to his Zanpaktou on his back. " By the way, who's to say that Soul Reaper didn't piss himself, he did run away awfully fast"
A moment later other members of the squad filed into the room and sat down on there knees. "Well, thanks for coming, first off , I'll introduce myself and my friend here." Ichigo said, looking around at them, as he stood in the front of the room. " My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, and I'm the new Captain of this squad, to my right is Hiyori Sarugaki, my close friend and your new Lieutenant."
The other Soul Reaper whispered and talked amongst themselves for a moment until Hiyori yelled out " "Hey, pay attention, you sludge eating gunk eaters!"( I actually ripped that line from another cartoon, not a anime, though it did have anime - style artwork, 5 points to anyone who name the show, and the character).
"Hey, how can you replace Lieutenant Hinamori , who was so nice, with someone like you, blondie?" one the male Soul Reapers asked, in a mean tone.
"Oh crap!, bad move moron" Ichigo mumbled out and sure enough Hiyori dove on him, beating the crap out of him. After a few minutes Ichigo walked over and calmly grabbed Hiyori by the back of her robes and pulled her off, of the guy. " Enough, Hiyori, you proved your point , they get it no calling you that. You do all got that right?"
Everyone one around the room nodded and some even gulped, nervously.
"Good, ..you two," Ichigo said, pointing at two random Soul Reapers sitting in the front. "Drag him off to Squad 4 Barracks medical clinic, and give my apologies to Captain Unohana for this"
The two Soul Reapers immediately jumped up and grabbed up their fellow squad member. They raced out the doors and Ichigo turned back o the other Soul Reaper before him. He sighed and dropped himself to the floor on his butt, crossing his legs.
"Alright listen up, I'm not a hard person to get a long with unless you irritated me, or piss me off badly." Ichigo said. " I guess it's just gonna take a while for all of us to get along with and use to each other. For now we'll take thing slowly. I know despite the things Aizen did, he always acted like a good Captain, and from what I understand Momo Hinamori was a genuinely nice young girl. We may not be able to replace them completely, and I wont try to, instead we'll do thing my way."
"Same for me , I mean not replace that Momo girl and that crap he just said" Hiyori said. " I use to be a Lieutenant over a hundred years ago, and was in squad 12 for a long time, so I do have a lot of experience. I guess I will take a while to get use to me and stuff, and If you can't then you know where the door is"
"Hey I have no problem serving you Lieutenant, but isn't the fate of a Soul Reaper in this Squad who has a problem , that of Captain Kurosaki here?" Asked one of the female Soul Reapers.
"Actually, since some of you aren't aware, I became A Soul Reaper from Rukia Kuchiki originally." Ichigo said, scratching his head. "even though my powers I have now, are my own, I have no experience leading anybody , nor do I know much about the Soul Society. That being said, Since Hiyori here was a former Lieutenant as was living here for a very long time before, She has my authority to deal with you Squad members in my place, in any fashion she deems."
" In other words, if you don't get along well in this Squad and she tells you to leave, then you better leave, and think of it as if it was an order from me, your captain." Ichigo finished, looking around. " Any other questions?"
No one else said anything, so he stood up. " Oh by the way, who's the third seat here?" Ichigo asked, looking serious.
A small, skinny girl with medium length dark blue hair, a few red highlights in a ponytail and a spiked collar on her neck stood up. "That would be me, " she said lazily. " What do want sir?"
"I want you to show me and Hiyori to the Captain's office thing and the three of us need to talk." Ichigo said. " Ready Hiyori?"
"Yeah pretty much, the rest of you maggots are dismissed for now, go train in the training grounds for now" Hiyori said, folding her arms , looking as intimidating as a nearly 4 and a half foot tall girl could.
"I haven't been her for that long, maybe a week, but I thing I know the way, Captain" she said yawning, as she led them out the a pair of sliding doors and down a hall.
After a few minute they came to a stop and Ichigo opened the door, revealing a large office with a desk and lots of books on several bookshelves. "not bad I guess" Said Ichigo as they walked in and looked around. He walked to his desk and sat down on the chair. Alright, have a seat Hiyori and ,uh, what's your name 3rd seat girl?"
The girl sat down and sighed before answering her in lazy ,bored voice. " My name is Akira, Akira Tanaka ." She then looked at Ichigo and asked. " So what did you want to talk about ,captain? If it's about how thing were run in this squad before you in new to the squad myself, like I already said and don't really know much."
"Well then I guess were in similar boats, aren't we?" Ichigo said, looking at the girl. "You know, you kind of remind me of my sarcastic younger sister, Karin."
"Thanks, I guess" she replied, picking her teeth "Can I go now?"
"No, Karin.. I mean Akira, for the next couple of hour were going to talk about Squad 5 responsibilities and things like that, got it, 3rd seat ?" Hiyori said, standing up, and walking over behind the desk to stand next to Ichigo.
" Fine, whatever, let's just get this over with." Akira said, slumping in her chair.
"Don't whatever me, brat, I may look younger then you, but I'm far older and smarter." Hiyori said, sneering.
"Yeah, sorry, sheesh." Akira said, yawning again. " Can we begin?"
"Yes lets" Ichigo said, and they began to talk for the next several hours. .
It was several hours later and Hiyori told Ichigo a lot about his duties as a Captain, at least of what she knew from hanging around Captains Hikifune and Urahara. Akira didn't say much and seemed tired instead. "Well, we've been sitting for quite a while, you two wanna go , stretch and grab something to eat for dinner?"
"Sorry, but I'm not that hungry, captain" Akira said, standing up ,stretching her arms. " I'll see you tomorrow, Captain Kurosaki, Lieutenant Sarugaki."
"Sure, go ahead. " He said, starching his legs. " By the way, call me Ichigo, not Captain Kurosaki"
Akira stopped for a moment and looked at him . "Are you sure that's ok?"
"Yeah, I insist on it from you and the other Squad members." Ichigo said, nodding at her. " Have a good night Akira"
The mostly solemn looking girl, smiled briefly and said " Ok, … Ichigo, I'll try to remember that, see ya!"
"Well she's certainly a go-getter, huh?" Ichigo asked sarcastically, and grinning. He sat back down and looked absently at one of the papers on his desk.
"Yeah, she was just a bundle of energy, Ichigo" Hiyori said, as she hopped onto his lap and leaned back into him. "Let's just sit her for a few minutes like this, Ichigo"
"Oh really, ordering your Captain around are you, Lieutenant ?" Ichigo asked sarcastically as he wrapped his arms around her. "Your lucky I like you a little, or I'd be mad right now"
"Only a little, huh?" Hiyori said, turning around on his lap and facing him . " So, if you only like me a little, maybe I'll go find someone else to be my boyfriend, someone who like me a lot"
"Well aren't you playful right now?" Ichigo asked, leaning forward and kissing her as she angled her head upward. "So, can we go eat , and get some sleep?"
"Are you sure?" Hiyori asked, smiling evilly at him.
His stomach growled and he grinned. "Yeah, I'm sure."
She pouted slightly before getting of his lap. "You know, r either really inexperienced with woman, or think money is more important then me"
"Don't be like that, my little Snaggletooth" he said standing up and wrapping his arms around shoulders, and kissing her on the top of her head. " Let go and eat, and I'll tell you what, after were done doing whatever it is were going to do with Yoruichi and Soifon, you and I will spend the rest of the day together, doing whatever you like, how's that?"
"Well I suppose that's good enough" Hiyori said, hold his arms around her. " You better keep your promise, or I'll cut off your man hood tomorrow night, before you ever get to use it"
Ichigo gulped, hoping she was kidding, but agreed none the less. He unwrapped his arms and took her hand in his, slinking his finger between hers. They then walked out and proceeded to go to the Squad 5 cafeteria area to eat.
About an hour later or so, they walked back to the barracks, and one of the squad members showed Hiyori to her Lieutenant's quarters. Ichigo was led to his own quarters and he quickly got out if his robes and laid down on the unfamiliar, but very soft bed, to try and get some sleep. He set an alarm for 5am and closed his eyes. It was only a half hour later when he heard his doors slide open and then shut again. He open his eyes and saw a sleeping looking Hiyori with her hair down and not in it's usual pigtails. " Hey I wanted to sleep in your bed. Ichigo, I'm use to it, and it doesn't feel right sleeping on my own." She said, walking over to his bead
She dropped her Soul Reaper robes to reveal her usual red and white sweat suit. She took of the jacket and slid down the pants before sitting on the bed in her white tank top and red and white underwear. She quickly laid down and Ichigo pulled the covers over them, wrapping his right arm around her waist, before they both soon fell asleep.
The next morning , the alarm went off waking them up. Ichigo groaned opening his eyes and saw that Hiyori was laying on top of him, her eyes only half open. "Do we have to get up, Ichigo, I wanna go back to sleep."
"Well if you want, you can stay here and go back to sleep without me snaggletooth" Ichigo said, gently rolling her off of him, and sitting up.
"No, I said I would come with you, " Hiyori said, rubbing the sleepiness out her eyes.
Ichigo smiled at her, and said. " You know you look really cute, like that, with your hair down ,and rubbing at you eyes"
Her cheeks turned red and she threw a pillow at him. " Shut up moron" She said, though it was obviously not in a mean way, but an embarrassed way.
They both got up and got dressed, Hiyori choosing not to wear her robes, and instead had her usual sweat suit on , along with the Lieutenant's badge on her arm. Ichigo got his robes on and almost forgot his Captain's Haori , putting it on at the last minute. Once done the went and got some breakfast and arrived just before 6 at Yoruichi's training cave. Luckily , Soifon had also just arrived which meant they were late.
"Hey Soifon, morning" Ichigo said yawning.
"Good morning Captain Kurosaki, please refer to me by my title as Captain in the future however" She stated in a way that was not exactly mean , but not completely friendly like either. "We should go in, since Lady Yoruichi is no doubt already here"
"Mmhmm" Ichigo said absently as they walked into the opening in the mountainside and down the ladder. Once at the bottom they saw Yoruichi walking towards them smiling.
"Good, your all right on time" She said, coming to a stop. "if your all ready, we can begin"
"Uh, what exactly are we going to we doing today?" Ichigo asked shaking Hiyori's shoulder to get her all the way awake.
"Well although this is a talking related thing for the most part, we'll will do some physical training to.." Yoruichi said, looking at a sleepy Hiyori. "On second thought I think it should do the physical stuff first, and a few warm up exercises to start off."
It was about 4 and a half hours later and Soifon was showing Ichigo various combat techniques and currently, how to take down an enemy by throwing them. Hiyori had trained for a while as well but she decided to call it quits after a few hours and was content with watching him spar against Soifon on his own… As long as didn't get fresh with her Ichigo of course, she wasn't stupid and noticed Soifon staring at him in a strange way, if she tried anything, she need a new full set of teeth to replace all the ones she knocked out.
"Okay Ichigo, here's what's going to happen for this, first, come at me ,slightly from behind and the side" Soifon said, readying herself.
Ichigo did as she asked and she said what she was going to do as she did it, " Now I'm going to grab you by your right arm, that's in front of me and hold onto your wrist firmly, and hook my right arm under your armpit. I'm going to also hook my foot around the back area of your leg" She said, as she slowly, did this. "Now all in one motion, I'm going to turn my top half of my body to the left, and pull you over my shoulder by pulling you forward by your wrist and my hand under your armpit. I'm also going to push your leg back with mine ,which aids in this motion for me, and put you on your back." She ended it with carefully but firmly flipping him onto his back on the ground.
"Good, now I'm going to do it to you again, only this time it will be fast and you will hit the ground at full force." She readied her self again. "Ok, come at me, now!"
She repeated the same technique as a moment ago only this quickly and with force which ended with Ichigo being slammed onto his back on the ground. " Ow!, that kind of hurt!" Ichigo said laying there for a minute before getting up.
"Be glad Lady Yoruichi decide to bring some floor pads or as you called them "gym mats". Soifon replied, " Now you should be grateful, not only am I teaching you combat skills, but now you get to do the same maneuver to me. Try your best and I will instruct you along the way."
"Gladly" Ichigo said grinning, " I'm ready, come at me."
She came at him and she said "Now remember ,grab my arm in front and hook your right arm under my armpit."
"Yeah I remember!" He said as he did. "And now I push at your foot and pull you forward over my shoulder to out you on the ground, right?"
Soifon actually smiled and said. "Yes ,exactly, you pick up fighting moves quite fast."
Glad to here it" He said, grinning back as he brought her over his shoulder and brought her down onto the mat. "there how was that, .. sensei ?"
She mumbled something about morons ruining things but stood up none the less. "Not bad, but don't call me sensei, Ichigo, just Captain or Captain Soifon will suffice."
"Sure thing Soifon, what's next?" He asked, dusting himself off.
"I told you it's captain… oh never mind, for now take a break for lunch and after I'll let Lady Yoruichi take over with the talking portion" Soifon said, shaking her head in annoyance , slightly I'll assist somewhat, but for the most part it will be her training you then."
"Oh, ok , sure." Ichigo said, walking over to Hiyori who stood up, seeing him walk over.
She noticed Soifon watching Ichigo, even though it was obvious she though no one noticed. She didn't say anything , but instead she wrapped her arms around Ichigo and snuggled her face into him, while watching the small amount of anger being thrown her way by Soifon.
"Well aren't you affectionate lately, I hope your still the sarcastic, nasty ,rude little spitfire, you usually are" Ichigo said, before wrapping his own arms around her in return.
Soifon threw more anger mixed with a bit of disappointment at Hiyori, who simply grinned at her evilly , letting her know she knew about her staring at her man earlier, and that she would never have him.
Ichigo let go of Hiyori and went over and grabbed some of the lunch Yoruichi had brought with her for them. "Hey Soifon," Ichigo asked after he sat down next to Hiyori and got ready to eat. "You wanna join me and Hiyori here? We can get to know each other better."
Soifon looked like she was about to consider it, till she saw Hiyori giving her a dirty look. "No, thank you, There is no need to "get to know each".
"What do you mean, we'll be working together as Captains, right?" Ichigo asked, breaking his chop sticks apart.
"Actually, Captains of different squads, rarely if ever work together on anything " Soifon said, walking away with her lunch. "In fact most squads don't even work with other squads, unless it's necessary. I'm, only helping you because I was order to, after our training is concluded, we'll probably never be together again… working together that is"
After lunch Yoruichi came over and said. " Ichigo it's time to begin teaching you about your duties as a Captain. Hey, here's Soifon ?"
"She wanted to eat lunch by herself" Ichigo said standing up. "you want me to go get her?"
"I'll do it" Said Hiyori, who ran off before anyone could say anything.
A few minutes later, she found Soifon who had finished eating and was sitting and staring into space.
"See anything interesting?" Hiyori asked looking at her, causing her to jump slightly. "Gee for the current commander of the stealth force, you sure are easy to sneak up on"
"I knew you were there, I just didn't say anything.." Soifon replied, looking over at her. "now what do you want?"
Two things, to tell you tell you Yoruichi's ready to begin training Ichigo in Captain related matters, and…. And to say that I may have been a bit harsh and crap earlier with the Ichigo thing, I just wanted to let you know that he's taken, and that we've had feeling for each other long before we came here, so you don't stand a chance with him"
Soifon raised an eyebrow at her, and said " Whoever said I was interested in him in that way? I ..like his abilities, his strength his confidence… though I suppose he somewhat attractive."
Yeah ,he is pretty cute huh? " Hiyori said grinning. "Especially when he does something stupid"
"Which I bet is often, huh?" Soifon said grinning back, and standing up. "don't worry I'm not going to take him from you.."
"Although I bet I could if really wanted too…" she added playfully. "Come on ,let's watch our dork in shining armor try to learn this Captain related stuff without his brain exploding"
Hiyori grinned and they made there way back to find Yoruichi had already started teaching Ichigo a few things. "What do mean I have to have my power limited in the world of the living, that's just stupid!" they heard Ichigo complain as they came into view. "what about my other power? Can I use that?"
"Well, I'll have to talk to the head Captain,.. In fact giving how much Spiritual power you have , which is growing by the day, by the way, it might not even be possible to invoke Gentei Kaijyo in you" Yoruichi said, holding her hand on her chin and thinking.
"Getai, what?" Ichigo asked confused. "What's that?"
""It's called Gentei Kaijyo and it's a power limiter in the form of a tattooed seal, that's placed on the bodies of Captain's and Lieutenants, when they enter thy world of the living." Soifon answered, walking closer to Yoruichi. " It's what keeps us from influencing the souls of the living while were there."
"Exactly, and you should know that better then anyone, Ichigo" Yoruichi said, looking at him. "We don't need another group of people like Chad and Orihime to appear where ever you go, although I'm convinced more of your friends were influenced by your Spiritual Pressure then just them, I just haven't had time to confirm it yet"
"Some of my other friends besides Chad and Orihime?" Ichigo asked, thinking .
"Don't worry about it for now, I'll find out about what to do with your excessive Spiritual Pressure with the head Captain, maybe a device created by the department of research and development , like Captain Zaraki has in the form of the eye patch he wears." Yoruichi said, looking back at him " For now break for the rest of the day, go back to your squad for now I guess, and be here tomorrow at about… we'll say 8 am this time, maybe you'll be more awake at a latter time"
They all went there separate ways and like he Promised Ichigo and Hiyori spent the rest of the day together, and laid on top of the roof of the Squad 5 barracks that night, talking. "So I think I wanna visit the midget, Rukia tomorrow, like I said I would, I have talked to her since he other day, and I might not get the chance after I'm done with my training" Ichigo said, as he stroked Hiyori's hair. " We'll go after were done with Yoruichi and Soifon tomorrow, alright?"
"That's fine" Hiyori said, enjoying his hand rubbing threw her hair. "I'm kind of tired though, lets get some sleep, Ichigo"
"Fine, I'm kind of tired myself.. And sore from training too" Ichigo said, getting up and about to pull Hiyori up with him, until she stopped him.
"Wait, I wanna sleep outside tonight, it's nice out here" She said, looking up at him. "Get get some pillows and blankets, dumbass!"
"Yeah ,yeah, you little ankle biter" He said, sarcastically. He ran off and came back with said items. He laid a blanket on the roof under them and she laid on top of him for only a few minutes before fallen asleep while mumbling things like " stupid moron Ichigo is lucky he's cute… or I'd kick his ass.." and his favorite, "Evil ducks from hell…"
He laughed lightly and closed his eyes, I better rest up for tomorrow's torture fest, uh training, he thought to himself, before dozing off himself.
END OF CHAPTER 25
To be continued, in the next chapter…..
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