Getting closer to the villain's making an appearance.

Chad had just finished texting Kenpachi and the others to let them know where to go. And then put his cell away and grabbed his stuff and headed out to his bike. His mind awhirl with the snippets of information that he'd gotten from the criminally inept idiots he'd been hanging out with recently.

He may not have been asked to go on this particular job but that wasn't going to stop him from going and making a nuisance of himself by getting in their way anyways.

It was the only real form of entertainment that he had now.

Besides, the moment that he found out that they were going after a kid- not a young, young one- but a kid nevertheless, he had geared up for a fight. The acronym WWID, which was short for What would Ichigo Do? had slithered through his mind and he'd been able to picture very vividly what would she would do if she had been present to hear of this shit.

She would have smiled as she bashed each and every person's skulls in. And then savagely torn their bodies to ribbons with her bare hands and bathed in their blood. That's what she would have done.

And he knew that she'd do it because he'd seen her do such things before to others who had stupidly gone after kids. It was sort of a pet peeve with her. You just didn't go after kids or you died for it.

It was just that simple.

And though she had yet to show up, he knew that it was only a matter of time before she did and frankly he wanted to stay on her good side. They were still friends after all.

In the past few months since he'd left home to find her, he'd done a lot of stuff that he wasn't particularly proud of just to blend in. He'd hurt people. He'd even killed... Though he did his absolute best to make sure that the people that he'd killed had deserved to die first.

He was picky about who's blood he shed as well as the reasons why.

But recently he'd had to preform mercy killings due to the stupidity of the league's people. It's only been two times thus far, but as far as Chad was concerned- two times, was one time too fucking many.

He'd leave town to go help the kid that the league was after. But then he really needed to breakout his hand made Batman/Ichigo signal- which was literally a huge ass search light with the Batman, bat in the middle of it with Ichigo's name cleverly written out in duct tape on the lens- and flash it in the sky a little bit and see what happens.

All this sitting around was making him ten kinds of anxious.

Slipping on his leather jacket, he grabbed his helmet and glasses and started the bike up. He could already see Kenpachi and Ikkaku's bikes in the distance, just a little ways down the block.

And from the looks of things Yomachika had decided to hang back and watch the bar for them while they were gone. Cranking up his bike as soon as they were close enough, he waited until the started to slow down so that they could let him out in front of them before he bothered to pull out into the street.

It would take them several hours to reach their destination. But the good thing about that was that they had time before shit went down. They'd probably reach the camping grounds in a matter of four hours. Which meant that they would have at least two hours left of sunlight to prepare themselves before things really got rolling.

They rode in relative silence until the point where they had to pull over for a bathroom break/gas for their bikes. At which point Ikkaku suddenly pulled out his cell and looked at it for a moment before shouting excitedly, "Holy shit! Renji thinks he's finally found Ichigo!"

"What?!" Kenpachi demanded as he reached out and snagged the other man's cell phone and quickly scanned the text message that Abarai had sent with a thoughtful frown before letting out a low whistle and handing the cell to Chad and then sat back on his bike and got comfortable.

Chad barely needed to scan the message before his face lit up like a Christmas tree and he tossed the cell back to Ikkaku and climbed back onto his bike and simply said, "Let's go."

Nothing else needed to be said between the three men. Not when Ichigo was finally within their reach.

But that meant that they would have to tweak their plans a little bit so that they could deal with the League of dumbasses, protect the kid that they were after- grab Ichigo and disappear until further notice.

Ichigo could sense him from at least fifty miles away. It was one of the perks/drawbacks to not totally being able to reign in her power. You could literally feel things for miles and miles- you could even often times tell when something life altering was going to happen.

Plus, Renji wasn't exactly all that great at hiding himself. His energy was about as subtle as a herd of rampaging elephants at the moment. It was nearly palpable with his excitement.

And though his general presence in the immediate area could mean a multitude of different things. Past experiences told her that something was going to happen. Something big, and life altering. Something that would throw her new life into utter chaos again.

And frankly...she wasn't happy about that.

In the past two or so years since becoming a soul reaper, she'd saved the world countless times. Fought wars that no child should ever have to fight. She'd bloodied her hands to clean up the messes made by the ungrateful cretin's of the Soul Society. And she'd lost pieces of herself that made her feel less and less human.

She had lost almost everything of her previous life while fighting against Aizen.

Her home, her dad and sisters, and few really good friends all now lay buried in shallow and unmarked graves. Buried and forgotten by the very people that she'd tried to help so many times.

She was fucking done with saving people.

And she was more than done with cleaning up other people's damned messes. Especially when they never seemed to learn from their mistakes.

"Is everything okay?" Her new companion asked her after she'd been silent for too long. She blinked and turned her head ever so slightly to look at him and frowned a little bit as her eerie blue eyes locked with his vivid crimson red.

"Everything is fine." She said absently as she took a moment to see how far away Renji was from her current location.

He was several miles out, and moving fast. His pace wasn't one that would be considered leisurely by any means. There was an underlying sense of urgency that spoke volumes to her of his anxiousness, and maybe even a little bit of trepidation.

"We should move." She said all of a sudden as she slowly got to her feet. The boy tilted his head to the side a little bit as he studied her. She turned to him and held a hand out to him and wiggled her fingers to urge him to take her hand.

"Why do we need to move?" He asked in a slightly suspicious tone, not bothering to move so much as a muscle.

"We'll have company if we don't."

"One of the teachers? A classmate?"

She sighed, suddenly feeling tired as she said. "No. Someone else."

He frowned at her and turned his head to scan the clearing for any signs of the 'company' that she'd just mentioned, but couldn't find any traces of anyone unknown entering the clearing. "I don't see anyone." He finally said after a moment or so.

"You wouldn't," She said before going on to say. "He's several miles out and moving fast. He's not bothering much with stealth either."

"How do you know?" He asked, still sounding suspicious. And maybe a little bit curious now as well.

"I can sense him." Ichigo said as she wiggled her fingers at him again and waited patiently for him to reach out and finally take her hand in his own so that she could pull him up.

Once he was up on his feet, he looked at her questioningly as she tightened her hand around his own a little bit and started walking. Forcing him to move along with her as she did.

"Where are we going?" He asked as she led him towards the woods across the clearing.

"I need to get you back to camp for now. And then I need to go and run him down." She sounded upset to him and that wasn't something that he found that he liked. Especially since he'd decided to protect her like Aizawa and Izuku.

"Why do you need to run him down?"

"Because I can't have him reaching camp. Not until I figure out just why he's here."

He didn't say anything else after that since he decided to try and follow her when she went after the guy. After all, she was acting as if he were an villain. And if she could sense him... Like actually sense him- then what the hell was she sensing that was upsetting her so much?

That was the multi-million dollar question that had him planning to follow her and keep an eye on her. Depending on how much time he had, he might even alert Aizawa or Izuku about what was going on so that one of them could come with him. Just to be on the safe side.

She got him back to the camp within ten minutes of leaving the clearing. Which was surprising considering that it took him nearly an hour to reach the damn thing before.

Upon reaching camp, she abruptly released his hand and nudged him towards the building and then turned and vanished back into the woods before he could so much as react. Growling softly in annoyance, he took a moment to weigh his options.

He could go ahead and follow after her. But if anything went wrong and the person that she'd been sensing was hostile... What would he do if a fight broke out? He could back her up, and get hurt. Or even get her hurt instead.

"Fuck me," He said in irritation as he decided to instead go and appraise one Aizawa of what was going on and see what the man thought. Though he was at least a hundred percent sure that the man would go after her. "Fuck me." He said again as he turned and ran across the camp in the direction he'd last seen the dark haired teacher.