Hey, guys.

Strong (Boy): Got quarantine and had to stop for a while again. But I was finally able to finish after some debate with my cousin.

Kind (Girl): This was the Third time he got lunge away in a room and yeah, I wanted this chapter to be different but my idea was too depressing he says.

Disclaimer: We do not own Pokemon and Bleach.

Chapter – 7

"Hey."

"Hey…"

Underneath the moonlight surrounded by a quiet night, a boy with a scowl on his face sat looking at his reflection on a pond. He wasn't alone for too long though.

"I heard what happened today."

"Yeah… that happen…"

He wasn't in a bad mood or anything rather he was here to just relaxed despite his facial expression right now. In his defense, it was entirely caused by something else.

"Well…" Quietly taking a spot beside the boy, the girl left no space between them, "I believe what you did was sweet and cool."

"Thanks?" The boy not sure how to take the compliment turns to her only to feel her finger poking his cheek with a smile on her face.

"I'm serious Ichigo." Her voice trembled a bit.

"I appreciate how you're looking out for those three and seeing how they really look up to you, shows how good of a job you're doing. For example, whenever you're around Ash and Gary listen longer than usual, and Leaf who always seems to be the shy type before blurts out ideas whenever she can too. That's amazing, you know."

The girl then leans on his shoulder, the shoulder that somehow was able to give her support now and then. She kind of likes it, despite being the older one.

"…" Ichigo on the other hand felt like she was the one who wanted to be looked after and her being this clingy tells.

"Daisy…"

"hm?"

Facing her smile again, the boy shook his head and stood up. "Wanna get some snacks before bed? I'm getting hungry again."

"…." Daisy stares up at the boy silently before a smirk came from her lips amused. Not sure why she had this feeling right now, but she couldn't help since it was there, and she needs to let it out.

"But you need to practice your pickup line. Hehe…"

His right eye twitches since he only asked her cause of how bum out she was a second ago. His scowl quickly returned. In the first place, he was also bummed out not because of being escorted to the police station only to engage in an argument with a red hair self-proclaim dragon master prick. She was poking fun at him after sulking a bit and he did not have to take that.

"I'm going."

"Eh?" Daisy realized she might've hit a nerve there and quickly got up to chase after him. She didn't want to be left here.

"Wait! I was onl-ack!" In her hurry, the girl stumbles and her face landed on the ground earning a red bump on her forehead.

"Oww…."

Our hero stops to find her awkwardly fall-down position which he could only sweat dropped to it.

"*sigh*" Scratching his head, Ichigo moves back to her and knelt before her.

"huh?" The pain stings and Daisy felt a small drop of tears not because she was a cry baby but because it just hurt that much. She wasn't usually this clumsy, she only just shared a little more today and to him.

She was a bit surprised at being lift and carried piggyback un-hesitantly by the boy who said he was going.

"…" She watched the boy move without reprimanding her and like this about him too. The silence was nice, she liked it.

But when the girl saw him picked up his sleeping black Charmeleon before carrying it under his arm, the girl had a thought.

"So… how often do you work out?"

"Daisy!" He wanted to end the day quietly.

"Sorry, sorry. I don't know what's happening to me today. hehe..." She couldn't help but giggle, this was the first time she was so open to him and he didn't even realize it. It was cute too for her.

…………….

Mindscape

"What… is this…?"

Ichigo sat on his butt watching the scene and being very unfamiliar with it because he couldn't recall any of it happening.

"…" Standing up, he looks around and finally came to realize he was somewhere he knew very well.

" What's ya looking at King?"

Again, the very familiar voice came, and upon facing toward the sound Ichigo came to face against the being within him again. A white alternate version of him stood a few feet away with a very arrogant smirk.

"Finally talking?"

" I see, you found one of them." Pulling his hands behind his head, the white being look at the scene with his never-changing smirk.

"…" Ichigo turned back to the same scene but something was off.

"It doesn't feel like mine though, " Ichigo thought out loud.

" Of course, it doesn't work like that, you shitty idiot."

"And you know something about this?" He glared at the white being who kept too many things to himself.

" Look, King, we've been doing this back and forth when your original memories were locked up," The white being snaps his finger which brought out memories of Ichigo and him talking, arguing, fighting, planning, and agreeing inside the mindscape and they were all something he didn't remember, " And I rather not go through the hassle again."

"Then I'll beat it out of you!"

" Ha!"

Both rammed at each other with hands grip tight while pushing for dominance.

Ichigo knew that fighting this guy was the only way to get anything out of him. And he hates the arrogant smirk he always makes.

" I'll at least tell you two things because I'm bored and can't waste time."

" Here's one!" The white being smirks as scenes of various memories started appearing all around them and all had the girl Daisy involved.

"!?"

" Hi, my name is Daisy Oak. What's yours?"

" Thank you for keeping eye on them Ichigo, you better than me you know."

" No Ichigo, to the side!"

" Here, I heard you were serious about this line. So, I got some reference books for you."

" I also find you quite fetching. Hehe…"

" It's okay, this time I'm saving you… I'm the older one you know."

Ichigo eyes widen at the number of memories floating about and still, they were all unfamiliar. Yet, all of them felt so true and none he could or would consider fake for some reason a gut feeling was egging him.

"…"

Both release each other hold and Ichigo made a serious expression.

"All of these… aren't fake, right?"

"…." The white being too glance with boredom as if tired and continued.

" And two, of course just seeing them won't give you back the experience of those memories. You're a special case, believe it or not. The two separate memories can't collide. So, it's up to you in the end king."

"…."

" You were lucky to already get two pieces and if I were you, I won't wanna miss this one either."

A new screen appeared where a younger version of him was pathetically trying to help a very familiar but small black color pokemon. This was also got his attention as he silently stares at the scene.

" Look! I'm trying to help okay!? So, stop squirming and let me help!"

" Charr…"

" Of course, we'll grow stronger together."

"Chhar?"

"Sorry buddy but I'm doing this alone."

Ichigo sat back down with his attention still on the various memories. He didn't bother any other thing as he just sat and watch trying to regain what the white being in-avertedly mentioned.

Liza's house

"!" With a heavy intake of air, our hero woke up drenched in sweat, and his expression showed a tired one, but it wasn't anything that should be of concern.

"I…"

He remembered or at least the part where he had spent time with them.

She was someone important to him and those memories show how much trust he had for her and how much he cared for her wellbeing.

He remembered that little fire-breathing creature staying by his side almost all the time.

The memories also explain why he reacted that way when she screamed out to him and his reflex to rush in to save her without thinking at all.

"..." He felt something on his palm.

He was all bandaged up and yet his focus was only on a few things. "What is this...?"

From one glance, the thing on his palm was just two small pieces of some accessory but something about them was so familiar and overwhelming.

"Ichigo?"

"..." Someone entered and said person was the one he was wondering about the moment he woke up.

"Daisy..."

"!?"

His voice had trailed a bit, he was sure and from the way, the girl looked at him, it was obvious how the two of them knew one another. Apart from the one memory, he also recovered various memories involving her despite various lack of clarity like missing dots in his memories.

"..." The girl was having a lot of emotions when he said her name and decided to take a few deep breathes to calm herself as she proceeded to him.

"Ichigo." As she sat down near him, the girl looks at him and said his name again.

"Yeah... I remember."

He wasn't sure how to deal with her sudden appearances after those memories just came back.

"Ichigo." She said his name again as she looks at him with a happy smile.

"I heard ya already Daisy." Ichigo got the feeling she was playing with him again.

"Ichigo." She just can't help it and call to him again with a tilt to the side. She was cheery right now than usual.

"..."

He knew she was playing with him, but he realized something the moment her hands tremble as they grabbed a hold of his hand.

grab*

"Yeah, it's me." Ichigo finally sounded out the word she needed to hear.

"I'm glad *drip* I'm really glad." She just leans on his shoulder and lets her tears go. It wasn't a dream to her; he was here with her and this warmth and voice proofs it so much.

"!?" But then she realized she was too close, and this made her face flushed a bit.

"Oh my... sorry Ichigo." Finally, back to herself. The girl pulls herself away from him and then decided to do what she came here to do.

"Here, I brought some organic porridge. After what happened yesterday, you must be exhausted a lot of energy. Hope it helps."

"Thanks..."

"Could you also feed Charizard, he also went through a lot up till now and I bet you giving him some food would help a load, okay?" The girl puts down a glass container holding food for pokemons.

Both turned to the side where a sleeping black Charizard lightly snores on the floor as if it was the first it had gotten a night of good sleep in a long time.

"..." Moving to the side of the bed, Ichigo looks at the pokemon that had been with him since he woke in this world. Yes, he remembered that far about the black color pokemon and how it must've been without for the past after the incident.

"I'll wait for him to wake up on his own. Looks like he's having a good one." He leans down and pats the sleeping pokemon's head.

"I see… I still have something to do. So, take your time."

Daisy got up and heads to the door. She turns back to see him with a calm expression as he looks at Charizard while eating the food she brought for him.

"Welcome back." The girl whispers feeling that the family was finally about to get back together before leaving and her smile never fade.

...

"..." Looking down at the pokemon he had gone toe to toe with their own lives at stake. He finds it funny since this pokemon was always so protective for his wellbeing.

"Pokemon... Battles... Trainers..." Lying back, our hero looked up not focus on anything but the thoughts of those memories.

"I am really living, here, aren't I?" He was supposed to be with his family. Karin, Yuzu, and his old man.

"..." Staying quiet for a while, our hero frown. He already knew but before remembering those memories he held on to the doubts and hope until now.

"I'm not in Karakura Town, it was never here from the start." He remembered that fateful day. The day he died at the hands of the Quincy King.

"Hey, you're listening, aren't you?"

"..."

"You knew about this didn't you?"

"..."

"I fucking died there, right? And there's no way to get back, right?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"You bastard, say something!!"

His voice held anger and power as his body spew out spiritual energy and aura at the same time breaking the windows and anything fragile inside the room. His power shook a wide area of his surroundings.

And now he just wanted to know what happened after his death and right now he didn't care he died. He just wanted to know if they well alright despite the impossible thing happening right now.

Yes, he woke up in this world and inside the Blackthorn City, but he was just living a lie there because of his failure.

"…" It was anyone guesses at who knows how long he spends here in this world, and how long he was apart from them, his comrades, friends, and family. He was just scared and never wanted to come to this conclusion but now things were different.

He concluded that he needs to know and that it was his damn right to know too.

Daisy came back worried from the loud noises but ultimately gave him some room to clear his head. She knew he was processing a lot once again, just like back then. A sad smile crept upon her lips as she walks away.

He concluded when he remembered he died and the part where he came to this world. This was his next life and there was no other explanation whatsoever.

His sword, the hollow inside him wasn't even saying anything. This pissed him off and since he was saying anything it gave him even more reason to be correct.

"!?"

In his lost thoughts, the frustrated hero felt someone's head on him radiating a good amount of heat.

"Grrrr..."

"Yeah... it's me." Ichigo looking at the large dark draconic fire pokemon. It had grown since the last time he could remember it, the little lizard turned and grown with him ever since he came to this world. Well, it was what he saw in those memories.

"Grrr..."

"..." Stroking the pokemon's head, Ichigo realized it was hurting when they fought. At the time it could not believe him to be alive and well only to see him as if he was just a nightmare as it kept telling him and apologizing.

"We've being through a lot, together, haven't we?"

"…."

He could at least remember them, the memories he made with this pokemon.

Yet, he was Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute shinigami, a high school boy but now he was just a boy with a new life and in a different world. Is this what being reborn feels like? The boy thought out loud.

"What am I supposed to do now?"

Ichigo sighs and thought about the memories he had gained back of this world and his past.

He wanted to get back and fight. He wasn't sure what happened after he was killed but he felt frustrated with all kinds of regrets and thoughts wondering what happened to his friends and family, most importantly what the outcome of that war.

"..." He then looks at the small pieces of an accessory on his hand. It looks like a crystal but different and for some reason, he had it on after his memories returned.

Getting up, Ichigo took a few scoops of the porridge and walk towards the door, "I need some fresh air, let's go."

"..." Charizard watch the back of his first friend and trainer. He wasn't dreaming and his friend was still there. With a confident grunt, the pokemon moves behind Ichigo ready to protect and aid him in any way.

...

Liza's house

Inside one of the rooms of the valley's caretaker house, things were more heated as the day drags on and all of such was due to our hero.

"I'll get this over with. I'm taking him back with me to Pallet Town."

"Absolutely, NO WAY!" Slamming her hands on the table the gym leader of Blackthorn glares at the young woman who just up and came demanding something that was out of her hands.

"And why is that?" Daisy did not falter at her but instead calmly glares back. She had finally found him with the little hope she had and Charizard as well, she wasn't backing down.

"Kurosaki is being taken care of by our Clan back in Blackthorn City ever since he was in a coma. If anything, he needs to get back first before going anywhere else."

"A c-coma…" Daisy was surprised by the news and wondered what happened to him after the disastrous incident back then.

"Besides, why should I even consider what you said anyway? You could be lying too, you know." Clair wasn't sure why she was even having this argument. She should be glad that the idiot who had caused her various uncomfortable moments going away.

"Why do you keep saying that? I'm just trying to bring him back to the people who are his family. What other good reason do you want?"

"A-Ah!"

Daisy handed down pictures and identification that Ichigo was no doubt part of a family, especially how he had a smile on in the photos. Daisy was glad at the reaction Clair was making and said dragon-type gym leader felt a bit perplexed on what to do or say.

"I'll have to ask my grandfather about this."

"Sorry but I'm not wasting any more time if it's going to be another argument."

"You!!"

Still heated in the argument, our hero and Charizard arrived yet they were completely ignored. Since it was going to take a while and Ichigo didn't care since he was going to make his own decision anyway, the two walks outside the house.

"…."

It was a good day, despite the good weather and sky-filled blue the wind came at a good breeze enough to ignore the warm weather.

But still the moment the two walked outside every single Charizards outside tense up and stop everything they were doing and waited for anything that might come from the black Charizard.

"?" Ichigo noticed how tense all of them were and looked back at his Charizard who didn't care about anything except following him from behind.

"I see you finally woken up." Someone who wasn't pleased glared from afar on a nice wooden settled table and chair. Her Charizard Charla was also beside her giving them a cautious look as if almost frighten.

"Yeah, it was a good sleep. Nice place you have Liza."

Ichigo sat down too and look at the picture he took from the pile Daisy placed back inside.

"Thank you~!" Instantly changing her tone to cheerful, the young woman smiles while her hands are gripped tightly on a plastic cup, she was drinking tea from.

"…" She got his attention with the sudden change.

"It was really lucky that my house didn't suffer from your unbelievable fight yesterday~!" The girl added without hesitation and confusing him if she was angry or not, "Especially after learning that it was actually your Charizard who cause all of this damage~!"

"Hahaha!" Both laughed, but both were laughing due to very different reasons. The laughter got dry though. Ichigo wondered how much trouble his Charizard got into.

"Your Charizard is really strong, it beat up all of the Charizard in the valley~!"

"Haha…" Again, they laugh but Ichigo sweatdropped at the back of his head.

"It even kicked us all out, even me. It even traumatized every single Charizard even my Charla here. Oh, and I had to rent a hotel since I was kicked out of my own home~!"

"Haha…." Ichigo again now was completely sure the black fire pokemon beside him did a lot of stuff that was going to be a hassle. He turned to the pokemon and it wasn't even giving any attention or reaction to the subliminal accusation. It just stared off into space happily like it didn't give a fuck about the predicament.

"So, tell me." Her tone changed again and this time she was ice cold.

grab* She did not hesitate and pull him from the shirt with a menacing expression.

"How the hell are you going to repay for what your pokemon did!?"

"I wasn't even here in the first place either!"

"A trainer needs to take responsibility for their pokemon's actions!"

"I'm not even a trainer!"

"Cut the crap you bastard, you see here!" She shoves her plastic cup at him surprising him a bit, "It even stole my fine set! I'm drinking from a plastic cup. Do you hear me!"

"What does that have to d-!?"

grab*

Ichigo did not finish his sentence as he quickly grabbed her and sprint to the side with her dumb fooled expression.

Slash!*

The sit she was on was destroyed and by no other than the black Charizard who was giving off a very menacing aura.

"Hey, quit it!" Ichigo shouted with an angry expression.

"Graaa!" The black fire dragon powerful aura stops from his words but argued back.

"She wasn't going to hurt me. She was only angry about something you did!"

"GRaa!!" The pokemon was still paranoid and glared at the girl.

"I wasn't in any danger either, just stay there and don't even think about doing the same thing again either!"

Ichigo heard its reason and felt somewhat sympathetic but it was still not a good thing to just come with an attack that could hurt anyone.

"…." Liza was beyond astonished right now with her Charla still frighten but ready to protect her with her life. She must've hallucinated since she clearly saw him talking back as if understanding everything it said, and she knew for sure a pokemon like Charizard can't know telepathy or learn it.

"…"

"……."

After calming down which took about 10 minutes, both sat back down, and the black Charizard feeling dejected at being scolded sat on the ground behind Ichigo which made Liza feel a little bit better.

"Right sorry about that, *sigh* a lot happened and he's just paranoid."

"…" Liza wanted to retort back that it was more than just paranoid but couldn't since she could've been the destroyed chair.

"Of course, I-It's… f-fine…" She nervously sips her tea terrible tried to hide it.

Ichigo could tell but rather not blurt it out since it was his time to take responsibility.

"Bring her stuff back."

"Grr…"

"I'll buy you your own. So, bring them back."

"Rargrgr…"

"I don't care if you like them. It's still stealing!"

"…" The black fire pokemon dejectedly look at him but shakes its head before ascending and went back to the cave it had been staying in for the past month. No pokemon around block its path or disturb it in fear of its might.

' Who the heck is this monster!?'

' Not only did he just went toe to toe with something even the valley's strongest Charizards couldn't beat. He actually talks to it too!?'

"Hey, you okay there?"

"A-Ah!" She screams in fright for a second and covers her mouth embarrassed.

"Sorry, if h-!"

"No, no! It was all a misunderstanding. I was partly to blame too. I'm calm and alright, yeah… calm, Hahaha…" She was not calm at all. The pressure giving off from the two was terrifying her.

"Don't worry, we'll do what we can to fix things here."

"Fix? What do you mean by that?"

Ichigo has a principle about taking responsibility especially when he has a lot of free time. Not sure why everyone was so weird and jumpy today, but he needed to help and do some stuff to get his mind occupied after the whole separate memories his inner being spoke of.

Liza on the other hand wanted him and his Charizard to go away after they think they did inside the valley. She was a bit traumatize too and want nothing to do with him anymore even though he helped her get the place back. Yes, she was thankful but she just wanted to go to her home sweet home and sleep for a few days undisturbed and then think about fixing the valley up.

"Y-You don't have to… We got more than enough hands here." The young lady squeaks out afraid another disaster might happen with how powerful they both were.

"Here's your stuff back. Again, we sorry."

Ichigo didn't hear her and bows while forcing his Charizard to do the same.

"Oh… I already said it's okay…" She was crying inside, she had thought he would've left when he woke up but no, he just had to be considered when it was the last thing, she needed from him. Now was cursing at Clair for bringing him.

"Right, we'll start. Guess, we can start with those messed up boulders blocking the lake path."

"Graaff…"

"Oh! Oh! I wanna help too!"

Gunther who also just woke from passing out after exhausting himself earlier jumps up and down in front of Ichigo. Except for Ichigo and Clair, everyone wondered why the boy acted like a goffer for him.

"Sure, that helps." Our hero wasn't bothered about the extra hand and jump went on ahead as they follow him. It was just about responsibility this time, he needed to blow off some steam and distract himself.

"This…" Liza was left with her returned tea set on hand. She was left staring defeated as they were doing whatever they want in the valley she was supposed to look after.

And done!

Yes, this one is shorter than the other chapters. Sorry, about that. This only happen because someone wanted their way, not saying who but you know.

Bye!