CHAPTER FOUR: BREAKING THE HABIT
Moose watched his best friend walk off with a little bit of worry. Dom never calls Ichigo during school hours unless it's an emergency.
Moose's attention was drawn to the others when Rukia broke the silence. "S~oo who's Dom?"
Moose looked at her before replying, "Dom is the one who got Ichi off the streets." He started as he grabbed his sandwich and started eating it, not really caring if he made eye contact with the group.
"And later on took him in. He's a good guy once you get used to him, and get past his ruff exterior. To Ichi their brothers, Ichi helps Dom in the shop...along with other things." He mumbled the last part thinking it went unheard.
Little did he know that the Shinigami in front of him picked it up with their trained hearing.
Suddenly the door to the stairwell opened and Ichi came and sat beside Moose again.
"Well?"
"Eh, just wants me to do an errand for him."
Moose smirked, "He doesn't want you to go get Letty something does he?"
Ichigo glared with no heat at him, "Oi! She is not that bad...ok yes she is."
He changed his answer at Moose's deadpan look.
"NOT THAT BAD!? The woman had you go across town one night to get her Fritule* only for you to come back with it to change her mind!" Moose snapped with wide eyes and a smirk.
"That wasn't entirely her fault! Some of that was Dom's for even mentioning the food! He was totally planning on sending Brian to get them except I drew the short straw...I swear on my life, that BAKA is cheating at it somehow." Ichigo deadpanned as he stole Moose's extra Gatorade be jumped away from Moose as Moose lunged to get it back.
"Really! Give it back," Moose said as he stood up to reach the standing Ichigo if needed.
Only then did the Shinigami realize that Ichigo was actually taller than Moose by a couple of inches. "Nah-uh you got to get it yourself," Ichigo replied with a smirk as he shook the bottle.
Moose rolled his eyes before smirking. Moose lunged towards Ichigo only for Ichigo to avoid him by jumping into the air and landing on top of the gate pole in a crouch.
"Come on," Moose whined.
"No. Get it yourself, it been too~ long," Ichigo replied suggesting something. Moose sighed an agitated sigh before pulling his sleeve back to look at the time.
"Ok, the Bell rings at 1:00 and it's 12:35 that means we have 30minutes."
"Awesome. If you can get it back before bell then you can have it back if not I get to keep." Moose nodded and Ichigo smirked.
He jumped to his feet as Moose jumped onto the railing.
He darted down it with practiced ease as Moose followed him with equal skill. They both were smiling as they forgot about the little group watching them with interest and curiosity.
Ichigo jumped from the railing to the roof of the stairwell and flipped off it as Moose followed doing the same moves a little slower than Ichigo had.
Ichigo scaled across the roof in record time and then jumped onto a crate and over the gate railing landing with a roll before taking off again across the roof of the school. Moose followed without hesitation and chased after the orange haired teen.
The Shinigami looked at each other with raised brows before shrugging.
"That Dom person again. Kiskue didn't mention him." Uryu spoke.
"It might be possible that Kiskue doesn't know about him." Orihime supplied. The Shinigami where skeptical bit accepted it.
"We will have to find out more about him later. We will follow Torreto after he leaves school today." Toshiro, the leader, ordered.
"Hai."
Ichigo was chatting with his friend Moose about any and everything at the moment as they walked out of the school.
Ichigo bumped fists with him as they parted ways. Ichigo went to his unique convertible and jumped in over the door.
He noticed that the Shinigami were following him again but he didn't want them knowing that he knew they were there so he ignored them till he could get somewhere secluded and alone to deal with them.
At least he knows now that they are following him and not Moose.
He started the car and drove off down the street he followed not too far behind.
He drove for a while in silence before turning his radio on. The song Breaking the Habit by Linking Park started playing.
He smirked and rolled his eyes at the irony. Before simply deciding he didn't care and ignoring it as he drove.
Soon he had arrived at a small rundown shop. He turned the car off and glared at the shop before sighing and getting out slamming the car door in the process.
He walked over to the closed garage door and grabbed the handle before pulling it as hard as he could slamming it open in the process.
"Geeze don't break it! I just got it fixed from last time!" A voice from inside the garage yelled.
Ichigo rolled his eyes out of annoyance before looking and spotting the only person in the garage beside him.
He walked over, folding his arms as he did, and set a foot on the scoreboard the man was laying on to get under the car. He pulled him out with his foot and glared as the man's face came into view.
He was tanned and had a five-o' clock shadow on his face with a messy mop of black hair on his head. He had blue eyes permanently set in an angry scowl.
"Jamison."
"Toronto."
"Where are they."
"I'm not going to tell you unless you give me at least another expression besides an angry scowl. Come on lighten up it's been what a year?"
With every word, he said Ichigo's anger rose and he was releasing a murderous aroura before he even noticed and reeled it in.
"Light up. LIGHTEN UP!? YOU EXPECT ME TO LIGHTEN UP AFTER YOU ALMOST KILLED DOM AND BRIAN!? IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IRS BEEN A YEAR! THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT YOU HURT THEM BADLY ENOUGH FOR THEM TO BE LAID UP IN THE HOSPITAL FOR HALF A MONTH!" Ichigo yelled to him his voice echoing as black appeared in the white part of his eyes.
"Oh come on they didn't stop me! And besides Dom doesn't care anymore!"
"I am not Dom, I will never forgive you for putting them in that much pain and vulnerability for that long. You knew. YOU KNEW! What would happen if some wet behind the ears, or academy cop found them? And you should know why they didn't fight back when you tried to kill them. Any time ANY TIME they could wipe the floor with you. They didn't because you were the one they counted as a family along with the rest of us.
They believed you would change they believed in YOU! Only to have it thrown in their faces by you deciding that they needed to be run over by a car." Ichigo glared and wanted to pound the guy into next week so badly but knew that if he did it would cause problems for Dom.
Jamison rolled his eyes simply not caring about what Ichigo had said but admitted in his mind with satisfaction that it was all true.
"Whatever. They don't matter to me anymore. Seriously I didn't expect them to survive."
Ichigo's glared and murderous aroura increased by tenfold and all the glass shattered inside the garage.
Jamison started glaring then, "Hey now I got to replace all that! You know what they're over there. Vet them and leave before you break something else I have to replace!" Jamison yelled and pointed to a box in a corner.
Ichigo walked over to it, picked it up, and started to leave. Once he got to his car he threw the box in the backseat before getting in and speeding off. His anger fueling him.
Only one thought was running through the group of Shinigami's heads.
'What is going on?'