Chapter 2: More pets

The next day

Ichigo had woken up and was starting to stretch his arms out when he heard the cutest yawn from Rukia ever. He looked down to her and saw that she had been sleeping on his lap the entire night and was slowly stirring from sleep. He smiled and petted the adorable little cat as she woke up with a purr.

"Man I could get used to this type of wakeup call." Rukia said to herself as she leaned into his soothing touch.

Ichigo lightly chuckled at her sounds and eventually lifted her up so he could get ready for the day. He opened his door and Rukia followed him along.

"Hmm." Rukia thought to herself as she started to get a very devious thought into her mind. "I wonder how Ichigo would react if I saw him naked?" She chuckled to herself at the thought of potentially seeing what her friend looked like with no clothes on as a way to embarrass him later on for not knowing that she was a cat.

She followed Ichigo into the bathroom without him seeing her and hid in the corner while she watched him take his clothes off. Her devious grin came to a screeching halt when she saw him take off his shirt and saw his killer body. She stared at him with her furry mouth agape as she never has seen Ichigo's body like this before. True, she's snuck a few peaks at him when his shihakusho would come undone a few times, but never see him in all his toned glory before.

"Oh my god. He's like the epitome of sex appeal." Rukia thought to herself as she stared at his incredible body.

She was completely taken off guard when Ichigo started to move to his boxers. He slid the undergarment off of him and Rukia went completely wide eyed at the massive zanpakuto between his legs. He was easily seven inches or more, and he was completely flaccid right now. She blushed heavily internally as her fur bristled all around her at the sight of Ichigo's incredible package. He stepped into the shower out of her view and washed himself all around in the hot and now steamy water. Rukia may not have been able to see him anymore thanks to the shutter blocking her view of the show, but she could hear and smell everything. The sound of Ichigo's body being pelted by every little droplet of water and him applying soap and shampoo to himself in such a relaxed way sounded incredible to her. The amazing smell of the soap and the strawberry shampoo was driving her crazy since she could now smell every subtle detail on his wet and soapy body. It was absolutely intoxicating to her and she quickly left the room before she started to purr in a kind of ecstasy. She took a few deep breaths to regain her composure before anyone saw her.

"I should probably go." Rukia said to herself before heading away from the bathroom door. She quickly decided to go see what Renji was up to and so she went to Karin and Yuzu's room. To her surprise, Renji wasn't there. "Huh." Rukia thought for a second while tilting her head. "Where the hell is he? Probably downstairs annoying the girls."

Rukia made her way downstairs and saw to her surprise once again that Renji was simply laying down on the couch. He was watching Ichigo's father as he treated his patients in the clinic and was actually very intrigued by it. Rukia walked over to him and watched as well. The person Isshin was helping didn't look all too special. In fact the man looked like just some ordinary human to her, so why was Renji so damn interested in this? Rukia leapt up to where Renji was and laid next to him as they both watched what was going on. When the human male left the clinic, Isshin saw the two new pets just sitting there on the couch, watching him. He smiled at them before yelling out.

"Ichigo! Your two pets are hungry!"

A few seconds passed before he got a response. "Alright! Be down in a minute!"

Both Renji and Rukia patiently awaited for Ichigo to come down. When he did, he was in a plain blue shirt and some black cargo's. He went over to the bag of food for them and started to pour a good amount into both their bowls. Rukia and Renji's nose went ablaze when they smelled the food and they immediately ran over to the food. Ichigo smiled as the two ate their food and stood up to head towards the door. Seeing as though he would be their owner, it was only right to go and get them collars.

He waited for the two to finish before he called them over to him. When they did that, Ichigo picked Rukia up and set her on his shoulder. "Okay you two. We're gonna get ya'll some collars today. Let's go to the pet store."

Ichigo opened the door and they all went out together. It didn't take them long to reach the pet store and get two collars for them. Rukia wore a light blue collar with a violet bell attached to it that she would play with some times. Renji had a black collar on with a dark red design on the front of it.

Ichigo could tell that the two really enjoyed the feel of the collars once he saw how comfortable they looked afterwards. It was a hilarious sight for him to see that, and the thought of the actual Rukia and Renji wearing collars and being treated like a cat and dog respectfully. The thought made him snicker a bit and he didn't even hear the sounds of another cat and dog approaching them.

"Rukia? Renji?" A familiar female voice called out to them

The two turned to see an orange furred cat with bright blue eyes, a white haired puppy with teal eyes, a black haired dog with gray eyes, and an ebony haired cat with midnight blue eyes. Both Renji and Rukia saw them and visibly gasped when they did.

"Brother? Captain Hitsugaya?" Rukia said in surprise as she jumped off of Ichigo's shoulder toward the black haired dog.

"Captain Unohana. Rangiku." Renji said as he went over to them as well.

Ichigo noticed this and turned to see that both his two pets were nuzzling up with four other strays. They all looked incredibly close to one another and Ichigo felt like he had somehow accidentally stumbled upon a family of strays.

"Rukia. Are you alright?" Byakuya asked his sister, concern in his voice that surprised her.

"Yes brother. I'm fine." Rukia answered. "How did all of you get here?"

"One moment we were all attending to our duties in the soul society, the next we were scattered around Karakura Town as animals." Unohana explained in her sweet tone.

"So would anyone mind explaining just how in the hell this happened." Toshiro nearly shouted out. He was angry, clearly, but to Ichigo it sounded like the cutest yipping he had ever heard from a dog before.

"No idea, but we should probably head off with Ichigo until we can figure this out." Renji said to them, getting nods from the whole lot.

They all turned to Ichigo, who had a faraway look in his eyes about the rest of them, and went over to him. Rukia jumped up on his shoulder while both Rangiku and Retsu rubbed themselves on his leg. With a sigh, Ichigo knelt down and started to pet them, enticing a purr from the two.

"Oh my god captain." Rangiku mewed out. "You have to try this. It's like his hands are magic or something." She purred some more as Ichigo scratched behind her ear.

Toshiro shook his head and decided to try it out himself. He was pleasantly surprised when Ichigo started to pet him in all the right places. "Oh, wow." He muttered out as he perched himself onto Ichigo's knee.

"Man, where are you guys coming from?" Ichigo asked to no one in particular. "Oh well." He sighed out as he lifted up the white puppy, much to Toshiro's surprise. "I guess I could take care all of you then. Dad's gonna have a freakin field day with this one."

And with that, Ichigo turned to walk home, with his now six pets in tow.

Yay. I updated another near dead story. Hope ya'll enjoyed it.

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