Sorry it's been so long since the last update but I go to high school so what can you expect from me. Thanks for waiting though. Just so all of you understand, I will not stop this fanfic until it is complete so even if there are long stretches between updates don't fear. Anyways lets get on with the story.

"Zanpakuto"

"Hollow"

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"So would you like to try to explain to me, what the hell that was back there?" asked Rukia. Upon the dynamic duo arrival to Ichigos room, Rukia has been prying Ichigo for answers. They left the window open so the cool spring breeze nipped at their skin. The wind blew with a quiet whistle.

"I honestly don't know." Said Ichigo in his defense.

"Well let's get to training you so you can start learning how to do that at will, ok?" Said Rukia.

"Why?" Asked Ichigo.

"Well if you can use that, whatever it is, at will then you don't need me to smack you. Though I will always miss that part."

"Hey." Yelled an undignified Ichigo.

"Well I got to go home." Said Rukia as she stepped out his window.

The next day

"Ok so the point of this exercise is to: hit all the balls with faces on them?" asked Ichigo.

"Yes. But only the ones with faces." Answered Rukia.

"HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HEADS AND ARMS WHEN THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME" Yelled Ichigo, who in response got whacked upside the head with the manga that Rukia was reading.

"MAYBE YOU SHOULD LOOK AT THE BALLS BEFORE YOU HIT THEM." Shouted Rukia back. She then turned around to finish reading her book(manga).

"Hey Ichigo." Said Orihime from right behind Ichigo. Ichigo jumped about 2 meters into the air.

"Orihime! What's up?" Asked Ichigo.

"Just heading home from shopping. What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Oh…I….um." Stuttered Ichigo 'what should I tell her? The truth is just too crazy' looking up Ichigo saw another screen.

[Skill Unlocked!

Planning - You take into consideration all the factors to come up with a master plan. Plans starts off with 20% success rate.

Success of the plan depends on mastery level.

For every point of mastery you gain + .5% succession rate.

For every ten points of mastery you gain +1 to Int.

Lv. 1, 00.00% mastery.]

'Cool. This will come in handy.' Thought Ichigo. When Ichigo looked up and was out of his thoughts, he saw Orihime talking to Rukia about school.

"Hey Orihime what happened to your arm?" Asked Ichigo.

"Oh, I got run over." She said as if it was nothing.

"Are you ok?"

"Ya, It's happened a lot recently."

"Well if your sure."

"Oh I'm going to be late."

"Would you like me to walk you home?" Asked Ichigo. After he said this Orihime blushed and started running home while shouting back.

"No thanks, I can walk myself. Thank you though." She said in her usual fluttery attitude.

'He should have been more persistent.' Thought Orihime.

"Does Orihime have any relatives?" Asked Rukia.

"Yah. She had an older brother."

"Had?"

"Yes?"

"I believe that she may have been attacked by a hollow. Her leg wrecked of hollow." Said Rukia.

"Yes I could sense it too." He said. Well let's go home. Speaking of which where do you live?" Asked Ichigo.

"Why would you want to know? Thinking of following this poor girl home?"

"HELL NO. Your crazy." Exclaimed Ichigo.

Once Ichigo got home he went up stairs with sleep in mind. Instead he got A Yuzu with missing pajamas. Once he got that situation out of the way Ichigo was glad to lay down and finally rest. All of a sudden Ichigo started hearing a pinging sound, like the sound your character makes when you level up in a video game, Ichigo turned his head looking for a screen that might have made this noise, when Rukia bursts out of his closet and knocks him over all the while yelling "GET DOWN" The next thing Ichigo sees is a hand coming out of his bed at break neck speeds.

Ichigo was sprawled on the floor when Rukia yelled at him to go shinigami. Ichigo yelled "SOUL SWITCH" and was surrounded in a blue-ish red smoke. When the smoke cleared Ichigo was in his shinigami form. A screen popped up but he was too focused on fighting the snake-like hollow to notice. Ichigo's blade got a lucky hit on the hollow and cut off a part of the hollows mask reveling a face he hadn't seen in years. After the attack the hollow zooms off through a black hole in the air.

"What haven't you told me about hollow? That was Orihime's brother face I saw." Demands Ichigo.

"I told you that the quickest way to get rid of a hollow is to cut it's mask from behind. Well this also serves so you don't see who it used to be. You see all hollows used to be regular, run-of-the-mill, people." Rukia stated with a solemn face.

"WHAT? So all this time that I thought that I was killing monsters I was really killing people?" Asked Ichigo with a dark look on his face.

"They used to be people. They are monsters now." Said Rukia sadly. Now if we don't go Ms. Inoue is going to die." On that happy note Rukia jumped onto Ichigo's shoulders as he jumped out of the window, down onto the street below.

"You just missed the best opportunity that you could've had." Yelled Tatsuki at the oblivious Orihime.

"What opportunity?" Orihime asked.

"What you should have done is, when he asked if you wanted to be walked home, you should have said 'Yes' then when you get to a nice empty spot you…smash his head into the nearest wall." Exclaimed Tatsuki. Orihime, not expecting that at all, spit her drink everywhere.

Suddenly there was a rumbling that felt like an earthquake. The girls looked around to see if anything fragile fell. When Orihime saw her teddy hit the ground.

"Oh my goodness Enraku (1), what happened?" Asked a scared looking Orihime. As she held the stuffed animal Orihime felt something wet on her hand and looked at it. Her expression changed to one of horror, there was blood on her hand and it was coming from the teddy bear. All at once she was hit in the chest with a giant hand that came out of the bear. As Orihime was knocked down Tatsuki ran over and tried to wake her up. Orihime looked up and with blurry vision saw what looked like her body not far away. This confused Orihime. 'How could I be outside my body, unless…I'm dead!' Then, as her vision cleared she saw a chain coming out of her body and leading to hers. 'I wonder what that is?' She thought. When she looked up Orihime saw what looked like a large red snake. With a head that was covered with strait black hair and a large bone white mask that had a large part broken off.

"Who-o are y-y-you?" Stuttered Orihime. Meanwhile Tatsuki was trying to revive Orihime's body.

"WHAT, do you not recognize me?" Asked the hollow.

"No?" Orihime said back. After hearing this, the hollow screams and it's tail flings Tatsuki across the room knowing her out. Next the creature try's to grab Orihime when out of nowhere Ichigo blocks the swing with his sword.

"If you want to kill Orihime then you have to get through me, Sora." Ichigo said with determination rolling off him in waves.

"Wait. Brother is that you?" Questioned Orihime.

"Yes." He said. "Once I get this pest out of the way we can live together again. We will always be together." With that Sora took his hand away from Ichigo's sword and swung his tail at Ichigo. Ichigo tried to cut it but the scales deflected it, but he was thrown out the side of the apartment.

'Activate Skill Planning' Ichigo thought. As he did this Sora came at him. Sora tried the same move as before but Ichigo jumped over the tail and onto Sora's back. Sora twisted himself and Ichigo fell off. Before he could hit the ground Ichigo created a platform of solid air to stand on. After this time froze for Ichigo and he got another notification. Ichigo just willed it away to attend to later. He had a fight to finish. Ichigo got back up and looked toward Sora.

"What kind of a brother are you?" Asked Ichigo. "What kind of a brother would willingly harm his sister? No, no, you are no brother. You are a monster." Said Ichigo with a calm, almost sad voice. "You know why brothers are born first. It is to take care of the little ones that follow after. To make sure that they live the best life that they can, without fear, without injury, and with the knowledge that their brother will protect them no matter what. You are an abomination, and a monster.

Sora looked at Ichigo as if something just occurred to him, but just as quick as it came it was gone again. The fight continued. Sora then speed toward Ichigo and sent a clawed hand to Ichigo. Ichigo dogged, just as Sora expected, Sora then sent his tail into the shadows behind Ichigo and swung, knocking Ichigo back into the apartment. Ichigo's limp body rolled next to a shocked Orihime. Orihime looked horrified at Ichigo's seemingly lifeless body. Sora looked at the fruits of his labor and smiled as best he could. Just when Sora looked back at Orihime, Ichigo leaped up as fast as he could and sliced as Sora's mask. Sora looked down as over half of his mask came off. Sora looked around as if for the first time.

"Wha-what h-have I done?" He questioned out loud to himself.

"You didn't do anything. It was that monster that did this not you."

"Thank you." Said Sora out of gratitude.

"For what?" Asked Ichigo.

"That speech you gave back there let me get through to that monster, even if just for a little bit. So thank you." Sora then took the sword and set it against his skull. Rukia run up panting for breath.

"Wait a minute Sora. Where have you been midget?" Questioned Ichigo right to Rukia's face. This, unsurprisingly, got him a kick in the shin.

"Well when you got knocked out of the apartment I was still on your back but instead of hanging on I lost my grip and fell, so I had to run all the way back here."

"Sounds like you." Dismissed Rukia and looked back at Sora only to find him trying to comfort a crying Orihime.

"Well let's do this." Said a sad Sora. Sora then, with a squelching sound slid the sword through his skull. As he started to fade away he said.

"Please Ichigo, take care of her for me." At this Ichigo nodded his head and Sora was gone. Rukia then pulled out what looked like a PEZ dispenser with a duck shaped head. Rukia put her thumb on the things head and pressed down. A pink mist encircled Orihime's head.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" Asked Ichigo.

"Well we don't want her blabbing about monsters and us do you?" This made Ichigo think for a second.

"Yeah, I guess your right. Oh one more thing are you going to be staying in my closet until you can go back?" Questioned Ichigo.

"Yes I will." Said Rukia in a matter of fact tone. She then walked off in the direction of Ichigo's house. Said person started walking home but stopped when he felt someone watching him. He looked behind him only to see nothing but a black blur out of the corner of his eye. He put this Information to the back of his mind for later.

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"You really are a sharp one Ichigo Kurosaki. You interest me." A small black cat then walked off into the distance.

(1)Enraku is the name of Orihime's Teddy bear in Chapter 4: Why do you eat it?

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