Chapter 2
The meeting was dismissed, and as the captains put on their white coat, Kaiya put hers' down. As she prepped herself to look like a lowly Death God, she reflected back on the meeting.
"WHHHAATT? That bastard Ichigo? What the hell!" was Renji's first response. "Can't you get someone better than him! For crying out loud…." No one would know what he was going to say next as Kaiya cut him off. "If there's anyone capable of helping us with Aizen, it's Ichigo. Who knows the prowess of his untapped potential. No more questions about my selection choice, Kurasaki Ichigo WILL be helping us once situation arises." She said in uncharacteristic sternness. The rest were silent, the captains looking mostly looking indifferent while their vice-captains stood stunned and confused. "Next week, Hitsugaya and I will be going to the mortal world."
His face shadowed in anger, he said menacingly "Whhhhaaattt! Since when did I agree to go with you to the human world? What about my squad? How long will we be gone? WHAT ABOUT MY WATERMELONS!" "That's why there's one week for you to prepare! Matsumoto will be the one taking care of Division 10, and I will make preparations for our gigai, our lodging, our watermelons, everything. OK? Just be ready by next week. Toushiro… I really need your support…"
"Tsk… Fine… I guess it's my duty after all…" he said reluctantly. He felt Kaiya's arms wrap around his neck, jumping up and down with joy. He just smiled.
"Yea, so, how long did you say it was for again?" "As long as it takes to convince him to
help us."
She sighed, as walked out again. This week was going to be one hell of a busy week. Sometimes, she wished she had not died. There wont be all this ridiculous hassles. "And… I'd be with Shinro…" she said, quietly to herself.
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"Oi, Rukia, can we leave now? I'm starving!" "Yes. I think this will do for today."
"ALRIGHT!" Ichigo dropped his homework on the floor, as he bounded for the door. "Man, you made me wait for so freaking long! Did we really have to finish our homework today?" "Idiot…. You haven't done your work in weeks. How long do you think we can evade our teachers? Besides, it'll give you more time for hunting hollows."
"Cheh… You'd think once we came back, you'd take a break from those damn hollows…" Rukia just gave him a weird look, as she picked up her own work, and placed it on top of others on Ichigo's desk. "Ichigo, don't be an idiot. Of course we can't have 'breaks'." "WHO YOU CALLING AN IDIOT?" "Huh, is there anyone else in this room? No? I guess it must be you then!" "Why you……." beep beep
"Ah? A hollow? Hurry Ichigo." "Ahh! But but but, what about dinner?". At that moment, Rukia pushed his soul out, and headed for the window. "Hai…. I guess it can't be helped." He muttered as he jumped out after Rukia.
As the pattered off to find it, they argued about how much Rukia was going to pay for him missing his dinner. Soon, they spotted the in front of them. "Heh, this should be easy" he said, grabing the hilt of Zangetsu. Before he had the chance to pull him out, a dark shadow swiftly passed by him. He halted, shocked. As the shadow slowly took form, it jumped up, above the hollow, and the tip of the sword it was holding touched the mask of the hollow. As it fell to the ground, its sword was placed in its sheath. Ichigo looked up, as the hollow's mask began to crack, and the line gradually got bigger, longer, as it split it in half, and the hollow disintegrated into dust.
"Rukia… What was that!" Rukia was silent. The shadow had disappeared. 'I don't know… C'mon Ichigo… The hollow is now gone.."
"So… YOU BROUGHT ME OUT FOR NOTHING! I could be eating dinner and instead, you brought me to see a hollow disintegrate?" Hey, I didn't know that was going to happen ok!" They began heading home, squabbling all the way. A little above them, the dark shadow looked down with a smile on it's face.
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Ichigo stared out the school window, with "bored" written all over his face. The teacher was rambling about some incomprehensible mathematical formula which he doesn't care about. He let his mind wander to last night's incident. "Who was that person? Definitely a death god… But I couldn't sense his spirit force… Did he do THAT with his spirit force off?"
"Aii! Hitsu-chan, we're late! I told you we should have gone out earlier!" "STOP DRAGGING ME LIKE THIS!"
The arguing outside snapped Ichigo out of his day dream. He looked up, just as the door of the classroom broke down, and there were 2 figures behind the cloud of dust. As the dust settled, he saw a girl holding a kid by the leg. "Ah… Erm, sorry for disrupting the class" she gave a deep bow of apology. "We're new students." The teacher gave her a look. "What's your name?" she asked picking up a clip board. "Kaiya Itachi."