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It was a cool morning. Most people were still sleeping soundly and peacefully in their beds. The Kurosaki household was no exception, until...
"GOOD MORNING ICHIGO!" was heard echoing throughout the house. Several screams were heard and a few crashes as well.
A few minutes before that, Kise was sleeping peacefully, let out a snort and then fell over her bed with a loud thump. She was about to sleep some more, but no one could ever escape the 'Isshin Kurosaki's GOOD MORNING ICHIGO routine' and go back to sleep too easily. So she went outside to the hall to see what happened and found her Grandpa Isshin laying on the carpet with a defeated look on his face. Standing over him was her dad, looking like he was about breathe fire. Behind him was Rukia, her eyes half open and at one end of the hallway was Karin with bed hair and scowling like Ichigo usually did and on the top of the stairs was Yuzu, already dressed, an apron on and a spatula in hand.
"Ichigo," Isshin said, sitting up, "you pass!" And he gave him a thumbs up, followed by a... very shiny smile.
"Come on Goat Chin," Karin growled, walking over to him, "back to bed for you." She then started dragging him back to his room.
"Ichi-nii, Rukia-chan, Kise-chan, come downstairs for breakfast," Yuzu said before going back downstairs. Kise went back into her room and Ichigo and Rukia into theirs, all three slamming the door hard along the way.
Ten minutes later, they were all downstairs fully dressed and eating the pancakes Yuzu had made for them. Everyone ate quickly, with Ichigo giving Isshin death glares and Karin whacking him over the head for 'smiling too much,' or 'looking happy.' Soon, Ichigo and Kise were out of the door, with Ichigo heading for work and Kise, school.
When Kise got to the school, she went back to the place where she had first met her new friends. They were there alright, but this time, instead of yelling at each other, they were actually looking serious and on Jaclyn's index finger was a black swallowtail butterfly.
"Hey!" Kise said, waving.
"Oh, hi," Jacqueline said, sounding kind of distracted. The other three didn't even take their eyes off the butterfly.
"Whatcha got there?"
"A butterfly," Minhthu said with a sort of, non-interested tone.
"Oh." Kise ended up just standing there while the four of them were absorbed into the butterfly, with Jaclyn saying something to the other three, but Kise couldn't really make it out. A few minutes later, the bell rang and they headed off to their homeroom.
The classroom door was open, but the teacher wasn't in there. "That's weird," Minhthu said, "Caca's usually here."
"Caca?" Kise asked, confused.
"Oh, that's what we call Mr. Costa. Where is he anyway?"
"Who cares? Let's just go inside already!" They went inside and grabbed some seats in a corner. The other students followed suit and went in after them.
Five minutes passed, and he still wasn't there. Ten minutes passed, and the tardy bell rang. Fifteen minutes passed, and finally they heard sounds coming down the hallway. Someone was walking to the classroom. Kise looked over to her friends to ask if this was...normal for their teacher. But the looks on their faces showed they seemed scared and a bit frantic. They didn't notice her and each started whispering something to themselves. Kise just looked away and turned her attention to the door.
The footsteps suddenly stopped outside the classroom. Jaclyn, Jacqueline, Lee Ann, and Minhthu just froze in their seats, not moving at all. And, in came the person. But, it wasn't their homeroom teacher. This man was really tall. He had black square glasses, brown hair, and a sort of disturbing smile on his face.
Kise didn't know why, but for some reason, she got a slight tingle when she saw him. "Hello class," he said in a deep, warm voice. "Your teacher has been unexpectedly called out today, so I'll be your substitute. I'm Mr. Aizen."
Kise turned around to say to the other four that it sure was weird that they were having a sub on the second day of school, but they looked even worse than before. Now, they were shaking a bit, and there was something in their eyes.There was a mixture of emotions clearly evident in their eyes. Fear, anger, and surprise. She was about to ask them what was wrong, but then Mr. Aizen had started to talk again.
"Well class, I'll call roll now, shall I?" He started with the a's, then went on. "Kurosaki, Kiseichou?" He looked up after Kurosaki and saw Kise raise her hand. "Kurosaki? Your father doesn't happen to be Ichigo Kurosaki, does he?"
"Umm...yeah."
Aizen's eyes seemed to twinkle and Kise saw a smile twitching on his lips. "Well, I happen to have met him before, even if it was for a slight moment."
"Oh...umm...okay." He went on, and when he reached Jaclyn's, Jacqueline's, Lee Ann's, and Minhthu's name, they all heard him mutter to himself, "I've heard that name somewhere..." This caused the four of them to, if it was possible, to seem even more scared. But he had brushed it off, and soon, he was done. "Well, I - " the bell rang. "Hmm, short class, isn't it? Well, you may all leave now."
Jaclyn, Jacqueline, Lee Ann, and Minhthu hurried out. They stood outside the classroom and waited for Kise. "Hey, what was up with you back there?" she asked curiously when she came out.
"No time to explain," Jaclyn said hurriedly. "Come on. We have to get out of here!"
"What? Are you that excited to get to History?"
"Just come on!" Minhthu grabbed her arm and the five of them were running out of the 100 building.
"What? What's going on?"
"Just shut up and follow us!" Lee Ann screamed at her, pissed off.
"Ugh, is Aizen following us?" Jacqueline said.
"Oh who cares? We just have to put as much distance between us and him as possible."
"Won't it be faster if we ditch the gigais?"
"No. We have to stick to the Captain-General's orders. Don't use force unless we have to and we can't leave behind the gigais! You know how much Urahara will charge us?" Jaclyn yelled.
"Whatever." Gigais? And isn't Captain-General's that one old guy from last night? Who are they? Kise thought to herself. But, even if they seemed to be acting a little weird, she couldn't help but trust them.
They had been running for a while now and decided to rest at a park bench. "Ugh! Stupid Urahara! Can't even make gigais suitable for running," Jaclyn panted, out of breath.
"Tired already?" a creepy voice behind them snickered. They turned around to see what it was. Kise let out a scream. It looked like...a monster. The thing was huge. It had a white mask on and red creepy eyes. There were huge white teeth hanging on the mask and the body was just as huge. There were arms of course and legs too.
"Great!" Lee Ann said sarcastically. "A Hollow. Just how great for us!"
"Whatever. Who has the glove?" Minhthu asked, looking around at them.
"Umm..."
"I do!" Jaclyn said. She pulled something out of her pocket. It was a glove. It was red and there was a sigil on it. It was a skull with a flame in the back. She pulled it on her right hand and hit the bottom of Minhthu's chin and pushed. Kise just stared. There seemed to be two Minhthus. When Jaclyn had pushed, another Minhthu appeared in a black kimono. The other Minhthu had on her school outfit. That Minhthu collapsed to the floor, while the one in the black kimono stood up.
"Hurry up Jaclyn!" Kise stared.
"Oh. You're probably wondering what happened," she said casually. Kise looked at her. She looked like a samurai, with a katana at her side, and she was wearing a white cloak, and there seemed to be something on the back of it, but she couldn't see. "Well, actually, we'll explain later, but all you need to know is that we're souls." And she headed off to the thing called the hollow.
Jacqueline and Lee Ann had undergone the same...'process' and headed off to where Minhthu was fighting. Jaclyn took out a bottle and popped a piece of candy into her mouth. The almost exact same thing happened. Instead of her body falling unconscious to the floor though, it was still standing. "Hey, you. Take care of her!" Jaclyn said before rushing off after the other three. Kise saw that she was wearing the same white cloak as the other three and on the back of it was the number nine, in kanji and she had a long katana at her side, same as the other three.
Five more Hollows had appeared. "Great! Just great!" Lee Ann said again, sarcastically. She had her katana out and was holding it with both hands. The other three had done the same thing. Just as she said that, three more appeared.
"Well, isn't this our lucky day," Jacqueline said dryly.
"Ugh. Let's just call out our Shikais already. Less work!" Minhthu said.
"'Kay then!" Jaclyn said happily. "Time for the action to begin! San Loong (Mountain Dragon) roar!"
Minhthu said, "Foong Loong (Wind Dragon) roar!"
Lee Ann said, "Faw Loong (Fire Dragon) roar!"
And Jacqueline said, "Sui Loong (Water Dragon) roar!" All of a sudden their normal katanas changed into totally different things.
Jaclyn's blade had turned light brown with small looking bumps on the edge and was longer.There was a face of a dragon outlined in dark brown on the blade and on the upper part of the hilt that separated the blade from the hilt was a silver chain that wrapped around the it and on end of it was a small wood dragon. And on the hilt were dark brown swirls.
Minhthu's blade was longer too and it looked a bit see-through, with smooth edges. There was also a face of a dragon on her blade that was outlined in silver. There was also a silver chain wrapped around its hilt and on the end of the chain was a small crystal dragon and the hilt had silver swirls.
Lee Ann's blade was also longer. It was light red with ragged edges that looked a bit like flames and the face of a dragon outlined in dark red on the blade. The hilt had dark red outlines of flames and was red. There was also a silver chain and on the end of that was a small ruby dragon.
Jacqueline's katana had also changed with the same differences. Her blade was light blue and its edges were soft and watery. The dragon on her blade was outlined in dark blue. The hilt was blue and had dark blue outlines of waves. On the bottom of her chain was a small sapphire dragon.
"Oh, so you can do Shikai. Oh wow, we're scared, aren't we boys?" one of the hollows mocked.
"Hell yeah, you better be," Minhthu said, grinning. She swung her Zanpaku-Tó at two of the hollows and suddenly, a dragon made of wind flew out of her blade and sent them hollow flying. "I get dibs on that one!" she yelled, running over to it.
"Wow. Your little friend can use the wind to her advantage. We're real scared." Lee Ann swung her Zanpaku-to at it and another dragon, one that was made up of flames also flew out of her sword and hit another two of the hollows. The two of them flew back, far away from the others. She swung it again and this time, the dragon split up and the flames became a circle that surrounded the three of them. "It's party time," she grinned.
"My turn!" Jaclyn said, grinning evily. When she swung her Zanpaku-Tó, a huge dragon sprung up from the earth and encircled two of the hollows and herself. They weren't getting out.
The last three were left to Jacqueline. A dragon of water came out of her Zanpaku-Tó and engulfed the remaining hollows. They were caught by surprise and she used this to her advantage and quickly swung her Zanpaku-Tó on one of their heads. Its mask split open and it just dissolved. She suddenly disappeared and reappeared at the other hollow. She laughed when she saw the surprised look on the hollow's face. "Surprised? It's called Shunpo." And she swung her Zanpaku-Tó down and the same thing happened to this hollow. She quickly finished off the last hollow and ran over to Kise.
Minhthu was sending both of her hollows flying everywhere. Every time they would get close to her, she would swing her Zanpaku-Tó and they would fly several yards back. She sighed. "This isn't fun anymore." She quickly Shunpo-ed and quickly got rid of the two of them.
The hollows Lee Ann had sealed up in her circle of fire were...well, on fire. She was laughing. Very hard. "Hahahahahaha! Oh crap. I can't - Owwwww too much laughing!" One of the hollows got rid of the fire that was on it and ran towards her. She giggled some more. "You seriously think you can catch me?" she laughed. And she suddenly reappeared outside the circle of flames. "I'll just stay here 'till I stop laughing," she said, still cracking up. Good thing for her, Minhthu appeared and sliced the hollows for her. The two of them went back towards Kise too.
Jaclyn was playing with the hollows she had captured. One of them had rushed towards her and she leaped up and went she came down, sliced its arm off. When she fell on the ground, she rolled and sliced its leg off too. But, all of her fun didn't last too long. She decided that it was time to get out of there and quickly got rid of both hollows. When they were gone, the earth suddenly uncoiled itself, as if it the layers had been on top of each other and when all of it had been fully uncoiled, the dragon from before appeared before Jaclyn.
"Hey San," she said.
"Hello to you too Jaclyn," it said. "So, I assume Azien has shown his face at last?"
"Yeah. Oh well. At least we get more action now!"
"He doesn't know who you are, does he?"
"I don't know. Me and the girls hid our reiatsu by using some kidou, but I'm not sure if he could sense it or not."
"Well, I don't suppose it's time to tell the Kurosaki child her true roots?"
"You're asking me? I'm not her parents. And who knows what that Ichigo will want to do. He'll probably go, ahem," Jaclyn made her voice a bit deeper, trying to sound like Ichigo, "I'm enough for Kise and Rukia! Do you know what my names means? It means 'one who protects'! And that's what I'm gonna do! Protect them even if I die!"
"Yeah, well guess I'll go now. We have to get Kise back to her parents. The Captain-General'll probably gonna order another captain's meeting. And this time we'll have to go! Stupid traitorous Aizen!"
"Aren't you scared of him?" San asked.
"Whatever," she said and walked over to Kise and the others after the dragon went into her Zanpaku-Tó.
"Hey! We're not going to just leave the gigais here, are we?" Minhthu asked Jaclyn when she approached them.
"Of course not," she said, waving her hand. "Hey! You!" she yelled at her human body (which had another soul in it of course). "Pop some Gikongan into their gigais!"
"Yes m'am!" the soul in her gigai said, saluting her. It quickly did what it was told and soon, they were all running somewhere far away from the park.
"Where're we going?" Kise squeaked.
"Urahara's place, where I bet you anything, there'll be another freaking meeting, and we won't be able to weasel out of it."
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