"Arata! Come on now, it's getting late!" yelled out a female voice. The voice belonged to a woman in her early 30s. She was beautiful, with black hair reaching the middle of her back. She donned a pale blue kimono with blue trim and was carrying a basket of fruit in her arms as she watched her son play with the other children of the village.

Her son was slightly taller than boys his age but was the friendly giant to all the kids around him. He radiated an aura that welcomed everyone around him. Everything about him was innocent. From his looks to his actions, he looked like he couldn't hurt a fly.

And his name is Arata Takahashi.

"Mom!" the young Arata yells before hugging his mother's side. "Is dad home?"

The mother smiles down at her growing boy. "He just came back from his post. He waiting for us now as we speak"

"Let's not keep him waiting then!" Arata happily exclaimed, taking his mother's hand and walking back home.

Until the whole scene started to fade until everything was consumed by darkness.

The executioner lowly groans as he awakes, his eyes fluttering open underneath his mask. He sits ups and looks around, finding the owner of the home he resided in, Orihime putting on a gray jacket over a short white blouse shirt with a red bow at the collar. She had a matching gray skirt, reaching above her knees. Below the skirt she wore long black socks reaching below her knees with black shoes. It reminded him of the boys he encountered.

"Are you part of a gang?" He asks suddenly.

Not seeing the executioner wake up, Orihime jumps slightly at the sound of his voice. He has a very scary voice, she thought. She looks to him confused for a second before she responded.

"Well... I have a gang of friends but if you're referring to a gang gang, no"

"Then what's with the outfit?" Arata questions.

Orihime connected the dots. He must of ran into some of the delinquents. "This is my school uniform. I'm going to school"

Arata looks at her confused. Her home didn't look like a noble home but, then again, all the building in this new world looked fancy comparing them to back home.

Arata shrugs and gets up, cracking a few of his joints before standing near the door.

"Umm... what's up?" Orihime asks, confused.

"I'm coming" he said simply, surprising the teen.

"Oh! You don't have to escort me. I'll get there fine"

"I know. I just want to see this school of yours" Arata says. He was hoping in his mind that the boys he encountered were there. He wondered what their face will look like if they ran into him again.

"But-" but before she could protest, she looked at the clock and saw she was behind schedule. She rushed out the door with Arata behind her. To anyone witnessing them, it looked as if he was chasing her.

They run to the front gate of Karakura High. Orihime leans on a nearby wall to catch her breathe while Arata looks at massive school and its flow of students. Part of him felt envious. A small part of him though.

After resting, Orihime began to walk into the school but soon remembered Arata behind her. She turns on her heel and stops him with a hand in front of her. He stops when he feels the girl's hand on his chest. Orihime blushes slightly, feeling how hard his chest was, and pulls her hand away when she sees that he stopped walking. Fortunately, there was only a few students to witness Orihime talking with the masked man.

"You can't come"

"But-"

"I know you're curious, and I would bring you along if I could, but you're not a student or staff. Even if you enter, they'll just kick you out. Just go back to my apartment. Here..." and she gave him her keys. "Or you could walk around the neighborhood and explore". She then started running into the school. "I'll be back!" and she enters the building, greeted by a black haired girl.

Arata stands in the middle of the gate looking at where she entered. He pockets her keys, deciding to take her advice and just walk around. That was until he felt pressure push him down and he looks in the direction of the source, the school.

He starts to walk to the school but is stopped when a man in a red tank top and short shorts yells at him.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing here?! Don't you know school's... in... session..." the man yelled but the words became meek and quiet as soon he was within arms distance. Arata stares him down, further intimidating him into the dirt.

"I wish to enter the school" he said. He wasn't even trying to come off scary but to the smaller man in front of him, he felt like he was going to wet himself on the spot, or faint. Or both.

"W-Well you can't... do that unless you called ahead". His eyes then drift to the wall, holding a flyer by the school, stating that they are in need of a new security guard. The man physically gulps. He hoped that he wasn't here for that.

Unfortunately for him, Arata follows his eyes and see the same flyer. "You need a new security?"

The man screamed in his mind. "Y-Yeah, we do, but it's a pretty strenuous job and the students are very rowdy so I don't think you would want thi-"

"I'll take it"

"What!?" the man screams. "W-W-Well, you can't. You need to be interviewed first-"

"Then take me to your leader"

The more and more he spoke, the more scared he became. He just wouldn't quit. Not wanting to aggravate the masked man, he nods and begins to lead him to the principal office.

Later...

Ichigo Kurosaki sat with his group of friends in class. Though most were listening to the lesson ahead, Ichigo and his more spiritual aware friends kept sensing a strong presence in the school, diverting their attentions away from their teacher.

The presence felt sinister and empty like that of a hollow only... it wasn't? It confused those that felt it.

He looks around, seeing his friends on edge. Uryu was looking in its direction and Chad was silent but was fully aware of the presence. Orihime though wasn't acting so much. Truthfully, she looked like she was hiding a secret and that secret was about to burst through the doors any second.

The intercoms come alive, blasting the principal's voice. "Attention students! Just a brief announcement to say I would like to announce a new addition to our security force! He is currently walking door to door, introducing himself! And don't you worry students! He's only... mildly surprising so please him a warm, respectful welcome!"

"A new security guard?" his other female friend, Tatsuki said.

Keigo, the self-proclaimed "ladies man" spoke next. "Yeah, I heard one of our security guards quit because he was hella scared of some of the kids here"

"What did he mean by 'mildly surprising'?" a red headed girl with glasses thought aloud.

"Ichigo... something doesn't feel right" Uryu quietly said to the substitute soul reaper.

"Yeah. Be on your guard everyone"

A knocking came from the classroom door. Their teacher, Misato Ochi, walks to answer to knocking with an easy-going on her face.

She slides the door open. "Hello-OH!"

She steps back in slight fear but mostly surprise. A tall figure, about the same height as Chad walks in. He was wearing a pale blue standard issue security guard with a cap but the most striking feature of him was the mask on his face.

Everyone is taken back, silencing themselves. Keigo reacted the most hardest out of all of them, screaming like a little girl before passing out on his desk.

'His mask...' Ichigo thought, eyeing the piece. His inner hollow was hollering at the new guy.

Arata looks in his direction, making eye contact. Ichigo stares back, eyeing him with suspiciously, feeling as if the strange masked man wants him for something. What it was, he did not know, but it can't be good.

"Ummmm... would you like to introduce yourself?" Ms. Ochi says, breaking the staring match between Ichigo and Arata.

Arata glances at her before addressing the students. "I'm you new security guard, Arata Takahashi. Break the rules and I break you. That's all" and he leaves, closing the door behind him.

Everyone sat in complete silence, digesting that quick but effective introduction.

"Well..." Ms. Ochi said, once again breaking the silence. "That was scary huh?" she chuckles out. "Let's continue our lesson shall we?" she said trying to sound like her usual cheery self but Arata damn near knocked all that out of her.

Later...

Ichigo sat with his friends on the roof top, eating lunch with them. Keigo hadn't woken up so Tatsuki had to haul him around, albeit reluctantly, so she and Mizuiro went to bathroom with him to, hopefully, wake him up.

"That man was not normal" Chad said bluntly.

"Obviously. A better question should be if he's friend or foe" said Uryu.

"I don't know about you guys but I felt like the guy was staring at me. Think he's with Aizen?" questioned Ichigo.

"If so, what would the purpose be exposing himself like that?" Uryu replies.

Ichigo shrugs before notices Orihime not talking, which was a first. He puts his hand on her shoulder, gently shaking her to get her attention.

"Hey Orihime, you all right?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah I'm okay. Why?"

"You seem pretty out of it lately. Did the new guard scare you?"

She shook her head. "No it's just... umm..."

Just then, the door leading to the roof opens, revealing the new security guard. The group stands in attention as he approaches them. Orihime though looks on apprehensively.

"You all are powerful... I can feel it" Arata states with his hands in his pockets.

"And what of it? What is it you want?" Ichigo questioned suspiciously.

This boy is practically leaking energy. Hmmmm...

'What is it?'

His energy, I think I can-

"Hey!" the orange-haired boy yelled, taking Arata away from the voice. "Who are you? What do you want?"

The executioner shrugs. "I sensed power from you. A lot of power. I wanted to see what it was. Also..." he then tossed Orihime her keys. "I wanted to return those back?"

Uryu arched an eyebrow. "Did you drop your key?"

"N-Not really. I-"

"There you are!" yelled an approaching voice. All turned to see Renji landing and approaching Arata. "What the hell are you doing here?". After leaving Arata with Orihime, the redhead concluded the night at Urahara's shop. He slept in for a few extra hours and when he went to check on Arata, he found he wasn't inside Orihime's apartment but at Ichigo's school.

"Working" Arata states simply.

Renji is taken back by surprise. "Wait. You work here? Since when?"

"Since about a few hours ago" answered Arata.

"Renji, how do you know this guy?" asked Ichigo.

The red-head turns to the orange-head. "Met him just last night after he was badly wounded fighting a hollow"

Ichigo's eyes widen slightly, looking at Arata. "You fought a hollow?"

"And lost too" Renji smirked, irritating Arata greatly. Oh, how he loathed being weak and powerless. He trained his body and mind to become the epitome of an apex killer and now he was back to square one in a foreign world.

Don't worry child. You won't be powerless for long.

'How so?'

Before the voice could speak again, Arata was brought back to the current conversation.

"-and that's how Arata ended up bunking with Orihime".

Ichigo and his friends digested what was told to them. First, this man could've been the cause of that large explosion of energy, one that could be felt from the Soul Society. Second, that he refused to answer Renji's questions, adding to his mystery. And third, he was staying with Orihime.

Said girl was looking down. "When were you gonna tells us this?" asked a more suspicious Uryu.

"Soon! I swear! I just didn't want you all to start worrying about me"

"How can we not? Orihime, look at him" Ichigo exclaimed, gesturing to Arata.

Orihime looked at him, suddenly feeling an intimidating aura loom over her as he stared at her with his expressionless mask. "He's not so bad. He helped the spirit of a little boy and he even likes my cooking" she argued.

Arata just stared at her, deadpanned and if the voice had a body and face, it would be doing the same.

Should you mention that you only ate her cooking because you didn't eat anything at all prior to meeting her? And that you had woken up late at night to use the bathroom because your stomach was acting up pretty badly?

'At least the drink she gave me was palpable. I am now curious if there are more types of this 'soda' in this world'

Arata shakes his head and turns to Ichigo, who was currently looking up at him, a relaxed but yet stern expression on his face. He sighs. "Look, if Orihime trust you, then I'm willing to give you a chance". He then turns to his other friends. "What about you guys?"

Uryu glares at Arata for a second before sighing, nodding his head.

"Sure. Just don't make us regret giving you this chance" Chad said simply.

Arata scoffs. "Hmph. As if I would be so ungrateful to hurt my host"

Ichigo lets out a small smile. Everyone turns when they see the door open, revealing Mizuiro, Tatsuki, and Keigo.

"Awwww... thanks guys for waking me up. I swear that security guard is one creepy-"

"'Creepy' what?". Keigo snaps his head to Arata who was standing near him, casting a large shadow over him, overwhelming him with his intimidating presence. Keigo screams in fear like a little girl again and faints yet again, with Tasuki quickly catching him.

"God dammit! We just woke him up too!"