A/N: Okay, I happened to have time after updating Created Life form Death and since only one episode happens in this chapter, I decided to take a shot in writing through it. Please tell me what you liked my style and how you view the characters that got to comment but have never appeared in manga.

Gotei 13 watches anime – Pendulum Cast
Chapter 2: Episode 1

Not really seeing any other choices, as the exit was indeed blocked and – as they were cheerfully informed by Asagi – they couldn't release their shikai either, the officers took seats on the floor pillows and settled down to wait. On the background Asagi and Kanzo-iro were bickering over whether or not to show something called 'opening' and 'ending' too. Eventually Kanzo-iro won the argument by saying something about the openings being repetitive in the long run and didn't really show anything to contribute to the plot itself.

"They look cool but that's it." The male said.

"Fine…" The female sighed. "Feel free to talk about the episodes, they are combined into story mode so sometimes they might jump into a different scene and stuff for artistic reasons. The notebooks are there so you can write up questions and stuff. Kanzo-iro and I will remain quiet until it comes time to go on to the next episode. Enjoy!"

And thus the first episode began. It was reflected on the surface of the smoothed down rock.

The opening scene was from an area with high cliffs and desolate surroundings. Shadows crept along sand. From the shadows a clump rose in the air and in the next scene poured down from the sky over nightly city, lit with numerous lights.

"We Tremble in Awe of That Which Cannot Be Seen." Proclaimed the text on the screen.

The clumps from the sky fell on the ground and they could identify the shaped now as hollows.

"And We Worship That Which Cannot Be Seen."

A jigokuchou flew up to the sky against the fullmoon and the scene showed a female Shinigami standing on a telephone pole against the same moon. At the close shot of her face, they could see round face, solemn eyes and black hair with one strand falling across her face. At the girl's comment about strong reiatsu in the city.

"I wonder if she is talking about the Hollows or something else." Otoribashi mused. "I hope we'll soon know where she is posted at."

"She seems young enough that she is probably not even at Academy at our time." Ukitake added.

They watched the mystery Shinigami leap forwards.

"And so fell the sword of fate…"

"Not ominous at all…" Hirako muttered. He felt a small bit of satisfaction that his lieutenant hadn't been invited to this gathering. It probably meant that either he was dead in the future or finally he had some proof that Aizen was shady and suspicious character.

The scene changed again. This time it was evening. A man was lying on the ground with his buddies surrounding him and talking angrily at the guy who had apparently knocked him down. And then one other guy got kicked in the face. The brief side profile of the attacker caused a couple of officers to pause.

"Huh…" Kaien blinked but decided to wait for a proper headshot before thinking the matter any further.

"Shut up, will ya!?" The Orange head shouted at the thugs while stomping the other guy's face to the concrete. "Listen, all of you… Look at that!" He pointed at fallen down bottle with flowers in it and water pouring out. It was a strange sight for the officers, never seen something like that before. Meanwhile, they did note the orangette's resemblance to Shiba Kaien.

"First question: What can that be? You in the middle!"

"Huh? Uh, well… flowers for the kid who died here the other day?" Oh, that answered a lot. And apparently the correct answer garnered a kick in the face.

"Then tell me… Why is that vase on its side?"

"Well… we were skateboarding and knocked… it… over…" The guy on the left answered. This time both him and his pal got kicked down. The assailant continued threatening the thugs until they ran away. Then the orange haired boy's attitude did a one-eighty when he turned to address the little girl's soul lingering in the place. To the astonishment of the Shinigami gathered the girl responded to him and they held a conversation.

"He can see that Plus soul?" Lisa blinked. "How it that possible?"

In the boy's internal monologue they got his basic information: Kurosaki Ichigo, 15 years old, and capable of seeing ghosts since he was little.

The boy got home and was kicked in the face by older man and…

"Isshin!" They turned to look at the Third Seat of Division Ten.

"What are you doing in World of Living?" Kensei asked.

"And as a doctor. I had no idea you had healing prowess…" Unohana smiled.

"Ah, wait a minute…" Isshin laughed nervously. "This is a future, right? I have no idea. And is it even certain that… human is me?"

"It would certainly explain how Ichigo can see ghosts…" Kisuke mused.

As the father and son began yelling each other, they could easily identify Isshin's voice in the older man. The shot cut to two younger girls eating dinner at the table but then the alleged Shinigami in the scene said something interesting.

"Are you gloating over the fact that only you can touch or talk to ghosts?!"

"What?!"

"Would that mean Isshin has somehow lost his powers?" Yoruichi muttered.

"Surely not by exile though?" Sojun pointed out.

"It is a possibility but maybe not. It's interesting for him to use the word 'ghost' rather than 'plus' here." Kyoraku said then.

The girls got introduced at Yuzu and Karin while Ichigo kicked the older man to the wall. And a floating and smoking orb appeared by his shoulder.

"Ichi-nii, you have a new one on you." Karin told the boy, without turning around.

"Good spiritual senses for someone so young." Seinosuke said. "In the other hand, how sharp are Ichigo-san's senses if he can't sense them yet can see them so clearly?" He picked up one of the notebooks and wrote down his observations on the Kurosaki siblings. Especially after Yuzu stated sensing them but barely seeing them.

"Isshin has definitely lost his powers." Kisuke observed then. "Even by sealing powers on the order of Central 46, exiled Shinigami can still see plus souls and sense spiritually so they can get away from hollows and such."

And the tussle between the males in the house continued, with Ichigo as the winner. The boy left the kitchen while the other two members of the family continued conversation. And then Isshin went to cry over a poster of a very beautiful woman. It was obvious that it was from her that Ichigo and Yuzu had inherited their haircolor.

"More ghosts than normal then?" Love hummed, referring to the information the Ichigo had relayed to the twins apparently earlier. And when the scene showed next morning and a newsfeed about something the officers of Gotei 13 deduced to be from a Hollow attack…

"The Shinigami posted at… Karakura was it?" Sasakibe confirmed, receiving nods. "She must be swamped by work at this point. If I remember correctly, Karakura is were juureichi is currently situated at. It will attract a lot of hollow to hunt."

And soon the scenes continued, like confirming Sasakibe's words when the beginnings of a next hollow attack were shown. Some woman heard the hollow's scream. Explosion of dust, scratch marks on the wall, panic…

White mask in the smoke then Ichigo saw a hollow for the first time in his life apparently. The little ghost girl from the day previous came running and they run away until she fell down. Ichigo stopped to wait when the jigokuchou fluttered past him and the black-clad girl appeared to cut down the hollow.

Two strikes and the hollows vanished. The girl gave one dismissive glance and Ichigo before leaving.

"He saw her? Definitely strong reiatsu." Rose nodded to himself. "Pity we can't actually be there and gauge with our own senses the situation."

"Don't encourage the two who brought us here." Kensei grunted. "Who knows what else they can come up with.

"Still, the strength of his reiatsu, the control he has if any, the density of reishi in that Karakura town… It would all be useful." Shinji pointed out.

It was night on the screen again. Ichigo was lying on his bed, trying to figure out just what he'd witnessed when the jigokuchou fluttered through the window and the Shinigami girl stepped through the wall onto his desk. Ichigo sat up, staring at her while she ignored him.

"Does she really not notice that he is looking at her, directly?" Hiyori scoffed. "Is she stupid or something? He is even talking to her!"

"Well, when you were last time in the world of living, how much did you pay attention to humans there?" Kisuke hummed.

"Enough that I would've noticed someone talking to me instead of to empty air!"

And then Ichigo kicked the girl.

"What are you talking about?!" The lights on. "First you scare the living daylights out of me, then you ignore me? I'm asking who you are!"

"What a first impression!" Shinji cackled. "I can't wait to see who this little girl is and how she'll handle this.

The girl, while baffled, was surprisingly calm about the situation and questioned the boy before agreeing to explain the situation to the boy.

"Isn't that against rules, Kensei?" Mashiro pouted. "Telling a human?"

"He can already see her and probably wouldn't let her do her job without some sort of reason. Not to mention that she is the one that trespassed into his room and home. Even if it were against rules, she still owes him that much." Kensei replied.

The scene showed outside next, with the familiar plus soul running away from echoing heavy footsteps. The powerlines snapped and electricity run along the hollows form.

"That's quite large for something in the human world." Soi-Fong frowned. "Is that what the girl sensed?"

"Possibly, yet she remained stationary in Ichigo's room, like she wasn't sure about it's direction. Otherwise she would've already gone and cut it down." Yoruichi replied.

"Maybe it was the boy she sensed instead?" Chikane suggested. "Or if our hunches about the boy's reiatsu are correct, then she stepped into the area of his reiatsu and lost the direction to the hollow."

Meanwhile Ichigo was doing a recap about what the Shinigami girl had revealed to him. But…

"Idiot! You think I's believe that!?"

"You're… You're saying that, although you see ghosts, you don't believe in shinigami?"

"Of course! Unfortunately, I've never seen a Shinigami before. I don't believe in anything that I can't see."

"But you can see me now."

"I'll admit that you're no human. But quit playing 'shinigami' around here. Got that? You midget."

"To be fair… He does make a good point." Gin grinned, first of the younger ones of the gathered Shinigami speaking up. "Seeing is believing and all, yet the girl has no concrete evidence for him."

"Bakudo no Ichi: Sai!"

"Well, that's one way to prove it."

The girl continued talking to Ichigo, threatening and looking down on him. Then she konsoed the soul of the salaryman in Ichigo's room. When she called Soul Society a restful place, Rangiku resisted the urge to scoff. Rukongai was anything but.

Then the girl began explaining everything more clearly. Accompanied by awful pictures that many found hard not to laugh at. Only Byakuya honestly liked them but decided to keep quiet about the matter.

"Why was that hollow after that little girl?"

"That I do not know. We have yet to grasp everything about them."

"Just what does the academy teach its students?" Jin'emon muttered.

"Maybe she was fast-tracked through." Kaien guessed. "She has certain noble bearing but if she is not from the main family or even first born, she might've been pushed through the academy regardless of which class she was on. The problem is that we don't know how long she has been in Gotei 13 and how much actual experience she has."

The ghost girl run away from the hollow again but fell on the ground. But when the hollow was about to grab her, it stopped and sniffed the air. It didn't take genius to realize that it smelled the Shinigami girl and Ichigo both.

Then Ichigo heard the hollow before the Shinigami girl. And when the girl continued talking, became clear that it was Ichigo's reiatsu that was blocking her. Then many things happened fast. The girl heard the hollow, Ichigo's sister screamed, the girl suddenly could sense the hollow reiatsu again, Yuzu appeared wounded and told about Karin being taken and…

Once downstairs, Ichigo managed to break through the bakudo spell.

"Wow…" Shinji whistled.

What happened next wasn't that impressive though when the hollow tossed Ichigo to the ground after he tried to attack it with a chair.

The Shinigami girl attacked the hollow and made it drop Karin whom Ichigo caught then. The hollow vanished but was not defeated. The girl explained what she had deducted about Ichigo and his spiritual energy, concluding that both of the hollows were after him.

"What an idiot…" Lisa hissed when Ichigo decided to confront the hollow himself at the end of the explanation. And then the Shinigami girl get in between him and the hollow, getting severaly injured in process. She fell on the ground.

"Shinigami!"

"You fool! You should've known… That you were no match for it. Or, did you think that everything would be over if you gave him your soul? At this rate, we will all simply become food for him." The Shinigami girl crawled over a fence and collapsed against it. "Do you want… to save your family?"

"What is she planning?" Nanao frowned, looking up at Lisa.

"Something illeagal… Which just might be their only chance of survival." Shunsui mused. He glance from the corner of his eye at Yamamoto who was sitting in the side with Ginrei and Chikane but couldn't gauge what the elders were thinking.

"Of course! Is there a way?"

"There is just one way… You must become a Shinigami!"

"What?!"

"Run the point of this Zanpakuto through the center of your being and I will pour my powers into you. I don't know if it will work, but there it nothing else we can do."

"…Give me that sword, Shinigami."

"My name is not Shinigami. I am Kuchiki Rukia."

"She is a Kuchiki?!" Several gathered officers gaped. A Kuchiki violating such a serious law? Unheard of. (Especially when Kuchiki Kouga was basically struck out of history books.)

Sojun tilted his head. The girl was obviously important person in future events and since she was already alive at this point of time (if what she declared of her own age to Ichigo was true) it could've been possible that she would've bene included too… Or at least her parents. So why weren't they and only himself, Ginrei and Byakuya were. Or was she adopted to the main family after the death of her parents? Hmm… Maybe she knew Byakuya well too.

On the screen, Ichigo grabbed the zanpakuto and Rukia got on her feet. The hollow approached them.

"I am Kurosaki Ichigo." The boy declared to his benefactor. In a flash of light, the exchange of powers happened. And when it was over, Ichigo was clad in shihakusho and had a large sheath at his back and a zanpakuto fitting the sheath.

"Is that zanpakuto… sealed?" Rangiku gaped. "I mean, it's Rukia's right? And just seconds went by so he couldn't have learn the shikai release command either even if it was his, right?"

"Yes, I believe so…" Isshin muttered. Things were getting strange and complicated.

"I got to say that in shihakusho, Ichigo-kun looks even more like Kaien." Ukitake smiled.

Ichigo hefted the large sword onto his shoulder and the scene cut to Rukia who was clad in white yukata robe.

"Could it be… I meant to give him half of my energy, but he took it all… Who is he?" The girl thought. "I have never seen a human with enough reiatsu to confuse a shinigami. I have never seen a human with enough power to break a kidou spell on his own. And… I've never seen a shinigami's zanpakuto become so large!"

"I'm guessing she is just talking about the sealed state since shikais can be about any size as long as the Shinigami is capable of using them. Not to mention bankai…" Love stated.

And Ichigo defeated the hollow.

Name: Kurosaki Ichigo

Age: 15

Hair color: Orange

Eye color: Brown

Occupation: High school student and Shinigami.

The episode ended.

"Now, what did you think? Our protagonists for the first story arc have just been introduced!" Asagi chirped up.

"Why do I get the feeling that in the next 'story arc' they will have to face the consequences of what just happened here?" Shunsui hummed.

"Maybe…" There was a grin in Asagi's voice. "Nee, Kanzo-iro, what do you think about Ichigo-kun and Rukia-san here?"

"Idiots the both of them." Came the immediate reply. "I can't believe that…"

"Now, now, the end result was the exact same one than in our world."

"But he was actually an idiot and brash hothead not pretending to be one like…"

"Would we be correct if one were to assume that you are also a Kurosaki Ichigo, Kanzo-iro-san?" Sojun spoke up then.

Silence…

"Damn…" The male muttered but opened his throat then and spoke more clearly. "Yes, Sojun-san, I am Kurosaki Ichigo but not the version of which you are watching about."

"Our Kanzo-iro-kun is much smarter and cooler than he is. Thanks to yours truly! I don't exist in that world so Ichigo-kun is more brash there." Asagi chirped up. "And now, let's have the next episode to run!"

A/N: Thank you who have favorited and followed this fic. It try to live up to your expectations whenever I happen to update this. Knowing Kanzo-iro and Asagi is still not necessary as they only run commentary in the beginning and end of the chapters.

I didn't have Isane and some of the younger ones talk that much (if at all) since they feel a bit awkward in the presence of about all the captains and lieutenants while their superiors just treat this as another get-together.

Replies to Reviews:

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Thank you.
I can't wait for either of writing how they'll react first to Kisuke and Tessai in human world, then to the line up of captains and finally to the Visored. :D