Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any of its characters, ideas, etc.

This is my first Bleach fanfic and one of my first actual fanfics. I'm not excellent in writing, but I'll try. The first chapter isn't long, but I promise (or hope) that the other chapters will be longer.

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Chapter 1: Boredom

Ichigo was sleeping. His alarm clock rang. Too lazy to even reach for the alarm clock, Ichigo tried to wait until the alarm clock stopped. In ten seconds, it stopped. Odd. It never stopped so quickly before. Out of nowhere came a flying Kurosaki Isshin, Ichigo's father, yelling "Good Morning Ichigo!" Ichigo, astonished, immediately got out of his bed. Isshin's head came in contact with Ichigo's bed. Firm, the bed managed to get Isshin to bleed. One spot of Ichigo's bed was slightly stained with red.

Isshin told him to go downstairs to eat breakfast. Ichigo kicked his father out of the room and hollered that he would go downstairs after he donned his school clothes. At the kitchen table sat Karin, who was eating her breakfast, Rukia, who finished her breakfast, and Isshin, who was gobbling down his breakfast. Yuzu was preparing Ichigo's breakfast.

Along with Rukia, Ichigo walked off to school. Everything was boring on Earth. Ichigo was constantly being annoyed by Kon, Rukia, and his father. Kon was described as a stupid, perverted stuffed animal that consistently annoyed him with things like where Rukia was when she did not directly go back home and wanting his name to be changed to Kai. Rukia's art burned Ichigo's eyes, not to mention every night Rukia drew a "masterpiece" to show everyone in the family. Isshin was just plain irritating.

Furthermore, Ichigo's daily routine soon became quite dull. It was wake up, brush the teeth and wash the face, eat breakfast, go to school with Rukia, be "educated" for about six hours, go back home, complete the homework assigned, eat dinner, and then go to sleep on weekdays. On weekends, it was slightly more fun, but since Keigo was also annoying and Mizuiro had a date virtually every day, Ichigo had hardly anything to do. He tried Orihime's house, but she was never there. She probably was a Tatsuki's house. Chad was a mystery to Ichigo. Occasionally, hollows may show up, but they were all so weak that one slash could finish numerous hollows at a time.

It was ironic. Ichigo had not really liked being a shinigami, but now, he found it exciting. He desired for more action. He craved for more battles like the one with Kenpachi or the one with Byakuya. There were several battles with hollows after Ichigo came back from Soul Society, if they could even be called battles. It was like extreme action had become part of Ichigo's life now. Without it, life was just…boring.

"Mayuri-sama," murmured a quiet voice.

Mayuri didn't hear Nemu. He wouldn't care anyway. Focused on his work, he continued to type at a rapid rate. Nemu said his name louder. This time, Mayuri actually heard.

"What is it Nemu?" muttered Mayuri, not even turning around to glare at Nemu for interrupting him.

"Would you like some coffee?"

"No, now please leave this place."

Nemu left. Apparently, what Mayuri was focusing on was attempting to crack the password to a file that Urahara had left, either accidentally or purposely. Mayuri knew that in that file was important information that Urahara probably did not want Soul Society to know. This made Mayuri think that Urahara left the file on the main computer on accident.

Mayuri managed to crack the password. After reading about a paragraph of information, the file was suddenly deleted. It was definitely on purpose. Urahara knew that the next captain of the 12th division would be quite interested in the file. If they managed to get in, Urahara created a timer to delete the file if opened in thirty seconds, so that the captain could read the first paragraph, but then become even more curious.

This was what happened to Mayuri. He had read:

Long ago, in Hueco Mundo, hollows considered as the Mother of Hollows and the Father of Hollows were destroyed. They seemed to be created by dark energy of people who would go to hell after they died. Because of this, they were different than many other hollows. They were the first hollows. The Mother of Hollows apparently gave birth to babies each day. After the Mother of Hollows and the Father of Hollows were destroyed, the birth of the babies stopped. The babies, which had turned into adult hollows, were gradually killed, one by one. Soon enough, people who went to Hueco Mundo would become hollows.

"Shit!" screamed Mayuri, banging the keyboard. "But what did he mean? What was he implying? When did he write it? How did he know this? There're still so many questions that are unanswered!"

At the Urahara shop, Rukia was conversing with Urahara. She walked back to Ichigo's house, holding something roughly the size of Kon.

"Rukia nee-chan!" Kon exclaimed in happiness, jumping up to hug her as she opened Ichigo's bedroom door.

Rukia mercilessly grabbed Kon. Clutched him hardly, Rukia held the little ball known as Kon that had been spit out of the lion plush toy. Rukia stuffed the little ball into a bunny plush and embraced it happily.

Kon blushed furiously, despite being a stuffed animal. He held Rukia's chest and said, "They're small, but they're lovely!"

Rukia ruthlessly threw Kon at the wall. Ichigo was watching the whole time.

"I personally don't care, but why'd you place Kon into a bunny?" asked Ichigo.

"First of all," responded Rukia, "Kon would actually be somewhat loveable."

"Rukia nee-chan actually cares for me!" shouted Kon in glee.

"I pity him since he isn't loved by anyone," explained Rukia. "Secondly, I obtained this from Urahara. It's designed to sense any somewhat dangerous enemy in fifty kilometers. Last of all, the alarm system is connected to your brain, so it is not noisy. Also, it will direct you to the enemy. By doing this, you'll be able to if an enemy shows up."

"The hell…" muttered Ichigo. "First of all, there're not many dangerous enemies. Second of all, this isn't necessary, and third of all, how did Urahara even manage to connect this thing to my brain? Also another thing, I'll have to bring this retarded thing with me wouldn't I?"

"For the two questions, I'll just say that I have no idea for the first one, and for the second question, it's not necessary, but suggested so that the enemies near your area will be detected."

"Man, this is just boring. Everything is."

Meanwhile, in Hueco Mundo, something was forming, or to be more precise, two things were forming.