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Yay! Hanatarou comes down to Earth! …Meh, just read I guess.
Chapter 8: Arrival of an Old Friend
Hanatarou arrived on Earth. He observed the place, absorbing the atmosphere. Now then, his first task would be to locate Urahara. Exactly where was he though. Despite only recently obtaining the orders from Unohana, Hanatarou's memory was quite ambiguous. It was not too astonishing though. Hanatarou was usually forgetful. Trying to think as hard as he could, Hanatarou walked around in circles. Hanatarou managed to remember the word shouten. And then it hit him. The Urahara Shouten was to place to find Urahara. But where exactly was the Urahara Shouten? As Hanatarou pondered on, he began to walk for no apparent reason. He walked through a tough-looking, orange-haired human.
"Hanatarou?" asked Ichigo.
"Oh, hey Ichigo-san…Ichigo-san!" Hanatarou immediately tried to grab Ichigo's shoulders, but due to not having a gigai yet, his hands went through Ichigo's body. "Ahem, nice to see you again Ichigo-san. Um, do you know where the Urahara Shouten is? I need to find Urahara-san."
"Yep," replied Ichigo. "I was just there training and speculating at a hollow fight, but mostly training. Anyway, do you want me to take you there or something?"
"Um, yes, that would be nice," responded Hanatarou. "Thank you," he thanked, bowing slightly.
"Man, I haven't seen you for quite a while," said Ichigo. "How's it been over at Soul Society?"
"Um, I'm not too sure, but we seem to have a problem over at-" Hanatarou stopped, covering his mouth. The information was confidential to seated officers only. "Everything's great."
"…?" Ichigo was skeptical, but decided not to go into too much detail. Ichigo stopped at a shop the size of a small house. "Here we are, the Urahara Shouten."
"Kurosaki-san?" smiled Urahara. "You've come back? Oh, who's this? A shinigami?"
"Um, yeah, he's Hanatarou. Don't worry Urahara-san, he won't pose a threat."
"He won't even if he wanted to…" smiled Urahara, and then he led the way in. "First of all Hanatarou, are you going to be staying on Earth for quite a while?"
"Yes," said Hanatarou. Hanatarou pulled Urahara away to discuss Soul Society matters. "I will am ordered to stay on Earth, but I must tell her my progress in this mission each day."
"Ah, well, I have the perfect thing for you," said Urahara. "But I'll show you later. Also, I have quite a bit of speculations on what happened, so you're in luck. However, if you're going to freeload here, you're going to need to have a part-time job, of which all of that money goes to me. This means you'll need a gigai. Furthermore, when you're not working, you will be helping out here, at the Urahara Shouten. That's the only way to make me reveal all that information and to let you stay. Got it?"
Hanatarou, gullible as he was, replied "yes," much to Urahara's surprise. Urahara went to search for a scanning device to scan the appearance of Hanatarou.
"So," said Ichigo, walking up to Hanatarou. "What's going on in Soul Society currently?"
"Well, you see-" Hanatarou covered his mouth again. Confidential information. Hanatarou stepped three steps back from Ichigo and stiffly laughed, "Heh, heh, nothing much as of now."
"Here we go!" said Urahara rather cheerfully. "Turn around Hanatarou.
Hanatarou turned around. Urahara was pointing a gun-like scanner object resembling a barcode reader at Hanatarou, frightening him. Urahara assured Hanatarou and pulled the little trigger. A red beam of light came shooting out of the scanner gun. Urahara scanned Hanatarou's head to his feet. Every place was scanned. After about a minute of scanning, Urahara walked away once more. He came with a gigai identical to Hanatarou in appearance.
"Now then, time to get in the gigai…" said Urahara.
After a while, Hantarou managed to get into the gigai.
"So, how does it feel?" asked Ichigo and Urahara, one asking out of boredom and one asking to see how good his gigai was.
"…Eh, I like it I guess," smiled Hantarou. There was a long silence. After a while, Hantarou broke the silence by asking Urahara, "Um, I want to see everyone again, so can I, instead of work at that part-time job," paused Hanatarou and then murmured so that Urahara could not hear, "which in reality does not help me at all go to school?"
Urahara thought it over. He put his left hand on Hanatarou's right shoulder and while nodding his head, said, "Hanatarou, I'm quite disappointed in you. I'm helping you, so you should help me!" Urahara then paused for a second to think it over again. "Aha! How stupid of me! I'll let you go to school and have a part-time job!" Urahara did not allow anymore discussion and walked away.
The next day was Hanatarou's first day of Earth school. "Well, um, this was quite unexpected," said Ochi-sensei, "but a transfer student from…"
Oh no! thought Hanatarou. I forgot to study the Japanese towns! The only one I know is Tokyo and Karakura… Hanatarou was in a fierce panic. The students looked at Hanatarou with sweat drops everywhere as he did a dance in panic. Hanatarou stopped. He figured it out. "Ahem, I'm from Otaka!"
The students began to laugh. Hanatarou was confused.
"You mean Osaka, Hanatarou?" asked Ochi-sensei.
"Eh, oh, ee, yah, I guess," muttered Hanatarou. Hanatarou went to his seat looking ashamed.
Rukia was one of the few to laugh at Hanatarou. She was evidently confused that Hanatarou was there. She and Ichigo had gone separate ways after being at the Urahara Shouten, and therefore was not with Ichigo. Hanatarou quietly sat down and buried his head into his arms.
Apparently, by lunch, Hanatarou had gotten over it. He decided to find his other "friends." Asking Rukia, he managed to find everyone on the rooftop eating their lunch silently. "Hi guys!" he said.
"Hanatarou-kun," blurted out Orihime. "I was surprised to see you!"
"Yeah, I guess I was also surprised," muttered the quincy.
"…me too…" said Chad quietly, continuing to eat his lunch.
"Meh, Hanatarou is staying at the Urahara Shouten and will be staying for a long time or something like that," explained Ichigo.
"How'd you find this out, Kurosaki?" questioned Ishida.
"I met him along the-"
Suddenly, an earsplitting shriek came from below. Ichigo looked below to see a tiny hollow. He utilized his badge to push his soul of his body and jumped down. Hanatarou came out of his gigai and jumped down to help. His gigai had a backup mod soul in case Hanatarou would have to get out of it. Rukia did the same. The other three used to stairs. Ichigo landed perfectly on the ground, despite the school being four stories high. Hanatarou and Rukia both landed on the ground, but soon fell afterwards.
Ichigo underestimated the hollow. A small one only, thought Ichigo. Ichigo got his zanpaktou ready, but was stopped by Hanatarou.
"Wait, this hollow has reiatsu, something that is impossible," said Hanatarou very gravely, which was odd of Hanatarou. "This may give me clues on my mission. Let me handle it."
"What? It does have reiatsu!," yelped Rukia after she sensed for the reiatsu. "And a lot of it at that! Hanatarou, you can't poss-"
"Heh heh," laughed Hanatarou. He turned around with a slight smile and said, "I'm not in the seventh seat anymore. I've been promoted…to the fourth seat."
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Sorry, but the fanfic will now be updated weekly. Why? Well, I have like five other fanfics and I have to start updating them. There are other reasons too. I have started to roleplay. Also, I have been planning to post a story on fictionpress, but whether or not that will happen will be unknown. Finally, I just have too much homework! I have several projects each week, around 3-5 tests each week, piano, which I hardly do anymore, three languages I have to keep up with, Geometry Honors (which is a lot of stress since I'm only in eight grade), mental math, and several enrichment classes. So to make it all up, I'm posting three chapters at the same time. Well then, you can expect another chapter by:
Friday, October 13…(possibly).
