Chapter 3: Reincarnation is a Funny Thing

Orihime lead Ichigo, Uryu, Rukia, Renji, Chad and Nel to the room. In there she found the way to find what she wanted… the Hogyoku.

"Are you this sure will work?" asked Uryu.

"I'm positive." Said Orihime.

That's when she activated her powers, creating a barrier around the evil orb. Slowly the orb began to fade away… that's when suddenly a strange thing happened. There was a strange explosion of spiritual energy. Orihime suddenly had many wounds. Ichigo caught her as she fell.

"What just happened?" asked Uryu.

"It was probably booby trapped." Growled Renji.

"Aizen knew she was going to try that." Muttered Rukia.

"She's bleeding a lot!" yelled Ichigo.

"Ichigo…" whimpered Orihime weakly.

"We need to get Captain Unohana now!" yelled Rukia.

"I don't think…" whimpered Orihime.

"Your going to be fine…" said Ichigo.

That's when Orihime's eyes closed.

"Orihime… Orihime!"

Haruhi bolted up, she looked around and recognized the bedroom… it was the one she woke in a week ago.

"Rukia and Ichigo…." She said.

She began to cry, she couldn't help it. She remembered everything… And that dream she just had clinched it, she somehow knew, they were memories of a past life.

"Your awake." Said Rukia entering the room, she noticed she was crying, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Cried Haruhi.

"So you remember your life as Orihime?" asked Rukia.

"You knew?" asked Haruhi.

Rukia nodded.

Back at the Urahara residence…

"How complicated is it?" asked Itsuki.

"Orihime Inoue had the power to reject fact. Using special shields, she was able to change what happened using them. She was lucky that she was able to control them the way she did." Explained Kisuke, "What if she didn't know she had them… what if she randomly created an area where her shields would pop up and within those shields damages was done that didn't affect the outside?"

"A closed space." Answered Yuki.

"Precisely!" said Urahara, "As you can now guess, Haruhi Suzumiya is the reincarnation of Orihime Inoue."

In the Kurosaki's kitchen Rukia made tea for her and Haruhi.

"Thank you." Said Haruhi.

"This is a lot to take in." said Rukia.

Haruhi remained quiet.

"As you can see we won the war." Said Rukia, "Otherwise we wouldn't have gotten married."

Haruhi reminded quiet, then finally asked a question.

"How log have you known about me?" asked Haruhi.

"Well three years…" said Rukia, "You should have seen the look on Ichigo's face when it was discovered you were reincarnated here of all places."

"Did you move here after you found out I was here or…" said Haruhi.

"No, it was a weird conscience." Said Rukia, "Though Urahara thinks your soul followed us here."

"That makes sense." Said Haruhi.

Back at Urahara's…

"So you're saying that our theories about her are wrong?" asked Itsuki.

"Oh come on, don't be surprised that all three of you are wrong about Haruhi… you would have found out eventually." Said Kisuke.

"What are you talking about?" asked Ichigo.

"Oh right." Said Kisuke, "I forgot to tell you that the same events that allowed the Research Institute to find her, also alerted an alien being, caused a massive time quake that separated that's preventing people from going back in time beyond the point and gave psychic powers to a bunch of seemingly random people."

"And you didn't tell me that?" asked Ichigo.

Kisuke merely hid his face behind his fan.

"That's it!" yelled Ichigo.

Ichigo took out his badge and left his body. He grabbed his sword and was about to attack Kisuke… when suddenly he was pinned to the ground by a big man wearing glasses… holding a grocery bag.

"So you come back from shopping Tessai, I trust you brought home something good." Said Kisuke.

Both Itsuki and Mikuru stared at site, while Kyon just face palmed.

Back at the Kurosaki house...

Haruhi had managed to open up and ask a question she was meaning to ask.

"So what happened after…" said Haruhi.

"Well as you can tell we won." Said Rukia, "The Arrancar are now lead by Grimmjow and Nel."

"What happened to the others?" asked Haruhi.

"Well all of Aizen's Arrancar are dead. Tosen also died. Gin was stripped of his powers and now lives in Rukon District and Aizen. Aizen escaped to somewhere and hasn't been seen since the war." Explained Rukia.

"So do you think he's' planning something?" asked Haruhi.

"No one really knows." Sighed Rukia, "Although a lot of good things have happened."

"Like what?" asked Haruhi.

"You know…" said Rukia taking a sip of her tea, "It might be much more fun if you find out for yourself."

"Hey!" yelled Haruhi.

"So… are you feeling better?" asked Rukia.

"A little." Said Haruhi.

"The confusion should last a couple days… eventually your personalities will merge." Said Rukia, "At least that was Urahara told me."

Haruhi took a breath.

"So how did it happen?" asked Haruhi.

"What?" asked Rukia.

"You and Ichigo." Said Haruhi.

"Oh… after all that happened in the war, a certain death and finding out his father a Soul Reaper. Ichigo had a bit o a break down." Said Rukia, "I helped him get though and one thing lead to another… and now we're happily married with two children."

"Ichigo's dad is a soul reaper?" asked Haruhi in shock.

"Oh right… I forgot to mention that." Laughed Rukia, "Well I guess I should start from the beginning…"

Back at the Urahara residence, Kisuke had fished explaining to Ichigo about all he knew about the S.O.S. Brigade's real mission and about the Origination.

"So you knew all about it?" asked Ichigo who had sense returned to my body.

"That's right." Said Kisuke.

"And you knew that Kaien got involved…" muttered Ichigo.

"Once again correct." Said Kisuke.

"Hey you…" said Ichigo once again leaving his body, only to be pinned again by Tessai (the big man who pinned him exile)

However Ichigo wasn't the only upset…

"How did you learn so much about the Organization?" asked Itsuki.

"I'm a former Soul Reaper myself, a Captain and Founder of the Soul Reaper Research Institute. It would be easy for me to learn about the powers of a recently powered group easily." Said Kisuke with a smirk, "By the way… none of your members have discovered this, but a power you don't have is that it appears whenever your around Hollows."

"What about Miss Suzumiya?" asked Mikuru steering the conversation away from the ESPers.

"Well she is remembering her past life. If she doesn't remember everything by tomorrow then nothing will happen, she'll just brush it off. But if she does remember, then well the personalities will merge. Haruhi will be a very different person." Said Kisuke, "And chances are that if she does remember, she will remember what Kyon told her a few weeks and realize he was right."

"Then…" said Itsuki.

"Nothing bad will happen… remember she will remember her powers." Said Kisuke, "And if I know Orihime and Haruhi's personalities… the S.O.S. Brigade will gain a new mission."

There was a silence in the room, as everyone contemplated it.

"I just had to befriend the reincarnation of my dad's best friend." Thought Kyon with a sigh.

"Kaien…" said Kisuke, "You said that out loud."

"You really have to break that habit." Said Ichigo.

Sometime later at the Kurosaki house…

"Haruhi… if you ever need to talk I'll listen." Said Rukia, "Years may have passed but we're still friends. "

"Thanks." Said Haruhi.

"We're home." Came Ichigo's voice.

In the doorway, Kyon and Ichigo entered. It's better not said how the conversation ended at Urahara's… really…

Okay… truth be told Ichigo just said that he and Kyon had to be home by dinner that night otherwise Rukia would be angry and were excused.

The walk home was awkwardly silent…

And that's what happened…

"Daddy! Kyon!" said Kyon's sister entering the room hugging her older brother and father.

"I missed you too." Said Ichigo ruffling his daughter hair.

That's when suddenly an orange stuffed lion came and kicked Kyon in the face.

"You should have given more of a warning!" shouted the stuffed toy, "Masaki was rougher than usual because you were gone."

"No I was wasn't Kon!" shouted Kyon's sister who's name was apparently Masaki.

"So I take it everything went better than expected?" asked Rukia.

"No inner Hollow." Sighed Ichigo.

"That's good…" said Rukia who noticed something happened, "What happened?"

"I'll tell you later… but it involves Haruhi…" sighed Ichigo.

"Funny thing…" said Rukia with a smirk.

"Oh no…" said Kyon.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Said Kyon.

She lead them to the Kitchen where Haruhi was sitting there drinking tea.

"She remembers." Said Rukia.

Both Kyon and Ichigo shared at sigh.

"By the way Haruhi is staying for dinner." Said Rukia.

"Great…" said Ichigo and Kyon.

"It's times like these where I can see them being related." Said Kon.

"What's going on?" asked Kyon's sister.

"We'll tell you Masaki" Said Kyon.

"You better…" pouted Kyon's sister.

That dinner was somewhat awkwardly silent… okay… it was extremely awkwardly silent.

After dinner, Haruhi and Kyon went to talk into his room.

"I'm going to help you." Said Haruhi.

"What?" asked Kyon.

"You can't fight Hollows alone. I'm helping you!" almost yelled Haruhi.

"How are you going to fight, my dad told me that your power involve magical barrettes." Said Kyon.

"I'll figure out a way." Muttered Haruhi.

"Right." Replied Kyon.

"Do you remember that time at the café?" asked Haruhi.

"Which time?" asked Kyon.

"When you told me about Yuki, Mikuru and Koizumi." Said Haruhi, "How you said they were an alien, time traveler and ESPer."

"You believe me now?" asked Kyon.

"Why shouldn't I?" asked Haruhi.

That's when Kyon remembered something one of his father's high school friends told him about Orihime… she had a bizarre imagination and would believe anything.

Even his mother told him about once when someone remembered a gun toting sumo wrestler destroyed her house after giving false memories.

The same friend told him that the memory belonged to her and Orihime.

Kyon was now sure as part of the personality merger, the majority of Haruhi's common sense went out the window and died a slow painful death.

It will be missed.

"So what do you plan to do then?" asked Kyon.

"I don't know" answered Haruhi.

That's when someone knocked on the door.

"Can I come in?" asked Ichigo on the other.

"Wow he respects your boundaries." Said Haruhi.

"I know you met my grandpa." Sighed Kyon.

Ichigo entered the room.

"I wanted to give Haruhi something." Said Ichigo.

He took out a small glass box, inside were two flower shaped hairpins, perfectly in tact.

"My pins." Said Haruhi.

"Hachi made sure they were in working order after… you know." Said Ichigo.

Haruhi couldn't but smiled.

"Kaien." Said Ichigo, "Help and protect her as much as you can."

Kyon sighed…

"You heard him!" yelled Haruhi glaring at him.

Kyon once again sighed…

And so Haruhi remembered her past life… but it would be the next day that would crucial to everything…

Next Time: Haruhi has The S.O.S. Brigade have a meeting to A: Confront them about their former secrets and B. Explain the new goal of the S.O.S. Brigade. Meanwhile Haruhi needs Kyon's help with something. What is it? Find out next time!

A/N: Yes, in this story Kyon's sister's name is Masaki. Rukia named Kyon (Kaien) so it's only fair that Ichigo got to pick his daughter's name. Just to clear that up.