I don't think I did this chap right. But just roll with it, okay.
The moment that Appachai and Shigure told him that there was a girl standing outside of the gate, he couldn't help but wonder if the young lady mentioned was Kenichi's sister. Nijima had given them the green light two days prior, and let them know that Ichigo had agreed to stay with them.
Reluctantly, of course.
Which was more than a little bit understandable given the circumstances. In her place, he very much doubted that he would like staying with total strangers as well. After all, getting used to so many strange people, their habits, and such took time and a lengthy period of adjustment.
It also took a great deal of patience too.
From everyone.
Which was something that he was fairly good at practicing often. So naturally after opening the gate and finding the young lady standing there in a zoned out state, he took a moment to look her over. Noting automatically that she seemed incredibly nervous.
And what was it that Kenichi had said several days ago about her? She was a solid fifty on the attractiveness scale? Seeing her for the first time like this, he had to say that Kenichi's 'attractiveness scale' number ranking for her was fairly accurate. This young lady was in a whole other league that Miu and Shigure in the looks departments.
Her features were exotically beautiful.
Wide, turquoise colored eyes that were a deeper shade of blue than robin's egg blue. In fact, up close like this, he could easily see a tint of neon blue in the turquoise of her eyes. Smooth ivory skin, a heart shaped face, soft pink lips, long silky blue-black hair that was cut in layers that fell almost to her waist in feathery wisps that curled a little bit at the tips.
She had a taller than he'd expected, her height was nearly on par with his own six foot two inches. Give or take an inch or so. She had an athletic build similar to Miu's, and even similar curves too.
Her breasts weren't quite as big as Miu's were, but well...she was still fairly young and still had a little bit of growing to do.
Still...she was rather attractive- and he already foresaw Kensei causing her problems in the near future. After all, a beauty like her simply couldn't help but turn heads wherever she went. And the older master was nothing but a great admirer of such loveliness.
Maybe we should tie him to a post behind the house. Like a dog. He thought wryly as he politely asked if he could help her and noticed an immediate resemblance between her and Kenichi. Not just in her spacy expression, but in the way that she squeaked and then threw her bag at him and took off running.
Automatically regretting teasing her for squeaking since he hadn't expected her to react quite so...similar to Kenichi when he felt overwhelmed or startled- he took a moment to set her bag aside and then took off after her.
He'd say this for the girl, she was fast.
Far faster than anyone that he'd ever seen before. Even Kenichi wasn't as fast as her at running and he and the other masters had been training the boy for nearly seven months now. Still, the speed at which she was moving was concerning to him.
As someone who had recently gone through a major surgery, she shouldn't be exacerbating her condition like she was. The more she ran, the harder her heart and lungs worked.
And he knew that she had to be in a considerably amount of pain already.
Still, part of him couldn't help but be somewhat impressed by her. Even in her present condition- she showed a shockingly high pain tolerance as well as stamina and speed.
Maybe she was a fighter. He thought to himself, just a tad bit intrigued, as he continued to follow her one block, two- seven... What the hell? He wondered curiously as he kept following her another six blocks. Frowning darkly at the fact that she was hurting herself more and more with each step she took.
He'd chased her nearly all the way across the city in the span of three in a half hours. And she still wasn't showing any outward signs of strain, pain, difficulty breathing, or slowing down.
It was amazing really.
There was no other reason that he could think of- that she could have run all this time without passing out or collapsing. Especially given the amount of absolute agony that she had to be in by now.
Finally, she had no choice but to stop running- her chest hurt so badly that she could barely breathe, her body felt weak. Almost as if she had been sucked dry of any energy and strength that she had previously possessed and dark spots were dancing in front of her eyes.
She only managed to take several more clumsy, staggering steps before she finally felt her legs suddenly go out from under her, and she started to fall.
He managed to catch up to her quite easily then, his arms sweeping her up against his chest before she could even hit the ground. Once he had her in his grasp, he shifted his hold on her body just a little bit so that he could check her pulse and nearly swore- loudly, and very vulgarly- when he realized that her heart and lungs were working far too hard.
Honestly with as much distress as she had placed herself in, it was a wonder that her heart and lungs hadn't totally failed her just yet.
As it was, he was going to have to run as fast as he could back to the clinic and see what he could do to slow her frantically beating, overworked heart.
Kenichi had just walked out of the work room that he and Miu had been setting up for Ichigo to use when she got there so that she could actually have a place out of everyone's way to do her work whenever she needed to. And was heading to the kitchen to grab himself a drink when he caught sight of Kensei peering over one of Shigure's shoulders as she rummaged through what looked like a duffle bag of some kind.
"Hey Kensei, Shigure- what are you doing?" He asked as he moved closer to them.
Kensei looked up and blinked at him before replying, "Shigure found this bag lying just inside of the gate a little while ago and now she's looking for some sort of ID or something. So that we can figure out who lost it and try to return it to them."
"Oh?" Kenichi said as he wandered a tad bit closer to the two and peered over Shigure's other shoulder just in time for her to pull out a white and pastel pink, blue, and purple polka dotted bra that looked weirdly familiar to him. "Hn, that bra looks like the one that my mom picked out for Ichigo a few months back." He said, more to himself than either of them as the two master's looked at him oddly before Shigure asked in a suspicious tone.
"Why would you know what you're sister's bra looks like?"
"Oh, I was with my mom when she got it for her. So I sort of saw it before she put it away."
Shigure seemed to buy that. Kensei however was another story entirely.
"You mean that you didn't go through her underwear drawer?"
Kenichi balled his hands into tight fists and growled at the man, "Ew, she's my sister- you disgusting old man!"
The man simply chuckled in amusement and shrugged before saying. "That's fair. I thought I'd just check though. You never know with some nowadays. Hormones make blithering idiots of many, my boy."
"Again, ew." Kenichi said as he tried to fight back the urge to drive his utter disgust at the mere idea of perving on Ichigo, home with the man by punching him in the face.
He was about to walk away and leave the two masters to their weirdness when Shigure made a chirping sound and held up a plastic baggie full of pill bottles. "Found something!" She said in triumph before then asking, "Who's...Ichigo?" Causing Kenichi to freeze up and quickly snatch the baggie from her hand and look at the medicine bottles label's for a second before screaming.
"Ichigo! Oh no, where is she?!"
"Oh, so I guess that young lady was her after all." Kensei said in surprise as he went on to say. "She must have been very nervous about being here. Akisame went to see if she was lost or something and she panicked, threw her bag at him, and then ran off. Did you know that she could run that fast? I swear the girl was kicking up a dust trail like no one's business."
Kenichi blanched and stared at the man for a heartbeat before quickly running out, of the still open gate, screaming the girl's name.
Once he was gone Kensei sighed and muttered, "Stupid boy. Akisame should be back any minute now with the girl."
"Do you think she's okay?" Shigure asked curiously. "She and Akisame have been gone for a while now..."
"I hope so. Otherwise Kenichi isn't going to get much training done for a while." The man said as he tugged the brim of his hat down a little bit and then reached out and grabbed the plastic baggie of pill bottles up from where Kenichi had carelessly tossed them before he had run off in a panic and said, "I'm just going to go get the clinic ready just in case. Would you please take the duffle bag and everything in it to Ichigo's bedroom."
Shigure nodded her head sagely as he smiled at her and then walked off.
