Ichigo Kurosaki stood on the terrace of a beach house and looked towards the lights of Tokyo and the dark clouds over it.
„Hello, son! I just wanted to ask if everything is okay?"
„Oh, yeah... everything is allright!" Kazui said. „Just the power has failed."
„Oh, due to the storm maybe? I can see it... looks like it's heading towards us." Ichigo said after looking on the sky again. The storm was coming closer and closer.
„Masaki is here! Do you want to say Hello?" Kazui asked and handed the phone to his cousin.
„Hello, Uncle Ichigo!"
„Masaki, hello!" Ichigo said happily. „Hey, how are you? What are you doing in our house? We didn't expect you!"
„Oh, I, Mayuri and Keigo crashed Kazui's movie-party and now we are..." Masaki said but Kazui pulled the phone away from her again to prevent that she busts them.
„PARTY?!" Ichigo yelled angrily.
„NO NO... No party! Masaki exaggerates. Just me, Yupa and Ichika! I don't throw a party here. How I shall throw a party without power?" Kazui wailed. „No everything is fine here."
„Mayuri and Keigo are also with you?" Ichigo asked. „Keigo's mother is also someone... drops her son with us whenever she wants. And Mayuri... his mother told us that he is going to visit his father?"
„They are here now!" Kazui said and looked on the boys. He could hear his father moaning.
„Okay... so, I just wanted to keep sure that everything is okay. Have a nice evening!"
„Yes, you too. Bye..." Kazui said and hang off. „That was close... I am so glad that they are not here now..."
Kazui's parents were around 80 kilometres south of Karakura and Tokyo on the Miura-peninsula. Several days ago, Orihime suddenly told that Kojima invited them to his family's beach-house down there. And Ichigo suddenly said that it would be a great idea to spend some days at the coast to get some rest. Kazui was old enough to take care of himself for three days. But the whole 'vacation' was not realy a vacation. It was more an excuse for Kazui to not to ask too many questions. Because they left for a reason. To do something they stricly prohibited thier son, his friends and the kids: To watch that good-dammed 'Shinigami-Movie'. Not knowing that the kids had the same plan. And tried to watch it while the adults are out.
Now they came together here. Ichigo, Orihime, Tatsuki, Chad, Mizuiro, Michiru and from the Soul Society Rukia, Renji, Keigo, Karin, Yuzu and Isshin came together because they were not longer able to deny it: There was a theatrical movie, that portrayed them! And after beeing confronted with the fact that a sequel was announced and that the movie was realy everywhere (even in the Soul Society, where it was very popular among the Shinigami)... they finally agreed that the had to watch it. At least to keep sure that the script-writer (the news announcer who exposed them to the public, but used a pen name) was not realy going to expose them again. After thinking about it they knew that it was wrong to give Makoto the whole fault of the mess that happened. As they already knew the full truth. And if Mizuho didn't send it to her, someone else would have published it.
So they sat here togehter. Everything was prepared. They had popcorn, chips, crackers and drinks. Ichigo came back and together they sat around the Blue-Ray-Disk with the movie. Nobody dared to open the box...
The only one who seemed to be in a good mood was Keigo, who just left the kitchen with a tray full of glasses.
„GAZPACHO!" he yelled and served the drink, that once killed Yuzu, to his friends. This time it was without drugs.
Everyone took a glass and smiled. Than Ichigo looked back on the disk on the ground between them. He took a deep breath and took the box.
„Keigo... you are the expert of the movie-industry in this group! So what can you tell us about that?"
Keigo, who was the only one who was not in a Gigai, had to smile: „Aww... Please say that again! That sounds so good..."
Ichigo moaned: „Keigo... you are the movie-industry expert in this group! And I need you to tell us something about the people who worked on that movie!"
Keigo became red and start to smile again: „Please, one more time..."
„Awww... come on! You exaggarating again..." Tatsuki moaned and lift her hand to slap Keigo. But Keigo, even didn't looked on her when he lift his arm, blocked her attack and hold her hand away from his face.
„Nice try. But I evolved after my death!" Keigo said with a kind of sardonic smile. Keigo was known to be not the strongest, but one of the fastest Shinigami.
Tatsuki became red. „I'm getting closer and closer every time!"
„Now calm down... both of you!" Ichigo ordered and handed the box to Keigo. „So, tell us something about them!"
Keigo took the box and read it: „Why are you so sure that this movie is about you, Ichigo? I mean... just because this movie is about a high-school student with a bright hair-colour and the ability to see ghosts, who once witnessed his mother's murder and gets Shinigami powers, to protect his family, from a female Soul Reaper who suddenly appears in his room one night and is..."
„Hey, you already watched the movie?" Ichigo asked shocked.
„No! That's written in the movie-description on the backside!" Keigo said and pointed on the box. „So the names... are pretty interesting. The executive-producer is the same like from a movie I once attend to the casting. The editor once worked for Tokyo-One, I remember him. A very diligent guy. And the director... wow... I know the director personally! He was an assistant on the set of 'Crime-Lab-Tokyo'. Very ambitiously and success-oriented. I am so happy for him that he was successful with this movie. He was very underrated during the shot of the crime-series... So, at all... a very good filming crew..."
Keigo handed the box back to Ichigo who took a deep breath again and opened it to take the disk and to place it in the player. Maybe it was not as worse as they thought. The box-office agreed to that fact. And if they are fine with it, they will allow thier kids to watch it. But it was a really strange feeling that someone made a movie about thier live. With trembling hands, Ichigo put the disk into the player and together they watched the trailers running before the menu appeared.
„Your kids are at our house right now!" Ichigo told to Keigo, Karin and Michiru.
„But I thought Junior spends the week with his mother?" Keigo said and shaked his head. After his death and the return of his memories, he somehow managed that Akira inherits at least a part of his fortune to be able to care for the boy, while he is in Soul Society in his afterlife. Of course he and the Kurosaki's took care that she doesn't figures out about his Fullbring. „Sometimes I think the boy never sees her?"
„And I thought Mayuri visits his father over the weekend?" Michiru asked. Over the years now, she resigned to the fact that her son was a Substitute-Shinigami. But sometimes she wished that the boy was a normal human.
„Masaki, too?" Karin asked, too. She was married to Toshiro Hitsugaya, captain of the tenth division for 10 years now, after her father 'kind of forced' her when her pregnancy was exposed. „Toshiro, said he takes her with him to a training-mission, while I am with you!"
„Well, now they sit together with Kazui, Ichika and Yupa in our house. Without energy and do whatever?"
„And what do they do?" Karin asked.
„Who knows... but luckily, without energy they are not able to watch this movie..." Ichigo thought loudly. „If the boy really throws a party, we will figure out anyway..."
„Now that we talk about 'watching movies'..." Rukia began and she and Renji went closer to Ichigo. „There is something we need to ask you! What do you know about the rumor that our daughter is dating your son's friend...?"
„Sschhh... hold on. The movie starts..." Orihime said and pointed on the screen where the main-menu appeared.
Once again, Ichigo took a deep breath, closed his eyes and pressed on the Enter-button on the remote controller to launch the movie. „Okay guys... this is it..."
Right in that moment, a bright lightning appeared on the sky and the lights went off...
„PLEASE TELL ME THAT THIS IS NOT TRUE..." Ichigo screamed angrilly when he realized that the power failed at thier location, too...
In Karakura meanwhile, Kazui's hands where still trembling...
„You know... Something is strange about our parent's vacation?" Kazui said. „I have this feeling that they do something that we shouldn't know."
„Would you please go on with the story!" Keigo jr. complained.
„Please, that is not as easy as you think!" Kazui said and became pale. A few moments later Yupa came back. With his arms full of every sweet he could find and a candy-bar in his mouth. „Yupa, how are you?"
Kazui knew that everytime, Yupa start to eat like a pig, he was pretty upset. But fortunately sugar, helped him to calm down.
„Better!" Yupa moaned and offered Ichika one of the bars. „And? You already told them how it happend?"
„They just told us about the toilet-incident!" Mayuri said.
„Gosh... that was so horrible." Yupa said upset and took another bite from the bar while he hid his face behind his hands.
„I already apologized so many times. But you have to agree that it really looked like it was your fault at that moment!" Kazui said and Yupa agreed. His friend was right.
„Just come on! The story starts to become really interesting. For five chapters we had to hear how it began now we want to hear what happened during the broadcast..." Keigo jr. said.
Kazui, Ichika and Yupa looked on each other and were confused: „Chapters?"
10 years ago...
Kazui was unable to move or to act. He was just too shocked to do something. There were his teachers laying on the ground of the boy's restroom, his body in the toilet-cabin and his whole class who surround it and gazed on it like a fairground attraction.
Kazui looked on his friend, who hold the Memory-Replacer in his right hand and looked back to him in a mix of horror and shock.
„Yupa, what did you did?"
„I... Nothing! I swear!" Yupa said and carefully pointed on thier classmates who surrounded and watched them. „Kumora-sensei, left and than she screamed and than and than..."
„Oh my gosh... Kurosaki ate Kumora-sensei's and Nagasaki-sensei's souls!" a girl screamed and pointed on the two sleeping teachers.
„No...! No! I didn't eat thier souls!" Kazui screamed, which was useless, as nobody, except Yupa, could see him.
„They, are just sleeping." Yupa said with a bright innoncent smile. „Kazui did not eat anyone's soul. Why? He is not a Soul Eater or something like that."
One of thier classmates lift his smartphone to show them a photo that was just aired in TV. „In TV they say that he is a Shinigami! And that he and his father are eating souls. And his mother is a witch!"
„HEY! How dare you to call my mother a witch?" Kazui yelled angrily.
When Kazui yelled, his classmates could feel the spiritual pressure. Many of them start to freeze. Others got paniced. It was the moment Kazui realized that he and Yupa were talking while Kazui was still in Shinigami-form and that everyone could see that Yupa was talking to an invisible person. In fear Kazui stormed towards his body, while Yupa didn't know how to help themself, except to adjust the 'Memory-Replacer' to maximum power and to shoot the purple fog towards his classmates. While the whole class became unconscious, Kazui and his friends had a few more moments to fight...
„Yupa, what happened?"
„I don't know! After you left, Nagasaki-sensei came in and than he and Kumora-sensei came here..." Yupa defend and suddenly the both teachers slowly start to wake up again. „RUN!"
Together the both boys ran out of the toilet and hid in the nearby janitors storeroom...
Present...
„Well, we changed the memories of our classmates and this two teachers, but it was just a drop in the ocean!" Kazui said sad.
10 years ago...
After he heared his wife screaming, Ichigo ran into the living-room. He found Orihime standing in the middle of the room. Tears ran down her face. She breathed hardly and was totally pale. In fear she turned towards Ichigo and pointed on the TV.
„Ichigo, look!"
Ichigo turned to the TV to see himself, in his Shinigami-Form. And the subtitles told details about his powers.
„Hey, what is going on here?" Isshin asked when he entred the room, too. „Why did you scre... eeeaaammm..."
Isshin had to shriek, when he saw that there was a picture of him with subtiles, revealing that he did not excist before 1982...
In the treatment-room, Michiru Ogawa calmed down a little bit. The painkiller worked and at least she stopped crying. She was totally calm now. But she had also no clue that she was in the epicenter of an upcomming disaster. She only watched her burned hand and asked herself how many times they will operate her. But despite that, she was very surprised to hear Orihime screaming something about a witch...
In the living-room, Ichigo, Orihime and Isshin watched the report revealing various other secrets. Ichigo's Shinigami-powers, some of Orihime's powers, and even Isshin's true age...
„Fourhundred ninty-six?! That's not true! I am just fourhundred sixty-nine years old. How dares this woman to make me older..."
„Your age is not important now!" Ichigo ranted. „Do you understand what is going on here? Our family's secret is aired in TV. In TV! LIVE!"
„They call me a witch!" Orihime said and start to cry again. „Ichigo, that's not true... I am not a witch! Okay, I have healing powers and powers to create shields and powers too... oh, my gosh... I am a witch!"
„Orihime, calm down! Yeah..., do you really think that someone believes this?" Isshin asked.
In front of the house, some people already arrived...
„This is too ridiculous too be true!" a woman said to her husband.
„You never asked yourself why Kurosaki never aged?" a man said to his friend.
„This is maybe some kind publicity act. Or advertising?" another woman said to her friend.
„This is a clinic... People die there? It would be enough food for them?"
Inside Michiru Ogawa start to get bored. She forgot her smartphone at home so she was totally unaware of what happend around her. Just like Keigo, who stood in the dark studio behind his microphone and dubbed his scenes. If Keigo knew what was going on, he would have stormed into the studio and crashed the broadcast. But neighter he, nor the other people in the room knew that the rest of the building was watching thier channel on all aviable screens in awe...
As all phones in the Kurosaki's house were ringing, neighter Tatsuki nor Chad or Mizuiro were able to warn them. Desperately they tried to call them. But they didn't get threw. Instead thier own phones start to ring as people they knew asked them about the story they told in TV about them...
„We have to warn Ichigo!" Mizuiro said.
„What if he knows already?" Tatsuki asked and than turned to Chad. „Chad... among us, you are the one who is in this whole Shinigami-stuff most. What do you think are the consequences?"
Chad didn't answered. But in his face Tatsuki and Mizuiro could see that his expression suddenly changed from his typical coolness to total horror. Chad passed them, left the side street, steped on the street and lift his arms.
„TAXI!" Chad screamed.
A taxi had to break hardly, to not to crash into Chad. Chad opened the rear door and ordered his friends to enter the cab to drive to the Kurosaki-clinic...
Right there, Ichigo, Orihime and Isshin walked threw the living-room in circles and discussed it.
„Okay... don't panic! I am pretty sure that nobody belives this. They have no evidence." Ichigo said.
„And what if not? I don't know how to survive a burning pyre?" Orihime asked a bit paniced.
„Nobody burns you on the pyre! But what can we do? Of course we deny everything, if someone asks us!" Ichigo said.
„Yeah... And we prosecute the channel for defamation! We have to, to stay credible and so on..." Isshin adviced. „We need a lawyer!"
„Yeah, I mean... what could happen?" Ichigo added. „I mean, they have nothing to prove it... We will assert that these photos are all photoshoped."
„And the Shihakushou? How do you want to explain that?" Isshin asked.
„Aww... I will tell the people that it was on a costume party!" Ichigo said and got this strange feeling that someone was watching them.
„A costume party? Do you really think that the people believe you that?" Isshin asked.
„Do you have a better idea... and now we should go to the front again. Because I can feel that some people are standing in front of the house. Do you hear that?"
Orihime and Isshin suddenly felt and heared the people, too. Paniced, Orihime ran upstairs to start to pack up while Isshin arranged his hairs, pulled his doctor-smock strait and took a deep breath. Ichigo did as well and together they went back to the front to face around 16 people in front of the clinic who had a wild debate about truth or fake...
„Excuse me! Is there a problem?" Isshin yelled and the group became silent instantly. Immediatelly they start to murmur and babble with quiet and shy voices various questions. Neighter Ichigo nor his father understood any word. „One by one please!"
„Is it about this report that is aired right now in TV?" Ichigo asked directly. Three people nooded. The rest just remained silent. „We can promise you, that everything you may heared in this report is not true!"
„Prove it!" a man yelled.
„Oh, please this is ridiculous!" Ichigo yelled back. „Do I look like a Shinigami to you? Have you ever seen one, to be sure that I am one?"
The group seemed to swallow it. Ichigo's sentence made sense. They really start to calm down...
A few blocks away... The Taxi with Chad, Tatsuki and Mizuiro drove threw the neigbourhood...
„FASTER! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!" Tatsuki screamed on the driver.
„Calm down... it is not far..." the driver said. He was a little bit afraid of Tatsuki.
In front of the clinic, Karin and Yuzu arrived back from thier debate in the park and were surprised to see so many people.
„Something happened?" Yuzu asked. The sisters were still unaware off the situation.
„Nothing! The people here, were just about to go home. Because as we already said, that the whole report is not more than a feint!" Isshin said.
„Yeah, that's right!" Ichigo said and opened the door to let Karin and Yuzu in. „Yuzu, would you please look after the patient in room two. And Karin, would you please go upstairs and look after Orihime, please. I think she don't feel so good!"
The sister could hear that something must have happened. Because thier brother and thier father had this 'voices'. Isshin turned to the people again, who really seemed to calm down. Two more people arrived and filmed the scene with thier smartphones.
„And now we would really appreciate if you keep the road free. We have a patient inside, who needs to be driven to the General Hospital..." Isshin said calmly.
A little bit too calm for the people who knew that Isshin Kurosaki normally was a really impertinent person. But the people seemed to believe it.
„Ehm... Very sorry for that..." a man said and bowed.
„It's okay. I understand you!" Isshin said. „And now, as I already said: We have a patient inside that we have to take care about now..."
Just seconds later the Taxi stopped in front of the house and thier friends left the car. Of course they were shocked about the presence of so many people.
„Ahh... The relatives!" Isshin said with an innoncent smile and opened the door for Ichigo's friends. „Come in, your daughter awaits you!"
„Daughter?" Mizuiro asked confused.
Isshin shooed them in, to prevent that any of them busts them...
In his school meanwhile, Kazui and Yupa hid in the storeroom and listened to the fire-alarm, that was activated by another teacher, who saw the smoke-cloud from the memory replacer...
„Dad is going to kill me!" Kazui murmured reproachful while Yupa in front of him lowered his head ashamed...
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