Kurosaki Ichigo didn't know what to think of the newcomer, that was supposed to help them on saving Rukia. Sure he was grateful for the extra help, but he didn't exactly know who the person was, Geta-Boshi just said it was an old friend of his that owed him a favor, he also told them that his supposed friend was as strong as a Shinigami Taichou. He was already suspicious of the shady shopkeeper, so he didn't think he could trust this friend of his. Right now though he was getting really impatient, he was waiting outside of Geta-Boshi's store with Inoue, Chad, and surprisingly Ishida, the Quincy. He gave out an annoyed sigh as he leaned against the store waiting for the guy.
"Ah Hirako-san, it's nice of you to finally join."
Upon hearing Kisuke speak, Ichigo and his friends looked towards the newcomer. Ichigo took in his appearance, straight jaw length blonde hair, bored brown eyes, with a frown on his face that showed most of his upper teeth and clothing that made it look like the guy was going to a business meeting, with the exception of the black hoodie, and a black surgical mask tucked under his chin.
"Can it Kisuke, let's just get this shit over with."By the looks of it, he didn't really look excited to be coming with them, so Ichigo just deduced that Geta-Boshi made him come.
"Ara ara, there's no need to be so impatient Hirako-san, I believe introductions are in order, why don't you introduce yourself to your new comrades." Kisuke said, hiding a smile behind his white fan. He motioned for everyone else to step forward, with some reluctance from Ichigo and Uryu.
Unsurprisingly Orihime was the first to introduce herself to their new friend, with a large smile and clasping her hands she greeted him. "Hello Hirako-san, my name is Inoue Orihime, it's nice to finally meet you." She said with much enthusiasm.
Upon seeing the orange haired beauty (No not the strawberry brat, he doesn't swing that way). He had to admit for a teenage girl, she had the body of a full grown woman, a curvaceous figure, with large breasts. Shaking himself out of his thoughts, Shinji berated himself 'Damn I sound like a real pedo, looking at a 15 year old girl like this, what the hell is wrong with me ?". To distract himself he took in the rest of her appearance, she was wearing a dark pink t-shirt, light purple jogging pants with red lines running down the side, and bright yellow slip on shoes, she also wore two blue hairpins which held her orange hair behind her ears. Surprisingly he could feel reiatsu coming from them. 'I'm guessing that's the source of her power, could come in handy, since most people wouldn't think that power comes from simple accessories.'
Smiling he looked down towards her and introduced himself. "Nice to meetcha as well Hime-chan, the names Hirako Shinji, and i've got to say, as soon I laid my eyes on you, I knew you were my first love." Upon hearing Shinji, Orihime blushed in embarrassment and started to laugh sheepishly. Suddenly Shinji felt someone glaring at him, and he turned to surprise, surprise, the strawberry brat that got him into all this mess.
He blinked and then replaced his smile with a teasing one. "There's no need to be jealous Berry-chan, it's not i'm trying to take your girlfriend away from you, or anything like that." Upon hearing that, both orangettes blushed, Orihime quickly turned turned away and covered her face with her hands, while Ichigo just glared at him even more.
Walking towards him with crossed arms and full blown glare, Ichigo reluctantly introduced himself. "Kurosaki Ichigo."
"No need to be so serious Berry-chan, you look like a mother about to scold her child for doing nothing wrong." While getting Ichigo more frustrated by the second, he decided to take in the brat's appearance. He wore the regular Shinigami garments, a Shihakusho (black kimono), black hakama pants, a white obi sash, waraji sandals, and white socks to finish it off. On his back he had a large Zanpakuto which was covered in cloth, making up for its lack of a sheath, he also had red a red strap going across his chest holding up his Zanpakuto. The most noticeable feature about him was his bright orange spiky hair, and hardened brown eyes.
Ichigo growled, and before he could retort, he heard someone walk up next to him, and he looked up to see his giant of a friend, Sado Yasutora, or how they know him, Chad.
Shinji couldn't help but blink when he the supposed 15 year old walk up to him, the guy was even taller Love and more muscular than Kensei. ' The hell are they feeding kids these days ?'
"Nice to meet you Hirako-san, my name is Sado Yasutora, but my friends just call me Chad." He greeted as he held his right hand out.
Shrugging, he grasped his hand and shook it, "Nice to meetcha, Chad." While introducing himself, he took in Chad's appearance. He had dark skin, wavy brown hair that hangs over his brown eyes, and pronounced cheek-bones. Already taking notice on how big the guy was, he took on the rest of his appearance. He was wearing a light purple tank top, with a red line running down from his shoulder all the way to the bottom of his shirt. He also had a necklace with some sort of coin connected to it. To finish it off he wore some black jeans, and a pair of white.
Then he heard melodramatic voice speak up. "If were done with our small get together, i'd like to continue with our objective."
As soon as Shinji looked at their other companion, he couldn't help but start bursting out laughing. The kid was wearing some sort of white costume, probably only wearing it to make himself feel more cool.
Sputtering, Uryu glared at Shinji and demanded him what was funny.
Shinji ceased his chuckling and pointed towards his outfit. "Kid, you do know that were infiltrating a spiritual military base, and not some costume party trying to win first place, right ?"
Blushing in embarrassment, Uryu turned his head away, only to see Ichigo and Chad smirking, and Orihime trying to hide her giggling. His blushed turned up a few notches, before turning towards the Urahara Shoten and grumbling to himself.
"Aww, there's no need to be embarrassed Megane-kun, I think ya look pretty cool." Shinji exclaimed as he put his right arm around Uryu's shoulders with a giant smile.
The only response he got was a blank stare.
"Well enough of that, what's yer name Megane-kun ?"
Pushing up his glasses with the moonlight reflecting off of them, giving his glasses a glare, he responded with the same melodramatic tone as before. "My name is Ishida Uryu, and will you please stop calling me that ridiculous name."
Before Shinji could say another smartass remark, Kisuke clapped his hands, getting everyone's attention. "Since we're all done with introductions, let's get inside and get this show on the road."
Looking at each other and shrugging, they all followed the shopkeeper into his shop. Opening the hatch leading to the basement everyone proceeded to climb down the large ladder. Upon making it down and turning around, Uryu, Orihime, and Chad froze when they saw the huge underground basement. When they tried to look for the end of it, they couldn't see it , it looked endless. Uryu and Chad were visibly impressed, but didn't say anything, except Orihime who wanted to voice her amazement.
"Wow, it's amazing !"
All of a sudden a large man with cornrows, a large handlebar mustache, wearing rectangular glasses, a muscle shirt, regular pants and an apron. Grasped her hands and started to repeatedly thank her, while large tears flowed down his cheeks.
While everyone sweat dropped, Orihime just blushed in embarrassment.
Blinking, Shinji found out who it was and couldn't help but smile.
"Yo Tessai, haven't seen ya in a while."
Hearing a familiar voice, the now dubbed Tessai turned and couldn't help but blink in surprise.
"Indeed it has, but may I ask as to what you're doing here Shinji ?"
"Eh nothing much, just helping Berry-chan save his midget girlfriend from Soul Societies clutches."
"She's not my girlfriend, damnit." Ichigo growled out as his face progressively got redder.
Waving him off, Shinji turned back towards Tessai and told him something that made him shocked.
"You should visit sometime Tessai, Hachi said he wouldn't mind having a cup of tea with his old captain sometime."
Blinking away his shock, Tessai bowed and replied that he would be honored.
"No need to be all formal, we're all still friends." Shinji responded with his signature smile.
Nodding in thanks, he motioned for Kisuke to start and he clapped his hands in response to get everyone's attention.
"Alright everyone it's time to send all of you to Soul Society."
As he was walking towards some strange structure in front of them,a deep male voice stopped him.
"You didn't forget about me did you Kisuke ?"
Looking around they were confused until Orihime gave out a loud "Yoruichi-san !" and Ichigo and Uryu froze when they found out it was some black cat. Before they could voice out there shock….
"Can we stop with the damn interruptions, and get you all out of here !"
Surprisingly it was Kisuke who yelled, and he looked thoroughly annoyed. They all muttered a sorry and they stepped towards the strange structure.
"Okay everyone to get you all to Soul Society I had to make my own version of a Senkaimon, if we were to use a regular one all of your bodies would have broken down, so to fix that I made this, the Reishi Henkan-ki. What this does, it will convert your Kishi to Reishi, or in simpler terms converts your atoms to spirit particles."
Shinji couldn't help but be impressed, he knew Kisuke was a genius, but damn the guy really knew what he's doing when he puts his mind to it. Looking at the structure, it was a large hollowed out square with what looked like large amounts of paper overlapping each other.
"Though there's only one problem, the longest we could keep the gate open and stay connected to Soul Society is four minutes. That's only a stretch though, so you have no time to rest."
At that everyone was visibly shocked, they didn't know if they would be able to make it in time.
"There's only one thing all of you could do in this situation." Turning towards the black cat, he continued. "And that's to move forward, if you're heart isn't in its right place then you should go home, you won't have the will to keep going. If you do then Shinji and I will be your guide."
"like hell we're going home, we gathered here to save Rukia, and nothing's gonna stop us from doing that." Ichigo yelled out with determination evident in his voice. With his friends agreeing with him.
"You're pretty ballsy brat if ya think it's gonna be that easy." Shinji remarked with a smile
"What did you say ?!" Ichigo growled out.
"Think about it brat, there's Shinigami who've had years of experience, especially the Taicho's, if ya think yer gonna make it out without missing a limb or two, then yer just a dumbass."
Ichigo was about to attack Shiniji when Yoruichi raised his voice. "Enough, both of you, we didn't come here to argue we came here to save Kuchiki Rukia !"
Ichigo backed off, but continued to glare at Shinji, with the latter just smiling.
"Everyone ready ?" At their nods, Kisuke and Tessai placed their hands on the ground and started pumping their reiatsu into the Senkaimon, they were all blinded when it started to glow bright with spiritual energy.
"All of you will have to jump in simultaneously, NOW GO !"
Without waiting another second, they all jumped into the Senkaimon, starting their mission on saving Rukia.