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Chapter 3

"The depth of a man's soul cannot be measured in a manner of meters or fathoms, but rather it is in my opinion only quantified by his proximity to heaven and hell"-from "A Lunatic's Lament" by Alesana.

Raynare blearily opened her eyes as she found herself staring up at a wooden ceiling as she lay on what she assumed was a bed.

'I- I'm alive?' she thought to herself in surprise.

She tried to sit up only for pain to lance through her body causing her to wince slightly. Taking it slower this time she brought herself to a sitting position her body groaning in protest the entire way. After what seemed like an eternity she was sitting up. She took a look around trying to get a grasp of her current situation. She was currently in a small room of what she could only assume was a shack. The only way in or out of the room was a sliding wooden door. She had assumed correctly as she was indeed sitting In a bed.

Pulling the sheets down she gave herself a once over trying to take stock of the damage she had sustained in her fight with the devils. Her midsection was heavily bandaged no doubt she had a few cracked ribs. Her left arm was in a splint, definitely broken. Other than that she had only suffred minor bruising over the rest of her body. On the wirst of her right arm was a metal band of some sort more than likely placed there by the person who had bandaged her though what purpose it served she had no clue.

The sound of the door sliding open caused her body to tense sending another wave of pain coursing through her body thus eliciting a hiss of pain from her.

"Oh you're awake," came a soft, meek voice

Raynare turned to look at the owner of the voice only to see a small sleepy looking teenage girl with black, shoulder length hair and a faint perpetual blush on her face.

"You really shouldn't be moving around so much. You might disturb your injuries."

"Ururu," yelled someone as a young boy with red slicked back hair and a black shirt with the sleeves ripped off, looking for all the world like a miniature yakuza thug, came barging in. putting the girl, now identified as Ururu, in a head lock and started to rub his knuckles into her scalp, if her memory served correctly this was what humans called a "noogie".

"Ow, Jinta that hurts," whined Ururu as she succumbed to the boy's bullying.

"I thought I told not to talk to the scary demon lady," scolded jinta as he continued to give her a noogie.

"But Jinta you never said anything like that."

"I shouldn't have to Ururu."

The scene in front of her was so ridiculous she couldn't even bring herself to speak. But when the next person walked into the room her jaw dropped. Perhaps the largest human she had ever seen walked in, ducking his head as he did so. And although his size was intimidating his appearance was almost laughable. The man had his hair done up in some form of cornrows with a thick mustache, small spectacle adorned his face. He was wearing a skin tight white t-shirt and an apron and in his hand was…

'Is that a tray of tea?' she thought to herself.

When the man walked in he place the tray in one hand balancing it expertly using his now free one to pick the boy up by the collar of his shirt. "Jinta, care to explain to me what it is you are doing?"

"T-Tessai, I was just… I was just," said the boy pathetically as he tried to come up with some sort of excuse for his behavior

"Go outside and sweep the porch."

"But I swept the porch yesterday, it's Ururu's turn today."

"Jinta," warned the large man.

"Okay, okay I'll go just please put me down already."

Tessai set the boy down and let him get about his assigned task.

"Now then Ururu," said the large man as he addressed the girl, "Why don't you go to the store room an catalogue our inventory."

"Of course mister Tessai, right away."

Soon it was just Raynare and the large man Tessai.

"I must apologize for the patch job on your wounds," stated the large man as he walked closer,"But we were unsure what effect our healing techniques would have on you so we used standard human methods."

'Once he gets close enough I'll gut him with a spear of light and make my escape,' she plotted in her head disregarding his statement entirely.

Tessai walked over to the bed and placed a bed-tray in front of her and placed a cup of tea on it.

Meanwhile Raynare was trying her hardest to summon one her deadly weapons but to no avail.

'What the hell is going on? Why won't my powers work?'

Soon her mind made the connection as she stared at the metal band on her wrist, 'This thing, it's somehow keeping me from using my powers.' Using all her strength she tried to pull the damn thing off put it was stronger that she initially thought.

"That won't work," said a voice right beside her.

Turnng she came face to face with man lounging in a chair right next to her bed. He was wearing a black coat and a green shirt underneath he had unruly blond hair and wore a green and white striped hat that cast a shadow over his eyes.

'When the hell did he get there?'

"I designed that band myself after analyzing your powers. While wearing it you will be unable to use them at all. So you might as relax and enjoy your tea, Tessai's recipe really is quite delicious."

"Who the hell are you," demanded Raynare with a snarl.

"My name is Kisuke Urahara," stated the man calmly, "And I'm going to need some answers."

Ichigo stood in front of his new school while wearing its standard uniform. It was a lot different than the school in Karakura that much was certain. It didn't seem to have any qualities you would find in a school but rather looked more like a luxurious mansion.

It was with a heavy sigh and his new class schedule in hand that Ichigo walked through the gates to begin his first day of school in this different world.

Issei Hyoudou sat at his desk while resting his head on his arms thinking about the recent events that had transpired over the past few days. They had managed to rescue Asia from the clutches of the fallen angels but that creature had shown up and had completely wiped the floor with them. Rias had sent her report in but had yet to hear back from the underworld regarding the possibility of the strange new creatures working for the fallen angels. On the bright side when Asia was resurrected as the president's new bishop her sacred gear had returned to her.

"Hey buddy," said an exuberant voice as the owner nudged him roughly in an attempt to get his attention.

Shifting his head to the side Issei stared at his friend and fellow member of the infamous perverted trio Matsuda.

"Yeah man what is it," asked Issei as he answered his friend.

"Haven't you heard, I thought you'd be more excited about it."

"Heard what?"

"We're getting a new student today," answered his other friend Motohama as he pushed up his glasses, "her name is Ichigo Kurosaki."

"And with a name like that you just know this girl has got to be a hottie, I wonder if I can convince her to model for me!"

"Are you serious," exclaimed Issei, "Oh man this is the best news I've heard in days!"

"Settle down class and get in your seats, I have an important announcement," stated the teacher with authority.

Issei immediately sat down like the other students while perverted thoughts filled his head.

"Now class will you please join me in welcoming our new student, Ichigo Kurosaki."

The door to the class room opened as the class waited with baited breath."

'Come on bring on the hottie,' thought Issei impatiently but when the new student walked in he was sorely disappointed.

Ichigo Kurosaki was no girl but was in fact a tall teenage boy with brilliant orange hair with a scowl glued to his features.

"That's no hottie," Issei shouted unknowingly.

"Speak for yourself," said Murayama, a member of the kendo club who frequently brutalized the perverted trio, as she released a sigh of longing.

As Issei looked around the room he could see that all the other girls had similar looks on their faces causing him to scowl angrily. The new guy hadn't even been here a day and already all the girls in his class were swooning over him.

Meanwhile Ichigo just leveled a glare at Issei for his outburst before speaking up, "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki. My name means number one guardian not strawberry. With that being said I hope we can all get along," He said finishing with a small bow.

"Very good mister Kurosaki now if you would please take a seat in the empty desk next to mister Hyoudou then we can begin the class."

Ichigo made his way to the empty desk and took his seat, it was then that Issei decided to apologize for his earlier outburst.

"Hi I'm really sorry about earlier, the name's Issei," Said the perverted devil as he held out his hand in greeting.

Ichigo merely looked at Issei's hand coldly before answering dismissively, "Ichigo."

"Uh, right," said Issei awkwardly as retracted his hand leaving the new student to his business all the while thinking to himself, 'Geez what's with this guy? I said I was sorry.'

"I see, so you're one of these fallen angels," said Kisuke while he sipped his tea, "so I can assume that at some point you were an angel is that correct?"

"Yes," answered Raynare through gritted teeth as she started to get annoyed. The man had een asking her questions non-stop for damn near three hours now. It was starting to get tiring.

"And those that you were fighting the other night, those were devils were they not?"

"That's right."

"And these three factions are the only ones yes?"

"No, there are others," stated Raynare.

"Oh," said Kisuke curiously, "Do tell."

"There are the pagan gods. Norse, Greek, and so on and so forth."

"I see, well then I believe that is all I need from you at the moment. I will remove that band and you will be free to go. By the way could you please tell your leaders about us we would like to set up a meeting sometime in the future."

"I'll tell them."

"Very good," said Kisuke with a smile as he reached down and gave the metal band on her wrist sharp tap.

Raynare watched in astonishment as the metal band that had hindered her powers simply dissolved into nothing. As she pulled herself out of the bed and stood to leave she addressed the strange being, "Is that why you saved me? So you could ask me all these ridiculous questions? What does any of this concern a human like you anyway?"

"Oh I'm no human."

"Then what are you then?"

"That's my little secret," said Kisuke impishly causing Raynare to scowl, "As for rescuing you… Well it was never part of the plan, I only told Ichigo to observe the fight not to intervene. That Kurosaki is so impulsive some times, always playing the hero when he sees a damsel in distress. Now then allow me to show you the door."

"No need," Raynare said coldly as she activated her teleportation magic as the unknown creature looked on in fascination as the magic engulfed her body she thought to herself, 'Ichigo Kurosaki huh? It seems I am in your debt.'

When she was gone Kisuke stood from his chair and walked out of the room.

"Tessai," said Kisuke calling for his friend.

"Yes."

"Call Soul Society for me, it seems things are a tad more complicated than we initially believed."

'Great,' Kisuke thought to himself, 'On top of three biblical factions known for always waging war against each other we have to deal with all the pantheons of ancient civilizations. I don't see this ending well at all.'

*A-choo* Ichigo sneezed violently. He was currently sitting outside under the shade of a large tree enjoying his lunch. Every now and again some of the girls would walk by some would pause and stare others would whisper in the ear of their friend causing them to blush and pick up their pace in embarrassment.

'I thought I was done with this stupid high school crap. Damn Kisuke and his shady mechanizations.'

The sound of footsteps on grass alerted Ichigo to the presence of another behind him. Turning to regard the newcomer Ichigo found himself facing down a familiar young looking boy, with cold teal eyes and snow white hair.

"Toushiro?"

The boy closed his eyes in annoyance, "How many times do I have to tell you, it's Hitsugaya."

"Uh, right sorry about that," said Ichigo as he scratched the back of his head. "So what's up?"

"I came to relay the information I have gathered since I arrived here."

"Okay shoot."

"There isn't much I have been able to gather but so far I know that there is one club as well as the entire student council that are comprised completely of non-human creatures of unknown origin as of right now."

"Yeah one of those guys from the other night is in my class, Issei something or another."

"Hyoudou."

"Huh?"

"Issei Hyoudou, his name is Issei Hyoudou, and he is a member of the Occult Research Club which confirms him as one of these unknown beings."

"Oh that makes sense I guess. So what are we supposed to do."

"Normally we would try and infiltrate them seeing as one is a school club while the other is the student council but it would seem that both have put in place measures to ensure that only their own kind are allowed into their groups."

"So what do we do now?"

Toushiro reached into his bag and pulled out an official looking document, "Here I need you to sign this."

"What is it," asked Ichigo as he took the document in his hands.

"It's a club registration form, but order to form a club I needed a second member."

"Why do we need to from a club?"

"We need to be able to move about freely and seeing as club activities are practically mandatory here we need to be able to control our activities ourselves."

"What kind of club is it?"

Toushiro closed his eyes as if trying to swallow a bitter pill. "The Ghost Hunting Club."

"You can't be serious?"

Unknown to the two shinigami they were being watched by a pair of cold yellow eyes.

The members of the Occult Research Club were gathered in the club house discussing the arrival of the new student.

"Issei," said Rias addressing her pawn, "You're in the same class as the new student, did you notice anything odd about the new student?"

"Not really I mean he came off as a bit abrasive but he didn't seem any different than a normal human."

"I see."

The club room door opened and in walked Koneko.

"Where have you been Koneko," asked Kiba playfully.

"I was observing the new student Ichigo."

"Well what did you see," asked Rias.

"He was talking to Toushiro Hitsugaya."

"You mean that new first year that transferred in last week," asked Akeno curiously, "Isn't he in your class Koneko? What's he like?"

The young devil thought for a moment before answering, "Cold."

"Yeah I know what you mean that Ichigo came off pretty cold too," said Issei.

"No," continued Koneko in her monotone, "I mean he is cold. When he enters the classroom the temperature seems to drop, and when near him it feels as though I am standing near a large block of ice. The odd thing is that he smells human but at the same time it seems fake."

"I see, and what did he want with Kurosaki," Rias asked her rook.

"It looked like he was trying to get him to sign a club registration form."

"So they're trying to start a new club. I wonder what for."

"Maybe they just have like-minded interests," suggested Asia.

"Possible but unlikely, they would have only just met unless of course they have known each other prior to having transferred here within a week of each other. Which in and of itself is more suspicious than coincidence."

"I wonder," said Akeno thoughtfully.

"What is it Akeno?"

"Well it may be nothing but a few days ago that Toushiro boy was inquiring about joining our club as well as thinking about running for student council."

"Then it can be assumed that he knows what we are, if that is the case we need to be on our guard around both him and Kurosaki. Is that understood?"

"Yes Buchou," was the unanimous reply of her peerage.

"Good, that will be all for today, we will discuss this in more detail tomorrow."

After School

Issei once again running for his life from the Kendo club after he and his friends had been caught peeping in on them changing.

"Get back here you perverts," shouted the pink haired Katase.

"We are going beat you black and blue," shouted Murayama

"Come on," shouted Issei desperately, "I didn't even get to see anything!"

"Come guys, run faster," Matsuda managed to gasp out beside him

Issei was so caught up in trying to escape the wrath of the kendo club that he didn't notice that he had kicked over a vase full of flowers that had been left to commemorate the memory of a departed student. The instant this happened he felt his forward momentum stop as he and his two friends were thrown backwards into the pavement

'What just happened,' thought Issei as he regained his senses he became all too aware of a very angry looking orange haired teen hovering above them.

"What the hell do you idiots think you're doing?!"

"W-what," stuttered Issei in surprise and fear.

"You idiots knocked over this vase of flowers that was left here in the memory of the girl that died here last year."

By this time the kendo club had caught up to them, but had stopped and were now watching the scene before them in interest.

"We can explain," said Motohama.

"Yeah," said Matsuda, "You see were running from these girls."

Ichigo tore his eyes from them for a moment to regard the female kendo practitioners before returning it to the perverted trio once more, "And why were they chasing you?"

"W-well you see," Issei started nervously.

"They were peeping on us," spat Murayama in disgust.

"I see so instead of facing the punishment you deserve you decided to run like cowards and then uncaringly knocked over this vase. You three are going to take your punishment but first you are going to apologize."

"We're sorry," the Perverted Trio said in unison as they bowed pathetically to the kendo club.

"Not that you shouldn't be apologizing to them but I meant you should apologize to her," said Ichigo as he gestured to a girl dressed in a Kuoh uniform that Issei hadn't noticed until now.

"Man I think this guy has a few screws loose," said Mastuda quietly so only the perverted trio could hear.

"I know what you mean," said Motohama, "This guy is trying to make us apologize to his imaginary friend."

"What are you guys talking about there's a girl standing right there."

"I think you better get your eyes checked Issei. There's no one there."

"Seriously guys you don't see the girl standing right next to him?"

"Issei like we said before there is no one there."

Issei took a closer look at the girl trying to determine why his two friends couldn't see her when he noticed that her entire body was completely transparent.

'W-wait,' thought Issei as the blood drained from his face, 'don't tell me that that's a g-ghost.'

"I said apologize!"

"W-we're sorry," they shouted once more.

"Good," said Ichigo as he turned to leave, "don't let me catch you doing it again."

"Y-yeah, sure thing," said Issei as he watched the terrifying orange haired teenager walk away.

The perverted trio breathed a collective sigh of relief as when Ichigo was no longer in sight.

"Ahem," coughed Katase reminding the three perverts of the presence of the angry females behind them, "Now then I believe it's time for your punishment."

"Oh, crap…"

A/N: And done. Sorry about this chapter. It's short and it took forever to update because life in the navy reactor department sucks and after work all I want to do is sleep. I also know it jumps around a lot but that is because I am trying to move the story along quickly enough without leaving a lot of plot. Also everyone thank SpiritMaster28 because if he or she hadn't messaged me I might not have updated this week. Regarding power levels… In the great words of team four star "Power levels are bullshit." Zanpakuto abilities are random and can affect almost anything thus making it hard to gauge the strength of the user so in all honesty I'm gonna wait to address that until Bleach gets a little further along. And as always thank you for reading. Please read and review.