I woke up at about five in the morning and saw Arisa sleeping against the wall not too far away. I stood up and stretched.

I should go get some breakfast. I thought, leaping off the roof and changing into my human form.

I started to jog. I had always loved to jog, even though I'm dead, I enjoy the wind whipping past me. It's like my worries just fly away.

I arrived at a small gas station not two minutes later. It was open, so I walked in. This place wasn't the cleanest in the world, but I was hungry so I wasn't going to be picky about it.

The guy at the counter looked up from a pervy magazine when I walked in. He shut the magazine and acted as if he loved his job. "Hello, may I help you?"

"Just looking for some breakfast." I said, not really considering my words.

"I have some breakfast for you." He said in a perverted way.

I picked up two granola bars and threw him ¥500. "Goodbye." I said, walking to the door.

He blocked my exit. "You ain't leaving."

While in front of me, I realized how big he was. I wouldn't be able to take him down while in my human form. "Move it!"

He grabbed my shoulders and pushed me against the counter. "I said you ain't leaving!"

I struggled to get away. "Release me!" Then I remembered that my outfit as a human was a school uniform and put two and two together. He's a pedophile! I became scared at that moment, knowing I couldn't do anything in my current form.

He put one of his legs between my legs so I couldn't kick him away or even move my legs a little. He pushed me down to where I was half-laying on the counter. He started unbuttoning my shirt and untying the bow on my shirt when another guy walked in and pulled him off of me.

I fell to the ground on my knees. I buttoned my shirt back up and fixed my bow.

The guy who had helped me turned to me. "You okay?"

I nodded and stood up. "I'll be fine."

"Why's a girl in a uniform out this early anyway?" He asked me as we walked out of the gas station; I had grabbed two more granola bars as I walked out.

"I was getting some breakfast." I said, referring to the two granola bars. "Who're you anyway?"

I got a good look at his face and saw that he had on emo glasses, short blonde hair, and gold eyes. He was wearing a uniform from the same school as Ichigo. "Edward Amino." He said smiling. "What school do you attend?"

"Huh?" I asked, confused. Is this human hitting on me?

"Well, I can tell by your uniform that you don't attend the school that I go to…so where do you go?" He asked, he didn't seem to be a pervert like I thought at first; he was honestly interested in the "school I attended".

"Um…" I didn't know what to say, but then I saw a newspaper with the name of a school on it. "Tokyo Girl's Prep."

He seemed surprised. "Really?!"

I nodded.

"How did you get into such a prestigious school?" He was incredibly interested, and I hadn't meant for that to happen.

"Well, I passed the entrance exams like every other person...but they were hard." I lied. It wasn't hard to lie to a human, especially this one. "Why? Is your older or younger sister thinking of applying there for college?"

He shook his head. "Actually, I was thinking about it."

"What?!" I was so confused now. "It's a girl's school, you idiot!"

"I guess I forgot to mention that I'm on the waiting list for a sex change… I'll be a girl in a few months to a year." Edward said, laughing.

My mouth fell open; I was shocked at him so openly admitting it. "W-Well, this is my last year there."

"Aw, and I was hoping that we could be friends." He said, disappointed. "This is my last year of High School."

Oh Kami! I shouted in my head. "What was your friends' and family's reaction to this?"

"Well, a lot of girls became my friends, my old friends ignore me, and my family hasn't been too kind to me. But it won't be long before that all stops." Edward said, smiling.

Well, this is definitely a first… "Well, I've gotta get back to the dorm before everyone wakes up and finds I'm gone. Bye." I said, walking away from him.

"See ya!" He said to me as I walked away.

Once I was out of his sight, I changed back into my Soul Reaper form and jumped onto the roof. Arisa was still sleeping when I got back. But it seemed like, when I sat down, she woke up.

I heard her stand up and looked back at her. "Morning Arisa."

She sat down next to me. "Morning." She yawned. "Anything for breakfast?"

I gave her a granola bar and didn't bother to explain about the trip to the gas station and back.

Arisa opened it and took a large bite out of it. "What have I told you about stealing?" She joked.

I smiled. "I know…but you know just can't help it! I love being a thief!" I said, going along with it.

She laughed. "It's been a while since you've joked around."

I laughed and grabbed my granola bar, opening it. "Yeah, I guess it has been a while."

Arisa took another bite out of her granola bar. "Fo, fare dif fu felly fet fese?"

"What?" I asked, giving her a confused look. Don't talk with food in your mouth!

Arisa swallowed the rest of her granola bar. "I said: So, where did you really get these?"

"Oh! Gas station up the road." I said. And you don't want to know the rest!

She tossed the wrapper aside. "Did you pay for them?"

I swallowed the rest of my granola bar and threw the wrapper aside. "Of course. I'm no thief."

Arisa sighed. She knew I was referring to the time when she stole food because we had no money. I'll never let her hear the end of it.

My eyes became fixed to the front door of the Kurosaki residence again.

"You know what I think?" Arisa asked; she was bored, I could tell.

"What?" I asked, curious as to her boredom.

"I think you're so obsessed with this mission because you like Ichigo!" Arisa proclaimed.

I blushed a little, not expecting that. "I do not like Ichigo Kurosaki!"

"Then why are you blushing?" She pushed. Arisa was bored, and I knew it, but she knew that I had boundaries when it came to romance.

"I don't like Ichigo at all!! I don't give a damn what happens to him!" I yelled. "Keep that in mind."

Arisa shut up and became fixated on the door as well. After a few hours, Ichigo left for school. We stood up and followed Ichigo to school. Once he was in school, we just sat on a roof across from the school and waited for him to get out.

Arisa stood up after just a few hours. "Where's a Hollow? I'm bored!"

I sighed. "Part of being a Soul Reaper is being patient, Arisa."

She sighed too. "I just can't, it's hard for me to be patient, you know that."

Something howled near the school. A Hollow!

We stood up and ran to where the howling came from. The Hollow had a young girl in its hand, it was ready to devour her soul when it sensed us.

The Hollow dropped the girl and turned to us. It was really big and just as ugly, maybe uglier, as the last two. "Two Soul Reapers! How wonderful for me!"

We unsheathed our Zanpakto's.

"Do intend to fight me?" The Hollow asked, acting as if he's never heard of something called resistance before.

"We do." I said, assuming a battle position.

The Hollow laughed at us.

"What's so funny?" Arisa asked, also assuming a battle position.

"I've never been defeated." The Hollow laughed.

I smirked. "That winning streak ends here!"

We jumped up and slashed at the Hollow, he dodged us. The duo attack normally worked, but this thing was just as fast as it was big. We continued trying the duo attack, to no avail.

"Damn, this thing's fast!" Arisa said, landing on the ground next to me.

"I've got an idea!" I said, focusing on the Hollow. "Duo Power!"

"We've never been able to get it right though." Arisa said, also focused on the Hollow.

"It doesn't matter whether or not we've been able to get it right in the past… I'll distract him while you gather power for Mitsuki Fushiyama." I said. I can just hope it works.

Arisa sighed. "Fine." Arisa took Mitsuki Fushiyama to her left arm and cut it.

I ran at the Hollow and started attacking it. I knew that it was too fast for me to defeat on my own, but I was just distracting long enough so Arisa could gather enough power for the attack. But I had to admit that we were never able to make the Duo Power attack work in the past, and to be able to successfully do the attack in the heat of battle would be an accomplishment. I did manage to injure it a little, but not enough to where it had to retreat.

"Sadako!" Arisa shouted for me.

I jumped back to where I was standing and threw Blood Sakura into the air. I said the same incantation as yesterday.

While I was saying the incantation, Arisa threw Mitsuki Fushiyama at the Hollow. It tried to dodge, but Arisa had cleverly attached strings to it and was able to control the path of Mitsuki Fushiyama to where it hit the Hollow in the face and it was unable to move.

I finished the incantation and the bloodstained cherry blossom petals flew at the Hollow. Arisa jumped at the Hollow and grabbed the hilt of Mitsuki Fushiyama, dragging it up, the Hollow disappeared once Mitsuki Fushiyama left it's body.

I sighed in relief. We were able to successfully use the Duo Power!

Arisa landed and resheathed Mitsuki Fushiyama.

Blood Sakura returned to normal and I resheathed it on my back. "It seems that the Hollows are attacking while Ichigo is in school so they can catch him off guard." I said, walking toward Arisa with the bandages.

Arisa nodded and started bandaging her wound. "Yes, it seems that way." She said, tying the knot on the bandage around her arm.

Ichigo jumped down from the window.

Arisa and I were both taken off guard. "EEK!!"

Ichigo looked between us. "You two…I saw you both yesterday in front of the school. Why are you dressed like that?"

I was still in slight shock that we had been discovered so soon. "Ichigo," I slapped Ichigo across the face, "did that hurt?"

Ichigo held the side of his face that I had slapped. "Of course it did!"

"How did you jump from that window without anyone noticing?" Arisa asked.

"Not sure." Ichigo said, looking up. "There wasn't really anyone in the room. I was in the back, so I guess that's why nobody noticed."

Arisa and I exchanged looks and nodded. We both grabbed one of Ichigo's arms and dragged him off.

I stopped before Arisa did. "Get back to class!"

"Why should I?" Ichigo asked, defiant.

"Because I said, you brat!" I shouted, angry with him now.

"Now, now, Sadako, no need to yell." Arisa said, trying to calm me down.

"You two should be in school yourselves, not outside fighting random monsters!" Ichigo shouted back.

I shoved Ichigo toward the building. "Get. To. Class. Now!"

The force of me shoving Ichigo had thrown him into the building.

"That's wasn't necessary." Arisa sweatdropped.

"It wasn't?" I asked innocently.

Arisa sighed. Unlike me, Arisa was the less violent and aggressive one.

"Oh well, lets' get back to our post and make sure no more Hollows appear." I said, shrugging.

Arisa nodded and we jumped back onto the roof of the building across from the school.

We sat there for a few more hours and then the school let out. Ichigo came out of the building with bandages wrapped around his head.

"Ichigo's hurt!" Arisa said, glaring at me.

I chuckled innocently, looking the other way. "I honestly do not know what you're talking about, my friend."

We stood up and followed Ichigo home on the rooftops again.

It was about ten at night when I stood up and walked over to a wall to go to sleep. I was beat.

I leaned against the wall and shut my eyes. "Night watch."

Arisa sighed. "Fine."

I fell asleep.

…

An hour and a half later I woke up the sound of a Hollow nearby. I looked around for Arisa, but didn't see her. I figured she had gone off for something to eat and jumped down off the roof to face the Hollow.

Next Time;

Injured Soul Reaper:

With Arisa nowhere to be found, Sadako battles the Hollow by herself, but the Hollow proves to be too strong for her to face on her own.