Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach. Finally! Chapter friggin 2!. Things start to get very interesting. Please read and review!!

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Curiosity Killed the Cat

Ch.2

Rukia woke up to a throbbing headache. "Where am I? This doesn't look like Ichigo's house." She sat up slowly. For some reason, she felt much taller than usual. "Something happened to me and Ichigo, but what?" She tried to remember, but to no avail, she was clueless.

"Think Rukia, think." She thought. Looking around the room she realized where she was. "Urahara-san's? Why?" Due to her head ache, she didn't feel like thinking much of it. It seemed like a normal thing to wake up at his place.

Standing, she walked to the restroom. She went to reach for the door knob and noticed how it seemed further away than usual. Rukia shrugged her shoulders, not particularly caring, and walked inside the restroom. "Did someone just take a shower? The mirrors are fogged." She rinsed some water into her eyes, hoping to see better. Feeling satisfied, she noticed the counters also being far away.

Something in her stomach made her churn. Something in her brain told her that these little misconceptions of the door knob and counters weren't right. She quickly rubbed the mirrors so she could clearly see herself. At first she laughed, not understanding what she was looking at. The second time she looked at herself; she rubbed her eyes and rinsed water through them. The third time, she pinched herself to see if she were dreaming. The fourth time, she screamed. But, the scream sounded more like a yelp, a yelp from Ichigo Kurosaki.

"What is going on?" she screamed. Everything she saw before her in the mirror was that of Ichigo. Her hair, her eyes, her body, her voice.

There was soon a knock on the door. "Ichigo, is everything alright?" "NO! IT'S NOT." Rukia screamed mentally to herself. "Uh, yah, everything's just fine Urahara-san!" She said, a little too chirpy for Ichigo. "Oh, alright then, just tell me if you need anything." Once she heard that the footsteps were gone, Rukia began to panic. "I don't understand. Am I really just seeing things? My voice just sounded like Ichigo! Did Urahara-san here it also? Am I Ichigo? And, if I am Ichigo, than who is he?" Rukia closed her eyes, getting confused. She took a deep breath and opened the door.

Stepping into the main room, she saw Urahara-san talking with Yoruichi. "Ah, Good morning Kurosaki-san, what can I get you?" Rukia froze. "They see me as Ichigo too?" Rukia didn't know what to do, so she decided to play along and act like Ichigo. "Nah, I'm good." And he turned around to go back to his room.

"Oh um, wait, where is Rukia at?" Urahara pointed down the hall way. "Third room down, she's still sleeping. It's kind of funny, since she is usually the first one up." Rukia shrugged her shoulders, trying to look as natural as she could, and walked towards her room, or, whoever's room.

Walking down towards her, or whoever's room, she heard a scream coming from the bathroom. A scream that sounded just like hers. Rukia dashed towards the restroom, opened the unlocked door, and saw herself petrified looking in the mirror. Rukia wrapped a hand around her body's mouth, and pulled it into the room Rukia slept in.

Closing the doors and locking them, Rukia slowly sat in front of herself. "Who are you?" Rukia asked. It was strange for Rukia to look at herself. "Ichigo, and who the hell are you?" Rukia slapped him on the head, realizing she was in Ichigo's body a second too late, Ichigo flew across the room. "OH! Sorry! Look, its me, Rukia." She waited for Ichigo to speak. His eyes were in shock. "Rukia? How?" She looked away, "I don't know Ichigo." "I mean Rukia, why I am in your body? It's not possible."

She looked at Ichigo "What happened last night, I don't remember." Ichigo thought, hard. He remembered seeing and fighting hollows, and then seeing Rukia get hurt. That's when he rubbed his sore arm. "We were attacked by hollows and you were attacked by surprise." Rukia remembered that part, she then noticed Ichigo rubbing his arm. That's right, it happened to her, so wouldn't she be the one with the wound? Why was Ichigo's arm in pain.

"The boy" Rukia whispered. "There was a boy Ichigo, and there were hollows with him." They both tried to remember why and what happened after that, but they couldn't remember a thing. "So basically," Ichigo began, still shaking. "Me and you have switched bodies somehow." Rukia tried to think. "I suppose so, seeing as how you feel the pain of the wound that was inflicted onto my body."

Rukia was surprised at how fast they were figuring things out. She still didn't know if she believed anything though. "What should we do? Should we tell? I mean, I want my body back as soon as possible." Ichigo said, looking down disgustingly at Rukia's body. She gave him a glare. "Oh yah, and you really think I want to be you?" They both stared at each other, feeling strange staring at what looked like a twin.

There was a knock on the door. "Urahara-san wants to speak to you two" Ururu said softly. They both told her okay and stood up. "Does he know?" "I guess we'll find out.

"Kuchiki-san, you finally woke up, usually its Kurosaki-san who sleeps later." They both nodded, trying to act like the other. Ichigo tried to pull off a tired stare as Rukia tried lowering her eyebrow as Ichigo always did. "Did you both sleep well?" They both nodded with a yes. "Do you remember what happened yesterday?" Rukia began to speak. "We both remember a lot of hollows and a boy, but that's about it." "Correct Kurosaki-san." Rukia was confused for a second, remembering again that she was not in her body. "Do you feel, different?" They both glanced at each other in agreement. "My arm's a bit sore, but I'm just fine other than that." Ichigo said, trying to sound like Rukia. Urahara nodded. "Yes, it seemed you were attacked by a hollow. We healed your arm last night, so you might feel a tad bit sore today. Anything else?" Ichigo and Rukia were confused. Did he know? Should they tell him? Rukia finally spoke.

"Nope, everything is fine." Urahara stared at them for a moment, then sighed. "Good, good, well, we still aren't sure what happened, but we will be investigating, it seems whoever was responsible for the attack is still out there. We do have an idea of who it might be." Ichigo and Rukia leaned in, wanting to know.

"His name is Kentarou Itsuke. All we know is that he has a strange reiatsu and once he showed up more hollows appeared. Its just something to speculate. When we know more, we will tell you." "Do you know what he looks like?" Ichigo asked. Urahara sighed once again and pulled out a picture. On the picture was a man in his mid twenties with long, black hair, and piercing green eyes. "That is definitely not the boy we saw last night. This is an older man." Ichigo muttered. "Yes, I'm still not sure of how the boy you saw last night and this man could be connected, or even if they are connected, but we'll try to find out as soon as we can." Urahara-san said.

"Well, now that both of you are better, you can leave if you wish. If you see any more hollows or feel a strange reiatsu around you, please come and tell me" Urahara said smiling. Rukia and Ichigo stood. "Thank you very much Urahara-san." Rukia said smiling. Ichigo nudged her side. "Yah, thanks a lot Urahara-san, for everything." They both left quickly.

Once they were down the street, Ichigo started to yell. "What were you thinking Rukia? He doesn't know that you are me and I am you! You have to act more like me. I probably looked like a gay happy guy when you told him thanks!." Rukia folded her arms. "Well sorry, I'm still trying to get used to all of this. We don't know a single clue about anything. It obviously has to do with the boy, but we can't remember anything about him."

Ichigo sighed in frustration. Rukia looked down at him. "Hey, you need to act more like me too. Don't slouch so much, and you can't scowl all the time. You need to just look natural, you see me all of the time, surely you can act like me." Ichigo laughed. "Oh yah, all I have to do is read Chappy and steal my sister's dresses. Easy as pie."

Rukia stopped. "Well, being you is quite simple too. I'll just look mad all the time, call my dad an idiot, and walk around acting depressed." They both stared at each other, than continued walking. "So," Ichigo began "we're not going to tell anyone?" Rukia shook her head. "We can't, we need to figure this out ourselves." Ichigo picked up a rock and through it. "We should have at least told Urahara-san, I'm sure he could have done something. Or maybe Soul Society could help."

Rukia grabbed onto Ichigo's shoulder and pushed him to a wall. She looked serious. "No Ichigo, we can't tell anyone from Soul Society. If anyone were to find out, they would tell a captain and that would be bad news. You see, switching bodies is a major crime. It ranks in the category of killing or giving a human shinigami powers." Ichigo looked confused. "It's not like we purposely did this. Wouldn't Soul Society understand?" Rukia's grip loosened.

"Not until we know more about how this all happened. If we go telling Soul Society our bodies switched without having any evidence as to how, than they will think we are lying. Even me and you, who helped defeat Aizen, Soul Society would still punish us, it's that serious. But, if we can figure out why then maybe we can tell Urahara-san, or at least figure out a way to change back on our own. We don't even want to risk telling someone like Urahara-san, who doesn't even live in Soul Society, this has to be kept a secret for now."

Out of no where a man came up and pushed Rukia out of the way. "Is there a problem ma'am?" The man was speaking to Ichigo. "Oh, no, everything is fine. Hehe." The man glared at Rukia, and walked away. "That guy probably thought you were attacking an innocent woman, we really do need to be careful." Ichigo whispered. Rukia nodded in agreement. "So, we don't tell anyone until we can figure out more information." "Right."

They started walking again when Ichigo stopped. "Rukia, what if its just our human bodies that are switched, maybe if we turn into our shinigami forms, we will be ourselves since those are our souls." Rukia shook her head in disagreement. "Not likely, yes, its true that its our soul, but we still have a body in shinigami form." Ichigo looked confused. "Then why is it called "Soul Society" anyways?" Rukia shrugged her shoulders and they continued to walk.

"Well won't people like Urahara-san and my dad sense our souls? I mean, we use reiatsu to find a person, a soul, if we aren't sure where they are. Won't they see that you're reiatsu is coming from my body?" Rukia closed her eyes.

"I don't think that will be a problem," Rukia began "I was the one that was injured, yet you are the one with the injury, even though it's still my body. I think that's the way that reiatsu is going to work. Our bodies will signal the same reiatsu, even though the bodies have completely different souls. There are spells and ways to truly see the reiatsu when bodies are switched, but other than that, no one will be able to tell." Rukia waited for Ichigo to register everything she just said. "Ok got it."

They walked home. Practicing acting like one another in the case that some one would notice.

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Authors note: So guys? What did you think? It wasn't very funny I know, but it will get funny, I promise. I'm still trying to get the plot out a bit. I hope things are become clearer and that you guys actually like it. And just know that whenever I refer to Rukia, she's in Ichigo's body and Ichigo is in Rukia's body. Use your imaginations, its pretty funny to picture how they act. And I totally made the reiatsu stuff and "switching bodies is a crime" thing up so don't yell at me for that please.

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