Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach. Ch.9 and I know it's been forever since I updated. I've been concentrating on work and other stories and stuff, so please forgive me! SO will Koro show up and help fight? Or will he not be able to because he's in YORUICHI'S BODY?? Read and find out!!
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Curiosity Killed the Cat
Ch.9
Hollows began to appear as Ichigo and Rukia took their stances. They only had a few hours left to be in each other's body and things weren't turning out too great.
"You ready Rukia?" Ichigo asked. Rukia nodded and already the howls of hollows could be heard. Ishida was walking away.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Ichigo asked. Ishida turned for a second and shoved his glasses up his nose. "Just because I brought the hollows doesn't mean I intend to fight them. I'm holding an after party and people will be arriving at my house soon, sorry!"
Ichigo didn't get to say another word as a hollow began to attack. Of course the hollows were extremely weak, but now they would have to wait for Yoruichi, or who they thought was Yoruichi, to get there.
The plan was for Urahara to sense the hollows, decide to fight, and take Yoruichi with him. Hopefully this would happen all very soon.
Rukia and Ichigo sliced the hollows with ease, but just as one was killed, another immediately followed. "That stupid Ishida, he should be here to help!" Rukia shouted.
"Look once Urahara gets here it will be a little easier." Ichigo shouted back. Several minutes later, Urahara came with Yoruichi.
"How's it going?" He asked as he swung Benihime around. Ichigo and Rukia glanced at Urahara, glared quickly at Yoruichi, and shrugged their shoulders.
"Nothing, just killing hollows." Ichigo said calmly as he swung his sword down again. "Killing hollows is so cliché, don't you think Yoruichi?" Yoruichi, or Koro, nodded and smiled.
"Yes, it does get sort of boring." Rukia flicked her eyes to Ichigo. "That sounded way too formal for Yoruichi." Her eyes read. Ichigo quickly nodded and killed another hollow.
"Come on then Yoruichi, let's fight." Urahara stated. "Yoruichi" smiled, and moved along next to him. They all paused when she made movement for a kidou attack.
The attack killed the hollow seconds later.
So was their theory completely wrong? Did they think it was Koro in the hopes that it would be, and that Ichigo and Rukia could get their normal bodies back?
Rukia's usually graceful attacks now held a bit of roughness. She only had a few hours left in her body until they would switch back. "Surely Soul Society will figure it out." Rukia thought. She didn't want to go through being punished again.
It wasn't their fault.
Yoruichi attacked a hollow again, but something happened this time. Instead of the hollow disappearing, another one formed. Rukia and Ichigo both stopped what they were doing.
"Yoruichi, what sort of spell was that?" Urahara asked. She shook her head. "Oh, well, it's a new technique I just learned."
Suddenly, the hollows stopped dead in their tracks, staring straight at Yoruichi. "You see, I have this way of creating hollows. It's a new talent." It was obvious now that it wasn't Yoruichi.
"Koro!" Rukia shouted. "Where's Yoruichi?" Ichigo demanded. Koro laughed.
"Why would I tell you that? As far as I'm concerned, nobody will find out about my body switching."
"That's not true, Soul Society will find out!" Rukia shot back. Koro laughed. "Yes, and then they would find out about you two, and you would be in trouble as well."
"But you're powers are all messed up." Ichigo replied. "No actually, they aren't. I've always had the ability to create hollows, remember? It's just a little different than before. You're powers on the other hand, are totally unstable. Not now, but when you two switch back, it will be."
"Then we'll just destroy you before that happens!" Ichigo shouted and ran towards him. "If you kill me now, then you'll be stuck in your bodies forever." Ichigo stopped in his tracks.
"If the chain of our souls is unbalanced in anyway, like one of the souls being destroyed, than the other soul, or souls, can not go back to their bodies." Rukia gripped her zanpaktou tightly.
"Kill me if you like, but what I say is the truth. Do you really want to meddle with such a thing?" Rukia's hand dropped. "Good, now I'll be on my way. And remember, if you tell anyone about this, you'll only get punished as well." Koro disappeared before them, taking the hollows with him, leaving Ichigo, Rukia, and Urahara alone.
"So what do we do?" Ichigo asked. "I don't know Kurosaki-san, but we'll figure this out."
The walk back to Urahara's shop was not a pleasant one. Ichigo and Rukia were too stressed with their current situation to feel any kind of warmth.
"I say we just tell Soul Society and face our punishment." Ichigo stated. Rukia quickly whipped her head to face him. "No Ichigo! That's the worst decision we can do right now. For you, a human, to get in trouble while still alive is extremely bad."
"Koro is going to continue to turn souls into hollows! We can't just let him run around doing however he feels!" Rukia pressed a hand on his shoulder to calm him down.
"Yes Ichigo, I understand. But we can't kill him, even if he was bluffing. We need to also remember that Yoruichi is somewhere out there. We can't endanger her life as well." Ichigo shoved off Rukia's comforting shoulder.
"I get that Rukia, but we can't just sit here and wait!" Urahara waved his fan calmly. "His power really was different. Before he would take souls and change them into hollows, but just now, he only duplicated it."
"Which means double hollows and more lives being taken away." Ichigo muttered. His hot head was starting to release itself, and he needed to go find Koro soon.
"We just need to wait for now, we'll figure out something." Rukia smiled at him reassuringly, and he immediately forgot what he was thinking about.
Since he had been in Rukia's body, he hadn't gotten the chance to really look at her, like he did now. He knew he was crazy for admitting it, but he missed it.
"Look, why don't you guys enjoy the small amount of time you have left in your bodies, ok?" Ichigo and Rukia both sighed. "We can't enjoy the time we have! We shouldn't have to enjoy it because we should be in our own bodies for good!" Rukia cried.
Urahara ended up winning the little argument, and Ichigo and Rukia walked out. "It does feel good to be in my own body though. You're so short it's hard to see things." Ichigo muttered.
"Well being tall isn't helpful either, I feel like a freak when I walk by people, how tall are you anyways?
"I'm not that tall!! You're the freak who looks like a twelve year old!!"
"And seriously, so many people stare at your hair, I never noticed it!"
"So what! It's not like you don't have weird hair. I mean, you have a piece of it right in the middle!"
"And your sword, it's huge! How can you hold such a thing?"
"I would rather have a big sword than a girly one!"
"A GIRLY one?? How dare you! Sode No Shirayuki is one of the most beautiful and graceful zanpaktous of all Soul Society!"
"Yes, and also girly!"
Rukia and Ichigo gritted their teeth tightly. And when they both looked away, they smiled. They weren't fooling anyone.
They loved arguing the way they did.
"So what do you want to do?" Rukia asked. Ichigo shrugged his shoulders. "I'm sort of hungry. Killing hollows makes me hungry." Rukia nodded in agreement.
When they reached the park they bought, or rather Ichigo bought, hot dogs. "I haven't had a hot dog in a long time." Ichigo said as he took a bite. Rukia poked at the hot dog strangely.
"Rukia, what are you doing, take a bite. Haven't you ever had a hot dog before?" Rukia was silent for a long time. "No."
"What? You haven't? Surely we've gotten one before."
"No Ichigo, we haven't."
"But wasn't there one time, like when Aizen was about to attack —"
"No Ichigo, I don't think —"
"And I was about to pass out from hunger, so we stopped at a hot dog stand…"
"Nope —"
"You made me throw it out because Aizen was coming up from behind…"
"ICHIGO! NO! I NEVER ATE A HOT DOG! IT WAS JUST YOU!" People were staring strangely at Rukia, wondering why she was shouting about a hot dog.
"Ok calm down Rukia, all you had to say was that you never had one." Rukia almost punched him, but she decided it would be meaner to not punch him, considering she always did.
They sat down at a bench and ate their hot dogs. "So what should we do about Koro?" Ichigo asked. Rukia shook her head. "I really have no idea. We need to figure out some way to switch back without the use of him or Soul Society."
"And how can we do that?" Rukia closed her eyes. "I don't know Ichigo. If I could find out the way, then I would."
"Well do you know how they do it in Soul Society?" Rukia thought hard. "No, but I think I might have an idea!" Ichigo scooted a little closer to listen.
"I know in the department of technology they have lots of things on switching bodies. I bet there are books and things, but I don't know how I would get in. If only we had someone who knew the department well, you know, knew some secret entrances." Ichigo rolled his eyes.
"Hello, Urahara-san! He was captain of that division, so I bet he knows all the secrets." Rukia smiled.
"You're right! That would work!" In the next second, several things happened.
First, Ichigo dropped his hot dog. Second, Rukia dropped her hot dog, and third, their bodies switched.
What felt like several minutes, only happened in ten seconds. Rukia and Ichigo both picked up their hot dogs, and when they looked up, screamed.
"HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!" Ichigo shouted. Rukia punched him, big mistake.
"Hey that man just punched that small woman." A lady murmured from far away. Rukia fought the urge to punch the person to call her a small woman.
Several people were stopped and staring at the two. "Get the police!" Someone shouted. Ichigo and Rukia's eyes widened. Just because of a punch? Rukia looked back at Ichigo to see blood coming from his nose.
"Idiot! You got to remember that I have more strength than you!" Ichigo grabbed his nose. "Sorry!" Rukia hissed back. Ichigo did the dumbest thing possible next.
By basically using Shunpo, Ichigo stuffed a piece of hot dog into his mouth, and fell to the ground, grabbing his throat. The crowd gasped. When Rukia somewhat caught on, she began to do the Heimlich maneuver.
She got into position, and did what she was supposed to do. The piece of hot dog flew out, and landed on the ground. The crowd clapped wildly.
"I sort of panicked and just punched hi—her when she began to choke." Rukia explained to the cop. How everyone thought that Ichigo was really choking she didn't understand.
"God bless you!" A child told Rukia. She gave the child a fake warm smile, and turned back to Ichigo.
"I thought we had a few more hours left!" Ichigo cried. "I don't know. I guess Urahara was wrong."
"Look, we need to go talk to him pronto!"
They made their way to the Urahara shop. "Kuchiki-san, are you alright?" Urahara asked. Ichigo and Rukia both froze.
Didn't he realize that they had switched?
"Urahara-san, you don't feel it?" Urahara for once looked at them blankly. "What do you mean?"
"Ichigo and I switched back." Urahara stared at them both for a long time. "That's weird, I can't sense the difference." Ichigo and Rukia both smiled.
"I guess the temporary soul switcher has some weird side effects. Like I said, I had never used it before." Ichigo and Rukia rolled their eyes.
"Well look, we have an idea, but we're going to need your help." Rukia stated. She explained their idea to Urahara, and he grinned proudly.
"I know that division like the back of my hand. And since it looks like no one can sense your reiatsu, then this will be easy. Now Kuchiki, as you suggested, yes, there is a book for switching souls to and back. It's called "Switching Souls For Dummies". It's a very helpful book and will give you good tips on how to switch back without hurting your souls."
"Ok, well there's a problem. Won't it look weird if Rukia goes to Soul Society in my body? I mean, won't they think it's weird?"
Urahara shook his head. "No, because I'm giving Rukia this note. It says that I asked for Kurosaki-san to go."
Ichigo cut him off. "But you don't live in Soul Society." Urahara shook his head. "Doesn't matter. It's like a hallway pass from a teacher at a high school. All you really have to do is hold it up and the guards won't really care. As long as you've got it. I still have those notes from when I was captain." Rukia and Ichigo nodded.
After Urahara thoroughly explained how and where to go, Rukia said her goodbyes and set off. Once she passed through the gate, she started to make her way to Division twelve. As she walked there, she looked through Urahara's instructions thoroughly.
"So after the fifth left I take ten rights, and then zig-zag through the wall, and then another left —"
"Ichigo!" A voice shouted. Rukia froze, she knew the voice, and she knew what the person would want.
Zaraki Kenpachi.
She quickly pulled out her "hallway pass" and showed it to Kenpachi. "I have business on Urahara." Kenpachi smirked and pulled the note out of Rukia's hand.
"Huh, interesting. Well, it shouldn't take you too long, so when you get done. I want you to come by my division."
"What for?" Rukia asked. Kenpachi's grin widened.
"We still have a fight to finish."
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A/N: Wow, so I'm pretty sure that was complete crack! But hey, it's been a while, and I haven't had too much motivation for this, so I hope you all liked it. It's supposed to be stupid (Most comedy is just stupidity anyways.) SO, what did you think? I want to know, and I hope you all like the idea of Rukia fighting Kenpachi. I figured if Ichigo has to go through menstruation, then Rukia should have to deal with Kenpachi. HAHA.
Review! Please! If I get a lot than I'll update soon! I promise! Cross my heart hope to die stick a needle in your eye!!