Walking past the other kids he ignored them as they stared at him suspiciously, they were always like that, just because he actually grew didn't mean he was any different from them. That's right Ichigo was getting older, a thing unknown for those in the soul society and he was growing at a normal rate too. He'd been growing ever since he'd entered Rugongai three years ago and was now the size of an average twelve year old boy. Of course it wasn't only the growing thing that got to the other kids it was the fact that he needed to eat which really messed them up. Though they had all laughed their heads off the time he'd fainted from hunger.

Sighing as he sat down he remembered how he'd found the stupid place he was now residing in. It was when the Shinigami had left him on the roof after giving him the rabbit thing-something he still carried in his pocket-; he was stuck on it for hours until he finally just decided to jump down. The roof he'd been standing on was for this place that helped out kid's and gave them some place to stay. He'd always wondered if maybe the Shinigami had left him there on purpose but always shook it off, deciding it was a co-incidence.

"Hey you!" looking up Ichigo saw it was one of the more older kids who looked a few years older than Ichigo.

"What is it? Can't you see that I'm busy?" he asked, irritated at being interrupted from his thoughts.

"What do you mean busy you were just sitting there spacing off as usual" said the boy, angry that Ichigo wasn't intimidated by him.

"I was thinking, maybe you should try doing that every once in a while" said Ichigo, not even bothering to lift his head up to look at the other boy. "What did you want anyway?" Ichigo asked, infuriating the boy further with his lack of interest.

"I was going to say that we don't want you around here anymore!" he shouted, not thinking to be embarrassed that he was getting angry because of some smart arse kid way younger than him.

"So you all agree with him?" Ichigo asked, ignoring him as he addressed the crowd that had gathered around them. Silently they all nodded in agreement. "What brought all of this on?" he asked already knowing the answer. His question was answered by multiple children each coming up with their own unique reason. 'You never talk to anyone your always silent, it's creepy' 'I don't like the way you keep on growing, it just seems so… unnatural...' this one would have made him laugh if he was aive in the human world. 'Eating, it's almost like he's…alive' another one had whispered fearfully as though being alive was a terrible thing. 'He's just too weird' was the last thing he heard before the leader, the one who had been the one confronting him, spoke making the others go quiet.

"We just want you to leave, nothing else we just want you GONE" he said fiercely, his tone betraying what he really meant.

"And what if I don't want to leave?" he asked, still seeming to be unbothered, only his voice now maintaining a menacing edge to it, giving away his feelings of anger.

"Then we'll make you by force" he said grabbing Ichigo by the shirt as he said it, punching his other fist towards Ichigo's head. Ducking he kicked his feet into the boys stomach, making the boy let go of him out of surprise. Looking around he saw the other big kids beginning to crowd around him too, all of them much taller than him, he was at a complete disadvantage.

"Don't you all" he said as he took a few steps backwards "Feel ashamed of yourselves for picking on some little kid?" he asked, before launching a kick into the biggest guys stomach knocking him down. It seemed that the karate lessons he'd gone to years ago had finally paid off, though he doubted they'd be very useful against so many people. Irritated and pissed off Ichigo decided to attempt fighting them anyway, though there wasn't really much else he could do considering the current situation. If only he'd bothered to make a few friends then he wouldn't be in this fix.

Fighting them, it turned out wasn't, the best of the choices he'd made, since all the older boys leaped at him at once. On the floor as he struggled to breathe under the heavy weight of one of the boys who'd fallen on top of him. Frustrated he tried to get out from under the person on top of him, he cried out angrily "WHY WON'T YOU JUST MOVE!" he said pushing a hand against the boys face, suddenly out of seemingly nowhere came the sound of a loud explosion, the source of it had come from the boy who had been lying on top of him. His face was covered with burn marks that made the shape of a small hand. Shaking the boy took a few steps away from a completely bewildered Ichigo who kept staring at his hand then at the man's face. The other boys also looked at him, the looks of complete terror on their faces making it apparent that they believed Ichigo was the cause of the explosion.

Without even looking at one another they all scrambled out of the door like frightened hens afraid of a tiny chick. Ichigo then stood up, brushing himself off as he did so, then going back over to the corner where he normally slept lying down he closed his eyes, he had completely ignored the remaining children.

"Do you think it's alright if we stay?" said a child as they asked the other children the question.

"I don't know…"another started "but he didn't say anything so it should be alright… though staying with a scary person like him-"

"If you don't bother me I won't bother you" said the sound of a familiar voice from the corner of the room. The children stared at the red head a little bit uneasily but because of what they'd just heard decided to stay, they understood what he'd just said and it made sense to them. From now on they'd just leave each other alone.

It was a few days since the incident with the older kids and Ichigo was now outside trying to see if he could do it again; not that he was really sure he'd done it in the first place but he'd thought he might see if he could explode a wall. So far though there'd been no luck, he was really beginning to believe that what happened had just been his imagination.

"Damn it! Why can't I do this stupid thing! Explode damn it" he shouted pounding at the wall; a moment later he found he'd been pushed back from the force of an explosion which had come from the wall. "Yes! I did it!" he said excitedly to himself, not thinking about any repercussions breaking down some random wall might entail.

"Hey you!" said someone loudly from behind him "What are you doing here?" turning around he saw it was a Shinigami, though this one was very much a contrast to the last one he'd met, she was tall and very curvy the complete opposite to the girl he'd met three years ago. He let out a sigh that almost sounded disappointed before answering her call.

"I was just sitting here minding my own business when there was this sudden explosion; I don't know how it happened" he said sounding very matter of fact.

"Show me your hands" the tall women said as though what she was doing was very routine.

"What?!" asked Ichigo, not really getting where the women was going with this.

"Just show them to me" she said as she walked over to him turning over his hands so the palms where facing straight up. After examining them for a few moments she took out clipboard filled with a few names. "What's your name?" she asked as she flipped over through the pages, looking over her shoulder Ichigo managed to make out the title 'Possible Candidates' before she clutched the board to her very much revealed chest.

"Kurosaki, Ichigo" he answered not really understanding the point of the women putting his name down.

"Hey Kurosaki, have we met before?" the women asked as she continued writing on her clip board.

"No, I've never seen you before" he said, feeling irritable, he wondered if he was in trouble for knocking down the wall.

"Strange…" she muttered as she put the clipboard back into her robe "We'll someone will be seeing you soon, in about a year or so to monitor your progress. Good luck" she said smiling, before jumping off and quickly disappearing out of sight. Ichigo stood where he was for a moment as he tried to understand what had just happened but no mater how much he thought over it he couldn't even comprehend a single sentence the Shinigami had spoken.

It was definitely him, the tall curvy Shinigami decided as she headed back to the Seireite. He was that kid who'd seen the hollow, that time she'd been to the human world; there was no doubt about it. There was one thing about the boy that surprised her, the amount of spiritual energy that the he'd have to have to have grown so much in such a short time, it might be wise to get that sort of person into the academy straight away. Before he started causing any accidental damage with releases of random energy like with what had happened with the wall earlier that day. Though destroying such a huge wall without an incantation, the kid's strength was off the charts.

Ichigo Kurosaki, she thought smiling to herself as she remembered the name, with such strength you might well become a captain someday.

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Sakuraflower101 wins the contest for who the Shinigami was lol, though she doesn't get anything…

I would put on a new 'who was the Shinigami' thing but I think that this time it is just too obvious.

Sorry about any grammar mistakes or spelling mistakes…

Disclaimer: I don't own or make bleach, I could never be that repetitive.