Chapter 3:
Rukia woke to the smell of fried rice that her mum is cooking, when suddenly images of her mother in the hollows hand from the events of last night.
'MUM' Rukia thought when she jumped out of bed, through the door and down the stairs.
"Mum are you alright?" Rukia asked with worry in her voice as she ran into the kitchen.
"Well good morning to you to Rukia." Hisana greeted with laughter and added. "I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?"
Rukia walked up to her mother checked her for injuries but didn't find any.
"Mum what happened to your injuries from last night?" Rukia questioned.
"What injuries, what are you talking about Rukia?" Her mother asked with a questioning look.
"Rukia if you're talking about that accident that happened last night no one was injured. And no one woke up from it either." Byakuya answered from the kitchen table where he was reading the local newspaper and drinking a cup of tea.
Rukia was just standing there thinking 'Mum doesn't remember what happened last night. What did Ichigo do to her to make her forget about it? And of course dad wouldn't know because he was still at work last night.'
"Yeah I'm surprised myself that neither I nor Rukia woke up from a truck driving into the house." Her mum said in a surprised voice. Her father just nods his head in agreement while Rukia's standing there with a look on her face that tells them that they are crazy.
'They think a truck did the damage in the lounge room? A truck would have taken the whole house down.'
"And dad how can you be so calm about all of this? You're going to be paying a fortune to repair the damage to the lounge room." Rukia asked her father.
He stopped reading the newspaper and looked his daughter in the eyes and said. "The reason I'm so calm is because it could have been a lot worse. I am thankful, very thankful that neither you nor your mother was hurt or possibly killed in the accident last night and no amount of money would help me with the pain. And it wouldn't be costing a lot to repair the lounge room anyway."
Rukia had to agree with her dad. Either though it wasn't a truck that caused the damage she too had to be thankful that neither she nor her mother was killed last night. And she knew that what her father had said was true; because they were the only family he had left.
Rukia's mother placed a bowl of fried rice in front of her father, and then place Rukia's breakfast were she would normally sit and said. "Hurry up and eat your breakfast and get changed for school or you'll be late. Your dad's going to be staying home to help clean up the mess."
Rukia looks down to see she was still in pajamas. Rukia did as her mother said and quickly ate her breakfast and went back upstairs to get changed for school. After Rukia got into her school uniform, she put the homework she had finished last night into her school bag and went downstairs to the kitchen and got her lunch out of the fridge, Rukia then gave her mum and dad a quick hug and kiss before she left for school.
On the walk to school Rukia was thinking about what happened last night, then she also remembered that Ichigo gave her the ability to save herself, her mum and him. She then began to wonder what had happened to him after she had killed the hollow. 'Did he go to that place were shinigami's send the human souls to? He must live there or else why would he send them there in the first place.' Rukia ended her thoughts there as she got close to the front gates to her school where she saw her two best friends' standing at the front gate. The first girl is an averaged height teen with waist length burnt orange hair and she has bangs tucked behind her ears by two blue hairpins. She has brown eyes and she has a slender yet very curvy body with extremely large breasts. The girl standing next to the orange haired teen is average height as well with brown eyes. She also has a very lean frame compared to the girl next to her. She has short dark hair with her hair spiked on the sides.
"Hey guys." Rukia greeted as she walked towards the front gate.
"Hello Kuchiki-san." The orange haired teen greeted in a happy voice.
Rukia smiled at her friend and hug her then replied. "Please Orihime call me Rukia we've been friends since middle school."
"Okay Rukia." Orihime Said.
"Yo Rukia, Orihime are you two ready to go to class." The dark haired teen asked.
Rukia smiled at her friend and said. "Yeah sure Tatsuki, let's go."
As Rukia, Orihime and Tatsuki walked into the classroom someone tried to get Rukia into a hug but ended up having her fist going into his face. When Rukia sat down at her seat next to the window the boy she punched in the face come up to her face and said dramatically. "Oh my beautiful Rukia-Chan, I heard what happened to your home last night. I hope you didn't get hurt."
Rukia sighed and pushed his face away from hers and replied. "How many times have I told you Keigo, I am not yours? And no I didn't get hurt in the accident last night, no one did."
Tatsuki joined in the conversation when the accident at Rukia's house was mentioned.
"Rukia, I walked pass your place this morning while I was on my way to Orihime's place. What caused that massive hole in you wall?" Tatsuki asked.
"Apparently a truck smashed through the lounge room wall last night and no one woke up to the crash. My dad came home to a massive hole in the wall." Rukia simply answered.
Tatsuki had a look of disbelief on her face and said. "A truck ran through your lounge room wall and no one woke up from it. I'm finding it hard to believe."
'Yeah tell me about it.' Rukia thought to herself. Just then the teacher walks into class.
"Good morning class. Can everyone please go to your seats, we have a new transfer student joining our class." The teacher said as she looks at the door telling the new student to come into the classroom.
Rukia stared with disbelief as she sees the boy who gave his powers to her last night walk through the classroom door and said. "Sup my names Ichigo Kurosaki."
The teacher smiles at Ichigo and tells him to take the seat next to Rukia.
As Ichigo takes his seat next to Rukia, she leaned over and whispered." What the hell are you doing here Ichigo?"
"I'll tell you after class Rukia." Ichigo whispered back with a smirk on his face.
After the bell went Rukia dragged Ichigo up to the roof and asked him. "What the hell are you doing here Ichigo? I thought you would have gone back to where you would have come from."
Ichigo huffed and answered. "I don't have the spiritual energy to get back to Soul Society because a midget took all of it last night. So now I'm stuck in this Gigai till I get my spiritual energy back."
Rukia ignored the midget comment and asked. "Ichigo, what's a Gigai."
"A Gigai is an artificial body that allows shinigami's to interact with humans which is why your class mates and teachers can see me."
"Okay that explains why your still here in Karakura but it doesn't explain why you're here at my school." Rukia questioned.
"I'm here because you're going to be killing the hollows whenever they appear." And as if on cue a beeping noise is coming from one of Ichigo's pockets. Ichigo takes out what looks like a mobile phone and said. "A hollow has just appeared. And it's not too far from here."
"Well Ichigo have fun killing that hollow." Rukia said as she turned around and walked towards the roof exit.
"It's not going to be me that's going to kill that hollow. It's you." Ichigo muttered softly and pulled a glove out of his pocket.
"Hey Rukia!"Rukia turned around to see Ichigo charging at her and then the hand with the glove on covered her face and pushed her out of her body.
Rukia landed butt first on the floor looked up to a smirking Ichigo and asked. "What was that for you asshole?" then she looked to what Ichigo was standing over. "What the hell did you do to me? Why am I out of my body carrot-top?"
"The reason your out of your body is because you're the one who's going to kill the hollow, I can't kill while I'm stuck in this Gigai and you wouldn't be able to kill while you're in your human body. Now let's go kill hollow midget." Ichigo answered and exited the roof entrance.
"W-wait Ichigo what about my body, we can't just leave it lying here. ICHIGO!" Rukia yelled before she ran after him.
As they leave the school grounds, they ran down a though street to a park entrance they stopped at the entrance when there was an explosion of on the playground and out of the dust a soul of a little 5 year old boy with short dark hair and grey eyes, he's wearing a white t-shirt with red sleeves, blue jeans and sneakers screaming for help as he ran. Right behind him was a hollow with a six legged beetle looking thing. He has greyish green skin with orange joints and orange spots on his back. It has a plain white mask that has a human like appearance, the mask framed by two brown tufts hair and a forelock purple hair that falls over the top of his hair giving it a clown like appearance.
Rukia was about but stopped when Ichigo grabbed her and arm and said. "If you save that kid, you will have to help every soul out there. Because out there, souls just like the little boy right over there, are being hunted and eaten by hollows. It's my lob as Shinigami and now your job as a substitute Shinigami to protect every human and soul in this town by purifying every hollow by cutting through their masks."
Rukia was listening to everything Ichigo had just said. It was his job to protect Rukia and her mother from the hollow last night and he got injured in the process. So he gave Rukia to finish the job he couldn't due to his injury.
Rukia was about to reply but didn't when she saw the little soul trip over and the hollow wasn't too far from him. Rukia slip through Ichigo's grip and ran to were the hollow and soul was and drew her sword. When the hollow was about to strike the little boy was caught by surprise when his forelegs cut of his body. The hollow screamed in pain and retreated to avoid further damage. Rukia turned around and said. "Okay Carrot-top I'll kill the hollows for you considering you're too weak to do it yourself." Rukia smiled when she heard Ichigo growl at her insult. The hollow seeing that Rukia's back is facing it decided to try a surprise attack but was surprised when Rukia turned and her sword went straight through its mask purifying it.
Ichigo walked up to Rukia and put his hand on her shoulder and said. "Okay midget perform a Konsō ok the kid with the hilt of your sword and let's get out of here."
Rukia elbowed Ichigo in the stomach for calling her a midget and asked. "What's a Konsō Ichigo?"
"It's where you send the soul to the Soul Society." He answered. Rukia nodded her head and walked up to the kid to perform the Konsō.
"Hey there little boy, I'm going to send you to a place called Soul Society were you won't have to worry about any of those scary monster anymore." Rukia said in an innocent school girl voice which Ichigo found really annoying. The little soul nodded his head and Rukia placed the end of her hilt on his forehead. The little boy was engulfed in a blue little as he went into the ground before he turned into a black butterfly and flow up into the sky and vanishing.
Rukia stands up and smile's at Ichigo and then said. "Ichigo let's get back to school and hope that no one found my body just lying on the roof." Ichigo nods his head and they start running back to school.
A/N: I would like to thank everyone for reading my story so far. I might not be writing for a couple of weeks because I might be going to Queensland for a holiday I'm not too sure though. I will also like to thank Rukia4Ichigo for reviewing my story and I hope you still do :D, AllieOutOfWonderland for your review and yes great minds do think alike XD, Yuzy for reviewing it and Kreion for the feedback you sent me. Hopefully my writing skill has improved from the first two chapters. And please continue reading my story.