Chapter 2
The next day I went into school and this big breasted girl came all up in my face. "What the hell did you do? Did you actually rub their heads and run your hands through their hair? If you did, OMG!" I took a few steps back and when I did that she stepped closer to me. A sudden voice came on, "Matsumoto, leave her alone." "But taichou, I have to get confirmation, I mean Kira wouldn't believe if I told him!" I peeped behind her and saw Toshiro. "Hey Toshiro." "Hi Higetsu." He continued on Matsumoto? "I said leave her alone. " She stepped away from me, all grumbly. A few moments later, Ichigo and Mizuiro walked into the classroom. Everything was cool. I walked up to him and asked, "Anything fun happen last night?" "Nah, you?" "Nope. So are we still on for today?" Sadly, Keigo overheard this and started crying into his hands. Mizuiro saw this and excused him, but not before Keigo had the chance to mouth the words, "Good Job!" and give a shaky thumbs up.
The teacher walked in and everyone sat down; well, everyone but Toshiro. She saw him and asked him a moment before he started walking out. "Excuse me but why are you here?" He put his hand up to beside his face and waved backwards to Matsumoto? and said, "Goodbye, Nee-san." The teacher came to the realisation that he had a sister in the class.
The first half of the day passed bye quickly, but at the end of break, a screeching pained voice pierced the air. I saw Ichigo and Rukia run out and I joined. I came up beside them. They looked at me confused. "Yeah I heard it."
We arrived quickly and I saw Toshiro, Matsumoto? and two other guys. I grabbed my wrist, opened the head of iron dragon. I felt that sensation of me leaving. Before anyone else could move, my zanpakuto had already moved swiftly and sliced the monster in half. Nearly everyone's jaw had dropped. I saw the only one not being jaw dropped was Toshiro. "Nice, smooth and fast technique." "I'm sorry. What did you just say?" He looked a little bit pissed off, I am guessing he doesn't like repeating himself. "I said,' Nice, smooth and fast technique." "Thank you?" "Would you mind telling who you learned it from? I haven't seen a technique like that before." Ichigo buts in now. "It kinda reminds me of Yourichi." "Sorry who is that?" I am so confused. "Guess her reaction puts that out of the question." "Um... I guess I taught myself. My father showed me some basic techniques back when he was still alive and I just expanded from them." "How long have you been a substitute shinigami?" "I'm sorry a what?" Ichigo mumbled to himself, "She doesn't know what she is?..." Toshiro kept pushing with the questions, "How long have you had these powers?" "Probably since my father died. The day he died he gave me a tube with a bunny head on it. I ate one and I just came out like this." "She ate soul candy..." "I saw his spirit the next day and it handed me a white robe to put on over my shihakushoo. It said, it was called a haori. I am wearing it right now." HIs eyes scanned quickly over me, his eyes widened when he finally found it's hiding place. It was folded over and tied around my waist like the sash, but you could still see the pattern at the end that hung down from the knot. "Did his spirit tell you how or where he got it from?" "No all he said was, thank the captain, when you see him. He handed me a piece of paper which I have in my blazer breast pocket. It was a sketch. To this day I have no clue what he meant." "First we must evaluate your skills and see how useful you are to us in this situation."
For the rest of the time I spent with him, which sadly was about two more hours, he asked me stuff like, do you have your shikai? Do you know any kido? and other similar things. But one he asked was how I came out of my body with out anyone else helping me. I replied," That is easy. The one soul candy I had had was actually a modified soul, for a project..." A sudden small angry voice called out," It was project spearhead. SPEARHEAD!" Toshiro looked startled and started darting his eyes around. "Sorry, Kai has sudden outbursts." He looked at me as though I was crazy," Kai is my mod soul." I lifted up my wrist, to show a bracelet. It was an dragon coiled around my wrist; it was completely rigid, made out of iron, but it's mouth had hinges so if Kai went in she could talk. She likes to have a different body every once in a while, but she would always come back to this one. I scolded Kai, "Kai! How dare you! How dare you but in without first introducing yourself to Toshiro! Do it now!" I lifted my wrist to equal level with Toshiro's face. "Hi! Sorry about that. I'm Kai, it's short for mod soul." Toshiro nodded, he was very diplomatic about the situation. I decided to change the subject. "How long ago did you learn Bankai?" "A while ago." I kinda got the feeling he didn't really want to discuss it. I looked down at my watch. Damn, I had to meet Ichigo at his place at six. It was now 5:55. I started running, "Sorry Toshiro. I've got to meet Ichigo. See you soon." He raised his hand and acknowledged my apology.
I sprinted the whole way. I got there at 6:02. Seven minutes. Phew made it in time. I leaned over and started to catch my breath when I saw Ichigo coming out of his front door. I heard footsteps; heading towards me. I thought it was Ichigo, but it was...
Mizuiro?!
What was he doing here? I stared at him imensely, a confused look on my face. He said apologetically, "Sorry, Ichigo invited me. You see he knew that I had been asked for my opinion on motorbikes before. By my cousin." He smiled shyly and tilted his head to the right. I waved my hand at him and turned my head away. "Ah... That's fine, it would be good if you had experience." I scratched my head. "I was planning on giving Ichigo a ride, but all three of us can't fit in it. SO, I guess we walk." "Sure. Sorry again." Ichigo walks up to us. "Hey." He notices Mizuiro here. "Eh?! Mizuiro, why are you here?!" "You invited me." "No, I didn't." "Well, you got Kuchiki-san to literally ask me." "No, I didn't!" I got a little bit annoyed with Ichigo, so I just said, "It doesn't matter. Let's go."
We walked for maybe half an hour, give or take ten minutes. Mizuiro looked up at the sign, "Why is this place still open. It closes at quarter past six." He looked at me. I smiled awkwardly and looked at him," I called in a favour." He raised his head and slowly it came down, a gesture which told me he understood.
In the middle of us choosing the colour, a hollow voice screamed in agony. Ichigo looked a little panicked. "Excuse us, Mizuiro." I smiled politely and dragged Ichigo into the office. "What do we do? I mean, I know Toshiro and them are there, but we are close. And I mean, really close." Ichigo scratched his head, "Well, then we have to trust Kai and Kon to pick a good colour for your ride." "Fine. Now let's go." I opened the dragon's head again for the second time today. The tingling sensation took over and Kai dropped my body on the floor because she wasn't quick enough to react and balance herself. Without looking down, I told Kai to take care of my body and pick a good colour for my motorbike. she did that salute of hers and told me not to worry.
Ichigo and I hurried to the roof of the nearby building where the hollow was attacking. I saw the soul the soul, that it was attacking. It was my cousin Miyuki. "Stay away from her!" It's ugly head turned and the body followed. Soon, we were at a dead end. It reared it's ugly head at it's prehensile tail, that was holding Miyuki. Rage aroused and my blood boiled. Suddenly, white thick liquid came bursting out of my eye and mouth. I knelt on the ground as the hollow looked at me. I whispered, "Stop..." My reiatsu burst out. Everything went fuzzy, but I didn't collapse. The liquid had hardened on my face and formed a mask.
Ichigo's P.O.V.
She's like me. What but I didn't sense anything from her? Suddenly, my hollow started crooning,"Well you're not the best at finding reiatsu." I told him to shut up. "Well, I was not going to say anything else bad, actually I was going to compliment her mask. It's beautiful." This comment made my heart race as I looked at her. Her mask, on one side of her mask it stopped before it passed her ear, but the other side looked as though her mask was still exploding. Her mask had few markings. Her eyes were uneven one like mine, but the other wide. They had blue on their eyelids as though eyeshadow. She had but a circle of blue for a mouth. "That's incorrect." I thought back, what is? "She has a whole, though how small is very, but the point is she has a whole for a mouth." I stepped back in shock as her reiatsu pulsed.
Ichiru's P.O.V.
"Put her down." My voice was cold and unforgiving. He didn't do it. "Not going to well... Doragon no Tsubasa!" My zanpakuto reformed to an identical iron dragon bracelet to the one I usually wear except this one coiled from four inches down my arm to my hand where at the end was a metal fan. at this point, Toshiro and the others had arrived. Their faces were those of utter and complete shock. "Ascend and pierce, Doragaon no Tsubasa! Chi no kōri!" I swiftly opened my fan in the direction of the hollow. Ice shards scattered across it's flesh. It's body jerked, dropped Miyuki and ended up lying in an awkward position with blue veins that soon turned a really light blue.
The hollow's body dissolved and I turned my mask to the side. Miyuki looked up at me. "Ichiru..." I shed a tear and nodded. She threw her arms around me. "Ow!" I pulled away, "What's wrong?" "Your mask poked me." I let out a laugh, brought my hand over my mask and it disappeared. "Better?" "She was full on bawling so she couldn't answer but she just nodded. "Miyuki, you do realise that I have to send you to heaven?" Wiping away the tears, she nodded again and made slight agreeing noise. I placed my hilt on her forehead and whispered, "I'll come visit you when it's my time to go there." Her face brightened as she sank down into the alley's ground.
I got up, only to be greeted by everyone's shocked faces. Well, everyone but Toshiro and Ichigo's shocked faces. I could never really shock them, they always recovered in a moment or two. "I have to report this to Sereitei, you do realise that don't you?" I nodded as though I understood. Suddenly I remembered Kai and Kon. I tugged Ichigo back to the garage only to find Kon running away from Kai, with Mizuiro looking on kind of nervous. I tapped on Kon's shoulder and just as he turned Kai tackled him and twisted his arm behind his back. She down at him, an evil look on her face. "You little-" She was interrupted by Ichigo and I coughing. She looked down ashamed and got off Kon in Ichigo's body.
Later Mizuiro walked with us to our houses.
Ichigo turned to head inside. He raised his hand backwards and waved nonchalantly at us. "Bye!" "I guess I should go in to." As I turned and took a few steps, I heard him sigh, "I guess another night by myself.
After I invited him.
Mizuiro is on his phone as usual. I sit down on the couch and call him over, he sits down, but he feels tired and rests his head on my lap. I look at him with an amused and confused expression on my face. A few moments later I look down again, he is still listening to music on his phone. He puts his hands and phone on his chest. "Why are you lying your head on my lap?" He just shrugged his shoulders. I was about to ask him another question, when his head rose and his lips met mine. It was a small kiss, but it was still a kiss. I make a small eep/ squeak noise and he does it again, but this time he puts his hands up to my face cupping it and he does it for longer this time. My hands wrap around his neck and the kiss is deepened. His tongue ventures to my lips and they open for him. He falls slowly on to the rest of the couch, me on top of him; still kissing. He rests his head on the cushion for a split second and then he raises his head again and starts placing gentle kisses on my shoulders and neck. I unzip his jacket and pull it off him. It goes on the floor. My hands take a place on his shoulders, while he removes the sports bra I had been wearing for my run earlier. I too take a shirt off of him. His chest was more well defined than I had thought. I kiss him and slowly crawl off the couch and saunter away to the bedroom. He quickly follows. Pushing me back first, onto the bed, he works his way up from my stomach to my chin. I shiver and grip tightly onto the bedsheets, giving a few groans and moans as he works his magic. I couldn't take it anymore and pulled his head up to mine and made our lips connect. He pulled away and stayed there hovering over me. Every second he stayed still there, made me yearn for our flesh to collide, but I decided that we should leave it at this, because I had to meet Toshiro, Ichigo, Rukia and Urahara at the Urahara shop. I raised my head and whispered into Mizuiro's ear that this was as far as it would go for now. He nodded. After a few uncomfortable moments, "Would you mind getting off me?"