Ch. 2
It is now lunch time and Ichigo joins Chad, and Mizuiro. She holds he right side where the Giant hit her and sits down. They both give her a look.
"What?" asks Ichigo
"Uh...Nothing." they say
Keigo comes running in with his hands in front of him.
"Ichigo!" he yells
Keigo trips on a rock and accidently hits Ichigo's ribs. Tiny tears form in her eyes. Keigo gets up, sits on his knees near Ichigo, and looks apologetic.
"Sorry Ichigo. But you're fine right? Like you said earlier and I didn't hit ya that hard." says Keigo
The tears disappear and the blood vein pops on her head. She hits Kiego.
"Yeah, I said fine not great! A big gorilla clobbered my ribs!," says Ichigo, calming down. "Nevermind, it was on accident right?"
"Yeah it was." says Keigo
"Then you're forgiven." says Ichigo
They sit down and enjoy lunch together before they go back to class. Later after stopping for clinic supplies Ichigo heads home.
"I'm home" calls Ichigo
"Welcome back, Ichigo." says Yuzu, from the stoop.
Ichigo walks over to the table and sets the boxes down.
"Yuzu, can you help me for a minute?" asks Ichigo
"Sure, what do you need help with?" asks Yuzu
Yuzu hops off the stoop, Ichigo gets a drink and looks for an ice pack. She puts ice pack on her ribs.
"Ahhh. Sweet relief." says Ichigo
Yuzu pulls Ichigo to the clinic and into a room.
"Ichigo, can I see you're ribs?" asks Yuzu
"Actually, that's what I need helped with." says Ichigo
She pulls her shirt up enough for her ribs to show. On them is a huge bruise, covering most of the front and a little on the side. Yuzu covers her mouth in shock.
"I would have taken care of this myself, but I don't know how much damage was done inside. Could you?" asks Ichigo
"Of course. Just sit there and lay down but have you're right side off the bed enough that you're ribs aren't touching the bed.." says Yuzu
Ichigo climbs in the bed and lays down exactly the way Yuzu tells her to do so. She puts her hands on Ichigo's ribs and puts some pressure on them. So she can feel the bones, but not hurt Ichigo more than what she was feeling.
"There's no bone damage thank-goodness, but I need to get Dad." says Yuzu
"Sigh, I thought so, okay. I'll stay here, promise." says Ichigo
She sits up, and pulls her shirt down. Yuzu leaves to get their dad. After a while, Isshin comes into the room and shuts the door.
"Ichigo! Let me see it." he says
Ichigo shows him the bruise.
"Who did that to you?" demands Isshin
"Dad, it's just a bruise relax will ya. I really just want to know if there is any other damage. Don't worry about the guy, who did this. I already kicked his ass." says Ichigo
"You a fought a gorilla?!" asks Isshin
"No, it was a guy five times my size after he hit his fist into my ribs, this morning. " explains Ichigo
" You went the whole day with ribs like that?," asks Isshin, she nods and he hugs/squeezes her. "Aww my girls are so strong. Daddy approves the beating to the guy who did that to you."
"Ow ow ow ow ow. Ichigo would approve 'Daddy' getting off! Oww owww ow! " says Ichigo
She kicks Isshin off her, and holds her side and front where her ribs were injured. Isshin recovers, blushes, and looks apologetic.
"Sorry. Alright, lets check and see what we're dealing with here." says Isshin
He checks her ribs closely, like Yuzu did, but a little bit more percies.
"There's some damage, but it'll be gone as soon as the bruise and swelling is gone." says Isshin
Ichigo puts her shirt back down, grabs her ice-pack, and stands up.
"Thanks Dad, I'm heading to the roof." says Ichigo, heads to the door
"Are you going to the mountain?" asks Isshin
"Maybe, I'll leave a note if I go." says Ichigo
"Okay, be home by 7." says Isshin
"Will, bye." says Ichigo
She leaves the room and opens the window above her bed. She grabs a pen, a sticky note, a heavy thing, and her badge. She puts the items on the bed, and climbs on top of the bed. She ties the badge to the heavy thing and sticks the sticky note on the object as well. She puts the pen in her pocket. She climbs back into the room and sits on the ledge.
"Hey Kon" calls Ichigo
Kon comes and sees Ichigo on the ledge facing the bed, now leaning on the ledge.
"Ichigo! What the hell are you doing?!" panics Kon
She puts her hand on the roof where the gutter is, and looks at Kon.
"Just climbing up to the roof. I wanted to let you know where you are just in case I need you later." says Ichigo
Uryu on his way home from a store sees Ichigo climbing up on the roof. He stops and cleans his glasses,he puts his glasses back on and sees that he wasn't just imaging things.
"What the hell?!" says Uryu
A little boy with a bat, cups his hands around his mouth.
"Hey, Ichigo! I lost my baseball on your roof. Can you get it?" asks Kyou
"Sure" she calls back
She climbs the rest of the way up, and looks around until she finds it. She turns and sees Uryu.
"Hi Uryu!" says Ichigo
"You climbed out of your window and all you have to say is hi?!" yells Uryu
"Oh, sorry! What's up, Ishida?" asks Ichigo
She tosses the ball to Kyou.
"Awesome, Kyou you're getting better! Try not to lose it this time, okay?" says Ichigo
"Okay! Thank-you!" says Kyou, he leaves
"To answer your question. I was on my way home. When I saw a girl, I go to school with CLIMBING ON TO HER ROOF FROM A BEDROOM WINDOW!" says Uryu
Ichigo sits on the roof and gets comfortable.
"Shh! Uryu, calm down, I do this kind of thing all the time it's no big deal." says Ichigo
She climbs back down, gets into her room, grabs the object and puts it on the roof. Then she climbs back up and sits back down facing Uryu.
"Seriously?! What are you a monkey?!" calls Uryu
"No. Like I said I do this kind of thing all the time." says Ichigo
Uryu shakes his head, says bye, and leaves. Thirty minutes pass, Ichigo tells Kon to watch the house, she leaves, and heads to the mountains. She walks the ten minutes to the mountian and climbs up the mountain side. She looks at the sights, where she is. There is grass and a little pond, and some flowers cover the ground. She stretches and lays down.
"Ah! Much better, it's so peaceful up here." she says
She sits up, and looks at the view of the town. A few minutes later someone walks up behind her carrying a picnic basket.
"Hi, are you Ichigo Kurosaki?" asks the stranger
Ichigo startled turns around and sees him.
"Oh, you scared me for a second. Yeah. Who are you?" asks Ichigo
"I'm Hoshi, it's a pleasure to meet you. May I sit with you?" asks Hoshi, showing her the basket
She laughs and taps the grass beside her. He sits down on the grass beside her.
"How do you know me?" she asks
"Wow, you don't beat around the bush do you?" teases Hoshi
She shrugs.
"I watched the court case on tv, and may I say that I'm sorry that a bunch of beautiful girls like you, had something like that happen to you." says Hoshi
"Ah! Thank you." says Ichigo, blushing.
In the meantime, Renji and Byakuya are walking in town. When they suddenly hear a group of females saying "Move out of the way, excuse us, we're in a hurry!" The girls notice Byakuya and Renji right away.
"Look it's them!" says Reiko
"Are you sure?" asks Sachi
"How many guys with red hair and funky eyebrows. - " says Reiko
"Funky eyebrows?" asks/interrupts Renji
"Hanging around a guy with weird tubes in his hair do you know?" asks Reiko
The two girls reach Renji and Byakuya.
"Are you two Renji and Byakuya?" asks Sachi
"Yeah" they both say
"That's great, oh um… Welcome back Renji and Byakuya. We're friends of Ichigo and Rukia."says Kako
"Really? Hmm…" says Byakuya
"Yeah. I'm Kako," says Kako, she points to each person starting from the left. "That's Akiho, Reiko, Tana, and Sachi."
"Kako, did you forget what were going to ask them?" asks Tana
"Hmm….oh yeah." says Kako
"Have you seen Ichigo?" asks all the girls
"No, by chance have you guys seen Rukia?" asks Renji
"No" they reply
"But if you guys help us, we'll help you Deal?, " asks Sachi
Both of the boys look at each other then nods to the girls.
"Great! But we need to find Ichigo first." says Sachi
"Ichigo? I saw her earlier, she's on her roof. After acting like a monkey by climbing up from the window." says Uryu, who suddenly appears
"Oh no,. Did something happen?" asks all the girls
"Well she fought this gorrilla, after two guys literally dragged and left her in the gym. I don't know what happened, but I heard she got into a fight with some guys every time she turns around. A friend told me, that she gets pulled into random fights without knowing what's going on." explains Uryu
"Oh poor, Ich. Yeah. It might not seem big to anyone else. Yeah, especially to those three...Right. Ichigo!" says all three having their own conversation.
The girls drag all of the guys behind them toward Ichigo's house. Hoping that Ichigo is still on the roof.
"We'll explain on the way and look for Rukia while we are at it. Let's just hope Ichigo is still on that roof!" they say.