Ch. 5
On Ichigo's half of the run, Ichigo and Uryu are zig-zagging through the city still.
"Are you sure we're going the right way? We've been going through allies for a while!" says Uryu
"Stop complaining!" says Ichigo
She continues singing and running, up to a wall. She pulls Uryu in front of it and turns him around. (Here is where F.M.A. B. comes in )
"Stay there, crouch, and put your arms down, and lock your hands together." she orders, she goes back a little ways and faces him. "Is this far enough?"
Ishida does what he is told and figures out what she is doing. He mentally measures the walls length, her height and his height.
"Yeah, go for it!" he yells
She runs full speed toward him, he hoists her up when he feels her leg hit his hands. She lands on the wall. She leans down and pulls him up onto the wall.
"Okay let's g-" starts Ichigo
The hollow roars and they turn toward the sound.
"There you two are! I'm going to rip you to shreds and eat both of your delicious souls. " says the Hollow
"Ha! You can't even catch us!" Ichigo says
She grabs Uryu's arm and they jump off the wall. They begin running again. They continue running and Ichigo pulls them in between two houses.
"Shh!" orders Ichigo
"Where'd you go?! Where'd you go!" says the hollow, he runs past them.
Ichigo comes out with Uryu behind her.
"Hey ugly! Behind ya!" says Ichigo
They start running in the opposite direction they came from with the hollow and soulreapers following behind. They run all the way to the river and Orihime and Ichigo notice each other.
"Orihime!" yells Ichigo
"Ichigo!" yells Orihime
While dancing to the same beat the two let go of Chad and Ishida and meet in the middle. (Don't ask! it's just a bunch of songs which you can listen on youtube.)
"Cheater Cheater, where'd you meet her down at Ernie's bar? Did she smile you way, twirl her hair and say how cute you're dimples are? Did she use that line your place or mine while you danced with her real slow. Tell me cheater cheater where'd you meet that no good white trash hoe. The seven things I hate about you, oh you. You're vain. Your games, you're insecure, you love me you like her, you make me laugh, you make me cry. You wanna get in my world get lost in it. Boy, I'm tired of running, let's walk for a minute. I got a ticket long way round, two bottle whiskey for the way. And I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leaving tomorrow what do you say? Heart thumps and you jump, coming down with goose bumps. You dare to go there. I'ma I'm get you so scared! We're wantin' to we're haunting you." they both sing
"It don't matter to me we can dance slow. Which ever way the beat drop our bodies will go so swing it over here Mr. Dj, and we will we will rock you. Don't matter to me, we can dance slow which ever way the beat drop our bodies will go, so swing it over here Mr. Dj. And we will we will rock you." sings Orihime
"I shake it like jello, make the boys say hello, cause they know I'm rockin the beat. I know you heard about a lot of great MC. But they ain't nothing on me. Because I'm 5' for 2', I wanna dance with you. And I'm sophisticated fun . I eat fillet mignon and I'm nice and young. Best believe I'm number one." sings/raps Ichigo
"Rock it. Don't stop it. Everybody get on the floor, crank the party up. We about to get it on. Now!" they both sing/ say
They jump out of the way and Toshiro shows up.
"Hyourinmaru. Ahh!" says Toshiro, using his zanpakuto he freezes both hollows
"Oh, Ichigo you have ice in your hair." says Orihime
Ichigo looks at her hair, and looks at Orihime and points out that she also has some. They both attempt to get the ice out of each others hair and end up getting stuck.
"Toshiro! How long until this ice melts?" asks Ichigo
"One or three hours!" calls Toshiro
"Hot water." says both Ichigo and Orihime
Orihime gets a good look at the ice sculpture and notices that there is only one head.
"Uh...is it me, or is there only one head?" she asks, pointing to the sculpture
Ichigo gets a good look at it her self.
"Uh, guys, unless the hollow ate the other, we have to do this again, well not everything again of course." says Ichigo
Everyone looks at the sculpture their self.
"You're right, Orihime only one head is there. Brother?" asks Rukia
"I'll personally make sure this gets to research and development. Renji. Rukia.," says Byauka, they come to his side. "Let's go."
"Yes, Captain." says Renji
"Yes, Brother." says Rukia
All three leave with the hollow, and everyone else follows in pursuit. After an hour Ichigo and Orihime reach Orihime's house deciding that her house was closer. Orihime lets her and Ichigo into the house.
"Okay, here we are we can get unstuck over there.
They walk over to the sink, Orihime turns on the hot water, and they put their heads under the water.
"HOT OW!," they both say,they pull their head and hands out from under the sink. "Ah! Sweet freedom."
"I hate to leave, but I have to go home." says Ichigo
"Okay, see you Monday. Night." say Orihime
"Night." sas Ichigo
They hug, and Ichigo goes home. She unlocks the door steps into the house, and relocks the door.
"Kon, I'm home." calls Ichigo
"Shh...I just got your little sisters to bed, and cleaned up all the glass." says Kon
"Thanks Kon. Come on lets go to bed. Dad, I'll be home soon." says Ichigo
They go to Ichigo's bed where Yuzu and Karin are already are, after Ichigo puts her hair down and kicks off her shoes. The next day at seven in the morning the doorbell rings. Yuzu and Ichigo wake up to the sound.
"Who's that?" asks Yuzu
"Must be the delivery guy which means Grandma will be here around noon, I'll get it don't worry." says Ichigo
She stalks down the stairs, she is in an old peace sign shirt, and some shorts. Her hair is flying everywhere.
"Coming!" she calls
She opens the door to find that it is Yamachika, Kenpachi, and Ikkaku. She looks at the clock and sees that it is seven o'clock in the morning. She turns back to them.
"It is seven in the morning. Why the hell are you at my house." she snarls
"Well that was rather rude." says Yamachika
"Well sorry for not being cheerful. Come in, I'll make tea." says Ichigo
They come in and she goes upstairs. She brushes her hair out, pulls it up. She walks down stairs, washes her hair, and puts on a pot of tea. After the tea is made, she puts it in four glasses, puts the tea pot back on the stove top. She then serves the tea and joins them at the table.
"What's up?" asks Ichigo
"Turns out one of the hollows escaped, Old Man sent me to take care of it." explains Kenpachi
The doorbell rings and Ichigo gets up and gets it. A scared looking delivery man is standing at the door.
"Is there a Ichigo, Yuzu, or K-a-rin Kurosaki here?" he says, in broken Japanese
"I'm Ichigo, nice Japanese from America?" asks Ichigo, in perfect English (English classes helped a lot)
"Thank- goodness, I found you.," says the delivery man, hugging her then lets go. "Sorry It's just the lady who gave me this is really scary."
Ichigo signs the form and hands it back.
"Glared at you, you looked into her eyes saw you tied up to an erupting volcano, tiger at your feet deciding when to kill you?" asks Ichigo
"Yeah and on my forehead there was something written in Japanese too.," says the delivery guy, Ichigo writes exactly what it says and shows it to him. "Yeah, what's it say?"
"It says 'Screwed up.,'" Ichigo says, she bows. "I am completely sorry. Here I'll give you money for the cab."
She gives the guy thirty dollars.
"Thank-you, wait how'd you know all that?" asks Delivery Guy
Ichigo accepts the package.
"My dad gets the same thing only it is two tigers, and his arms say "In Life" "Punished for taking my baby." says Ichigo, she clears her throat. "The lady you saw is my grandmother."
"Oh God! (don't mean to offend anybody.) I'm so sorry." says Delivery guy
"Yeah, everyone is. Bye. Thank-you." she says
She shuts the door, and sets the package on the table. Karin and Yuzu come down the stairs to the table.
"What did she get us? What did she get us?" they ask
"Woah! One "What did she get us" at a time please. Let's see, what'd did she get us last time?" asks Ichigo
"Scrunchie, movie, and tee shirt. So this time, it's a ball cap, cd and favorite thing again. Or in Dad's case a rotten apple, least favorite thing, and a shirt that says: "I'm purposely keeping my darling precious daughters from their beloved Aunt and Grandma. For 364 days a year, honk if you think I'm a jerk.' " the three girls say in unison.
"It don't say all that, there's no way it says that.," says Yumichika, Ichigo pulls it out and shows him. "It says that?!"
"Grandma payed extra." they say in unison
They look for a note and Ichigo pulls it out.
"What's it say?" she asks
"Soccer Ball t shirt, Baseball cap with a baseball diamond is for Karin." says Ichigo
"Cool!" says Karin taking the items
"Book, and cap with a flower on it for Yuzu." says Ichigo
"Cool" says Yuzu, she takes the items.
"Oh yay!," says Ichigo sarcastically. "A necklace with ballet shoes and a cap with a ballet bar."
She doesn't even lift those out of the box.
"When are you going to tell them you hate dancing?" asks Karin
"When their dead, and six feet under just to make sure. What about you? Little Miss. 'I'm- only-doing- this-because-Grandma- and- Auntie- want- me- too." says Ichigo
"I'll tell them when you do." says Karin
"Deal, after the recital." says Ichigo
"Why?" asks Karin
"Because their staying …" trails Ichigo
She picks up the rotten apple by the stem.
"6, 7 days tops." says all three girls.
"What cd goes to who?" asks Yuzu
"Um..ah! Yuzu gets Rascal Flatts, Karin gets Carrie Underwood, and I get Avril Lavigne." says Ichigo
"Cool!" says all three girls
They go and put the stuff away, and return down stairs. Yuzu starts breakfast for everyone including Kenpachi, Yumichika, and Ikkaku. Kenpachi also says that he wants to talk to Isshin. Ichigo gets up to go get him. When the doorbell at Kurosaki Clinic rings. Ichigo goes to answer it. Shinobu (Gramps grandson ) and Gramps are at the door.
"Shinobu and Gramps? Come in." she says, she leads them into a room and shuts the door behind them.
"It's Grandpa. Help! He has forgotten everything." says Shinobu
"Calm down, lets see what's going on." says Ichigo
"Ah! Ryo." says Gramps
"Ryo? Gramps It's me, Ichigo remember?" asks Ichigo
"Oh yes, Miss. Ichigo. It's good to see you, where am I, where's Shinobu?" asks Gramps
"Here Grandpa." says Shinobu
"Oh hello, Shinobu." says Gramps
"You're at Kurosaki Clinic." says Ichigo
"Ryo, why am I at a doctors, I'm fine." says Gramps
"Who's Ryo?" asks Ichigo
"Grandma, she had bright red hair like you. She died before I was even born." says Shinobu
"Shinobu. Stay here, I'm going to go get dad." says Ichigo
Ichigo leaves and Shinobu follows but when Ichigo gets to the stairs. He stops.
"Is Grandpa okay? Hey! Old Lady!" calls Shinobu
Ichigo turns around and kneels in front of Shinobu.
"I'll let that one slide. Listen, I don't know. Gramps is okay for now. I'm getting my Dad to confirm or deny my theory. Stay here.," says Ichigo, she gets up and heads up stairs. "Just hang on to the fact that he's okay."
She runs upstairs and into her dad's bedroom.
"Dad!" she calls
"What?" asks Isshin
"Get up! Breakfast will be ready and Gramps is back,and Kenpachi wants to talk to you." says Ichigo
"One problem at a time, what's wrong with Gramps?" asks Isshin
Ichigo whispers her suspicion to him.
"Amnesia, are you sure? " asks Isshin
"I'm sure. He called me Ryo, which is his wife, thought he was at a hospital with Ryo, didn't know where Shinobu was. Oh, and Ryo died almost eleven years or over eleven years ago." says Ichigo
"I'll check it out." says Isshin, he gets up and he isn't wearing a shirt.
"DAD, put a shirt on! There's people here!" says Ichigo, she runs out the door.
"Oh yeah! Go check on Shinobu." says Isshin, grabbing a shirt
"Will do." says Ichigo
She runs down and meets Shinobu at the bottom of the stairs.
"Is he coming?" asks Shinobu
"Yeah soon." says Ichigo
She drags Shinobu back to where Gramps is.
"Gramps how are you?" asks Ichigo
"Just fine." says Gramps
Isshin comes in.
"Everybody but Gramps out." he orders
Everyone leaves the room and wait in the clinic outside of the door. Five minutes later Isshin comes out.
"Shinobu" says Isshin
"Dad?" asks Ichigo
"You were right Ichigo." says Isshin
"What's wrong with Grandpa?" asks Shinobu
"He has amnesia, I'm sorry. I'm afraid there is no cure, this doesn't mean he's dying, it means soon or maybe in a few years he won't remember anybody. He's in the first stage. So he is okay now" says Isshin
"I'll call a cab, Shinobu. You can go see Gramps now." says Ichigo
Ichigo goes to call a cab and Shinobu goes into the room to talk to his Grandpa. Isshin stays by Ichigo. While she dials the number and talks for her, holding Ichigo to him. She doesn't cry she just stays silent and don't move from Isshin's side. She doesn't face anybody not trusting what will come out of her mouth. After a while when Shinobu and Gramps are gone, it's time for breakfast everyone sits down to eat.
"Oh Dad, don't forget about your shirt and apple." says Yuzu
Isshin looks at apple.
"6 to 7 days." says Isshin, looks at the back of the apple. "Damn, in a bad mood."
Ichigo, Yuzu, and Karin choke on their water, knowing its a very very bad sign. Isshin gets up, and drags Kenpachi out of his seat and try to go past Karin and Ichigo's seats.
"Well Girls, be good for Grandma and Auntie, I'll be back in seven days." says Isshin
Ichigo and Karin trip him, get up and drag him away from where he was currently crawling away.
"Oh no you are not! You are not getting out of this that easily!" says Karin and Ichigo