I finally came to an the first thing I thought was that I must have really hit my head hard. And it wasn't for the painfull headach that ment I have a slight concution. It was becuase I could see!

I could see the whole room clearly, and even some of the outsid, but it strangly faded into blackness.

I could also see the flock, freaking out.

"Was that a bomb?" Max yelled, looking at Gazzy and I.

"NO!" I yelled. How is it that she could ask such a stupid thing when there's some mutant thing sanding in the middle of the room? What the hell?

"Don't tell me you can't see this thing!" I yelled and only got odd looks from everyone but the monster, who had looked at me in interest and started to laugh.

"Iggy... what's wrong with you? You blind..." Nudge said. I looked right at her, right in the eyes and she gasped. "His eyes..."

I felt every one staring at me now, and when I looked at them, they gasped as well. I shook my head. As curius as I was to know what was up with my eyes, there was this monster to deal with, which eveyone seemed to not notice was advancing on Angel.

Looks like the tables had turned. It was me who could see, while they were blind to the danger.

I dived forward and just grabbed Angel before the hand of the best beat down on the ground, crushing it and bring up splinders of wood.

"Iggy? What the heck is going on?" Max yelled.

"Up and away! Now!"

They didn't bother arguing and crashed out the window, Fang taking Angel. I left last, seeing as I was the only one, apparently, that could see the beast, if it should attack, I'd at least be able to distract it.

Finaly, I got out just as it was diving for me. I flew high and fast, watching the other as they beat their wings as hard as they could to get away from what ever danger was in the house. I was about to smile at the fact that I could see when suddenly, everything went compleatly black. I freaked, and forgot how to flap. I started to fall.

"Iggy!"

Ichigo was running accross the rooftops, holding Rukia piggy back style, while she consentrated on her soul pager.

"It's just up ahead!" she shouted over the wind.

Ichigo nodded and was about to speed up when there was a sudden crash and then three huge, awkward looking birds crashed out of a window, followed by two more, then finally a sixth. It was when one of them were falling, a stunned look on his face, his eyes blindy looking around, that Ichigo realized that Ohahima's crazy story was true.

With a gasp, he jumped forward and grabbed him, just before he was about to pass the roof to hit the ground.

And suddenly, he looked up at Ichigo, his eyes no longer milky blue, but a crstal clare blue, and he looked extrealy freaked.

Then came the howl, high and hollow.

I couldn't believe what had happened. First, I was falling, compleatly blind again, then had a sudden burst of vision and felt someone catch me before I fell past the roof tops.

I looked up to see a boy around my age, with eye catching orange hair, a stern but serprised look on his face.

Then there came the howl of that beast.

"Ah, crap..." the boy cursed, then set me down on the roof. "Stay there!" he called back as he jumped off the roof and into the broken window, drawing a HUGE sword that looked to be wrapped in gawz.

I wasn't about to stay though, despite what he said. Looking back up at the Flock, I saw they were now landing, looking very much confused.

"What the heck!" Gazzy said looking at me as if I'd just sproted another head.

"Yeah... since when could you levitate?" Max said, the same look on her face.

"What...?" I said, then looked at the house. Had they not seen the guy? Really, how could they not? Even a new born baby could see that bright orange hair! And we had the sight of halks!

"Are you telling me you couldn't see that guy? Really! His hair was too bright not to see it! What's wrong with you guys?"

"Iggy... we didn't see anyone... you were falling and then suddenly, you just stopped, right in midair..." Nudge said. "And then you got on the roof. And why did you stop flying anyway? You were freaking out big time!"

There came a howl from the beast again and a startled cry. Another window, three away from the one we broke out of, crashed open and the guy went flying out, managing to keep hold of his huge sword, but he was knocked out.

The beast dashed out from the same window as him and was hovering above him now. The beast raised his clawed hand and smacked the guy, and he went pelting to the ground, making a small, shallow crater. But it seemed that the beast wasn't done yet. It vanished and reapeared right on top of him again, preparing to end the fight with another body sized smack.

I dully noticed the others were trying to get my attention when I dashed forward. I didn't know the guy, but he had saved me, and he was just about to be killed by the oh-so-obvius bad guy. I swept under the beast and gave it an upercut, sending it stumbling backwards into the building.

It came out, fury in its red eyes, and whiped is arm across the offened area.

"Hehehe... Your more interesting then I thought... Sure, the wings were a big serprise, but you can even see me... even though your friends can't..." said the beast, his voice slightly raspy, with a definate evil edge to it, hunger and bloodlust making it even more sinister. It sniffed the air, "Hummm... you don't smell like a spirit... you smell almost compleatly human even... but your wings... Hahahaha! Does this mean I'll get a tast of chicken again?" He then looked back up at the Flock, who looking at me like I have not only sproted a head, but also five arms, and a hundred eyes. "Maybe if I like it enough, I'll have your other friends too..."

That did it.

"You stay the HELL away from them!" I looked around in serprise at the guy. He'd said the same thing at the exact same time. He struggled to get up, using his sword for sapport, but he was looking at me was a serprised look as well.

He smirked and said, "I sapose this means your going to want to fight then too?"

"I'll damned if I don't get soemthing on him for threating my family!"

He shook hishead in amuzment. "Very well, you look like you know how to fight. Just be careful. Name's Ichigo."

"Iggy..."

The beast was coming at us then, and we faced it with determintion on our faces. I brifly took a look at the Flock, who looked still more confused, though I still had no idea why. Wasn't it obvius that I fighting a two ton beast in a white mask with fury red eyes? Really, this was just rediculus...

I dodged the beast just as it took a swipe at my feet, and came back down on it with a hard heel to the spine. Ichigo came at him, slashing his sword through the beasts forearm, but didn't manage to cut it off. I ran at it, preparing a round house, air kick to the face. I jumped up, five feet away, and beat my wings hard, propelling myself forward, leg extended, and hit the thing hard on its lower gaw. When I landed, I saw that I had kicked the jaw clean off, and it now lay on the ground. I looked at its face, which looked like half was missing now, and saw that hair line cracks spread up his face, which he started to clutch, as if trying to hold it together. The cracks grew larger and finally, a huge crack broke the face diagonally, and it gave a loud scream and disalved into small black particles, which dissapeared, leaving no trace of the beast, but for the damage of the buildings and street.

I turned to Ichigo, and he looked at me in a serprising and approving look. "Nice... I've only met one human that could do that, and not even I could have done that in my body... well, unless Kon's in control..."

A second later, the Flock came rushing down, demanding like crazy to know hwat was up with me all of a sudden, how it was thatI could make such damage with out hitting anything. I was confused, and looked at Ichigo for some help. He'd seen the beast.

He smiked apolegeticly. "Sorry. I'm no help here. They can't see me. Or the hollow, for that matter."

I looked confused for a second, wondering what he ment by Hollow, but then the echo of the beast's howl rang in my ears- in memory of course- and realized it ws the perfect name for such a creature, what with its howl holding a sort of hollowness to it and then there was the hole in its chest, revealing nothing but air. Hollow. That was all they were.

I tried to calm the Flock down, and the only one that really managed to be calm was Fang, but he was always like that, and even now, he didn't seem to be acting right. Oh man, this was just all sorts of odd.

"There's only one solution." came a voice, serius and comanding of respect. Ichigo and I turned to see a really short girl stading next to Ichigo, and the expression on her face could posibbly rivel that of Fang's.

"What do you mean? What are you talking about? Who are you?" I looked at Max in serprise. So she could see this person?

"What I mean is of no concern to all but this boy here.-" she pointed to me,"- What I'm talking about is the same. And my name is Rukia Kuchki."

Max had a look of pure rage on her face. But, though I understood why she'd be mad- someone we didn't know and had mysteriusly poped up, was talking about solving their current predictament, and she wasn't giving them any clues as to what it was- but she had said that it did concern me, and I decided to listen.

She looked at Ichigo and said, "You explain. They can't hear you."

Ichigo nodded, seeming to know just what she had in mind. "She's wanting your permission to errase their memories of what just happened. Its nothing bad, they just won't remember the crazyness going on. It'll be best for you, so you don't get asked a lot of questions. Believe me, I know from experiance."

I looked at the Flock uncertainly. They'd be pissed if they ever found out I allowed such a thing... but maybe it was for the best. After all, it was going to be by the word of one of their own, not some insane white-coat. They'd at leat understand. Hopefully...

I nodded and Rukia stepped forward up to Max. Max looked down at her with fury and determination, intent of winning the staring contest. Then, Rukia did the weirdest thing. She pulled something out of her pocket and held what ever it was up to Max's face, and the thing made a POP noice and Max was sudenly dissy as she looked at the duck on a spring. The other's paniced slightly, but Rukia seemed too fast for them and they were soon all sleeping on the sidewalk.

"Well, that should do it. Now, there won't be a memory laps. Actually, their memories will be filled in by something else, but there is no telling what it is. But, you have to be careful. If you let slip certain events that happened, then they could end up remembering everything, though it may not happen fast, but it could."

I nodded, keeping that in mind. I then looked at Ichigo and his outfit and sword. "So what are you anyway? And why couldn't they see you?"

"I'm a soul reaper- half anyway." Ichigo said, "And she's a soul reaper out of commision for the time being- I'm her replacement. The reason they couldn't see me- or the hollow- is because we are spirits."

"And they could see her...?"

"That is because I am in a gigai. A skin that us soul repers use when we are weak and can not return to the soul society, or if we need to blend in with humans for any particular reason."

"But I don't get it... I'm blind. How can I see you, if I'm blind?"

Rukia looked at me like I was crazy. "Your blind? You don't look blind."

"Well, I'm sure I haven't had my eyes closed tight since I was a kid, and finally decided to open them up today."

"Hummm... that is interesting. I'm going to have to look into this..."

"So..." said Ichigo awkwardly, "um... not to pry or anything, but... the... wings?"

I thought about it, weather I should tell them or not. I decided to tell a little bit of the truth. "We were born this way."

Rukia seemed to not like this answer, but let it slide.

Just then, the sun broke over the moutain and Ichigo exclaimed, "Ah, shit! I'm going to be late for school! Sorry, gotta go." and he was off, dashing through allies. Rukia shrugged and turned the other way.

"I'm already dressed. Guess I'll meet him there. Bye..."

But I didn't see her walk off, becuase right when she turned to leave, my vision went black.

AN: Oh my god! It took me about five rewrite of this chap. Two because I didn't like it, and then two because it kept getting errased. And then there's this final one... I hope you like it- though I know there are a LOT of spelling errors, but I wanted to get this out today- I'm kind of grounded from my compy and the only reason I got to have it today was because it's my b-day. So I figured you'd want to read it, instead of waiting who knows how much longer, and before it ended up errased again... -_-" ^_^ anyway, I hope you could look pass the the errors in spelling and gramor to enjoy what was going on. If anyone wants to, they can bate it for me and send it back so I can repost it, just so long as they fixed ONLY spelling and some grammer- some of it is on purpus...