Four-Year Reunion
A/N: Well thanks so much to everyone who reviewed and alerted/favorited my story! Also many thanks to those of you who told me where to look for Bleach scanlations. Well here is the second chapter, I hope you like it! Now the question is, does anyone know which program I should use to view it?
Chapter Two
Ichigo stared at the person who'd spoken; it was Renji. Ichigo then saw that there were three other people with him, but Ichigo only recognized two of them at first: Ikkaku and Matsumoto. It wasn't until the unknown person spoke did he realize who it was.
"Do you realize that we have been looking for you for almost a month?" A very annoyed white-haired, not-so-short-anymore taicho said. Ichigo then recognized the person to be Hitsuguya, who in the four years he had not seen him had grown up to be about up to Ichigo's eyes when he stood.
"Well how was I supposed to know? It's not like I was making it terribly hard for you to find or contact me." Ichigo replied after he got over the slight shock of Hitsuguya's height. Ichigo then realized that on occasion he had been hiding his reiatsu so as not to attract hollows, like during his exams or when he had been using shunpo around town earlier. So maybe he did make it slightly harder, but still, they had hours of time in between when he let his reiatsu leak out like usual. None them seemed happy with his response really, probably because Hitsuguya wasn't letting them go out much because he just wanted to find Ichigo and leave.
"Che… you didn't even leave one hollow for us to kill…" Ikkaku said; he really had wanted to slash something up since he'd been sent on this incredibly dull assignment. For almost a whole month he'd had to put up with Matsumoto complaining that she wanted to go shopping, which then put Hitsuguya in a bad mood, which then made him even easier to tick off.
"Taicho, now that we've found Ichigo can I go shopping?" Matsumoto asked. She had been waiting almost a whole month to go shopping, but her taicho refused every time.
"Yes! Go shopping already, just stop asking me every day." Said a really annoyed Hitsuguya. Ichigo almost felt bad for him having to put up with this group, almost. "Any how, Kurosaki, we were sent to bring you back to Seireitei by Yamamato-sou-taicho. Now let's go. Your family has already been informed that you will not be available and they gave us the mod-soul that you refer to as Kon. We were told that school has just ended and that your family could keep Kon in your body at your home in Karakura." Hitsuguya informed him.
"Okay… by why does Yamamato-sou-taicho want to see me?" Ichigo asked. The person who responded was Renji.
"We weren't told. Now lead us to your apartment so we can put Kon in your body and get back to Seireitei." Renji said impatiently. He didn't seem to like this mission much either.
"If Kon is going to be staying at my house in Karakura, why don't I just go to Karakura in my body and then put Kon in it?" Ichigo asked, "And did you guys bring gigais?"
"Of course we brought gigais. And fine you can go to Karakura in your body but you'll have to walk there instead of using shunpo which would be faster." Renji said.
"I won't have to walk, I have a car. And shouldn't you guys go get your gigais? Where are they?" Ichigo asked. Renji then pointed to some figures on the ground that turned out to be their gigais. "Well then either grab them or get in them so we can get to my apartment." Ichigo said and the three grabbed the gigais (Matsumoto already left in hers). Ichigo began to shunpo away but then he realized that he was going faster than the others and waited for them to catch up.
Meanwhile from behind Ichigo Renji spoke, "Is it just me or has Ichigo gotten faster since we last saw him?" he asked Ikkaku who was also having a harder time keeping up than usual.
"I think so. Geez, this is going to make my taicho want to fight Ichigo as soon as he gets there. Especially if he got any stronger." Ikkaku replied. Hitsuguya remained silent because even though he agreed Ichigo did get faster, he just wanted to get to where they were going.
They soon arrived at Ichigo's apartment and Ichigo got in his body and the others got in their gigais. They then realized that they needed to find Matsumoto so they got Ichigo's car and quickly found her in a clothing store which took all for of them to drag her out of it.
"You didn't have to drag me out, I would have come out… eventually." Matsumoto complained as they drove to Karakura, which was only a thirty-minute drive. Ichigo's car was a small, typical car with two rows and a total of five seats. In the front passenger seat next to Ichigo was Hitsuguya who had insisted that he sit up front, most likely to get away from the two fukutaichos and Ikkaku. Behind Ichigo was Renji and behind Hitsuguya was Ikkaku, leaving Matsumoto to sit in the middle. About five minutes into the ride, Ichigo decided to ask what's been going on in Seireitei.
"So who's been appointed captain to fill in the three missing captain positions?" Ichigo asked it was Ikkaku who spoke,
"No one so far, they tried to get me and Renji to but both of us said no." He said lazily.
"Really? I thought they would have filled the seats in ages ago. So basically the fukutaichos are running things in those squads?" Ichigo said.
"Mostly. But my taicho insists on helping Hinamori with her squad's paper work." Matsumoto said in a teasing voice. At this Ichigo could have sworn that the temperature of the car dropped a few degrees.
"Shut up, Matsumoto." Hitsuguya said in an annoyed tone of voice as the car got a little bit colder. No one spoke until they got to Ichigo's house.
"We're here." Ichigo said. The five of them got out of the car and walked up to the front door. Ichigo stepped in and announced that he was there and that they were leaving Kon and his body there. All of the sudden Ichigo heard running and instinctively ducked as his dad lunged and him from the side.
"WELCOME HOME ICHIGO!!!!" Isshin yelled as he missed his son's head and landed on the floor with a thump. This was typical so Ichigo ignored it, but Hitsuguya, Renji, Ikkaku, and Matsumoto looked thoroughly confused by what had just happened. They silently agreed not to ask.
"Dad, I'm dumping my body with Kon in it here. Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid while he's in my body." Ichigo told his father. The Ichigo said goodbye. As he, Hitsuguya, Matsumoto, Renji, and Ikkaku walked towards the car they realized something. Ichigo was the only one who could drive and now he was invisible to most people.
"Well now we have three choices: Ichigo drives while he's in shinigami for and we hope nobody notices, I drive, or we walk." Renji said. When Ikkaku asked why Renji claimed that he would be the best driver out of him, Matsumoto, and Ikkaku. He then stated that Hitsuguya looked to young, at this the temperature dropped. After everyone could see what would happen if Renji drove the car, they chose to walk. Renji was somewhat ticked off that they thought he'd wreck the car.
They arrived at Urahara's store and when they got inside they saw a familiar raven-haired girl talking to Urahara…
A/N/: and that's the end of chapter 2. Well I hope you liked it. For some reason I think this chapter didn't turn out quite right, but that's probably just me. Please read and review and I will try to update again tomorrow. Thanks for reading!