Chapter 2: Strange Encounter

"Okay class, today we are going over Ancient Japanese culture. Turn your history books to page 345."

It was a rather normal day at Karakura High. Chad was standing straight up, paying attention but also being alert of nearby hollows. Orihime was more at ease, staring blankly at the board. Uryu was scribbling something down on a piece of paper, no one knows what. Ichigo was looking out the window when he saw something strange.

He saw a black blade-armed creature crawling around outside. Is that a hollow?

"Eh, may I please use the restroom?" He had asked their teacher.

"Please do it during break, Kurosaki. Our instructional day is not a time for this," she replied.

"But I really have to go, it's an emergency." This started small chuckles around the classroom except for a small few who knew what was going on.

"Fine, but this is the last time. After this we may have to get a security escort."

"Thank you!" Ichigo rushed out of the classroom.

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When he was alone, he rummaged through his belongings till he found Kon.

"Gah, why do you always keep me suffocating in there? Do you know how cramped up it is in that thing? It's so hard to breathe and it's so irritating! Don't even get me started on how itchy it is in that thi—"

"Shaddup!" Ichigo pushed down on Kon's stomach causing a pill to come out the stuffed animal's mouth. As Ichigo popped it down his throat his Shinigami form escaped from his body where Kon took things from there.

"Go back to the class, Kon, and make sure everyone stays alright. I'll take care of the hollow, it doesn't seem strong"

"Got i—" Just then breaking glass could be heard, as well as a gasping commotion.

Ichigo cursed under his breath as both him and Kon ran towards the classroom. When they got there they saw the window broken and the being from earlier crouching there in front of it, while everyone else was huddled in the back of the class, excluding Chad, Ishida, and Orihime. My classmates... can see it? "Stand back guys, I'll handle this" He said, as they nodded in recognition and stepped back.

Ichigo... what is this? Why can we all see this? These where some of the jumbled thoughts racing through the mind of Tatsuki, who for sometime now could see what was going on but had nowhere near the information to completely comprehend this.

"What are you? Why are you here?" Ichigo asked, even though he knew how pointless it was.

The being didn't answer. Instead he returned with a dashing blow that Ichigo had barely any time to block with Zangetsu. The blow had still knocked him back and he had landed on the floor. The being vanished and appeared above Ichigo, preparing a fatal strike downwards toward his throat. Such speed! Luckily, the thing had taken a surprise attack from Chad, which had launched it through the window and to the ground six stories below on the outside. From the normal human eye, it had seemed that this thing was attacking the ground as Chad had punched it (with a normal fist) and sent the thing flying.

"Wow Chad, I knew you were big but didn't think you packed that much of a punch!" Keigo said in shock.

"Thanks Chad, now I can attack him safely outside without having to worry about hurting everyone else." With that, Ichigo had jumped outside and landed in front of this strange being in which Ichigo had already come to the conclusion that it was no hollow.

"If you're looking for a fight, come after me instead! Leave my friends out of this!"

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Little did Ichigo know that at this moment, Orochi was watching their battle intently, from far up in the sky above them. So, they resist... how interesting... That maybe their biggest mistake. Orochi held both of his arms straight up into the air, as a large cloud of that same black goo started to form in them. Afterwords, the cloud broke into many little drops which rained upon the town, each one turning into that same being as they hit the ground. Let's see how well they do now...

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Ichigo looked up at the sky as he saw the oozing black rain drop down. He then noticed more of the same figures he was fighting form off the drops on the ground. Damn, this may be a problem...

His thoughts were interrupted as one of them took a swing at his head. He jumped out of the way just to bump into another. Again he cursed under his breath. There's so many of them!

Fortunately, a sound of released energy was heard, and shortly afterwords was followed up by blue arrows of pure reiatsu raining down upon these creatures, slicing through them by the hundreds as they melted into a large black steaming puddle in the ground.

"Getting stuck there, Ichigo?"

"Ishida!" Ichigo was momentarily happy to have his friend there, but that changed quickly, "Hey, you could have killed me back there!"

"Wha?! Are you underestimating my accuracy?"

"Well I never know if you are going to 'accidentally' shoot me because you were mad at me or something!"

"What would I be mad at you about?!"

"How am I supposed to ever know with you?"

(Once again, short. I was ran down on time.)