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Oh my god.
There's actually new chapter!
Sorry for the delay, more information about my absence is found from my profile.
Chapter VIII: Secrets revealed
"I can't believe that Ichigo can't tell us that what is going on!" Ishida grumbled. He and Chad were walking towards home.
"What it can be that he can't trust us?"
Chad didn't say anything. They kept walking a while in the total silence. Then familiar figure walked in the front of them from the alley. Orange hair was easily recognized.
"Ichigo!" Ishida frowned and they stopped in their tracks. Orange head stopped and turned to them.
"Oh hi. What are you doing here this late?" Ichigo walked closer and raised his eyebrows.
"We could ask the same thing from you." Ishida snapped back. Ichigo scowled: "What's wrong?"
"Like you wouldn't know! You have been doing some shady stuff for a while and we would like to know what!"
Chad just lowered his head: "Ichigo, we are your friends, can't you trust us?"
Ichigo froze. He didn't expect that. Then he took a deep breath: "What do you mean? Really it would help if you explain me a bit."
Ishida stepped even closer Ichigo: "Vizards told that they were yesterday helping you! And you were supposed to be working?"
Orange-head narrowed his eyes while cursing Vizards in his mind: "What did they tell you?"
"Nothing, they said that you didn't give permission for that." Chad answered quietly. Ichigo sighed and rubbed his forehead. He was too tired for this.
Ryuzaki had just half of hour ago forced Ichigo to spar with him. Older man wanted to test masks power. It was fun, but really, fighting against hyperactive guy like him is tiring.
"Well, if you won't tell us anything, what the fuck are we doing here then?" Ishida glared Ichigo: "Chad, let's go. He won't seem to need us anymore." It was rare to see Quincy like that.
Ishida started walking towards his home and Chad threw a glance for Ichigo before he turned around.
"Oi, guys. Fine!" Ichigo rolled his eyes and then frowned. Ishida and Chad turned to look at him.
"I'll tell you that what's going on, alright? Geez…" Ichigo rubbed back of his head and murmured something.
"Okay, well?" Ishida crossed his arms. Both of them waited that Ichigo would start speaking. Orange-head lift his hands defensively: "I just… Didn't know that how I would explain this to you! Maybe it's better if you ask Urahara? He surely can explain it more clearly than I can."
"No! We want to hear straight from you!" Ishida demanded.
Ichigo waved his hand and closed his eyes. He was way too tired for this.
"Later. Please? What if I explain everything tomorrow at school?" Chad and Ishida stepped backwards and Quincy pointed at him: "I will make sure that you will!" and with that he left. Chad nodded at him and left to home too.
Ichigo put his hands in the pockets. This will be interesting…
In the next day at Karakura's high school, air was tense. Or others made it like that. Ichigo himself seemed to be sank in the his own thoughts and he wasn't bothered at all.
In the lunch break Ishida tried to get Ichigo on the rooftop, but he had refused. He had noted that the humans had been much more anxious that normally. It was because the leaking reiatsu. Humans reacted to it, knowing that something wasn't right, but they couldn't identify it.
Especially Ishida was in the bad mood. He had always been good with sensing things.
But even his classmates who didn't have any reiatsu, were anxious. Even teacher couldn't concentrate well. He promised that everything will be solved after the school.
Few hours later:
"Where are you going Ichigo?" Others stood in the front of school gates.
"I thought to go to visit Urahara."
They glanced each other. "So you Ichigo feel it too? It's like something is going to happen…" Ishida asked and lifted his glasses: "Does it have something to do with your shady stuff?" Ichigo sighed. So here we go. Hollow just chuckled in the his head: "This will be fun. I'm going to stalk their faces." Ichigo just ignored him.
"Oh well. Let's just go to Urahara's? I'm not going to explain everything twice." with that Ichigo turned around and started walking to shop. Ishida, Chad, Inoue, Tatsuki, Keigo and Mizuiro followed him in total silence. No one didn't know what to say and Ichigo seemed to be stressed out.
Soon they reached small shop and there was a sign: "Closed today".
"Oi! Urahara!" Ichigo cried and stepped inside the shop. Man with a hat and a fan peeked from the other room: "Ah! Kurosaki-san! Inoue-kun! Chad-san! Ishida-san! Tatsuki-kun, and the other two!" he came to them and ignored Keigo's whining. "How may I help you?"
Ichigo sighed: "You can feel this too?" and looked man straight to the eyes. Urahara waved with his fan and turned his voice serious: "Yeah. It's starting isn't it?"
Other three turned to look at Ichigo. "Aw shit…" he thought and grimanced: "I came here to tell others that I know what is going on."
Ishida's eyes widened: "You know? Well inform us too. And I'm shocked that you trusted Kisuke but didn't tell anything to us."
Teen sighed. Urahara just grinned.
"Well, it's because Karakura's spiritual pressure isn't stable." Ichigo turned to humans who looked dumbfounded.
"And how would you know that? And what do you mean it isn't stable?" Ishida demanded.
"It happens from time to time. Karakura is one of the largest reiatsu areas in the whole world. The ground… sucks reiatsu from the other places, and when it's full, it will try to stabilize. It means that it will release huge amounts of reiatsu, which is very dangerous to humans." Ichigo didn't notice that he let his usual scowl drop when he explained.
"And what will happen when the reiatsu gets loose?"
"Hmm, literally ground splits open, and reiatsu leaks out. And Karakura will collapse in the nothing."
Other's just stood there. "And…" Ishida started: "How do you know all this?" Ichigo turned to look at him.
"Let's say that I have been waiting this to happen. It needs to be stopped."
"It's good that we have someone who knows these things in here!" Urahara waved his fan: "Since the last time was before I was able to record it!"
"But… How… Are you saying that it was before Urahara's time?" Ishida staggered.
"Yeah. A lot earlier."
"How you know about it then? Who told you? Or what is going on?" Ishida lifted his glasses while others were staring at Ichigo who lifted other eyebrow. "How do I get a feeling of Déjà vu?"
Ichigo opened his mouth but didn't have time to say anything before everything started to tremble. Others glanced each other in horror. It was a big earthquake.
"So it's starting." trembling stopped and Ishida, Chad and Inoue lied on the floor, Tatsuki, Keigo and Mizuiro leaned to wall. They turned to Ichigo who still stood calmly in the same place than before. "It's no good. Climax is closer than I thought. Last time it didn't advance this quickly." he frowned while others looked dumbfounded: What the hell is he talking about?
"Yin." Ichigo said suddenly and Urahara lifted his eyebrow. "What the heck…" Ishida started but then they noticed that young woman had appeared next to Ichigo.
"Go to inform Ryuzaki. We need him here as soon as possible. And keep your eyes open, if you see some leaks, tell me." Ichigo murmured quickly. "Hai, Ichigo-sama." and she left.
"Ichigo, who was that?" Chad asked. Ichigo turned back to look others. He was frowning and he looked to somewhere else thinking something: "Hm?"
"I asked that who was she?" Chad repeated.
"Ah her. Yin." Ichigo answered and turned away. Others sweat dropped: "Well that explained much." Ishida murmured sarcastically.
"Oh Urahara? Could you ask Karin to not hunt hollows for a while? It's not safe now." Urahara lifted an eyebrow: "Yeah sure. That's dangerous too?"
"What? You knew that Karin was hunting hollows with us?" Tatsuki frowned.
"From the start. Do you think that I wouldn't notice?" Ichigo glanced outside and shook his head: "I think that it's best to go to check if there are any leaks. It's not good if they spread all over city. I will dumb my body here." he turned to Urahara.
"Dumb it? But without reiatsu…" Ishida cried when Ichigo just pushed himself out of his body and it slumped to floor.
They were shocked. Ichigo's appearance wasn't anything what they expected. "I'm going now…" and he shunpoed away.
"What happened to him?" Ishida straightened his glasses: "Let's go after him."
"What leaks was he talking about?"
Back to the Ichigo:
"They seem to follow me. Well, this moment would come anyway so…"
Ichigo leaped on the flagpole, there would be good view. There didn't seem to be any reiatsu leaking yet, which was good thing. But he could feel how it trembled underground looking escape way.
"Ichigo!"
He turned around and saw Chad, Inoue, Ishida, Tatsuki, Mizuiro and Keigo standing below him.
"Come here!" Ishida yelled and Ichigo took deep breath: "Here we go now…" he jumped down and landed lightly in the front of them.
"What's meaning of this?" Chad asked and glanced Ichigo's black hair bangs.
"Oh well…."
Eh, I hope that you like it... I found million different versions from this chapter, some of the text were gone, and it was messy O_o So I hope that I managed to pick up the right pieces. I just noticed that I had started to write this chapter months ago and it had.. scattered somehow.
I am still sorry for my absence!