Well, here I am again, sitting here hammering out the second official chapter of my first fanfic. In case nobody figured it out yet, the first page with only a few sentences was actually a prologue meant to introduce the basic structure of the story line. I'm just going to take a moment to say that if any of you who're reading this want to send in some ideas of your own then just pm me, and if I do incorporate somebody's idea then I will give credit to your pen name, though if I'm asked for secrecy I will, of course, credit it to anonymous. Now that the formalities are out of the way, it's time to give the old creative muscle a stretch.
Chapter two
"GOOD MORNING, ICHIGO!" Ichigo started, opened his eyes, and moved just in time to avoid the dark shape that suddenly crashed onto his bed.
"WHAT THE HELL DAD, WHY CAN'T YOU JUST WAKE ME UP LIKE A NORMAL PARENT", Ichigo shouted as he punched his father's lights out. He groaned and shook his head, then he suddenly remembered and said, "Hey wait a minute, what the hell happened to Karin and Yuzu's injuries!"
"Huh? What injuries", asked Isshin as he got up from where he was lying after his son had tried to pound his face down his throat.
"It's a miracle", he exclaimed once they were outside the house, "truck plows right into our house and nobody got so much as a scratch!"
"What's more amazing is the fact that not one of us woke up when it happened", Karin deadpanned.
A little while later. . .
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGOOOOOOOOOOO", a loud mouthed and annoying teen screamed.
Ichigo shut him up by sidestepping and clotheslining the poor guy, and walked on to his class, acting like this was an everyday occurrence, which unfortunately it was. He was about to enter the classroom when he heard someone else speak.
"Hey Ichigo", said the new voice. Ichigo turned to see one of his other friends standing there, nose stuck to the cell phone he always had.
"Hey Mizuiro", said Ichigo, then, as an afterthought, added, "hey Keigo".
After they all sat down in their seats Keigo spoke up, "Hey Ichigo, I hear a truck crashed into your house last night, was anyone hurt?"
"No", Ichigo replied, "but it's a big mess, it'll take forever to clean up".
"Want some help", asked a new voice.
Ichigo looked up and a sweat drop formed as he replied, "Hey Chad, I appreciate the offer but no thanks".
At that Keigo continued going on about the situation until, "Excuse me, are you Ichigo? I'll be sitting next to you from now on, my name is Rukia".
Ichigo turned his head so fast his neck cracked, and when he recognized who had spoken, he jumped out of his seat, stammering, "I-it's you, w-what the hell are you doing here?"
As he stood there stammering she held out her hand, palm up, and Ichigo looked down to see a message written there saying, "if you make a scene you are so dead".
Several minutes later, outside Karakura High School.
"So what the hell are you doing here, midget", he asked, "I thought you went back to that soul society place you told me about".
"I can't go back, I'm here on assignment, and I'm to stay here for the remainder of the month", she replied, "On a different note, I could use your assistance for now".
"Why do you need my help", he asked, noticing as he did that she was putting on a strange glove, for what purpose he didn't know, though he had a feeling he was about to find out whether he wanted to or not, and find out he did.
"You'll know soon enough", she said, right before she moved in and smacked Ichigo upside the head.
`What the', he realized he wasn't lying on the ground like he thought he was. He did look down though, and realized that he was lying on the ground, while also floating three meters in the air. He dropped back to the ground as Rukia went to move his body. She hid it in a storage room, but when she came back out she was dressed in the black robes he had seen her in the night before. He looked down and realized he was wearing the same robes, though in his own size.
"Let's go", she said, and suited actions to words by walking away. Ichigo decided to go with her, if only so he could get some answers.
"So where are we going", he asked. He wasn't expecting much of an answer, so he was surprised when she told him they were going to a park where it was believed the soul of a child was about to be attacked by a hollow.
A few minutes later they arrived at the park, and no sooner had they shown up than the soul appeared from around some playground equipment, a large hollow chasing him. Before Rukia could so much as twitch Ichigo had already jumped into action, sprinting over to put himself between the boy and the hollow, moving so fast that he surprised himself. Once he was firmly in place he drew his zanpakuto and leaped at the hollow. He was in the hollows face before it could react, and before it could attack he had already sliced its mask in half, disintegrating it. He went over to the kid and gently tapped his head with the pommel of his zanpakuto, sending him to the soul society.
"That was an excellent konso, Ichigo", Rukia told him, "and I can't help but admire the way you put yourself at risk to save that child".
"Eh, anyone with any sense of decency would have done the same thing", he said back. "Now let's get back to class, and I hope for your sake that nobody went in that storage room where you left my body". With their job done for the moment, they decided to return to class.
Well, this marks the end of the official chapter two. As some of you might have guessed this story will mostly follow canon Bleach, with some parts changed to reflect the difference between how my story begins and how canon Bleach begins. I will try to update as often as possible but my updates WILL be randomly timed and basically unpredictable. By the way, I have a tendency to develop severe writers block without warning so don't get upset if it takes a while to get an update out. On a different note I have two more techniques planned for Ichigo's zanpakuto, but if anybody has an idea for another darkness-based attack just pm me. You already know his first attack, and I've got one more for his shikai, as well as a final technique for his inevitable bankai. If I do get a good suggestion then there's a good chance I'll work it in somewhere as long as it's not something that Ichigo wouldn't use. With all that being said, Hope you all like the new chapter, and keep your eyes open.