My deepest apologies for being so late. But, I have been grounded for the past couple of weeks and getting on the computer was pretty close to imposible.
So, here is chapter 7, I would like to thank all of those who reviewed ch. 6.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
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"Alright everyone, settle down we have an important lesson today." Ochi-sensei hurried into the classroom which slowly started to get quiet. She reached her desk, quickly took attendance and then turned to address the class.
"First, I would like to hand back your semester grades." She took the stack of papers from her desk and started handing them out as she continued to speak. "Anyone who got below seventy percent will be able to take the makeup test this weekend, but those of who whom received a grade below fifty percent I would suggest that you rethink your decision of being a Shinigami, otherwise you may be in this class for a very long time."
Ichigo turned toward Rukia, intending to compare grades. He wasn't frowning as much, so Rukia figured he done a pretty good job. It was confirmed when she saw the when she saw the ninety-five at the top of his paper.
When Ichigo saw her grade he said, "Damn, you beat me by two points." Rukia gave him a smug smirk. "And what the hell did you draw next to your name?"
Rukia looked down at the drawing in question. "It's a bunny of course! I finished early and was bored." Ichigo just rolled his eyes.
"Okay class!" shouted the teacher. "You can compare grades later, but we have a guest coming in soon and I don't want to keep him waiting." Everyone grudgingly out away their tests and drew their attention to the front.
"Good. Now as you know in the upcoming weeks all of you will be doing a practical in the world of the living. This is very important because all though you will be with your partner, it is still dangerous as a hollow could attack at anytime."
One student in the back raised her hand. "Sensei? What will we have to do for the practical?"
"Oh!" said the teacher as if suddenly remembering. "Don't worry! All you will have to do is go into the world of the living alone with your partner and perform konso on a few souls. Nothing major, though if you fail you won't be able to pass. And if a hollow does suddenly appear you will be able to call for help which will hopefully arrive on time," she said with a smile.
"Does everyone understand?" The class nodded nervously. "Okay than! Let's move on to what we will be learning today! As I was saying, we will be learning about the necessary equipment that you will need in order to go to the world of the living. I am just waiting for our guest…"
"No need to worry! I'm here!" came a voice form the door way. The class turned to see two men standing in the doorway. The one who had spoken was average height with sandy blonde hair that flipped out at the ends and was wearing a long captain's coat. The man standing behind him could only be described as weird with his robotic like face, blue hair, and painted black fingernails.
"Oh good!" said Ochi-sensei, clapping her hands together. She turned to her class. "I would all like you to welcome Kisuke Urahara-taicho and Mayuri Kurotsuchi of the twelfth division." And with that she left the classroom.
Urahara-taicho waved after her before turning back to the class with a smile on his face. "Good morning!" he said cheerily to the class. "As your teacher just said and I am Kisuke Urahara and this is Mayuri Kurotsuchi and we are going to show you some of the other things that you will need for the world of the living. So now everyone follow me!" And with that he started heading for the door.
The class gave him a curious look and then picked up their belongings and headed out the door. The captain led the class down the hall and into a larger classroom where all of the desks had been cleared from it. Instead on the floor were strange body-looking things dressed up in their school uniforms.
"I would like all of you to stand next to one of the gigais on the floor. Boys on the left, girls on the right," ordered Urahara. The class did as they were told and stood next to the bodies on the floor eyeing them curiously. "Okay everyone! Now the things that are at your feet are called gigais which act as a substitute body for when you are in the world of the living. These will allow you to be seen by humans in the living world and good for in case you need to heal and regain your powers over a long period of time. So try them out!"
The class looked blankly at the captain. "Go on try them! All you have to do is step inside them." The class gave Urahara another look before hesitantly laying down on the bodies, which they easily fell through. Immediately the gigais started to take the shape of the soul inside of them. Slowly they started gaining control of the gigais and stand, looking around at each other.
"Excellent!" exclaimed Urahara. "Now Kurotsuchi and myself will be coming around to check and make sure everything is in order."As the two started going around, the students started walking around themselves, finding their friends.
Rukia walked over to the left side of the room to find Ichigo who was stretching in the gigai.
"Hey," said Rukia coming up next to him. Ichigo looked up to see the petite girl walking up to him. "How do you feel?"
"I dunno. It's kind of strange to tell the truth," replied Ichigo slipping his hands into his pockets. "What about you?"
"Same," said Rukia. Ichigo made an odd face. Rukia looked at him. "What? What did I say?"
"No, no," said Ichigo shaking his head. "It's not you. It's my pocket…" he trailed off pulling his hand out of his pocket. In was hand was a weird pez dispenser with a duck head. Both Ichigo and Rukia looked at it oddly.
Then, as if on cue, Urahara spoke up from the other side of the room. "If all of you look in your pockets you will find Substitute Soul pills or 'soul candy'. And each one comes with a customary design. Also we will be coming around with some other goodies for you from yours truly."
Rukia reached into her pocket and pulled out her own soul candy. Looking at it she let a little yelp of excitement, her eyes shining. Ichigo looked down at and then shook his head.
I should have seen that one coming.
"You're very luck," said Urahara coming towards them. "Chappy is very popular and I hardly ever have it in stock."
"Chappy?" said Ichigo.
Rukia turned toward the captain and bowed. "Thank you so much!"
Urahara smiled at her amusingly. "I'm glad to see that you like it." Then he pulled out a few things from the box he was carrying. "Here these are also for you. One for each group." He handed them a cell phone, a tube with chicken head on top of it, and a red glove with a skull on it. "Don't worry I will explain them in a minute. But, before I go, what are your names?"
"Rukia," answered said girl almost immediately.
"Ichigo Kurosaki," said the orange headed boy. "What?" said Ichigo seeing the Urahara's face at the mention of his name.
"Oh! No, nothing, it's just, uh…it's not every day that you meet someone with bright orange hair!" said Urahara regaining his composer. Urahara saw Ichigo's face set into a frown. "Don't frown! I'm not trying to insult you." Ichigo relaxed a little. "In fact, an old friend of mine I believe has a son with that same color hair." Ichigo gave him an odd look.
"Really?" said Rukia disbelievingly. "There is someone else out there with same funny looking hair?"
Ichigo glared at the raven hair girl standing next to him. "Shut up Rukia." Urahara chuckled.
"Well if you will excuse me I need to talk to the class." And with that Urahara turned toward the front and walked away.
When he reached the front of the room he addressed the class. "Can I have everyone's attention? Good. Okay, about the things that we gave to all of the groups. First we gave you a cell phone which is not only for making calls if you are in a jam, but you can also use as a tracker for hollows and konpakus. Secondly, the tube with the chicken head is a kikanshinki, which erases memories just in case something happens. I also gave you all a red glove. This you will find to be very helpful if you want to get out of your gigais or take a mod soul out of a gigai, which brings me to the Soul Candy." Urahara pulled out his own to demonstrate. "Each of these dispensers is carrying a mod soul and all you need to do is pop one of these into your mouths and a substitute soul will take over your body.""
Urahara paused for a second allowing all of the information to sink in before continuing. "Right now I would like all of you to try using the soul candy and meet your official mod konpaku."
Nervously, everyone brought the dispensers up to their mouths and popped out the pill. Instantly, all of them were forced out of their gigais and watched as the substitute soul took over.
Ichigo watched as the gigai that looked exactly like him take on a very easy and relaxed type of face and a goofy smile which caused Ichigo's permanent frown to deepen.
"Greetings," said the mod konpaku cheerily. "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki! 'Early to bed, early to rise,' that's my motto!" Ichigo just looked on in horror.
Rukia came up next to him and gave a small giggle at Ichigo's situation. "Wow," she said sarcastically. "He's exactly like you." Ichigo glared at her. Then he looked to her right to see her mod konpaku.
"It doesn't seem like you have any probl-" But, Ichigo was soon cut off when Rukia's substitute soul jumped at him and yelled "Pyon!" Next thing he knew, Ichigo was on the ground with his arm looked behind his back.
Rukia laughed again and squatted down in front of Ichigo to be more at his level. "I named her Chappy. What do you think?"
"You named her Chappy?"
"Yup! Why? Is there something wrong?" Rukia gave him a look that would've killed him if he hadn't already been use to it. "What did you name your mod konpaku?"
"Uhhh... I didn't name him," said Ichigo.
"Come on. Don't you have any imagination at all?"
"I'm not the one who named their mod konpaku Chappy." Rukia glared at him. "Okay, okay… how about…Kon?" The soul in question just kept smiling his goofy smile as if he was in lala land.
Suddenly Urahara called from the front of the class room. "Can everyone come up here for a moment I would like to show you how the kikanshinki works. You can leave the mod konpakus there."
Rukia sighed. "I guess you're going to have to let him up now Chappy." Chappy immediately jumped up and went to go stand by Kon as Ichigo and Rukia headed towards the front of the class.
As soon as Ichigo and Rukia left, Kon dropped his goofy face which was immediately replaced by a mischievous smile. Finally those two were gone and now he could do what he wanted.
Chappy watched her master and the boy leave before turning to look at Kon who was now stretching out his new found legs. She looked down at him curiously.
Kon looked up at Chappy, seeing the girl next to him. He had planned to get out of here but maybe no there would be a slight change in plans. "Want to have some fun?"
The class was watching as Urahara-taicho instructed them in using the kikanshinki, until suddenly a crash came from the back of the classroom.
Everyone spun around at the noise to see a giant hole in the window. Both noticing that their gigais were missing, Ichigo and Rukia rushed to the window, just in time to see a flash of orange disappear around the corner.
"Oh dear," said Urahara coming up behind them. "It looks like we have a bit of a problem on our hands."
"So," said Kon as soon as they got a safe distance away from the classroom. "What would you like to do first?"
Chappy furrowed her eye brows as she thought. "Hmmm… I don't know? What can we do? Pyon?"
Kon smiled at her. "Anything! We're free now and we have bodies!"
"Anything?...Pyon?"
"Yup!"
"Well …" she said hesitantly. "There is something that I've always wanted to try…"
"What?!" yelled Ichigo.
"Now, now there's no need to shout," said Urahara.
"No need! There is a defective soul running around with my face and everyone is just standing here."
"I don't think 'defective' is the right word," said Urahara. "In fact, he is very much enhanced. It looks like he has powered up his legs."
"Enhanced?" asked Rukia before Ichigo started yelling again.
"Yes," replied Urahara. "A while ago, some scientists were experimenting with konpakus by trying to enhance their abilities in order for them to fight hollows. The project was canceled because people thought it was wrong for these 'mod souls' to be in dead bodies in order to fight hollows, so these new souls were ordered to be destroyed."
"Destroyed?" said Ichigo calming down a little.
"Yes, though it looks like one of them got away."
Chappy and Kon were happily walking around the grounds until they heard a shout come from behind them. They turned around to see Ichigo and Rukia running toward them; the konpakus' eyes widened in panic. Kon quickly scooped up Chappy in his arms and jumped.
Ichigo and Rukia, who were getting close, watched in amazement as Kon jumped up to the roof of a three story building.
Kon addressed Chappy who was still in his arms. "Why don't we find somewhere quieter?"
"Okay!" she said with a smile. "Pyon!"
With that Kon ran over and jumped over the other side of the building and running to where he thought might be safe.
"Damn it!" yelled Ichigo. "They got away."
"Well, then come on!" said Rukia running towards the building. "We need to find out where they went before they get in trouble."
Kon opened the door and was pleased to find the room empty.
"Are we allowed to be here? Pyon," Chappy asked.
Kon looked at her. "I don't see why not, it looks like a training room, so I don't see why wouldn't be allowed in here. After all we look like students."
Chappy let out a sigh of relief. "Okay, Pyon." Then she looked up at Kon with a big smile on her face. "Then shall we get started, Pyon?"
But, before he could answer, Chappy leaned in toward Kon and kissed him.
"So, what do you want to practice today?" asked Izuru as he and Renji walked down the hall.
"I don't know," replied Renji.
"You should probably work on your kido," Izuru suggested. Renji made a face as his friend laughed. "Come on! You know what they say: practice makes perfect."
"Yeah… I just hope no one is using the training room."
"Well…" she said hesitantly. "There is something that I've always wanted to try…Pyon"
"What?" asked Kon.
"I…I've...never….Pyon… well…I would like …I've always wanted to kiss someone…Pyon," said Chappy relieved that she had finally been able to say it.
"A kiss?" repeated Kon looking at her.
Chappy went bright red as she nodded her head."Yeah, I've seen people kiss before and they always look so happy. Pyon. I always wanted to be happy like that too. Pyon."
Kon gave her a smile. "I think I can help."
Kon was surprised that she had jumped into the kiss so soon. She had been so nervous before when she had first mentioned it. He was also surprised at the softness of her lips that were now pressed against his. It was true that he had never been kissed before seeing as he had never been in a body before, but he had never imagined it to be like this.
Chappy broke away from the kiss and took a step back blushing as she looked for a reaction from the now dazed Kon. "Umm…Pyon?" said Chappy nervously.
As being pulled from a trance, Kon snapped back into reality and looked down as the girl standing in front of him. He flashed a huge smile before grabbing her by the waist and pulling her in for another kiss.
Chappy let out a gasp as Kon pulled her towards him. But when their lips met she immediately reacted and started kissing him back.
Renji and Izuru approached the door and opened it, entering the training room, Renji going in first. Renji looked around the room and to see if anyone was there and froze at what he saw.
Izuru coming in behind him looked to see you had caused his friend to stop. His eyes went wide when he spotted the other two occupants of the room.
Renji's mouth was hanging open and his eyes were open wide. He had long since dropped what he was carrying and just stared. There in the middle of the room was Rukia and she was…she was kissing that orange haired bastard! He could not believe what he was seeing. His face dropped into a frown as anger built into his chest.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!" shouted Renji as stomped over to the two.
Hearing Renji yell, Kon and Chappy broke away from their kiss to see a very upset Renji coming towards them. Kon grabbed Chappy's hand defensively and was about to run when two more people came rushing into the room.
Kon, Chappy, Renji, and Izuru turned to the door to see Ichigo and Rukia standing there out of breath. Renji stared at them, now completely confused.
"There they are!" yelled Ichigo running toward the two konpaku.
"I know you idiot! I can see them!" Rukia yelled running after him.
"Oh no! Pyon!"
Kon tightened his grip on Chappy's hand and started running toward the door. He was able to make it past Ichigo and Rukia, but when he reached the door he was stopped by Urahara who pushed his hand into the mod soul's chest, the red glove forcing the soul out. Then he turned to Chappy and did the same with her.
At this point Ichigo and Rukia had come up to the fallen gigais and reached down to pick up the substitute souls.
"What do we do with these now?" Ichigo asked looking at Urahara for the answer.
"You can give them to me," he said holding out his hand.
"What will happen to them if we do?" asked Rukia.
"They will be properly disposed of and the two of you will be given new substitute souls."
Ichigo looked down at the soul in his hand. "Disposed of?"
"Yes," replied Urahara.
"Isn't there some other way?" asked Ichigo.
"No. I afraid there isn't."
"What if we want to keep them?" asked Rukia. Urahara gave her a strange look.
"Well I guess, you could…," Urahara said slowly. "Actually it is probably best so that I don't get reported for giving you faulty souls. I'm not exactly, on Soul Society's good list." He gave them a look. "Would you both agree to this?"
"Yes," they said in unison.
"Okay then," said Urahara turning and heading out the door. "They're yours."
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PLEASE REVIEW!! I would really like to know what you think of this chapter. And I know that Urahara is really OOC, but I promise that he will get better in the future.
~StrawberryShinigami