Seeing Double

I hope you guys liked the little intro-chappy there. :D And also, if you have any questions about, say Elemental Zanpakutō affects that may NOT have been covered thoroughly in the story, I'll try to answer them, but not if they're incredibly, well, like does Yoru sword attract unicorns kind of deal, get me?

Came home after school today with a lot of homework. So, I do what most teens do after they get a lot of homework…

Go in my room, get my laptop, get on Facebook, turn on my TV, and wait until later to worry about it.

What? I never told you I had a laptop, a TV in my room (32" Flat screen), or a Facebook account? Well, aren't I behind?

Ichigo comes in my door. "When did you get this stuff?"

"One of my relatives lives in the U.S., and he sent me lottery winnings which would be about two hundred thousand American dollars to me here. So I spent some and put the rest in a bank account for when I get a car or college."

"DUDE! Lucky bastard."

"I try."

"So, isn't life boring outside of the Soul society now, isn't it?"

"I know. I can't wait until a new chapter in our lives opens up."

"I wouldn't rush in for a new action packed adventure. Slow down, enjoy life a little more."

"Well, that could be good too."

"You bet."

"Well, look what we have here. Brotherly bonding, I suppose?" A voice said. I turned to my window. It was Kisuke, none the less.

"How did you know we lived here?" Ichigo asked. "And by the way, were COUSINS, not brothers."

"I have my ways. And honestly you could have fooled me." He responded. "Anyway, I have something to talk about, if I may come in?"

"Sure, have a seat. Nobody else is home at the moment." I answer. This must be of importance.

"So, what is it Kisuke?"

"Last night there was a strange disturbance of what felt like a Hollow attack, but with a spiritual pressure of a Soul Reaper. It took out about six Hollows that were randomly roaming around, and while doing so, it almost obliterated buildings around the area. It was about seven blocks from here. And after testing the certain wave signs from the spiritual pressure, and simply from it being familiar, it was actually Yoru who was 'on a job' that night. Care to elaborate?"

"Well, I only really remember having a nightmare, then waking up on a street downtown a ways. I thought it was practically nothing and went back home."

"Wait, what do you mean that it was a Hollow AND a Soul Reaper?" Ichigo asked.

"Right now, were still unsure, but I figured I would swing by and get Yoru's viewpoint on this. As of now, it doesn't seem to be too big of a deal. Just try and be careful. And on that, I shall be off. Can't leave the shop unattended." He drops from the window.

"So you have a Hollow side too, huh? Must run in the family."

"So, you have one of those crazy people inside your skin too?"

"Yeah, but never really had it attack in my sleep."

"It was most likely a one time thing. And I do have some homework to do, might as well get it done."

"I'll go get mine, it'll be fun doing it together."

"You just hope I'll give you answers."

"Oh, shut up!"

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Later*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Hey, Yoru, get up you lazy piece of"-

"What is it Renji? And what the heck was the yelling about at school?" I say, groaning of being tired. It was about three in the morning.

"Look, I simply dropped by for a visit. But we got bigger business at the moment."

I use that badge to get out of my body and put it down on the dresser. "What is it?"

"Whatever it is, it's close to Orihime. Come on, let's move, I'll get Ichigo!" I jump out the window, he goes into the other room. I went to Orihime's and was the first on e to see some sort of gate thing, with skeleton hands and an eerie look to it. Everyone else was here, watching. Orihime was being sucked into it! I drew my Zanpakutō and used the darkness element of Shikoku No Kaen to make tendrils to try and keep her from going in. it worked at first, then I heard something like a little girl grunt as they were cut. I fell over, and Ichigo went to slash the gate, but he was too late, Orihime was already in and the gate disappeared.

"Damn, not good…" I say.

"Orihime!" Ichigo shouted into the night.

We searched all night, and it was after school the next day.

"Damn, we searched all night and never found a trace of her!" Ichigo stated the obvious.

"Yeah, I don't sense her spiritual pressure at all anymore." Chad said.

"If only we knew what that strange gate was…" Uryū thought.

"To me it looked like the gates to the underworld…" Renji stated.

"Hell wouldn't make off with a living human." I said.

"Sure hope your right about that." Ichigo said.

"Not to mention nobody seems to remember her…"

"Memory replacement on the kids…means that they knew we would be looking for her, which also means that this was no accident, somebody has kidnapped her." Ichigo, using his head for once.

"I suggest we take another look at her apartment, we may find something useful." Uryū suggests.

"Might as well." I ignored the rest and we left.

We arrive at her apartment.

"Eah, the door must be locked." Ichigo said, trying to turn the knob.

"I'll handle it." Chad says.

"Breaking it down would do more harm than good." I say.

"No need, I can handle this!" Uryū pulled out a small box that was in his pocket and pulled out a needle. He bent the point down to make a right angle and started fiddling the inside of the lock with it.

"You know, you're pretty good at sneaky jobs like this Uryū." Ichigo says.

"I don't think I like what you insinuating."

The door opens and they walk in. I decide to stay outside. I wonder what is going on…

"Yoru, we just got a call from the kidnapper, follow us!" They came bursting through the door and down the street. I had no choice but to follow.

"Why are we running again?"

"We got to get to that park in three minutes or less!" Ichigo said.

"Okay then, I'll meet you guys there!" I took off in a full sprint. But the only reason I out ran them was that I used to be in track. One hundred meters in eleven seconds.

"Made it!" Then the others showed up. But the thing is…

"There's nobody here." Uryū said.

"Hey, we made it in under three minutes, come on out!" Ichigo shouted.

No answer….

And then the phone rang. Ichigo and the others went into the booth, and I stayed outside, figuring that this may be only the beginning and getting ready to run again.

They came out. "Come on, we got to get to the supermarket!"

"You kidding, that's miles away!"

"We got three minutes, so move!"

This time, they beat me. I tripped on someone's foot when turning the corner. When I caught up, they were on the phone.

"But you never told us that… hey wait, don't hang up!" was all I caught out of Ichigo's mouth over my panting. And I could tell for some reason we failed.

"Orihime…what do we do now? Damn this sucks…I feel so helpless!"

"Just calm down, Ichigo." Uryū said.

"He's got a point." I insist. "In order to get though this we gotta be calm and think." The phone rang again.

"Yeah, hello?" Ichigo answered. "Damn brat, when I get my hands on you… All right, we need to know that Orihime isn't hurt, let me hear her voice! No way…." Was his side of the conversation. He took off running and we all followed. All the way to Urahara's shop. I pass out from exhaustion. I never ran this far in a long time. When I came to, Ichigo explained that we needed to be at her apartment at eight tonight.

And believe me, I am SO ready for a fight!