A/N- Well, I told you the next one would be longer, and it is. 2,514 words. Whew! My figures hurt from writing...
Disclaimer- I don't own Bleach or any characters associated with it.
"Brilliant idea, Ogihci."
"How was I supposed to know King would react like that?"
It was the day after the Snowball Incident, and the two spirits were trying to repair any damage caused by the storm. After Ichigo had left, all hell broke loose. Rain falling in sheets, lightning flashing and thunder crashing every two seconds, and brutal winds. Within a hour, the thunderstorm had begun to resemble a category 5 hurricane.
Ogihci and Zangetsu had managed to avoid the worst of it by taking shelter in the library, which turned out to be a good choice. The storm lasted all throughout the night until lunchtime the next day. They had nothing else to do other than read, with Zangetsu staying as far away from the Horror section as he could. After staying in the building for almost thirteen straight, they were able to go outside.
A lot of the windows were shattered, which was only natural due to the skyscrapers being almost completely made of glass, and Zangetsu's pole was nowhere to be found. Seeing this, the old man wandered off to morn for his fallen pole. Ogihci, meanwhile, was focusing on one of the broken windows.
"NOOO! My candy!" He ran off to save any candy that had survived the rain.
...
Ichigo, meanwhile, was trying to figure out what to do with the two spirits. That little 'prank' was just to much.
Punishments... Not watch TV for a week? No. Set a Menos Grande on them? No, to much trouble. Beat the living shit out of them? No, to much could go wrong.
While he was still deep in thought, Rukia and Orihime emerged from the apartment behind him. Orihime had managed to lose one of her Shun Shun Rikka, and Rukia had been helping her look inside, while Ichigo searched the ground outside. Apparently, she had found the missing pin in the refrigerator, and Tsubaki was pissed because of the cold.
"Come on, Ichigo!" Rukia said, dragging him down the street. "They've got Chappy posters on sale today!"
It was then that the idea for his revenge hit the young shinigami. Literally.
Rukia had dragged him to the shop that she was interested in, and had managed to slam Ichigo's head into a overhanging sign, almost knocking him out in the process.
"My... Head..." he gasped, on the ground clutching his skull, trying to relive the excruciating pain.
"Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime cried, rushing to his side. Rukia was now kneeling down next to the fallen teen, apologizing.
Ichigo looked up, seeing that he had hit a large sign that depicted Chappy surrounded by flowers and carrots. The idea struck him.
"Ichigo, are you alright?" Rukia was asking him.
He got shakily to his feet. "I'm fine. Really," he assured his two friends. "Look, I just remembered. There's something I've gotta do." He ran off in the direction of Urahara's shop. "Bye Rukia! See you, Orihime!"
"I hope Kurosaki-kun's alright..." Orihime sighed. "He hit that sign really hard..."
...
Entering his inner world, Ichigo took in the scenery around him. There were still many broken windows. but a lot of them had been repaired, including the one that had apparently been protecting Ogihci's candy stash. Zangetsu was standing off to the right, staring at the spot where his pole had been, where there was now a small, but deep, hole in the building's side.
"King~," Ogihci whined, having appeared to Ichigo's left. "Why'd you have to get so mad? Ya ruined all of my candy..."
"That's probably a good thing... Zangetsu, what are you doing?" he asked, observing his zanpakuto. He was walking towards the hole carrying a bucket and what looked like a new metal pole. The sword silently slid the pole into the hole, then started pouring the bucket's contents in around it. After the bucket was empty, he took a piece of metal and used it to smooth out the material. He then walked off.
"Zanny's fixing his pole, King," the hollow informed him, fumbling with the wrapper of a candy bar. "The storm killed it."
"Uh, okay then," he said, still confused as to where the sword had obtained the materials to fix it.
Ogihci was still struggling with the candy wrapper, and when he finally managed to rip it open, he cheered. Before he could take a bite, however, Ichigo snached it away from him.
"Hey!"
"You don't need any more energy."
"Aw, King..."
"Don't want to hear it. I'd prefer you as a regular psychotic hollow right now, not that sugar-high one that's always jumping on people."
"That's sweet, King."
"Shut it. Now, where's Zangetsu?"
"You didn't need to get that angry, Ichigo."
The shinigami sighed at his zanpakuto's comment. "Well, anyways... I finally decided what you guy's punishment is going to be."
"Punishment? Wasn't that typhoon enough?"
"Nope."
"You're mean, King..."
"What are you, Dr. Suess?"
"Who?"
"...Well anyways," Ichigo said, deciding to ignore his hollow's question. He looked down at the cardboard box in his hand.
"What the... Where'd that come from?" Ogihci asked, shocked. Zangetsu had the same reaction as the hollow was, as there hadn't been anything in the shinigami's hands a second ago.
"What're you talking about? I've been holding it the whole time," he answered, picking at the tape that held the box's flaps shut.
The box also had... 'Are those air holes?' Zangetsu wondered, seeing the holes that had been punched in it.
Finally peeling the tape off, Ichigo set the box down, opened it, and pulled out...
'...A bunny?' Ogihci thought, looking at the white, fluffy creature on Ichigo's arms.
"This is Ozzy. One of Orihime's friend's friend needs someone to look after him while his house is being renovated," the shinigami explained, gently stroking the bunny's back as he spoke.
"And you want us to do what with it?" Zangetsu inquired. The bunny was looking around the inner world with it's pink eyes, curious. The sword shivered. He did not need another albino running around in here.
"Take care of him. Everything you'll need is over there." the teen said, gesturing behind him where a large cardboard box was sitting.
"What the hell! Okay, that was NOT there a second ago, King!" shouted Ogihci.
"Yeah it was. You just didn't notice it."
"Ichigo, really. Why are boxes randomly appearing in here? This place isn't falling apart again, is it?" Zangetsu asked, warily looking around for more falling boxes.
"No, Zangetsu, it's not." Ichigo said calmly, as to not startle the small rodent in his arms. "Anyways, you guys'll need to watch him for a week... And he needs to still be alive by then."
"And why are we watching this thing, King?"
"Because you tried to kill me with snowballs yesterday.. Now, I've got to go and keep Orihime from having a panic attack." he set the bunny down. "Take care of Ozzy."
"King?" his hollow asked right before Ichigo left his mindscape. "Who's Ozzy's owner?"
"I told you. Orihime's friend's friend." he said, then left.
"..."
"..."
Zangetsu walked to the large box and opened it, while Ogihci walked over and picked the bunny up.
"A bunny..." the hollow mumbled, looking at the creature's eyes. Innocent... Pink eyes...
"Alright. Put him in here." Zangetsu said from behind him. Ogihci turned to see a medium sized cage, lined with newspapers and hay, with a food bowl and water bottle set out.
"Wow. How'd you get that set up so fast?"
"The cage was already put together... I just had to put all that stuff in."
"Uh, okay..." the hollow walked over and set the rabbit in the enclosure, closing the little door on the top. He glanced in the large box, where the was a bag of food, several bottles of water, more newspapers and hay, a book, and what appeared to be several wooden bunny toys. Zangetsu picked up the book, which turned out to be a bunny care guide, and started looking through it.
"Okay... What they eat... Play time... Medical care... How to breed them? I don't think we need to know that..."
"Zanny, does that book say anything about-" He stopped, having heard a squeak from behind them. The hollow turned and was met with the sight of Ozzy sitting on the top of his cage, happily gnawing on a carrot.
"How'd he get out? Did you leave the latch undone?"
"No." Ogihci picked Ozzy up, looked at him, then him, minus his carrot, back into his cage.
The hollow turned back to the box only to hear the squeak again. He whirled around to see the exact same thing, only this time, Ozzy was staring straight at the hollow.
"Okay then..." Zangetsu said, looking at the bunny cautiously. "That is a normal bunny, right?"
"Think so. Doesn't seem to have any weird spiritual pressure or anything..." the hollow said while moving to return Ozzy to his cage. "He's creeping me out a b- OW!"
"What?"
"He bit me!" Ogihci held up his index finger, showing the sword a nasty gash.
Ozzy growled, causing both spirits to look at him fearfully. Bunnies did NOT growl. He jumped off his cage and started hopping towards them.
"Uh... Good bunny... Sweet bunny?" Zangetsu whispered, backing away with Ogihci doing the same.
The bunny paused, looking at the two in front of him with those captivating pink eyes of his. The two spirits held their breath, hoping that nothing was about to happen.
"Good bunny?" Ogihci said uncertainly.
Suddenly, Ozzy puffed up to about five times his normal size, stood up on his back legs, opened his mouth, and let out a roar. Bunnies should never have teeth like that.
"AHH!" Both spirits ran for their lives, the mutant bunny at their heels.
...
Ichigo was sitting in Urahara's shop with his friends, cracking jokes and laughing, when he became aware of the shouts.
'KILL IT! KILL IT! AHHH!'
"I think they just met the real Ozzy..."
"Think they liked the surprise?" Urahara asked, fanning himself.
'It ate my pole! YOU SHALL DIE! ... AH!'
'Zanny!'
Ichigo smiled. "Yep. Thanks for helping me with that, Urahara."
"Don't you think that was a little, oh I don't know... Harsh?" Ishida asked.
"Uryu, you don't know those two. They're a danger to themselves and to anyone in their paths."
'NO! My candy! That's it!'
"Oh crap..."
"What's wrong, Kurosaki-kun?" a worried Orihime asked.
'BANKAI!' Both of the spirits yelled. Multiple crashes and bangs followed.
"...I'd better go and stop them from destroying my mindscape..."
"Why? What'd they do?" Yorurichi inquired.
"They just went Bankai on Ozzy's ass."
...
All hell had broken loose in Ichigo's mindscape. It was hard to believe that a bunny caused all of this... Well, it was a mutant hollow bunny, but still...
A roar, crash, and some swearing caught Ichigo's attention. Looking over, he saw Ogihci in Bankai form, getting up from within the center of a crater in one of the buildings. Ozzy roared and charged the hollow. Tensa Zangetsu came in from the side, slamming into Ozzy and sending him flying.
"So... Having fun?" Ichigo asked innocently, receiving glares from both spirits before the bunny moved in to attack again.
"Why the hell'd you give us a demonic bunny to take care of?" Ogihci yelled angrily at the shinigami. Behind him, Tensa Zangetsu's head almost got ripped off by one of Ozzys claws.
Fortunately, they only managed to hit his hair.
Unfortunately, they got caught in his hair, and with a yelp, the sword was flung a good distance away from the evil fur ball, who ran after him quickly.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that? Sorry, must've slipped my mind."
"I hate you, King!" Ozzy turned at the sound of Ogihci's cry, attacking him. The hollow began screaming in terror. "AHH! It's the bunny from hell!"
Tensa Zangetsu got to his feet, his robes ripped, panting. "Damn... You... Ichigo..." Ozzy then came after him again.
The young shinigami smirked. "Have you guys learned your lesson?"
"YES!" the two spirits shouted in unison, running from Ozzy the Mutant Bunny, who was drooling all over the place.
"You'll never try to kill me with snowballs again?"
"NO!"
"Just get this thing out of here!"
"Fine." Ichigo walked over to where the cardboard box sat, reached in, and pulled out several carrots. He held them up in the air. "Oi, Ozzy!"
The bunny stopped in his tracks, looked at Ichigo, and sniffed the air.
"Want a carrot?" Upon hearing this, Ozzy's ears perked up, and he started to run up to Ichigo, shrinking as he went. When he reached the shinigami, he had gone back to his normal size. Ichigo set the carrots down on the ground, where Ozzy began devoring them.
"How... Why...?"
"You took away his carrot," Ichigo calmly explained, putting the bunny's items back into the box. "He was hungry and pissed."
"Wait... So he turned into that thing because I took away his carrot?" Ogihci asked, staring at the innocent-looking bunny.
"Yes."
"..."
"Well, I'll just be going then." Ichigo said, picking Ozzy up (letting him keep the carrot, of coarse) and grabbing the box before leaving his mindscape.
Ogihci and Zangetsu both stood in shocked silence, taking in the results of the bunny's rampage. The mindscare was more damaged than it had been after the typhoon.
"...We should probably start fixing everything."
"...Yeah..."
A/N- I have absolutly NO idea where this idea came from. As for the bunny's name... The phrase 'Ozzy the Mutant Hollow Bunny' popped into my head during one of my classes, and I just had to use it.
And just for fun... Anyone want to take a guess as to who "Orihime's friend's friend", AKA Ozzy's owner, is? Go on, take a guess.
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