Chapter 2
By: Tomatopiranha
Writers Notes: Heya guys, for whoever is reading this, its my second chapter of my first story. I had this all written out the same day as the first chapter on my iphone, but then I accidently erased the whole chapter by pressing one wrong thing D: well anyways, in the beginning the conversation is in English, but the parts after that everyone is speaking Japanese (thanks to Urahara's contraption) so read and comment if you like :) will be writing a whole bunch more! And btw I don't own bleach char. bleach does
"Seriously?" exclaimed Rebecca. "That is so cool! Its like something that you would read in a manga or something, and it's actually happening to me!"
"So" said Urahara. "The decision is yours Rebecca, you can become a substitute shinigami like Ichigo, or you could become a full shinigami. If you do that, with great amounts of training you could become powerful enough to fill one of the two open captains seats. Although you would have to abandon you life here on earth to become a full shinigami."
"That's alright, I want to become a full shinigami" she said immediately.
"Are you sure?" asked Ichigo. "If you become a substitute shinigami then you can still live on earth, and you can still go to soul society."
"I'm sure, there is not much reason for me here on earth anyways. Plus the only family I have here is my mom, and she does not care about me at all. She kicked me out of the house at 15 saying I could live on my own. She doesn't even know I am in Japan, though that's because she hasn't contacted me since then. So I really want to go to soul society and stay there where I would be useful".
"Alright, and by the way Rebecca, you took the idea of soul society in very easy. Most people would have not believed it if not proven to them." said Rukia.
"Yeah, but that's sort of because I am a total superstition maniac" she said while smiling and rubbing the back of her head.
Of course this is what you would expect from a teen-ager with ghost tracking apps on her iphone.
"Okay, well it's settled then. Tomorrow we will start training with Rebecca, and if all goes well I will contact soul society about this matter" said Urahara.
"Okay, but how will she make it in soul society if she barely knows Japanese?" questioned Rukia.
"Good question, I will be right back" replied Urahara.
Two minutes later he came in with a weird looking contraption. It was large and metal, and it had a headband attached to it.
"Urahara, what the hell is that thing?" asked Ichigo.
"It is the new revelation in learning a new language fast!" exclaimed Urahara smiling and looking proud at himself for making such a thing.
"Umm, well then how does it work?" asked Rukia.
"Well you see, at night when you go to bed you put his head band around your ears. While you are sleeping and unconscious, it gives you concentrated lessons. Over a period of 3 short days the person will have totally learned the grammar of the language and how to speak and write it. Over the next 5 day it will teach them all of the nation's traditions, etiquette, and so on. Over the last 5 days it will teach all about soul society, and teach all of the shooting techniques and such. The ones like blue lightening and shot of red fire, which you like to use quite a lot Rukia."
"That seems impossible" replied Ichigo.
"That it may seem, but you just wait, she will be speaking great Japanese tomorrow when she wakes up" said Urahara still smiling.
"Okay Urahara, but if I come in tomorrow and see Rebecca's head deformed because of that thing, i'll be pissed" Ichigo said back.
"Yes yes, it is 100% safe! Now, apart from that matter, why don't you all say for dinner? Tessai made enough chicken curry for everyone".
"Umm, who is Tessai?" asked Rebecca.
"He is the large man with glasses" Urahara said.
"Oh, and I guess you should tell Yoruichi what was said while we are eating dinner, since she does not know any English." Ichigo mentioned.
"Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Oh and look, our food is done." said Urahara.
It was chicken curry with white rice, which was an average meal for Japanese, but not as much for an American.
"Wow! This is amazing!" exclaimed Rebecca as she had never had curry before.
"Have you never had curry?" asked Urahara.
"No, I always just ate fast food for dinner back in America, only because neither my mom nor I could cook." she said still eating.
"I wonder how she is so skinny then?" asked Ichigo quietly to Rukia.
"I was just wondering the same thing" replied Rukia.
The two of them looked at Rebecca; she was about 2-3 inches shorter than Ichigo, which was pretty tall for a girl. She was very skinny, and she was very lanky. She almost looked as if she was a doll made of sticks.
Rebecca then noticed the two looking over at her.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing" they both replied.
After everyone had eaten, everyone went home for the night, and Urahara asked Rebecca to take the machine with her and told her how to use it.
THE NEXT DAY
Rebecca had used the language learning machine, and surprisingly it actually worked. She now knew how to normally speak Japanese. She brought the machine back to the shop she set it just inside of the door because it was very heavy.
As she put it down, she noticed a 100 yen coin.
"Oh, my lucky day" she said smiling as she picked up the coin.
When she looked up, she noticed another coin, and then another after that and so on. The line of coins led to a door in the floor.
"How obvious" sighed Rebecca. "I guess he wants me to go down there" she said while still picking up the money.
As she got to the door, she looked down to see something that would have amazed anyone.
"WOW!" she exclaimed as she looked down to see a huge ladder and what looked like another little world. "Huh, I guess i'm supposed to go down there" she said.
She thought that it would be cool to slide down the ladder holding onto only the sides like people sometimes do in movies. Though that was something that she regretted. As she slid down the ladder, the friction between the metal and her hands made it burn, and it did not help considering how incredibly long the ladder was.
"Augh!" yelled Rebecca as she finally reached the bottom. Her hands were bright red as she was holding them in between her thighs.
Suddenly a sword flew at her as she dodged just in time. "Hey what the.. Urahara? What the hell was that for!" she asked.
"You said you wanted training, did you not?" he asked
"Of course I want to train, but how am I supposed to without a sword?"
"Would you like one?" he asked.
"Of course I would!" she said.
"Well then" he bumped her head with his cane.
Rebecca was then out of her body.
"Ouch Urahara, what the hell was tha.." she said while looking down at the chain coming from her chest.
"What is this?" she asked pointing to the chain.
Urahara then took out his sword and cut the chain from her body. "Now, before that chain disintegrates, you must become a shinigami and you will receive your zombaktou."
"That's a sword right? Well then, how do I become a shinigami?" she asked.
Urahara then hit the ground with his cane and the earth beneath Rebecca crumbled.
Once she fell to the bottom she coughed and stood back up.
"Urahara, how is this training?" she yelled up to him.
"You must get out of that hole before your chain runs out, or you will become a hollow." he yelled back down to her.
"What? How the hell am I suppose to get out of this hole? It goes straight up!" she asked.
"That is for you to find out. Ichigo did it" he replied. "And you can thank Ururu and Jinta for the hole going straight up. I would say they are getting better at digging holes." Urahara said as two little kids heads looked down into the whole.
"Yeah, THANKS guys" she said sarcastically as the two snickered.
"Okay, but one last question. Why is this dude down here?" she asked pointing to Tessai.
"Just in case you turn into a hollow" he replied.
"Great" she replied sarcastically.
TWO HOURS LATER
"Damnit" Rebecca said at another fail to try and climb out if the hole as her hands were still red from before.
"Come on and get out Rebecca, you don't want to turn into a hollow do ya?" Urahara taunted.
"Shut up! It's not as easy as it seems!" Rebecca yelled as she was now extremely angered.
"Come on lady, can't you climb out
of a simple hole?" taunted Jinta. "I bet I could do it on my first time!"
"Be quiet!" she yelled. "This is not helping at all!"
She then looked over the see Tessai staring at her weirdly, which disturbed her as she was claustrophobic.
"Hey Urahara, maybe if we drool on her like we did to Ichigo it will speed up the process" Jinta suggested.
"Have at it" he replied.
"Damnit stop!" she yelled.
With two kids drooling on her, a man taunting her and an ever creepier man staring at her something in her mind just clicked.
"ENOUGH!" she screamed as white rays of light surrounded them.
Suddenly she appeared in front of Urahara holding him up by his collar.
"You basturd! How was that training! That was torture, especially since I cant stand being in small spaces!" she yelled at him still holding him by the collar.
Urahara was shocked, it was very unexpected that she would have been able to turn into a shinigami that fast. It was several times faster than Ighigo's and she did not got through any type of transformation. "Amazing, this girl has such potential" he thought.
"Look at yourself" Urahara said to Rebecca.
She looked down at herself and released her grip on Urahara.
"It... worked?" she stuttered looking down at herself wearing a black outfit and a sword by her hip. "Wow! This is awesome! Thanks Urahara! Now we can train right?"
"After I contact soul society, yes. While I'm doing that why don't you take a short break? Go buy a drink with the money you found upstairs."
"But Urahara, that's my money" said Tessai.
"Its alright Tessai, it was only 15 dollars worth of coins right? Let the girl buy herself a drink" he replied.
"Okay" sighed Tessai.
"Awesome!" said Rebecca, and then she was gone.
"Wow, Urahara where did she go?" asked Jinta.
"She went to go buy a drink" he said
"No, I mean she disappeared! Does she already know shunpo?" he asked.
"No, it's not shunpo. Actually, it doesn't have a name, but it is more than 50 times faster than shunpo. Its amazing that she has already mastered it. Just what is that girl?"
Instantly Rebecca shows up at a drink machine.
"Heh, I love being a shinigami, I don't have to walk all the way here. Hmm, though Urahara said that it doesn't have a name, maybe I should name it!" Rebecca said cleverly.
"Hmm, maybe, umm... zap step? No, sounds to much like flash step. Umm, light speed? No, hmm, Oh! I got it! Super Awesome Lightning Step!" Rebecca said proudly of her new name for her ability.
Just at that time Ichigo passed by.
"Hmm, I wonder what Rebecca is doing here?" he wondered.
Rebecca then turned around to see Ichigo walking by.
"Hey Ichigo!" said waving her hand.
"Hey Rebecca, what are you doing here?" asked Ichigo. He was walking home later than normal since he had to take his test from the day before after school. Rukia was not with him because she was over at Inoue's house.
"Well Urahara said that while he is contacting soul society, I can have a short break, so I came to get a drink."
"Wow! That was really fast for you to already become a shinigami!" said Ichigo surprised. "Oh, and it seems like Urahara's language device actually worked, your speaking really good Japanese now."
"Yeah well, it sure didn't feel very short" she said mumbling. "But yeah surprisingly it worked great".
"Did Urahara put you in the 'pit of doom' too?" asked Ichigo (he had made up his own name for it).
"Yeah, and it sucks. Those two little brats spit on me down there! It doesn't help that I am claustrophobic either" she said.
"Hey those two brats did the same thing to me!" Ichigo said. "Anyways, are you going to walk home with your drink, because you know other people can't see you".
"Really? I was never told that!"
"Yeah, and people would be freaked out if they see a random drink flying through the air"
"Haha! That would be hilarious! I would do that just the see the look on their faces! Although I wouldn't walk back, I would super awesome lightning step home!" Rebecca said proud to show off her new name.
Ichigo then burst out laughing. "Super awesome lightning step? Is that what you call shunpo!" Ichigo said still laughing.
"No! It's not shunpo! It's a lot faster! That's why I named it that!" exclaimed Rebecca.
"But why did you choose that as its name? It sounds like a little kid made it up!" he said while still chuckling.
While the two of them were arguing weather the name was childish or not, Ishida walked up.
"Hey Ichigo, who's your friend?" asked Ishida.
"Ichigo you liar! You said that normal people couldn't see me!" yelled Rebecca.
"Excuse me, but I am not a normal person, I am a proud quincey"
"A quincey? Is that another type of shinigami?" she asked.
"No! A quincey is the natural enemy of the shinigami." Ishida said while pulling out his bow and shooting a tree very far away showing his different power.
"Well if your his enemy, why are you so friendly to him?"
"Well, that is... (he didn't really have a reason)".
"Well whatever, do you think that super awesome lightning step is a childish name?" asked Rebecca.
"Is that what you call shunpo or something?"
"No, its not shunpo, it's a lot faster and it doesn't have a name" she replied.
"Oh? It sounds sort of like what I have" said Ishida.
"No, its a lot faster than even yours Ishida" Ichigo said.
"Oh really, tell you what Rebecca, how about we have a race?"
"Heh, okay. Where too?" she asked.
"Let's go to the ramen stand on the other side of town by the Wal-Mart. You know where that is?"
"Yeah, let's go one at a time though, we can time each other."
"Okay, I'll go first. You ready to time me?"
"Yepp, go as fast as you can, see if you can beat me"
"You bet I can!"
"Okay then, get ready, get set, GO!" Rebecca said pushing the timer button on her iphone.
Three minutes and 41 second later Ishida came back. He was out of breath.
"Tr... Try an... Try and beat that!" Ishida said still out of breath.
"Okay, first catch your breath so that you can time me."
So after Ishida caught his breath, he took the iphone from Rebecca to time her.
"You ready Rebecca?" he asked.
"Course I am!"
"Okay then, ready, set, go!"
Less than a half second later she was back.
"Wha.." Ishida stuttered.
"Well, how long was I?" she asked
"0.43 seconds! How is that possible? It was all the way on the other side of town!" said Ishida shocked.
"I told you mine was faster" Rebecca said smiling.
"You are amazing!" Ishida said.
"Haha thanks!" she said smiling and rubbing the back of her head. "Oh, and I should probably get my drink and get back before Urahara yells at me!"
So Rebecca took out one of the coins and put it in the drink machine. She didn't know that she got coffee from the hot drink machine until she opened it and took a sip. She then proceeded
to spit it all over Ichigo.
"Augh! What the hell was that for?" Ichigo yelled while wiping off the hot coffee.
"Oh! Sorry Ichigo! I didn't know that it was hot! I've never heard of a hot drink machine!" said Rebecca looking guilty and innocent at the same time.
"It's okay" Ichigo sighed. "If you don't like it I can take it and i'll buy you a cold one".
"Seriously! Thanks Ichigo! I owe ya one!" said Rebecca
"No problem. This is the cold drink machine" said Ichigo pointing to the other one. "Which one do you want?" he asked taking the hot coffee from her.
"Umm, that one" she said pointing to the grape soda.
"Here" he said handing over the soda.
"Thank you a million Ichigo! I gotta go before Urahara finishes, cya Ichigo, cya Ishida!" Rebecca said as she disappeared.
"That girls an odd one" Ichigo said.
"You know it" agreed Ishida. "Of course we both know you bought her a cold drink just so that you could have the one she already drank out of" said Ishida smiling at Ichigo.
"Wha.. No! That's not true!" said Ichigo blushing lightly. "I was just trying to be nice."
"Uh huh, sure I believe you" said Ishida sarcastically.
"Seriously!" Ichigo said.
"It's alright Ichigo, I know what's really going on" said Ishida still trying to tease him.
"Whatever Ishida"
END OF CHAPTER 2