Sakura stared at her brother as his eyebrow twitched- a clear sign of someone waking up. Pocketing her new phone she stood up and stuffed her hands in her skirt pockets. She turned around to face the view, letting the wind blow through her hair as she relaxed and waited for the thing in Ichigo's body to wake up. She waited a good minute or two before she felt a hand on her leg.
"KYA!" she flailed her leg, kicking Ichigo's face on accident.
"YATA! THAT HURT!" he shouted as he rubbed his cheek. Sakura cringed slightly when she noticed the already swelling cheek of his… damn Ichigo was gonna get pissed at her when he got back. She somehow –by some miracle- had managed to get her fake-yet real brother back into the classroom. She tried to lead him to his seat and instruct him to stay quiet till her real brother returned but he was distracted by the first thing he saw… a group of girls sitting in the corner discussing. He waltzed over, Sakura closely behind ready to grab his arm and pull him to his seat beside her to scold him. He leaned down and grabbed some ones chest.
"Hey you come here often?" he asked giving her chest a light squeeze. He was thrown back into a multitude of desks. He quickly stood up and pointed an accusing finger as Sakura latched onto his arm and began to try and pull him back… seriously she didn't need this. If it were seriously up to her she'd leave whatever was in her brother's body so he could get the shit beat out of it, but her brother sort of needed that body, " god-damnit Ichi-nii come on!" she harshly whispered.
"FINE I DIDN'T WANT YOUR FLAT ASS CHEST ANYWAYS!" He looked down at the pinkette trying to unsuccessfully drag him away, "I PREFER HER SHES BIGGER THAN YOU!" everyone stayed quiet.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT ABOUT HER ICHIGO? THAT'S ILLEGAL YOU KNOW!" the purple haired girl shouted back. He stuck his tongue out and looked to her right seeing someone with a big bust and long orange hair, "Why can't you be like her!"
Before he knew it a tidal wave of books, desks, and punches were thrown at him, "FOR FUCKS SAKE ICHIGO SHUT UP YOU'RE MAKING IT WORSE FOR YOURSELF!" shouted Sakura as she dragged him along trying to dodge all the books and looked over at Tatsuki, "I'm so sorry Tatsuki-chan! He hit his head while on the roof; I came here to get our stuff before I took him to the hospit- AHHHHHH!"
Tatsuki stared in shock before coming to her senses and bringing herself to the broken window, "SAKURA!"
She was dragged out a window; clinging onto his front, she began screaming, "WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!"
The fake-Ichigo was about to respond when someone spoke before him, "Hey!" she watched as he glanced to the side and saw a blur orange running after them. Forcefully pulling herself up to look over his shoulder.
"ICHIGO!" she shouted, hoping that her brother would catch up to them and get her away from the crazed lunatic of a thing controlling her brother's body. The fake Ichigo looked back in the direction where the real Ichigo was following them and noticed he was much closer than before, " Hold on girly, you're in for a rough ride." He changed his direction and dropped down from the roofs and disappeared within some foliage.
"Damn we lost em!" growled Ichigo as he jabbed his zanpakuto into the ground.
"We'll find them, he couldn't have taken her very far." she chimed in," but it will be difficult he is a mod-soul," Muttered Rukia.
"Ehhh?" Ichigo grunted.
"Mod souls are replacement souls with strengths, the one in your body can jump at extreme heights and he's fast."
Ichigo brushed her off, "Either way we have to find him I have a feeling he'll cause havoc." He said just before Rukia's phone began to beep. She took it out and examined it for a few seconds before speaking, "Hollow sighted 20 meters from here to the right."
"That's the city park..." muttered Ichigo. Rukia nodded, "The hollow is priority now, we'll find the mod soul later… and besides… he's with Sakura once they stop running she'll punch him into oblivion." Ichigo chuckled. They agreed on catching the hollow first and headed towards the park.
He sat Sakura gently on the ground as he stretched his back, "We should be safe for now." he said as his forced companion stood up. He heard the sound of knuckles cracking before turning around only to be met by the cherry's fist colliding with his face.
"Oh I'm so sorry…" she said in a bored tone, "it was a reflex." She stared at her nails, examining them making sure her green nail polish didn't chip off.
He hissed as he rubbed his nose, "What the fuck was that for?"
She glared at him and turned her head to face away from him, "That was for dragging me and jumping out of a closed window… OFF OF THE SECOND FLOOR!" she raised her arms and flailed them to emphasize her point. The mod soul was about to retaliate and explain why he did so but was stopped by a loud roar coming from his left and the rapid beeping from a red pocketed phone. Already having been looking at the petite pinkette- who was glaring at him in return they both slowly turned their heads simultaneously only to find a big ugly, drooling masked face of a hollow staring right at them.
"AHHHH!" they screamed in unison as Sakura jumped onto his back and began harshly hitting his back.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"
"TRYING TO MAKE YOU FUCKING RUN YOU DUMBASS!" she shouted back as she desperately hit him in the back of the head, " NOW MUSH OR I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DON'T GET US OUT OF HERE I'LL MURDER YOU BEFORE THE HOLLOW DOES!"
"Why did you get in the way!" Ichigo shouted.
Rukia shrugged than thought about it. She'd jumped in the way of a hungry hollow that was hiding and planning on attacking the strawberry from behind. Long story short she jumped in and kido'd that things ass. "The hell did you think you were doing?!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.
Rukia sighed, "Doesn't matter I'm safe and so are you now let's search for your body." They didn't have to search that long, just as they began walking the mod soul occupying Ichigo's body jumped out of a bush and was headed towards them at full speed, Sakura clinging onto his back telling him to go faster. They stopped just before the mod soul rammed into Ichigo at full speed. Sakura jumped off and stood in front of Rukia trying to catch her breath.
"Hollow … from… where… we just …came from," the mod soul said between breaths. Just then a snake like hollow knocked down several trees in its entrance. It sights aimed and locked onto Sakura. Noticing this Ichigo charged forwards but he wouldn't make it in time.
Sakura – who had been arguing with the mod soul over why she was out of breath when she of all people shouldn't be since he was the running while all she did was scream her lungs out till they burst- suddenly felt pressure colliding onto her back and crushing her chest. She turned around slowly and immediately was frozen in fear and was stuck to the ground like an embedded rock. The hollow was literally in her face when her short life flashed before her eyes, and a wave of regret and remorse hit her, her thoughts went wild as she realized that she'd be eaten alive by a beast- and there was absolutely nothing she could do about it.
Ichigo was forced to jump back in a dodge sending him a few yards away and was about to bounce back into the fight when he felt his heart get stuck in his throat and his heart beat echoed in his ears at the sight he had just witnessed. Sakura had burst into a blue aura just before she was swallowed whole by the hollow. He helplessly watched as it swallowed- leaving no trace of blood whatsoever.
Up in the trees a man wearing see through orange sunglasses, a black hoodie with a white shirt underneath it, tan cargo shorts and flip flops smirked as he looked down at the sight, "found you after all this time…"
"Found who?" asked the man hidden within the shadows not too far behind him, out from the corner of his eye the first man watched as the man in the shadows tilted his head to look through the branches. Giving an affirming nod the man sighed, "Talk about being fashionably late."
"Pfft, I'll show you fashionably late." The first man scoffed before lunging out of the trees. The man in the shadows smirked before turning around and lifting up his hand to wave good bye at nothing.
"Ja ne," he said before completely disappearing in the shadows.
It was dark. It was like being in a black hole surrounded by slime and she could smell what she could only guess was stomach acid not to far from her. All she could do was curl herself up into a ball and pray that Ichigo would save her. Maybe this was her fate and this is what she deserved for what she had done in the past, for what she had done to her own family. For being weak and running away. Who was she kidding she was never strong in the first place, the strong one was always Ichigo, she was just the younger twin sister that was good in academics. She stuck her face between her knees. If only it was her who gained power and not Ichigo. If only she was strong enough to be driven like him. If only she had power of her own to help Ichigo protect.
A warm feeling wrapped around her wrist, a soft pink glow enveloping her mothers chain and cross. A surge of power rushed through her and the first reaction she had was to make a bow and arrow. And thats what she did.
"SAKURA!" he shouted as he rushed forward only to be tackled down by a blur of yellow. He struggled against something holding his arms and legs down. Opening his eyes he was met with clear blue eyes covered by see through orange and a fox like grin.
"Sorry about all of this." The man said, "But this part is crucial."
Ichigo's eyes filled with unseen rage as he snapped and managed to get his arm free just enough to punch the man who tackled him straight in the face, "WHAT PART OF THIS IS CRUCIAL? LETTING MY SISTER DIE AT THE HANDS OF A HOLLOW? YOU SICK FUCK!"
The man rolled off him and stood up carefully holding his cheek, "Ouch that totally hurts my ego." He said as he looked at the hollow with analyzing eyes, "but anyways…" Ichigo barely heard him mutter something as his body froze and collapsed onto the floor paralyzing him, "just watch." He said as he lazily pointed in the hollows direction. Ichigo's eyes widened realizing the hollow hadn't even moved an inch since the blue eyed man had tackled him. He immediately tried breaking out his bindings with the intent to killing the hollow and hoping his little sister was still alive somehow. He'd broken out of this damn binding before, he could do it again. Just as he felt the bindings get slightly loose a large blue cross like arrow appeared from the center of the hollow and in the blink of an eye another arrow came out from the center and pierced the hollow in the back of the head and through the mask officially killing it.
The blue eyed man fixed his shades with his middle finger and gave a satisfied look as the hollow fell to pieces and disappeared forever. In the middle- with her arm stretched out holding a clear pink bow-stood Sakura with her hair blowing in her face. Turning her head to face them she smiled shyly before rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment, "um…" she shrugged, "did I mention I was the Canada National archery champion?"
The man walked over to Ichigo and let the bindings go, allowing him to get up and envelop his younger twin sister in a hug whispering, "You're ok… I'm so glad you're ok," over and over again. The bow in her hand disappeared into nothingness before she hugged him back and told him everything was alright. Once they let each other go, they walked towards a surprised Rukia who had held the mod soul in a choke hold the entire time.
"Oii, Rukia-chan!" the 3 turned their heads as the man with blue eyes ran up to them. Now having a better sight of him Ichigo noticed he had spiky blonde hair and whisker like marks on his cheeks.
"Ah, Naruto-sama!" she clapped her hands together and bowed, he sweat dropped.
"N-no need to do that, I told you I don't like it, it makes me feel old." He laughed and stuffed his hands in his pockets, "besides if you call me Naruto-sama than I am obliged to call you Rukia-sama."
She blushed and faced the mod soul struggling in the loop of her arm, "Hai ... I suspect you're here for the mod soul."
He scratched the back of his head, "yup the old man was too busy so he asked me to come and terminate the escaped mod soul."
"Terminate?" questioned Sakura. Naruto nodded, he suddenly went from goofy and care free to serious, "yes, this mod soul was part of project spearhead. That project was shut down 50 years ago and there are orders to terminate all mod souls related to that project. These one here somehow escaped and ended up in my father's care and he accidentally sold it to Rukia. And my father, who doesn't want to cause any problems with soul society, asked me to exterminate him."
"But it's a soul were talking about here, a soul, they're each their own being." Ichigo said as he pointed at the mod soul.
"Yes, and they each have their own power, this one in particular can run at high speeds and can jumpat extremely high levels."
"But that doesn't mean you have the right to kill them! They're living beings!" shouted Sakura,slightly shaking from anger. "Well..." Naruto looked up to the sky,"I can give you another option...keep him under your care..."
"We will!" said sakura happily jumping up and down. She looked up at Ichigo who only face palmed but agreed anyways. Once the man named Naruto had left and Rukia had gone ahead back home, Ichigo looked over at Sakura and sighed.
"You'd make the worst lawyer ever…" Sakura followed right behind him and jumped on his back.
"Mush!" she shouted and hit the top of his head with an open palm.
The lion nodded, "Let me tell you my story..." he sat down just as Ichigo walked in completely interrupting the stuffed toy's story telling time. On the bed across the room laid down Sakura with her arm raised, staring at the cross necklace wrapped around her wrist. After inspecting it all she could figure out was that it was a normal silver cross, nothing special about it yet this is where that strange blue bow that manifested its own arrows came from. Closing her eyes she felt a cool sensation on her forehead, "Here," Said Ichigo gently as he handed her a cool water bottle and some pain killers- after they'd gotten him she realized she had a deep on her left arm from being dragged out a shattered window- which resulted in her ad having to stitch the wound shut and involved heavy amounts of painkiller to make the searing pain go away.
Quickly sitting up and making sure she didn't move to roughly so that her stitches wouldn't come out she uncapped the water and took the medicine. Looking over at the bored looking stuffed lion she smiled, "By the way, I'm sorry we never asked but do you have a name Mr. mod soul?"
The lion waved his hand, "please, please Mr. Mod soul is my father, call me Zeus." Rukia who was sitting in the closet with the door open and a leg hanging out and swinging while she looked at something on her phone, stopped and looked at the lion, " mod souls don't have parents." She gave a smug smile. "and mod souls don't have names either." rukia chimed in.
"They don't?" asked Ichigo and looked at sakura with a shrug, "what should we name him?" the lion jumped up onto Ichigo's desk and pointed a stuffed paw at Sakura, "I already have a name, its Zeus!" of course he was ignored as Sakura and Ichigo- his new owners- got into a detailed conversation about what to name him, finally after a few minutes and giving out stupid names like "rex" did they stop and look at the stuffed animal with a final decision.
The cherry pointed at the lion, "your name is Kon." The newly named Kon gasped in shock, before quickly recovering and doing the best to form a pout, "but-but i like Zeus…" Ichigo grabbed him off his desk by his head and threw him in a random direction on his bed, "its Kon, live with it."
Sakura who was getting ready to sleep looked over, "be glad we chose Kon, I almost won the argument for naming you Mr. le pompadour poof le poof."
{edited 12/19/13}