"Ugh," I let out a small whimper as I massaged my head.
"Are you sure you're fit to go to school Orihime?" Tatsuki walked next to me.
"Of course I am! School is super important to any young woman!" I yelled out doing a tiny fist pump, which made Tatsuki let out a small giggle.
"Why should I even ask? You never miss a single day of school," Tatsuki shook her head
"Of course not! If I miss a day, who knows what will happen to my grade, if they slip too much then my aunt will stop paying for my bills, then I'll be on the street and who knows what will happen!" I yell out waving my arms about with a wide smile and a small giggle.
"Sheesh, you know Orihime I don't understand how you can treat such macabre things with a joyous outlook,"
I scrunched up my eyebrows a tad confused about what she meant, that's just the way things are, and best to look at things as positively as possible than wade in negativity.
"Ugh," I let out another whine as my head started to hurt again and with it a strange feeling of…wrongness…I am not sure why…but something just felt wrong.
"Orihime, you can stay home if you're really not feeling well, I don't mind you copying me, if that eases you," Tatsuki patted my back.
"It's fine, I promise you!" I gave her a big smile as we continued.
Classes were relatively normal, Ichi-that's notIchigo and Rukia walked outside together during break.
"Tch, that no good…doesn't she know Ichigo is mine?" Chizuru mumbled as she cracked her wrist staring at the parting figures
'but…why would Chizuru say that about Ichigo? He is a man…wait…what? Why…did I think that…Ichigo is a girl…right?…but why is something within me telling me that's wrong?' Once again the headaches came back with full force.
"You too?" Chad asked, looking down at me.
"Huh?" I say as I look up seeing the gentle giant.
"You're getting headaches too?" He clarified.
"Yeah…it must be a seasonal bug or something hehe," I say with a soft giggle.
"Something isn't adding up isn't it?"
My eyes widened "Wh-What do you mean?" I let out before thinking.
"That isn't-" before Chad could continue the window a few desks from me opened up, and with it Ichigo?Was standing on the sill hi-her school outfit was oddly seemingly put on half-hazardously buttons weren't lined up as they were supposed to and even a few were not even being buttoned.
"Tch, it's nice and all to cope a few feels, but getting some action and stretchen' my legs is also pretty good," Ichigo said with a smile, as she jumped into the class he started to rub the back of her head.
"Hmm now, girl on girl? Or something else…eh I don't enjoy the thought of it but it would certainly be interesting," Ichigo said looking between each student before his eyes landed on me.
Before I could even blink she jumped in front of me and grabbed my hand.
"Wha-Wha!?" I stuttered out, as I could feel my face heat up before a thought flashed in my mind but was quickly smothered.
'Why is my heart beating faster?'
"Hey! That's my defining trait!" Chizuru yelled coming between me and Ichigo.
"Hmm, I know some people enjoy, flat but personally not my type," Ichigo said, rubbing the back of his head.
Chizuru's eyes widened and it almost felt like a volcano was erupting in front of me, as the loud noise of teeth scratching against each other echoed through the class.
"Though I agree, on your perspective larger is typically better, but you must also find art within the under-appreciative!" Chizuru yelled before finally letting loose and attacking Ichigo, who quickly dodged.
Moving her head, Ichigo looked behind Chizuru towards the rest and his view landed on Tatsuki.
"Hmm, as I move around my body more and more, I sorta understand that stance, and seeing some of these cuties, you are persuading me, my fellow connoisseur,"
BOOM
The school started to shake back and forth before a…a…blurry sort of figure stood in front ofthe fake Ichigo.
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"Tch I knew I shouldn't have trusted you!" Ichigo yelled, taking steps that sometimes he needed to redo as his hoof slid away from his squared position.
"Oh, you're back huh, well, maybe it's time to do my original purpose?" The mod soul said with a cocky smile as he dashed in close and did a low kick towards Ichigo's legs, Ichigo quickly hopped out of the way nearly hitting his head off the ceiling, then landed on some nearby desk crushing underneath him.
Ichigo reared back before launching himself towards the mod soul, his fist out which landed making the mod soul's mucus come gushing out of his mouth as he went flying into the air before hitting a wall leaving a large dent.
Ichigo readied up for a second attack, but the mod soul quickly broke out of his stupor and dodged the attack, before his eyes started to scan the area before they landed on the window he came out of earlier.
Running towards her they were prepared to jump out when Rukia jumped up landing on the window sill.
"Now you're fucked!" Ichigo yelled, landing another hit on his face which made the mod soul yell out but stayed his ground.
"I don't know about that!" The faker yelled before suddenly rushing to one of the other windows and breaking the glass falling onto the earthy ground then starting to run at unprecedented speeds.
"Dammit, he got away!" Ichigo stated the obvious as he grabbed Rukia by her outfit and jumped down.
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Sweat dripped down my forehead bathing my complexion in a thin layer of perspiration.
…it was strange just a few hours ago they were ready to tear each other's throats out…but now they stood together…
"My, My it seems our work is cut out for us," a deep gravelly voice came behind the duo, and before either could react the mod soul flew out of Ichigo's body, before being picked up by a sandy-haired man with a rough goatee.
That wasn't what Ichigo was focusing on, no it was something much more primal, something he learned after training with Uryu and getting his ability to sense spiritual pressure better.
DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER
His…hollowness also became more adept at sensing…prey, allies "territory" and…DANGER DANGER DANGER
Being near this…thing was making every sense within Ichigo to shake and cower, through nothing but his presence alone.
Whatever this being was, his hollowness really didn't fucking trust.
It took a while to realize Rukia was here too…and she put something in his hand? It was so hard to move his eyes anywhere but the being in front of him.
"I would make sure Mr.Kurosaki is okay after I leave," The mysterious being said with a smirk before walking away.
A few seconds later Ichigo shook his head trying to get it out of his head.
"Hey, Ichigo! Are you there!" Rukia yelled before resorting to kicking his leg which resulted in the opposite making her tend to her injured foot.
"Y-Yeah sorry, let's start walking home,"
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"So…what are we supposed to do with this thing?" Ichigo asked, holding the green marble in between his fingers.
"Well if you can find a body, we can put it into something," Rukia answered.
"Tch, like hell we'd be able to hide that anywhere,"
"True," Rukia nodded.
"Huh…I wonder if this would work?" Ichigo asked, pulling a stuffed lion toy out of a nearby garbage heap.
"I mean…it might,"
Ichigo taking that as an okay popped the green pill right into the toy's mouth…and…nothing.
"What a waste, but maybe it's best he might try groping both of us in our sleep," Ichigo muttered
For a moment both of them heard a soft squeak but simply put it in the back of their head.
"At least Yuzu might enjoy it as a gift," Ichigo said with a shrug before continuing to walk home.
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'June 15th…with all of this shit going around…I nearly forgot that it was so close…I wonder if you'd recognize me…would you be terrified? Call me the monster I am…I don't think I am the one who protects anymore…' Ichigo thought his face turned down into a frown as he looked at the clock next to his piles of books, and the plushy that he would give to Yuzu in the morning.
"Rukia, I am taking a break tomorrow," He declared with a tone that made sure that it wasn't up to debate.
"You can't just declare a break whenever you want, this town needs you!" Rukia yelled out.
"It's got Uryu, I'll make sure to work double hard next week to try and not cause some issues,' Ichigo stated as he undressed before landing flat on the bed, then turned his face up.
"Y-You can't just do that!"
A/N: a bit of a shorter chapter, I couldn't really do much, as I feel like most of this interaction would just be copy pasted from the original, and in my opinion the first arc is pretty dog shit, I am hoping whenever we get a bit further in (Soul Society) that we get into more interesting things...which mentioning that, I don't think I ever asked you guys what do you think his powerset will be when he finishes the Soul Society arc, as obviously he lacks a zanpakuto, so no Shikai or Bankai (definitely not trying to see if you guys have better ideas then me...)