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Recap: Ichigo narrowed his eyes. "What are you doing here?" he questioned. 'What's his name again?'

"His name is Ginjo Kugo, Ichigo," replied Muramasa.

'Thank you.' Ichigo returned his focus back onto Ginjo.

Ginjo smiled, but there was something off about it. "Well, you took off so quickly that I didn't get the chance to ask you what I wanted to. You see, I was hoping you could help me with something."

"Don't just make him stand there! Let him in!" Ichigo's new boss ordered him.

Ichigo made a face that clearly stated that he didn't want to, but he didn't have much choice. So he let Ginjo into the shop and sat on the couch.

Ikumi walked up to them and asked, "Do you have a job for us?"

"I was wondering if you know where I could find this guy I'm looking for. His name is Ichigo Kurosaki," said Ginjo.

Ikumi opened her mouth to tell Ginjo that Ichigo was sitting right in front of him, but Ichigo stopped her. "Hold on, why are you looking for him?" Ichigo asked him. He was suspicious as to why someone was looking for him.

"I feel he could help me with something for a new friend of mine."

Ichigo didn't say anything for a few beats. He wondered if he should tell Ginjo that he already found who he was looking for or not.

"He would find out eventually, Ichigo. I think it would be best to just let him know now, but I wouldn't trust him quite yet. There is something off about him," said Zangetsu.

'I have to agree,' replied Ichigo. "Well you're looking at him."

"Oh good, I thought that I would be looking forever for you. You see I've been looking for you for a whole week now. My new friend only said your name. He didn't say what you looked like," said Ginjo with a sheepish grin.

"Who is this friend of yours, and what do you want?" asked Ichigo.

Ginjo then pulled out a card from his coat pocket. "I was wondering if you could help train him. That is why he came to us, but there is something else that I and my others friends would like your help with." Ginjo handed Ichigo the card. Ichigo looked down at it to see the word 'Xcution' printed on it and a phone number. "If you agree to help, just call that number," Ginjo finished saying.

"Who is this friend of yours?" asked Ichigo.

"You would know him. His name is Sado, but he said you call him Chad," replied Ginjo.

Ichigo was surprised at that. "Why would Chad go to you for training?"

"He is just like me and my friends. If you wish to know more, then agree to help us train him."

"Why do you need my help training him? Chad is pretty strong already."

"I thought that if I had you help out – someone he knows – then his progress would be faster." Ginjo stood up from the couch and dusted nonexistence dust from his pants. "I have to go now. I'll see you around, Ichigo Kurosaki." Ginjo left through the door of the Unagiya Shop with a glance behind his shoulder. He had a look of knowing. Ichigo believes the man thinks he is just going to call him without thinking it through or something.

'Well I am going to think this through. It is possible that Chad is not even with them,' thought Ichigo as he too got up from the couch.

He turned to Ikumi. "Where is the rest of my list of odd jobs?" he asked her.

"Oh, there right here." She handed him the five remaining pieces of paper.

"Thank you." Ichigo took the paper and walked out the door.


Ichigo did all but one of his odd jobs, but that was because he knew that the last one could take a while. He went to a store to buy a giant magnet with rope and gloves. He also bought a bucket in case he picks up anything else that isn't the bike he's looking for. As he walked out of the store he continued on toward the river.

He checked the job request to see where it is the bike fell in and when. The bike fell into the river a week ago, and there was a storm five days ago, which meant that the bike may have gone downstream. Ichigo put down his bucket and got to work on finding the bike.

Within the four hours of searching for the bike, Ichigo found nails, cans, tools, other bikes, but none were the one he was looking, and magnetic rocks. When Ichigo pulled out his first bike he thought he found it, but when he looked down at the picture of the bike he's looking for and saw that the color and brand of the bike were not the same he felt disappointed. So now after four hours had gone by, Ichigo felt the magnet cling to something heavy.

'This better be the bike this time,' he thought annoyed as he began to pull whatever his magnet found up out of the water.

"Hey King, I sense a hollow nearby," said Shiro within Ichigo's inner world.

'Then go deal with it,' said Ichigo as he finished pulling out a bike that matches with the one in the picture. "Finally I found it!" Ichigo cheered joyfully, but after the words had left his mouth a loud crash was heard from behind.

"I was trying to say that the hollow was going to show up any second, so I didn't see a point in it. Besides, I think you need to kill something anyway. It was starting to get a little cloudy in here."

'I have to agree,' said Kikoo. Ichigo couldn't see it, but he felt Zangetsu and Muramasa nod their heads in agreement too.

Ichigo sighed, "Find I'll kill this one." He turned to the hollow that was chasing after the soul of a teenage girl and pressed the combat pass to his chest so he could jump out of his body. Ichigo jumped into the air with Shiro Zangetsu and slashed down from behind the hollow, cutting it cleanly in half.

After killing the hollow, Ichigo walked up to the girl spirit. "You okay?" he asked in concern.

The teenage girl gave Ichigo a dirty look. "No, I'm not okay! I'm dead; I died with a broken nail, and have been chased by monsters for the past hour!"

"King, I'm sorry about this," Shiro said as he took possession of Ichigo's body and immediately hit the butt end of his zanpakuto onto the girl's forehead to shut her up. Once the spirit was gone, Shiro allowed Ichigo to regain control.

'Your apology is accepted, Shiro. That girl was ungrateful,' said Ichigo. Ichigo returned to his body and grabbed the bike, magnet, and bucket, and made his way back to Unagiya Shop. 'I'll come back for the other bikes later.'

Once he got there, he dried the bike up and chained it to the bike post. After these tasks were done, Ichigo went in and handed Ikumi his finished jobs and told her that the bike was outside waiting for its owner now. With everything done and getting the bikes from the river, Ichigo heads on back home to shower and get ready for school tomorrow.

TBC


This is a very short chapter. :( Oh well, at least we're getting somewhere with this story.

Shiro: I was hardly in this chapter. :(

Ichi: There was hardly anything in this chapter, so stop complaining, Shiro. -_-

Enj/Dark: Ichigo is right. This week was a lazy one for me. Hopefully chapter 8 will be longer.

Shiro: Don't you mean chapter 7?

Enj/Dark: I know Ch.7 is going to be long, so no, I meant what I said.

Ichi: That is because the fullbring arc is getting a remake whereas the substitute shinigami arc is pretty much the same.

Enj/Dark: What Ichigo said! Now Shiro, it's your turn.

Shiro: Please review! XD