Chapter 7: Not An Enemy

The Next Morning

Ichigo had woken up and felt a familiar weight on his chest like always. He looked down to see Neliel asleep on his chest and watched as she snored on him. Ichigo smiled down at her and lifted her head up off of him quickly before setting it down on his old bed.

After last night, Ichigo found out that his room was relatively untouched and kept clean with a shrine on a desk in his memory. Masaki took down the shrine and had a smile on her face the entire time while doing so.

After he placed Neliel's head down on the bed, he looked around to see most of his friends there. Since they were all used to sleeping on hard surfaces, the wooden floor was really nothing to them. Ichigo looked around and couldn't find either Wonderweiss or Hooleer anywhere. After he noticed they weren't there, Ichigo carefully maneuvered his way to the door without waking anyone and made his way out the door. He walked downstairs to see that it was still very early in the morning and the TV was on. On the couch sat Wonderweiss with Hooleer laying across his lap. They were watching the weather channel and were very interested in the news.

"Um, guys." Ichigo said as he approached them quietly.

They turned to him and pointed at the TV. "I didn't know humans could fit in such small places." Wonderweiss said with a smile on his face.

Ichigo chuckled under his breath and grabbed the remote. "That's not it dude." He changed the channel to his old favorite channel about cartoon dinosaurs. Wonderweiss and Hooleer were in complete shock at what they were seeing and couldn't believe what this was. "All you have to do is press this button and you can change the channel to anything you want." Ichigo explained as he handed Hooleer the remote.

She pressed the button and they both were ecstatic when more humans came on the screen swinging a stick at a ball in a large diamond.

"So how long were you guys up?" Ichigo asked as he was getting ready to head to the kitchen.

"We never really slept." Wonderweiss started. "We never sleep actually."

"Well that's not depressing at all." Ichigo said sarcastically from the kitchen as he went to the fridge and took out the carton of milk. He placed it on the counter along with a bowl and a box of cereal.

Before he could even open the box, Yuzu came down, wiping sleep from her eyes. She saw Ichigo in the kitchen and had a smile on her face as she approached.

"Good morning Ichigo." She said with a smile.

"Morning Yuzu." Ichigo said as he opened the box.

Before he could pour it, Yuzu grabbed the box and poured it into the bowl for him, along with the milk. Ichigo appreciated what she was doing, but knew that she was doing this to make him more comfortable. It was a kind gesture that made him smile at her.

"So Yuzu." Ichigo started as he sat at the counter with his bowl in front of him. Yuzu looked over to him as she was putting an apron on. "How is everyone ever since-" He dropped his smile and put on a more serious look at the memory. "Since I died?"

The question made Yuzu pale up. She didn't want to relive those terrible memories, but she wanted to put her older brothers mind at ease and explain.

"Well, we were all very broken up about the whole thing when it happened." Yuzu started. "Especially mom. She always kept saying that it was all her fault you died. Even though we all knew that wasn't true and there was nothing she could've done without her powers, she still blamed herself." Yuzu sighed at the memory of her mother sobbing day in and day out at the time before continuing. "I remember Tatsuki being at the funeral along with some of mom's old family members. They were pretty sad about the whole thing too, but they eventually moved on."

"Tatsuki?" Ichigo started as he remembered his best friend. "I really wish I could go to her and apologize for making her cry."

Yuzu smiled at him and started to get things ready to cook. While she did that, Karin came down along with Masaki. They both took one look at Ichigo eating cereal and sighed in relief. They were a little paranoid about him eventually having a craving for souls. Since he was a hollow, Masaki had to be the most careful around him and his friends since hollow blood was like poison to a Quincy. Yuzu and Karin didn't have to worry so much since they were also part soul reaper.

"Good morning Ichigo." Karin said as she walked up behind her brother and patted him on the head, ruffling up his hair.

"Morning Karin. Morning mom." Ichigo said to them both.

"Good morning my little Ichigo." Masaki said as she hugged him from behind.

Ichigo fell into the hug then felt her release him. They went about the morning normally and everything was going smoothly until the others came down. The five female hollows made Masaki very cautious considering the fact that they were always around Ichigo and even slept in the same room as him. She didn't want any of them to take advantage of her boy, despite the fact that he felt far more powerful than any of them right now.

They were about to approach Ichigo when Masaki stepped in their way. Out of everyone there, Halibel and Neliel were locked in a heated stare down with Masaki. The three didn't break eye contact for several seconds and an almost visibly dark aura could be seen from the three.

"Uh, what's goin on right now?" Ichigo asked in a confused tone and looking at the three.

"Oh nothing Ichigo." Masaki said as she looked back to him with a warm motherly look to her face.

"Yes. Nothing at all." Halibel said as she smirked at the boy.

Ichigo shrugged it off and went back to eating his cereal. For a few hours the group stayed inside, talking amongst themselves until they got a phone call from Kisuke. He told them to head over to the shop right now and it sounded very urgent. Wasting no time, Masaki, Yuzu and Karin went straight over to the shop. Before they left, Masaki told Ichigo to stay here along with the other hollows. Reluctantly, Ichigo agreed to this and stayed.

The three made their way over to the shop and felt very familiar spirit energies inside. When they touched down, they were immediately in the middle of multiple stealth force soul reapers at the ready.

"Okay then." Karin started while summoning her bow. "Guess this is their way of taking care of us."

"What's going on?" Masaki asked, hoping that one of these reapers would answer her.

"Simple Masaki Kurosaki." A female voice said from behind the stealth force. She stepped over and the men made a path for the stealth commander, Soi-Fon. "We received an anonymous tip that you were housing powerful hollows in your home. I was assigned to bring you three in."

Masaki deadpanned the captain and gave a very serious look that both her daughters had seen only twice before. She was going to do something pretty dangerous now, and they had better get out of the way of it.

"What about the hollows?" Masaki asked with an almost different tone to her voice.

Soi-Fon smirked at her and answered in an even colder tone. "Eliminate every last one of them of course."

Masaki instantly fired an arrow at Soi-Fon, but missed by mere inches as the captain dodged it at the last minute. Soi-Fon looked to the woman and noticed the death glare coming from her. This woman had changed gears fast and it was very apparent that Soi-Fon might've hit a nerve she shouldn't have hit.

"You had better kill me captain." Masaki started in a dark tone. "Because that is what it'll take to even get within eye sight of my son."

Woo Boy. I've Come Back From The Dead. Geez Thanksgiving Prep Gets Very Annoying Sometimes. Sorry For Not Posting, But Been Doin That And Writing Newer Bleach Stories That I'll Put Onto My Profile So Ya'll Can Read A Brief Summary Of Them. Hope Ya'll Like Multiple Ichigo's Cause That's Basically One Of Them While The Other Has Him Having A Twin Sister. Literally Came Up With These A Few Days Ago.

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The Next Chapter Will Have A Bit Of A Showdown Spree If I Might Say. Soi-Fon Vs. Masaki, Karin And Yuzu Vs. The Stealth Force, And Possibly A Fight Between Ichigo And Soi-Fon. Just Might Happen. You Never Know. For Disclosure, I Don't Know Too Much On What All Masaki Can Do, So Imma Just Wing It And Make It Work Like I Always Do.

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