Chapter 2: A Problem

As Vas and G were conversing about the recent hollow increase and the soul reaper, Ichigo was in his room asleep. He laid there on his bed, sprawled out on the sheets in a deep sleep. His thoughts went to why he was always feared by spirits for his whole life. It made no sense to him, considering the fact that he had never met any of these people before. So if that was the case, then why are they so terrified of him?

That thought swam around in his head for a while before he started to get one of his usual headaches. Ever since he could remember he would always get at least three headaches within a week, and he would always feel very light headed during the the ordeal. He reached over to his desk and pulled out a bottle of white pills. He popped the top and took out two before swallowing them whole. After a few brief moments, the headache was gone.

Ichigo stretched a little bit on his bed before standing up and going to his closet to change. He put on a plain purple shirt and gray shorts to get comfortable then headed back downstairs where he heard the familiar voice of his other older brother.

"Yo. What's up Vas?" Ichigo said as he came down the stairs.

Both Vas and G stopped their low conversation and Vas greeted his younger brother with a smirk. "Sup little bro. How was school?"

"It was alright. Nothing really eventful happened aside from beating up some punks before I came back home." Ichigo said to him.

Vas smirked at Ichigo's easy going talk of beating some guys up. It made him proud that the fighting styles that both he and Rei taught him came in handy many times.

"Nice work." Vas said as he held out his fist to Ichigo. Ichigo in turn, smirked and fist bumped his older brother.

"You feelin any better Ichi?" G asked him in an almost motherly way.

Ichigo went over to a cabinet in the kitchen to pull out a glass before answering. "Yeah I'm okay. Took my medicine a little while ago and just thirsty as per usual." Ichigo went over to the sink and poured some water in the glass before drinking from it.

"Well dinner will be ready in a bit, so you can just chill down here if you like." G said to him.

Ichigo gave him a thumbs up before heading to the dining table. As soon as he sat down, the front door flung open to reveal both Shiro and Rei stepping in and having a pretty loud conversation.

"For the last time Rei!" Shiro started in a drunken tone as he looked Rei straight in the eyes, his piercings dangling from his lip, nose and ear. "If any of those dudes showed up at your office, I'll kick their ass! I'll kick anyone's ass! I'LL KICK MY OWN ASS!" Shiro said as he stumbled through the hallway with Rei next to him.

"Yeah!?" Rei started as he draped an arm over his younger brother. His black hair sprawled out of its usual ponytail. "And I'll be sure to record all of it and post it on the Internet!"

"Hey guys." Ichigo said to his two brothers and waved to them. Seeing his oldest and close to oldest brother come home drunk was always a fun pass time for Ichigo. To see them this way was hilarious but paled in comparison if Vas had joined them as well.

Both Shiro and Rei looked to their youngest brother and smiled brightly before waving to him in a rather comical way. Vas had also enjoyed watching his older brother and one of his younger brothers drunken antics as well, but G was a different story. Since he was the more motherly one to Ichigo, he would always get pissed off beyond belief when either of these two came home drunk like this. He didn't want Ichigo to develop something like his two brothers had. After some very aggressive and comical yelling from G, both Shiro and Rei were forced to sleep their drunkenness off while the others had dinner.

After Vas, Ichigo and G finished their dinner, Ichigo decided to call it a night since he was tired all of a sudden. He went into his room and promptly passed out on his bed. Vas looked to G with a slightly confused look to his face as G held up a bottle of sleeping pills and part of an herb to force Ichigo to sleep without his dormant energy coming out in some way. Vas nodded and went up to check on their youngest brother to make sure he was asleep and stable. When he opened the door, he felt no energy coming off of Ichigo and he closed the door to let him sleep. At that moment, both Rei and Shiro came out of their rooms completely fine but with slight headaches now.

"You guys good?" Vas asked them quietly as they made their way back to the kitchen.

He received nods from them both and they were now back in the kitchen where G was warming up their plates now. He handed them to the two when they sat at the counter.

"So have you guys felt the soul reaper and the growing hollow presence in town?" Rei asked as he ate.

"Yeah." Vas answered in a seldom tone.

G merely nodded as he continued to clean the dishes.

"Well what are we gonna do about this?" Shiro asked as he started to continue stuffing his mouth with rice.

"For now, we can't really do much." Rei started as he got his brothers' attention. "Any one of those hollows will draw too much attention to us and especially Ichigo. We need to make sure that none of them get close to Ichigo and that that soul reaper can't detect his dormant energy." Rei looked to G who had joined them from across the counter. "Make sure that Ichigo keeps taking the herbs to keep those dormant powers dormant G." He received a nod. "Shiro, make sure to get Ichigo back home until this whole thing with the increased hollows dies down." Shiro nodded to him. "Vas and I will make sure to get the soul reaper and the hollows away from the house, the school, and Ichigo's usual route to and from the school. Everyone's gonna have to keep a very low profile. We've lived this long without being being too overly cautious, now we need to be for Ichigo's sake. Understood?"

All three nodded to Rei since he knew exactly what he was talking about. They weren't going to let anyone, hollow or especially a soul reaper, hurt or even touch their little brother.

Two Days Later

Ichigo was walking down his usual route to school and was actually feeling pretty relaxed today. He didn't feel any sort of headaches or saw any spirits to help out so that was a plus in his book. As much as he liked helping the spirits find peace, the looks they give him had always confused the teen as to why they were afraid of him. Ichigo didn't know them. He didn't know any of them, so why were they always afraid of him just for trying to help them find peace?

As Ichigo walked along the street and stopped at a crosswalk, he couldn't help but feel a sense of foreboding as he stood there. Like something was going to happen that would give him the answer that he so desperately wanted to know. Almost as if on cue, a loud explosion happened across the street that caught his completer attention. He watched as he saw some kind of creature emerge from the dust and roar out into the sky. No one else had seemed to notice the large monster as it started looking around for something, and that was when Ichigo saw that girl from before running away from the monster and down an alleyway. The monster saw her running that way and started to chase her.

"What the hell?" Ichigo said to himself before taking off to follow them both. He had no idea what was going on, but he knew he had to help that girl.

As Ichigo ran down the alleyway, he saw that the monster had the girl cornered and she looked terrified as she screamed out in terror.

"PLEASE, SOMEONE SAVE ME!"

"Nobody is comin to save you girl." The monster said to her in a distorted voice. "You're mine now."

Ichigo had no idea what came over him, but he just had to do something. He couldn't just stand there and watch this girl die. Against his better judgment, he ran towards the monster after hi picked up a long pipe and hit it across the monster's head with all his might. The pole bent, but the monster was unfazed by this. It turned around just as Ichigo was landing and its glowing eyes went wide.

"Oh my." It started as it grabbed Ichigo from out of the air and held him tightly. "I can smell it off of you. The power, the tremendous spirit energy."

Ichigo didn't know what this thing was talking about, but he knew one thing for certain, he couldn't breathe. This monster was squeezing the very life out of him.

"With you, I can finally become an arrancar and destroy the soul society." It opened its large mouth and was about to eat Ichigo until suddenly a girl in a black outfit suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

She landed onto the monsters hand much to its surprise and went for a slash with some sword she had attached to her hip. The monster dropped Ichigo quickly and jumped away from her before she could kill it. She scowled at the monster as she landed on the ground and watched as the monster jumped away from them. She was about to follow it when she noticed the girl and went to her quickly. She placed the bottom hilt of her sword onto the girls forehead and the girl disappeared in a bright light and went into the sky.

"Whoa." Ichigo said out loud as he started to stand up only for the girl to point her blade towards his face. "Whoa! Hey what's your problem you midget!?" Ichigo yelled out to her as he jumped back.

"You're not a human are you?" She asked him as she continued to aim her blade to the confused teen.

"What are you talking about?" Ichigo asked her as he had no idea what she was talking about. "What do you mean not human?"

"I mean just that!" She yelled out to him in frustration, causing him to jump slightly at her raised voice. "I don't know what you are, but I'm pretty sure that I should take you back with me and send someone else to deal with these hollows." She said as she went closer to the confused and now cautious teenager.

"Lady, I don't know what you're talking about, but none of my brothers are gonna let you do a damn thing to me." Ichigo said to her with a hint of anger in his voice at the girls threat.

"Brothers you say? Hmph. Like I'm worried about that. Now then." She raised one of her free hand. "Bakudo # 1: Sai!" Suddenly, Ichigo's hands were just tied behind his back and he fell to the ground.

"W-W-What the h-hell did you do to m-me?" Ichigo strained to say.

"Shut up hollow." The girl said as she held her sword out and turned it 90 degrees to reveal some kind of doors that opened to her. She grabbed Ichigo by his back collar and started to drag him much to the teens dismay. As she dragged him, his bag fell off and landed back on the ground before the doors closed, cutting it clean in half. Ichigo saw that and immediately struggled to the dismay of the girl. "Enough struggling or I will be forced to hurt you further. Oh please give me a reason boy." She said in a cold and stoic tone that made Ichigo stop when he saw her hand reach for her sword again.

The girl had dragged him to the end of this strange tunnel and into a light that blinded him for a bit. When his eyes adjusted, he saw the weird, old Japanese style city of sorts. He had no idea what was going on, but one thing was for sure when he saw a few people in white coats walk up to him, this wasn't going to end well for the teen.

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