Chapter 2: Something's Different

AN: Just To Clear Up Some Obvious Confusion From The First Chapter, There Was A Typo When I Explained How Male Souls Crossed Over. I Meant To Say They Turn Into Females Not Males. And No, None Of The Woman Are Futa's. That's A Different Story For A Different Time.

Ichigo woke up in his bed as the sunlight hit his face. He just had a pretty good nights rest for the most part and he stretched himself out. He was very relaxed until he remembered last night. Ichigo quickly got out of bed and ran downstairs only to see his family standing in the living room staring at the huge hole in the wall.

"I can't believe a truck actually hit our house last night and none of us noticed it." Yuzu said to Karin who was a little skeptical about this whole thing.

"I don't know Yuzu. I just find it hard to believe that a truck hit our house and didn't even mess up most of the inside." Karin said to her twin sister.

"Oh Masaki!" Isshin started in his usual goofy way. He ran over to the poster of his dead wife and planted himself on it. "I wasn't here to protect our precious children, and they could've been hurt!" He started crying fake tears until he saw Ichigo standing on the stairs looking at the hole. He became a little serious when he saw Ichigo. "A truck hit the house last night." He said to get his attention. "Police say it was possibly a drunk driver who didn't have much sense to stay here and at least wake someone up."

Ichigo looked over to his father and was confused beyond belief at what he was hearing. Did last night really happen to him? If none of it was real, then how come he could remember talking to that woman from his dream?

"It had to be real, right?" Ichigo kept thinking to himself as he walked on to school. It was bothering him far too much to just accept that that was all in his head somehow. Something like that can't be imagined.

Ichigo went into his classroom and passed by his friends to his seat. Keigo had tried to surprise Ichigo but merely caught a clothesline for his troubles. Ichigo walked past Orihime and waved to her when she waved at him. He saw Chad standing next to her and she had her usual look on her face as Ichigo passed her. Ichigo waved to her and Tatsuki before sitting in his chair next to the window. He looked outside and started to think about last night hard.

Unbeknownst to Ichigo though, a girl he never paid any attention to suddenly started to stare at him for no reason at all. She was wearing glasses and had short, dark blue hair. She looked as if she had seen something truly impossible as she stared at Ichigo.

Ichigo looked away from the window and noticed her staring at him, but she blushed and quickly turned away. Now Ichigo knew that what happened last night wasn't just his imagination. He had gotten that same reaction from-

"Yo Ichigo." Keigo interrupted Ichigo's thoughts.

"What's up Keigo?" Ichigo asked his friend in a somewhat irritated tone.

"We have a new student dude, and she's kind of a cutey if you ask me." Keigo whispered that last part to him and moved out of the way.

When Ichigo saw the girl, he immediately jumped out of his seat and pointed at her while stammering.

The girl in question was the same girl from last night. She stood there in a school uniform and did a little curtsy before introducing herself. "Hello there. I'm Rukia Kuchiki, your new classmate." She held her hand out to Ichigo for him to shake it. Before Ichigo could do so, he saw that her hand had writing on it.

'Say anything and you're dead.'

Ichigo felt very uncomfortable now and slowly shook her hand. "Nice to meet you, again." He said, catching Keigo's attention.

"Again?" He asked. "You met her before Ichigo?"

"Actually yes he has." Rukia said quickly. It was yesterday while he was passing by me on the street."

Keigo shrugged and walked off as the teacher came into the room. Before Ichigo could turn around, Rukia had grabbed him by the back collar of his shirt and taken him out of the room. He protested for a bit before Rukia had taken him outside and stood in front of him.

"What the hell was that all about?" He asked her in a clearly angered tone.

"First of all, shut up." Rukia said to him as she reached into her skirt pocket. "Second, there's a hollow nearby and you need to take care of her, err it."

Ichigo didn't understand what the hell she meant by that. "What are you talking about Rukia? I thought you were a soul reaper and taking out hollows was your job."

"Well it's very impossible to do that when you have all of my powers Ichigo." She started to put on a red glove with a white skull in the center of blue flames. "Now hold still. I really don't wanna screw this up." She said that last part under her breath.

Ichigo was about to say something until she rushed over and shoved the glove in his face. Ichigo fell back from her force and stood up angry only to realize something off, he was standing in front of Rukia and his body.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" He shouted as he pointed at his body in horror as it laid on the ground. "What did you do to me!?"

"Relax. All I did was take your soul out of your body." Rukia explained as she started to move his body out of eyesight from anyone who might see him. "You can get back inside it after we're done. Now lets go."

Rukia started to walk away and Ichigo had no choice but to follow her. They ran off over to a park where they saw a little boy running away from a spider-like hollow. Ichigo wasted no time in preparing to go out there and stop the hollow, until Rukia stopped him.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked in a cold tone.

Ichigo turned to her and saw the stern look on her face. "I'm gonna go and save that kid. That's why you brought me here for, right?"

"So you're just going to go in head first into an enemy you previously knew nothing about before last night." Rukia continued in a harsh tone. "And take up the mantle of a soul reaper. Bearing all the responsibilities of defending the human world from these monsters. That isn't something you merely do once then forget. It is a commitment. A job that never ends and will always be you're top priority no matter what. Are you strong enough to accept those responsibilities, Ichigo Kurosaki?"

The boy stumbled and fell to the ground. He was too frightened to get up and far too terrified to look at the hollow chasing him. Before the hollow could sink its teeth into the boy, Ichigo made a declaration by stabbing the hollow through its mask with his sword.

"Here's my answer to you Rukia." Ichigo said as he pulled out of the hollow and watched it fade away. "One thing that will never change about me is protecting people, no matter who or what they are." He turned to her with an equally as stern face that caused Rukia to blush slightly at him. "If protecting these spirits from these hollows is something I have to do, then so be it."

He walked over to the boy who was still on the ground and looking up at Ichigo in amazement. Ichigo kneeled down to him and placed the bottom of his hilt on the boys forehead. The boy suddenly felt a peaceful rush hit him as his clothes faded away and his body started to change on him.

Ichigo stood up and backed away to watch this. It would no doubt be the first of many times he would see this and know just what Rukia was talking about.

The boy's body started to change within the light as he was transformed into a girl with his similar features. Ichigo looked on at how the girl looked and noticed that she was indeed a girl. She floated away and disappeared into the sky to what Ichigo could only assume was the soul society.

"Whoa." He said to himself.

"Impressive isn't it?" Rukia asked him. He looked over to her and saw her smirking to him. "That's what happens to males. Now come on, we'll miss school if stay here."

Ichigo nodded and followed her back to school where he went back into his body. They went to class and sat in their respective seats apart from each other and all Ichigo could think about was how many souls are still out there, and how he can help them.

Urahara's Shop

"There it is again." The blond said as she was behind the counter of her store. She looked outside and could tell that the two children cleaning the place up also felt it. "Ururu, Jinta, come finish cleaning up there then head inside, okay." The blond said from behind the counter. This energy has been making her worried since last nigh, but she made sure that the two outside couldn't hear it in her voice.

"Got it." A girl with short red hair, a white shirt and blue shorts said as she went over to the other girl. "Come on Ururu, lets hurry up so we don't have to feel that ridiculous energy again."

Ururu nodded timidly and swept a little faster. She knew exactly what would happen if she felt that energy a second time.

When the two finished, it was well passed noon. They finished and ran inside to get to the training grounds so they didn't have to feel that energy for the rest of the night. The blond could breathe a little easier now, knowing that those two would be alright now. Her reprieve was interrupted when she saw her newest customer, Rukia Kuchiki, walk in to her shop. She used her fan to hide her concerned look as Rukia walked in.

"Aw, my newest customer." The blond said once she regained her composure. "To what do I owe this illustrious visit?"

"I need something to help a certain individual become detached from their soul for a short while, Urahara." Rukia said to her. She was obviously a little bit frustrated for some reason.

Urahara hadn't asked who exactly has her powers at all for the simple fact that whoever it had to be had to be someone truly dangerous to have her on edge like this. Urahara decided to chance it though. Not knowing was a lot more of a risk than actually knowing for a fact, and she needed to know.

"Before I decide to hand you anything, Ms. Kuchiki." She stood up and had a visibly serious face that made Rukia tense up a bit. "I need to know who exactly has your powers. Who is she?"

Rukia could tell that this was going to frustrate the shopkeeper to no extent and decided it be best to tell her rather than have her in the dark. With a heavy sigh and a little bit of nervousness in her body movement that Urahara noticed, Rukia answered her.

"Ichigo." Rukia said to her. "His name is Ichigo Kurosaki."

Urahara was visibly stunned by two revelations at this point. The first being that the name of this person was 'Kurosaki', as in her old friend that died Kurosaki. The second was the fact that Rukia didn't say 'her' name, she said 'his' name. That meant that-

"You mean to tell me that a boy has all of your powers!?" Urahara yelled out uncharacteristically.

Rukia jumped a bit from hearing the usually cool and calm shopkeeper raising her voice for the first time. Despite only knowing her for a short time, Rukia was a good judge of character and could tell from Urahara's body language and conversation methods that she was a very calm yet very intelligent person. To see her this way though, something about Ichigo being a male must be true shock to her.

"Yes he does." Rukia said after regaining herself. "I'm currently staying in his closet until my own powers come back to me."

Urahara went from shocked to interested. The boys power had been leaking all over the place since last night, and there was no way that others that are spiritually aware would quickly sense and find him. That just means that she has to get to him first and test just how strong he really is. Not wanting to waste any time, Urahara gave Rukia a pez dispenser and told her to go on back to the boy. Rukia agreed and left quickly before she saw a strange black cat drop down from the roof. The black cat went inside and saw Urahara's strange look. Urahara sighed before she noticed the cat.

"Yoruichi?" Urahara said in surprise as she went towards the cat. She picked him up and asked. "You're here at a strange time girl. What brings you back to my humble abode?"

Yoruichi sighed before wiggling free of her grip and hoping on her right shoulder. "I felt an incredible amount of spirit energy all the way back here from where I was. Literally more than twenty miles away too. What's goin on here Kisuke?" The cat asked in a masculine voice.

Kisuke didn't know how to answer her best friends question other than just saying it.

"That girl you saw leave, she had to give up her powers to someone so they can save their family from a hollow." Kisuke said to the cat, causing her to raise an eyebrow.

"So the girl she gave her powers to must have an intense spiritual awareness to be able to draw out that much spirit energy that even I was getting nearly crushed in my normal form from twenty miles away?" Yoruichi asked her.

"Yeah pretty much, but only one thing is wrong with that statement Yoruichi." Kisuke started, causing the cat to raise an eyebrow. "This surprised me very badly, but the one Rukia gave her powers to was a boy named Ichigo Kurosaki."

Yoruichi was shocked by what she just heard. So much so that she fell off Kisuke's shoulder and changed to her regular form. She sat there, completely nude, and stared up at her friend with a mixture of confusion, curiosity, and what Kisuke could only assume was a bit of lust.

"What does he look like? Is he ripped? Has that Rukia girl had her way with him yet, or is he the more dominant type?" She kept asking questions and kept getting more and more sensual with every one of them.

"Now now, easy there you kitty in heat." Kisuke said as she waved her arms in front of Yoruichi. "I haven't met him yet, but I am very interested in seeing just what he can do, and I'm very interested in just how he handles the soul society."

Ichigo's House, A Few Days Later

Ichigo had finally gotten home after some distractions from hollows and laid in his bed. This whole thing was a lot more frustrating than he thought it would be. A hollow would appear every once in awhile and Rukia would get him to go after it. It was repetitive to keeping killing weak hollows, but it was simple enough for him to learn how to control his own power. Especially when he would unintentionally release a large amount of his energy without knowing. He had gotten better at it, but something just didn't feel right to him. Ever since he got this power he hasn't had that dream anymore, and that woman who kept calling him 'weak' wasn't there anymore. Maybe he had finally shut her up, or maybe there was another reason that he just didn't know about.

The next day went by as usual for the orange haired teen. At leas until he went into his classroom and saw a message on his desk.

'Meet me here after school. Be prepared to fight.'

The note had an address that Ichigo knew of and knew that this was going to be a ridiculous handful. He looked around to all the girls in the room to see which could be a possible enemy that wants him dead. He knew that it couldn't be Orihime or Chad, those two couldn't harm him even if they wanted to. Tatsuki is his best friend, so there's no way she would want him dead. Chizuru doesn't seem likely to either. So all that left was the only other girl in the room that wasn't Rukia. That Uryu Ishida girl. So if she was the one that left the note, then what exactly can she do.

After school, Ichigo had told Rukia about what was on his desk earlier. She didn't know what to think of it at all, so she basically told him to be very careful when he faces her. Ichigo took the pill and ejected from his body. Kon had been in Ichigo's body before and had already been basically forced to not do anything in his body. She was very adamant at first, but then Ichigo basically gave her to Yuzu in that plushy and she calmed down fast.

Ichigo went to the set address and looked around for a little while before hearing a rustling behind him. He turned and had to avoid a blue arrow that came flying at a high speed. He barely dodged and quickly drew his blade o face his attacker. He watched as Uryu Ishida came out of the bushes holding a large blue bow made out of spirit energy. He was amazed at what he was seeing, and would have to ask Rukia just what the hell she was.

"Ichigo Kurosaki." Uryu started as she lowered her bow slightly. "A boy with spiritual powers. Interesting indeed. I'm going to enjoy seeing just what you are." She pulled out a small blue pouch from her pocket and cracked it. Suddenly, a mass of hollows appeared within the world of living and surrounded them both.

"What the hell did you do, Uryu!?" Ichigo yelled at her as they stood back to back.

"I want to see you in action right now Ichigo." She started as she raised her bow. "Think of this as a competition, and you're opponent, is me."

Ichigo smirked at her words and rushed into the horde of hollows.

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Anyway, I'm Gonna Have The Story Move Along A Little More In The Next Chapter. Just To Clear Up A Few Issues:

The Females Aren't Futa's.

And I Was Asked If Isshin Was A Quincy. Short Answer

No, He Isn't. I'll Explain Later Down The Line.

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