Chapter 20: Problems

It had been two weeks since that wild night on the hill with all of those ladies, and Ichigo was having the time of his life. When he wasn't going to school or fighting hollows, he would get visits from various people he had met beforehand. Girls like Rukia who dropped by and stayed over at his house often, Renka who would stay with Rukia, and even Kenpachi, who would always come at the weirdest of times, would come visit him. One time, Kenpachi showed up when Ichigo was in class in her soul reaper form. Only Kon, Uryu, Orihime and Chad saw her while Tatsuki felt that something was in the room that shouldn't have been there. Hell, Kenpachi even gave him a blowjob during class one time. Only those four saw and heard everything as mass of nosebleeds and blushes were felt that day.

For Ichigo, he enjoyed his time with them all. Both sensually, sex, and intimately, spending time with them. Ichigo wouldn't take advantage of any of them at all. He may have no prudish barrier, but that didn't make him an asshole with any of his ladies. He treated them all equally, which really surprised them all to say the least.

Right now Ichigo was on his way to see just how Aqua and the other Fullbringers were doing. From what he could gather from seeing the girl since last time when he saved her from Hueco Mundo, she would need to be bedridden for a few weeks and properly treated. He thanked whoever was watching him from high above that his father actually taught him some medical skills back then. As he was walking toward the apartment, he felt like he was being watched. Not by soul reapers or his friends, but just someone or something else. He didn't look around as to alert his pursuer, but he did try and feel whose spirit energy it was as he walked on. He had no luck with that as he reached the building. He decided to leave the question of who's following him in the air until after he checks on Aqua.

Ichigo went up the stairs and soon reached the door of Xcution. He knocked in a joking pattern, hearing commotion behind the door. After a few minutes, the door cracked open and the familiar voice of Yukiko asked in a rather harsh tone.

"Don't know who you are and quite frankly I don't care." She started through the opening. "Get the hell out of here before there is trouble."

"Wow." Ichigo started while scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "And I came all this way here just to see you lovely ladies. Oh well. Guess I'll just leave then."

Before Ichigo could take a step, the door closed hard and he heard a lot of fidgeting with the locks on the door before it opened. He was greeted by both Yukiko and Kiku who was panting because of her rush to open the door. Ichigo stood there with his arms crossed and a smile on his face that was melting Yukiko's heart and making Kiku blush.

"I-Ichigo." Kiku started after regaining her composure to an extent. "What are you - what are you doing here?" She stammered out.

"Well, I just came to check on Aqua and see how she was doing since coming back." Ichigo answered her.

"Oh yeah." Kiku started before moving out of the way. "Come in. We've been treating her ever since you brought her back."

Ichigo went in and followed both girls inside. It came as no surprise when he saw the others, minus Shizuko, look straight at him with both joy and of coarse lust. Though the lust was mainly coming off of Jackie, Moe and Gen.

"Hey ladies." Ichigo waved to them and was greeted in kind.

"Hi Ichigo." They all said to him in different tones of want.

"So, how's Aqua?" He asked them.

"She's doing better now all things considered." Jackie answered him.

"It was rough the first few days." Kiku started to him as she lead Ichigo to a door to the back. "But, she's tough. She'll make a full recovery in a few more weeks."

Kiku opened the door and Ichigo was greeted by a sight that was genuinely a surprise to him. Sitting up from the bed was none other than Aqua wearing nothing but a teal tank top that was doing very little to cover her large bust. Her hair was cut so now it was only to her shoulder, her skin wasn't as pale anymore, she had some muscle and fat to her now, and she was currently being hand fed by none other than the last person Ichigo thought he'd see here. Chad. She was feeding Aqua soup while Shizuko was sitting in a chair near the opposite side of the bed. All three girls looked up to see a surprised Ichigo looking more precisely at Chad.

"Hey Chad." Ichigo spoke in a surprised tone.

"H-hey, I-Ichigo." She stuttered out and gave a weak wave. to him.

There was an awkward silence for a few minutes as everyone just stopped what they were doing for now.

Aqua, not having the patience for this type of thing, spoke up first. "Well, this is fuckin awkward isn't it?"

Seireitei

Right now, Sorako was setting her plans in action. She would need to get the Hogyoku fast and then get out along with her cohorts. Everything was perfectly timed and set so that there was little room for error. She knew where the Hogyoku was located at, or more precisely, who. Unfortunately, with the central 46 dead and an investigation going on right now, the window for her to leave was getting smaller and smaller by the day. It was now or never for her and her plans to replace the Soul King, and she was going for now. The stage was set, now it was time for her to play her part.

It took some time to get people in place without her blowing her 'peaceful captain' cover, but soon enough, she was able to get Rukia to come to her using her zanpakuto. She brought Rukia to a secluded part of the soul society, away from Seireitei, and was met by both Gina and Kaname waiting for her. Both were ready to bolt once Sorako extracted the Hogyoku from Rukia.

"Ready?" Sorako asked her fellow traitorous captains.

"Ready Lady Aizen." Kaname answered in her usual tone.

"Ready Cap'n Ai-Zen." Gina spoke in a teasing like manner that got under Sorako's skin a little and caused her to blush a bit.

Without waiting any longer, Sorako did the necessary kido to extract the object of her conquest. A large amount of spirit energy was released from this technique and it alerted everyone back in the Seireitei. Sorako's right hand changed and she drove it right through Rukia's chest to retrieve the Hogyoku, but the only problem was that it wasn't there.

"WHAT!?" Sorako shouted out as she removed her hand from Rukia's chest and watched the girl fall to the ground like dead weight. "No. This is impossible."

Sorako was in deep denial right now. How could she have been wrong about the Hogyoku being in Rukia? There's no way that Kisuke was able to get it out of her without gaining the attention of the soul reapers, so where was it?

"Lady Aizen!" Kaname yelled out to get Sorako's attention. "We need to leave, now!"

Sorako looked back and saw that multiple spirit energies were approaching them fast. "Dammit." She muttered under her breath before a large garganta opened up from the sky right as everyone showed up.

"Aizen!" The head captain yelled out as a beam of yellow light came down onto the three rogues. "What have you done?!"

Sorako, still angered by her failure, answered the aged woman. "I am leaving to achieve my ambitions. Hear me captains and lieutenants of the soul society, I will attain the power to destroy the Soul King and rule over all!"

The ground around the three broke apart and lifted them up on separate rock platforms. Of coarse there were protests to them by the ones closest like Sakiha Komamura to Kaname, Izuko Kira to Gina and finally Momo to Sorako. The confusion of it all came from the fact that it looked as if Sorako was furious about something in both her tone and movements. Whatever she was trying to do with Rukia must've failed somehow.

After the three rouges left through the garganta, both Unohana and Byakuren ran over to Rukia's side. Unohana to heal her, Byakuren to make sure her sister was alright.

"Unohana." Byakuren spoke out in a concerned tone to the healer.

"She'll be fine Byakuren." Unohana spoke in a calm tone towards the Kuchiki clan head. "Actually, as a matter of fact, she'll be more than alright by the looks of her spirit energy."

"What do you mean Unohana?" Joshiraku spoke up as she went to check on her subordinate as well as most of the lieutenants.

"I mean that by the feel of her spirit energy, it seems that she has a very high and potent amount of it." Unohana started again, surprising most of everyone there. "Only thing is, it is not her spirit energy."

This feels like a great place to stop. Lol. What does Unohana mean by not her spirit energy? Why wasn't the Hogyoku still inside of Rukia? What exactly was following Ichigo earlier? Those will be answered in the next chapter.

PEACE!