A Bleach Story. Chapter 2 Rukia's Training

I dedicate this chapter to anne117
for mottivating me to finish this chapter! (btw anne117 is a person on Quizilla not Writerscafe)
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Ichigo, Rukia, and I were walking outside the school. I was still totally confused since Ichigo pulled me out of my class.

“Where are we going?” Rukia started. “Leading me to such an empty place what dost thou intend of me?” This had been the first time I had ever heard her talk, well first time I really saw her in a non life threatening situation.

“Stop that weird way of talking!” Ichigo yelled at her.

“Weird? How rude, is it not good for someone who learned in one day?” Rukia said, sounding like she was mocking Ichigo.

“Shut up! Just explain what’s going on!” Ichigo yelled at her.

“Yeah, explain! Right now I have no idea what the hell is happening! Shouldn’t you be back at that place, um...” What was it called? Oh, yeah “The Soul Society place!” I said freaking out a little. Why the hell was she at this school?

“Only shinigami can go back to the Soul Society, fool. Right now I am not able to return.” Did she call me a fool?

“Huh? What do you...” Ichigo said but Rukia cut him off.

“Because... I lost my shinigami powers!” What? How could she just lose them?

“B-But I’m no longer a shinigami! No kimono! Where did this “shinigami power” go?!!” Ichigo said shocked.

“Inside of the both of you.” I felt like doing one of those spit take things that you see on TV so much.

“Excuse me! I didn’t become a shinigami! I was pretty much a bystander!” This isn’t that interesting anymore, more like painfully scary.

“You were the one who got caught between the sword. So some of my powers had been given to you too. And... your souls have been connected.” She said sounding all serious. But what did she mean by connected?

“Connected?” Ichigo said, confused too.

“When you” Rukia-san pointed at me. “Jumped between the sword causing it to stab you, then stab Ichigo, you were connected to his soul. Your soul is now a part of Ichigo’s.” I’m a part of Ichigo? “And now I’m forced into this artificial body because of the two of you!” Rukia said putting her hand on her chest. What the heck is a artificial body?

“Artificial....?” Ichigo said, guess he didn’t know what it is either.

“It is shinigami’s other body, to be used in emergency situations. A weakened shinigami enters it to wait for their powers to recover.”

“So this body is so? Human form?” Ichigo said.

“Of course it’s going to be human form.” I said looking up at him. “She looked like a human before, she’s not going to turn into a dog or something.”

“Weakened shinigami are targets for hollows so we act like humans.” Why is Rukia here then? “That's it! Until my powers return, you two will take over my shinigami duties!” Will? She doesn’t even ask us first. “Of course you two are the ones that has the shinigami powers now. I will assist you of course. Also you have no right to refuse, since you were�"“ Ichigo cut her off.

“I refuse!” Ichigo said then started to walk away. Didn’t even put a second thought into it, did he?

“I’ll do it Rukia. Since it is kind of my fault...”

“Yes but... I would like Ichigo to do it too. It will be better that way.” She can’t look at the glass has half full, it has to be half empty.

“Wait!” Rukia said after Ichigo.

“I said I refuse. I’m not fighting those monsters ever again.” He said that while still walking away.

“Wait! You... yesterday...” Rukia stammered. I don’t really feel a part of this anymore.

“Yesterday I was only able to fight because my family was in danger. I ain’t fighting monsters like that for total strangers. Unlike little miss sunshine over there, I’m not that much of a person.” Little miss sunshine? I am a cheerful person, but I’m not a little miss sunshine. Wasn’t that a character in those Mr. Men books? “Sorry if I disappointed you.”

“I see... then I have no choice then.” Rukia put on a red glove that had a skull in flames on it. What is she doing?

Rukia punched Ichigo, and his body fell to the ground, but his soul... his soul was outside of its body! And it was in that shinigami outfit!

“RUKIA!!” I shouted, shocked at what just happened. Ichigo was shouting.

“Kairi, look after Ichigo’s body. Ichigo, follow me.” Rukia and Ichigo left me there with Ichigo’s body. What am I suppose to do now. I sat down next to Ichigo body.

After a while I was lying down, in complete boredom.

“Kurosaki-kun is knocked out!” Someone shout. Oh crap! I got up. “And Katou-san is next to him.” Oh no, no, no! What am I suppose to do!?

“What?! Where?” Someone else’s voice said. Oh great!

“H-HELP! I.... uh Ichigo is ... uh” S**T! What do I say? “Ichigo is knocked out! We gotta get him somewhere safe. I said as the two people came near.

We got Ichigo’s body up to the nurses office, they almost called an ambulance but Ichigo “randomly” came alive again.

“I don’t see how that was training.” I complained to Ichigo. Rukia had us go through training of hitting baseballs. I barely hit any, and I’m going to have bruises in the morning.

“You sucked at the training.” Ichigo laughed. I hit him with the baseball bat then walked up towards Rukia as he rubbed his head in pain.

As I was almost us to Rukia Ichigo had caught up with me, as we were right behind Rukia he screamed “Hey! What are you doing!” at her, slamming his fist down on the picnic table. I couldn’t help myself but laugh.

“You fool! Don’t surprise me! I’m... studying modern speech!” Rukia said, still pretty shocked. “And stop laughing!”

“So your making us train while you read a horror manga? Where’d you get that from anyways?” Ichigo, what an idiot.

“She probably got it at a store.” I said dully looking up at him.

“Why would a shinigami go into a store?” He said back, this was going to turn out into a fight.

“You mean she can’t go into a store? A weakened shinigami who has to recover her lost power can’t go into a store. Not even on to buy food?” I said in a know it all way.

Ichigo was just about to say something back when Rukia said “You two done with the training?” I suck my tongue out at Ichigo, I had gotten the last word in, winning the fight.

“Yeah, I’m done.” That b*****d. “Breaking open 100 pepper filled balls, what kind of training is that?” I sat down at the picnic table.

“You fool! The pepper filled balls were only the bad ones!” Rukia said at Ichigo, she used the word fool a lot.

“Bad balls?”

“Yes!”

“Can you guys not fight.” They both looked at me, probably forgot I was even there.

“Did you hit all the balls, or only the pepper filled ones?” Rukia said to me. Well this is crappy.

“... I didn’t hit all the balls.” I said Rukia stared at me dully.

“You didn’t hit the balls?”

“No... but what kind of of training is this!? I really don’t see the point in it.” I said crossing my arms.

Rukia got up on the table part of the picnic table. “Listen. A hollow’s weakness is its head. If you slice the head, then you can defeat the hollow in one blow. This training is for so you can accurately hit the head in any situation.”

“Why do I have to do that? I’ve been beating them fine so far.” Thinking back on it, I’ve never even fought a hollow!

“Sneaking up to a hollow and defeating it in one hit is the basics of defeating them. It’s a miracle that you have remanded unscathed so far from the way you’ve been defeating them Ichigo.” She sure does talk a lot.

“Attaching from the behind? How can I fight so dirty like that?” Ichigo said.

“Yeah, it’s pretty dirty, and unfair.” She’s so going to call us fools again, I know it.

“You fools!” See? “Save that stuff for fights against humans! Your opponents are hollows! The same rules do not apply! If you two keep talking naively like that, you’ll end up dead!”

“HELLO KUROSAKI-KUN!!!!” Ichigo jumped up in totally shock, hell, I was shocked too! Who the hell goes up behind someone and scares them? ...Well Ichigo does but...

“I-Inoue? What are you doing here?”

“Just doing a little dinner shopping. I brought onions and butter and bananas and gelatin!” She said, looking happy. But what will she make with all that stuff?

“Your Katou-san from the other class, right?” She said looking at me.

“Yeah, but you can just call me Kairi.” I said smiling at her.

“Oh, okay Kairi-san. I’m Orihime Inoue.” She didn’t really get the just Kairi part of it I guess. But Orihime Inoue was that girl that was in Ichigo’s class, she was usually in the halls with... uh Tatsuki Arisawa.

“What are you doing here, Kurosaki-kun?” She asked looking at Ichigo.

“I am....”

“We’re training.” I said, and Ichigo hit me on my head for saying that. “Ichigo your so mean!” I said sticking my tongue out at him.

“Well just shut up Kairi!” He yelled at me.

“Kuchhiki-san?” Orihime said, I guess she didn’t hear me.

“Who the hell are you?” I couldn’t help but laugh a little. Ichigo whispered something to Rukia.

“Oh. Inoue-san. Honoured to make your acquaintance.” Rukia said. She acts different with other people then with me and Ichigo.

“Yes... Honoured to make your...?” Orihime was going along with Rukia’s... olden time stuff.

“What’s wrong with your arm? You fall down?” Ichigo said pointing at Orihime’s arm. I hadn’t even noticed the band-aid rap on her arm.

“Oh, this? No, I got hit.” H-HIT! SHE WAS HIT!!

“Hit! By a car!?” Ichigo screamed, as shocked as I was.

“Yeah. Last night I went out shopping to get something to drink and BAM! I’ve been getting hit a lot lately.” She was LAUGHING! How can she be laughing when something that bad had happen...

“Are you hurt? Shouldn’t you be in a hospital or something!” I said in a worried tone.

“Oh, no. I’m fine.” She was saying, smiling a little. Something had to be done about her. I’ve always seen her zoning out in the hallways and stuff.

“That mark on your leg? Can I see it?” Rukia said looking down at it. I hadn’t even noticed it with her arm.

“I got this last night, too, so I think it must have been when I was hit by the car.” Rukia was starting seriously at it as Orihime told her that. But it didn’t really look like something you could get from being hit by a car... and it just gave me a bad feeling while looking at it... like that monster.

“Kuchiki-san?... What’s with the scary face?” Orihime said looking down at Rukia who was on her knees looking at the scar.

“Huh? No, I was just thinking it looks really painful.” Which it did look.

“Wow! Your right! My leg hurts way more than my arm!” She didn’t seem to really look in pain though.

“AHH! What? Are you numb from the pain?! You should go to a doctor!” Ichigo told her. Her face was going red.

“Hey Orihime your blushing.” I said quietly to her so only she could hear. She totally liked Ichigo. But me saying that made her blush more.

“OH! It’s this late!” Orihime looked at her watch, then started to rush away.

“You in a rush?” Ichigo asked her.

“Yeah! Laugh Hour almost on!” She watches that show?

“You want me to walk you home?” Ichigo said. I couldn’t help but hold in a giggle. It would be cute if she and Ichigo. But something at that made me feel... jealous?

“WHAT!? N-No, I’m fine!” Orihime yelled back.

“Ok! See ya tomorrow!”

“Yeah... Tomorrow.” Orihime said disappointed. Well she said no. But she’ll probably get hurt again. I can’t just stand here and let her do that. I guess I’ll walk her home.

“I’m gonna go walk with her, see ya later Ichigo. Rukia.” I said, then ran over to where Orihime had left, going up to her.

“Kairi-san? What are you doing here?” She said as I came up to her.

“I didn’t want you to get hurt again Orihime. I hope you don’t mind me walking you home.” I said smiling.

“Oh! I don’t mind you walking home with me Kairi-san.”

“You can drop the “san” part and just call me Kairi. Oh, and do you like Ichigo?” I said, making her stop. Her face was red.

“I... Yes...” She said looking down, embarrassed. “Can you really tell that easy?”

“Kind of. But I don’t think Ichigo can tell. He sure is an idiot.” I said laughing.

“Yeah...” Orihime said and we mostly randomly talked the rest of the way to her house. After we got to her house, I started to walk home.

“Sally, I’m home!” I yelled. But there was no answer. “Sally!” I walked in to find her lying on the couch, sleeping. I walked up to my room, finding someone there!

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