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Strawberries are Best Eaten Frozen	By : xenofan Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 7605 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"Kurosaki-kun, how about this?" asked Orihime, holding up an orange shirt with green stripes.
Ichigo blinked out of his reverie. "Huh? Oh, that's good Inoue." he replied absentmindedly.
Now that's a lie, thought Orihime, slightly miffed. I specifically picked a bad shirt. No matter what people think about me, I don't wear anything that horrendous. Then her expression softened. Kurosaki-kun seems to be rather preoccupied today. Come to think of it, it seems like he's had something on his mind ever since coming back from Soul Society. "Kurosaki-kun...is something wrong? You just haven't seemed yourself lately."
Ichigo looked at her in surprise. Had he been acting strange? Kariya's, Aizen's, and his hollow self's faces flashed past his mind. He tried to give a reassuring smile, but failed to give any air of authenticity. "Uh..no. I just have a bit on my mind, school and Aizen and everything."
Orihime returned the expression with a sad smile of her own. If Kurosaki-kun doesn't want to talk about it, I won't force him. He's the one that has been strong for us all: defeating Hollows, saving Rukia, achieving Bankai, and all with a smile. All I can do now is offer my support as a friend by trusting him. She decided that a change of topic was in order. "Alright. Hey, after this let's go to my place to put these clothes away. You can have a taste of my new dish: a new casserole using pizza ingredients, jelly beans, and fruit. The best part is that you get to choose whether you want pepperoni and peaches or sausage and blueberries!"
Ichigo deadpanned, he really wasn't sure he wanted to try another one of Orihime's concoctions. The last one he ate put him off cake for a week, although he had to admit it tasted pretty good. "Uhh..w-well..." he stuttered, trying to think to think of a respectable way to decline when he was saved by a loud beeping noise.
Ichigo wasted no time digging into his pocket to pull out his shinigami token. The stone pentagon adorned with a skull was a new accessory. Given to him by Ukitake, it allowed him to separate from his body at will as well as alerted him to the presence of Hollows. Right now the skull's eyes were blinking with yellow light. "A Hollow?! I'll be back Inoue. Keep my body safe for me?"
"Of course." she replied. Stepping forward slightly, she grasped Ichigo's shoulders firmly, so that his empty body didn't keel forward suddenly.
"Thanks." Ichigo didn't even notice Orihime's hands when he brought his token up to pound against his chest. There was a small flash of light and another Ichigo separated from his body, this one clad in the black kimono of a shinigami. With a more serious expression on his face, he sped off in the direction of the Hollow. Orihime watched Ichigo go, holding onto his limp body. "Ichigo..."
Orihime felt like she was being watched and sure enough more than a couple people were staring. Realizing how this must look, she sweatdropped and smiled awkwardly. Trying to act surprised and sincere, she loudly proclaimed. "Oh my, Kurosaki-kun has fainted! Must be because of this terrible heat, I should get him to some shade!"
The crowd stared at the retreating back of the strange girl, a few shivering because of a gust of cool air.[1]

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Ichigo jumped atop the nearest building to give him the best vantage point. He wasn't sure if you could call it jumping though, to a shinigami catapulting yourself dozens of feet into the air was no great feat. Running forward, leaping across the gaps between buildings, he was glad that a shinigami couldn't be seen by humans--or at least normal humans. As a shinigami representative with crappy spiritual detection skills, his only sense of direction came from the frequency of beeps from his medallion: the more frequent they were, the closer he was to the Hollow. Needless to say, this method of tracking proved to be irritating if the Hollow was far away or nor easily visible at close range.
No sooner did he finally spot Hollow than it sped off in the direction of the park. It was rather small for a Hollow and ran on all fours. The beast had the usual muscular body and white mask, this time with brown skin and three horns jutting out of its forehead. Every time Ichigo closed in on its position, the Hollow turned down a side street and increased its speed. He couldn't use shunpo with it making so many turns; the young shinigami still had not yet mastered shunpo agility.
"Stop running damn you!" cursed Ichigo. Such an insignificant Hollow was being so annoying...
Finally, the chase reached the city limits and the monster had no where to go but straight down a grassy field. Ichigo smirked and jumped in its direction. As soon as he started to fall back down and pick up speed, he pointed his sword down at the Hollow. "Ah-ha, gotcha!"
The swordsman crashed into the ground with such force that he threw up a large cloud of dust, neatly severing his foe in twine. Ichigo stayed low to the ground as the dust cleared, holding Zangetsu out to the side in a sort of victory pose.
Once it was clear the battle was over, he sighed and muttered, "One more Hollow down." Vanquishing these monsters could be so time consuming, Ichigo could not count how many hours of his social and academic life had been wasted on them.
"I'd better start heading back, hope Inoue is okay." the teen said to himself, swinging his sword back over his spine.
No sooner had he turned to go than he scuffed his feet to stop in surprise, kicking up more dust. The air in front of him was blurry. Looking around in confusion he found the same on all sides. The hairs on the back of his neck rose. "What's going on?"
Suddenly the air was full of reiastu and the loud howls of Hollow. On all sides Hollow larger than he'd ever seen--save the lone Menos--materialized out of the blurry air. Each stood at least thirty feet tall and their fearsome appearances screamed of power.
"What the hell, why didn't I sense them? I know I have sucky senses, but this reiatsu is impossible to miss! Were they hiding themselves somehow?" Ichigo looked from one to the other, trying to analyze the situation. They can't be as bad as that Menos. No matter how many or large they are, they are still just Hollow. I can definitely...defeat them!
Ichigo let loose his battle cry and charge the giant on his left, his sword already in hand. His instincts screaming for him to jump saved him as an energy blast from behind dissintegrated where he had been mere moments before. "They have beam attacks too?! Dammit, this isn't going to be that easy."
A backflipped dodged a blow that would have crushed the skull of a buffalo, and a quick jump brought him within striking distance of the head of one of the Hollow. Ichigo let loose some reiatsu for a burst of speed and cleaved the mask of the monster in two as he soared past.
"One down..." he muttered under his breath, which had begun to come in more frequent bursts. Ichigo brought his blade up to attack position, holding onto the handle with both hands. "Tch, half dozen to go. This is getting annoying."
"Hadou #33: Blue Fire Wall!"
No sooner had he registered those words than a wave of blue fire swept over the remaining Hollow. Within seconds their bodies lost the battle to the flames and vanished in the usual purification haze.
Ichigo stood there, dumbfounded. The battle that he was concerned about was finished in the time it took to say 'the battle is over'. He turned in the direction of the source of the fire and incantation. "Who's there?"
A shinigami stood on a slightly charred stump, white haori and matching hair billowing in the wind. "Heh, just thought you could use some help, Kurosaki Ichigo."
Ichigo just stared, "You are...Toushiro?!"
The four-and-a-half-foot tall captain's head popped a vein "That's Hitsugaya-taicho to you!"

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[1] Yeah, this was supposed to illustrate how there was no way Ichigo could have fainted because of heat...because it was cool out.
At last, Hitsugaya and Ichigo meet! Anyways, I think this one turned out pretty well. As usual, comments are loved.
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