return trip

Ichigo's recent encounters are mostly small fish and shrimps, so he is nothing to be afraid of, and his life is going well.With Rukia as a transfer student, she doesn't look lonely on the way home from school, and looks more gregarious.

Of course, it's not that no one invites her to go home with them, both men and women. In the end, these people are always scared away by her strange reactions when she sees spirit bodies on the road. Disappointed and sad, it doesn't matter now.

"Kurosaki-san." From a distance, Inoue Orihime waved at her with a bag from the convenience store.

The car slammed past her and the wind almost swallowed her words. Ichigo hurried out and tried to throw her away, but he couldn't catch up.

The car owner poked his head out and cursed: "Little girl, you have to watch the road when you go out, don't cause trouble for others."

Ichigo glanced at the owner of the car, stepped forward to help Orihime Inoue, the owner shrank his neck, quickly closed the window and walked away.

"Inoue, are you alright?"

Orihime Inoue touched her head in embarrassment, then stood up vigorously and circled around: "It's okay, Kurosaki-san, thank you."

Ichigo picked up the ingredients scattered on the ground for her and put them in bags, obviously worried about this nervous classmate: "Be careful."

Inoue Orihime nodded, and took out a green onion, his eyes sparkling brightly: "Kurosaki-san, Kuchiki-san, do you want...to have dinner together?"

Rukia stared at her feet from the beginning to the end, with a dignified expression. After hearing this sentence, she pulled Ichigo who was about to refuse and nodded: "I was thinking about what to eat tonight, so thank you, Inoue-san."

Orihime Inoue jumped up excitedly: "Really? Then it's settled, we will meet at my house tonight, and Long Gui will also come with me."

"I, you!" Ichigo motioned to Rukia wildly with his eyes.

Rukia lifted her skirt and curtseyed, Orihime Inoue followed her example, and Ichigo pulled her away quickly after seeing this.

"See, that black mark." Lucia said.

"Well, is it false?"

Rukia nodded: "Taking this opportunity, let's go to Inoue's house and destroy that bird in one fell swoop."

"Speaking of which, what kind of curtsey did you just do? Are you a primitive man who came out of the Middle Ages?" Ichigo complained.

Rukia took out the book and showed it to Ichigo: "This book teaches in this way, and I think it makes sense."

Look carefully at the big characters on the spine of the book—teaching you to learn medieval etiquette. When you open the first page, there is still a library label on it. Bar."

Lucia was surprised: "How do you know that I borrowed it from the library? When I took out the book, I was almost caught by some teachers, and the alarm kept beeping."

"You bastard, can't you be unregistered?" Ichigo continued to ask unwillingly.

"No."

Yihu took her hand and walked towards the school, taught her how to register to borrow books in the library, and found several books about the present world for her.

"I will know next time."

Rukia was holding a few thick books, and seeing Ichigo busy with her library card, her heart was bubbling with warmth.

"Lukia, give me the book." Ichigo looked back at her, his mouth slightly opened, "What's your expression?"

Rukia shook her head, put the book on the table for the administrator to register, and after all the procedures were completed, Ichigo took all the books for her. Seeing that her frowning eased a lot, Rukia also lowered her head and smiled .

"It's fine to hold hands, Ichigo."

Ichigo turned to look at her, and stretched out his free hand towards her, wondering why she suddenly made such a strange request, but his mouth was very honest: "Hold tight."

Going down the stairs of the library, Rukia clenched her five fingers tightly, the sky above her head was dyed orange, and Ichigo's voice urging her fell on her ears.

"Hurry up, or it will be too late."

There is a bus stop at the gate of the school. When the two passed by, there happened to be a bus parked beside it. Rukia's eyes were unconsciously attracted by the bus. Ichigo glanced at the stop on the stop sign and took her on the bus. .

Rukia's movements are very restrained, her legs are straight, her hands are on her knees, and her eyes are looking at the constantly receding scenery outside the window.

Looking at her reaction, Ichigo wasn't sure for a moment whether she liked taking the bus or not. She rubbed her hair and asked the person next to her, "You should still get used to it, right?"

Rukia's eyes always stayed out of the window. When passing a bridge, the halo of the setting sun was on the horizontal line under the bridge, and the entire river was sparkling.

Ichigo felt his shoulders sink and his shaggy hair drooping around her collarbone, and she adjusted her position to give Rukia a better rest in the swaying carriage.

Rukia didn't expect that she would fall asleep. For 2 minutes after getting off the car, she was depressed about this matter. She moved her ten fingers and made a rattling noise.

"Are the spirit seeds insufficient? I obviously only bought them a few days ago." She muttered to herself.

"What's the problem?" Ichigo vaguely heard her words, and naturally thought of her usual behavior of leaving early and returning late. "It's lack of sleep. It's normal to fall asleep in the car."

Rukia blushed slightly, she didn't want to admit that she was really sleepy, and immediately retorted: "Impossible."

The station was very close to Inoue Orihime's home, and Ichigo knocked on the door with his fingers, and heard Ryuki Arisawa's voice.

"Ichigo, it's really rare," Arisawa Ryuki was still dubious about Inoue Orihime's words at first, how could Ichigo accept this kind of invitation, but he didn't expect that he actually came.She greeted Rukia next to Ichigo, "Hey, Kuchiki-san is here too."

Rukia didn't meet her many times, but she still remembered that this was their classmate. Curtsy is no longer appropriate, so she made a big bow, which surprised Long Gui.

"It's too exaggerated." Long Gui rubbed his chin, "It's like dealing with some important person."

Ichigo pulled Rukia up, put his hand in front of his mouth and whispered in her ear: "Are you really joking?"

"I'm serious." Rukia pointed to her face.

Long Gui was depressed: "You two, don't whisper in front of me."

"It's time to eat, everyone." Inoue's voice came from the back room. Naturally, the three of them didn't pay attention to the episode just now. When they entered the room, they saw Inoue wearing an apron, tasting with a spoon in one hand, and four sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table. .

After Ichigo thanked her, he sat down nearby, and Rukia naturally sat next to her. Inoue pulled Longgui to sit next to Rukia, and finally sat down by himself.

Inoue looked at Ichigo expectantly: "It's the first time eating with Kurosaki-san."

Ichigo's tongue seemed to be knotted, she adjusted her sitting posture, and replied, "Well, yes."

The photo on the high shelf is a smiling man in a suit. From Rukia's point of view, it is somewhat reflective, but you can feel the nostalgia and warmth in the other party's smile.

Inoue was keenly aware that Rukia's attention was attracted by the photo, she added a bowl of soup to Rukia, and explained: "That's my brother." Before anyone asked too much, her voice dropped suddenly: "Dead."

Rukia didn't expect this, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry."

Inoue shook her head, showing a relieved smile, she looked up at her brother's photo, satisfied: "It's okay, I believe my brother will live happily in another world."

Rukia nodded sympathetically: "Indeed."

Seeing the two of them interacting with Ichigo and holding their foreheads, Rukia really thought of Soul Soul World.

"Eat, you two." Long Gui propped one hand on his lap, and poked the rice in the bowl with chopsticks in the other hand.

The girls still have a lot of topics to talk about. Inoue obviously wants to know Ichigo very much, and the topic has always been around her. Rukia listened carefully to their conversation, and almost took a small notebook to record it. Long Gui hasn't talked to Ichigo for a long time. Sitting down to talk together like this, seeing her like this reminds me of the crying little girl with short hair who followed her mother when we met just now—although she looks fierce now.

The light bulb flickered, Rukia and Ichigo looked at each other tacitly, something came step by step from the next room!

It was the sound of heavy footsteps falling, like an earthquake, the photo glass on the elevated shelf shattered unexpectedly, and the puppet next to it fell to the ground.

"What sound?" Long Gui took Inoue's hand and moved back two steps, Ichigo and Rukia quickly got up and jumped to the corner of the wall.

"How could they hear it? Logically speaking, they can't feel it?"

"Maybe it's the same situation as your family," Rukia took out her glove and patted Ichigo, "There's no other way, the situation is urgent."

Ichigo's body separated from her spiritual body in an instant. She took down the Zanpakutō wrapped in white cloth behind her back, stepped forward a few steps and swung the sword heavily.

"Kurosaki-san..." Inoue covered her mouth with her hands and saw everything clearly, she squatted down trembling, Long Gui also looked in Ichigo's direction, but her expression was very puzzled.

"Longgui, you also saw it, Kurosaki-san, she is fighting that monster."

Long Gui's face was stiff: "I can only see a vague shadow, so it's Ichigo?" She looked at Ichigo who fell on the ground in the corner, and Rukia standing beside her, she was overwhelmed by the scene in front of her. Terrified, she covered her chest with her hands and was short of breath. Her face was pale and she moved to the corner of the wall, almost unable to move due to the exhaustion of her whole body.

Xu's vitality is stronger than Ichigo's imagination, she was knocked down to the ground several times, Xu took advantage of her falling to the ground to kidnap Inoue, and disappeared into the room.

Lukia patted Long Gui's back with five fingers, and Long Gui's pupils shrank slightly and passed out.

"Outside, Ichigo!"

The author has something to say: Some characters will appear very early, and the original plot is not complete.