Bleach Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Who will protect me now? The Substitute Shinigami & the Shikon Priestess ❯ New Beginnings ( Chapter 1 )

“Who will protect me now? The Substitute Shinigami & the Shikon Priestess”

Bleach / Inuyasha crossover fiction

Main Pairing: Ichigo x Kagome

 

 

 

Chapter 1 - New beginnings

Disclaimer: I do not own the Bleach or Anime series. These characters and the series they are in belong to Bleach - Author Kubo Kite and Inuyasha - Author Takahashi Rumiko.

 

Characters in this chapter:

Higurashi, Kagome; Kurosaki, Ichigo; Sado, Yasutora (Chad); Tatsuki, Arisawa; Inoue, Orihime; Ishida, Uryuu

 

 

 

Adjusting the strap to the messenger bag resting across her chest, Kagome cursed her luck as she walked toward her first class - History 201: Sengoku Jidai.

 

Kagome had retired her old worn yellow backpack from her traveling days, now favoring a newer means of carrying her textbooks and other school supplies.

 

Since the well closed almost 4 years ago, Kagome had tried hard not to long for the friends she left behind there. In order to keep the mindset that everyone was happy, she tried her hardest to stay away from anything to do with the legends and time period that might tip her off on their well being. Mostly in the fear of hearing any bad news about them that might be mentioned in modern texts.

 

She knew it was kind of cowardly and virtually impossible to do, but she just needed more time to adjust. The hurt from being separated from Inuyasha and the others was still fresh. Supposedly, time healed all wounds. So why did hers still feel so raw and open?

 

Kagome sighed and her shoulders slumped as she realized sometimes fate was a cruel and twisted fellow. This is why she winded up in this class. This was her first semester at Karakura U and she was unfortunately not allowed to switch her class schedule. In simpler terms, she was basically up the creek without a paddle. Yup…sometimes life really sucked.

 

 

 

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Ichigo yawned as he sat down towards the back of the lecture hall near Ishida. Things were semi back to normal since they had defeated Aizen and his army. Aizen, Tousen and Ichimaru were currently locked up in the Maggots Nest.

 

Unlike most of the prisoners there, the three former captains had no free reign of the area. Maybe the most dangerous captives in Soul Society, they were confined separately in impenetrable areas and were each assigned several members of the Special Forces to guard them. Aizen, Ichimaru and Tousen had yet to be executed until Central 46 was done with their investigations and interrogations into the three defectors.

 

Ichigo didn't necessarily agree with that. They were holding off on executing those three slime balls, who nearly destroyed the world but were more than willing to quickly execute poor Rukia for transferring her power into him to protect his and his family's lives. Soul society had some real fucked up views and laws.

 

But he decided it was their business. He had saved Inoue and helped protect the human world & Soul Society from destruction. As long as there was no immediate threat, he'd leave the rest to them. Sure he was still a substitute Shinigami, but he had to have a life outside of soul reaping.

 

Yawning again, Ichigo took out his materials for class.

 

 

 

 

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Kagome barely made it to class before 10:00am. Save five minutes, she looks around shyly at the lecture hall full of students.

 

“Darn, there must be at least 40 students in here.” Kagome thought as she nervously fiddled with the strap of her bag. Kagome had not been in a class with this many people before. Surveying the area, she looked for an empty seat.

 

Some people had already sectioned off into groups. Kagome surmised that those people probably knew each other outside of school. “Maybe some of them went to high school together or live near each other. Maybe I'll see some familiar faces too.” Kagome thought. Concentrating once again on the task at hand, Kagome almost missed the three girls calling her name and waving at her.

 

Kagome turned around and sighed. Fate was really being cruel to her. There near the back of the lecture hall were her three friends from high school - Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka. Slouching in defeat as they kept calling her, Kagome walked towards to the threesome. “Might as well just sit there” she thought. “They'll just keep nagging me if I don't.”

 

As Kagome got closer to her friends she noticed a strange aura. Her eyes were immediately drawn to a carrot top figure sitting not far from her friends.

 

 

 

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Ichigo drug himself into the classroom and sat with Chad and Ishida. “Damn, late night Hollow hunting does not mix with an 8:00am class.” Ichigo, Chad and Ishida had winded up in the same class Monday and Wednesday mornings. Unfortunately Orihime and Tatsuki were given a different schedule. Ishida had been rambling on about his class schedule when he paused mid sentence, looking towards the door.

 

“Interesting…I wonder who is she?”

 

“Hmmm…Her aura feels a lot like yours Ishida.” Chad responded in kind.

 

“What are you guys rambling about?” Still half sleep, Ichigo yawned and stretched trying to wake himself up.

 

“Figures…Kurosaki, you were always terrible at sensing reiastu, even when someone is unable to control it much like yourself.” Ishida scoffed.

 

“Whatever.” Ichigo attempted to feel out who they were talking about. Locking onto the female in question, Ichigo waited until she got a lot closer so he could get a good look at her.

 

 

 

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Kagome watched as the boy with bright orange hair yawned and stretched in his seat. “His hair color is so unusual” she murmured to herself. She was so entranced in it that she did not see the backpack sitting slightly out in the aisle.

 

Kagome tripped over the bag. Bracing herself for the hard impact to the floor, Kagome shut her eyes tightly. A few seconds past and she realized that the impact never came. Instead, strong arms encircled her waist as she was pulled against a strong masculine chest, preventing her from meeting the floor. Kagome looked up to see the orange haired guy staring back at her as he helped her get her footing.

 

“Are you alright? You should really watch where you're going, otherwise your going to end up with a lot of bumps and bruises. Plus it's not polite to stare.”

 

Kagome blushed. Apparently he saw her staring at him. His hair color was so unique not mention he had the most expressive brown eyes she'd ever seen. Her hands lay against his broad chest and she could feel the ripple of muscles that lay underneath his shirt.

 

There was something different about him. His reflexes were quick. Towering over her, Kagome could feel the dominance and strength he held radiating from him. She hadn't felt a presence like that since Inuyasha and it excited and scared her at the same time. Ignoring the tell-tale flutter in her lower abdomen, she was more concerned with the fact that her miko powers seemed to flare as soon as they touched. “What is he?” Kagome thought. Whatever power this guy had was seriously repressed. It didn't feel evil but she could tell it was tremendous. She heard him sigh breaking her train of thought.

 

“Gomen nasai and Arigatou” she said quickly apologizing and thanking him.

 

Ichigo smiled. “It's okay. Just try to be careful.”

 

The girl was quite radiant. Molded against him as she tried to brace herself, he couldn't help but take notice of her shape. Her breast where pressed against his chest as he held her waist to balance her. “Petite but curvy…” From where his hands were resting he could feel the flare of her full hips and the beginnings of the curvature of her ass.

 

She went from being embarrassed to looking like a deer caught in the headlights. He wondered if she knew he could feel her power. It was seriously repressed but he felt it as soon as he touched her.

 

“What is she?” He could tell she wasn't evil; her aura was way too pure. Actually it was the purest he had ever seen. It was so strange since he had never sensed her before. “Maybe she'd just moved here?” Ichigo thought.

 

Feeling her shift a little in his arms, Ichigo realized that now he was staring. He quickly set her down and let her go. Still blushing furiously, Kagome apologized and thanked Ichigo again before taking her seat next to her friends.

 

Taking another good look in her direction, Ichigo noticed she had sad but pretty soft brown eyes and cutest blush adorning her cheeks he'd ever seen. Her long thick onyx hair shone with a hint of midnight blue in the light. Plus she had quite the body. Nice and curvy with long legs and sun-kissed skin. It wasn't like hadn't noticed girls before but this one definitely caught his attention.

 

“Looks like someone's quite taken with the raven head beauty over there” he heard Ishida whisper to Chad.

 

Ichigo turned around and realized that Chad and Ishida were watching him with mild amusement.

 

“Sit down Kurosaki; you act like you've never seen a woman before.” Ishida snorted while adjusting his glasses.

 

Ichigo casually flipped him off and returned to his seat just as the professor came rushing into the class late.

 

 

 

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Class was pretty uneventful if you left out the fact that Ayumi, Yuka and Eri kept hounding her about the orange haired guy. They swore she knew him and Yuka kept implying that she should stay away from him because his orange hair probably meant he was a bad boy or in a gang or something. Ayumi asked if she was just attracted to the bad boy time alluding to the two-timer with white hair she dated in high school and Eri added that what she needed was a guy more like Hojo.

 

That's when the Hojo is so wonderful campaign once again began. Hojo this…. Hojo that. They just couldn't let there dream go.

 

The trio kept trying to hook her up with Hojo even though she had expressed numerous times that she didn't think they would work well together and that Hojo-kun was just a friend.

 

Even now while he was studying half way across the world in America on scholarship, her friends were still trying to match make them.

 

As if that wasn't embarrassing enough to endure as she couldn't get a word in inch wise, they also began to bring up her multiple illnesses. Darn Jii-chan. Thanks to him she had some of the most bizarre and embarrassing illnesses known to man and her three loudmouth friends were now blabbing them down the crowded corridor. Her face was ready to burst into flames.

 

Kagome's wished a whole in the ground would swallow her up at any moment. Not only were people staring at them as her loud mouth friends aired her fake medical history but the guy from class and his friends happened to be standing in the hallway a few feet away and were looking in their direction as well. Apparently two girls were now accompanying them. One was a petite yet fierce looking ebony haired girl and the other was a busty, energetic red head. One would automatically assume from the easy going air about them that they were apart of their crew. Just as she though her situation couldn't get any worst, she heard someone interject.

 

“Don't you think it's a little inappropriate and cruel to broadcast your friends health issues in a crowded hallway?” the orange haired guy from before said.

 

Yuka snorted in an unladylike fashion and attempted to dig into him. “Look, Mr. Bad Ass… I'm probably in some gang with my weird orange hair; Kagome does not need the likes of you hanging around her. She's got enough things going on with her frequent hospitalization for planter's warts, Hanta virus and lesions. She needs a sweet caring guy that will take care of her so MOVE ON!”

 

Orihime gasped. Chad and Ishida held Tatsuki back as Ichigo's eyebrow twitched signaling he was about to blow.

 

“So what if my hair is orange, you don't know me so you can think whatever you like. What I do know is your friend Kagome shouldn't have to hang around people who get their kicks off trying to control her life. So far your meddling has only succeeded in embarrassing her and belittling her in a crowed hallway full of her peers. Great way to help her start off her studies in a new place, friend.”

 

Yuka was about to retort, when Ichigo cut her off. Stepping directly in front of Kagome he held out his hand to her. “I think it's time you got some new friends, Kagome. Your old ones suck. By the way, I'm Kurosaki Ichigo.”

 

Glancing towards his friends, Ichigo introduced Kagome to everyone, ignoring the huffs and whispers of her nagging friends in the background.

 

“That's Sado, Yasutora; we all call him Chad; and over there are Tatsuki, Arisawa; Inoue, Orihime and Ishida Uryuu. Why don't you come have lunch with us?”

 

Kagome looked at his hand and then up at those big brown expressive eyes. They were so sincere. The busty young lady waved eagerly as she was introduced as the other just gave her the warmest smiles.

 

Looking back at her friends with apologetic eyes, Kagome whispered “Gomen nasai”.

 

Her knight in shining armor huh…well, he may not be the gruff Inu hanyou she loved but she could use some saving.

 

Stepping into the unknown, she knew she needed to start fresh…a new beginning.

 

“I'll live and be happy Inuyasha. I pray you did the same.”

 

Kagome grasps Ichigo's hand.

 

“I'd like to have lunch with you all.” Flashing with what he believed to be the most beautiful smile he'd ever seen, Kagome introduced herself to Ichigo and his crew.

 

 

Ichigo smiled at her as his friends all gave her heartfelt welcomes in return. Done with the introductions, Ichigo closed his hand around her smaller one and led her away with his friends in tow. Never letting go of her hand, they made their way out of the building to find somewhere to eat lunch.

 

 

 

Authors Note: Please Read and Review. I will be editing this chapter soon and adding a new and the prologue. Thanks for reading.