Bleach: Two Worlds

Chapter 1: Shinigami

ICHIGO Kurosaki was a 20-year-old first year student at the Karakura College doing a course in Journalism. Despite his calm demeanour, he was scared as hell. He barely got up early enough and usually was late for lectures.

He got out of bed in the morning and quickly searched through his mess of a wardrobe. He got dressed and headed out, but the minute he slammed the door, he quickly got back in his room and grabbed his books.

He ran into class and it was a ghost town. Only the redheaded beauty, Orihime Inoue and the tall, built, sober Latino, Yasotora 'Chad' Sado were in the room.

"Hey, guys, where's everybody?" Ichigo said as he put his book on a desk.

"No one's interested in getting here early; you know the professor's usually late, right?" Orihime said.

"Yeah, I kinda forgot," Ichigo said and he took a seat.

"What are you doing here early, Ichigo?" Chad asked in his usual blasé tone of voice.

"I don't want to get on the professor's bad side" Ichigo responded.

"Why do you care? I didn't think you really cared about class in the first place, what with the tardiness and skipping class," Orihime said.

"I don't, I just don't want to cause any more trouble." Ichigo said.

"You have a point I guess" Orihime said.

She yawned and stretched her arms back.

"I'm hungry, I haven't even eaten yet" Orihime said and headed for the door.

"Yeah, neither have I" Ichigo said and followed her.

Chad simply grunted and followed suit.

As they continued down the hallway, a monstrous roar echoed.

"What was that?" Orihime said as she grabbed Ichigo's arm.

"A Kaiju, it must be outside" Chad said as he looked around expectantly.

"Oh, man, really? Why can't we have normal disasters like tornadoes or something?" Ichigo groaned angrily.

"I think a tornado would be far worse than a Kaiju, Ichigo. We wouldn't be able to get away by running." Chad said.

"Yeah, well it's hard enough as it is. Where do you think it is?"

"It sounds like its –"

The monstrous roar came again, this time louder. Whatever it was, it was coming closer.

"Near the cafeteria."

"Then it's in the building?!" Orihime said in a panic and ran away.

"Orihime, come back!" Ichigo said as he followed her.

"She's got the right idea, we better get going, Ichigo" Chad said as he started running.

Ichigo and Chad ran after Orihime, passing people who had just entered the hallway and were reacting to the echoing roars.

"Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, wait up!" shouted a shrill male voice from the back of the hallway.

Ichigo looked over his shoulder and saw the slender, raven-haired Tatsuki Arisawa and the slim brown-haired Keigo Asano. Seeing Keigo now made Ichigo regret missing him earlier. He sprinted onward, surpassing Chad and Orihime.

"Ichigo, we should stick together!" Chad called out, but Ichigo was long gone.

Ichigo's chest heated up and his joints ached, but this did not stop him as he made several corners to avoid Keigo following him. He soon realized that he forgot about Orihime.