New Beginning

Chapter 8

Dust fell down on top of an orange head teen whose body was currently twisted at different angles. The teen was unconscious from the fall but still breathing and miraculously not hurt from landing. His large sword lay embedded in the ground next to him giving off light pulses as if signaling for its owner to wake. The being in the blade could only watch his King until Ichigo either woke up on his own or someone, preferably an ally, found them.

"King it's time to wake up or do you enjoy that position yer laying in. yer gonna wake up sore ya know." Shiro said impatiently. If the being could be seen by others they would be seeing the white being with his arms cross and his foot tapping wearing a scowl.

A quiet groan echoes throughout the hole as Ichigo begins to stir to wakefulness. At first the teen is stun but Shiro could see the daze look fading as his King becomes more clear headed.

"Enjoy the nap sleeping beauty?" the sword teases.

"Too loud Shiro." Ichigo groans. "What happen to me this time?"

"Oh not much just you falling down a giant fucking hole; how did ya even miss that?"

"With practice." Ichigo sarcastically shoots back. "anyway we need to get out before everyone starts to panic again."

"True yer going to give them all gray hairs with how much someone trying to off ya."

For the past few weeks Ichigo has been plagued with a lot of accidents that for once he was glad that he could use his healing ability consciously unlike when he could only use it when he was unconscious. This latest one look to about did him in and he was only trying to find the fucking door to his classroom. It was not his fault that he got lost and lost his current bodyguard as well as lost his map of the castle.

"Like I could help that, I did try to leave but they keep telling me to stay here till Spring."

"Yer just lucky the Old Man was able to pull off some Quincey shit or you would be impersonating a pin cushion by now."

"Speaking of which where is he?" Ichigo knew that his Quincey spirit wasn't as talkative as Shiro but he usually puts in a word or two by now. The mental image of Shiro shrugging had the orangette making an impromptu visit to his inner world. "What do you mean you don't know."

"I haven't even looked for him and you're already jumping down my throat. Chill King." Getting some distance between them Shiro wave back at Ichigo. "In case you hadn't notice he is still here just sleeping. So relax and worry on how yer gonna get out of that hole." Then without giving Ichigo a chance to reply Shiro pushes the orangette out of his mind.

Ichigo once back out of his inner world sent a flurried of curses at his blade. Slowly untangling himself the orangette tries to figure out where he was. He could tell just from his surroundings that he is in some sort of underground tunnel but with the only light coming from the small hole he made he couldn't tell anything else. He wishes that he had a flashlight or could do one of those simple kidos that could give him some illumination.

'no point in wishing for what I don't have,' He thinks before another more positive thought has him trying something that could also blow him up and collapsing that roof over his head. Balling his fist, he focuses his spirit energy hoping that he could get a light, but instead of a ball of light he only manages to get his hand lighted like a glow stick.

'At least I didn't explode, but it still doesn't give much off in the way of seeing,' Ichigo kept looking from his hand to the tunnel. He could only see for about half a foot in front of him. 'Better than nothing.'

Giving himself another once over he made his way down the tunnel keeping his senses open in case whoever has been trying to kill him doesn't get another chance. It's not long before Ichigo finds another problem, he comes to a crossroads and even he knows that if he takes a wrong turn he could very well stay lost down here. Having no desire to become a permitted resident Ichigo takes apart his tunic unraveling it to the point of making a thin rope. Tying one end to a rock Ichigo goes to the right tunnel and makes his way down a steep incline. His hand light letting him see but also making him a bit dizzy that he had to stop the flow of power to it just so he could get rid of the headache it induces.