Ch. 6 Devil on the Shoulder

Whenever Jotaro goes into his inner world to visit Hofuku-Ryoku he sees that the grass is green and tall. It's sunny and partially cloudy. As far as the eye can see wind moves the grass side to side.

His Zanpakuto spirit is a pretty aggressive guy. He wants to fight, but also wants to protect things that Jotaro holds dear. They are rude to eachother on the surface, but that's just how they communicate. The Z-spirit is about as tall as Jotaro, maybe taller. And his muscles are even slightly bigger than Jotaros as well. They talk about random things.

Hofuku-Ryoku talks about Jotaros previous life. They talk about various things like what Jotaro wants to do in the future and who they will fight and how great a battle it would be. Hofuku-Ryoku wants to fight Kenpachi very badly, but Jotaro would rather not. It's a hassle and the guys absolutely crazy. But his Z-spirit doesn't care and wants an epic fight. He encourages Jotaro to train harder since they have 1 more year until highschool and the plot begins.

Jotaro agrees about the training part. He's come a long way, fighting comes easily to him. But the Kido takes longer. But he's working hard because they are so useful for small things.

And so another year passes. He finishes near the top of his grade. Only a few nerds are above him. One being Uryu. But he enjoyed his face when Jotaro was called to receive his award or whatever. His mom wouldn't let him skip the award ceremony. And it wasn't just Uryu that was shocked. The guy was huge and only 15. In a few months he would be a high schooler.

After the ceremony he met up with Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Tatsuki, and a few other guys who they had befriended. The new additions were loud. And apparently easily intimidated. As soon as Jotaro came over they stopped talking.

"JoJo!" Orihime called out and waved at him.

Jotaro doesn't know how she came up with that. His last name wasn't even Joestar. Unless his mom told her about it or something.

"Are you talking about Jotaro?" Ichigo had a strange look on his face and pointed at Jotaro with his thumb as he looked at Orihime.

"Yeah! JoJo!" She is very bubbly and energetic. She points at Jotaro who is now standing with his arms crossed. He has his whole outfit on. It's going to turn gray, unfortunately, since the highschool uniform is gray and not black. They also wouldn't let him change it, so that put him in a foul mood.

"Orihime, shut up" He looks down at her.

"Hey! Don't talk to her like that!" Tatsuki gets mad. So does Ichigo.

"Haaaah…..Why do I even try" He looks at his other childhood friend. She's barely grown. She only got taller. Orihime is very similar to her cannon self, her hair is just slightly shorter.

"Excuse you?" Tatsuki steps closer to Jotaro.

"Tatsuki, it's alright. That's just how he talks. He didn't mean anything by it" Orihime grabs her friends arm.

"You let him talk to you like this? You live with this guy! You need to stand up for yourself!" She gets up infront of Jotaro and has to look up at him. He's over 6 feet tall and she's only 5 foot 1.

"But he doesn't mean anything bad by it! He just can't express himself!" Orihime let's go of Tatsuki.

"I'll show you expressing myself" Jotaro mutters under his breath as he looks down into Tatsuki's hazel eyes.

"Well aren't you big and strong. You used to be so different when we were kids. Now you're all grown up and look at yourself. Rude to everyone. Even helpless girls!" She puts her finger on his chest and pokes him hard.

Jotaros face goes dark under his hat so they can't see his radiant green eyes.

"Tatsuki…." Orihime weakly pleads. Everyone else just watched. Ichigo gets ready to step in if they start fighting.

Jotaro lowers his head to just slightly higher than Tatsuki's. And since she's so close to him they're faces are also extremely close.

"Don't talk like you know me. I don't just go around hurting anyone I see. Don't listen to what I say. Watch what I do. Maybe then you'll understand" He stands back up with his hands in his pockets. He looks at the others and turns to leave.

Tatsuki is left blushing slightly and she's furious.

"See you at home Orihime" He doesn't turn around to talk but just walks away and into the crowd of other students and parents.

"H-He is just so…." Tatsuki stomps her foot on the ground to vent her frustration. "Damn Jotaro Kujo!" She spits to the side like saying his name leaves a bad after taste in her mouth.

The group of friends carry on and move to a different topic.

Saiko watched the whole thing from a distance. She was waiting to hug her baby boy. But didn't get the chance. She was happy Orihime is able to look past his words and see his actions.

But now it's just the other kids that need to learn the same thing. It warms her heart to see that Orihime did it, but breaks her heart that the others aren't able to yet. They used to be such great friends when they were younger.

———months later———

Jotaro was wearing his signature outfit, only it was gray. They told him no chains, but he couldn't bother. He also has multiple magic hats. Ones white, another black, a gray one, and various other colors. Kisuke gave him them in bulk one day after defeating a tough hollow and saving an old mans souls. Also something about an anniversary. Jotaro is bad with dates.

Those souls that stay on earth and don't move on are called wholes plus's. He saved the plus and sent him to the SoulSociety.

He's 15 and continuing his training with his teachers. They are past the advanced things and are helping him adjust to the special techniques. And now it's mostly him getting battle experience fighting hollows.

He found out what his Shikai does. And it's great. But no spoilers.

His Shihakusho was changed slightly. He leaves the robe open with his chest covered by a tight-fitting purple undershirt, Showing off his chest and abdominal muscles. He has the white himo, the cloth belt tied around the waist, replaced with two belts like his signature look. He wears his black hat as well. His right collar has a smaller golden chain dangling from it. His ridiculous Zanpakuto is on his back. He's taller than it now so it can rest on his back without dragging against the ground.

It's pretty badass if he does say so himself. It's like Jotaro Kujo actually became a shinigami, which technically he is and did.

But something that has been bothering him lately is his mother. He's watched her grow older, she still looks young, but he's noticed she gets sicker more often and the medicine is losing it's effectiveness. Kisuke says he can't do anything if he doesn't know what the illness is.

Jotaro has focused heavily on Kaido, the healing Kido, recently. He just needs to get a little bit better. And Tessai doesn't specialize in Kaido. Since he will go to SoulSociety and they save Rukia, he will learn from Retsu. That should do the trick.

Anyway, he goes to the school and finds out he's in Ichigo's and co.'s class. Fun.

He gets told off that he shouldn't modify his school uniform but he ignores the teacher. He's forced to go to class. He can use the mod. Soul but he wants to go to class first before he lets the soul pill take over his body. He's already gotten it used to his body and how he normally acts.

The subjects are old and boring. Only trouble he has is history. He's already extremely fluent in Japanese. It's just the history of Japan he needs to study. But Kisuke has helped in that regard. Being over 200 years old and the genius he is comes in handy.

He stops listening and focuses on something he's neglected. He hasn't reached Bankai yet. He hasn't necessarily tried or needed to. But if he's going to SoulSociety he will need it for monsters like Kenpachi and Byakuya. Even Aizen. Crap. He's trained for years, but Ichigo gets it within days of trying. Whatever. He will get it when the time is right.

"Jotaro Kujo!" He hears his teacher call out. He looks over to the teacher. He is sitting at the back window seat.

"I'm so glad you finally decided to join us. So since the class is so boring why don't you answer this question?" The teacher rights a complicated math equation not even discussed in class yet. Even Uryu has a hard time with it.

"Yare Yare daze…" He messes with his hat and stands up. He slowly walks to the front of the class.

"If it's too difficult you can just say so. And you should pay more attention in class" The teacher starts reprimanding him for not paying attention.

Jotaro grabs a piece of chalk and just writes the answer on the board next to the equation.

The teacher looks at the answer and blinks with an open jaw. He purposely gave an equation none of them should be able to answer. And he didn't even write anything on the board except the answer. That means he did all the calculations in his head.

The teacher looks up at Jotaro with wide eyes.

"Do you want more decimal places?" Jotaro starts writing number after number until he stands next to the teacher.

Jotaro places the chalk back where he picked it up and goes back to his seat. He kicks his feet up onto his desk and leans his chair back balancing it on its back legs.

The teacher tried to recover but fails and just declares self study on the first day.

The entire class is shocked by Jotaro. They didn't expect him to do such a thing. And the people that know him are equally as shocked. They knew he was smart, but not that smart.

Uryu glares back at Jotaro but quickly turns back to his work.

Jotaro doesn't wait to talk with the others after school and just leaves. He goes to Uraharas shop.

"Jotaro! My favorite….yeah I don't think you're my favorite anything. Anyway, ive got some news!" Kisuke started with a lot of energy but just opened his folding fan after he got bored.

"What is it" He pops the mod soul in his mouth and he pops out of his body in his soul reaper form and attire.

"The SoulSociety will be sending a soul reaper to this town soon to take care of the hollows! That means you won't have to do it anymore, or you can make a new friend!" Kisuke loudly exclaims sarcastically

"Yeah…and how should I tell them I became a shinigami in the first place?" He walks over to Kisuke. The giant sword resting on his back.

"Don't sweat the details. She's a lovely shinigami! You'll get along nicely!" Kisuke is having a blast thinking about the two meeting.

"Yeah, just like when you told me to test my defense by letting Ururu and Jinta hit me without blocking" Jotaro glares down at Kisuke.

"That was hilarious! I can't believe you let them do it to! Hahaha! Jinta broke his bat and Ururu hurt her hand! Hahaha!" Kisuke was remembering when he got his two new employees a while back. They were two kids, but they were still strong enough to take care of the average soul reaper.

"Yeah, and I remember me nearly shoving my sword up your ass"

"You weren't even close! Maybe in your dreams! But i like women with a hot body alright. And while you have a freakishly weird body not even my scientist side wants to touch it. So have fun in your dreams!" Kisuke stands up.

"Like hell old man! And you would drop everything to see what makes my body special wouldn't you?" Jotaro walks to the training ground.

"I….absolutely would. And I'm curious what that star mark is on the back of your left shoulder" Kisuke quietly says as he thinks about how Jotaro is so damn weird.

Jotaro goes down into the training grounds without talking.

He sees Yoruichi laying on the table that's near the ladder.

He goes over and pets her on the head and scratches her chin.

He turns around and gets hit in the chest by Kisukes cane.

"I'm already in my soul reaper form" Jotaro growls.

"I know, I just like hitting you" Kisuke turns around and walks into an open field.

"You're just mad you can't hit me anymore old man" Jotaro grabs his Zanpakuto from his back.

"Perhaps" and then Kisuke turns around. "But I'm not going to be fighting you today"

"Your old bones finally creaking?" Jotaro stabs his blade into the ground.

"Funny…But no, That soul reaper that's coming. I need you to supervise her. She's good, but she is unpredictable. And don't interfere for the next 2 days. Don't even go into your soul reaper form. Consider this your vacation"

Jotaro doesn't respond and shunpos away, leaving only a blur to the regular soul reaper eye. Jotaro was just told that Rukia would be appearing tomorrow. And all he needs to do is…..nothing. Two hollows will appear and he needs to not kill them. He already left the little girls soul alone for Ichigo to meet and interact with. He looks forward to seeing the short reaper.

Guess he will be staying home for a day.

Waking up the next morning, Jotaro doesn't immediately leave like usual. He goes to the bathroom and after he's done showering he puts on his school uniform.

"Are you feeling ok?" Saiko gets up from the couch and rushes to Jotaro and goes on her tippy toes to put her hand on his forehead.

"Get off of me" Jotaro gently grabs her hand from his face and moves it to her side.

"But your almost never at breakfast. I assumed you had already left like usual~" She looked up into his eyes.

"I have the day off from work. Don't have anything better to do" Jotaro goes and sits on the couch next to where his mom was sitting. The news was talking about the weather.

Saiko goes to sit next to Jotaro and hugs him.

"It's been so long since you've actually sat down with me~!" Saiko had her head on his shoulder. It really had been a long time. Jotaro was either training or sleeping.

The news then talks about how a significant number of delinquents are going back to school due to being held back. It had been the most cases of delinquency since forever in Karakura town. They talked about how they were all influenced by 1 man but nobody dares mention his name.

"At least they all learned their lessons. And my boy didn't get held back! He's the best delinquent there is!" She's very happy at the moment.

Jotaro isn't very pleased by what his mother said, and especially how she said it. He gets up and she's left laying across the couch after she slid off Jotaro.

He goes into the kitchen and starts making breakfast. Saiko is losing weight now. He hadn't noticed in the past, even when she would hug him when he came home late. But having her put her weight on him he could tell. He really needs to meet Retsu and learn some more advanced Kaido, healing techniques.

As he is cooking breakfast he hears Orihime. "What smells so good!"

"Orihime dear, come over here~" his mother coos.

He hears Orihime move through the other room and sit on the couch.

"Jotaro isn't going to work today~. And he's cooking for us!" He can hear his mother try and whisper but she can't keep her voice quiet.

"Really? JoJo is cooking? Does he know how?" Orihime is shocked to hear of this.

"Apparently he does. I wasn't able to teach him but he's in there cooking now! And he's going to school today! You two can walk together and pick Ichigo up!" Saiko nudges Orihime in the side when she mentions Ichigo.

"I-wel-maybe we could" Jotaro can hear Orihime blushing. He shakes his head. He's been absent a lot lately.

He finishes cooking and stops moving. He's been absent like his father had been, leaving his mother alone. But Orihime was here at least. And he was busy so he could save her in the future, so why does he feel so guilty.

He puts the food on the table. But he puts his in a bento box for later. He's lost his appetite.

"Foods done" He goes to his room and looks at the fingerless glove on his nightstand. Then he pulls the mod soul out of his pocket and looks at it. It's just a small green ball. He puts it back in his pocket and sits on the bed.

"Do not second guess yourself now! You've come so far already! You only need a bit more and then you'll reach youre goal. Don't trip at the final stretch!" Jotaro hears his Zanpakuto spirit echo in his ears.

"I know damnit. But it doesn't make me feel better about leaving her alone all this time. And I'm not second guessing myself, if anything it'll motivate me more. But you already know this, bastard" Jotaro stands up, goes to the bathroom and looks in the mirror. He can see Hofuku-Ryoku behind him looking into the mirror.

"Just making sure. Fuckin kid" The Z-spirit floats off the ground and has its arms crossed.

"That's more like you. You sound stupid when you try and motivate me. Its not your strong suit" Jotaro puts his hands on the countertop.

"It's also not yours either, if you hadn't noticed"

"I can if I wanted to" Jotaro looks over his shoulder in the mirror and sees the Star Platinum look-alike smugly smiling at him. He just walked right into his fucking trap.

"But you don't. You would rather the others hate you, it's easier than having to listen to their boring life. You're a soul reaper now. You have more important things to do. And you don't want to hold their hands while they struggle to get stronger. And they will get stronger, fast. Maybe even stronger than us. And we've worked so hard to get this far. We reached captain level recently. And yet you still can't activate Bankai. It's a shame-"

"Jotaro! We have to go!" Orihime shouts from the door. This makes Hofuku-Ryoku disappear.

Jotaro walks out the bathroom and goes to the door. Orihime is standing there smiling at him. "It's been a while since we went to school together!"

Jotaro slips his shoes on. "Let's get this over with" He stands up and opens the door for Orihime.

"Be careful you two!" Saiko shouts from inside. Jotaro exits and closes the door.

As Orihime and Jotaro are walking towards Ichigos house they see a vase with flowers in it. Jotaro knows it's Ichigos doing.

"This is for the little girl that died in this area right? So sad" Orihime says in a somber tone. She stops to give her respects.

"She will be fine. Someone is looking after her" Jotaro kept walking.

Orihime had to run to catch up. "Wait! JoJo, hold on! Your strides are too long!"

Jotaro stops and waits for Orihime to catch up. She gets next to him but trips over her own feet and is going to face-plant into the ground.

She quickly closes her eyes in anticipation of the pain. But then she feels something wrap around her stomach. She opens her eyes and sees that she is being held up by Jotaros arm around her. She gets her feet underneath her and stands up with a slight blush on her cheeks.

"Thank you JoJo" She looks at him and he's just looking ahead when he narrows his eyes.

Orihime follows his gaze and sees Ichigo standing outside his house. His school uniform blazer closed unlike Jotaros who has his open and showing off his front under a tight shirt.

"Ichigo!" She runs ahead and Jotaro follows behind.

"What are you doing Orihime. And what are you doing here? You sick or something" Ichigo looks at Jotaro.

"Or something" Jotaro doesn't stop walking and continues past. Ichigo wants to stop him but Orihime ends up stopping Ichigo.

"He's got the day off from work. So he's walking with us" Orihime says as they walk to their school.

Jotaro is in the lead with his hands resting in his pockets. Ichigo and Orihime are walking beside each other behind him.

As they walk they cross paths with Tatsuki.

"Jotaro" She narrows her eyes at him.

He just walks past her after giving her a smirk.

Tatsuki glares at Jotaros back as he keeps walking.

"Tatsuki, you alright?" Orihime asks

"Yeah, it's just Jotaro being himself" She starts walking beside Orihime while Ichigo is on Orihimes other side.

"You normally are pretty level headed. But when it comes to Jotaro you always go all 'Hostile mode'. " Orihime raises her hands and makes a clawing motion towards Jotaro ahead of them.

"It's his fault!" She defends herself.

"You know, if you give him a chance and don't actively try and provoke him he's pretty alright" Orihime taps her chin while she looks up. Then she remembers. "Oh! If we can give him a reason to hang out with us then I'm sure he will!"

"And what reason would that be?" Ichigo asks.

"Hmmmm. I've lived with him for a few years, and he doesn't really do anything that we can bait him with….." Orihime is stumped.

Tatsuki looks at Jotaro's back. "Does he still like cats?"

The three of them remember their childhood and how Jotaro would take off in a sprint whenever there was a cat.

It was at this time they saw a black cat jump from a wall behind Jotaro towards him.

Their eyes widen as Jotaro turns sideways and the cat goes past him. As it goes past his shoulder Jotaro catches the cat.

He then puts the cat on his left shoulder and it lays down there.

"Did he just…" Tatsuki starts asking.

"…..catch a cat that he shouldn't have seen?" Ichigo finishes.

"Yeah. And now that cat is just on his shoulder" Orihime says.

They see Jotaro per the cats head as he walks.

"Maybe he isn't so bad after all…." Tatsuki whispers to herself.

They see the cat rub it's cheek against the back of Jotaro's hair and try to bite it. Jotaro just tried to move his hair away from the cats mouth. But the cat ends up pawing at it instead now.

"Yoruichi, why…." Jotaro doesn't appreciate her trying to do whatever it is she's doing.

"Are you going to school?" He looks at the cat who basically says yes by closing its eyes, turning its head, and smiles a little.

"Yare Yare daze…." He continues on his way.

"It looks so soft~" Orihime wants to pet it, but know she shouldn't pet it without it's permission first.

"He always was a cat freak. Now he has a freak cat. Ironic" Ichigo sees the weird behavior of the cat.

Tatsuki wonders why Jotaro is so fascinated with cats. And it seems she might get her answer soon.

They get to school and everybody looks at Jotaro with the cat on his shoulder. But nobody tries to stop him as he clears a path to their class.

He gets to his seat. The seat closest to the window at the back of the classroom. Also better known as the protagonist seat.

Once he pulls his chair back Yoruichi jumps off his shoulder and lands on the desk. The sun is shining through the window and basking her in light and warming her up.

Jotaro sets his bag down on the ground and sits down. He pets her back and scratches between her shoulder blades. She's laying on the desk, curled up.

Ichigo, Orihime and Tatsuki walk in and see Jotaro. He's petting the cat that's basking in the morning sun.

"How long do you think the cat will stay?" Ichigo asks.

"Until the teacher comes, I guess" Tatsuki says as she walks to her desk.

Orihime looks at Jotaro who seems happier than usual. She wants to ask him if he wants to hang out after school, but decides against it.

A different teacher walks into the class. She has long brown hair that's pulled into a ponytail. She has black eyes with glasses.

She has a clipboard in her hand and she moves behind the teachers podium.

"My name is Misato Ochi, and I will be your teacher for the rest of the year. Your previous teacher was, moved to a different class. Something about a problem Class just waiting to form…..Is that a cat?" She was cheerful but still serious as she began her introduction, then she spotted a cat on a desk at the back of the class. The student who's desk had the cat was said to be Jotaro Kujo. He seemed big and scary, but she didn't believe that to be the case.

Everyone already knew about the cat, how could they not. Animals aren't allowed inside the building. The students all turned in their seats to see Jotaro's reaction.

He was still petting the cat when he heard the teacher. He had his usual neutral expression as he looks down at the cat. He looks up and sees a that the entire class is looking at him. And then he just goes back to looking at Yoruichi who was stretching while laying on the desk.

"Okkk…" Misato Ochi decides to just ignore the obvious delinquent. "So we will start with attendance…." She calls out the names of students and everyone is present. She then gets class started and all is good.

School was boring for Jotaro, but at least Yoruichi kept it interesting for him. He just spent his time doing nothing. He appreciated the teacher not asking him questions, she most likely heard what he did the previous day.

After class ended a few students were looking at the cat. They wanted to pet it, but we're afraid of Jotaro.

A few girls work up the courage and approach Jotaro.

"H-hi" she waves at him. It's just a random girl in his class with long brown hair.

Jotaro looks at her but doesn't respond. His arms are crossed across his chest.

"Uhmmm….We where wondering if we could pet your cat" She seemed scared while asking. She also had her friends behind her. She apparently was the leader.

"Y-You're Jotaro Kujo right?" She was trying to start a conversation.

Jotaro stood up. He looked down on the 5 foot whatever girls.

"Move" He grabs his bag and walks through the people who started to crowd around the back of the classroom.

As Jotaro left the desk, Yoruichi jumped down and walked behind him. After they got through the group of students she walked beside Jotaro.

As they were about to leave Yoruichi jumped onto his leg digging her claws in.

Jotaro stopped walking mid stride. He stopped walking and looked down at the cat who was on his calf.

"Yare Yare….." Jotaro reached down and picked Yoruichi up by the scruff nape of her neck. It didn't hurt her but she didn't like being picked up like this so she squirmed. Jotaro was able to get her off his leg and then he held her out in front of him. Yoruichi stopped struggling and just dangled in front of him.

He then put her on his shoulder and she sat down. When Jotaro started walking again she didn't fall off or even budge like one would expect.

Jotaro could hear the girls making sounds as he left. Apparently highschool girls like the bad boy vibe. Jotaro shook his head. He though about where he would go for the day. He just decided to go for a walk around town.

Nothing really happened. He ended up grabbing something to eat and got some milk for the cat on his shoulder.

When he was heading back home he saw Ichigo turn the corner ahead of him. He kept walking and saw Ichigo smashing the face of a skateboarder into the pavement. Like each kick drove the dudes face deeper into the pavement.

It was also about this time he felt something appear in the town. It was different. Jotaro figured it was Rukia, he also felt 2 hollows appear together but disappear just as quick.

He was brought back to the scene infront of him when Ichigo called the skateboarder and his friend scum and pointed to the vase that was knocked over.

Ichigo asked the guy in the middle what they thought the vase was for. He answered that somebody left the flowers for some kid who got killed here.

"Correct!!" Ichigo kicks the dudes face. The guy falls backwards while his feet stayed on the ground. It looks like he was trying to do a 'backbend'.

Ichigo asked them why it was knocked over. They said that one of them knocked it over as they were skating through. Ichigo then kicks the two skaters still standing.

Ichigo has a fire burning behind him as he shouts down at them. "Now go and apologize or else the next time the flowers will be for you!"

The skaters scream and hold eachother in fear. Then they shout their apologies as they try and run away. They trip over each other as they flee.

Jotaro walks to the vase and stands across from it.

"There. That ought to keep those punks from showing their ugly faces around here" Ichigo sounds content with his actions as he watches them leave.

"Sorry about all that. I'll bring some new flowers by tomorrow…." He turns around and sees Jotaro standing by the little girl hiding behind a lamppost next to the vase.

The little girl is floating and has a chain hanging from her chest. She's hiding from Jotaro but is able to look to Ichigo. "Thank you for coming to my defense. I think now I'll finally be able to rest peacefully". She sounds grateful as her voice sounds like it has an ethereal echo to it. Maybe even some chimes hidden in her tone as well.

Ichigo walks to the vase and stands it up. He ignores Jotaro. "No problem. It's the least I could do. After all, you deserve to Rest In Peace" He turns around and starts walking away and sends a wave as he walks away.

The girls disappears as Jotaro watches her fade away. He wants to help her pass on but knows it isn't her time yet.

"So you can tell the difference now" Jotaro says still looking where the girl was.

Ichigo stops. "Yeah. So what?"

"I remember when you couldn't tell the difference between the living and the dead. How can you tell now?" Jotaro speaks in his deep monotone voice.

"Why are you so interested now? After my mom died you left to do your own things. Didn't even bother sticking around for Yuzu and Karins sake. They still ask what your up to you know? Your mom stops by every now and then and they ask her. Apparently you can't even stay at home either. Hope that job is worth it" He glares at Jotaro over his shoulder.

"Yare Yare" Jotaro moves his hat lower.

"Ichigo. You also didn't take your mother's death well. You'll soon learn why I've been busy with my job. And then you'll understand. I won't apologize for my actions. I don't expect you to understand either. How about we start over" Jotaro turns to face Ichigo.

Ichigo turns around and has his arms crossed as he looks at Jotaros giant build. He thinks about it. Jotaro used to be his best friend. But he wasn't there when he needed him the most. Then again, he also wasn't there either. Ichigo knows he pushed everyone away, and even if they asked him if he needed help he pushed them farther away. He's glad Orihime and Tatsuki forgave him after he stopped going through that phase. But nobody was really there for Jotaro, but he never really got out of that phase. Ichigo decided to give him another chance. Maybe Orihime was right.

"Fine" Ichigo walked up to Jotaro and held his hand out for Jotaro to shake. "The names Ichigo Kurosaki. My family lives around here at the Kurosaki Clinic". Ichigo spoke in his rougher voice like when he felt with the skateboarders.

"Jotaro Kujo". Jotaro shakes Ichigo's hand. "Mind if I say hello to Yuzu and Karin" Jotaro still doesn't have emotion in his voice. And he lets Ichigo's hand go.

Ichigo looks at the cat on Jotaro's shoulder. "So you found the cat for you huh? You chased every cat you saw, you dropped whatever you were doing and chased them"

Yoruichi claws Jotaro's face and jumps off of

his shoulder and runs away.

"Damn feline" Jotaro touched the mark on his face.

"The cat is the best one I found. However, it normally isn't so moody. Found it a few years ago" Jotaro wipes the blood off his cheek leaving three lines.

"Huh, at least you have a reason to come to the clinic now" Ichigo turns around and they walk to his house.

They walk in silence until Ichigo speaks up.

"So how tall are you now? Like 6'3"? I only know one other guy our age near your height"

"6'5". And it's that guy you saved from those delinquents a while back I assume"

"Yeah. His names Yasutora Sado. But he prefers Chad" Ichigo looks at the setting sun. "And how did you get so buff? I've worked out over the years but haven't gotten any muscle like you have. Did you take steroids?" Ichigo jokes a bit.

"The muscles and build run in my family. The guys look like this while the women are like top-tier models"

Ichigo looks at Jotaro weirdly.

"Not my words. They're my father's. Haven't seen or heard from him, but it was written in some book about our family. The pages were ripped out except for a few. That was written on it" Jotaro and Ichigo turn down a different street and they can see the Kurosaki clinic.

"Yuzu and Karin are gonna be surprised at least. Maybe my old man will act normal with you there" Ichigo shakes his head.

Jotaro says nothing as Ichigo opens the door to the house and walks in with Jotaro behind him.

They take their shoes off and then walk into the dining room.