99 Wider World and Strawberry

"Nice to meet you kid, I'm Raja Ram."

"Kurosaki Ichigo." The once substitute Shinigami said with a smile as he shook Raja's hand with a smile and then got into the car.

"The road won't take too long, we'll be there in about twenty minutes." Raja said as the wind from the window made his bluish black hair wave back and forth.

"Cool." Ichigo said as he tried to make himself feel more happy about the situation. Spoiler alert, it didn't work.

To be perfectly honest, he hadn't felt anything close to a proper joy for almost a year. Not since the day he had sacrificed his powers to defeat Aizen and save all of his friends. Which left him as a normal human.

It hadn't been that bad at the start. He had been saying that he was missing normal life for months, and he had sacrificed those powers to protect his friends. But then the feeling of normality lost its delight and the days started to get slower. Add to that the feeling of uselessness he got every time he saw Chad, Inoue and Ishida run out of class with a super fake excuse like he used to in order to fight hollows.

It hurt.

What hurt even more was the way his friends started to treat him like he was made out of glass and put some distance between them. He understood them, he did, he was no longer the super powerful substitute Shinigami that had slapped Aizen to a safer place to fight. He was now a powerless human that could be killed by the lowest of hollows.

Still, he had been rather angry at the way his friends tried to distract him whenever another one of them went out to take care of a hollow, as if he was a moron that was just gonna run headlong towards the danger with no plan or care for his own safety.

It was only after having those thoughts he forgave the way his friends were acting around him, for he definitely was the kind of moron that would do those things. Hell, he was the kind of moron that did those things.

That was when Ichigo decided that he needed a break from... pretty much everything that reminded him of his time as a substitute Shinigami, which was pretty much all of Karakura town. And with his graduation from high school, he found the perfect way to get away from things for a while, university!

That's why he was here now, in Tokyo, away from everything that he could connect to his past as a Shinigami. Such decision obviously had some... difficulties in the form of Yuzu who had latched onto his leg and refused to let go when he brought it up. As embarrassing as it was to admit, it was only thanks to his father that he managed to calm Yuzu down and make her agree with his decision. The goat chin even offered to tell him about his past and Ichigo's mom before Ichigo left but... but the former substitute Shinigami decided that he wasn't ready yet. After all the shit he had to deal with, he would leave the definitely spiritual past of his father alone until at least one year in university.

"Hey, we're here." And here they were, in front of a huge building by beach. A building where Ichigo would be spending the rest of his university years with several other students.

"Okay, I need to check up on some stuff so you just go in and settle in your room. Then I'll show you the way to the university." Raja said with a smile as he patted Ichigo on the shoulder and walked down towards the beach where Ichigo's gaze was drawn to a girl on the beach.

She was breathtakingly beautiful and Ichigo would like to consider himself to be a not easily impressed person when it came to beauty due to spending so much time around supernaturally beautiful girls like Inoue, Rukia and even Rangiku-san. But the girl by the beach was just as beautiful as any of them with long black hair reaching her mid back, reddish brown eyes and, as rude as it might to say, a huge chest that looked even bigger than Rangiku-san's.

Realizing that he had been staring far too long, Ichigo turned his head around and walked to the building; missing the amused look from the girl on the beach.

Ichigo took a deep breath as he stood before the door. This was it. This was the true start of his normal life without being bound by the traumas of the past. As he opened the door, he couldn't help but wonder what kind of new experiences were waiting him in here.

"OUT! SAFE! YOI YOI YOI!"

"...huh?" That was the only thing Ichigo could say as he looked upon a party of bunch of men making a circle around two others with huge jugs full of beer or different bottles of alcoholic beverages in their hand. And they were all naked for some reason!

Meeting with such a bizarre sight, Kurosaki Ichigo simply closed the door with a smile on his face and took a deep breath. Then he once more looked up and opened the door while wondering what kind of new experiences were waiting him in here.

"YOI YOI NO YOI!" Only to meet the same bizarre sight.

"What is this?!" Ichigo yelled as he sunk to his knees in despair as his dreams of normal university life was seemingly running away from him.

"Hey, what's the matter kid?" Ichigo looked up at the voice and made eye contact with Raja, making hope for a proper explanation blossom in his chest.

"Raja-san, just what exactly is this?!" Ichigo cried out and Raja simply frowned before answering.

"I was actually wondering when you'd react like this." He said as he looked down and gripped his shirt.

"This shirt really doesn't suit me, right?"

"That's not the issue here!" Ichigo yelled at the man but then went quiet as he felt two hands clamp on his shoulders.

"Oya oya?"

"Oya oya oya?" The former substitute Shinigami looked up and saw the two men that had been just in the middle of the circle. Both of them were blonde, though one of them had it in a top knot while the other had it short, and both of them looked muscular enough to make Kensei the visored look small in comparison.

"Could it be..."

"...a new first year?" And both of them had demonic smiles on their faces as they looked down at Ichigo, making him wonder if it was too late to go back to Karakura.

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