Chapter 56 Ichigo's house

His car wasn't anything special. Just a normal low cost car.

Tatsuki felt disappointed but she was also glad that it wasn't something Ichigo had touched.

It wasn't like she didn't believe in him but sometimes the original should be appreciated too.

She didn't know that it might look normal from the outside. But Ichigo already modded it entirely.

His car could be said to be high class artifact grade. It used spiritual power as energy. 

Its energy would never run out due to the rate of recovery of its core being much more than it required.

"Let's go."

Ichigo then drove everyone to his house. 

It was on the border between two towns separated by a big river.

His house wasn't big and it wasn't small either.

It should be enough for a family of four to live comfortably.

When they reached the house. Orihime was the first one to go inside.

And when she was inside. She was shocked.

"Wow, This house smells really good!"

When she was inside. She was met with a very fragrant smell of flowers that would make her want to sleep right there.

It was too relaxing!

She didn't know that there was something very dangerous hiding behind that fragrant smell. 

If she were to have bad thoughts about the owner of this house. 

She would not only take the fragrant smell but also hundreds of thousands of poison into her body.

Even with supernatural physics they would die in ten minutes tops.

"Don't fall asleep here, Orihime!"

Tatsuki woke Orihime up.

She gave her silly smile. She really almost fell asleep there.

"Come here I will show you my house. You guys are the first ones that visit here. Even my mother and father still didn't know about this."

Ichigo then showed them around his house. They were amazed at how organized this place was.

"And you three can't go inside that room no matter what. Inside there is the place where I do some scientific experiments."

Orihime and Tatsuki nodded. They knew whatever he did for the experiment would be very dangerous.

As for Akeno, She knew why Ichigo forbade them. 

No, He forbade only Orihime and Tatsuki because they were just normal humans.

After the tour of his house. It was almost 18.00 o'clock.

"It is already this late. I will drive you three back home."

Ichigo wanted to drive everyone back home but.

"Ehe, Sorry Ichigo-kun but can I stay here with you today?"

Orihime asked him shyly while Ichigo looked at her in confusion.

"Why?"

It wasn't that Ichigo didn't want her to stay overnight but he wanted to know the reason.

"This morning. My house got hit by a truck!"

Orihime then showed him the news about an apartment that was actually hit by a truck.

And it was her apartment.

"How is it even possible? If I remember correctly. Your apartment is a little bit deep inside the street. And where is the truck?"

"I do not know. The news said that someone took it for investigation."

Ichigo narrowed his eyes. He looked at her destroyed apartment again and found that it wasn't a truck that destroyed it.

He looked at Akeno who nodded to him.

She knew something about it but could not speak in front of the two.

"And what about Tatsuki's house and Akeno's house. Don't misunderstand. It isn't that I don't want you to stay at my house but I am a man you know."

Orihime felt sad at first but when she knew that Ichigo didn't mind her. She became happy again.

"I can't because tomorrow I will have to go to a Karate camp and my family is already out of town to visit the relatives."

Tatsuki felt bad that she couldn't help her friend.

She then looked at Akeno.

"Tomorrow there will be many guests coming to the shrine. So we don't have enough room for her for a few days."

Akeno felt like Tatsuki. And they came to Ichigo's house earlier because they wanted to ask him to let Orihime stay with him.

Ichigo thought about it a little bit. He could let her stay with him but when he needed to go on a mission it would be very inconvenient.

But he couldn't let his friend be homeless right.

"It's okay for you to stay over at my house but I might have to go out at night from time to time to work. Is that okay with you?"

"Yes!"

Orihime was very happy that Ichigo didn't turn her down. If he were to turn her down. She wouldn't know where she should go.

"And Ichigo-kun, I have something to speak with you. Can you come with me for a bit?"

Ichigo nodded. He knew what she wanted to speak with him about. It must be related to how Orihime's Apartment was destroyed.

…

"So what really happened to her apartment, Akeno?"

Ichigo asked. He knew that it wasn't because of a truck for sure.

"Her apartment was destroyed by a hollow. That hollow target was Orihime but she was at school at that time."

Akeno extended her hand forward then a little bat appeared from her hand.

This was her familiar or shikigami.

Ichigo knew what to do with this shikigami. He caught it and then closed his eyes.

He absorbed its memories. And saw a big Hollow destroy the apartment, especially Orihime's room.

"Why…"

He didn't know why this hollow wanted to harm Orihime. But he will deal with it before it could do any irreparable damage.