Chapter 2

Hummer's POV

I looked around, this was our team to rescue this girl, Me, Ichigo, Orihime, Sado, and Ishida Urya. Not gonna lie I didn't have much hope for a squad like this but I wasn't gonna back out, I've always wanted to see the place Mom comes from.

"Wait how is that guy you're kid?!" Ichigo yelled "I mean…you're a talking cat!"

"I'm adopted you moron!" I rolled my eyes.

"What did you call me?!"

"We don't have time to bicker." Mom said jumping onto my shoulder "Now stay focused once the gate opens go in and don't look back and no matter what don't stop running."

"The moment it opens dash in." Urahara explained.

"Kon look after my body yeah!" Ichigo said as the giant gate in front of us glowed.

"It's open now go!"

"YEAAHHH!"

I wandered in after the others, the light flash was blinding, but on the other side was some sort of purgatory like hell, an in between world of life and death.

"Whoa…"

"Don't zone out!" Mom yelled "Or you'll be swallowed up when the gate closes!"

The way back closed behind us in a noxious cloud of death, just one misstep and it would drag you in, suffocating your soul out of this world.

"It's catching up!" Ishida yelled.

"If you have time to look back you have time to run!" Mom yelled "Get caught and it's all over!"

"GAH!"

The smoke reached out and grabbed Ishida.

"It's got him!" Ichigo yelled drawing his sword "It's because he's got that stupid cape on!"

"Don't!" Mom yelled "If you use a Soul Cutter it will drag you in too!"

"RAHH!"

Sado, or Chad as Ichigo calls him, grabbed Ishida and ripped the cape off, freeing the glasses wearing boy.

"Let's go." He said throwing Ishida over his shoulder.

"I can run on my own put me down!" Ishida whined "Wait…something's coming!"

"Hmm?"

A large blob of tentacles and slime rolled behind us chewing up what was in the way.

"What is that thing?" I yelled.

"That would be Seimichio." Mom explained "A glorified janitor that comes out once a week to clean this place out, we've got really bad luck for this to be the day. Don't worry we're almost to the exit, we'll make it if we don't slow down!"

"What are you talking about its two steps behind us!" Ishida yelled.

"Summon!"

Orihime turned around and waved her hands, a triangle shield of light formed and blocked the beast as we slipped through the gate. When we hit the gate we got launched out the other side but luckily Orihime's shield just moved around and caught us.

"Huh, is everyone alright?" she asked.

"Just fine." I groaned rubbing my face.

"That was unexpected." Ishida said "To think I would need my backup cape so soon."

"Why do you have a backup cape?!" Ichigo and I yelled.

"Are you stupid!" Mom scratched the girl "You're lucky it was just the shield if it touched tha main body you'd have been killed!"

"S-Sorry." Orihime frowned.

"Don't be so angry." I said.

"Yeah thanks to Inoue we all made it here." Ichigo said.

"You don't understand the situation at all." Mom sighed.

"The smoke's clearing." Ishida pointed out.

We looked around, the place was like some old fashioned feudal village, huts and houses all around, barren dirt for a road and the trees were either rotting or half dead.

This is Soul Society?" Ichigo asked.

"I always imagined someplace more…futuristic." I said "Like a city with big white ivory towers and golden trimming on the windows."

"This is the outskirts, Ryuutama Shikai." Mom explained "This is the place where souls live when they first come here, it's located around the Seireitai, where the Shinigami reside. We're currently in the poorest but most free area, the one with the most souls."

"Then where is everyone?" Ishida asked.

"Look." Ichigo pointed "The streets over there aren't much different from the one's we live on."

"Oh those." Mom nodded "That's-"

"That's where the Shinigamis live!" Ichigo took off "I'm going first!"

"Stop you idiot!" Mom yelled "You can't just go in there!"

The sky rumbled and huge wooden pallets fell from the sky, surrounding the city in a ring like gate.

"Kurosaki!" Orihime yelled.

"He triggered a trap." I commented.

"It's been a long time since someone tried to come in without a pass." A voice said.

"Holy crap." I gulped.

A man appeared out of nowhere, and he was a giant, like a huge gorilla…with a Fez.

"I finally have something to do." He said "I'll be good to you kid."

The big guy pulled out and axe and slammed it down in front of Ichigo.

"Alright, bring it on kid, anyway you want."

"Who is he?" Ishida asked "He surely can't be human with a body like that."

"His name is Jidanbou." Mom explained "The guardian of this gate."

"So we gotta get passed him to enter?" I asked.

"Yes but it won't be easy, seeing as no one has passed him since he became the guardian 300 years ago." She said "Ichigo retreat so we can think up a plan!"

That plan went over like a cool breeze, no one paid her much mind and Chad and Orihime only tried to get involved but Jidanbou stopped them saying it was a duel between men and they shouldn't interfere.

Stubborn Ichigo won anyway and got the giant to open the gate for us.

"You're gonna let us pass?" Orihime smiled.

"You're boss defeated me a loser like me has no right to stand in the way." Jidanbou said.

"He's not our boss!" Ishida and I yelled pointing at Ichigo.

"The enemies inside are strong." The gatekeeper said grabbing the gate "I'm opening the gate now."

"HMMMMAAAA!" the gate grinded on the tracks and rose up to give us a view.

"Whoa!" We all yelled "He's really strong!"

Hey…why isn't he going in?" Ichigo asked "Something wrong."

"Hmm?" I felt a knot in my stomach "This pressure…"

I looked passed the giant and saw a man standing there, he was skinny with a sharp chin, his eyes were closed and slanted, he felt like a snake ready to bite anyone around him.

"Who's this guy?" Ichigo asked.

"Stay back." I put my arm on his shoulder "This is one of the strong ones, I can tell."

"He's the Third Division's Leader." Jidanbou explained "Ichimaru Gin."

"Ah…this won't do." The man said stepping forward.

In a blink there was a quick flash, and the giant's arm went flying off.

What the hell?!

"The gatekeeper shouldn't be opening the door." Gin explained.

"What the hell did he do?" Ichigo asked looking back and the arm, it was spraying out blood like a fountain.

"Still holding the door up with just one arm?" the man asked "I see why your among the elite of Soul Society."

I clenched my fist ready to fight is I had to, but…I didn't think I should go running in just yet, especially since Mom was giving me a cat eyed glare.

"Because I lost." Jidanbou explained "A guardian should open the door when he loses, that's only natural."

"What are you even talking about?" Gin sighed "The guardian doesn't open the door when he loses, if he 'lost' that would mean he's dead."

He went to draw his sword and I flashed in blocked his draw with my fist.

"Wow, nice Shunpo." He smirked.

"That fight is over, we won our right to enter fair and square." I told him "If you're so eager to fight than I'll take you out."

"Never mind." He pulled his sword back and turned away.

"Fleeing because things didn't go your way?" I asked.

"Hummer get out of there!" Mom yelled.

"No, just repositioning." Gin smiled holding his sword up "Shoot Him Shinsou!"

A beam shot out and flew at me, I held my hands up to grab it, getting pushed all the way back and into the gaint.

"Son of a bitch!" I broke the attack and punched at him.

"You can't hit him from there!" Ishida warn.

"Air Shot!"

The air concussed into a blast and flew forward towards the man, unfortunately with no one holding it the gate slammed shut and my attack only dented the wood.

"Damn." I stood up and shook my hands "I thought I could at least hit him with a parting shot."

"Sorry everyone." I said "Because of me the door's closed again, I was brought along to help you but I just ended up getting you stuck."

"No point in wallowing in it." Mom said "It's for the best, had you passed through with Ichimaru there the results would have been worse."

"Hmm…people." Ichigo pointed out turning around "We're they hiding?"

There were various people coming out of the houses around us, curious about what was happening.

"Can't blame them for hiding, anyone not brought by a Shinigami is considered an outsider." Mom explained "They hid because they were afraid you were trouble makers."

"Are they dangerous?" I asked.

"no, they showed themselves willingly so I doubt they intend to harm us." She said.

"Let me through!" a little boy pushed his way through the crowd to the front of the line "Hi, it's me! Shibata, the parakeet!"

"It's him!"

They know this kid…and what does he mean by Parakeet?

"I have some things to discuss." Mom wandered off "Catch up with me tonight."

Later

"Good your all here." She said as we sat around a map she drew in some house "We have to discuss our plan for tonight and tomorrow."

"Since the door has been opened security will have increased dramatically." She said "So we can't use the gate anymore."

"What about a different gate?" Chad asked.

"Too far away." Mom said "We'd waste most of our time. We'll just have to go in without a gate. Where's Shiba Kukaku, the place used to be around here wasn't it?"

"You intend to get in that way?" the old man Mom had been talking to said.

"What's he mean?" I asked.

"GAH!"

The back door panel of the house fell over as some guy stumbled in.

"An Intruder?" we all stood up.

We looked at the hole in the wall and saw a boar trot in.

"I got thrown off that boar." The man said "Hey Old Man."

"Ganju!" the elder snapped "Why are you here go home!"

"I came to visit why you being so mean, your scaring the guests."

"No you are!"

"Hmm?" the man looked at Ichigo and I "What are a couple of punk ass Shinigami doing here."

"Tsk." I sighed "I think we just picked a fight without knowing it."