Reincarnated redhead meets a dangerous gangster

[Kurosaki Clinic - A few minutes earlier…]

"Ichi-nii! Wake up! It's time for breakfast! You'll be late to school!" 

A loud voice echoed through the house, reaching Ichigo's room.

"Ugh." 

He woke up with a grunt, sitting up. 

"Today's the first day, huh."

After getting into his uniform, Ichigo left the room.

Downstairs, a young girl with short light colored hair was making breakfast, wearing a light orange apron over her pink dress. She was Ichigo's sister, Yuzu.

"Aaand ready." She said while looking at a perfectly fried egg on the pan. 

"Looks delicious!" A smile formed on her face.

On the other side of the counter was a table, where another young girl with black hair was eating silently. This was Yuzu's twin sister, Karin.

As Yuzu made her way around the counter while carrying the pan, hurried steps sounded from the stairs.

"I'm leaving!" Ichigo's voice sounded.

Hearing his words, she was distraught.

"Wha- Onii-chan, what about breakfast?"

Ichigo didn't stop, however.

"Sorry, Yuzu! I'll be back after lunch, so leave it there for me!" He shouted an apology while leaving the house from the side.

As he left, Ichigo could hear Yuzu lament, "Geez, I already fried the eggs~"

After passing through the gate and getting to the street, he saw something peculiar. A young man with crimson hair and aquamarine eyes, wearing the same uniform as him, was mumbling and talking to himself as he stared at his house and the clinic.

The fellow student's facial expressions varied greatly as the seconds went on, and whoever it was, they had successfully attracted Ichigo's attention, as he approached to see what this was all about.

'What's with this guy? He looks kind of tough, but also like a nerd at the same time.' Ichigo got closer, noticing the shape of Renn's muscles underneath the uniform. The guy's constant mumbling didn't help establishing a cool impression, however.

'He's talking about being some sort of mob, and how a normal human would have their soul sucked out… is he crazy?' He imagined the person in front of him had possibly hit his head.

"Hey." Ichigo greeted, but there was no response except for more random mumbles.

'Now he's talking about a guy with glasses, vampires and a king who's about to revive himself…' He started wondering if he should tell his father to take in a new patient in the clinic.

"Hey, you've been staring at my house for quite some time already..." Ichigo called once more, but was completely ignored another time.

A vein throbbed on his forehead, 'Is he doing this on purpose? There's no way, right?' The guy now even started talking about having died once already and getting a transformation. 

"You bastard, I'm talking to you!" Ichigo was starting to get annoyed.

At that moment, he was almost believing that the guy was just lost in thought, but right then, Ichigo heard his own name come out, 'Oh, this little shit.'

A few more veins bulged, and he snapped, throwing a kick towards the young man in front of him while screaming, "Hey, you dumbass! HOW LONG DO YOU PLAN TO IGNORE ME, HUH?!"

To Ichigo's surprise, the guy easily blocked it. He seemed to be really lost in thought previously, getting surprised and shouting, "What was the kick for, you crazy?!"

"Hm?" After looking at Ichigo, his mouth went agape in surprise. "What the... You're actually Ichigo!!"

"Hah? Do we know each other?" Ichigo was confused, looking back doubtfully at the person in front of him.

The latter looked stunned for a moment, before recovering his composure and answering, "I've heard some things about you. Anyway, why the sudden kick?" 

"Why? You kept ignoring me while staring at my house mumbling!" Ichigo was still a little annoyed, almost rolling his eyes.

Hearing his words, the other party, Ren, was stumped, his cheeks reddening slightly from embarrassment, 'I was so distracted I didn't notice I was mumbling.'

He shook his head lightly before saying, "Sorry about that, I was a little distracted. I'm Renn W- Ashikawa Ren, haha..." 

'That was close. I'm not used to the new name.' Ren rubbed the back of his head as the thought came.

Deciding it was better to steer the conversation in a different direction, he asked, "Hey, are you also going to attend Karakura High School?"

"Huh? Ah, yeah. I am making my way there now." Ichigo blinked before answering.

'This is a good chance.' Ren thought and asked, "Can you show me the way?"

"Hah?! Why would I?" Ichigo didn't feel like it.

"C'mon man, I just moved to that house after coming back from overseas, so I'm actually your neighbor." Ren said while pointing at his house. It was technically true that he didn't know the way to school since he was relying on a map, so there was no problem with asking for some help.

Ichigo's face showed a bit of surprise, "You're the one living there? Alone?"

"Haha, yeah, I used to live here in Karakura for some time when I was a kid." Ren's brain sped up to keep the information accurate.

"I see." Ichigo looked at the house for a few moments, before turning around, "Okay then, today's the first day, so we have to make it in time for the opening ceremony."

Ren smiled, 'He's stubborn and hot-headed, but a nice guy at heart.' He felt that Ichigo was just like his anime counterpart before everything started.

"Thanks." He said, before walking along.

[In a certain apartment in Karakura...]

A young man held a flip phone to his ears, hearing the voice coming from it.

"Mizuiro, where are you? Didn't you hear what I said last night? I told you not to call me because I'd be busy! You're always like this... You could at least put yourself in my place an-"

There was a deadpan look in his eyes as Mizuiro ended the call prematurely. He remained silent while closing the phone and putting it into his back pocket.

"Did you call your mom again? What a good boy~" A female voice approached him.

In response, he turned towards her and said with a warm smile, "I don't have a mother."

His cold words were said in a normal tone, as if completely normal. Mizuiro was a young man with short black hair parted in the middle with the tips fanning slightly outwards and a bang passing in the middle of his dark eyes.

"There you go, saying things like that. You'll make your mom cry, y'know?" The other person, an adult woman wearing a business suit, said back, "Here you go, your blazer."

Mizuiro didn't comment, taking his gray school blazer from her hands and putting it on as she walked away.

"Today's the opening ceremony, right? Should I give you a lift with my car?" She asked from the other side of the room.

After he finished adjusting his clothes, Mizuiro smiled back in response, "Thanks."

...

Some time later, a red car stopped in front of the gates leading inside the school campus, and Mizuiro got out after thanking the woman for the ride.

'A new uniform, and a new school, huh?' He walked inside, taking in the sights.

'I think I should start feeling like a normal new student now...' Thinking this, he adjusted his demeanor and posture, forming a light smile on his face, and resumed his way inside.

[...]

"Are you hearing properly?" 

A teacher was standing by the gates leading to the Karakura High School campus, monitoring the students coming in. He had stopped a duo of delinquents that were not following the school's rules.

"Anyway, this goes beyond simple school rules! Look at you, with your whole head covered in bright blonde!" The teacher said towards one of them - a tall guy with a bleached afro, bleached eyebrows, and three earrings in his left ear and a ring on his lower left lip. He looked meaner than your typical delinquent teenager, especially considering he was bigger than most.

Both him and his friend were completely ignoring the teacher's words, as when he noticed someone walking through the gates behind them, he immediately called out.

"Hey, Sado!"

Hearing his words, the target turned around, asking in a deep voice, "Hm?"

Sado was a young man even bigger than the afro blondie. He was tall and muscular, with dark skin, pronounced cheek-bones and wavy brown hair with bangs hanging over his brown eyes. Even though he was just another teenager, he looked much older than he actually was.

Blondie and his friend approached him as he stopped, saying, "Sado Yasutora! Aren't you forgetting to greet me, hm?"

Silence reigned for a moment, but just before it became awkward, Yasutora answered with another question, "Who are you?"

Hearing the other's words, afro snapped, a few veins bulging on his face and neck, "Oshima Reiichi! From Togata Middle School! Are you treating me like a fool, huh?!"

At that moment, the teacher approached, "Hey, you boys-"

"Hm?" Reiichi didn't care, however, and grabbed the teacher's collar, raising him up slightly while shouting, "Shut up! I have business with this guy!"

[In a different place inside the Karakura School campus...]

Mizuiro was looking at his phone while standing on the school grounds, when someone approached him, screaming, "Mizuiroo!"

Soon, a young man with medium brown hair arrived, waving his hands wildly with a fearful expression, "It's bad! Mizuiro!"

"Good morning, Keigo." Mizuiro simply greeted him nonchalantly, still looking at his phone.

"Hear me out! There's big trouble!" Keigo said while still acting dramatically.

"You're very energetic today, huh, Keigo." Mizuiro was unfazed.

...

After a moment of explaining once Keigo calmed down, he asked, "Chad and Kurosaki from Mashiba School?"

"Yeah, that's right! It seems both of them have enrolled here! I'm not lying!" Keigo looked distraught.

"Hm... So, why are you crying?" Mizuiro didn't care.

"You idiot!" Keigo got riled up once again, explaining while moving around exaggeratedly, "Chad and Kurosaki are two super delinquents with a high pedigree! It's said they have close relations to the Yakuza, that they sell drugs, that they go to bookstores and keep stand-reading erotic magazines for hours! There are infinite bad rumors about them!"

"Aren't those just rumors? We have never met them before, so we don't know what kind of people they are." Mizuiro said calmly while taking a handbook from his pockets.

"What are you saying?! They're Chad and Kurosaki! How could you not know who they are? One is an orange headed maniac that has been tinting his hair since he was born! The other is a 2 meters tall giant!" Keigo started babbling on again.

Mizuiro ignored him, focusing on the contents of the handbook, 'Hmm, let's see... First each class is assembled for a briefing, and then there's the ceremony.'

Looking up at a board a little further from them, Mizuiro said, "Ah, the classes are already divided on that board there. See? We're both in class 1-3."

"Y-you can read from here? You have good eyes- huh?" Keigo looked at the board for a few seconds, looking at the names on class 1-3's list.

Seeing the names Kurosaki Ichigo and Yasutora Sado on the same list, he broke, "N-no! That can't beee! Something that should never happen became a reality!!"

"What happened?" Mizuiro looked at his friend.

Keigo fell to his knees dramatically, "Our youth... is over."

"You mean yours, right?" Mizuiro commented with a smile.

Keigo was still down, "We have no future anymore." 

"You're exaggerating." His friend was exasperated..

[On a crossroads midway to Karakura High School…]

'Okay, now that's something I didn't expect to see.' Ren controlled his expression to suppress any reaction, as his mind raced to process the current situation.

He was currently standing near Ichigo and, much to his surprise, there was something in front of them. Well, two 'things', really…

The first was a small glass bottle, with water and a few fresh flowers that were just added by the two of them. This was what most people would notice at first, but the real surprise was not here.

"Hey, what happened?" Ichigo's voice sounded, but it was not directed at Ren.

A little behind the bottle stood a little girl with red eyes, light brown hair tied up in pigtails with small red beads keeping them in place. There was what could only be said to be a gruesome wound on the left side of her head, and though her bangs obscured it, the blood soaking part of her face and certain spots on her cute one-piece blue dress. She was crying, with both her hands rubbing her eyes.

So far it was already an eerie sight, but the problem was that her body was slightly transparent, and there was a chain hanging down past her knees, fixed to the middle of her chest.

'This little girl… is a spirit. And not any spirit, but the one that started everything in the canon story.'

Looking at her crying figure, Ren felt conflicted.

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Extra Titles: ("Ren casually mumbling dangerous information", "Ichigo is violent, but a softie too~", "Little girls always bring problems, especially crying ones…", "Keigo gets a reality check.", "Mizuiro Kojima, the blue-haired milf hunter.", "Chad's selective memory loss").