To Survive

Author: Airith

BLEACH BELONG(S) TO TITE KUBO.

Warning(s):SLASH, Ghoul!Toshiro, IchiHitsu.

Rated M for Gores and Swearing.

Chapter 1

Monday, August 16/Parallel World

8:00 AM

"Hey kid! You-yeah, you! What are you doing here?"A voice called over the white-haired boy's shoulder as he suppressed a sigh. Aren't cops supposed to hunt down Ghouls that had done something illegal, likes murder? The last time he checked, he only witnessed a murder scene, not cooperated in a murder scene.

And did that guy just called him by the K word? This is not going to end well.

Toshiro got into thinking position for seconds just to piss the man off before he raised his eyebrows,"Walking?"

The man narrowed his eyes,"That makes it even more suspicious. Kids your age should be in school with their teachers watching over them by now. Why are you out here lounging around?"

Toshiro tucked one of his hand into his pocket and clutching his sketchbook tighter as he saw the policeman's posture shifted a little, his hands was on his hip, where his gun is located nearby, though the man made no movement of grabbing it.

"I'm home-schooled,"He lied smoothly with no signs of nervousness or deceit in his tone.

"Sure, and I'm President of Japan. If you said that you're home-schooled then I'll escort you to your house,"The police officer said persistently as he grabbed Toshiro's arm before pulling him forward.

Bad choice.

If Toshiro didn't have half of the people on the street shot him dirty looks then he would had already devoured this annoying wanna-be good guy ages ago.

"Oh my, Shiro-chan, why are you standing out here?"

He didn't act surprise though he was mentally widened his eyes in a bewildered manner, it was quite unexpected, even for him to stay calm.

They both turned around with the cops blushed upon placing his gaze on Rize, while Toshiro was glancing at the other out of a corner of his eyes with a 'are you kidding me' expression.

"Mr. Officer, do you have some business with my brother?"She asked again as the woman titled her head to the side attractively, causing the blush on the man's face to reddened.

Toshiro bets all of his money that the guy was staring at Rize's slightly exposed chest, and what more? she was doing it on purposed.

Dangerous woman. Must avoided at all cost. Looked like his grandma never told him that.

"No, of course not, Miss! I was just going to escort your brother back home since inactive area is very dangerous! Not to mention accidents had happened more recently, we're only doing our duty!"

Rize smiled kindly, though Toshiro imagined it as an evil smirk instead,"Thank you so much, Mr. Officer. We lived around here, so would you like to come and have some tea?"

Though he considered himself a good guy and all, he's not going to stop Rize this time, he didn't think that he could even if he tried, seeing the eager face of that cop.

He needed new materials to draw anyway, walking had became really boring for him after four hours of doing just that.

"So, with that done, you aren't going to thank me or something, dear brother of mine?"Rize asked as she thrown her victim arm at Toshiro's direction, smirking satisfied.

Toshiro kicked the incoming human's arm away without looking at it before refocused his attention back to his sketch, his hand still moved hurriedly along the smooth, white paper,"No, thank you, I'll rather die."He twitched his eyes as once again, a tiny spot of blood became visible on his drawing.

"Every times, Rize, every times."He ripped the paper off forcibly while grumbled,"A sketchbook is mean to keep clean and white. Do you know how many pages I had lost because of your-"

He paused, slightly startled by the sound of footsteps thumping against the creaked hall outside. He keeps quiet while glancing to Rize as the woman also does the same, her eyes gleamed with irritation,"Tch. That landlady again..."She whispered before dumped the lifeless body into a room-which Toshiro assumed was the bathroom, seeing as how the smells of soap and dry bloods inside stinks, that his nose almost squinted in disapproval-with her Kagune.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

Two times.

Three times, Rize looked at him while raised an eye brown as if to say 'Go answer the door, what are you waiting for?'.

He countered with 'Are you kidding me?' before her current state of clothes passed his mind. Right, the woman was reek with fresh bloods, can't go answer the door. Still not the reason why he of all people, have to answer the freaking damn door, with how suspicious he looks and shit-or so they said, not him.

"Fine fine, considering I'm paying back to you, then."Toshiro placed his sketchbook on the table that he was currently sitting on before hopped down, he rolled his eyes at Rize folded her arms, scowling.

"Cheeky brat. I expect more than that."

"...Tch, I'll give you the novel that you keep squealing about or whatever it is. Hurry up and go change."

The lavender-haired woman opened her mouth to reply, though she figured now is not the right time so she settled it with a wink instead and marched into a room in the far corner.

Troublesome.

The bell rang the four times as Toshiro slowly reached for the doorknob, what is wrong with people and their impatience-ness these days?

"Ah, Rize-san? Thank goodness, I thought you were-"Upon opening the door, the sight of a middle-aged woman with a frightening look gazed back at him as she stepped back defensively,"You-Who are you!? I-I'm calling the polices-"The woman stumbled out each words, he can clearly taste the panicking tone in the landlady's voice.

Polite much? This seems to happen to him-and only him-more than once. He would had said that they're a bunch of racist retards if he was not also a Japanese.

"Calm down, please. I'm her brother."He lets it slip as he found no other better excuse that could make the old woman-and surely too lively, to scream so loud-calmed down.

Oh, so now he has admitted of being Rize's brother, the world must hated him a lot. Irony enough, he hated the world, too. Maybe it's mutual relationship.

"H-How do I know that you are t-telling the true!?"She seemed to settle down a little bit, though he can just catch the pure distrust in her eyes,

He sighed, must he goes through with this again?"I can't force you to trust me, but I haven't do anything to you either. We can call my sister as the last option, how about it?"Without another word, he turned back inside and called with a blank tone,"Rize, a hot guy is looking for you."

Within minutes, Rize was walking toward him with a brand new purple tank top, a white long skirt and her hair was combed but was still wet, not to mention, he can smell about a ton of perfumes aroma on her body. She gave up a perfect appearance of someone who just finished showering.

He sneezed out of his too sensitive nose as Rize ruffled his hair lovingly that it's scary,"Who is it?"She queried and poked her head outside,"Oh, hello there, landlady."

The woman placed her hand on her chest, relief upon seeing the girl that she was so familiar with,"Oh, thank goodness, you're okay...Excuse me for being rude, you don't see a lot of new faces around here, so I was scared..."She tried to explain while looking slightly embarrassed,"I'm so sorry about that, young man."

He resisted the urge to snort, she was clearly still scared of him, with how both of her hands dangled together and a cold sweat rolling down her cheek,"Whatever."Seriously, whatever. He's done with noisy old woman, all they do is gossiping and spearing rumors.

"Now now, Shiro-chan,"Rize scolded as the white-haired boy give her a look before retreated back inside,"I'm sorry, he's very shy with stranger. He's a real sweetheart if you get to know him..."

"I object. I'm certainly anything but sweet."

"Ahahaha,"Rize chortled as though that she has never heard his comment. Toshiro gave up, he can never understand that woman and how her mind works,"What can I do for you, landlady?"

"Kamishiro-chan, I know this is a bit weird to say this to a woman...But Hayashi-san had been complaining about a 'smell' coming from your room. I was wondering if you know anything about it...?"

Toshiro took no interests in the conversation as he had long knew the reasons why her room had a 'smell'. He browsed the bookcase in the living room instead, hopefully, there will be a book that would 'spark' his curiosity.

"Oh my, that's too bad...I'm sorry. I have accumulated some 'garbage' and 'trash'...I think that's surely the reason..."She apologized while bowing a little, her wet hair drifted to one side of her shoulder,"I'll definitely get rid of it and apologize to Hayashi-san, too."

The landlady chimed in delight,"Okay then, that'll be fine. I'm sorry about this."

As soon as the woman left, Rize closed the door noiselessly until a thought crossed her mind,"Oh my, I'm late for the meeting..."

"What was that?"

She shrugged as she trekked toward the refrigerator,"Just some boring meeting that Ghouls in this Ward have to come."She opened it before examined the flesh that she had also stored inside,"Since you're so inactive, they probably don't even know you exit."

Toshiro did a double-take before he conceded that there isn't any books that he hadn't read on the rack,"Good. I hated meeting."

"And half of the creatures existed in this world-No, wait, it should be the world itself that you hated right?"Rize said with sardonic edge in her voice as she stuffed her 'food' inside a bag,"You don't need to answer, I know I'm right."

"Such confidence you have,"He mumbled as he retrieved his sketchbook from the table,"By the way, I'm going to leave this Ward soon."

"What a coincidence, so am I."

"Figured. Did the boredom finally got to you, Mrs. Binge Eater?"

She stuffed the flesh into her bag and closed the refrigerator,"All of it, yes. This town, its people, the peers...boring."She smirked,"Including you, of course."

"Splendid. I would be worry if I did entertained someone, much less a killer."He cajoled inevitably,"And where would your destination be?"

"Ah ah, that's the private line there, Shiro-chan."

He shrugged,"Don't get the wrong idea, I just wanted to make sure that I won't ended up in the same Ward with you. Coincidence and all, that would still be scary."He snapped,"And it's Hitsugaya to you."

Rize laughed,"I hoped so, too. Being around with you make me felt soft all of a sudden,"She padded into the kitchen casually after she had finished packing her stuff into the bag, you can clearly see a cut-off head with a shocked expression if you looked from outside,"Coffees?"

Toshiro glanced at the tickling clock in the wall, it was still early, and he was also thirsty, so..."Why not?"

Monday, August 16

Shinigami World

? P.M

"Ichigo..."A soft voice spoked,"Are you sure about this...?"Rukia scowled as the orange-haired boy escaped from his body and stand next to himself.

He smiled just like usual, though a hint of sadness still lingered in his eyes, making Rukia's heart ached a little,"No worries. I got this."He resurrected her with a pat on her head.

He was expecting her to swat his hand away actually, instead of stomping down on him, she hugged him, causing the taller male to blink, completely caught off guard.

"Ichigo, are you rea-Oh, did we interrupted you in a middle of something...?"Urahara waved his fan with a sly smile,"We could always come back later if you want~"

Yoruichi also raised a brow at the scene while smirking,"So you decided to cheat on Toshiro, eh? Not bad for a guy..."

An appalled look blossomed on his face as he defended,"N-No I'm not! I hardly think of this shorty as a girl-"

SLAM

"Not the chin, midget! Oww-Sorry, alright!?"

"Eh? So you like cheating guy, Yoruichi-san?"Urahara perked up curiously,"Just so you know...I also have a lot of ladies following after me-"

"Actually, a guy cheating on another girl is fine with me, but if he was my boyfriend, I'll turn him into nothingness. Literally, of course."

The blond shop-owner shut up immediately after that before decided to change the subject,"I hated to break it to you, but the gate is only open for another five minutes. Better hurry now!"

The substitute Shinigami nodded as Rukia released him from her grip,"You better bring him back, got it!? Don't you go and die or I'll kill you myself!"

Ichigo raked his hair through his finger,"When you put it like that...Should I said yes or not saying anything?"He deadpanned at her ridiculous logic.

"Technically, we just have to wait a few hours, seeing as how the parallel world's timeline is not the same as our-"

"Shup it, Geta-boushi."

Ichigo huffed as he thrown a small device up and caught it again with a sharp swept of his hand,"I know exactly what to do from here, so just go enjoy your cups of tea while I faced this life-or-dead situation."He said confidently while a loud laugh echoed in his head,

I said shut it, Shiro!

'I swear King, the only time that ya got so worked up is when that brat is concerned. Remember how a few days ago ya were all angst-y and shit-'

Oh, so you want me to keep angst-y and flooded the inner world, Huh? Fine, let's just stay in this world and-

'Actually no, spare my computer. Just go and saved the fuckin' brat already. It's still rainin' in here, and it's dam' uncomfortable.'

Ichigo snorted as he swung around and headed for the strange, white vortex-like gate that lead to the other world-the world where Toshiro was reincarnated in.

'So, what are ya going to do after ya found 'im?'

Isn't it obvious? I'm going to kiss him to death then making sure he can't walk the day after-

'Woah, there. Hold ya horses, ya do know that I wasn't asking about ya sex-life, right?'

Same.

'Some wild fantasy ya have there, it almost made me felt embarrassed.'

You do know that we shared a mind, right?

'Same.'

He decided to end their conversation as a strong radiant blinded him, The gate had opened.

"...Wait for me, Toshiro. I'm coming to get your ass back here."He grumbled before letting his legs guided him inside.

'That sounded wrong as fuck.'

Shut up.

Tilicia:Gracias. Voy a hacer mi mejor!💕💕

Fluffy-Tuna:Thank you. I'm definitely finishing this XD💖

Angy:⭐️Thank you! I will!⭐️