AN I keep starting new fanfiction stories which is a problem. I do mean to update them but now I have too many in motion so it may take awhile. Also the reason why I did this was I think that this point in Ichigo's life was a little underrepresented in the story. Also even though it is a weird pairing I really like Ikumi x Ichigo but if you don't then I guess don't read this.

I hope you enjoy the story and if you have any ideas just let me know R&R

Ichigo was running for his life. With everything you have heard about his life you would assume it would be from a hollow or maybe a super powered traitorous soul reaper, but that is not what was going on. Unfortunately Ichigo's life had changed drastically since he lost his powers and no longer deals with those terrifying foes. He has to deal with one much worse.

Ichigo rounded the corner thinking he had lost his pursuer when he ran into a van. He fell back on the ground from the impact and locked up to see the driver of the van through the driver side window.

"Kid, why the do you think you can just skip out on work?" That's right. The woman was Ikumi Unagiya. She was a beautiful, raven-haired, 27 year old woman who ran an odd jobs company and Ichigo was her sole assistant who happens to have issues with showing up on time and she does not take it lightly.

"Ikumi-san, it's nice to see you. I was just on my way to work."

"That's what you were doing? See, I thought when you saw me outside your school waiting you ran for your life since you skipped worked yesterday."

Instead of looking like she was upset by his actions her facial expressions betrayed her true feelings. Those feelings were that she was excited to dish out the punishment.

She opened the door and dragged him into the van and took off successfully kidnapping him in broad daylight. No one paid any attention to it since this had been going on for the last 6 months while he has been working for her. It was a common sight.

"We have a job and you are coming with." She took of leaving a trail of dust.

They got back to the office and Ikumi pulled out a picture. "This is a lost dog that we were hired to find." She held up a picture of a border collie on a lost dog poster.

"You dragged me in here like a mad woman because you need help finding a lost dog?"

She walked up to him and got right in his face. "Do you have a problem with that?"

Damn she has a glare that rivals Unohana. "No. No problem ma'am."

"Good. And cut the ma'am shit. Am I some old lady?"

"No of course not!" Ichigo, hero of winter war, one of the most powerful soul reapers in history, was shaking in his boots and fearing for his life because he called his boss ma'am. If only his soul reaper friends could see him now.

"Great. Now let's get going." She drags him off to the park where the dog had last been seen.

5 hours later

They were still wandering around the park and looking for the dog when the sun had set. Ikumi and Ichigo had split up to cover more ground in the park. Ikumi had caught sight of movement out of the corner of her eye and shot off after it.

She came behind a tree and found where the movement came from. There was a man in all black with an evil grin. He saw Ikumi and pulled out a knife. Ikumi had dealt with her fair share of delinquents but this was different.

"Give me your wallet." She was being robbed. She slowly reached in her pocket and pullet out her wallet and handed over her jewelry. (Which was just some earrings. She wasn't really a jewelry girl.) When she handed everything over the man just grinned at her.

"Too bad you've seen my face." He charged his hand up to make a stabbing motion at her and she closed her eyes. Everything that went through her mind in that instant was about her son. She was his whole world. He needed her. There was no way she could leave him alone. Then for a brief instant she thought about the one thing she never thought she would think of. Ichigo.

She heard a sound she would never forget. There was no way to describe it but she knew it was the sound of a knife cutting through flesh. The thing is she didn't feel any pain. Why didn't she feel any pain?

She opened her eyes hesitantly and saw orange. Ichigo was standing in front of her and had taken the knife in his abdomen. Yet somehow he was still standing. He cocked his right hand back and punched the assailant in the face. The look of surprise on his face at a boy being stabbed and acting like it was nothing showed. The thug went down instantly and Ichigo kicked him to make sure he was out.

Ichigo turned around and looked at Ikumi and she was surprised to see what she saw in his eyes. It wasn't pain. It wasn't fear. It wasn't anger. Of all things she saw in the 17 year old boy was relief.

"Thank god you are OK. I hurried as fast as I could when I saw what was going on."

She didn't say anything back. She was in shock. Not from almost dying or being saved, but from the fact that Ichigo was worried about her and making sure she was ok and the idiot still had a knife sticking out of his stomach!

"What the hell is wrong with you!? We need to get you to a hospital! I need to call the police!" She was running everything through her mind. How to get help, how to save the boy, what was she going to do? Then the most ridiculous thing happened. She heard laughing.

Ichigo was laughing and looking past her shoulder. She turned around to see what he was looking at and behind her, not 20 feet away was a border collie sitting in the park looking at them.

"Found him." Ichigo walked gingerly over to the dog and grabbed the leash. She just stood in amazement. Who the hell was this kid?

"Seriously we need to get you to a hospital."

Ichigo looked down at the stab wound and knife in an abdomen. He yanked it out and dropped it onto the ground. He placed his left hand on the wound to put pressure on it to stop the bleeding. "I will just head home. My dad has a clinic so he can patch me up. You can take the dog back to the office."

"Like hell I will! You are my employee and I am not leaving until I know you are OK." How big of an idiot is this kid. Did he know he could have died?

"Fine then follow me. I live this way." He walked off and she followed him. Both of them forgetting to call the police about the thug that had caused the whole incident.

They arrived at the clinic and Ichigo went to open the door and then froze. "Can you back up a little bit?" Ikumi who was still in a daze about what was going on just nodded and went along with it.

He opened the door and she saw a blur. "ICHIGOOOOO!" the man flew out and attacked Ichigo and punched him in the stomach. Ichigo bent over wincing in pain from his previous injury.

"What the hell dad?! Can't you see I am injured?!"

"Of course I can, I am a doctor. I punched you as a punishment for getting injured!" Ichigo's dad waved Ikumi in and they all went into the clinic.

Ichigo's dad started getting out his medical supplies. "Can I ask who you are and how my son knows such a lovely woman?" He turned to her and had a goofy grin on his face which caused an immediate reaction of punching the man in the face.

"My name is Ikumi and I am your son's boss and…" He listened intently with a bloody handkerchief sticking out of his nose as she went on to tell him everything that happened that night. It gave her time to process and truly understand it. Her mind needed to catch up to understand. Ichigo had saved her. What kind of idiot was he. He was only 17 years old and he had put his life on the line without a second thought, for her. Even before that though, why did she think of him when she was going to die?

"Well that sounds about right." Ichigo's dad went to stitch up the wound. "Off with the shirt." Ichigo pulled off his shirt so his dad could have access to the wound and she was in for yet another shock of her life. Not only did the 17 year old have a chiseled body that every woman looks for. Which would have been quite a shock and would have made her stare but that could be ignored and overlooked for the moment. What she saw made her pale and feel pity and fear. Covering the boy's torso were scars. Not small scars but wounds that look like each one should have been fatal.

She walked out of the room. She couldn't see that anymore. She found herself in Ichigo's living room sitting on the couch with the dog. The stupid dog. If the dog never ran away and got lost than Ichigo would never be hurt. If she wasn't stupid and ran off by herself he wouldn't be hurt either. What kind of pain could that kid endure? What has happened to him to cause that? All she could think about is the horrors he had to have seen for that to happen and she only added to it.

"Stop it." She startled and turned around. She saw Ichigo's dad had come into the room. "He's sleeping and will be fine….. So stop blaming yourself."

"How did you know?" She was confused on how this man she never met could read her so well.

"I just can. Plus, based on what you saw you should know Ichigo is an idiot that always runs into danger. This is nothing but another bump in the road to him."

"Where did he get them all? What happened to him?" She was a little worried about the kind of person she had hired based off what she saw. There were tears in her eyes as she looked up at the older man for answers.

"I don't think I can tell you that, and the scars you saw aren't even the worst. If he wants to tell you he can go ahead. Just so you know he is a good kid….. No that's not right. I don't think Ichigo's been a kid for a long time." The man sitting next to her had a far off look. "Don't worry about him though. He would never hurt anyone." He got up and went up the stairs. Before he made it to the top though he regained that goofy smirk and turned back to Ikumi. "Don't wait too long to give me some grandchildren third daughter!"

"What!" Ikumi turned to murder the man only to see him running away. A blush encroached on her face as she thought about it though. No stop it. He is just a kid. He is ten years younger than you…. No. Even I can tell what that man said. Ichigo hasn't been a kid for a long time.

Luckily Kaoru was sleeping over at a friends that day. So she ended up just crashing on the couch in the living room.

Ikumi woke up and found a little girl poking her face. She was blonde and had an apron on. "Excuse me. Who are you?"

"Aren't you just the cutest thing!?" Ikumi hoped up and pulled the little girl into her bosom and hugged her tightly.

"Ikumi-san. Let Yuzu go so she can breathe." They turned around to see Ichigo standing in the doorway staring at them. "She is my boss from work and ended up staying over because we were out late working." Ichigo gave Ikumi a look that said the little girl didn't need to know.

"Ok I thought she was your girlfriend." Both of them blushed and it did not get past Ikumi. Maybe he did like her and think of her that way? But he was still a kid. She couldn't do that to him. She was his age when she got herself into this mess and there was no way she would drag him in because she had some crush on him.

She decided to get ahead of it. "Yeah right. I am an old lady. Some punk high schooler isn't going to go after me." She started laughing it off as a joke while she felt a small pang. She couldn't really fall for this brat could she? She got up to leave. "I should probably get going, but tomorrow is Monday and you will be back at work."

"Actually can I have tomorrow off?" Normally she would have said no but the guy did just get stabbed saving her.

"Sure that's fine I just have to bring the dog back but other than that we don't really have any other jobs coming up. See you on Tuesday then."

Ikumi walked out the door with the dog. "It's time for Ikumi to do her own jobs and find out who this boy is." She had a new determination and decided to turn private detective. She looked down at her phone. "I can't believe it's already the 16th. We are already over half way through June." She walked off to return the dog to it's owner.