A/N: The unexciting next chapter! What happened to Ichigo? Where is he now? Why, again, am I asking you? Wanna know what happens? Well, you're gonna have to read it. Will be random at all times. Maybe. Or not. Or will it?

Disclaimer: If I said it once, then I'll probably say it (or type it) again and again in the future. I do not own Bleach. I only own the twisted plot line. I lay no claim upon any harm that will befall your mind as you read this. And now, read 'em and weep, err.. enjoy.

Previously on Hazy:

"Kuchiki Rukia, you are one seriously messed-up woman." She silently joked to herself as she went to her children's room.."

(Break is supposed to somehow appear here.)

"Dammit! What the fuck?" Ichigo wheezed as he picked himself up off the dusty road of Rukongai. He dusted himself and looked around. There was something... eerie about his situation right now. True, he had been in Rukongai a few times before, but this was the first time this happened, the this pertaining to the fact that nobody ever noticed him fall from the sky. Now, normally, people would have already gone running home by the time the gate opened, but this time... it was as if nobody ever even noticed him there. It was as if he was a ghost to them. (A/N: Was that just a pun!?) Not being able to take it anymore, he screamed his lungs out. Automatically, a view screen popped into his view.

'What the...' Ichigo thought as he went towards the screen, which was located in the alley way not far in front of him. He tried his best not to hit anybody but it was just impossible. He hit somebody and was shocked at what happened. He went through the stranger. He thought he was going mad. He shook his head and picked up his resolve again and continued in to the alley.

The screen was blurry when he got to it, but it rapidly fixed itself. He was taken aback at what he saw on the screen.

"Yo, Kurosaki-kun! Long time no see!" Urahara greeted him casually, as if screens popping up just anywhere and passing through strangers were perfectly normal. Ichigo twitched, a vein popping up on his forehead, but he managed to control himself, though the vein didn't disappear.

"Urahara-san. Why am I not surprised?" Ichigo said evenly, barely keeping his anger controlled. He was recounting all the lessons he was taught in his brief anger management class, with little to no effect. He gritted his teeth when Urahara laughed at him.

"Hahaha. Yare yare. Kurosaki-kun, why do you stare at me like that!? It's like you've seen a ghost!!" The shop owner said in fake innocence. Ichigo decided he had had enough and was about to shout his head off when Urahara cut him off.

"Okay, enough with the horribly bad and incoherent puns. I take it you know this isn't really Soul Society, Rukongai even." Urahara said, switching to his "annoyingly mysterious" (as Ichigo would put it) mood, hiding behind his fan. Ichigo merely grunted in annoyance as his reply.

"Hmph. But why did you bring me here, if this wasn't really Soul Society!? I thought I was to go to Soul Society and patch things up!?" Ichigo shouted indignantly, not really caring anymore since technically no one was there with him. Kisuke just grinned at him.

"Ah, but you see, that's where your real problem is!"

"What!? My problem is that I was very insensitive! I said stupid things!!"

"But that's just part of your problem! I mean, how can you expect to patch things up when you don't even know which things to patch?" Urahara waited for a bit, feeling a little bit of happiness as he watched Ichigo squirm a little with guilt."See? Now do you understand my point?"

"Yeah. That's good and all... but where am I?"

"You're in another world." Kisuke said flatly, as if it was the most normalest thing in the whole world.

"What!? What do you mean 'another world?'" Ichigo yelled.

"Allow me to explain. This here is a dimension we created with Soul Society just for you. This is what happened to Rukia during the last five years." Ichigo's mouth seemed to hang in shock "Don't worry, you won't spend five years here, we'll just show you the 'juicy' parts of those five years, not in the perverted and socially-wrong context of course."

"So... this is sorta like a video compilation of sorts?"

"Yes and... no."

"What?"

"This is more like a flash back."

"What!?"

"You see, what really happened is we had you go through the gate where some captains were waiting to drug you and get you here. Anyways, after we drugged you and dragged you here to this room, which is actually just beside my 'basement', then we hooked you up into a sort of virtual simulator."

"WHAT!?"

"Ah well, can't really expect you to understand our ways. Anyways, this is an accurate account of some of the things that had happened to Rukia."

"How accurate?"

"Very Acccurate. 99.9 accurate."

"What? I mean, how?"

"She was under surveillance."

"What!?"

"Is that all you ever say? She was an ex-convict, you know. Plus she's associated with the hero of the arrancar war, which is you."

"Oh.."

"Anyways... Shall we get started?"

"... Yes.. Let's start."

(Break is supposed to somehow appear here. But how?)

Ichigo spent the next three weeks reliving most of what Rukia had gone through all the time that she spent in Seireitei. He felt guiltier and guiltier by the second. He never knew what she really had to go through. He just spent most of the time when she left brooding and beating the crap out of hollows and incomplete arrancars. Other than that, he didn't really think about why Rukia left. Figures.

'I was so into thinking that she left me and she just used me that I never thought that there might be another side to this story.' He thought grimly while soaking in the hot spring in Urahara's basement. He thought about his daughters. 'Hahaha. How would the twins react if they saw me? Do they even know who I am? Heh, probably not.'

He wondered how Reiko and Risa will react. He guessed that Rukia, or anyone else for that matter, mentioned anything about him to those two. He just chuckled darkly to himself. It wasn't a long-shot. After all, what he did was just despicable. He even pictured his hollow blanching at what he did to Rukia. As if on cue, Hollow Ichigo answered and Ichigo was transported to his mindscape.

'Damn straight you are. That was just really tasteless of you. Even I wonder why I let you control me.'Hollow Ichigo sneered at him. Ichigo didn't retort. 'Even an idiot would've known what to do in that situation.'

Ichigo clenched his fists but said nothing. The hollow was right, after all. It was really stupid of him to do that. He should just suck it up and do what he has to do. But how?

'The hell should I know how? You need to figure this all by yourself, and by yourself, that doesn't include me and Zangetsu.'Ichigo was taken aback but then remembered that the hollow can read his mind because it was in his mind.

'You suck, you know that?' Ichigo mumbled. The hollow just laughed at him.

'Sure I do. But at least I didn't blow off the girl of my dreams.' The hollow disappeared into the back of his mind before Ichigo could do anything particularly harmful to it. Ichigo just gritted his teeth and went back to reality.

He couldn't deny the fact that the hollow was right. He needed to do something before it turned to something that irreparable, and there was only one solution. One thing only he can do for her.

'I've gotta swallow my pride, just for her.' He resolved to himself, knowing that it was easier said than done. He stood up and dried himself before getting dressed up. He went to the room where Urahara was and prepared himself. 'Better get this whole thing over with before I go to Seireitei.'

"Ah, Kurosaki-kun!! Are you ready for the last part of our program?" Urahara asked, a little too joyfully, earning him a straight punch from Ichigo. "Kurosaki-kun!! What did you do that for!?"

"Shove it. Let's finish this. Time is running short, and I need to do something before it really is too late."

"B..But why did you punch me?"

"Hmm... No reason at all. Just felt like it."

"Ah! That's mean!"

"I could care less."

"Kisuke!" Yoruichi butted in, getting annoyed with her husband. "Stop it at once! Or else."

Urahara gulped. He scratched the back of his head and laughed nervously, having no choice but to comply with the orders. He asked Ichigo to prepare himself as he set up the device again.

"Okay Kurosaki-kun! This is the last part, are you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be."

"Okay. You know what to do Kurosaki-kun! Oh! And please try to restrain yourself in there, remember that it's only a simulator, so it's really pointless to do anything in there. You're just a spectator there, after all."

"I'll try." Ichigo replied as the machine started. It was his last day here. He was going to do his best and get it through quickly. He felt the familiar crackle of the power lines as he was brought to the virtual world.

'Wait for me Rukia. I'll be coming to you soon.' Ichigo thought as he prepared himself for the simulation.

(Break is supposed to somehow appear here. Again. Or was it?)

A/N: Alright! I managed to create another chapter outta nowhere! Hurray for me!! Hahaha! (Isn't that just pitiful?Shut up me!!) Sorry for the.. 4 month?.. delay. I was caught up in a lot of school work (I graduated last march! I'm a college student now!) I'll try to create new fics and update Hazy as my schedule permits me. Anywho, review! Flames are encouraged now, but they will, as always, be ignored and sent to my kitchen stove.