While his shinigami activities took up most of his time, Ichigo still found himself enjoying the more...basic aspects of life as a highschool student. Which included, of course, the pining over the new student in his class. Having appearently only recently moved to Karakura Town, they just...promised some much welcomed distraction from Ichigo's admittedly exhausting fight against hollows and the troubles of the soul society.

Well, that's what he thought. But the illusion was to be shattered upon the encounter of a particularly repulsing hollow, a leering, goggle-eyed abstrosity on six massive legs. Ichigo had intended to just head straight home after school, but here he was once again having to pull an all-nighter because some damn hollow couldn't-

A slash and the creature stumbled before Ichigo could even pull his zanpakutō. Just who...? A flash of black and white, another Soul Reaper? But...Hold on, he recognized that face!

"What the hell?" Ichigo blurted out, staring dumbfounded at his 'cute new classmate' who'd just turned out to be another soul reaper.