Chapter Seventeen:

Tracing his eyes back to Ichigo, Ishida cleared his throat and pushed up his glasses again. "Sorry, but I'm not the kind of overly sympathetic type, and as for the story of the Quincy's fall, I felt that the soul reapers where probably right in their actions. Who would use that reason to antagonize you soul reapers? Especially when the Quincy's were demolished. Those were my beliefs until my sensei was murdered right before my eyes." As Ichigo watched on confused and saddened by the story the boy was telling Ishida quickly turned and began shooting more hollows trying to dissipate his rage on the topic.

"You see, as the last remaining survivor of the Quincy from the later generation after the fall of the race, the soul reapers had sensei under strict watch at all times. However, he kept trying to appeal to those soul reapers about the necessity of the Quincy. He groped towards working together to fight. During a break of peace in the soul society, the soul reapers would be late in dealing with the hollows of this world.-" He shot another hollow, destroying it instantly. "He said that it's important to have people, like us, in this world that can keep an eye out and deal with hollows quickly. But the soul reapers at the time always gave him the same response. They would always say 'Don't interfere with our work!'"

Two more hollows dropped as Ichigo slowly slid his eyes over to Izumi who held a concerned look on her face. He hoped she had nothing to do with this story, in a sense he felt that she didn't but he knew he'd have to ask her about it later.

"And then, after all of that, sensei died. His enemies that day were five abnormally large hollows, without soul reapers to protect him, it was obvious that he couldn't fight them.-" Ishida paused from shooting and closed his eyes seeming to recall the scene he had watched as a child. "As expected, the soul reapers were late in handling it; when they came to defeat the hollows, it was at least two hours after the hollows had arrived. And one hour prior to their arrival, sensei had already died.-" he opened his eyes and dropped two hollows before continuing. "In the end, sensei's ideals never reached the soul reapers, if they would have just acknowledged his opinion, if they would've acknowledged the strength of his race, they would've acted faster to come save him. It could have ended without sensei's death." Ishida paused and looked back at Ichigo who seemed to be bored of the whole conversation.

"So, do you understand Kurosaki Ichigo? In front of you, a soul reaper. I must prove the strength of the Quincy!" Ishida exclaimed watching as Ichigo's eyes widened. Then he turned facing toward the horde of incoming hollows that Izumi hadn't got to yet.

"In this fight, I do not wish for your help, you and I are soul reaper and Quincy, I know that our views are polar oposites. If you think my views are wrong, then you are welcome to watch from here, I will simply prove my strength to you." he turned his back to the orange haired boy who was just highly confused on everything he had said. What Ishida hadn't counted on was Ichigo's running kick to the back of his head which sent him forward into an incoming hollow. His head hit the mask so hard that a small crack became visible.

"Your story is too long!" he exclaimed as he pulled back his foot and let Ishida scramble up from the floor while holding his head.

"What are you doing!" the dark haired boy was highly confused on what had just happened to him; he wasn't expecting an attack.

"Shut up! It doesn't make any sense at all! Your story was so long that I already forgot the first half! But what I did pick up from your story is your sensei's wish wasn't about the soul reapers acknowledging the strength of the Quincy, it was about working along side of them wasn't it?" Ichigo opened his mouth to scream something else but right then three massive hollows were sent flying through the air before they crashed into the horde still coming up behind the two boys. They both jumped, they had completely forgotten about the third person in their little trio; Izumi stood a little ways away glaring at them with her arms crossed. Almost as fast as they could blink she was suddenly standing in front on them with her hands grasped around the front of their shirts.

"Will you two idiots come off of it already!?-" she left both of them up effortlessly by their shirts and they both screamed. "Ishida!" she looked at him first and he gulped pushing up his glasses giving her his full attention. "I am so tired of this soul reaper, Quincy crap! Give it a rest! Bad things happened to your grandfather. And yes, it could have been stopped if the soul reapers had arrived faster; but he wanted you to believe in working with the soul society, not against them." he looked down away from her almost seeming to regret his decisions.

"Ichigo!" she turned toward her friend who gulped loudly and gave her a nervous smile. "Leave the boy alone! And do you even realize how dangerous it is kicking someone into the face of a hollow!? If I ever see that again or you doing some other kind of stupid shit like that I'll kill you! Do you understand me?!" she growled in his face and he nodded his head and apologized.

"Now, if you two idiots can come together to fix the problem then the best way to go about it is to stand together!" she dropped them down to the ground and they both fell down to the ground and looked up toward her back as she looked at the hollows who were slowly picking themselves up off the ground from where she had knocked them down earlier.