Nijima couldn't help but helplessly gape at what he was seeing. He knew that he was in serious trouble when he was captured by Siegfried of Ragnarok, the night prior. However somehow this made everything just seem so much worse. Because instead of Kenichi showing up to save him like he'd wanted, his sister- not Honoka, but the other one- had shown up.

Ichigo Kurosaki, the black sheep of the Shirahama family. And Kenichi's cousin turned adopted sister was standing just a few feet away from Siegfried and Loki, staring the two down as if she'd like nothing more than to bury them in the asphalt that they were standing on.

"Oh this is bad." He muttered to himself since no one was paying any attention to him anyways.

Out of everyone that he'd anticipated as his possible rescuer's from these Ragnarok fiends- she hadn't been expected at all. In fact her presence here was so totally out of left field that it was as if he were sitting on the deep southern hemisphere of space Mexico.

What the fuck?!

Kenichi was going to kill him for somehow- unknowingly, managing to drag Ichigo into this crap. He just knew it.

"Who the hell are you?" Loki growled in annoyance as he looked at her.

She didn't bother dignifying his rude question with a response. Instead she looked at him, and Nijima reflexively twitched a little bit at those pretty turquoise colored eyes fixating on him. His heart thudded in his chest, and his mouth went dry and...oh dear god- he'd forgotten that he was butt naked!

Please don't let her say anything about how small my dick is. He thought to himself in a panic as he squirmed a little bit in the ropes that he was bound with anxiously as she pulled something out of her back pant's pocket and held it up. Nijima blinked as he noted that it was her cellphone, and she had it open so that the screen was glowing softly and he could see-

Holy shit! His eyes nearly popped right out of his skull as he caught sight of what she was showing him.

Did he actually text the message, Save me, to her? He thought that he'd sent the message to someone else. Anyone else really. Oh god what the hell had he done? He wondered as utter terror took hold of his heart in it's icy grasp.

"I got this message last night and have been looking everywhere for you, Nijima. You look a little bit...rough. You okay?" Ichigo finally said as she flipped her cell closed and then slipped her phone back into her pant's pocket.

"I'm fine!" He shrieked once he was able to finally speak again. Which must have taken him just a tad bit longer than she'd expected, because she had given him a quick once over and was now looking rather...embarrassed.

To see him naked? Or to see him naked and tied up?

He wouldn't lie and say that it wasn't on the tip of his tongue to claim that his current dick size was entirely because of the fact that it was a little bit cool at the moment. But even he could prioritize better than that. His life first, and his dick size later.

Besides, he doubted that she'd believe him if he said anything about it right now anyways.

"But more than that- what the hell are you doing here?! Shouldn't you be at home? Resting?"

Nijima wasn't an idiot. He knew that Ichigo had underwent possible life saving surgery just a week in a half ago, to fix some damage to her heart and was nowhere near healed enough to get into any sort of a fight. Especially with the likes of Loki and Siegfried And to be perfectly honest...even if she could- he wouldn't want her to.

She was the one person in the whole god forsaken world that he would literally die for. The only one that didn't mind his eccentricities, and his plots, and his...somewhat evil nature.

She unconditionally accepted that he was kind of weird.

And he fucking adored her for her odd ability to not give a damn about any of those things and let him be himself. Having someone who could accept him as he was without question; was beyond rare. Not even his own family cared about him that much. And they were his flesh and blood.

"Don't worry none about me Nijima. I'll be fine." Ichigo said, totally ignoring his unsaid- yet hinted at- health condition.

He opened his mouth to tell her to fuck off, but couldn't bring himself to actually be so rude when she'd come all this way for him.

After all, he'd been missing since nine pm yesterday evening and it was around seven thirty pm now. If she had really left her home so soon after receiving his text for help, and had actually searched all over the city for him like she'd said- then she had to be completely and utterly exhausted.

And for good reason too.

That was over ten in a half hours of nonstop searching without any sleep or rest. Come to think of it, she'd have to have been pretty frigging thorough to find him in a city of this one's size before twelve hours had passed. And that was pretty damned impressive once one really thought about it.

Especially since statistically speaking, the chances of finding someone like him after being kidnapped, was akin to searching for a needle in a haystack.

Even the police couldn't find missing people quite this quickly. And they had superior numbers and trained search dogs and everything. He didn't know what sort of search grid she had used to find him so quickly but he would certainly be asking about it later.

"So you're a friend of the pointy eared freak, huh." Loki said as he crossed his arms over his chest and looked down at her.

"So what if I am?" Ichigo said in a half mocking tone as she mimicked his stance. Nijima made a small growling sound and then shouted,

"For god's sake Ichigo! Don't pick a fight with these guys! They're members of Ragnarok! They'll hurt you! Just go home, you stupid girl!"

"Shut up Nijima." Ichigo said, her tone was soft. But the underlying hint of steel in her voice made him fall silent as dread filled his entire being.

Loki started to open his mouth to say something- probably wanting him to be quiet too. However the second he took his eyes off of her, Ichigo had him by the throat.

Nijima would have enjoyed the look of fear that crossed the bastard's face, if he hadn't been so worried that Siegfried might jump her from behind or something. However the musician was strangely silent as he observed everything from a few feet away from the two.

His expression was...weirdly curious.

Ichigo smiled grimly at Loki and lifted him up off of the ground, causing the guy to try and break her grasp with his hands and to kick his feet. Nijima's eyes nearly popped out of his skull again when she did this, because this was something that he hadn't been aware that she was even capable of.

And why was that, you may ask?

It was entirely Kenichi's fault. The boy acted as if Ichigo were made of spun glass or something. Why the last time she'd broke a nail the idiot had had a conniption fit and had held her hostage in his room for days afterwards.

She'd had to climb out of his bedroom window when he was asleep just to escape him and his fretting.

Not that Nijima could blame her any. Having Kenichi hovering over you for any length of time would wear on a person's nerves. As it was, he was glad that he'd never been in that position. But then Kenichi didn't seem to like him all that much.

Still, this- this was something that he felt was neccessary. Honestly he felt like Kenichi had cheated him out of vital, need-to-know information about her.

He'd have to bully him endlessly for the next few weeks or so to make the boy grovel for his forgiveness just to make up for this...slight against him.

"I'm only going to say this once," Ichigo said as she lifted Loki just a little bit higher off of the ground. "I'm taking Nijima, and anyone who tries to stop me- will probably bleed to death by the time I'm one with them. Do you understand me?"

Loki kept trying to free himself of her grasp. Nijima could already see where his nails had scratched red lines into her skin leaving little trails of blood behind in their wake. And her legs, though she was wearing pants- were probably sporting all kinds of nasty bruises from his kicks.

Frankly, he didn't know how she managed to keep hold of the guy much less stayed standing while he hurt her. Yet she did. And by the time he'd agreed to let him go, Nijima was crying like a baby.

How could he not? Ichigo was bleeding because of him.

Ichigo grinned in triumph as Loki told her to take him, however her job wasn't done just yet. So as soon as she let him go, she decided to make an example of him. And snapped one of his arms in three places and then while he was screaming and distracted, she lifted one of her feet and brought it down as hard as she could on the side of one of his knees.

Loki went down like a ton of bricks and was writhing on the ground in agony. Not just from his broken bones, but from the possible torn cartilage in his knee as well.

Siegfried looked totally shocked at the sudden display of violence. Probably because he hadn't expected a girl do pull something like this. However he didn't move as Ichigo walked forward and knelt down next to him and carefully untied him and then helped him to his feet.

In fact the guy didn't move so much as a muscle at all even as they walked by him. And Nijima couldn't really seem to focus on anything aside from the scratched up and bloody arm that Ichigo had slung around his thin shoulders, holding him close to her side as they moved away.

"Ichigo," He finally said once they were far enough away to not be heard. "Are you okay? Your arm is bleeding."

She turned her head a little bit to look at him. Her eyes flickering ever so slightly from his face to her arm for a second and then back again as she lifted her hand up so that she could run her fingers through his short hair. "Don't worry about it any, Nijima. I'm fine."

He might have said something else. Maybe suggested that he take her to Ryosanpaku to get looked at by Kenichi's master who ran the clinic. But he felt her lean her head over a little bit to rub it against his own in an affectionate manner and totally forgot everything beyond the fact that he would alway, always love, respect and greatly admire this sweet, insanely strong, stupid girl.