Sorry about the slow update, I started watching some anime series called Fate Stay/Night (Was Ok) and Fate Zero (Way better), saw some others as well although not as notable E.g. Freezing, Sekirei. During this time I didn't really feel as though what I was doing with the story but in the end I just decided to go with whatever came to mind. So here you go, new chapter number six.

"What do you mean Kurosaki? If this were the future I don't think you would have been acting like you have been just now." Uryuu said still skeptical about the world before him unsure as to whether or not a powerful illusion had been cast before his eyes.

"That was a short victory dance of how I get to kick your ass again." Ichigo said to Uryuu plainly.

Uryuu and Ichigo had always tried to best one another in their abilities but that all ended when Ichigo lost his powers due to the fact of using the final gestuga tenshou. Now that his abilities were back they were probably going to be at each others necks again like a pack of wolves fighting over a lump of meat, not very constructive but it was something to do nonetheless, after all they now both excelled in their academic curriculum and were almost matched however Uryuu took the lead in that aspect.

"This really is the future Uryuu and we're being given a chance to save it. How? I don't know, I haven't really thought that far yet." Ichigo said scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

"Just leave it up to you to forget all the details and barge in head first." Uryuu sighed rubbing his forehead in mild annoyance. "Alright where do we go from here?"

"I dunno, a payphone should be nearby I guess…" Ichigo trailed off after seeing Ageha appear on another collapsed building not too far away. "Over there for now," Ichigo pointed to Ageha and what appeared to be Asaga hanging on for dear life…well not quite, he seemed to be fine climbing back up the edge of the building, "I met those guys last time, the short one's Ageha and the other is Asaga." Ichigo told Uryuu informing him of their names. "Don't worry about using your powers here either, they all have their own from coming here just once and so will you when we leave."

"Wait! What? Where do I get these abilities from?" Uryuu asked thinking that he had to go somewhere to attain these so-called special abilities.

"It'll happen in a few hours, you get a nose bleed, you feel like shit and can't really do much." Ichigo said casually as though an unexplained fever were the most normal of things in the world and you were told that you would get it just by being somewhere, it almost sounded like he was in quarantine. "Anyway enough chat, let's go to them and we'll find out if there are any others here." Ichigo said, and before Uryuu could so much as say a word Ichigo was jumping from the peak of one rubble hill to the next hands in pockets, a small green trail of light coming out of his feet.

"Showoff." Uryuu muttered to himself before he used hirenkyaku to catch up.

"So Ageha how was the special training." Ichigo said behind Ageha surprising him slightly.

When Ageha turned around to face Ichigo he just shuddered at the thought of the first introduction he was given to PSI training by Amamiya. Even though she wasn't violent and in no way did she harm him all of her threats seemed very real and freaked him out quite a bit, being left chained to a chair for all eternity wasn't a thing he'd like to experience.

"Oh it was fine, quite easy in fact." Ageha said with confidence trying to sound as though he picked it up really easily, although Ichigo knew better from his performance at the café. Out of the two Asaga, and Ageha it seemed Asaga was picking up on it the fastest.

"Riiight" Ichigo said in a tone that said 'I don't believe you'. "Well let's get going to find the phone, other people should be nearby and we should probably prevent them from killing themselves if at all possible." Ichigo said pointing a thumb over his shoulder at Uryuu who's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "That's right I forgot to introduce you, Uryuu this is Ageha and Asaga."

"It's nice to meet you." Uryuu said trying to be as polite as possible although a master at reading facial expressions and vocal tones would be able to tell that he was slightly annoyed at the current predicament he found himself in. "Since when could Kurosaki make friends so easily, ahh forget it, all the friends he makes are weirdoes anyway excluding me, I am simply a friendly rival, that is all." Uryuu thought to himself.

"Yeah, nice to meet you to." Asaga said being the only one to reply of the two, Ageha already having left with Ichigo to find the new Psyren drifters and Amamiya.

Uryuu sighed pushing up his glasses with his right index finger before turning in Ichigo's direction ready to take off. Just before he left he glanced over his shoulder to ask Asaga a question, "You'll have no problem keeping up with Kurosaki and myself now will you?"

"What do you mean by that?" Asaga questioned coming up beside Uryuu.

"The others have already made it quite some distance somehow and left us behind, what I'm asking you is how fast can you run?" Uryuu said answering Asaga's question and rewording his own.

"I'm not that fast, I'm more of a strong type." Asaga said plainly trying to guess at what Uryuu was hinting at.

"Just like Chad in that sense." Uryuu muttered to himself remembering the giants' strength far outweighed his own speed. "Well in that case, stand still, please do not throw up, and wait until the end of the trip for further instructions." Uryuu said moving a bit closer to Asaga before wrapping his fingers around Asaga's shoulder in a tight grip and kicking off with a burst of hirenkyaku more or less dragging Asaga through the air behind him as he went.

"Where are they?" Amamiya said to herself in a panicked tone, "They should be right here! Everyone else appeared in almost the exact same place this time!" Amamiya continued to talk to herself as she searched the room of people who were almost all dazedly looking around as though they thought that they were in some kind of dream.

"Hey Amamiya over here!" Ageha's voice called out.

Amamiya turned around as fast as she could and was relieved when she saw a hand waving in the crowd, the persons figure not quite as noticeable as the orange haired teen beside him or the two others behind them.

"Shut up Ageha, your too loud." Ichigo said rubbing the left side of his head having been the side to face the full brunt of Ageha's voice. Coming up to Amamiya he was slightly confused when he saw how happy she looked. Ichigo turned his head to the sides to see if the others were still beside him, they were to his relief but they were all quite a distance for him making him gain a slight tint of redness in his cheeks that were barely noticeable. Even he had to admit that she looked cute by his standards.

"Psst, Asaga." Ageha said covering his mouth with his hand in a way so that only Asaga could hear him while still looking at Ichigo and Amamiya.

"Yeah, I noticed, you were gonna ask if something was happening between them weren't you?" Asaga asked Ageha getting an affirmative nod. "Well I dunno right now but he's lucky to get someone as cute as her, but then again you could feel sorry for him for her mood swings and what not, they seem to be pretty random and frightening at worst."

"Yeah…you're not jealous are you?" Ageha said smirking a little at Asaga after being caught out for calling Amamiya cute.

"A little, you're the one who seems affected the most." Asaga replied before leaving Ageha to his own thoughts not letting him give a reply.

"So what happens now?" Uryuu spoke up gaining everyone's attention.

"We wait for the phone to ring," Ichigo said furrowing his eyebrows a little annoyed at having to say it again "didn't I already tell you that?"

"You did, but I find your knowledge less than credible when circumstances like this arise." Uryuu said smirking while pushing up his glasses again. "I just wanted to find out whether or not I could rely on you."

By this point Ichigo was growling a little angered by Uryuu's jab at his brashness when it came to fighting. At this point though Amamiya stepped in having recovered from seeing the others alive and ok, "It's true, at this point in time all we have to do is to wait for the…" Amamiya paused when the loud ringing of the payphone reached their ears "phone call, come on, let's go!" Amamiya said moving in the direction of the sound having to press through the crowd of people surrounding the pay phone before she could see it.

"It's ringing." Someone stated.

"But the cable at the base is snapped and frayed." another said.

Getting through the last row of people though seemed to be a problem at least until she saw Ageha forcibly push people out of the way and pick the phone up to his ear. After that, the woman's voice was in everyone's head and repeated the same thing at the first area Ichigo had attended.

"Those seeking Psyren shall taste power and despair," a voice called out to everyone in their heads, "those seeking Psyren shall taste power and despair, those who reach Psyren shall be granted the world, there is only one exit in this game. Those seeking Psyren…those searching for the exit from this world…find the gate!" the womans voice finished off with a shout showing them a mental image of another pay phone.

Ichigo sighed at hearing the exact same thing he heard when the payphone was picked up last time. "It's probably a recorded message of some sort. It sounded exactly the same as last time. She even said the same thing. Now to prove to everyone that they're not crazy and prevent themselves from going out to get themselves killed." Ichigo thought dragging a hand over his face coming to terms with the fact that he'd only just finished his training and wasn't at his peak. He felt like shit. This wasn't going to be easy.

"I assume that that image I saw in my head is the target payphone that we have to reach." Uryuu said to Ichigo standing by his side watching everyone slowly being filled with despair. More of a slight sadness at what possible dangers awaited them but despair was there nonetheless.

"Yeah." Ichigo replied plainly. Turning to find the rest of his small group that had miraculously survived their first round, except for Amamiya. "Come on. We've gotta convince all these nut jobs not to go out and get themselves killed."

"I suppose that makes sense and takes priority at the moment." Uryuu said pushing up his glasses.

Some time later Amamiya being the one at the current point in time with the most knowledge of Psyren had managed to gain everyone's attention and explain where they were was the future and that there was no prize. That fact brought down people far further than she had intended. If there was no prize, what was the point in being here? Most still didn't believe that they could die just by stepping outside and were formulating their own ideas of how they could get back home. The phone booth as they soon figured out was just across a relatively large expanse of sandy ground. It would be easy enough to just walk across to it and try out their calling cards to see if that fact was at least right.

Ichigo had an uneasy feeling when he saw the expanse of sand. Chances were according to his knowledge and experience, that there was something living in it, something big. But then again he could be wrong and so he simply shrugged off this feeling of dread when he thought about it and tried to convince himself that people weren't needlessly ending their lives because they thought they knew what they were doing.

"You said there was a map," a man spoke up, "I'd like to see this map before I go anywhere."

"That's Oboro Mochizuki." Someone said and almost instantly whispering broke out among the people gathered in the partially leveled building thinking that following this man might know what to do as all simple minded people did.

Ichigo looked at the people before him and dragged a hand over his face not quite believing what was happening before him. Was ninety percent of the world's population stupid or something? Seeing the people before him it was a definite possibility.

Uryuu was having similar thoughts about the situation at hand and thought that most of these people were hopeless and wouldn't listen to them no matter what.

Ageha being the one to have first thought that the others might want to see the map to check if they were telling the truth was already standing by the payphone his finger on top of the memo button. Motioning for Oboro to come over he pushed the button and his eyes widened at what he saw. The entire region around them was the danger zone. It extended all the way up the right side of the map save a small section in the upper right corner and almost half of the left. They themselves, the target and the path were all in the danger zone. How could this happen?

Seeing Ageha's shocked expression Uryuu asked what the problem was and much to everyone's surprise he wasn't all that affected by the news really. "It's just like Heuco Mundo all over again, eh Ichigo." Uryuu said recalling the time he had gone to the sandy desert with Ichigo and Chad to save Orihime.

"Close enough." Ichigo replied. "But last time we didn't have twenty other people with us."

"Well I can see you two having a lovely chat so I won't interfere, but seeing now that my eyes haven't deceived me and that is definitely the payphone over there in the distance I'll be going now. It can't be that hard to just walk along the ground and pick up a phone." Oboro said turning on his heel waving a hand over his shoulder heading for the stairs that would lead him to ground level.

"Yeah let's follow Oboro, these guys must be on something." Were the thoughts of many people that followed after Oboro as he departed.

"Well, so much for the explanation." Ichigo said scratching the back of his head. "I won't stop them, they probably just need an example." Ichigo paused when he caught some movement out of the corner of his eye and saw the only person apart from himself and his friends standing there watching the last man head down the stairs. "Who're you?" Ichigo pointed at the man.

"Hmm," said person turned his head towards Ichigo and he instantly knew that he was going to be a pain in the ass just by the way he was looking at him, "me? Well I'm Kabuto Kirisaki, and I didn't leave cause I ain't one to chase after men's asses." Kabuto said turning his eyes to Amamiya.

Yep, he was going down. Ichigo walked over and hit him over the head causing him to crumple to the ground clasping his head. "Watch it dumbass."

"What was that for?!" Kabuto whined in annoyance.

Ichigo just looked at him as though it should have been obvious at what he was doing it for. Scoffing Ichigo turned around and walked to a broken window that gave him a view of the outside and the path that the foolish people trekking out in the desert to find the payphone.

"Normally by now you'd be over there trying to save them all." Uryuu said walking up beside Ichigo to look out at the people as well waiting for the moment all hell broke loose.

"Yes, well sometimes you have to wait for someone to find out how foolish their acts are before you save them." Ichigo replied surprising the Quincy a little.

"Since when did you talk like that?" Uryuu pushed up his glasses not expecting an answer turned away not missing the new look in Ichigo's eyes. He looked hungry for battle, something he couldn't miss.

Ichigo wasn't known for not enjoying his fights, he reveled in them and sometimes it looked like he dragged things out for more enjoyment, but…he also didn't seem to be taking kindly to having to save the world again. Sure he'd do it but he seemed to be lacking that spark he always held with him no matter what. Perhaps it was because the people hadn't listened to him and his group of new friends and that he might not be able to save them.

However that mattered little at the moment. After all, if you cannot protect yourself from harm how will you protect others? Ichigo was probably underestimating himself at the moment but then again he might not, things will probably go to hell sooner or later.

Uryuu stopped in his tracks as he was approaching a concrete block to sit on and wait when he felt the sudden movement of the ground below him and subsequently heard an unearthly roar echo out from the direction of the people down below.

"What happened?" Ageha shouted to the others as he came to the front where all the people remaining were all now lined up next to the building edge wide eyed as they all looked at the monstrosity before them. Ageha didn't even hear a reply as he saw the single largest creature he'd ever seen coming out of the ground and diving upon the people before it managing to catch some in it's mouth.

"We can't do much against something like that." Ichigo sighed rubbing his temples trying to think of something to combat the creature in front of him.

"Says the almighty protector." Uryuu scoffed, "And here I thought that I'd already seen you kill bigger."

"Shut up, we don't even know if your arrow can pierce that thing." Ichigo returned.

"Maybe we should try then." Uryuu held his arm out straight and a glow enveloped his hand just before a bow like construct of reiatsu appeared in his hand. Reaching forward he pulled back an arrow and let it fly.

Everyone watched amazed, all except for Ichigo who had seen the bow a million times over. As the arrow neared it's target a surprising event occurred that no one expected to see. Someone's hand grasped over the arrow and snapped it like a twig causing it to disperse as they flew through the air and onto a building remnant. Although it didn't seem to come without consequence as the person opened the palm of their hand revealing it to be rather burnt.

"Not what I expected." Ichigo said to himself taking in the sight of the new person before them.