And here we shall see the start of Shizuri and Ichigo's romantic relationship... a very rocky start..

Later that afternoon, it was decided by Aiko that it would probably be good to search for some food to eat, as they hadn't bought that many supplies with them on the plane... or mainly because all the supplies had been devoured by a certain Fire Dragon Slayer...(cough cough.. NATSU!!)

And low and behold, who were the two suckers picked to go into the forest to look for food? None other then Shizuri and Ichigo.

When they furiously asked why them, Aiko merely smiled and said. "You two are always arguing with each other, it'll be good for you to work out your differences."

"I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE WITH THAT IDIOT!!!" Both Ichigo and Shizuri shouted pointing at each other.

But of course they went anyways.. grumbling about it as they did. Aiko watched the group leave, Laxus came to stand next to Aiko. "I've seen that same look in Mirajane's eyes.. you're trying to play match maker aren't you?"

Aiko turned to look at Laxus, her eyes sparkling as she held up a thumbs up sign. "Back at Tokwadai, they not only call me the number 6 esper.. they call me the number 1 matchmaker!!"

"I think you just started the appocalypse..." said Laxus as he watched Shizuri and Ichigo try to strangle each other in the distance while yelling at the top of their lungs

Later, as they walked through the forest, the two were giving each other the silent treatment, their faces turned from each other as they scowled heavily.

Finally Ichigo sighed. "Look, don't you think all this fighting is getting rather tiresome? I mean, seriously, all we do is irritate each other.."

Shizuri looked thoughtful. "Hmmm..perhaps you're right.."

Shizuri suddenly got an evil devious look on her face as a sphere of energy formed in her hand and she shot a Meltdowner beam that narrowly missed Ichigo.

"HOLY CRAP!!" Ichigo yelled as he jumped out of the way. "What the hell was that for!?

"I kill things that irritate me.." said Shizuri.

Ichigo's jaw dropped. "THAT'S IT!! I DON'T KNOW HOW THE HELL YOU BECAME SUCH A SADISTIC CREEP, BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!!! A SADISTIC CREEP!!!"

"WELL YOU'RE A COMBAT ADDICTED MANIAC WHO WIELDS A GIANT KITCHEN KNIFE!!!" Shizuri shouted back.

"WH-WH-WHA!!!" Ichigo looked speechless. "ZANGETSU ISN'T A KITCHEN KNIFE!!! ZANGETSU IS... IS... ZANGETSU!!!"

"Ha!" said Shizuri. "Kitchen Knife!! That's Zangetsu's new name!! Or better yet! Butter Knife! Since it cuts like one compared to my abilities!!!"

AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!" Ichigo roared. "You're so stuck up!!!"

"And you're so darn irritating!!!!" Shizuri yelled back

Ichigo and Shizuri both harrumphed and turned their heads again.

That's when Ichigo noticed something ahead of them. "Hold on a sec..."

Ichigo ran over to find there was a large wooden barrel just sitting in the woods, completely ended. "Hey! What's this thing doing here?"

Shizuri walked over and rolled her eyes. "Obviously, it's a sign that humans were here before us.. probably that princess niece of Railgun's."

"Hey!! I didn't ask you!"

"And I don't care that you didn't ask me!!"

As Ichigo and Shizuri continued to bicker with one another, Eolas Stuart came running to them where they came.

"Hey! Guys! I came to help out with the whole...whole.. are you guys arguing?"

Suddenly Eolas tripped on a rock and accidentally stumbled right into Ichigo and shizuri who both fell into the barrel headfirst.

The barrel was knocked on it's side and began rolling on the large downhill slope of the forest at top speed, leaving a Roadrunner dust trail in it's wake.

"Uh..oh.." Eolas muttered. "This doesn't look good.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!" Shizuri screamed dizzily as she and ichigo rolled and tumbled around in the speeding barrel.

"J-JUST SHUT UP!! IF YOU HAD STOPPED ARGUING, THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED!!!"

Ichigo and Shizuri continued to scream at each other as they tumbled around within the rolling barrel. All the while, random dragons in the forest stared curiously as they heard the screaming bickering noise coming from a rolling and apparently very discontent barrel ramble on about nonsense.

Finally the barrel reached a tall mountainous plateau and exploded into dust as it hit the strange tower of stone. A rambling blast of Meltdowner beams shot out as Shizuri angrilly blasted at Ichigo who flash stepped around, barely keeping out of Shizuri's wrath.

"HELL YOU REALLY OVERREACT!!!"

suddenly the Meltdowner beam hit what looked like a stack of red candles that were right by the tall plateau.

There was a sudden exlposion so massive that Ichigo and Shizuri were sent skyrocketing into the air.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!" Shizuri shouted as the two of them continue to shoot up into the sky. "WHAT WOULD DYNAMITE BE DOING IN THIS PLACE!!"

"Well obviously there were humans here before us." said Ichgio in a mock imitation of Shizuri. "Maybe Hope Ellendiel just likes to set dynamite wherever she goes!!!"

"Don't you dare start with me!!" Shizuri screamed.

As they continued to soar up into the sky, Shizuri grabbed Ichigo's neck and began trying to strangle him. Shaking him to and fro.

Ichigo did the same, grabbing Shizuri's neck and shaking her. After about a few minutes of shaking, idiot number 1 and idiot number 2 finally realized that they had been going up a long time.

"Eh!?" said Shizuri. "Why are we still?"

Both Ichigo and Shizuri looked up to see that their shirt collars were caught on the talons of an oblivious dragon who did not seem to notice their presence.

"WHAT THE HELL!!" Shizuri yelled. "I'm getting off this freak show!"

Shizuri unlatched herself from the Dragon's claw, only to look down and realize that they were about 2000 feet in the air.

"EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Shizuri screamed and grabbed Ichigo's torso, hugging him in the same way she would she would cling for dear life.

"HEY!" Ichigo shouted. "STOP THAT!! WHAT THE HELL!? I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO GET OFF!!!"

"LOOK DOWN YOU ORANGE HAIRED IDIOT!!!"

Ichigo looked down indeed and then let out a frightened cry. "HOLY FREAKING KENPACHI!!! WHY THE HELL ARE WE UP SO HIGH!!!!"

"I DON'T KNOW JUST DON'T LET GO YOU DAFT FREAKING-"

Suddenly there was an ominous tearing sound...

Ichigo and Shizuri both slowly, but surely looked at Ichigo's back Kimono collar which was slowly tearing on the claw tip it was hanging on.

"No..." said Ichigo as sweat began to pour down his face like a waterfall.

"We're dead...." Shizuri whimpered as she also started to sweat.

With a final decisive rip, Ichigo and Shizuri found themselves falling through sky, screaming as they hugged each other, tears pouting out of their eyes. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

"ICHIGO YOU DAFT ORANGE HAIRED IDIOT!!" Shizuri screamed as she pounded Ichigo's head with her fist while they fell. "DO SOMETHING!!!"

"YOU FREAKING MORON!!!" Ichigo exclaimed. "WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!?"

"I DON'T KNOW!!! SOMETHING!!!" Shizuri screamed. "USE YOUR FREAKING SOUL REAPER POWERS!!!"

"THIS WORLD IS DIFFERENT FROM MINE!! I CAN'T STAND ON REISHI HERE!!! WHAT DO YA WANT ME TO DO!? CONTROL GRAVITY!?" Ichigo yelled back.

"JUST TRY TO LAND UNDER ME AND CUSHION THE FALL!!!" Shizuri screamed trying to push Ichigo under her.

"I'M NOT FREAKING DOING THAT!!" Ichigo shouted. "STOP IT!! HEY!! THAT'S MY FACE!!!"

Finally the two crashed into one of a series of extremely high altitude plateaus that towered hundreds of feet above the tree tops in a massive explosion of dust and rubble...

As the dust cloud rose out of the plateau, The large elder sulfer colored dragon was pointing to the plateau from the ground while talking to some young dragons about it..

"Now here's an interesting story about this plateau. This was called the Elegante Amor plateau... it was said that any two individuals of differing gender, whether they be dragon or human, would instantly be bonded for life"

... of course.. that was just a silly fable passed on by Thundaarix's relatives...and of course Ichigo and Shizuri didn't know that... and considering they didn't have wings like dragons had to fly up and back from the plateau, which had no stairs or climbing holds to speak of, well... you'll see..

Ichigo opened his eyes, groaning. "What the hell...? What happened...? What... what am I holding?"

Ichigo could feel something on top of him, and his hands...they seemed to be clutching onto something... something squishy...

Ichigo squeezed the squishy things a bit. "Hmmm... what is this? A jellyfish? Hmmm... squishy..."

Suddenly there was a massive scream. Shizuri swatted Ichigo's hands away and punched his face into the ground as her face went red with embarrassment. Ichigo had unwittingly grabbed Shizuri's breasts in the aftermath of the fall...

(Twilight Prankster: HA!! Sword Art Online moment!!)

Shizuri scrambled backwards from Ichigo as he rubbed his head, groaning in agony. "Wh-what the hell!? WHAT THE HELL!!?"

"HOW DARE YOU!!" Shizuri screamed. "Are you some sort of pervert!?"

Ichigo sat up, a furious fire in his eyes. "HEY!! I AM NOT A PERVERT!!!"

"YEAH!?" Shizuri screamed. "Then explain why you touched my... my.. AIIEEEEEEEE!!!!"

"Touched your.. what?" Ichigo looked at where Shizuri had her arms around her chest, then he looked at his hands...then back at Shizuri's chest... then back at his hands again.

After about a few minutes, the minute hand in Ichigo's brain clock reached the number 12.

Ichigo's face turned red. "AHHHHHHH!!!!! OH MY GOD WHAT DID I DO!!?"

Shizuri ran over and punched Ichigo's head into the ground again. "YOU SHOWED HOW MUCH OF A FREAKING PERVERT YOU ARE!! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!!!"

Ichigo sighed. "OH JUST GET OVER IT!! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH YOU FALLING ON TOP OF ME!!?"

Shizuri harrumphed. "I'm getting off this freak show train!! Later Strawberry!!"

Shizuri made to walk off, but stopped right at the edge of the plateau. She looked down....

1500 feet of sky was between her and the trees below and to make that point, an eagle chose to fly past Shizuri's face at that exact moment.

"Eh...eh...eh..." Shizuri stammered, her jaw gaping.

"What!? What the hell is the matter with..." Ichigo began as he walked over just before he looked down and his jaw gaped as well. "Eh... eh... eh... eh..."

"Wait!" said Shizuri. "Thundaarix.. or Voltress.. they can come get us! All I need is to get my cellphone.. and call... call.."

Ichigo sighed. "You don't have Mikoto or anyone's numbers do you? Figures, ya tried to kill her several times. Well now you can thank me... cause I've got one right here.."

Ichigo took out his cellphone from the inside of his kimono and was just about to make a call when Shizuri suddenly snatched the phone out of his hands.

"Nuh-uh!" said Shizuri. "I'm making the call... I'm not playing second fishy to a low puffer like you-!"

"HEY GIVE THAT BACK!!" Ichigo shouted trying to snatch his phone back.

"NO!! I'm the supreme leader here!" Shizuri shouted back. Suddenly Shizuri tripped a little and the phone soared out of her hand and right over the edge of the plateau....

Ichigo and Shizuri looked over the edge for a minute, watching the phone become a speck and then nothing...

"Well." said Ichigo. "That happened."

"rrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!!" Shizuri screamed as she grabbed her hair and pulled on it. "THERE IS NO WAY I'M STAYING ON THIS FREAKING THING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!"

Ichigo sighed. "Look, they're bound to come looking for us. So let's just hang tight until they do."

"Fine!!" said Shizuri as she ran to the other end of the plateau. "But I'm not sitting around with you!!"

"Fine! I like it that way!!" Ichigo shouted back. And so the two of them sat on opposited ends of the plateau, doing their absolute best to ignore each other.

And so time passed... and passed...

Shizuri began to hug her knees a little... it had felt like such a long while. She turned to look at Ichigo. "Hey... you don't think they forgot about us... do you? It's been a while.."

"Course they haven't, this is a secluded place that's hard to find.." said Ichigo. "Just give em some time.."

"O-Of course!" said Shizuri. "I knew that!"

"Fine! Then don't ask me!" said Ichigo.

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

And so more time passed. And passed... and passed... until... the twosome began to feel hunger knaw at their own stomachs.

At that moment a bird that was carrying a large apple just so happened to drop the apple in the center of the plateau.

Ichigo and Shizuri both creaked their heads slowly towards the apple, beholding it's delicious looking wonder... it's reddish gleam that seemed to say "Eat me! Eat me!"

Shizuri inched towards the apple... and so did Ichigo...

The two of them stared each other down...

It seemed like hours... that those two continuously stared at each other, over that one juicy looking apple... then after a while, Shizuri and Ichigo both harumphed and looked away.

Then all chaos broke loose as the both of them dove at the apple in a frenzy. "GIVE IT TO M!!!"

"NO!! IT'S MINE!!"

"I'M HUNGRY!! GIVE IT!!"

"Fine!!" said Ichigo. "We'll play truth or dare for it.."

"Truth or dare?" said Shizuri. "Fine! I'm game! However, the one who also shows displeasure loses as well, even if they performed the truth or dare...they have to pretend to like it!!"

"Harsh.. but okay." said Ichigo. "I'll go first."

"Are you sure about that?" Shizuri said, looking rather devious.

"Bring it!! And I pick truth!!"

Shizuri chuckled. "Alright then... tell me what your true feelings are for Misaka!!"

"That's it?" said Ichigo. "She's a friend."

"Hahahaha!! I knew it-wait...friends..?"

"Yeah.." said Ichigo. "What did you think we were..?"

Shizuri went silent and looked down.. her face went slightly red. "Oh.. nothing..."

"Okay." said Ichigo. "It's your turn. Truth or dare?'

"Dare..I'm not in to giving out secrets.." said Shizuri.

"Alright.." said Ichigo now looking devious himself. "I dare you to touch one of your Meltdowner attacks!! With your bare hands!!!!"

Shizuri looked shocked for a minute.

"Can't do it..can ya?" said Ichigo. "Alright then, guess I'll take that-"

"I WON'T LOSE!!!" Shizuri screamed. She formed a Meltdowner sphere in front of her and grabbed it with both hands.

"OH MY GOD SHE ACTUALLY DID IT!!!" Ichigo yelled with shock.

Shizuri grinned at Ichigo. "That all you've got? See.. we dragon slayers have increased endurance..which means I won't disintegrate into nothi-noth-no..........AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE IT BURNS!!!!!!"

Shizuri wrenched her burned hands away, screaming. "DANG IT!!!! I THOUGHT I WAS IMMUNE TO MY OWN ELEMENT BUT I WAS WRONG!!! I WAS SO WRONG!!!!"

Ichigo reached out tentatively to Shizuri. "H-hey... Are you okay? Come on..."

"NO!!" Shizuri shouted, moving away from Ichigo, you won!! Take it!! It's yours!!"

Shizuri huddled away, nursing her own burned hands.

Ichigo just stood there for a moment... he picked up the apple...

More time passed, and Shizuri thought that Ichigo must have certainly eaten the apple by now. And yet... she didn't want to look... her stomach was growling too loudly...

"Hey... Shizuri..."

The voice was so gentle and strong... Shizuri could almost feel it pulling her head to look back at Ichigo, still holding the uneaten apple.

"Do you want some?" Ichigo asked.

"Look, just take it... You won fair and square." Shizuri muttered.

Ichigo knealt next to Shizuri and sighed. "Look, we can share..this is a pretty big apple..."

Shizuri put her hands up gratefully... then realized they were burned and painful.

Ichigo began to break the apple into pieces. "Listen, your hands are pretty injured, I can..."

"Feed me!?" said Shizuri. "F-forget it!!"

"Do you want the apple or not!?"

Shizuri went silent... then she nodded. "Fine... but if you tell anybody..."

"You'll Roar of The Antimatter Dragon me into oblivion, I've got it.." said Ichigo. "Just eat already.."

And so Ichigo handed the apple to Shizuri, who leaned in close, and bit into it...letting it's gracious taste roll over her tongue...

Very soon, Ichigo had fed Shizuri half the apple...

Shizuri started to go red.. she knew she'd probably die if anybody saw them up here like this.

Ichigo was looking pretty embarrassed as well. He knew what this scene looked like...

"Alright.. here's the last bite.." said Ichigo. "Now just take it and..."

Suddenly there was a large gust of wind.. and being so high up, the wind was strong enough to blow Ichigo right into Shizuri, dropping the apple.

The two of them rolled and tumbled along the plateau for a moment before they finally stopped. Shizuri was lying on her back, her face only inches from Ichigo's who was kneeling abover her.

The two stared hesitantly at each other for a minute.

"Wh-what is this?" Shizuri stuttered.

"Umm.. I think it's called wind." said Ichigo awkwardly.

"You idiot.." said Shizuri as her cheeks turned red. "You know what I'm talking about..."

Then right past the plateau, a large dragon flew by... but...it was unlike any dragon Ichigo and Shizuri had ever seen.

The dragon's scales sparkled with over a million beautiful colors on it's silvery hide. It's body and limbs all the way down to the tip of it's claws and tail was elegently shaped...even the spines on it's back looked like works of art.

It's beautiful head, and soft eyes, seemed to portray unimaginable beauty...

And then the dragon vanished into the sky... leaving behind no sign of it's existance except for the dumbstruck esper Dragon Slayer and Substitute Soul Reaper who kept on staring after it... as if not sure of what they had just seen.

Meanwhile... Mikoto Misaka was flying up the side of the plateau with her massive lightning wings, following Ichigo's scent.

"Seriously." Mikoto muttered. "How the hell did they end up all the way this high?"

Finally Mikoto made it to the top of the plateau... and her jaw dropped in shock.

Shizuri was being held in Ichigo's arms as the two of them held hands in a loving embrace...

"Oh...hey..." said Ichigo with a smile as he saw Mikoto. "About time, me and Shizuri here were just having some time to think..."

"Yeah.." said Shizuri, turning red and smiling. "Time to think..."

"Wh-WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED WITH YOU TWO!!?" Mikoto shouted. "You guys are acting like you're lovers or something!!"

Ichigo further threw Mikoto's brain into loopdeloops when he kissed Shizuri on the forehead. "Well a lot happened. We were up here for a while..."

Mikoto stared at the twosome, absolutely dumbstruck. "YOU TWO WERE ONLY MISSING FOR 12 MINUTES!!"

But Ichigo and Shizuri weren't paying attention, they were too busy being lost in each other's eyes.