So I updated this chapter so if you have read it before 9/27/2011 i suggest you read it again, at least parts of it. I changed a little, not alot, but it does make a difference in the story line.

I walked up to the house. It was huge, imposing, it bore down on me. At the moment I was nervous of what I had gotten myself into. I was dumb for waiting until the last minute to apply for housing. I deserved to get waitlisted. Of course that's why I was forced to look for alternative housing. This was the only place both close to the college and within my budget, which is great except for the fact that all of the people that live in this house together have known each other for years, since their freshman year of high school. I already feel like an intruder into their little 'family' and I haven't even met them yet.

I took a deep breath and rang the doorbell.

An orange haired man answered the door. He was tall and handsome with a deep scowl on his face. "Who are you?" he asked.

"Hey, Ichigo, is that the pizza?" A man with extremely red spiky hair and tattooed eye-brows popped his head up from behind the orange haired man who I assume is the one named Ichigo. "Where's the pizza?" The red haired man began to look around even though I thought it was obvious that the suitcase I had in my hand wasn't a pizza.

"Seriously Renji? Do you not see that she doesn't have a pizza and is obviously isn't a delivery girl seeing as she has a suitcase and no uniform." Ichigo then proceeded to throw a punch back into Renji's face, then turned back to face me, "So what are you here for?"

"Oh, um, my name is Reena, Reena Ninani, I, um, spoke to a, um, Uryu Ishida, about, um…"

"You're the new resident. Yeah, Uryu told me you'd be coming today. He left early this morning for some kind of summer school thing and hoped you wouldn't come until he got home later but told me in case you showed up early, which I guess is a good thing seeing as you're here."

I just nodded silently.

"So I guess you should come in so I can show you around and introduce you to everyone." I nodded again and began to gather my things when Ichigo stopped me. "I'll get that for you; by the way I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, nice to meet you." This was the first time that I had seen Ichigo smile since he opened the door. It seemed to fit his face so much better than the scowl I had seen before. Then almost instantly his face fell back into that scowl.

I followed him into the household. He took me through the kitchen and up a short flight of stairs into what I assumed to be the living room. We were facing the back of a couch which was holding three people who were facing the television on the opposite wall. One of the three was the man with spiky red hair, Renji, I believe.

"So you've already met Renji Abarai, the freakin' idiot," Renji glared in Ichigo's direction, "and this is Toshiro Hitsugaya and Rangiku Matsumoto." Ichigo pointed to a white haired boy and an orange haired woman respectively. I nodded to them both. Toshiro, the little boy barely glanced away from the TV to look at me, but the woman jumped up from the couch and smothered me with a hug.

"I'm so happy to finally meet you!" she cried as she pulled away from me, she looked like she was about to say more when the boy spoke up.

"Matsumoto, leave the girl alone so she can get settled, bother her tomorrow, besides don't you have work to do?"

"Ah, Toshiro you're no fun!"

The boy began to get very angry, "Matsumoto how many times have I told you to call me Hitsugaya! It's more respectful to call your elders by their last name."

"But you don't look like my elder."

Ichigo began to pull me away when Toshiro got off the couch to yell at Rangiku, as we walked away I could still hear their fight.

"Sorry about that, Toshiro is typically cool headed, but Rangiku knows just how to push his buttons and she does it often."

I smiled, "It's obvious that they are good friends."

Ichigo looked at me weirdly as he led me up another flight of stairs, "Why would you say that?"

I blushed and looked at the floor, "Well…you have to know someone pretty well to get them that angry that often and he lets her get away with it for the most part since she keeps doing it, so I figure they must be pretty good friends."

I blushed more as I saw Ichigo smile again, "Wow, I never thought of it that way, but I can see the logic. Guess they are good friends, great friends even seeing as how they are hardly ever separate." There was silence for a moment before we reached the third floor, "Okay, now this is technically the second floor, since the floor you came in on was the basement/kitchen, but this is where some rooms are and there are more on the third floor, but yours is on this floor."

Ichigo led me down the hall to a door situated next to the next flight of stairs. "Sorry this room is kind of the smallest and you'll also be sharing a bathroom with Orihime, one of the other residents. Right now I think she is out to the other girls, but when she gets back I'll introduce you."

"Thanks for everything."

"It's no problem, now let me show you your room so you can unpack and relax."

He opened the door to reveal an actually quite spacious room. There was a large window on the back wall where the bed and a desk also were against the same wall. The desk was nice, it had three drawers and would be perfect for studying. Next to the bed was a small side table-slash-dresser and next to that was the door to the bathroom. The closet, which was a small walk-in closet, was on the left side of the room, it had a slanted ceiling because of the stairs that were next door to my room.

"Judging by the look on your face you really like your new room," Ichigo smiled at me again.

I smiled back, "Yeah, it's really nice and bigger than I expected, much better than a dorm room."

He nodded, "So I figure that you'll want to unpack and relax, so I'm going to leave, dinner is at 6:00, we take turns each day, two of us get picked to cook dinner, every week the pairings are different, tonight it's mine and Renji's turn. No guarantees it's going to be that great with Renji cooking." I laughed as he exited the room.

I have a feeling that I'm really going to like it here.

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