This wonderful piece of literary mastery was co-written by me and Exavier Artis. It took us a couple of hours to write all the current chapters. (It's hard to do with the time difference, ya know?)

You can kinda tell which parts are mine, and which are his, can't you? My stuff is the paragraphs that are all lumped up. His are the more spaced out ones.

Neither of us own Bleach. All we own are our own gorgeous OC's… man would I love to co-own Aura and Nocte! XD

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Kenpachi leaned his chin on his hand, glaring at Yoshimi. She was sitting across the table, but all her attention was focused on the others. He kicked her under the table, and she glared back at him as he quietly asked "Why did you drag me here? I don't LIKE any of these people!" His zanpaktou hissed back "you behave, or I'll never forgive you." She turned back to the other conversation, and Kenpachi grumbled swearwords under his breath as he picked at the bread on the table, turning slightly to flick bread bits into Komamura's fur.

Zaix looked at Kenpachi with an expression that clearly said, "STOP" but he knew that it wasn't registering.

Aura and Nocte sat beside her and were engaged in entertaining conversation.

Komamura looked at Zaix who was across from him. He tried to ignore the indignant bread assault.

"Kenpachi? Can I have your bread please?" Zaix asked trying not to seem angry.

Kenpachi pulled his bread closer to him and glared at Zaix. "No. I'm eating it." Yoshimi, without even stopping her part in the conversation, leaned over the table and took the bread away from Kenpachi. "Hey...!" she poked out her tongue cheekily at him and ate some of the bread. "Now I'm eating it. No complaints." Kenpachi glared at her and was about to yell when she held up her hand. "No." he shut up, and slammed his elbow down onto the table again to sulk.

Aura and Nocte looked back and forth between Zaix and Kenpachi. They sweatdropped. Zaix sighed at the tension between them all and looked down. He suddenly noticed Komamura looking at him smiled. Komamura forced a smile in response. He didn't want Zaix to feel bad for making him attend

"So then Zaix says to Komamura: "I like where i am right now. Right under you!" Aura burst out in laughter. Nocte laughed heartily as well. Komamura rubbed his forehead in slight annoyance while Zaix tried to hide his face while drinking his tea.

"Ahem... So Yoshimi!" Zaix said at last. "What do you like to do for fun?"

The young woman, ignoring the looks of death she was getting from Kenpachi, shrugged. "I'm not really out and about in a human-esque form long enough to do anything fun... except tormenting Byakuya Kuchiki. That's about the best I can do." she toyed with some bread from the confiscated basket before asking Zaix "What about you?"

"I like to sing, and hang out with my captain and my zanpakuto. I'm pretty simple. Hehe..."

He looked at the two pieces of bread in the basket and picked one up. He took a small bite of it and looked at Kenpachi, who was still being difficult.

Zaix sighed and continued eating.

Komamura's right ear twitched for a moment... he felt something welling up outside...

Zaix suddenly stopped eating... his body became tense....

Aura and Nocte looked around...

"Does anyone else feel that?" Zaix asked.

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Ah yes… suspense. The favourite plot device of my co-author. Not that I can really blame him… it works very well.

I've been given free rein to edit and post our story as I see fit… not a wise move, Exavier. I'm going to get carried away with all this fantastic stuff to play with!! I don't know how we're going to keep up with all these updates… o.O