Author's note: This little one shot is based on Episode 227 and takes place before Yuu and Ichigo meet Rukia.

Mizuiro Kojima wasn't paying much attention to his friend's panic attack. Keigo Asano had a tendency to over react. As a result Mizuiro was paying more attention to his cell phone. He was pretending to text but, he wasn't really. After all he and the world had a communication error.

It was a beautiful day and the first day of the school year. Mizuiro and Keigo were both new first years at Karakura High School. As soon as Mizuiro arrived Keigo had started to complain. The cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

Mizuiro was paying enough attention to question, "Chad and Ichigo form Mashiba Junior High School?"

Keigo was frantic, "Now do you get it? For some reason they both entered this school!"

Mizurio honestly didn't understand what the big deal was, "So what if they did? Why are you freaking out?"

Keigo attempted to explain, "Chand and Ichigo are the most disgusting super juvenile delinquents of all time! You wouldn't believe some of the stories I heard about them. I heard that they're in with the yakuza! They have arrest records like a mile long! The smuggle drugs and go into bookstores and look at porn for like five hours straight!"

The entire time Keigo was jumping around and flailing his arms. Mizuiro was used to it so he continued to feign interest in his phone. Mizuiro was sure that none of what Keigo was saying was true.

Mizuiro pointed out, "But you've never meet them and those are just rumors so you don't know what kind of people they are?

That didn't calm Keigo down, "We're talking about Chad and Ichigo here. We know exactly what kind of people they are!"

Mizuiro pulled out a small brown book and began to look at the day's agenda. He continued to ignore Keigo. He looked up to see the class rosters had been posted.

Mizuiro cut though Keigo's rant, "Hey it looks like they posted the class rosters and we're both in Class 1-3."

That distracted Keigo, "You can see that from here? Man I need to get my eyes checked." Of course that was when Keigo noticed two of the other names on the class roster, "There's just no way! The unimaginable has just become a horrible reality!"

Mizuiro thought that Keigo was being ridiculous but, he understood it. Ichigo Kurosaki and Yasutora Sado were both in Class 1-3. Mizuro looked at some of the other names. There was a Tatsuki Arisawa and a Michiru Ogawa. Miziro also spotted the names Uryû Ishida and Orihime Inoue. He managed to catch two more names: Chizuru Honshō and Yuu Katsu.

That was when something crashed through the announcement board. It was four boys. One of them was being punched in the face by a darker boy. The other pair consisted of an orange haired boy stepping on the face of the last boy. Mizuiro stared in shock as the group landed and turned to see a girl standing over the class roster. Even though it was the first day of school she had her school bag.

Suddenly the girl shouted, "Ichigo! We're in the same class! Oh look, so is Chad."

The two victims had been sent sailing across the courtyard. The dark boy and the orange haired boy were standing with scowls on their faces. The girl, who had stunning blue eyes and black hair that reach halfway down her back, came to stand next the orange haired boy's right hand.

Keigo identified the two boys as the courtyard was surrounded, "Oh no! It's Chad and Ichigo!"

Keigo continued to scream until the girl used her foot to stomp on his, "Shut up! We aren't going to hurt you."

Mizuiro held out his hand for the girl to shake, "Hi, I'm Mizurio Kojima."

The girl become oddly excited, "Oh! You're in our class too!" She took his offered hand, "I'm Yuu Katsu. Are you any good at math? I'm not. I prefer history."

The orange haired boy spoke up, "Don't let her fool you. She's pretty damn smart."

Yuu half scowled half smirk at him, "Shut up Ichigo."

If the orange haired boy was Ichigo, that made the darker boy Chad. Mizuiro felt like he missed something because somehow Keigo had been taken captive by the punks who had surrounded the courtyard.

Yuu pointed at Keigo, "Who's that?"

Mizuiro answered, "He's Keigo Asano. He's not too good at school but, he is pretty smart. He's loyal, dependable; a hundred times better than me."

Yuu's finger shifted to point at Mizuiro as she declared, "I like him!"

Mizuiro was slightly confused, "What?"

Ichigo answered, "For someone to have so many nice things to say about his friend; that's pretty rare nowadays." Ichigo unzipped his jacket as he asked, "Mizuiro, How are you at making up excuses?"

Mizuiro answered, "I'm so good it's sick."

Yuu dropped her bag as her smile vanished. Her eyes did something weird; they seemed to change color without changing color at all. For some reason Mizuiro was reminded of freezing water. Ichigo slid into a crouch and Chad leaned forward.

Yuu said, "You have about five minutes to think up a good one. I have no desire to get suspended on the first day of school." The two boys leapt forward, "We're saving your friend, Keigo."

The battle was quick. While Ichigo and Chad did most of the damage Yuu had a few 'kills' of her own. Mizuiro couldn'y remember much of the fight or the first day of school he felt sort of light and full of joy.

Later that day Keigo was peddling his bicycle along the river. Mizuiro was perched on the back. The whole world was the orange of sunset.

Mizuiro said, "They were different than we thought."

Keigo agreed and then he question, "But how different were they?"

Mizuiro answered, "Way different."

Mizuiro was looking at the newest contact in his phone book; he quickly sent the number a text, "Hey."

Within moments he had a response, "You never told me if you were any good at math."

He answered, "Not really," and then went ahead and snapped his phone shut.

Keigo asked him, "Hey aren't you going to call Nanako today?"

Mizuiro let out a soft chuckle, "No. I don't feel like it today."

Keigo smiled a soft smile, "Glad to hear you say that."

It looked like Mizuiro and the world no longer had a communication issue.

Author's note: LadyAnnaLee here! This little one-shot is short. I will be posting the one-shot based on the Hell Verse movie tomorrow. Any new reviews and followers for The Man of Honor and the Best Maid will be mentioned the next time I post there. That should be in a week. Until tomorrow, Love, LadyAnnaLee!

Btw I don't own Bleach but I did think up Yuu and her Kakuchū no Ryū.