"Why the hell are we here Renji?! It's about time that we got back to the Seireitei!"
"There's a very old friend that I haven't seen in a long time that lives here."
Renji and his companion approached a large wooden house established a long ways off the main road; in the opening of the forest.
Renji's companion, she had short brown hair, majestic green eyes, and carried a sword that resembled ice. She grew impatient as Renji knocked on the door; not getting an answer.
"Guess they're not home," Renji sighed.
"Let's go then!" his companion was half way down the stairs.
"Jeeze V! You're soooo impatient!" Renji commented.
V was about to say something when she felt a spiritual energy approaching beyond natural speed. She gripped her sword.
"What are you-" Renji started, when out of the woods popped a figure at a high speed.
The figure was a girl, around the same age as them. She had mid-length dirty blond hair, her eyes were crystal blue. Although she has strong spiritual energy, she did not wear a black shinigami kimono like V and Renji. Instead, she wore a dark pink shirt with blue pants; she wore no shoes. As her speed slowed dramatically, V raised her sword to the mysterious girl.
"Halt!" she ordered.
The girl stopped and stared at the two shinigami; confused. She looked V up and down and with a stuck up gaze and she answered, "Yeah? What?"
V grew angry right away, and was about to say something, but before she could, a boy in a shinigami uniform popped out of the woods and tackled the girl to the ground.
"Gotcha!" he laughed.
V noticed the girl was blushing.
"Took you long enough!" she replied to the orange-spiky haired boy.
Again, V was about to say something, when a skinny boy with blue hair and glasses ran out, jumping on top to the orange-haired one. Just after that, a very large black guy landed on all three of them.
"Guys! You're going to kill me!" the girl cried. They all quickly jumped up, the orange one grabbing her hand to help her up.
He looked over at the shinigami and smiled.
"Renji!"
"Ichigo!"
"huh?!" V and the blond girl yelled at the same time.
"THIS is your old friend?!" V asked.
Renji laughed, "Yeah, right here with the orange hair is Ichigo, the glasses is Ishida, the big guy is Chad, and…" Renji paused, glancing at the girl, "OH! You must be Axel!"
The girl nodded, a little confused as to how he knew her name.
"Ichigo told me about you the last time he visited the Seireitei all that time ago."
Ichigo looked at V, "And you must be V?"
V nodded.
"Nice to meet you," Ichigo stuck out his hand, but V just looked at it.
Ichigo pulled away; not surprised.
"How rude."
V looked up to see Axel looking at her with a disgusted face.
Before she could same something, Ichigo did.
"She's a Kuchiki, it's in her nature."
V decided not to react to that statement.
Ishida decided to cool the tension, "would you mind joining us for dinner?"
"Sure," Renji said.
They all started to ascend the steps of the house when a giant light burst in the sky in the direction of the Seireitei.
V was off the steps and running in the direction of the light within an instant, Renji close behind.
The group followed, intending to help.
"Axel." Ichigo said.
She nodded, and grabbed Ichigo's hand.
He leaned into her, she took a deep breath, one step, and they were gone.
"What the hell?!" V yelled.
"Axel's shunpo is beyond any rational speed. Ichigo is the 2nd fastest out of us, combine…their almost faster than sound. I'm guessing that they'll get there within a minute or two. We were actually working on speed drills by chasing Axel when you showed up." Ishida informed them.
"DAMN!" Renji said, and the four of them attempted their own shunpo in hopes of catching up.