If she could run any faster, Ariswana-san would. She was running late to school and it was only the second day in the new semester. If she was late again, her sister would surely kill her. Theresa-san wasn't a big fan of school, but she wanted the best for her sister. They were almost the same age, around 19 years old and they were going to be graduating soon. They had a unique kind of relationship because they almost never fought. Theresa-san also had a secret in which Ariswana was the only one who knew. Swana picked up the pace in fear of her sister's wrath because when her family got angry, they wouldn't get over it very easily and things could get scary.

*Ariswana's P.O.V.* "There's the building! I'll survive after all!" As I was saying that, the bell rang as I hopped the gate into the school yard. "No, I'm dead!" I ran as fast as I could and being the klutz I am, tripped into the classroom. I ran and sat in my usual seat next to Inoue.

"Welcome Ariswana, glad you could finally join us." I smiled innocently at the teacher as she continued her lesson. I looked over at my sister and saw her staring at me. She just shook her head and looked away. ~later on~

"Sawa-kun! Come sit with me!" Inoue was yelling across the campus. I ran over and we began walking toward our usual spot by the tree. I saw Theresa and ran over to her grabbing her by the shirt and dragging her with us.

"Ari-san, why were you late this morning!" She was eyeing me up and down making me extremely nervous. "Uhm I slept in again, sorry Theresa-san!" She just looked at me and shrugged.

"Whatever just don't do it again." She said. I knew why she was being so nice today. Kurosaki-kun sat next to her during class today and started mingling with her. She'd been in love with Ichigo ever since we'd met him.

"Why don't we invite Kurosaki to eat with us?" I said. When I brought that up, Theresa almost spit her juice all over the place.

"We can't do that! Boys and girls never eat together; it'd just be plain weird." I turned to Orihime and she had the same frightened expression on her face. Inoue was also in love with Ichigo, and for that, Theresa never liked her. Every time she'd come over to study or something with Tatsuki-chan or something, Theresa would leave the house to go out with her other friends. I never knew someone could dislike Orihime. ~On the way home~

"See you later Inoue!" I was waving cheerily to her and Theresa just scoffed and walked ahead.

"I don't see how you can be friends with a bimbo like that." I was shocked to hear her say something so blunt.

"Theresa-san how can you say that! She's perfectly nice, and so what if she likes Kurosaki? You do too and she doesn't hate you."

"That's only because she doesn't know you idiot." We continued walking in silence. As we were turning the corner to our street, Theresa's cell phone rang.

"Hai?...Arrigato! I'll be there shortly!" She hung up and turned to me with the biggest smile I'd ever seen. "Ichigo needs help with math; I'll be back waayyy later! Bye!" She kissed my cheek and was off. I stood there in awe.

"Is there anything she wouldn't do for him?" I laughed to myself as I continued on my way. Suddenly, I felt something behind me. I whipped around and saw something huge and disgusting running straight toward me. I was shocked and before I knew it, it was on me. It let out a huge roar and I let out a small scream. It was coming down on me, but before it could reach me, I was able to push it off and run a short distance away from it. As it attacked I was able to dodge. When it was about to take me down for the count, someone in black robes appeared before me and slayed whatever it was that attacked me. He turned around to face me and I finally found my voice.

"T-thank you. I don't know what I would've done without you." He turned to me and had a shocked expression.

"You can see me!" I looked at him in a weird way and we just stared at each other awkwardly for a while.

"Yes? You're right in front of me aren't you?" He stared at me again.

"Well, yeah but technically I'm dead. I'm a shinigami and I came here to slay that hollow, or as you know it, the thing that almost killed you." I just stared at him blankly.

"Okay well, maybe you could explain this to me?" I asked.

"Sorry, but I'm in a hurry to return to the soul society." Once again I stared at him blankly.

"Well, if you return sometime soon, just remember the name: Ariswana Thompson." He looked at me and then pointed to himself.

"Renji Abarai, and I look forward to seeing you again sometime."