Don't worry. For those of you reading my other story Of Swords and Emeralds, I'm working on Chapter 5. In the meantime I will present with a little side story in the realm of Bleach. It is slight Au-ish. Without further ado let's begin.

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"Welcome Kuchiki-san. What may I help you with today." came the jovial greeting of shop keeper Urahara.

"Urahara-san are the soul candies here yet, I'm almost out." Rukia responded.

"I see. Ururu-chan would you be a dear and check to see if Kuchiki-san's pills have arrived. There the dispenser's with Chappy on it."

Ururu seemingly appearing out of nowhere answered with a meek yes and went to the storage room.

"Chappy...Chappy...Chappy...Chappy...Ah! Here it is." She said leaning over to pick up a dispenser that sure enough had the white rabbit known as Chappy on top of it. She brought it back to Rukia and wished her a good day.

Rukia was on her way home after that as she didn't want to stay in that store any longer than she needed to. As she walked home she noticed how quiet and empty the streets were.

Strange it's the middle of the day but there is nobody outhere. Oh well. She decided to look over the Chappy soul candy dispenser. That's wierd, this case is black instead of it's usual color. Hmph. It doesn't matter anyway, I mean I guess it makes a nice contrast to the white Chappy anyway. Maybe I should try to pills now to make sure there aren't any defaults

With that thought she popped a pill in her mouth but instead of popping out of her gigai she started to feel dizzy. Slowly it seemeed as the world around her got bigger. Not only that but she was itchy. But when she tried to strach herself she couldn't reach anywhere. When she startedd to itch behind her ears, however, she raised her hind leg to scratch behind the floppy ears. Silence. She stopped straching

Wait...hind legs and floppy ears What the hell!

She ran as fast as her new body could carry her into the nearest alleyway and saw a dirty medium size mirror. She looked herself up and down with wide eyes.

No way...I'm a...BUNNY!

Nothing could've made Rukia feel more excited but yet fearful at the same time. She was a white bunny with one black ear and a pink nose. The top of her hind legs were black and the color went down her legs to stop right before her paws. She had the usual bang in front of her face but it was white instead of the usual black, and the spiked fur at the back of her neck which looked an awful lot like her regular back hair was black. She hopped around looking at herself in the mirror a couple of more times at different angles.

This is crazy but I can't deny one thing though...I LOOK ADORABLE. But I am pretty hungry now that I think about it

She started scavenging for food in the alleyway knowing there was no way she would be able to get inside the Kurosaki household in her current state. Her ears stood at attention when she saw a piece of meat lying on the ground a few feet away. She quickly hopped to it. She was about to take a bite out of it, but something she heard stopped her.

"Back away from our food" came out as a low growl from somwhere.

Looking around she was confused as she looked around. All she saw was three dogs but no humans.

Who could've possibly haved said th-

The same voice interrupted her thoughts. "HEY! You blind and deaf. I . . !"

That's when she realized it was the dog talking to her. That's when she also realized she was an animal so that's why she could probably hear them talk. Lost in her thoughts she seemed to have forgotten she was suppose to move.

"Ya know. If you wanna stay for dinner so badly, you can be our appetizer."

Taking that as a sign to leave she quickly turned tail and run. But the dogs were soon giving chase. It's too bad, if she were a bigger animal she could've taken them on. But NOOO, she just had to get this small, useless, and adorable bunny body. Not that she was complaining...well actually she was.

Arriving at the end of the alleyway she made a sharp turn and ran down the street...which was still empty. She was about to stop thinking about it and countinue running but she soon saw three figures come into view.

Oh please be good people. Please notice me and help me. PLZ

All she knew at this point is the next time she saw Urahara there was hell to pay.

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"Thanks for coming with us to the store with us Ichi-nii."

"Sure...aren't you going say thank you too Karin." came the gruff voice of Ichigo Kurosaki.

Karin simply looked away in response. They countinued walking in silence after that for a while before something caught their attention. There were four figures walking, no, running towards them. The figure in the front being noticeably smaller than the three runnning behind it. When they came closer he saw it was a bunny being chased by three large dogs. When they came close enough Yuzu had dropped some of her bags to pick up the small bunny. Ichigo and Karin were trying to shoo off the dogs just incase they tried to pounce on Yuzu.

The dogs persisted on for about three minutes before turning tail and dissapearing in the alleyway. Ichigo slowly tuned around to look at Yuzu. "Alright Yuzu, let the bunny go."

Yuzu looked up at her older brother with a pout. "No way! What if she gets into trouble again." Without warning the bunny was thrust into Ichigo's face. Or at least how close it could get to his face at Yuzu's height. "Look at how adorable she is." The bunny suddenly put it's ears up as if proud of that statement.

She's right. Look at how adorable I am. Not even you Ichigo can resist this

"How do you know it's a girl?"

"Because no boy bunny could be this adorable."

With an exasperated sigh Ichigo gave up. "Fine." And with that the Kurosaki siblings countinued to walk home.

When they did get home Ichigo didn't get a kick to the face so Isshin was probably still working in the clinic.

Ichigo went upstairs to put his stuff down and went back downstairs to pick up the bunny. "Ichi-nii where are you taking Bunny-chan." Yuzu questioned while prepairing to make dinner.

"This thing was in the streets for who knows how long, I'm going to give it a bath."

At that moment Rukia was seething with rage.

How dare he refer to me as a thing and it'll be a cold day in hell before Ichigo Kurosaki gives me a bath

With all her might Rukia started struggling against Ichigo. "Oi, stop will ya" She countinued struggling until he lifted her up to face level. "I SAID STOP!" Using this chance she kicked his face and started running wild in the bottom of the Kurosaki household. When she was running she hit Karin's soccer ball out the way. It ended up on her face, which led to both Karin and Ichigo chasing her.

After running for a while Rukia saw a pair of open arms and happily jumped into them realizing they were Yuzu's. "Maybe I can give her a quick bath before I make dinner." To Ichigo it seemed the Bunny didn't mind Yuzu as carried her up the stairs. A while later they came down and Yuzu started preparing dinner. Rukia sat on the couch watching T.V with Karin and Ichigo until dinner. It seemed Ichigo went into the kitchen to prepare something right when Yuzu finished. Karin and Yuzu took their place at the table, and so did Rukia.

The twins thought it was wierd there was a bunny sitting at the table especially since it was in Rukia's seat. Ichigo soon came back to the table with a plate full of carrots and set it infront of the bunny. He then went to sit in his seat and started eating dinner looking quite satistfied with what Yuzu made. Rukia on the other hand was annoyed as hell. She tried to talk but she couldn't find her voice, what she tried to say came out as a light squeak and a quick wiggle of the nose earning a squeal from Yuzu.

I may be a bunny, but he doesn't have to be so stereotypical. I mean not all bunnies eat carrots. It they did he might have gotten mistaken for an overgrown one a long time ago.

Annoyed Rukia went over to Ichigo's plate and started eating off it. 'What the Hell! Go eat your own dinner." Rukia ignored him and countinued eating. He grabbed his fork and was about to use it, not on the food mind you, until Yuzu's voice stopped him. "Ichi-nii let her eat, you can go one night wihout food." Grumbling he went up to his room. He didn't lock his door though so when dinner was over Rukia walked in.

She saw him sleeping soundly in his bed. It was pretty early considering it wasn't even 8 o' clock yet, but it was a pretty long day. She turned her head up when she heard something jump through his window. The fool didn't even close his window.

That's why the other Shinigami are always intruding in here.

A familiar voice broke her thoughts. "Hey. Who the hell are you." She turned her head to the source of the voice. A blue cat with equally blue cyan hair and spiky fur all along the front and back of his hair.

"Grimmjow!" (A/N: This is why the story is Au-ish. After the war instead of killing Grimmjow, Ichigo somehow convinced Urahara to turn him into a cat for his personal use and to keep as a pet. Although sometimes during the day he goes out.)

"Yeah. How the hell do you know what my name and what's it to you if I am Grimmjow?" Grimmjow got in a position as if he was about pounce

"Wait!" Rukia frantically called. "It's me Rukia, don't attack."

"Rukia? That's really you. How the hell did you turn into a bunny?"

'Urahara" came the quick reply.

"I see. Why didn't you just tell Ichigo?"

"For some reason I can only communicate with other animals, if I try to talk to somebody it'll sound like animal jibberish."

"Tch so you're stuck like that for a while."

"Pretty much." The two sat in silence until Rukia got an evil glint in her eye. "Hey Grimmjow, tomorrow's Monday right." "Yeah...what of it?"

"Get up early, we're going on a nice little trip."

It took a while before Grimmjow caught on. When he finally did he put on a huge smirk. "Hah! I like you better like this. We're going to have a lot of fun."

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Yeah so this is the first chapter of my little side story. Also what type of fun are they talking about. Yeah I know what half of you out there are thinking. So as I said I'm working on Chp. 5 of Of Swords and Emeralds. But I will publish when I get one more concept or crossever design up. That might be awhile though because my scanner isn't worker so yeah.