Cayuna: Yeah! I'm updating! Doesn't that make you happy?

Ichigo: Yes very much, now hurry up.

Rukia: Ichigo, shut up, and be patient.

Ichigo: Who are you to tell me what to do?

Rukia: I'm your elder by more than a hundred years, you listen you youngster! *pokes Ichigo with old person cane*

Cayuna: Tee-hee, now youngster do the caption!

Ichigo: Cayuna doesn't own Bleach…

-The Rising Dawn-

"Today we're going to study school and have so much fun!" A sarcastic girly voice said into my ear. I turned around startled and found myself face-to-face with a black-haired midget with startling violet eyes.

-Ichigo POV-

"GAH!" I yelled at the sudden appearance of the midget. All I got was a smirk from her, and detention from the teacher. Great…

She followed me to all my classes making annoyingly sarcastic remarks about my grades, classes, and teachers, and finally at lunch I had had enough. I found a secluded place where I could talk to her, or more like demand answers and for her to stop following me.

"Alright, why are you here?" I said turning around to see her looking around nervously. I heard the unearthly scream behind me no sooner than the words were out of my mouth. I felt the huge figure loom up behind me, and I saw the girl bring out a long katana.

She jumped over me smoothly, used my head to jump higher and shoved her sword through the giant monster's smooth white mask. It disintegrated almost immediately.

"What was that?" I gritted out. She put a finger up to her mouth and pointed over to a group of kids who were passing and whispered,

"I'll tell you at your detention thing."

-Rukia POV-

I studied this boy closely, he seemed like your average teenager, other than the reiatsu he was pouring out. How was he supposed to be the new king? And, I gulped, me the queen. I almost wanted to go back to the soul king and ask him if he was the correct one, but the soul king wouldn't take that…well…he always chose right, so who were his subjects to question him?

The soul king had sent me to be a guardian of the new king, and to get to know him, but I had a feeling that he wouldn't take the news well. That was too bad, I had already started to like him, he was extremely fun to annoy. And, I have to admit he is pretty handsome.

Now we were headed to a class they called art. I wasn't too happy about it at first, but then I saw what this class was about. The "sensei" as they had called her drew a rabbit on the board as an example.

Finally, something exciting for once! She busied talking about the famous old dead artists, while I enjoyed drawing cute bunnies on Ichigo's sketchbook. He was sleeping leaning back in his chair, at the back of the room.

"Kurosaki," the teacher called, "Why don't you show us your art that you've drawn back there."

Ichigo awoke at the sound of his name, and stared down at his paper. He groaned, turned red and held up the Chappy the Rabbit drawings to the whole class. They exploded in laughter. He just got a darker red, and sent me a blood-chilling stare. I just grinned.

The rest of his classes were just as boring. There was science – some weird thing with tubes and icky smelling liquids – I had tried to drink one, but Ichigo had jumped up yelling "No, don't drink that!" That was funny.

The last class he had was called Geography. That was the worst one of all. First of all the teacher was this old, fat guy who droned on about the importance of knowing your place in the world. I strutted around copying the old guy up front, and was successful in bringing the constant frown Ichigo wore to more of a straight line.

I grinned at him, and he switched from an almost grin to a smirk. I was ignored after that. I just stuck my tongue out at him and waited- while pouting- in the back of the room.

Finally his classes were done, and we walked into the detention room.

-Ichigo POV-

Finally this horrible day was over. I walked into my English classroom and sat down to enjoy my hour of detention. There was a note written on the blackboard it read:

Kurosaki Ichigo, I have gone to pick up my children, I expect you to still stay through your detention, without me here. If you don't I will find out.

That sounded just a bit creepy. I turned to glare at the midget girl and then said threateningly, "Now tell me everything."

She crossed her arms over her chest, stared me down, and said, "Ask what you want to know."

Well that was good, at least she was being reasonable, I said to myself to keep from pounding the annoying midget into the ground.

"Alright, what's your name?"

"Rukia…Kuchiki." She responded carefully.

"What are you?"

"I'm a shinigami-death god- I take the souls of the dead in this world to the Soul Kingdom."

"What's your purpose here?"

"I'm here to…study you. The soul king who rules over the soul kingdom is dying, his queen is already dead. He has chosen you to inherit the throne, and I am next in line for the queen-ship when the new king comes. I was sent to watch you and communicate, and to protect you."

I felt like laughing to myself, this was the biggest bull crap I've ever heard of, but I still continued questioning.

"Ok, so you're saying I'm the next soul king, you're the next soul queen, and you've been sent to protect me."

She only nodded.

"Why are you invisible to everyone else?"

She growled and rolled her eyes. "I'm a soul, I don't have a human body, idiot. And your reiatsu is high enough for you to see me."

"What's reiatsu?"

"It's the amount of spiritual energy one being contains."

He was a little reluctant to ask this question, but he did, "What was that thing that was after me?"

She looked thoughtful for a second before answering. "You would call it a hollow. It is a soul that has been attached to the human world by something, and has turned bad. They're basically bad souls."

"Why was it after me?"

"Because you're the next soul king and your spewing reiatsu all over the place! They're attracted to reiatsu like your people say a fly is to sugar."

I couldn't help it anymore, just because she looked so serious, and like she believed everything she was saying. I laughed, harder than I have for a long time.

Cayuna: Yeah! Done!

Ichigo: ^^

Rukia: Wow…he is an idiot…

Ichigo: Only because she makes me look like one!

Rukia: You don't make the man, you bring out what's already inside.

Ichigo:…

Rukia: Well please review!

Cayuna: Reviews are love! (Oh and go and listen to SHINee-Lucifer – don't own! – It's awesome!)