Okay guys, I forgot to put the disclaimer up in the first chapter, and then realized that I couldn't edit it in after I posted the chapter, so here it is.

Disclaimer: I do not own the anime/manga, "Bleach". I also do not own any of the characters that belong to the anime/manga, "Bleach". I do, however, own the OCs that I may create during the period of this story.

Okay, that works, right? I hate the stupid legal crap.

So, simply because the people that wrote the canon for Bleach couldn't seem to decide on some stuff, I'm going to decide on/clear up a few things. For one, some people are arguing about whether or not you can remember things from your life after moving to Soul Society, because there have been cases where it says one thing clear as day, and other cases where it says the other, again, clear as day. I am going with the show in this one, because when they first come to Soul Society to save Rukia, Chad comes across the kid that was in the bird in Ep. 4. In this instance, the child remembers both his mother from life, and Chad from life in the bird. So, he did remember his life. But in "Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody" they say that it is impossible to remember one's life in the World of the Living. I choose the show's way of doing things in this matter simply based on personal preference. Also, there are some disagreements on what to call the world in which Ichigo and his friends live. I think that "the World of the Living" is more accurate than "the real world." Case and point, is Soul Society really any less real just because it is where one goes after dieing? I really don't think so. It's not like it's made from magic or illusions or anything, so it's really just as real, if that makes any sense. There are also disagreements on what happens when one dies in Soul Society. One view is that one turns into reishi and becomes a part of Soul Society's scenery, this originally said by Kaien. The other view is that one goes back to the World of the Living. These were both presented in the show, but I prefer that one goes back to the World of the Living, because this is why the Quincys were killed off. The story was that the Quincys killed the hollows, while the Soul Reapers "sanctified"/"purified" them. This was why the Quincys became nearly extinct. Because they killed the hollows, it sent the souls out of the, for lack of a better term, "circle of life" which was the cycle in which one went back and forth from the World of the Living and Soul Society. In my preference the explanation of memories is that they remembered their lives from the World of the Living when they went to Soul Society, but not vice-versa. I'll just say that this is some kind of magic or something put in place to make it so that when they went back they wouldn't know of the Soul Reapers doings and could live normal lives. Next point: aging in Soul Society. This arguement has been conceived simply because in the show, whenever they want to make someone a child, they make them appear younger, and also because they do make some people appear to age, while others don't. They also usually make the elders all old and grey. For example, Head Captain Yamamoto looks very old, when in fact, I belive, that someone in the appearing age range of, say, Byakuya, could be much older without appearing so. This is not to say that I believe Byakuya is older, I was just giving an example. But Renji, Rukia, Byakuya, Aizen, and pretty much all of the other Soul Reapers do not appear to age at all. The only Soul Reaper that did appear to age was Gin, which I still can't explain. It always bothers me that Captain Hitsugaiya is continuously referred to as "the boy genius" or "the child prodigy" by people that haven't really even heard much of him before simply based on his age-appearence and rank combination. He is young for a Soul Reaper, but honestly why would an enemy that has never seen him before automatically assume that he is a child when he is, in fact, a captain? Which makes more sense; that he's a child that has somehow achieved the rank of captain because of his exceptional skill and talent, or that he is actually much older than he appears to be? Rukia has been around for 150 years and still looks like she is sixteen. On the counterexample, some of the commaners outside of Serete do age. So, in my opinion, it is only Soul Reapers that don't age. This is to make up for the fact that while not being able to age they can still die in battle and return to the World of the Living, while those who are not Soul Reapers don't see much battle, but can still die of old age, and also return to the World of the living. So, I guess it could be the power of being a Soul Reaper that keeps one from aging.

Another thing is that these people are Japanese and all speaking by them should be assumed to be in Japanese unless otherwise noted.

Okay, that was very long, but if you read it, my story will make much more sense. To the story!!!!

Uryuu hung up the phone and walked over to the window. He had his own office now, and it was on the twelfth floor, so he had a great view of the river. It was a custom furnished job, and everything was exactly how he had wanted it. His father had paid for everything, giving him a white leather sofa with matching high backed chairs. His desk had his name engraved in it, and it was made of the finest mahogany wood. Everything in the room was put there to please him, but even so, he was never really happy here.

He hardly had the chance to get out anymore. The last time that he had gone outside for something other than business or school had been months ago. It had been even longer than that since he had gone fighting hollows. The only place that he got to use his Quincy powers was down in the training room.

He had just gotten done speaking with one of his father's buisness associates when Rukia had called. It had been a while since he had seen everyone, and it sounded like it could be fun. He just hoped his father would go for it.

He missed going out and fighting with Kurosaki and the others. He especially missed Sado and Inoue. Even though Kuchiki, Abarai, and yes, even Kurosaki were fun to hang out with, there just didn't seem to be anyone with the same abilities as him. The Soul Reapers all fought with swords and kido. At least Sado and Inoue had something like the style he had. True, they weren't really all that similar, but just the fact that they were using ranged attacks, too, made it seem a little bit alike. He really wished that he could have another friend that was a Quincy, but it just seemed to be fated not to happen. His father wasn't exactly the type of person that he could have a heart to heart conversation with, either.

Ishida Uryuu turned toward the door and walked out. He headed down the hallway, thinking of how he would play this out. He stopped in front of the door to his father's office for a moment before knocking.

"Come in," came the voice of his father. Uryuu walked in, and, at a hand gesture from his father, sat down across from him. "So, what are you here for?" the older Ishida questioned.

Uryuu sat for a minute, mulling over the situation in his mind. "Some friends of mine have invited me to a social gathering, and I came to ask if I could go."

His father looked slightly puzzled. "You're 19 and you live by yourself, Uryuu, why are you asking for permission to go to a party with some friends?"

Uryuu shifted in his seat. "Well...because...a couple of them...are Soul Reapers." He sat and waited for the dreaded reaction. But it didn't come.

"So what? What's your point?" he asked.

Now Uryuu was the one that was confused. "What do you mean? I thought that you wouldn't allow me to have anything to do with Soul Reapers." What exactly was going on here?

The older Ishida looked at his son with a comical expression, like he had just been told a funny joke. "Oh, come on, Uryuu. Do you really expect me to hold you to that? It's not my life, you can screw it up and make bad allies as much as you want."

Uryuu had to work hard to keep his tongue in his mouth. That last statement was almost stepping over the line. "Listen, Father. You have forbidden me to do something, and you are my father so I will not disobey. But if you think that you can insult my friends like that with no repercussions, that is a completely different story. Now, may I go or not?"

The man looked over his son quickly and rolled his eyes. "Go ahead."

"Thank you," Uryuu said through gritted teeth, slightly slamming the door behind him as he left.

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Sorry guys. This was supposed to be a lot longer, but I went on vacation and I got side-tracked (is that how that's spelled? I dunno.). Again, I'm sorry. I'll do better from now on.