OMG IVE BEEN WRITING FOREVER!!! Im so glad to get this posted though XDIts a funny chapter i think, im trying to keep interesting things happening till camp and the actual season starts so pleasae bear with me XD

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I was watching fairy tail while writing this so lol

Chapter 3: Being a Shinigami in a Marching Band SUCKS!

"Did anyone get number 38?" Ichigo asked the group. He, Rukia, Chad, Uryu, Renji, and Orihime had all gathered for a group study session Orihime's house. They were going over their summer calculus problems, and the problem was, everyone had a problem with the same problems.

"Can't…..focus…." Renji muttered. He was staring at the TV, which was currently playing Fairy Tail. "Gray needs to stop crying. Jeez!"

"Gray's hot and can cry if he wants!" Rukia and Orihime shouted at him.

"Besides, it's adorable when a man shows his emotions" Rukia stuck her tongue out at Renji.

"WE NEED TO FOCUS!!!" Uryu shouted. "School starts in 2 weeks and these problems have to be done!" He huffed and sat back in his chair, pushing his glasses up his nose. "That aside, Lucy's pitfall trap is genius."

"What happened to focusing…." Ichigo sighed.

"The answer to 38 is 28π/6" Rukia growled. "Now shut up."

"The answer to 38 is 28π/6" Ichigo mimicked, furiously scribbling the answer down.

"So Renji, how did you manage to convince my brother for the time off to come join the school and the marching band?" Rukia asked the red head sitting next to her. Renji, who happened to be eating a Popsicle, choked on it.

"Well….um….you see…" Renji stuttered.

"You didn't ask him did you?" Ichigo raised an eyebrow, smirking.

"Not…directly" Renji scratched the back of his neck. "I left a note on his desk…"

"YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR ASS KICKED!" Ichigo and Rukia burst out laughing.

"That wasn't a smart move" Chad added.

"I know…I'm doomed" Renji sighed, banging his head on the table.

The Soul Society, Squad 6 barracks

Byakuya Kuchiki had been at a captains meeting all day. The discussion had been over whether or not the captains and lieutenants should develop a television network like they have in the world of the living. He had been extremely irritated that his entire day had been wasted at a pointless meeting. They ended up deciding that they would develop their own television network, and Byakuya would have a gardening and calligraphy show. Great he thought, just what I need, more time spent doing pointless things. He opened the door to his office and walked in, taking of his captain's haori and sitting down at his desk to attempt to get some of his paperwork done before he headed home. He did a double take however when he saw his lieutenants desk empty, and a mound of paperwork stacked on it. He tried to hold back the vein that was on the verge of bulging out of his forehead when he noticed a note on his desk. He grabbed it and began open the letter.

"He better not be out drinking again" Byakuya sighed. He opened the letter and unfolded it, and his face quickly dropped.

Dear Captain Kuchiki

I will be in the world of the living for the next few months participating in Karakura's high school marching band with Ichigo, Rukia and the rest of the ryoka, so please do not worry about my safety, for I am in Karakura. I will be sure to keep up on my paperwork, as I will come by every Sunday to pick it up and drop what I had off. Do not worry about my other duties, for Richiki is taking care of them. I will also make sure to slay the hollows in Karakura. When I return I will be sure to get you a wonderful souvenir.

Love your lieutenant

Renji Abarai

Byakuya stood there with a white face and his jaw dropped. He could not believe what he had just read. His lieutenant had left him for the next 4 months without even bothering to get his permission. Byakuya crinkled the paper and sent a hell butterfly to make sure that the senkaimon would be open tomorrow morning. There was going to be hell to pay.

BACK IN THE WORLD OF THE LIVING

"I feel a disturbance in the force" Renji shivered.

The next morning

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOORRRNNIINNNNNGGGG IIIIIICHIGOOOOOOOOOO!"

"BWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAA" Ichigo screamed as his father kicked him in the face for his good morning wake up call.

"You should be more alert my son, what if I would have been a burglar!" Isshin grinned.

"A BURGLAR ISN'T GONNA COME TRY TO KILL HIS SON WHILE HE'S SLEEPING DAMNIT!" Ichigo shouted.

"How do you kn… OOMPH!" Isshin shouted as Ichigo decked him and tackled him to the floor.

"You two are too loud in the morning!" Rukia yawned, opening the closet and hanging her arm lazily out if it.

"Ahhhh. Good morning my third daughter!" Isshin smiled from the headlock Ichigo was holding him in.

"Morning Mr. Kuro…" Isshin glared. "I mean Morning Uncle Isshin" she smiled tiredly. Isshin smiled in approvement and Ichigo knocked him out.

"He's so tiresome, I feel like I need to go back to bed" Ichigo yawned.

"I'm gonna go get a shower" Rukia yawned again, practically falling out of the closet.

After the morning routines were accomplished and Ichigo and Rukia triple checked to make sure they had everything, they hopped in the jeep and made their way towards school. Ichigo turned on the radio and popped in a CD, which happened to start playing Rush by
UVERworld.

"We should have an UVERworld theme instead of Black Sun and the White Moon" Rukia pouted.

"Anything would be better than a theme about us" Ichigo sighed. Rukia nodded and fiddled with ponytail, leaving a comfortable silence, if you didn't count the radio, between the two of them. Ichigo pulled into the school and him and Rukia got out of the car, and slowly entered day two of the worst part of marching band. They entered the band room to find Orihime, Chad, Uryu and Renji already there and happily chit chatting while applying sunscreen.

"And I'm telling you Renji, Hirenkyaku is way faster than Shunpo!" Uryu glared at the red haired lieutenant.

"Wanna bet?" Renji growled. "You vs. Ichigo at lunch!" he shouted.

"WAIT WHAT!" Ichigo spat out.

"Everyone knows you're the 3rd fastest shunpoer in the Soul Society only behind Captain Kuchiki and Yoruichi" Renji grinned. "You'd prove its superiority way better than I would!"

"I'm gonna kill you!" Ichigo growled.

"But we're still doing it" Uryu grinned, pushing his glasses up his face.

"Shut it Uryu" Ichigo snapped.

"Renji, did you have Urahara modify your soul candy into a mod soul so that you can fight hollows if you need to and the mod soul knows what to do?" Rukia asked, taking a rabbit plushy out of her bag, which blinked.

"Hop!" It smiled.

"He modified Chappy yesterday!" Rukia squealed, hugging the white rabbit close to her chest. Chappy was a cute plush, a white bunny about the size of Kon, with a big pink bow around her neck, and pretty blue eyes, and a fluffy white tail. Renji grinned and reached into his bag.

"I would like you to meet…GINNOSUKEM!" Renji grinned, holding the most adorable cat plushy Rukia had ever seen in front of her. It was an adorable pink cat with a little teal bell wrapped around its neck that jingled sometimes. Its tail was adorable and had a white end that flicked up and down. It had cute little black beady eyes and a cute black button nose, and the cutest mouth and whickers ever. Its ears were large and folded back a little with white tips, and the paws were white as well. It was adorable.

"Hello meow!" it smiled. Rukia exploded and grabbed the plushy out of Renji's hands, only to hug it tightly to her chest.

"IT'S PRECIOUS!" she giggled. Kon, upon hearing this, jumped out of Ichigo's bag and began bawling.

"I THOUGHT I WAS THE CUTE AND LOVEABLE MASCOT!" he whined.

"Shut up and hide damnit!" Ichigo growled, shoving Kon back into his bag. "Put those two away, the last thing we need is someone seeing our talking dolls" Ichigo groaned. Rukia pouted and gave Renji back Ginnosukem and put Chappy back in her bag. Ichigo grabbed her flute and his trumpet and they applied their sunscreen and head out to the parking lot.

They all set their things down by the fence and set their instruments in their spots before congregating again. Their conversation quickly shifted to talk about who would go out today if a hollow showed up. Little did they know, 2 twins were paying attention.

"I'm picking up weird vibes from all of them sister" Ryuji muttered low, right next to his sister, who was giving an equal glare to the group.

"Yes…they seem very unusual. I don't think it's any coincidence that they mingle together brother" Lola replied. They continued to study the group until Rukia caught on.

"Quick!" she shouted in a whisper. "We're being watched by the weirdo's!"

"That kid freaks me out more than Szyael and Captain Kurotsuchi combined!" Ichigo shivered.

"Who are they?" Uryu asked, pushing his glasses up his nose.

"2 WEIRDOS!" Ichigo and Rukia hissed.

"The guy asked me if I was dead yesterday!" Ichigo exclaimed.

"Well technically you're only half dead" Uryu laughed.

"WHAT IF THEY FIND OUT SOMETHINGS UP!"

"They won't, we'll just have to make sure we're careful is all" Orihime gave the thumbs up. The others sighed and the drum majors and band techs walked out, signaling the start of practice. They all took their places and Kon, Chappy, and Ginnosukem poked their heads out of their bags to pay attention to the lesson today.

"STRECHIN' TIME!" Nick shouted as he banged the goc block loudly to gain everyone's attention. Everyone turned to face the drum majors as they began their warm up stretches. Everyone started with leg arm stretches, and as they were stretching, Alex decided to ask a question.

"Ok, so most of the section leaders were acting a little…well…strangely yesterday. If no one minds my asking, what the hell was going on?" the drum major asked to the row of section leaders in the middle of the band. The 6 section leaders he was referring to immediately sweat-dropped.

"Like we said yesterday, a new TV show" Rukia smiled awkwardly.

"What's it about?" Alex asked, interested in how this show could possibly be so hilarious.

"Um…well it's about this cat who becomes a pirate, and he has to save the cat village from the evil dog pirate who betrayed the good pirates and kidnapped some of the cat's friends. The cat and the rest of his friends have to go save them. It's a really good show, and it's also really…funny?" she grinned. Ichigo and the others sweat dropped again.

"Oh…" Alex looked confused. He then asked everyone how their first day of practice was, to which everyone lied and said fantastic. After they were done stretching they went for their jog around to the middle school and back.

"How can shunpo be so effortless and a quick jog fricken kills me" Rukia huffed as she returned to the parking lot.

"I thought you said it would take 10 minutes of shunpo to wear you out" Ichigo grinned.

"Stupid gigai!" she growled, taking a swig of her water. "I wish it wasn't so damn hot!"

"It's the blacktop, just live with it" Ichigo patted her head, earning him a kick to the shin. He grabbed it and hopped around for a minute as Rukia laughed and stuck her tongue out at him. "Bitch!" he growled. Rukia giggled more and made her way back to her set, Ichigo hopping behind her.

So today Kenny decided to torture them and teach them how to walk at an 8 to 5. They basically marched up and down the parking lot taking 8 steps and closing, holding, and going again. After about an hour if you can imagine, people were getting pissed. So they started going faster and faster until some of the freshman were tripping over their feet and nearly wiping out. Kenny, deciding to be nice, allowed them a 5 minute sunscreen break before they would start practicing a 16 to 5, which was the same technique, the step was just half the size.

"Well this sucks…" Rukia groaned as she reapplied her sunscreen.

"Pre-camp is the worst part of the season, then it gets funner" Ichigo smiled at her. She nodded and motioned for him to help her reach her back. Luckily no hollows had showed up today, and there weren't any disturbances in the spiritual pressure. They all returned to the parking lot and retook their positions.

"Ok kids, now we're gonna learn how to take a 16 to 5" Kenny grinned. He showed them the proper distance and all the techs gave their own input, even though the band had stopped listening by time they were done. "Ok, this time let's have Renji demonstrate a proper 16 to 5 for us" Kenny smiled. Everyone looked at Renji.

"Meow!" he nodded. Ichigo and the others practically choked.

What the hell is Ginnosukem doing in his body!!!!

Where the hell did Renji go?

How did we not notice him leave!

"NO WAIT!" They heard a shout. They looked up to see Renji jumping down towards his body, and forcing the mod soul out. Renji grabbed the pill and put it in his pocket and went up to Kenny and the rest of the techs. Luckily no one else was aware of that little incident, so it was all good. Renji counted off and marched the 16 to 5 pretty well, and landed where he was supposed to. He went back, giving the group the "I'll tell you later" look. They glared at him when Ichigo heard Ryuji.

"I sensed something strange just then." Ichigo's spin tingled and he froze, had Ryuji and his sister seen it or had they just sensed something off. Luckily Ryuji showed no signs of seeing it, and the rest of basics was spent doing 16 to 5's and 8 to 5's.

As basics ended the gang went to grab their things and head inside to the nice air-conditioned school. Rukia kicked Ichigo and made him carry her piggyback up to the school. They put their things away and found a secluded corner in the senior area to eat.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING?" Everyone shouted at Renji simultaneously as he sat down. Renji sat back as everyone loomed over him.

"You know those twins are breathing down our necks!" Ichigo growled.

"Relax!" Renji shouted. "Richiki called me and needed to tell me something, so I had to go meet up with him." Renji spat out. "The only thing was…when I got there he was gone. It was so weird" he pondered. "Richiki never leaves a meeting."

"Maybe an evil alien race is hunting off all of the winter war veterans one by one and selling our bodies and possessions on eBay in order to make enough money for their chocolate factory which they'll open up in Detroit in order to get people working in a poor city and then once all the people have jobs and have gained their trust they'll put something in the chocolate and make everyone into slaves and then instead of chocolate we'll be forced to make evil alien sex toys and chew licorice flavored gum all day while they watch Spanish soap operas and chew that new trident layers stuff!" Orihime shouted, placing her hands to her head and babbling. Uryu put a hand on her shoulder and pushed her back into her seat.

"Please just calm down and eat your lunch ok Hime?" Uryu nervously sighed. Orihime giggled.

"Sorry, I did it again didn't I?" The others nodded and ate their lunch.

"Oh Ichigo, we still gotta have our race" Uryu grinned.

"With those twins up our ass? I don't think so" Ichigo scoffed. Uryu threw his lunch bag at him, and a vein suddenly became visible on Ichigo's head.

"You're just afraid of losing" Uryu teased. He knew he had him. Ichigo's fist clenched. He hated losing.

"ALRIGHT!!! YOU'RE GOING DOWN PRETTY BOY!" He shouted, pointing a finger at Uryu. Uryu laughed and pushed his glasses up his nose. Ichigo threw away his lunch away and the gang followed him and Uryu out to the track.

"Alright Kon get in my body" Ichigo groaned, shoving his hand down the squirming lion plush's throat. He found the little green pile he desired as the lion plush went limp and swallowed. His soul was forced from his body, and Ichigo became a shinigami. His black kimono flowed in the wind and his giant zanpaktou rested on his back. Uryu laughed at pushed his glasses up his nose.

"You see Ichigo, I'm already superior. You need to leave your body to use your powers, I can use mine as a human" he grinned.

"Uryu….when did you put your cape on?" Ichigo asked, half not wanting to know the answer.

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Uryu shouted."I today am going to show you how superior the Quincy's are!"

"You know this is void unless I can use my bankai but I don't want to draw any unwanted attention so I can't" Ichigo grinned.

"Don't try to…" Uryu was cut off when they heard 2 voices.

"I felt it up here sister."

"The strange spiritual feelings…" The gang gulped and quickly used their respective speed techniques, Ichigo grabbing his body, and vanishing. The twins got up to the track to find that nobody was there. "Interesting…."

On the other side of the school yard the gang appeared huffing. Ichigo entered his body and put Kon's soul back in the lion plush.

"That! Was almost way bad" Ichigo huffed.

"We should kill them" Rukia agreed.

"We can't kill them Rukia" Orihime laughed. Uryu looked at his watch.

"Well lunch is almost over, let's just do this another time Ichigo" Uryu sighed. Ichigo nodded and they made their way back to the band room.

"Hey Ichigo?" Julia asked as they prepared for ensemble practice. "There's a few parts I think we need to look at in sectionals today" she told him.

"You mean the part before the tempo change?" he smiled at her. She laughed and nodded.

"And this is why you are section leader" she grinned. Ichigo flipped through his music, and was making note cards of the areas he knew they were going to need to work on. Section leaders were supposed to know where they needed work, and the section leaders in the band were all making note of the problem areas they had yesterday, since this would be their first day to work on music since they had to teach marching basics yesterday. Ichigo took his notes and organized his music on the stand in front of him, and Julia placed her music next to his. They were both on first part. Raffi and Sun-Sun, aka Hana were on second part. And Erza, or batgirl, Ryuji and Lila were on third part. Ichigo looked down the row to make sure his section was doing something productive before ensemble practice started. Julia was marking up her music, and Raffi was doing the same, while texting.

I guess it works Ichigo laughed to himself. Sun-Sun was oiling her valves; Batgirl was panicking because the cleaning ball she blew through her trumpet somehow got stuck. Ichigo tried not to laugh as she ran around panicking, furiously blowing fierce amounts of air into her trumpet, praying that the little ball covered in wet cleaning agent would come out. She gave one last powerful huff and the ball flew out, only to hit Uryu square in the face in the row ahead of theirs. Ichigo couldn't contain his laughter after that. As a few tears formed in his eyes upon seeing Uryu grimacing upon realization of what hit his face, he immediately shut up when seeing Ryuji eying him coldly. His heart stopped and he quietly averted his gaze to the last girl in the line, Lila. His face went white upon seeing Lila however. She had a giant pad of paper, and was doodling.

"Um…Lila? What are you doing exactly?" Ichigo asked.

"Oh this? I'm doodling!" she giggled goofily. She proudly held up her picture, only for Ichigo to find Zelda and Link in a very…suggestive position. His face blanked.

"Um…focus on the music today Lila?" he stuttered.

"Ok" she grinned, putting her doodle into her bag and pulling out slide grease. Ichigo huffed and looked up to the podium, where Kenny had just stepped up to start breathing exercises.

When T-Rex took the podium after breathing exercises and began warming up the band. He then tuned them and they looked again at the opener.

"Now when the song gets darker after the fermata we have a snare drum solo. So Renji, you gotta be the bad guy" the director grinned. Renji gulped, remembering exactly why he was the bad guy. He hated the memory of that night. Coming and forcibly arresting Rukia and leaving Ichigo for dead on the sidewalk in the rain. He hated remembering the very real tears that Rukia had cried that night. He couldn't think of the last time before that he had seen her cry; it had been at least 50 years. He shivered at the memory, smashing her head into that poll as Byakuya nearly sliced Ichigo in half. He was glad that he was able to help Ichigo save Rukia in the end, but what if Ichigo would have failed? It would have been Renji's fault that Rukia died.

"I was the bad guy" he half-heartedly chuckled.

"Renji?" T-Rex asked, noticing he had lost Renji in thought. Rukia turned, and knew exactly what he was thinking.

"Renji!" she shouted kindly. He looked up to meet her gaze. "I'm alright remember?" she smiled. He sighed and nodded.

"Alright! So you want me to give this a go then?" Renji asked T-Rex, twirling his drumstick in his hand. T-Rex nodded and gave him a tempo, and it definitely sounded like he was the bad guy. The notes were short, loud, and precise, giving the image of thunder rolling down the street, coming to capture Rukia. T-Rex cued the rest of the band to back down a little, and Rukia came in. While the rest of the band was playing fast, a testament to the seriousness and darkness of the moment, Rukia was playing slowly, representing how she was feeling when they came to take her. She slowly faded out and Renji got louder, until Ichigo broke in. He roared with his trumpet and he and Renji had a call and response battle, Renji would play and then Ichigo would return it. Ichigo got quieter with every response, his losing the fight. Finally he stopped responding and Rukia was instructed to yell.

"ICHIGOOOOOOOOOOO!" she screams as the band went silent. The bass drums then started rolling, the trumpets began a low growl, and then Ichigo returned with much ferociousness. The call and response continued and this time Renji quieted down with every response until he stopped. Rukia began playing softly and Ichigo stopped. The band quieted down and Rukia removed her flute from her face, and used her acting skills to bring tears to her eyes.

"Take even one step or try to come after me…and I'll, I'll….I will never ever forgive you!....You are going to die….so why not stay put and live a few seconds longer." The band quieted down even more and the instruments began to fade out.

"RUKIA!!!" Ichigo screamed. The band was playing slow sad music, and eventually it died down, to wear the bells were the only thing playing. Slow beats on the chimes. "I have to save her…I have to!!!"

"Rukia saved me once, I'd like to help her out if I can" Chad stated.

"I don't take defeat well, so I'm going to" Uryu grinned.

"So then I guess we're all present and accounted for" Orihime giggled. The band began playing again and quickly got loud and determined.

"Alright then" Ichigo grinned. "LET'S GO!" and the band played a powerful ending cord. T-Rex cut them off and everyone pulled their instruments away from their face.

"The emotion you guys put into that song is amazing, it's like you guys were going to save her from being executed instead of getting married or something" T-Rex gasped. They all chuckled nervously and sweat-dropped.

"I guess we were just reliving the moment?" Ichigo gasped nervously, scratching the back of his neck. "It was an…intense moment?" T-Rex grinned and began his usual picking at parts, beginning with the mallet part when Ichigo resolved to save her.

When it hit 2:30 T-Rex released them all for sectionals, they were packing up to leave when he made an announcement.

Ichigo, Rukia. The trumpets and flutes have that part before the first fermata I want you to work on together today, and any other parts you have together in the opener" T-Rex smiled. Ichigo and Rukia inwardly groaned and walked together down the hall.

Once they were in Math hallway (Rukia had kicked Ichigo and made him surrender on location) Ichigo and Rukia stood across from the others.

"Ok you guys, so we gotta work on measure 76 before that fermata. It's difficult because of the playfulness and the range. The notes are very short and precise, but it's not like a march its fun sounding. Then it slows down and then the fermata and then the tempo change and blah blah" Ichigo sighed. Rukia glared at him and began beating a pair of drumsticks against the stand they had brought for tempo. Ichigo counted them off and they played the part, or tried.

"No no no!" Ichigo groaned. "3rd trumpets and 3rd flute lemme hear your parts" he glared. Erza Ryuji Lila Lola and Brooke all played their part for the measures Ichigo ordered, Rukia keeping beat the whole time.

"Ryuji and Lola you guys are playing it to long" he told them. They set down their instruments and glared at the section leaders with their blank faces.

"Maybe if you two weren't putting off such strange auras we wouldn't be so distracted" they both growled at the same time. Rukia and Ichigo went white faced.

"Just focus" Rukia growled. She then turned to Ichigo. "Ichigo you keep time I'm tired."

"What? No Rukia, I'm better at knowing what needs to be fixed, you can keep time" Ichigo rebutted.

"I can tell what they're doing wrong just fine thank you!" Rukia shouted back.

"I've been in the marching band longer so I know more!" Ichigo growled. By now him and Rukia were nose to nose yelling at each other.

"IF I RECAL I'VE BEEN A YOU KNOW WHAT LONGER AND I DON'T GO AROUND TAKING ALL THE FIGHTS FROM YOU!" Rukia yelled.

"IF I RECAL I'M THE ONE WHO SAVED YOUR ASS AND LEARNED BANKAI IN 3 DAYS! I THINK I CAN FIGHT WHOEVER I DAMN WANT!" Ichigo shouted. "And besides you order me around all the time!"

"And this is the couple with the greatest love story ever?" Erza muttered with a blank expression.

"Wouldn't it be funny if they broke up in the middle of the season?" Brooke asked.

"NO THAT WOULD BE AWFUL!" Julia panicked. "Guys please stop fighting" she pleaded.

"At least I don't sleep in a fricken closet!" Ichigo yelled.

"At least I can tell when I'm hurting the people I love!" Rukia shouted back. This one hit Ichigo hard. His eyes widened and his scowl vanished.

"I…..I hurt you?" Ichigo stuttered, a scared tone wrapping around his voice. Rukia realized she had gone way too far.

"No Ichigo" she smiled. "I went too far…"

"You wouldn't say that if I hadn't hurt you at some point though" Ichigo looked away. The trumpet and flute players may as well have had popcorn in a movie theatre, this was intense.

"The only time you've ever hurt me was when you think that I can't handle myself in a fight" she looked away too.

"I just don't want you getting hurt" he looked at her this time.

"And I don't want you getting hurt Ichigo" she looked at him with full force in her eyes. "Have you ever thought about that? When I have to carry your bloodied corpse home every night because you won't let me help you and I don't have a single scratch on me! How do you think that makes me feel?"

"Why is this coming out now?" Ichigo asked.

"I don't know!" Rukia replied.

"Is it that time of the month again?"

"Probably!"

"Would it make you feel better if I let you fight tonight?" he asked.

"For now…" she smiled.

"Good, cuz I don't wanna hurt my little midget" he cooed. He knew she hated that.

"Can it strawberry" she growled, kissing him. He returned it and they had completely forgotten about their audience.

"I don't know what play ya'll are in but I want tickets" Lola grinned. Ichigo and Rukia pulled away, blushing and the others laughed.

"Ok, measure 74 now!" Ichigo ordered; the scowl back on his face.

Middle Voice Sectionals

"Alright guys, T-Rex wanted us to work on the intense part of the song so let's start at measure 85" Uryu ordered. Ritoko was poking her zit and frowning, completely unaware that Uryu was looking at her. "AH HEM!" he growled.

"Oh huh?" she jumped, looking at him confused. "Oh right" she smiled. She beat the drumsticks together to get a tempo and Uryu let them go. He cut them off after a while and pushed his glasses up his nose.

"Alright I want the second altos and the second mellos to play that, I think you're playing on the downbeat instead of the offbeat but I want to make sure" Uryu ordered. "What do you think Ritok.." he looked over at Ritoko, who was now eating a bowl of cereal.

"Ritoko?" he asked curiously.

"Ya?" she asked with a mouth full of chocolate coco puffs.

"Where did you get the cereal?" he asked bewildered and confused.

"Don't worry about it" she grinned. She looked over at the middle voices. "You were playing on the downbeat learn to sub-divide more dumbasses!" She took another bite of her cereal, leaving Uryu with a blank expression on his face.

Battery Sectionals

"Ok guys you seemed to be having a hard time keeping tempo at measure 94 so we're gonna start there" Renji sighed. The battery was a little insane. He knew it was gonna be a long year.

"Renji….can't we just go home!!!" a pink haired girl whined. Her name was Sai Kurosawa, and she was…interesting. She was a junior tenor player. She had long pink hair, dark red, seductive eyes and a very long and beautiful body. Her face was flawless and her breasts were fairly large. What made her interesting was that she only wore a sports bra and a pair of shorts. The sports bra showed off her belly button ring and her tattoo, the Fairy Tail insignia right were Cana wore hers.

"No Sai we have to stay the rest of practice." He sighed.

"Renji, if I may ask, what kind of leadership experience do you have?" Sai asked, looking seductively at him, which in all honesty was just her normal look.

"Well, where I work, I'm the second in command of a very large…shit how do I describe the squad? Conglomerate of people?" he stated, his confidence slipping as he continued his sentence.

"So you're a delivery boy for little ceasers?" she smiled.

"Little Ceasers doesn't deliver" he growled. He then realized what she was insinuating and shook his head. "No...I'm actually a master in the arts of close range combat" he smiled.

"Oh so you work at a daycare?" she teased.

"SHUT UP AND JUST PLAY THE PART!" he growled.

"Why should I take orders from you? I've been here longer anyway" she smiled cockily.

"Because I am a good leader and…" Renji stopped mid-sentence when he felt a slight disturbance. He turned his head to the side, to find the person he least wanted to see standing there. He was a tall pale man with gray eyes and long flowing black hair. The hair was devoid of kensaikan today, flowing freely behind him. He was wearing a pair of dark jeans, and a gray t-shirt with a dark purple and silver design on it.

"Ca..ca..captain Kuchiki" Renji stuttered.

"Please continue on all the reasons you're a good leader Renji, I wouldn't want to prove you wrong or anything" he said, closing his eyes. Renji was totally devoid of color at this point.

"You're pissed aren't you" he stammered.

"How could you tell" was Byakuya's stoic response.

"Should I run…" Renji smiled.

"I recommend shunpo" Byakuya raised an eyebrow. Renji took off screaming and Byakuya waited a minute before swiftly vanishing. Even in his gigai, he was still a master on shunpo.

The Math Hallway

"Ok you guys let's start at…" Ichigo and Rukia suddenly froze. Their eyes grew wide and they looked over to the side of the school where Renji was.

"Did you feel that spike in Renji's spiritual pressure?" Ichigo asked.

"Ya..I wonder what…" Their eyes got even bigger when they felt the second spiritual outburst.

"Nii-sama got the letter" Rukia gasped.

"Oh my god we gotta help him" Ichigo panicked. "Julia you're in charge!" Ichigo shouted. Him and Rukia began sprinting down the hallway in a hurry.

"Strange…I feel a spike in energy, and they take off" Lola muttered.

"Odd indeed sister" Ryuji nodded.

Renji didn't make it…

Ichigo and Rukia came across his body on the side of the school. He had put up a valiant fight, his bankai uniform was on, but his body was covered in blood. On his corpse was a note.

To my Dearest Lieutenant

I will permit you to stay in the world of the living for now, since this is probably enough punishment. However, if you ever leave without my permission again, my "Senbonzakuraing your ass" is going to be the least of your problems. Rukia, if you find this letter I love you and wish you the best of luck this season. Ichigo if you find this letter…you're a spoiled brat of a child and you need to keep your hands off my sister. I let you win on sokyoku hill and don't forget that.

Love your Captain

Byakuya Kuchiki

"Rukia…"Ichigo asked.

"Ya?"

"How many drugs is your brother on right now?????"

Practice ended and Renji was taken to Urahara's for treatment. He was going to be fine, just severely sore once Orihime was done healing his wounds. Ichigo and Rukia went home and promptly crashed.

"Rukia" Ichigo yawned from his bed.

"Yes Ichigo?" she yawned in her closet.

"It's gonna be a long season…."

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