Chapter Four- Drinking and Eating Cake, Dangerous Business.

Rukia had stopped her running about. Instead she was looking for something that she had lost. Her mind kept thinking of the Duchess and how mad that woman would be.

"Where, where?" Rukia's violet eyes wide in terror her eyes scanning the ground for the lost items.

Ichigo had come across his part rabbit friend. He listened to her frantic ramblings. Well it didn't take a prodigy shinigami to figure out what she was talking about. The fan and white gloves that she had dropped when he had unintentionally frightened her.

He sighed walking up to her planning on giving her back the gloves he had found.

The rabbit eared Rukia turned to him. "You!" she pointed at him. "Go get me another pair of gloves. And a fan! Hurry!"

"Excuse me?" he asked.

"Hippity Hop Hippity Hop, fool! There is no time to stand there with a vacant expression on your face. Hop to it!" she pointed in the direction of the said house.

He sighed. "Fine." he grumbled. He would make her pay, later. He had come to terms that no one was in their right mind at the moment.

He turned and walked to Rukia's home. He still needed to get her another fan. He had dropped the first one somewhere in the water. That was long since gone.

He walked in the direction of the Rukia's home. He soon saw it. A rabbit shaped mailbox with the words "Chappy" on it. His eye twitched again. It was becoming a habit in this crazy inside out, upside down world. He hoped that it wouldn't become something permanent.

The house it self looked right out of a fairy tale. Perhaps the house where that princess has stayed with all those little men. Snow White! That's the one.

He entered the house finding the room that held the white fans and gloves right away. And of course, another bottle that said. Drink me.

He must be out of mind to consider even drinking that.

He wasn't going to get out of this mess if he just let Rukia boss him around, though. So again, he again drank a mysterious liquid he found lying around.

Though after his head hit the ceiling he realized that he should have gone outside before he did this. Yes. He was much to large to leave the house now. Great.

It wasn't too much longer that he heard Rukia grumbling about him. He smirked as he felt her pulling at her door. He had gotten so big that his knee was pressed against the door. She wasn't getting in.

"Ikkaku!" she called. "Ikkaku!"

"Ikkaku?" From the tiny window that he was able to see out of he saw Rabbit Rukia talking to the third seat of the eleventh division. He of course had some animal trait, just like everyone else. He was some kind of lizard. Ichigo could see a long green tail coming out from the back of his silly looking suit he was wearing.

The rabbit eared girl was pointing at the top of the roof. Ikkaku looked up uncertainly and with a sigh walked out of sight.

Ichigo sighed. His predicament was quite severe. That was when he heard it. Mumbled curses coming from the fireplace. Ah! So Rukia had poor Ikkaku go threw the chimney so he could let her inside.

Yes, well this house was cramped enough with just him inside. So with much effort he was able to get his large fingers into the fireplace and flicked Ikkaku right back up the chimney.

He actually laughed as he heard Ikkaku scream as he flew out.

She heard Rukia ranting, beside herself with anger.

"We must burn the house down!" He heard Rukia say. "There is a monster in there." She looked at the house warily. "It is the only thing to do."

He watched from the window as they began preparations to burn down the house.

Great.

He looked around. What was he going to do?

His eyes locked on to a piece of cake in the kitchen, where his other hand was conveniently placed. If he had learned anything in this crazy place he had learned that drinks and cakes change your size. And well, why not? It was worth a shot. Better than being burned to a crisp.

So. He ate the cake.

And of course he started shrinking. While he wished he would just turn to regular size. Instead of being animal size. But, he wasn't going to be burned alive. And at that moment that was all that mattered.

He quickly made his way out the back door and ran. He ran into what looked to be a forest.

Well when you were smaller then blades of grass and flowers that's what it looked like.

He sighed. What to do, what to do? He would really like to be the right side again. But how? What kind of cake and drink mix would get him back to his normal size?

He was approaching a patch of mushrooms. From the mushrooms came little smoke puffs forming the flowers and symbols of the Gotei Thirteen.

Knowing it was to good to be true, that anyone he met would be out of their minds, like Rukia, Byakuya and Yumichika had been, Yet still, he hoped. Maybe, maybe one of the older Captain's would be in a good state of mind.

He pulled him self onto one of the mushrooms and found himself face to face with non other than, Aizen Sousuke.