Hey, I'm back. Once again, I don't own Bleach, Tite Kubo does, no money of any sort has been made off this.

BTW, Happy 4th of July to those of you who are in the United States of America.


"Come on, I got a trailer to pick up." Hoss grunted as he picked himself up off the ground, holstered his revolver and started to hobble away, Ichigo and Rukia looked confused but followed him after Ichigo got back into his body before the paramedics and police could find it. Hoss wrote a check for the trailer and left Ichigo and Rukia to their own devices while he got his semi hooked up to the trailer. Rukia went to do damage control from the hollow, leaving Ichigo near the payment table and near several old cars. His eyes scanned the rows up and down, nothing standing out until his eyes came to a stop on a black 2 door model, there were chrome bumpers and chrome emblems on the side that had 'Nova' written in ornate pen.

"Hey, how much for that car over there?" Ichigo asked a man who was behind the payment table.

"That Nova? Well, all the metal's there, but no engine and its an automatic transmission. The previous owner was in the process of restoring it. So all the body's good. Three thousand." Ichigo took out his wallet Hoss gave him and counted some bills. Three thousand, perfect.

"I'll take it." Ichigo handed the man the money and the man handed Ichigo a piece of paper with the make, model and year of the car.

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Head Captain Yamamoto stood at the head of the Captains of the 13 court guard squads. The senkimon in the Squad 12 barracks had started to open, but was shut due to no clearance from him.

"Captain Kurosuchi, your actions to send your Lieutenant to the World of the Living swiftly was appreciated, but it would be a better option if we sent the Stealth Force Captain Soi Fon to look into this." The two associated captains nodded in agreement as Head Captain ended the meeting.

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Ichigo and Hoss were working on pushing Ichigo's new car into the trailer Hoss just bought for transport. Rukia had since left to reclaim her gigai.

"Come on Ichigo, push. Put your back into it. My grandma could do better than you!" Hoss grunted as he stopped the Nova from rolling backwards on the ramps as Ichigo stopped shoving the empty car shell. "Damn it Ichigo, get pushin!" Hoss grunted louder as the orange haired teen looked around trying to find something but was stopped as the Nova rolled back down the ramps, over him and Hoss, knocking the two of them on the ground.

"Damn it Ichigo! I told ya to get your head out of the clouds!"

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Uryu, Chad and Orihime walked past the baggage claim, all three only having carry-on baggage. Their airfare was paid courtesy of Urahara Shop but as part of the deal, Urahara had to accompany them along with Yoruichi, in cat form. The blonde ex-captain store owner walked over to the conveyor belt carrying luggage, but no cat carrier holding the cat woman showed.

"Uh, I wonder where Yoruichi's carrier went." Orihime and Chad got nervous, but Uryu concentrated on tracking the cat woman's Spiritual power. What he could track was surprising.

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A tall, lanky man stood behind a desk, black stetson covering his head took a cat carrier from another man just on the other side of his desk.

"We found this cat on a plane from Japan. The forwarding address is to Hoss' residence." "Good, very good." The man with the black stetson stood up and moved to a map, black ankle length jacket fluttering in his wake.

"What would you like us to do?" the other man looked nervous and excited.

"Keep close surveillance on Hoss' shipments both international and local. We will strike tonight at the Country Hall." The black clothed man stood by his desk as he opened the cat carrier and took out the occupant feline and started to pet her.

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The hissing of air from brakes brought Hoss' Kenworth to a stop in his farmyard. Ichigo jumped down and Hoss was already in back opening the doors and getting out the 4x6 boards they found at the auction for ramps. Rukia watched from the sidelines as Hoss and Ichigo climbed, well in Ichigo's case climbed then fell over the front of the Nova and shoved it down the ramps and let it roll into the yard coming to a stop in the grass.

"Now Ichigo, I have to go out and work in the fields a bit then we have to clean up for a party at the honky tonk down the road. If you want, start pulling the automatic transmission out of the nova and get it up on jacks. We can work in it tomorrow. You can shove it in here." Hoss led Ichigo into a metal building with two doors in front and one in the back. Inside were different pieces of machinery in different states of repair ranging from fully apart to completely back together.

"Just shove it in here and you can use anything you need Ichigo." Hoss pointed to an area of the shop that was empty and them walked out to a tractor sitting next to a shed.

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Uryu, Chad Orihime and Urahara were in a taxi just outside the airport. The man driving was half asleep for the middle of the day.

"Do you know where a man named Hoss lives?" Urahara was lost somewhat so Uryu was more or less drafted into talking.

"Well shoot, Hoss ain't gonna be home when I get y'all there, but I know where he's at." The man spoke with a thick accent and Uryu didn't understand a word he said, he just nodded and the cab took off.

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Captain Soi Fon, joined by Captains Ukitake and Shunsui waited for the senkimon to be opened.

"So what made you tag along Shunsui?" Ukitake looked at his long time friend.

"Well, someone has to be able to get you back to squad 4 if you get sick. And besides I heard this section of the world has a great alcohol that you can only get in certain places." Really now, what is this stuff?"

"I think its called moonshine or White Lightning. I'm not sure." With a grunt from Soi Fone, the three captains walked through to the world of the living.

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Hoss stood in front of his house, his trademark white Stetson on his head, cleaned up, Black Widow by his side already loaded up with shine, boots shined up and ready to go.. Except for the short raven haired woman and the tall orange haired teen.

"Come on you two. We got a long way to go and a short time to get there!" Hoss bellowed just as Rukia came out dressed to the nines and Ichigo in a pair of Hoss' jeans and boots because he made the mistake of wearing his shoes out into the yard during the day. The two of them climbed in Black Widow and Hoss started doing his thing.

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Two police officers sat in a standard issue cruiser taking radar as cars passed by on a lonely stretch of road. The night was just beginning and the two of them, one young, ink still drying on the graduation papers, the other an older gentleman who knew everyone in the area were both starting to drift off. That was until the loud screaming of a Chevrolet 454 shot past them. "There's goes Hoss Randy." The older officer said to his new recruit while starting the car.

"Are we going to go after him Paul?" Randy asked, all tiredness chased out of his system from the roar of the engine.

"Nah, we're just going to have some fun and meet him at the Country Hall." Paul started the engine and stuck the car in drive. "You can learn a lot from him and how he handles Black Widow." Paul hit the throttle chasing after the flat black Camero.

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Hoss looked into his rear view mirrors and saw blue and red police lights. He swore until a familiar voice came over his CB radio.

"Hey Black Widow, guess whose got your back door."

"Well mercy sakes Smokey Papa Bear. Long time since I've seen you in this twenty." Hoss held the mike in his hand as he shifted for the corner up ahead.

"I got me a new cub for a while. Mind if we join you at the Hall?"

"Mercy saked, you don't even have to ask." Hoss turned through the corner and then put the petal to the metal and the hammer to the floor.

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A taxi pulled up in front of a rough looking bar with all sorts of cars parked out front with the hoods open. Near the rear was a line of completely flat black cars. A Dodge Charger, Challenger, Pontiac Firebird, Ford Mustang, Corvette, Plymouth Fury, and a Chevrolet Chevelle were in their own ranks. Something told the party getting out of the taxi that they were in for some trouble.

"Hoss'll be here in a few minutes. Looks like we beat him. Good luck." With that the cab driver pulled away leaving Urahara, Uryu, Chad and Orihime stuck in the middle of no where at a rough bar in the middle of a car show.

"Look, we have to stay together. If one of us lags behind, we are an easy target. So…" Uryu was left speachless as Orhime ran off to look at a pink Cadillac, Chad went to look at a Road Runner, and Urahara was at the bar getting to know and get drunk with the locals.

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Hoss tapped the brakes as he brought the Black Widow in between a Mustang named the Black Night and the black Challenger, named Black Dog. Ichigo and Rukia climbed out.

"Alright you two, I'm going to take the shine in. Ichigo, I could use some help. Rukia, you'll be as safe as in your mother's arms here." Hoss said as he walked away from the car with a crate of shine on each shoulder and Ichigo behind struggling with one. Rukia looked around and saw a familiar head sticking out above the crowd.

"Sado?"

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Ichigo was right behind Hoss waiting to be relieved of his payload of shine until a familiar striped hat caught his eye. His arms forgot about the pure 110 proof alcohol in the crate as his eyes processed who he saw. Thankfully Hoss caught said crate before its contents were all over the floor.

"Hat and Clogs?"

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"Ichigo!" Urahara cried out when he saw the orange haired teen walk up.

"Friend of yours Ichigo?" Hoss asked.

"You could say that. He trained me to regain my powers although he is a pain at times." Hoss caught the case of shine and hoisted it up onto the bar. Urahara got up and looked at Hoss from head to toe several times before reaching his conclusion.

"So, you're the source of the strange spiritual pressure that's been coming from here."

"Wait a minute, how can you detect his spiritual pressure from Japan and not mine from the next city over?" Ichigo yelled, getting strange looks from bar patrons.

"Simple Kurosaki, your spiritual power is vast, uncontrolled and does what ever it wants. Hoss' is more refined, a bit rough around the edges and not as vast. Therefore easy to track." Urahara stated as if it was obvious. Hoss started to slip away but Urahara caught him. "Where are you going?"

"Do my favorite thing, chase skirts." Hoss said as he started to head into a crowd. That was until blue and red lights danced from the windows.

"IT'S THE COPS!"