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"Miss Rukia! Are there any leads on who your lover is?" Shinigami crowded around Rukia.

"Kuchiki-san! Please answer some questions for us!"

"New reports say that Kuchiki Rukia may be suffering from psychological disorders. Shortly after her famous encounter with a complete stranger at the Kuchiki Mansion, she set off a kidou explosion inside her home…"

Rukia may have looked calm on the outside (as a true Kuchiki), but on the inside, she was freezing them all over with Sode No Shirayuki.

Lucky for her, Byakuya came to her rescue. He walked in, followed by guards. They quickly came in, and Rukia waited for her brother to criticize her destruction of the Kuchiki mansion.

But he didn't, to her surprise.

After the guards used binding spells on the crowd of shinigami, they were quickly hauled off the Kuchiki grounds.

"Clean this up," Byakuya instructed a team of workers as he nodded to the hole in the wall created by Rukia. He left.

Leaving Rukia in an awkward situation. Again.

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Meanwhile, Ichigo was slashing away at hollows. That bitch Yoruichi made him go look for Hollows.

She had even made him go around fighting them after he left the ball.

…Not that he would've stayed any longer…

He slashed another Hollow in half with a little extra anger put into it. When he realized that was the last one, he regretted not having anything to spend his time doing. Then he realized that he'd have to report back to Urahara. And he realized that he hated Urahara's guts. And he realized that there was no getting away from the guy when he found himself once again in front of the shop.

"Good job Ichigo-san! You really rid the town of those Hollows! Although you could have done so a bit more quietly."

"Fuck off."

"Ichigo-san! Why so down?" Urahara's happy mood was really, really, really starting to get on Ichigo's nerves.

Ichigo ignored him.

"Tell me about it! Please please please?" Urahara was licking a giant lollipop. Disgusting. "…Please please please please?" Now, Urahara was not only on his last nerve, he was jumping up and down on it.

"I SAID FUCK OFF, ASSHOLE!"

"Kurosaki-kun! That isn't like you! What's wrong?"

"NOTHING!!"

For once in his lifetime, Urahara shut up.

For a second, anyway.

"You should tell her."

"TELL HER WHAT? I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO TELL HER! WHY WOULD I HAVE ANYTHING TO TELL HER ANYWAY? I DON'T EVEN CARE IF RUKIA FREAKIN' LOVES ME OR NOT OR WHATEVER CRAP! I DON'T CARE! SEE? I DON'T! SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL HER ANYTHING!" Ichigo panted after his outburst.

Urahara waved his finger in front of Ichigo's face. (Let's just assume that he got really annoyed.)

"Ah ah ah Ichigo-san…"

Ichigo's soul cell phone went off. (Yup, he finally got one.)

"Soul Society wants me for backup?! What the hell?" He fumbled around with the phone. "Stupid assholes should learn to deal with Menos already… Open the gate, Urahara."

"Hmmm I don't know about that Kurosaki! After the way you just spoke to me—"

"OPEN THE DAMN GATE!!"

"Fine, fine."

Ichigo fumed all the way to Soul Society.

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"Attention Squad Thirteen! Calling for backup NOW! These are your lieutenants speaking! There is a large number of Menos in Sector 549837! Get over here now!"

Wow, those lieutenants would have usually started bickering. This must be serious. Rukia ran as fast as she could to where the rest of her squad was.

And when she got there, she was astounded.

Although no one was seriously injured yet, the number of Menos was incredible. There were groups of five or six menos in small areas for at least—well, she couldn't see far past the first few groups.

"Taichou! We have requested backup from the Substitute Shinigami Kurosaki Ichigo as you asked!"

Rukia's vein popped. I really don't need to see him right now.

"Thank you, Kiyone, Sentaro."

"Hai!" The two lieutenants sped off to fight the Hollows.

Shit, this is bad. "First Dance, Sode No Shirayuki!"

Rukia fought with few injuries. As a small group of shinigami fell, she rushed over to them and tried to bring them to safety…they weren't dead. Not yet.

"Raikohou!"

She successfully destroyed a Menos. A couple shinigami looked at her in awe.

"Soukatsui!" Another went down, but there were at least another 40 left.

She panted. How long can I keep this up? Rukia looked around. How long can our squad last?

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