Hello! This is what you all've been waiting for! Chapter 4 of Black Bleach! Sorry it took so long... I've had way to much homework to dedicate any time to it. I'm in high school and already I feel like I'm in college.

And thanks to my crappy Hnrs Earth Science teacher, I have homework over spring break. . The world hates me.

Weeeeeeeell, I promised to answer some questions that showed up in my reviews so here you are:

Gemini24: I would first like to start out by saying: Thank you for reading! I always appreciate feedback, and you seem to be pretty dedicated! Thanks! Don't worry, I am going to clarify why Ichigo did such a thing to Uryu. That's a promise. It's for a good reason, and it'll help the story along. I don't really care for OP's myself, so I don't write that way. And... Oh! Ogisugi thanks you! His Zanpakuto doesn't actually have a meaning. It doesn't translate out into anything, actually. It's "Kentamoyosho Koysa"(? or something like that) because he doesn't have a meaning either. He's mysterious. And nobody really understands him. (Side Story alert) After Aizen helped him become an Arrancar, he choose that name for himself, for, like an introvert, he wanted to be alone; misunderstood by all. ~Hope that helps!~ And thank you! I always love to see people's dreams coming true!

Reina De La Noche: Don't worry a bit. If there's any pairings that pop up, it will be het... but it will not be Ichigo/Orihime. I don't ship that myself, so it will clearly be Uryu/Orihime. Now if you're looking for a story purely dedicated to them, you should check out the story/oneshot I wrote called "Confessions" ^.^ ~Thanks for reading my work!~

Subtitute Quincy: ^^" Heh heh, Believe it or not, you're actually not the first to catch this. Oh the people who just love to prove me wrong. Haha, it was actually a mistake at first. I was so mad that I had done that, and I wanted to stop writing it, because there was no way for me to change it after people had read it. Though, I figured that this mistake could help along the story line. It won't screw up the story, I swear. Just keep on reading, and you'll see how I use that. ~Thanks!~

Thanks to everyone who has been reading so far! If there's anymore questions, leave a review, and I'll answer them! ^-^

Now finally, here is chapter 4! Captain's discovery! (By the by: "Miss" Yuki is an OC who really has no influence to the plot line. She is there to show a piece of Uryu's life that you don't really see. This is my view on the characters that they don't show in the anime or manga. What you don't recognize, was probably created by me.)

Chapter 4: Captain's Discovery

Ichigo couldn't shake it. He couldn't get over the fact that he was now Uryu. No! He couldn't get up this morning, and maybe he never did! Yes! He was still sleeping and having a terrible nightmare. That was all.

How to wake up, though?

Hold on. If he were dreaming, would he really be aware of it? Of course not! But… this was impossible, so this had to be a dream—no—nightmare.

That was a shaky explanation, though. As inevitable as it was, he walked out of the bathroom. Entering Uryu's bedroom with a heavy sigh, he continued in the direction of the dresser in order to find Uryu's glasses.

Bingo! He picked up the thin frames and slipped them on.

Instantly, the world came into focus.

"So this is what glasses are like." Everything was brighter, less gloomy, and, well, vibrant.

He looked to the ground that he was now closer to, and a fair bit of black hair slid into his peripheral vision. Not orange… and also odd that it was so much longer than it was supposed to be.

I should… go home. But my family will be suspicious if I walk in there like this.

He opened the top drawer out of boredom. There, lay folded a grey school uniform.

School was a mutual. A place of learning, right? So… he could… get answers?

No! That's just stupid!

But… maybe it wasn't.

He was surprised that he wasn't hungry like he usually was in the mornings. Maybe that's because he was in Uryu's body.

In Uryu's body?

The statement gave him somewhat of an idea as to what was going on. Switched bodies, perhaps? Gigais, maybe? No, not Gigais. Uryu was a Quincy. Not a Soul Reaper. But… how?

It was a lack in his knowledge, and that was damn annoying.

Reaching his hand into the drawer, he pulled out the uniform and started to dress into it. School was his next destination. How he came up with that conclusion, he had no idea, but it seemed accurate.

At least it did at this point.

**********************************Rukia*********************************

Rukia stood… but it was extraordinarily difficult. Her legs weren't broken, but she was sure that she had sprained both ankles.

Was she really that thick that she didn't realize that this body didn't have the stamina to endure a jump like that? She would later apologize to Orihime for harming her body, but right now she had to get to school. Ichigo and Orihime had to be there. That's where she would get her answers.

She darted off, wincing with every step.

"Orihime!" the voice came from a distance. Tatsuki.

Rukia gulped and slowly turned around.

"Orihime," Tatsuki caught up and panted, "Where were you? I swung by your house this morning and you weren't there, so I thought something was wrong."

"I'm fine," she looked down, "I had to… run! I was just so full of energy this morning that I had to get it all out!"

Tatsuki stared. This was suspicious and unlike Orihime to take on such a tone. It was something about Orihime that reminded her of someone she knew… but she couldn't quite think of who it was.

"Well, okay. As long as nothing's wrong." Tatsuki finally managed.

They walked on to find the high school around the corner.

Answers? Rukia thought, No, what am I thinking?

**********************************Uryu*********************************

Uryu looked to Chad. He was Ichigo. It seemed like this was already established, but he couldn't shake the horrible thought.

He hated Ichigo. Soul Reaper. He was his enemy, and that would never change. Uryu was a Soul Reaper now—no—Substitute Soul Reaper. Partially worse. On the contrary, what could he do in this body? He had the power to ruin Ichigo's reputation, make him fail, even damage his body. That was stupid, though. He had Ichigo's senses, so he could feel the pain. But that didn't mean he couldn't do long-term damage.

After all, Ichigo had drawn his sword against him. He still was clueless as to what that was about. Ichigo didn't seem the type to attack his friends. And if it weren't for Orihime, Uryu would have been minced meat. Flinching at the mere thought of ending up like his grandfather because of another Soul Reaper, he thought over how to get out of this body as quickly as possible. A Soul Reaper. He nearly despised himself.

Ichigo… What happened yesterday? More importantly, why is this my main concern?

Uryu sighed and walked to his desk before he realized that his desk was not Ichigo's desk, and then proceeded to turn around.

Chad's face remained calm, as Orihime sat next to Uryu.

Whatever had gone wrong, she hoped that Rukia and Ichigo would arrive soon.

***********************************Rukia********************************

Rukia's legs were throbbing and pulsing with every step. It was hard to walk in Orihime's body. And it was worse after she had landed to the ground.

Entering Karakura High School, Tatsuki and Rukia walked on to classroom 1-3.

"Ichigo! Um-" she looked to her body.

Tatsuki snapped her head to Rukia, though Rukia's determination was fixed on "Ichigo".

She proceeded to walk over to him, and broke her mixed emotions with fear, "Ichigo! You have to help me!" she whispered the command.

"R-Rukia?" He tried.

Rukia's eyes grew wide, "H-how did you know?"

"Rukia," he sighed with relief, "I'm Uryu."

"Uryu?" She smiled, but it only lasted for a moment before she was panicking again, "Where's Ichigo? And Orihime?"

Uryu pointed to who appeared to be Rukia, "That's Orihime; Chad's still himself, but I don't know where Ichigo is."

"Is he… you?" Rukia asked.

"Maybe." Uryu looked down.

"That's not very assuring…"

"Is anything really 'assuring' this morning?"

Rukia looked to the door, "We should try to find him. We should all be together at a time like this."

Uryu sighed, "I guess you're right." He walked around her, "Let's go Orihime; Chad."

"Okay!" Orihime shouted as she stood.

Uryu was nearly out of the door when the bell rang, signaling class to commence. As Mrs. Ochi turned the corner into the classroom, she ran directly into Uryu.

"Oh! Ichigo! Hello and good morning!"

"Er—um—good morning, Mrs. Ochi." He struggled.

"You should get to your seat. The bell just rang."

Uryu smiled nervously, "Did it? I didn't hear anything."

"Typical Ichigo! Don't make me call your father! And don't think I won't call that delightful man!"

Uryu blushed, thinking of his own father for a moment, "Uh—I have to go to the bathroom!"

Mrs. Ochi frowned and sighed, "All right, but hurry up!"

Uryu started to run out, and Chad, Orihime, and Rukia followed.

"Excuse me, you three! Where are you going?"

"Bathroom!" Chad and Orihime shouted.

Rukia turned around and bowed, "Thank you, Mrs. Ochi!"

"Miss Inoue?" Mrs. Ochi shouted after her, "No running in the hallway, you four!"

They did not listen to what she had said, and continued moving as they had. Stepping foot outside of school, they darted extremely fast. They went to a full on sprint. Where else would Ichigo be, but Uryu's apartment? That's where they would check first.

If he's not there, I'll be at a total loss… Uryu thought.

Reaching the door, Uryu tried it. Locked. He reached his hand in his pocket for his keys.

"Dammit! I'm Ichigo!" He closed his eyes in frustration, as he repeatedly threw his fist to the door, "Come to the door and let us in now, Ichigo!"

*********************************Ichigo*********************************

Ichigo was in the process of slipping Uryu's shoes on, when he heard muffled shouts from behind the door.

"Come to the door and let us in now, Ichigo!"

H-how do they know it's me? And that voice! C-could it be-?

Ichigo stood and opened the door revealing four figures that eventually came into focus after his eyes adjusted to the sunlight. He found himself staring at… at himself. It was entirely bizarre. But he guessed this whole morning was bizarre.

"So it's true." Uryu spoke softly, "We've switched bodies." He felt sick to his stomach. His head was pulsing and he was at a loss for words. The constant taunting of the confirmation he knew, but didn't want to bear witness to. His own words echoed in his mind and screamed as they raced his other thoughts.

"Uryu?" Ichigo spoke with Uryu's metallic voice, "What's happened? What's going on?"

"Rukia and Orihime, and you and I have—switched bodies and powers."

Ichigo looked down, "So I thought correctly."

Uryu nodded slowly.

"We have to get help. We can't stay like this."

"Damn straight. I won't live down the fact that I'm a Substitute Soul Reaper."

"There you go again! Emphasizing 'Substitute'!"

"Well, that's what you are! You're also obnoxious and if you weren't hungry all the damn time, maybe you could get something done!"

"You're going to start this? I could write a novel with your flaws!"

"And your Flaw Novel would have a sequel!"

"Do you know how long it took me to wake up this morning?"

"Yes, I do!"

"Are you aware that you're as blind as a bat?"

"So what? That's completely natural! Well, what about Mrs. Ochi fantasizing over your father? There's nothing right with that!"

Rukia walked up, kicking Uryu and stepping on Ichigo, which looked odd for Orihime's body.

"Will you two cut it out? We don't have time for this!" She screamed at them.

"Ishida?" a small girl's voice came from behind.

All heads turned to her. She was a cute girl with pink-tails and pompoms in her hair. Her short dress looked adorable with her frilly socks and glossy black dress shoes. A brunette with brown, lovely eyes. She had a look of fear to them.

Uryu looked to Ichigo. He needed him to answer.

"Y-yes?" Ichigo starred at the little girl as to assure her that everything was fine as to get her to go away.

"Is everything okay, Ishida? They're yelling at you!"

It was Uryu who turned to her, "Yes! Everything is fine, Miss Yuki!

"How do you know my name?" She started to cry this tall, orange-haired teenager that she had never seen in her life.

Uryu flinched.

Ichigo stepped up and knelt in front of her, "D-don't worry. He's a f-friend of mine." His hesitant answer made Uryu want to punch him in the face. He resisted though, for he didn't want Ichigo's strength breaking his nose.

The girl stopped crying and looked to him, "Um, Ishida? Why aren't you in school?"

"Eh? Oh… that's because… school's out today!"

Uryu nearly kicked him for being so ignorant.

"B-but my brother went to school today! I thought that you two went to the same high school!"

"We do," Uryu covered, "But given the circumstances, only we five didn't have to go to school today."

"Oh, really? Did you ace a test or something?"

"Sure," Ichigo smiled.

'Sure'? Just 'sure'? God, you're an idiot! Uryu thought strongly.

"Okay, well, have a good day, Ishida! And Ishida's friends!"

Uryu was the only one to smile at her.

She disappeared into an apartment door.

Promptly, Rukia's voice squealed. Orihime spoke so high and loud. An admiring voice, "She is soooo cute! And she's your neighbor? I think it's adorable!"

Rukia nearly fell to the ground. To watch her body fawn over something so insignificant was strange. Even if she knew it was Orihime doing it.

Uryu and Ichigo stared at each other until one finally snapped.

"You're such an idiot!" Uryu shouted.

Ichigo knew he did a bad job with that. That he didn't sound like Uryu at all.

"You could have done better than that, and you know!"

"Well, what wm I supposed to do?" The bridge of Uryu's glasses slid down Ichigo's nose, "Look! I'm Uryu Ishida!" he pushed his with his pointer finger glasses up and snorted, "And I don't like Soul Reapers! They're my enemies!

Ichigo purposely taunted Uryu with the mocking of personality.

Uryu's face grew hard. He looked as though he would strangle Ichigo for making fun of him in such ways. Is that really how Ichigo perceived him? Is that how Uryu rubbed of to other people? He clenched his hands into fists. On the brink of punching him, he refrained.

There were many reasons why he couldn't punch Ichigo. But he needed help with this problem that they were facing.

"Uryu," Rukia started, "Just control yourself. Ichigo, just stop being stupid."

Uryu smirked. She told him something she was already going to do, and she insulted Ichigo? Nice.

******************************In the Soul Society**************************

Byakuya Kuchiki paced his every flawless step so symmetrically. Every move he made glided smoothly through the air. His grey eyes shifted from both sides of the hallway. Having just left his office, he looked straight ahead with his permanent serious gaze.

Not five minutes ago, Mayuri Kurosuchi of all people, called him to meet up. As Renji Abarai had reported, Mayuri just said he had "important matters to discuss". It may have been an explanation that left something to be desired, but strangely, it was enough to get Byakuya to come to him. Be that as it was, he was approaching the Squad 12 barracks rather quickly. Greeted by Nemu, the lieutenant of Squad 12, he entered and stood in the presence of the head of the Squad of Research and Development.

"Ah, Captain Kuchiki! Thanks for attending my requested invitation."

Byakuya said nothing, in hint that he was waiting for Mayuri to get straight to the point. After all, Byakuya was a very busy person.

"Heh, okay then, I can see you're busy, so I'll get to the point." Mayuri beckoned Byakuya to follow him to his area of research. With flowing, elegant steps, they neared the area containing multitudes of computers and monitors.

Mayuri plopped in a single office chair and pointed to a screen near the middle of them all.

"See that?"

Byakuya peered into the large screen. There were stats. Data. Probably obvious to Mayuri, but Byakuya was not trained to read such things.

Mayuri rolled his eyes, "It's a data set, organized into a line graph. It shows the disturbances in hidden Spiritual Pressure. There are nearly a handful of people in Japan with Spiritual Pressure at most. Most of which are in Karakura Town, and most of whose, we know. Look," he pointed to the screen. The lines zoomed in to five individual frantically moving lines.

"These five should be extraordinarily familiar. The one at the bottom is Rukia, your sister. This one is Yasataro Sado, this one is Orihime Inoue, Uryu Ishida, and… Ichigo Kurosaki. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. I have a very cautious nature. I saved this screen video from yesterday. All seems normal, right?" The Spiritual Pressure was accurate according to who was who. Ichigo's was a bit more frantic, while Uryu's was near to a straight line.

Byakuya didn't see where Mayuri was going with this.

"Now look at this. I snapped the screen video from precisely 1:56 am this morning."

The stats, for a moment, all faded. That is, with the exception of Chad's.

"Captain Kurosuchi, what are you getting at?" Byakuya seemed bored.

"Four a moment, those four died. They had no Spiritual Pressure, or even a hint of life."

Byakuya's eyes grew wide, "Rukia,"

"But by 1:58 am, they were back to normal."

"So what does this mean?" Byakuya, who leaned in, seemed to be much more intrigued.

"It means we have a golden opportunity to conduct an experiment." Mayuri smirked.

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