I was thinking if perhaps I was going a little too deep into Roald Dahl's story. Anybody who read the story before? Tell me if I am or not. I've read that book for like 4 years everyday (since I was too lazy to change my book) and believe me, I can memorize it. LOL. I'm thinking that perhaps I'm following a little too close. Any opinions?

Shaolin David: Lol after reading through again, I didn't realize that I've somehow made Yoruichi into a stalking pedophile XD she's not stalking Soi but since they live on the same street, they would be bound to meet and stuff... Given Yoruichi's nature I doubt she will want to be cooped up in the factory too. So... yeah XD

Warning: OoC-ness as it's really hard to make Soifon's and Kisuke's interacting like they would in the anime since the both of them hardly talk to each other anyway. Also some scenes might be uncalled for but it's needed to put emphasis etc. on the later chapters.

Disclaimers: I do not own Bleach nor the idea of Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Chapter 6: Finally They Gather

Running back, Soifon's mind became clearer and clearer. Perhaps it was the cool breeze hitting against her pale skin which she found it relaxing. Running past the factory, she took a quick glance at it and smiled her widest smile.

It was truly a dream come true for the young girl.

"Kisuke!" She came bursting through the door, startling Kisuke as the said man jumped upwards so quickly that he cricked his back.

"ITAI! OH MY BENIHIME! MY BACK! SOIFON DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!" he shouted, one hand over his heart and the other behind his back. "I am a really old man, I can't afford to take that kind of shock!" He sort of joked, making the panting Soifon more and more worried.

"No, really. Seriously I need to know that before I can tell you the news. I don't want to carry a dead body out of here." Soifon's face was dead serious.

"Uhm... I was just joking~ Really! Don't give me that face! Er... So what kind of shocking news do you have?"

Although she was not sure that Kisuke had been entirely truthful - that man liked to joke a lot, she still chose to tell him the big news. It was something that Kisuke would have been looking forward to as well.

"This," Soifon let the Pawprint flutter from her hands, down onto his lap. Picking up the ticket with trembling fingers, Kisuke took a closer look at the ticket.

"T-this is r-real right? You're n-not joking right?" He looked at Soifon for the last affirmation and when Soifon did, he fainted on the spot.

"K-Kisuke!"

"Darn it Kisuke you gave me the biggest fright of my life!"

Kisuke could only give a small smile as he sat up. "That was quite unexpected for me too. I didn't expect myself to faint from the excitement either. It must be that I was too exhausted from all that current researching I'm doing."

"Research? Research on what? Does it have something to do with rabbits?" Soifon came back with a cup of water and gave it to the man, remembering the time when the man had an actual outburst over that animal.

"Thanks Soi-chan. Hmmm? Curious here are we? It's... not telling you! Hah!" he started to joke again.

Despite the obvious joking tone in Kisuke's voice, Soifon chose to respect his decision - Kisuke would find of a way to make Soifon 'ask' him that someday.

"Maa~ And Soi-chan, I didn't know that you are such a caring person! I've always thought that you were a cold and anti-social person with a scowl on the face. Well, that was my first impression of you when I found you."

"Shut up Kisuke! Or I will really make you faint with my fist on your head." Soifon warned, her eyebrows twitching.

"A note to myself, never to annoy Soi-chan or she will resort to violence... Wait don't hit, don't hit! I'm a really old man! Ha ha ha!" Kisuke laughed out loudly for a few moments, Soifon staring in the opposite direction, huffing at the idiocy of the man.

Wiping tears out of his eyes, he then asked her, "So is there anything on the Pawprint?"

Soifon examined the ticket closely. It was crisp and gold and of the shape of a Pawprint. She turned the ticket around and all that was written was the timing when she should report. There was nothing else on it.

"Totally nothing other than the timing we are supposed to report. Just a paper Pawprint. Nothing special." The girl shrugged but when she adjusted it to a certain angle, there seemed to be something else on it.

"Nothing?" Kisuke asked incredulously. "It's unlike the style of Yoruichi-san's for it to be this plain."

"Wait I think there's something but it's quite faint..."

Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door. Turning their heads to the door, Kisuke nodded and shadowed his eyes behind his hat. No reporter would have known where Soifon stayed other than the landlord. Being one of the most cold persons, no one had bothered to know much about her and with that little information, it was almost impossible that reporters would come finding here, so who could be behind that door? Walking towards the door, he slowly opened it and Soifon could not believe her eyes.

It was the all-time famous photographer, Yumichika Ayasegawa!

"Ah Ojou-San! We meet again! Fate has brought us together again! I'm so glad to meet you again."

"Y-You... W-what are you d-doing here, Y-Yumichika-san? H-how did you find me?" Soifon stuttered. It was extremely unusual for the feminine man to be taking interviews for the winners; for the past 4 winners he hadn't been present so why now and how on earth did he find her?

"Ojou-san, as I have said, fate brought us together and you have a very interesting aura, something I haven't been feeling for a long time and it brought me here~ From what I can see," he squinted his eyes, "your aura is unique and amazingly beautiful. This kind of resolve can only be found in someone who has great values in them. It's a beautiful sight to see. The last time I saw such great resolve was by a woman called Yoruichi Shihouin."

"M-me a-and the g-great chocolate m-maker?" Soifon blushed. She had never expected herself to be compared with one of the most successful person in the planet.

Both Soifon and Kisuke could only continue to stay shocked at the sudden inflow of information.

"Thank you for your precious time to do my interview. Now may I have the pleasure to take a picture of you?" Yumichika asked, more like said as he did not wait for an answer.

KA-CLICK!

Checking on his screen satisfactorily and then showing it to Soifon for her approval, Soifon nodded her head, surprised at the skill of the man's photography. That shot was totally unprepared for and yet he still managed to capture the essence. No wonder he was famous.

"Perfect! I hope you'll have a great time meeting Yoruichi-chan. And good luck for tomorrow~", with that he left the house, closing the door after him.

"..."

"..."

"Tomorrow?" Both Soifon and Kisuke looked at each other, confused. The answer suddenly struck to them like lightning.

"Oh my Suzumebachi!/Oh my Benihime! The trip is tomorrow!" The two shouted together, totally forgetting the deadline.

A moment of silence.

"Suzumebachi/Benihime?" They asked together again. Another moment of silence and they broke into laughter, laughing at the foreign words they had 'invented' at whim.

"Hey Kisuke? Why do you suddenly call out Benihime? I mean like what's that supposed to mean anyway? I have absolutely no idea why the word, Suzumebachi, seems so familiar to me." Soifon asked as she calmed down a little from the fit.

"Benihime sounded very familiar to me too. Well, for starters, do you ever have dreams that are like unexplainable? Like you might have some weird dreams that imply on your past life or something like that? My best bet would be that we might still retain some memories of our past when we reincarnate, although it has not been scientifically proven." Kisuke said thoughtfully. "Now get to bed! We need to be refreshed and alert for tomorrow's adventure! Go, go, go!"

It was a few hours before the scheduled time to report but Soifon still wasn't asleep. She was too excited to fall asleep. "I wonder what surprises will be in store for us. And most importantly, I wonder what kind of person the great chocolate maker is like..." Next door, Soifon could tell that Kisuke was still awake too. Sounds of pen scribbling and paper flipping could be heard over the thin walls. "Really, what is he doing? Could it be related to the research he had been doing for the past few days?" she asked herself, finally drifting off to sleep after some excessive thinking exercise.

'Stroking her mentor's hair slowly, Soifon could not help but smile at the purring sounds her mentor was making. "I will be there protecting you, always."'

"Why didn't you take me along as well?"

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!

A screech emitted out of Soifon's alarm clock and she was startled out of her dream, hurriedly pressing down on the button to make it shut up. She cursed Kisuke for making such an annoying alarm clock that screeches like a banshee. Why couldn't it sound like a normal clock?

"That way you will wake up faster!" The annoying grin of Kisuke appeared in her thoughts. Rubbing her eyes, she realized that there were tears in her eyes. She had cried in her sleep. Why did she cry and what in the world of Suzumebachi was that dream all about? It must have been influenced by what she had known from Kisuke the day before...

'I have gotta kick off that Suzumebachi habit, I sound like a mad person if I'm caught saying out that word,' she thought to herself. Shaking her head, she got ready in a flash, wearing her favorite yellow-striped shirt and pants.

"Now where did I put my notebook? Oh it's in my pocket all along, silly me. Come on Soi-chan! We gotta get ready to leave in like 2 minutes time! SOIIIIIIIII-CHAAAAAAAN!"

BAM! The door slammed open as the man barged into Soifon's room.

"Soi-chan hurry up it's about time! What's taking you so long?" Kisuke ran into Soifon's room and walked out immediately, sporting a black left eye.

"See what happened? I told you never to enter my room without permission! So that's what you get for activating my reflex action!"

It was ten minutes to nine, and all five winners had already arrived outside the factory. Despite the street not being well-known, a huge crowd was waiting outside the factory as well. However there was not a need for the police to come and keep the crowd in check. Just Kenpachi's presence would be enough as the crowd dared not come close around him.

Looking around, Soifon saw that the other winners had been accompanied by a parent or guardian, Omaeda with someone who is also very large sized and bald like him, Toushiro with a man with long white hair who should be his father, Yachiru with Kenpachi (duh) and a short girl accompanied by a man who looked like a pretty boy, who she assumed was the Kuchiki family. Seeing that the winners were all wearing clothes that were new and nice made her feel a little inferior.

Feeling slightly conscious of her own tattered clothes and the constant remarks by the crowd, she looked up at Kisuke, wondering if he felt the same way too but what she saw was unexpected.

Kisuke's face was contorted. It was as though he was trying to laugh at the crowd while trying to keep his face straight. Deep down, Soifon knew what was going on in his mind - Kisuke had made a comeback by being one of the people to enter the prestige factory.

Finally the clock chimed. It was nine and it was time. A voice on the loudspeakers sounded. "A very good morning to all of you out there!"

Soifon could not put her finger on the voice. It was one which she knows of but who?

"Mayuri Kurotsuchi! I know you are somewhere out there in the crowd. How does it feel to be second to me again? This time, I will be letting out my secrets to selected few but you ain't included. Too bad my dear friend!" the voice mocked at the said person. Murmurs were heard and several shuffles were made. Glancing out of the corner of her eye, Soifon saw a figure with a weird hat (?) stomping off, as if not wanting to be disgraced, with a female hurriedly on his side.

"With that, I will formally introduce myself."

Everyone took a step back as fireworks suddenly came shooting and spiraling out of the factory's gate. The ground exploded with a bang, leaving thick smoke rising from the spot. With the help of a sudden gust of wind, the smoke cleared and a woman stood at the exact same spot, coughing.

"Darn it Kuukaku! You put too much gunpowder into that explosive! Now my front gate is destroyed!" the woman shouted into her walkie talkie. Soifon could not believe what she was seeing.

It was the lady she had met on several occasions before!

The woman, donning an orange jacket with black pants and matching white shoes, whipped her violet hair back and gave her widest grin, showing pearly white teeth. Putting out her hands to greet the crowd, she shouted,

"I am Yoruichi Shihouin and welcome to my factory!"

What do you call the weird thing Mayuri wears on his head?

Next chapter would be taking place in the factory like finally! I've been looking forward to it ever since I started the story!

Please review and tell me which areas I can improve on to be a better writer ^^