Authors note: Ack! DX Been so long since I posted a chapter! And I renamed the story, I forgot that Kon was a lion... ; So it's Now "The Tiger and the Couger". I've been buisy with school but I'll try to get another chapter up soon.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Bleach accept the character Chelsea.


"Why are we going the same way to go home?" Chad asked Chelsea as they passed, and turned to the right at the front-end corner of a grocery store. Chelsea took a small glance at Chad who was looking strait ahead as they were walking before she answered. "I don't know... I guess we just are. I was only able to get a house 'oh so close' to the school. I'm not even halfway home yet. You?" "... Same here." Chad muttered.

As the two rounded the last corner and got to Chad's house, Chelsea continued walking to the house next to Chad's. Chad watched Chelsea as she went to that house, stopped at the front door, and took out her keys. "You are the one living there?" Chad asked before Chelsea chose the correct key from off her cat keychain. "Yeah... It was the only place I could get." She told Chad. 'She could get'; that confused Chad a bit. "You live by yourself?" Chad asked. "Yeah, why are you asking?" Chelsea wondered as to why he would ask that. "I thought that you where still with your foster parents."

There was a silence. Chelsea lowered her head and faced the opposite way from Chad. This made Chad get an uneasy feeling in his stomach and throat. "I hit a sensitive subject, didn't I?" "Unfortunately, yes. Can I tell that story later?" Chelsea asked, as she was about to put her key into the lock to enter her house. "Sure. And sorry." "It's alright, but I guess, I'll see you later. Bye." Chelsea replied as she turned the key and opened the door. "Wait!" Before Chelsea could go inside her house, Chad stopped her to ask, "Mind having dinner at my house?" Chad didn't know why he just asked that, but he just did it on a whim. "Why?" Chelsea asked. Chad had to quickly come up with an excuse for his sudden question. "Muh... To... To say sorry for the questions... and you might not have anything to eat yet, being new here and-." "You're bad at coming up with excuses, aren't you?" "Muh..." Chelsea was right, that he was bad with excuses, since he was taking to long to properly answer her. Other then that though, Chelsea decided that it was better to take up his offer. He probably had something better to eat then she did. "But I'll take you up on your offer."

Inside Chad's house, there wasn't anything much but a few pieces of furniture, a few posters on the wall, and stacks upon stacks of CD's. "Not much on necessities, huh?" "I get what is necessary." "So CD's are necessary? You have TONS of them!" "I also like music. I play bass guitar also." As Chad set a book down on his short legged table and moved to the back of the room, Chelsea could see the four stringed instrument that was hiding behind Chad to the left of the room. She didn't know what model it was, but it was white with a black pick guard for the body of the guitar, with the basic pickup setting and basic neck. The tuning pegs on the head though, where black and shimmering like dark onyx. "Nice bass. Play much?" Chelsea asked as she walked into the room. "Not much right now. I've been busy." Chad replied with his usual monotoned voice as he went into the kitchen. "With what?" Chelsea asked. "Things..." Chad was really busy with fighting hollows, that seemed to be growing in numbers lately, but he didn't want her to know. "'She more then likely doesn't even know about hollows.'" he thought has he went into the freezer of his fridge, searching for something to cook. He found a few things and got them ready to cook. "Hope you don't mind having teriyaki chicken with white rice, sugar snap peas, and corn. It's all I have right now." "That'll be fine. I eat just about anything!"

After dinner, the two Sado's where sitting on the floor. They where sitting on the right side of the room where Chad had all of his CD's stacked up, since he didn't buy any shelves for them. Chelsea had some question to ask Chad. "So Chad, what about you?" "What about me?" Chad quizzically looked at her. "Your life story, I've told you mine today. Well, the basic gist of it anyways." "Muh..." Chad looked away from the direction of Chelsea. "All that I can really say is that I'm an only child. I was born in Okinawa, and lived in Japan for about 8 years. Moved to Mexico..." Chad sighed after he trailed off from his quick life review. "You ok?" Chelsea asked with a small tone of concern. "Yeah, I'm ok. But I lost my parent's when we moved to Mexico. There where no other relatives but one to take me in. Because of that, I was brought up by my Abuelo." "Abuelo?" "Abuelo means grandfather. I lived with him for five years until he passed away also. That's when I decided to move back here." Chad looked backed up at Chelsea after telling her the basics of his life.

Chelsea didn't know what to say at first, but then managed to speak. "Oh! I'm sorry to hear. So that makes you an orphan?" Chad just replied to Chelsea as would normally would with anyone else. "Yes. I have no other relatives." "Wow." Chelsea looked down to the floor. "I guess that makes two of us." "Hmm?" Chad was even more confused at this. "What about your foster parents?" "I wasn't wanting to talk about it this soon, but they are the reason I'm here now." Chelsea swallowed at a depressing lump that was forming in her throat. "They died not to long ago. And before they did die, they told me a few things that they felt that I should know." Chelsea paused for a moment then sighed. Chad looked at her with empathy, now knowing that she no longer had her foster parents. Chelsea then continued before Chad could say anything. "They told me that I might still have a relative here in Japan. I had hope that it could have been my parents, but they then told me that they had sadly died. Because of that, I'm hoping that it may be an uncle or aunt." "I'm sorry that you also lost your parents, but I do hope that you find that relative." "It's ok, I feel sorry that you lost yours too. And thank you. The only thing I can go on, by searching for that one relative, is a picture of my parents. You seem to look like them, strangely enough, but how our pasts seem to work out, and that we are both only child's, It would be impossible for us to be related." "... Yeah."

Chelsea looked up at the wall to the far left to think how all this had happen, and caught sight of a small frame. When she looked inside the frame, she nearly keeled over at the sight of the picture.