So slight confession time. I had totally forgotten about writing the chapters for this story, due to others catching my interest. But I do have most chapters written and ready to be typed, as they have been for a while now. I have no true excuse for being so late on the updates.

Thank you love for looking over the chapters I send you and being my beta. It is truly important to me.

I do not own Bleach, but I do own Shadow, Nix, Claire, and Katie.

I am now going to stop rambling so that the long awaited chapter can be started.

Enjoy this new installment of The Change!

Nix groaned as she rolled out of bed the next morning. She was still half asleep, so when she rolled, she didn't realize that she was literally sleeping on the very edge of the bed and rolled onto the floor.

"Oof!" Nix grunted, sitting up and rubbing her arm. Her shoulder was still bruised from Shadow throwing her into that damned wall two days ago. Nix got to her feet and glared at her bed as though it was the reason that she fell off. She begrudgedly got a uniform from her closet and headed to the bathroom that was attached to the room. She actually hated showers, well, water in general. But she needed to take a shower.

She turned on the water and watched as it fell from the luxurious showerhead and looked at the soaps, shampoos, and conditions that Shadow had managed to steal. In fact, on the subject of stealing, Nix's wallet is now filled with money, money that Shadow had managed to pickpocket from people's bags, purses, and cash registers and vaults. The only thing that she hadn't robbed from was the bank… Yet.

Nix scowled but took the time to shower, allowing the spray to flow over her. She had to admit that the shower was nice and helped to wake her up with each warm drop that hit her skin. She couldn't help herself when she started daydreaming about staying in here all day. However, that dream was totally killed when the pounding on the bathroom door sounded through the room.

"Get your lazy ass out of there, bitch! We're going to be late!" Claire yelled through the bathroom door.

"How the hell did you get into my room?" Nix screamed back as she slipped on the shower floor in shock and landed on her ass.

"Maid's key," Claire answered. Nix could almost see the other female shrug her shoulders. "Now hurry up!" Nix heard Claire leave the bedroom through the bathroom door and with a huff, she finished up her shower and got dressed. She truly did despise this uniform.

She left her hair down and pulled on her dagger-like cross necklace. Then she left her room.

When Nix came into the lobby, she noticed the curled-up lump on the breakfast bar. When she got closer, she noticed that it was Shadow sleeping.

Should I? Last time I was thrown into a wall. But she was half asleep then, and she's full-on knocked out right now… Nah, Nix decided as she walked into the kitchen for a Pop-Tart.

"Eep!" a squeal sounded and when Nix came back, Katie was in the wall and Shadow was standing there half asleep. Katie had animated tears running down her closed eyes.

"You shouldn't have tried to wake her up, Katie," Nix laughed, nomming quietly on the Pop-Tart.

"Maybe if she had some coffee, she'll wake up," Claire suggested as she came down the stairs, desperately trying to make the short skirt even longer on her legs.

Katie inched her way around the standing Shadow who was snoring softly and into the kitchen slowly. Only to scream. "There's no coffee left!"

"What?!" Nix and Claire yelled out, then looked at Shadow who was back to sleeping on the breakfast bar. They all knew how Shadow lived on her coffee each morning. They all learned that the hard way when they first began to live in dorms together.

Nix and Claire quickly looked through the kitchen cabinets, only to come up with nothing but dread.

"Alright! You two, get to school with Shadow and I will go buy coffee somewhere!" Nix yelled out, getting as far away from the ticking sleep bomb as she could in the next five seconds.

"You bitch!"

Claire turned to look at Shadow, the peacefully sleeping bomb.

"I don't suppose you want to wake her up, do you?" Claire asked Katie, only to see the blonde on the other side of the inn lobby, shaking her head frantically. "Okay… Guess we'll have to drag her."

Orihime looked up to see Katie and Claire carrying a half-asleep Shadow, by the hands and ankles. They set the girl on her feet, stepping back a few feet as she swayed. They looked absolutely terrified.

Ichigo noticed them as well and came over to see what had gotten them so scared. Right when he was about to say something, the sleeping girl's head was on his shoulder. He turned stiff as a board and felt chills go up his spine, as though there was impending doom.

"What's the big idea!" Ichigo exclaimed as he started to push Shadow off.

"No! Don't do it!" Claire and Katie shouted as Shadow's eyes popped open and as she grabbed Ichigo's shoulder and arm. Shadow then twisted his arm behind his back with her foot pressed into his spine, bending him into a nice pretzel shape. A scream of pain erupted from Ichigo's lips as Shadow did the opposite of let up and pulled harder.

We tried to warn him, Katie and Claire thought as Shadow started to break his arm. That is, until the teacher came in and saw Ichigo and Shadow.

"Hey! No rough housing you too!" she yelled, dropping everything on her desk to put her bony hands on her hips. Shadow turned her sleep dead eyes onto the teacher, tightening her grip unconsciously on Ichigo. Another scream erupted from his lips as rushing animated tears fell from his eyes from the extreme amount of pain.

Shadow's eyes closed again and she fell back into sleep, letting Ichigo go as she slept-walked over to her desk to promptly sleep there instead. Ichigo then slithered away as Katie and Claire sighed in relief to sit at their desks.

Nix sighed happily as she left the coffee shop, holding her own drink and a cardboard tray of three other drinks, the tallest being Shadow's chemistry experiment of a coffee. She had decided to get them all drinks because dealing with a half dead Shadow was extremely tiring.

Should I hurry so they won't be in danger of a tired Shadow? Eh, they can wait a bit longer, Nix thought as she sipped her hot cocoa with whipped cream and caramel happily as she walked to the school. She took her happy, sweet, ever-loving time to get to school.

Nix was still sipping her drink as she walked into the classroom. She stopped dead when she noticed the teacher was about touch Shadow to wake her up Claire and Katie were covering their heads, eyes locked on the ticking bomb, just waiting to explode. She smiled and went unnoticed as the woman slapped Shadow's desk with her book.

"Wake up, Phantom-san! Class is for learning, not for sleeping!" she yelled as Shadow's eyes slowly opened, then closed again. Nix knew she had to hurry, otherwise there would be a blood bath. She walked over and stood next to Shadow.

The warm aroma of coffee reached Shadow's nose and her hand started running over the desk, no doubt searching for the cup. Nix hesitated, but it was only for a split moment, then placed the coffee in the path of the wandering hand. As soon as Shadow's fingers met the paper, travel cup, the lid was at her lips.

Shadow started to drink her coffee away, coming back to life with each swallow. Her eyes were now alert, open, and wide-awake.

She then noticed everyone staring at her and that the teacher was standing in front of her desk, very irate.

"So… Why is everyone staring at me like that?" Shadow asked, since she didn't remember a thing. "Ichigo, did you hurt your arm. You're holding it at an odd angle. Did you hit it against something?"

Ichigo's mouth fell open in disbelief and shock. She doesn't remember! He screamed mentally.

"You know, Teach, you might want to start doing your job. Class was supposed to have started half an hour ago," Shadow snarked, leaning back in her chair and sipping on her coffee. Claire, Nix, and Katie sighed in relief and took the coffees Nix had gotten them.

Crisis has been avoided… For now.

So, yes it is a pitiful chapter for being away as long as I have been. But this was actually meant to be a different chapter, but looking over the ones that were supposed to be before this one, I realized that they needed to be touched up on and did not make any sense with where they were going.

So I have this one and yes it is short.

Thank you love, again, for being my beta. I truly do appreciate it. Hope to see you soon.

And I hope to see some reviews come in. Please don't shoot me for being away for so long. Hope to see some reviews come to my inbox.

See you all next time!