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Chapter 7 Out of Body, Out of Mind

Now, for those of you who have been reading this story, we all know Areku (aka Ark)'s favor word is troublesome. Today, that word would fit just about everything that has happened to him. First, Nina had used up all the hot water in the apartment (yes they live together but in different rooms for those perverts out there). Then, because of the cold shower, he was running late. While running to school, he stubbed his toe on a huge rock cuz a black cat crossed his path which made him almost gotten ran over by five different cars, bikes and other moving vehicles which made him even more late to school. And then, top to it all off, when he did finally get there, he got called into the principle's office with Nina, Ichigo, Tatsuki, Chad, Keigo, Mizuro, Inoue and Rukia for god knows what reason. So yes, to say the least, this was a very troublesome day for our favorite white haired smoker. Ark just sighed at his misfortune.

'Well,' He thought as he stood there in front of the principal with their gym teacher chewing them out for last night's TV stunt. 'As science dictates, 'With every reaction there is a complete and opposite reaction right?' So that means I am in for some good luck soon, right?' Oh how wrong he was.

"Tenjin!" Ark just blinked. Looking around, he had noticed that only he and Nina were the only ones standing in the room besides the teachers.

"Hai Sensei?" Ark said, with that lazy look on his face which just seemed to infuriate the teacher even more. With a huff, the teacher just turned around annoyed even more.

"Get out of here! I won't even waste my breath if you aren't going to pay attention!" The sensei said.

"As you wish sensei." Ark and Nina both bowed and started to head to the door when the principal spoke up.

"Oh wait, Ark-san, Nina-san." He spoke. Turning around at the sound of their names, Ark responded. "Yes principal-sama?"

"Well," The principal started. "I wanted you to know that we are getting four new students here today." To this, Ark and Nina nodded.

"Is that so principal-sama?" Ark asked. "And what does this have to do with us?"

"Oh Are-kun," A voice said from behind them. "Is that anyway to talk about old friends transferring schools just so the gang would be back together?" Ark just froze in place when he heard that voice.

"Oh hell….." He mumbled as he turned around to see his worst fears. Standing before the duo was a woman holding a book with 'Hade Hade Paradise' in big bold letters on the front. She had white hair with a blue tint to it with two small braids going down the back as her bangs covered her right eye, her left eye being a light blue color. She wore a simple button up shirt with a plaid skirt. Nina just growled at the new student.

"Kyouran Fuujin!" Nina hissed. "What are you doing here?" Fuujin merely sighed behind her book.

"Nina, what have I told you about calling me Fuujin? I thought we were close enough for you to call me Fuu now." Fuu said from behind her book. Nina just growled louder.

"Why you - !" Nina was about to say before Ark cut her off.

"Enough Nina," Ark said, his voice slightly tired. Nina looked over to Ark, seeing the seriousness in his eye. Sighting to herself, she merely turned away from Fuu in a huff. Sighing, Ark turned to Fuu, wishing very much that he had a smoke right now.

"So Fuu-chan," Ark started, "Still have your nose in those dirty books?" He asked. (A/N: Hade Hade Paradise was a male love hentai manga made by the famous Orochimaru Hebi. It actually tied with its sister book, Ichi Ichi Paradise (written by Jiraiya Gama) for best sale records, but that is beside the point.)

"Still have that smoking problem of yours, Are-kun?" Fuu said, smiling secretly hiding behind her book. Ark merely grunted while Nina looked furious.

"So if you are here," Ark started, looking out the window. "Does that mean –," he started to say, however he didn't have to finish as he heard a crash outside.

"Baka, I'm just as old as you guys are so why can't I come with you?" A seemingly small girl whined at the guy next to her. She was about five feet tall, wearing a plain white shirt and a black dress underneath it, letting her legs show. She was wearing black shoes and on her shirt was a red necktie. The only thing that would make people look at her twice was because of her azure colored hair.

"If that's the case Comay then you should have chosen an older look for yourself. People think you wouldn't belong in Junior High with a look like that." An older looking male said, wearing the schools white shirt and black pants, but over it were two grey belts, diagonally over the shirt and pants, held in place by a single golden buckle. A black jacket covered the shirt with white fur lining the neck and each end of the sleeve. (Think of Nova without his head mask) Having to run in order to catch up with the others, his chocolate brown hair was a total mess but this usually didn't bother him.

"Why couldn't I wear my mask…," he mumbled to himself as he felt Comay's fist hit him, hard. Glaring at the young looking girl with his forest green eyes, she just looked away with an innocent look on her face. "If you wore your mask, you'd be suspicious besides, taichou said not to be suspicious and we should stick with that plan. And it's not often that we see your face," giggling at him when he intensified his glare at her.

"Alright, I'll stop Ryu-kun." She said before they both heard a large exclamation going over in the front of the building. "Don't tell me she's here too…"

"Oh great, she's here." Comay said.

"I really wish I could wear my mask," Ryu said it at the exact same time as they both were about to head around the corner.

"I swear my karma sucks today." Ark mumbled as he, Nina and Fuu saw the site before them. What they saw was…….to say the least, weird as hell, at least to normal people anyway. There were tons of male (and some female) students surrounding a picnic bench. When they got closer, they noticed a very beautiful female student. She wasn't wearing anything out of the normal. Just a plain white button down shirt with the top three buttons unbutton and a thigh short mini plaid mini skirt. She had long golden blonde hair that went down to about mid back with clear aquamarine eyes, though probably the most notable feature about this person would probably be her well……giant assets on her chest. The woman currently was gently rubbing her hand across a boys face as she winked at him seductively.

"Why me….." Ark mumbled while Nina was mumbling something about where was a Hollow when you needed one. Fuu merely continued to read her book.

"Perhaps if we sneak away she won't notice us." Nina said as she started to turn around to walk away. Unfortunately for them, then woman saw them out of the corner of her eye as she was about to kiss the fortunate (or unfortunate as the case maybe) student.

"Sorry Hun," She said. "We will have to continue this later as I have to go see someone." She then quickly let the student go as she jumped off the table and walked over to the trio, the male student crying and cursing at who ever she saw.

"Well," Ark said. "Seems like that's –" Ark started but was cut off by someone jumping on his back, nearing knocking him over.

"Ark-kun!" The woman yelled as she nuzzled her face against his. "It has been to long."

"Not long enough," Nina mumbled off to the side. Hearing that, the woman turned to face Nina.

"Ah so little Nina-chan is here too?" She grinned evilly. "Still have that thing against superior bodies?"

"Why you-!"

"If you are here," Fuu said, cutting Nina off. "Does that mean that…"

"Aiyoku Raijin." Someone said from behind them. "I thought it was you causing all this ruckus." The group turned around to see a giant man and a small little girl sitting on his shoulder. Ark smiled slightly at the sight of the other male.

"Finally," Ark said. "I was wondering when you would save me from this madness, Daichi Ryu."

"Don't forget about me!" The little girl said. "Setsuzou Comay!" Raijin just pouted at the new comers.

"Do you always have to ruin my fun Ryu-kun?" Rai pouted. Ryu just sighed at this.

"Yes Rai, especially when we are on duty." The giant man sighed. "Now please get off the Taichou." Quicker then anyone could blink, Ark darted out from under Raijin and smack Ryu upside the head.

"Baka!" Ark hissed. "Don't call me that while we are in public like this!" Ryu could only nod as he rubbed the side of his head. Ark could only sigh at this.

"Just be glad I still have some smokes left." Ark said, taking out a cancer stick from his back pocket. Damn the school rules. Ark needed a smoke and he needed it now damn it! Lighting the smoke, Ark started slowly relax.

"Now," Ark said. "I want you to all meet him." And with that, the group of six started to go look for their target.

Ichigo and the other members of his group did not see or hear the ruckus that was being created in the front of the building, no thanks to the fact that they were facing the other direction at the other side of the front gate. "All well that ends well, and it was all thanks to you Kuchiki-san," Keigo said as they walked farther away from the crash site. Rukia was still faking as they were walking away, Ichigo scowling at her while Tatsuki just said that if it wasn't for her than you couldn't get away. Ichigo scowled at her as well, saying that she was going to do the same thing to save both Inoue and herself.

"She's right, you know. Besides, how could I possibly do something like selling out on my friend, Kurosaki-kun?" She asked as she smirked, causing Ichigo to mumble out something that couldn't be heard but if you could read lips; you would know he was saying, "You bitch," to her. After that last comment from Rukia, Rukia's phone started to ring, causing both Tatsuki and Ichigo to shift their eyes downwards, as Rukia started to make an excuse, saying that she had to speak to Ichigo in private. "Everyone, please excuse us." She said as the two of them started to run in the opposite direction.

"Sorry guys, I forgot something back there. I'll meet up with you guys later!" She said as she rushed in the same direction that the other two had just left in.

"What the heck?" Keigo asked as the three of them broke off from the group as Ark and the others came around. Ark looked at them for a couple of seconds before noticing the people he wanted to talk to weren't there.

"Do you know where the dragon and protector are?" He asked the remainder of the group as they just stared at him for a minute. Slapping his forehead in anger, he repeated his question, asking where Tatsuki and Ichigo were, also adding Rukia to the question.

"Oh. They headed that…" Keigo started to say as he saw Rai turn the corner.

"Hello Beautiful," he said as he jumped in her direction, hoping to squeeze her melon sized breasts and rest his head on them. However, this was not to be the case, since Rai moved sideways, allowing Keigo to have his face meet the pavement, hard.

"Ouch," Ryu and Ark said as they saw Keigo face fall onto the pavement, the girls giggling behind them, especially Rai.

"Anyway," Ark said as he turned to the others. "As we were saying, we were wondering I you knew where –" He started to say but was cut off as he looked up to the sky. Sighing, He took another puff of his smoke as he turned to his group.

"Ok, let's go." Ark said as he started to walk away from Ichigo's friends. They just blinked in confusion as the group of new students started to walk away. Before they were out of eye sight, Raijin turned around to look at Keigo.

"Sorry, Kiddo, maybe you will have better luck next time." She winked at him before leaving with the others as Keigo just stared at the woman that just seemed to sway through the air, not even walking……..

"Well," Tatsuki yawned, "That was an easy kill." And indeed it was. It was just a normal Fishbone hollow that tried to attack some kid spirit in the park again. Ichigo only sighed as he picked up his zanpaktou, Rukia sitting right next to him. They both thought that they should give this one to Tatsuki, seeing it was her first time actually fighting once of these evil spirits.

"Now we have to do a konso." He said, walking over to the spirit.

"Konso?" Tatsuki asked, blinking on confusion. Ichigo just nodded.

"Like this." Taking his giant zanpaktou, Ichigo smacked the hilt to the spirit's forehead. For a moment, spirit glowed blue before sinking into the ground and turning into a butterfly.

"What you do to him?" Tatsuki asked in shock.

"He preformed a konso." Rukia explained behind them. "It's also a Shinigami's job to help spirits pass on to the next world. What Ichigo just did allowed the spirit to pass on to the soul society so he could rest in peace." She then turned around and started to walk a way. "Come on, or else they are going to notice we are missing." Nodding, the two shinigami's quickly got back into their bodies and followed their "teacher".

"Oh," Rukia said, stopping just a few blocks from the school.

"Eh?" Ichigo said. "Something wrong Rukia?"

"No." She said as she threw something akin to a pez dispenser at the two Shinigami's-in-training. Ichigo caught it as his face spoke his confusion; Tatsuki was also confused, as it also showed on her face as well.

"What's this?" He asked for the both of them

Rukia said, "Gikongan, which is a medicine that forcibly removes the soul from a body and before you ask, Shinigami made it so that if we have to come to the human world in a Gigai, we don't act suspicious if a Hollow attacked, and we took care of it. If you swallow it, you can put in a fake soul and take out the real one, that way if a Hollow attacks when I'm not around…"

"It says Soul Candy, why?"

"Well that…is because the League of Women Shinigami complained that the name 'Gikongan' wasn't cute, so it was renamed."

"There's a women's society even in a place like Soul Society?" Tatsuki asked, surprised, even though she shouldn't have been.

"Yes, actually Soul Society is a lot like a regular town or country. Nothing much is different than here except for the fact that most people are dead." Rukia responded, before hearing Ichigo ask why it was duck-shaped. "Shut up. I wanted the most popular one, Chappy the rabbit as well!"

"Ichigo, leave her alone. She doesn't have to do this for us you know." Tatsuki said with a huff at her friend. Sometimes he could be so inconsiderate and tactless at times. This made her wonder why she wanted the rabbit one in the first place. "Ano…excuse me for asking, but why did you want the rabbit one?"

"It's because she loves everything that's rabbit-like Tatsuki. You get use to it sooner or later."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Rukia yelled at Ichigo before putting her leg down on Ichigo's head. Before he could say anything else, Rukia took her leg off the boy and told the both of them to share the "candy".

Sighing at their looks of confusion, the senior Shinigami said, "Look, just pop one into your mouth and you'll understand immediately," she said as Ichigo did exactly that before passing the container to Tatsuki. As the pill went to his stomach, it started to activate and in no time, Ichigo's soul was forcibly pushed out of his body as it fell to the side, being held up by a wall on the side of the building. Shortly after, Tatsuki's body also spat out her soul. Rukia quickly caught her body for Tatsuki as it started to fall as well.

"Wow, it actually worked." Ichigo said amazed as Tatsuki just stood beside him with the same feeling.

"Surprised? Plus, a temporary soul has already entered the empty shell of your bodies and no one will notice that you two left." Rukia said, and as the words finished coming out of her lips, both of their bodies started to rise. As their bodies stood up, they rose to a base before they both said…

"It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Kurosaki Ichigo/Arisawa Tatsuki. My favorite phrase is 'early to bed, early to rise.'"

"Impressive, isn't it?" Rukia asked before seeing two angry faces.

"That isn't impressive at all! It's nothing like us!" both Tatsuki and Ichigo yelled at Rukia, pointing at the souls that were temporarily taking over their bodies. Hearing the phone ring, the two of them groaned as Rukia closed the phone.

"Orders. Leave school to them and let's go to where the action is." She said before having to drag the two of them away, ignoring their complaints as she dragged them. Once they were out of their line of sight, 'Ichigo' smirked.

"This will be fun," while 'Tatsuki' grinned as well. "Besides, it isn't like they'll be long…" she added.

"Seems they are on the job." Ark said, finally nice and calm after he had his smoke.

"Awww," Comay pouted, "And I was hoping for a new playmate."

"Don't you have enough playmates at home Comay-chan?" Rai questioned. Comay could only raise an eyebrow at this.

"What do you mean Rai?" Comay asked.

"Well," She started, holding up her fingers. "Mr. Cuddles," She put one finger down. "Mrs. Snuggle Bunny," Another finger down. "Captain Fluffer." One more finger.

"Not true!" Comay yelled back, beet red in embarrassment, the other's chuckling behind her.

"Enough you two," Fuujin said, still somewhat chuckling. This caused the others to stop in the laughing as well. She then turned to Ark.

"Well Are-kun," She said from behind her book. "What now?" Ark only sighed at his companions.

"Get back to class and hope they come back in one piece." He shrugged. Nodding, the group of six started to walk back to class. As they walked down one of the halls, they noticed 'Ichigo' and 'Tatsuki' standing at the end of the hall. Ark and Nina could only blink in surprise.

"Well," Ark said, "Isn't that interesting, they are back already."

"Is that them Ark-sama?" Ryu asked to which both Nina and Ark nodded. Taking the initiative, Nina called them over.

"Oi!" She yelled. "Tatsuki, Ichigo! Over here." Seeing the two blink in confusion before nodding slightly, the duo slowly walked over to the group.

"Do we know you?" 'Tatsuki' asked to which Nina blinked in confusion.

"Of course you do." Nina blinked. "It's me? Nina Aisukaki?" 'Tatsuki' just blinked in confusion. "I sit behind you in class?" Nina said. To this, 'Tatsuki' just smiled weakly and nodded.

"Oh! Right! Nina!" 'Tatsuki' said. "Of course I remember you! Just joking around." Ark sighed in the background.

"Troublesome Wo-" He was about to say when he felt a soft hand against the right side of his face. Looking to where the hand came from, he saw it was coming from 'Tatsuki'.

"Tatsuki?" Ark asked, raising an eyebrow. She only smiled back at him and, if his eye wasn't deceiving him, it had a hint of seduction in it.

"Well hello there handsome." 'Tatsuki' said. "I don't believe we have been introduced before." This just made Ark raise his eyebrow higher.

"What do you mean Tatsuki? It's me? Ark Tenjin?" Ark said. "I sit in the back with Nina right behind you." This made 'Tatsuki' smile even more.

"Is that so?" She said, standing right in front of him. "How come I never noticed you have beautiful ruby eye before?"

"Tatsuki?" Ark said. "Are you feeling ok?" 'Tatsuki' only grinned.

"I am now that you are here you angelic hunk of a man." And with out warning, 'Tatsuki' leaned up and pressed her lips up against his. To say the least, Ark was shocked at the reaction. So shocked was he that the kiss lasted a good minute and a half without him even realizing it. It wasn't until he felt three powerful auras that shook him out of shock. The auras seemed to be made up of revenge, jealously, envy, and maybe even a hint of bloodlust was in them. It was at this time that 'Tatsuki' decided to end the kiss as she stepped back and gave him a wink.

"Well," 'Tatsuki' said, turning to 'Ichigo' "Let's get going before we are late to class." And with that, the duo turned and left for class but not before Ichigo could give Raijin a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Later?" Ark said, still in a daze.

"Oh Ark," Ark immediately jumped out of his daze, a bad feeling coming over him. Turning around slowly, he could have sworn that he saw an ice demon, a hell demon and a wind demon all glaring daggers at him.

"Umm yes?" He said weakly.

"What was that about huh?" Comay grinning too sweetly for his comfort.

"Well, she, ah, caught…."

"Did you enjoy it?" Nina said, giving that same sickly grin.

"Well, umm, ya see, I can explain…"

"Oh yes, Areku-kun," Fuu said, putting her book away. "Please do example."

'Oh shit.' Ark thought. 'She put her book away.' He was now sweating bullets. It was then at this point, Rai and Ryu both thought the same thing.

'We are so not dying for him over this.' They thought. They then started to run down the hallway, hoping to avoid the chaos.

"Come back here you traitors!" Ark yelled as he saw Rai and Ryu run down the hallway. It was then that Ark heard cracking knuckles behind him. Turning around, he saw it was Fuu who cracked them, giving him a very creepy smile while her eye, though happy looking, had a very murderous look to it.

"We would like to talk to you about something Areku-kun." It is said to this day that Ark's screams even haunt the halls of the school from the beating he received from the three enraged women……..

Tatsuki sighed as Ichigo took down another hollow. It has been an hour since the kaizō konpaku with their bodies but there was something in the back of her mind that didn't feel right. Then, a sudden shiver ran down her spine (it was ironically at this point that the fake Tatsuki kissed Ark). Shaking the feeling, she called over to Ichigo and Rukia.

"Oi!" She yelled. "I think we should head back. I got a bad feeling." Ichigo nodded as he picked up Rukia and the three headed back.

Ark just sighed as he limped over to the classroom, his one good eye now blacked, his body bruised, his clothes torn a little.

'Why me?' Ark thought, thinking about everything that happened to him today. 'Do they hate me or something up there and decided to get some pay back? I swear I have been good lately…….mostly.' When he got closer to the classroom, he heard a loud rumbling noise inside. Before he could get closer to see, the classroom door slid open and out ran Tatsuki and Ichigo, knocking him down, followed by……….Tatsuki and Ichigo in shinigami form?! Blinking to double check his vision only confirmed it. Feeling himself being picked up, he looked over his shoulder to see Ryu helping him up with Rai, Comay, Fuu and Nina standing next to him. Looking behind them, they could see the chaos that had happened. Desks were destroyed as the students were afraid for their life.

'Though,' Ark noticed. 'Chad and Inoue don't seem to be as afraid of what happened as the others.' He then turned to his friends. "What happened?" He asked, his usually carefree attuned gone.

"Well," Fuu started, her book out once more. "We saw Tatsuki and Ichigo hitting up on some students. That was when we saw them again appear in shinigami form. Judging by that, their bodies must have been taken over by modified souls. The two of them seemed to have battled a little as you have noticed and the fakes ran away with their bodies. Obviously as you saw, they are in hot pursuit of their bodies." Ark nodded at this.

"What shall we do about this Ark-sama?" Ryu asked. Ark just shrugged.

"None of our business. We can just sit here and wait for them." It was then at that moment that Ark's cell for started to ring. Looking to see who was calling, Ark sighed in frustration.

'I must have some really shitty karma today if he is calling me.' He thought as he answered the call…….

"Damn, where could they have gone? It was only for a second but we already lost them…us, whatever," Ichigo said as Tatsuki just looked around, hoping to find them somewhere around in the abandoned building.

"Oh well…we should get back to looking." She said, turning around and seeing Ichigo explain about his image. Muttering, "Boys," she continued to watch the scene in earnest, laughing about Rukia's rhetorical question, but still understanding what he was going on about.

From what it seemed when they returned to the classroom, 'Tatsuki' had kissed Ark, thereby getting the beating of his life from Nina, Comay and Fuu and Ichigo kissed a new girl that reminded her of Chizuru. After that, Ichigo calmed down a bit, until Rukia had to go and say that kissing was like a form of greeting.

Yeah, back in the Dark Ages… she thought to herself before hearing Ichigo mumble on. She also made a mental note to beat the shit out of her mod soul and to do a double beating out of Ichigo's. How dare his mod soul use Ichigo's body to kiss any other girl then her?! Tatsuki just shook her head at that thought.

'I did not just think that. I did not just think that. I did not just think that.' She repeated over and over in her head.

"What was that Ichigo? I didn't hear you." Rukia asked.

"You called him a modified soul. Just what is that?" He asked, and Tatsuki listened in as well, hoping to hear what Rukia was going to say.

"Once, in Soul Society, a plan called 'Spearhead' was brought up. Into the soul-less body of a dead person, a soul specialized for battle was injected and it was meant to be used as an Anti-Hollow soldier. It was a worthless plan. For that plan, what they developed was a battle-ready soul, which was designed to be able to endow some part of the body with superhuman strength, just by injecting it. That's what the modify soul is. You understand this so far, both of you, right?"

"Pretty much" Ichigo said as Tatsuki said the same thing, telling the senior shinigami to go on.

"Actually, because of the inhumanity of making dead bodies fight, the council rejected Spearhead and simultaneously, all the modified souls in development at the time were ordered to be scrapped. Who knew that there were two left…"

"Which means…what exactly?" Tatsuki asked as Rukia just looked at the pair. "I mean, they was created for Soul Society's convenience and erased for Soul Society's convenience?"

"That's one way of putting it."

"And you're satisfied with that?!" Ichigo asked before Rukia gave him a deadpan look.

"Soul Society has done a lot of things that could be questioned, but that isn't the point. Mod souls have to be scrapped. It is the law of Soul Society and their laws…they are laid down in order to protect you humans' souls. Now let's go. You two do want your bodies back, right?" She asked, dispelling the somber mood instantly. The two charges nodded as Rukia led them out of the building.

As they were running out of the building, the two shinigami ironically thought the same thing, 'I wonder, how do they feel after getting a hold of my body? Created against his/her will and ordered to death again against their will…somehow clinging to life and now they finally have a body, but yet, they still have to run. How must that feel?'

"Oi!" Looking down, they see the white patch of hair as well as a silvery blue patch standing next to each other. Jumping down, the two shinigami and ex-shinigami came face to face with Ark and a woman they have seen before, a book hiding her face.

"Ark?" Ichigo asked. "What are you doing here?" he just received a sigh as Ark took out a smoke and lit it.

"It be troublesome to explain it from the beginning," Ark started, taking a drag. "But basically, we are going to help you get your bodies back."

"We?" Ichigo and Tatsuki asked, looking between the two.

"Not just us of course." He then shook his head. "How rude." He then turned to his female companion. "Kyouran "Fuu" Fuujin, these are Kurosaki Ichigo and Arisawa Tatsuki."

"Pleasure," Fuu said from behind her book, giving Ichigo, Rukia and Tatsuki a handshake (though Tatsuki thought her hand shake was a little more strained then her other two companion's hand shakes).

"So what's your plan?" Ichigo asked, turning towards Ark. Ark merely grinned as took another drag of his cigarette.

While oblivious to the plan of demise for the both of them, the two mod-souls were jumping and running around the area, without a care in the world.

"This is fun, don't you agree 'Tatsuki'?" 'Ichigo' asked as he kept jumping around. "I mean everyone is looking at us in shock."

"You're right. I've never have so much fun in my life. Where should we go to next?" 'Tatsuki' asked as her companion just shrugged, showing that he didn't care where they were going as long as they didn't see the Shinigami who were out and trying to get their bodies back.

"Hm…how about we go this way?" Tatsuki asked as she pointed to a near-by school before 'Ichigo' could jump away again. For some reason, the way she pointed quickly led them to a junior high school. As she walked around the corner, she saw her partner's shinigami counterpart attack axe kick.

Before 'Tatsuki' could help him, her counterpart stopped her, by slamming a roundhouse right into her face. It wasn't strong enough to hurt, but long enough to have both 'Ichigo' and his shinigami counterpart started their own fight.

"Shit," She yelled as she saw Tatsuki standing in front of her. "Run for it!" She yelled to 'Ichigo' as she made a mad dash to get away. Nodding, he too soon followed after delivering a painful round house kick to Ichigo's mid section.

"Not this time." They heard as Ryu and Comay appeared in front of them. They were about to turn when Ark, Nina, Fuu, Rukia, and Rai appeared on both sides. Soon, the two runaway mod souls were surrounded as Ichigo and Tatsuki appeared from behind.

"Finally got you." Ichigo said as he gave his mod soul a right hook. The other people just sweatdropped at the action (besides Tatsuki who too was beating up her mod soul) as they watched Tatsuki and Ichigo beat up on their own bodies.

Coughing, Ark spoke. "Ya know, the more you beat up on them, the more you are going to hurt when you go back in." Instantly, both rookie shinigami stopped the "destruction of their evil mod souls".

"Bastard." Ichigo's Mod Soul spoke as he panted, bloody and bruised as well as his mod soul partner panting beside him. Ark just sighed as he took another drag.

"Might as well get this over with." He said as he took his lighter and turned the bottom of it towards the two mod souls, a skull in black flames printed on it. In a flash, he stamped both of their heads and out popped the two green candies. Nodding at the two pills, he turned to the others.

"Let's go, Taisho wanted these back." With a nod, Ark, Nina and the four new students started to walk away.

"Wait!" Ichigo and Tatsuki yelled at the same time. This caused the six to turn around, Ark having a raised eyebrow.

"Something you need?" He asked.

"What are you going to do with them?" Ichigo asked.

"Destroy them of course." Nina said. "What else do you think we would do with them?"

"But how could you?" Tatsuki almost yelled. "Aren't they living beings too?"

"It's not about what we want to do, it's the fact that we have to do this." Comay said as they started to walk away but Ark stayed rooted to the spot. Turning around, the others just look at their leader.

"Something wrong Are-kun?" Fuu asked from behind her book. Taking the smoke out from his mouth, he just sighed as he looked at the two shinigami.

"I just know I am going to regret this," He said before taking the two green pills and tossed them back to the two shinigami, leaving the other five wide eyed.

"Ark!" Nina yelled, "What are you doing?" she said as she was about to hit him side the head but before she even could, Ark stopped it with his hand. Ark just continued staring at the two shinigami before them.

"I understand what you two are saying, more deeply then will ever know." He then turned away, looking towards his friends. "Let's go, our work is done."

"B-b-b-b-b-but how can our work be done?!" Nina exploded at Ark as he walked ahead of the group. "You just gave away our objective."

"Let it go Nina," Fuu said softly from behind her book. "Ark is just being who he is." She then turned to the other three shinigami. "Please take good care of them." Fuu then turned to the others. "Let's go." With a nod, the small group walked off, leaving the three shinigami to their own thoughts…..

FireSamurai: So! Kon and his mod soul partner in crime have appeared! how will these two make Ichigo's and Tatsuki's life a living hell?! Also four new students have appeared! What are they doing hear and what is their connection to Ark and Nina?!

DSAM: Questions receive answers but those answers spawn new questions. Stay tuned to see what we have next.

FireSamurai: Ja Ne!