MNR: Hello ever one this chapter is not a filler, just a little short but it will have a lot of importance to the rest of the story. why? Warning OOCness, oh and sorry for the wait, I was a little busy with spring break and all.

Disclaimer: I do not own bleach

Ch 6: stairway to the stars

It was late that night but Toshiro couldn't sleep, he was wondering why everything was so insane there, he still didn't understand.

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"Toshiro what are you doing up?" Ray asked him curiously.

"I can't sleep," Toshiro told him, "So Im gonna go take a walk ok?"

"Sure," he answered, "Just don't get caught, Itll give the club a bad name."

"The sneaking out or the getting caught," Toshiro joked.

"Ha ha very funny," he simply said before lying down again.

Toshiro went into the halls of the large school and began to walk around the corridors. "If this place really is a castle maybe I can find a secret passage," Toshiro thought. After a few minutes he came up to a three way turn, "Go left, go left," Hyourinmaru ordered "Why left?" "Because I have a good feeling about that way, oh check the walls for trap doors."

Toshiro did so, and after a few minutes he came across a painting and thought "In human movies aren't trap doors usually behind the creepy paintings?" So he took the painting down not expecting to find anything at all, but he did. Behind the painting was one of those pulley things that you sit in and pull the rope to go up and down, called a Dumbwaiter "Good job Toshiro, now let's go inside and go up," Hyourinmaru said excitedly, "I don't think this is a good idea, I mean we have no idea where on earth this thing gos, it could lead to a dungeon," Toshiro complained to the ice dragon, "Since when are you a coward, maybe hanging out with the humans is making you change," Hyourinmaru know that there was something cool up there but wanted Toshiro to find out for himself.



Toshiro glared at the painting as if it were Hyourinmaru but sighed and climbed into the Dumbwaiter and started pulling his way up.

(Meanwhile in soul society)

"Captains been gone for a while, and Im sooo board," Matsumoto complained to…, well… no one. "I know, Ill ask Yamamoto-sama if I can go visit Toshiro again."

(Back to Toshiro, and Hyourinmaru)

"I have the feeling something bad is going to happen soon," Toshiro told Hyourinmaru, who just ignored the comment so Toshiro continued, he didn't want Hyourinmaru to make fun of him again.

Toshiro was near the top now and he could see through a small crack that he had aloud to go over the edge; it was a very small room that in the middle had a spiral staircase that went at least 10 feet up, then about three feet into the upper room.

Toshiro began to go up the stair case being very careful not to trip on the badly made steps, and the parts that were broken. It wasn't long before he got to the top, this room was just as small as the last one and even darker, and from what he could see it had a few bookshelves and really old and dusty books, "Maybe we should read them… hey did you notice that the ceiling is a dome," "Really," Toshiro stated sarcastically,"Maybe if I look Ill find a switch that will open it, "Found it," Hyourinmaru said (he didn't know Toshiro was being sarcastic so he started looking for the switch) "Its right next to the bookshelf."

Toshiro went over to where the ice dragon found a switch and much to his surprise there was one, and it was surrounded by painted on stars and moons. Before Hyourinmaru could tell him to flick it he did and heard a turning sound so he looked up to see that the dome was moving to reveal the stars, "Amazing," Toshiro said aloud.

He noticed that in the there was a telescope and a large seat of paper that someone (Very long ago) was using to map the stars, the printing was visible though so Toshiro went to take a look at it.

"I really like this room; we could come here to study alone and we can read those old books and…" "Hyourinmaru we are not here permanently 

you know, you shouldn't start making plans for the rest of the of school life, hopefully well be gone by the end of the year, "You wanna stay and you know it," "You have been very talkative today," Toshiro said as he went on his back to watch the stars.

After a little while of mapping out the stars in his head he got really tired and his stupid Gigai was too weak to even get up so his only choices were to A. Sleep there, or, B. Have Hyourinmaru help him back to his dorm. Before he could make a decision his Gigai choose A, and went to sleep.

It was morning now and his roommates had woken up to him being missing, Ray, Abila, and Mire sprinted to the Head Mater that he was missing when Ray noticed the removed painting so he and the others went inside the whole hopping to find Toshiro…

"Toshiro wake up!" Abila yelled as she shook him so hard he almost fell out of his Gigai.

"Sorry about that," Toshiro said yawning, "The stars are very relaxing."

"Hurry up, or well be late," Ray said running out of the room (In translation "Get the sleep out of you and come back, get ready so we can go to class, or else!").

Toshiro shook his head but shut the dome before fallowing after the others, "Who would have thought, a stair way to the stars, Hyourinmaru did you know about it the whole time?" "Ha, Ha Maybe, maybe not," the dragon laughed.

MNR: Hope you enjoyed it, Im running really, really low on ideas and I want to update it again before school starts again can one of you please help me?! Hope you like it enough to read it till the end!