Mori: Phew! Finals are coming up soon! I will probably not be making another chapter for a few weeks. I don't know yet! Please check every other few days or something because, personally, I don't think much of tests. I mean why study when I do good as it is right? Noooooooooo...not for my mom! Geez. Anyway. Here's the next chappie for you guys!

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Ishida, Raven, and Panka walked swiftly down the street to Urahara Shoten. Raven was still holding Ishida's hand(Panka in her messenger white Quincy messenger bag), letting him lead her the entire way. The night evening air was a bit harsh to her since her outfit was a bit more revealing than Ishida's. Her's was very similar to his in terms of color and design, but instead of a sleevless top she wore a long sleeved top with a high collar and stopped just abover her stomache. The upper half was very fitting and showed off her bust a bit better. The lower half of her outfit was a white skirt with slits on the side, trimmed in a blue linning that reached just past her thighs and a cape that flared out over her bottom and ran all the way down to her ankles. Over her shins were a pair of silver armor like braces. Of course she had white flats to match. Raven never particularly liked white at all much. It was way too bright for her taste and to top it off it was the color of death(1), but it had always been the Quincy traditional color so she had to stick with it. She fixed her hair a little, power manacle shifting on her right wrist a little.

"Jaganshi-san," Ishida inturrupted her thoughts,"We're here..." he let got of her hand as they entered the lot and she followed,"You're not planning to go by yourself are you, Kurosaki?" Ishida questioned making himself visible in the moonlight. Ichigo looked over in surprise as he saw Ishida dressed in his new Quincy costume.

"Ishida?! Y-you?" he looked a bit closer and saw crimson eyes staring emotionlessly from the darkness,"And you too, Jaganshi?" Raven stepped foward into the moonlight and stood next to Ishida while smiling at him. A few seconds later Chad and Orihime joined the group and Urahara lead them down into the basement and told them how to get through the portal.

"Don't worry," Urahara assured,"I'm sure Yoiruichi-kun will take care of you!...unless you die of course..." he added. Raven glared at him when he added the last part.

"Come now everyone," Yoiruichi beckoned to the portal,"If we don't hurry up it will close!" And off they went, jumping into the portal. As soon as they were through, Yoiruichi told them to hurry and run or the portal would close. As they were running, a chill went down Raven's spine so she looked behind them. She focused her eye sight a great deal, straining them to see whatever was behind them. She didn't have to strain for long because the object had shown itself more clearly(at least to her sight). She panicked, face faultering, and ran a bit faster past everyone else including Yoiruichi.

"Oi! Jaganshi! What's up with you?" Ichigo called out. She briefly turned around and pointed down the way that they had just come from. The group looked back, still runnning at the same speed, and couldn't see what she was talking about at first, but soon saw the object as well and sped up a bit too. "What the hell is that thing?!" Ichigo asked.

"It's the cleaner that comes by here once every seven days. And it had to come today of all days!" Yoiruichi answered him. They ran as fast as they could, almost coming within reach of the exit portal.

"We're not gonna make it!" Ishida called out, being the slowest one. Orihime turned around, running backwards, and summoned her power to make a barrier between them and the cleaner. The cleaner hit the shield and they were all pushed out of the portal all together. Yoiruichi landed on all four of his paws and Raven immatating him in his landing. They others fell in random ways. Some on their backs, others on their bottoms or heads.

"Wow, Kurosaki-san! What an amazimg pose for a landing!" Orihime excaimed.

"Please, Inoue, shut up..." he said lifting his face from the ground. Everyone got up from the ground and dusted themselves off.

"See, Ryuu-kun?" Raven started,"Aren't you glad I made you that costume! If you'd have worn your old one then your cape probably would've gotten caught!" She said smiling slyly and winking one eye. Ishida pushed his glasses up furhter on the bridge of his nose and nodding slightly. They looked around a bit and asked where they were. Yoiruichi answered that this is where the souls are led after the shinigami take them to soul society and how there are different sections.

"What's that?" Ichigo asked, looking over towards a white section of Soul Society,"Wait lemme guess: That's were the shinigami are right? So all we have to do is go in there!" He stated jogging towards that area.

"No you fool!" Yoiruichi exclaimed,"Don't just go barging in there like that! You'll die in two seconds flat!" Ichigo stopped and turned around,

"What are you talking about?" as soon as he asked that question a giant wall came crashing down all over the shinigami city and a large(VERY large) orange man, that sood over fifty stories tall, stood infront of the wall carrying an axe.

"I'm the gaurdian of this western gate! You may not pass unless you defeat me!" He instructed. Raven's eyes shifted to her far right, sensing something. She had sensed it since they had first arrive, but by now she could no longer ignore it. She grabbed Ishida's right hand with her fingers lightly to get his attention.

"Ryuu-kun," she whispered in his ear,"I'm going to leave for a while, please don't say anything," she inturrupted before he could start a sentence,"I sense something and I feel like I need to check it out. Here," she handed him a pair of regular white gloves from out of her bag,"Use these when you go into battle. They'll help with your new power a bit," she finished. He squeezed her hand and whispered back to her carefully,

"Be careful...Rei-chan," he added. She smiled and nodded, and with one swift motion she was gone before he could blink.

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Raven jumped from rooftop to roof top faster than the eye can see. She was looking around for the source of the energy she had sensed earlier.

He HAS to be here! I sense him! I know it! Where is he? Where is he? WHERE IS HE!?! she thought frantically. She jumped down from the roof as she felt herself getting closer to the source and kept running frantically. She was about to go into the next street when she ran by an orange blurr. She saw this and looked back in shock to see if it was really true. As she turned her head to see if it was really him, she ran into someone on the street and fell backwards.

"OW! Hey! Watch where you're going!" some guy said to her. She ignored him and looked back, and sure enough she saw a man walking with long orange hair flowing behind them. She quickly got to her feet and called out to him,

"Ichi-niichan!" she shouted,"Ichirou!" She ran towards him, but the crowed kept getting more and more crowded. She struggled and pushed her way to the crowd, only catching glimpses of the orange hair here and there. Soon she lost sight of him completely.

No...She thought in despair, NO! Damn it! I was...I was so close... She leaned against one of the houses on the street, sitting on the ground. She sat there, hopeless, and staring at the dirt road. She didn't cry. She couldn't. After all, crying never solved anything for her anyway.

"What's this?" she heard a voice say,"What's such a beautiful creature doing in this dump?" Raven looked up to see a shinigami standing over her. He had short black hair that just bearly reached his shoulders and yellow and pink feathers on the edges of his right eye and an orange collar to match with the style. He smiled at her kindly with greyish-blue eyes eyes, as she stared back with expressionless crimson eyes. "My, my!" he exclaimed,"Even your eyes are beautiful and unique!" She blinked at him in confusion.

"What's a shinigami doing here?" she asked him.

"Hmph! I DO have a name you know! And it's my shift for patrol duty..." he answered.

"I see...What's your name, if you don't mind me asking," she asked him.

"Ayasegawa Yumichika-san!" he said smiling as if sparkles were surrounding him. Raven laughed a little, her mood lifting a bit. "Ah...You look even prettier when you smile!" he exclaimed, dancing around a bit.

"Thanks," she blushed a bit,"No one's ever called me that before..." Yumichika looked shocked as she said this.

"WHAT?! How can someone as beautiful as you never be called that by anyone?! EVER?!" He freaked out. She laughed a bit more and replied,

"It's alright. It's nothing really," He watched her smile and smiled himself.

"My shift is just about to end. Would you like to come join me for some tea...um...I'm afraid I don't even know your name!" Raven laughed again and was about to tell him when he inturrupted,"No worries then! I'll just call you 'Suteki(1)-chan'! HAHA! What a fitting name don't you think?" He danced around a bit more. Raven's face faultered a bit,

"But I have a name..." Unfortunatly for her, he was too wrapped up in his little dance.

"C'mon. Suteki-chan! Lets go enjoy a nice cup of tea!!!!!!" He took her wrist and led her to the shinigami area. Raven was about to panic, but then though of a really good idea.

I know I'm supposed to go back with the others, but...this is my chance to sneak into the shinigami walls... She willingly followed Yumichika into the shinigami city and through the streets.

"Come now, Suteki-chan! Don't lag behind or the afternoon tea will be gone!" He pulled her wrist harder and walked faster through the streets. Soon they arrived at a door with the numeral symbol for the number eleven. He opened the door excitedly,still holding onto her wrist, and led her into the 11th Division. They soon arrived at one door inparticular and stopped just in front of it.

"Ayasegawa-san?" she asked. He breathed in deeply and opened the door and imediatly noise filled their ears. A bald man with pink eyeshadow and a little girl with pink hair in shinigami robes were arguing over something inparticular.

"That's not fair, baldy! You've already had three! I've only had two!! Gimme the last dumpling!" the pink haired little girl yelled.

"MY ASS YOU ONLY HAD TWO!! YOU ATE THE WHOLE FRIGGEN LAST PLATE! I DESERVE THE LAST DUMPLING!" The bald man yelled back. The little girl glared at him hard enough to kill him a million times. The bald man gluped and backed away from the plate as the little girl devoured the last dumpling. Raven laughed to herself nervously. All of a sudden Yumichika shoved her into the room lightly, patting her back lightly each step they took. She sat down at the end of the table, while Yumichika sat down on the exact opposite end still smiling.

"Now now, Yachiru-fukutaicho, play nice pretty please!" Yumichika scolded her lightly,"And Ikkaku don't yell! It's ugly!" He pouted at the bald man. Ikkaku rolled his eyes and looked over at Raven curiously.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked rudely. Raven was about to tell him when, once more, Yumichika cut in,

"This is my new friend, Suteki-chan!" He introduced her proudly.

What am I? A prize?... Raven sighed,"But that's not-"

"Heeeeeeeey!" Yachiru whinned,"What's the big idea feather face? She's prettier than me!" Yachiru pointed at her and yelled at Yumichika. They all broke out into another argument at the table. Raven smiled nervously from where she was sitting until a man in a white kimono came up next to her asking for her lunch order.

"Hm? Oh! Ummmmm...I want iced mango tea and some onigiri please!" He nodded and left to go fill her order. Twenty minutes passes and they were still fighting with eachother, and Raven was getting rather bored. She was about to leave when the man brought back her lunch. Raven's eyes lit up at the sight of the onigiri. She was starving and had not eaten anything at all that day. She dug into the onigiri, devouring one after the other, taking a sip of her tea every so often. Yachiru stopped arguing with the guys at the sight of Raven's lunch. She stared for a moment, drool bearly visible from the sides of her mouth. She finally reached out to get one of her rice balls, but her hand was slapped away. She looked up, confused, at a glaring Raven.

"You either get some for yourself or ask for one. I would've been happy to share, but now I'm not so sure," she took another bite of a rice ball. Yumichika and Ikkaku stopped arguing, and turned their attention to Yachiru and Raven. They both knew the power and wrath of little Yachiru, but obviously Raven didn't.

Yachiru glared viciously at Raven, ready to kill.

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"What happend to Jaganshi?!" Ichigo yelled at Ishida. Ishida merely wiped some saliva off the side of his cheek.

"She went off because she sensed something," he replied calmly.

"What?!" Orihime exclaimed for Ichigo,"But she might get hurt!"

"Not likely," he told her confidently,"She's not the type of person to not be able to hold up a fight." Chad stayed silent, observing the whole conversation.

"Che," Ichigo scoffed,"Some boyfriend you are. Letting your girlfriend go so carelessly..." Ishida glared at him through glossed glasses,

"Before you go making ossumptions, Kurosaki-"

"What if she got lost? I mean she should've been back by now right?" Orihime asked worried. Ishida froze comletely, eye twitching occassionally.

"Betcha didn't think of that huh?" Ichigo threw at him with a smirk. Yoiruichi's face faultered and sighed heavily, mumbling something about idiots.

"Ishida-kun?" Orihime waved a hand infrotn of his face.

"Crap..." was all he said.

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"THAT'S WHAT YOU GET BRAT!" Raven yelled in triumph. Yachiru was currently tending to the bump on her head. She had wrestled Raven for the last riceball and failed miserably. Yumichika and Ikkaku smirked at the sight. They never thought that Yachiru would lose like that.

"What's going on in here?" a gruff male voice asked lazily. They all looked in the direction of the doorway and saw a very tall, muscular man with spiked hair in every direction(bells on each point) stood, glaring through one eye. They stood there frozen, not knowing what to do.

"K-kenpachi-taichou!" Ikkaku shouted in surprise. Zaraki Kenpachi stood in the doorframe, glaring at Raven through his one uncovered eye.

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Mori: Sorry this chapter took longer. I got grounded from the computer for a while. sniffle Yea. I'll try harder with the next one!

1:-Suteki: literally mean "beauty" or "beautiful"