A/N: I'm back with a new, easily written chapter! Seriously, quickest yet and I don't think it's too-too bad. Maybe not good by some standards and comparisons but the readers are the judge! Please, leave an opinion if you have one.

But I wanna thank everyone – I got so many reviews and notifications for story favourites/alerts additions last chapter and it made me so happy! Thanks guys, you don't know how much that means to get so much positive feedback!

On with the chapter. It's what you're here for, isn't it?

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Seventh Collected:

Tease

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In my opinion, Kurosaki-san is oddly funny.

Seriously! I mean, he's fifteen and acts exactly like Hitsugaya-san which is ridiculous when you consider the tenth captain's age, despite his appearance. Not to mention, Kurosaki-san is always trying to balance the world on his shoulders – I hope I'm there when he tips over, if you know what I mean.

Of course, by tip over I mean that he becomes insane. The perfect trait to becoming a captain! Good lord, we know we need new ones; just look at Kurotsuchi...

But for him to have gotten so agitated and fidgety over something silly as this really made me want to get Tessai to grab the camcorder. Even Yuroichi looked like she was about to go over and hug the shaky, naive boy.

Whether it was because she found it cute, or if it would have made the situation even more embarrassing for him is beyond me.

I suppose people could say that this was my fault, that I was soon to end up a mangled corpse (that's considering I wouldn't defend myself. I think I've already proved to him that I can still hold my own even though I was exiled). But none the less, I didn't regret teasing him at all.

Hm... actually, if you think about it, this could be considered his fault too. It was his own accusations that dug him down. My word, he did turn a harmless conversation about his relationship with Kuchiki-san into something completely different.

Oh, that perverted boy; I think Isshin may be a bit proud.

"...the hell are you talking about?! There is no freakin' relationship between Rukia and I!"

"My, my, Ichigo. Don't go twisting our words around – I never said there was a relationship between you too. Kisuke and I were merely commenting on how you two could be secrete lovers."

Abarai-san scowled at the last few words Yuroichi said through her smirk. It's a good thing Kuchiki-san wasn't here or we could have a real fight on our hands. Kurosaki-san was only able to start up real trouble when someone was in dange--

Wait, never mind. There was just a sudden spike in his reiatsu.

"How the hell did it come to that?!"

"Well it is a bit strange that you two had never called each other in formalities – it's always been 'Ichigo' and 'Rukia' with you two; never 'Kurosaki-kun' and 'Kuchiki-san'."

Ah, bless Matsumoto-san and her obnoxious behavior. She didn't have any problem piping up in this type of conversation.

And it did cause some damage. Kurosaki-san let almost started screaming profanities, which seemed to be a bit unlike him. Usually he wasn't this uncollected.

"Ano," Oh, Ururu was going to join? How pleasant! "You might not want to be so loud. You might wake Rukia-chan."

"Yes, Kurosaki-san. You wouldn't want to wake her and then have to explain why you were screaming, would you?"

He looked about to tear strand after strand of hair out of his head.

He was growing closer to the edge now, I could feel it.

"Yes, you could hurt her feelings if she finds out that you're lying to people about your feelings for her."

Now that was a bit surprising. You would think Ririn would be on Kurosaki-san's side.

But no matter, because the boy became so fed up that he threw his hands up into the air and spun around, walking out the door.

The Shoji screen door splintered when he shoved it closed.

Ishida pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Not that I don't like teasing Kurosaki any less than the next person, but what will him being mad at us achieve?"

"Ah, good question! Well, it is my belief that it will help him go crazy, thus making him an available option to join the Gotei 13 as a future captain."

Ishida-san gave me a curious glance because of this; yes, I do realize I was a former captain.

"But why about Kuchiki-san, if there are so many other things to make him angrier?"

Yoruichi beat me to the punch.

"We can complete Plan A, Kurosaki Rukia. Two birds with one stone, Quincy. Two birds, one stone."


Word Count: 717


I know it's not one of my better pieces... but I didn't know when I'd get the next chance to write so I did this in one sitting. High school is very hectic, especially traveling from class to locker to class. For some reason they decided to place my locker on the second floor when only my fourth period is there. Jerks.

But on the plus side I had fun writing this chapter!

Please don't go around, spouting off to me how bad my grammar and spelling was for this chapter. I didn't have an editor. I can't blame dinem; she was telling me how she was starting college (well, college or something like it.) so I'm pretty much guessing she's working herself to death with that. Either that or she's dead.
I have no idea what happened to BleedingSaro . She hasn't updated any of her stories, either, so she may have died as well confused face

Haha, just kiddin' guys!