A/N: alright, so I've been out of it lately. Having a bit of trouble in life, you know? Let's not dwell on that, though. We've more important things to get on to.
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It was another quiet day. There had been a lot of those lately hadn't there? Ichigo was around the back of the store, leaning against a wall. That was pretty much it; there wasn't a single albino in sight. Not even a trace. So perhaps it was better to keep his guard up. Knowing Shiro, something had to go wrong.
It didn't matter. Seriously, Ichigo was used to it. Any minute now. Nothing. Crap.
"Alright, what the hell is going on?" Ichigo grumbled, walking back into the store. There was still no albino in sight, but it had been that way ever since that stupid Christmas party…oh that had been a day worth remembering.
Rukia had started throwing rabbits, not real ones of course, at Grimmjow when he had attempted to come on to Ichigo… for whatever reason, Shiro decided it was a brilliant idea to try and throw him off the roof after that. Then came the best of all, everyone had pretty much gotten drunk. Ichigo couldn't even recall anything after that, and would rather keep it that way.
Anyway, the important thing was figuring out where the hell Shiro had been ever since…that. Ichigo sighed, spotting a familiar red head.
"Oi! Renji, have you seen Shiro anywhere?" Renji dashed over, looked around cautiously before whispering,
"Shiro? You didn't hear? He's on an important mission with Rukia."
"Important mission?"
"Yeah, They've been doing pretty damn good if I do say so myself."
"Renji, is there some sort of secret tunnel connecting Wal-Mart and Target?"
"What?"
"Never mind."
"Right. As I was saying, an important mission. Nobody really knows where though…" Renji muttered, seeming almost worried.
Ichigo only sighed, exiting the store. He knew it wasn't really polite to walk away in the middle of a conversation, but he didn't really care. It was Renji, he would understand.
That's when he saw it. How the hell could he MISS it? There Shiro was, right outside of target. He seemed to be arguing with Rukia over something, yes she was there too. A mission here huh…? Figures, Another disaster just waiting to happen. Ichigo figured he shouldn't interfere…well what's the fun in that?
"What the hell are you two doing?" Ichigo called; making his way over carefully…they could have bear traps around here or something…
"Ichigo! Good timing! We need you to distract Grimmjow." Rukia said, smiling.
"I already told you that it's a bad idea, I'm almost positive that we can wreck the place without distracting him at all! Rukia, are you listening you little-" Shiro stopped dead. Ah, here's the disaster.
Grimmjow stood directly behind Shiro, a smirk forming slowly.
"Who's going to wreck the store now?"
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Ulquiorra watched as Grimmjow exited to speak with the strange visitors. He knew good and well about the war, and that was all very nice. But he had no interest in those childish games. He didn't have to take a side after all…well; he hoped that was the case anyway.
"Ah! Ulqui…wanna do something fun?" Ulquiorra glanced over to the voice. Gin Ichimaru. What did he want?
"Don't be scared now, I'm harmless!" While he said this, his smile seemed to widen. How worrisome.
"It will only take a moment, now. First of all, I need you to get me some gasoline …"
Within minutes, target was on fire.
Shiro was the first to speak.
"…see? I told you we didn't need to distract him."
A/N: I didn't really like this chapter either, but its ok I guess. Anyway, tell me what you think.
