Hey guys! As I promised I'm updating again. Thanks for all of your support everyone! And a special thanks to my beta Kyuu.

Yes Kyuu, I am praising you. And don't let it go to your head, myself and others are waiting for you to update your story. So, after finishing going over this if you would please GET TO WORK ON IT! (After you finish your amvs though)

Kyuu: Aw dang… first your all like makin' me feel good. Then you go an' ruin it. Sheesh.

I'm busy! And I'm just never in the mood. Haha.

I'm also working on that HitsuSaku amv, just for you. All you readers can see it when I'm done too. Now on to the BETAing of the sotory! Sorty! Sroty! Story! …sorry can't spell today…

Anzu: As I found out earlier.

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Sakura's Room

Sakura rolled onto her side, then to her other before onto her back glaring up at the ceiling. Her head turned to the right and she stared at the alarm clock.

'Why can't I sleep! It's three in the frickin' morning!'

'JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SLEEP DOESN'T MEAN SOME OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T!'

Sakura sweat dropped and blew a piece of hair from her face.

'Inner.'

'Yeah Kura-chan?'

'If I can't sleep, doesn't it mean you can't sleep too?'

Inner was sitting cross legged her face resting in her hands and her head slightly tilted to the side in a thinking position.

Then a light bulb suddenly flashed above her head and she jumped up.

'Oh yeah! I kinda forgot about that.'

'You tend to forget a lot of things.'

'Huh? What was that Kura-chan I was thinking.'

'Nothing at all Inner, nothing at all.'

Inner Sakura suddenly got what Sakura had said a few sentences back.

'Hey, I'm not stupid!'

Sakura rolled her eyes.

'I wasn't saying that. I was saying-'

Inner Sakura crossed her arms across her chest and huffed.

'Maybe not but you were implying it.'

'No, what I was implying was you tend to forget things that you need to remember.'

'OH SHIT! THAT REMINDS ME! THEY ARE HAVING A MARATHON OF MY FAVORITE SERIES STARTING IN A FEW MORE MINUTES AND I'M NOT READY!'

'See I told you that you tend to forget things.'

'Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, where did I put that box of popcorn?'

'How would I know?'

'I wasn't asking you I was-'

'Talking to yourself.'

'Shut up. What I was trying to say was it was a rhetorical question! And aren't you technically talking to yourself by talking to me?'

'…What ever you say Inner, what ever you say.'

With that Sakura just continued to lie on the bed staring at the ceiling. She rolled back onto her stomach with her face in her hands.

'Okay! That's it! I'm getting out of bed and-'

Cue stomach growl.

'-eating something.'

She ripped the covers off of her and put her feet on the floor before recoiling them.

'Why does the floor always have to be so cold?!'

She slowly placed them back on the floor and stood up stretching her limbs. She walked over to the door when her mirror caught her attention. She looked a little disheveled but not extremely. She shrugged and continued on her journey to the kitchen.

She slowly opened the door a crack and used it like a peep hole searching the hallway making sure she wouldn't be heard. Seeing that Toshiro wasn't up she opened the door farther and stepped into the hallway.

She was almost to the stairs when Inner decided to pop back in.

'Girl who in the world would be up and moving around at this hour?'

'Gaara.'

'He's different though. He has insomnia. He can't sleep.'

'So, uh what about shishou though?'

'Okay you kind of caught me there. She's probably drinking sake right now with Rangiku too.'

Sakura shrugged and stealthily walked down the stairs and into the kitchen careful of the change in level.

'Renji-baka.'

Opening the cupboard she took a small plate, graham crackers, peanut butter cups, marshmallows, and a skewer out from various shelves. She lifted the grate off of the stove and put two marshmallows on the skewer and lit the burner and started to toast them.

When they were finished she put them on top of the peanut butter cups and topped it off with another graham cracker. (A/N: Yum! This is so good and I just had one too! K/N: AH! I want one Anzu-chan!)

She picked up one of the s'mores and took a bite out of it.

'Yum, gooey goodness.'

"Eh-Hm."

She turned around in the middle of taking another bite. There stood Toshiro in his shinigami attire minus his haori, but Hyorinmaru was still resting against his back.

She swallowed and smiled.

"I thought you were asleep."

"I was for a while, but I had to go take care of a hollow. Then I came back and was getting ready to go back to sleep, but I heard someone moving around in here so I came to check it out."

"Oh. I'm just making s'mores. You want one?"

"No."

"Are you sure."

"Yes."

"Oh, so you do want one."

"No, I don't want one."

"Are you positive you don't want one?"

"Yes."

"Oh so that means that you d-"

"No, I don't want a s'more."

"Okay."

She continued to finish her s'mores while Toshiro made himself some tea. When she was finished she rinsed the plate and put it into the sink before sitting at the table across from Toshiro.

Said person looked up from his tea and raised an eyebrow at the staring kunoichi.

"Is there something that you need?"

"Nope."

"Then, why are you looking at me?"

"Because I'm bored and I'm not tired. And if Renji was home I'd probably prank him crazy just for the entertainment."

"Well, he isn't here and the storm has calmed down somewhat but it's-"

He looked over to the clock on the wall next to the doorway.

"-four in the morning and I don't think they'd like to be woken up at this time."

Sakura lifted her head up from the table.

"Well, knowing Naruto they're probably still awake because he sleep talks and it's always about ramen or beating someone."

He gave her a pointed look and she shrugged.

"You learn these things when you are on the same team as him for so long. Heck, even people who have only been on a few missions with him learned this quickly. SO, they should be coming back here shortly and crashing for most of the afternoon."

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Naruto's

Since there were only two bedroom's Ichigo and Renji let Rukia have the bedroom that Ichigo had been using. Well, more like Rukia threatened and beat them into letting her have it. Same difference.

Rukia thrashed from one side to another trying to muffle out the sleep talking of Naruto. But to no avail, It seemed like nothing would work.

Ichigo and Renji in the living room were also coming up with the same conclusions. Renji got up and walked into the kitchen on the other side of the room and began to randomly pull out drawers in search of something.

Ichigo sat on the chair and glared down the hallway and at the blonde's door willing it to catch on fire. Unfortunately or fortunately, however you look at it, it didn't.

He got up and walked over to Renji.

"What are you looking for?"

Renji looked up from over his shoulder.

"Something to muffle the baka's sleep talking."

Ichigo nodded and began to help in the search hoping to find something and quickly. The two were still continuing to look when a half asleep, annoyed Rukia walked into the kitchen and opened a bottom cupboard door.

Renji looked over from his place and Ichigo turned his head.

"Rukia what are you looking for?"

Ichigo's eyes slightly widened before a sinister grin made it's way on to his face.

"That'll shut the kid up for sure."

Renji looked at the shinigami representative with an 'explain' look on his face.

"Just watch and you'll see."

Renji did as Ichigo suggested and a grin similar to Ichigo's made it's way on to his face.

"Oh, I see, good thinking Rukia."

The female paid no attention to the two males in the room and made her way to the room that held the source of her sleepless night. She opened the door and crept over to the bedside.

"No Ramen Knight! That's beef ramen not miso pork!"

"Well I don't care! Send out more troops! Tonight is supposed to be miso pork ramen night!"

Holding a frying pan above her head she readied herself for the oncoming attack. She swung it down and the object made its mark. Except the person she was aiming for had shifted and had barely missed being hit.

"Come on troops I know you can hit harder than that! That won't help us take over the vegetable kingdom!"

She growled in annoyance and started to swing every which way. That's the scene that greeted Ichigo and Renji when they walked through the doorway. After many, uh, failed attempts Rukia gave up and walked up to her two companions.

"The storm has calmed down so I'm going back to Sakura's."

She pushed through them and went to get the few things she had brought with her. Ichigo and Renji looked at each other.

"I'm not staying here, I'm going with you guys."

Renji was to tired to argue or complain.

"Grab your things then and hurry."

Ichigo threw what he had taken out of his bag back in and threw it over his shoulder. They nodded to each other and took off in the drizzle of rain. Using shunpo they raced across the roof tops with ease and made it to the house before the rain started to pick back up.

Renji went to open the door but found it locked. He growled in frustration and started to look under the doormat and various places thinking Sakura left a spare key somewhere close to the door in case she locked herself out.

Meanwhile Sakura and Toshiro watched them from the kitchen looking out through a window in the living room. From outside you wouldn't be able to see them sitting in the kitchen at the table.

Toshiro looked over to Sakura after watching Renji fall backwards over the railing on the porch.

"Have you had enough entertainment yet?"

Sakura shook her head trying to get her laughter under control.

"No, I'm going to let Rukia in but leave those two out for a while longer."

He took a drink from his cup and raised an eyebrow lowering it down on to the table.

"And how do you plan on doing that?"

She turned her head slightly from the window and a gleam shone on her green eyes for a split second.

"Like this."

She crept over to a window of to the side of the door that the trio were trying to open and slid it open making sure that not a sound was heard. She kept close to the house so that the overhang sheltered her from the rain. She shimmied over to the corner of the house and paused.

She took a nearby small mirrored garden globe that was resting by her feet.

'Hm, the storm must have blown it off.'

Shrugging she adjusted it so that she could see Ichigo, Renji, and Rukia in it clearly. She had to wait a few moments before her opening came. Ichigo and Renji were fighting about Ichigo helping Renji get up from the bush he had fallen into when he fell off the railing.

Ichigo reached over the railing to help pull Renji out. But the bushes had other plans. Renji was stuck pretty good and Ichigo ended up falling over the railing too and getting stuck in another nearby bush.

Sakura sprang into action. She used the bird call that Rukia and her had decided to use if they ever were putting a phase into action. Rukia whirled around and saw Sakura next to the corner of the house waving her over.

She nodded and looked over her shoulder to see that Ichigo and Renji were still fighting and sprinted over to were Sakura stood. Sakura pulled Rukia around the corner and put a finger up to her lips signaling to be quiet.

She had pulled Rukia around at the right time too. If she hadn't have then Renji would have caught a glimpse of her. She let out a breathe of air she had been holding and motioned Rukia over to the open window. Rukia understood and the two females climbed in and closed it silently.

Rukia quietly made her way upstairs to quickly change into a pair of dry clothes. She met up with Toshiro and Sakura in the kitchen with a cup of tea waiting for her.

She nodded in thanks before she and Sakura burst into a fit of laughter.

"Th-that was good thinking Sakura!"

Both continued to laugh Toshiro just sat there in amusement.

"I-I know!"

They continued to laugh as they watched Renji and Ichigo finally pull themselves from the branches of the bushes before falling into a mud puddle.

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Outside

"ICHIGO GET YOUR LAZY ASS OFF THAT BUSH AND HELP ME GET OUT OF THIS ONE!"

"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M TRYING TO DO?! I'M STUCK TOO!"

"DAMN BUSH RELEASE ME BEFORE I HAVE TO USE ZABIMARU ON YOU!"

"RENJI YOU BAKA! IT'S NOT LIKE THE BUSH CAN RESPOND!"

"OH YEAH! THEN GET ME OUT OF THIS THING!"

Renji tried to get out of the bush and almost succeeded. As he tried to heave himself from it he was plowed into by Ichigo who had just gotten himself out of his bush.

They flew through the air for a few seconds before plummeting to the ground below and into a puddle.

"DAMN IT ALL ICHIGO! NOW WE ARE COMPLETELY SOAKED!"

"IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU WANTED TO GET OUT OF THAT DAMN BUSH THAT BAD!"

"WELL IT IS YOUR FALUT THAT WE ARE SITTING IN A PUDDLE COVERED IN MUD!"

"YEAH WELL…..wait, where's Rukia?"

Renji looked around.

"Now that you mention it, by now she would usually be yelling at us and hitting us over the head."

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Inside

Rukia and Sakura laughed harder when they were able to catch snippets of the two's conversation.

Sakura looked over to Rukia while wiping a tear from her eye that had appeared from laughing so hard.

"Well, I guess we should let them in now..."

Rukia nodded and stood up and walked with her to let them in. They opened the door to be greeted at the sight of two muddy shinigami looking for their female companion and yelling her name.

"RUKIA! WHERE DID YOU GO!"

"RUKIA! WE ARE NOT PLAYING HIDE AND GO SEEK! WHERE ARE YOU!"

Rukia leaned against the door frame.

"I know that baka."

Ichigo and Renji whipped around and stared at their friend.

"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO!"

"MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE HOUSE?!"

Sakura raised her hand.

"That would be me."

The two guys looked at each other and chorused the same thought.

"We should have known."

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Woo Hoo! Another chapter conquered!

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Thanks for reading everyone! Please leave a review!

Also Kyuu, I'm looking forward to seeing that chapter soon. Because I know it's going to be hard to update within the oncoming weeks.

Kyuu: Ugh. Pushy, pushy. You gaki.

Ja ne!

Anzu: Ya ya ya, baka.

Ja!