"I don't think I can concentrate on this ice cream," Orihime said, staring at the gigantic pile of ice cream. "I mean, Mizuiro's probably dead by now and the others will probably die soon, too."

"He's not dead," Tesla said. "I didn't just say that. He's in our freezer. I didn't say that either. If we hurry we might be able to get him before he freezes. That wasn't my idea."

Orihime just looked at him.

"Oh, I'll get him," Yumichika, who was a few feet away, said. "Come on, my totally-not-gay-friend."

With that, Yumichika and Luppi wandered away. Orihime blinked. "Okay. That was… weird…"

"Wanna go see a movie?" Tesla asked.

"Sure!"


When Yumichika and Luppi got to the male Arrancars' house, they were met with a totally-ready-to-fight Nnoitra. Yumichika thought he was a spoon and ignored him. Luppi got out of his gigai.

"Hold on… sudden intense spiritual pressure," Yumichika said, spinning around. He gasped. "Luppi! You're an Arrancar!"

"Yep! Into the freezer you go!"


Ichigo decided to go to Urahara's for backup. Urahara was having a discussion with Akon. "We need backup!" Ichigo said. Urahara just looked at him.

"Why?"

"Because I'm pretty sure we're walking right into the Arrancar hideout," he said. Urahara thought about it, then nodded.

"You can have Akon! And take some Visoreds, too, because they do nothing-"

"Not going if she's going," Akon muttered.

"I've been talking to Shinji. She refuses to leave the warehouse."

"Okay."


"So…"

"It's cold in here."

"Yeah."

"You're a Shinigami."

"You're a human."

"Or am I?"

"What?"

"Never mind."


Unfortunately, Hiyori did decide to come with them. That is, until she saw Akon. Then she turned around and tried to go back inside, but Kensei grabbed the back of her shirt. "You're comin' with us," he said. "Mashiro's too stupid, nobody's seen Lisa in a while, Hachi doesn't fight, and Rose and Love are busy bawling over some stupid manga. It's just you, me, and Shinji. And that guy."

"Akon."

"Yeah, that guy. Do you even have a zanpakuto? You're in the Twelfth."

"Don't use it much, but, yeah," Akon said. "I'm mostly coming along to check the place out, maybe get some stuff to send back to Captain Kurotsuchi."

Hiyori made a face, and Akon made a face back. They ended up at each other's throats, as usual. Ichigo looked at Kensei and Shinji. Both of them shrugged, and then the three of them decided to go see what was going on with the missing Mizuiro.


Tatsuki was waiting for them outside of the house. Sung-Sun was gone. "I think she's one of them, too," she said. Ichigo sighed. "You really know how to pick 'em, Ichigo."

"What?" Shinji asked, looking extremely curious.

"Ichigo has a girlfriend. I think she's an Arrancar-"

"But she's not my girlfriend so it doesn't matter," Ichigo said. "Now, come on, let's go."


Nnoitra and Luppi were waiting. Luppi had released and was waiting at the bottom of the stairs. Nnoitra was guarding the freezer. He wouldn't have agreed to this positioning, but then Luppi had showed him how funny it was when Luppi pulled people down the stairs. 'It's like something out of a horror movie,' Luppi had said. At this, Nnoitra had shuddered and let Luppi do his disturbing things.

Luppi was currently humming a One Direction song and plotting how he was going to cook Mizuiro once he had frozen to death. Or maybe he'd keep both Mizuiro and Yumichika as pretty statue decorations. Both of them were certainly pretty. Not as pretty as him, of course, but pretty all the same.

The first person Luppi saw was a rather attractive grey-haired guy with a zanpakuto. He was wearing a shihakusho, which confused Luppi for a little bit, but then he decided that he could attack this guy anyway.

Let's just say that both Ichigo and Shinji were very confused when a white tentacle-type thing wrapped around Kensei and pulled him down the stairs.

"You can deal with him," Luppi said, tossing Kensei over his shoulder to Nnoitra, who grinned and crackled his knuckles. Kensei, being the badass Visored that he is, got up, gave Luppi the finger, and grinned at Nnoitra.

Luppi pulled Shinji and Ichigo down as well, looked at them and sighed. "None of them are pretty enough. Sure, the ones with orange and gray hair are attractive enough, but they're not what I'm looking for. You can have them all. I'm going to go check on my new pets."

With that, Luppi skipped away to the freezer, tentacles waving around gaily.

Once he opened it, Yumichika got him with the true released state of his zanpakuto.

Meanwhile, Nnoitra and Kensei were having one of the most badass battles of all time. Kensei had gone shikai almost immediately – after all, he was battling an Arrancar. Shinji and Ichigo just stood awkwardly in the background while Mizuiro left and Yumichika slowly drained Luppi's spiritual pressure.


"You know, I haven't seen Yumichika in a while," Ikkaku said. "I feel his spiritual pressure, but… it feels weird…"

"Let's go find him!" Rangiku chirped.


Luppi was almost gone. The gray-haired one was holding his own against Nnoitra as well, but Luppi didn't care about Nnoitra at the moment, his pretty totally-not-gay-friend was killing him with some weird zanpakuto that had come out of nowhere.

"Hey, Yumichika! You down there?"

And then the vines binding him vanished and Luppi slumped to the ground, panting. He wasn't quite dead, but Yumichika had nearly done him in. His release had shriveled away a while ago. He wasn't sure if he was going to be able to use it again for a while.

The bald Shinigami jumped down the stairs, brandishing a spear-like thing. "Why didn't anyone invite me- ah, shit, there's nobody left."

"There's me."

Grimmjow stood at the top of the stairs, grinning. The bald Shinigami grinned back at him, and the two left, presumably to go kill each other.

"I'm going to leave now," Yumichika said. He was sparkling.


"Mizuiro!" Tatsuki said as he exited the building. She hugged him, then pulled away. "Uh…"

Mizuiro smiled at her. "I was in a freezer."


And here we go. :D