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Predictably Rachel was in the restroom, bawling her eyes out to whoever happened to be listening.

"And it's so not fair; I mean he chose to be with me, ME this time! *sob, cry* I know she's blonder all round prettier and has a nicer nose than me but that's not the point *sniff* I have talent and I can live without stupid *sob* boyfriends!"

Someone flushed the toilet in the stall behind her, stopping her mid-rant.

"You know what? I totally agree with you." The busty redheaded woman readjusted her odd-shaped glasses "I'm always being bossed around by them."

"w-who are you?" Rachel stuttered, unashamedly staring at her. She didn't look like a teacher, her white clothes were too revealing, and she was too old to be a student.

"Just a visitor." She leaned closer to the mirror, applying her makeup. "You don't know where the music department is do you?"

"Uh yeah, I'll show you around if you want."

"Awesome, let's go, arite?"


Ichigo couldn't find Rachel anywhere, which was no surprise as he wasn't looking very hard. But on the upside, he didn't meet anyone else he knew either. It was the perfect time to think.

A weird noise came from his substitute badge.

"What? A hollow? Oh great…" he sighed and went to a place where he could easily stash his body.

"Oh...it's you." A redhead blocked his path "I don't believe we've met, sorry if I'm being a little rude though, arite?" She pulled Rachel (who had been watching this odd exchange from behind the woman) in front of her and put her sword to the girl's throat. "I wonder how pretty you sound whilst screaming."

"What is it you want?" Ichigo growled, the edge in his tone made the woman chuckle.

"You and I fight to the death."

"First you let her go."

"Nu uh! You show your weapon first. I like to do things the old-fashioned way if you don't mind, arite?" Rachel was quivering in fear, but at the same time wondering if her head being cut off from her body would affect her Broadway career (well that and how expensive the therapy was going to be)

"alright." He begrudgingly slammed his badge on his chest, hard.

"Is it broken? It'd be a shame if I had to make guitar strings out of this poor kiddie's vocal chords, arite?" the obnoxious woman jeered.

"grrr." Ichigo tried again and again to no avail.

"Oh yeah, I didn't tell you my name, how rude of me. Ramona Avourvejes, Espada 11.5, arite?" the redheaded Espada waited surprisingly patiently (Rachel didn't know that Ramona was counting the hairs on her head and wondering if she could make a bag out of them)

"Ngghhh!" 'Finally it works!' Ichigo thought sarcastically 'if this chick was serious I'd be properly dead by now.'

"Hehe…interesting, but sorry girl, you gotta go." She hit Rachel upside the head with the hilt of her sword and threw her limp body over to some lockers behind her.

"What did you do?"

"Oh she's fine, I like her, arite?" Ramona's habit of saying arite at the end of sentences was really annoying. "She's knocked out. Don't worry, I'm not a psychopath, I'm not gonna rope anyone else into this."

Ichigo slashed at her with several low power getsuga tenshous but Ramona sonido-ed out of the way before meeting his swings with her own.

"Steal, Ladron!"

Nothing happened, which was odd, usually something happened; the sword would change appearance or something.

She blocked and parried and weaved her way around, perfectly synchronising her movements with his. It was then that Ichigo noticed it.

Her sword was merging with his.

Ramona's sword was growing and pulsing, slowly absorbing Zangetsu's power. Ichigo tried to pull his Zanpactou away but it felt as if it were already welded to Ramona's, it was like a futile tug-o-war.

"What the hell is this?" he yelled, still trying to free Zangetsu from Ladron's grip.


and...being the evil authoress I shall stop it there.

okay, a biiig thank you (THANKYOU!) to the reviewers:

little white comet, jazzie29, allieoutofwonderland, the anonymous guys and that person who couldn't sign in.

you've been so nice and stuff please keep it up :D. (and any other people who review are fantastic, also the people who favourite and alert are fantastic, if you're reading this right now, you're fantastic.)

Any ideas for the plot next chapter or anything? please review and tell me!

replying to dark soul slayer who I also thank: I love crossover pairings as much as the next fangirl but no, I am not doing ichiquin, ever. and why do you hate rachel so much? I dislike quinn but I also dislike rachel and I HATE finn for being so indecisive!