The rest of that week was awkward beyond awkward. Anymore awkward and I would have turned into a penguin. Ichigo no longer waited for me after band practice; it was one of the others. I felt relief that it wasn't him but somewhere deep inside of me I was sad. You would have thought that after a few days we would have gotten over it but no, we didn't. I mean it's not like it was the first time we 'kissed' well then again that was Kon not really Ichigo. Either way it's Friday and we're sitting at lunch, probably the most awkward time of all.

"How's your sandwich?" He said.

"It's good, how about those mash potatoes?" I asked.

"They're good."

"Good?"

"Yeah."

"Yeah."

The other three exchanged glances for about the fifth time.

"Okay, what's going on? You guys have been acting like this all week." Ishida said.

"Did something happen?" Orihime asked.

"No, nothing." I said shrugging and looking down at my sandwich.

"Something happened, it's obvious." Chad said.

"Nothing happened." Ichigo said.

"Yeah, I don't know what you guys are talking about." I said as I ripped off a piece of the sandwich and ate it.

"Right, like it's not obvious that you guys haven't gotten into an argument since Monday. You guys are hiding something."

"No we're not!" We both said at the same time.

"Then why are you yelling."

"We're not yelling!" Ichigo said.

"Just speaking very loudly! There's a difference!" I said.

"If you guys won't tell us then we'll find out." Ishida said.

"No you won't." I said.

"So you are hiding something." Chad said.

"… Arg! No!"

Ichigo hit me upside the head. "Idiot."

"Ow!" I said. "What I do?!" I said as I put my hands on my head.

"So will you guys tell us now?" Orihime asked.

"No!" We both said. I glared at him and he glared at me then we turned away with a 'hmph'

"Well at least they're acting normal." Chad said.

Ishida sighed "We're still going to find out what they're hiding."

"We're not hiding anything!" We said again.

The three of them exchange glances that said 'yeah right'

"Okay, okay, whatever you say." Ishida said.

I glared at Ishida, I looked at the sandwich in my hand then at him. He already knew where this was going.

"Throw the sandwich." He challenged.

"Okay!" I said as I threw the sandwich at him, he dodged it though and it ended up flying across the cafeteria and hit someone else in the back of the head.

I gaped at how far the sandwich went but then realized there were bigger problems. "Oh no." I said.

"What did you do?" Ichigo asked.

"FOOD FIGHT!" someone yelled. Before you knew it a wave of food started to go around.

"Flip! Everyone woman for herself!" I said as I grabbed my things and stood up.

"Watch out!" Ichigo said as he pulled me down to avoid flying meat.

"Thank you, now move your face!" I said as I pushed him forward and used him a shield.

"Let's go to the stairs." Ishida said as he came up behind us.

"Okay, let's do this." I said as I made sure I was protected from all sides. I put Ichigo in the front, Ishida to my right and Chad behind me, Orihime was hiding with me, as we left a group of security guards rushed past us. We went to the stairs and checked ourselves to make sure that we didn't have anything on us. "Haha! We survived the food fight! It's a miracle! Either that or the world is gonna end." I said

"That's one way to put it." Chad said.

"Now what?" Ichigo asked as he closed the door to the stairs.

"We wait and hope that third lunch doesn't get in trouble, but it usually does." I said. "Even back in the old school, it was always third lunch that got into trouble."

"Really?" Ishida asked.

"Yeah, I think third lunch might be forever cursed." I said and nodded my head.

"Let me guess you put this curse upon them." Ichigo said.

"Yup!" I said with a smile.

"Why?" The three of them asked.

"Because third lunch is stupid." I said and crossed my arms.

Everyone looked at me in disbelief.

"What? It is." I said as I sat down on the stairs.

"What is her logic based on?" Ishida said.

"I don't know." Ichigo said as he shook his head.

"Any reason why?" Chad asked.

"Yeah." I said.

"I'm such a liar, oh well."

They stood there waiting for me to continue on.
"Are you going to tell us?" Ichigo asked.

"Nope." I said.

Both Ishida and Ichigo face palmed.

"Well I'm sure whatever the reason it's a good one." Orihime said.

"Knowing her, it probably isn't." Ichigo said.

"It probably isn't." Ishida mumbled.

"It really isn't." I said as the bell rung. "Well look at that." I said as I jumped up. "Come on strawberry and Orihime, we got English to go to." I grabbed my things and began to go up the stairs.

"Stop calling me that." Ichigo said as he grabbed his things and followed behind me.

"Sorry no can do, I like the name." I said with a smile.

He looked away and mumbled under his breath. I could have sworn I saw a tint of pink on his cheeks but I brushed it off and kept walking up the stairs. "See you later other peoples!" I said.

They waved and walked the opposite direction out the door. When we got to English we took our seats and waited for everyone to get there. It took longer than usual since most of the people were in third lunch, probably cleaning up. I laid my head on the desk and tried to entertain myself with my pencil. However I found myself thinking about Monday again and what happened after band practice. I could feel my cheeks start flush. I sat up and shook off the thought but had an urge to look at him. I turned my head ever so slightly to look at him from the corner of my eye but I noticed that he was already looking at me. I looked away but soon found myself looking right back at him. We sat there in silence lost in each other's eyes. I really, really, really, wanted to lean forward and close the space between us but sadly we were in class and two what if he doesn't feel the same way? So I just reluctantly looked away. It was then that I noticed that everyone else was in class writing.

"Hey Orihime." I whispered

"Huh?" She said.

"What are we doing?"

"We're starting the draft for the narrative essay." She said.

"Oh, okay, thanks." I said as I got out my notebook and pen.

"What are we doing?" Ichigo asked.

"Draft for our narrative essay." I said as I began to write.

"Oh, okay, thanks." He said as he began to write his. The period dragged on at its usual tempo and every once in a while I would catch myself glancing over at Ichigo.

"Arg! Stop looking at him and work!" I told myself as I looked at my paper. As soon as I began to write though I became distracted and looked at him. "Flip! Whatever, I quit!" I thought as I sat back in my chair and crossed my arms. I let out an irritated sigh; even then I still couldn't stop. I was just about ready to flip my desk when the bell rang. I walked out the class and was actually glad that our next class's seating was in alphabetical order. I took my seat in the right corner of the class, I was usually the last on the role and if not I was close to being the last. Our class started and we started off with our daily quiz that I always manage to forget to study for. I guessed on each question putting down random names and dates, hoping that I was somewhere close to right. We passed our papers to the front and started on our notes. I kept my eyes glued to either the screen up in the front or on the laptop on my desk. If this didn't stop me from looking over at him then nothing will. Then I heard the badge go off. "Mur, let Ichigo go, let Ichigo go, let Ichigo go!" I thought as I looked over at Ichigo and Ishida. They were communicating by nods and tapping on the desk. That was actually pretty smart although I didn't catch a thing they said. Finally after giving each other one last nod Ishida rose his hand.

"Flliiiippp!"

"Yes, can I help you?" Mr. Leonor asked.

"May I use the restroom?" Ishida asked as he put his hand down.

"Are you done with these notes?"

Ishida nodded his head.

"Okay, go." He said. Ishida got up and rushed out the classroom.

I sighed and let my head drop on my desk. "So close, so very, very, close."

Ishida came back fifteen minutes came back fifteen minutes later. There were people that started to joke and laugh. I sighed at how stupid the jokes were. "I'm surrounded by idiots." They eventually stopped the horrible jokes and got back to taking notes, mostly because Mr. Leonor said that he'd stab the next person that talked with a knife and get homework. The class passed by at a faster pace than I had expected, luckily I managed to complete my goal. However I wasn't too eager to go to Chemistry, there are even more stupid people in there then there were in history. I trudged down the stairs.

"What's wrong?" Ichigo asked.

"Stupid people." I said. "They need to die."

"I can agree with that." Ishida said as he pushed up his glasses.

"I'm very, very tempted to skip." I said.

"You're not going to skip." Ichigo said as we reached the bottom step.

"I know, but still, meh." I said.

"At least you sit in the front of the class, you can ignore them, we have to sit in the back." Ishida said as we turned onto the main hall.

"True, true but still stupid people need to diiieee." I said dragging out the word.

"At least it's the last period of the day." Ichigo said.

"Yeah and I have a game today and I have homework to do and blarg." I said. "I have too much ish to do."

"Ish?" Ishida asked.

"Yes, ish, it is my word and my word only; well not really I stole it from Sydney… I haven't seen her in a while; I wonder what happened to her." I said. "Weird." I said.

The two boys exchanged glances as we turned the last corner before we got to our class.

"What?" I asked.

"Nothing." Ishida said as we entered our class.

I sat down in the front and they went to take their seats in the back.

"Hey Addie." Orihime said with a smile.

"Hey." I said.

"Something wrong?" She asked.

"No, I'm just tired." I said and took out my laptop. "And really don't want to deal with these peoples."

"It's not that bad..."

I looked at her with an expression that said 'yes it is'

"Is it?"

I sighed and looked over to the opposite direction then back at her. "You tell me."

"Uhm… yes?" She said.

"There you go." I said and patted her head. "I won't kill you, for today." I said as our chemistry teacher came in. I tried to listen to what we were doing, I'm pretty sure it had something to do with valence electrons though. She drew a model of an atom and wrote to the side valence electrons so it had something to do with it.

"Hey what are we talking about?" I asked Orihime.

"Orbitals." Orihime said.

"Ohhh okay, those are the things were the electrons go in right?"

"Yup, but it's all complicated." She said.

"Complicated how?" I asked.

"I dunno, it's just complicated." She said.

"Wonderful." I said with a sigh. "Maybe I'll just read the chemistry book, I'll probably have better luck that way." I said as I opened up the book on my laptop.

"Okay." She said.

I began to read through the chemistry book but feel asleep on the second page. If it wasn't for Orihime, no one would have woken me up.

"I'm soooo tired and I still have so much ish to dooo." I said and grabbed my things and walked out of the class room.

"Your fault for being in band." Ichigo said.

"How many times do I have to tell people!? I didn't purposely join band, it just happened, how? I don't know." I said as I went down towards the band room.

"Can't you just quit?" Ishida asked.

"It's not that simple man, you get killed." I said.

"Why?" Orihime asked.

"Because that's just the way things work."

"So you have a football game tonight?" Chad asked.

"Yup." I said.

"What time does it start?" Ichigo asked.

"Seven but we have to be there at six." I said as we turned into the Fine Arts part of the school.

"And what do you play?" Ishida asked.

"Trumpet!" I said.

"You play trumpet?" Orihime asked.

"Ya, why?"

"You don't seem like a trumpet player." Chad said.

"Yeah I get that a lot, wait here or you might die." I said as we arrived at the band room. "And hold my stuff." I said and took my things and handed it to them. I then walked into the band room. Mostly everyone was there getting their instruments out. I went to my locker/cubby and took out my trumpet.

"See you guys at the game!" I said as I locked my cubby.

"Bye!" They said.

I looked around to see if I could find Sydney but she wasn't there. It was weird for her not to be here for this long. "I wonder what happened to her…" I thought as I walked out the band room.

"Here." Ichigo said as he piled my things on top of me.

"Oh sure don't help me carry me things." I said.

He sighed and took some things off my hands.

"Thank you." I said. "Now let's go, I would really love to get home early so I can actually rest before I have to go to the game." I said as we began to walk.

"You make it seem like it's a lot of work." Ishida said.

"That's because it is a lot of work!" I said.

"But you're only playing." Orihime said.

I looked back at her with a semi-glare "Why don't you come and 'just play' if you think it's so easy." I said.

"We'll pass." Ichigo said.

"Mmhhmm, that's what I thought." I said. "You know I don't get why people think being in marching band is so easy, it's not! During band camp we ran a mile every morning, and then we did military style exercises in which apparently one equals three. And then we had to be here at seven in the morning, meaning I woke up at six in the morning for two weeks straight. Jebus we did so much work." I said.

They all exchanged glances.

"Don't judge me." I said as I walked out the building with them behind me.

"We're trying not to." Ichigo said.

"Well then… uhm… try harder!" I said as I searched in my pockets for my phone. "My phone… I can't find it." I said as I began to check my back pockets. I stopped walking and turned around trying to remember where I left it at. It's weird though; I've always had the ability to sense where my things are at when I lose them.

"Did you leave it in the band room?" Orihime asked.

"No, it's around here somewhere." I said. "Maybe I left it in my book bag." I said as I opened up one of the pockets. "Come on, phone where for art thou." I said. After fully through my book bag I was thinking that maybe I did leave it in the band room but something was telling me that I didn't.

"Did you check your jacket?" Ishida asked.

"I have a jacket?" I said as I looked down at what I was wearing and behold, there was a jacket. I face palmed myself and reached in my pocket to pull out my cellphone.

"Idiot." Ichigo mumbled.

"Shut up Strawberry!" I said as I pointed at him. I then proceeded to call my mom.

"Ma." I said as she picked up the phone.

"I know, I know, I'm on my way." She said.

"Okay, bye." I said and hung up. "Okay this time I'll try to remember that I put my phone in this pocket." I said as I put it in my jacket pocket.

"I can see why you call her an idiot." Ishida mumbled.

"You shut up too four eyes!" I said.

"Are you giving nick names to every one?" Ichigo asked as we walked over to a couple of benches.

"Maybe." I said as I sat down.

"Oh! Oh! What's my nick name?" Orhime asked.

"Uhm…. I dunno." I said. "I gotta think about that one."

"What about chad then?" Ishida said.

"hhhmmm." I said as I looked at Chad trying to pick a nick name for him. "Aha! I'll call you taco!" I said. Everyone except Orhime face palmed.

"Don't judge it! It's a beautiful nick name!" I protested.

"Out of all the people, why did they pick her to kill?" Ishida asked.

"They might be annoyed by her too." Ichigo said.

"Well then!" I said acting insulted. "Fine! Just let me die my sad and lonely death! At least Orihime cares!" I said as I clung onto her arm. "Why don't you love me?!" I said and began to fake cry.

"Awww, it's okay they do, they're just kidding." Orihime said.

"Lies and more lies!" I said as I pointed at the other three.

"Get over yourself." Ichigo said.

"No you get over yourself!" I said

"Well at least their back to normal." Chad said.

"Shut your face taco!" I said.

"I think it might have been better the other way." Ishida said.

"Are you guys ever gonna tell us what happened?" Orihime asked.

"No!" Me and Ichigo said.

"It's definitely something interesting if they both don't want us to find out." Ishida said with a smirk.

"No it's not!" I said.

"Okay, so we've established that something did happen." Ishida said.

"We just have to figure out what." Chad said.

"Hhhmm… but what could it have been." Orihime asked.

"Mur!" I said as I stood up. "Whatever you guys can believe what you guys want to believe! Come on strawberry!" I said as I dragged him away.

"Where are you taking me?" He asked.

"I just realized I'm on the wrong side of the building." I said.

He sighed "And why am I coming?"

"Because I don't want to have someone point a gun at me."

"You could have just gotten someone else to come."

"Yeah but then they would endlessly question me about what happened and you wouldn't want that to happen."

"… Good point."

"Exactly." I said.

It became silent as I dragged him away to the opposite side of the school; it wasn't awkward... well maybe a little... okay so it was totally awkward. I unconsciously looked back at him to see what he was doing, he was looking at me. I was surprised that he was looking at me and stopped walking and just looked at him.
"What?" He asked.
"I... uh..." I said not knowing what to say.
"Can I have my hand back." He said.

I looked out our hands and realized that I was still holding his, I quickly let go of it and looked away. "Oh.. uhm… sorry…"

"Are you okay? You're acting weird." He said.

"No… it's just that… uhm…" I said trying to think of something to say. "Well I was thinking… maybe we should just tell them, you know about what happened. I mean it's not like we tried to so why hide it and it's not like it was the first time we uhm… kissed…" I said as I could feel my cheeks start to heat up.

"You guys kissed?" Chad said coming out of nowhere.

I felt like my face was about to explode as I turned around to see Orihime, Ishida, and Chad.

"H-how long have you guys been listening?!" I stammered.

"Long enough to know why you guys were acting so weird." Ishida said. "I can't believe he got a girl to actually kiss him."

"I-it was an accident!" Ichigo said.

"Of course it was." Ishida said.

"It was!" I said.

"Then how come you said it wasn't the first time?" Chad said.

"I doubt you can kiss by accident more than once." Ishida said.

He had a point there; there was a moment of silence before Ichigo said something.

"The first time it wasn't me, it was Kon." Ichigo said.

"But in a sense it was you." Ishida said.

"Flip! Now what?!" I thought.

"Adddddddddddddddiiiiiieeeeee e!" Brea said as she glomped me causing us both to fall.

"arg, my spleen!" I said as I laid sprawled out on the floor with her on top of me.

"Where have you been?! I haven't seen you since I don't know when!" She said.

"Arg, I got my schedule changed. Now get off me!" I said as I pushed her off me. "Jebus." I said as I sat up and rubbed my side. "One of these days you're going to kill me."

"I know." She said with a smile.

I let out a sigh "Next time give at least give me a warning." I said.

"There you are!" Selana said. "Addie!" She said as she preceded to glomp me.

"Mur not again!" I said as I fell back.

"Sorry." She said as she got off me.

"It's fine." I said. "But if you guys break my spleen you're paying for the hospital bill."

"What about a spleen?" Hannah said. "Son! Where have you been?"

"I got my schedule changed." I said.

"You did?" Selana asked.

"No, I've just been skipping all my other classes and going to others." I said with a ship load of sarcasm.

Then I heard the horn of a car. I looked over Selena's head to see who it was. "Mur! I have to go! Come to the football game!" I said as I grabbed my things and ran to my car.

"Do you know how long I was waiting here for you?" My mom asked as I got into the car.

"No…"

"Half an hour!"

"Lies and more lies you just got here."

"How do you know?"

"Cause you told me you were on your way when I called you."

"Hhhmm… okay, you win this round." She said as we drove off.

"Victory!" I said. The rest of the way home we rode in silence, well not really silence I was just singing the whole way home while she looked at me like I was crazy. Once I was home I threw my things in my room and searched for something to eat. Luckily my mom made spaghetti. I chomped that down and then jumped into to the shower. After that I put on my uniform.

"Wait… If I zip these overalls on first I'll end up moving like some sort of pregnant woman." I said. "My shoes and spats where are you!" I said as I looked under my bed for the box where I had my shoes and spats. When I put those on I then pulled my hair up into a bun. "Okay now I zip this up." I said as I pulled up the zipper. I then put my phone in the pocket then put my jacket on. "Okay now all I'm missing is my hat and trumpet." I said as I got my hat and put it on my head so I could get my trumpet. "Mom let's go!" I said.

"Ready?" She asked as she got the keys.

"Yes, now come on, I got things to do and places to be." I said as I got my trumpet.

"Okay, let's go." She said as we walked out the house.

"We're on the home side." I said as we pulled out the drive way.

"What side?" She asked.

I sighed "The left side mom." I said.

"Why didn't you say that the first time?"

"Because I thought that by now you would have learned which side is which." I said.

"Well I haven't, say the right or left side next time."

"Yes master." I said with a smile. Once again the rest of the way to the stadium I sang and dance like an idiot. I had a thing for dancing like an idiot, I blame it on my friends.

"They're starting to rub off on me." I thought as the song ended. "Imma turn into one of them! Noooo!"

"Okay well have fun and take care." My mom said as we arrived at the stadium.

"I'll try but no promises." I said as I got out the car. I then walked over to the group of people that had already arrived, as usual I was late. "Stain!" I said as I glomped him.

"Hey Addie." He said.

"You ready?" I asked as I let go of him.

"Nope." He said and laughed a bit.

"Neither am I." I said smiling.

"Alright come on, warm up!" Our drum major, Len. Although a lot of people she was a he, but she's a she. We got into our pep-rally formation and played the B flat concert major scale about thirty times.

"Parade formation! Two lines!" Mr. Hugh said.

We all scrambled to our positions as fast as we could and stood in parade rest but of course there is always those few couple of people who don't know how to shut up.

"Hey shut up!" My section leader, Jarnen said. It quieted down a bit. Then our drum major blew her whistle and counted off the percussion for a cadence. We then marched into the stadium and as we did I noticed a person wearing all black and a black mask standing beside one of the beams that held up the stands. They kind of reminded me of ninjas. I looked around to see if anyone noticed them, and then I noticed that there was one under every beam.

"I wonder who they are." I thought.

Then one stood straight in the middle of the two lines and it seemed like they had purple eyes. Everyone passed by as if they didn't see them, it wasn't till then that I realized that they were agents from the second division.

"The second division? What are they doing here?" I thought. Since everyone else couldn't see them or touch them they just marched right through them but I, I was another story, I was debating on what I should do. At the last minute I move to the right just a bit so I wouldn't risk bumping them. I turned my head to see them but they were gone. I looked around to see if the others were still there and they were. We continued to march and marched up the stands to get to where we were. Once there we stood there waiting for them to announce us so we could play the Star Spangled Banner.

"Band! Horns up!" Len said.

"Up!" We said and put our instruments into playing position. We waited as the JROTC walked onto the field to present the flags and the percussion rolled.

"One, two, one, two, one, two, ready, play." She said. We then started to play the song; I sadly forgot half the song and got real creative on the harmonizing. Once that was done we the percussion rolled as the JROTC walked off. Then we got ready to play for our football team's entrance. The cheerleaders were lined up on each side of the banner and created a path for the football team.

"Band! Horns up!" Len said.

"Up!" We said.

"Fight Song! Fight song!" She said and then blew her whistle counting us off. We then played the song and the football team ripped through the banner as they ran onto the field. When we were done playing we stood at attention.

"Pay up!" Len said as she held up her baton horizontally. Then she brought it down and we sat down. Then she held up her hat. "Hats." She said. We took off our hats and held them in the air until she put hers down and we put ours behind us.

"Oh jebus this is really tight." I said.

"What size is it?" Jernan asked.

"I have no idea." I said.

"Let me check." He said as he lifted up the jacket and looked at the tag inside the overall. "… It's a small…"

"I can fit a small? Jebus no wonder I'm dying." I said.

"Point your instruments!" Len said.

I picked up my instrument and pointed in the same direction as everyone, it was the kickoff and we were hoping it went the right way, it didn't, and it never does. I sighed as I put my instrument down on my lap.

"The second division is here, but why? Could it because of them." I thought referring to the people that wanted to kill me. "But all they want is to kill me. I'm important but I ain't that important." I thought. "Then what could it be?" I wondered.

"Hey Addie stand up!" Jernan said snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Oh, sorry!" I said as I stood up with my instrument.

"Let's go!" Len said. "One, two, one, two, ready, play!" She said. We played through the song twice and then the other band played a song at us. We began to challenge each other until half time and we were totally killing them, well band wise, football wise, not so much. Since we were the home team we went second so we did some stretches while the other band was performing. Then when it came for us to play we ran to our positions on the field and stayed in parade rest until Len called us up.

"Band!" Len said.

"Snap!" We said.

"Attention!" She said.

"LHS!" We said as we got into attention.

She blew her whistle to count us off. We played two fanfares then began to march down the field to Outstanding. After that played Where Have You Been? And pin wheeled into two straight lines. After that we played Pass the Peas, which was really awesome. And then we marched off the field to Party Don't Stop. We lined up along the fence and watched the other band. We were a small band so we could actually do complex shows however the other bands were huge and usually could only take about ten steps and that was their field show. This band was no different we stood there and I listen to them point out the people who were on the wrong foot or messed up. It was actually quite entertaining. After that we went back up into the stands were given our quick five minute bathroom break. I didn't have to go pee so I decided to go up to the very top with Stain and watch the game.

"We're going to lose this game aren't we?" I asked.

"Yup." Stain said as he pushed up his glasses.

I sighed "Of course but it's only cause their school has more football players so they can switch out with fresh players and we have to reuse our players." I said.

Stain sighed and shrugged "What can we do? Since that other school joined ours, they ranked us up with the bigger school so, oh well." He said.

"Man, they need to start joining our teams if they're gonna make us do this." I said.

"They're not."

"I know." I said as I looked up at the sky and noticed that clouds were starting to roll in, and I mean they was rolling in fast. "Do you see those clouds?"

"Yeah, they're moving pretty fast."

"Pretty fast? They moving really fast." I said.

"Come on let's go back down."

"Okay." I said but just as we were about to go down, lightning from the clouds struck the stands causing the lights to go out. "Flip!" I said as I grabbed onto the gate that kept me from falling to my death. I looked down to see that the Shinigami were standing a few feet away from the beams and were pointing two fingers at them.

"That don't look too good." I thought as I stepped away from the gate.

"Addie! Come on!" Stain said as he held out his hand to me.

I was about to take it when the stands started to shake violently and I heard the sound of thunder. I looked back to see the Shinigami shooting a ray of lightning at the beams. The crowd began to scream as the stands went down. I was about to grab onto the gate but I then realized that it was no longer there. Nothing was keeping me from falling if I lost my balance.

"Stain!" I said as I tried to reach his hand.

"Addie!" He said as I tried to inch my way to him. Then the Shinigami with the purple eyes appeared in between me and Stain. I froze in place as I watched them put their hand on my shoulder and just ever so slightly push me. If it wasn't for the stands shaking so violently I would have stood standing but no, I fell over the edge.

"Addie!" Stain said.

My mind scattered in so many directions and I couldn't keep my thoughts focused on any one thing so I did the one and only thing I could do. Scream and close my eyes but then I felt something catch me. My eyes snapped open to see the one and only Ichigo.

"Ichigo!" I said. "Oh jebus, I thought I was going to die." I said as I gripped onto his Shinigami shirt thing.

"Not on my watch." He said as he continued to run.

"What's going on? Why are the second division agents here?" I asked.

"I don't know." He said.

Then a group of them surrounded us.

"Stop!" A feminine voice called out.

"That voice… it sounds familiar." I thought.

One of the Shinigami stepped a bit closer to us. "Kurosaki, Ichigo, hand over the girl and there won't be any problems." She said; it was the Shinigami with the purple eyes that tried to kill me not too long ago.

"No! Don't do it! It's a trap! They just tried to kill me!" I said as I tighten my grip on his shirt.

"What are you going to do to her?" Ichigo asked.

"That is none of your concern just hand her over." She said.

"Not until you tell me what you're going to do with her." Ichigo said as he shifted me so that he could carry me in one arm and hold his Zanpakuto in his other arm.

"We are under orders to assassinate that girl, Addie Ruiz." She said.

"Why?! You don't want to kill me! Why do people want to kill me?! I ain't that special." I said.

"Why do you want to kill her?" Ichigo asked tightening his grip on me.

"That information is classified; now hand over the girl peacefully or we will us force." She said as she took out her sword.

"Ichigo… don't hand me over to them… I'll stop calling you strawberry! I promise!" I said.

He smirked "If you'll stop calling me strawberry then I'm all in for it." He said as he shifted me so that I was now on his back. "Don't fall off." He said. He then engaged battle with the Shinigami. I felt like I was really gonna die. I gripped onto his back for dear life and shut my eyes so that I wouldn't get dizzy with all this fast movement. I opened one eye and saw a sword heading right for us. Just as it was about to reach us an orange shield came up in front of us. I sighed in relief being thankful that Orihime was there. Then I saw an arrow fly by a few inches from my face.

"Ishida! You're going to kill us!" I said.

Then I heard a slight gasp from Ichigo. I looked over his shoulder and saw the mask of the purple-eyed woman fall. I took in her appearance and also let out a gasp.

"Sydney?!" I said.

She looked over at me with an unemotional stare.

"She's a Shinigami!? That's why she's been gone this whole time!" I thought.

Ishida then appeared behind us and took me.

"Wait no!" I said as he carried me away.

"Come on, it's not safe there."

"But… but… Sydney!" I said.

"She'll be fine, I'd be more worried about Ichigo."

"… Ichigo…" I mumbled. He ended up taking me back to Urahara's.

I sat down in a chair and let my head fall on the table.

"She's a Shinigami... maybe I really didn't know her for that amount of time… maybe they just modified my memory. She probably thought I was some sort of idiot that knows nothing but how to be an idiot…. Arg! I feel like an idiot!"

"Try not to be too hard on yourself." Urahara said as he pat my back.

I let out a sigh "This is all getting confusing. Why does Soul Society want to kill me? Why does anyone want to kill me?! I didn't do anything wrong." I said. "So why do all these people want to kill me?"

Urahara sighed as he sat down beside me. "Listen, sometimes it's not about whether you did something wrong, sometimes it's just because of their own selfish reasons. So don't be so hard on yourself, you didn't do anything to cause this." He said trying to comfort me.

I lifted my head and smiled at him. "Thanks."

"You're probably ready to get the uniform aren't you?" He said as he stood up.

"Yeah I really am."

"I believe I do have something you should be able to wear." He said. "Come." He said as he walked out room. I stood up and followed him. We went into one of the rooms and he opened one of the closets and began to search through it.

"Hhmmm… it's around here somewhere." He said.

"What is?" I asked as I leaned against the door frame.
"A night gown, I hope you don't mind."

"It's fine as long as it is long and not see through." I said.

"Aha! Here it is." He said as he pulled out a light green night gown. It wasn't short but it wasn't long either but it had small little leaf designs on it and it was spaghetti strap.

"Close enough." I said as he gave it to me.

"I'll let you change." He said as he walked out the room and closed the door. I was happy to get out of the uniform but it took me awhile since the button wasn't agreeing with me. I changed into the night gown and it came down to my knees and was a little showy when it came to my back but it felt so much better than the uniform so I was satisfied.

"I'm done!" I said as I walked out the room and went back to the dining room. By then Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad were there. "Oh you guys are alive." I said then I smelled something. "Who smells like pee?" I asked.

"Shut up." Ichigo said.

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"A kid peed on his body; he left it in a bush." Ishida said.

I burst laughing "Hahah! Sucker!" I said.

"Shut up!" Ichigo said.

"Okay, okay." I said as I began to calm down. "I would suggest you take a shower though." I said holding back a laugh.

"Why you…" He said as he stood up.

"Eek!" I said as I ran out the room.

"I'm going to kill you before any of the others get a chance!" He yelled as he ran after me.

"Mur! Never!" I said as I turned a corner. "Come on legs! Don't fail me now!" I turned another corner but it was a dead end. "Mur!" I said as I ran into the nearest room and locked it. I stayed quiet and listened to his footsteps. I tried to keep myself from breathing too loudly.

"Addie!" He said. "Where are you!?"

"In the kitchen! You wanna sandwich?!" I thought to myself. I muffled a laugh but he heard me cause he was banging on the door.

"Addie! Open the door!"

"Never!" I said. "You'll never take me alive!"

"I wasn't going too!"

"Oh… well you want take me dead either!" I said. "Not while you're smelling like that! Take a shower and come back for me!" I said.

He gave out an aggravated sigh. "I'm taking a shower! But not because you told me too!"

"Sure, whatever floats your boat." I said. I listened to him walk away. I unlocked the door and looked out both ways, knowing that he might do what he did last time. I then acted like a ninja and checked around the corner, the coast was clear. I let out a sigh and walked back down to the dining room.

"Oh good you're alive." Urahara said.

"We were scared Ichigo might have really killed you." Ishida said.

"Nah, he can't kill me, I'm too awesome." I said as I took my seat. "Ohh cookies." I said as I took a cookie off the plate and ate it. "Can I have the rest of these? I'm really hungry."

"Go ahead." Orihime said with a smile.

"Thank you." I said as I moved the plate in front of me and began to eat the cookies. "So what are we talking about?"

"We're coming up with possibilities of why Soul Society might be after you." Urahara said.

"I see." I said as I took a bite from my cookie. "What do we have so far?"

"It might be because of the vast knowledge you have on us." Ishida said.

"Hmm… yeah but would you really kill someone over that?" I asked.

"Well this is Soul Society, humans aren't supposed to know about them in the first place and you that seem to know everyone and their abilities, well that just doesn't sound too comfortable for them." Urahara said.

"Good point." I said. "Any other reasons?"

"So far that's all that we could think of." Urahara said.

"Okay so I have another question." I said.

They looked at me.

"How the flip did you guys get here in the first place?" I asked.