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After storming away from Renji in a furious rage, Ichigo could sense the cold feeling coming to his ears where steam was previously blasting out. It was the way one thinks the bathroom is freezing after they take a hot shower. As such, everyone else kept as quiet as possible so as not to reach his ears.

"Still, the lieutenant guy was pretty funny, huh?" Fujita couldn't help but say and slightly grin at.

Danio was thinking for a bit then. His face had brightened like a fluorescent light bulb, then dimmed to a lantern running low on oil, and he did it as quickly as a flicker of such a flame. When his face had settled in one place, Claire took notice, "What were you going to say?"

"Well, did you notice how they were so different? The captain and lieutenant, I mean? Captain Kuchiki was very calm and collected the whole time while he barely said anything, and Lieutenant Abarai was doing nearly all the talking and really got into it."

"No, you think so?" Lyn couldn't resist taking a stab with sarcasm before switching back to being serious. "It's like he's using up enough energy for the both of them. I'd say he's been drinking Redbull, but he's not hyper enough."

"Then, what would you consider hyper?" Jaylin questioned her.

"Dunno. Probably someone who's Suzette-ish, but not that extreme."

"Aww, you flatter me."

A.J. turned his head away from the group. "You mean someone like her?"

It was hard to tell what happened first, seeing a pink flash or hearing, "This way Kenny!"

This kid. All he wanted to do was size up the new comers and Yachiru had them running for hours looking. Of course, by "them", he meant that the girl had been riding piggyback the whole time. Not that he got tired or minded carrying and extra weight, but this was just getting ridiculous. It was like trying to work one of those cheap "GPS's" in the World of the Living. Wait, that was Ichigo and all his friends just on the other side of the wall. His eyes just barely came over it to see them. The other seven must be the new Substitutes.

His little pink-haired friend giggled, "Okay, Kenny, take the next right!"

"Are you crazy? You're sitting on my shoulders. I know you can see that they're in the other direction."

"It's a shortcut."

"You do know that a shortcut is the faster way around, right? Because you say that every time, and still manage to get us lost." When he came right next to where they all stood, he planted his foot by the heel in the ground, wearing a good amount of his shoe away. "What am I doing? There is a much better way to fix this." He bent his arm in and tried to pull it far enough in to touch the girl with his elbow. All ready and wound up, he let all the energy loose on the wall that separated him from his destination, making it bend to his will. It was just a bunch of little pieces of dirt after all, and it's fair to say that he was stronger than dirt. "So, you're the new guys, huh?"

"Looks like it Kenny," she said in the cutest little singsong voice while putting her feet on the ground for the first time in hours.

Two brats, four teens and a woman, not even a residual image of what he was hoping for. There could have at least been a man with them. How was he supposed to fight a group like this?

Claire, Jaylin, A.J. and Lyn were looking at them up and down trying to figure out what they wanted and how they intended to fix the wall. In the meantime, everyone else was putting their information together.

Danio heard it fall out of his mouth before he could pull it back in."That is one messed up hairdo."

Fujita quickly forgot all about what he said, though. "Are those bells?"

"He must be very strong," Suzette commented.

"He'd have to be to break down a wall," Danio reasoned.

"I was talking about the eye patch."

The lieutenant made an effortless jump from Kenpachi's feet and right to Ichigo's. "Hiiiiii Ichi!"

"Hey Yachiru, what are you doing out here?"

"Kenny wants to know what kind of fresh meat he's getting," her cheeks still a blushing rose color. It never ceased to amaze him how she could just say things like that and not be grim about it.

Kenpachi, however, had no such quirk. "It's too bad, though. I wanted someone with more skill."

"Are you saying that I'm weak?" Claire. Her and her stupid pride.

Kenpachi smirked. "Would you like to prove me wrong?" he challenged while using his thumb to push the hilt farther away from the sheath and expose metal.

Ichigo couldn't sit still at this point. "Hey, Kenpachi! She's just a kid with a temper. Don't take her seriously."

"Stay out of thi- Hey!" It didn't take much to sling her over his shoulders again.

That smile the captain had, softened when Claire's hand went into her small pocket and came out with a six-inch dagger which she pointed at him. She repeatedly stabbed the air like his face was right there. As intriguing as one might find the tree carved into the flat of the blade, Kenpachi took no notice. "What, you're not messing with me, are you?"

"You're the one who suggested the fight," she retorted.

"Tch. I don't fight people unless I know that it's going to be entertaining. That little thing of yours won't do anything dangerous to an unranked officer and definitely not to me. See ya."

"Oh come on!" she shouted after him hoping that by some chance he would magically turn around and fight. Understanding that it wasn't going to happen, she thrashed around just like last time. She got herself a little half-miracle when Yachiru looked back and shouted, "Who wants to go to the barracks with us?! I think that Ukki from next door just made rice balls!"

Needless to say, even though no one in the seven (save for Fujita) knew what a rice ball was, they had all skipped breakfast just to be here and were getting ready to miss lunch.

Orihime spoke up, "Guys! I'm not sure that that's such a good idea! She tends to get lost!" Too bad that no one was listening.

"Don't worry about it," Rukia calmed her. "She's talking about my squad. I know where it is."

"To the left Kenny!"

"You came from the other direction!" Rukia shouted back.

"To the right Kenny!"

I had fun writing this and putting a word goal on really brought out a lot more ideas.

I wasn't planning on adding so many things to this chapter so I think I'll be using this standard from now on.

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