A/N: R&R, please.

Arty: I will continue writing You're Mine after I catch up the deleted scenes to the main story, I don't know how many more chapters that will be though.

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March 20

Ichigo sighed as he got out of the bathroom and saw Renji still snoozing in his bed. "Renji, get up or you'll be late for class!" He told him loudly as the thirteen year old boy went over to the red-haired boys bed and crossed his arms over his chest.

Renji groaned as he opened one eye and looked at the source of the loud noise. "Leave me alone, Ichigo, I want to sleep!" He told him back in irritation.

The younger boy scowled at him. "You were supposed to do an exercise today that would be worth half your grade, but since you don't want to go…" He trailed off as he saw his friend bolt up from the bed.

"Shit, I forgot about that!" He yelled and quickly got out of bed to get ready.

00

"Hey, Izuru!" Renji yelled happily as he saw the blond and walked over to him with Ichigo right behind him.

Izuru smiled back at them. "Hey, I thought you were going to be late, since you guys didn't show up." He told them as Ichigo sat down in his seat and Renji sat on top of Izuru's.

"Well, we were since Renji didn't want to get up." Ichigo explained as he shot a glare towards the pineapple head and smiled amusedly as he saw his face redden and deny it profusely.

Izuru gave Ichigo a wry smile. "Well, whatever the case may be, you weren't late and we still have about ten minutes left."

Renji nodded. "So, what do you think we're going to be doing?" He asked curiously.

"Well, I heard a rumor that we'll be going to the World of the Living." He replied to him as he pursed his lips.

Ichigo frowned as he looked at them. "But I can't go, I have to go have mandatory lunch with my family at the Kuchiki's." He told them disappointedly.

Renji frowned at him. "But won't you get in trouble for that?" He asked worriedly.

The orange-haired boy shook his head. "No…my great-great-grandfather already talked to the school about it, so I'm going to make up for that with an essay on how to vanquish hollows." He told them as he looked away.

Renji was about to protest, but a loud female voice interrupted them. "Abarai, sit down! How many times do I have to tell you this? Honestly, you're a third year, stop acting like a first year!" The teacher yelled at him angrily.

The red head sighed and looked back at his friends. "I'll talk to you guys later." He whispered and quickly went back to his seat.

Ichigo smiled as he watched him and shook his head. I knew they would make good friends. He thought to himself happily. They become friends at the beginning of this year, when Izuru started helping Renji with his work, since then, they've been inseparable.

He looked up at the teacher when he heard her speak. "Alright, class, today you'll be going to the World of the Living. It's an exercise that's been done with the advanced class every year for the third years and up. This exercise is an end of the year project that's worth half your grade. Now, we'll be going to the roof where the Senkaimon is held. Kurosaki you'll be going, too, when they go through the Senkaimon, you can go home." She told him as she looked him in the eyes and pushed her glasses up to her nose.

Ichigo nodded in boredom and continued to listen to his teacher talk.

000

"First, allow us to introduce ourselves, I'm Shûhei Hisagi, 6th year." A tall black-haired boy said as he stood in front of the Senkaimon and in the middle of the other two 6th years.

The girl on the right followed. "I'm Kanisawa." She said coldly.

"I'm Aoga." The boy on the left told them.

The first boy started speaking again. "The three of us will be your guides for this exercise." He told them confidently.

Renji furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at his classmates and then at Izuru and Ichigo. "What's up? Why are they all gawking? Are they famous or something?" He asked in confusion.

Ichigo shrugged. "I don't know, I've never met any of them." He replied as he looked at Izuru for answers.

Izuru raised his eyebrow at them. "How do you not know? The one in the middle, everyone knows who he is. Shûhei Hisagi, they say he's been assigned to a post in the thirteen court guard squads, even before he graduates, that almost never happens. He's even supposed to be in line to become a ranked officer." He told them and shook his head as he saw Ichigo looking at Shûhei in awe.

The orange-haired boy blushed as he met Shûhei's eyes and the boy smiled at him. "Huh, no kidding?" He heard Renji asked and reluctantly turned away to focus on his friends.

Izuru continued as something struck inside himself and he smiled. "Strangely enough, he also failed the academy's entrance exam two times and given that my exam scores were highest in our class, I might be better than him." He told them and ignored the dirty looks his two friends were shooting him.

"Oh?" Renji asked skeptically.

Izuru was about to reply, but the girl continued. "Now listen up, we'll split up into groups of three and get ready to go. Everyone take out the lots you got when we first assembled, then find the two students who have the same mark as you have." She told them emotionlessly.

Renji looked at his piece of paper in wonder. "Ah, so that's what those little pieces of paper were." He said to himself as he stared at it.

His blond friends looked over his shoulder. "You and I are together, but who's our third?" He asked curiously.

"Ah, excuse me, I'm your third." A girl said behind them shyly as she smiled.

They turned around and Renji nodded. "Oh, it's you, hello Momo." He greeted her unsurely.

Izuru on the other hand, gave her a smile. "Welcome aboard." He told her happily and Ichigo smiled at them.

"Hey, you over there!" He heard Shûhei yell and turned around to see him coming towards him. "You don't have a group?" He asked curiously.

Ichigo shook his head. "No, I'm excused from this exercise." He replied as he blushed and licked his lips.

Shûhei nodded as he smiled at him. "Well, that's too bad." He told him disappointedly and gave him one last look, before he went back over to the Senkaimon.

Renji raised an eyebrow at him as he saw his red face. "What was that about?" He asked curiously.

The younger shook his head. "Nothing" He replied as he cleared his throat and looked up ahead.

Shûhei looked at everyone pointedly. "Alright, now that everyone's found their groups, we'll brief you on today's exercise. An advanced party of 6th year students has already entered the World of the Living and constructed a temporary barrier."

"Once inside that perimeter, each group will engage in practice combat with dummy hollows." Aoga continued after Shûhei.

The black-haired boy looked at all of them sternly as he continued. "The 6th year students are here only to create a combat ready environment for you. They will not assist in the combat itself, are we clear?" He asked expectedly and when he didn't receive a no, he said. "Then let's go."

"Yes, sir." Everyone, aside from Ichigo said in unison.

Shûhei turned to the Senkaimon. "Open!" He said loudly and watched it open.

Ichigo turned to his friends. "Well, I'll see you guys later." He told them and turned around when he saw them nod.

"Bye, Ichigo." Momo told him sweetly.

Ichigo turned towards her and gave her a warm smile. "Bye" He said, turned around and left to where his siblings were waiting for him.

A/N: So, what do you think? Please review.