A.N.: This is written in collaboration with BlueShard20.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.

Chapter Eleven

Karakura Town

The streets were empty as Bambietta walked alongside Ichigo. Behind them were the sounds of the festival that was still alive with activity. After lighting their balloons and partaking of Orihime's cute bomb-bread Ichigo invited Bambietta to come have dinner at his house. Knowing that her mother was probably still out with Kaoru and that she hated heating up leftovers from the fridge Bambietta accepted, the bread doing little to quell her appetite.

But along the way though, Bambietta soon found herself having a bit of a problem. While Bambi was walking she couldn't help but feel that her kimono was starting to get a little tight in the chest and that her boobs were bouncing. 'Mama said that she wore this when she was my age. So why is it so freaking tight around my chest?! She shouldn't be that different from me!'

Sweat rolled down Bambietta's back when she felt like her boobs were going to pop out of her top. She gave a quick glance to Ichigo, who thankfully wasn't noticing her dilemma and put a hand over her top to keep her breasts from spilling out. 'And what's worse I can't stop to readjust my kimono because of this damn wind!' she thought as the winds whipped around her and Ichigo. Looking down at her chest she couldn't help but notice that her boobs seemed bigger than usual. 'I think eating Orihime's food might be making my chest get bigger.'

Unfortunately for Bambietta, Ichigo happened to notice her struggling with her top and was trying admirably not to stare at her cleavage. 'Don't stare, Ichigo!' he kept telling himself as he led Bambietta along the sidewalk. 'If she catches you staring at her boobs she'll knock your teeth out!'

When the Kurosaki clinic came into view both Ichigo and Bambietta let out a sigh of relief. "I don't know how much you know about my family but…my dad can be a bit…" Ichigo thought up the word that best described his father, "crazy."

Bambietta knew all about Isshin Kurosaki but she didn't know what he meant by that statement. She soon learned what he meant as soon as Ichigo opened the door…and suddenly went flying by a dropkick to the face.

Dressed in a festival yukata of his own, Isshin laughed as his son sprawled onto the sidewalk. "Getting slow, aren't you?" he laughed before noticing he had a guest standing in the doorway. "Oh! Hello there," he greeted. "Are you a friend of my son's?" he asked, not recognizing Ichigo's new classmate.

"This is Bambietta," Ichigo introduced after he picked himself up off the ground and came up the step, nursing his sore cheek. "She's Ikumi's daughter and my new classmate."

"Hi," Bambietta replied while shaking Isshin's hand. "Um…do you always kick your son in the face?" she asked out of curiosity. She knew that Isshin was a former Soul Reaper captain but very little in the Vandenreich Daten on him described his parenting.

Ichigo sighed. "All day. Every day."

"Hey! If I didn't sneak attack you then how would you ever be ready for real life?" Isshin retorted.

"What part of kicking me in the face is a part of real life?!"

Bambietta couldn't help but giggle at the argument. 'A crazy dad, crazy Soul Reaper friends and a crazy boss that's my mom. How did Ichigo not turn out crazy himself?' she wondered to herself.

Isshin stepped to the side and allowed Ichigo to enter with his guest. "I'll tell Yuzu we're having company." With that he entered the kitchen to tell his daughter the good news.

Bambietta walked into the living room and saw that it wasn't empty. Karin Kurosaki, wearing a t-shirt and shorts after getting out of her heavy yukata, blinked in surprise when she saw a girl standing next to Ichigo. "Um…hi?" Karin said, a little shocked to see that her brother had brought a girl home with him.

"Karin, this is Bambietta Unagiya. She's my new classmate," Ichigo introduced as Bambietta took a seat in a chair.

Karin gave her guest a small smile before turning to her brother and raising an eyebrow. "Wow, Ichigo. You finally brought a girl home for dinner. And here I thought we'd never see that."

Ichigo scowled. "What about Rukia? Or Nozomi?"

"I mean a girl who's not here to stay with us."

Bambietta saw someone come out of the kitchen and saw that it was Karin's twin sister, Yuzu Kurosaki. "Hi there!" the happy girl beamed. "It's so nice to meet you!"

"Hi," Bambietta said before looking around. "Hey, where's your dad?" Ichigo rolled his eyes and cocked a thumb towards the wall. When Bambietta turned she saw the Kurosaki father crying at a huge poster of Ichigo's' mother, Masaki.

"Oh Masaki! Our son's becoming a man finally! I'm so happy! We finally have a fourth daughter now!"

Bambietta deadpanned. "Wow…you weren't kidding. He is crazy."

"You have no idea…."

The Next Day….
Karakura High School

The bell rang and ended another day for the teens in the classroom. As Ichigo packed his bag and prepared to head home for the day Uryu walked up behind him. Though it went against his nature to go for help, Uryu knew he had to swallow his pride and tell Ichigo of Ryuken's threat to Bambietta. "Ichigo," he addressed as he stood behind him. Making sure to keep his voice down, Uryu looked at his friend with urgent eyes. "We need to talk."

Ichigo could tell from the seriousness in Uryu's eyes how urgent this was. Looking over to Chad, Orihime and Bambietta, Ichigo nodded and they stood with their backs to them, speaking in a low voice. "What's the matter?"

"My dad is what's the matter," Uryu said, pushing his glasses up. "He came to me last night while you were at the Oban festival. He's…" he gave a glance to Bambietta, who was in the middle of packing her bag. "He threatened to kill Bambietta," he said bluntly.

Ichigo's eyes widened and his heart raced. "What?! Why?"

"Keep your voice down!" the Quincy admonished. "He sees Bambietta as Yhwach's last remaining legacy. He told me that if I do anything to stop her, he would."

Shaking his head, Ichigo merely looked at his friend in disbelief. "But it's been almost three months since Bambietta was brought here!" he insisted, "She hasn't done anything wrong!"

"That's…not quite true," Uryu reluctantly admitted. Reaching into his bag he pulled out the papers Ryuken gave him the night before. "You remember those punks you met with Bambietta under the bridge?"

"Yeah? Why?"

"Take a look?" Uryu said, handing over the papers to Ichigo. When Ichigo read the reports and saw just how bad the punks Bambietta beat the hell out of were in. "I know that they had it coming but Ryuken saw it as evidence of Bambietta's instability."

Looking over the papers Ichigo realized just how bad this looked for Bambietta. "We need to keep an eye on Bambi. And your dad."

"Agreed. I'll keep an eye on Ryuken and alert you if I see him try to pull something. You keep watch over Bambi and…" Uryu saw something in his peripheral vision that made him curse. "Oh no!" When Ichigo turned to see what Uryu was looking at he gasped as well: Bambietta's seat was empty.

"Dammit!" Ichigo cursed, grabbing his bag. "She must've left while we were busy talking."

Both the Soul Reaper and Uryu dashed out of the classroom, ignoring the eyes of their confused classmates. "I'll go find Ryuken! You go find Bambietta!" Uryu said before taking off running. Ichigo went in the opposite way, heading for Ikumi's house and hoping that his friend was safe.

Meanwhile….

Bambietta didn't go straight home after leaving school. She had too much on her mind and wanted to take a nice walk to clear her head. Using Hirenkyaku she journeyed into a forested area, slowly climbing her way up the stone steps along the way slowly.

Sighing, Bambietta looked up at the sky and wondered how Orihime was holding up. She hadn't talked to Orihime since yesterday and Bambietta could see that her friend was still hurt from Ichigo's rejection. Tatsuki questioned her over lunch about it and while she did get angry her anger was more towards Ichigo rather than Bambietta, much to her surprise.

The slow afternoon walk progressed until Bambietta found herself in a cemetery. Bambietta chuckled morbidly. "Looks like no matter where I go, I always find the dead." She walked along the tombstones before soon sensing something coming from one. It felt…familiar.

Walking towards this particular headstone, Bambietta read the righting on the stone and became saddened when she saw whose grave she stood before: Masaki Kurosaki. "Ichigo's mother…." She held out her hand and touched the tombstone, feeling the vestiges of Ichigo's spirit energy. "He must come here often…."

Bambietta knew who Masaki was. The Daten on Ichigo included the detail that Ichigo lost his mother who protected him from a sorry excuse of a hollow at the cost of her own powers. Looking at the grave Bambietta felt the familiar grip of sadness take her heart. "If he didn't take your powers back then, you would still be here."

Though he hadn't mentioned his mother much, Bambietta knew how much it still Ichigo still felt the pain of his mother's loss. IT made Bambietta's hatred for Yhwach grow even more. 'You liar…' she bitterly thought, 'You take and take. You never considered us children. We were just pawns. You never planned on keeping your promise.'

The lonely Bambietta looked up at the sky and her mind thought back to the past few months of her new life. Her resurrection and reunion with her mother and brother. Meeting her new friends and enjoying a normal life, free from Yhwach. Meeting Ichigo and spending time with both him and his whacky family. Remembering her crazy meeting with his father made Bambietta giggle, coming to understand how Ichigo struggled to maintain his sanity with such an insane father.

Looking down at the grave, she knew it was pointless but decided to do it anyway. She decided to ask it a question. "Do I…deserve to be a part of this life?" she wondered. "With Ichigo and Mama and everyone else?" She knew that she wasn't going to get any answers…except she got one.

"No. You don't."

Bambietta whirled around to see who it was and saw that the mystery speaker was Ryuken Ishida.

Brown eyes widened in horror when Bambietta saw the silver bow in the man's hands, already drawn back. Before she could get a single word out of her mouth Ryuken fired.

To be continued