I know it's short, but lately I've been getting some really sweet reviews so I wanted to post, because I really was touched, so that's why it's so short... *bow* thank you!

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"Up... About six rows up... He sat right behind them."

"I need you to think, really hard. What. Did. He. Look. Like?" The cat-woman's eyes were glowing with anger, wiether it be at herself, for allowing this little slip up, or at Renji, for being stupid and not recognizing the trouble, or at everything, for simply existing. "Come on."

Renji thought, and he thought hard, but nothing was happening in his mind. "I don't know! How would I remember something like that?!"

Yoruichi was losing her cool. She needed answers and she needed them now. "Did he have hair like Ayame's!?"

"No. He was a man."

When pigs flew was when Yoruichi decided Renji was named intelligent. Sure, she figured, he could fight decently, but the lack of brain set him back. Far back. "Hair color."

"Oh yeah. He did. I think. Maybe."

"Yes or no."

"Yo."

"Be serious asshole! Did he or didn't he?!"

"He did have hair like Ayame's."

"And eyes?"

"I forgot to check when I stared deeply into his eyes."

"Did he look like Ayame? At all? In anyway?"

"He did. You could tell he was her dad."

"And this didn't strike you as odd?" Yeah. She decided that the blame was going to be put on him. She really didn't want the answer. "Nevermind. Go get the ice cream." She herself was just about to go get the cake from the fridge, but someone in the store part of the building knocked over something, so she had to go investigate. People really just never understood what the hanging 'closed' sign on the doors actually meant. As in 'closed'. Being stealthy, as she wasn't exactly sure who was there, she glanced through a window to see some people she really never expected to see. Especially now. And she wasn't exactly sure why they were there, but they were there. All five of the higher places of the eleventh division of the thirteen protection squads. There was the scary one, the cute one, the bald one, the pretty one, and the one no one really talks about. They were also known as taicho, fuku-taicho, and third, fourth, and fifth seats. Or Kenpachi Zaraki, Kusajishi Yachiru, Ikkaku Madarame, Ayasegawa Yumichika, and Mazaki Aramaki. "What the hell are you guys doing here?" She was less than blunt.

"Well! Yoru-yoru-chan! Ken-chan gotta message from Yama-je-kun and he said you guys were doin' some suspicious questions 'bout some bad thingies! So we gotta make sure ya don't do weirdo things!" Yachiru said with excitement as she climbed up to the top of her captain's head.

"Huh...." Was Yoruichi's reaction. It seemed strange that the commander would even take interest in their little problem. They were used to them always hacking into their research records, so she was wondering why they would even care. She figured the head honcho's knew something they hadn't found out yet. She wanted to ask all the questions she really needed answers to, but it was Ayame's birthday, and if an attack was going to come, it wouldn't come so soon, so she decided to hold off all questions.

"And we heard there was cake!" The pink haired girl added, not that she needed to hear about cake, the girl could probably smell it from the next world. "I want cake!"

"It's a birthday party..." Slowly Yoruichi talked, to give herself extra time to think things through. If the commander knew something bad was approaching, really bad, then that would be why Zaraki was there. Though, she wasn't sure how much she should say to them, and thought about their reactions. Zaraki would be psyched about a big fight coming, the other boys wouldn't care about their illegal war, and Yachiru would just simply adore being with Ayame. "You're welcome to come."

"Who's birthday?!" The younger girl grinned, already pulling on her captain's hair to make him move forward. "I already got a present!" When everyone raised a brow, she just laughed and said, "I always have a present! Now make her tell me who it is Kenny!"

Zaraki didn't need to say anything, or even look menacing -though Yoruichi knew she could take him- for her to oblige. She was going to say anyway. "It's for a girl named H...Ayame. Want to see her?"

"Oh yes! Show me the cake!"

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Ayame was having a good time with Urahara, sitting in between his legs on the dusty ground as he talked about nothing in particular. The other's were setting up a table somewhere else, trying to be discrete, which was easy because she wasn't that observant in the first place. To prove that, she was even drawing little doodles in the dirt. Kisuke felt Zaraki Kenpachi's reitsu pretty quickly, and it confused him, but he show it. He was thinking on the same path as Yoruichi. wondering why he, and his team, were even there. And just like Yoruichi, he suspected that the presence of the blood thirsty squad meant that the trouble around Ayame was going to get much worse. Under human circumstances, he would have told the other's about the added guests upstairs, but he knew they could feel the large man was upstairs. "Ayame-chan, there are some more people I would like you to meet, and they came to celebrate your birthday too, okay?"

"Oh of course! I love meeting new people, for the most part," she said, tracing lines on the palm of his hand. She loved playing with his hands, so when they were sitting and he offered her his hand to play with, she gladly accepted. "Are they your friends?"

Urahara wasn't sure exactly why they were here. He knew obviously if they were there to hurt her or take her, they would have already moved in and taken her away. Though if the commander called them to attack her, she must be something fierce if they sent squad eleven, or they anticipated her being protected, or they knew that her father was trying to take her as well. There were many things to be considered. If they were here to just observe what they were doing, then he figured he could use them to protect her just in case. Then again, the commander could get new information and order her death at any moment. He'd have to watch out for that. "More or less."

"Oh, okay!"

"Ayame! Kisuke! Come on over to the table!"

Upon hearing Yoruichi calling them, Urahara helped his little friend to her feet and pulled her by the hand. Not that she minded. Ayame wasn't sure what was going on, but she was happy, just plain happy. When the table came into view, the first thing she saw was the massive man towering over, well, everything. Next was the tiny girl perched on his head, what shocked her most was the bright sakura hair on her head. She was adorable in Ayame's opinion. Next was a bald man, a very pretty man in orange, and an older man who looked like he wasn't sure what he was doing. "Ayame-chan, I'd like you to meet Zaraki-taicho, Kusajishi-fuku-taicho, Ikkaku, Ayasegawa, and... I always forget his name..."

Before the said nameless man could yell, the pink haired girl jumped off of her captain's head, on to Ikkaku's, and then she leaped right in front Ayame and Kisuke. "Hi! Call me Yachiru! We're gonna be besties!"

"O-okay...N-nice t-to meet y-you Yachiru..."Ayame's cheeks were turning bright red, not used to people offering their first names so quickly. She was nervous, and Kisuke could tell by how hard she was squeezing his hand, which wasn't much in comparison to a healthy twenty year old. He knew the reason was because of Yachiru's boldness, but he also realized that Zaraki's intense aura was very intimidating for her, so he pulled her hand so she was closer and a tiny bit behind him. Her hand loosened a little, so he could tell that his actions had worked. "A-and everyone e-el-else as we-well..."

Zaraki eyeballed the little Hanako, staring her down. "Suzukyo Mayu."

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Well, to be honest, I wasn't sure exactly where I was going to go wit this, but now I have an idea so hopefully I'll be ambitous and think up some more. Thanks again to everyone who reviewed, you didn't have to but you did any way, and that just made me smile, which I really needed lately, so thanks :]