Finding Friendship
Pillow Punked

"I think the English song Another Brick in the Wall is fitting for this situation." Candace sat on the wooden porch outside of the room the Kuchiki clan provided for the four girls. The taller of the two blonde females worried her lip in an attempt not to loose control of her anger. She watched as the sun rose up. "Plus... I ain't no child."

"That Shinigami said this would mean there would be more Quincy in the Shinigami Kids Society." Meninas pulled the Chappy pillow Rukia provided her closer to her chest.

"It's called the Shinigami Kids Society, not the Quincy Kids Society." Liltotto rolled her eyes while she picked at the Japanese sweets. The corners of her mouth turned down as she wasn't able to have her usual favorites when it came to treats.

Bambietta stared at the wall. "We don't have anything to do with Shinigami. Period. Not even their academy students. No... especially their students from that stupid academy."

Candace raised an eyebrow. "I might just join to spite you and make you mad."

"We're not being given a choice... are we?" Meninas puled the pillow even closer. "They want to foster better relationships between Quincy and Shinigami. Is that such a bad thing?"

"As if Quincy and Shinigami can have good relationships with each other." Bambietta continued to stare at the wall. "I hate them. I really hate the Shinigami. I hate that stupid academy even more."

Liltotto let out a deep breath. "Can you stop with the Shinigami hate already? We all hate the Shinigami. I get the reason why you hate the Shinigami,"

"Do you have any idea why she hates the academy?" Candace leaned back so she was looking backwards.

"No clue. That's actually new."

"That Kuchiki Rukia is nice though." Meninas muttered into her pillow.

"She's only being nice to brainwash us."

"Yeah... I might just join to spite you and see you foaming at the mouth. Did getting turned into a zombie damage your brain or something?" Candace turned around and slid her legs so they were no longer hanging off the edge of the wooden porch.

"Don't club meetings have nice treats and fun games." Meninas closed her eyes. "I'm bored."

"All of us are bored." Liltotto made to roll her eyes only to stop when something the magenta haired Quincy said. "Wait... nice treats? I would join for that."

"Sell outs."

A grin spread across Candace's face. "I guess you'll be the only one left out. Well.. except for Gigi." The older blond watched as Bambietta turned to look at her with a horrified face. "You don't like Gigi anymore, do you." The violet haired female's head snapped around as she tried to ignore the older female. Candace frowned. "That Shinigami will be there." Bambieta turned her head slowly back to look at the other girl, her eyes widening as the thought hit her. "He is after all a child. You can tease him all you want."

"Fine. I'll join too." Bambietta snapped her head around and leaned on one knee as she went back to sulking.

The quarters of the tenth division captain was dark as the small taicho lay on the bed. One arm was underneath his body as Toshiro snored softly. The sound of his soul phone went off causing the young taicho to sit up with a jerking movement. This caused Toshiro to let out a wincing sound do to his movements causing him pain. The white haired youths entire body tensed up only for his shoulders to relax when he realized it was in fact his phone. His hand reached out for the phone just as the mattress next to him shifted.

Toshiro's bright teal eyes took in the name of the incoming caller and blinked a couple of times. His small body tensed up again when he heard Ichigo's voice from behind him. "Toshiro... who is it."

"It's..." The young taicho's eyes darted towards Ichigo and then back to the phone. His head also jerked in a tense manner and his hand went back to grip his neck. His bright teal eyes widened as Ichigo yanked the phone out of Toshiro's hand.

"Yukio?"

Toshiro turned to look at Ichigo as the orange haired teen blinked a couple of times. A gurgling sound was heard from his mouth as he tried reaching for the phone. Ichigo of course moved slightly so that the young taicho instead ended up sprawled across Ichigo's lap. Toshiro let his face fall into the mattress of the bed as he let out a groan. His body tensed up due to how sore his body happened to feel.

"Hello?" Ichigo blinked a couple of times. "Yes. It's me. The person that killed that person. Why are you calling Toshiro of all people."

"Kurosaki..."

The orange haired teen blinked a couple of times before looking down at the small taicho who was sitting up in a rather stiff manner while rubbing the back of his neck. "Sure. I can put you onto speaker phone. Let me turn on the light so I can see what I'm doing with Toshiro's phone."

The light switched on and Ichigo stared at Toshiro. A hand reached out to ruffle the white head of hair as the orange haired teen let out a sigh. He fiddled with the phone and changed it to the speaker function and placed the phone on the nightstand. Yukio's voice came over the phone. "I've been trying to get through for over a week now. This means something happened in Soul Society, doesn't it?"

Toshiro looked away and ground his teeth from frustration. "What does it matter?"

"Aren't we friends?"

"Not really." The small taicho moved to sitting in a traditional kneeling position. "What exactly do you want?"

"I want you to try out another one of my new games."

Toshiro swallowed as the color left his face. "If it means being zapped into your game again then the answer is no."

Ichigo's eyebrow's went up with amusement as Yukio continued to speak. "That means the answer is yes if I don't zap you into the game."

"That..." Toshiro looked up in time to see Ichigo's face suddenly twist up with amusement. "This isn't funny Kurosaki."

"I think this is hysterical. I think it is great that you've made a friend."

"We're not friends. He sees me as a guinea pig of sorts. It's rather irritating, particularly when I have better things to do."

"Come on. I do in fact think of you as friend. And what do you mean you have better things to do. Are you referring to hitting on Karen-chan? Because..."

"I do not hit Kurosaki's sister! If I laid a hand on her she would beat me up!" This statement from Toshiro caused a silence to fall over the room. Ichigo blinked a couple of times before falling backwards laughing. The small taicho's face suddenly paled. "What... what did I say wrong?"

A sigh from Yukio came over the phone. "What I said just went over your head Toshiro."

"Hitsugaya!"

"So you don't want to be friends?"

"That's not what I said! We're not yet friends. There is a difference."

Ichigo sat up. "I'm sorry Yukio. There are certain things that go over Toshiro's head."

"Shut up Kurosaki. You're not helping."

Yukio spoke over the speaker. "As I said... I have another game for you to try out. When is the next time you're going to be in the world of the living?"

"The next..." Toshiro quickly chocked as his bright teal eyes darted to the door. "I'm busy."

"Busy? Doing what?"

Ichigo frowned as he leaned forward as a frown spread across his face. "Sorry Yukio. Toshiro's not able to come because he is unable to leave his quarters at this point in time.

"What? He isn't under house arrest is he?"

The orange haired teen looked up at Toshiro with a frown on his face. "No..."

Toshiro looked at Ichigo with horror, his mouth twisting down. "You shouldn't have said that."

Yukio grumbled from the other side. "Exactly what happened?"

"None of your business!"

"What ever you floats your boat. I guess I'll have to try and find a way to get to Soul Society."

"Don't you dare! I'll be in a lot of trouble if you do that!"

"Ah. Here's the real reason you can't admit we're friends. You're afraid of what other people will think."

"I am not! You do realize that some people will try to kill you if you come here."

Ichigo's mouth twisted down in a frown. "Actually... I don't think there would be anyone who would object to Yukio showing up. I mean... most of the people who might have... Yamamoto for example... are dead." Toshiro raised a finger to his mouth to try and shush the orange haired teen only to find himself falling to the bed and letting out a sound indicating he was in pain. His two bright teal eyes glared at Ichigo. The orange haired teen let out a deep sigh. "Sure... now you've got plenty of sleep and can now throw death glares at me."

"The head taicho is dead? Interesting..." Yukio's voice continued to come out over the speaker phone. Toshiro quickly dove for the phone and shut it off.

Ichigo let out a deep sigh. "That was rather rude you know."

"I don't care if it was rude!" Toshiro snapped. "I don't want Vorarlberna knowing that I am unable to leave my own room! Do you know how close you came to blurting that out?"

"Sorry..."

"You're not sorry! You're a jerk."

"Ahh... so you're mad at me again."

"I am not." The small taicho's eyes blinked a couple of times. "All right. Maybe I am. Just... make sure he stays away!"

Ichigo took a deep breath before flopping back down onto the bed. "I don't know about you, but I want to get some more sleep."

Toshiro quickly grabbed a pillow and hit the orange haired teen on the head before flopping down letting out a hiss of pain. The small taicho rolled over so he wouldn't have to look at Ichigo and pulled his blanket over his shoulders in a defensive manner.

A pink blur hurtled through the halls of the forth divisions makeshift accommodations. The small fukutaicho of the forth division still wore the nurses cap on top of her head and a smile spread across her face. She hurried into the room Ikkaku and Yumichika were in. "Hi baldy! Yun-yun!"

Ikkaku felt the corner of his eye twitch. "Kusajishi Fukutaicho... what do we owe this pleasure for."

"Did you know Aniki got turned into a zombie?"

Yumichika frowned at the small girl. "Why are you acting like that is a good thing?"

"It isn't?" Yachiru placed a finger to her mouth. "Zombies are cool though. I watched a bunch of zombie movies the other day with my second second chairwoman in command."

Ikkaku let out an irritated sound. "That sounded weird."

"Shut up baldy. Zombie's are cool. They have weirdly colored skin. Did Aniki have strangely colored skin."

"No," Ikkau said while Yumichika said yes. The two looked at each other frowning.

"It can't be both. Which is it?"

The third seat of the eleventh division rolled his eyes. "Being a zombie isn't a cool thing. We ended up attacked by Hitsugaya Taicho."

"You're just mad Aniki beat you when he played with you guys." The small girl bounced from one bed to another.

"He wasn't playing with us." Yumichika snapped.

"He fought you didn't he?"

Ikkaku sighed. "Kusajishi Fukutaicho... I want you to listen to me very carefully." He watched as two dark pink eyes turned to glare at him. "He wasn't playing a game with us. It was the person who was using him as a doll."

Yachiru folded her arms across her chest. "How is that fair? That's two on one."

"Actually... the fight was two on two." Yumichika's tone of voice came across as bitter.

"You're not helping." Ikkaku shook his head. He turned to Yachiru. "That person made Hitsugaya Taicho do things he wouldn't normally do. You know full well he wouldn't attack a friend."

"Oh... yeah. That's true. Aniki wouldn't do that. That is why he is my Aniki. He's nice to me and treats me like a little sister. He even plays games with me. Except the game Kenny likes to play." Yachiru frowned. "You mean that person treated Aniki like a doll?"

"Yes. You could say that." Ikkaku looked away from the girl and crossed his arms across his chest.

"That's really mean!"

Yumichika let out a deep breath. "Can we talk about anything else? Don't you have any other kind of news?"

"Yes. We're going to have a Shinigami Kids Society." Yachiru bounced again from one bed to another and back again. "We're going to make friends with the Quincy."

Both male members of the eleventh division paled. The fifth seat frowned at the girl. "With the Quincy?"

"The girls are actually very nice. One of the girls is almost as short as I am. Another's name is candy. Another has hair that looks like mouse so I am going to call her Mouse."

Yumichika blinked a couple of times. "Mouse?"

"I think she means moouse."

"No! I mean mouse!" Yachiru took the pillow from behind Yumichika's back and bounced over to the other bed and hit Ikkaku over the head.

"Hey! Stop that!"

"Stupid baldy!" The pillow came down on his head again.