The author of this fanfic doesn't own Bleach or it's characters, and doesn't own Sora or sea salt ice cream, but she does own Sakura, Tamaki, Ryukuro, and Kurotama! They're her's, so please don't use without her permission ^_^ Thank you all for reading this far! Please stay tuned!

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GET LOST

"Look you big ape, you got us lost!" Byakuya muttered, staring at a device in his hand. Kenpachi swiveled to glare at him.

"I'm not the one with her power limiter detector! Hoity toity princess!" he spat at Byakuya. "I can't believe we're lost! Yachiru isn't even leading me, it's this hoity toity princess, and we still managed to get lost!" He gestured angrily at the surrounding forest. Mayuri had stopped them before they had left Seireitei and handed Byakuya a detector, claiming that it would lead them straight to Sakura. 'So much for that.' Kenpachi thought, pacing.

"Hold on. I'm picking up the signal again. This way." Byakuya said calmly as he flash-stepped away.

"ARGHHH! WAIT UP YOU PRICK!" Kenpachi bellowed, running after him. Byakuya slowed to keep pace with Kenpachi, and sighed.

"This would be so much easier if you were faster. Or better yet, if you weren't with me." He mocked, then began to speed up again. 'When I get my hands on you, you are so dead pretty boy!' the thought raged inside of Kenpachi as he tried to keep up with Byakuya. And then had to skid to a halt before he accidently ran over the shorter man.

"What the hell's wrong with-"

"We're here." Byakuya interrupted. Kenpachi looked around, but only noticed that there was a break in the tree line, and a nearby meadow. Something flashed through his head, but he pushed it to the back of his head. Sakura was the only thing that mattered, and she was nowhere in sight.

"Where is here, pretty princess?" Kenpachi asked, grabbing the detector from Byakuya's hand. Byakuya ignored Kenpachi's question, and instead seemed to grip thin air, before tearing away an illusion of the forest. Before them, glowing with a residual blue and violet color of the illusion, lay what seemed to be a stone mansion.

"Noren Mekuri. It's a disillusion kido. We need to move quickly. They'll know that we've broken the illusion." Byakuya said.

"Hmph. Not a problem," grinned Kenpachi, throwing the detector behind him. "I could really use a workout to wake me up. Besides that, I really need to see some blood." His eyes glittered in anticipation. Byakuya looked at Kenpachi out of the corner of his eye.

"Don't lose your cool. I heard how you lost your head the last time, and now is definitely not the time for a stupid act like that."

Kenpachi glared at him. "Are you trying to make me lose it?!"

Kenpachi with the blue eyes was cutting her once more as he breached her over and over, while on her other side, Kurotama had bitten her neck again with fanged teeth, and was raking her sharpened fingernails over Sakura's body. At some point she had stopped feeling anything, had stopped caring. She had given up.

All at once the door flung open, and her two captors sprang to their feet in a defensive motion.

"Milady, Sir, I know you told us not to interrupt you, but there are two shinigami here, taking down our men like they were nothing but dirt!" the man who had intruded said in a distorted voice. Kenpachi rushed to the pile of clothing on the floor and started pulling things on, while Kurotama retrieved a katana and a familiar set of gauntlets from behind the chair. Just as Kenpachi had finished putting the gauntlets on, the man who had been sent back out to stand guard burst through the room, landing next to Sakura who was sitting against the wall, oblivious to her surroundings.

"This is quite the set-up you've got going on here. Got enough bodies in here?" asked a familiar voice. As Sakura registered who it belonged to, she began trembling. Kenpachi loomed in the doorway, grinning as though it was an ordinary day, until he saw Sakura. Now she huddled against the wall, trying to hide from him, tears spilling from her cheeks. Blood still flowed freely from the many wounds inflicted on her body. He ignored the other two in the room, and crossed the room to Sakura's side.

"Come here, you…" he said as gently as he could, trying not to let his fury show through his voice, but she still flinched away from his touch. Kenpachi sighed, and with a single fluid motion removed his upper garments and settled them around her.

"What's wrong Ken-chan? Did I break something of yours again?" Ryukuro taunted, annoyed at being ignored. Kenpachi stood up slowly, and gripped at his eye-patch.

"What's wrong, Ryu-chan? Did you get abandoned again?" Kenpachi uttered back. Ryukuro looked around and noticed for the first time that Kurotama wasn't in the room.

"I don't need her to kill you." Ryukuro spat in retaliation, and attacked Kenpachi with the claws of his gauntlets. Kenpachi dodged back and removed his eye-patch. Pure power exploded through the room. Ryukuro bent from the exertion of trying to not go to his knees. Sakura on the other hand, closed her eyes at the feeling. Warmth surrounded her, wrapping her in a tight blanket. Comforting warmth. She felt herself being nudged, but decided to ignore it, and concentrated on the warmth that held her.

"You are Sakura, right?" her eyes opened slowly, and a handsome man stood before her. She stared at him, unable to comprehend his words. "Kenpachi, she seems to be incoherent. I'm going to go on ahead." From somewhere behind her an assent was muttered, and before she could grasp the situation, she had been picked up and was being carried out of the room. She looked about and saw piles of bodies strewn about. She squeezed her eyes shut before she could even think of nausea, until she felt the cool fresh air, could smell the forest around them. She carefully opened her eyes to a multicolored sky, making the forest gleam with orange light.

"You'll be fine now." The man carrying her said, walking through the meadow to the forest at the other side. Sakura, soothed by his words, was quickly rocked into a deep sleep.

Kenpachi: Well shit.

Akai: …You really suck.

Kenpachi: It's not my fault! Blame her! *points at me*

Me: No it's not! It was, uh….that guy! *points at random Sora*

Sora: What, wait, what?!

Akai: *evil* MWHAHAHA!

Sora: OHMYGODOHNOGAAAAAAHHHH!

Me: and if anyone gets the reference, I will gives you a cookie. Um. Somehow? =^_^;;= Nyao?