Payton stepped out of the car and the first thing she was met with was Sebastian's back. She peeked around him to see him holding Sesshomaru's wrist tightly as the said demon glared into Sebastian's red eyes. Then Sebastian smiled, throwing Sesshomaru into confusion.

"It may not be wise to kill this girl…she may be our only way home…"

Sesshomaru stepped back and looked down at Payton, with disgust, and said, "This small human? What can she possibly do?"

"Hey, Hey, Hey! I'm right here y'know." The brunette said placing a hand on her hip. Once again, Sebastian went to block another attack, when the longer haired demon disappeared. At that moment, Payton grabbed her chest and cried out, sinking to the ground. She hyperventilated as her whole body shook, her color going white.

"Lady!" Sebastian knelt down in front of her, holding her still as she started to thrash around a bit. She began to calm down after a few minutes and focused enough to look up slowly at the man in front of her. She blinked slowly, seeing a small amount of worry in his eyes but brushed it off as imagination.

"What happened?" he questioned once he saw that she was coherent. His butler side of which he was used to as habit by now, kicked in as he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat gently from her small face.

"Too…much stress…" she held her head and she looked up when she felt him stop suddenly. He was staring at her in surprise. "….what?"

"Nothing…can you stand?" At her nod, he took her hand and helped up stand up and sit in her seat. He buckled her seat belt for her and then got in doing the same for himself. As she drove the rest of the way home, she still found it awkward to have a butler that insisted on doing things for her.

\m/

"What do you mean you have someone following you around?" Suigetsu blinked a few times as he stared at the girl as if she was crazy. They were alone in class at the moment. With the coming end and impending doom that came with the end of the senior year, one person from each 'team' went to school on separate days. Hey, it wasn't like they were worried about graduating or anything.

Sebastian, yes even after a week the man was still there, chuckled. "It seems I'm still invisible…that hurts just a bit."

Payton glared back at him, making it look like to the man actually there that she was glaring at a desk. "Look I don't know how to explain it, but he's there…and he won't fucking leave." Irritation showed on her face as she sunk low in her chair. She was looking more ill by the day, with 6 projects to finish, finals, graduation, NHS inductions, and anime, no one really blamed her.

"Are you sure you're not just hallucinating?" he chuckled, knowing that it wasn't very unlikely for her to do so.

Payton glared daggers at the boy and he blinked as she all but blew up at him. "Look, you're here in MY world bothering MY life. I'm trying to get some damn support here so either just fucking listen to me or don't bother talking to me!" she stood up and walked out of the room, saying she was going to the bathroom.

Suigetsu frowned and looked at the seat that Payton had been glaring at. Awkwardly, he whispered. "If someone's there…move this pencil…" he put a pencil on the desk and waited. After a few minutes, the pencil was placed back on his desk by what looked like air.

"Holy shit….now I feel like a douche…"

\m/

Payton watched as Sasori and Mello lifted another heavy-looking metal piece onto the contraption that looked like something from Stargate. She was there for moral support since she really couldn't do much. Konan, Karin, and Misa were sitting aside talking as they discussed how they find it odd that each of them came with a group of men. Payton tuned them out as she continued watching nearly everyone work on different parts of the machine that would hopefully end everything.

Luckily, last week, Sebastian was completely gone. She had been sitting in her mom's office as tornados blew all over where she lived and Sebastian was suddenly gone. She blamed/thanked the weather.

Her musings broke when a sudden ripping noise was heard and she opened her eyes to find that they had finished the machine and were testing it. Her eyes widened as the portal in it looked exactly like the one from her dream. She stood and it all happened in slow motion. She started running for the button when she was blew back by a gust of wind. She saw everyone turn, Juugo running and getting behind her, catching her and taking the force of impact on the wall.

"Turn it off!" she yelled franticly. By the time they did it was too late. In the middle of the room stood none other than the notorious Espada, glaring around the room, some with their swords out already. Aizen stood in the middle and looked directly at her, his eyebrow raising.

"The human realm? I'm afraid that we aren't ready to destroy it yet."

Payton stared in shock, her mouth gaping wide. The air in the room was so thick that it felt like it was suffocating her. So much tension…so much anime…she was done.

"That's it!" The attention was brought on her as she walked over and poked Aizen in the chest. "Easy way to say this: you're life is a TV show and you're in the world that created it. There!" she threw her hands up "Now all of you can fucking kill each other for all I care, but I'm done with this!" she turned and picked up her bags and walked to the door. "Don't even dare to try contacting me"

The door slammed and there was now only an awkward silence. Pein stood and walked to Aizen who stepped forward as well.

Pein nodded at him and stated, "What she says is true. For some reason, she's the key to getting us back home…do everyone a favor and order your pawns to a stalemate and help us in our efforts."

"How do you know that I'm the leader?"

"Because I'm one myself."

\m/

Payton didn't see anyone the following week, for the first three days. It let her focus on her projects and papers that were due. She wiped her nose again. She was developing a cold and she was so tense that she snapped at everyone.

She looked up and a hand flew over her mouth. She was met with blackness.

The girl opened her eyes a few minutes later and looked up. Her head was lying in Sasuke's lap, her feet rested on Juugo's. She also felt that she couldn't move her arms or ankles and discovered that both men were gently but firmly holding them down.

"Really now?"

"Be quiet" a voice said sharply from the front. She looked up to see that they were in her van, Mello driving it in the front. She blinked seeing that Nnoitra and Grimmjow were in the two seats in front of her, normally clothed, and that Konan was in the front seat, a bag in her hands, Payton's bag that held her clothing.

"Whoever said that should take the stick out of their ass and tell me what the fuck is up." Payton replied sharply.

"She's got a mouth on her…" Grimmjow chuckled, looking back at the immobilized girl.

"….This is awkward….It's not like I'm going to jump out a moving car…and his gigantic legs block the way so….yeah let me up."

Sasuke grunted and she was released. She sat up stretching. "Now…I have three projects due this week…tell me what's so important."