Author's Note: Be prepared ;)

"Ikkaku I'm a kill ur stupid fucking ass!" I screamed, hurtling the wooden sword at the deeply blushing and embarrassed Squad 11 member. It hit him smack in the forehead and he immediately fell on his back, gasping. Grasping my chest, I looked down at it and opened my Shihakusho to examine my brilliantly red boob. Seeing the perfect outline of his wooden sword, I growled when I realized it would stay bruised like that for a long time. And there is no way I am asking Orihime to heal my tit. "Dammit, Ikkaku! This shit is going to bruise!" I yelled at him as he busted out with a nose bleed. Eye twitching, I Shunpoed over and smashed his face with my foot as he hissed out apologies. "You better be sorry." I told him darkly as he fell unconscious. Sending a vicious glare to everyone else in the room, they all flinched back and screamed apologies.

"Huh? What is this?" Hearing Kenpachi's voice, I immediately slammed my open Shihakusho closed and redid it. "A woman yelling at my Squad…?" He questioned, the doors to the training room having not yet opened. "It could only be…" The started to creak open as I looked on in horror, backing up as one of the Squad members kindly opened the window for me. Stepping outside, I squeezed in sheer terror as he broke through the doors. "Sydney!" Licking his lips as Yachiru laughed loudly on his back, his Zanpakuto slammed into where I had been as I fled out the window, screaming bloody murder.

"Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit!" I repeatedly screamed, having no other words to describe the deep shit I was in right now. Turning a corner and spying a sweeping Hanataro, I immediately grabbed him.

"Wha- wha-" Kenpachi slammed around the corner, making me increase my running speed as I darted between Unohana and Isane. "Aaaaah! Monster!" Hanataro screamed out as I continued to run. Rounding a few more corners, I let him down gently as we panted. Seeing him come around the corner, we both held our breath and pressed against the wall of the small alcove we were in. Patting his shoulder and giving him thumbs up, I used Sonido to escape while he gasped before clamping his hands over his mouth.

-x-x-x-x-x

Calmly sipping tea as I sat between Yumichika and Iba, my red hair blew in the breeze created by Kenpachi slamming through the entire wall around the corner in attempts to catch Sydney. Sighing pleasantly while the other two sweat dropped, they paused before going back to their conversation.

"So she told you to get stronger?" Iba asked me to make sure.

I nodded, taking another sip of tea. "With Aizen knowing the future, we have to be stronger than what would've originally worked – he'll most likely be using Evolueren on his team now. Just like she explained." I told him, relaying information.

The other two fell silent as I took another sip. "I see…" Iba eventually said. "So you're here to learn too?" He asked and I nodded.

"This is the best fighting Squad in the whole Sereitei." Yumichika agreed as Uryu walked around the corner, eyes lingering on the large whole he had passed before eyeing me. I stood up automatically and brushed myself off, walking towards him. "Huh? Where're you going? I thought you came here to train?" Yumichika questioned, picking up my tea and placing it on the tray.

"I did come here to train – but I wanna train with Uryu," looking up at him I blushed lightly as he warmly smiled. "Too."

-x-x-x-x-x

"Komamura." I called the Captain, pausing just as the hill started to dip. He was standing at a grave with a lieutenant next to him – both of them looked at me questioningly. "Would you like to train with me?" I asked, smiling lightly. "Sydney says we need to be much, much stronger – Aizen knows the future too, after all." I told them. They gazed at me, each of them wrapped up in their own thoughts. It is now common knowledge amongst the Captains and lieutenants that she knows the future.

"Is it all right if I come too?" The lieutenant asked. My face showed my surprise. "My names Shuhei Hisagi – I promise not to hold either of you back." He told us as I smiled.

"Sure." I answered, looking up at Komamura. "Shall we go?"

-x-x-x-x-x

Looking down into the alcoholic beverage Matsumoto had given me, I wished she had been more considerate – I can't waste any brain cells if I want to defeat Aizen. Looking over at my drinking partner, she seemed lost in thought as she slumped onto the wall next to the window. Her eyes showed sadness; I knew she was lonely when she sighed. "Idiot…" She murmured as I registered Captain Hitsugaya behind her.

"Who is?" He asked, leering at her.

"Whoa!" She instantly jumped, knocked right back into her spirits. "Y-You scared me!" She looked back at him. I almost spilled over…!" She complained as my eye twitched.

"Spilled over what?" The white haired child asked, not understanding.

"My boobs." She replied, tracing them with her hands. "Like this." She said, gesturing.

"You don't have to show me." He told her, agitated as I watched the pair with amusement. "You have a guest." He told her with irritation, throwing a thumb over his shoulder. Immediately all of our eyes went to…

"Kira." Matsumoto spoke his name, surprised. His gaze was downcast; had he done something wrong?

"I'll clear out of your hair, Matsumoto-san." I told her, standing up and leaving my untouched drink.

"E-Eh?!" She asked, shocked as I walked past.

"It's all right!" I told her, smiling down. "You two clearly need to talk about something; I would be intruding." I explained to her as she suddenly became un-silly. "Plus I figured Captain Hitsugaya would want to train with someone, eh?" I asked, walking away without glancing back.

Hearing him grumble something under his breath, I chose to ignore it as I turned the corner.

-x-x-x-x-x

"Seeker!" Hearing Inoue call out my name randomly behind me, I turned to see her running towards me, dodging around people who were shopping at the vendors that surrounded us. Pausing to catch her breath in front of me, I waited patiently while leering at her. "There's a problem!" She told me as I noticed her new top.

"Nice clothes." I commented off handedly, eyeing the two small flowers at the bottom.

"Thank you." She replied quickly before continuing. "But anyways, there's a huge problem! Rukia is gone!" She told me, throwing her arms up. My eye twitched.

"A-Again?"

-x-x-x-x-x

"And that's when I learned never to put a toaster in the tub no matter what, and why gingers have no souls." I told Byakuya straight faced as he stared at me.

"Hey." Renji growled at me. "What about me?"

"Yes, what about Renji?" I asked myself, using Sonido to appear in his lap and stare at his face. "Yup you have freckles your totally a ginger. That means you're…" Pointing accusingly at him while I decided, he sweat dropped. "A puppy!" This irked him, but instead he went back to carving on the square block he held. My eyes went back to Byakuya as he stared at us.

"They teach very strange lessons in the human world." He observed.

"Yeah, they do. But those're just the stories I've heard! Another thing you should never do is mix ecstasy and shrooms – I hear it gives you the shits." I told him as he raised an eyebrow.

"The what?"

"You know, when you-

"RENJI!" Jumping a few steps back as everyone's hair waved in the wind Seeker's yelling created, we all stared wide eyed.

"Shut up!" Said person smashed their head against Seeker's.

"Huh?" Seeker asked, not understanding why he was upset.

"Sydney was giving up valuable lessons about the World of the Living!" He growled.

Suddenly moving his head and looking at me, Seeker and I ignored Renji as he struggled not to fall. "You didn't tell them about the old ginger granny and the toaster and the soul collecting, did you?" He asked suspiciously while I simply grinned. "Idiot!"

"What did you come here for?" Byakuya asked, closing his eyes as he tried to regain peace.

"O-Oh! I came to see if you or Sydney knew where Rukia went." He told us. We looked at each other before Renji responded.

"What do you mean, where she went?" He asked.

"Oh." Seeker stated, an awkward silence hanging in the air for a few seconds as I sweat dropped. "Well you're no help."

"Did you find anything out, Seeker?" Inoue asked, climbing up and using the window as leverage as she held herself up. His eye twitched.

"How did you get up here…?" He asked. Looking down, his eyes widened. "This is three stories! You could fall!" He told her as my eye twitched. He turned back to us. "Well then we'll be going!" He told us.

"Ah! Sorry to bother you Mr. Renji, Mr. Byakuya and Sydney!" Orihime said as they both dropped.

I watched as they ran away, Renji commenting. "What's with them?" He asked.

"Well, I do suppose I should go see Rukia – if I walk and avoid them, I should be relatively on time." I told them, stepping onto Byakuya's bed and carefully avoiding his legs as I stepped onto the window sill, crouching.

"Huh? You know where Rukia is?" Renji asked, leering. "Why didn't you tell them?" Now he was suspicious.

"Because she's doing something plot related." I answered, turning to look out the window and eye where I would jump to on the ground.

"Wait." Byakuya's voice not only stopped me, but made me look over as well. "I have a question." He stated as we fell silent.

"Um, that's nice?" I asked, unsure of what he was doing.

Eye twitching, he chose to ignore this as he got around to asking his question. "When I saved you on Sokyoku Hill during that storm – what name did you call me by? I was unable to read your lips." He told me as I blushed a small, light pink.

"I said 'Kisuke'." I answered softly, my voice bringing a slight hush in the room.

"As in Kisuke Urahara?" He asked and I nodded somewhat sheepishly. "What is he to you?" He asked, and I was thankful he was straight forward with this.

"He's my…lover – I mean boyfriend!" I sheepishly fixed my mistake, hands flailing. Losing my balance, I tumbled out of the window and landed on the ground with a hard grunt. Springing up quickly, I used my Sonido to quickly disappear from the scene. Forcing my blush down, I swallowed down my embarrassment at saying that word to someone other than Kisuke. Making my general direction where I believed Kukkaku's house to be.

…..

"Yo!" I greeted Rukia, scratching the back of my head as Orihime and Seeker trailed behind me. They had caught me just as I thought I gave them the slip. "You done getting beat up?" I noticed her slightly wounded face. Rukia looked at me with wide, startled eyes. "They're opening the gate to the World of the Living tomorrow, Boton." I used her nickname, loving the way it rolled off my tongue. "And I don't think you're quite recovered. You should go to bed, like, now if you wanna be able to go home with us." I explained, using the same kind of speaking information I could recall Ichigo using.

"Ah, that's right…" She said, smiling lightly at the ground. "I think you should be the first to know…" She spoke, addressing me directly. "I'm going…to stay here in Soul Society." She informed me, looking me in my eyes.

I smiled at her warmly, yet broadly. "That's good, Rukia." I told her surprised face. "You should stay where you're happiest – that's what best friends should want for each other, after all." I told her. She smiled at me, eyes brimming with emotional thankfulness. Opening my mouth to continue, Kukkaku jumped in front of me and totally interrupted me.

"Yo Sydney, you finally showed!" She observed as Seeker and Orihime greeted her in unison. "So you're going home tomorrow, huh? How fast. Have dinner with us then!" She said happily, smiling as she threw a thumb over her shoulder. "It'll please everyone!" She said. Smiling at her, I nodded.

"Why not?" I asked her, agreeing.

"Good! We can talk about you and Kisuke~" She teased as I went down right red.

"E-eh? You're together with Kisuke?" Rukia asked behind her, curiously. Gripping my tightly by my shoulder, Kukkaku stepped off to the side and pointed at my face, poking it.

"Yeah, she is! He made a good choice, eh?" She asked, still smiling. Trying to ignore Kukkaku's insistent poking, I watched Rukia as she smiled happily.

"I'm happy for you, Sydney!" She told me as I relaxed, knowing that she meant it.

…..

Tomorrow came much faster than I ever anticipated. The sky was a brilliant blue, a few puffy clouds rolling slowly here and there. A slight breeze was blowing, making it even better. I couldn't help but sigh as I stood in front of the group, the Senkaimon before us opening.

"This is the official Senkaimon." Ukitake explained. "Of course, I incorporated a Reishihenkanki for you." He told the wide eyed group. "Sydney? Damien? Sloth? Brianna? Seeker?" He asked us.

"My name?!" I asked excitedly, immediately smiling like a puppy of sorts. The others sweat dropped, but we all formed a circle around him. I looked at the tray he was holding – five Combat Passes were on it, each of them color coded save my normal-looking one. But I wouldn't have it any other way. I thought warmly, picking it up curiously as I started to examine it. I got the same one Ichigo did!

"This is for you." He supplied once we had all picked up the one that matched our Bankai color. Seeing Damien's questioning eyes, he explained. "A Substitute Soul Reaper Combat Pass." He told us, talking a little too fast. I was sure the rest of the Pact picked up on it as well; they knew he was lying about something. "It's our old custom to give this to a Substitute Soul Reaper who is deemed useful to the Soul Society. If you use this, you can become a Soul Reaper whenever you want."

"Handy!" Brianna interjected, poking at her red one.

"Of course, this won't make up for what any of you have done for us, but…" He started, looking down.

"It's the first steps towards a strong friendship between our two groups – this is much more than we could've asked for." Damien told me warmly, making my inner self sigh. Damn… You see how guilty he is, don't you? And you know you're making it worst… Why must you feed off of other's pain, Damien?

Ukitake looked at him with surprise while the Pact simply smiled or looked at him reassuringly. We all knew this was true – even someone like me, who knows what its real function is. Although that does make me question as to why there giving one to me, as well… They should know that I already know.

Perhaps it is a test of some kind? My Zanpakuto interjected, to which I mentally agreed.

Looking back at Inoue practically forcing the dress at Boton, I smirked warmly as Ukitake stepped past us. "It's time!" He announced, the Senkaimon glowing brighter into a thick white light. Taking a few steps forward before pausing, the Pact passed me and entered with my friends. Walking up to the barrier, I reached a hand up to touch it – it felt akin to thick, watery substance. Looking back at Rukia with wide eyes, she spoke.

"Goodbye, Sydney." She told me warmly, honestly shining deeply within her eyes.

I smiled at her thankfully. "Yeah, see you too." I told her quietly. "Best friends forever?" I asked suddenly, earnestly holding up my pinky at her with wide eyes. I don't know what I would do if she didn't accept this gesture.

Giving me a relieved lopsided smile, she walked closer and wrapped her pinky around mine. "Yeah," She said. "I don't know what'd you do without me~" Gaping at her teasing, I gave her the largest and happiest grin that I could, to which she gladly returned with one of her own.

"Bye bye, Boton! See you soon!" I told her happily, still smiling. Waving to Ukitake and everyone else who conveniently appeared, I suddenly turned around and fled through the Senkaimon.

On the other side of the barrier, unbeknownst to my ears, Rukia spoke. "Yeah," She said happily, pinky finger still extended as the Senkaimon disappeared. "See you soon, best friend."

"FUCK MY LIFE!" I screeched, running through the precipice world as the Cleaner chased us. "Yoruichi why they lieeee!" I complained, fake sobbing.

"Fool! Only official Soul Reapers can use Hell Butterflies!" She yelled back.

"We're almost to the exit!" Damien realized, running next to me.

Feeling someone tread on my heels, I shot a deadly glare back at Chad, who instantly sweat dropped. "Um, sorry." He apologized.

"I call bullshit!" I screeched as we flew through the exit. Still doing the running motion with my legs, I had a heart attack as we started to fall. "Nooooo!" I cried dramatically as everyone screamed around me. Suddenly something smacked the group and I, wrapping around us in a ball like state before we were suddenly grabbed by something. The air whooshing out of me, I had the distinct smell of tea leaves that Tessai carried on his person constantly. And then suddenly the ball was being taken apart and I found myself in someone's arms, my eyes still spinning.

Rubbing them as the world slowly stopped spinning, the fuzzy picture came into focus as I realized it was Kisuke holding me. "Welcome back, everyone!" He told my friends, looking back to throw them a friendly smile. The group sweat dropped at my position – they had never seen me so caught before. Looking back at me, I couldn't help the nervous blush that gnawed at my face as I eyed him cautiously. "And welcome back to you." He told me, lifting my head up and nuzzling my locks. Leering at nothing in particular, I tried to decide how comfortable I should be with this – it was surprisingly intoxicating to have him do this but I wasn't sure if that was good or not.

He paused in nuzzling me, and I slowly started to feel how tense he was – he was relieved, but at the same time nervous. "I know everything, Kisuke…" I whispered quietly, my eyes trailing to his cane that was lying horizontally in front of us. "Don't be afraid." I told him even quieter. He held my head away from him, looking at me. Emotion swirled heavily in his eyes – a whirlpool that threatened to become even more evident. Reaching up, I smiled slightly as I cupped his face, my fingers going into his lovely light blonde hair. "It's not me you should apologize to." I told him sincerely, eyes automatically looking to where I knew my friends would be. He seemed surprised at this, but smiled slightly. It was as if he was saying 'Of course, I should've known.' But he was thankful, too. And that also mattered. Setting me down gently, he gracefully turned around and took off his hat as he bowed.

I walked on my knees to see his eyes staring at the bottom of this flying contraption as my friends stared at him with wide, shocked eyes save Yoruichi, whose face showed mild expectance. "Don't." Damien warned, surprising both Kisuke and I.

"I agree – I don't like bowing to just anyone." Seeker continued.

"Though that might just be the American in us." Brianna agreed.

"So please stop. A sorry is good enough." Sloth explained as he kept his head down.

Seeing this, Damien warned him. "Please do not make me repeat myself, Urahara-san." Still his head remained down.

"It's not like we're mad or anything." Brianna told him.

"Yeah, Sydney does this kind of stuff to us all the time." Sloth said as I instantly became irked at her. Seeing this, she smiled mischievously. He stayed silent; I knew this wasn't going to be enough. Reaching up, I absentmindedly started to stroke his hair as everyone besides Orihime, Yoruichi and Kisuke started to leer at me.

"You helped all of us become stronger." Chad eventually grunted. I looked up at him happily – I am sure this would work.

"And we're grateful because of that, Urahara-san." Orihime finished.

"Yes." He agreed curtly, voice filled with emotion. Immediately putting on his hat, I found that this was the first time I ever viewed it as a shield to hide himself with sense I came here.

"You didn't tell us because you thought we'd get scared and skip out, right?" Seeker asked as I started to twirl the side of Kisuke's hair as I absentmindedly listened to the conversation.

"Ah, that's exactly right!" Kisuke automatically answered, smiling goofily while he held up his fan. Dropping the act of toying with his hair, I now simply sat by his side and watched with interest.

His answered seemed to irk the entire Pact – instantly evil aura began to flow out of them towards him. Kisuke sweat dropped, not knowing how to take this reaction. "I see you've been taking lessons from Sydney." Damien observed, making me laugh nervously before crawling behind Kisuke and laying on him, putting my head in the crook of his shoulder.

Kisuke watched my happy, close eyed expression curiously out of the corner of his eye, but chose not to say anything at my behavior. "Just make sure you apologize to Rukia…" I murmured slightly, cracking one eye open to watch him. We stared at each other for several seconds before once again his eyes were hidden by the shadow of his hat – which I was learning to be wary of.

"Okay." He agreed quietly, but I didn't push for a speech or anything. Just getting around to it would be hard for him, just like it would be hard for me.

"Now then…" Ishida started, standing. Opening my eyes, I watched him speak. "Mr. Urahara-san, can you drop me off around here?" He asked curiously.

"Yes yes!" Kisuke agreed immediately, whipping open his fan. Smiling lightly at this, I removed myself from touching him as he turned around to steer. Crawling and flopping down in the empty space between Kisuke and my friends, I stared up at the sky to watch the stars swoosh past comfortably.

"See ya Ishida!" Seeker called as I flipped onto my stomach to watch the Quincy depart.

"Bye bye see you soon! Bye bye frieeeend!" I sang to him all lovely like, making everyone save him sweat drop.

"Kurosaki, you should know you'll never make it into Choir." He said, making me gasp. He quickly jumped up and Kisuke flew the airplane thingy up to avoid confrontation. Hanging over the end of it, I made faces at him before my eyes widened, realizing the gesture he was throwing me.

"He… He… HE'S FUCKING FLIPPING ME OFF!" I screeched, attempting to fly off the plan like a bird. Chad caught me by my legs and I continued to squirm and shriek nonsense while Ishida's laugh echoed inside of my head. Seeing that he was still there, I cupped my mouth and screamed something back at him. "I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT YOU MOTHER FUCKING QUINCY!" His eye twitched at this before he turned around and left. Letting Chad pull me up, I sighed lightly and immediately felt the slight pain in my voice that showed I had over used it with that one sentence.

Slowly, one by one, my friends began to diminish in number and leave before I was the only one left. "Shall I drop you off at your house, Sydney?" Kisuke asked curiously, looking back at my quiet form that was sprawled out over his flying creation in an attempt to take up as much space as possible. I was looking up at the stars; I found them soothing despite being in the city.

"No, here's fine." I told him, a small smile on my face as I found the certain alignment of stars I knew would constantly shine year round.

"Huh? But-"

"Swing by my place tomorrow?" I interrupted him, smiling gently as I sat up, shaking my head before walking to the edge.

He was silent for a few seconds, trying to figure out what was going on in my head. "Sure." He agreed, smiling back. "It's a date~" He sang as I blushed, laughed and then proceeded to jump off of the air plane. I landed on the ground easily; in fact, right where I had first landed…

All those years ago…

And it still makes me feel surreal, I reflected, thinking of all my dreams that had come true sense then.

…..

Walking calmly to the Kurosaki Clinic, I enjoyed the serene peace that enveloped this town at night. Unable to help the small smile on my face, I was unable to stop it from growing as I stepped in front of the clinic. Mr. Kurosaki was there, arms crossed and a happy face. "I'm home." I told him as I walked up. He looked at me and smiled brilliantly.

"Great!" He responded. "Yuzu hasn't let us start our dinner until you came home!"

Author's Note: So how do you like the ending xD I loved it! And be prepared for some SUPER fluffy chapters xD I plan to write total Kisuke x Sydney! But if it gets to be too much, please let me know! I know that this is a romance, but I can't help but feel like that takes second place compared to, you know, the plot and stuff xD