A.N: Hey people, guess what? This chapter didn't take for bloody freaking ever to get out! Aren't you proud of us? I'm not either… Oh well, I've got tons of time on my hands now, so I'm actually surprised that it took this long to write out.

Brooke's Zen of the Day: I only know how to do things three ways: the wrong way, the right way, and my way… which is the wrong way, only faster.

Brooke

The days following the interrogations my mind seemed to be teeming with rather important, and confusing, matters. They ranged from how we were going to get out of the Soul Society, to how close I noticed Katie and Shuuhei getting, even to something I hadn't told Katie or Fran about. During my interrogation, Head Captain Older-Than-Dirt mentioned my father, by name. Then, when I began questioning how they knew him, the old fart refused to elaborate on the topic any further and ended the interrogation.

As I sat in my room, starring at the wall after another sleepless night, I knew that there was only one thing I could do to help, VACATION BITCHES! Yes, a little Vaca was just the thing I needed to keep me from worrying about everything and relax me enough and let me think clearly at another time.

We start my vacation by going outside to the HUGE cliff and sitting up there to enjoy the sunrise as I look over the vast Soul Society. It was slightly damp as I sat, my legs dangling over the edge of the cliff as I enjoyed the crisp morning air. The heights themselves helped clear my head. Despite how cliché it might seem, I've always loved being high up, knowing that there's nothing between me and the ground but air, it just put things in prospective.

By the time I get back to the barracks and in my room, the sun had already risen and the squads were starting to come alive. This of course didn't include my friends, or Rangiku, who was undoubtedly still passed out in her room. Lazy Captain was probably still passed out too. Once in my room, I made myself some tea on the cute little tea burner that Toshiro trusted me with for some unknown reason before going back out and meandering around the barracks, only halfway dressed in the Shinigami uniform that I'd received. (Meaning I was only wearing the pants, but I had a tank on in place of the shirt thing-ies. What? I ish on vacation.) After picking out a nice grassy spot, I laid down and watched the clouds roll by, ignoring the looks I got from passing Soul Reapers.

Somewhere around lunch I decided to go inside and get some money to go out to get food. I don't make food when I'm on vacation. Walking into Toshiro's room, I found the midget Captain, you guessed it, doing paper work.

"Hey 'Shiro~?" I called sheepishly as I entered his room, instantly getting a sigh in return.

"What do you want Brooke." He demanded, not even looking up from his work, he'd finally given up trying to get me to use formalities a few days ago.

"Can I have some money? I wanna go get something to eat." I asked, looking around the room innocently.

"Why can't you just go make yourself something to eat?" He questioned, finally turning to stare at me like I was a total idiot.

"I'm on vacation, and you don't make food when you're on vacation." I explained plainly, causing him to sigh once again before digging through his desk and holding some money out to me, obviously deciding it would be less time consuming to just give me some cash now instead of questioning me for twenty minutes.

"Just take it."

"Thanks 'Shiro-Kun!" I cheered happily before racing out of his room to go get some grub. Racing down the hallway I just about ran face first into the worlds largest flotation devices as I turned a corner haphazardly. The red headed owner of said flotation devices, A.K.A Rangiku, didn't even seem to notice before talking to me.

"Oh, hey Brooke, there is someone I want you to meet." She smiled before motioning towards the one, the only, Ichigo Kurosaki, the guy who was going to kill my Puma-Sempia and Fran's Ulqui-Kun, only if we let that happen, that is, "Brooke, this is Ichigo Kurosaki, a Substitute Soul Reaper who helps us a lot. Ichigo, this is Brooke, one of those girls that got brainwashed by Aizen that I was telling you about." Nice introduction Rangiku.

"It's nice to meet you Brooke." Ichigo greeted politely.

"Same goes for me Berry." I replied slightly sarcastically, smirking at his slight reaction to his nickname, Rangiku found the name rather funny though, and laughed at me. "Hey, I'm going to go get something to eat, yall wanna come with me? Toshiro's buying." I asked causing Rangiku's eyes to light up at the mention of a free meal.

"Really? Sure, how much did he give you?" she asked me.

"Um… I'm not sure." I admitted holding out the money for her to see. I've never used Japanese Currency because in America we use American Currency… Kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

"Wow, that's a lot of cash, how did you get all this out of him?"

"I told him I was on vacation and needed money for food, I don't think he knows how much he really gave me…" I told her causing her and Ichigo to nod, apparently that was an understatement, "Before we go, I gotta get Katie and Fran first, k?"

"Yeah, that's fine, you're the one with the money." Ichigo agreed as we started for the Squad Nine Barracks to grab Katie then moved onto Fran. After gathering up my two friends and introducing them to Berry, we went to a rather nice restaurant that Rangiku assured us was good. It really ended up being delicious, but I'm sure it was funny watching the three of us trying to eat with chopsticks. Although all of us kind of know how to use them, the execution is in need of much work, so I ended up just stabbing my food with the utensils, which apparently, Ichigo thought was rather comical. Now if it had been anyone other than the carrot topped hero to the Manga/Anime and the guy that 'kills' Grimmjow and Ulqui, I probably would have just chucked some sushi at their head and laughed, but seeing as it was Ichigo, it just bothered me.

"So guys, what's the plan today?" Katie asked after we had finished our food.

"Well, it's my vacation so I'm free." I said taking a drink of some lemonade tasting drink.

"That's dumb Bya-kun has me helping Renji do paperwork." Fran grumbled.

"Seriously? You hate doing work?" Katie laughed looking up. "Renji doesn't even do his own paperwork" Fran responded with an evil grin.

"Oh, I know that, but apparently Bya-Kun doesn't, so Renji and I made paper airplanes and were flying them in Bya-Kun's office, just to let him know." Fran, Katie and I burst out laughing. Berry looked at us strange

"Ya know for being held captive by Aizen, you guys are pretty normal." We all gave him a funny look. "What?"

"How in the world would you know about being normal?" I asked somewhat snarkily.

"Yeah! You have a huge ass sword that could chop down trees!" Katie pointed out to Berry, totally ignoring my hostilities. The truth was there was no way that we could be normal, teenagers in general weren't normal so how the hell could we be pegged as normal. We had a girl that could control fire, one that could see the future, and me, who could control lightning. That is NOT normal.

"Ehh" Berry grumbled and put his hands behind his head.

After that we walked around the Soul Society looking for people or things we could torment.

"Hey guys let's go on the really big cliff!" Fran said pointing at the hill that I had sat on this morning. Aww what the hell it was my vacation and I really didn't care what we did.

"Wait before we do I need to go grab something!" our Pyro exclaimed. She ran off somewhere and was back a minute later with a bag.

"Are you going to bury the body?" I asked my friend who just smiled sheepishly.

"No…"

"Is it a bomb?" Fran asked, continuing our 'interrogation.' No matter how silly it seemed; we all knew that with Kat it was always a possibility.

"If I really wanted to blow up the Soul Society I would have done that the first day we got here. But no, you know how most of the Soul Society takes a nap around 3ish?" Fran, Rangiku, Berry, and I all nodded. It was a known fact that most of the Captains took afternoon catnaps for about an hour. "Well I really wanted to scare the shit out of them. They can sleep all they want when they're dead!" Katie looked up for a second.

"I think that was the general idea there Kat." I told her, causing her to glare and me to laugh, "Alright, I'll bite, what's in the bag then?" Katie just grinned.

"Fireworks." She said smiling evilly causing Ichigo and Rangiku to step back slightly at the sight.

"I knew it! You're going to blow people up!" Fran exclaimed, pointing epically at her. She just rolled her eyes.

"No stupid, I'm going to light some fireworks and scare the entire Soul Society awake. It's gonna be so freakin hilarious to see their reactions! So are you in or out?" Fran and I grinned like, well, Fox Face.

"Of course we're in!" I said high-fiving my friend. I turned to Rangiku and Ichigo who were standing behind us.

"You're not gonna tattle on us are you?" They both shook their heads. "Sweet then we won't have to kill you" I smiled sweetly before skipping away.

Katie Fran and I raced up the hill to prepare our dastardly deeds. Rangiku and Ichigo followed, somewhat unwillingly for the later. Katie set up her fireworks and gave both Fran and I a box of matches. I didn't really think she needed our help seeing as she could light these by herself, but I think it was a backup plan in case we were caught. It's an 'if-I-go-down-you're-going-with-me' type of thing.

"Ok it's been an hour and all of the Captains should be in their offices out like a light," Katie said checking her watch. How she got one is beyond me. "Ok thirty seconds to launch!" She cried. Katie had split all of the fireworks in her bag into three sections, one for each of us. She then said if we didn't light them all at the same time she would BBQ us all herself. I loved it when she was evil, she was so much fun!

The stopwatch, once again I have no idea where she gets these things, got down to ten seconds and we got in our positions. The timer went off and we started to light the fireworks. We all backed up, plugged our ears, and watched as the fireworks lit the sky up. Katie was giggling like crazy as she looked at her phone.

"Why in the world do you have your phone? I thought we didn't get service here?" I asked pulling my phone out.

"I wired the photos from the cameras set up all over the soul society to my phone! I'm getting them as we speak" Fran and I huddled around her phone as we watched the photos come in. It was hilarious! Some of the Captains were flying out of their chairs; others had papers stuck to their faces, some had ink spilled all over them. But then you had the captains *coughcough* Lazy Ass *coughcough* that slept right through it. I saw Toshiro just looking towards the fire works display with a look that could freeze hell over.

"Ok guys I just thought of something. They all might think that this is an attack on the Soul Society so we might want to leave" Katie said. I stared at her for a minute before face palming, why did no one think of that? God damn it we were in hell of a lot of trouble.

"RUN FOR IT! EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES!" Fran yelled, as the three of us scattered in different directions, running to leave to crime scene as fast as un-humanly possible. It took about ten minutes for the Captains to realize that we were behind it, and another forty minutes for them to find all three of us, Rangiku and Berry gave themselves in willingly. I've always been a master of hid-'n'-seek, so I used my mad skillz to my advantage, keeping out of the evil Soul Reapers of Doom's hands as long as possible, but sadly, they had numbers, and ninja, at their disposal, so we were all doomed from the start. Stupid ninjas…

Eventually, it was just some random Shinigami who didn't even have a single line in the Show or Manga who found me. How embarrassing is that? Captured by some random Soul Reaper that didn't even make a contribution to the plot...

Or did they?

No, they really didn't.

Any who, said random Soul Reaper ended up dragging me, kicking and threatening, to Toshiro's office, which suddenly felt like a principals office, with me playing the role of the unruly child. Toshiro was doing paper work, par normal, but I could feel an aura of irritation and annoyance around him, and maybe even a hint of anger. This was going to be a fun lecture, that's for sure. The Soul Reaper could probably tell this too, and quickly left the room without saying a word. Apparently, they didn't want any lines here either.

"Brooke, why did you and your friends find it necessary to set off fireworks this after noon, causing everyone in the Seretei to think we were under attack?" he demanded, sounding just as annoyed as his aura had lead me to believe. If it wasn't for the annoyed emotion in his voice, I almost would have believed that it was Aizen, speaking through Toshiro.

"Um, for shits 'n giggles?" I answered tentatively, knowing that it was the wrong answer, but the smart-ass side of me needed it to be said… Damn you SmartAss!Brooke! How dare you get me in trouble!

"Well, I hope it was worth it, for, because of your reckless actions, the all the Squad Captains, myself included, have decided that you three need to be kept under stricter supervision. As such, Rangiku or myself must know where you are at all times, you are not allowed out of the Barracks without an escort, and you can only visit your friends for one hour a day, each. The three of you are not allowed to be together without at least one Captain and one Lieutenant present." He told me, causing my jaw to literally drop open, as I stared at him wide eyed. "Am I clear?"

"You can't be serious?" Now, I could live with having to have an escort to leave the Barracks and such, but only being able to see my friends for a limited amount of time a day, not so much. "Your going to keep Fran, Katie and I apart like-"

"Am I clear." The young Captain demanded cutting my off, obviously, he was in no mood to joke around.

"Crystal." I answered through clenched teeth, I know what we did was dangerous and bad, and we kind of deserved to get in trouble, but it was all I could do to stop myself from saying something that I know I would regret later. With the conversation so clearly over, I left the room, going outside, to try and calm myself down. As I walked hurriedly down the hall, one of the Squad Ten-er's gave me a weird look and I decided to take some of my frustration out on them.

"Hey, you!" I called out, causing a few people to turn and look at me, "No, not you, you!" Waving off the others, I pointed at the Soul Reaper in question; the very same one that had dragged me to Hitsugaya's 'Office', "Yeah you! Go fuck yourself!" Yelling in his face, I glared for a moment before storming off for the second time in less than five minutes. It was pretty clear that I was rather miffed to say the very least.

I didn't want to go inside, but I didn't want to be around idiotic people, and seeing that apparently I couldn't leave the Barracks, I found myself sitting in one of the upper branches of a tree near my room. Staring up at the sky I actually started getting my emotions under control as I zoned out. Like I said, heights help put things in prospective for me.

As I sat there I realized that I had bigger problems than the Captains' hurt egos about being scared by three little girls. We'd already laid the seeds of deception during our 'interrogations,' each of us had altered our storied ever so slightly so that they would piece it together and get a totally backwards idea as of what Aizen was up to. Now that our job was done, we needed to get our Asses out of the Seretei before something bad really happened, hopefully keeping Aizen and the 'Spada out of it so we can retain our 'hate Aizen he's a prick' thing going for later use. Of course, now that we wouldn't be able to find anytime for ourselves to plan out everything, it was going to be that much harder. But it wasn't like that wasn't going to stop us, one of us would figure out how we were going to get out of here.

On the bright side however, I wouldn't have to deal with Berry now that I was officially 'grounded.' I didn't like the idea of hanging out with the guy that was going to destroy my entire 'family,' especially when I know that he's not actually a bad person. It would make things really hard if I actually made friends with the carrot top for obvious reasons. Of course, he'd probably be going home soon anyway to get back to his life and check up with his family, so even if I hadn't gotten 'grounded' I probably wouldn't had to deal with him for much longer…

That's IT!

I know how we're going to get home, and we won't even have to call in Aizen and his Arrancars! It's prefect, I can't believe I didn't see this before!

Apparently, I was getting way too caught up in my thinking that I didn't notice that I was starting to lose my center of gravity and quickly found myself on a one way ticket onto the ground. But of course, that wasn't enough for The Universe for it made sure that I hit ever branch possible on the way down, and guess who just so happened to be walking by.

"Umm, are you okay?" Berry asked looking at me like I was a total idiot as I glared up at the sky.

"Damn mood killing irony."

END CHAPTER!

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