A/N: Enjoy!

Disclaimer: How many more times must I say it? I do not own Bleach or the songs used in this chapter (or story). I only own the Ninja side of the Soul Society, but my sister owns Minako.

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Chapter 50: Cold as Ice

Ami: Ami Hitsugaya, Mizuiro Star Voice, at your service!

Reika: Don't forget me! Akaiiro Star Voice, also here!

Minako: Hey, I, the Momoiro Star Voice, need more screen time too! Don't you two go take it all!

Ami: I'm not! Actually, someone else is getting more screen time in this chapter! And it's not me!

Reika: Yeah, Minako-chan! We're not stealing the entire spotlight! Besides, we have four more comrades to find!

Ami: That's right!

Minako: You're right. We all devote ourselves to the Pichi Pichi!

Reika: Doesn't that mean 'Lively Pitch'?

Minako: Yeah, it does.

Ami: (whacks both of their heads with a punishing fan) That's beside the point!

~Chapter Start~

After the concert, the three Star Voices wished everyone a good night.

"We love you all!" Minako said. "Love Shower Pitch!"

"Have plenty of rest tonight!" Reika said. "Cutie Hot Pitch!"

"Thank you for listening to our songs!" Ami said. "Sparkle Live Pitch!"

"Good night, minna-san!"

~Next Morning~ Rukia's POV

"Haunted house?" I asked.

"Yeah, they say that the ghost of a woman is rumored to exist there," Orihime said to me during lunch, with a chibi face. "You know that house on top of that cliff?"

"Oh, up there?"

"Yeah. Hey, how about we go take a look now?" Orihime was really excited about this.

"What?"

"It seems fun! Say, let's go, Rukia!"

"Geez, Orihime, you and your fetishes…"

~Meanwhile~ Renji's POV

"Test of fear?" I asked Keigo during lunch.

"Yeah! Doesn't it sound fun?"

"For once, let's do it," Ichigo said with a small smile. "Just so long as I can bring Minako with me."

"The Test of Fear is kinda scary," a girl with light brown piglets said.

"I kinda agree with you, Yoshino," Ami said, who was right next to the girl.

"If Ichigo is going, then I am too!" Minako said, pumping her fist in the air.

"They say a ghost lives there," Keigo said.

"No…What if a real ghost was there?" Yoshino said.

No POV

Rukia and Orihime were walking up to the group.

"Oh, it's Renji!" Rukia exclaimed. "Renji!"

"Hey, Rukia. What are you doing here?"

"Orihime here wanted to see if the rumor about the ghost was true or not."

"What? You too?" Renji asked.

"What are you talking about?" Rukia asked confused.

"Keigo here wanted me and Ichigo to go to the Test of Fear and they're forcing me to go. I'm not interested in ghosts and stuff, though."

"Test of Fear?"

"Are you going to do it?"

"Are you?"

"Probably."

"Then, I'll do it too!"

"That's right," Keigo said. "The more girls, the better! Since, without girls, the Test of Fear isn't fun."

"What should I do?" Ami teased. "It's kinda scary, but also interesting, so…"

"Yeah, it's decided!" Keigo said, his eyes making an X-shape.

"Renji-kun! Please pair up with me!" Yoshino suddenly grabbed Renji's arm and clutched onto it.

"Alright, but don't cling to me so much," Renji said, giving her the 'I-don't-want-you-here' look.

Rukia took one look at the two. 'They obviously like each other…but what is with Renji? That jerk! He invites me, but doesn't pair up with me?'

"So, who are you pairing up with, Rukia?" Ami asked.

"I'm not gonna go," Rukia said flatly.

"But, Rukia-chan!" Minako whined. "You have to go!"

"But no! It's childish and stupid! Let's go, Orihime!"

Rukia stomped off. Orihime followed her, as did Ami.

~Later~

"Why did I say that?" Rukia asked herself. She remembered Yoshino. "That's right. He should've paired up with me, instead of that brat."

Ami and Orihime walked up to her side.

"Say, Rukia, are you sure it's okay?"

"What's okay?"

"You know, the Test if Fear! It's like going 'Ah! It's so scary!' and clinging onto the guy's arm."

"That's right, Rukia! You can be like 'Hold my hand and never let go!' while holding his hand tightly." Orihime nodded. "That's too good of a chance to pass up."

"Holding his arm while we enter the building sounds fun!"

"Yet it fills the air with much more excitement!"

"Oh, no! Saying stuff like that, Ami-chan…"

"You too, Orihime-chan…"

~Outside the mansion that night~

The three decided to go anyways.

"I guess the others aren't here yet…"

"Do you mean we're going to wait for them!" Ami asked.

"No, of course not."

The entered the house and explored it. When they found the forever locked room, it magically opened (not really) and inside was a study room. On the desk was a letter. When the three girls looked at it, it was a love letter.

"A love letter?" Rukia picked it up and read it. "'I would like to touch your lips again, but do you not care for me anymore?'"

"It's like a sad love story," Orihime said.

"I wonder if this letter has something to do with the ghost that's rumored to be here…" Ami mused.

"Hmm…" the three of them paused to think. Then they heard a creaking sound. The slowly turned around and a dark figure appeared in the doorway.

The three screamed.

~Later~

The three were in the house right down the road.

"Sorry for entering without asking," the three said simultaneously.

"Don't worry. I'm sorry I surprised you," an old lady said.

"We just got curious about the story of this house, so we're glad to have run into its owner," Ami said.

"Actually, I thought my heart would stop beating from being surprised like that…" Orihime muttered.

"You know, that house has a sad love story about it," the old lady said. The three girls listened. "I believe I might be the only one who knows what actually happened."

"Tell us the story, please," Rukia said.

"In that house lived a beautiful maiden. She had a nice lover, but their parents opposed their marriage. So they dated in a small boat under the cliff near the house."

"Ahh, that's so romantic…" Orihime said.

"But soon, the maiden was cast into an arranged marriage by her parents. They were troubled once they knew, so he left and wished her happiness. Still, the maiden waited for him in the boat day after day. Yet he didn't come, which saddened the girl and left her crying. The letter your guys read was written before she disappeared."

"She disappeared?" Ami repeated.

"On a stormy night, while she was writing her letter, she looked out her window and saw someone on the shallows. She ran to the waters where the boat was, and left her letter behind. However, her feet slipped, and she drowned beneath the waves. Soon after, the room where she left her letter was believed to be haunted by the ghost of the maiden. She was sealed in that room."

"Even in death, she still waits for him to return to her…" Ami muttered sadly.

"What a sad story…" Orihime said.

Meanwhile, at night time, the Test of Fear group had arrived.

"Alright, the first pair to go in is Renji and Yoshino-chan!" Keigo announced.

The two went in with Yoshino clinging to Renji's arm. It was dark inside the house.

"Renji-kun, what should we do? I'm scared…"

"What? You're scared already? We haven't even seen anything yet."

"But it's really scary…Don't ever let me go, okay?"

"Alright…"

"Thank you! You're so sweet!" Yoshino exclaimed. 'There's no such thing as ghosts, but this is an opportunity that I must take!' She thought. "Renji-kun, the hallways is so scary!" She said loud enough for Rukia, Orihime, and Ami to hear from outside.

Rukia got a tick mark. "Seems like the Test of Fear has already begun…we should hurry up and go…"

"Right," the other two said.

Meanwhile, Renji and Yoshino entered the study.

"Renji-kun, it's kinda scary in here…" Yoshino said.

"It's just a study room," Renji said.

"But it's still scary," she whined.

Just then the shelf started to rumble right a piano started playing. The book came off the shelves and simply hung in the hair. Yoshino started to scream, for real.

"Don't tell me it really is a ghost…" Renji said.

"It's sop scary! Really scary!" Yoshino was clinging onto Renji's shirt and trembling violently.

Then a ghostly figure appeared and when it received eyes...

'What the…?' Renji thought. 'Spririts don't look like that?'

Yoshino screamed again. Again it was so loud that the three girls heard it.

"What is that scream?" Rukia asked.

"Yoshino…" Ami said. She stopped when she heard the piano. 'This melody…'

Ami turned around, and before running off, she said, "I'm going to go take a look at the attic. I'll be right back!"

She met up with Minako on the way there. "Minako-chan!"

"This icky melody is still stuck in my head! It has to be Yuuri!"

Up in the attic, indeed it was.

"This is making me tired," Yuuri said.

Yoshino screamed and screamed.

"But I must be ready, because that might be one of the Star Voices!"

Yoshino fainted in Renji's arms.

"How weird. I cannot control this well," Yuuri said. She stopped playing. "That should do it." She has halfway across the room when a voice stopped her.

"What are you doing there?"

"It's obvious, isn't it? I'm going to catch that girl." She stopped. "Wait, who're you?"

"Mizuiro Star Voice!"

"Momoiro Star Voice!"

"You have finally appeared, Star Voices! I shall capture you by playing my piano." She noticed that her piano was not by her side.

"Pichi Pichi Voice Live Starto!"

"Nagareboshi ni negai wo kaketa

Nanatsu no hikari mitsukedashite

Hanarebanare ni natta JUERII SUTAA

Unmei to iu kizuna wo shinjiteru

Tsumetai nami ni toketa namida no yukue wa

Dare ni mo kizukarenai mama sotto awa to kiete itta

Nakushita mono wo sagashiteru kokoro ga setsunai

Midori no ame ni tsutsumarete utaitsudzukeru Song for You!

Umarekawaru asa ga kuru nara

Onaji inochi wo mata ikitai

Meguriaeru subete no mono ga

Houseki ni naru kiseki wo shinjiteru…"

"Love Shower…"

"Sparkle Live…"

"PITCH! How about an encore?"

Yuuri left without another word.

"I can't believe the real ghost was her…" Minako said.

"Yeah, really…" Ami said.

Meanwhile, Renji was still the study room. Yoshino was still out cold and has been taken outside.

Rukia opened the door.

"Renji?"

"Oh, Rukia. I thought you weren't going to come…"

"I'm sorry. You invited me so kindly and I…"

"Don't worry, Rukia. Apology accepted," Renji said happily. "And besides, I'm glad that you're here, actually. That girl was getting on my nerves."

"Yeah…" Rukia told him the story of the ghost girl.

"So that's what happened…"

"Yeah…"

Then suddenly the desk rattled.

"Eh? Is there really a ghost here?"

"No, just a restless spirit," Renji said. "Probably a jibaku…"

"No, it would've been attached to the front door, not to a desk," Rukia said.

"True."

The ghost appeared, in the form of a girl. It disappeared, dropping the letter sealed inside and envelope.

"It would be nice if we could give it to him. The letter…" Rukia said.

"We don't even know where he is…"

They both stopped to think.

"The boat!" There was a boat outside. "That was where they always dated."

They ran outside and stopped at the cliff and saw the boat, in spirit form.

"There's the boat!" Renji said.

"Maybe, he heard that she fell into the ocean, so he came to search for her. He still loved her."

"That means…he was searching for her all along…" Renji said.

"We need to give the letter to him."

"Give it to me." Renji took it and dove into the water and held out the letter to the man's spirit. He took it and it glowed. There stood the girl.

Rukia was shocked. Renji was getting out of the water. "What's wrong?"

"They've finally found each other…" Rukia said, smiling.

"Yeah…" Renji said, also smiling.

The two spirits came to them.

"Thank you for everything," the girl said. "However, we have one last request before we are sent to the Soul Society."

"A new kind of konso?" Renji asked.

"Could be…" Rukia said.

"Once more, just once, we would like to be able to touch…" The girl entered Rukia, while the guy entered Renji, making them both glow blue.

'This won't hurt one bit…' the girl promised.

Renji turned Rukia around and looked her in the eye. They both kissed. The ghost left their bodies, going to the Soul Society and leaving the two in that position.

A little while later, Renji had left, bidding Rukia a good night. The kiss had left them both speechless.

Renji had rejected Yoshino, much to her dismay. Minako was just glad that he was okay. But she was curious about what had happened.

Meanwhile, Rukia was simply sitting on a rock, by the ocean. Then a purple light glowed near her neck and formed the same necklace as Minako, Ami, and Reika's, only in a purple color.

In the Dark Lovers' castle, Mikeru was not happy.

"Who will fetch me the star Voices? You three have disobeyed me!"

"I will," a different voice said. A blonde haired girl with an ice blue dress and two ice crystal fans for ears came into the room and picked up a rose off the ground, and in an instant, the rose was covered in ice, like a crystal.

"Thank you, Maria…"

Maria smirked. "Those Star Voices won't know what hit them. Or, froze them, I should say."