Yoruichi looked at Ichigo who was now sitting uncomfortably on his bed as she sat in his desk chair, dressed at Ichigo's request and much shouting on both of their parts, Yoruichi not wanting to get dressed and Ichigo yelling at her indecent exposure, turns out he was simply against her nudity, not embarrassed by it, Ichigo sure had stopped being a prude.

She had listened to what he had to say about the incident that occurred between him and Elizabeth. Somewhere, deep down she was jealous of Elizabeth, hell even of the other girls Ichigo had mentioned after she had pestered him about asking him for more information on his so called fangirls. But not only jealous but proud, proud that Ichigo was starting to become a man, sure he was man enough already but to just take that final plunge so to speak. It also made her pout which only rose questions in the orange haired soul reaper.

"What?" Ichigo questioned noticing the pout forming on her lips. "What's with that look?" He asked her again, getting annoyed.

"Now that you're getting all use to woman I can barely tease you any more." She whined making him blush before growling at her. "It's already taking effect! Look what I had to do just to get you flustered!" Ichigo face palmed at that with a groan of annoyance. "But Ichigo." He looked up at her to see her looking at him seriously, current jokes aside for the time being. "I know why you're angry at her." His gaze lowered from her own. "But do you think she simply used you? Is that how you truly feel? Is that why there is so much anger building up in you?" She questioned him.

"You're saying a shouldn't be angry?" Ichigo asked, still not meeting her gaze. "To just accept that..."

"No." She told him without skipping a beat. "You should be angry, but you're angry about the wrong thing." Ichigo's eyes widened as he looked up at her. "From what you told me, this girl, all the girls that you mentioned by name have strong feelings for you. Elizabeth included. I saw the look when she saw you in the infirmary room, she looked completely broken." She told him honestly. "By all means be upset that she lured you away so that you couldn't help your friends. But don't think for a second that girl used you for simply sexual gratification and I know that's what you're thinking." Ichigo lowered his gaze once more. "Ichigo, I'm hundreds of years old. I know what I'm saying." Ichigo sighed and rubbed his forehead in irritation.

"Yeah I know." Ichigo mumbled. "That you're a damn perverted granny." He mocked her.

"What did you say you brat!" She shouted lunging forward and tackling Ichigo onto the bed making him yelp in surprise. "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to talk about a woman's age! How disrespectful! You should be nicer to the one who taught you Bankai!" She continued to shout shaking him by the collar making him groan before she let him fall back to the bed as she simply sat on his stomach, crossing her legs, Ichigo not even bothered by her weight. "Are you going to apologise?" She asked him with a curious expression.

"To her or you?" Ichigo mumbled out making Yoruichi's eyebrow twitched in annoyance.

"Both!" She growled making him sigh and look up at the ceiling and fold his arms behind his head, Yoruichi simply sitting on him without a care in the world. "You can't stay angry at her for what the two of you did, you'll regret it. Elizabeth didn't do what she did to spite you Ichigo, she did it to show you the feelings she has for you, albeit she could have done it at a better time, but what's done is done." She shrugged. "And don't worry, I won't tell anyone, this is a serious matter, I'm not in the habit of telling someone else's bedroom tails. Unless I'm involved of course." She winked at him making him sigh in annoyance once more. Yoruichi always made him annoyed.

"You're a pain in the ass you know that?" He questioned making her grin.

"You have to move on, you can't let it drag you down." Yoruichi smiled down at him.

"Yeah... I guess you're right. I forgave everyone else, I just hope it's not to late with Elizabeth." He said still looking up at the ceiling missing the small smile come to Yoruichi's face as she looked down at him and watched as he closed his eyes making her eyebrow twitch.

"Where the hell is my apology!" She roared down at him shaking him by the collar again making him whine that she was being a pest, only to cause her to thrash him some more.

Arnett sat in bed looking down into her lap, feeling useless, her body was still recovering from the operations her body had gone through. She was happy Ichigo was there when she awoke, she had honestly been surprised to see him come out of the bathroom when she had woken up. Her mind started to wander into a fantasy of Ichigo holding her hand while she lay unconscious whispering for her to wake up to him.

A teenage girls dream, yet it could make her heart beat faster and her cheeks to redden in embarrassment.

Her eyes snapped open as the door opened and the object of her thoughts stood with a small smile on his face, the same smile she had seen the day she and Attia had lunch with him, that reminded her she needed to check her phone when she located it, she did set Ichigo's smiling face as her background after all.

"Feeling any better?" Ichigo questioned walking into the room and heading for the chair beside her bed making her smile at him.

"Yeah, I can at least move both of my arms freely now." She said showing him that she could by lifting her arms up. "And I'm getting the feeling back in my legs, so you're going to have to keep to your word and dance with me on prom night." Ichigo simply chuckled but nodded his head.

"Yeah I remember." He told her. "I'll need someone to keep me company while everyone is off at the dance."

"And I was going to enter the Pandora Queen contest this year." She sighed. "Either way, I'll still get to dance with you, and even better, I get you all to myself for the night." Ichigo scratched the back of his head as Arnett grinned at him while chuckling before a quiet settled in on the hospital room and a frown came to Arnett's face. "Elizabeth... she said you haven't forgiven her yet, she doesn't even know if you will..." She started, slightly sad that Elizabeth was the only one that hadn't been forgiven, she was still Arnett's friend after all, she could be sad about it. She watched as Ichigo leaned back into his chair and looked up at the ceiling.

"I'm going to apologise... and I'll hear her apology, but I don't know if things will go back to the way they were before." He said truthfully. Arnett ran her good hand through her hair before ruffling it up slightly. For one thing she was glad that Ichigo had told her the truth, but found that she couldn't really blame him for not forgiving her. From what she knew of Ichigo he had high morals, and what Elizabeth did... Arnett didn't even know if she would have forgiven Elizabeth if she were in his shoes.

"Well... at least you're going to try." Arnett smiled and Ichigo nodded his head before turning to her.

"I was speaking with Chiffon just the other day, she said you're pretty good with the Accelerator turn." Arnett nodded her head in agreement, proud of her skills. "Well, when you get out of the infirmary would you mind teaching me a few things? I'm still having trouble getting it down." He explained. "That's if you're up to it, of course." Arnett smiled sheepishly at him.

"Well I could..." She began. "But, uh, I'm not really the teaching type, and to top it off, I'm quite the brutal fighter... hence the nickname Mad Dog, I've been told I'm a bit too blood thirsty when it comes to battle." She chuckled sheepishly. "I will admit... I enjoy fighting but the way everyone talks about it they call me borderline psychotic." She explained.

"That's great then, I've always learnt better under pressure anyway, it'll be a great improvement of smashing into walls with Ticy barking orders at me." Ichigo told her making her chuckle lightly, she had sat in on one of his many training sessions with Ticy, he hadn't picked it up at all. "So you up for it?" He questioned and she nodded her head.

"As long as you don't think any different of me afterwards." She told him.

"I'm sure it'll be fine..." He trailed off remembering how he had dealt with the psychotic Kenpachi multiple times over the years. "Can't be anything compared to that." He thought to himself with a slight smile. He turned his attention back to Arnett before placing a hand on her shoulder. "I'll come see you sometime this afternoon, I've got to go find Elizabeth." Arnett nodded her head and reached up and grabbed his hand and held it in hers for a while before smiling up at him.

"Good luck." Ichigo nodded and rose from his chair and walked toward the door, already searching for Elizabeth's spiritual signature. Walking down the hall's he saw a few familiar faces but paid them no mind as he continued to search for Elizabeth, he had locked onto her signature when he had left the hospital room but it was a far distance away and the school was quite large.

Walking out into the quad he headed for Elizabeth, trying to think what he would say to her. Walking across the grounds he could sense Elizabeth coming closer as he approached and his scowl returned as he saw her off in the distance. Ichigo stopped not far from her, Elizabeth obviously lost in thought as not even seeing him as she continued to approach. Ichigo's frown only grew as he saw the state she was in, heavy bags underneath her eyes which were red from crying. Him ignoring her had obviously taken its toll on her.

"Elizabeth." Elizabeth stopped dead in her tracks and looked up to see Ichigo standing only a few meters away from her. Her eyes widened slightly as he stared at her, she hadn't heard his voice in so long. She took a step forward not knowing what to do, she wanted to reach out to him, to hold him to say she was sorry, she hadn't been given the chance to even do that.

"Ichigo..." She whispered, he could already see the tears started to fall from her eyes. "I'm so sorry." Her tears were falling freely now as she stared up at him, she wanted to hug him to feel his touch upon her again but she didn't know how he would react. She wrapped her arms around herself, sobbing uncontrollably as Ichigo continued to stare at her a mix of emotions running through his mind.

Her eyes shot wide open as she was pulled forward her face being pulled into his chest, she let everything go, and wrapped her arms around him and cried as he held her. Ichigo didn't know how long he held her for, nor did he remember when she stopped crying and simply clutched to him like a lifeline.

"Elizabeth..." She pulled back from him slightly and looked up into his eyes. "I think it's time we had a talk."