Third chapter? Yosh...

Rathrahk: Rahkshi of YaoiIchigo is happy to take your chocolate!
YL: The 'Ichigo is running in circles while the rest of the world is OK' was kinds what I was going for. Thankies!
Hyourinmaru: Soo much writing, I don't know where to start! Ehh... Yes, you have review for all of my fics, except the HP one, so far. I am a Renji Fangirl(!), so I'm not so Crazy about Byakuya at the moment. He's fun to write for if you give him the weird thing called emotion, though. Yes, in Ichigo's profile it says he likes chocolate. Irony is good for the soul.
Anon: In the BLEACH7 captains guide, the guide I use to write all my fics, it spells his name Ukitate. I thought it was Ukitake too, but whatever.
Ann: Actually, I was worried someone was gonna go "STOP REPEATING THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!" Ironic, eh?
Saccharine Rhapsody: How did a one shot become three chapters of madness? We dunno! I this fic can be interpreted however anyone wants. A lot of people seem to like it. I read your 'forget me not' fic. It's really nice! UPDATE SOON!

Okay, let's see. There is a light fighting scene in this chapter. I'm very proud of it, I've never been so good with writing action, so I hope you like it! This chapter focuses on Renji and Ishida.

Rukia sat in her room. She was awaiting news of her job standing. Soon, she fathomed, a little messenger (Named Abarai Renji) would come in and tell her one of two things.

The first, "You can't be a shinigami because the physical you took said you have no reiko at all. Go back to Rokungai, ya freak!"

Or the second possibility, "Yer still a shinigami, Rukia, because you have a little drop of reiko left. If 'ya want, I'll kill that strawberry freak and..."

Why, of all people, did they chose Renji to deliver the message?

There was a rapping at the door. Byakuya, of all people, walked in. He pulled out a piece of paper about as thick as the human finger-nail, which is very thick for a piece of paper, and read, "Kuchiki Rukia, As you have committed a great crime to the people of the Gotei 13, and as you have yet to suffer a proper punishment for it, we have asked Abarai Renji to administer the punishment."

Rukia's left eyebrow twitched.

Renji ran up in front of Byakuya, and took the paper out of his hands. He rolled it up, and started talking, "RUKIA-!"

THWACK!

"Oww! Renji, what was that for!"

"It's yer punishment, now sit down." The lopsided smile was evident on his face.

"YOU-HAVE-DONE-A-BAD-THING!" With every word, Renji hit her again with the rolled up decree, "THIS-IS-YER-PUNNISHMENT-FER-GIVIN'-YER-POWERS-TO-STRAWBERRY-HEAD!"

Byakuya watched his sister with an odd expression on his face. A mix of obvious curiosity, confusion and disgust, he found it very hard to look away.

"AND-… Okay, done." Renji dropped the decree on her head. Rukia, he was surprised to see, flinched when it fell on her head. Her hair was a mess, and she was sitting lopsided on the floor, about to topple over.

Rukia looked up, eyes wide.

"One more thing." Renji smiled, and Rukia braced herself, "Welcome to squad thirteen...again."

Alone again, Ishida balanced a book on his nose and paced backwards.

"What are you doing?"

"yeep!" Ishida fell over backwards, the book landing on his nose.

"Shouldn't you be studying?" Ishida's father asked.

"Umnnn... I gotta go!" Ishida started running out of the room.

"What?"

"LIBRARY!" And Ishida was gone.

Ishida's father fixed his glasses, "Teenagers..."

Renji walked out of Rukia's room with Byakuya. He inhaled deeply, yawning, and looked over his shoulder. Finaly, he though, everything was right with the world. Rukia is back in the Gotei 13. She might be promoted to vice-captain! There had been no thirteen-squad vice captain since Shiba died. Renji smiled, "Honto Arigatou"

Rukia picked up her soul-cutter. It had been a long time since she had used it.

"Tsuboki!" She said, "Bind!" Tsuboki twisted violently, shaking in her hands, finally becoming a normal sword, except the length of chain falling from the end of the hilt, arching up to the end of the blade. Rukia smiled.

"Ohhhh!" Renji tapped the end of the blade, "It's been a while, Tsuboki! You're more shiny than I remember."

Rukia smiled, "I need to practice with Tsuboki, I haven't used him in months."

"Well, that's why I'm here! Howl!" Renji held Zabimaru out in front of him, "Zabimaru!"

Rukia held Tsuboki out in front of her with one hand. If there was not a tactic to this, it would have been a very stupid move. With the other hand she grabbed the loop of chain.

"I've seen that move a thousand times, Rukia!" Renji sent a strong strike towards her.

Rukia was very good for a nimble girl. She jumped, quickly, on top of Zabimaru's first blade.

Renji waisted his third and final strike trying to shake Rukia off his blade. Rukia had stayed from falling by wedging her foot over the side of Zabimaru's chris-crossed hilt. It was amazing her foot had not been cut off. Rukia continued to run. She was now almost at the hilt, almost next to Renji's face.

She threw the chain into the air, lassoing Renji around the neck. She swung backwards, turned her blade, thus entangling them both in thick chain, and found the vice captain's head where it always ended up when they sparred, right at her left hip.

"I'll cut those freaky eyebrows off now!" she said, tapping them with the flat edge of her blade.

"That wasn't funny the first time you said it." Renji's funky eyebrows twitched, he was not only chained to Rukia, but she was still standing on Zabimaru's hilt and his hands. In affect, he was carrying her, " and IT ISN'T FUNNY NOW!" Renji let go of Zabimaru, unbalancing them and sending them falling to the dusty ground.

Hanatarou, who had been watching the entire thing in case Renji stabbed someone else in the eye, ran over to see if they where okay.

Ishida rather liked the rain. It cooled him off. He also rather liked bookstores. This particular book store carried a large amount of western books. He picked up one book, called 'The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter' and started to read.

"Whoa!" a wet boy, about Ishida's height, slandered in the store. He promptly fell over, taking a pyramid of half off books with him. A man, named Ryuusuke, who worked at the store along with Ishida himself, helped the boy up.

"What," Ryuusuke said, "is your name, boy?"

"His name is Kurosaki Ichigo, I go to school with him." Ishida nodded.

And there is the third chapter! With no real plot, I think the story is doing very well!

The kanji for Tsuboki is as follows: The kanji for sword hilt(Tsubo) and the kanji for tree(Ki)

Zabimaru will be angry if you don't review!