IncandescentOne: Yeah!

Baka'sAngelUh, thank you! Actually, the funny thing is I almost always forget to have them say 'honto arigatou', so right after I post a new chapter I suddenly remember, and have to recall the chapter and edit it in. You'd think I'd remember, huh?

Hyourinmaru: The number was Ju-Go, not yoko, and it was left untranslated for a reason that I will explain at either the end of this chapter or the next, depending on how far this chapter gets into the semi-planned storyline. Yoko does not mean fox, it is a mythical breed of nine-tailed foxes. Kitsune means fox. Ohhh…! A bleach drama CD? Can you e-mail that to me? Please? Please? Please? Thanks!

Momiro-chan: I'm soooo sorry the update was so late! I had two week-long vacations and a two week camp job(For details, go to my Live Journal, the link is in my profile), so I was two busy! I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooo very sorry!

Rathrahk: Rahkshi of Yaoi: How is it confusing? Please tell me how, and I will be happy to fix/explain it.

anGeL Hinaningyou: I'm glad you liked it!

Kuro- Ippikiookami21: This review will be answered at the end of the chapter, as my response may just contains spoilers for this chapter.

Oooookay! This chapter contains: Renji (Squeeeee!), Rukia being Rukia, Ichigo saying a whole three-ish words, Urahara yelling at Yoruichi, Yoruichi yelling at Urahara, Kenpachi nonexistant, odly, my OC stepping on Yamada Hanatarou, Byakuya being devious and... maybe a little OOC, Hitsugaya playing rock paper scissors and Yachiru APPERING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RIYO SHIBAN-VISION!

Yup, that's right! I've written for Yachiru-Chan! I hope I can pull it off!

I assume Rukia can't cook, because she would have no formal practice! Nyar har har! Poetic license!

I just realized there was a plot hole in my story. Okay. Matsumoto said that she wished someone would invent a camera in soul society, and then Hitsugaya was yelling about pictures in the next chapter. My explanation for this is that Matsumoto just didn't know there were cameras in soul society because she's, uh, dense, and cameras are just not very commonly used in soul society. That's all.

And there is one more plot hole. I gave Rukia a soul-cutter, even though only seated officers have soul-cutters. I'll just say that Rukia is a seated officer. Does eight seat sound good? I think so. And this, it says that Rukia had fought Renji with her Ehem new soul cutter before, lets just say that she's had her soul-cutter for a while (About two weeks?), learned the name freakishly fast, unlocked it, and can beat Renji. Because of girl power. Yeah.

And Hitsugaya just strikes me as the kind of person who would be good at rock paper scissors, he just does, okay!

Jakenpon means rock paper scissors.

Niisama is what Rukia refers to Byakuya as. It means, roughly, 'honored elder brother'.

Yes. It is Ukitake. You're right. I'm probably not going to go back and fix it because I'm lazy.

I put a quote at the beginning of this chapter. It's a new thing I've been doing, putting quotes at the beginning of chapters, and I really like how it turned out, so I'm gonna keep doing it. Eventually, I'm gonna go back and put quotes on all of the old chapters for this story, too, but I'm too lazy. If you have a question about the quotes, or would like to suggest anything, please write to me in your review. Because you are gonna review, right?

Right?

...Riiiiightttt!

"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards." -Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Renji sneezed.

"Oh!" said Rukia, "Someone is thinking of you!"

Renji sniffled, "Yeah"

In all truths, Renji doubted anyone was thinking of him at the moment. He further attributed his sneezing to the fact that he had a terrible cold. He had a cold because that damn captain Hitsugaya had frozen him solid. Renji said nothing because Rukia was having a world of fun using the 'Knowledge' she had picked up from Ukitake.

Renji sneezed again, and drowned out the sound of Rukia remarking that someone was pondering him by drinking green tea in a very loud way.

The tea had been made by Rukia. Rukia's skill with all things cooking was so nonexistent that she could, and had more than one time, burn water. In fact, that was about what the tea tasted like, but Renji didn't really mind. Anything warm was good right now.

"…Two out of three?" Yachiru said, in a very, very cute voice.

"No." Answered Captain Hizugaya.

"You're mean, Shorty Captain!" Yachiru yelled, waving her hands in the air.

Hitsugaya, after recently winning a Jakenpon game with Yachiru over the fate of a pack of pictures, turned to Yachiru, "And you're an immature vice-captain, go away."

And Hitsugaya set off to burn the pictures of Hinamori sleeping in his lap.

Suiru Umiko (A/N: Remember, my OC from last chapter?) ran down the hallway. She took a left. She almost ran into Yamada Hanatarou. She kept running.
"Do you like the tea I made?" asked Rukia.

"Suuuuuure." Answered Renji.

"Really? Because Niisama won't drink it." Rukia poured Renji more tea.

"I wonder why." Said Renji, ever so flatly. Rukia was so gleeful that someone was drinking her tea that she didn't notice Renji was flat-out lying to her.

The door was slammed open rather unceremoniously. A rookie Shinigami who looked to be an unseated officer from Kurotsuchi's observation squad stumbled in. She was painting.

"My name is Suiru Umiko, I'm looking for Kuchiki Rukia of squad thirteen." she said.

"Y-yes." Rukia answered.

"You" She painted, pointing to Rukia, "have a mission."

Yoruichi was alsleep.
"A mission?" Rukia asked.

"Y-yes, Kuchiki-sama, a mission." Umiko panted.

Rukia visibly twitched from being called '-sama', but said nothing. Now was a time for action, not for pet peeves.

Renji also found this news odd. It was a bit early for Rukia to be getting a mission. She had just been officially re-instated; she shouldn't be getting missions for another six days. Someone must have special assigned her. Someone weird. Someone Renji owed five hundred yen to.

Somewhere in Soul society, Byakuya sneezed.
Yoruichi was awake! Eyes jutted wide open, Yoruichi was awake. Very awake.

"Uruhara."

"Hnnn?"

"Hollow."

"Ah, yes. That." Kisuke nodded.

"A big one." She said.

"I know."

"...but...?"

Kisuke yawned, "G-go back to sleep."

"But-!"

"Sleep!"

"Fine! Fine!"

"Honto Arigatou!"

"Shut up!" She threw a pillow from the couch at him.

The hollow in question was big. Really big. Really, really big. But not necessarily strong.

In fact, it was so big that it took three slashes from Zangetsu and one zangeki to decapitate it. Though, in the end, Ichigo defeated the hollow all the same. Now he just had to get back to school. What period was he in now? Ichigo started to look around for a clock...

"Owww!" Ichigo picked up the sandal, "Who threw that?"

"I was in charge of killing that hollow, stupid. Why did you go and get it first?" Said Rukia.

Whe-he-heeee! A cliffhanger for you? Maybe.

And now to answer Kuro- Ippikiookami21 and anyone else who might have gotten this: Ippi, may I call you Ippi, Yourrrrr correct! Congratz! Ju-Go means fifteen in Japanese! That was a hint/clue to anyone who could get it. How? Well, Rukia was sent to section Ju-go. Ju-Go means fifteen. Ichigo can mean one-five, in English fifteen. Thus, the 'Ju-go' was a clue to the observant that Rukia was going to meet Ichigo some time in this story.

REVIEW OR I'LL NOTICE ANOTHER PLOTHOLE IN MY STORY AND COMMIT A MISDEMEANOR IN MY FERVENT RAGE! RARRRR!