Filler: Intentionally
"Hey, this has always been a mystery to me, but why don't you just help each other out of your stuffed animal bodies?" Ichigo said.
A minute later, the three modified souls were running as fast their little stuffed animal bodies would allow, frantically trying to retrieve the bodies they had left behind at their respective partner's home.
Ririn chastised herself internally as she led Claude and Nova to the next house; she couldn't believe that she hadn't figured it out earlier, but she refused to lose face in front of her team.
"What! I knew that without you having to tell me! I knew and just pretended that I didn't!" she said, although Ichigo was no where in sight.
As Claude and Nova regained their bodies she could hear their complaints (or rather, Claude's) but she was lost in thought.
Why hadn't she thought of that earlier?
She was the designated leader of the three mod souls! She should've known that they could've helped each other into their gigais! To be told such a simple thing by such a simple minded individual was a true shame against her.
She sighed deeply. "It's obvious that I intentionally pretended not to know, right?"
Nova, as usual, said nothing, while Claude kept speaking a bunch of nonsense, which was nothing new to her. Her companions were never very good at reassuring her whenever she made a mistake.
Urahara would be laughing at her if he found out, she realized with horror. Although she never said anything, she held a deep fondness for the man that had saved her and her companions from destruction. If he knew (and she knew that he would eventually find out) what had happened he would no doubt laugh at her!
Her hands balled up into tiny fists, fuming at the very idea. "That Ichigo better not say anything, or I'm gonna-"
Her speech was cut off by the lion plushie, who was laughing at her in that idiotic voice of his that grated on her nerves. "How can you be so stupid? Ha! If I had a body of course I'd figure out a way to get into it as much as possible! Ha! Ha!"
Ririn grabbed the lion plush toy and shook it violently, becoming more irate by the second. This simply was not her day! "Shut up idiot!"
She threw the doll into the air, happy to see that despite his stupidity Kon was quite aerodynamic.
"Hurry up! We need to go after those Bounto!" she said, regaining her composure. At least, she reasoned, her powers were fully returned, making her much more useful than she was when she was stuck in that ridiculous bird plushie.
And she would definitely show that Ichigo up, when the time was right. Or at least, use her powers of illusion to screw him up for fun.
She smiled deviously at the idea.
End