A/N: Thank you all for reading this! Sorry, no Review Responses. This is a Double Feature, remember? Review Reponses are in the previous chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach!

Sorry it's short!

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Chapter 18: The Calm Before the Storm

Toushirou couldn't see a thing. It was dark and cold. Surprisingly, the cold actually bothered him. It didn't usually do that. He was used to the cold. He liked the cold air and the season of winter. Most of all, he couldn't see Ichigo or feel his presence.

That's why he was so cold...

He couldn't feel Ichigo's presence anywhere near him.

Toushirou felt his eyes squeeze shut and when he opened them, he was back in a cell. He shivered. Was he still so cold? He looked over to his left.

"K-Kuchiki-san...?"

Rukia looked at him in surprise and them muttered something in her hand and let go a butterfly and then turned back to him and smiled.

"You're awake! How do you feel?"

"Cold..." was all he could think of. He couldn't stop thinking about Ichigo. "Ichigo...where is he?"

"I know these aren't the words you want to hear right now, Toushirou, but it's the truth. I really don't know where the hell Ichigo is..."

Toushirou shivered again. "I-It's fine...Just curious..."

There was a short pause.

"Are you sure you're okay, Toushirou?"

What he said next surprised her to a certain degree.

"No, not really..."

"I see...would you like a anything?"

"Ichigo..." was all he said.

"Alright...I'll see what I can do..."

She had to lie to him. There was nothing she could do.

Absolutely nothing.

A butterfly gently fluttered across Uryuu's face.

"Oh, look...a little butterfly just flew into the room...huh, does that mean that it's spring in the Soul Society?"

"Oh, great, now he's seeing butterflies..." Ganju said. "Well, let's see if he manages to catch the pretty butterflies, Uryuu!"

"What?! Where do you go off calling me by my first name?! You are not a close enough friend for that and if you keep making insulting comments about chasing butterflies, then you never will be!"

"Who said I wanted to be friends with an oddball like you in the first place?!"

"What?! Why you...!"

"Shh..." Chad silenced. "Listen..."

It sounded like...noises...that were headed their direction.

Suddenly the ceiling crashed.

Out of the rubble stepped Kenpachi with his entire posse.

"What?! Oh, no, we're all doomed!" Ganju kept screaming his head off. "We're all gonna die!"

"Hey, now, Ganju-san!" All three guys turned to Orihime, perched on Kenpachi's shoulder. "It's alright! We're so glad to see that all three of you are okay!"

"I'm glad to see you're okay, too, Inoue," Uryuu said, "But 'We'?"

Momo lifted herself up. "Yep, 'We'!" Orihime lightly screamed and groaned as Yachiru pulled her down and wouldn't let go.

"Anyways, can we just get out of here so we can find Ichigo-san?" Momo asked Kenpachi as Ikkaku and Yumichika tried to pull Yachiru off of the poor Ryoka girl.

It was that afternoon. Toushirou was still lying on his cot, hands surprisingly not bound, but he could still feel that choker hot around his neck. It burned whenever he was gathering reiatsu, but this time, it wasn;t on purpose.

Ukitake had come in earlier and when Toushirou asked about the choker, the older man and said that Toushirou's body naturally gathered reaitsu every time it tried to heal itself and that's why he fell into a little coma.

After Ukitake left, Toushirou tried not to think about anything but the pain he was in.

"Oh, Toushirou?" Rukia said.

"Hmm?"

"I forgot to mention...tonight will probably be your last..." Toushirou slowly turned his head towards her, not beleiving what he was about to hear. "I'm sorry, but tomorrow morning is your execution. Therefore...good luck..."

Toushirou said nothing but, "I see..." before gazing back at the ceiling and slowly falling back asleep.

He didn't notice Rukia's sad gaze upon him, which slowly turned into a determined look.

"What?!" Ichigo was outright furious when he heard Renji say it. "They're executing him tomorrow morning!"

"That's only ten hours away," Yoruichi said. "We'd better hurry things up, Ichigo."

"Ichigo," Renji said. "Don't worry and focus on perfecting your bankai technique. I will hold them off for as long as I can. Beleive it or not, Ichigo, but you're not the only one willing to help Toushirou."

"Renji..."

"Trust me to give them the best opening act just for you, and I'll trust you to come in on the right chords, okay?" Renji smirked.

Ichigo nodded and smirked back. "Alright. Let's get down to business, Yoruichi! Let's finish this, once and for all."

Yoruichi also nodded and said, "Right."

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A/N: Review, please! X( Motivation block is killing me! T^T