Normally nobody would listen to Yachiru for advice, but Renji was desperate and needed to know where to find a moose.

"You're kidding" He said once Yachiru whispered the answer to him. She nodded with a smile and said good luck to him then leapt off to terrori—play with her shinigami friends. "I can't believe I'm going to take advice from a pink-haired kid that calls Zaraki-taichou 'Ken-chan'…" He muttered under his breath. Meanwhile with Mika…she was waiting patiently for her moosie to come to her. She caught sight of Gin and started tailing him.

"Hiya!! Gin-san!" Gin looked at her but smiled and continued walking. Mika had decided to become Gin's shadow for the day since she couldn't find Renji.

"How come your eyes are always closed?" she asked curiously.

"Cuz" he answered gracefully.

"How come you're always smiling?"

"Why not?" he asked her back. His answers were short and simple. They soon broke out into a game of 20 questions still walking around Seireitei.

"Do you like moosies?"

"Yup"

"Will you play with me?"

"No"

"But you're playing 20 questions with me right now!!"

"Who would've guessed?"

---

Tori was bored, she was lying on the couch staring at the ceiling. It was really quiet, very unusual. Ukitake wondered why his division was so quiet. He walked in to see some people working, while some were lounging around. He could deal with that, as long as someone was working, he was fine.

"Hiya Uki-kun!!"

Tori realized her captain had come into the room scanning for anything rigged. He looked at her suspiciously, he seriously thought she was plotting something; it was way too quiet to be the 13th Division he knew. She started to flick paperclips in every which way across the room. The flying objects didn't hit anybody but was quiet annoying. Every 10 seconds or so, a little object would come by and sometimes ricochet off the walls and it would be chaotic. No one knew how the paperclips were doing that.

"Hey where's Rukia?" Tori asked all the sudden.

"She's probably staying away from you and Mika…" Rina replied boredly.

"Why me?"

"Remember what you and Mika said to her when she first came to this division?"

"Uh…"

.:Flashback:.

"Hi there! My name's Tori and this is Mika" Mika waved with a smile on her face.

"With a little bit of magic, all your dreams will come true!" Rukia stared at them strangely but chose to accept these two girls as her friends.

.:Flashback:.

"But it was true! With a lil' bit of magic; all of your dreams will come true!" She argued back.

"But don't you think it was strange to say that?"

"NO!"

Rukia wasn't hiding from the two girls, she was on a mission.

"Hey can I buy some moose off of you?" Renji asked a man that had a green striped hat.

"Uh…sure…1000 yen!"

"1000!!!?"

"Yes! Take it or leave it!" The deal wasn't so bad, 1000 yen is about 10 dollars U.S. , and that's cheap for a moose. Renji thought it wasn't so bad; he was quite desperate after all. He took 2 moose and went back to Soul Society.

"MIKA!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!" He yelled out, looking for the girl who had requested he get her moose. He decided to drop the moose off at her apartment since he couldn't find her. The only one at home at the time was Rina, she usually took her paperwork back with her to do; she found it more comfortable. The first thing that greeted her was 2 moose entering the apartment.

"Renji!!! What are you doing?!" She asked frantically, she wasn't ready to take on 2 moose for pets.

"Mika wanted them, tell her they're hers and I spent 1000 yen on EACH of them!" He said then left hurriedly, he took a week to get them and he expected a ton of work waiting for him.

"…he does know that all Mika wanted was plushies right?" She asked herself. Approximately half an hour later, Mika came back to get a cookie for herself.

"MOOSE!" She exclaimed when she entered the house.

"Ren-Ren got them for you, you should be grateful he got you the real thing!" Rina explained to her, Mika started laughing her head off; she didn't really mean that he get real moose for her.

"Well if he finds out…you owe him 2000 yen!" Rina warned.

---

At 6th Division, Renji felt like he had wasted 2000 yen for no reason.

"Why do I feel like I wasted 2K on moose?" He asked himself. He decided to investigate, he ditched his work which was about 2 feet high and went to visit his friend.

---

"OH MY GOD MOOSE!!!" Tori yelled out in surprise and excitement.

"I KNOW!! REN-REN GOT THEM FOR ME!!!" As if on cue, he came in.

"I have a feeling that I wasted a lot of money for nothing—did you really want a real live moose?" he asked curiously.

"NO!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! YOU WASTED 2K ON MOOSE!! THANKS THOUGH!!!" She laughed her thanks to her friend.

"WHY I OUGHTTA!!!" He yelled in fury.

"WAIT!!! Don't you wanna know their names?"

"You named them already?" He asked

"Yeah!!! Well anyways…this one's 'Moosie'!!!"

"Figures…"

"…And this one's Elliott!!"

"Mika!!!" Tori whined.

"What?" she asked, clueless.

"You got the Elliott the Moose theme song in my head!!!" She cried out.

"…"

Everybody was silent, until Tori and Mika broke out into song. "Elliott the Moose, is on the loose..."

"I'll just pretend I never heard that" Rina said and walked out of the house. The song was drowned out by the closed door until…Yachiru and Renji joined in! Renji's loud voice could be heard through the door which attracted Yachiru, she was outside until Rina let her in. She couldn't stand the song any longer so she stormed off.

"Zaraki-taichou!!" she yelled.

"Huh?" "Your little pink blob of cuteness is at my house—singing!!!"

"…what do you want me to do about it?" He asked boredly, he couldn't care less for Yachiru's actions unless it meant fighting and death.

"Stop her?!" Rina suggested the quite obvious thing to do. He sighed and told Yumichika and Ikkaku to get her, he didn't want to go through all the effort of shutting her up, and dragging her back.

---

"Hitsugaya-taichou!!" she yelled out breathless.

"What is it?"

"Your girlfriend won't shut up!!!"

"…my girlfriend?"

"Tori?!"

"…We're…just…friends…" He said slightly blushing a light pink.

"Psh! That's what they all say…" She said to herself quietly. "Did I mention there's watermelon there?" In a flash, he left in hope of watermelon.

"I so need to use that!!" Matsumoto said, she was 'forced' to do work.

---

"Kuchiki-taichou!!"

"What did Renji do?" he asked not looking up, he automatically assumed Renji was at fault.

"Your vice-captain is singing—"

"Abarai? Singing?" he asked looking up, giving her a look of disbelief.

"No…Big Bird is…YES HE'S SINGING!!!"

"Oh boy!!!" Rikichi exclaimed, he had eavesdropped and rushed off to find his idol.

"Damn…" she muttered.

"What makes you think I want to go off into a suicidal mission right about now?" he asked.

"I dunno…I was just thinking that, that's a HUGE pile of work left over by Renji. I guess if Renji doesn't come back, looks like YOU'RE gonna have to do it." She emphasized the 'huge' and 'you're' so he would get the point. He muttered something about 'killing Renji someday' which we ALL hope he doesn't do…and left.

It took about 2 hours to get the 'choir' out of the apartment. Yumichika and Ikkaku managed to get Yachiru out of there, Byakuya got Rikichi and Renji out of there, but the two girls wouldn't stop. Hitsugaya just got to the door, hearing the singing he turned back deciding that he was too young to die. The singing had started to annoy people, even though they had switched songs. Somehow, for some reason, the Onmitsukidou were called in to stop them. The girls did stop, but it wasn't til after the Onmitsukidou, were kicked out after they insisted on releasing the two moose.

"YAHOO!!! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!" Tori jumped in excitement, she was talking about the Sakura Matsuri.

"YAH!!! WE GET TO EAT A LOT OF FOOD,

"get broke"

"PLAY A LOT OF GAMES"

"get broke"

"AND…BUY A LOT OF STUFF!!"

"This means, we'll get broke after tonight." Rina concluded.

"What's with money and you?" Mika asked a little paranoid.

"Who does the bills for us AND 13th Division?"

"…ohhhhhh…"

"Yeah…"

"Whatever!!! You shouldn't do math on weekends anyways!!!" Tori said jumping up even more. "And just to let you know, there was a study taken showing that people that did math on weekends had a higher risk of getting brain damage!!" Tori added on earning 2 queer stares from her friends. "What?"

The first thing the girls did was pig out on anything that had sugar in it or just tasted good; which was mainly everything.

"You guys done yet?" Rina sighed; they had spent nearly 50 000 yen already on food.

"Yup!" Tori said slurping up her last noodle from her ramen.

"…What's next?" Rina asked she was merely going to follow her friends around.

"…uh…how 'bout…GAMES!!!" Tori cheered and raced Mika to play games. While they spent about 75 000 yen on games they would mock each other if they lost to a little kid, and cheer when they won a big plushy bunny.

"Hey Rina!! Look what we got!!" Tori exclaimed happily. If Rukia was there, she'd tackle them for the bunny. She was on a mission though, so the girls were safe…for now.

"HOLLOW MASKS!!" Mika shouted and pointed at the stand that was selling hollow masks to little kids. Rina wasn't even going to take one step closer to the stand, so she handed some of the money to the two who then rushed over.

"We are so broke after this night." She said under her breath.

"Looks like you're enjoying yourself" A voice said behind her. She turned around and saw Byakuya.

"…Right…What do you want?" she asked quite rudely.

"Follow me…" he simply stated then turned and walked in the opposite direction her friends were. He had expected her to follow, but she had just ignored him, continuing watching her friends amazed by the masks. He sighed and actually, for some reason took her hand and dragged her.

"What the hell?"

"You shouldn't curse, it's not lady-like" he informed her as if she were a little spoiled brat.

"Well you can shove that lady-like crap up your—ah…gomen na sai." She said quickly realizing what she was saying.

---

"…I dunno…are just two hollow masks gonna wake Rina up earlier?" Mika wondered.

"You're right…let's get a clown one!!" Tori decided she turned to make sure their friend wasn't watching them. She wasn't but, Tori caught sight of her with Byakuya.

"OMG!!! I knew it!!!"

"Knew what?" A voice asked her.

"Snowflake!!! You scared me!!" she scolded Hitsugaya, who had no expression whatsoever. She pouted at him, but he just stared at her blankly.

"Ooh the tension!!" Mika commented.

"What's going on here?" Renji asked the .three.

"Oh hiya Tako-chan!!"

"…Tako-chan?" he asked her. She nodded and said that he was like an octopus, Renji didn't get it. "Gah! You're so dense!!" She said to him, he did understand that and took that as a big insult.

He started chasing her while she was running in a zigzag pattern throughout the festival. Tori and Hitsugaya still had their staring competition…it didn't last long though, their eyes started to burn from the overdose of oxygen their eyes were getting.

"Damn…can't see…" Hitsugaya muttered. His stomach growled slightly like how Hyourinmaru roared.

"Wanna get watermelon—gah get off me!!" Tori had glomped him when the word 'watermelon' had left his mouth.

"ONWARD!!" she said pointing at the watermelon stand while perched on Hitsugaya's back. He grumbled but went on anyway; it was an odd sight.

---

"You'll never catch me with that speed of yours!" Mika yelled back to Renji.

'Laugh it up while you still can! Cuz in 5 seconds…' Renji thought to himself.

BOOM!!

Mika stopped to see what had made the sound. Renji nearly collided into her, scratch that, they were on a slippery hillside, so they did collide into each other. Mika was going to topple over but Renji caught her hand before she did so. She regained her balance and stared at the fireworks that were lighting up the night sky.

"Oh…by the way…" Mika said quietly. He looked down at her suspiciously. The next thing he knew he was bopped in the head.

"What the?!"

"That's what you get for chasing me!! I'm tired now!!!" She whined. He was rubbing his head from the impact, for someone that was supposedly tired, she sure packed a punch.

---

"Wow, it sure is pretty" Tori remarked, munching on some watermelon.

"Yeah…" Hitsugaya agreed. The display was quite mesmerizing.

---

"Kuchiki-taichou, why did you take me here?" Rina asked him, they were on a small bridge over a river quite a ways away from the festival.

"Because we are." He answered.

"…Again with those sh-tty answers of yours." She sighed.

"…I told you not to curse…" he reminded her.

"Man, you sure are bent on the rules" she mumbled. He looked down at her hearing her words. It was silent between them; they were just looking up at the fireworks.

---

Renji and Mika got tired of standing so they sat down. Mika linked arms with him and rested her head on his shoulder. He blushed for having Mika in his space, but didn't retreat like any pansy would. Tori and Toshiro had moved away from the stand to get a better view—they were perched on a tree branch. Tori was sitting on Hitsugaya's lap resting her tired head on his chest. His heart raced for awhile but then got accustomed to her presence. He rested his head on hers and continued to watch the light display. The silent twosome was just staring up at the sky. Byakuya was going to say something when he felt pressure on his left shoulder. He looked over and saw Rina resting her head on his shoulder, she was tired and half awake. He didn't argue, it wasn't her fault, so he kept quiet. The display was over in about 30 minutes. Hitsugaya brought Tori back to her apartment—Tori hitched a ride, she was on Hitsugaya's back on a piggyback ride.

"Had a good night?" He asked her once they were at the door.

"Yeah…" she mumbled tiredly.

She got off his back, and opened her door, but…Hitsugaya pecked her on the cheek before she got in. She stood there stunned, soon got her senses back, and crawled into bed soon after. Mika and Renji arrived about 10 minutes later.

"Hey you're not dead, are you?" he asked the girl on his back, like Tori, she had hitched a ride. She pounded him on the back

"We're having a moment, don't ruin it!"

"Uh…ok?" Once they got to the door…

"Mika…you open the door before—"

"I know how to get in!!!" she was highly offended by his joke. She was about to hit him with a hammer that had magically appeared, he clenched his eyes tight waiting for the blow. Instead he felt a soft kiss on his cheek. He opened his eyes confused; she just giggled at his confusion and entered her home, then plopped down onto her bed. Renji left quite confused and dazed. Few minutes later, Byakuya dropped Rina off at her apartment. She was half awake and on the verge of sleeping any second. She forced herself to stay awake or else Byakuya would go on about the lady-like crap she didn't care about.

"Hope you had a good night." He said to her.

"Nnn…yeah I did…" she said quietly and tiredly. When she least expected it, he leaned over and pecked her on the cheek swiftly, then left. She stood there for a while, then went in, nearly collapsing from her tiredness.