"I wanna go!!!" Mika whined begging at the old captain commander's feet; Tori was accompanied with her. He sighed and said a 'yes' for a reason he did not know why. "YAY!!"

"What're you cheering about? You hafta go to school—again" Rina pointed out.

"Oh yeah…oh well, can't be as bad!" Mika said back.

"Whatever" She sighed as she and the other 2 left 1st Division. Tori and Mika had wanted to go with Hitsugaya, Rangiku, Renji, Rukia, Yumichika and Ikkaku to the real world to deal with the arrancar problem they were having.

"Can you take care of my moose?" Mika asked, remembering that they had a tendency to wander off when no one was around.

"And my pet rock?" Tori asked.

"Sure"

"…Shinboku! Shinboku!!" Tori arose groggily as the image of her teacher for math came into view.

"Yeah?" She asked.

"Can you answer this algebraic problem?" He asked.

"…no" She answered and proceeded to go back to sleep. The class let out a stifled laugh.

"That wasn't a question!"

"Sure sounded like one!"

"Just get up here and do it!" He said through clenched teeth.

"Aww…ok" She walked up, took a piece of chalk and looked at the problem. "What do I do?" She asked.

"Just figure out the value of 'x'" He answered. She looked back at the problem then at him once more.

"'X' is a letter not a number!!" She exclaimed as the class just laughed. "Geez and you're supposed to teach us things?!"

"Ayasegawa!! Help her!" He said out loud clearly infuriated.

"I dunno does it have to be an 'x'? Can it be a 'T'?" He asked, the laughing grew louder.

"Madarame!"

"What makes you think I'd want to answer this?" He asked him drawing his wooden sword out.

"Uh…Matsu—never mind" Rangiku was fast asleep on her desk.

"Abarai!"

"What?" He asked confused.

"Kuchiki!"

"Sorry you say something?" She asked as she came out of her sleepiness.

"Kurosaki!"

"Uh…"

"Kurai!"

"Sorry I was lost on the road of life, did ya say something?" She asked back.

"Can anyone answer this problem?!" He yelled out infuriated.

The class went silent. No one's hand rose to answer his question.

"OH!! Maybe Rina will know!" Tori exclaimed pulling out her phone and dialed.

"Rina? Who's that?" People asked.

"A friend that you don't know" Mika answered back.

"Hiya Rina, think you can solve this for me?" Tori asked.

"…Uh…sure" She answered back confused.

"12 equals 2x-7x-13" She read out.

"Uh…give me a minute" She said back.

2 minutes of silence passed until Rina had the answer.

"Let's just say its -5!!" Mika yelled out clearly bored out of her mind.

"…She's right" Rina said.

"Ok its -5…let's eat!!" Renji exclaimed as the lunch bell rang.

"Huh?" Rangiku arose from her slumber to discover it was lunch break.

"YES!! The one and only class where we get to eat!!" Mika cheered as she and the rest of the shinigami gathered on the rooftop to eat. Rukia and Ichigo were on their own talking about something.

"If taichou was here, he'd kill Ichigo" Renji stated looking at them.

"Yeah, he's way too overprotective" Rangiku agreed.

"Well we asked Rina to tell him to loosen up and just give her more freedom" Tori said.

"Speaking of those two, are they going out?" Rangiku asked suspiciously.

"No…what ever gave you that idea?" Mika asked a little bit frightened at how Rangiku had asked the question.

"Are you sure? They sure act as if they've known each other forever" Ikkaku said taking a bite out of his lunch.

"No they're not!!" Tori yelled out.

"You and taichou are, right?" Rangiku asked. Hitsugaya blushed a bright red before whacking her in the head.

"Uh…" She started only to be interrupted by Ichigo.

"Hey!!" He exclaimed sounding quite worried.

"What?" Renji asked.

"I'm thirsty" He said.

"Wow…that's nice, here" Mika handed him a juice box.

"How the hell do you use these things?!" Yumichika asked not understanding the juice box.

"Just poke the straw through the hole" He said poking the straw in. They watched his demonstration.

"…I don't get it" Rangiku said looking at the box strangely.

"Come on, even Rukia got it!" He said quite disappointed.

"HEY I heard that!!" She yelled at him enraged.

"Whatever" he returned back to her side.

"They are so going out" Tori commented on the couple.

"Anyways, back to the question, are you and taichou going out?" Rangiku asked again dodging Hitsugaya's fist.

"No we're not!" She yelled out blushing, drinking her juice from her juice box. "…I did it!!" She exclaimed holding up her juice up high as if it was something that was very powerful.

"Wha--?! How did you?!" Renji started looking back and forth.

"And no help from your boyfriend too!" Ikkaku exclaimed.

"He's not my boyfriend—and what is that supposed to mean?!" She yelled out.

"I'm not her boyfriend!!" Hitsugaya pointed at Tori yelling at them.

"Exactly!!"

"Whatever, Renji and Mika are going out so what're you guys so worried about?" Rukia said as she and Ichigo joined the group.

"What?!" They yelled out in unison.

"It's true isn't it?" Ichigo asked.

"N-NO!!" Renji answered wide-eyed and red in the face.

"Then why are you blushing?" Rukia asked smirking at his reaction.

"I-I'm not!!" He yelled out his face getting redder.

"You're so obvious!" Rukia told him.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Renji yelled out.

"Would you shut up? You're making a scene!" Ikkaku said pointing at the people that were looking at them strangely.

"Oh crap!"

"How bout we switch this topic back to Rina and Byakuya since you guys won't confess?" Rangiku asked.

"She'll kill us but ok!" Hitsugaya said.

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Somewhere back in Seireitei. "Something doesn't feel right" Rina and Byakuya said in unison who were a huge distance away from each other. They walked into each other soon after.

"Something doesn't feel right" She told him, he nodded as he said that he had the same feeling.

"Oh I wonder…"

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"So they are?!" Rangiku squealed with joy when she found out that those two had a close relationship. RING!!

"Huh?" Mika took out her cell phone and answered it.

"Hi there Mika"

"Oh hi Rina!" Suddenly the group fell silent.

"How strange" Rukia commented.

"Are you talking about us? When I say 'us' I mean me and Byakuya" She asked.

"Uh…no?"

"You are aren't you?"

"In a sense"

"Really? Like what?"

"Um…say how are my moose doing?" Mika quickly changed the subject.

"They're doing fine, now what were you guys talking about?"

"Nothing" She answered oh-so smoothly.

"That's it we're coming" Byakuya's voice said as the phone beeped to signal that they had hung up.

"Um…how bout we don't talk about them anymore?" Mika suggested. The rest nodded slightly freaked at how they could tell they were the topic of their discussion. The bell rang to signal that their lunch was over.

"What's next?"

"Science"

"Oh great…"

"What? We get to dissect something today!"

"Eww…"

"Oh man up for once Feather-Brow!"

"So which classroom is it?" Rina asked Byakuya as they hovered over the building.

"Just sense for Ichigo's reiatsu" He said then proceeded into the building. It wasn't long before they found the class. Only people that could see them were freaked out. People, who couldn't, looked at the freaked out people and wondered if they had problems or something.

"What're they doing here?" Ichigo asked Rukia quietly keeping his gaze.

"I dunno, they're not supposed to come!" She whispered back. Byakuya and Rina decided to wait until their class was over, as long as they knew they were there, they were fine. The bell rang for the last time to signal the end of the school day. The group jolted out of the room as fast as they could. Sado, Ishida, and Orihime were with them too as they wanted answers. Asano, Tatsuki and Mizuiro who could see them followed them quietly to find out. Even though they had ran their fastest without shunpo, it didn't matter as the 2 were always a step ahead of them.

"…Kuchiki-taichou!!" They exclaimed somewhat happy to see him. He didn't react at all causing them to all shut up. They were about to say something when they felt a huge reiatsu come crashing down on them.

"What the--?!" They were able to withstand it however the 3 that had followed couldn't as their spiritual power wasn't very high.

Ichigo grabbed the shinigami badge pressed it against himself and was ready to fight. His body lay lifeless so he asked Orihime to make sure nothing happened to it. She agreed readily and moved him back, upon her retreat; she saw Tatsuki, Asano and Mizuiro panting heavily. She decided to take care of them as well.

"E-Espada?" Rukia gasped as she recognized some of them. Their previous battle was still implanted in their minds as they were heavily injured from them. It wasn't just one Espada member though; a group of them with lesser arrancar and hollows showed up. It was very unusual as they weren't the type to just show up randomly.

"They're here for something" Ishida noted.

"Ishida, your powers aren't back yet so stay outta this! You too Chad! Your arm isn't fully healed yet is it?" Ichigo told them to retreat and stay by Orihime's side. They hesitantly agreed, regretting the fact that they weren't able to help.

"Who are they?" Renji asked the 3 girls that had been to Hueco Mundo.

"Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Yammy, and Szayel Aporro" Mika answered. In a flash all 4 Espada were standing in front of them. They didn't want the fight to be located on the ground, so they had it in the sky where no one would be harmed. The Espada had a different idea though as they fired Ceros' at them.

"You guys protect them!" Ichigo ordered Mika, Rina and Tori. They went back as a Cero nearly hit them.

"BE CAREFUL!" He yelled back.

"Thanks for the advice!" They yelled back sarcastically. Another Cero was fired at the ground creating a crater and a cloud of smoke to rise.

As the smoke cleared they saw the 3 girls lay unconscious on the ground.

"YOU BASTARD!!" Renji roared swinging Zabimaru at Ulquiorra who was the nearest one to him.

"SOTEN NI ZASE, HYOURINMARU!!!" Hitsugaya roared enraged shooting out ice at Szayel Aporro who had been taunting him.

"CHIRE, SENBONZAKURA!" Blades of metal scattered about looking like cherry blossoms, shooting towards Grimmjow.

"GETSUGA TENSHOU!!" The energy blast from Zangetsu was shot towards Yammy. Even though Ichigo had released it with a killing intent, Yammy's sonido outmatched it in speed.

"Dammit" He muttered blocking Yammy's fist.

"Mai, Sode no Shirayuki!" Rukia's zanpakutou was all white; the blade, the guard and the hilt were completely white. A long white ribbon attached to the end of the hilt fluttered as if it were dancing.

"Whoa, I've never seen Rukia go to shikai before!" Renji remarked, in fact pretty much everyone was in awe by Rukia's zanpakutou.

"First Dance: Tsuki Shiro!" The surrounding area she was in was coated in ice. Even though a circular patch of ice formed on the ground, making it look like, her attacks were only sufficient on the ground. That was proved wrong as the ice patch suddenly glowed brightly shooting up into the air. She nearly caught a limb from an Espada in her trap but not quite.

"Damn" She muttered seeing that the ice pillar before her hadn't captured anything.

"Nobiro, Houzukimaru!!" Ikkaku went head on towards the other arrancar (not Espada) swinging mercifully at them.

"Unare, Haineko!" Rangiku's zanpakutou scattered into ash similar to Senbonzakura. It cut down anything it came upon proving useful to eliminating the arrancar and hollows.

"Sake, Fujikujaku!" Yumichika's zanpakutou transformed into a sickle-like weapon times 5 blades. He didn't want to reveal to everybody that his zanpakutou was a kidou-type weapon so he just hacked away at the lesser hollows and arrancar.

"I-I wish I could do more" Orihime said quietly to herself as she watched everybody fight like they've never fought before. "They're so brave and strong" She added on.

"Yeah, but they're idiots" Mika spoke up.

"What the--?! Mika? Rina? Tori? I thought you guys were unconscious!" Ishida said.

"Yeah…we were faking it!" Tori beamed.

"Then you mean you just put on that act just to stay away from battle?" He asked.

"Something like that!" Rina answered.

"Hey!! If you're able to fight then get your ass out here!" Ichigo yelled at them.

"Aww…fine" They grumbled as they trudged up into the battlefield. They stood in one spot and looked up at them fighting.

"Don't just look!!" Ichigo scolded as he swung down. They sighed as they leapt up into the air to join the fight.

"Hibana, Hanabi!" Rina's zanpakutou burst into black flames.

"Barricade, Bakufu!" Mika's zanpakutou became a huge ice shard.

"Kiritsukeru, Hitofuki!" Tori's zanpakutou became a fan created of blades, so basically every time she swung, blades would shoot out with a fierce wind. It could be used as a fan or just an ordinary sword. Tori swung down releasing blades flying straight at Szayel Aporro's head. He managed to dodge all but one of them. It had grazed his right cheek causing it to bleed. "Well I tried" She said boredly. Mika swung Bakufu releasing a torrential downpour on Ulquiorra adding in a lot of precipitation including hail the size of minivans.

"Mika you are one scary girl!" Renji called out seeing what she could do to the weather.

"Thank ya!" She smiled. Rina set a whip created of fire at Grimmjow restraining his movements and burning him allowing Senbonzakura to get a full shot at him.

"Should we?" Tori asked the other two. The both nodded since it was an emergency. They thrust their zanpakutou's towards the Espada, making sure it pierced through the body at some part—preferably the head.

"Kuso!" They winced.

"HEKI!" Like the last time the ability had been activated, the blades exploded—as you can imagine, a lot of blood was spilled and a portion of their body had been blown away.

"How many times have we told you guys?! Don't use that damned move!" Hitsugaya yelled at them. Although it had done a fair amount of damage, they were more worried about how their zanpakutou's were faring. After all letting your weapon explode at random had to have some sort of damage to the weapon itself.

They all separated suddenly as the arrancar were fleeing. "Get back here!" They smirked to see them follow as it was all part of their plan. Getting them separated meant that they couldn't get as much help as when they were in a huge group.

"This is what you deserve bitch!!" Grimmjow yelled thrusting his hand into Rina's abdomen suddenly just as he had done to Rukia. She gasped and coughed up blood from the sudden impact. He twisted his hand around to wedge the wound wider causing more pain for her. She wasn't used to such excruciating pain as her vision began to blur. "Oh and this for what you did to me in your last visit" He smirked; he removed his hand and thrust his foot into the wound creating it to wedge open even more. The pain coursed throughout her body but she wasn't able to move at all. He laughed at her pain as he brought his leg up and then flung her back down to the ground creating a huge crater. "Sorry about that, looks like your girlfriend is gonna die ne?" Grimmjow turned his attention towards Byakuya who was clearly infuriated. Why he wasn't able to intervene was because he was worried that he might have harmed Rina in the crossfire.

"BANKAI, CHIRE SENBONZAKURA KAGEYOSHI!" He bellowed releasing his Bankai in complete rage.

"It's about time" Grimmjow readied himself for Byakuya's Bankai.

"Get back" Renji said standing in front of Mika.

"What're you doing? If I swing, I'll hurt you" She pointed out.

"Just stay out of this fight, this guy is strong judging by his reiatsu. I don't want you to get hurt." He explained to her. Now normally any normal girl would be flattered right? Well Mika was not a normal girl.

"Excuse me?!" She asked offended by his flattery. "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't fight!!" She yelled grabbing his shoulder and pushing him back behind her. "If you think I'm gonna die from this guy that has NO emotion at all" She continued raising her voice. "Then I don't know why you're with me!" She finished positioning herself for any attack coming at her.

"Um…ok?" He was confused at her reaction, wasn't that supposed to make her all warm and fuzzy on the inside?

"Too slow" Ulquiorra whispered in her ear as he threw her down to the ground, causing her to lose consciousness.

"He was so fast I didn't even see him move!" Renji gasped seeing at what had happened to Mika—the girl that kicked his ass while he was in 11th Division. "You're gonna pay for that!" He roared. "BANKAI, HIHIOU ZABIMARU!!" A larger version of Zabimaru appeared the daunting snake head rose and hissed at Ulquiorra.

"Careful, this guy is with the Espada" Hitsugaya warned Tori as she was behind him.

"He's just a researcher, he isn't so good on fighting" She notified him.

"Even so, just be careful. We don't know what he could do." He said.

"Right" She understood and focused on him.

"She's right ya know I'm not so keen on fighting. I am a researcher" He smirked.

"Quit yappin!" Toshiro dove forward swinging down ferociously as Szayel Aporro blocked every swing. Tori swung down when she saw an opportunity. The blades had shocked him as he wasn't so focused on her. A few of the blades pierced his arms and legs.

"Damn bitch" He cursed as he turned his attention onto her.

"Oh shit" She gasped as he was suddenly behind her. That was the last thing she remembered as she was flung down to the ground.

"Tori!" Hitsugaya yelled out.

"Don't worry about her, you'll join her soon" He sneered as he lunged towards him.

"Think again…BANKAI, DAIGUREN HYOURINMARU!" An ice dragon covered his body, his eyes flared with a killing intent. "You'll pay!" He growled.

Aww...the guys care. Yes releasing Bankai like that seems odd but hey, if emotions cloud your mind, you would go overboard wouldn't ya? Well the next chapter won't come out for a while. The fluffiness is gonna kill me--I'm amazed it hasn't killed me yet.