Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach! I do however claim all the assets of Clorrox.

Chad: I am so bored...

Orihime: Yeah... we've just been sitting here for like a month and a half. Weren't we supposed to do something?

Ichigo: I feel so... empty.

(door slams open, bringing in white light surrounding a mysterious silhouette standing in the doorway, as heavenly harp music plays)

Urahara: Hey, he came back! Is it true? Can this really finally be... chapter 6?

Mysterious Silhouette: Yep, it's true. I've made chapter 6.

Yoruichi: (throws a tomato at the silhouette) Well it's about damn time! What took you so long?

Mysterious Silhouette: Hey it's not my fault I was just too fricking busy! I had so much homework and studying to do for all the end-of-semester finals. And then I lost my muse. And then I got writer's block. And then I took a nap. Uhh, a lot of things happened actually but now I'm back! So if you all don't mind I think we can start the next chapter now.

Oh, and as a note, after all this time you may have forgotten who Kame is. He is my OC... for a better description in case you forgot look back at chapter 5. And I do sincerely apologize it took me so long to update, I sort of hit a block.

Chapter 6- Why Not to Push Unfamiliar Buttons

Ichigo bid casual farewells to the three second year students and went back the way he came. As he was going up the stairs, he was met by Uryuu coming down the stairs. Uryuu was hastily making his way down and abruptly stopped when he saw Ichigo, immediately regaining his cool as he pushed up his glasses and said calmly, "Oh, Ichigo, I was just looking for you. We're sharing a room."

"Sharing a room? You mean like sleeping in the same bed? Uh... all right, but, there will be no spooning. Unless I'm really, really, really, really drunk."

"...we have different beds..."

"Oh. Okay, let's go." He followed Uryuu, who was now feeling a little awkward back into the main hall and up the stairs onto the second floor. As the walked, Ichigo spoke up. "So, let me get this straight... classes start the day after tomorrow?"

"That's right. You sure do ask a lot of questions, Ichigo. Are you slow?"

He scowled. "What did you say?! For your information, I was asking for the benefit of the audience because it's easier to explain these things through dialogue."

Uryuu glared at him. "Will you once and for all stop using meta references? It's very unprofessional."

"Meta whosa watsit?"

Uryuu cleared his throat, pushing up his glasses. "Anyway, yes, that's true. Our schedules are also on our beds. Here, I got yours for you. It looks like we have a few classes together." Ichigo took the paper and read it.

Kurosaki Ichigo, yr 1

Course #1: Introductory Mathematics with Professor Aizen and aide Momo, room 2422

Course #2: Introductory Horticulture with Professor Hitsugaya and aide Rangiku, room 313

Course #3: Level 1 Hand-to-Hand Combat with Professor Soi Fon and aide Marechiyo, dojo #39

Course #4: Art 1 with Professor Ichimaru and aide Izuru, room 1640

Course #5: Level 1 Shunpo with Professor Kuchiki and aide Kame, courtyard #72

Course #6: Macro Economics with Professor Tousen and aide Shuuhei, room 2113

Course #7: Level 1 Zanpakutou Skills Development with Professor Kyoraku and aide Nanao, courtyard #31

Course #8: Early Soul Society Literature with Professor Ukitake and aide Rukia, room 225

Course #9: Chemistry I with Professor Kurotsuchi and aide Nemu, room B509

Course #10: Level 1 Kidou with Professor Komamura and aide Tetsuzaemon, courtyard #40

Course #11: Introductory Health Science with Professor Unohana and aide Isane, room 512

Course #12: Physical Education with Coach Zaraki and aide Yachiru, dojo #1

Predicted Status: Imminent Expulsion

"Huh? What's this at the bottom?" asked Ichigo.

"Oh, the academy office makes a prediction of each student's outcome at the school based on their entrance exam results."

"Why?"

"To motivate them, I guess." He glanced at Ichigo's paper. "Or to prepare them, in some cases."

"What does yours say?"

He hastily began to fold it up. "Uh, that's not important."

"Let me see!" he snatched the paper and opened it up, reading aloud the last line. "Predicted Status: Virgin Until Age 45." He glanced up at Uryuu, whose cheeks were bright red. "Well, good luck with that I guess."

They continued down the walkway until Uryuu stopped at one of the doors and opened it. Inside was a well-furnished room with a red carpet and mahogany walls.

With nothing in it.

"Is this where we sleep?" Ichigo asked. "I call this corner."

"No, you idiot. Look." Uryuu pointed at an orange button in the wall in front of them under an LCD screen.

"How can we fit in there?"

"No. Press the button so that the method of entrance can be chosen."

Ichigo, confused and curious, approached the screen and pressed the button. Phrases began to flash across the screen in orange print, too fast for Ichigo to read. He stared intently at the screen until, after a few seconds, the phrases stopped cycling and one stayed on the screen. Ichigo read it aloud.

"Rabid grizzly bear?"

He heard a deep roar behind him, turned around, and looked up to see just that: a rabid grizzly bear. The two boys shrieked in terror as the bear swiped at them, and Ichigo's eyes sight went to black. As he opened his eyes, he saw he was on the floor, and moved to get up. The grizzly bear was gone; in fact, they were in another room altogether.

It was furnished like the room from before, but was a lot larger and in the shape of a circle, with one round wall all around. There were chairs, desks, and windows all around, plus a fireplace and a staircase leading up to another walkway with more doors leading away. There were students of all years around the room, studying, reading, talking, and other stuff that students do.

Ichigo, stretching, looked to Uryuu, standing beside him. "What the hell was that?"

"It's a high-level kidou. It warped us to the other side of the building."

"This is... starting to dangerously resemble Harry Potter."

Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and glared at Ichigo, dead silent.

Uryuu chuckled nervously. "He was just kidding! It's the hair... he put too much chemicals in his hair and bleached his brain."

One random kid in the room said out loud, "Oh, so that's why they call it Bleach." And then the room went back to its activities.

"Around here we don't mention Arry-hay Otter-pay," whispered Uryuu urgently. "It's bad juju."

"But I-"

"Bad. Juju." As Uryuu took Ichigo through the room, he saw a few people he recognized like Chad and Tatsuki socializing with other students. Up the stairs, they got to another door (which Ichigo desperately hoped wasn't another randomized entrance room), behind which was a short hallway leading to a large room with five beds down the wall.

"This is my bed," Uryuu said, pointing at the closest one, "and that's yours." He pointed to the fourth one down.

Ichigo nodded. "Okay. Cool. So."

"So."

"So... what do we do now?"

Uryuu slapped a palm to his face. "Don't tell me we've been put in another spot that will take a month to figure out. If only the author of this thing didn't suck so much at writing..."

"Hah! You just did a meta reference!" After a laugh, Ichigo frowned, sighing. "You know what would really be great is some sort of literary device to get this story going somewhere."

Hey... great idea! Why didn't I think of that?

"Because you suck."

You forget I can do this.

Ichigo was suddenly shocked by a bolt of lightning from the sky, charring him cartoonishly to a crisp.

"Good point."

Just then Renji and Kame entered the room. "Hey, it's that orange hair kid from last chapter. What happened to you?"

"I angered the voice..."

"Eh... okay. Are you two staying in this room too?" Kame asked. Uryuu nodded.

Renji grinned. "That means we're roommates! Oh this is so great. We can stay up late and talk about girls, and tell scary stories, and share each others' poetry, and do each other's hair!"

Everyone stopped and stared in an awkward silence, which Kame eventually broke. "So yeah... we were gonna go out tonight to celebrate the last days of summer vacation. You guys want to come along? We can show you around the Seireitei."

Ichigo, who was suddenly and for no logical reason back to normal, answered, "Yeah, that sounds good. Let's go."

Yay! The story is now actually going somewhere. Chapter 7 hopefully up ASAP. If it makes you feel better it doesn't seem I'll be as busy this semester so I should have more free time. Review please! I'm not so confident about this chapter so any problems or comments at all please let me know. Pretty please?

Oh and by the by... a meta reference is when characters in a story acknowledge that they are in a story. I came across this term a couple weeks ago and thought it was just the most awesome thing in the world that they have a word for that.