Over the few weeks, I have become pretty good friends with Machi and Ichigo. I've even started talking to Chad, Orihime, Tatsuki, Mizuru and Keigo! It almost feels like I belonged here, but I'll never give up hope for a way back to the Soul Society.

I've battled countless more hollows, sometimes I got to kill them other times Ichigo did the honours. I met Don Kanonji, the guy from the TV show and boy was he wacked... he was actually making hollows when he thought he was cleansing them! We proved him wrong though... and got ourselves on TV in the process! Orihime almost got eaten by her brother turned hollow! But Ichigo saved her just in time! After a while I noticed something was weird about a guy named Uryu Ishida.

"Man I'm glad the exams are over!" I say while checking the score board to see if I placed.

"Let's see... what I get? 39th!" Machi shrieks excitedly, announcing it to the whole world, or to anyone who cared enough to listen.

I scan over the board and finally find my name, "Yes! I got 20th!!!" I exclaim happily. Machi gives me a lame thumbs up sign and I go back to checking the scores. "I did better than Ichigo and Machi, but Chad and Orihime got better scores than me... Oh well, I've been busy fighting hollows, if I placed in the top 10 it would be a miracle!" I think to myself. Mean while, Keigo had started blabbing some nonsense about us being nerds and betraying him because we got in the top 50. I laugh when Ichigo punches him.

Ichigo had checked the scoreboard too and asked Orihime about that Uryu person, I was close to them so I heard every word. I saw them leave somewhere, and I was curious about Uryu too, so I followed them.

When I told Machi where I was going she had a look of disgust on her face, "Uh... I'm not gonna be caught dead there... Sorry... Bye, bye!" I just shrugged my shoulders and left.

At the room, we stopped and poked our heads through the doorway and watched Uryu sow a doll extremely quickly. "Holy! I didn't think it was possible to sow that quickly! Let alone to have a boy do it! But what he said to the girl after... why do something nice then just act mean?" I think.

Ichigo turns away from the door and finally notices me, "Wah?! When'd you get here?!" he yells, obviously startled.

"Oh! Hi Sazuki!" Orihime says in her usual happy tone. I give her a smile in return and look back at Ichigo, "Is he an idiot or was he just too caught up with Uryu to notice me? It's not like I was trying to be sneaky...."

(Just so you know, it part is happening after school, when Sazuki was first looking at the scoreboards it was after school.)

While we were talking I felt someone poke me in the back, and by Ichigo's and Orihime's reactions, the same happened to them. Orihime jumped when she was poked then turned around. Ichigo cursed, and I just turned around.

The person who poked us turns out to be Machi, "Hey guys!" she says smiling and giving us a quick wave.

"Oh, hey Machi, I thought you wouldn't be caught dead here," I tell her looking at her suspiciously. Ichigo was grumbling about the fact he was poked and Orihime had gone back to her usual smile.

"Well you're not in the sewing room anymore right?" Machi clarified as she looked at us all.

"We never were," I inform her.

"We just poked out heads in!" Orihime clarified.

"Oh well, we're away from it now and Uryu isn't here sewing either," says Machi crossing her arms. I give her a dead pan look and point to the sign that says, "Sewing Room". She sweatdrops and says, "Yeah, well.... whatever!"

"Oh! I got to go! Bye guys!" yells Orihime as she runs off somewhere.

"Bye!" I say waving at her back.

"Yeah bye..." was all Ichigo said as he was watching Uryu, who had just left the sewing room.

Machi notices what Ichigo is doing and strikes a really stupid pose and says, "Duna duna duna!" as she walks with her back against a wall. Ichigo is also now sneaking after Uryu. I decide to do a different approach and just walk a couple meters behind him. "The more they try to be inconspicuous the more noticeable they are!" I think sweatdropping as I watch them attempt to sneak around. Machi was the most obvious one, especially since she kept saying, "Duna duna duna!" every once in a while.

Uryu turns a corner so I can no longer see him. I see Machi almost trip and scream, "He defiantly doesn't know we're following him...." I think sweatdropping. I catch up to them, they seem to have stopped for some reason.

Uryu turns around and says, "You can come out now, I know you've been following me. It was obvious."

I sweatdrop and look in Machi's direction, Ichigo does the same. Then we all step out so that Uryu can plainly see us. I focus my attention on Uryu, "There is something strange about him, like how he knew we were following him. Well... Other than the fact that Machi made tons of noise, but I get the feeling like he knew we were following him since even before that..." I think.

Ichigo looks up at Uryu and asks, "What gave it away?" I sweatdrop.

"Why do you think it's awkward?!" Machi exclaims, obviously thinking Ichigo is a complete idiot. By the look on Uryu's face he was thinking the same thing.

Uryu then regains his composure and says, "Well I'm guessing you mean other than Machi...." I give him an amused look and he continues, "You're leaking large amounts of reitsu, that's made it quite obvious." I looked quickly at Machi to see she looked completely lost.

Uryu notices Machi's face and directs his attention to her, "You don't even know what reitsu is?" he sneers, obviously thinking she's an idiot, "Why are you with them anyway?"

I look at Machi, waiting for her answer. "Well I haven't had time to ask about that," she pauses then quickly continues, "But from what you said; reitsu is like spiritual energy, right?" I look at her amazed, "She's smarter than I give her credit for." I think with a smile.

I turn to her, deciding this may be a good time to explain, and say, "You're right, reitsu is spiritual energy, all people who can see ghosts have some in them. Shinigamis' use it to fight."

"I see..." she mumbles, clarifying she understands. When I look back to where Ichigo and Uryu were talking I notice some bait in Uryu's hand. "He's not planning to use that is he?!"

"You're not planning to use that are you? You can endanger lots of innocent people!" I yell as his fingers close on the bait almost breaking it.

"Yeah!" Machi yells in agreement, "Poor people will get eaten who had nothing to do with this!"

Turning a deaf ear to our warnings, Uryu proceeds in breaking the bait. He looks at us and says, "Then I'll just have to destroy all the hollows." He then uses an arrow to kill a hollow then runs off killing more. "So he's a quincy... he must be the last one..." I think as I watch him fight. I notice Ichigo had also run off fighting hollows and had left Kon behind in his body.

Machi looks around, "But won't that draw a lot of hollows?" she asks.

"They're already coming!" I say as I quickly pop a soul candy pill into my mouth. "Run and hide somewhere! I need that gigai in tact!" I tell the pill and it obeys and runs off. I turn my attention back to Machi to see she's throwing rocks at hollows that are coming close to her. "That's not going to do much! Stay close to me!" I tell her as I kill the three hollows she was throwing rocks at.

Machi looks around and asks, "What the hell am I supposed to do?!" I ignore her and kill off some more hollows.

"This way!" I yell as I motion for her to follow me onto a wide street. Not long after, we get surrounded by hollows of all sizes. "Urgh... this is ridicules!!" I exclaim angrily. Machi picks up a brick that was on the ground and throws it. "Damn... there're too many... I guess I have no choice..." I lift my zanpaktou to the sky and call its release, "Spread your wings! Aisutori!" My reitsu grows stronger and my zanpaktou changes. The blade enlarges and it starts out straight then curves a bit and straightens out again. The hilt darkens in colour.

(It was originally a lighter purple, now it's darker.)

Machi looks at my zanpaktou for a bit then says, "Hurry up and kill them! They're coming closer!" She's right of course; the hollows had started closing in on us. "Reitou Hyouga (Freezing Glacier)!" I call, now whenever I slash a part of a hollow it freezes over and breaks soon after. I slash as many hollows as I can, but the strain of releasing my zanpaktou and using an attack in the human world starts to tire me out.

Machi notices that I'm getting worn out and says, "Uh oh...." I keep slashing hollows, receiving tons of cuts and bruises.

I finally beat the rest of the hollows and take a rest to catch my breath. I look at Machi, who had been standing there the whole time and say, "Damn, I wish you were more helpful!"

She looks at me and says, "Not my fault! I've got no way to help." I sigh and start heading towards the park where I can sense Ichigo's reitsu. I hear Machi moan behind me, but I pay her no mind. We get to the park in a few minutes. Standing near the middle of the park I see Ichigo and Uryu fighting off hollows and off to one side are Urahara and Rukia. "Huh? Urahara? Rukia?" I question as I walk up to where they are. Machi finds a place to sit while I stand beside Rukia watching Ichigo fight. "I won't be outdone by him!" I think as I get a firm grip on my zanpaktou and rush to help them.

I slash hollows that are in my way and get to the middle with them. Ichigo turns to me for a brief second then goes back to slaying hollows, while he does that he says, "Hey Sazuki! Great to see you!" I nod and start helping them finish off the hollows when I notice the sky ripping apart.

I jump out of the way of some bullet things shot from Ururu's gun thing. Urahara is visible through the smoke, he smiles and says, "We'll take care of the small fry, you take care of the big guy." He points to a Menos Grande which was coming out of the rip. "How could a small amount of bait bring this many hollows?!" I think, "There has to be something else happening here..."

Ichigo, Uryu and I run to a street where the menos had come out. "How are we gonna fight something that huge?!" I question anxiously. Ichigo runs up to the menos and tries to slash it, but he fails and is knocked back. We try all sorts of things, but it doesn't seem to work until Uryu comes up with tying Ichigo's blade to his head. Even though it was a serious situation I couldn't help but burst into laughter at the sight. They both glare at me and I calm down enough to say, "Sorry.... but you look ridicules!!!" Ichigo gives up on the plan and rushes ahead again, "I swear he has a death wish!" I think as I watch him.

The menos gets ready to fire a cero from its mouth, "If that hits, there won't be anything left of him!!" I think as I watch in shock. Amazingly Ichigo manages to stop the cero and wound the hollow enough for it to retreat. "How can a mere shinigami substitute cause a menos to retreat?! He doesn't even look as worn out as I am and I know he's fought more than me... Am I just that weak?" I think to myself as Ichigo comes back. To my surprise Ichigo collapses and begins giving off tons of reitsu, "If he keeps this up he'll cause a ton of damage!" I watch helplessly as Uryu shots monstrous arrows off into the sky in the hopes of getting rid of Ichigo's extra reitsu. He finally succeeds and then rests.

I stand up and leave without a word, putting my zanpaktou away while I'm at it, "Why am I the weakest one? I'm a fourth seat, yet I'm weaker than a substitute with no previous training! Why?" I think about things like that all the way back to my apartment. I unlock the door and do my homework half-heartedly. I thank the pill that was in my gigai and put it back in the dispenser. I don't even bother going into my gigai, I just lay on the bed and fall into a troubled sleep.