I got up stretching, ignoring Ichigo's protests. There was a little twinge of pain in my stomach, but it seemed all well. I turned so the other two boys wouldn't see and pushed down my bandages slightly. And there it was. I winced, and Ichigo asked, "What's wrong, Arika?"

I looked at my chest and saw that there was a small scar there, where Byakuya had hurt me. I pushed the bandages back up and whirled around to the other two, putting on a bright smile. "Urahara-san? What can I wear?"

He smiled cheekily and lead me to another room, Ichigo following. In the room, there was a trunk under the window and a wardrobe in the corner. In the middle of the room, there was a huge pile of clothes. Girl clothes I might add.

I then turned and kicked Ichigo and Urahara out, literally. "Shoo, shoo! Oh, and, Ichigo?"

He said, "What?"

I continued, "Don't let anyone peek, and if I do catch any boy being a peeping tom, then I will kill you!"

I slammed the door on their faces, and I swear I heard Ichigo say to Urahara, "Shes serious."

After some deliberation of picking the clothes and deciding what would look good on me and would help me move around, I chose a fighting kimono with a slash down the side, waist to the bottom, it was black with a purple and blue dragon down the other side of the slash. I also wore black leather gloves, and dark shorts. I tied my hair up, leaving the bit in front of my ears out. (A/N: Hard to explain, please try to get it!)

Before I put this all on, I got out of my body and swapped my shinigami clothes with it,(A/N: Who said you can't take off the shinigami outfit?) since I was getting bored of just the black robe and also that Byakuya ruined it with his sword.

I walked out of the room, still adjusting my dress, then found that nobody was around. I growled slightly, then headed towards Urahara's basement. I had a suspision that the shop owner would want to train Ichigo there.

I heard Urahara excalim, "No way! This place is amazing! Who would have guessed that all this time there was a huge subterranian training ground under my store?"

And I was right. I jumped down into the hole, ignoring the helping ladder, and landed in a crouch in front of Ichigo. He jumped back when I suddenly appeared in front of him. He yelled at me, "WHAT THE HELL, ARIKA?!?!"

I glared at him. He was so loud! And, before he could suspect it , I punched him in the jaw and he went flying back about ten metres.

Amazingly, he jumped right back up and started marching back towards me, fists up, and yelling his head of with obesceties (A/N: is that the word for yelling swear words?)

"I don't think he will be able to concentrate now." said Urahara's voice. I turned and saw him, a nervous Ururu, a silent Tessai and a gaping Jinta.

I shrugged. Whoops, didn't notice them there!

And thats how the training began.

Ichigo came back, still grumbling, and he growled out, "Lets get on with this training...or what ever you call it." I stepped back, I only wanted to observe, which would be quite fun.

Uarahara said seriously, "Always be careful what you ask for, Ichigo." He suddenly turned and slammed his cane on Ichigo's forehead.

Ichigo gave a yell as his soul form skidded back on the ground, while his real body slumped to the ground. I looked at the chain on his chest. Wow, thats quite long...

Ichigo jumped up and yelled, "Hey! Whats the big idea?! Knocking me down like that you..." He trailed off, then went on one knee. He looked kind of dizzy.

Urahara stated, "It's hard for you to breath when your in the form of a soul, isn't it, Ichigo? Right now your soul sleep, which is the wellspring of your spirit energy..."

I tuned out, I knew all of this. So far it was boring. I really wanted to see the humiliation of Ichigo, after all, isn't that why I came here?

Ururu went first. She wore these gloves and a head cap thing and started beating up Ichigo. I was cracking up so hard when Ichigo yelled out, while putting on the same thing at Ururu except it was red, "TAKE THIS, THE POWER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN PLACE! RIGHTEOUS ARMOR, THE JUSTICE HEADBAND!! EQUIP AND PROTECT ME!!"

I rolled on the ground, laughing. If I could die of laughter, then I would have done so a million times already. "AHHHHAAAAHAHAH!" I goofed, "HE ACTUALLY SAID IT!!! HAHAAHA!"

Ichigo skidded to a stop to look at us, "What?! Your gonna pay for that!"

A bit of Ichigo beating by a young woman, and Urahara declared that Lesson One is cleared. Ichigo leapt up, "What?! How could I have completed that?! I just lost to her!"

I tuned out as Urahara explained the stuff about dodging and what not. This was getting boring again...

Urahara now said, as I listened back in, "Anyways, now onto Lesson Two!" He started walking away somewhere. I followed, Ichigo staggering after me.

When we got to where I knew a hole was, Tessai suddenly sat on Ichigo. He yelled, "Hey! Get off me!"

Urahara nodded, and a huge hole suddenly appeared beneath Ichigo and Tessai and they both went flying down. Well, not flying, more like falling. I yawed, and said, before Urahara could, "Can I go to sleep now?"

He waved me off, "Whatever. You sure you want to miss this?"

I shrugged, "Eh. He'll live without me...if he does live, that is."

Urahara grinned, and covered half his face with his fan, "Well, you go and have fun."

I nodded, "I'll be off hunting some hollows." I shunpoed over to where the long ladder was and looked up.

I complained to my zanpakutou, 'I'm not clinbing up all this way!'

'Don't look at me!'

'Your not very useful right now!'

'Oh well, you'll get used to climbing up tall ladders and what-not.'

'Chaos!'

'Fine!'

'Yay!'

I felt my zanpakutou concentrate on an image of my suddenly shooting up a couple of metres, then, it suddenly came true. I felt light, as if I didn't have to carry the weight of a body around, then I was instantly on the floor beside the trap door that led down to the 'basement'.

I grinned, and whooped, "Kami, you should this that all the time, Chaos! It's really exhalerating!"

'Act a bit more mature, won't you?'

(A/N: I will actually skip a lot just to get Akira to meet with byakuya again. Sorry to you guys who like it dragged out! Just that I can't be bothered =P .)

And there he was. Running like he had never run before. Wait, let me rephrase that, like he was running for his life!

Sprinting actually. He shoots, he scores! Hehe, this isn't basketball. Anyways, he's sprinting really hard, as if he were late for something that depended on his life! But what could that be?

Aha! Kurosaki Arika knows!

I watch as he comes nearer and nearer to my hiding place. 10 steps away... 8... 6... 5... 4, 3... 2...

I stuck out my foot.

CRASH!

And the crowd goes wild!

Hook, line and sinker, baby! Ichigo totally fell for my trick!

I grinned as his face went right~ into the concrete.

I covered my mouth. Oops, maybe that was a bit violent...

Ignoring Ichigo's groan of pain, I conviniently and stealthily ducked around the corner of the pathway. When Ichigo couldn't see me, I sauntered around the corner of the walkway and, seeing Ichigo still face down, I ran over to him, pretending to be concerned and panicked. "Oh no! Ichigo? Ichigo! Are you are alright?" I cried dramatically, shaking his shoulder. He shook his head groggily, looked up at me, then suddenly jumped back in a crouch away from and yelled, "IT WAS YOU WASN'T IT?!"

I frowned innocently, "What do you mean?"

"YOU TRIPPED ME UP!!!"

I shook my head, "You must have concussion! I must get you to Urahara's right away!"

He glowered at me, and I smirked at him. He screamed, "IT WAS YOU WASN"T TI?! WHEN I GET FIXED UP I'LL MAKE SURE TO..." I hummed, blocking my ears, and started walking off. Even though my fingers were covering my ears, I could still hear his furious yelling, "KUROSAKI ARIKA! DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY FROM ME!!"

...

(Skipping ahead to where they are all in the shiney ball! I can't remember what happened there, so just bear with me!)

From tripping Ichigo and going in... what was it called? A Senkaimon? ...to being launched out into Soul Society in what looked like... a transparent ball.

I yawned, and was about to take my hand off the orb that we were all hanging onto, but the gorilla (Ganju) said sharply, "Don't take your hand off! It will throw us off balance!"

So I resorted to going in my little dreamworld. There I was, getting my skin tanned on the beach, under the sun, and this hot as guy comes along! I saw myself in the dreamworld thingy look up and see the dark-haired guy's oh-so-muscular chest, and his hair was so soft looking...

My eyes widened in the real world, and I jumped, yelping a little, and raised my hands to rub my eyes. I shook my head vehemently.

Orihime frowned in cocnern, "Whats wrong, Arika-san?"

I said, "Nothing." And that was the first time I daydreamed of Kuchiki Byakuya.

'Oooh! Arika-chan's going after that guy, huh? Didn't know you had the hots for him!' I heard her irritating laughter in my head. My eyebrow twitched.

'Hey! You said that he was hot as well! I think the link between us is the reason for this! Your crush on him is affecting me!'

-'Don't pin this all on me! For all we know, you could like him and it is rubbing out on me!'- (A/N: For some weird reason, the underlining won't work on this line, so this line is Chaos speaking, got it?)

'Fine, how about we have a bet!"

'Aren't you too young??'

'Oh shoosh! Are we on?!'

'Of course! What are we betting on?'

'Me getting a kiss from Byakuya after all this is over!'

'Haha! As if you can win! What are the stakes?'

'If he doesn't kiss me then...'

'YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR KIMONO TO A BRIGHT PINK COLOUR!!'

'WHAT?!?!?! Kuso! Fine, if I get him to kiss me... "

But I was suddenly interrupted by Ichigo's shouting, "ARIKA!!! GET YOUR FREAKIN' HAND ON THE FREAKIN' BALL SO WE FREAKIN' WON'T FREAKIN' LOSE OUR FREAKIN' BALANCE!!!"

I came to with a start, and looked down. It was true, my hands weren't on the little orb thing in front of me. I shrugged and said calmly to Ichigo, "Ah, shut your mouth, we'll live! With you pounding all your reiatsu into the tiny thing..."

He glared at me, then suddenly, it went crazy. Everthing was chaos. Since my body was shaken around so much, I was pretty disorientated and dizzy.

WHAM!

I felt my body hit the ground hard, and I groaned aloud. I shook my head groggily, and looked up. I was right in the middle of a street (A/N: Pathway, walkway, hallway, I don't know what the hell it is! You know where Ganju and Ichigo land? If you know the scenery, then don't ask me to explain it, 'cause you've already got it in your head! I don't know how to describe it!). I sighed, and tried to move, but I gave a muffled cry of pain when pain shot up my spine.

'Chaos?'

'Onto it!'

Already, I could feel my body start to knit up. I relaxed as the soothing sensation swept over my body, then just as it as almost done after about five minutes, I heard the sound of running footsteps and voices.

"I heard a crash over here!"

"It must be a ryoka!"

"If it is one of them, should we attack?"

"No, we should restrain it, then wait for taichou to come" I knew that voice. I tried to place it, but my fuzzed up brain wouldn't allow me to.

"Yes, fukutaichou!"

I groaned again, but it wasn't from the pain. Out of all the squads, it just has to be his, doesn't it?