I am so sorry if I updated late! I am going on vacation, and it will take me a while to update during the summer.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. Oh yeah, I also do not own Monopoly.

Chapter 3

Ride On Shooting Star

Stars lighted the night sky as the full moon shown down on the roads of Karakura. Down every street the lights shown from inside the houses and people were eating dinner talking about what had happened during their day, and how now it was winter vacation for the students. The snow had officially stopped falling and now, there was not a soul to be seen or heard, except for one area.

As Kisuke said, yes, someone would get to choose a game and what to eat, and since Kisuke was still sleeping, it was undecided, and Jinta, of course was being impatient. Tessai had let him out of the freezer, since well he was in there for quite sometime and it seemed that he learned his lesson. But in the end, he learned a new way to show he was tired of waiting for his decision (not that he got locked up in the ice box for that anyway), and decided to annoy Ururu and Tessai by throwing snow balls at the metal wall that locked up the shouten.

"I will not stop this until I get my answer!" And bang, yet another snowball hit the metal, moving the molecules in the air causing the sound wave that turned into an unbearable echoing sound. Tessai was coming close to about having it with his attitude today, and stood to his full height, stepped over to the metal, grabbed the handle and pulled it up.

"Jinta, if you do not st-"

SMACK! Right upon Tessai's face landed a huge snowball, and bits and pieces fell to the ground as it began to melt because of his body heat. Or maybe because of Tessai's blood pressure rising as he grabbed Jinta by the coaler again, pulled him into the shouten, and held him down. "Ururu, get some rope and tape."

She nodded, and went down the hall, as she heard Jinta's loud complaining about how it was totally unfair that Kisuke had to make the decision even though he probably wouldn't even care in the first place. Tessai began to lose his last nerve as Jinta began to squirm around and even yell even louder. But, thank god Ururu's footsteps were then heard running down the hard wood floors. She had in her arms a role of duct tape and a very large and heavy warping of rope.

"Thank you Ururu, now please help me tie him up before he does anything else."

And in a instant…Jinta was a giant ball of rope with a piece of duct tape over his mouth. He moved from side to side as he tried to free himself but Tessai did nothing but watch him struggle. Ururu began to giggle as he fell to one side and actually began rolling backwards toward the wall, and hearing his muffled screaming. Tessai looked towards the front of the shouten again, and began to hear Jinta calm down as it seemed he was too tired to even move in his big buddle of …whatever rope is made of.

"Well, Jinta. If you ask me, I would most likely declare you the winner anyway since you are so competitive. We don't even need Kisuke-san's opinion anyway." Tessai looked over his shoulder and saw how Jinta was fully facing the wall making him seem like he was giving him the cold shoulder.

"Maybe if you took off the tape, he would tell you what he would want?"

Tessai was a bit surprised to hear Ururu's voice after so long, and quite frankly, he had no intention of removing the tape. Jinta was being twice the pain in the ass he usually is in a day, and so he deserved to be wrapped up for a while even though he was already punished before.

He turned forward again, and looked towards the almost open doorway to the shouten. It was faint but he could feel slight soul pressure off into the distance; he had no worry about it right now, but deep in his gut he knew defiantly something was going to happen in the next few hours. It was always common to feel soul pressure from hollows once in while, but there were always soul reapers on patrol, so there was no real reason to be frightened of what might happen, and what could not.

Well on the other hand, Ururu could not sense anything but she was still bit upset for Kisuke for losing his hat earlier. To her, Kisuke looked so sad when he mentioned he had lost it, even though he was over exaggerating when he did hug Yoruichi until she could barely breathe. But, Kisuke was always a mysterious man, and not to mention unpredictable, so in any case I guess it was normal for him to get upset over something so, how to put it, not really important for a lack of better words.

To break the two's attention, a loud and fast banging was coming from the back door, and Ururu seemed to be the first one to notice it. "I wonder who that could be. Usually no one comes through there." She got up and walked towards the large door only to be greeted by yet another loud bang. She grabbed the cold door knob and opened it slightly to be surprised by a fast gush of wind and a blur of brown, orange, and yellow.

Ururu looked behind her to see that Tessai was running after the blur, and seemed that he caught up to it quite fast. Tessai saw before him a very serious and what seemed a scared Yoruichi. She was banging onto Kisuke's door, only to hear no sound of movement or reply from anything on the other side. So, in a fit of rage she slammed open the door, walked over towards what seemed to be a green snoring lump, and grabbed the ends of some sheets and flipped them until a large thump hit the ground.

"Get up!" Finally, after the nice and pleasant wake up call, Kisuke slowly appeared on the other side of the bed, moaning and groaning in pain and agony. He looked over to Yoruichi, and smiled putting up his wave in a polite hello. "Why hello there, Yoruichi." He got to his feet and smiled to his dear friend waving in a really happy mood besides the fact of how he was waken up.

"Get that smug smile off your face, Kisuke. We have trouble." With that, Kisuke's facial expression changed to something completely different. He became serious and looked towards Yoruichi noticing that she was battle ready. (you know, in her true form, and in fighting uniform blah blah blah) Tessai on the other hand had returned to Jinta and Ururu, and did not say a thing. He knew the Kisuke and Yoruichi could handle whatever was coming on themselves anyway, and the three of them would only get in the way. He had heard doors closing in the back, and as soon as this had happened, he had released the duct tape from Jinta's mouth only to be surprised by his commands for a game and food.

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The two had left, heading towards the direction of where Yoruichi said the trouble was coming from. It turned out that Yoruichi had traveled across the town for an evening walk, and her sensing of the hollow had become greater and greater the further she had gone. She was sensing a large hallow that seemed to be not yet detected by a soul reaper, and was defiantly after something to feed on. Yoruichi found it quite unusual that something that large and bulky wasn't even sighted by a shinigami. Another thing that also got to her was that it amazed her that Kisuke didn't even notice as well.

"Kisuke-kun, you must be getting rusty. You didn't notice the hollow before me."

As they jumped up onto a roof, he looked to his side and knew that Yoruichi was mocking him with her remark. Actually, he knew that she was just trying to mess with his head with the comment, since well he was sleeping, and everyone knows that Kisuke does sleep like he is in a coma. But, in the end, they always teased each other like that, so he just ignored her, continuing to their destination.

As they traveled even closer it seemed that they were ending up in an alley way. Well more like the slums. Litter was scattered across the ground along with a few bums here and there. It was quite a sight for it was a while since the two had ever looked around this part of town in a while. Actually, it was surprising to Kisuke, for, even though he lived in Karakura for about a year (A/N: Wild guess…not sure how long he had that shop) he still wasn't sure how to get around most of the town.

Kisuke and Yoruichi both felt the soul pressure pull down on them like gravity being controlled by Chinmei's Chiyuugi from Samurai Deeper Kyo. A loud stomp came from behind a building and before them both appeared a foot about the size of a car. Kisuke looked up to see that it was indeed a large hollow, but it had zanpaku-to markings across its mask from many soul reapers trying to destroy the thing, but not succeeding.

"This one seems indeed tough. I might as well distract it while you try to cut it with your zanpaku-to." Yoruichi spoke this as she inched toward the large thing, as Kisuke nodded to her plan. It was all set, and Yoruichi would jump up towards the hollows face getting its attention while Kisuke would jump from a roof and split its mask, purifying him with his zanpaku-to. Perfect and well set as it seemed, as Kisuke and Yoruichi were getting situated in there spots, a faint sound of sandals were heard in a distant alley way.

The foot steps seemed to be becoming louder as they echoed off of some near by walls. The hollow turned its head toward the sound and moved forward, way out of Yoruichi's and Kisuke's range. "Damn! What does he see?" Yoruichi followed behind the hollow as Kisuke jumped from the building he was to the next once before it. Kisuke's view was blocked as the hollow stopped moving, and began to kneel down to a lower level.

"I remember you. You are that clumsy little one." Kisuke seemed to think that it was a soul reaper he was talking to so he walked a little bit farther only to see that yes it was a soul reaper, but it was Yukino from earlier. Kisuke jumped down from the ledge he was on and landed softly onto the ground only to hear the sound of Yukino jumping up to the head of the hollow chopping it from the front. His eyes became wide as the hollow, instead of moving just stood there as the zanpaku-to clanged against his metal hard mask.

"What?" Her small surprised words came from her mouth as her whole body began to shake from the ricochet of her zanpaku-to. Her body went flying back as the hollow screeched in her face sending loud unbearable sound waves through the air. Kisuke ran towards her catching her in his arms as if he was a prince from one of those lame fantasy stories. Cliché I know, but who doesn't think that a damsel in distress would just plop onto the hard cold cement without some man catching her.

Looking down Kisuke saw that she was fully knocked out as her ears were bleeding from the sound wave, not to mention her hands bleeding profusely from the impact of her zanpaku-to ricocheting. But, that was not all, she had a gash across her abdomen, which seemed to be inflected by the same hollow and in his eyes, she needed medical attention. Yukino slowly moved in his arms, but she was not coming to for a while, noticing that she was indeed injured more than it seemed. So, Yoruichi noticing that Kisuke was sort of helpless with someone in his hands, came around the hollow and stopped before Kisuke, only to be greeted with the girl in her arms now. She looked up at Kisuke, as she knew that in some way he had some connection with this girl, and this wasn't the time to ask questions.

"Explain later. I will be in the park behind you while you fight of the hollow." With that said, Yoruichi was heard running at full speed in with few shun-po in between into the park behind them, hiding between the trees so she wouldn't be spotted by the hollow. She was not worried about Kisuke at all, for she knew that he was a former captain, so he would not have any trouble with something this easily defeated by someone of his rank.

As Kisuke could plainly see, he was going to fight this thing alone, and even though he liked teamwork better, he knew that he was going to forge for himself. So before the hollow could get to him, he summoned Benihime, only to see that the hollow was indeed becoming interested in him then rather the other two that were gone by now.

"Well, what luck for me, I get one soul reaper, and then another. Hn, you are just small fry to me, and that girl was just trash, so I will just plow…"The hollow could feel something sharp splitting his skull from behind, and then full through cutting his mask straight in half. Both pieces fell to the ground as he collapsed to his knees and was laying there helpless waiting for konso to be preformed on him. Kisuke kneeled down towards the head of the hollow and did what he had to do, and soon turned his back walking fashionably in a job well down sort of scene. (A/N: Just listen to the song Action Movie Hero Boy by Lemon Demon, and this would seem funny XD)

Yoruichi began to place the girl on a patch of grass as she could felt Kisuke's presence from behind her. Everything was silent as Kisuke began to come closer to a kneeling position right besides her looking at the girl lying in the shadows of the night. There was a dead silence between the two, and from this point in time you would expect some movement of any kind to tend to the girl but there was just silence. "I met her earlier today." Yoruichi flinched her head towards Kisuke, almost waking him in the face with her long hair. Kisuke seem to keep his silence as Yoruichi did this, seeming as if he didn't even notice that he was getting a serious look from the woman besides him.

"Her name is Nake Yukino. She is a soul reaper, not a good one at that. Sort of klutzy, but she spoke earlier today and said that she was the substitute that was supposed to be patrolling this place." Kisuke looked over her complexion as he finished he sentence. She wasn't anything of the most beautiful thing in the world, but she had a very sweet look to her. Her face was oval shaped, with long wavy sort of sandy blonde hair with tints of maroon here and there. Her skin was the color of a pearl, pure white, without any blemishes to be seen anywhere, which seemed to show that she indeed take care of herself. Kisuke was surprised that she looked around his age, maybe a bit younger than him, but he had never seen her when he was in the soul society.

"Did she tell you what squad she was in?" Kisuke snapped back to reality as he heard Yoruichi's question come to his ears. Yoruichi could tell from his face that he had no idea, and it was a complete mystery. So, Yoruichi grabbed the collar of her shihakusho only to be surprised by her belonging to the 4th company. Yoruichi just felt annoyed at the soul society for putting someone from the 4th company into full combat against hollows in a place like Karakura.

"Can you believe they put someone from the…Kisuke!" If there was a paddle that magically appeared right then, then she would defiantly smack Kisuke across the head. Now, even though Kisuke said it himself that he was a 'pervert' this was strictly invading ones privacy. He was literally reaching into Yukino's shihakusho, and to Yoruichi it looked he was heading for a free feel, even though this was something that was not like him at all. So just to stop him, she hit him across the face, letting him fly to the ground, only to have in his hand his hat.

"Owe, that hurt, Yoruichi!" He rubbed the side of his face as he got to his straight up position. He had a large hand print across his fair skin, showing that Yoruichi smacked him pretty hard for not understanding the situation. Yoruichi sighed as she watched him put on his hat which made him grin a little as he began to feel like an old buddy had returned to him from some long journey. In a way, it made him look sort of cute, for he was some what acting like a material…man? And for that matter, I don't think there are many men out there that get happy just by obtaining some article of clothing.

"Anyway, we should defiantly bring her back to the shouten. There is no way that she will be able to recover over night." Yukino was then lifted by Yoruichi, who jumped into a tree. She paused and looked behind her waiting for Kisuke to stand and follow her. A silence came over the two, as he looked up and began to rub his face. Kisuke seemed to be pouting like a little child, whining like he was just scolded for doing something he shouldn't have. "That really hurt, Yoruichi. This is the second time you hurt me today...You are so mea-" And for the second time in one day, someone else got hit in the face by a snow ball. Except this one was intentional.

Yoruichi rolled her eyes as Kisuke held three fingers showing that that was the third time today that in some way Yoruichi abused him. As the snow fell to the ground, Kisuke's face was even more pathetic. He put a dog pout on his face, showing that he was truly defeated. In all this time, it was surprising that they were more like fooling around then thinking about taking about Yukino. I guess it was like one of those things that they couldn't help. Life is too short to be serious about everything.

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"Ha, you owe me 100,000 dollars, Ururu." Well, on another hand, the shouten was now fully closed only to have lights shining from a room in the back. In this room, game night was decided on an old American game that the gang found in the closest called Monopoly. It was something that seemed interesting, so Jinta dusted it off, and set up the game board as he began to finish his diner. (Which was just some plan old instant raman found in the back of one of Kisuke's many draws and shelves.) Well, they read the instructions, and after a long fight over who would be the dog, they began to play only to find out that this game was totally useless and boring…except to Jinta.

If all the colored paper money he had was real, he would probably buy himself a baseball bat, and not just stop there, he would probably buy every stadium he could find in Japan and own them all and probably put a picture of him smack dab on the front with a giant neon sign that would say "Jinta's Stadium!" To him the game was fun, for he could steal all the money from Ururu and not get in trouble with it. Also, it was quite amusing how Tessai, the more adult one of the two, was paying Luxury Tax up the ass while 'raising his voice not yelling' at Jinta on how he magically got the pink fifties. (A/N:I do not own most of this sentence. Dane Cook was the genius who gave me the idea. All thanks to the funny king himself.)

The game continued. Jinta was literally rolling in his money laughing his little ass off sounding more like he was going insane than being happy he was more rich than any boy could ever be. Tessai sighed at his slow and painful defeat, while Ururu just sat there looking at her five white ones. The both of them seemed to be accepting defeat as the game was defiantly over. There was no point in continueing, so the only thing to do was put it away.

"Loser gets to put it away!" Jinta yelled as he ran down the hallway laughing at his grand win. A bit of time passed and everything was calming down in the shouten, as Jinta and Ururu both fell asleep in one of the many rooms throughout the elaborate home. Tessai picked them both up and carried them both to their rooms, tucking them in, and turning off the lights, only to notice that it was a long way from the wall from where the lamp was to the other side, and walking in the dark with toys all over the floor wasn't one of those good things about this room.

Even though the health hazard was quickly and silently taken care of without any tripping of any kind, Tessai had finally closed the door to their room, and breathed out a sigh of relief. Jinta was finally asleep, and could cause no more trouble. Now it was time to wait for the other two to return, and right on time they came. Well, a matter of fact it was only Kisuke, and he was coming from the back on which he left. He came in silently only to startle Tessai with his sly movements throughout the house without a sound. Tessai faced him concern as Kisuke seemed to be a little uneasy.

"Where is Yoruichi?" Kisuke smiled and took his hat off of his head and pointed to it. "Well, you know how I said that my hat, whenever it returns to me, it brings something special with it? Well…" Tessai stood to his full height, only hoping it wasn't an animal, for he knew that the last time Kisuke tried to take care of a goldfish he won at a fair, he accidentally killed it by seeing if feeding the thing more food would make it turn into a monstrous goldfish that would work as a turn off for bad costumers. But yet, Tessai was wrong, and in a way he would be grateful it wasn't an animal. Yoruichi walked into the room, still carrying Yukino in her arms. There was a bit of silence as Tessai looked at Yoruichi and at Kisuke, who had a smug smirk on his face again. There wasn't much to do, so he did what he thought was best. Tessai, in a flash, just picked the girl up, and walked down the hallway down to the right to a nice guest room, with a futon in the middle. The gang walked into there, and little words were spoken as clean clothes were provided along with everything else essential to a guest.

In the a small amount of time, Kisuke and Tessai both left the room and left Yoruichi in the room with Yukino for her to dress her properly and tend to her wounds. It was an awkward silence between them all as it seemed that Kisuke was acting a bit strangely, as he just stared at his hat in a fascination. "What is it Kisuke-san?"

There was no quick reply, as Kisuke grinned at Tessai's interest. He placed the hat back on his head, and began to speak, "I can't remember everything this hat brought back, but most of it was something interesting. I mean I would find it caught somewhere, and the next thing you know that area could turn into my favorite restaurant or something like that." He paused as he seemed to think of something to say for what he was thinking. "It is hard to say, but for some odd reason, that girl in there, I feel like, this hat brought back something…"

It was hard to think of words to finish his sentence. One of the hardest things to do is explain your emotions, and right now, it was one of those times for Kisuke. It was complicated. He felt like this girl, Yukino, was going to become something dear to him in a way. He wasn't sure if it was going to be a friend or a deep compassionate lover, it was hard to tell right now, but in a way, it felt good to have this feeling throughout him. He was never sure what might happen when this hat did what it did, and he enjoyed the surprises he got. "Tessai, this hat has brought back something special. I don't know what it is, but I will know when I see it." With that Kisuke seemed satisfied with the day, and turned to his left heading for his room. His door clicked closed and silence was heard throughout the whole shouten.

Alright…good chapter. I liked it, and I enhoyed writing this one. In the future there is a possiblilty that I will change the genre and rating (yes rating, cause yes, there is going to be sexually content…but not sure on a lemon yet…most likely a no right now) but I got most of this fanfiction planned out. Uh anyway, THANK YOU REVIEWERS!! I LOVE YOU ALL!! –huggles- Oh and yes, Chinmei from SDK. He can control gravity and he has the ability to make gravity pull down on someone just like soul pressure! Oh yeah by the way…this chapter has a thousand more words than the last! WOOHOO!! I guess that is why it took so long to update, but I love all you people out there that like it so far! I LOVE YOUR REVIEWS, AND KEEP ON REVIEWING! BAI BAI!!

BTW: The chapter is named after one of my favirote J-Rock songs. It is Ride On Shooting Star by The Pillows. If you watched FLCL before, then you have heard it.