"This…is my place?" Maya asked, gazing in awe at her home which appeared to be roughly the size of Rukia's house (in Renji's opinion). "Dream or not, this is AWESOME!"

"Yep," Renji nodded, glad that he dropped Rukia off first. She might've freaked over the fact that Maya was living in the same type of house that she did and ask a lot of questions which would last the entire night. From what he witnessed today when he was escorting the new spirit, she rather kept this noble business under A LOT of wraps. For now at least.

"Dude…this reminds me of the Manor back home," she beamed, her face filled with nostalgic, causing Renji to feel bad for her, who was yanked from her life. "Pearly would've loved this place!"

"Pearly?"

"She's my cousin, but that's my nickname for her. She's nine, but I'm sure that she would love this place!" Maya nodded before frowning. "Would my other cousins be in here?" she thought before shuddering.

"Are you cold?" Renji asked, noticing the shuddering.

"N-no, just thinking of something that happened a while back; I'll be fine," she explained before turning to him. "Guess I'll see ya around?"

"I'm sure we'll bound to meet up later. I'm going to guess that it'll be awhile because I'm sure that you'll have to do all this noble learning stuff," he nodded. Maya nodded in agreement and started to head for the mansion.

"See ya later then, Renji!" she waved at him with a smile on her face.

"Y-yeah! See ya, Maya!" he stuttered, waving back, a bit confused by the actions. Rukia (and to some extent Byakuya) of all people would be appalled at this…then again Rukia acted like a complete nice girl from her story on what happened so she might not be. Renji shook his head as she closed the door behind her and started to walk off. "She'll probably running out to find more clues rather than stay indoors," he chuckled.

Maya, actually, went towards the nearest futon (at least the first empty one) that she could find and collapsed on it. "Sleep time," she yawned, soon drifting off to sleep with her notes in her hand. She blinked her eyes open and grinned as she sat up. "That dream was awesome!" she cheered as she found herself in Nick's office again. Maya looked around and saw a piece of paper on the table with something written on it. She picked it up and scanned through it, recognizing it as her sister's handwriting. "Basically saying 'write the story on stuff I know and to come up with a fake name'…but I don't know much other than-" she started to say before hitting her forehead with the heel of her hand.

"Of course!" she said, getting up and grabbing another piece of paper and writing down her new idea, titling the paper 'Bleach'.

Phoenix stared at the black haired man that would be his client; apparently the man was accused of murder of one of his clients or something…either way the guy doesn't seem to look like he could kill anyone on purpose…or on accident. Apparently Franziska had to prosecute this man and guess who was the lucky person who defends him? "Um, sir? Aren't you the doctor that I've been going to the last few times Pearls had a stomach ache?" he asked, seeing the man wearing a doctor coat.

The doctor nodded. "Well, looks like you're repairing the favor aren't you?" he answered, scratching the back of his head. The lawyer, on the other hand, could feel his own eye twitching at the similarity of a certain man that went by the name of 'Larry'.

"I swear you remind me of one of my friends and it's making me wonder if you're his dad or something!" Nick stated, the man shaking his head.

"Nope, I only have three kids: Karin, Yuzu, and Ichigo," Isshin answered, crossing his arms. "And I swear I didn't do a damn thing."

"Well, I'll do my best, but I need to know more about the victim, who you supposedly killed, in order to prepare for the trial."

"That's the thing: the trial doesn't start until later. Some new practice trial run they're doing. If it's a success, they'll keep doing trials like that until later," Isshin explained, Nick raising an eyebrow. "They told me and the prosecutor."

"And of course I'm the last one to find out about all this as usual!" Nick groaned. "Let's just get started on this before visiting hours are over," he said starting to pull out some papers, both of them stopping as they heard several crashes from outside the detention center. They looked over to where it came from to see a short girl fighting with Franziscka, Roger watching in shock.

"…is that normal?" Isshin asked.

"In my world, yes, yes it is," Phoenix explained, ignoring Roger shouting out to the girl (apparently named Dorothy) to stop fighting. Yep…this was normal.

Well it's been a few months since that little incident (the one with the Maya going to the Soul Society, not the case that Phoenix was given), Maya had submitted her story to the Weekly Shonen Jump, which the staff immediately jumped at the story of a boy who could see ghosts and see people, called Soul Reapers, who send them to the next world. Maya helped with the drawing and inking of the characters (her going into much detail about some of the characters that she presented).

"Why does he have those tattoos?" Pearl asked while Maya was carefully drawing one of the characters, a certain red-head male. "Don't they hurt?"

"They might have at one point…but I think there's meaning behind them…I just haven't figured out why," she answered, Nick looking over at her. "What?"

"Nothing," Nick said, shaking his head. "Did you ever decide on that fake name?"

"Yeah, told the editors to print it out as Tite Kubo and I made sure of it was right before the first issue was out. I'm working on the third volume…well I was earlier. I'm working on character designs before I forgot them."

"You're working on the third volume?"

"They want it done before June!" Maya explained before snapping her fingers. "Let's go grab some burgers! It'll help get me motivated."

"You sure that's motivation or your stomach talking?"

"Either way, we're getting food!"

"Wow, Mystic Maya's a star!" Pearl said, giving her a hug.

"How's Roger doing by the way?" Maya laughed, looking over at Nick.

"Eh, he went to buy some books, probably your successful manga," he answered.

Roger sighed as Dorothy tilted her head at the book she was reading. "What's wrong with it now?"

"Why would this boy be able to see those that are not even there? Does he have schizophrenia?" she asked, some men looking over at her with raised eyebrows.

"No, he said that he could see ghosts and that's what the creator intended…" he answered. "If you want to buy the book, I'll be glad to do it," he added, ushering her to the register.

Uryu, one of the men who had looked over, strolled over to see what she was looking at. "Now what have we h-" he started to say before his eyes widening. On the cover of the Shonen Jump was a picture of Ichigo, in his shinigami form and wielding his sword. "Holy shit, I gotta show this to them!" he yelled, grabbing the magazine and starting to run out of the store, soon heading back to pay for it.

Of course while he was paying for this, a white haired man, with his eyes closed, had also spotted the magazine (A/N: Cookies for those who guess the right person!). "Now this is something that Aizen-sama would definitely be interested in," he smiled as he picked it up.

"Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!" Maya happily munched on her burger as Nick was making sure that Pearl, who was over at the park's playground, was safe and alright. Maya was wearing some of the new clothing that she got with the money she had earn from the manga books, which consisted of a purple sleeved-white shirt, along with a light purple cap, complemented with a light blue skorts (shorts and skirts mix for those who are not expert at clothings!) and of course her regular shoes (those she didn't want to switch out no matter what Nick said).

"Yesh, Maya, slow down on the hamburgers. You already inhaled two of them!" Nick sighed, knowing that it was pointless.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," she waved him off as she finished her burger off. She blinked as she spotted a bright red, one that reminded her of a character that she was working on (more cookies for those who guess this one!) off in the distance. She stood up and began walking away from them. "See ya, Nick."

"Where are you going?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

Maya just kept going, answering, "Just…gonna walk around for a bit." It couldn't be…could it? She picked up the pace as she tried to keep the red in sight; she stumbled as the red looked like it split into two, one of them taking a turn into the woods and the other going the regular path. "Woods or normal way…?" she muttered, looking from one direction to the other before finally going for the woods. Figured she might as well get her adventure fill now rather than when she's trying to help Nick with a case.

She was running in a daze through the woods, recalling how the last few years seem to have involved her being hurt just because she was with Nick and was briefly wondering if he was some sort of bad luck attracter, when she bumped into someone (Not a tree because she had already tripped over a few roots, but managed to stop herself from falling to the ground and kept going) and fell on her ass.

Maya stood up and looked at the person who she bumped into, "Watch where you're going!" she and the person yelled at each other, the person turning around and it was Ichigo. Ichigo and Maya stared at each other in an awkward silence as Rukia and Renji came up from behind Ichigo and stared also at Maya.

"…oh...shit…" Maya thought.