I would very much like to thank everyone who has reviewed and favorited my story. It makes me so happy to know that other people enjoy my work. Unfortunately, when I wrote the first three installments, I was on vacation from school. School is now going on again, and updates will be limited to one or two every week, sometimes less, sometimes more. Also, just a little heads up for people. In approximately 6 weeks I will be making a 2 week trip to Japan, and the week before that I will be taking my school finals. Those three weeks I will not be updating my story. After that will be summer vacation so I'll probably be putting up new installments every few days. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

As soon as the group arrived at the first training room Ichigo and Nel ran off to explore so that they would know where to look when they began to play. Everywhere they looked there was giant rocks, tunnels in the sand flooring and much more. This greatly excited them both, since the games would not be easy for anyone, but it was also a bit daunting. The room was huge compared to their small forms, what if they go lost? Would anyone be able to hear them if they called for help? Suddenly Aizen and Gin were behind them, and Ichigo could tell that both of them knew exactly what the two youngsters were thinking.

"You have nothing to fear in here. If you need our help, just call for us, we will hear you. Or, Nel, raise your spiritual pressure, we'll know this to mean that you need us." Aizen said with a smile.

Ichigo and Nel both nodded. "Can we start now?" Ichigo asked.

"Course we can start now. Alrigh' everyone, gather round!" Gin raised his voice slightly so all of the arrancar would hear him. "Ok, so, here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna all hide except for me, cuz I'm gonna seek first. All of ya need ta mask yer spiritual pressure so tha' I can't feel ya. Understand?"

A chorus of "Hai Ichimaru-sama" came from all of the arrancar.

"Great, I'm gonna count ta sixty, starting now." Gin closed his eyes and began to count loudly.

Everyone rushed off to hide as soon as Gin closed his eyes. Ichigo and Nel went together. They ran quickly across the sad to the other side of the training grounds. By the time they got there they had only 30 seconds left, so they quickly got behind a rock and crouched down, ready to wait out the game in perfect stillness and silence. It wasn't long before they heard the tell tale "ready or not here I come!". It was deathly quiet after that. None of the arrancar wanted to be found first, lest the others say that they're weak for not being able to hide well.

After about 5 minutes Gin yelled out, "I found ya Szayel!" and then a "Shit" followed.

Ichigo and Nel giggled quietly at the fate of their pink-haired friend. It wasn't surprising that he was the first to be found. He may have been a scientist, but he was anything but subtle, and most would have no difficulty in finding him in a crowd. Unfortunately for them, the giggling had alerted Gin to their whereabouts and the next thing they knew, they had both been scooped up into a tight hug while a loud, "I found ya!" came from their silver haired captor. After that he began to tickle them mercilessly.

"No!" they both squealed as they tried to get away, "Stop!" Of course, Gin didn't stop for a little while longer. When he did both children were out of breath from nonstop laughter. "All right, all right, calm down. Lets go find the others." It took them approximately another 15 minutes to find everyone, and of course Aizen was the last to be found. Ichigo suspected that if Aizen truly hadn't wanted to be found they wouldn't have found him at all, but that was just a hunch.

"All right," Gin said, "I found Szayel first so he has to seek."

Szayel looked almost afraid for a moment before a bracelet on his right wrist went off. "I'm sorry Ichimaru-sama, I can't stay, something in my lab has exploded."

Gin frowned, "Tha's too bad, but alright. That means that Ichi and Nel are seeking."

Ichigo and Nel jumped up and down with excitement. "Yay!" Nel cried, "We get to seek!"

They both closed their eyes and began to count. When they reached sixty they opened their eyes to absolutely no one in sight. "Wow, they're good." Ichigo muttered. They began to search in the immediate area around them, but found nothing. So, they wandered a little bit farther away, and still nothing. After 10 minutes and not one person found, they were starting to get annoyed. Then, Ichigo had an idea. "Hey Nel, come here for a moment." He began to whisper into her ear. What he said made her giggle like crazy and nod enthusiastically. When he stepped away they continued to walk around and search. Nobody had heard or seen what they were doing, so when a sudden cry of "Ow!" came from their direction, they all jumped up and ran to the two children. Instead of finding a crying or heaven forbid bleeding child they found both Ichigo and Nel with shit eating grins on their faces. "Found you!" they both cried at the same time.

Aizen turned to look at Gin with disbelief on his face, "I believe we have been duped."

Gin nodded, "Yes, I believe we have"

Ichigo cocked his head to the left, "What does duped mean?"

Gin looked down at the little carrot top, "It means that ya tricked us."

Ichigo smiled, "Yea, we did. It was awesome! I can't believe you fell for it!"

Grimmjow growled lowly, "That was dirty. Ya shouldn't have done that. We thought you were hurt."

Ichigo and Nel's faces both lost their smiles. "I'm sorry," Ichigo said quietly, a hint of tears in his voice, "I didn't know it was bad."

Aizen knelt down and gathered the two children into his arms, glaring menacingly at Grimmjow, "No, you weren't bad, that was very creative. But next time, try something that doesn't make us worry so much. We don't like the thought of you being hurt."

They both nodded against Aizen's neck, sniffling quietly.

Seeing how upset he had made the two children, Grimmjow's face became ashamed. He knelt down and tapped Ichigo on the shoulder. "Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry. Can you forgive me?"

Ichigo smiled and nodded, leaping into Grimmjow's chest at full force. The poor teal haired espada had no idea what to do. He wasn't very good with children. So, he allowed his instincts to take over and he wrapped his arms around the small boy, pulling him close.

Gin could tell that the old enemies would soon be good friends. Grimmjow showed his natural paternal instincts. Usually in an espada they wouldn't be this strong, but he was a panther after all. Cats were inherently protective of their young and were naturally good parents.

"Ok, how bout we stop here for now. I think we've had enough excitement for one day." Gin said with is usual smile.

The espada let out a collective sigh of relief. A chorus of 'bye's' and 'see ya laters' were heard as they all sonidoed away. Grimmjow was the last to leave. He gave Ichigo one final squeeze before getting up, "I'll see you guys at dinner."

"Bye!" Ichigo and Nel called as Grimmjow walked away. Once he was gone they looked at Aizen and Gin. "What now?"

"Well," Aizen said thoughtfully, "We've already passed 2 hours, so we only have 3 more before dinner. What would you like to do in that time?"

"Hmmm," Ichigo put his hand on his chin and screwed up his face in thought. "What is there to do?"

Now it was Gin and Aizen's turn to think. "Well, we could read some of the books your father left you, or play with some of the toys. Or we could go swimming, or maybe…"

"SWIMMING!!!" Ichigo and Nel cheered.

Gin almost scowled at his taichou, "You just had to bring up swimming, didn't you?"

Aizen had enough intelligence to look sheepish. "Sorry, I didn't think they'd actually go for it."

The two children were still cheering and hopping up and down with excitement. Gin sighed, knowing that they wouldn't get out of this. So, he took one of each of their hands and began to lead them to the pool that was hidden deep in the recesses of Las Noches.