AN: Okay, so before I start this chapter, I just going to say that this will be taking place during episode 5 of Volume 2. I re-watched episodes 3 and 4 in an attempt to see if I could include team RIOT in the events of either of those episodes and I couldn't see a place for them without the chapter just being filler.


Friendly Competition


Ichigo scratched his head as his teammates struck a random conversation, the meaning behind was completely unknown to him...but he had some sort of a clue.

"So, you guys going to that dance this Sunday?", Ichigo decided to ask his teammates about an event Yang told him about. They all looked at him with a puzzled look.

"What are you talking about?", Rukia asked in a slightly irritated tone.

"I didn't hear about a dance," Tatsuki said as tried to remember any conversations that pertained to a dance...well besides the current one.

"Of course!", Orihime nearly shouted in excitement as her two uninformed teammates stared at her dumbfound.

"What dance is he talking about Orihime?"

"Seriously I didn't hear anything about this," Orihime gasped at their words.

"How did you guys not hear about it! Team RWBY is planning a dance for this weekend!", Rukia and Tatsuki looked at her for a few seconds before...well letting their frustrations be known.

"And they didn't tell us?!", the two shouted in unison into the poor girl's face, Ichigo started walk again in an attempt to distance himself from the hell he had unleashed with his simple question.

"How did Ichigo hear about!"

'Shit! I gotta get out of this situation ASA-', his train of thought was broken by his two disgruntled teammates grabbing him by the collar and shouting the question in his face. The two glared at him as he tried to avoid the question, needless to say it didn't work out for him. He gave in rather quickly.

"Yang told me about it...Ruby and Weiss also swung by our dorm room when you guys where out. I honestly thought they would have told you...or you would've at least heard about it from someone else," Rukia and Tatsuki released their grip from his collar allowing Ichigo to once again breathe properly before cursing their immersion into their personal hobbies.

"I knew I should've put off training!", said Tatsuki dejectedly.

"I knew I should've have wait to go to that sale!", said Rukia in the same tone as Tatsuki...and then she proceeded to ramble, "But if I would've waited then I might've not been able to buy that new Chappie plushie and the keychain! And the scroll decoration! And the-", she was stopped mid-ramble by Ichigo swiftly kicking her in the rear.

"We have class!", his tone was a bit more aggravated than usual. The oranged haired teen scoffed before turning around and stomping off to class.

"We really should get to class…", said Orihime as she helped an infuriated Rukia off of the ground.


"Alright, everyone settle down," Glynda cleared her throat as she looked at the crowd of students.

"Now, for those of you that do not attend Beacon Academy, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Glynda Goodwitch, but you are to call me Professor Goodwitch. This class is based around combat training, while the largest purpose of the class is to help our students prepare for the Vytal Festival tournament, it also does help them improve their combat abilities, reflexes, and strategic thinking," Glynda reached behind her and pulled out a large scroll.

"Alright class pay attention, we will now select the combatants for the first match," Glynda press some buttons on her large scroll causing two holographic boxes to appear. The boxes appeared to contain pictures of the students that were currently attending the class, the pictures however were moving extremely fast similar to how the slots of a slot machine move after pulling the lever.

"The way students are picked in these sparring exercises is almost identical to the team selection process that is behind selecting the teams that compete against each other in the tournament," the first box slowed down and soon stopped on a picture of Ruby.

"Ruby Rose and…", the second box stopped on a picture of Ichigo, "Ichigo Kurosaki," the two looked up.

"Please, come down to the arena."


"Go Ruby!"

"C'mon Ichigo!", team RWBY and team RIOT were shouting, screaming to be more precise, words of encouragement to their competing teammates within two seconds of the pair stepping foot into the arena.

"Don't hurt each other!", shouted Pyrrah as the rest of team JPNR nodded in agreement.

"Don't worry!", Ichigo responded as he drew Zangetsu from off of his back. Ruby unclipped Crescent Rose from her belt and with the flip of a switch, the metal, red box turned into a giant scythe that was much larger than she was.

"Begin!", Ruby shot forward like a bullet as Glynda announced the start of the match. As she approached, Ichigo put the flat side of Zangetsu to face her, Ruby halted her strike and dug the heels of her boots into the blade before bouncing off of the massive blade. Ichigo rushed at her as she flew towards the wall, Ruby slid across the ground a bit as she landed, however that was not her biggest concern at the moment. Zangetsu descended upon her as she looked up, Ruby attempted to counter but Crescent Rose proved itself to be no match for the sheer force from Zangetsu's strike as she was nearly sent flying across the room from the power behind the blade. Once she gained her bearings, Ruby darted at Ichigo once more, this time she managed to land a five strike combo on various sections of Ichigo's upper body before finishing it off with swift horizontal slash across his cheek.

Ichigo stumbled back a bit as he was smacked across the face by Crescent Rose, Ruby went to rush him once more but was instead met by an upper diagonal blow from Zangetsu, which in turn sent her flying a few feet into the air. As she began to fly back to the ground Ruby noticed a slight blue glow from the corner of her eye.

"Getsuga Tenshou!", using her semblance, Ruby barely managed to dodge the crescent of Aura by half of an inch and planted herself on solid ground relatively unscathed. She lowered herself and dug her boots into the ground before launching herself at Ichigo and jumping behind as soon as she was two inches away from him. As he turned around, Ruby was half way into a vertical strike, but her strike did not connect with Ichigo and instead connected with Zangetsu. The two began to exchange blows with each other, it got to the point where the spectating students found a pattern in their strikes. For every five to eight blows that Ruby landed on Ichigo one massive blow would delivered from Ichigo.

Even though Ruby's attacks didn't take massive chunks from his Aura gauge, Ichigo still began to worry. Though it was true that each time he would manage to land a successful attack on the younger girl that he would take a decent bit of her Aura away he still worried. His attacks weren't frequent enough and with the overall size and weight of Zangetsu they wouldn't be frequent enough.

'If this keeps up, she might just end backing me into a corner here,' this thought along with many similar ones began to rush through Ichigo's head as he continued his coordinated exchange with Ruby. It needed to end and that was what he was going to do.

"Getsuga Tenshou!", Ruby's eyes went wide for a second as she heard these words, she halted her incoming attack completely and hopped back as Ichigo swung his massive blade and unleashed yet another large crescent of blue Aura. While she managed to escape from the attack another thing happened that was not that great...dust, it seemed to come from out of nowhere and fill the entire arena when the Getsuga exploded. The cloud of dust was moved out of the way as Ichigo swung Zangetsu down horizontally and pointed the blade at Ruby.

"Bankai," black and red Aura engulfed Ichigo momentarily and when it cleared, revealed a very familiar black katana. Ichigo rushed at Ruby and swung Tensa Zangetsu at her head. Ruby seemed to barely dodge the strike as Ichigo continued his assault, the two once more began a coordinated exchanging of blows but, this time neither side seemed to receiving any of the strikes. As the sleek black blade was swung horizontally it would be met by the giant scythe being swung in a similar manner.

The two combatants continued their exchange and Ruby noticed just how much her opponent's speed had increased. Each one of Ichigo's blow flawlessly corresponded with Ruby's, he was able to read her movements now.

'That's not it,' Ruby thought to herself as parried another blow from Ichigo, 'He's been able to read my movements the entire time, he just wasn't able to react to them. Was his weapon slowing him down? Then why didn't he ju-', her little inner monologue was harshly interrupted by Ichigo planting his boot into her gut, sending her sliding backwards. Ruby glared at him for instant before launching herself him with a diagonal slash at the ready.

Her strikes continued to either missed completely or be parried with little to no effort on Ichigo's part. Ruby swung Crescent Rose in an upper diagonal, however the blade of the scythe was forced into the ground as Ichigo grasped Tensa Zangetsu with two hands and delivered a heavy vertical strike down onto the weapon followed by a single handed horizontal strike. Ruby stumbled back a bit as she tried to keep her balance but failed as she saw Ichigo rushing at her. His attacks were relentless, they came at her in varying speeds and powers, one horizontal strike was almost too swift for her to dodge while a vertical aerial strike had enough force behind it to send her flying into a wall.

Ichigo swung Tensa Zangetsu in an upward arc as he continued his assault, this strike managed to completely destroy Ruby's guard, she attempted to assemble some form of a guard as Ichigo rushed towards her. He began to unleash an onslaught of attacks at Ruby, she unfortunately only managed to parry two of them and dodge three, the rest of them connected with her body and the finisher landed perfectly in her ribs. Aura erupted from Tensa Zangetsu as Ichigo swung the blade at Ruby, when the strike connected he did not release a Getsuga, but instead treated the accumulated Aura as an attack booster. Ruby was knocked off her feet and landed harshly on the floor, she took a deep breath and looked up at the Aura gauges. Ichigo's was in the yellow zone whilst her's had just fell into the red.

"Winner: Ichigo Kurosaki," said Glynda in a slightly less than enthusiastic tone as Ichigo walked and helped Ruby back onto her feet. The class began to applaud the two for their match, with the most noise, unsurprisingly, coming from team RIOT, RWBY, and JPNR.

"Good fight," Ichigo smiled lightly and patted Ruby on the back, she chuckled a bit as they began to walk out from the arena.

"Yea, that was a pretty awesome fight."


Professor Goodwitch decided to allow the students to have a quick break, nothing too big though, it was meant to last around two minutes before she would resume the class.

"So, what you're saying is that your weapon drops in weight when you activate your Bankai?", Ichigo nodded at Ruby's question.

"Then just how much does Zangetsu weigh?", Ichigo stood there for a second and attempted to remember how much the weapon weighed, he had gotten so used to its weight that he had almost forgotten.

"If I remember correctly, Zangetsu weighs about 52 lbs and Tensa Zangetsu weighs...around...4.2 lbs," Ruby was shocked by this, as it was clearly stated the expression she wore on her face.

"That's insane! How would that even work?!"

"You know about katanas and what not right?", she nodded, "Do you know how the blades are forged?"

"Well, yea! Of course I do. They take a sheet of metal and fol-... Oh! I get it now! The steel from the blade folds itself. Am I right?"

"Right on the money," Ruby puffed her chest out a bit and let a triumph chuckle, "Also I'm pretty sure that's why the blade is flat."

"Well, yea," said Ruby, "If the blade folds itself then the blade would have to fl-", their conversation was interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Weiss Schnee and Rukia Kuchiki, please come down to the arena."


"Wow, it's Ice Queen vs Ice Queen," said Yang causing her and the surrounding students to chuckle.

"What are the odds?", Ichigo leaned on the railing overlooking the arena as he turned to Ruby, "Two people from our teams fighting in back to back matches," Ruby chuckled.

"Yea, that is kinda crazy," Ruby overlooked the arena as a grin formed on her face.

"Get her Weiss!", Ichigo shot a glance over at Ruby, who proceeded to stick her tongue at Ichigo in a semi-mocking manner. The oranged haired teen scoffed at her little gesture and turned to look down at the arena.

"Let's go Rukia! You can do this!", soon the teammates of both of the combatants began to shower them with words of encouragement.

"Fight well!", shouted Blake.

"C'mon, remember how hard you've trained!", shouted Tatsuki.

"Be careful!", shouted Orihime and the entirety of team JPNR.

"This ought to be good," Yang leaned over the railing and smirked as Rukia and Weiss could be seen entering the arena.


The two glared at each other lightly as Weiss drew Myrtenaster from its sheath and Rukia put a death grip on the hilt of her Zanpakuto and lightly grasped the scabbard. They sat in silence for a few seconds and got into their respective combat stances, although Rukia didn't go into a Kendo stance like she usual does. No, this time she held the hilt of her blade and the sheath containing it tightly and adjusted her stance so she would be lower to the ground.

"Begin!", as the words left Glynda's lips Rukia darted forward at Weiss. Weiss backed up a bit as Rukia raised herself from low posture to strike. As the blade began to leave the scabbard Rukia opened her mouth to speak.

"Dance! Sode no Shirayuki!", frost erupted off of the now white blade as it was fully unsheathed and flew right by Weiss's face, leaving frost to cover the white haired girl's vision. Weiss strained her eyes a bit as she attempted to look through the thick frost cloud, however it wasn't needed as a snow white blade shot through it and right passed her cheek. The frost cleared as Rukia brought her blade closer to her body and readied it for another attack. She charged at Weiss and brought the blade down upon her. Sode no Shirayuki made contact with the top of Weiss's head, the white haired girl gritted her teeth from the slight pain and swung Myrtenaster at the shorter girl. Rukia jumped back to avoid the swing; Weiss glared at Rukia, she summoned her glyphs and rushed at Rukia as she she grasped her Zanpakuto with both hands and got into a defensive stance.

The silver blade of Myrtenaster approached Rukia at rapid speeds, she stepped to the side and parried her opponent's strike. Weiss staggered back a bit, but she soon was back up on her feet and launched herself at Rukia and began to unleash a volley of high speed strikes from Myrtenaster. Rukia attempted to parry Weiss's strikes, however a few managed to strike her, she gritted her teeth a bit as the blade struck her. Weiss stepped back a bit as Rukia unleashed a upper vertical strike, the black haired girl brought the white blade to her side as Weiss used her glyphs to rush her once more.

"Some no mai, Tsukishiro!", frost began to leak from the snow white blade as it was swung in a horizontal arc. Weiss came to a skidding halt as a large pillar of ice erupted from a circle of frost in front of Rukia, nearly knocking the white haired girl off of her feet. The pilar quickly shattered as lightning plowed through it, large chunks of ice quickly fell to the ground and shattered as Rukia glared daggers at Weiss. The heiress wore a triumphant smirk on her face as she adjusted her posture to fit her usual fencing stance and brought her arm up to point the blade of Myrtenaster at Rukia.

The two girls locked eyes with each other momentarily and upon making eye contact with one another they felt something, it was an overwhelming sense of competition. The sound of metal clashing rang through the arena as they two darted at each other as a large flash of sparks emerged from the clashing of silver and white blades. Rukia broke away from the clash and crouched as she rammed the pommel of Sode no Shirayuki into Weiss's abdomen before grasping the blade with both hands and harshly drawing the blade in a diagonal arc across her opponent's torso. Weiss took a second to regain her focus after the harsh blow; she firmly dug her heels into the ground and summoned a large line of glyphs. Running forward, Weiss stepped onto one of the glyphs, sending her at Rukia at high speeds. Rukia saw this and quickly scrambled to get into a defensive position.

Rukia swung her Zanpakuto as soon as Weiss was within her range, though she was rather surprised with the results of her attack. Weiss spun around the attack and flipped herself off of Rukia's blade and into the air. During her descent, Weiss struck Rukia five times and upon landing she struck three more times before being interrupted by Rukia unleashing a small arc of ice from her blade. Weiss backed up as Rukia sighed and rose her blade to be level with her head.

"Tsugi no mai," Weiss stared at Rukia for a few seconds before noticing a large amount of frost accumulating around Sode no Shirayuki. Her eyes went wide as she realized what was going on and swung Myrtenaster in response, unleashing a large wave of fire.

"Hakuren!", a large mass of ice and snow erupted from the white blade as Rukia thrusted it forward. The attack shrunk a bit upon coming in contact with the wave of fire but, it didn't quite neutralize the threat. The wave of snow engulfed Weiss and launched her onto the ground as it dispersed. Snow slowly rained down upon the arena as Rukia fell onto her knees and began to pant. Weiss groaned a bit and sighed as she looked over the holographically displayed Aura gauges, Rukia's was just a sliver away from the red zone whilst Weiss's had just barely entered it. Glynda adjusted her glasses and stepped out into the arena.

"Winner: Rukia Kuchiki."


"Good job guys!", Ichigo seemed to be in a rather enthusiastic mood as Rukia and Weiss returned from their match.

"Seriously, that was intense!", yelled Yang as she walked over to Weiss and patted her on the back. The remainder of the three teams walked over to the two and began rain praise down upon them for a rather entertaining match. They began to laugh a bit as they talked about the events from a few minutes ago. Their joyus gathering was cut a tad short as Glynda quickly announced the next match.

"Pyrrah Nikos and team CRDL please come down to the arena."

"A team against one person?", Jaune was a bit surprised at the structure of the next match. Pyrrah was already heading down to the arena as was team CRDL, along with their usual confidence and poor attitudes.

"Yea, that seems a bit unfair to me," Orihime lifted her head a bit as she began to think more on the matter.

"For them," said Tatsuki whilst she began to stretch as the group chuckled at her comment.

"This either going to be interesting match …", Ichigo leaned on the railing and watched as Cardin turned to Pyrrah with his an over confident smirk on his face, "Or a one sided slaughter."


A massacre was probably the best way to describe it. Pyrrah absolutely decimated her opponents. Team CRDL seemed to be decently coordinated with each other in the beginning of the match, however they fell apart once Pyrrah began to step up her game. Cardin's hot headed behavior seemed to be a huge factor on the team's loss, he began to rush recklessly towards the end of the match. Cardin's temper even incited some villainous behavior on his end, when he was recovering from an attack, he smacked Dove in the jaw with his mace and with little to no regard for his teammates' well being at this point in time, he rushed at Pyrrah. Cardin did get some good swings in during his assault, good swings meaning well constructed strikes since they didn't seem to hit his red headed opponent, despite this the match ended with Pyrrah, with lack of better words, juggling Cardin in the air as she struck him and for her finishing maneuver she wrapped Miló around Cardin's neck in a way similar to a chokehold and slammed him into the ground upon her descent from the air.

"And that's the match," Glynda began to walk into the arena as she called the match. As she approached, Cardin groaned and raised his head to look at Pyrrah.

"Lucky shot", he proceeded to fall onto the floor. Glynda looked down at Cardin and began to praise Pyrrah.

"Well done miss Nikos. You should have no problem qualifying for the tournament."

"Thank you Professor," Glynda turned to the students and spoke as began to adjust some settings on her large scroll.

"Alright, now I know that's a tough act to follow but we have time for one more sparing match. Any volunteers?" she looked up from her scroll and straight at Blake, who was currently reading some book.

"Miss Belladonna?", Blake's head jerked up as she looked at Professor Goodwitch and quickly closed her book, "You've been rather docile for the past few classes," Blake averted Glynda's eyes as she continued to speak.

"Why don't y-"

"I'll do it," a grey haired Haven student by the name of Mercury raised his hand. Glynda looked at him and began to adjust her classes.

"Mercury is it? Very well, let's find you an opponent."

"Actually...I wanna fight…", Mercury held his hand up to his chin in thought before pointing to Pyrrah, "Her."

"Me?"

"I'm afraid miss Nikos has just finished a match, I'd recommend that you choose another partner," Pyrrah raised her hand and turned to Glynda.

"No, it's fine!", she turns to Mercury with a slight smile on her face.

"I'd be happy to oblige."


"Well, this is a good chance to see what the students of Haven are like in combat," Rukia turned her head to Tatsuki.

"I'd say they're probably pretty good. After all they are a high ranking Academy just like us," Tatsuki shrugged at Rukia's remark.

"I mean that does make sense," Tatsuki looked back over the railing.

"I just wanna know what we're gonna be up against during the tournament is all."

"I'm pretty sure Haven's going to have some pretty good competition for us this year," Tatsuki shot an odd look at Ichigo.

"What makes you say that?", Ichigo sighed as he stopped leaning on the rail and stood up.

"Well, they're is a few people that I know and I'm pretty sure they said that they wanted to go to Haven Academy," Tatsuki was much more curious now, she walked to Ichigo and intensely stared at him.

"Who?"

"Just a few people I met from those regional tournaments," Tatsuki leaned in closer to him with an extremely inquisitive look in her eyes. Ichigo abruptly put his hand on her face and lightly shove her back. Before she could begin to rain hell down upon, he point his finger up to his lip.

"Be quiet, the match is starting."


Pyrrah and Mercury were locked in combat. The two of them were desperately trying to get the upper hand over the other, however they seem to match each other blow for blow. Mercury unleashed a flurry of high kicks but this proved to be ineffective since Pyrrah blocked his strikes with relative ease with the use Akoúo̱. Pyrrah proceeded to dash forward and ram her golden shield into Mercury causing him to slide a few feet back.

Mercury looked at Pyrrah for a second before bopping his head and giving a "hmm" of approval. Up in the stands, Ruby turned to a darked skinned girl with mint green hair and bold red eyes.

"Hey, your friend's doing pretty good," the girl named Emerald gave Ruby a less than believable smile and let out a small giggle. The students were rather enthralled with the match at the moment, particularly teams RIOT, RWBY, and JPNR. Tatsuki turned to Ichigo, who was paying close attention to the match.

"Think I could take 'em?" Ichigo turned his head to the dark haired girl and shrugged.

"I don't know, he seems pretty fluent in the marital arts department. But it would make for a good fight regardless," Tatsuki blankly stared at him for a second before turning her attention to Pyrrah and Mercury. She sighed as she watched the two continue to duke it out.

"I could live with that."


Mercury's approach had become much more aggressive than it was at the start of the match. He rushed at Pyrrah, who had just locked herself in a strictly defensive position, and unleashed a swift flurry of kicks. The grey haired boy continued with a high kick, Pyrrah blocked the blow and went to strike him, however Mercury parried her attack with a sharp roundhouse kick, knocking Miló from her grasps.

Mercury smirked as the two of them looked over to Pyrrah's weapon, he rushed at her and went in for a wheel kick. His boot went right over Pyrrah's head and he stumbled a bit as he foot touched the ground. He stayed crouched on the ground for a second and thought about what just happened. Mercury looked behind as he stood up only to see Pyrrah rushing him with her shield. Upon impact, Mercury jumped onto Akoúo̱ and launched himself across the room from her. Despite him landing only a second ago, Pyrrah was already rushing at him once more.

Mercury stood up and turned to Glynda as Pyrrah continued her charge.

"I forfeit," Pyrrah gasped a bit as she ran right past Mercury.

"You, don't even want to try?", Mercury shrugged as she said this.

"What's the point? You're a world renowned fighter, we're obviously leagues apart," Mercury's voice came in a slight monotone as he said this. In response Pyrrah sent him a frustrated glare.

"In that case, Pyrrah Nikos is the victor of this match, again," Glynda sounded less than surprised when she said the last part. Mercury turned to the student stands and smirked as he looked at Emerald. Glynda turned to Mercury and pointed her hands on her hips in an authoritative manner.

"Next time you may want to think a little harder before choosing an opponent," Mercury waved at her as he began to walk away.

"I'll be sure to do that," a buzzer began to beep causing Blake to snap out of her half conscious state.

"That is all for today! And remember the dance is this weekend, but you all have your first mission on Monday."


Team RIOT walked out of the main building, Ichigo groaned a bit as he began to crack his neck. Orihime walked over to Ichigo and cocked her head to the side.

"Is something wrong?", Ichigo shrugged at her question.

"Well, y'know the dance that's coming up?"

"Yea?", the orange haired girl's expression began to light up.

"I don't think I'm going to go…", Orihime's expression changed to one of disappointment.

"Well, uh, I'm not really the dance type of guy and uh…"

"Is that all?"

"Well, I, uh, don't have anything to wear…"

"I'll ask Ishida!", Ichigo's eyes shot open and his head snapped towards Orihime.

"What!"

"Yea, I'll ask him to make you a suit!", Ichigo grabbed Orihime by the shoulders.

"Don't! I don't want four eyes walking around like I owe him something!", Tatsuki rolled her eyes as she heard the conversation and walked over and smacked Ichigo on the back.

"Don't worry about it! We already asked him to make us some dresses. I'm sure he wouldn't mind making you a suit, we're just gonna need your measurements for when we ask him," Ichigo scoffed at her words.

"Fine, I'll do it."


"What do you mean a favor?", Ichigo shouted into his scroll causing Uryu to groan a bit.

"Look Kurosaki, I'll make you the suit and you just have to do one small thing for me alright?"

"Depends on what this "small' thing of your's is."

"Well, allow me to elaborate on the matter," Ichigo flopped onto his bed and rolled his eyes.

"Here we go," he muttered this under his breath right before Ishida began to explain everything.

"You already know that my father wants me to follow in his footsteps and take over as the head of his hospital. Well, as you may have guessed...I don't want to follow his footsteps, he also suggested following in our ancestors' footsteps and become a Huntsman but you already know how I feel on that matter," Ichigo groaned and lightly squeezed the top of his head and sighed.

"Okay…"

"So, I went through and researched different career paths and found the one most suitable to my interests. Fashion."

"You're kidding."

"Not at all Kurosaki, you know I don't joke around about serious matters such as this."

"You don't joke around at all."

"Which is precisely my point," Ichigo could hear Ishida adjust his glasses through the scroll, "I came to the conclusion that since I find great pleasure in sewing that fashion would most likely be the best field for me. And after a large amount of research, I came across an interesting factoid. One of the most well known names in current fashion has a shop that resides in Vale, Riruka Dokugamine."

"This concerns me how?"

"I found out that she is trying to break away from her usual Lollita designs and plant her foot into a more mature market. So, I need you to model some outfits that I have personally designs, with one of them being the suit I will be designing for your dance."

"You're not going to make me wear anything ridiculous are you?", Ishida scoffed at his remark.

"Of course not! Who do you take me for?", he took a deep breath, "No, I am going to have you model a variety of suits, tuxedos, and some casual clothing. So, do we have an agreement?"

"Yea, I'll do it."

"That's wonderful news!"

"But this better be a good suit or so help me Ishida, I will ram your fucking glasses down your throat," Ishida chuckled a bit.

"Now now, there is no need to get aggressive Kurosaki. I assure you that this suit will be to your liking."

"It better be," the call then ended, Ichigo sighed and looked over to the door to see a confused Rukia.

"What was that about?", he groaned a bit.

"I asked Ishida to make me a suit."

"Ishida is the one with the glasses right?", Ichigo nodded causing Rukia to laugh a bit.

"Oh man, how'd that turn out for you?"

"Well, he'll do it but he wants me to model some suits for some bigshot fashion designer"

"Really now? And you agreed to do that?"

"Unfortunately, yea."

"Well, good luck with that. I'm going to go help Tatsuki and Orihime bring some snacks back," Ichigo jumped out of his bed.

"Hold up a sec, I'll help you guys," He grabbed a blue hoodie and was currently putting on a pair of black canvas shoes as Rukia walked out and shut the door.

"Alright then. Just don't take too long or we'll leave you here!", Ichigo chuckled a bit.

"Got it!"


AN: IT'S FINALLY DONE! Now, I know this is like three or four weeks late and I'm extremely sorry for that, but I was very, very busy the last few weeks and I really hope you guys don't hold this against me. Well, anyways four fights in one chapter, three if you feel like the Pyrrah vs team CRDL was too undetailed to be considered a proper fight, but one thing I'd like to say is that this chapter is the first chapter I have written to have a word count of over 5k and I'm really excited about that! Also, one more thing I'd like to address would be Ishida's life choices. I thought about including Ishida in this story as a student of one of the Academies but then I thought about it and realized that Ishida might consider a less violent career field and then after taking his interests in sewing into consideration, I came up with the concept of him wanting to be a fashion designer. This idea stemmed from that episode in Bleach where he fixes Kon and then when he was done we find out that he also put Kon into a dress. Anyways, that's all for that topic!

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter despite its extreme tardiness and that you all will continue to read this story. 'Till next time!