DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BLEACH, KUBO TITE DOES.

I break off a square of chocolate and toss it in the air before catching it in my mouth. Katamura rejected the idea of me going outside. Typical. Well, on the bright side, I'm back in my own room without a straight-jacket and I have Rukia here with me.

I break off another square and hold it out for her to take. "Want it?"

"Yeah. Thanks." I drop it in her hand and she pops it into her mouth.

"So, how cold is it outside?" I ask her. I'm always curious about the weather.

"It's freezing. How come you ask that everytime I come?"

"Well, I haven't even looked outside in years. When I had first got here, they would let me into an isolated part of the garden, but they eventually decided that I was too hazardous to even leave the room. My point is, when you're trapped in a windowless cage, you tend you wonder about what's going on on the outside," I tell her. I toss another square of chocolate in my mouth. "I usually ask Anzu and Ayu about the weather... Well, I asked Ayu before she passed on to the other side." I see Hideki roll his eyes at me. I glare at him.

"Hmm." I look back to Rukia. I wonder what she's thinking... "Do you think they'd let me give you photos? That would be the perfect way for you to see outside without actually going outside."

"You'd have to ask Katamura about that. He's the big dog in this part of the building. I'm positive he's agree to it, though," Hideki says.

"Who the hell asked you?" I snap at him. I had an arguement with him earlier today and I'm still pretty pissed about it.

"Easy now. I was just trying to help is all. No need to bite my head off."

"You're job isn't to help with things that don't require your attention, it's to stand there and look pretty while at the same time making sure I don't attack anyone. Now stay outta our business." I say as I wave him off.

Rukia scoots a little closer so that she can break off another piece of my candy bar. "So, were'd you get all the chocolate from?" She asks me.

"Katamura. He rewards me with it if I don't torture his staff. I tried to convince him to reward me with trips to the garden, but he refused. He's such an ass." I catch another square of chocolate in my mouth.

Hideki is staring me down like hawk would a field rat. Rukia being so close to me is obviously keeping him on edge. I scoff. "Stop looking at me like that, I'm not gonna kill her." I pull Rukia into a loose hug. "See? She's perfectly safe."

"Ichigo," he warns.

I groan and let Rukia go. "OK. OK. I wont hug her anymore. Don't get your panties in a bunch."

His frown deepens as he looks back to Rukia. "Kuchiki, I'd highly appreciate it if you didn't get so close to him."

"I'm not gonna attack her."

"I don't care. She's too close and I'm too far. If you were to get pissed at her, she'd be severely hurt by the time I got over there."

"Then why don't you move closer to us?"

"Because you try to kill me every time I get within five feet of you. I want to keep her safe without risking my own life, so could you please move away from him, Kuchiki?"

"Yeah." Rukia moves from the bed to one of the chairs bolted down beside the table.

I huff in annoyance. "Hideki, I'm not going to attack her. Don't you trust my word on that?"

"Trust has to be earned and It's pretty hard to trust the person who permanently damaged my arm," he says.

"That wasn't my fault, I was having a bad day," I say in an attempt to defend myself.

"For the record, you're in a bad mood six out of seven days a week." He takes his hands out his pockets and folds his arms over his chest. "I don't see how that day was any different."

"Well for starters, I had woke up feeling like shit just to be stuck with several needles in both arms. Katamura and I ended up getting in argument about an hour later and I completely flipped out on him. Right as I was about to punch him you came in and tried to get me to calm down before someone got hurt. I was so irritable that I didn't feel like hearing you talk talk so I ended to conversation the best way I knew how, with force. And just so you know, I didn't intend to do so much damage when I grabbed your arm and flipped you," I explain.

"I know you didn't mean to do so much damage, but you did. That's why I don't trust you. You're extremely unpredictable, you even shock your own self with some of the things you do," he says.

I huff in utter annoyance. I hate it when another person's point overrides my own. Rukia's expression catches my attention, she looks bewildered. She's obviously trying to find proof that I'm not crazy, but I keep on throwing evidence at her that proves I am. At this rate, she's gonna end up abandoning me here again. "Dammit."

"What's wrong?" She asks me.

"Oh, uh..." I need an excuse. I look down at the candy bar before hold the entire thing out to her. "I can't finish it. Take it with you when you leave."

"Oh, thank you." She gives me a weak smile before taking the candy bar from me and re-wrapping it in the shiny silver foil. She slides it into her coat pocket.

"Aw. I can't believe you're giving her chocolate. That's such a sweet and romantic gift," Anzu says as she starts to laugh. Rukia blushes a little.

"Shut up! It's not like like that!" I yell at her. Hideki shakes his head. He's most likely thinking that I'm talking to myself.

"How rude of you! Well, on a more serious note, there something I really need to tell you. It's urgent."

"How so?" What the hell could be so urgent?

Her face darkens. "I'm not uttering a word until she leaves. This isn't any of her business," she says. It must be pretty bad for her to want no one else in the room when she tells me.

I give Rukia a pleading look. "Please go."

Rukia nods. She and Hideki leave and as they go out the door Hideki gives me a strange look.

"What happened?" I ask Anzu.

"Do you remember me telling you about Tendō?"

"Uh-huh. She's Katamura's niece, right?"

"Yeah... She killed him not too long ago. Ten minutes tops. No one else knows he's dead yet."

Every hair on my body raises. "What...? H-How?"

"She was out of her straight-jacket. I'm not sure how she got out of it, though. My guess is that someone took it off her. Anyways, when he walked in she bashed his nose in, killing him instantly. It was weird, after she did it, she burst into tears and started mumbling how it was all 'his' fault, but I've got the feeling that the person she was talking about, the person she's blaming it on on, isn't Katamura." Her eyebrows are knitted together.

"Is she still in her room?"

"Yeah. At least, she was when I left to come tell you what happened. See was too busy crying and mumbling to herself to care about the door being unlocked," she says.

"I have to warn someone. She's completely insane, she might kill someone else after she leaves." I run over to the door and start pounding against it with all of my strength. "I need someone! I need someone now!" I yell at the top of my lungs. "C'mon! I need help in here!"

"Step away from the door, I'm coming in." I quickly run to the other side of the room as Jin opens the door. "What's the problem now- Damn, you as pale as a freaking ghost!"

"Listen to me and listen good! Katamura is dead, Tendō killed him!" I frantically yell at him.

He stares at me for a moment. "And what gave you that idea?"

"Anzu told me- Hey! Don't you dare roll you fucking eyes at me, I'm being serious. Piss me off and I'll rip 'em out of that stupid head of yours!" I scream at him. I'm not in the mood for being blown off. "This is a life or death situation here!"

"Ichigo, calm down. I don't know what's got you so freaked out, but I assure you that Katamura's fine-"

"He's not fine, he dead! And guess what? Once Tendō figures out the door is unlocked she's gonna stroll right on out of there out a reek more havoc than a million of me put together!"

I take step towards him and his face hardens. "Ichigo, keep your distance. I don't want a repeat of what happened a couple weeks ago."

"Call his cell."

"What?"

"I said call his cell."

"If I do that I might get fired-"

"I said call his damn cell! He always answers his cell, even when he's with a patient. Him no answering ought to be proof enough." I getting more aggravated with him by the second. "I'm telling you, he's dead and Tendō is gonna end up either hurting or killing someone else if you don't do something soon."

Jin sighs. "I not gonna-"

"Just do it all fucking ready!" I scream at him, taking another couple of steps toward him.

"OK. OK. I get it! I'll call his cell if you stop freaking out." He pulls out his cellphone and dials Katamura's number. The rings are so loud I can hear them all the way over here. It goes to his voice message after a couple minutes. Jin clamps the phone shut. He raises an eyebrow at the phone. "His cell must be dead."

"No, his cell is fine. He didn't answer because he's dead," I tell him.

"He might have forgotten it somewhere." Jin's eyebrows knit together. He knows how impossible that situation is, Katamura always keeps track of his stuff, I honestly don't think he's lost a single thing in his entire life.

"Jin, stop making up excuses and believe me already. You're pissing me the fuck off!" I yell at him.

"Ichigo, this is the last time I'm going tell you to calm down. Keep this up and I'm going to have to-"

"Tendō got out and she has an ax!" A woman screams as she runs by my room.

"I told you so," I snap at him.

Jin's eyes widen. "How did you know she was gonna...?"

"I already told you. Anzu told me about it directly after everything went down, but noooo, you wouldn't believe me because I'm supposedly a lunatic," I spit at him. "Everyone in this damn place is fucking stupid!"

"I-I... But..." He whips around and runs out the room, leaving the door wide open. I blink once. Twice. Three times. Is God playing some sick game with me or was I just given the perfect opportunity to escape? I really hope it's the later. I run out the room, Anzu following close behind me.

"Are we getting out of here?" She asks me.

"Yep."

"That's good because Tendō can see me too and I don't exactly want to run into her while she's out and about and in such a bad mood. You're tantrums are nothing compared to hers."

"That's understandable, the crazier the person is, the more dangerous they are," I say. I take a quick right and dash down the stairs, leaping over several at a time. The faster I get out of here, the better. We reach the lobby and I mentally cheer after I get through all the doors.

I rapidly blink my eyes when I step out into the sunlight. It's so frigging bright out here. I start to shiver. Not to mention cold. I wish I was at least wearing a pair of socks. I turn and look up at the windowless rooms at the very top of the tall building. I wonder which one Katamura is in. I walk to and around the gates and lean against the stone wall the separates the asylum from the outside world. I slide down it into the cold snow.

"Ichigo, are you OK?" Anzu asks me. "You don't look too good."

I don't say anything, I just stare at my feet. I can't believe Katamura's really dead, I can't believed he let her kill him. I mean, he may have been an ass, but I still liked more than anyone else in this crazy place... "I- I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'm out, but..." I curl my toes up. "I just don't know." I rest my forehead on my knees. I'll think I'm just going to stay here and wait for some thing to happen. If I freeze to death, then so be it...

Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep...

I open my eyes to find myself in a hospital room with several IVs hooked to my arm. I sit up and groan. I feel like I got run over by a frigging train. A bubbly nurse walks in and I glare at her. I don't trust nurses nor doctors.

"I'm glad to see you're awake, you've been unconscious for three days," she says.

"How'd I get here?"

"Someone brought you in. He said he found you unconscious in the snow. It's freezing outside, you're lucky the cold didn't kill you. She walks over and reaches a hand out to me, but I jerk away from her."

"Don't touch me," I warn her.

"Oops. I guess I should have asked first. Can I please see if you have a fever?"

"If it involves touching of any kind, then no."

"OK. I won't touch you." She holds out a thermometer for me to take. "Could you please put this in your mouth?" I nod and stick it under my tongue and hold it out to her after it beeps. She looks at it and smiles. "Perfect temperature."

"OK. Can I leave?" I ask her.

"Not unless a doctor discharges you." Stares at me for several moments. "You know, it just dawned on me that I don't know your name, Ishida-san didn't give it me. Can you please tell it to me?"

Should I tell her my name? If I do, then I might be earning myself a one way ticket back to the loonie bin. What to do? What to do? "I don't know," I lie.

"You don't know?" She frowns.

"Um... no." I honestly couldn't come up with a better excuse.

"Are you sure? If you're worried about us knowing you name-"

"Don't worry, Yuki. I'll handle this," Ishida says as he walks in the room.

"Yes sir." The nurse leaves the room, closing the door behind her.

"What the hell do you want?" I ask him.

"What I want is to know why you were laying outside in the snow instead being inside the asylum."

"That's none of your business," I tell him.

"Kurosaki."

"I'm not talking." I pull the IVs out of my arm and get out the bed. "In fact, I'm leaving."

"No you're not."

"Yes I am." I cross the room but he stands in front of the door."

"You're not leaving until you tell me what happened," he says.

"Oh really?" I grab his arm and sling him half way across the room. He lands hard and glares at me. "Your fault, not mine."

I exit the room only to be grabbed by Hideki, Jin, and Kyosuke.

"Got ya!" Kyosuke yells triumphantly.

"We've been looking for you," Hideki says.

"So four-eyes wasn't lying," Jin says.

"Let go of me!" I yell as I try to work my way out of their grip. Ishida steps of the room and I grit my teeth. "You fucking traitor, you told them I was here!"

"I had no choice in the matter," he says.

I thrust my entire body forward with so much force I'm able to free myself from the trio long enough to punch Ishida square in the face. The three guards quickly regain their hold on me. Ishida stares up at me from his spot on the floor, his nose is broken. As the guards start to pull me away, I start kicking and flailing and screaming at them to let me go, that I wasn't crazy and shouldn't have go back. I'm eventually jerked outside and forced into a straightjacket before being shoved into the back of a van. Ten minutes and a million death threats later, we're back at the Karakura Asylum. The van's doors open and I glare at muscled trio. There's no way in hell I'm going back into that place without a fight. I bare my teeth at them.

"Now, now. There's no need to act so vicious," a female voice says. A woman with black waist length hair pulled back into a braid steps into view. She's wearing a lab coat, so I take it she's a doctor.

"I doubt you'd say that if you where in my position," I snap at her. I know her kind, she uses false sweetness to trick misbehaving patients into politely obeying.

"It's not that bad here. C'mon, Ichigo, let's go inside-"

"Shut the fuck up with your 'I want to be friend' piece of shit attitude! I'm not stupid and I'm not falling for it!" I yell at her.

Hideki, Jin, and Kyosuke all nod in a silent agreement before jumping on top of me and holding me down. The woman hops into the truck with us, her heels clicking on the metal. She pulls a huge syringe out of her coat pocket. "I really didn't want to do this, but you leave me no choice," she says before stabbing it into my thigh and pressing down the plunger.

"Bitch...," I say before blacking out.

BEEP! Click.

I turn to face the door just as the bitch from before walks in. She's accompanied by both Jin and Hideki.

"Hello again. I'm sorry about whart happened earlier." Yeah right. "And I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Himura Akira, I'm-"

"My new quack doctor. I know, Anzu told me." I refuse to take my eyes off her. You shouldn't ever take your eyes off your enemy, that'll just get you killed.

"The proper term is-"

"I know what the 'proper term' for your kind, I just don't think it fits. You guys think you're helping us because we're crazy, but in reality, you're the ones who're actually crazy and you're just dragging us down to your level," I tell her, a smirk making it's way across my face.

Akira looks at Jin. "Is he always like this?" She asks him.

"I'm afraid so," He replys.

"Change of topic!" I yell, causing them to jump. "How long did it take you guys to find Katamura's body and restrain Tendō?" I ask.

"Who told you about that?" Akira asks.

"He already knew. It's freaky."

"Anzu told me, that's how I knew. There's nothing freaky about it." I glance at Jin. "But somebody refused to believe me about it until it was too late. It was also that same somebody who ran away and left my door wipe open, giving me the perfect opportunity to escape." I'm pretty much aiming to get Jin fired.

Hideki raises an eyebrow at him. "You're the reason we had to look for him?

"I-I..." He noticed my growing smirk. "Don't believe him, I mean, look at his face, he's trying to set me up!" Jin yells as he points a finger at me.

I frown. "Two things: I don't lie and I'm just about to rip off that fat finger of yours."

"OK. Suppose you aren't lying, your still a schizophrenic. You imagine things that aren't true, you're delusional!" He yells at me.

"I almost never imagine things, most of my supposed 'symptoms' are just me being caught in the act of talking to ghosts! I'm not a fucking lunatic!" I yell back as I get off the bed.

"Shit. Himura-san, leave. This might get dangerous. It would be bad if you got hurt," Hideki tells her.

"Try not to hurt him. Injuring patients is one of the worst things we can do, It's our job to help them, not hurt them," she says as she hurries out of the room.

Hideki step in-between Jin and I. "Ichigo, do you swear that what you're saying is the truth? Did Jin really run out and leave your door open?"

"I swear he did. What the hell would I gain by lying? It's hard enough to get people to believe me as it is," I say.

"What he'd gain would be getting me fired," Jin mumbles.

"Shut up, Jin, I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Hideki!" I yell at him.

"I don't give a fuck who you're talking to, you insane brat!"

"What the hell did you just call me!?"

"That's enough!" Hideki yells, quieting us both. He grabs Jin by the collar of his shirt. "C'mon, we have to talk about this."

"W-Wait! Are you really going to believe him? Like I said, he's a schizophrenic freak- AH!" Jin yelps as Hideki smashes him against the heavy metal door.

"He not be 'all there' but that doesn't give you the right to talk to him like that. The mentally ill aren't freaks and should never be referred to as freaks. And just so you know, he may be crafty, but every game he plays, not matter how evil it may be, he does it without lying. I may not trust his actions, but I trust his words." Hideki then proceeds to literally drag Jin out of the room, closing the door behind them.

"Do you want me to follow them?" Anzu asks me as she fades into view.

"Yeah, I'd like that. I want to know if Jin gets fired... I hope he does," I tell her.

"Ditto. I'll tell you all the juicy details as soon as it's over. Later." She fades out of sight.

I go back over to my bed and flop down on it. I stare at the stark white ceiling before turning my head to look at my table. The pack skittles Katamura gave me not too long ago still lay there untouched. I get up and and pick the pack up. I stare at it for a while.

For every 2 days you behave, I'll give you a candy of choice.

"Shut the hell up you bastard!" I yell as rip the red package open and throw it at the wall, sending a million rainbow colored candies flying across the room. I start to huff. That idiot! Why'd he have to go into Tendō's room alone? Why'd he let her kill him so easily? What the fuck was wrong with him!?

I start to viciously attack the door, using every martial arts move dad had taught before he died against it. I continue to attack it after the people on the other side start yelling at me to stop. I continue to attack it after my hands and feet start to bruise. I continue to attack it after they start to bleed, leaving red smears all over the door. I continue to attack it after I fall to my knees and every movement sends an intense wave of pain throughout my entire body. And I continue to attack after hot tears run down my face. I only stop after I faint from the blood I've lost through the huge gashes on my hands and feet.

ME: AW... Poor Ichi...

ICHIGO: *in his emo corner* How could you do such a thing to me?

ME: Because I"m evil, that's how.

ICHIGO: *sobs*

ME: I'm going to give him some time to cope, so I"ll say this by myself. Review!