Renji: Hey, Tairei9 throat hurts so I will being making the announcements. Tairei9 doesn't own bleach or any of its contents. She gives full credit to its creators. Well now that's over. Read and review or I'll Zabimaru you to-

Kumiko: Hey, that's not what she said to say! Don't threaten the readers!! Gomen nasai readers, he hasn't Zabimaru-ed anyone in a while.

Renji:… fun sucker.

Kumiko: am not.

Renji: are so!

Kumiko: am not!

Renji: ARE SO!!

Kumiko: AM NOT!!

Chapter fifteen

Kumiko sat staring at the ceiling, completely bored. She had nothing to do. Ichi-ni-san was at school or fighting hollows. Yoruichi was somewhere roaming around. And everyone else was busy. She sighed depressed like as the door to her room slide open.

"My, my Kumiko-san. What's wrong?" Urahara said sitting by her.

"I'm bored," whined Kumiko. This was a shock. Kumiko rarely whined. "I can't think of anything to do. Everybody is too busy."

"Hmmm. I see your problem," Urahara said, scratching his chin. Then he snapped his fingers and said, "I've got it!!" He wore his goofy smile on his face.

"What?" Kumiko asked sitting up.

"Come here," Urahara said, beckoning her with his fan. She crawled over to listen.

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Ichigo stretched and left the class room, bag over his shoulder. He walked down the hall way, thinking about the past few months. He left the school alone, much unlike a few months ago when Rukia was still here. "I wonder how she's doing?" He thought as her walked into his house. He hitting his father down as his father attacked him. He went up stairs to his room and was about to open his bed room door when he thought of Kumiko.

"I should visit her soon or she'll probably sneak back here," he muttered opening his bed room door. He walked in a put his bag on his desk. He then turned around and his mouth dropped.

"Not again!!" He cried, seeing words in red on his closet door.

"Come to Urahara's shop study room immediately," he read and then scoffed. Praying that the sign would disappear, he changed out of his uniform and left his room going back down the stairs.

"I'm going out!!" Ichigo said, pulling on a jacket.

"Are you going to be home for dinner?" Yuzu asked.

"Hopefully!" The door shut and Yuzu sighed. He had being leaving a lot. It made her worry. She knew that Ichigo could take care of himself, but she still couldn't help but worry that he might not come back one day.

Just like mom.

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Orihime opened her apartment door with her groceries. She put them on the counter and began to put them away. She was having a veggie plum jelly sandwich and chocolate bean surprise for dinner. When finished unloading the packages the bag accidentally fell to the floor. She bent over and picked it up, but noticed something else. A folded up piece of paper was on the floor.

"Eh?" she said, confused. She picked it up and unfolded it.

"Come to Urahara's shop study room immediately," She read, softly. She then stuffed the note into her pocket. She pulled on her jacket and left locking her apartment door. She went down the stairs and began her walk to the shop.

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"Where are we going, Nii-sama?" Rukia asked, formally. Byakuya glanced back at her and said, "Renji and I have something to discuss and he requested that you come as well. He said that it was something important."

"I see…" Rukia said, following Byakuya obediently.

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Renji slipped down into the underground study room and looked around, frowning. Urahara told him to come see him. But there was nobody down here. He began to walk away when he heard another voice.

"Renji?" Renji turned around and saw Ichigo standing there.

"Hey Ichigo, what are you doing here?"

"Urahara called for me. What about you?" Ichigo said, eyes closed for a moment.

"Same here. But the weird thing is, he doesn't seem to be here," Renji said looking around.

"Whose not here?"

"Inoue?!" Ichigo said as she jumped of the ladder. She looked around and frowned.

"Where is Urahara-san?" Orihime said, looking around frowning.

"That's what we were wondering," Renji said, arms crossed.

"Well let's look around," Ichigo said, beginning to walk away. They took the next ten minutes to look around.

"Damn, he isn't down here. Let's just go back up into the shop," Renji said, crossly.

"Yeah. Come on Inoue! Inoue?" Ichigo said looking around.

"Aha!! It's horrible!!"

Renji and Ichigo ran to the source of the noise and saw Orihime standing in a wide open space.

"What's wrong Inoue?" Ichigo asked.

"The ladder is gone. I tied a string to the ladder so we would not get lost in this huge space. But when I came back, all that was left was the string!!" Orihime said, horrified.

"Maybe it just came undone?" asked Renji uncertain.

"Let's look around for it," Ichigo said, slightly irritated. They looked all around but the ladder was nowhere to be found.

"Damn what is going on?" Ichigo said now annoyed.

Suddenly there was a breeze, which was unusual for an underground due to that they were underground!! There was a whisper then it stopped along with the wind.

"What the heck was that?" Ichigo asked, on guard.

Suddenly the ground split open beneath him and a huge stem like thing shot up.

"Nani!?" Renji said, horrified. Renji then yelped as vines snapped down at them. They wrapped themselves around them, pinning there arms to their sides. The two vines holding Ichigo and Orihime twisted themselves, causing them to be pressed against each other. Ichigo looked at Inoue's frightened face.

"What the heck?!" Renji said struggling.

"Do not struggle. It is useless to struggle," a female voice said. It sounded like an eleven year old. "Don't worry. We won't start our little game until everyone gets here."

Kumiko: Sorry if it was short, readers. But Tairei9 has so what of a challenge. She wants to know what you think happens next. And Who ever is the closest, well you don't get anything but the satisfaction that you were right. So take a wild guess. Tairei9 will update when ever she can. Please do it. You know you want to.