Tairei9: Hey I am back and my throat feels better. I thank my reviewers and readers. I thank the people who gave guess, even though I didn't give you a long time to guess. But I finished it a lot sooner than expected. Well, enjoy.

"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."

Chapter sixteen.

"Game what game?" Ichigo yelled, furious. He was unable to get out of his body and Renji's sword was taken from him. The only thing left was…

"Tsubaki!! I reject!!" She said her hair pin glowing and something shooting out at the vines. It hit the vine but had no affect. It returned defeated.

"What! Why?!" Orihime shouted horrified.

"Now, now, now. That was not very nice," the voice said. Everyone struggled against the vines but to no avail. Yoruichi flash stepped bellow them and frowned.

"What the-?!" She muttered. Suddenly she also had vines gripping her ever so tight. The vines were wrapped around her so she could not escape. She was brought up high to where the other ones were.

"Are guys okay?!" she shouted.

"For the most part? Yeah," they all said.

"Crap, Yoruichi-san," Ichigo said, looking over his shoulder. He could obviously not turn around. "What is this?!" Yoruichi was silent for a couple of moments.

"I… don't know what this is." Everyone looked at her in disbelief.

"What do we do?!" Orihime shouted, afraid. Yoruichi pondered some more.

"Scatter, Senbonzakura." Everyone's head turned into the direction of the noise to see a flurry of pink petals slashing against the vines attacking the two people bellow.

"Kuchiki Taichou!! Rukia!!" Renji shouted.

"Renji!" Rukia shouted. This was unfortunately a bad idea. Vines grabbed at her and sent her up as well. Byakuya spun around send Senbonzakura at the vines but only to have many attack him as well. He tried slicing at them but they kept coming back. He kept doing this and eventually one of the vines hit two spots on him and he grimaced, Senbonzakura returning to its unreleased form. The vines wrapped around him as well as his blade and took him up. The vines then twisted Yoruichi's vines with Byakuya's vines and Renji's with Rukia's vines twisted in the same fashion as Ichigo and Orihime.

"Good. Everyone is here. Now everyone listen closely. We are going to play four games. This is the first. This first game is going to make you do something so unbelievable, something so awful that you might never forgive me."

"We not going to forgive until you let us go!!!" Renji growled, furious, "Now give me back Zabimaru!!"

"No, not yet." The voice crooned. Three vines snaked around creepy like, showing off every sign of striking. Renji, Rukia, Ichigo, and Orihime went pale. Byakuya and Yoruichi just simple stared. The three vines dropped down right over their heads.

"That is…!" Byakuya said eyes wide. Yoruichi eyes were huge.

"No way," Rukia said as Renji was flabbergasted.

"Is that…?!" Ichigo said, both having wide eyes.

"It is," Orihime said faintly.

Kumiko: Are you ready for this people?

Tairei9: Are you sure?

Kumiko: Are absolutely positively sure?

Tairei9: I think they are.

Kumiko: okay.

Tairei9: here we go.

Hanging right above there heads……………………… was mistletoe.

That's right, mistletoe.

"You can't be serious!" Ichigo shouted as Orihime went deathly pale.

"Don't complain lets just give a peck on the cheek and be done with it," Renji said, shaking his head. Then the girl voice laughed from above, but this time another girl's voice began to laugh too.

"Oh no, we haven't explained the rules. There are two rules to this game. Rule number one: the kiss must be done at the same time as all the others."

"Fine!" Renji huffed becoming annoyed.

"Rule number two: The kiss has to be on the mouth and last a whole seven seconds."

"What!!" Rukia, Renji, Orihime, and Ichigo exclaimed. Byakuya and Yoruichi stared at each other wide eyed.

"And what if we don't," Byakuya said.

"Then your little friend will vanish," the girl said.

"Little… friend?" Ichigo cautiously.

"Ichi-ni-san?" The voice was quivering.

"Kumiko!!" Ichigo yelled, "Give her back!!"

"We will, unless you will not cooperate," the voice said softly.

"Damn it!! Kumiko!!" Ichigo shouted, furious.

"Stop it, Ichigo!! Shouting isn't going to help!!" shouted Renji. He then sighed and looked at everyone.

"What are we going to do?" Renji asked.

"Obviously, we really don't have a choice," Ichigo said, "So let's just do it and be done with it."

Byakuya shut his eyes for a moment. He certainly didn't want to do this. In fact he really didn't want to do this. But if the child was endangered to unknown enemy… then it would be best to go along with it.

"Fine," Renji said, muttered. Byakuya nodded and Yoruichi gave a rather stiff nod.

"Alright on the count of three. One… two………"

"…three."

Each one was kissing with their eyes closed, not noticing the camera flashes going off high up into the silvery vine like tree.

"-five, six, seven!" the girls voice said cheerfully. The vines let them go and the entire tree like thing disappeared. Renji, Rukia, Ichigo, and Orihime were groaning sitting up on the ground. Byakuya and Yoruichi were just standing there. Byakuya began to walk away as Yoruichi crossed her arms, smirking victoriously.

"My, my Little Byakuya," Yoruichi said, teasingly, "I didn't know you were such a kisser. I would almost say you enjoyed that."

The only response she got was one of his famous glares.

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"So you two are heading back," Ichigo asked.

"Yeah, we'll leave this mess to you," Rukia said, unable to look Renji in the eye. Byakuya looked at nobody but at the portal.

"Don't worry about it. We've got it handled," Renji said.

"Come Rukia," Byakuya said, looking back at them. She followed him obediently and they disappear along with the portal.

Far away, four figures stood on top of the building.

"My, my. That was fun!!" a man with a top hat said, smiling evily.

"Yes, you should have seen the look on that red head girl," giggle a young blond haired girl. The other man was silent and his arms were crossed.

"We should get ready for the next round," the other girl said. She had long hair that went to her waist.

"Hai!!" the other three said and they disappeared.

Tairei9: Well, did you like it? Sorry it was short.

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