Maybe it wasn't that bad that Ichigo checked on me.

Fifteen minutes later, Kazui was driving my bicycle at full speed and I was sitting behind holding him, with now my wounds well covered, a pair of stitches in my temple with a bandage and the burn was first degree, so it only need it to be well covered with the medicine required.

Rushing through the streets of Karakura, I didn't dare to talk, but I knew that Kazui was kind of angry with me. He was usually this talkative, worried kid, always there for help with a big smile and sometimes nervous of his own capability. So when I explained superficially what happened with the cut and didn't tell about how I got the burn, because seriously how could I explained that I felt something but there was no one around me and later appeared the wound, 'I mean, how?!' Kazui looked at me knowing that I was leaving out something, he had a deep frown that make him look exactly like his father which was a terrifying look on him and we left with no words between each other.

I couldn't see him from the position I was, but the silence sure was something obvious to notice that he was in his thoughts. A little after, we finally arrived to the High School that was alone, we were the only ones that were getting late.

We went to the lockers, change our shoes and walked to our classroom. I wanted to talk to him and explain what happened, maybe it was obvious because he looked at me with calm and talked before I could say anything.

"You don't need to tell me right now, we can talk later" He showed me one of his reassured smiles that relaxed me and make me smile back.

"I will tell you later, really" I just said in response, nodding.

Now in the third floor, we were in front of the door, knowing what was to be expected inside. We were about to open the door, but we were beat by Higuchi-sensei from inside. Kazui and I tensed by the sudden appear.

'Kurosaki-san, Richard-san! And here I was questioning if you would appear today!" The man said, before any of us could reply, he continued "Now, now hurried up! I'm looking for the transferred students, we made change of places, so Richard-san please go to the corner by the window at the end and Kurosaki-san, behind Oshiro-san"

"Yes, Higuchi-sensei" We both said and hurried inside.

Once in our places, I finally felt calm for reaching the school, feeling my energy leaving me from just the few crazy hours of running and more running.

"I'll be dead for gym class" I lie my body down on to the table, trying not to fall sleep. But now that my body felt relaxed there was no way to stop it. Maybe it wasn't bad idea to sleep a little, anyway the first class was English, I was the best at it, for obvious reasons, I folded my arms at the table and rest my head above them, feeling almost completely out. Yeah a beautiful hour of silence.

Or not.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?!"

Kazui's scream made me jolt from my spot, now feeling alarmed but instantly awake. The desks in front of me and at my right were empty, Kazui was in front of the right desk and there he stood pointing to the doors. Now there was another face of him that never really show up, he was talkative and really sociable, but he didn't like to get attention to himself, especially in class, also cursing, that boy never cursed. So looking at him, standing and having all the class paying attention to him, was shocking.

He now noticed his reaction. His face grown red every second passed, finally he mumble some kind of apology and sit down hiding his face from everybody. There was a moment of silence only broken by Higuchi-sensei, faking a cough.

"Well, now that we know that Kurosaki-san knows you he can show you the school, please present yourself to the class, then I will assign you to a place" My attention went for the first time to the five peculiar individuals in front of the class but I was surprised of myself that I could recognized one.

"I'm Abarai Ichika, I think we can work something out great!" She was a petite girl. It could compare in height like Hana. Her hair was a strong dark red, fixing in a ponytail making it look messier with locks of hair everywhere. Her big deep dark blue eyes staring at everyone amused. I wouldn't forget that face never in my life, I glared at her not believing my eyes, she seemed to notice me too and smiled at me, and I smiled back at her, it's been so long since I saw her! What was she doing here?!

"I'm Madarame Ikkaku, we could see later which of you weaklings can handle me?!" The next to talk was the tallest of the group I thought it was similar in height as Ichigo´s, he was bald, had a wild smirk like he was ready to get in action, with orange eye shadow? And a bokken between his arms and back. Everybody felt sure that messing with this mate was a bad idea.

"Ayasegawa Yumichika" The second man said, flipping with his hand his shining bob black hair in… disgust? Like we were the most awful thing in existence. He wasn´t that tall, maybe a few centimeters over than me, but he looked thin and fit. His black hair looked like dark silk and almost reached his shoulders in some kind of a bob.

"I´m Matsumoto Rangiku~ I hope we can be friends!" The other woman said and… Damn mate. I was sure that all the male population in the class wasn't sure of how react about her. She was a model or something! Was she even our age? She was taller than me, her long curvy hair was a shining strawberry blonde, her light blue eyes seemed happy about everything, but her greatest peculiarity was her… astonishing big breasts. I mean, I knew Orihime was big, but this was a whole new level! I looked at my own and felt tiny by her side, and I have a good size! What is wrong with this people?! How the hell Kazui knew them?!

"Hitsugaya Toushiro" Said the last one, his voice was cold and deep… And I think my mind stopped working for a moment, and probably most of the female population in the class. He looked about Kazui's size, his hair was white, pure white like snow, really messy with spikes all over, a bang covered his left eye, that at the moment both of them were close. He looked well fit, his skin white, his expression was really serious, with a deep frown in his face. His body resting in the blackboard, with his arms folded. He seemed like he didn't want to be here. Then he opened his eyes to make an inspection to the class and I thought that more than one girl gasped. I didn't, I make sure to keep my mouth shut. His eyes were deep green, I mean, no green, teal eyes, real deep teal eyes sticking out with his white hair and skin. His eyes were looking out at the classroom, like calculating everything, for a moment they stopped to Kazui's, like sending a secret message and finally they stopped at me.

Great day to have a poor excuse of a bun hair and a cut in the head Akari, great day. I felt slightly tense. Why is he looking at me? What the fuck? I change my view to anything else, like the window, now I had some way to escape things. But I couldn't hold the stare any longer.

I heard Higuchi-sensei telling a few more things and then they headed to their sits. The gorgeous bombshell sit in front of me and the Ice Prince, I didn't remember his name, short attention span, sit behind Kazui which means… At my right.

Kami, what the hell you want from me today?! This wasn't my day. I decided to put the hood of my jacket on until any of the teachers told me otherwise. That way I could hide my face.

"Hi! I'm Matsumoto Rangiku!" I was surprised to find the new sexy classmate turning around her seat, trying to talk to me, extending her hand "I hope we can be friends! What is your name?"

I keep my silence for a few seconds, blinking, then grabbed her hand for the salute "I'm Richards Akari, I hope we can be friends too!" I smiled, I felt calm now.

Rangiku gasped in surprise and then from her perfect lips grew a big smile.

"So you are the Akari-chan! You heard that Captain?!" She almost shouted out, now passing her look to the Ice mate wait did she said Captain what the…? Also the Akari? What? Kazui!

"Yeah I heard, Matsumoto" He didn't sounded that interested about it, but he was staring at me curious, I looked at Kazui that was tense, staring at the front and trying to seem that he didn't know anything.

"Kazui…" I narrowed my eyes at him, trying to get his attention. However at that time, the teacher went inside the room.

I had a few many questions forming in my head while the class passed. How Kazui did knew this people? What did Ichika had to do with them? Where they all know each other? How they knew who I was? Kazui goes around telling things about me? No. He wouldn't. So how? Maybe Ichika? But we just saw each other few times, long time ago! It didn't make sense!

Then I had a little moment of revelation. The summer camp! That's where he probably knew them! That's where he knew Ichika, so it must be! But he never talked about them, then why was he talking about me? Oh Kazui, you aren't going to escape this one.

The morning went normal, for my happiness, I went from 100 to 0 real quick. Just the classes passing by, lectures, homework and that. I just wanted to be lunch time so I could talk to Kazui, and it looked like that he didn't wanted to talk to me.

The bell ringed. It was lunch break.

Just as I stood up from my sit. Kazui with his incredible and stupid velocity, managed to take all the transferred students and leave the room in a blink of an eye.

"KAZUI" I screamed, slamming my hands to the table, knowing that he couldn't hear me now. That fucking kid.

"Well looks like today it's not a normal day" Emiko was now by my side, looking curious about everything "Do you know where Kazui knows the strange people?"

"We know one of them and I have an idea about the rest" I said letting the bulb turn on "I think they are from the summer camp he always goes, that would explain why none of us knows, but we know the short girl, Ichika"

"That's most likely, you are probably right Minagawa-chan" Now Hana said "But where do we know her?" She didn't seem to remember, Emiko did and looked accomplished about it.

"Do you remember…? Like, maybe past year o before, during Kazui's birthday, that suddenly appeared a really tall guy with red hair like her and full of tattoos, with a little woman long black hair and a crazy girl that throw herself over Kazui?" I said, trying to make her remember.

"Ah so! I do! He fell over the food, and Kurosaki-san spend all the evening fighting with the tall guy" She did remember! "And you spend all night with her teasing Kazui, now I understand why he run"

"We were only sharing information about him, you teased him too!" I said with a smirk. She blushed about it.

"How could I?! I don't do that" Hana said, looking offended.

"Whatever make you sleep better at night, Hana-chan" Emiko said also smirking, only making Hana to pout.

I laughed remembering that night but I didn't let my mind wonder back at time, I wanted to know about the present. I still couldn't understand Kazui's reaction, but probably right now he was questioning his friends about why they were there, it was something strange probably they could had told him before and expect the change, but he didn't know. I'm just forming more questions than answers.

"Do you think he is at the roof?" I asked to no one in particular. Hana was staring at her phone like expecting something.

"I write to him, but he is not answering" She said.

"Let's use at our advantage that we are on the third floor" I said heading to the window, opening it and looking under me to see if I could spot some orange head, when I didn't found him around there, I turned around to see up, knowing that I couldn't see nothing from there, I put my hands around my mouth a shout "KAZUI YOU ORANGE HEAD, ARE YOU UP THERE?!"

"Minagawa-chan!" "Why you have you be so loud, god" That's what I could heard from inside. At short time the bald guy was looking down to me, like if I was the crazy one.

"Why are you so noisy?!" He screamed.

"Hey baldy mate, is Kazui up there?!" I just asked like nothing, still shouting out.

"WHO DO YOU CALL BALDY YOU FREAKING GIRL" He looked like he would get down there right now and attack me, I didn't flinch.

"Just answer the question!" Before the bald guy tried to jump, because I'm sure he was ready to jump at me, somebody took him from behind and pull him out. Then Kazui's face was looking at me.

"Why are you screaming like crazy?! We are at the school!" He still had a frown in his face. He looked tired.

"There you are! We are going up!" I said with a big smile "We are anxious to meet your friends! And see Ichika again!" With that I didn't let him finish, letting my upper body back inside the classroom.

"Why you have to do that?" Emiko said, between annoyed and amused for the situation.

"Why not?" I replied innocently smiling, took my lunch and headed to the doors.

Hana and Emiko just followed me like there was nothing else to do with my character. It was a warmer day, so I left the jacket in my seat. While going up the stairs a let my hair loose, trying to fix it.

"Akari you know you don't need to look perfect for the new guy uh?" Emiko said behind me, with an amused tone.

"Say what?" I just reply looking at her raising a brow.

"Oh come on, we know that your weakness are guys with pretty eyes" She continued.

"That's lie!" I shouted feeling my cheeks turn red.

"Please!" Emiko and Hana said at the same time. Great, now two against one.

"But whatever that make you sleep better at night, Akari" Emiko pointed out.

"Fuck the both of you" I told them in English, feeling my cheeks getting red, they only laughed about it.

"What a kind person you are! We… Oh god I forgot something!" Emiko said out of nowhere "Care to join me Hana?"

"Wait, what did you forget?" Hana asked.

"Some papers I need to give to the club for the nationals!" Now she sounded panicked "Oh Kami! Come on Hana!" She grabbed her hand and without waiting response, they disappeared downstairs.

I didn't know what happened, but whatever was, they weren't there and I was alone to talk to a bunch of crazy people, Kazui and Ichika. Well, there goes nothing!

I opened the door to the roof and just there I could listen to the shouts I thought from Kazui and Ichika on the other side, because the doors didn't let to the bigger part.

"That's what you have to tell her! She doesn't know anything yet!" That was the obvious voice of Kazui.

"How the hell she still doesn't know?! She has a strong reiryoku carrot head!" The high pitched voice of Ichika, make me my ears hurt.

"Don't call me that Ichika!" The so called carrot head replied angry.

"Uh… Interrupting something?" I said out loud to get attention. I didn't want to eardrop more than I did. But now everybody was staring at me.

"Akari!" Ichika reacted first changing quickly her angry voice to one that sounded excited.

"Ichika!" I was excited, run after her and hugged her letting her up from the floor "It's been so long!"

"Ha! I forgot that you are this close to people, goldilocks!" She replied and hugged me a little, then got back from me, cleaning her uniform "Indeed, it's been so long!"

"You haven't change! Well maybe you have grown a little more" I didn't flinch about the nickname, but she seemed kind of angry with my response, but before she could reply Rangiku talked.

"So it's true that Ichika knows you Akari-chan! Surprising!" I didn't know if she was genuinely surprised or it was sarcasm.

"Are you calling me a liar?!" Her annoyance turned completely to the bombshell.

"You had the ego boost of your father, sometimes you exaggerate things!" She said like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"You big…!" Ichika started to say, but she was quickly interrupted by Kazui.

"Ok okay! There's no need to start calling names!" He put himself between all of us, meaning the girls.

"Of course there's no need to call names!" Another male voice said behind me, grabbing me by the neck of the blazer, surprising me "When we could get to a fight for calling me BALD!" Now looking behind me, it was the… shaved head guy? I mean… He's bald! What he expected! Looking like he was ready for murder me.

"Eh… Sorry mate?" I really wasn't bothered by his dark aura of murder, it was just a mistake "I'm sorry! It was a mistake, I don't recall your name, so when you appeared, I only thought of that!" I said showing my best innocent face I could make.

"Yeah Ikkaku, you shouldn't be mad with her when it's the first thing to think!" Rangiku said with extremely calm, patting his head.

The so called Ikkaku, let me go to change his anger to her.

"Don't defend the little girl, Rangiku!" He sounded mad. I didn't understand why the 'little girl' but whatever.

"Ikkaku, there's no need to attack her, she apologized already" Now the guy with the bob cut was in my favor too "Besides, she is probably one of the least ugly things in this place"

"You too, Yumichika?!" Ikkaku growled.

"Hum… thanks?" That was a compliment? I was more confuse.

"I mean, probably without that bandage in your head, you must be quite pretty, of course not close to myself but I have to say, you hair it's quite beautiful" He continued saying, showing pleased with himself and I suddenly didn't know how to react, if angry to be called just 'pretty' or pleased because, indeed, my hair it's gorgeous.

I picked the last.

"Well thank you, it's a lot of effort to keep it like this" I run my hands over my hair, seeing how the sun made it shine more.

"I'm not sure if I should be relieve that you are getting along or just ask why me?" Kazui was watching everything looking even more tired, poor thing.

"Go with the first mate" I patted his head gently with a smirk "So! Let me recall! Ichika you don't have a problem, I remember your name, the others: Rangiku, Ikkaku, Yumichika and…" I pointed each person when saying the name, so I could remember, finally I pointed to the Ice Prince that was far from us checking his phone without interest about what was going on "… You are something with Shiro?"

He looked annoyed about the nickname, he was going to reply, but Kazui beat him.

"Is Toushiro" Kazui answered.

"Is Hitsugaya to you Kurosaki, you are exactly like your father in that way" He sounded tired, like he had repeated that sentence more often than not, he hid his cellphone and went close to us, then spoke to me directly "You will also address me that way, Richards" Now that he was standing in front of me, I could notice that he indeed of the sized of Kazui's , so I had to look up to see his teal eyes looking directly at mine with seriousness, what was with this guy?

"Sir, yes sir, Hitsugaya-kun!" I made a military salute at him and smirked. He rolled his eyes while sighing "You can call me by my name"

"I will not, that's how I address everybody else, so for you it's the same" He said, then went back where he was, where there was a little mountain of lunch boxes, he took his and sit down, opening his food.

How cold geez… Oh right then.

"Captain! You should wait for all to eat!" Rangiku pouted, while getting by his side with her food.

"It's not my problem that you all were fighting over silly stuff" He simply said while eating.

"Come on Akari! We need to get updated about all this time!" Ichika grabbed me in the spot with the burn, making me yelp and she letting me go surprised "Woah what's wrong?"

"Just a wound I got this morning, you grabbed and hurt a lot" I waved my hand, trying to show that it was nothing, while sitting on the other side of Hitsugaya, Ichika by my side.

"Some deep cut you have there, eh?" Ichika said.

"Eh… More like a burn, things in the kitchen and hurrying up to class" I said with an embarrassed smile, just to put the act. Now we were in a circle, next to Ichika, was Kazui who was watching me without believing the story, I was thinking that was the only one, but I could see sideways the staring of a teal eyes don't believing the story neither.

"I see! Well you need to be more careful goldilocks!" Ichika seemed to believe the story and just went to eat her food.

I ate my food too. Short after Hana and Emiko appeared and presented themselves to the group. Now we were eating, telling stories and joking about things. Sometimes I would get suspect about certain things they said, things that didn't add up, but I just thought that it was just because I didn't know them well. Just as sometimes I could feel the staring cold eyes from Hitsugaya, like he was examining me. I reacted like I didn't notice anything and just continued to get along, but there was something strange about the situation.

Then the lunch time finished and we headed back downstairs. Ready for the next class.

Suuuunday Updaaate! I will keep the notes to the end of the chapter now.

What do you think? Now everybody is here! It was about time I know I know. But now let's get together this team and see how it goes! :D

I hope you like it! See you next week!