"Sori! Hissori wait up!" Hissori was pulled from her thoughts and turned to see who had been calling her only to see Mihane running at her at full speed. As Mihane finally caught up with her she bent over placing her hands on her knees panting and gasping for air.

"What?" Hissori asked tilting her head slightly to one side.

"Ichigo Kurosaki just challenged Renji-fukutaichou to a fight!" Mihane chirped excitedly once she was breathing normal again.

"So?" Hissori replied failing to see the point in the girls excitement, people challenged Renji everyday to fight, what was so special about this one.

"Urgh…c'mon" Mihane sighed grabbing a hold of Hissoris' wrist and pulling her back in the direction from which she had just come.

"Sit!" Mihane barked pulling Hissori into the seat beside her. Hissori sighed then sat down attempting to see what the point was in her being here. She saw Ichigo Kurosaki and Renji battling, the match seemed pretty even so she once again failed to see the point in her attendance.

"Hello Hissori" came a near emotionless voice from beside her that she would know anywhere.

"Hello Kuchiki-taichou" she answered bowing her head slightly.

"I'm surprised to see you here" Byakuya continued.

"Mihane insisted I come" she replied, suddenly the spirit pressure in the room shifted causing Hissoris' attention to shift back to the battle just in time to see Renji be disarmed. 'How is that?' Hissori thought to herself as she watched Renji pull himself to his feet and start arguing with Ichigo. Hissori rolled her eyes and rose to her feet ready to leave just like everyone else until someone started yelling over the crowd.

"I challenge 3rd seat Hissori Kane to a fight!" yelled the voice, which obviously belonged to a male. Hissori turned to see everyone looking at her and shrugged beginning to walk towards the fighting ground.

"As you wish" she accepted reaching the end of the line of people and facing her challenger.

"With that bell around your neck you'll be pretty easy to catch" the man sneered.

"This… is for your protection" Hissori said as she walked past him and took her spot at one end of the grounds. When the match was called to a start the man had barely even had time to blink before Hissori was in front of him slashing with her sword.

"How did y-"

"One should not talk during a battle one wishes to win" she said jumping in the air and flipping over him to slab him in the back. The boy staggered and then turned to slash at her as well but his move was easily blocked.

"Cry Shinkuame" the boy yelled causing red water to swirl around her.

"Your not even worth it" Hissori sighed breaking through the wall of water, which burned her skin, to finally catch the man in the shoulder and taking him to the ground. Hissori held her zanpakuto to the mans' chest and smiled viciously at him.

"Now what do you say?" Hissori asked in her normal voice.

"I…I g-give up-p-p" he replied fear consuming his eyes.

"Good boy" she said sheathing Aohinote and walked away with intentions of returning to her room….until Renji and Mihane caught her.

"Man for someone who doesn't like to fight you sure are good at it Sori" Renji said in a shocked voice. Hissori ignored him and simply continued walking to her room.

Hissori sighed as she finally made it to her room and got the chance to lay down on her futon.

"That went fairly well I'd say" came a voice from beside Hissoris' bed.

"That it did Aohinote…people can be quite frustrating sometimes" she replied not bothering to look at him.

"Sometimes?"

"Okay most times"

"But you hide your frustrations fairly well on most occasions, what has your attention today that you aloud yourself to draw blood in that battle?" Aohinote asked taking a spot on the floor but continuing to look at her.

"Today….it's been ten years Ao….ten" Hissori answered allowing her anger and sadness at the event to show through her words.

"I see…." came his short reply, but she couldn't blame him for his lack of words there was nothing he could have said or done to ease the pain that she was feeling. The room fell silent as neither could think of anything to relieve the tension that circled through the air.

"Hissori-" Aohinote started but then sighed shaking his head knowing nothing would help the moment.