OH MY LORD'S POKADOTTED PANTS!

I got reviews! I'm so pleased I'm bouncing up and down in my chair! =D

Now I know why people ask for them! They give you such a great feeling of big headedness! There's something about being praised by unbiased strangers =3

I'd liek to say THANK YOOOOOH to those who reviewed, and faved. I'd say who they were but I'm not sure if they'd mind or not, if you don't mind please say and I'll mention you in the next chapter!

WOOOOOO! (still hyped about it)

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"Jeez Mousey, you really embarrassed yourself." Leto looked down over Lotus multi coloured buildings floating behind her.

They were on the side of a yellow building and both of them were dressed in shihaksho, Leto in white and Lotus in black.

"Muh…Leto?!" Lotus sprang up, almost head butting Leto, but the hollow stood straight just in time.

Lotus groaned and rubbed her head, she had a headache in her own mind. She looked at what she was wearing and tugged at it.

"Those are clothes Lotus, and this? Yes this is a sword!" Leto tapped the white sheath lying next to Lotus whilst speaking as if to a child who didn't know anything.

"What happened?" Lotus stood up, dragging her new sword with her, it was identical to one Leto had, only white instead of black. She rubbed her aching neck and looked around, she hadn't been in this part of her mind for over 3 years, how nostalgic.

Leto shrugged and put her hands behind her head.

"You fainted, like the wuss you are, seriously, even I was embarrassed when you just suddenly passed out like that, you got no back bone, I cant belie-" she was cut off suddenly when Lotus flung herself at her, sending her to the floor in an embrace.

"Never ever leave me alone again!" She hugged Leto's waist tight, her head at her stomach.

"Let go dammit! You weirdo!" Leto tried and failed to pry herself free from the clutches of her other half.

"No! Not until you promise you'll never leave me again! No matter what!" She was hugged tighter.

"Go away!" Leto tried to crawl from her arms with no avail, eventually she sat with her arms folded.

"Fine! I wont leave you! Now get off me you creep!" As soon as Lotus let go, Leto thwacked her over the head, hard.

"OW! What was that for?!" Lotus rubbed the new bump on her head.

"You were being freakishly weird! I draw the line at being touched by someone like you!" Leto pointed to her accusingly, gripping her sword tightly.

"Hey! I missed you! Am I not allowed to be happy your back?!" Lotus found herself unsheathing her new sword, a wave of power flowed through her.

"No! I'm a hollow, humans don't miss hollows!" Leto failed to mention she had missed Lotus as well.

"Well I guess im not human!" Lotus growled, annoyed at her hollow once again.

"Damn straight your not!" Leto laughed and unsheathed her sword. "Come on! I know you want to take a swipe at me!" She took a stance and held her sword to the side, its black ribbon fluttering around her arm.

Lotus gripped her sword handle with both hands and copied her hollow's foot work that she had seen so many times before.

"Gyah!" Lotus's sword was heavy as she swiped down at Leto, but the negative jumped and landed on the sword, bringing it down to the ground.

"That's no good Mousey! Try again! This time, do it as if your really gunna kill me!"

Lotus took another swipe, missing again, but the sword got slightly lighter.

With every swing, stab and slice Lotus made the sword got lighter and lighter as her blood thirst grew.

"Hahahaha! Come on you weak little mouse! Bite the kitty!" Leto laughed a laugh that boiled Lotus's blood, and she managed to land one hit on her arm.

"HAHAHAHA! Again! Do it again!" Leto seemed to have a pain fetish…or her objective was for Lotus to become stronger.

After what seemed like hours both girls were bloody, only Leto was laughing like a maniac, enjoying every drop of this stained red fight, where as Lotus had no idea where she stood with her opposite.

"More! I want to fight you more! Ahahahaha!" Leto kicked off the side building and clashed swords with Lotus, this was the first time they had ever fought properly, it was unusually…enticing for Lotus, it seemed with every attack she both received and gave her skills improved greatly, but so did Leto's…

"WAKE UP!" Valiant poured a bucket of ice cubes onto the unconscious Lotus; including the bucket.

"Um…im pretty sure your supposed to use water for this kind of thing…" Renji was squatted next to Lotus, they were in the living room of Lotus/Valiant's house.

"Shut up monkey! Who asked you?" The bucket was thrown at his head now. Renji flew back with the bucket, Valiant had a good arm.

"HEY!" He sat up, prepared to throw the bucket back when Lotus stirred. Valiant was kneeling by her side immediately, soon Renji was looking over her as well, that was until Valiant shoved her palm in his face. "If she wakes up with your face looming over her looking like that she'll have a heart attack!"

Now Renji was sitting in the corner next to the TV, Valiant was never kind with him, even when she was alive.

Lotus opened her eyes. She saw identical eyes looking back at her.

"Uh…SHUT UP LETO!" She sat up and rubbed her head, Leto was laughing at her because she lost.

"Yeah! Shut up Leto!" Valiant smacked Lotus on the back of head then looked thoughtful. "Who's Leto?"

Lotus glared at her younger deceased aunt and rubbed her head.

"The voice in my head…" she stood up, then fell over the back of the couch, landing legs in the air with her head touching the floor from the seat. That's when she saw Renji.

"Um…hello?" She swung her body round so she was on her stomach and dragged herself along the floor before standing up again, only not as fast.

"Yo!" Renji stood and nodded to her.

"This here is Renji! AKA Monkey or pineapple head. Don't look at him! You'll catch his stupid!" Valiant hooked her arm over the taller girls shoulder, before pushing her back on the couch.

"Anyway, back to business! I've been sent by the lovely Ukitake to train you to become a shinigami! Even though your still alive…but yeah, I'm here to train you, also about that evil thing inside, yeah that's gotta go!" Valiant tapped Lotus's chest, meaning the evil in her heart, which was Leto.

"Eh! No way!" Lotus covered her heart with her hands and shied away from her aunt and Renji, suddenly there was a knock at the door.

In barged Rukia and Ichigo, who had stalked them since school.

"We demand to know what's happening!" Rukia stormed into the living room, stopping to see Renji cleaning up the melting ice and a bucket, and Lotus looking over the back of the couch at them with Valiant.

"Hey! Your Ichigo and Rukia! From my class! I didn't know you were dead!" Lotus hadn't recovered from her concussion she received earlier. Rukia and Ichigo looked at her, then to Renji, demanding an explanation.

"Oooh! Your that Ichigo! Yes I've heard lots about you! Ichigo isn't dead Lotus, he's the same as you, although I don't know about the hollow…" She skipped over to the orange haired ghost buster and eyed him over, before pushing him over the back of the couch next to Lotus.

"Lets see what's what shall we!" She rubbed her hands together and whispered something.

"What? Wait a minute! I-" Ichigo rose to protest but suddenly there was a bright flash and both Ichigo and Lotus were unconscious…Ichigo lying face down on the floor after rolling off the couch at the last minute.

"Tea anyone?" Valliant looked at her 'guests' as if her niece and a boy weren't unconscious in the middle of her living room. Rukia and Renji looked at each other, eyes shifting from the deceased aunt and the young teens.