Me: Welll, we're back.

Ichigo: This chap isn't very long, you know.

Me: Your point?"

Rukia: I think he's just pissed because it involves his public humiliation. AGAIN.

Me: Probably.

Ichigo: Screw you both!

Me: (rolls eyes) Well, anyways, thanks for all the reviews. We have officially got 201 reviews as of 1:47 AM, July 11th!

Ichigo: Well. THAT was a bunch of unnecessary info.

Me: Yeah, well, YOUR MOM.

Ichigo: (rolls eyes)

Me: Anyway. Vivian, Abby, PLEASE don't kill each other! I would miss your awesome reviews (beams)

Ichigo: A few injuries would be fine, though.

Me: ICHIGOOOO!

Rukia: Ugh, enjoy.

THE NEXT DAY...

"Hmm...Tacos?"

"Noooo, that's not BREAKFAST food, Renji," Matsumoto replied brightly.

"Oooh, oooh, WAFFLES!" Peyton shouted.

"Rukia guessed that two minutes ago."

She drooped, and Ichigo smirked. "Cheese sticks."

Matsumoto bounced happily, making the Miyamoto brother turn bright red since he was right beside her and had a perfect view of...yeah.

"CORRECT, ICHIGO!"

Peyton's and Renji's right eyes twitched in annoyance. "...And cheese sticks ARE breakfast food?" They shrieked.

Matsumoto gave them a weird look. "Orihime and I have it every morning. Either cheese sticks with syrup, or bacon with Tabasco and Frosted Flakes."

"Tabasco on bacon?" Peyton asked, eyebrows raised.

"No, silly, on the Frosted Flakes too!"

Peyton sweatdropped and opened her mouth to say something, but Ichigo just shook his head. "Honestly, Peyton, you should know by now her and Orihime have the freakiest eating habits."

Senna shrugged. "Actually, that sounds kinda good to me."

Peyton shuddered. "That makes one of us."

"Alright, since no one got it, how about Arisu go next?" Matsumoto suggested. Arisu sighed. "I normally do not participate in such childish games, but...I shall make an exception just this once."

"Yay! Okay, go ahead."

"Okay. I am thinking...of someth-"

"Toshiro, right, Byakuya and Rukia, dead ahead," Senna and Peyton said dully in unison. The Miyamotos sweatdropped as everyone struck the ninjas with ease as if nothing major were happening.

"...Good to know they care so much about our fate," the brother commented.

"Think of it this way; we're so epic that we don't see them as much to worry about!" Peyton said brightly.

Chiyoko clapped her hands together happily. "Peyton-chan, Senna-san, you make me feel so safe!"

Ichigo sweatdropped. "But no thank-you to the Soul Reapers who do all the work."

Chiyoko grinned. "But Ichigo-san, if Senna-san and your lover weren't here, you and the other Soul Reapers would be done for!"

Senna sweatdropped as Peyton and Ichigo turned bright red. The others who had been present last night were trying not to laugh, and Byakuya looked back at them in interest.

"Did she just call Ms. Cullen your lover, Kurosaki?"

"...Noooooo," he and Peyton replied innocently. Chiyoko giggled. "Yes I did, sillies! Don't you remember? Last night we all talked about how Ichigo-san and Peyton-chan are lovers, and when they first knew they lo-"

Both teens spastically covered her mouth, laughing nervously at the perverted looks people were giving them.

"Ch-Chiyoko, that REALLY should just stay between us, as a secret," Peyton whispered so no one else would hear.

"A secret?"

"Yes, a secret."

Chiyoko winked secretively. "Okay, it's a secret." Ichigo and Peyton let out sighs of relief.

"So it's true then. Kurosaki-san and Cullen-san are lovers," the brother repeated.

"NO, BECAUSE THAT WOULD REVEAL THE SECRET!" Chiyoko shouted, making Peyton and Ichigo do a Spazzy Wet Noodle Dance.

"CHIYOKO, THE WHOLE POINT OF A SECRET IS TO NOT TELL!" They shrieked, and she laughed nervously.

"...Oh. Sorry, Peyton-chan!"

Byakuya simply chuckled. BYAKUYA. "I didn't know Kurosaki had it in him."

They both sweatdropped. "Dude, did Byakuya just chuckle?" Peyton asked no one in particular.

"WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN, KUCHIKI?" Ichigo shouted.

HOURS LATER...

"Hey, Arisu. You never got to play," Peyton pointed out from Ichigo's back.

"Oh yeah, that's right!" Senna exclaimed. She had managed to talk the Miyamoto brother, of all people, into giving her a ride on his back.

Something about her Ninja-Sight Powers exhausting her. Peyton was just getting a ride for the hell of it.

Arisu sighed, rubbing her arm. They were getting closer to the cold portion of the Soul Society countryside, and had just recently started being able to see their breath.

"Ah, I guess you are correct. I am thinking...of an object. One I am sorely lacking and would love to have on my person at this moment in time."

"Oooh, oooh, I got this! An iPod!" Peyton guessed excitedly. Ichigo sweatdropped and jostled her a little. "They don't have iPods here, idiot."

She drooped. "Really? No WONDER it can be so depressing around here..."

Senna sweatdropped. "What's an iPod?"

Peyton pulled hers out of her back pocket and tossed it to Senna, who caught it with ease. But then she dropped it, and both girls sighed with relief as the Miyamoto brother caught it just before it hit the ground and handed it back to her.

"Thanks!"

"Don't mention it, Senna."

"I will, though."

"I know."

Matsumoto elbowed Rukia and jerked a thumb back to Senna and the brother as they continued going back and forth. "I didn't know they got along that well."

"They're just socializing, Matsumoto."

"Yeah, well, he doesn't socialize with any of us!"

Rukia nodded thoughtfully. "Hmm. That's very true."

Renji rolled his eyes. "Jeez, you two. If you wanna know if he digs her, just ask the guy!"

"RENJI, DO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ROMANCE?" They snapped.

"Tch. Obviously not, he hasn't confessed his love to Rukia yet, has he?" Peyton replied with a yawn, earning a high-five from Ichigo and Toshiro.

"What love? THERE IS NO LOVE, FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME!" Renji shouted, temple throbbing.

"Are you saying you HATE Rukia?" Byakuya asked ominously from the front. Not that he was ever NOT ominous-sounding, really.

Renji gulped. "U-Um, no sir. That's not it at all!"

"Well then, what IS it Renji?" Matsumoto asked innocently.

He glared at her. "No one asked YOU, Matsumoto!"

"C'mon, answer the question!" Peyton urged.

"You guys just LOVE to-"

"He's staaaaalll-iiiing," Senna teased in a sing-song tone.

"WILL YOU ALL GET OFF MY BACK ABOUT MY LOVE LIFE?" He shouted.

"Why? You wouldn't get off MY back before I asked PEYTON out," Ichigo replied matter-of-factly.

"That's different!"

"HOW?"

"Because it was painfully OBVIOUS you and Peyton needed to go out!"

Ichigo was about to shout something back, but Peyton just sighed. "Ichigo, it's useless. Let him figure it out, he will eventually."

"Hopefully BEFORE Rukia's married and has kids," Matsumoto replied, making Rukia's temple throb.

"Honestly, you guys!"

"I think you and Abarai-san would make excellent lovers for one another," Arisu stated matter-of-factly.

Renji pretended not to hear that, and Rukia just sighed and shook her head. "Byakuya, I believe everyone has started to get delirious from the heat."

"WHAT heat?" Everyone asked with sweatdrops. "Rukia, it is approximately 52 degrees Faranheit," Toshiro informed her.

Senna eyed him curiously. "How the hell did you know THAT?" He tapped a watch on his wrist. "My Christmas present from Isshin Kurosaki. It not only tells time, but temperature and date."

"It also has a green backlight," Ichigo added.

"Really?"

"Yep. Here, lemme show you." Ichigo walked over to Toshiro's side and started pressing not only the light button, but several others to show off some random functions.

After all that EXCITEMENT, Peyton craned her neck to look at him. "How the hell do you know how to work it and all?"

"Dad wouldn't stop showing it off ever since he got it last November," he replied dully, and Peyton sweatdropped. "I should've known."

About five minutes passed of the usual background noise. Byakuya and Rukia were deliberating whether or not to stop for the night, Renji was muttering darkly to himself, Matsumoto was STILL trying to figure out what made Toshiro so embarrassed yesterday, Peyton and Ichigo were having another random argument, Senna and the brother were listening to Peyton's iPod, and the other Miyamotos were just watching with sweatdrops.

Suddenly, Peyton stopped mid-comeback to look back at the brother. "Hey, dude, seriously. What the HELL is your name?"

"Mine?"

"YES, yours, you're the only one who hasn't mentioned your name!"

He shrugged. "Shiro."

Ichigo just started laughing, and Peyton gave him a weird look.

Senna pointed at Arisu suddenly. "HEY! It was a COAT you were thinking of, WASN'T it?"

Arisu sweatdropped. "...Yes, Senna. Clever deduction."