Rukia sat on a roof, her eyes downcast. Saburo frowned down at her, his hand on his zanpakuto.

"Rukia, what's wrong?"

Rukia tensed and jumped up, "Nothing! Nothing at all."

Saburo nodded, frowning, "Alright then, if you say so." Saburo sat on the edge of the roof, the same one he had sat on weeks ago, the same one where you could look into Yuzu and Karin's classroom.

Rukia nodded and smiled down at the classroom, "You know, I'm actually glad you were able to let Yuzu and Karin know. His sisters were always worrying over him, how he was always tired or hurt. Now they at least know why, and I have a feeling they are going to try and help him now."

Saburo nodded, "Yeah, me too. What a weird family they are, those Kurosaki."

"Class please welcome our new transfer student, he'll only be here for a couple weeks but please make him feel welcomed." Ms. Ochi stated and once she was done the door slid open. The rest of the class, minus Ichigo, was interested to see the new student and once he walked in the students started tto whisper.

He was tall with red hair in a small ponytail, hazel eyes, a playful smile, and wearing the gray school uniform with a blue undershirt. He turned to the board and picked up a chalk before writing his name quickly and fluently. He bowed, his smile still present, "My name is Tadashi Takeshi, I hope that we can get along."

Ms. Ochi nodded and pointed to the back next to Orihime, "Take a seat next to Inoue." He did so and he smiled at her once he was situated.

"I never was able to thank you for healing my little brother's arm, so thank you so much." She just waved her hands and smiled. It looked like she wanted to say more but couldn't when the teacher began to teach.

At the end of the day Tadashi, who was normally able to handle even the Captain's Meetings, was bored and exhausted. Bored because he had learned all the things that were taught when the teacher's parents weren't even alive yet and exhausted because he had to avoid over zealous girls all day. Usually people in Soul Society knew he was off limits or they had to deal with a jealous Soifon.

It goes without saying that a jealous Soifon is a scary Soifon.

Tadashi was now walking with Ichigo back to his house, his bag hanging limply by his side.

"I think I'll quit school, drop out...you kids still do that right?"

Ichigo frowned, inwardly laughing at the Captain, "Exactly when was the last time you had to transfer into a school?"

Tadashi sighed and thought for a second, "I believe it was July 12, 1943."

Ichigo gulped before dropping the subject, That long ago?

The two came upon the Kurosaki home and immediately raised their eyebrows when they heard the normally stoic Captain Hitsugaya yell out.

"I'm not an Elementary Kid!"

The two walked into the house, seeing Rukia and Yuzu watching Chappy in the living room, Saburo drinking a cup of water in the kitchen, and Captain Hitsugaya talking(more like yelling) with Karin.

"What's going on here, Captain Hitsugaya?"

Karin looked over at the red haired Captain, "Oh, Shiro here was denying that he was a school student."

"Oh, I know he's small and young but he's actually quite smart." Tadashi spoke and Hitsugaya closed his eyes and nodded in agreement, "But if you put him in human years then he's your age so you are only half right."

Hitsugaya nodded to that, "Yes in fac-" He paused before his face grew red from anger, "Captain Takeshi!"

He shrugged with a smile and sat down on the couch next to Yuzu who didn't seem to notice him there, "Sorry Captain Hitsugaya, I just couldn't resist. Where's Matsuri?"

"Over here." She said and everyone looked over to see her walking down the stairs, her hair wet and wearing a large black shirt that fell to her knees, "Sorry I was taking a shower. I miss anything?"

Rukia looked up, "Nope, it's a repeat anyways."

Matsuri looked over at her with a small smile, "Oh I wasn't talking about Chappy, besides I like foxes more. I was making sure nothing big happened."

Rukia and Yuzu jumped off the couch and turned to her, "B-But foxes eat Chappy!" Both said in unison with tears rolling down their face.

Matsuri smiled with her eyes closed, "Maybe that's why I like it so much!"

Saburo sighed, "Am I the only one concerned that we're relaxing like this with Tenraihana out there?"

Matsuri appeared behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging him, "Don't be so boring Sabu! Have fun, live a little!"

Unbeknown to her but known to everyone else Yuzu was glaring at her, pouting at the same time with a dark purple air around her.

Sabu...Sabu...Wait...why am I getting so offended by this?

Ichigo groaned and fell on the couch where Rukia was sitting, "It's too noisy here. What is this, some group hang out?"

Rukia nodded and sat between Tadashi and Ichigo, "You know, I don't mind this, it's nice to be with everyone here. I'm glad we can relax like this before the big fight with Tenraihana."

Tadashi nodded, "True." He looked behind him to see Yuzu talking with Saburo, Captain Hitsugaya and Karin bickering with each other and Matsuri chugging down a glass of milk, "Almost makes us seem normal."

At that moment Tadashi and Captain Hitsugaya's pagers went off. They opened them immediately and in the next second were out of their bodies and racing out the door. Rukia, Matsuri, and Saburo were next, Rukia quickly shoving Kon's, who was relaxing nearby, mod soul done Ichigo's throat, and with that the four shinigami were outside trying to catch up to the two Captains.

Yuzu and Karin frowned for a second before Karin grabbed a bag of soccer balls and Yuzu a pan. They grinned to each other before running outside and in the direction that they felt them going.

With the shinigami even Ichigo was hard pressed to catch up with the two Captains. After a while they were able to and once they did they could see the worry etched on Tadashi's face.

"Hey what's going on? You guys can't just run off like that without telling us what's going on! For all we know someone could've died!"

Captain Hitsugaya looked over at Ichigo, "Chances are that that's true."

Ichigo's eyes widened, "W-What do you mean? What happened?"

Tadashi gulped, "The reiatsu of Orihime Inoue, Yasutora Sado, Uryu Ishida, and Zennosuke Kurumadani have disappeared."

Sorry for the short chapter, at least it's the shortest chapter since Chapter 13.