Hello everyone! Here's another chapter of More letters!

I don't know if you had to wait long anymore, realy, I finally lost track of time. Too long holiday, seriously. Months feel like days, days feel like weeks...

It's weird.

(as if i wasn't weird before lol)

Hope you'll enjoy the chappie. Read, enjoy and review :) pretty please?

Dear Rukia,

even if many days already passed, it's still hard to believe in what you wrote in your letter. I thought that Cifer and Jeagerjaquez would be wandering in Rukongai forever and suddenly – bang! – they're found. Although it still feels weird since Arrancars are involved, I guess I'm quite happy for them. I just wonder what will happen to them now.

I thanked Yoruichi and Urahara and of course I already told Inoue, you didn't need to tell me to do that. I remember that when I said those three magic words – they found Arrancars – tears immediately appeared in her eyes. Her eyes, which shone full of happiness. She wiped her tears with the back of her hand with grace and thanked me for the news with a bright smile. After a few more dazzling looks and smiles I somehow took possession of a letter to Cifer, which I, still a bit confused, attach to my letter and ask you to deliver it to the right person.

One thing that destroys the beautiful comeback of the two ex-hollows is that you used me. I understand the motives, I really do, but I don't accept the results. I'm happy you cleared the misunderstandings, but I'm afraid my image was ruined a little bit more than it already was. I guess I'll stay in Karakura a little longer.

I think that long, long ago, back when I and Kira were helping Hisagi with his love, I wrote that a mutual enemy makes people cooperate better. Then, Kira and Hisagi cooperated against me, now I was the one cooperating.

Somehow, my problems disappeared just like that after the news about Sado. Ichigo seems to have forgotten about Yuzu and me completely, and now I, him and Ikkaku meet regularly in his house, discussing our problem. Cooperating.

Sado has a girlfriend. This is a problem.

I mean, Sado? He's never involved in the most important battles, hardly gets any lines and you can't see half of his face. And if this guy got a girlfriend and such super fantastic hot guys like us (or at least me) didn't, something is seriously wrong.

"Well, technically, I do have a girlfriend," Ikkaku said during one of those meetings. As usual, we were sitting at the table in the kitchen in Kurosaki clinic and were playing cards. "Though I'm not particularly happy because of it."

He sighed while Ichigo shuffled the cards.

"But you can go to places, have fun, you know," I replied. Girlfriends can be nice. "If you pick up a girl, you're cool."

"Do you even hear yourself?" Ikkaku asked incredulously. Ichigo was silently dealing the cards. "It can be cool only if it's not Mizuho. This girl is crazy and drags me to every party her friends throw."

"So?"

"Those parties are intellectual talks upon a cup of tea and each is advertised like, come, Mizuho's boyfriend will be there!" Ikkaku took his cards and looked up at me seriously. "Am I becoming one of those celebrities that are famous because of parties?"

Me and Ichigo laughed at him and Ikkaku suddenly became more interested in his cards than the talk.

"Even if we count Keigo's sister, Chad is still ahead of us," Ichigo noticed while picking up the cards he won. I furrowed my eyebrows.

"I thought you didn't care about girls."

Ichigo became lightly confused.

"Well, I don't," he said, crossing his arms. We all put away our cards. "But think, Chad has a girlfriend and I don't? As much as I like him, it just… you know…"

It didn't seem right, I knew.

We resumed the game and it was silent for a few minutes before I spoke.

"Well you know, it's not like we can't get girlfriends or something," Ikkaku and Ichigo looked at me curiously. "I, for example, am really popular among girls."

Around thirteen years old and there's only one so far, but hey, it's a start.

The guys looked at me askance and seemed to want to comment on it somehow, but then it happened. It was as if a divine light illuminated the kitchen, its shine concentrated on Ichigo. This way, we were the witnesses of a surge of inspiration. Ichigo's face went blank for a moment before a smile appeared on his lips.

"I know," he said and me and Ikkaku leaned towards him with expectant expressions. "There's a festival on Saturday. If we find girls to go with us and meet there with Chad, we'll be as cool as him again!"

Our eyes shone and we threw our fists in the air with a battle cry. We knew we could get our position back and catch up to Sado. With cards, which got boring after a few meetings anyway, long forgotten, we kept screaming happily and loudly.

We wouldn't even notice that Ichigo's sisters came home if Karin didn't decide to speak.

"If you're talking about that big friend of Ichigo that I think you're talking about, then for your information, he has a child."

We immediately stopped screaming and turned in her direction, our mouths still open. We stared at her, while our minds tried to comprehend what she had just said, and unfortunately I doubt that we looked intelligent.

"He's seventeen," Ichigo stated quietly.

To our horror, Karin only shrugged and left the kitchen, not telling us any details and leaving it to our imagination. Although we did manage to close our mouths and turned back towards one another, we just stared blankly at the table.

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that Yuzu also entered the kitchen to take something. She looked at me, blushed, and looked away, meaning I still didn't succeed in making her forget about me. I frowned, unhappy, and not ready for what happened next.

After Yuzu, the room was entered by a girl that looked around her age, probably a friend from her class. Yuzu called her Midoriko-chan and the girl, Midoriko, kept blabbering about – horror of horrors! – Asano. She then glanced at our group at the table and, because I was the only one out of the trance, looked at me. It was as if we got in slow motion. I blinked two times, incredibly slowly, and saw her eyes widen and lips part to say almost inaudible, but clearly surprised "o!". Then a blush painted her cheeks and, glancing at me all the time, she ran after Yuzu who had just left the kitchen. I stared at the now empty spot where she had stood.

"AAAAARGH!" I shrieked, standing up. "ANOTHER ONE!"

Ichigo and Ikkaku lifted their heads, recovering from the trance. They looked at me in confusion, while I, looking up at the ceiling, my fists clenched, was doing my best not to cry.

In the end, we agreed to find someone to accompany us on Saturday and to meet altogether. Ichigo received the mission to invite Sado.

Luckily, so far I haven't seen that Midoriko girl. Or Yuzu for that matter.

I hope that soon there'll be a positive decision about Jeagerjaquez and Cifer. I'm happy that Kira returned to his old, good self. I missed him, he's a good friend. As for Hisagi… I hope he comes to his senses soon. Maybe Rangiku-san could help him?

It's a shame you're not here. I heard that Japanese festivals are really amazing. It'd be great to go together, don't you think?

Take care,

Renji

PS. Wait, did you act in front of whole Seireitei that you were Jeagerjaquez's girlfriend?! I'm lost for words, Rukia.

PPS. Remember about the letter to Cifer.