It took me a minute to realize what was happening. When I did, I jerked backwards, not entirely sure if I was shocked or pissed.

I stared at him for a full two minutes before I was able to speak. "What the heck did you do that for?!"

He shrugged. "You wouldn't shut up about the Hollow."

I spluttered incoherently not entirely sure what to say. Nobody had ever kissed me before. And then someone I have not even known for a month just flat out kisses me. I just felt stunned, not even sure what to say to him at the moment.

He smirked at the expression on my face. "You ok?"

I didn't say anything to him. How was I supposed to respond to that? A yes could mean I liked it when in reality I still wasn't sure how I felt about it. A no could actually offend him. So instead I just stared at him, I knew there was shock on my face. That probably explains why he's starting to laugh.

I still chose not to say anything. What is there to say to him about that? It was sudden—I didn't even think that he'd do that just to get me to shut up. No sane person would do that…would they? I'm suddenly not too sure if Ichigo has lost his mind or not.

I stared at him quizzically for at least five minutes before he stopped laughing.

"Did you seriously do that just to get me to shut up?!" Was the first thing I actually managed to say.

He shrugged. "Part of it."

I became even more confused at that. "What do you mean by that?"

Suddenly his face turned red and he turned his back to me. "Nothing."

I frowned but didn't push it. I didn't really want to know what the other part of his reasoning is. For all I know, he's just flat out insane. Well whatever, he didn't have to tell me if he didn't want to. I really didn't care.

He started to walk away and I just trailed behind, not really caring if he noticed me or not. I didn't want to be alone anymore. My thoughts tended to take weird directions when weird things occur. Like being kissed. I shuddered. I didn't want my thoughts to take a weird direction.

He suddenly stopped walking after like a minute. I didn't know why he suddenly stopped but he half turned to me, his face completely blank.

"Um, are you ok?" I asked, feeling really weird just asking.

He didn't say anything right off. Which made me wonder. So I slowly started to walk by him when he suddenly grabbed my arm, gripping it tightly.

"Wait a sec." He whispered.

I stared at him like he was a crazy person. If he was going to say something he'd better say it quick. I was starting to get a little freaked out.

Before he did say anything, I heard voices and the door opened and someone was coming down the ladder. It was Renji. But Ichigo didn't seem to notice him. I tried to jerk away but he had a tight grip on my arm.

"Ichigo…" I started to say.

He suddenly released my arm and stood ramrod straight and I edged away from him. Whatever was going on in his head, it was making him act really weird. Renji must've noticed because he was frowning.

Renji looked at me. "What did you do to him?"

I held my hands up in surrender like gesture. "I didn't do anything—he did this to himself."

"What do you mean?"

I didn't say anything I just dropped my hands and looked at Ichigo. He wasn't looking at me or Renji—he was just staring into space. I poked his arm and then pinched it. He didn't react. Then I smirked and grabbed his hand and bit it. He jumped and I let go of his hand.

He glared at me. "What was that for?"

"I was just seeing if you were going to react." I was trying so hard not to laugh.

He scowled at me then noticed Renji and jumped. I snorted and started laughing. I was pretty surprised that he didn't even know that Renji was standing there.

"You ok?" Renji was looking at him like he was crazy.

Ichigo's face turned red and he rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah I'm fine."

I'm totally busting up laughing, it was becoming uncontrollable. I barely noticed that Renji and Ichigo turned and looked at me like I was the one who'd completely lost my sanity. Maybe I had. Something in my head must've gotten jumbled—probably when he kissed me.

I immediately stopped laughing at that. My nerves were in a twist yes but I didn't need to be acting so—oddly. This wasn't like me at all.

Renji finally turned back to Ichigo. "So I need to send a report back to Soul Society. Any training problems?"

Ichigo frowned. "Well we haven't trained in almost a week so a no at that. And no behavioral problems either if that's what you're next question was."

Renji sighed. "Alright." He turned and walked away, silently.

Ichigo waited until he was gone to turn back to me. "Did you lose your mind or something?"

"I didn't—you did. You're the one that kissed me." I shot back.

His face turned red again. "Sorry about that."

I didn't answer. I could tell he was embarrassed enough and I didn't want to know why he did it in the first place. Besides, if he wanted to tell me the full reason—he would've done it in the first place. I waited for him to say something but he just kept his eyes on the ground, his face slowly going back to its normal color.

"Um—I gotta…" He didn't finish and he turned around and started speed walking back towards the ladder.

I really didn't see him much after that.