Yay! We have our first guest author! I know it isn't the Spirited Away xover I promised, but that's taking a little longer than I anticipated. But this is a really cute little chapter written by Arei-The Peridot Dragon (here's her profile page: www. fanfiction u / 978571). I think you'll really like this entry, 'cuz I do! Enjoy!

Oh, and if anyone else was thinking about working on the same scene… no reason why we can't have more than one, right? So don't give up if you are.

Chapter 3

(Starts off with events during Chapter 33 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Bleached Phoenix, written by me, so you don't have to go back there and reread it unless you want to. Ichigo has just turned Kenpachi into a rabbit.)

"Ahem," Yamamoto finally said, after getting his unforeseen break in protocol under control. "Captain Kurotsuchi."

"Hmm?" the Twelfth Squad Captain jumped a little and turned a startled gaze to the Head Captain. He in particular had been most amused at seeing his verbal sparring nemesis transformed into a rodent.

"You have a rather rare opportunity here. Since we don't know how long this condition will last, I suggest you make the most of it and gather what data you can – without dissecting him or killing him, mind you," the Head Captain ordered sternly, "We do rather need him operational and in one piece." Mayuri's eyes lit up with a fiendish glee as Ikkaku and Yumichika looked at each other, with concern.

"Nemu, gather him up quickly and let's get back to the lab! Hurry it up, girl; we may not have a lot of time!" Mayuri snapped at his daughter; he was already running through what kind of tests he was going to want to run on his nemesis, now that he had him at his mercy, so to speak. Mayuri would have to send young Kurosaki a thank you card for this little gift of an opportunity. Perhaps he would not dissect his friends…

"Yes, Mayuri-sama," she replied in a monotone. The Kenpachi-rabbit, sensing the peril he was in, tried to run, but Nemu was even faster than he was, and successfully snatched him up and carried him back to her father, and the pair then raced back to their lab with the frantically kicking Captain Rodent.

"Uh… I think we should go with them…" Ikkaku said, watching them run off with their Captain.

"I agree," Yumichika nodded, and the pair hastily excused themselves to follow the mad scientist and his beautiful Vice Captain to the Twelfth Squad.

"Ichi, how long is Kenny going to stay like that?" Yachiru asked, "Because he could be really fun to play with…"

Renji looked over at Ichigo, who had slumped against him tiredly, his eyes partially closed and his hair a dull shade of brown. He looked back at Captain Unohana. "I don't know about dinner, here Captain…" he said to her, as Toshiro patiently explained that Kenpachi would probably turn back to normal sometime within the week. With Ichigo's spells, it was hard to say for certain, because those he was good at lasted longer than normal, and those he wasn't, well, he had trouble getting them to work at all. Transfiguration was something he was obviously extremely good at. Yachiru pouted; could he turn her into a rabbit? Because it looked like it could be fun...

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To say that Kenpachi, Captain of the 11th Squad was not amused would have been the understatement of the year. Nemu had him firmly gripped by his ears, which surprisingly hurt...A LOT. When he got back to normal he was going to kick Ichigo's ass for this, hell he was tempted to kick the Old Man's for giving the crazy bastard of the 12th Squad the idea of experimenting on him!

He crossed his paws as much as he could and if anyone looked at him at that moment one would think that he was sulking. Thankfully he could still feel spiritual pressure and could sense Ikkaku, Yumichika and Yachiru following him and the Freak. He winced slightly as they came to an abrupt halt right outside the 12th Division, the halt causing him to swing forward and cause further pain to his ears. 'Damn weak rabbit form!' he thought to himself.

He focused again and felt that the others were closing in on his location. He would have gone pale if he could because he could sense that it was Yachiru that was closest to him and not the two idiots. He began to struggle as violently as he good in Nemu's grasp trying to get free. She held him up looking at him with her cold eyes and then reached up and stuck him with a syringe. He squeaked indignantly at her nerve. 'Stupid idiot!' he thought, 'what the hell do you think you're doing!? Release me or I will beat you to a pulp with your own arms!' Of course Nemu didn't hear him and she turned to look at her father.

"Captain, I have injected him with a sedative."

"Good! Don't want the fighting monkey getting away before I'm done with him!" Captain Kurotsuchi laughed darkly as the doors opened.

Kenpachi's eyes grew heavy as he struggled to fight off the effects of the sedative. The last thing he heard as he lost consciousness was Yachiru's voice.

"Let go of my KENNY!"

'**' was his last thought.

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When Kenpachi awoke his vision was blurry and everything had a pink tinge to it. He winced and shook his head, feeling his ears flop about. 'Damn it, still a f'in rabbit.' He sat up on his haunches and looked around slowly, his nose twitching rapidly as his form took in the scents of the room. Scent of roses, check. Scent of cookies, check. Scent of hyperactive sugar loving girl that always rides on his shoulder? Nothing!

He let out a soft squeak of success as his vision cleared to show an empty and very VERY pink room. Looking around he nearly passed out in relief as he noticed that the door was wide open. He scrambled off of the table he was sitting on and rushed for the door.

"Bad Kenny!"

He heard her voice and he almost whimpered in fear as he forced himself to move faster. He knew what Yachiru did to her pets; it was why she never had one for more than a week: mainly because he took them away before she killed them with her 'love'. He was picked up suddenly in a firm grasp and hugged tightly against the little girl's chest.

"I love you Kenny! I'll take good care of you while you're like this!"

Kenpachi found himself suddenly dressed in a small animal sized pink tutu, tied to a small animal sized chair as Yachiru served tea and cookies talking in a high and annoyingly sweet voice.

He'd take Captain Kurotsuchi's experiments any day over this hell and swore one day he would pay Ichigo back for this.

Now for the serious Author's Note: What the Bloody ****** is Tite Kubo doing? He pretty much invalidated every single fanfiction on this site! Even the ones that TRIED to stay close to canon… are now not (bangs head on desk).

Ah well. Just so you know: I don't know how he's going to proceed from here, but I'm going to continue as if this never happened. Simply because I have no clue how the hell I would work it in.