*Byakuya Kuchiki*

P.B. covered what she could of the bruises Voro had given her. She had worn the wrong color dress for the date. Even though everyone at the party said it was beautiful and made them stand out. Impossible to miss. Tears spilled down ruining the careful blotting out she had done. She needed to break it off but Voro's past girlfriends....went missing. How had this happened? Mira had left leaving her finally on her very own for the real first time but she'd only done so as mom had been on her way, mom or Jamie as she liked to be called now had had one of her episodes. That now had become the norm...

"Aren't we buying a little much for our short stay?" Mira asked as they entered yet another furniture shop. Jamie shook her head.
"Hmmm....no a house sells better properly staged. Plus its not like I don't have the money. Its time I enjoyed a bit of it." Mira snorted. "Bull. You always have a plan. You never do anything without one. Even movie night, there's always a hint of your next adventure or our next job.
Where's the hint in this one?" Jamie stopped in front of an ottoman and quickly tugged her into the nearby bathroom. "You mean other then your sister?" Jamie seethed, with an angry look...

P.B. woke with an ice pack surrounding her head. Her eyes barely able to see as the swelling had yet to go down. There was a tell tail sound of the puff-puff as the silencer and then a body....no two. Assaulted her ears, P.B. swallowed hard. "I'm so sorry baby,but why couldn't you have behaved?" P.B. shrank away from his thick bourbon stench."You gave me no choice." Her voice wobbled out of her bruised and cut lips.
Voro sighed heavily and sat across from her.
"Perhaps, but I love you, and my love is not so easily given. When I do, it is demanding. All consuming and it makes me volatile." P.B....

Jamie's search had been unending for more than a week. Nothing. Jamie had brought up the map they had been working from on the inlaid touch screen computer in the breakfast island. Lips rubbed his desperately in need of a cut blonde hair, as he came to sit with his cereal bowl full of the local brand of sugared corn flakes. He yawned. "Hmmm....that Uryu really likes to leave us early doesn't he." Jamie just rolled her eyes. "He's trying to be discrete, something you could learn from him. Plus we really don't need to involve him in our business. On top of that Mira's been training him, so he...

Byakuya frowned after the youth. She was if nothing else far more advanced in the flash step then anyone he had ever seen use it. Even he could not use the step as she had. His blood stepped up as he thought of her in his arms, he combated it with the image of her standing alone against the hollow with no weapon in hand. Yet that made his heartbeat faster than it already was. She was never afraid for herself but also too ruthlessly reckless with her own wellbeing. If not committed she should be under another's care...perhaps his own. His smile became so wide it used muscles he had not used...

Orihemia sat in front of her mirror. The very same that the angel had been at only a week ago.She found that the imprint moved around, from her chest to her arm. The dragon suddenly rotated and then suddenly disappeared off her shoulder. "Huh? Where did you go?" A voice like a whisper came to her ear. "I am where I have always been child within you." Orihemia paled as it spooked her. She turned expecting to see the dragon, but found an older version of herself but with black glossy hair smiling back at her. "You have very good lungs." The older one said laughing. "Ah-uhmmm-thanks." Orihemia...

KaraKura town outside Ichigo's house/clinic.

Chad and Uryu looked up at Ichigo's window. "His window's open." Chad said. Uryu pressed his lips together for a moment caught in indecision. The year had not been a happy one for any of them, unlike him there had been no way back for Ichigo. "Fine lets go in. Just lets not talk about the past or our abilities." They walked up the flight of stairs and got the shock of their lives as Ichigo was in soul reaper gear while a blonde haired kid was wearing Ichigo's running suit. Wolfing down Kon's oatmeal. "Ah....Hi?" Chad said announcing them as the door...