"Thanks Uncle," Katia replied as she got out of the car, giving him a light hug. Though she had a feeling that something would be happening later today...she just hoped her cousin/sister was with her by the end of the day.

"I finally found you...now let's see who your female friend is..." Sojiro said with a sadistic grin on his face, the two Arrancar girls by his side.

Hoshi gave her dad a hug and waved goodbye. She didn't like the feeling she had and shuddered. " Katia we should run. " Hoshi said.

Katia didn't ask questions and followed Hoshi.

Hoshi ran quickly and sat on a bench inside. "Maybe we should eat indoors today. I don't like the feeling I'm getting. " Hoshi said and shuddered.

"If you think that's for the best," Katia said, as she kept hold of her pendant. All she had to do to activate it at the moment was to channel her reiatsu.

" I hate feeling so scared. I know can fight but I know I'm not strong enough even with Bankai to fight Kusaka. " Hoshi said.

Katia nodded, knowing what Hoshi was talking about. In fact, she thought that the only two people who could definitely keep up with him were Ichigo and Toushiro...maybe Soji.

Soji had his guard up as he walked closer to the school. He hurried just incase Katia and Hoshi were in any trouble.

Kusaka was walking through the Living World, looking for people who had irregular amounts of reiatsu. He was thinking that if he could find someone with strong enough reiatsu, he could defeat that person and draw Toushiro out...or frame him for the attack.

Setsuna was nervous. " What is causing all this? I don't dare stay here out too long since I feel I need to keep Joshua safe. " She thought and blushed. Setsuna sort of had feelings for Joshua Donovan but knew that it wasn't proper to be the one to admit it first.

Claudia blinked and shivered lightly, unsure as to what was going on. One moment she was fine and the next it was if she was being pursued by Gin again...'Perhaps that's what is going on...something from the spiritual world?' she mentally asked.

After the incident with Gin, Claudia was asked by Arthur to stay over in Japan...just in case she was targeted by shinigami, hollows or anything else of that nature. Claudia had a feeling that there was a second motive involved...to not be found out by the Regals. 'I'll go talk to Kisuke. Hopefully things will work out...' she thought before heading towards his shop.

Urahara was tense and kept his guard up as he stood outside his shop. He would be ready when an attack happened not wanting to see any one hurt.

"Excuse me, are you Claudia Donovan?" Katniss asked while wearing a Gigai. She didn't want to disturb anyone within her spirit form and this helped her greatly.

"I am." Claudia said feeling a bit tense and surprised.

"I'm a friend of Kisuke's, and I don't believe we've met before, I'm Katniss," Katniss said as she held her hand out for Claudia to shake. She had been asked by the eccentric shopkeeper to get her to the shop in one piece.

"It's nice to meet you Katniss." Claudia said and shivered at the strange feeling in the air.

Katniss sensed the reiatsu in the air, scowling lightly as she could also feel her inner hollow stirring lightly in preparation. "We should get going," she said.

" Sounds like good idea." Claudia said and had her guard up.

Katniss nodded as she led Claudia to Kisuke's shop, glad that nothing had happened...so far.

" I think we should run. "Claudia said when the feeling got worse.

"As much as I'd like to fight, I agree," Katniss replied as she grabbed Claudia's hand before starting to run.

Claudia was glad to see the shop in the distance and wanted to know what was going on. She had been busy with some of the cataloging Artie had assigned her to do and was almost caught up with this batch.

Katniss was glad to see Kisuke's shop in the distance, knowing that Claudia wanted to get inside.

Claudia was glad to be in the protective barrier and shuddered. " What's going on here ?" She said not liking this at all.

"I can explain that Claudia-chan. Katniss-san, thank you for bringing her here safely," he said as he turned towards the female archer.