Yeah Rukia seemed to have resigned herself to her fate. She would probably be fighting it if she knew that Ichigo would not become involved. But seeing as he has her powers, he is going to be involved one way or another. Not to mention she knows how stubborned that he is that he would not leave her to die. Especially since he knows that he is part of the reason for it all.

Though when Ichigo fought Renji and got stabbed a few times by Rukia's brother Byakyuo or whatever name is, didn't he break a few things. The result being that Rukia's powers would be released? Ichigo is running off his own Soul Reaper powers right now as I understand it, at least that was what I was lead to believe from the training and everything. So shouldn't she have her powers back. Though Renji insists that Ichigo still has to die to release her powers. Seems a little strange to me.

I don't know if you watch the AS episodes, since you've already seen the subbed episodes. But they had Ichigo and Renji's fight in the Seireitei. Naturally, Ichigo won in the end. But it was a pretty cool fight. Though the first swing that Ichigo took when he awoke his sword in the training room seemed to create a far deeper hole than the one this time. Still pretty cool all the same. I've actually watched the episode 3 times already. I usually watch Bleach twice because I enjoy the episodes so much. Though I did skip through the first half of the previous episode, since it was just that guy they took hostage talking about Rukia and the stories she told him. I just wanted to see Ichigo and Renji fight again. Ichigo is pretty cool, but Renji looks better. Seems a little funny, but one thing Japanese always know how to do, make their villains or opponents looks really cool even if they are fighting the main character.

So I get to be in squad 4 huh, sounds like fun. Your newest grouping, since you filled up your first three groups. You not really doing anything oriented with the anime/manga with the groups though, right? Just keeping with the format, in a manner a speaking. This squad 4 is not mirrored off the real one. That correct?