Orihime laid and waited for her inevitable fate. She knew that there was no way that Rukia would forgive her this time. She felt Rukia start to add pressure and scrunch her toes. She broke down and started to sob again when she thought about Ichigo.

Rukia felt Orihime trembling once more. She was thinking of how she was going to punish her until a thought crossed her mind. "Do I really want to punish her?" Rukia thought. "After all, she did do a good job for three hours..." Rukia continued to think. "She is still my friend after all...Maybe I could cut her some slack just this once." Rukia finished thinking.

Orihime got the surprise of her life when she felt Rukia relieve all pressure and unscrunch her toes. "what?" Orihime asked herself. She saw the faint outline (It is dark in her shoe remember?) of Rukia's toes wiggiling. Orihime cried in joy and hugged Rukia's middle toe. Rukia let out a slight giggle when she felt this. "Rukia?" Ichigo asked quietly. Rukia shook her head. "Nothing, I just thought of something funny." Rukia replied. Orihime only hugged Rukia's toe even harder after hearing this. "So she is still the friend that I remember...Well I shouldn't go as far as to say that." Orihime said to herself. She then heard Rukia clear her throat. "SHIT!" Orihime thought. "I forgot that Rukia could hear me if she chooses to." Orihime continued to think frantically. Third, fourth, and fifth period passed and Rukia still didn't signal Orihime to resume licking her foot. The only problem now was that Orihime was suffering dehydration from the immense heat in her shoe and sock. As much as Orihime did not want to admit it, Rukia's foot sweat was the only thing keeping her hydrated during the first three hours of the day. Her toungue was much too weak and sore to resume licking now after entering her fifth hour in Rukia's shoe. She was also running out of air to breathe. Her breathing was becoming labored because there was less and less oxygen filling her lungs with each breathe. She began to pound on Rukia's toes.

Rukia had decided to give Orihime the rest of the school day off. Though something was catching Rukia's attention. She still felt Orihime hugging her middle toe. "There is no way in hell she could have fallen asleep...is there?" Rukia wondered. Rukia knew that Orihime would be overjoyed that she had shown her mercy, but she didn't expect her to be this much overjoyed. She suddenly realized that not only was Orihime hugging her toe, she was also pounding on her toe. "Why...oh crap!" Rukia thought to herself. She quickly slipped off her right shoe when she realized her mistake. Rukia realized that she had kept Orihime in there for four straight hours without removing her foot to give Orihime fresh air to breath. "Damnit, I forgot that these are the shoes that are airtight!" Rukia thought frantically to herself. "I should have worn the white ones...those atleast have tiny holes at the top of the toe section like sneakers." Rukia continued to think. Since there was still two hours in the school day left, she could only hope Orihime was still alive.

Orihime gasp and breathed heavily. She finally felt fresh oxygen filling her lungs. She gave a sigh of relief as she felt the cool air (relitalvly to her) of the classroom, even though it was through Rukia's sock. Rukia's sweat acted like glue on her body, so she couldn't stop hugging Rukia's middle toe, nor did she want to at the moment.

Rukia thought of how Orihime was doing at the moment. "I really hope that didn't kill her, all I ever wanted to do was keep her out of the way of me and Ichigo..." Rukia thought as she felt guilty at the moment. "I never really were planning to release her anyway." Rukia thought. "I still don't plan on releasing her anytime soon." Rukia continued to think. "Okay, I really need to check if she is okay,,,"