Um…. Right. This is gonna be my first Bleach fanfic. I hope y'all like it. Anyways, this idea came to mind cause they're supposed to be pretending to be high school students, and I don't think that they teach shinigamis they stuff we learn in high school. Right, I live in America, so some of the stuff they learn, I don't think they teach in Japan. They might, but highly unlikely.

Rated T… for TEEN. Cause I got a foul mouth and so do the characters. Also rated T for THESPIAN!

I don't own Bleach. End of story.

Beta'd by the fantasticaltal ZP. (z0mb13-p4nd4-and-5h1n0b1'5-5p1r1t)

Edit: Changed the Old English to "early modern English" because a lot of people complained about it so I decided to stop the complaints. XD

Shakespeare is my HOMEBOY- Romeo and Juliet!

Kurosaki Ichigo was happy. In his English class they were going to be studying the plays of one William Shakespeare. He liked Shakespeare. So this wouldn't be all that bad.

"Okay class, you are going to be taking the words of Shakespeare, which are written in early modern English, and put them in your own words. And in English, as this is an English class," said Gohara-sensei.

"Early modern English?" exclaimed Asano Keigo.

"Yes, early modern English" said Gohara-sensei calmly. "Shakespeare lived in the 1600s , that's what they spoke."
"Then why do we hafta read it, if English has changed since then?"

"Because Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are now used in the English language."

"…..Oh."

"Yes, oh."

The bell rang.

"Class dissmissed. And don't forget to do the assignment, you carnivores!"

Outside Class

"Aw, man. This sucks. Put some old dude's funky English into English," complained Keigo.

"Shakespeare wasn't just some old dude," responded Ichigo.

"What? You mean you actually like this shit!"

"Yes. And it ain't shit."

"You're such a nerd. And a …. NERD! We never want to see you and your vile Old English shit ever again!"

Ichigo rolled his eyes as Keigo and Mizuiro ran away to get away from his "nerdiness."

Ichigo was nearly off the school premises when he was approched, more like surrounded, by the band of shinigamis here on reconnaissance.

"Hey, Ichigo," said Renji.

"Yeah, Renji?"

"Will you… help us with the English assignment?"

"W-What!"

"Well," put in Rukia, "you've been in high school longer than any of us. And you seem to like this Shakespeare."

"No."

"No! Why not? We need to pretend to be high school students and your not going to help?"

"Plenty of students don't do their homework. Why should it matter if you do?"

"But Ichigo…"

"No, not helping. Sorry, you're just SOL. I'm not going to help."

Kurosaki Residence

"I can't believe I'm going to help."

"Well, you are. So let's get started," said Matsumoto, happily.

They all just sat there, staring at the piece of paper. A few minutes passed in this fashion before someone broke the silence.

"Well….what are we supposed to do," said Yumichika.

"Weren't you paying attention to what she said?"

"Um… no, not really," said Ikkaku.

"What?"

"Why should I? Plays are for sissies!"

"grrr….. Well, I'll explain. You read the lines, which don't make sense and write it so they do make sense."

"Oh," said all the shinigamis, except Hitsugaya.

"So, on this one, the 'Wherefore art thou, Romeo?' is basically, where are you, Romeo," stated Matsumoto.

"No," said Ichigo with a dead pan face.

"No! But…how…why…"she questioned, confused.

"Because, wherefore is… kinda like why. It says, why are you called Romeo?"

"Ohhhhhhhhhh."

"But why would the Juliet chick be askin' why he's called Romeo?" questioned Ikkaku.

"Cause Juliet's family doesn't like Romeo's family. She's pretty much saying why did you have to belong to that family. It you weren't, we could be together."

"You really like this kinda shit, don't you."

"It is not shit," exclaimed Ichigo as he chucked a pillow at Ikkaku's bald, shiny head.

"Hey, what was that for!"

"For insulting Shakespeare!"

"Oh, is that it! Sissy!"

"You wanna have a go at it!" yelled Ichigo, standing up.

"Yeah, been itching to kick your ass!" replied Ikkaku, also getting up.

"Stop it, you morons! We are here to do work, not squabble over the play," said Hitsugaya. "Let's get back to the matter at hand."

"Fine."

"Fine."

Death glares from Ichigo to Ikkaku and vice versa.

"And what about this line," asked Matsumoto, completely unfazed by the fight. "The 'star-crossed lovers.'"

"Well, back in Shakespeare's day, if something was 'star-crossed' it was unlucky, doomed from the start."

"Why would the lovers be doomed from the start?" questioned Rukia.

"Cause they're from feuding families. And it foreshadows that things don't go so well for Romeo and Juliet."

"How so?"

"Well, Romeo drinks some poison and he dies. Juliet comes across this and kisses him, to try and get some of the poison in her, but it doesn't work. So she goes all 'O, happy dagger!'" said Ichigo, complete with miming of stabbing yourself.

"Wow, together till the end. How romantic!"

"Anyways, let's see what you've done."

Ichigo looked at Matsumoto's paper, then Rukia's, then Renji's, and so forth and so on. Except Hitsugaya's. He had a feeling that the short captain would yell at him for having the audacity to check and see if he did they work.

"H-Hey! All you guys did was copy what I said! You're supposed to do it yourself!"

"Why," said Renji, with a look that plainly read "Why is he so surprised at this?" "You were telling us the answers."

"Why I oughta…" Ichigo lunged for Renji.

And thus a semi-all-out fight between Ichigo, Renji and Ikkaku began (Ikkaku getting involved cause he was still pissed about earlier). Rukia also joined the fight trying to stop Renji and Ichigo. Matsumoto wasn't paying any attention at all, just thinking about if she should get wasted or not. Yumichika wasn't paying attention either, cause he was thinking how anyone would want to change the beauty of Shakespeare's words into average English.

Hitsugaya let out a sigh on annoyance. Idiots. The whole lot of them.

wow…. Longer than I thought it would be. Anyways, tell me what you think about it. Also, if you want, tell me about something you would like Ichigo and the others to have a study group about. And give specifics, cause the education learned varies by country and I might not have learned what you have yet, or I won't learn it. And it can be any subject.

Thanks! .!

Gohara-sensei is based off my 9th grade English teacher, Ms. Lopez. Lopez is her maiden name, Gohara is her husband's name. She got it hyphenated. And she calls boys carnivores, in case you were wondering about that. (Tab-sk1llz0rrs!ZP)