Warnings: More shameful language than you can shake a stick at.
Disclaimer: See profile.
Takes place in the "Imperfect Image" universe, but instead of being in the second person, it'll be in the third, and she'll be named Haruna, meaning distant springtime. Here, she also an Espada, but is also Nnoitora's fraccione since she's still 2 ranks lower than him. If you want the description of what she looks like, look at chapter 2, because I'm not going to explain much.
I know I should be updating said story, but I'm super late and I'm in a little rut, so I was hoping a fun little one-shot would help me get out of it. And I haven't actually written anything completely fun. The stories I've written are about one-sided and unrequited love, near rape, and a GrimmUlqui mini-fic that was so saccharinely sweet during which I could feel myself getting cavities from just writing it. So here's something I can have a little fun with.
I'm so accustomed to naturally writing in the second person point of view that I've had to stop myself several times to remind myself the I'm not supposed to be writing in the 2nd person, so please forgive me if I accidently have the word "you" instead of "she".
I was also thinking about putting this in I.I. itself, but I won't be able to write it for a while because I'm in a serious part right now. So I got impatient and decided to write it separately!
Enjoy!
EDIT: I noticed that during the conversation that I put a key, the underlining completely failed, so I'll try to fix it and hope it works (along with several other grammatical errors I noticed).
XxXxX
Haruna woke up to the sound of an alarm clock blaring on her bedside table. Not yet opening her eyes, she very carefully shut it off. In the past, the sound of the object combined with the fact that she was just too tired to care had resulted in several of her alarm clocks being broken. This meant she had to go get another one from the human world, which she was usually far too busy to do.
She rolled over to her side, finally peeling her eyes open to see the time- 6: 15. Way too early to wake up after a long night of finishing up several experiments. She had only gotten to sleep at one in the morning last night. Damn Aizen and his early morning meetings.
The meeting began at 6:45, so she had just enough to take her time in getting ready and grab something quick from the kitchen; it wouldn't do to have her stomach growling in the middle of the meeting. That had happened once at the time when she had just become the Septima, and, damn, was it an extremely unpleasant situation.
She hadn't eaten anything on the morning that the incident had happened because she wasn't completely used to the schedule, or even the whole meeting system in general yet. So rightin the middle of Aizen giving a lecture about changing the shade of his pink obi 2 shades darker and its "symbolization", her stomach went off like a mini firecracker. Everyone, including Aizen, immediately turned to her and she blanched, barely even able to squeak out an "I apologize. Please forgive me Aizen-sama." while planning out her last words. Though, very luckily for her, Aizen just continued with the meeting as if the incident hadn't happened.
After that, she had always made sure to eat something decent before any and every meeting. Also, because a hungry Haruna is an irritable Haruna. Hunger and fatigue don't mix well for an irritable Haruna. She decided to prepare and eat quickly so that she would be able to get to the meeting room early, even possibly get a few extra minutes of sleep in. Heading from the kitchen to the meeting room, she opened the door to find the room to be mostly empty except for a small, quiet figure reading a book at the front end of the right-hand side of the large white table. It was the Cuarto, Ulquiorra Schiffer.
She drowsily made her way over to her seat on the table, between Grimmjow and her younger brother Szayel, though both seats currently empty.
"Good morning, Ulquiorra-sama." She said, slurred from fatigue. He didn't make a noise of acknowledgment, not even looking up from his book. She knew, she could easily tell that he disliked her more than the other Espada. Even though he dislikes the majority of the Espada, she didn't have a clue as why to why she got extra hatred. Did he have a sexist thing like Nnoitora going on where he just hated all women, but only expressed to those lower than him? Nah, he doesn't express anything. Maybe he's just jealous that she's faster than he is. That's a fair possibility. Maybe he doesn't like the fact that she's so much younger than everyone else. Ulquiorra was previously the youngest person to ever become an Espada, at about 1700 years old, about 17 in human years. But she became the Septima at 1457 years old, 14 and a half in human years (you get the system. 100 hollow years= 1 human year). Now Ulquiorra is now 23 years old, and she is just past 15. Grimmjow was now 3rd youngest at currently at 26. So maybe Ulquiorra just hates her because she's too young and will probably screw something up pretty badly. Eh, who knows what the Emocarr thinks or feels, or evenifhe feels.
She plopped down on the seat diagonal from Ulquiorra's seat unceremoniously, and in all essence passed out. She knew that she would be woken up before the meeting started because the amount noise that Grimmjow and Nnoitora make on their entrance is enough to wake someone in a coma.
And sure enough, the storm of loud feet and raucous laughter sounded as the door opened, revealing 2 figures, one muscular and the other lithe and tall. Grimmjow and Nnoitora.
It was amusing how much friendship they found in each other, even after the incident with Kurosaki. You know, Nnoi' almost killing Grimmjow. But they got past that somehow. They began as drinking buddies, and eventually became the best of friends! See? Amusing. I know you're laughing. Nice to have a small mutual circle of friends sometimes.
Everyone one-by-one quickly took their seats. Everyone knew that we had about 10 minutes before the meeting would start; Aizen always liked to give them a little time to "converse among themselves" while they were all gathered at once. Only this time, 3 people were missing- Barragan, Aaronierro, and Yammy. They were on a mission somewhere, so they couldn't participate in the meeting today. Lucky bastards.
Grimmjow and Nnoitora exchanged mischievous glances, and immediately turned to Ulquiorra.
(Key- Nnoitora,Grimmjow,Ulquiorra,Haruna)
"Hey Ulqui-chaaaaan!"
"How's lil' Ulqui been doin'?"
"Address me by those trashy nicknames again and I will not hesitate to rip your tongues out of your throats."
"I bet you can't!"
"And what leads you to believe that?"
"Because Haruna's faster than ya'!"
"Oh no, do not get me involved in this."
"Yeah, and she'll kick yer' ass if you try anythin'!"
"Trash such as yourselves will never be able to "kick my ass" if you tied both my arms behind my back."
"Wanna test it?"
"Haruna, go tie him up!"
She was beginning to get tired of these antics. "Go do it yourself, pussy. Or are you too frightened to even lay a finger on the "Mighty Cuarto"?"
"Ha! She said it, pussy!"
"I wouldn't be talking, pussy cat!"
"Well your mom's a pussy, just like you! And at least my fraccione don't insult me, even though for some people it's true!"
"Your fraccione are dead, Grimmjow."
"That's not important! And at least my fraccione used to read the reports I gave them!"
"What? Haruna?! How could you not read them? How do you ever know what's happening then?!"
"Tesla tells me so that I don't have to bother with it."
"B- Bother with it?! I put heartfelt time and effort into those reports so that my fraccione can be well informed! How can you not read it?!"
"Because they're always justso damn long!"
"That's what she said!"
"Thatis what she said."(Ulquiorra really doesn't catch on to those kinds of sexual innuendos)
The ramblings were about to escalate further, but Aizen finally walked into the room, about to start the meeting.
'Thank freaking God that was torture.'
Everyone had settled down into their seats along with Aizen, as tea was served quickly by low-level numeros.
"Good morning, my Espada."
'Sure it is.'
"It has come to my attention that we have not been getting along very well lately. I realize that we do not get along well in the first place, but things have been getting much worse. For example, Grimmjow, it is not acceptable to wrap every last thing in Ulquiorra's room with clear plastic wrap just because he took the last of the Fruity Pebbles™. Nnoitora, you are not allowed to wax the floors of Szayel Aporro's laboratory for the sole purpose of having him slip in order to kick him in his nether regions."
"Not like he has any."
Grimmjow and Nnoitora looked at each and shared a few snickers. Szayel suddenly stood up from his chair.
"I will have both of you know that my excretion system is perfectly well and functional!"
"Well why don't I show you mine by pissing on your face?!"
"I dareyou to do it, Jeagerjaquez!"
"You wanna go? Szayel "Cock"arro Grantz?"
"Jeagerjerk!"
"Fruit Bowl!"
"House Cat!"
"Take it back, Lab Freak!"
"Not going to happen, Kitty cat! Do you want me to go get you some catnip and yarn?"
"Gaywad!"
"Man whore!"
The yelling and insults continued, both practically screaming on either side of Haruna, giving her a splitting headache.
"ENOUGH." Aizen raised his spiritual pressure warningly, but was obviously displeased by the show. Both standing quickly sat down. "This is exactly the sort of behavior I was talking about." Szayel quickly apologized to Aizen while Grimmjow just huffed and crossed him arms in his seat.
"Now apologize to each other. Szayel?"
He looked hesitant at first. "I… apologize, Grimmjow. You are not a man whore."
Aizen looked fairly pleased. "Thank you. Now Grimmjow."
"Che. As if I'll apologize to that gaywad."
"Grimmjow," Aizen raised his spiritual pressure again, a little bit more this time.
"Tch, fine. Sorry."
"Thank you, Grimmjow. Now, in order to try and improve your behavior, we are going to play a group game in order to help you take out your anger on others in a non-violent way and release any grudges you have against each other. We are going to play-"
Gin did a drum roll on the arm of his seat with his hands.
"Gin, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but a drum roll is not necessary."
"Sorry Aizen-sama, but I thought that it gave a more… dramatic effect!"
"Hm, very well. We are going to play…" Aizen gestured towards Gin. He happily did a drum roll on the arm of the chair again.
"Truth or Dare."
Almost everyone groaned.
"For those of you unfamiliar with the rules, once person will begin and ask another "Truth or dare". Then that person will choose to have you ask them a question, truth, or dare them to do something, dare. If anyone fails or refuses to complete the question or dare given to them, then they are disqualified and lose the game. The last person left wins! Any questions?"
Everyone looked bored with idea, but Nnoitora spoke up. "What do we get if we win? There's no point playin' if we don' get anythin'."
"The winner will get to have no work for an entire week, and will get to force whatever work they would have had onto someone else."
That seemed to spark everyone's interest, except for Ulquiorra's.
Szayel then took his turn. "Is anything off limits?"
"Absolutely nothing as far as questions go. The only thing off limits for dares is that it has to take place in only the room we will be in, cannot involve anyone or anything outside of the room without my, or Gin's permission, and may not cause any death or purposeful severe injury of anyone. Absolutely no deformation or mutation of any kind, Haruna and Szayel Aporro. The dares also cannot last longer than the duration of the game. Other than that, anything goes."
Now at this, Ulquiorra seemed very slightly worried, yet intrigued.
"Does temporary loss of a non-major and non-vital body part count as deformation or mutation?"
"Yes, Haruna."
"What about-"
"If you need toask me if it is, then the answer will most likely be yes."
"And, one more thing. You will get a single "skip". You can skip a question or dare given to you, but you only get one for the entire game, so save it and be sure to use it wisely. The game will take place tonight, here in the meeting room after dinner at 7:00 sharp. The room will be completely cleared out, except for cushions for you to sit on the floor. Obviously since Barragan, Aaronierro, and Yammy are away, they will not be participating. I have given you time until we begin in order to allow you to think about any questions or dares you will want to request. Nobody is to sabotage or purposely injure another before the game, so I would recommend no contact with anyone since you may be framed and disqualified. Gin and I will be the judges. That is all for now, and all of you must come and actively participate in the game. You are dismissed."
Grimmjow was the first to leave, practically running out of the room. Haruna left the room a bit slower than everyone else as she does after every meeting, to avoid being trampled by stronger Espada.
After finally getting out of the meeting room, Haruna's mind already had hundreds of ideas forming. She Sonido'ed to her lab in order to get as much time to work as possible. Oh, how much fun being a scientist can be!
XxXxX
Yes, I am starting another story when I know I haven't updated my main one in over a month, when I'm supposed to update every Friday. I know that I fail. But anyways, I originally planned on making this into a really long oneshot, but it ended up being like 6,000 words when I wasn't even 1/3 done yet. So, this'll be a few chapters.
If anyone wants to request a truth or dare for one of the characters to do, then please review or message it to me. I would love to hear the ideas that you guys have, because I've been lacking in my own inspiration. And remember Aizen's rules- "It has to take place in only the room we will be in, cannot involve anyone or anything outside of the room without my, Gin's, or Tosen's permission, and may not cause any death or purposeful severe injury of anyone. Absolutely no deformation or mutation of any kind, Haruna and Szayel. The dares also cannot last longer than the duration of the game. Other than that, anything goes."
So yeah, let me hear what you guys are thinking, and please review!