The Cause of the Red Strawberry
Paint was what created the feeling of revenge for Rukia.
It was just a simple task. Repainting a room. That's all! (But if it were really that simple, would I have to write about it?)
Ichigo's not clumsy and he certainly did not have butterfingers. But after a day of running around, fighting hollows, he did feel somewhat exhausted.
He wanted his summer to be relaxing. Well, at least not dedicating his whole day fighting hollows. He was just a substitute shinigami after all. And why didn't Rukia help? All she did was, "Ichigo, there's a hollow at (something something) street! Go get it!" and "There's another at (something something) street! Hurry up!" all day long. While Ichigo fought the hollows, Rukia sat in his closet, reading a new novel!
"That Rukia. Getting me to do all her work. What am I? A slave???" muttered Ichigo, every time he went out. When there wasn't a hollow for five minutes, Rukia even told him to go buy some juice boxes! If it weren't for Ichigo, Rukia wouldn't even be able to drink juice boxes! She wouldn't know how!
Anyway, after a long day of hollow-butt-kicking, he finds himself in his father's room with a bucket of paint. "Why am I doing this?" he asks the wall.
"We're going to paint this room," sniff twice and blows nose, "your mother's hair color!" his father said as he walked out the door. (Hehe, 'we'? I don't think so!)
So then, Ichigo worked on painting the room (for his mother's sake). But Rukia, who finally finished her book, came in just when he accidentally flicked his paintbrush at the door. Ha, what bad timing! And the even worse thing was that she was holding another new novel that she bought!!! It happened to be rather expensive too.
Now, the book has a new color to it.
And the next morning, Ichigo's hair had a new color to it.
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