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"GOOOOODDDDD MOOOOOOONNNNNIIIIINNNNNGGGG KOOOOOOON!!!!!" Isshin Kurosaki screamed as he executed one of his trademark 'Ultimate Morning Death' attacks.
Kon had witnessed so many of these attacks being committed on Ichigo that he had learned exactly what to do. He pulled the pillow around and rolled to his right allowing Isshin to miss his intended target and go flying harmlessly into the floor. Well harmless to Kon that is. Isshin slammed into the hardwood floor and skidded across the room ending up under the desk.
"You have learned your lessons well my adopted son." Isshin groaned as he slowly extracted himself from the desk. "Ichigo never learned to avoid my attack with so little effort. Come now, get dressed. Your sister is making breakfast." Isshin limped from the room.
"Hi, My name is Kon Kurosaki. As a human I'm twelve years old. As a soul, I'm about sixty two. I look seventeen because I started out with the body of a five year old. I have Urahara to thank for that and I do mean to pay him back some day, with interest. I'm five feet eleven inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes and about eighty kilos blood type A+. My sister that Isshin was referring to is Ririn Kurosaki. She was a mod soul like me. We were retired from use so Urahara desided to let us have a life. At first I hated my sister but now… I tolerate her.
Isshin adopted both of us when Ichigo and Rukia got married. Karin, my older sister, said it was because dad needed someone in the house. She acts all tough but she's a softy underneath it all. He is a good person for a crazy man and former captain from Soul Society."
"Good Morning Ririn my sweet adopted daughter. How is daddy's little girl?" Isshin asked walking up behind her as she worked over breakfast.
"Get out of the kitchen Dad. Last time you came in here your burns required a visit to Ryūken Ishida to treat them. Do you want to repeat that visit?" Ririn asked with a sweet tone. She left out the part where she had slammed him over the head with the pan to get him to stop fighting with Kon.
"Ohhhhh! All my children are so cold to me. Where did I go wrong raising them!" He wailed as he made a line to the poster of his late wife.
"Hi, My name is Ririn Kurosaki. I'm a mod soul, now human. My brother, Kon, and I were adopted by Isshin Kurosaki twelve years ago after Urahara tweaked some gigais and gave them to us. Thank God we don't still look like five year olds. What do I look like? I'm five feet two inches tall, blond hair down to my waist, blue eyes and blood type A+. My birth certificate says I'm seventeen, however I know for a fact that I'm closer to sixty. Kon and I get along pretty good now that we have been living under the same roof for twelve years and going to school together. He is a lot like Ichigo you know. I rarely ever see him without a scowl adorning his face, but it suits him."
"Morning Ririn. What's for breakfast?" Kon asked coming down the stairs.
"Just the usual, nothing special. Did you finish that assignment for history class?" Ririn asked over her shoulder.
"Yeah, no problem there. What day is it?" Kon had screwed his face into an even tighter scowl as he tried to remember something.
"January thirteenth, Why?" asked Ririn having the feeling that she had forgotten something also.
Kon's eyes shot open full as his mouth opened in shock. "NEEEEE-SAN!!!! It's Rukia's birthday tomorrow! I have to get her a present! Ichigo would kill us if we forgot!"
"Baka mono Kon. Aren't you glad that you have me for a sister? I picked up her present last week." Ririn said with a self assured smugness. Privately she thought. "Damn, I had forgotten the date! Thanks Kon."
"What did you get her?" Asked Kon feeling somewhat relieved. "Ririn, what would I do without you."
"I picked up the collectors edition of Don Kanonji's Ghost Bust. Buwahahaha!" The last she said while crossing her arms over her chest.
Kon's scowl deepened at the mention of Don Kanonji's name. He had some very bad memories of the man.
"Oh get over it already Kon, He's going to be paying for our collage tuition with the royalties from the videos. Besides since he got that show over in America he hasn't been here to scrounge up the Karakura Superheroes. Thank God." Ririn said with a snicker.
"You've never been used as a soccer ball and kicked by Karin through the mask of a hollow have you." He said as a statement.
Ririn just laughed at that, having remembered the reruns of several shows showing a lion plushie being kicked by Karin Kurosaki through some hazy object and ending up looking like it had been through a war. "I know you have done a lot Kon but you looked so funny while you did it. I'm still proud of you Kon."
He grumbled a bit as he turned but inside he smiled. "She is proud of me."
At school later that day:
"Kon, have you seen where my lunch went?" Ririn was looking mad because she had spent plenty of time making the lunches that they both ate every day.
"Are you sure that you brought it with you?" Kon asked looking uninterested.
"Yes I'm sure! What do you take me for?" She replied tartly.
"No I haven't seen it." He pushed his bento box across the table. "Have some of mine. I'll look for it when we're done."
Out in the hallway several of the boys from the class are watching what happens between the two Kurosaki's. "She never leaves his side!" "It's almost like they are dating!" "How dare you Kurosaki!"
Back at the table, "They're doing it again. What is their problem?" Ririn commented without actually expecting an answer.
"What? You mean the fact that you happen to be about the only blond in the school and you also happen to be one of the best looking girls in the school? Or maybe because you spend all your time with me making them jealous of the attention I get." Kon answered in an off hand manner.
Ririn stopped eating when she heard Kon. She didn't think that she had heard right. "Would you say that again?"
"What part? Only blond in school?" Kon started to sweatdrop. He realized he had spoken out loud what he had been hiding for several years now. "Or the part where you make everyone jealous because you spend so much time with me?"
"You think I'm beautiful?" Ririn asked in a small voice. Tears were starting to well up in her eyes.
Kon glanced at her then looked out the window. He had remembered the way Rukia looked the first time Ichigo had said those words to her. Now he had done the same thing and didn't know what to do because it was out there. He looked out the window and spotted the shinigami Kurumadani Zennosuki chasing after the spirit of a girl trying to perform konsoh. "Yes I think you're beautiful. We're not really related unless you count Urahara having created us and all." He continued looking out the window hoping that she would drop it.
"KON KUROSAKI WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAKING THIS SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL CRY!!!!!" Yelled Keitaro Nitta, one of their classmates. "How dare you make such a lovely specimen of young womanhood cry you scoundrel."
Ririn slapped her hand on the table yelling "SHUT UP YOU MORON!" Her head was low with her bangs covering her eyes.
"Yeah that's right Kon, Shut up and leave her alone!" Keitaro yelled.
"No Keitaro, You shut up and stop butting in where you aren't part of the conversation!" a very angry Ririn said with fire in her eyes making Keitaro's knees go weak with fear. He swore that the flames in her eyes were real and very hot. He turned on his heel and sped away from the two Kurosakis like he had the hounds of hell on his trail.
Kon just smirked as he watched Keitaro scrambling to escape Ririn's wrath. "What is he seeing?" He asked her softly.
"Cerberus at feeding time! and he has on milkbone underwear." She said with a certain amount of satisfaction.
Kon rolled his eyes as he laughed. "Serves him right." Then he looked at Ririn, "Can we discuss this at home? I'm not so comfortable here talking about what I said."
"Sure, but I'm going to hold you to that." She said with a small smile. "Dad won't be home tonight because he has a meeting or something to go to, so you can talk then"
Kon felt his world closing in on him as he finished his part of the lunch.
Kon and Ririn walked home after school in silence because both of them were trying to figure out what the other was thinking. Their friends had dropped off one by one as they made their way back to the clinic.
"What am I going to say, that I think she is cute and I like her? Boy that will come out lame and I can't look lame in front of her." Kon was musing.
"Damn him, we've been living together for twelve years and he has just gotten up the nerve to tell me I'm beautiful? Urahara must have made him mentally defective or something. Well tonight he better tell me what is on his mind or I'll kick him all the way to Soul Society."
"I'm going to go and see Ichigo for a little while Ririn, I'll be home before dinner then we'll talk, ok?" Kon said looking strait ahead.
"Ok, as long as we talk." Then she did something that she had never done in her life. She kissed his cheek before running in the house.
After closing the door and leaning back against it her breath was coming hard and her mind was spinning. "What the hell did I just do? I just kissed Kon! Oh My God! What is happening to me?"
Outside on the street. "She kissed me……….. What the hell happened!" Kon's heart was slamming against his chest threatening to escape. He felt light headed as he touched the spot that she had kissed. "I need to talk to Ichigo now."
"Oi, Kon, what brings you by?" Ichigo asked looking up from a stack of paperwork. "Is something wrong?"
The look on Kon's face couldn't be hidden no matter what he tried. "I think that I've made a mistake, Ichigo. I need to talk with you. I told Ririn that she was beautiful today at school and then she got this strange look, like she was about to cry. Then on the way home she kissed me on the cheek. Oh God I liked that so much and I didn't know how to react! Ichigo, what the hell is happening to me!"
"Well from the sounds of it, you fell in love with Ririn." Ichigo said with a grin on his face. "Of course being brother and sister does make things rather difficult, however you're not related actually so maybe if you kept quiet about it. Then again there is Dad, and you know what sort of reaction he is going to have."
"YOU'RE NOT HELPING ICHIGO!" Kon's face was the color of a fire engine and it even looked like wisps of steam were coming from his ears. "Ichigo, you know how much I hated her when we first met. I need to know why things have changed. I'm scared and mostly scared that I'll hurt her feelings."
"Well you can start by telling her how you feel." Came Rukia's voice from the doorway.
Kon cringed. "How long have you been listening Nee-san?"
"Long enough to know that if you want to date this girl, you have to tell her how you feel about her. Right Ichigo?" Rukia said expecting full agreement from her husband. She was so sure of the answer that she didn't even hang around to listen to it.
"I hate to say it Kon, but she is right. You have to be honest with Ririn. You're both a lot more mature than any of your classmates which is probably why you both haven't dated anyone yet. The both of you have a history and a common background. Face it, if you like her tell her." Ichigo said with a kind smile on his face.
Kon thanked him and left for home. When he got there he stood outside the door for a few moments trying to formulate his thoughts. "You and I are alike, and I have known you for a long time now and I like you. I guess that I've liked you for a long time now but I've been afraid to tell you. Yah, that's what I'll say." He opened the door and checked for the standard sneak attack from Isshin before entering the house. "I'm back!" he called out while putting on his slippers.
"Good, you're just in time for dinner." Ririn called back from the kitchen.
Kon got to the dining room and stopped short. The table was set for two but the way it was set screamed intimate dinner for two. He went upstairs and washed his face and hands dropping his school stuff in his room before coming down stairs again and standing at the table.
Ririn came out with the main meal and placed it on a warmer before removing her oven mitts and then her apron. She had changed her clothes and put on a dress that Kon had never seen before and he was struck speechless.
Ririn looked at the expression on Kon's face and smiled shyly before reaching over and lifting his jaw. It closed with an audible click. "Do you like it?" She twirled about prettily.
The scowl was completely gone from Kon's face. He looked at Ririn as though he was seeing her for the first time. "I like it alright. I have never seen anyone so beautiful as you right now." The words fell from his mouth without any thought to what he was actually saying. His eyes reflected his statement.
Ririn blushed prettily and stood next to her chair for a moment before Kon got control of himself enough to remember to pull out her chair and allow her to be seated.
Dinner was a quiet affair mostly because Kon was at a loss for words and couldn't keep his eyes off Ririn. She was finding it hard to concentrate herself. She kept daydreaming about what Kon had said at lunch and then about his reaction to her dress.
After dinner he helped her clear the table and told her that he would clean up the dishes. When he was done he came out into the living room where she was watching TV. He took the remote and turned it off. He sat down on the couch but made sure that he wasn't to close to her. "Ririn, I think that I like ya. No, that's not right, I know I like ya and I have for a long time now. I think I was afrai….?"
That was as far as he got before she kissed him for the second time that day. This time she made no schoolgirl play for his cheek. She went for his lips and closed her lips over his silencing him from saying anything else. She had heard enough. Her feelings for him had turned long ago but she was unsure about how he felt towards her. He had become civil with her and even nice on occasion but she still didn't know until that moment how he felt.
Isshin came home late that evening and found Kon and Ririn asleep on the couch. Kon was sitting in the corner of the couch with his arm wrapped protectively around Ririn who was curled up in a ball next to him. He smiled and promised himself to make sure Kon got a real wake up call in the morning. He then covered them with a blanket and went to bed himself after turning off all the lights.
