The room was oddly quiet...too quiet... Rukia, Catherine, and I poked our heads into the printing room of Shuuhei's little tabloid gig. We went to retrieve an embarrassing picture of Rukia that the Ninth Lieutenant found stashed away somewhere. It must have been bad if she wouldn't tell us what was on it... Dear Lord...
The awkward silence was broken when Rukia asked, "Why do you think it's so quiet in here?"
"Business must not be booming today." Catherine guessed.
I scoffed. "I bet Shuuhei's just expecting us... So when we get caught, he'll just use it for another one of his stories." They stared at me. "...What?"
The younger Kuchiki crept into the room as if it were full of people. "We should just get it before my brother finds out we were sneaking around."
That didn't really matter to me--Catherine and I were in Squad Twelve anyway. But since we were with his sister, should we be caught, we would get a beating too. I've always said that he probably thinks of us as a bad influence (or probably just me).
We followed Rukia inside the printing room, looking around to make sure nobody was around to see us. The other looked through, possibly, hundreds of folders while I stood watch at the door. I heard Catherine snicker and Rukia groan. I guess they found it... Then I heard something from down the hall footsteps. I looked over to the right then the left, and shuddered.
I turned my head hack to the room. "Older Kuchiki at 12-o-clock." I announced.
"What!?" Rukia shouted, "What does he--"
"Shhh! Let me handle this. "I went out of the room and closed the door behind me. I waited until the Captain stopped in front of me before asking. "Whaddaya need?"
He gave me his usual scowl. "I need to deliver something to Lieutenant Hisagi"
"Well, I'm his 'secretary' for the day." I snapped the first excuse that came to mind. "So I'll just take whatever needs to be given to him." I gave him a toothy smile and held out my hand.
Byakuya rolled his eyes and pushed past me to the door. He opened it as I shouted, "NOO!" When the door was fully open, we saw the room was dark and empty.
I blinked then said quickly. "He's...out right now and that's why I'm taking any deliveries." He looked at me; I smiled innocently.
It's as if a miracle just happened--he handed me a folder and instructed me to leave it where Shuuhei would see it, then left. I sighed in relief then walked back into the room, closing the door behind me.
"Okay the coast is clear." I called, guessing they were still in the room instead of climbing out through the window. "You guys can come out now."
I small, lean door opened on the side wall and Catherine emerged, several cleaning tools falling after her. She kicked a blue bucket off her foot. I asked where Rukia was and she shrugged. Just then, something crawled out from under the large printing machine. Something clanked loudly on the floor and the figure yelped.
We looked; it was Rukia under a piece of metal and covered in black ink. She put the piece back on the machine and crawled out completely. She stood up.
"Oh, God..." Catherine and I groaned at the same time.
"What?" She looked down at herself and panicked. "What now!?"
"I have an idea."
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"Renji, could we use your shower?"
"WH-WHAT!?" The red-head shouted. Obviously taking what I said the wrong way. "WHY WOULD--"
I pushed Rukia forward, who was still covered in the sticky ink. "If she goes home like this, Byakuya would have my head."
"Why yours?"
"Because he thinks I'm a bad influence on his sister." I rolled my eyes.
"He does?" Rukia blinked.
"Not that I know of...but he acts like I am."
It was true: Byakuya Kuchiki thought I was a bad influence on his little sister. I didn't get why, though. It wasn't like I smoked or drank sake everyday--I've never even had the stuff! He shouldn't complain, it wasn't like I was corrupting his sister or his lieutenant (if anything, his lieutenant would be the one corrupting us).
Then again, Byakuya thinks everybody has a bad influence on Rukia, even though she says otherwise. "Especially his crush." She would say.
Renji grabbed Rukia's wrist and pulled her inside. "I'll have her cleaned up." He turned around and closed the door behind him.
"Didn't mean we didn't wanna come inside..." I muttered to myself. Catherine snickered.
We walked off, then Catherine said something about having to do something and ran off the other way. I suddenly remembered something I had to go to...
"Crap!"
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O hallo again xD Yes, this is a ByakuyaXCatherine fic I wanted to write something mushy and who better to use than the lovebirds :P (Shot)
I also wanted to write something for Cath as a sort of thank-you and so I shall give her the notebook I'm usin' for it when it's all done
Hope you guys enjoy how incredibly sappy this is gonna get sooo I hope I don't overdo it on the sappy XDDD
In other news, I'll be going to the Anime Festival in September! 8D Guess who I'm gonna cosplay as :-D...KON! (shot) Nah I'm gonna cosplay Renji XD (hopes she can have it done in time before school :o)
MMkay, I'm done running my keyboard off so BYE-BYE :-D