Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, Disney, Kingdom Hearts, Caves, Treasure, Silk, Magical carpets, or Agrabah.
Enjoy part 2 of 'Of Lovers and Life: The Whole New World'
Urahara closed the book with a sharp snap.
"You see my dear, nothing terribly life threatening happen at all!" He waved the book happily in Yoruichi's direction, adding another point to his score bored.
Urahara – 3
Ichiruki – 1
Byakuya - Minus 9000
"Kisuke, Rukia DIED." Yoruichi's eye twitched.
"Oh, but she's alive now isn't she? It was a small sacrifice to move forward!"
"…You take 'sadist' to a whole new level."
Urahara laughed brightly, and re-opened the book, the words already starting to re-write themselves.
"While I inform our next fairytale of our ignorant young lovers' arrival, I think it's about time you asked the donator of this book if he would like to join us."
He peered over the book darkly. Yoruichi sighed heavily.
"Fine, but don't expect me to repair anything when he destroys your shop!"
Urahara chuckled again, and turning back to the book, he read aloud.
'Once upon a time…'
He groaned.
His head throbbed painfully as he tried to recall what had just happened.
There was darkness…falling…Rukia.
He groaned again as he remembered his predicament.
Seriously, if Urahara was going to insist they see this book of horrors to the end, the least he could do was pick better places for them to land! He would've opened his eyes, but he was hoping that, if he kept them closed for long enough, this would all turn out to have been a freakish nightmare. Maybe he should stop eating cheese before he went to bed…
"Urrgh, hey Rukia, are you okay?"
Silence
"Rukia…? Oh God, don't tell me…!"
He sat up abruptly, his eyes snapping open.
What he saw shocked him beyond belief!
There was gold! Gold everywhere!
Gold statues, gold ornaments, gold coins, even what looked like gold silk!"
But his biggest treasure of all was nowhere to be seen…
"YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!"
Meanwhile…
Rukia sighed happily as she snuggled into her large silky bed. She was in the most beautiful white and gold room, decorated with light blue silk. The hot sun was shining through the open silk curtains, and the birds were chirping happily on her window sill. She had no idea where Ichigo had gone, but she would worry about that later. Right now, she was in pure bliss!
Sighing happily again, she buried her head in the soft, feathery pillow.
"You may be a complete bastard Urahara, but at least you pick lovely places to land!"
And with that, she fell into a peaceful, happy sleep, wondering if Ichigo was getting on as good as she was…
Meanwhile…
'Once upon a time…'
"Urahara shut the hell up!" Ichigo yelled as he paced the damp, stony ground. It smelt like wet cheese in this place, and at first the gold had amazed him, but the lack of Rukia, and the even more distinct lack of exit's had snuffed out what ever positive feelings he'd had before. And to make things even worse, Urahara had decided now would be the best time to comment uselessly!
'Now now Ichigo, aren't you at least a little happy to hear from me?'
"NO."
'But Ichigo! I'm trying to help you!'
"HELP ME?! LAST TIME YOU SAID THAT, YOU GOT ME SLAPPED, BEATEN, BITEN, DRESSED IN THE DORKIEST OUTFIT TO EVER PLAGUE THE EARTH, AND YOU KILLED RUKIA! IF THIS IS YOUR IDEA OF 'HELP', I'D HATE TO SEE 'TORTURE' YOU SADISTIC BASTARD!"
'You know, you shouldn't shout so loud, this cave isn't very stable! And if you thought your last outfit was dorky, wait till you see this one!"
Looking down at himself, Ichigo was horrified to see that Urahara was right! He had baggy white pants that only came down to him shins, some freakish red slash keeping them up, no shoes, a weird red hat that organ grinders made their monkeys wear, and a unbuttoned purple waist coat, with nothing underneath.
"IJHJBENBSHYBHERUFBEM" He didn't even have words to express his anger and disgust!
'Yes, it's a little exposing, but apparently, this place is hot!'
Ichigo twitched. He attempted, however futilely, to calm down. He sat himself, crossed legged on the floor, and took some very deep breaths.
"And where exactly is 'here'?"
'Oh, I'm so glad you asked! This, my under dressed friend, is Agrabah. A world of Treasures, myths, and evil dictators. You ever heard of 'Aladdin?''
Ichigo groaned in frustrating and fell backwards. His knowledge of Aladdin consisted of what he'd played on kingdom hearts, and he'd hated that level so much, he barely paid attention. But he knew enough to know that if Rukia was the princess, she'd be in a whole lot of trouble, and really soon.
"Greeeaat!"
'But never fear, Rukia is pretty safe for now! But if I were you, I'd be thinking of a way out of here instead of lying around on the floor!'
"URAHARAAA!"
'Okay okay! Good luck!'
Ichigo relinquished the silence. Maybe he should be looking for that magic lamp thing? He shuddered at the thought of what might come out of it, but it couldn't hurt to try! And besides, it might create a way for him to get out of this place! The sooner the better, he didn't know if he should believe Urahara's claims that Rukia was safe or not. It was painstakingly obvious that Urahara's version of 'safe' and the rest of the world's version of 'safe' were two very different things. So right now she could be in prison somewhere, chained to a wall, completely unaware of what was going on, and about to be killed by some godless abomination!
"WHERE THE HELLS THAT LAMP!?"
This was going to be a long tale.
Part one of A Whole New World!Better written maybe?
I hope you enjoy it and thank you to all of you for your ideas! I love them all!
R&R everyone!
Aura x