Title: Acromania
Word Count: 371
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Kon, Kurosaki Ichigo, Kuchiki Rukia
Warnings: None
Summary: Ichigo always knew just a bit more than he let on.
A/N: My poor attempt at a humor fic. Please feel free to shoot me. This
came while I was staring at my bulletin board and saw one of the
Post-Its I had pinned up of "acromania" and its definition. It
could have been much worse, if that counts for anything. I could have
actually tried to make it funny.
"What's a nine letter word for 'extreme madness'?"
Ichigo looked up from his English homework, startled by the strange question. "The hell if I know," he replied with a scowl. "Why?"
Rukia frowned, her eyebrows furrowing together in concentration. "It's this damn puzzle," she told him. "I don't have much left and I just need this one word for everything to fall into place."
"So look it up."
"That would take too long," she whined.
"Then you're screwed, I guess."
He looked like he was about to say something else, but he was interrupted by Kon slamming open the window and jumping on Rukia, screaming, "Nee-san!"
Rukia responded by crushing the stuffed lion under her heel.
"You're both psychotic," Ichigo muttered, turning back to his homework.
"What was that?" Ichigo blanched as he heard Rukia's voice, poisonously sweet, in his ear.
"I said, try 'psychotic'," he replied.
"Oh." She brightened considerably. She neatly wrote the letters into her crossword puzzle then huffed in frustration. "It fits, but it's not right! I'm done with this stupid thing!" She threw the pencil down and dodged Kon as he tried to gain access to her 'valley of the gods' again.
"Okay then," he muttered, putting away his homework and turning his attention to the shinigami and mod soul currently destroying a corner of his bedroom.
Ichigo was still awake when his two roommates finally stopped bickering and retired. Curious, he snatched the puzzle book off of his bed and flipped to the back. When he found the particular puzzle that Rukia had been working on, he smirked.
He turned back to the puzzle and in the nine remaining blanks scribbled the word "ACROMANIA" in large, unruly letters.