Pikachu, I Choose You: A Bleach Fanfic
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach and I could never ever own Bleach...besides, if I did, Bleach would not be nearly as awesome for is Tite Kubo who has made Bleach so great. Go Tite Kubo! XD
Summary: What does Pikachu resemble? A mouse? Kinda. A yellow rat? That's true...hey, but that's beside the point. Yes, Pikachu looks like a rabbit! In short...Rukia finds out about Pokemon and all hell breaks loose (for Ichigo)
Yes...believe it or not, but even with the title, this is a Bleach fanfic. My first too! (If you're wondering about that other fanfic on my account, the "Old friends" one, thats my friend's whose account isn't working...his is good too though! I edited it...Read it if you want a good Naruto fanfic P) I was suddenly seized by the urge to write this (I wanted to have something written)...well, whether it rocks like Bleach or sucks like , I would appreciate it if you reviewed. Please and thank you!
Chapter 1
Rukia was bored. It was 6:00 – and her regular Chappy the Rabbit program wasn't on! She'd promptly stormed to Ichigo's room to complain about it, but after about 10 minutes the stupid orange-haired teenager had snapped and demanded she get out of his room. So here she was, sitting on the floor dejectedly, thinking wistfully of singing fluffy bunnies.
"Rukia-chan, what are you doing?" Rukia looked up to see Yuzu peering curiously at her.
"Oh, nothing", Rukia said, instantly pasting her much practised "innocent-school-girl" smile. "I'm just a little bit bored. There's nothing for me to do."
"Don't you usually watch Chappy the Rabbit around this time though?"
"Yes...but Spider-man is on." (Spider-man was the first movie that came to my mind XD) Rukia sighed. If it wasn't for that stupid Spider-man movie, her Chappy program would be on...Rukia made a mental note to hate spiders from here now on.
"Oh, thats too bad Rukia-chan..." Yuzu looked at Rukia pityingly. Poor Rukiashe doesn't even get to watch television that much and now Chappy the Rabbit has been cancelled...I wonder if there's anything I can do to cheer her up... Yuzu brightened as inspiration suddenly hit her.
"I know Rukia-chan! Why don't you watch Pokemon with me and Karin-chan?" Yuzu exclaimed brightly, her eyes brimming up with hope.
"Errr...I'll think about it."
"Great!" Yuzu took that as a yes and started dragging Rukia (ignoring her protests) towards the living room where Karin was seated on the couch.
"Hi Rukia" Karin said, eyes riveted on the television, which was now advertising Pantene shampoo.
"You can sit here." Yuzu firmly seated a bewildered Rukia on the couch to Karin's left and then sat down on her right so Rukia was sandwiched between them.
"But...what's Pokemon...?"
"Oh, it's starting!"
Rukia, with a sigh, gave up her protests, settled herself down, and started to watch television.
(Page break)
"Hmmm...it's pretty quiet." Ichigo put down his chemistry homework, rubbed his eyes, and yawned widely. "I wonder where Rukia went." He snorted as he remembered her grief at the cancellation of Chappy the Rabbit. As if he cared. "Maybe she went to the store to stare at Chappy merchandise."
Ichigo shrugged it off, then picked up his Shakespeare, preparing to re-read it yet again when Rukia burst into the room.
"Hey, knock first!" He said, thoroughly annoyed, but then stopped as he looked at her. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were lighted up so they shone like violet stars. Uh-oh...she only gets that look on her face when she finds something Chappy-like... he fervently hoped she hadn't found some more Chappy the Rabbit soul-candy. His arms still ached from his last encounter with that insane "pyon" thing.
"Ichigo!" He winced at her sugar-coated voice. He hated that voice. It made him think of that time when Yuzu had accidently dropped a huge amount of sugar into his hot-chocolate. Not to mention whenever she used it, he was usually forced into doing something for her.
She skipped into his room (Seriously, what has happened to her? She's practically a-star with excitement) seized a pencil and a sheet of paper and started to draw, her eyebrows drawn together in concentration. After a minute, Ichigo unfroze and peered over her shoulder to look at the thing that she was drawing. He got the shock of his life.
"Oh my god..."
"Ichigo, what is this delightfully rabbit-like creature?!" Rukia, who was now finished, brandished her drawing into his lap. It was, unmistakably, a picture of Pikachu.
(30 minutes later...)
"So...you are saying that this Pikachu is a Pokemon?"
"...yes."
"And there are many different types of Pokemon?"
"...yes."
"And there are other Pokemon that look like Pikachu?"
"...yes."
Rukia gave a squeal of joy and rushed out of the room. Ichigo, who had been holding his breath, let it out explosively as soon as he was sure she was out of earshot. He'd been deeply terrified that she would start ranting about Pokemon all night.
Still shaky, he tried to remember what he'd been about to do before Rukia had come to interrogate him on Pokemon. He opened his Shakespeare and was about to start reading it when for the second time that day, Rukia burst into his room.
"Oi, I told you to knock first! And why are you looking at me that way?" Ichigo demanded. Rukia ignored his questions and pointed sternly to the computer.
"Go onto the official Pokemon website." She ordered him. Ichigo merely gaped at her, his mind hopelessly blank. After tapping her foot for a minute with crossed arms, she gave up waiting for him to gain his senses. Rukia slammed his mouth shut (ignoring his wincing) and sat him onto the chair in front of the computer. "Now Ichigo!"
"I cannot believe that anybody that's 150 years old would watch a show like Pokemon of all things...WHACK Alright, alright, I'll go to the damn site, wait!"
(The next day...)
YAWN "Sorry..." Ichigo tried to cover up his mouth as he yawned widely, rubbing his eyes with his other hand.
"Are you okay, Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked worriedly. "You've been yawning a lot today..."
"You don't look too great either Ichigo," Tatsuki said, taking note of the circles under his eyes. "You sick or something?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm fine. It's just I didn't get much sleep last night..." Ichigo's face darkened and he muttered something under his breath about something that sounded suspiciously to Orihime like "crazy little midget's obsessed with Pikachu".
"Oh, that's great to hear! Because I was worried that you may have eaten something bad or the sleep fairy didn't get to you!" Inoue exclaimed, wholeheartedly glad.
"Sleep fairy...?" Who still believes in stuff like that...?Ichigo and Tatsuki both wondered inwardly.
"Oh yes, the sleep fairy! You haven't ever heard of her? You see every night..." While Orihime started babbling happily to (an exasperated) Ichigo and Tatsuki, Rukia was babbling just as happily to Keigo, Mizuiru and Chad about Pokemon and the many cute bunny-like ones there were.
"Pikachu, and Pichu, and Raichu are all so delightfully yellow and fluffy! And Azumarill and all of it's evolutions have such adorable ears! Eevees are so adorable, with long ears and big eyes! And...and Buneary...! It's just too cute to comprehend!" Rukia gushed, sighing happily as she gazed at her (horrible) drawings of the bunny-like Pokemon from last night. Mizuiro sat listening with a smile and Keigo was overjoyed at how exceedingly radiant Kuchiki-san was today. Chad sat silently as always, looking wordlessly at the Pokemon in Rukia's sketchbook (of course, he's agreeing with Rukia – he has a weakness for cute things, remember?).
Uryuu walked wordlessly to Rukia and peered at her sketchbook.
"Hmmm...Pokemon would make a very interesting design for clothing..." He muttered under his breath, pushing up his glasses.
Orihime, who'd finished her ramble about the sleep fairy, perked up her ears at the mention of "Pokemon".
"Do you watch Pokemon too Kuchiki-san?" Orihime exclaimed bubbly, whisking over to Rukia's desk in an instant. Tatsuki followed her, loudly saying "Looks like you're not the only high schooler who watches Pokemon after all..."
Ichigo, who'd been nodding off to sleep again, snapped his eyes open and stared. That Rukia...she was getting the whole damn class riveted on Pokemon!
(After school...)
"Rukia..."
"Yes Ichigo?"
"Remind me again – how did we end up doing this?" Ichigo, with a thoroughly annoyed look on his face, was now accompanying practically his whole class on a search for Pokemon merchandise. Uryuu already had picked out fabrics for new Pokemon-based clothing to be made out of. Chad and many others were now clutching a Pokemon plushie. Rukia was among them, clutching a bright yellow Pikachu plushie which squealed "Pikachu!" when squeezed. Of course, it had been bought using Ichigo's money, but he had given her the money and brusquely told her to buy it herself. He'd taken care nobody had seen him handing her the money either. He had enough trouble with the damn rumours about him and Rukia without being seen openly buying her gifts.
"Why, isn't it obvious Kurosaki-kun?" Rukia asked innocently. Ichigo frowned deeper and glared at her. "Everybody here loves Pokemon! That's why we're buying Pokemon merchandise."
"Well, I don't."
"Then why are you even here?" She asked mischeviously.
"You know perfectly well why I'm here." He said shortly. Because you'd beat the crap out of me if I refused to give you the money for this. However, Keigo read a totally different message from the simple sentence.
"Of course Kuchiki-san does! We ALL do! It's because you are clearly madly in love with Kuchiki-san, Ichigo!" Keigo cried out loud enough for the whole street to hear. Several heads swivelled, people pointed and a group of girls nearby stared and giggled. Mizuiru sighed and shook his head sadly. When would Keigo ever learn to keep his mouth shut?
Ichigo stopped walking and began twitching violently. His classmates, as one (except Keigo and Rukia) sighed and stepped away. Orihime took care to grab Rukia (who was oblivious to what Keigo just said) and bring her over to the "safe" side. Keigo gulped as he felt the murderous aura coming from his orange-haired friend. Was it something I said?
(At the Kurosaki household...)
"Good-bye Keigo-san! See you soon!" Yuzu waved a heavily bandaged Keigo out of the Kurosaki clinic. After Ichigo had finished beating Keigo to a pulp, they had all decided that the time was ripe to go home. Ichigo had to bring Keigo back home with him for medical care.
"Ichi-nii...you need to stop beating up your friends..." Yuzu admonished Ichigo when Keiigo had hobbled out of sight. Ichigo scratched the back of his head and said lazily, "Relax Yuzu – it's good for him. It teaches him when to shut his big fat mouth. I'm gonna go upstairs now...gotta study."
When Ichigo opened his room, he thought for a moment he had went to the wrong room. He blinked, then looked again. It was his room alright...covered with many, many (badly drawn) pictures of Pokemon. Rukia was sitting his bed, busy drawing more.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?" Ichigo roared at her. Unfazed, Rukia looked up calmly and explained with an infuriatingly patient air, "I'm drawing, Ichigo."
"Well, hell yes, I know that, but why the fuck did you stick all of...these...all over my room?!" He yelled, gesturing wildly at all the drawings.
"I can't stick them all over Yuzu and Karin's room, now, can I?" She continued to explain, with the air of one patiently teaching a toddler that one and one makes two. This did not help. Ichigo began to tear all of the pictures off his walls, computer, desk...
"What are you gonna do with those?" Rukia said, suddenly menacing.
"I'm gonna burn them all! They all suck anyways!" And this proceeded into a very loud and noisy fight, which involved a great deal of banging.
(Downstairs...)
Karin looked up in the general direction of Ichigo's room. "They finally stopped yelling." She took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Those two...they need to grow up."
Isshin, whose eyes were full of tears, began talking to the poster of his wife which was plastered over the wall. "Oh, Masaki...! Our son has finally found love!"
"Where did you get that idea, Goat-chin?" Karin asked incredulously. "I've never seen two people fight more."
"Well, as they say "The more a couple fights, the more they're fond of each other!" Isshin proclaimed happily, continuing to grovel at the foot of the gigantic poster of his wive. Karin sighed. There really was no point to argue with him.
"Whatever, Dad...just make sure not to say that in front of Rukia or Ichi-nii. They'll kill you..."
(Back in Ichigo's room...)
"Fine...you can stick them in my closet. Happy?" Ichigo grumbled. After pointless arguing, Rukia had resorted to violence to keep her pictures. He was now lying on the ground with Rukia pinning his arm to his back, one foot planted firmly on his back.
"Yes! Thank you Ichigo!"
"Now get OFF me!"
"What's all this noise?!?" Isshin boomed as he slammed open Ichigo's bedroom door. He blinked as he looked around his eldest child's bedroom (Pokemon pictures XD), looking slightly confused before he noticed Rukia (who was still pinning Ichigo to the ground).
"Rukia-chan!" Isshin gushed. "Did you draw of all of these beautiful drawings?!" he gestured excitedly around Ichigo's bedroom.
"Oh, yes, Kurosaki-san!" Rukia said, smiling blindingly bright and hastily, getting off of Ichigo. Ichigo struggled into a sitting position, rubbing his sore arms while casting dark looks at Rukia.
"Why, you're a fan of Pokemon as well!" Isshin cried out as he examined the nearest drawing, which was of Minun and Plusle. He trembled with excitement before he yelled out "This is wonderful!!! The whole family loves Pokemon!"
"What am I? A neighbour then?" Ichigo asked in an annoyed tone but he was ignored by his father, who was fairly glowing with childish joy.
"This is GREAT! This means that I can finally go on that trip I've been wanting to for ages..."
"A...trip? To where...?" Ichigo had a bad feeling about this...
(Before you read where, try and guess where they're gonna go! I'm giving you 15 seconds...)
(Ok, you can read on now XD)
"THE POKEMON CENTRE!!!"
(End of Chapter)
Yeah...yes, they ARE going to the Pokemon Centre in Tokyo. So you can look forward to all the Pokemon goodness in the next chap! (which is probably gonna come out sometime next month..sorry OO) But of course, I'm gonna need to get an idea of what it's like...Has anyone been to the Pokemon Centre in Tokyo or New York and can tell me whats there?!? If not, I'm probably gonna have to wing it...
Anyways, thanks for reading, and again, PLEASE REVIEW!!! (The more reviews, the faster I'll update...hehe)