Okay so here is a short little chapter: in between the lines based on my night camping on the beach. :D
Okay the basis of my night was like this, 8 people, 4 girls, 4 guys. There was one couple there but in this Bleach-ified version that is non existent. There was no kissing/ making out between the sexes because my friends mom and that same friends sister's boyfriend (who I will call SF) was down there. There wasn't any crazy truth or dare games either it was just a lot of fun.
But yes, my night did pretty much go exactly like this.
Since the 4th is coming up and I'm going to be going on vacation I decided to write out the continuation of the story while there.
But once I type that chapter up this little in between chapter is going to go into a new story, In Between the Lines, just look for it in my profile the next time I update.
Oh and I thought of a new idea for a story, just check out my profile for the short idea and then vote/message/review so I know if ya like it!
Thankss~*
On with the In Between Chapter!
*~A Night at the Beach~*
"Okay so who is going to go tonight?" I asked Matsumoto. Tonight we are going to the human world to camp out on the beach, and everyone is pumped. Even Toshiro, which is saying something!
"Well there is going to be: you, me, Shiro; of course. Uhmm also Rukia, that Ichigo kid, Yachiru, Kenpachi, and Renji."
"Why Ichigo?" I asked, "I thought he was still locked up?"
"Nah they were released 'case they agreed to help us."
"Ooooh. So when are we leaving?"
"Everyone is meeting in the office at… oh my gosh! Now!"
"What? You just told me!"
"Well pack fast, bye!"
The line went dead.
Ah, crap. Okay, okay, okay. Don't freak out, pack quickly what do I need... Got it!
Pillow, check.
Blanket, check.
Candy, check. 'You know Yachiru is going to eat most of that?' Celest asked. Yep that's the reason I'm bringing it, I thought back to her.
Extra clothes, check.
Heading out the door I remembered the most important thing.
"Bathing suit!" Check, I added mentally.
Transporting to the office I saw the everyone else.
"Hey guys!"
"What took you so long?" Toshiro scolded.
"Ran-chan called me two minutes ago, when everyone was supposed to show up."
"Enough with the blaming, lets just head to the gates and go, go, go!" Rangiku called.
Everyone sweat dropped but followed her out the door and to the gates. When Toshiro showed the gate keepers the 'permission slip', as Ichigo calls it, we were all allowed to pass through.
When we arrived on the beach the first thing I did was look up at the stars. It was beautiful, just as I remember.
"So where are we?" Rukia asked.
Rangiku is the only one who could answer but currently she was struggling with a cooler. It was on top of a huge, and I mean huge, pile of what appears to be everyones stuff. Rangiku struggled to get the cooler so much that everything just collapsed onto her. This was immediately followed by sweat drops from everyone yet again. *
"So I'll start setting up the tent," Ichigo said.
"I bet I can set up the other one before you can!" Renji challenged.
Yachiru started to root for Ichigo, calling, "Go strawberry! Go, go, go!"
"Stop… calling… me… strawberry!" Was Ichigo's retaliation to the accursed nickname.
"Keep calling him strawberry, it will distract him!" Renji shouted from his collapsing tent.
"#(%&$^!" **
"Renji watch your mouth!" Toshiro called which resulted in more curses and sweat drops from the sane people.
"Yes, done!" Ichigo called. His tent, which is the bigger of the two was set up perfectly.
It was a three room tent, two girls for each of the wings and the guys are going to share the middle section. At least that's the plan. The tent Renji tried to set up was hanging from one of the stakes and he stood in front of it with his shoulders slumped and a pout plastered on his face.
"Ugh, Rangiku; come on lets go for a walk." Renji said starting to walk off. Rangiku followed like a lost puppy.
"So who wants to roast marshmallows while they're gone?" Yachiru posed.
"I do!" All the present members agreed.
Kenpachi went off to go find some sticks for the marshmallows, when he left I realized a certain captain was missing.
"I'll be right back guys!" I called, but no one noticed. Too busy laughing and throwing rocks at the fire…
"Don't throw rocks at the fire! I don't want to make another one if this goes out!" I called over my shoulder.
No longer did I hear any rocks bouncing off the burning wood. I smiled to myself as I headed towards the rocks that Toshiro is standing on. I went over to join him, half way to him on the rock I realized he was in his bathing suit.
"Going swimming?" I asked, tilting my head slightly to the right.
"Yea, care to join me?"
"Surely." I said and began to strip down.
"Woah! What are you doing?" Toshiro said with a blush. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him to a quadruple take.
I laughed but managed to choke out an answer, "Don't worry…" Insert crazy laughter here, "I have a bathing suit under my clothes… see!" I said as I took off my shirt.
Toshiro pretty obviously stared at me, I started to blush and squirm a little under his gaze, finally he realized what he was doing and blushed as well.
"Ah, sorry…" He said as he awkwardly scratched the back of his head.
"Well I think this is shallow water we should probably walk in." I said getting off the rock and cautiously walked into the water. It wasn't freezing cold, but it wasn't all that warm either. For the sound, it was perfect temperature; right in between.
"Scared?" Toshiro called from next to me.
"No, it's just I get paranoid at night, and there's black stuff in the water. I don't know if it's just sea weed or a lot of black rocks, and I don't really want to step on anything."
"Well how about I go in and then come back for you?" He posed.
"Okay!" I agreed almost immediately.
Toshiro walked out a few more feet them dove under the water. Standing up he walked back over closer to me so he wouldn't have to yell.
"Come on in!"
"Okay, okay, let me just dive in…" I dove in and doggy paddled kind of hopelessly to prevent my feet from touching the sandy bottom of the shore.
"Oi, Gracie look under you!" Toshiro called.
I looked under and saw things glowing, even though rationally I was okay, my paranoia took over and before I knew it, "I don't wanna look down! I don't wanna! Ah! Toshiro! Is it a jelly fish? Am I going to get stung?" I doggy paddled around in circles before my hand touched the sandy floor beneath me and I realized how close to shore I was, so I stood up. I was in ankle deep water and all around me was flashing these glowing white lights.
"What is that!" I asked amazed.
"It's some sort of plankton I think." Toshiro said, looking into my eyes.
I blushed and he moved closer, I went to hug him but of course someone had to ruin the mood.
"Who was just screaming?" Renji called, with his sword in hand, "Is everything alright?"
"Yes, Renji, we're fine." Toshiro said grabbing my hand, which went unnoticed by the vice-captain.
I blushed, and when Renji turned around and walked away, quickly spun around and give Toshiro a quick peck on the cheek. I transported out of there as fast as I could to grab my towel to dry off/ hide my blush with it. *** Grabbing Toshiro a towel I brought it to him when he walked over here, still phased from my previous action.
"Rukia, did you put my stuff in the tent?"
"Yea Gracie, it's in the wing right to the right."
"'Kay, thanks!" I called and went to grab my stuff from the tent, on the way out I stepped in something wet.
"Ew!" I screeched. "What's in the tent?"
"Oh that, well Renji spilt his beer!" Rangiku called.
"No I didn't you kicked it out of my hands!"
"I was changing, I needed to defend myself!" ****
I rolled my eyes, "Alright guys, whatever, as long as someone cleans it up."
"Okay…"
I returned back to the fire where Kenpachi and Yachiru were sitting on the unzipped and out stretched sleeping bag of Kenpachi's. When Rangiku and Renji came over to sit, Yachiru decided for the both of them, "C'mon Kenny, lets go try to get some sleep, I'm tired!"
"Okay, Yachiru, see you guys in the morning." Kenpachi called to us.
Once he was in the tent Ichigo piped up and called, "Truth or dare Renji."
"Dare!" Was his predictable response.
"Okay! I dare you to… eat one of these hot dogs in under 20 seconds!"
"Ew." Was Rukia's and my immediate response.
"You're on!" Renji called, and before Ichigo could even start his count down, the hot dog was gone, with five bites and few seconds of chewing the hot dog was gone.
"Eeeeeew~!" All the remaining girls called.
"Okay, I think I'm going to hit the hay," Rangiku said quietly.
Matsumoto + quiet = not good. Toshiro and I shared a glace but just shrugged, maybe she just was coming down with the flu, she said she wasn't feeling all the good earlier any way. *5
"So who is going to sleep in the tent?" Renji called.
Right now it was 12:30, the time really went fast, but we didn't get everything successfully set up until 9 anyway. Around the fire there is one open sleeping bag which myself, Toshiro, Rukia and Ichigo were sitting on like this: Toshiro is closest to the fire on the left, then me, then Ichigo, and Rukia's pillow is on Ichigo's legs and she is laying across the bottom of the sleeping bag.
"I'm going to sleep out here." I said.
"Same," Toshiro said.
"What about the bugs?" Rukia asked.
"Here's the bug spray squirt," Ichigo said tossing her the Off! brand bug spray.
Spastically Rukia caught it and sprayed a thick cloud around herself.
'There is no way that much aerosol is good for the atmosphere,' Celest pointed out to me.
I laughed and decided to tune her out for the rest of the night.
"Well I don't want to chance getting bit, so I'm sleeping in the tent." Renji said, and for once Ichigo didn't argue.
"Okay spread out the blanket so that were aren't so close to the water, the tide is starting to come in," I ordered.
"Yes ma'am!" Rukia and Ichigo saluted me and got to work.
I grinned like a moron while Toshiro just sweat dropped over the whole situation.
"Well, I call sleeping somewhere in the middle, I can't sleep on the end, I get paranoid at night." Toshiro smirked at this and said, "Alright, I'll sleep on one of the ends."
Grabbing his pillow I placed it on the left side of the blanket and my pillow on the right of his. Rukia put hers next to mine and Ichigo spread out his own sleeping bag and put it next to Rukia. I knew that we basically had no intention of going to bed, but everyone really wanted to see a shooting star.
While I was sitting up trying to open, then offer Rukia and Ichigo my candy, which they greedily took all of it, I hadn't noticed that Toshiro put his arm on my pillow. When I went to lay down, his arm was automatically around my shoulders.
I looked the my right to see if Rukia and Ichigo were watching but they called, "Hey, were going to go for a walk!"
I blushed at the scene that unfolded before me, but relaxed into Toshiro's arm anyway. *6
Slowly I moved closer to him until I was resting my head on his chest and his arms were wrapped snugly and securely around my waist. His hands over my stomach holding mine in them. Every thing was serene until I ruined it, "Look a shooting star!" I removed my hand and pointed at it as it streaked across the sky.
"Was that a green one?" Toshiro asked, perplexed.
"Yea, the streak was green, so cool!" I said ecstatically with a huge smile on my face.
I went to go lie back in Toshiros arms but we both heard Rukia and Ichigo approaching fast.
"Did you guys see that!" They asked at the same time, both out of breath.
"The shooting star?" Toshiro and I said at the same time.
"Weird," all four of us said at the same time. We all gave each other strange looks *7 until I broke the tension and started to laugh. The others joined in and Rukia suggested something.
"You guys want to go up on the dunes?"
"Sure!" I replied and began to jog off, but quickly turned back around to grab my shoes, one of the rocks while I was walking over to Toshiro with a towel cut my foot.
"No we can go!" I said and jogged off, the rest of them in tow.
I stopped to take off my shoes once we reached the bottom of the dune, it was very sandy closer to the dunes themselves and there were very few rocks. There was a slight ledge that everyone had to really climb to get over, but after than it was straight up from there. The climb wasn't all that bad, maybe 50 feet but it was on a sandy dune, so it was a pretty easy climb. When we got ¾'s of the way up, we stopped to sit. Ichigo quickly dug a place for his to sit and made a sort of sand chair.
It was around 1:15 when we first got to the dunes and I don't know how long we were talking but finally, Ichigo's stomach broke the silence.
"Who wants to come down with me to get some food?" I asked.
Toshiro agreed and while he just calmly walked down the dune, I action jumped all the way down. Let me tell you now that it is as fun as it sounds.
Quickly, we grabbed the sour cream and onion chips, the chocolate, and the gram crackers. On our way back up he took the s'mores items and I kept the sour cream and onion chips. Deciding to climb up the dune again and not shunpo up it like Toshiro did, "Exercise is good for you." I called up to him.
Half a minute later I was sitting with the rest of them, slightly out of breath. I leaned back, and groaned, I forgot what we really needed.
"What?" Rukia asked.
"I forgot our towels," Sitting on the towels would be best because everything here is slightly wet, and very sandy, so at least it would prevent some sand form getting too personal with us.
"Rukia and I will get them," Ichigo offered.
"Thanks guys!" I called after their action jumping forms.
"So about before…" Toshiro began, I knew where this was headed.
"We're getting used to the way things used to be, and obviously we want that to be that way still," I completed for him.
"Yea but we're still going to need to relearn everything, as repetitious as that sounds, I think that that is the only way to truly be comfortable with, well…"
"Us?" I added as a question.
"That's what I was thinking, but can we really consider us, well, 'us'?" He said using air quotes.
"Well in the couple-y way I guess not…"
Our conversation was cut short when Rukia and Ichigo came back up the dune.
"Towel for you and for you," Rukia said handing each towel to us.
"So Rangiku is passed out half in the tent half out." Ichigo said.
"Is she alright?" I asked.
"She's probably drunk, I don't know where she would have gotten the liquor from though." Toshiro added.
"Well where ever Renji got the beer fro is where Matsumoto got drunk." Rukia deduced.
"Yea but it's really bad, Kenpachi said Yachiru woke up to the sound of someone gagging. She woke him up and he investigated, I'm pretty sure the tent is ruined."
Everyone sweat dropped, some looked towards the new comers, Kenpachi and Yachiru escaped the tent. I, however looked towards the sky, and right on time too.
"Oh another shooting star!" I called.
"Where?" Ichigo yelled.
"Stop being so loud, and it went like this," I demonstrated the path by pointing a finger but I highly doubt that he followed it.
"Well, I'm going to explore the dune, who wants to come?" I asked.
When no one answered me I just went over to Toshiro, "Alright come on, you're coming with me."
Surprisingly he made no snarky comments like I thought he would have. I climbed to the left and saw a small little path looking thing, calling Toshiro over we walked down it. It was a short path and it led behind a bush to s small clearing that was flat. Toshiro and I stood on it in awe, it was like a personal balcony.
He grabbed m hand and I turned to look at him. Very clichéd like, we kissed under the stars, at the beach but it was different this time compared to his little 'experiment', it was real and the sparks had returned. Before it could go any farther, which a small part of me hoped that it would, Yachiru called out.
"Hey guys where are you? I want to go for a walk."
"Shall we walk?" I asked, tilting my head slightly to the side.
"Surely. Oh and Gracie?" Toshiro said.
"Yea?"
He moved closer, so close I could feel his breath on my neck as he leaned down.
"I love when you make that face." He whispered into my ear.
God, did it trigger some sort of reaction. I shivered and watched his back as he walked away. Coming out of the clearing I also noticed how giddy it made me.
"Come on Chi! Let's go!" I called happily.
"Yayay! Gracie-chan's in on this. Why aren't you that excited Kenny?"
Everyone shared a laugh at Kenpachi's face. *8
"So where are we walking to?" Toshiro asked.
"Well when Ichigo and I were on that walk we saw a water trampoline, maybe there is a beach club or something pretty close to here?"
"Then we will walk there!" Yachiru announced loudly.
"Shhh!" I scolded, "Don't wake up Rakgiku!"
"Sorry," she sheepishly stage whispered back to me.
"So who wants me to get their shoes?" I asked, going to grab mine. There was no way I was going to walk on any rock without them, being on the dunes I actually think some sand got into the tiny cut and it was irritating me.
"Me!" Rukia whisper-called.
Toshiro grabbed his himself and we set off. By now it was nearly three and we though it couldn't take all that long to get to the beach club, right?
Well we have bee walking for about a half hour now and basically everyone who didn't bring shoes feet started to hurt.
"Come on guys, it has to be somewhere near here. I even think I can see a lifeguard stand, let's go!"
"No leave us here, even Yachiru is tired, how are you still not about to pass out?" Ichigo whispered to me, trying not to wake up the sleeping Rukia he had on his lap.
We were all sitting down, but I got up, bringing Toshiro along with me.
"What ever we're going to find this beach club, come on."
Not letting go of my hand, Toshiro and I ended up holding hands on our mission to find the beach club. I could tell he was about to ask if he could turn around but I started to run, and tugged on his arm to keep going.
"I see a lifeguard stand, I swear!"
He didn't budge.
"Come on!"
Still nothing but a cold glare.
I ran to him and wrapped my arms around his neck, holding him tightly to me. I started to fake cry and looked up at him, the moonlight glistening on the tears really sold the whole scene.
"Alright, alright." He said, but did something again I did not expect.
He wrapped his arms around my waist and not was holding me to him, slowly he kissed away the fake tears from my face. I saw so stunned I failed to notice that his hands already unwound from my waist and he was dragging me by my hands to keep going.
"Are you okay Toshiro?"
"Yea I'm fine why?"
"You're not acting yourself…"
"Eh, it's probably because I'm so tired." But he winked at me when he finished talking so I knew it wasn't the case.
I snapped myself out of it and began to run to catch up to him, finally we ended up beside volleyball nets. I looked towards the water and sure enough there was a water trampoline. The beach club was actually not that big, about the size of the four divisions training grounds. Which were the smallest in the Gotei 13 because no one really trained there.
"Yes we made it!" I called, high-fiving Toshiro.
"Okay, now we can go back." Toshiro said, seemingly admitting defeat to the tiredness.
"Yep! Oh, but do you think we could shunpo back?"
"'Course."
"We will also see how Rangiku is when we get back?" I phrased it as a question to try to get him to fall into my trap.
"'Course."
"And you are going to give me a piggy back ride back to camp, right?"
"'Course."
"Yes!"
"Wait- what?"
"Nope you said you would give me a piggy back ride, let me get on your back!"
Somewhere in the distance I heard a laugh and what was most likely a perverted comment.
"Ugh fine."
"Yay!" I beamed.
When we reached Kenpachi, Yachiru, Rukia and Ichigo; Ichigo has a giant lump on his head. Rukia was awake, Yachiru was asleep and Kenpachi looked impatient.
"Okay everyone, lets head back!" I said, acting oblivious to the fact I was getting death glares from Ichigo and Kenpachi. I'm pretty sure they just want to head back to camp.
"Let's get back as quick as we can, okay?"
"Agreed." Everyone mumbled in synchronization.
About 30 seconds later we were all back at camp. *9
It's around 4:30 now *10 and the sun was beginning to rise. When walking past the tent we all noticed the disgusting smell emanating from it.
"What is that?" I asked, hand over my mouth.
"I dunno." Rukia added.
I started to gag when I went back in front of the tent to check it out.
"Gracie!" Toshiro called and ran to my side.
If I wasn't hacking up a lung I would have thought it to be really sweet.
"Oh my god, Renji is in there!" Rukia wailed.
"Alright dude, I'm coming in!" Ichigo called and heroically went to rescue him.
No so heroically Ichigo fell out of the tent with Renji on his back, "He's… heavy."
I suppressed a laugh but in the process sucked in some of the smell and the hacking began again.
Renji was passed out *11, slowly Renji began to stir. Actually it happened rather quickly, it was just a slow process before Kenpachi decided to throw some water on his head.
"Renji are you alright? Brother would have killed me if I let you die because of some stank fumes." Rukia called.
"The fumes, they made me hungry, no lie. The only thing I had in there was cheese doodles, I don't even like cheese doodles but I ate them anyway. I mean, the smell I guess wasn't too bad I took 2 or 3 advil so I guess it was kind of numbed."
"You are a brave, brave soul." I said.
"Who says we start pacing things up? It's almost 5 now." Toshiro interjected.
"Okay." Kenpachi and Ichigo begrudgingly agreed.
Toshiro directed where to put everything and Yachiru was on his shoulders mimicking him, Rukia and I folded up clothes, blankets and ended up having to cut a hole onto the tent to get Yachiru, Kenpachi and Renji's stuff. *12
When Ichigo and Kenpachi were done cleaning everything else, the only thing left was to wake up Rangiku and take down the tent. Going over to wake her up, Rukia the brave soul that she is, screamed.
We all ran over to the tent as she screamed, "Oh my god, it looks like a pile of shit!" Ichigo spoke our minds.
There sitting near the entrance to the tent, though it is inside, was literally a piece of shit. I looked to Toshiro to see if he had any answer but he was looking towards Ichigo.
Ichigo was slowly backing away, but I transported to him and grabbed his collar.
"What do you know of this?" I asked. Slowly allowing fire to nip and his face until he cracked.
"Well when I came to get the towels Rangiku was awake complaining about having to go to the bathroom, I didn't think much of it and just came back to the dunes."
"Ewwwww. So she did poop in the tent. Gross." I said.
Then Rukia and I looked at each other.
'There is no way I am cleaning it up.'
'Me either.'
"Shotty not!" *13 Rukia and I called at the same time touching out noses.
Yachiru repeated, as did Kenpachi, Ichigo and Renji which meant. . .
"Toshiro, you kind of lost." I pointed out.
"Lost what?"
"Do you know what shotty not is?"
"Yea but I don't get what we were doing it- oh shit."
"Shit's right man," Ichigo said, and Renji and Kenpachi erupted in laughter.
"Sorry Toshiro, but it's rule. Who ever looses has to pick it up and wake up Rangiku." Rukia said, unfreezing from her fear.
The air got 30 degrees colder as he glared all of us down. Rukia's fear returned but with a plastic bag Toshiro picked up the crap as if you would pick up a dogs, he then tossed it into the trees.
"Matsumoto, get up." Toshiro called.
Snore.
"Matsumoto!"
Nothing.
"MATSUMOTO!"
Zip, zero, zilch, nada.
Sigh, "I got this Toshiro." Walking closer I called to her, "Matsumoto, all the sake in the world is gone." I stated simply.
1…2…3- "WHAT?"
"Rangiku are you alright?" Rukia asked.
"Yea, I'm fine why wouldn't I be." When she got up a whole new wave of disgusting smell washed over us.
Yet again I gagged. "Rangiku, I suggest you jump in the water before we go home."
"Why?" She asked. Either really clueless, really hungover, or just pretending that last night never happened.
"Well we all were going to go for a swim and it just wouldn't be the same without you." Renji explain with.
'Nice one.' I said to him mentally.
"No it's salt water, it will ruin my hair. I think I'll just bath when we get back to soul society."
"Okay…"
'Oh god.' Was everyone's mental thoughts, plus a sweat drop once Rangiku turned her head.
Boy was this going to be fun explaining. *14
* Mind you there was no drinking at this party, excluding one really stupid friend which is what made this night memorable, but the cooler only had water and soda in it.
** Really I just didn't know what curse to put so I just did a few of these )$(*&^# :D
*** Gracie and Toshiro, without the pressure and stress of soul society are allowing their relationship to revert back to the way it was in the original universe. (Rangiku: Ooh lala~. Me: Shaddup! You don't even know about that! Rangiku: Know about what? Me: Nothing…)
**** This was the only other incident with beer. My friends sisters boyfriend (SF) went to get a beer from my friends house. And my friend (MM) was changing in the tent. SF came in and MM freaked out and literally kicked him out, spilling his beer in the process.
*5 This was the friend who someone drank so much she felt sick (SR). Well this was her excuse anyway.
*6 This never happened, one of the add ons for cuteness!
*7 like this: O_o
*8 It was something like this -_-
*9 The only reason I had them shunpo back was because the walk back to camp felt faster than the walk to the beach club.
*10 4:30 am incase you couldn't tell. And that is also what time it is right now as I am writing this =3
*11 This didn't happen to my friend (MP), he didn't pass out, he just refused to exit the tent :] but what Renji is going to say when he wakes up actually is what he said.
*12 we didn't really cut a hole in the tent, my friend (TH) was brave enough to go in there and rescue everyone's stuff.
*13 for those of you who don't know what shotty not is, here is the urban dictionary definition: what you say when you don't want to do something. and in doing so, you must touch your nose. whoever's last, loses, and has to do the bitch work.
*14 so as I finish this it's 5:12 am and I actually just heard my NEIGHBORS alarm clock go off. Oh well, i'm going to go get some sleep. Hop eyou had fun reading this, oh and one last question:
CRAZY RIGHT!