"What's that?"
"What's what?"
"That thing. On your eyebrow."
Renji grinned. "Oh? This? A tattoo."
Rukia cocked her head. "What the hell do you have a tattoo for?"
"'Cos it's cool. Duh."
Rukia snickered, "And why are you trying to be cool? You know you're a dork. Ah, I see, you're trying to impress someone! Well, she'll probably think you've just got dirt on your eyebrow."
Too right, Renji thought miserably, but said, "Not when I get more once I achieve more, like getting vice-captain or something. C'mon, chicks dig tattoos!"
"Hmmm, really? Well, good luck with that." she said tossed carelessly over her shoulder.
Renji missed the mischievous grin on her face as she walked away.
'Should've known she would be unimpressed with the tattoo,' he lamented as he crawled into bed that night. Maybe he should get those funny hair things her brother had. She obviously respected her brother… but they looked so stupid! Maybe it was because the Captain was so cool, he overcame the dumb-looking hair…
He eventually drifted off to sleep but woke up when he felt something on his hand. Thinking it was a fly or something, he flicked his wrist only to hear Rukia grumble, "Damn it! Stupid Renji!"
"Rukia?" he whispered loudly. She looked up guiltily, pen in hand. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Well, I thought I'd help you with your tattoo phase, but you ruined my masterpiece!"
"… Your masterpiece?" he repeated, a feeling of trepidation creeping in. "Hang on, let me see."
Scrawled over his arms in marker were rabbits (or were they bears?), excluding one on his hand which was only half done and ruined by a line running across the animal's face. He had obviously interrupted her while she was drawing but he couldn't bring himself to feel sorry.
"Rukia! You've drawn… bunnies all over me!" he whined in horror (he wished it was mock horror, oh how he wished…)
"I know! You're right, Renji! Tattoos are cool!" she gushed.
And suddenly Renji felt a smug sense of satisfaction. He was right.
Chicks totally dug tattoos.