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Ichigo never thought this day would come.
He was standing in a line for a merry-go-round with other giggly five-year-olds.
A Chappy merry-go-round.
Ichigo had desperately hoped that there won't be any Chappy rides in the amusement park, or that he won't be forced to ride it, but of course he was wrong, as usual.
This is torture, Ichigo groaned. Who could have imagined that there actually was a Chappy ride in an amusement park? Nobody, except Rukia.
*Flashback*
Ichigo gaped at the army of shinigamis that had just arrived in front of his house.
"Whoa-what are you all doing here?"
"Some captains and seated officers came to the Real World for some enjoyment." Unohana said, smiling as always.
"Well, we had nothing to do at Soul Society, and all my boring and senseless captain made me do was paperwork," Matsumoto started.
"Oi, who did you just call boring and senseless?" Hitsugaya's eyebrow twitched.
"… and he didn't even let me drink any of the sake- he froze them all- so Rukia invited us to have a special little day at the Real World's amusement park!" Rangiku Matsumoto announced.
"Yatta! Amusement park! Ichi, let's go right now!" Yachiru yelled.
"Kurosaki, don't keep us waiting." A familiar voice nagged Ichigo.
"Ishida! Orihime and Chad too?"
"Hi, Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime waved. "Let's have some fun! It's been years since I've been to an amusement park!"
"I don't see a problem." Chad commented.
"And that's how it is, Ichigo." Rukia explained. Her look clearly said, get out of that freakin' room and take us to whatever park it's called. And Ichigo had a feeling that even if he refused, Rukia would drag him out with force, and he would be seeing several bruises and swollen places on his body later.
*End Flashback*
"Ichigo? Hello?" Ichigo heard Rukia calling him, and turned around just to meet a fist coming in his face. "Do you know how many times I called you? Stop spacing out like that and tell me what to do!"
"Huh? You don't know how to ride a carousel?" Ichigo asked incredulously.
"Well, it's not like there's this amusement park or whatever is in Soul Society, is it?"
"If you didn't know how to ride this thing in the first place, why did take this ride?"
"Because!" Rukia shouted, rolling her eyes as if it was obvious. Ichigo could easily read "Duh" written all over her face. "It's Chappy, Ichigo!"
"Right. Of course."
"Now tell me what to do, idiot!"
"What do you think? You get on one of these things!" It was hard to believe that there could be someone who didn't know how to ride a carousel.
"Well, it's not as easy as it looks like!"
"Right. They're all very, very complicated steps, huh? You have to walk over there and sit down- how difficult."
Rukia ignored the sarcasm, and finally did sit down on one of the Chappies (instead of horses, there were little rabbits).
"Ichigo?"
"Now what?"
"What are those little black creepy straps?" Ichigo had to bite his tongue to swallow his guffaw.
"It's called a safety belt, and you're supposed to buckle that so that you won't fall down."
"And how exactly do I put them on?"
"You just… er… put them on together… I guess?" Ichigo said, speechless at Rukia's shower of questions. He buckled his own belt to show Rukia, who tried her best- and failed- to do the same to hers.
"And what about this weird pole-like thingy sticking on top of Chappy's head?" she asked, giving up with the belt.
"That's a pole to grab on just in case you fall-" Ichigo said slowly, holding back an urge to release his bankai on the ride.
"And you're saying that I would fall down if I don't secure this belt and grab onto the pole?" Rukia raised an eyebrow. There was a dangerous edge to her voice, and thus Ichigo concluded that it was probably the best choice to leave her be.
"Never mind," he sighed. "Rukia, seriously, riding a merry-go-round is what five-year-kids do."
"Ohhhh, so you think this ride is boring?" Rukia's voice rose.
"Exactly!" It was five seconds after that Ichigo realized what he had just said could lead him to his death. "No! I mean, uh, the ride is, uh, very… exciting! I love the ride! Yay!"
"Too late." Rukia smirked, and shouted, "Binding way number one: Sai!"
Immediately Ichigo's arms were pulled back, and no matter how he struggled, he was held back. Though he had once broken through this spell, he was not in a mood to release even more of his spiritual energy, which was always overflowing in gallons.
"Is this really necessary?" Ichigo tried to sound as pitiful as he could. He had a pretty good idea of just what Rukia was about to do right now.
"Yes." Of course, that kind of tactics never worked on Rukia.
"Right now when the ride's about to start?"
"Don't care."
"In front of all those kids?"
"That's the point."
Rukia took out a black marker, and reached over to his face to begin decorating- or so Rukia called it- Ichigo's face.
Not less than a minute later, Ichigo was seen with several horribly drawn Chappy rabbits all over his face, along with a phrase on his forehead that read: "I LOVE CHAPPY!"
"Just what, did you do to my face?" Ichigo asked. Sadly, he did not carry any sorts of mirror, and since he was still restrained from the Kido spell, he had no idea what Rukia displayed on his face.
Actually, he did have an idea- he knew that whatever she did, it wasn't a happy one.
"Find it out yourself, Mr. I-Love-Chappy-Rides." Rukia put on one of her infamous smirk.
Suddenly, a familiar growl that Ichigo had heard so many times before reached Ichigo's ears.
A hollow.
Crap, he thought, not now!
"Rukia."
"Yeah, yeah. A hollow. I'll take care of it." Rukia said, and began searching for a Soul Candy.
"Release me from this freakin' Kido spell first!"
"Stay there 'till I come back!" Rukia shouted, and reached into her dress pocket to find her usual Soul Candy gone.
"Oi! Rukia! Rukia!"
"Shut up, will you? I can't find my Soul Candy."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I can't find that damned Soul Candy, idiot!" Rukia yelled, smacking Ichigo's head. The Hollow's roar got louder. She could hear crashes from a distance, and people screaming.
"So free me from this Kido spell!" Ichigo shouted. He would've probably changed into a shinigami to break out from the binding spell, but with his arms tied back, it was practically impossible for him to reach into his pocket and take out the Shinigami Representative Badge.
It was a bit too late to yell at each other.
A pincer struck the ground next to the carousel, and most adults grabbed their kids and ran. The Hollow showed its full form, and right on cue Rukia launched a spell: "Blue Fire, Crash!"
It was a perfect timing, a perfect angle, a perfect speed, just if the Hollow hadn't moved slightly and dodged it by an inch.
And that move by a Hollow "accidentally" hit the tip of the carousel, which triggered a button to control the speed of the carousel, and so the carousel began to revolve faster- from 3 miles per hour to 5, then to 7, and so on.
Thank god that Ichigo was the only one, at this point, who had been stuck on a Chappy, unable to take off of his safety belt. Rukia, who was busy taking care of a hollow, did not throw a glance towards Ichigo or the carousel.
The hollow opened its mouth, and it was just about to smash a bathroom with its gigantic hand when Rukia shot another blue fire, thus making the hollow to disintegrate.
"Would've been bad if the hollow actually finished off the bathroom, huh, Ichigo?" The raven-haired girl turned around just to find the carousel going out of control, and Ichigo wailing- yes, wailing- to make it stop. "That damned idiot," Rukia muttered. "I have to save his butt for everything."
Another blue fire crashed on the control room, and the carousel slowly came to a stop.
"Spin much?" Rukia smirked cruelly, enjoying Ichigo's face of horror.
"RUKIA!" Ichigo exploded. "YOU- YOU- DID YOU PLAN THAT?"
"To be truthful-"
"I knew it! You midget-"
"No, I did not plan that. Well, at least not the hollow part."
"You-"
"Plus, it was you that had put on a safety belt. Like a five-year-old, huh?"
"And just who was the one who wanted to ride this merry-go-round like a five-year-old?" Did Ichigo mention that he hated when Rukia pointed out something that Ichigo couldn't come up with a decent comeback?
"Your face when the carousel stopped was priceless. Just priceless." Rukia licked her lips, recalling Ichigo's horrified face which was more close to a ghost's rather than a human's. She continued on, "I never knew that you could be afraid of a merry-go-round. Even the kids don't."
"Someday, I'm going to kill you."
"Oh I know. The feeling is shared."
Yes, Ichigo hadn't known that bringing a group of Shinigamis, which included a Chappy-lover, to an amusement park was more than exhausting. Terrifying. A torture.
"So, Ichigo, shall we go up for another ride next?"
Ichigo just had to groan.
And a very familiar redhead came crashing down from the sky, right on top of Ichigo.
And….
"Nii-sama!"
A/N: This is my first fanfic. I know that this story is pretty much horrible, but please try dealing with it and REVIEW!
The next chapter's coming up. It's Byakuya and Renji!
