Second chapter! hope you like it!
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Chapter 2 .:Cause I'm the bomb, like tick tick:.
Kisuke stared at Yoruichi with concern. She hadn't said a word to him in a week. He didn't know if she was angry at him or the situation he'd put them in.
"…Yoruichi?" He called carefully.
The woman looked up at him but said nothing. Kisuke noticed her eyes looked a bit dull.
"Is there something wrong?"
'No, only everything.' Yoruichi thought, annoyed. But she shook her head and went back to her meal.
"…You're eating less."
Yoruichi shrugged.
"…Not talking at all."
Again Yoruichi shrugged.
"You're acting like we're strangers."
Yoruichi glanced up at him with a hard glare before looking back at her food. She wasn't very hungry anymore.
"Yoruichi…"
The woman stood and walked away to the back of the small building. Leaving Kisuke alone, who sighed.
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"Damn!" Soi cursed under her breath. "It never sticks!"
'You're trying to hard.'
"Mm…maybe." Soi sighed and Suzumebachi returned to it's sealed form.
There was a long silence as Soi sat and leaned against a tilted tree with it's roots struggling to keep it on the ground.
'Something's bothering you.'
'Mm…Suzumebachi, the last few days…have you noticed something in my room?'
'No. Why?'
'You're sure?'
'Yes. But why ask?'
'I'm not sure. Just feels like I'm not alone sometimes.'
'Hmm…well if there was something there I would know. And I haven't felt anything.'
Soi sighed. "Back to work." She released Suzumebachi and went back to training.
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Yoruichi stared out the window. She glared at the door when she heard a knock.
"Yoruichi?" She heard Kisuke call through the door. She didn't say a word.
"Yoruichi it's been over a month since we left. Say something."
The woman rolled her eyes at his desperate tone. She just didn't feel like talking.
She went back to staring out the window. 'Soi…'
'You'll have to talk sometime you know.'
'Maybe.'
'I bet she's talking it up and here you are all quiet.'
'I'm quiet cause I'm the bomb.' Yoruichi smirked.
'Haha! Like tick tick right?'
'Exactly.'
Yoruichi turned around when the door slid open. Kisuke stared at her with a sad face. "Yoruichi?"
The former princess and captain stood and pushed him out and slammed the door in his face.
"Yoruichi!"
'What are you doing?'
'I can't stay here!'
'But…'
'I need my space, and I need that to be respected and he's not! I can't stay here!'
Yoruichi threw on her orange jacket and pulled on her boots. She threw a few spare clothes into a backpack and jumped out the window.
She heard the door open again when she landed. She took off running as Kisuke appeared in the window.
"Yoruichi!"
She didn't look back.
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Soi shifted in her sleep.
It was that shuffling sound again that brought her out of her sleep into a semi-wakened state.
"Mm…" Soi looked around through half lidded eyes.
Something pressed onto her stomach. "Who are you?" Soi whispered. She received no answer. "Mm…" She fell back asleep.
'Where are you?'
'I am here.'
'Mm...'
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Yoruichi looked around the small apartment. It would do.
'Soi…I wonder if she's okay.'
'She can take care of herself.'
'…Why do you sound like that?'
'Like what?'
'…Like you know something I don't.'
'What are you talking about?'
'…Forget it.'
Yoruichi set her bag down on the bare floor. She was far enough from Kisuke to be comfortable.
'But I'm far enough from Soi to hate it.'
'…So you love her?'
'What!?'
'You think about her all the time. Even when you were close.'
'We're just friends.'
'Were.'
'Yeah. We were friends.' Yoruichi sighed and walked over to the wide windows. She pressed her forehead against the cool glass.
'…Are you ever going to talk?'
'I've decided the day I finally speak…will be the day I go back to Soul Society.'
'That could be forever.'
'Well maybe forever isn't that long.'
'No…maybe it isn't.'
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Soi reported for her scheduled training with the stealth force.
She'd been passing through everything like it wasn't even real. The days just seem to flow by like 'tick, tick' now.
She improved, she noticed it and so did the other members of the stealth force.
"Soi Fon." A high ranking member addressed her later that day.
"Yes?"
"The captain commander wants to speak with you."
"…But why?"
"I wasn't told the details." He didn't sound annoyed. Just curious and a bit nervous. Soi was starting to be well know for her short temper when things didn't go her way.
"You're just to go to his office straight away. Sorry, but that's all I was told." He gave her an apologetic look before going back to his training.
Soi hummed and left the training grounds. 'What is this about?'
'Haha! Even I know already and you don't?'
'Obviously not. So what is it?'
'He must want to make you captain or something.'
'But why?'
'You're Shihoin's only student. It only makes sense he'd consider you.'
'I guess.'
.:Later:.
Soi had not been promoted to captain. Yamamoto had only informed her she would be given the spot when her training was complete.
She had been excited and sad to hear it. Excited because she would be the strongest. Sad because the job would bear the memories.
'At least you get to be at the top. Or close to it.'
"I guess so." Soi sighed and continued back to the training grounds.
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Yoruichi sighed as she stared up at her ceiling. She didn't know if she was thinking to much or not enough again.
'You shouldn't dwell on it so much.'
'I can.'
'Why would you want to?'
'Cause I'm the bomb, like tick tick.'
Yoruichi fell asleep without any other thoughts. A shuffling woke her up, but not fully.
'Who is it?' She thought lazily.
'Me.'
'Who…is that?'
'…I am here.'
'I…'
Yoruichi shifted in her sleep. Something pressed onto her stomach.
'I am here.'
