Here it is folks! The second chapter of Egyptian Desire! Please read and review, and treat the story with kind eyes, for I love you all! Please tell me in reviews how I got Rukia's personality down, is it good or not? My sister forced me to do hard labor for this chapter, so please appreciate it! Sincerely, Dr.
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Shemei hit the alarm mere milliseconds before it went off. Sitting up, she stared at the calendar on the wall to the front of her bed. Monday, time for school; routine thoughts ran through her sleepy head. Checking the time, she got up and went to the bathroom that her uncle built right next to her room. Well, more like friend-of-the-family, Tessai wasn't really her uncle. Then again, Kisuke wasn't either, but she considered them both to be. Sliding the door open, she stared at her reflection in the mirror. Her dark brown, seemingly black hair went down to about half a foot past her neck. She never really got bed hair because she always braided it before she went to sleep. Her hazel eyes blinked at her own reflection, and she rubbed them to get the crusties out. Looking passively under the sink to make sure she had set her clothes out, she hoped in the shower. As the hot water fell against her tan skin, she found herself happily ready for another day at school. She had missed it Saturday, she had a doctor's appointment. As shocking as it was to see the giant hole in the side of the Kurosaki house/clinic, the dad of the family, Kurosaki Isshin explained that a truck rammed into their house in the middle of the night. Sighing, still disappointed that she didn't see Ichigo there, she jammed off the hot water and dried off with a towel. Slipping into her button up white shirt and overtop gray uniform, she walked through her bedroom. Going into her rather colorful closet, she picked up her school bag and tossed it over her shoulder. Then she walked over to the armoire on the other side of the room, and opened up her jewelry box. There lay a few pairs of earrings and necklaces her friends or misfit family had given her. Picking out her favorite one, her favorite of all the ones her parents had passed down to her, she wrapped the small gold chain around her neck. On it was three gold charms, a scarab beetle, a cobra, and a bird. Kite, she corrected herself, it's called a kite. All three were inlaid with small, but priceless rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. She ran a hand over the charms, and the image of her mother and father popped into her head. Grabbing the picture frame to the right of the armoire, she smiled at the small, but happy family she once had.
"Wish me another great day at school, Mama, Papa." With that, she put down the frame and glanced at the clock. Crap! Too long of a shower! I'm going to be late! She raced out of the room, only to stop herself from running into a wall. Smacking herself on the head for being forgetful, she raced back into her room. Grabbing a ponytail, she raced to put her hair up as she ran back out of her room and up the small flight of stairs into the shop part of the house. Running into the small dining room in the back she slid open the door and grabbed a piece of toast off the table. Stuffing it in her mouth, she was about to run out the other door when Urahara called her name.
"Mei-chan!" Rolling her eyes at the affectionate nickname he had given her, she turned to face him.
"Yeah?" He smiled at her past his newspaper.
"You have a new student in your class, she started Saturday." Shemei (Mei for short) raised an a single black eyebrow. Taking the piece of toast out of her mouth before Tessai scolded her, she spoke.
"You would know this… how?" He shrugged as Tessai sat down the rest of the breakfast on the table.
"She came in here for a Gigai the other day." Mei furrowed her brows.
"Why would she- oh never mind. Her business is her own. You've got to stop making me curious like that!" She crammed the toast back in her mouth as she raced out of the shop. Running down the street she devoured her toast hungrily. I wonder if she's cute… She thought absentmindedly as she ran into the school gates.
"Ah- Mei!" Stopping at the sound of her name, she turned around to see Arisawa Tatsuki running up to her, Inoue Orihime following closely behind. Giving her friend a high five as she reached her, she grinned as she looked to the big-breasted princess beside her.
"Hime-chan!" Mei pounced on the girl, wrapping her arms around her chest and burying her head in the nape of the girl's neck. Tatsuki sweatdropped before getting a pulsing vain on her head. "I missed you!!! I didn't get to see you Saturday, so I was left all day to think about you! I only got to rest when I fell asleep! But that wasn't really a rest, 'cus what I dreamt about wasn't restful at all!" She snuggled the girl, who was laughing nervously.
"Give it a break Mei! Nobody wants to hear about what you did to poor Orihime in your dreams!" Tatsuki pulled Mei from the girl, and putting her hands on Mei's shoulders, she turned her around and started directing her toward the school. Mei tilted her head back to look Tatsuki in the eye. Tatsuki gulped, she'd seen that look, it was the look Mei gave when she was thinking something dirty. Mei grinned.
"I never said it was about Hime-chan, now did I?" Tatsuki felt a nervous chill go down her back before she punched Mei on the head.
"Not even Hell's going to take a perverted fiend like you." Mei laughed and followed her classmates down the hall and up the stairs to their homeroom. Once in, she found her eyes to be attracted to one person in the middle of the room, conversing with Ichigo. She had shoulder length black hair, and violet eyes. Gorgeous violet eyes. She felt a grin come to her cheeks. She saw that Ichigo had seen the look in her eyes and sweatdropped, then followed her gaze not to him, but to the girl beside him. His eyes widened, realizing what Mei was going to do. But alas, he was too late, for in the middle of her sentence, Rukia was interrupted.
"In fact, I'm fro-ack!" Mei had come up behind the girl and jumped on her back. Mei was slightly smaller than Rukia, so the girl didn't collapse under the weight of another body. As Mei's thighs wrapped on either side of the Rukia's hips, her skirt went up a little. Ichigo looked away, face red. Mei wrapped her arms around the bodice of the girl, feeling her up as she did so. The guys who Rukia was talking to, other than Ichigo, were Asano Keigo and Kojima Mizuiro, and both sweatdropped at the rather normal, but still unexpected acts of their pervert classmate. Rukia's face turned a cherry red in under a second as she felt Mei touch her.
"What's a beautiful goddess like you doing in this rundown city? Did the angel fall from heaven? Well now, welcome to Hell, allow me to be your personal guide to a better place." As Mei talked, she slipped a hand under the back of the girl's shirt, feeling along her spine. She felt the girl shiver under her touch. All three guys, as well as some of the other classmates sweatdropped even more at the corny pick up line.
"I-I beg your pardon?! Please, I-I must insist th-that you do-" She felt Mei trace her skirt line, as if toying with the idea of putting her hands down it. "Do Not Touch Me There!" Mei giggled coyly as she retracted her hand from the girl's waist, going instead for the girl's chest this time.
"As you wish my love, as you wish." Mei pressed her lips to the back of the girl's neck, already mentally undressing her. She blinked, as if something struck her, then her eyes retained that dirty, flirty look of hers as she leaned over the girls shoulder and whispered in her ear, "You know, you smell real good too…" Just as she reached the girls bra, the violet eyed goddess seemed to snap out of her daze. Rukia grabbed both of Mei's hands with her own, one reaching across her waist, the other that was under her shirt she grabbed from on top, thereby halting the flirtatious efforts of the girl on her back.
"G-Get off of me!" Rukia's cherry red face reminded Mei of a plum. She loved plums. Just as Ichigo's eye finished twitching, as he was about to grab Mei off of Rukia, the teacher stepped in. Out of nowhere, a piece of chalk hit Mei right on the center of her forehead, knocking her head back, and successfully getting her off of Rukia.
"No harassing other students in my presence, Mei! I thought I told you that the first day of school!" The strict, but relatively funny brown haired teacher snapped at the young flirtatious girl. Sighing with defeat, she slumped, her fun was ruined.
"Yes, ma'am." With that she walked back to her seat, aware of the giggles and laughter of her being the last one there. She did catch, however, the near terrified glance Rukia (she had gathered the girls name from all the whispers that went around while she played with the girl) threw at her as she got in her seat. She was the last seat in the third row from the door, there being four rows in total. There were two people in between her and Rukia, who was also seated in her row. One of them being Mizuiro, one of her friends, she listened in as he whispered to the girl over her shoulder.
"Don't worry, it's just Mei. That's her way of saying she likes you." Rukia nodded, and Mei smiled, the class knew her to well.
"Mei!" Her head shot up at the sound of her name. The teacher spoke to her with half the class laughing quietly, "I called your name to come up here and solve the problem on the board! Now if you would stop day dreaming about Kuchiki-san, I would appreciate it if you would!" Mei grinned playfully.
"Dang, got caught." She stood and walked to the board as the class laughed at her joke, causing, she noticed, Rukia to blush and look at her desk, where a notebook full of…drawings? Yes, drawings lay. She could feel the girl's eyes on her back as she walked past and up to the board, piece of chalk that the teacher threw at her in her hand. She finished the math problem easily, she had already read the chapter they were going over today in her book Sunday, to make sure she didn't fall behind in class. Placing her chalk on the board railing, she looked to the teacher, who in turn, nodded that the answer was right. As she walked back, she threw a smile at the violet eyed wonder, who blushed once more to look at her book. She full out grinned at the shyness of the girl and walked back to her seat. Sliding into it, she let the rest of the day pass by, that was, until lunch.
----- With Rukia and Ichigo
By the time lunch came around, Rukia was sick of the feeling that someone was undressing her with their eyes, so she quickly ran up to the roof, where she and Ichigo usually ate lunch. As if on cue, Ichigo followed her up to the roof with their lunches (she had conveniently forgot it on her way out of the homeroom). Tossing her bento and juice to her, she caught it and looked at him worriedly.
"Is that sort of greeting normal?" She asked, fear reaching her eyes. Ichigo scoffed at the look, and quickly answered as both Keigo and Mizuiro made their way to the roof behind him.
"If it was anyone other than Mei that had done that, I'd tell you to be scared, but the girl is known for that sort of stuff, so you should just ignore her." It was Rukia's turn to scoff.
"Easy for you to say." She started to eat her bento as the two others and Chad made their way over to the group and sat down. Ichigo rolled his eyes, Rukia had no idea.
"Actually, I was surprised when she went for Rukia-chan and not you, Ichigo." Mizuiro said as he dug into his sandwich.
"Yeah," Keigo said, his mouth partially full of spring rolls, "But you know, I was surprised when she actually stopped from going down your skirt when you asked." All three of the guys nodded at that. Rukia looked confused, what did they mean? Did she usually do a lot worse? And what's all this about Ichigo and the girl? She was about to voice her worries when Ichigo spoke again.
"She probably wants a new play-thing, and let's face it, Rukia is fresh bait." Rukia paled.
"So, wait, that means she's going to do that again?" Her look was fearful, but the guys around her looked to each other before giving it to her straight.
"Every day. Or, every time she see's you, but it'll be worse when she see's you for the first time of a day." Ichigo decided to give the news to her, and all the guys nodded. Rukia's eyes widened. Catching this, and not wanting to scare the girl into not coming to school with him, he tried to calm her down. "But don't worry, she'll calm down a bit about you in awhile, she probably just got excited today. As long as me, or Tatsuki for that matter, are around, she won't go that far. We can pull her off you, nobody else seems able to." The guys nodded at that, the only people able to pull of the girl were the two mentioned.
"The teacher will probably keep a close eye on her too, so you don't have to worry about that." Mizuiro spoke this time, and Rukia calmly nodded her head.
"What's her name again? Mei?" Rukia asked, she'd have to put it down to avoid her.
Keigo nodded, seeing as everyone else's mouth was full. "Well, her whole names Jibade Shemei, but she doesn't answer to anything else but Mei." Rukia's eyebrows furrowed.
"Odd name, she doesn't look Japanese, either." Rukia pointed out. The guys nodded again, and once more, Keigo elaborated.
"Supposedly, her dad's Arabian and her mom's Japanese, and she takes after her dad. Not that that matters, seeing how both are gone now." Seeing Rukia's shocked expression, he continued. "Her mom and dad were archaeologists, you see. They made lots of big finds down in Egypt, mummies and treasure and that sort of thing. Well, one of their colleagues got jealous, and figured if he could get away with murder, their next big find would be his. So he killed them, but he got found out. Got sent right off to jail, life sentence. All that gold and treasure went right on down to baby Mei, and she stays with her godmother's friend who owns a shop." Rukia nodded, and looked down over the edge of the gated roof to where the girl was sitting under a tree with the rest of the girls in her class. Pity and sadness engulfed her eyes. Ichigo, not liking the thought of someone actually pitying the girl, quickly made a few corrections to Mei's sap story.
"Not that she minds living with the guy, she even told me she doesn't remember her parents at all. They died a week before her first birthday so it's like the only family she knows is the family at the shop. Her dad doesn't have any relatives; I think she told me once. And her mom's family is a bunch of drunkards and drugies. She doesn't like them very much, so she only considers the people at the shop and her godmother family." The more he explained, the less happy the girl seemed to feel, exactly the opposite of what he wanted. Sighing, he tried one last motive, "You know, if she saw you looking at her like that, with sadness and all, she'd kiss you just to get a different expression on your face." Rukia's head swerved around to stare at Ichigo with a mixture of shock and fear.
"Sh-She wouldn't!" Rukia exclaimed, fearful of the thought of a girl kissing her.
"Oh ho ho, but she would." Keigo guaranteed.
"Yep, Mei-chan is an oddball alright." Mizuiro nodded, eating the last of his sandwich. Chad nodded at that comment. Everyone agreed.
----- With Mei
As if sneezing all throughout lunch wasn't bad enough, having her new toy avoid her the rest of the day was really starting to nag at her. She wasn't that ugly right? She had to check. She turned to Tatsuki, who was talking to Orihime while all three of them walked down the hall to their Home Ec. Class.
"Hey Tatsuki-chan?" She grabbed the girls attention, "Am I ugly?" Her eyes widened in shock of the question, and automatically, she assumed the worst.
"Who the hell called you ugly?" Her fist shook as her eyes went aflame. Mei sweatdropped, that wasn't the result she wanted.
"Nobody, nobody! Calm down, I was just wondering!" Sighing with relief as Tatsuki did as she was told, she soon got an answer.
"Well, you're not gorgeous, but that's simply because like me you don't have large curves. Like her." She shoved her thumb at Orihime, who was humming happily. "But," Mei's eyes travel back to the fighter, "you're anything but ugly. I mean, if you were, would your locker be overflowing every Valentine's day?" Mei sweatdropped, that was true.
"Alright, thanks." She said as she walked over to her table. She never had a partner in this class, so seeing the assignment on the board; she quickly started to rinse the vegetables. They would be making a vegetable stew. As she rinsed a carrot, her thoughts wondered to her favorite carrot tops reaction to her attack on Rukia this morning. It was rare when she couldn't read someone's expression, but that was one of the times. She didn't notice the teacher was standing in front of her table until he cleared his throat. "Ah sorry!" She said out of habit when she looked up at the burly man. He shoved a thumb to his right at the student beside him.
"You're sharing a table from now on." Just as she was about to complain, she looked over to the student. Her eyes widened as she grinned. Standing there looking really scared was none other than the new transfer student, the violet eyed Kuchiki Rukia. She shrank her grin into a smile and happily spoke to the teacher.
"Not a problem teach. I was needin' some help with the veggies here, too." He grinned; he hadn't expected the girl to actually be happy about a partner. Nodding his acceptance, he walked off. Rukia looked nervously at Mei, who gave the girl a soft smile, not wanting to scare her off. "Don't worry, I don't flirt around knives, I personally think it's a bad idea." Rukia nodded, though her gaze was still unsure. "Well, don't just stand there, come wash off these veggies so I can start choppin' them."
"O-Oh, sorry…" She trailed off as she came behind the counter and quickly rinsed off her hands.
"Here," Mei said as she held the carrot out for her to get. She hesitated, but quickly grabbed it and started to wash it off. "Hey," Mei said, looking the girl softly in the eyes, and when the girl didn't meet them, she dried off a hand and tilted Rukia's head towards hers. The violet eyes met her hazel ones. "I'm not going to hurt you," she explained, though Rukia looked unsure, "Especially not in here. So at least in here, you're safe." Dropping her hand from the girls chin, she went back to her work. She felt the eyes stay on her as she pulled out a cutting board and knife. But they left as Mei grabbed the now thoroughly rinsed carrot from her and started chopping it. "Oh!" She said as if something had just struck her, she saw Rukia tense up a bit, "Water! We need to boil the water in the pot!" She laughed at herself as she filled the pot of water and set it on the stove. Soon though, she was handed a peeled potato, and Rukia and Mei worked together in silence.
As the end of class came, Rukia found the knot she tied on her apron to keep it from coming off served its purpose all too well. Hearing laughing coming from behind her, she stiffened as she felt hands help her with the knot on her back. "Do you always stiffen up like that when someone tries to help you?" She recognized the voice as Mei.
"Not really…" Rukia died off as she dropped her hands to her side, and soon the apron came off. Feeling Mei's hands come up to her neck, she froze as the girl pulled the apron off from around her neck. She watched as the girl came around to her front, both of their aprons slung over her arm.
"Just me, ne?" She asked, smiling at Rukia as she tilted her head. Not waiting for an answer, she went over to the side of the room and hung up their aprons, grabbing her bag as she did so. Rukia watched as she left the room, since that was the last class of the day, she noted that the girl was probably going home. What's wrong with me? Rukia scolded herself, frowning as she got her bag and walked out of the classroom. She's just a human girl! Yes, you're freaking out because a human girl touched you! Rukia sighed to herself. Mentally scolding herself wasn't going to work, she knew it. So tomorrow, I'll act normal, stop trying to avoid her, and try to find out why she… Her thoughts faded off as she met Ichigo by the front gate. Yes, there's no harm in trying to get to know the girl. She resisted a shiver as thoughts about the morning class ran through her head. Or maybe I'll just talk to her in Home Ec.
----- Mei
Mei's school day ended with a dose of sadness as she saw that Rukia was more scared of her than scared of what Mei did to her. Mei had decided that Rukia was an odd one, after all, why would a Shinigami go to a high school? Probably to keep close to Ichigo, Mei noted. Ichigo no longer had the aura of a human, but a Shinigami. So Mei assumed that Rukia had given her powers up to him. Now she needs his help. Shrugging it off, she walked past the bickering Jinta and Ururu, not in the mood to play with either of them. Going to her room, she took off her necklace and pulled down her hair. Sitting in the chair in front of her armoire, she picked up a brush and started pulling it through her hair. After getting all the tangles out of it, she braided it before flipping it over her shoulder onto her back. Switching out of her school clothes, she pulled on an extra large white t-shirt that dwarfed her. She then pulled on some flannel plaid pants. Deciding to do something with the rest of her day, she went upstairs and started organizing the new shipments in the storage room. Though some of the boxes were heavy, most were relatively light. Nonetheless, she was able to complete her work before being called to dinner. Walking into the dining room, she helped herself to the meal on the table. Urahara looked her over.
"Your day not go well?" She gave him a tired look.
"I accidently scared off the new girl." He laughed behind his fan.
"I didn't think it'd be that quick." She picked up a piece of meat with her chopsticks and threw it at his face for the snide comment, he dodged it of course. Tessai sent her a scolding look for throwing food at the table.
"What's the new girl like?" Jinta asked, last time he made fun of Mei being bi, he was sent wondering throughout the countryside for a week, his butt sore the whole time. Mei sighed, she didn't feel like describing the beauty to someone who wouldn't understand.
"She came in a few days ago for her Gigai. Kuchiki Rukia, I think her name was." Jinta's eyes widened.
"That loser? Oh, well I can see why she'd be scared." He grew silent though, seeing Mei's death glare.
"Mei-chan, would you like more rice?" Ururu asked, politely taking her rice bowl.
"No thanks, Ururu-chan, I think I'll turn in for the night." Tessai's eyes widened at Mei's early turn in.
"Mei-dono, you need your nutrition to grow!" Mei smiled at his worry.
"Yeah, but I also need sleep." With that, she walked to her room and fell onto her bed. Turning over to set her alarm, she quickly fell asleep soon after she tucked herself in.
-----Next Morning at school
"How's my princess doing today?" Mei asked as she wrapped one arm around Rukia's waist, the other gropping the girls butt. Rukia froze as her face turned red, unable to move. Without warning, though, Ichigo came up behind Mei and pulled her off the poor Shinigami.
"Good Morning, Mei." He said as he stepped in between the two girls, sitting in his seat and propping his legs up on the desk across the row, successfully blocking any attempt Mei could make toward Rukia. Rukia shot him a thankful glance as she sat down in the seat across his legs, away from Mei.
"Aw, poor Ichigo. You getting jealous that all my attention is on Rukia now?" A vain started throbbing on his head.
"Who the hell would be jealous of that?!" He yelled at her before a schoolbag whacked him in the face from over the head. Mei saw him visibly twitch.
"You're being rather loud and annoying today, Ichigo." Tatsuki said from behind him.
"Ah, Tatsuki! My love! You saved me from being screamed at by that evil tyrant!" Mei dove over the desk and into the girl's chest. Nuzzling her head against the girl's body, she couldn't help but over hear Chizuru sniffling.
"But," The redhead exclaimed, "I thought I was your love!" She brought a handkerchief from out of seemingly nowhere and dabbed her eyes with it. Even being in the front of the room, Mei heard her from the back.
"Oh, my fiancé returns! I had thought you gone! You haven't graced my eyes with your lovely presence for so long!" Mei exclaimed, ditching Tatsuki as she opened her arms in way for a giant hug.
"Oh, Mei-chan!" Chizuru exclaimed, rushing forward.
"Chizuru-chan!" Mei exclaimed as a field of flowers magically surround the two.
"Mei!" Chizuru exclaimed, almost into her "lovers" arms.
"Chi!" Mei exclaimed as Chizuru jumped into her arms, both having tears of happiness run down their face.
"Mei-chan…" Chizuru cupped the girls face into her hand and tilted Mei's head upward toward her. "My bed has been so lonely!"
"I'm sorry, my love!" Mei exclaimed as she brought her arms around the neck of the redhead. They leaned closer, lips mere millimeters away, and then –WHAM!!! Both girls fell to the ground tears of pain running down their cheeks as they nursed their ailing heads.
"Ichigo!" Mei exclaimed, calling out the name of the one that hit her.
"Tatsuki!" Chizuru did the same.
"We were having a moment!" Mei exclaimed, perfectly annoyed by the fact that the carrot top wasn't listening to her.
"You're so rude!" Chizuru yelled at the girl who was nodding to Ichigo in gratitude of stopping the other culprit.
"Exactly what she said!" Both girls yelled at the same time, only to stop and stare at each other in happiness.
"Our love has no walls!" Mei exclaimed, tossing herself into Chizuru, and nuzzling the girl like she did so often.
"Yes," Chizuru nodded, bringing the others tan face up to hers again, though this time, they only rubbed their noses against each other as the flower filled background appeared again. Her hands wrapped around Mei's waist.
"My love!" They both exclaimed at once, the perfect picture of happiness. Tatsuki sighed.
"They just don't get it, do they?" She shook her head in shame. Ichigo nodded, agreeing with her.
"You see?" He spoke to Rukia, "Absolutely nothing to be scared of." Rukia nodded, seeing now that her fears were completely irrational. Not that I was ever scared of her in the first place. She thought to herself.