He continued to examine the specks of blood until Riful said "You know you should really take off your hood were indoors you know."
Ichigo looked up from his examination to look at Riful "I don't think that's a good idea" He said frantically. She looked at him questionably "and why is it such a bad idea."
He thought frantically for an excuse and coming up with nothing while he was thinking Riful walked over to him and pulled his hood off. He was shocked that she didn't jump back in shock instead she stared at the hair and asked "were you born with it or did a few friends play a joke on you." No one had ever asked that question before he merely stood there for a little bit until she waved a hand in his face "hello anybody home."
He looked at her and said in bewilderment
"I was born with it" then Duph suddenly started laughing but stopped at the sudden glance from Riful "Its not funny Duph he can't help it if his hair is a different color"
"but its orange"
"so?" Ichigo didn't understand people especially women were scared of him when they see his hair that's how humans are they always fear what's different than them. But this woman didn't seem scared of him at all in fact she seemed to too like the strange hair style. "So who's hungry" Riful suddenly asked Ichigo's stomach coincidentally rumbled loudly.
"S-sorry I haven't eaten in a few days no wildlife seems to live around here weird don't you think?" he said this embarrassedly. Of course no creature would come near the home of any yoma much less an awakened being Riful thought to herself.
"So how about I go make us something to eat if you could point me in the direction of your kitchen then I could whip something up pronto." Riful smiled at him and said "why thank you Duph and I are horrible cooks It's down the hall second door to your right" luckily Riful had kept the kitchen stocked just in case. He bowed and left straight towards the kitchen Duph looked at Riful and noticed a slight smirk and a strange expression on her face.
"This is going to be fun" she said.
"Whoa" our orange haired hero said as he entered the kitchen, It was enormous this couple had to be loaded to afford a kitchen this size. He proceeded directly to the over-sized refrigerator and opened the 2-ton door to check the contents inside It was filled with all sorts of thing's like seafood, milk, and meat of all sorts. He immediately grabbed a few ingredients and ran over to the stove. He grabbed the apron that was next to the stove noticing how it looked almost brand new and started to cook some sort of concoction.
Riful and Duph were setting the table when Riful suddenly exclaimed "Oh my gosh I forgot"
"forgot what?"
"That door is way too big for a human to move, you have to go help him."
Duph nodded and walked over to the kitchen to help how come humans are so weak it doesn't weigh that much he thought. He opened the door and to his disbelief he witnessed the man open the door and look at the contents inside, no human could even budge that door and yet he seemed to do it with ease. Before he was noticed he went back to the dining room with a surprised look on his face
"what's wrong Duph?" He looked at her and said very quietly
"he opened it"
"What was that I didn't hear you"
"He opened the friggin door" he shouted.
Riful looked at him weirdly and said "stop kidding around Duph not even a yoma could open that door there's no way a human could…" but then she saw the expression on his face and she knew that he was telling the truth. She sat down and started to think how could a human open that door, it was heavier than a house only Duph could open it and even he had trouble with it unless he was transformed. This could be quite troublesome.
"Then add the seasoning with the garlic and your done" Ichigo exclaimed as he finished whatever concoction he was making.
He stepped back to look at the delicious plate that he had made and he noticed that he might have made a little too much. What looked to be oversized steaks were piled almost to the ceiling and looked like they would topple over any second, and there were four more piles of the stuff all in a row.
"Hey I came too see how you're doing" Riful suddenly gaped at the five huge piles of meat stacked next to each other. Ichigo looked over at her and said
"Hey I didn't know how you liked your steak so I cooked it in five different ways too be sure."
Riful continued to gape at the meat "how did you get the meat to be so big?"
He put a finger to his smiling lips and said "it's a secret." Riful regained her composure and said "would you like to get Duph in here to help." He looked at the piles of meat and said "Yeah I'm gonna need someone to carry the other two piles."
After reducing the piles too many smaller ones Ichigo and Duph managed to occupy almost the entire table in large meat. Riful looked at the steak in front of her and thought on how he could have done it, it was easily three times the size of a normal one and twice as thick. She looked over to the other two who both seemed to be having some sort of eating contest scarfing down pile after pile.
Men are so competitive; she thought no matter what it was one had to be better than the other, of course Duph would win that was obvious but Ichigo seemed to be keeping up with him so far and that in itself was incredible. Then something unbelievable happened Duph started to slow down while Ichigo actually started to speed up.
Now Riful was very impressed, was he another awakened one, no she would have sensed it and no awakened one would be stupid enough to come to her domain. But still opening that door, challenging Duph to an eating contest and winning he couldn't possibly be human. He wasn't a Halfling the organization didn't make males anymore not after the awakening incident.
"And the winner and still undisputed champion is once again Ichigo Kurosaki" he shouted as Duph seemingly passed out Riful snapped back to awareness and started to applaud the victor, she will find out later.
"N-no fair I want a r-rematch" Duph managed to say. Ichigo looked at him and said "anywhere anytime."
Riful couldn't help but giggle, this was going to be even more fun then she thought.