The group finally arrived at the hall where the dinner was being held after minutes of constant laughing and shoutings that annoyed Toshiro.
The hall was filled with scented candles and lightly dimmed lights. The place was dark, but it was bright enough to see your food. The table was quite long and was rectangular shaped. The peach and light blue colored table settings decorated the table.
The group entered with few lieutenants and captains sitting down. Everybody looked fancy without their regular uniform.
It was 6 by the time everybody arrived. And this was how the seating went: Byakuya sat at one end, while Ukitake sat at the other end. Momo and Toshiro sat at the middle, but at opposite sides.
At the left side (Momo's), starting from top to bottom: Unohana, Isane, Soi Fon, Kenpachi, Yachiru (they HAD to sit next to each other for obvious reasons), Rukia, Rangiku, Momo, Shinji, and Nanao (She later switched seats because she couldn't stand sitting in front of Kyoraku and wanted to be closer to Momo).
On the right side: Komamura, Iba, Mayuri, Nemu, Hisagi, Renji, Toshiro, Kira, Rose, and Kyoraku.
And so dinner was served! If you expected most of the captains or lieutenants to be normal while eating - you're wrong.
Rukia and Renji made weird faces as their food were served, and quickly ate.
"HEY RENJI YOU WANNA HAVE A FOOD EATING CONTEST?!" Rukia shouted across the table.
"LET'S GO! LOSER HAS TO CLEAN THE WHOLE TABLE!" Renji shouted back.
And so, their little contest began.
Renji quickly stuffed his face with food, and few of them went flying to either Toshiro or Hisagi.
"Hey, quit it, dumbass." Hisagi punched his arm.
"HAHAH YOU THINK I'LL STOP?! NO WAY IM GONNA LOSE!" As he laughed, more food came out of his mouth, and again, either hitting Hisagi's or Toshiro's face.
The little captain was mumbling something as he began to eat.
'Don't lose your cool… don't lose it… do it for Momo… Momo…'
As for Rukia, she ate her food quickly yet 'elegantly' (according to Yachiru).
For Byakuya, he stared at his food for quite awhile. Commoner's food? No… this is for the upper class… doesn't quite look like it…
And like that, the 6th Division's captain debated whether his food was for commoners or the upper classmen for most of the dinner.
Komomura, for a fox-man captain, ate his dinner quietly and non-messy. He looked at Rukia and Renji with disgust as he ate. Aren't they supposed to be a human shinigami not a dirty pig shinigami…
As for Iba, he was thinking the same thing as he ate.
Isane seemed scared as she stared at her food.
"C-captain… I just had a nightmare about this… and I-I can't eat it!"
"Isane, eat it."
"I want to! I'm hungry! But this food… IT WAS MY NIGHTMARE!"
And for the rest of the dinner, Isane was crying and telling her captain that she should get a new plate of food, but it was the same that she had a nightmare about. Unohana patted her back as she ate Isane's "nightmare."
For Mayuri's and Nemu's side, they also stared at their food like Byakuya. Nemu kept poking at her food, but she did eventually eat it. As for Mayuri…
What is this. This doesn't look like food at all. Did someone break into my lab? What the fu— wait. This tastes good. Wai-
Mayuri seemed surprised after he took his first bite, but he kept questioning himself whether it was 'real food' or not after each bite he took.
Soi Fon was one of the first people to act normally as she ate. Her lieutenant wasn't able to come, but the waiters made an extra plate for him. So, the 2nd Division captain took this chance to eat it.
Hisagi was also one of the few people who were actually 'normal' throughout the dinner. But according to Toshiro, he played with his noodles and ended up making each noodle into a number. Apparently, each noodle were either shaped into the number 6 or 9. He also claimed that Hisagi giggled after each noodle were shaped into the numbers. After he finished with 'fixing his noodles', his plate was full of 69's and he couldn't stop laughing.
So, Hisagi isn't considered normal anymore.
Kenpachi and Yachiru were actually doing fine as they ate.
"Kenny, this is gross. I remember seeing these green leaves before… what are they called?"
"That's a salad."
"It's gross. When's dessert coming, anyways?"
"Soon."
"Ah, Kenny what is this called.."
And for the rest of the dinner, Yachiru kept asking questions as Kenpachi ate.
Rangiku was also one of the few that were actually doing fine. Or, for the first few minutes. She ate while talking to Momo. She didn't notice that as she ate, few crumbs were falling down into her boobs. While she was drinking, the ice cubes fell out from her cup, landed on 'them' and soon she noticed the food.
For the rest of the dinner, she was taking the crumbs and ice cubes out from her boobs.
Toshiro was quite embarrassed since the people around him were idiots, and most importantly, his lieutenant doing something she shouldn't even do at the table.
He looked up to see how Momo was doing and eventually caught her eye. She smiled at him and continued to eat.
As for Toshiro, his face became bright red and also continued to eat.
Do it for Momo do it for Momo do it for Momo do it for Momo do it for Momo..
And by repeating this in his head, he believed he could last throughout the whole dinner.
Momo was doing fine. She ate while talking to Rangiku and her captain, Shinji.
At one point, Shinji made a joke and Momo kept laughing, until she burped pretty loudly.
"HAHAH! IT'S A BURPING CONTEST NOW, HUH?" Renji shouted at Momo.
"Ah! Excuse me! Wait Renji I uh-"
"BRING IT!" Rukia was even more excited about the burping contest.
And so, the duo asked the waiters for all the soda they could get, and thus, the burping contest began.
Kira chuckled, and began talking to Momo across the table, but every so often they would be interrupted by Renji's burp.
As for Rose, he didn't mind at all. He just liked the food that was given to him. He also talked to Momo and Shinji while doing so.
Kyoraku was staring intently at Nanao while she ate for he thought Nanao looked cute.
"Stop staring at me, captain."
"It's not staring, it's admiring."
"Captain.."
"Yes, Nanao-chan?"
She ended up not replying, since she asked to switch seats with Shinji leaving the old captain sad.
Out of all the captains at the dinner table, Ukitake was probably the most 'normal' out there.
He laughed as he ate, without doing anything stupid. But he ended up burping pretty loudly, like Momo.
"Ex-excuse me…"
"C-CAPTAIN UKITAKE!" Rukia was so amazed.
"Wait, no Rukia…"
"CAPTAIN UKITAKE! I CAN BEAT YOU TOO!" Renji, too, was excited.
And so the burping contest continued.
Minutes later, desserts were brought out, and Momo couldn't have been any happier.
Each lieutenant and captain received either cake, ice cream, mochi, or all of the above.
The first person to speak up was Ukitake.
"Well, we're here in celebration of Hinamori's and Hitsugaya's relationship, right?" Why didn't anybody talk in the beginning…
"Ah, yes." Byakuya was staring intently at his ice cream. "So, Hitsugaya. Mr. Prodigy boy, how did you end up becoming a commo- I mean in love with your childhood friend?" What kind of ice cream do commoners eat…?
"Ah! Er.. well… she was always there for me, and looked at me in a different way- in a good one! And well, she never fails to make me happy. She was the first person to accept me regardless of the features I had that nobody liked."
"Pfffttt…" Rangiku couldn't hold in her laughter. "Captain is being so lovey-dovey!"
"I thimk isht cufe!" Rukia had cake stuffed in her mouth. She made eye contact with Toshiro and did a thumbs up with crumbs all over her face.
"Ahh, how sweet, Shiro! So.. Hinamori, what about you?" Ukitake smiled at the little lieutenant, then glared at Rukia.
"Ahh! Err, well. I never noticed how much he loved me, y'know? I mean… he always cared about me, and I do thank him very much."
"KEEP GOIN KEEP GOIN!" Rangiku was so excited to hear the love story. "This is sooo cute!" She also did a thumbs up at Toshiro only to be glared back.
"Hehe! Well, he always took care of me, whether I was sick or not, and well, and one day, I just realized how much I loved him. He was the person that always there for me, and-"
"Aaaawwwwwwww!" The female lieutenants were so amazed. They couldn't get over the fact the little Momo was grown up to be with a man that has always been there for here.
The couple continued to talk to the rest about their story, and also continued to finish their food. As for the rest of the lieutenants and captains…
Isane was no longer crying because her dessert wasn't part of her nightmare; Yachiru stopped asking questions as she ate not only her dessert, but Kenpachi's as well; Kira asked a waiter for a peach flavored cake so he and Momo could match (although she had peach flavored ice cream); Hisagi cut his cake into halves and shaped it into the number 6 and 9 (he kept giggling to himself); Toshiro was smiling at Momo as she ate her food (she smiled as she ate and kept eating really fast) and didn't notice that he shaped his ice cream into a peach; Rangiku apparently dropped a handful of mochis into her boobs and was now searching for them; Shinji wiped off cream on Momo's face and laughed (Toshiro got ticked off at that part); Nanao brought a book in case she finished her food early; Kyoraku kept admiring Nanao as she read; Rose ate his dessert peacefully (actually, only Soi Fon, Komamura, Iba, and Nemu were quite normal); Mayuri kept questioning himself as he took each bite of his dessert; Whenever Isane wasn't looking, Unohana would take a piece of her dessert and eat it, and Ukitake was crying (nobody really noticed) because most of the people were embarrassing; and Byakuya continued to debate whether his dessert was for commoners or not.
The big dinner was coming to an end since it was getting late. But it could not simply end like this. Something had to happen.
A Food fight.
It started out when Toshiro accidently hit Hisagi's arm (Hisagi traded seats with Renji): Toshiro looked away when Momo made eye contact with him, causing his hand to slip, since he realized he was making his cake into a peach. Hisagi was making his masterpiece dessert which looked like the number 69(he called it, 'the amazing 69' and kept giggling) and when his arm was hit, his hand moved the fork making it look like '60'. Before Toshiro could apologize, Hisagi assumed it was Renji and started shouting at him. Renji couldn't hear him since he still had his burping contest with Rukia.
Yachiru was quite annoyed since there wasn't any more dessert, so she threw her leftover salad at someone, who ended up being Mayuri; the salad ended up blocking his eyes and somehow in his ears and fell down on his chair. His chair ended up knocking down Nemu, who ended up spilling her soda onto Soi Fon's face.
For Soi Fon, she could not hold back. She slammed the table angrily, and a certain type of food landed on Isane's face. And because of that, she started shaking and crying. Unohana patted her back and continued to finish her dessert.
On Shinji's side, Momo, Rangiku, Rose, and Kira were doing fine despite the entire ruckus. Apparently, Shinji whispered something to Rose across the table and started laughing.
A waiter picked up the leftovers and when he walked passed Rose, the captain tripped him, making the food fly on the table. Kira flash stepped to covered Momo (Toshiro saw this and tried not to get mad) and the food landed on his and somehow on Renji's head.
Hisagi started laughing, and food was thrown at his face by Rukia. She, too, laughed until Yachiru threw sauce in the air and landed on Rukia's hair.
She almost cried and threw food randomly which ended up at Iba's face, who was trying to eat his food but ended up stabbing Komomura's hand with a fork. The captain howled loudly, which woke up Nanao, who somehow slept with her head on her book.
Captain Kyoraku knew something cute would happen and so he brought his camera with him and flashed at Nanao. The sleepy lieutenant glared at him and suddenly took out many books from her bag and started throwing them at him. At some point, a book hit Ukitake and he just sighed.
Since Renji was covered in food, he too, decided to throw some at a random person, which ended up being Rangiku. Apparently, it wasn't her face that was hit, but her boobs. She was tired of picking out food from it, and now she had to do it again.
Kenpachi was a victim of Renji's second round of throwing food. And with Yachiru looking at him, she knew what to say: "FOOOOD FIIIIGHTTT!"
Everybody started throwing food, and as for Byakuya, he kept studying his food, still debating whether the dessert was for commoners or not.
Kira was still covering Momo as the food fight began, but she kept eating her dessert as she watched. Toshiro was certainly angry now; he wanted to be with Momo, not across the table. Before he flash stepped, some chocolate icing was thrown at him.
He lightly pushed Kira to cover Momo, and when he did, a large black jacket covered the three of them.
Shinji had thrown his jacket to cover them, and he had a large grin on his face. He nodded at Rose and so they too included themselves in the food fight.
Unohana was still trying to comfort a screaming Isane; Rangiku was still trying to pick the food from her boobs; Nanao was still throwing books at Kyoraku(which had no effect on him as he kept taking pictures); Mayuri tried to get up from the floor but was pushed down by all the food(same for Nemu but she was being aimed at by Soi Fon, so it was guaranteed that Nemu would be staying on the floor for awhile); Yachiru ate everybody's leftover dessert secretly; Kenpachi, Rose and Shinji were apparently tag teaming along with Renji; Rukia tag teamed with Hisagi and Kensei (he arrived late but it wasn't too late to join in).
Under the jacket left Momo, Toshiro and Kira together. Apparently the couple were face to face and Momo giggled. She kissed his cheek and fed him a piece of ice cream. For Toshiro, he became really happy.
"Kira's here too? Well… here! Have some ice cream!" And so Momo fed him.
Toshiro didn't notice it because he was busy day dreaming about Momo feeding him.
Ukitake, who was on the verge of tears, watched the whole scene.
"HEEYYY! STOPPP!"
And like that, the food fight was paused for few minutes.
The hall was silent except for Byakuya's 'hmmm', as kept debating.
Kyoraku stared at his best friend and threw food at him, which continued the food fight.
"H-Hinamori!" breathed Kira. "C'mon, let's get outta here!"
She nodded, and before she could do anything, Toshiro carried Momo, and soon left the hall - and Kira alone. It took few minutes until he stopped running.
They ended up next to his room's door.
"I was right, wasn't I?" Toshiro smirked as he let Momo down.
"Haha, you were!" She smiled and held his hand. "Although it didn't go as we planned, I still had fun! But…"
"But?" Toshiro kissed her forehead.
"Why I love you. The reason was much more than that."
"I already know. Don't say anymore."
He held Momo's chin, tilted his face so he could face her and with his other free hand, Toshiro held her hip. She smiled, and knew.
And their night ended the way they wanted to end. They kissed under the moonlight with a light breeze blowing through in the night sky and smiled at each other. Everything did turn out all right.