Alrighty, Chapter 3 is here at last!

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"Ken'Ichi, why didn't you tell us you were being honored with two awards earlier?" Ichigo asked as he along with the rest of the family stood in the lobby of the KaraKura Hotel.

"Yeah and you didn't tell us it was gonna be this formal." Chad added, feeling what they had on wasn't appropriate attire. He was wearing a short-sleeved collared white and blue striped shirt with khaki pants. Ichigo had a black button-up shirt with black trousers. Minoru had on an orange shirt with retro-looking black and blue striped jeans and Tetsuya had on a red t-shirt with plain khaki shorts. Ken'Ichi had on a blue shirt, black denim jeans, and a blazer.

"It's just for sports and academic achievement." Ken'Ichi replied. "I didn't think it would be that big a deal, honestly. And besides, we look fine."

Ken'Ichi was somewhat surprised. He was surprised that the school went to all this trouble just for an awards banquet. It was this annual tradition to celebrate the achievements students had made in and out of the classroom. Ken'Ichi didn't think of it as being such a big event and found it to be overrated. But even he had to admit that the venue chosen for the event was beautiful. When Ken'Ichi and the family walked into the main room, they were in awe. The walls of the room were a pure color of white. The wall hangings were fancy buntings with soft fabric. The tables were big enough to fit five people. Some were covered in blue cloth and some had a lovely arrangement of sophisticated white roses. Others had a white cloth and were covered in a lovely arrangement of classic red roses. There were ivy-covered candle stands elaborately arranged all around the room. The room simply breathed of elegance.

"Wow, it looks so cool." Minoru eagerly said. "Its like were in an episode of "Ouran High School Host Club."

"Bable?" Tatsuya asked curiously. Ken'Ichi looked at where Tetsuya was pointing at and laughed.

"Yea, that's our table" Ken'Ichi replied, walking to the table with the reservation card that read 'Kurosaki-Sado'. Chad had affectionately put his arm around Ichigo as soon as they sat down. Ken'Ichi glanced at them and looked back down.

'Stop it!' He declared mentally. 'Stop that! People are gonna stare!'

Just as Ken'Ichi feared, People began to walk by and gave curious stares. Ken'Ichi could feel the uncomfortable heat from the wandering eyes that were watching them and couldn't stand it.

'Can you all please stop fucking staring at us!?' He mentally screamed.

"Ken, are you alright?" asked Ichigo. Ken'Ichi was brought back to reality when he heard his father's voice. "You had your eyes closed and you were breathing hard. Is everything ok?"

'No!' Ken'Ichi responded mentally. "I'm not ok! People are staring at me, thinking things about me and it's because of you and dad!"

"Ken?" Ichigo once again asked with worry in his voice.

"Uh… I-I'm gonna go get some drinks." Ken'Ichi nervously said as he stood up and quickly walked over to the food table. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"Creep"

Ken'Ichi looked up to see who it was that said that. It was Dan. Dan had a plain white tee and blue jeans. Ken'Ichi couldn't determine the look on Dan's face. Whether it was anger, resentment, or sheer boredom, he stared at Ken'Ichi with that ambiguous look.

"D-Dan, I-I'm really sorry about w-what I said earlier today." Ken'Ichi said remorsefully.

The only change in Dan's movement was that his crossed his arms. That smug stare began to burn holes into his friend. Ken'Ichi took a deep breath, trying to lessen the awkwardness between them.

"Dan…" Ken'Ichi started off, but his friend's unbending facial expression made it too uncomfortable for him. Ken'Ichi sighed heavily as began to back away, thinking things were ruined between them.

"Are you still hung up on that? Man, you need to learn to let that stuff go." Dan said, smiling.

Ken'Ichi's face lit up to see that Dan was still his friend and that he didn't totally mess up things.

"So, you brought your family after all, huh?" Dan asked.

"I thought about what you said and just thought what the hell." Ken'Ichi replied. "I just wish I had control over what people will think."

Dan frowned. "Why are still hung up over something so stupid? You can't control what people are gonna think about them. Stop trying to."

Ken'Ichi rubbed the sides of his abdomen. "The ceremony's gonna start soon and I gotta get back to my family." Ken'Ichi said as he took a few bottles of sodas and walked away from his friend.

The awards ceremony ended about 2 hours later. Ken'Ichi had won an award for ranking 17th in his class as well as an award for track and field. Afterwards, Ken'Ichi and the family were standing in the lobby of the hotel, congratulating him.

"We're so proud of you" Ichigo exclaimed.

"Thanks daddy" Ken'Ichi said.

Dan and his father had then walked up to Ken'Ichi and his family.

"Hey, Ken." Dan said. "Hey Kurosaki-san and Sado-san."

"Congrats on your awards Dan" Ichigo and Chad said in unison. Dan had won an award in basketball, hockey, and ranked 6th in his class. He may not have looked like it, but Dan is much more intelligent then he looks. "Shiratori, how ya been?"

"It's been a while, Kurosaki-kun." Shiratori said. "Haven't seen you in four months. It's been even longer with you, Sado-kun. Where ya been?"

"…I've been busy" Chad said. Just then, a ring came from Chad's cell phone.

"Excuse me" Chad said, walking to the hotel desk. He took it out of his pocket and read the text message. From Ken'Ichi's angle, it looked as if Chad was smiling at the text he received. What he also saw appeared to be some sort of mark of Chad's neck underneath his collar. He couldn't really tell, but it looked almost like a love bite. He questioned that, but dismissed it as maybe it being from Ichigo. When Chad put the phone back in his pocket, Ken'Ichi looked back at his father, Ichigo, who was still talking to Dan and his dad, Shiratori.

"I just got called into work." Chad said as he walked back to the group. "I'll probably be gone all night."

"Um… ok." Ichigo said.

"Baba!" Tetsuya said waving his arms, indicating he wanted to be held. Chad bent down and picked him up.

"I'll be back in the morning, ok big guy?" Chad said, giving his son a kiss on the cheek.

Tetsuya hugged Chad before he began to tug at his father's collar.

"Baba, what's that?" pointing to Chad's neck. Before Ken'Ichi and the others could look, Chad immediately put Tetsuya back down.

"What's he talking about?" Ichigo asked.

"Oh, I-It's nothing." Chad nervously said, almost frantically fixing up his collar. "Alright, bye guys."

Chad then walked out, his family somewhat confused and worried.

"You'll have to excuse him." Ichigo said in his defense. "He's been like that for months."

"Stress is a bitch, isn't it?" Shiratori said.

"Um… so daddy would it be ok if I spend the night at Dan's?" Ken'Ichi asked trying to change the subject.

"Uh… If it's ok with Dan and his father." Ichigo replied.

"Yea, we have plenty of room, food, and a spare set of clothes for Ken to sleep in." Shiratori said.

"Ok, I guess we'll be going then." Ichigo said, picking up Tetsuya said. "Come on Minoru."

"Bye!" Ken'Ichi, Dan, and Shiratori said as Ichigo, Minoru, and Tetsuya left.

Back at Dan's house, Ken'Ichi and Dan were in his living room playing on Dan's Wii.

"See, having both your parents at the awards ceromony wasn't so bad, was it?" Dan said as he continued to dominate in the boxing game.

"Well…" Ken'Ichi started off but was cut off by the ring of the doorbell.

"Hold that thought. It's probably the pizza guy." Dan said, stopping the game to answer the doorbell. After a few minutes, Dan came back into the room holding four pizza boxes. He put them on the table stool and went back to the door to get the cinnamon buns and BBQ wings.

"Uh… Ken'Ichi?" Dan shouted.

"What is it?" Ken'Ichi asked?

"Doesn't your dad drive a two-toned Nissan Teana?"

"Yea he does. Why?"

"You might wanna come out here and hurry."

Ken'Ichi got up and ran to the door to see what was going on. He eyes widened as he saw a Nissan Teana, two-toned with black on top and blue on bottom, driving past the house and going up the street. They both got a look at the license plate, which read BLEACH7, the same license plate.

"What the…! That's my dad's car!" Ken'Ichi said in disbelief. "I-I thought he was at work!"

"Maybe they let him off early." Dan said.

"In that case, whey would his office even call him to work only to let him go an hour and a half later?" Ken'Ichi snapped. "And besides, the direction he took isn't the same route to my apartment. He took Cresla Avenue; it's almost the opposite direction from my place."

"Hmm…Interesting" Dan said, "Wanna go follow him? I've two bikes in the garage."

"Are you crazy?!" Ken'Ichi shouted. "It's 11:30 at night!"

"Do you know where he's going?" Dan asked.

"Well, I-"

"Do you KNOW where he's going?!" Dan said, his patience wearing thin as he cut off his friend.

"No"

"Don't you wanna find out?"

Ken'Ichi had to admit, if they followed him, he could figure out why Chad had been acting so aloof and distant. He would also figure out where he had been sneaking off to for months. But then again, what if they got caught? What if that wasn't even Chad in the car? The car was already out of sight but if they hurried, they could still catch up to it, but that was only if they left at that moment. If Ken'Ichi was gonna make a decision, it was gonna have to be right then and there.

"…Let's go" Ken'Ichi declared as he and Dan ran to the garage to grab the bikes.

Ok, that was chapter 3! The story's getting hotter! Chapter 4 will be up soon! :D