Chapter: 4. The last dance
A/N: This got a bit hasty and hasnt been betaed yet. I promise I will try to update both of my fics next weekend!
Oh yeah I almost forgot. A little competition, just guess which movie/anime/whatever I´ve been inspired from at each chapter. Like First chapter "the fast and the furious" inspired etc.
Winners will be able to choose between the internet and a box of cookies...
Ja ne! -Trox
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Ichigo woke up in his sofa, still wearing just a towel. He sighed when he took a reluctant look at the watch on the table and then started to get dressed.
He hurriedly tried to get his wild hair fixed but abandoned the idea after a couple of minutes and started to pack some clothes into his bag. He ran down the apartment stairs and caught a bus
to the city. Living in the sub-urbs wasn´t as bad when you had a car to drive. Ichigo took a seat and the bus started moving. He got off at the same place he got on last night and started walking
the few blocks to Rukias Paint-shop. When he came in everything looked just like last night, only that there where fewer employees there. He half-heartedly waved to the silverhaired man who
said hello and started walking towards the backdoor. When ichigo came closer to the second door, that he knew went to the garage place, he started hearing voices. He couldn´t do anything
else than stopping and listening to the voices on the other side. Curiosity was one of his bigger flaws.
"Why not Rukia? We´ve been together for so long" a voice said.
"Stop it Renji, I don´t wanna talk about it." He heard Rukia answer the man. Oh now i know, I knew she had a boyfriend already. How could I even think about anything else. Ichigo thought.
"I love you" The man said and Ichigo knocked the door. More heavily than he intended too. He wasn´t even sure he intended to knock in the first place.
"Yeah" Rukias voice answered and Ichigo opened the door and walked in. There beside her he stood, a tall man with red hair and black tatoos on his face. He wore a Hawaii shirt, knee long
shorts, black shoes and sunglasses on his head.
"Hello Ichigo, how are you?" Rukia asked.
"Hi, thanks I´m good and you?" Ichigo answered scratching the back of his head.
"Who´s this guy?" Renji asked Rukia.
"He is my new racer I told you about. Kurosaki Ichigo meet Abarai Renji." she introduced them.
"What´s up?!" Renji said casually as he shook Ichigos hand.
"Hi" Ichigo answered simply.
Rukia broke the silence.
"So Ichigo wanna go take a look at your new ride?" She asked.
"Yeah sure" He answered still looking at the tatooed man.
"I heard you like the skyline, eh?" Renji asked when they walked down the stairs from the couch area.
"Yea"
"Its funny that you liked just that one, its the only right-sided drivers-seat we have here." Rukia said looking back up at Ichigo, then turning away and continued walking.
"I happened to see that you had a right-sided yourself?" more a statement than a question.
"Yes i had" He answered following the petite girl.
"What you mean ´had´?" Renji asked curiously when they walked past a red viper Ichigo recognized as Rukias personal veichle.
"Well I crashed it." Ichigo said with a little sorrow in the voice nobody else noticed.
"You did what? Hey Rukia you think it´s such a good idea to make him race with your cars?" Renji said with a little panic in his voice.
"Don´t bother him Ichigo, he is just afraid that you´ll beat him in a race." Rukia giggled.
"Oh no Rukia, I´m not afraid of getting beat. I´m afraid he´ll crash one of your cars too." Renji said faking a hurt expression with a hand on his chest. Rukia sighed.
"Like you´ve never crashed or totaled cars in other ways Renji." She raised an eyebrow.
"Whatever. Ichigo, why do you prefer right-seated cars anyway?" Renji asked.
"I took my drivers licence in the US." He answered honestly. "I´ve done most of my driving there."
"I see, well lucky you she had one then."
After a couple of minutes going through the cars engine, exterior and interior details, they started walking back up the stairs. Just as Ichigo was going to open the door to leave he turned around.
"Oh yea, I almost forgot. I was going to invite you to come look.. You see I´m going to perform for the last time tonight, and I wanted you to come." He was looking at Ruki while he spoke
but when he realized Renji was there too still he quickly added "And you can come too ofcourse." he nodded towards Renji.
"Perform?" Renji raised an eyebrow and saw that Rukia looked as puzzled as him.
"Yeah well I dance. Actually me and my crew are battling tonight and it will be the last time for me." Ichigo explained.
"Oh I see. Sure we´ll come. Right Renji?" At that last she throwed an elbow into Renji´s side.
"Yeah sure."
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"Hey, Ichigo you allright?" Tatsuki asked Ichigo in the changing rooms in the school gym.
"Umm yeah sure, thanks Tatsuki." Ichigo said when she handed him some water.
"Okay guys. As you all know, this is my last show. I´m quitting. So I want everyone to do their best today. I just wanted to say that Ishida will be a good leader now when i resign and I wish
you all good luck. This group are and forever will be the best in Tokyo!" Everyone was looking at Ichigo when he spoke his bittersweet speech. Tatsuki, Ishida, Chad, Keigo and Soi Fon sat there
listening. Orihime was there too a little further down the bench, although she wasn´t in the crew, she was always with them when they battled.
"I guess its about time." Ichigo said standing up and stretching a bit.
"Lets go!" Tatsuki said, and everyone started walking out the room. Last came Orihime, holding a plushie lion close in her arms.
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Rukia and Renji entered the building and pushed themselves forward through the already filled gym.
"Pretty crowded eh?" Renji said. "Hope this Ichigo guy is worth it."
Rukia ignored him and continued forward. There was a small stageish thing in the middle of the room and six people was getting up there accompanied with huge waves of applause and
whistles. Rukia saw Ichigo in the front of the others. After him came a tall, big man with brown hair, a girl with black hair and serious face. After her another girl came, she had the almost exact
same expression and color of hair, but she had two long braids in her longer hair. After the girls a shorter guy came, he had black hair, and glasses which seemed like they never sat correctly
since the man repeatedly corrected them on his nose. Then a another man came, he was a little shorter than the bespectabled man, had brown hair and a funny looking face. Everyone went
quiet when Ichigo raised his finger to his lips. Rukia noticed the clothes he wore. he had a long white sleeveless shirt, black training trousers, two sweatbands on each wrist and one on his
forehead.
"Thank you all for coming here tonight" A voice said, and it was not Ichigo. Rukia realized it was a short-chubby man with a hat next to the stage talking.
"I won´t be making any delay to the spectacular battle that will take place here. You all know Ichigo´s crew here!" the audience cheered.
"And here´s their opponents tonight, may I present Steffani´s crew!" The audience cheered now too, only a little less. A black woman followed by three japanese looking women and two men
entered the stage. Ichigo went forward to meet their captain and held a hand out to shake hers. She just walked to stand in front of him and looked at him arrogantly, then she turned around just
as arrogantly and walked back to her crew. The crowd went "oooOOoo" but Ichigo just shrugged. The music started playing a hard beat, and Ichigos crew kind of swayed their arms to the sides
and started walking slowly against the other team. Because everyones attention was at Ichigo who was first in the arrowhead formation they had barely anyone noticed that the tall man and the
braid girl was in the back. Then suddenly the braid girl appeared in front of Ichigo, slamming her feet hard into the ground since she had been flying over the other. She started dancing alone in
front of the other crew as her own was in the back cheering her on and doing arrogant gestures towards the opponents. Then one of the girls in the other team jumped into the middle and started
her show. It continued like that for a while and when the song was going towards it´s climax, it was Ichigos turn. He robo-danced into the middle while pointing at the other captain with his
fingers, his hand formed like a gun and his index finger was used as the barrel. When he reached the middle he started swaying back and forth with his arms, stopping at each peak.
Ichigo suddenly stopped as if seeing something unpredicted, then he folded himself and bent towards the floor, looking down into the ground. Then suddenly a twitch in Ichigos left arm.
And then again, although bigger. At the third twitch he unfolded himself and started breakdancing in front of the other crew who looked at him despisefully. After a couple of really cool moves
on the floor Ichigo stood up, looking at the other captain. He pointed at himself, then on Steffani and then he swayed his hips back and forth jumping towards her every time he swayed forth.
He jumped like that around her while the crowd was going nuts screaming and clapping. When he was right behind her he took a bunch of her long black hair in his hand and smelled it.
He made a foul face and feel backwards. But there was the tall guy and the short haired girl from Ichigos crew, who grabbed him so he wouldn´t fall into the floor. Dragging him back to their half
of the stage while the braided girl waved her hands infront of Ichigo as if he had fainted. The music stopped and everyone cheered, Rukia found herself cheering quite loud. She watched Ichigo
as he received their prize for winning. He waved to everyone and then went offstage. People was literally streaming out the gym so Rukia had to fight her way forward.
"Great work Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime exclaimed and kissed Ichigos cheek, Ichigo did the same.
"Thanks, phew, everyone did a good job today." He said as he hugged Tatsuki and Soi Fon.
Rukia leaned out between two guys heading out. I bet one of those is his girlfriend, maybe that blonde one. They´d fit. Rukia thought, scowling unconsciously.
"Hey wait, Rukia!" Renji panted behind her. But she continued towards Ichigo trying to loosen her brows and smile, it worked.. mostly.
"Hi Rukia! What did you think of the show." Ichigo was also panting a bit.
"You where great! So was all of you. Congrats to winning." she said now smiling genuine. The worrying thought was gone. Finally Renji came out through the masses.
"I guess a congratulation is fitting." he said as he shook Ichigos hand. That Steffani girl walked up on them. Rukia saw now, that she had dark purple hair, not black as it seemed onstage.
"Hi Yourichi whats up? Great show today!" Ichigo said waving to her.
"Thanks, you too." She looked at everyone, but stopped at Rukia. After awhile she leaned forward and whispered something in Ichigos ear and then disappeared through a backdoor.
Everybody looked after her when she left.
"So guys... Party tonight as usual? The barrens bar around 10?" Ichigo asked looking at everybody.
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