Disclaimer: If I owned Bleach, it'd be a crime. And I rather stay locked in my room than in a prison cell.
Yuzuki: -bows repeatedly- I'm sorry for late updating!!! .'' BLAME YOUTUBE!
Inuyuki: Right, blame a website for your absence. Not cool, Author-san.
Yuzuki: But it's so....addicting! And plus, blame my parents for flooding me with chores and judo!
Inuyuki: You're a bad person.
Yuzuki: Hey, no one ever said I was a good person.
Inuyuki: True!
Yuzuki: Well anyways, this chapter doesn't have much action, it has more humor, and Makin schemes....and gets some unlikely people involved...
Inuyuki: So that means...I'm not in this chapter much?
Yuzuki: Not much.
Inuyuki: Is this my punishment for breaking your toilet seat?
Yuzuki: Maybe.
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Listening To: Cupid's Shuffle by Cupid
Cupid's Arrows
Chapter 4: Karakura Cupids
~ Recap:
Makin looked at Uryu's gaze on Inuyuki's back before running off to her friend.
'Maybe...' Makin thought. 'Did you see the way they were looking at each other?!' She somewhat blushed.
'Love at first sight!'
-WAY OF MARK, MAKIN-
- - -
They say "If you fall six times, stand up seven." I never did get that...
I really could careless what it means. I have my own ways. I, Inuyuki Hanan, have adopted my own morals.
'Don't be afraid of the swords you may approach, or the hands you may die at. Show no fear and you will prosper.'
Were always the words of my master.
What? You thought Ryuken was my master? WRONG. He just babysat me for my father when he was away. My father was my master.
Well, until he died.
I don't know how it happened, Ryuken had told me it was in an accident with a Hollow. But at the time...I never did bother to question it.
- - - Flashback - - -
I ran. As fast as my feet could take me. "Papa!" I remember yelling as I ran into the General Hospital. I had just felt my papa's reistu....die out....
I knew just where to go.
"Papa! Papa!"
A nurse looked at me. "Excuse me...but you shouldn't be...." My tears grew stronger, as they poured like rain down my face.
"M-My...papa! He...was....!!"
She blinked. "Hanan-sama? You must be Inuyuki Hanan...I'm sorry. You're father...." she looked down.
"He didn't make it..."
I almost had a heart attack and fell to my knees. The nurse gasped, but did nothing, knowing I didn't wanted to be comforted like that now...
"I'm truly sorry...." she whispered. "The doctors did all they could and...." soon a hand was on the nurse's shoulder.
"Excuse me. But, I'd like to speak with Hanan-san alone." It was Ryuken. I almost wanted to scream at him. He was the doctor, right?! Why couldn't he have saved my father?!
The nurse bowed and left. Ryuken stared me down.
"You blame me for this, don't you?"
I looked up. My face red with mixed emotions of anger, sadness, and confusion. I truly did not want to blame Ryuken...but...I...just wanted to forget my weakness....
"N-No..."
"Stand up." he spoke. "You have a life to live, no use in treading on the past. It will only hold you back. Stand up, and if you fall again...."
His eyes turned a hard blue.
"Stand back up....do I make myself clear....Inuyuki Hanan?"
I nodded, and staggered to my feet. "L-Loud...and....c-clear...sir...." I sniffed wiping my tears away with my arm.
"Good. Now pack your things. You'll be staying here with me for awhile."
- - - End Flash back- - -
I sighed, putting down Full-Metal Alchemist, adding it to the pile of manga that had already been read.
Life was never the same after that. I changed schools, and left Karakura. For some reason, I never made any friends in the school in Osaka. For some reason, it felt like I didn't have to.
I felt like I was going to come back, but I always shrugged of the thought.
I never thought I was going to come back, but hey, Fate has it ways of brining it back around. Or that's Karma....well...whatever it is...I thank it.
It's good to be home.
- - -
Meanwhile....
Makin schemes...
Makin grinned happily at her desk, swooning like a weirdo. The other nurses passed by with strange looks all directed at Makin. But she was so lost in thought, that she had no clue. 'So...they must like each other! But they've never met...'
She lifted her hands to her face a blush flooding her cheeks. 'So...I've got to set them up together!'
'Makin match-maker is here to serve it up!'
"Hashabaria-san!"
Makin blinked up to find Ryuken glaring down at her. "Are you deaf? Where is my paper work?"
She sheepishly smiled. "S-Sorry...I'm spacing...."
He sighed shaking his head. "And what's with the drawings on your desk?" He pointed out the chibi of Uryu and Inuyuki.
She gulped. "Uh..."
"Just tell me what is bothering you, Hashabaria-san."
"Um..." she flushed.
Ryuken blinked. 'What could it possibly be....?'
"Well....I'll start from the beginning...."
- - -
"That's...disgusting."
"WHAT?! HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT, DOCTOR ISHIDA?!" Makin said, her hands slamming down on the desk.
Ryuken sighed. "My son and her would never...."
"Don't say that!" Makin yelled. "We've got to get them together! They're a cute couple!"
Ryuken looked slightly taken back. "We've? What do you me...we?"
Makin sighed dramatically. "You're Ishida-kun's father! You must tell him somethings about Yuki-chan!"
Ryuken shook his head. "I only told him her name."
She slouched. "Well...it's a start..."
"What's this I hear about love~!?" a voice yelled.
Ryuken groaned.
Makin gasped. "Doctor Kurosaki! What are you doing here?"
Isshin grinned. "I just happened to be passing by and heard that someone was playing match-maker! I never expected it to be Ryuken!"
Ryuken shook his head. "I'm not playing match-maker!"
Isshin patted his shoulder. "Don't worry, you wouldn't do any good, you'd only make them kill each other."
"Are you saying you could do better, Kurosaki-san?" Ryuken said, glaring at him.
"Of course!" Isshin gleamed. "They'd be in love and married by the time I get there!"
Makin blushed. "That's the spirit, Doctor Kurosaki! You're in the team!"
"Team...?" Ryuken questioned, but was ignored.
"Let's see...if were going to be doing this...then were going to need a name..."
Ryuken shook his head. "I disapprove and-"
"I KNOW!" Makin shouted interrupting Ryuken.
"What?" Isshin asked.
"Karakura Cupids!"
Ryuken almost fell to the ground. CUPID. Cupid had arrows....and...he was a Quincy...and...
OH THE IRONY.
Isshin gleamed, knowing it would practically tick off Ryuken to the bone. But thankfully Makin was there.
'Can't shoot me now!'
Ryuken sighed. "This is absurd!"
"Alright!" Isshin shouted, Ryuken again was ignored, "Let's go forth, Karakura Cupids!"
"Yeah!"
Ryuken sat there gawking.
'I'm surrounded by idiots.'
- - - End Chapter 4
Isshin: KARAKURA'S...
Makin: CUPIDS!
Ryuken: -__-''
Makin: Come on, Director Ishida! Show some team Spirit!
Ryuken: -__-'' Not when you made me where this ridiculous pink outfit...
Isshin: It's a good look on you!
Ryuken: You know you're wearing one too. -__0''
Isshin: I have no shame! ^.^
Makin: Yeah! Let's go forth for the power of LOVE!
Isshin: LOVE!!!
Yuzuki: -__-'' Poor Ryuken.
REQUEST!: If you can request a song, with a either 'Love' or 'Cupid' or 'Arrow' in the title, I'd be very thankful!
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Yuzuki: 0.o I DIDN'T PUT THAT!
Narrator: Of course. I did.
Yuzuki: -glares-