Chapter 7, Now for my lovely thank you's to some lovely people! I want to thank my lovely JoaNymAr12 as I always do, lovely girl, really, and fullmetalgirl65 for reviewing. PS: fullmetalgirl has a really funny oneshot! And thanks SnowyNinja607 for reading! Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 7

I walked out of the gate onto the road to town. Maybe I would stop in town to eat some dinner. I would ask around to see when the stand stayed open till. I put in my ipod and blared the drums and bass into my brain. I nodded along with the beat. I would have to go to the human world to see if I could get some of those speakers Rukia was talking about. I wanted to play my music out loud at home and when I was working on the yard. I knew I had to clear up the yard. Gran would have hated it the way it was. I couldn't leave that.

I started to see the buildings of town come into focus. I wondered what kind of person I could ask to see if the stand was open. . .I definitely didn't want to ask someone who didn't know. I sighed. I wasn't good at this dealing with people thing. I walked by all these people but I couldn't get up the courage to talk to them. How great was that? I was a high-ranking Captain and I was afraid to talk to regular people on the street. I scratched my head. This should be a mission with the way I was struggling. It was ridiculous. I closed my eyes and took in a deep breath. When I opened my eyes I jumped back, eyes wide. Standing right in front of me was the actual guy from the stand leaning down to get his face right in front of mine. I glared. I hated that guy.

"Hey there, Whitey! How ya been? Haven't seen you around the shop! Thought you would be a regular with as much melons as you bought." He laughed and stood up straight.

"Yes I need some more. I was actually needing to know if it was still open. I don't know the times. Now could you tell me and move on with your merry life?" I said stiffly.

"Hahaha, no need to get grouchy!" he laughed. "Yeah its open. It's open until nine every day! And no one knows when it opens. Whenever the worker wakes up I guess." he just kept laughing. He needed serious help.

"Wait, so your not the only one who works there?" I felt relief flush through me.

"Nope, not even close. I think. . .Ateko. . .is working now. She is a nice girl. Got quite the appetite too!" he walked in a circle while he talked. Why wouldn't he stand still!

"Okay thanks. See you." I walked past him.

"Hey! Don't just ditch me! It was fate we met here, fate!" he yelled as he jogged back to me in like five seconds, because his legs were too damn long. . .

"Shut up. I don't like dealing with loud people."

"Okay!" he sang happily.

"Now let me eat in peace, please." I gritted my teeth on the last word.

"Hey! I was gonna eat now too!" Please don't say it, please don't say it. "Let's eat together!" He just had to say it. . . This guy was my personal hell.

"No."

"Aww! Why not! Pweeeeeze?!"

"No.

"Pweeeeeeze?"

"No."

"Pweety pweeeeeeze?"

"No!"

". . . . .I will give you a free melon. . ."

". . . ." he smiled down at me. "Fine! But I chose the place!"

"Yay! Let's eat!" he punched the air. I sighed. Now I had an idiot following me.

We walked past several shops and people. I wanted to go back to that place selling the watermelon today. I wasn't sure they still served it a dinner but I had to try. We walked in silence, well I walked in silence and he talked off all the ears in China, and he thought I was listening. Poor guy. I spotted the place and looked at the windows as fast as my eyes would move. It still had the sign for watermelon. I nodded to myself and walked for the door.

"Hey! I love this place! Best chicken legs ever! You gotta try them, man. You will never want to walk out the door." He blabbed on. Oh no, I would walk out that door anytime to get rid of you, I thought. I felt my mouth twitch. I was now trying to talk to him with my mind. How messed up was this crap?

"Table please." I spoke to the lady at the podium.

"Two, right?" she asked as she pulled out the menu. I didn't answer. I didn't want to acknowledge this guy was paired with me. Good thing she didn't wait for an answer. She led us to a booth like the one I had last time, by a wonderful view of the street. I sat on the side where I could see into the heart of town and see the lights go up when the sun set. It would be something to watch while this guy rambled on and on. "Okay, your sever will be right with you." she walked back to her place at the front door.

"Hey check it out! They have watermelon today!" Kenaka said as he picked up a little bright piece of paper out of his menu. I opened mine to find one as well. It just said ask your sever for more information. "Hey did you choose this place because you wanted more watermelon?" he looked at me in some kind of weird way, like he was trying to turn me into a duck or something. I cringed back, a look of disgust plastered on my face. "Yep, dude, you have a watermelon problem. A bad one." he nodded as he folded his arms and leaned back into the booth.

"Oh, I have the problems?" I muttered and leaned my face on my palm and looked out the window. It was getting orange outside. Sunset was starting. I sighed. I would have to hurry to get to the stand. I glanced at the menu and decided I would try to listen to Kenaka, I would try the chicken legs. I liked chicken. The guy was crazy but maybe he had good taste. Maybe.

"Alright I am Emily. I will. . .Oh hello again!" It was the same server as this afternoon. "Would you like some more watermelon today, sir?" she said with a laugh in her voice.

"Yes, please. And the chicken legs this time." I spoke without looking at her. I was watching the outside sky get darker.

"Yes, sir! And I will be sure to ask for more than one piece a plate this time round." she laughed. Good girl. She learned fast. "And you, sir?" she turned toward Kenaka.

"I will have the same as the shorty here!" he smiled widely at her. She laughed again.

"Will do! Would you gentlemen like water or would you like a drink?" She said as she wrote on her pad.

"Water."

"Water."

"Okay! I will have that right out for you guys!" she walked off.

"She is pretty! I mean, dang! Look at her!" Kenaka lifted off his seat a bit to get a better view. I just sighed and looked back out the window. Getting dark quickly. The girl came back with our drinks and watermelon quickly and walked off to get some other orders. Every time she came by to fill a drink or get me some more watermelon Kenaka would just start on a whole new rant on how pretty she was when she walked off. I chose to ignore him. I didn't particularly care if "her hair flowed like the breeze in fall" or if "her eyes were as deep as the ocean". I felt the vein in my forehead start to pulse. Why was it always me? Always! I was sure I would snap one of these days. It better be soon because something had to change.

"Dang! Isn't that like your ninth plate!" Kenaka asked when the waitress brought me another plate of watermelon. "Thats over like eighteen pieces man!"

"Shut up."

"Can all that really fit in your small body!" He said looking me up and down.

"I said, shut up." I spoke slowly. "I can eat whatever I please. Now eat your chicken because I'm leaving in eight minutes, and if your not done I'm leaving you with the check."

"Ack!" he yelled and started shoveling food in his mouth. It was a nasty sight but it was better than him talking all the damn time.

We both paid and said thanks before heading out into the deep orange outdoors. We had twenty minutes until the sun would be completely out of sight and all light gone and it was a ten minute run from here leaving me with about five minutes of small light on the way home, I calculated. I took off without warning Kenaka. I didn't care if he fell behind or not. I took out my headphones and dodged through the crowd as I ran and listened to music. I looked out of the corner of my eye to see Kenaka's tall form running about ten feet behind when we got out of town. I barely lifted a headphone out of my ears to listen. I could hear his heavy footsteps and hard panting as we ran. I smirked and put my music back in. I saw a lantern hanging on the stand lit up. I ran faster.

I slowed to a stop in front of the small shop and looked over to see Kenaka running up and stopping to rest his hands on his knees. I smirked again and walked over to the watermelons. I glanced over them and felt them in my hands. I wanted three good ones for breakfast in the morning. I wanted to eat them tonight but I knew too much could be a bad thing. I already had it twice today. I sighed and placed a melon back on top of the pile and searched through some more.

"Hey, Kenaka! You alright? Don't work yourself up!" I heard a girl voice yell from the stand. "You have duty tomorrow morning in the field so you better not have pulled something cause you sure as hell aint getting outta this one!" I looked over to see a girl with bright mint-green hair and forest green eyes leaning over the counter. She was smiling largely while watching Kenaka pant over on the side. I could get to like her if she liked seeing him worn out as much as I did. I just hoped I would get her to sell me watermelon and not that freak hyperventilating a few feet away. She snickered.

"Shut up, Ateko!" Kenaka half screamed have wheezed. "That kid's a freak! He not even breathing heavy!" He looked up at me from his position being bent over. I rather liked the fact he had to look up.

"OOOOOOOOH!" Ateko screamed causing me to jump and fumble with a watermelon in the air, barely able to catch it, and Kenaka jump and fall over on his hind end. "He is s~o cute!" she jumped over the stand counter and walked (skipped) over to me. "What's your name?" She latched her hands behind her back and leaned forward and looked up at my face. I took a step back. What was with these people!

"Toushirou."

"Toushirou? Handsome. So what you hear for?" She asked while circling me while looking me up and down.

"Watermelon."

"Watermelon? Hmm, you really don't look like a watermelon guy. . . I love watermelon though! I can see where your taste lies. Good taste at that." She smiled.

"Hey, Ateko! Get back in the stand!" Kenaka yelled. "You don't go out and serve people at this place, now do what you should!" he scolded.

"Yeah, yeah." She mumbled, but she walked back to the stand anyways. For once I was glad that freak was here.

Okay I did not mean for this to be the end of this chapter but my computer is stationed upstairs and the air broke : / Sooo I can't type. It is literally 101 degrees up here : / I'm so sorry! I have been typing this every once in awhile until I almost pass out from heat u-__- Love you all still! Will try to write a longer chappy next! See you for now : /