Well I'm not dead… I was working on my other fanfic cause people were getting mad at me and my KPOP addiction went on a high so yeah sorry….
"Calm down. I'm fine I've built immunity to the excessive work hour load and muscle," Hiro smirked.
"Really?" Rai said sounding amused.
"Wanna see?" he said smiling mischievously and then picking her up and lifting her over his shoulder.
She lightly hit him on the back, "Put me down before I kick you in the balls!" She yelled at him. He smiled knowing not to push his luck and put her down. "Okay so you're like he man now."
Both of them ended up laughing, until they heard some yell very angrily, "YOU!"
Time Rewind (After Hiro Ditched Ichigo and Rukia and Rukia calmed Ichigo down):
Arm in arm Rukia and Ichigo walked along the main street section of the amusement park. It was nice to simply be a couple for a while.
"OH!" Rukia grabbed Ichigo's hand and dragged him to one of the game booths. It was that game where the vender had put bottle up in a pyramid and the player had to knock all of them down with a base ball. Ichigo noticed what had caught Rukia's eye. Hanging up in the prize area was a Chappy doll the size of Rukia.
"No," Ichigo said bluntly. "No way. You know I hate these stupid rip off booths."
"Please Ichigo," Rukia said with a puppy face.
"No," he said bluntly again. Rukia's reaction to that Ichigo guessed would be anger, but she started to cry. Ichigo hated when she pulled that card out. It would gather attention. He panicked and tried to calm her down. "Alright. Alright. I'll get you the stupid Chappy. Just stop crying!" Ichigo hissed.
Rukia's exploded into a grin. "Okay!" she squeaked. Ichigo sighed and walked over to the vender.
"How many do I need to knock down to get the Chappy?" Ichigo asked.
"Three," the vender said greasily. Ichigo handed over money for three baseballs. "I guess you know what to do." The vender said letting Ichigo go at it.
Ichigo got the first and second but he didn't get the third. "One more!" Ichigo said getting angry asking the vender for another set. Again same result. "Again!" Ichigo yelled at the vender to give him another set. Same luck…
"Ichigo I think you should stop," Rukia said trying to calm her boyfriend down, but she remembered that Ichigo wasn't going to give up until he'd won her that Chappy.
"Third times the charm," Ichigo threw the baseball at least ninety miles per hour poking a hole in the booth. The booth owner stared at the hole then to Ichigo. He grabbed the Chappy and threw it at Ichigo.
"Here take it! Just don't come back!" the owner yelled shooing them off.
Both of them somehow came out of it laughing.
"Well that was fun!" Rukia said clinging onto her new Chappy as they walked down the street.
"Hey I got you the Chappy one way or another," Ichigo smiled side hugging Rukia who did the same.
As he looked at down at Rukia he was lost and thought. Suddenly he ran into a door and landed with a thud onto the ground. Groaning he got up and brushed the dirt off his clothes. Rukia was giggling. Ichigo looked up to see what he'd run into.
"Tarot card fortune telling, huh?" Ichigo thought. He normally never did this sort of stuff but he walked inside with Rukia. When they walked in they were greeted by two guard men dressed in the same style of Chinese tunics and pants.
"I am Koganehiko," the one is yellow said,
"I am Shiroganehiko," the other one who was in white said.
"We will take you to Madame Kukaku!" the yelled in unison.
Ichigo felt a strange aura about the two of them. He felt knew them but he didn't know from where. Then he as they led him into the dimly lit smoke clouded room he figured it out. A busty woman with spiky black hair and cloth wrapped around her forehead who was wearing a sleeveless red tunic and white puffy pants looked up at them from a crystal ball as she sat on a big green pillow.
"Ichigo?" the woman questioned with delight. Ichigo slapped his forehead mentally. Kukaku… Why hadn't he seen it before? Yoruichi's best friend other than Kisuke was Kukaku Shiba who lived the life of a nomad traveling anywhere and everywhere doing fireworks and pyrotechnics for some of the biggest shows in the world. But no one had any idea what she did when she didn't do all that. Apparently this…
"Kukaku I didn't know you were a fortune teller?" Ichigo asked. Kukaku was hotter and had a better personality than Soi Fon but she was defiantly higher on this list of women who scared Ichigo shitless, Unohana being the first.
"I travel around doing shows for a bunch of places. But I'm here for something more important than that," Ichigo felt the tension in the room rise and flare. This was bad. "I figure out from a certain blabber mouth that my BEST friend is getting married and I'm NOT her maid of honor." Ichigo didn't know the world of women so well but he knew that THAT was a BIG thing and it usually led to really bad cat fights in this case maybe literally a cat fight… Rukia knew that if she was someone's best friend and they did that to her she'd probably be mad, but when she applied it to Kukaku who had a horrible temper the possibilities were god awful.
"Um I know we came at a bad time but we honestly came in just to get our fortune told," Rukia said. She'd had good ties with the Shiba family ever since she was a little girl because Kaien Shiba, the older brother of Kukaku used to baby sit her. Kaien was now living in a different country with his wife and kids. Rukia seen him since he and his wife had moved and she doubted Kukaku had either because he left without a word or warning or telling them where he went.
Kukaku seemed to calm down at Rukia's words. "I'll tell you your damn fortune if I can strike a deal with you," she smirked at them and said.
"Sure what?" Ichigo said knowing better than to refuse.
"I'll tell you fortune and in return you take me to see Yoruichi and I won't charge you," Kukaku said still smirking.
After Ichigo thought it over it really wasn't as bad as it could have been. "Deal," he said offering his hand.
Smiling Kukaku shook his hand. "Pleasure working with you kid, but you'd better uphold your half or else," the way Kukaku said it Ichigo knew that "or else" meant something on the line of extreme torture. Settling down around the crystal ball Kukaku took out cards from a slot in the crystal's stand, arranging them in a line face down in front of Ichigo and Rukia who were sitting next to each other looking anxious. "Both of you pick two and hand them to me without looking at them. And be sure to pick only two got it?" Kukaku asked. Nodding the two of them grabbed two cards each and handed them to Kukaku who smirked at the sight of them. "I don't mean to sound cheesy or cliché but you guys surprisingly picked the cards that mean soul mates. You two are each other's complete halves and there is no way in hell either of you will find someone else. But you guys will have your fair share of riffs here and there. Also there is a high chance the two of you will split because you take an argument to seriously."
"That's sort of stuff we already knew except for being each other halves," Ichigo said slightly blushing.
"I wasn't done yet so shut your mouth! Rukia you like Ichigo a lot and you like to be with him. There is something about him that takes your breath away," Kukaku said smiling. Rukia blushed a deep red. It was like she was reading her inner thoughts out to Ichigo who was sitting smiling. "Ichigo…you love Rukia don't you? You're already thinking of marrying her. Oh…soon too if I'm not wrong. Rukia is your strength and the only thing that cheers you up when you're down." Ichigo at that moment wanted to kill himself. His deepest darkest secrets were being read aloud to Rukia who now looked amused and please. "Now there you have it your fortunes. They were really a lot more interesting than I thought they'd be."
The two them left Kukaku with the location of the night club that Yoruichi would be at tonight and her cell number.
"Well that was fun," Ichigo said walking down the street. He noticed a guy selling ice cream. He looked at Rukia who was eyeing the stand as well. Wordlessly he grabbed her hand and dragged her to the stand. "Two strawberry ice creams please," Ichigo asked the ice cream man knowing that both he and Rukia loved strawberry ice cream. It was an ongoing joke Ichigo like strawberry ice cream. Renji never let that one go. The man handed him two ice cream cones with equally round scoops of ice cream on each. It was hot outside because where they were it was always summer so the ice cream melted as they ate it. "So Rukia…you like me a lot?" Ichigo began to tease.
"And you've been thinking of marrying me?" Rukia fired back. Ichigo shut up after that one making Rukia laugh. The ice cream was melting like crazy and the worst part was they didn't take any napkins.
"I think we need to throw these away," Ichigo grabbed Rukia's ice cream and she didn't protest. He threw them both in the trash. They both thought they looked like kindergarteners who had ice cream all over their faces and hand so they decided to go wash up. After coming out of the nearest bathroom cleaned up they walked down the board walk. Ichigo bought Rukia a strap that allowed her to strap her Chappy doll to her back. Again peace settled over them as they watched the sunset which they loved so much.
"I would kill for moments like this back in Kurakara…," Rukia said sighing. Ichigo heard her stomach grumble. Apparently the ice cream wasn't big enough to hold her hunger fully.
"Come one we'll go get something to eat," he knew there were a string of seafood restaurants at the end of the board walk.
They walked into the main square. It was different from the food court tower on the other side of the board walk. The main square wasn't on dirt ground and was on brick flooring. It was reminiscent of an old European city center, a large brick covered courtyard surrounded by well crafted buildings. The lighting was all done in candle light. The two of them had entered the upper-class Victorian era styled building and were seating up in the VVIP section.
"You seats," the waiter said pulling out the chair for Rukia. They were sitting in their own room basically with a fountain and a view of the bay square below. Ichigo normally never did this sort of stuff like eating at places like this but he knew that Rukia ate the stuff in here on a daily basis thanks to Byakuya's being insanely loaded.
The two of them liked being together but when they were eating it seemed awkward since no one else would break the silence.
"What are you going to order?" Rukia asked Ichigo who felt the need to stare into his menu.
Ichigo picked the first thing he saw, "The Spanish garlic prawns."
Rukia tilted her head, "Ichigo you hate anything garlic on your seafood."
Ichigo grabbed his glass of water and began drinking, avoiding Rukia's eye at all costs. As his eye wandered he was two people on the boardwalk. One looked oddly like Hiro. Ichigo's eyes blazed looking over the figure again and it was without a doubt Hiro, then he thought some more. If they invited Hiro along it would be less awkward, "Excuse me," he said getting up and before Rukia could stop him he dashed off.
Rukia sighed and began to massage her forehead. She knew he'd be back soon, just not where the hell he'd run off to.
Inside Ichigo had already forgiven Hiro for leaving Rukia and him alone but he'd still been a little hurt for the fact he felt like a horrible person for making his friend feel like a third wheel. He hated to ruin the moment that Hiro and his friend were having cause it looked like they were having fun. But Ichigo knew that Rukia would be getting madder by the minute and thought it best to act like he was mad at Hiro.
"YOU!" Ichigo yelled angrily heading towards the two of them and they turned to look at him. Hiro froze and looked scared. The person beside him was turned facing Hiro and tilted her head. Ichigo didn't care who it was Hiro was his only hope. Hiro looked panicked as Ichigo approached and the person beside him turned slowly to face Ichigo. Piercing sapphire eyes looked at Ichigo and he felt a chill as though someone had walked on his grave. He looked more carefully at who the girl was.
'Shit! Of all the people in the world it had to be her huh Hiro?' Ichigo cried on the inside. It was the beloved granddaughter of the guy who signs his pay checks and his friend's best friend, Rai.
Ichigo composed himself and walked over to the two. "In return for ditching me I would like it if you two could accompany me for dinner. Rukia's already waiting and there are no ifs, ands, or buts," Ichigo said in a much calmer way than he'd originally intended. He had no idea what the granddaughter of his boss was like. He'd only seen her deadly mad when that one girl picked on Hiro and that was scary as hell.
The two of them looked each other in the eyes and nodded in agreement, the Hiro moved his hand to motion Ichigo to go on and lead the way.
Ichigo did as he was told and he somehow felt the tables had turned and those two were the ones that had him on a lease instead of the other way around.
When the doors the VVIP room opened up Rukia came at Ichigo with a choke hug sort of thing. She began choking Ichigo senselessly and Rai just stared in curiosity not weirded out in the slightest.
"Is this how they normally greet each other Hiro?" she asked him.
"Not really…This is only when Rukia's mad at him," Hiro said shrugging. Judging by her expression Rai was slightly amused.
"Cut it out you two let's eat," Hiro said trying to help Ichigo pry Rukia's hand off his neck. By the time they got to the table food was waiting for them. It all looked amazing way better than what they'd originally planned to have.
"You guys were taking too long and the waiter didn't look too happy about the fighting so I ordered food for you. I'm sorry if you don't like it," Rai said.
"No no it's fine," Rukia said taking her seat with was next to Rai and across the table from Ichigo.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting," Hiro said taking his seat across from Rai.
"Well the food looks good," Ichigo said.
Ichigo liked eating in silence and Rukia was used to eating in silence, but the light conversations on the other end of the table pleasantly relaxed them.
"So your grandfather is Yamamoto-taichou?" Hiro said as he bit into a shellfish.
"Yup!" she said brightly as though it was the best thing in the world.
"Don't you feel pressured at all?" Rukia asked sipping the lime soda.
"No not really. Everyone acknowledges me as Rai not as the granddaughter of Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, so I'm perfectly happy," Rai said then took a sip of the soup.
"Do you ever get bullied about it?' Ichigo asked.
"The people who do know my grandfather is my grandfather know me well too so they don't say that I got my ticket to stardom or idolhood thanks to my grandfather. In the beginning though people did think I was pressured into being an idol but I'd wanted to be one since I was very little."
"How does your grandfather usually treat you?" Rukia asked wondering why Rai made that grumpy old man seem so nice.
"To my grandfather I am the very thing he takes the most pride in and I try my best not to fail him. When his only daughter, my mom, died he was deeply disheartened. He'd also cared for my dad who died with her very much as well. He raised me in the best way possible and he's very nice to me," Rai said smiling.
'That totally does not sound like the Yamamoto-taichou I know', Ichigo and Rukia thought to themselves.
"He does seem very kind," Hiro said nodding thinking back to when the old man handed him the poster of his friends.
Ichigo and Rukia laughed. These two were too cute! "Kinda I guess he has his moments, but he's super strict," Ichigo said.
"I agree. There was that one time he made us fix the dance studio," Rukia said.
"But that was because Renji and Grimmjow broke it," Ichigo said.
"Those two never give up do they," Rukia said shaking her head.
"Whatever decisions my grandfather makes for you guys ends up helping you eventually so I wouldn't take his strictness too hurtfully," Rai said taking a bite of the lobster.
"I guess you're right," Ichigo said taking a chunk out of the chicken making Rukia give him a dirty look.
"Except I don't see how working me for nine hours at a time is healthy…," Hiro mumbled eating a dumpling.
Rai laughed. "Well if that scrawny guy who's books I had to carry can now carry me it's worth it," Rai said teasing him. Hiro smiled still looking down at his food.
Rukia saw them and spit out her soup. His teeth were surprisingly perfect and white.
"How are your teeth so perfect when you were in a much worse condition?" she asked him. Before Hiro could answer Rai spoke up.
"I kinda sorta forced him to get braces in middle school," Rai said. "And ever since then I've forced him to take care of them."
"You forced him?" Rukia asked.
Hiro finally spoke up, "No no no you are NOT speaking of that day again you hear me Rai!" Hiro yelled and they all began to laugh. Ichigo's mind faded away he could almost see them like many many years from now. Adding those two to their dinner was one of the best things they could have done. They lightened the mood and gave them a reason to talk more.
Before long dinner was over and they all went to the board walk to watch one of the best fireworks displays in the world courtesy of Kukaku.
They all stood inside the food court tower and ate Belgian éclairs while watching firework after firework explode in the night sky.
"There you guys are," Karin said.
"Do you have any idea how long we've been looking for you?" Toshiro asked.
"We should be the ones saying that!" Ichigo yelled.
"Well you clearly weren't looking for us right now," Karin threw at him and he shut up.
"We knew we didn't have to go looking for you because the two of you know what you're doing and you're clearly old enough to wander without us having to watch over you, but it would have helped if you gave us a call," Rukia simply shrugged.
"Did you guys eat dinner yet?" Hiro's big brother instincts came over him.
"Of course we did we knew that eventually you guys would show up here so we went and had our fun before we ate came to eat dinner here," Toshiro said.
"Who's that?" Karin asked turning to look at Rai.
"A friend of Hiro's," Rukia said.
"You're the rookie aren't you?" Karin asked.
"Yes I am," Rai said in a pleased tone.
"I don't see how that's anything to be so happy about," Karin grumbled.
Toshiro came next to her and whispered into her ear, "That's Yamamoto-taichou' s granddaughter. I think we might have to be a bit careful with what we say around her." Karin gave a slight nod which only Toshiro could notice.
"Oi… what are you two getting so close about?" Ichigo said scanning them over. Karin looked back at her brother straight into his eyes and he shrunk back after he felt Rukia's glare behind him.
"Well I think we all should head back to our hotel," Hiro said looking at his watch.
"I'm poofed and I might be fun to lock Renji out of his room," Ichigo said grinning.
"Typical," Toshiro said rolling his eyes.
"Well we do have to leave early tomorrow," Rukia said.
"Yeah but the people who really need to get their sleep are the ones clubbing," Karin said shaking her head.
"That reminds me I have to get back to my hotel as well," Rai said.
"Why don't you come with us?" Hiro asked.
"Nah I'll walk with you guys to my car and then I'll be off. I turned my phone on a while ago so I kinda have to pack up my things as soon as I get back and then be on my way home. Ryuu is getting pissed with the staff members and he needs me to handle them," Rai said smiling.
They all walked silently to the parking lot until they reached Rai's rental car. "A cherry red Ferrari?"Hiro asked.
"Well being who I am most people wouldn't expect any less," Rai said shrugging opening the scissor doors. "Oh yeah and I heard you're going to get made over by Yumichika… You guys had better let me tag along," said from the rolled down tinted window.
"We were planning on asking you anyways," Rukia said.
Rai smiled. "Well I can give you guys some pointers and what not," she turned to Hiro, "I want you to meet me regularly one hour every Sunday so we can start your vocal training and keep up the good work." With that she was off leaving the rest of them in the dust her car left behind.
"Well she was nice. It didn't feel like I'd only known her a few hours," Rukia said smiling.
"Rai's has a strange way of doing things but they always end up being the way you'd want them to be," Hiro smiled to himself.
Toshiro had walked off while they were saying their goodbyes to Rai and was back now.
"We'd better hurry and get to the hotel. Seems like those guys had a bit too much fun," Toshiro said grabbing Karin's arm who grabbed Rukia's who grabbed Ichigo's. Hiro ran behind them.
When they got to their hotel room they found Renji vomiting a lung into the toilet, Izuru and Hisagi were passed out in the living room section, an obviously drunk even though he was underage Uryuu making out with a lamp, and Ulquiorra who was sober was pinning down a drunk Grimmjow who spouting insults his way. The room was trashed pillows and toilet paper were strewn everywhere.
"Finally some sane people arrive," Ulquiorra said. Toshiro sighed and walked over to Grimmjow and hit him in a pressure point so he'd be knocked out until tomorrow. Ichigo did the same to Uryuu.
"Let's just leave them where they are as a punishment for getting too drunk. I'm off to get Renji some stomach medicine from Unohana," Ichigo cringed as he thought of having to go talk to the old woman for help.
"I guess we're cleaning the room," Hiro sighed. After finishing up most of the cleaning Hiro took out his phone. "Guys I have an idea."
"Are we gonna like it?" Ulquiorra asked.
"You're gonna love it," Hiro's aura became dark and suddenly Toshiro and Ulquiorra felt scared wondering what had happened to the nice guy they all knew.
Moments later when Ichigo opened the door:
Ichigo didn't know whether he felt the need to slap himself in the forehead or to laugh until his guts exploded. Hiro, Ulquiorra, and Toshiro had taken their studio make up that they had keep with them at all times and doodled all over the faces of the sleeping men. Plus they'd given all the guys totally ridiculous wigs made from the noodles they'd boiled in the kitchen of their suite with a little help of the food coloring they'd found in Uryuu's pocket. Currently they were taking video and pictures of the painfully hilarious scene.
"Which one of you two suggested this?" Ichigo asked looking at Ulquiorra and Toshiro.
"Surprisingly it isn't either of us. The master mind is Hiro," Ulquiorra said as he taking a picture of Uryuu putting his finger up his nose, eating a stand of his green spaghetti hair, with red lipstick smeared oddly over his lips, bright pink eye shadow streaking his face, and fake eyes drawn over his real ones.
"Hiro?" Ichigo asked alarmed.
"Yup this is all my doing. Believe it or not when it comes to having fun I'm no bore it's just most people tend to ignore me," Hiro said taking a picture of Izuru and Hisagi hugging each other with their purple spaghetti hair, their smeared black lipstick, red swirls of eye shadow drawn on their cheeks, and fake eyes drawn on their eye lids.
"Oh this is too funny," Toshiro burst out laughing when he saw what Hiro had done to Grimmjow. Instead of spaghetti like everyone else he got stands of pink toilet paper for his hair, somehow Hiro found googly eyes and they taped them over Grimmjow's closed ones, his bright green lipstick was almost too ugly to look at, and inspired by Hisagi he put a 69 on his face in eye liner.
Ichigo chocking on air when he saw the picture. "You know what let's keep these as black mail," Ichigo eventually agreed.
And with that they all went off to another suite and went to sleep after giving Renji stomach medicine and sending him to Unohana.
Well that's all for this chapter but since you guys are awesome I left a little extra for you at the bottom of the page ^^ READ IT!
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The next morning:
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHH!" the hotel shook violently. Izuru and Hisagi were up and they were laughing while pointing their fingers at each other. Grimmjow was glaring at his reflection in the hallway mirror while Uryuu stood staring shocked at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. He found a post it note on his fore head as did everyone else in that room.
"Beware wild animal don't feed," Grimmjow read the post it note then ripped it up.
"What happens in Vegas …," Izuru read his note and found a ring on his hand and its identical pair on the ring finger of Hisagi. They looked at each other utterly creeped out.
"It's clear you're only after Orihime because you're a gold digger," Uryuu was confused as to what the hell his note meant.
And that's your little extra! (If you want to know what happened to Toshiro and Karin send me a suggestion and I'll make an extra chapter)