Chapter 7 here you go. Once again I thank xXSakuraHimeXx for the words and the review I got! Thank you so much! Oh and to answer someone's question about Soi Fon and Byakuya being too young, I do agree, but I had to use the 110 point since it was then that it showed the Omake where Yoruichi and Byakuya were playing 'tag' in a way and I didn't want to screw up the main plot too much to screw mine up even more, so you'll have to forgive me if their age seems a bit bizarre.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.

Summary: Byakuya is bored one day and starts relating bugs to Soi Fon. Well, ain't that fun...


Chapter 7: Bugs

( Start of In-Between Arc)

It was a sunny day when Byakuya got a day off from his soul reaper duties. The young noble wandered around the Kuchiki estate before he got bored and decided to train his swordsmanship. His Zanpakuto, Senbonzakura, completely agreed with him, and the two of them trained all afternoon. He hit the floor in a fall when he was too tired to stand any longer. He only rolled over to see the black sky. He sighed, thinking about returning to the war with paperwork the day after, he groaned and growled in frustration before tossing his hair tie away in anger.

"Why're you so mad, you were fine when I saw you training with Senbonzakura" A rough female voice said from behind and Byakuya jumped up in surprise to turn and face Soi Fon, who was sitting quite comfortably on a tree branch of his Sakura tree. She seemed to have sat there for a long time, and from what she said, she was watching him train. "You're weird you know, when you get a day off, other people would sleep, drink, goof off, but you would just go and train away." Soi Fon muttered and Byakuya caught it.

"Really? Because that only describes one person when they have a day off." He said, feeling his left eye twitch, but he did send a smirk over at Soi Fon to let her know he was being his sarcastic self again. He got a small growl and scowl in response but he was happy about that. "The last time you had a day off, you decided that sneaking into my room and stealing my hair tie would be a wonderful training exercise for training your ninja skills, do you not admit that you train on your day offs as well?" He asked, knowing that his question was really just poking at her childness.

"At least I know why Yoruichi-sama does it all the time now, you always make a big fuss about it, I'm surprised that you even wear at all since you know that Yoruichi-sama will steal it." She said. "And really, you need to up your guard, even if it's me, you shouldn't let your guard down it could've been an imposter or some other bitch that snuck up on you" She said as she jumped down from the tree and laid down beside Byakuya and looked up at the sky.

The two stayed silent and in their thoughts for a while. Soi Fon closed her eyes, letting the wind play with her hair. It was still summer, but the cool breeze at night was much better compared to the heat waves in the morning and afternoon. Also, much to Soi Fon's displeasure since her hair was so long, Yoruichi popped out of nowhere and caught her off guard before she tied Soi Fon's wrists and pulled out a VERY familiar white hair tie and tied Soi Fon's hair up into a ponytail. At that time Soi Fon didn't see the white hair tie, but she Shunpo'ed around Seireitei with that and getting weird stares, she didn't know what she was wearing until she reached Byakuya's room where the nobel blushed, dragged her in and slammed the door closed.

"Soi Fon ... you do now what if means to Kuchiki's if a woman wears something like that in their hair, right?" Byakuya asked, fisting his mouth and trying to keep a straight face.

"No. I don't even know what Yoruichi-sama used to tie my hair up" Soi Fon said, her hand lightly touching the hair tie. At that time, Byakuya took a good look at Soi Fon before he had a frown on his face. Soi Fon blinked and voiced her question. "What? Do I look bad with it?" She asked and Byakuya just stood up and walked behind Soi Fon.

Feeling uncomfortable, Soi Fon attempted to stand up just so Byakuya wouldn't be standing behind her, but Byakuya kept a hand on Soi Fon's shoulder to keep her down and to assure her that he wasn't going to do something out of her comfort zone. Soi Fon did calm down and Byakuya lightly stroke the bangs along the side of her face to calm a few more nerves of Soi Fon's before he tugged the hair tie in one smooth move. Soi Fon jumped up at the suddenly action but forced herself not to strike him where the sun didn't shine and remained seated as her hair cascaded down her shoulders and she felt the ends of her hair brush against her back.

She just turned her head around to Byakuya who leaned down to give her a quick peck on the cheek and Soi Fon responded with a light blush that dusted her pale skin. "I don't like your hair tied up ... you look much better with your hair down ... it's more natural. If you tied your hair up it'd be like a bee with its antenna tied together." He said, lightly tugging on her hair.

"...Byakuya...are you comparing me to a bee?" Soi Fon asked, her eyes never leaving Byakuya's. In fact, Byakuya was still playing with Soi Fon's hair and Soi Fon's eye caught the white hair tie around Byakuya's hand. "Say, you didn't tell me what if means for a woman to wear that Kuchiki thing" She said, a bit impatient.

Byakuya's hands stopped fiddling with her hair and he seemed to freeze into a statue. His face was flushing but he did continue his words. "You know how Yoruichi is always stealing my hair tie?" Soi Fon nodded, "You must've figured out that this is MY hair tie" Soi Fon nodded again. "Unfortunately, half of Seireitei also know that this is my hair tie, and when any woman is seen with Kuchiki accessories on other people would think ... that they are either engaged or married because Kuchiki's don't bother with rings if they're Shinigami they'll just break it or lose it in the middle of battle, so they just wear the stuff from the guy Kuchi-"

"Are you trying to tell me that Yoruichi knew all this, and still decided to use your hair tie to tie my hair up and make me walk across all of Soul Society on purpose when I was suppose to go for 'Hollow Duty' and visit 8th to hand paperwork?" Soi Fon asked, her face blushing beet red, and sadly, Byakuya nodded yes to her question and she groaned, cursing the werecat woman in her head. "I can't believe it."

"I believe that the were cat was trying to prank you with this. After all, she was the one that set up that 'Horrible First Kiss Story' back a few hundred years ago, she was the one that always caused or witnessed our embarrassing moments, so I wouldn't be surprised if she jinxed our marriage or tried to get everyone to think that I proposed to you" Byakuya said, getting the hair tie and tying his hair. "I also think that she thought her plan thoroughly, she knew that I was going to tell you about the history and all, so that if I took the hair tie back, everyone will think I reconsidered my engagement to you and broke it off...making me seem like the bad guy when you were the one who intenitonally stole it." He scowled.

"So...for now, can I wear, I liked it" Soi Fon said, tugging the hair tie out of his hair, much to his displeasure.

"I don't like you in a ponytail" He whined.

"Neither do I, but it is summer, I'm a ninja, I'm wearing more black than the rest of Soul Society so I have the right to tie my hair up" She said, starting to tie her hair up when Byakuya Shunpo'ed forward and caught her wrist and the hair tie.

"I still demand you to drop that hair tie" He said.

"Screw you" She simply said and kicked him off of her, but he still had the hair tie and he smirked.

"Try to get it from me, Soi - bee" He sing sang out the door, Soi Fon stared in shock before Shunpo'ing after him, and he had already initiated a Shunpo before her.

"GET BACK HERE KUCHIKI BYAKUYA!" Although, she didn't mind flying through the sky or over the roofs since the wind did make her a bit more cool.

"That's right Soi - Bee, fly after me, attempt to get the hair tie!" Byakuya teased, Shunpo'ing in a zig zag before he completely disappeared from view and Soi Fon just growled before Shunpo'ing off to find him. "I swear Byakuya I will bug you so much after this ...!" She left the threat hanging in her head as she remembered a few years ago that she would poison his food.


Once again, done at a ungodly hour, very tired and I have some sports competition tomorrow, shiit. RUN LIKE A BITCH! It wasn't beta'ed but it's average spelling and grammer hopefully.

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