Title: D is for Detergent

Series: Let Me Count The Ways

Author: Acmarache

Rating: T

Pairing: Urahara/Ichigo

Disclaimer: Nope. Not mine.

Summary: Ichigo and Yuzu have a conversation early one morning, and Ichigo realizes that his little sister knows more than she should.

Word: detergent from KivaEmber

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A lean figure crept down the stairs of the still quiet house and into a room in the back. Glancing around, the boy made his way to the machine against the wall and deposited his bundle on the floor before opening the cabinets.

"Ichi-nii?"

Ichigo whirled around to see a groggy Yuzu standing in the doorway. "Yuzu? What are you doing up?"

The little girl giggled slightly at her brother's reaction. He was never up this early. "I'm always up this early. I was coming down to start breakfast, but heard a noise in here. I thought maybe it was Daddy trying to do laundry, and you know what happened last time I let him near the laundry."

Ichigo chuckled slightly at the memory his sister's answer provided. Karin had not been happy to find her soccer uniform pink. "I woke up early to get caught up on some homework, and I figured I mind as well through in some of my laundry, so you didn't have to do it." He hated lying to his sister, but there was no way he was going to tell her that he'd purposely set his alarm this early so he could wash his, ehm, "dirty" laundry from the last time Urahara came over. He'd wanted to avoid questions and her eventual embarrassment as well as his mortification. Yuzu was still way too young to know about the birds and the bees.

"Oh, well that's sweet of you, but don't worry about it. We're out of detergent until I go to the store this afternoon anyways." Yuzu made her way over to the pile on the floor so that she could throw the clothes in the hamper with everything else.

Quickly moving between his sister and the pile, Ichigo tried for a carefree smile and waved his hand slightly. "That's okay Yuzu. Let me take care of this. You go ahead and make breakfast. In fact, you don't have to worry about my laundry anymore. I'm almost an adult. I should be doing my own laundry. Not my little sister."

Yuzu gazed up at her brother in confusion before she seemed to understand what he was trying to tell her. Leaning forward slightly, she whispered so that if anyone were to come down only she and Ichigo would hear. "Oh, is this about the noises that come from your room when your friend comes over to stay the night?"

The orange-haired teen sputtered at his sister's question. How the hell did she know about that? "Uhm, yeah."

"Okay then. Karin said that might be why your sheets were such a mess when I changed them last week." Yuzu was making her way towards the kitchen as if nothing was wrong with her brother having sex with another man.

Ichigo wasn't sure if he should be relieved or horrified at how well his sister was taking this. Messy sheets? Shit. He'd totally forgotten about them after his rather wonderful shower with Kisuke. In a daze, Ichigo sat down at the kitchen table as Yuzu bustled around making breakfast.

"Oh! And don't forget, when your friend comes over, use those things that Daddy gave you when you went out with your friend. And I noticed that the bottle he gave you sitting on your table is almost empty. It would probably be could to get another from the clinic." Yuzu simply continued beating some eggs, probably not realizing just how awkward the situation was.

Was his little sister seriously giving him the talk on safe sex? Oh God. This was wrong on so many levels. Sweet, innocent little Yuzu shouldn't even know the logistics of sex yet! She should only know that it was bad. At least for her. Until she turned thirty. He was grateful when Yuzu finished her lecture. Deciding that being in the same house as his sister was too awkward at the moment, he stood up and quickly offered to do the shopping so that Yuzu didn't have to do it later.

Walking down the street, he decided to make a quick stop at the Urahara Shoten. Just to explain his decision that any "alone" time would be happening at the shop from here on out.