Sorry it took so long you guys, IGCSE exams are coming next year and I'm scrambling with my homework and tests. I sure hope you like this chapter.

There's definite bromance here but you can think of it as actual romance as well.

BLEACH BELONGS TO KUBO TITE!

"March 14th AKA White's Day or the day Yumi kills me. It'll all be your faults, bastards."

"Aww come on Ikkaku, don't blame us juniors, and one senior," Renji said while Hisagi grunted, "You're the one who agreed after all."

"Because you dared me to and real men don't back down from a challenge," Ikkaku Madarame retorted.

"Hey, has anyone seen Hitsugaya?" asked Momo, she then asked the person nearest to her "Ikkaku-san, have you seen him?" Ikkaku was suddenly taken aback from his flashback.

"Huh what? No, I haven't seen that pip-squeak," Ikkaku answered.

"Oh I see, thank you."

"Tsk, why did she even ask me?" Ikkaku growled. Just then, a person tapped Ikkaku on the back and whispered ever so softly on his ear "Ikkaku-san…" The senior nearly jumped out of his skin at that moment and abruptly turned on his heel.

"Isn't it about time you reveal your plans to him?"

"Bastard don't scare me like that!" screamed Ikkaku at Renji.

"You were scared? Oh wow, you were scared!" Renji taunted.

"WHY YOU LITTLE…."

"Please calm down a little, everyone is staring," Hisagi motioned to his side, and true to his word, everyone was watching them.

"Haha… Sorry about that folks, nothing to see here," Kira quickly explained, "So have you made the preparations?"

"Yea, yea, yea. I have the list of place where I hid them. Better go and face my doom now," Ikkaku waved them off. "Hey, Yumi! I need to talk to you for a sec."

"Hmm what you need Ikkaku?" Yumichika questioned his friend.

"How about we play a little game?"

"And what game would that be?"

"A scavenger hunt. I hid a bunch of clues around the school and if you win you'll get a be-au-ti-ful prize," Ikkaku described.

Yumichika chided, "that sounds stupid and childish, Ikkaku."

"What, you scared of losing?"

"Huh, no. Cowardice is not beautiful at all," Yumichika frowned.

"Well, then what are you waiting for? Here's the first clue." Ikkaku tossed a piece of paper at Yumichika who perfectly caught it.

The only place in the world where Saturday comes before Thursday.

"What? Did someone help Ikkaku to write this? No way he could think of this himself!"

So Yumichika thought and thought and thought…

"Saturday, Satur, Sat, S… The letter S is before... The letter T! A dictionary? Yes a dictionary!" Yumichika ran to his classroom, to his desk in particular where he kept his dictionary, whilst this whole episode played out… People were looking at Yumichika like he was a total barnacle.

Finally, Yumichika reached his desk and to his not-so-surprise he saw a little note on top of his dictionary. He swiftly pulled the sticky note off and read it.

I have black and white teeth, and if you hit my teeth in the right order, I'll make beautiful tune. What am I?

"Teeth? This is absurd. Why would anyone have black and white teeth, it's absolutely ugly?" Yumichika thought to himself.

"What… Maybe it's not a person… An object with black and white, and a tune. A piano perhaps?" Yumichika darted to the music room and spotted the note on the keys.

"Okay next clue…"

I'm repainted every day, and every day the paint is washed away. Pick me up where I'm kept after every session.

Yumichika followed this clue and another and another until the 7th clue.

"Last clue, I hope."

I didn't dance, because I had no-body to dance with. Who am I?

"Nobody? No body? A skeleton? The science lab!" Finally, Yumichika reached the skeleton and there was not a note in sight but instead an envelope.

Dear Yumichika,

Congratulations on completing the scavenger hunt.

How did you find the clues? Were they too hard?

The next and final thing for you to do is…

To go to the library and wake me up because class is about to start!

Thanks for playing.

From: Ikkaku

"Why that no good, conniving, lazy ass, bald bastard! What 'til I get my hands on him! I'll kill him for sure!" Sure enough, the moment Yumichika reached the library he beat Ikkaku into a pulp. I'd like to describe how he did it but I want to this fic to stay T-rated.

Yumichika then angrily stomped out of the library. Despite how ugly it looked to stomp around he couldn't help himself. Stomp, stomp, stomp. He got to his locker and tried to calm himself while turning the combination lock.

To his surprise, a yellow rose rolled down from the top shelf of his locker. Yumichika quickly scrambled to stop the flower from touching the ground, catching it just in the nick of time. The rose was quite small and had some thorns here and there. It was wild and unruly, just like the boy… no man, who got this for him.

Yumichika walked slowly to his classroom and placed the rose on his table.

"Thanks Ikkaku."

"Huh? For what?" Ikkaku was nursing his black eye and swollen cheeks. Yumichika just smiled. He knew, knew so well whom it was from. As Yumichika focused on the teacher, Ikkaku glanced at his friend and couldn't help but smile as well. He's glad he bought that flower, thorns and all.

Thank you for all the support so far, I really really appreciate it! *hugs everyone*

Yellow rose symbolizes friendship and apology.