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chapter 11- Slavery
The mews made their way down to the beach luckily enough for Ryou it wasn't that far to go since Ichigo told him to carry everything. As soon as they where on the beach Ryou just dropped everything and Ichigo glared at him with her arms crossed.
"Excuse me!" she snapped and Ryou looked at her boredly.
"What?" he asked tiredly and Ichigo tapped her foot impatiently.
"Aren't you going to lay my towel and everything out for me?" she asked and Ryou sighed.
"What ever so where do you want it?" he asked and Ichigo smiled.
"Right where you're standing please" she said sitting on the sand watching him.
"Is this to your liking 'princess strawberry'?" Ryou asked with a smirk. Ichigo put her hand to her head in thought.
"Hhmmm move it a little more to the right" Ichigo finally said grinning.
"Fine" Ryou replied slightly annoyed but moved her stuff.
"There all done" Ryou said and was about to walk off when Ichigo stopped him.
"Wait! Actually I want to more to the left" she said and Ryou growled.
"You said you wanted it there and that's where it's going to stay unless you move it yourself" he said and continued walking away again until Zakuro got in his way.
"Zakuro move" he said and she crossed her arms.
"I cant I'm under orders not to let you pass until you've done what Ichigo said" Zakuro said and Ryou frowned at her.
"I really doubt lettuce told you to stand in my way" Ryou said raising an eye brow.
"I asked her to tell me to do it so you couldn't just tell me to get out your way now go be a good slave" Zakuro said an eyebrow raised and Ryou reluctantly walked back over to where Ichigo was.
"Are you going to do it now?" Ichigo asked her arms crossed and her eyebrow raised Ryou sighed and silently began moving her things.
"Is that to you liking now 'princess' strawberry?" Ryou asked and Ichigo pretended to think about it making Ryou's eye brow twitch in annoyance.
"Hhmm just a tiny but more to the right" she said and grinned at Ryou who looked like he was about to explode.
"Fine" he said before moving her things again. Off to the side the girls where giggling and Zakuro even looked amused. Keiichiro looked at Ryou and couldn't help smiling, only he would have to do stuff like that.
"There all done" Ryou said and Ichigo stood up smiling.
"Why thank you, you may have a break for a minute" she said before sitting down on her towel. Ryou let off a sigh of relief and walked over to keiichiro.
"Having fun?" keiichiro asked and Ryou glared at him.
"What do you think?" was all he said back and keiichiro sighed shaking his head. All the mews had gone over to sit with Ichigo and where still giggling slightly.
"Good one Ichigo, his face was pretty funny" mint said and Ichigo sighed.
"I know" she said grinning.
"So what are you going to make him do next?" lettuce asked curiously.
"I don't know, what do you guys think?" Ichigo asked resting her head in her hand.
"Well you could make him carry you around all day, get him to get you everything you need, feed you, stuff like that" mint said and Ichigo looked up in thought before jumping up.
"No way am I getting him to carry me around all day not after yesterday, no no no!" Ichigo said shaking her head side to side so fast you could barely see her face.
"Ichigo stop, you're making me dizzy!" mint said annoyed and Ichigo finally stopped and swayed side to side slightly.
"Yeah but he's your slave now you can tell him not to go fast" Zakuro reminded her and Ichigo smiled.
"True well I guess I could do that, hey does anyone want any ice cream?" Ichigo asked and they all nodded.
"Good, oh Shirogane-san~!" Ichigo sang and Ryou looked up from his conversation with keiichiro and over to them. Keiichiro gave him an encouraging smile and Ryou sighed and stood up.
"I thought you said I could have a brake, that wasn't very long, you're not a very nice master now are you?" Ryou asked and Ichigo smirked.
"Actually I am, I said you could have a minutes break and I think a minutes over, so you had a longer break" Ichigo said smiling victoriously as Ryou frowned.
"See she's very nice" mint said and lettuce giggled slightly.
"Ok whatever, what do you want strawberry?" Ryou asked and Ichigo gave him a disapproving look.
"'princess' strawberry" he corrected himself and Ichigo smiled happily.
"We would like some ice cream please" Ichigo said and Ryou sighed wiping his face.
"Ok what do you want?" he asked finally and Ichigo grinned.
"Oh oh pudding wants chocolate!" pudding shouted and Ryou nodded.
"Erm ill have vanilla please" lettuce said shyly.
"Ill have the same as lettuce please" Zakuro said.
"I would like mint thank you" mint said and Ryou rolled his eyes.
"And let me guess strawberry for the strawberry?" he asked and Ichigo grinned.
"Wow you're a mind reader how did you guess?" she asked like an excited little child.
"It's just obvious" was all he said before he walked off to get their orders.
"Oohh Shirogane-san knows ichigos favourite ice cream" mint said teasingly and Ichigo looked at her confused.
"and... I guess it is quiet obvious since I have strawberry as a flavour with most things" Ichigo said putting her finger to her head in thought and mint and Zakuro looked at each other with a smirk.
"Yeah I guess your right Ichigo" was all mint said with a giggle.
"Hhmm what should we do after ice cream?" Ichigo asked herself.
"Well I don't no about you guy but I'm going to make the most of the sun" Zakuro said and mint nodded.
"I'm with Zakuro-oneesama" she said looking at her and Ichigo rolled her eyes.
"Mint you always do what ever zakuro's doing" Ichigo said and pudding laughed.
"Yeah mints like a stalker Na no da!" she said and mint blushed slightly with embarrassment.
"no I'm not, I just happen to like the same things Zakuro does so I do them with her" mint said crossing her arms and sticking her nose in the air though the slight blush on her cheeks betrayed her.
"Suree" was all Ichigo said before Ryou returned with their ice creams.
"Here" he said as they all collected theirs.
"Thank you" Ichigo said as Ryou walked back over to keiichiro.
"I sure do like having a slave, I don't have to do any work at all nyaa~!" Ichigo said happily licking her ice cream.
"Yeah and we get some good entertainment" mint added and pudding laughed.
"Yeah! Its funny na no da!" she laughed, somehow she already managed to get chocolate all around her mouth and Ichigo laughed at her, lettuce soon joined in while mint looked slightly disgusted.
"What's so funny ichi-oneechan Na no da?" pudding asked confused as she tilted her head to the side slightly, ice cream now dribbling sideways from her mouth.
"EW pudding please wipe your mouth off!" mint said and pudding looked at her confused.
"Huh? Why what's on puddings mouth Na no da?" she asked and some bits of chocolate ice cream flew at mint.
"EW! What do you think? Ice cream, now please wipe it off!" mint demanded as pudding touched a finger to her mouth and pulled it away looking at the brown on her finger.
"Oh yeah mints right, but pudding doesn't have anything to wipe her mouth in Na no da" pudding said and Ichigo smiled.
"Here you go" Ichigo said happily as she handed her a towel. Mints eyes widened but her shout came too late.
"Stop! That's my towel!" mint shouted just as pudding started wiping her mouth and mint shuddered involuntary before glaring at Ichigo.
"Why did you give her my towel?" mint demanded, fuming as she glared at Ichigo who looked nervous.
"I I didn't no it was yours, I was just trying to help, sorry" Ichigo said holding her hands out in front of her as mint advanced.
"Anybody could tell that's my towel, it has my name on it baka! Ggrrr Ichigo you're going to pay!" she said before throwing her ice cream at Ichigo who quickly managed to roll out of the way.
"Jeez mint I said I was sorry, now there's ice cream on my towel to, we're equal!" Ichigo said nervously smiling but mint kept glaring. All the others sat out of the way not wanting to get involved with the scary mint.
"Sorry doesn't get the disgusting chocolate germs off my towel, what am I supposed to use now?" mint said and Ichigo shrugged.
"I don't know" Ichigo said as she cautiously got to her feet.
"Don't even think of running Ichigo!" mint shouted as she leapt up and Ichigo started running.
"Nyaa! Mint I'm sorry!" Ichigo shouted as she started running.
"Ichigo stop running!" mint shouted annoyed running behind her. Ichigo turned her head to look over her shoulder to see where mint was when she tripped over a stone but before she could fall to the ground someone caught her.
"Shirogane-san?" Ichigo asked curiously as she looked up at the blonde hair of her boss.
"God strawberry you really are a clumsy baka, you're the only one who could possible get mint after you and then trip on a tiny stone" he said and Ichigo growled.
"I'm not a baka and talking of mint where..." she started but was cut off by mint herself.
"Ichigo come here now!" mint shouted as she glared at the two.
"Shirogane-san take me to mint!" Ichigo demanded crossing her arms and Ryou sighed.
"And this is what I get for catching you" he grumbled but walked forward anyway and put Ichigo down in front of mint.
"God finally why couldn't you have just come over earlier it would've been much easier!" mint said crossing her arms and Ichigo laughed nervously.
"Because I didn't have a body guard earlier" she said nervously scratching the back off her neck and Ryou crossed his arms.
"I'm not your body guard" was all he said and Ichigo turned her head to smile sweetly at him.
"Because your my slave I want you to also be my body guard if mint decides to try and kill me" she said before looking back at mint.
"I wasn't going to kill you, who do you think I am plus that would just be to dirty for my liking" she stated and Ichigo giggled slightly. Of course it was to 'dirty' for mint to do.
"So why where you chasing me like a mad man?" Ichigo asked curiously and mint glared at her.
"I was not chasing you like a mad man!" she said crossing her arms her face slightly red whether it was from embarrassment or anger though was unclear.
"Yeah you kind of where" Ryou added in making her redder.
"Mints was more like a beast Na no da!" pudding shouted and Ichigo couldn't help but giggle at that one and mint glared at her.
"Anyway that doesn't matter, Ichigo go and wash my towel now!" mint said and Ichigo sighed.
"Why don't you just get another one instead of washing that one?" she asked and mint continued to glare at her.
"First, I want this towel, second, its you punishment now go clean it" mint said pointing to the hotel and Ichigo sighed.
"Yes mother" she grumbled and walked over to the girls to pick up mints towel.
"Ichigo why don't you get your slave to do it" Zakuro said and Ichigo smiled.
"How come I didn't think of that, thanks Zakuro!" she said before she ran back over to the mint and Ryou.
"Come on slave" Ichigo said and grabbed his wrist as she ran by dragging Ryou with her.
"Ichigo you don't need to drag me I'm coming already!" he said annoyed and Ichigo released his wrist as the two walked back to the hotel together.
About half an hour later Ryou and Ichigo emerged from the hotel with mints towel nice and clean. Mint got up and walked over to them.
"Finally took you long enough, what took you guys so long?" mint asked annoyed snatching her towel back off Ichigo.
"Oh I just got Shirogane-san to do some tidying while we where there sorry mint" Ichigo said but mint was smiling.
"Ok I forgive you for taking long but not for ruining my towel" she said as she layed it out and sat down.
"Yeah but your towels all better now!" Ichigo said and mint shrugged. Ichigo sighed and sat down and Ryou was about to walk off when Ichigo grabbed his arm.
"Nah ah, sit here" she said and Ryou sat down and looked at Ichigo annoyed.
"Why do I have to sit here?" he asked and Ichigo smiled.
"Because I'm hot, here" she said handing him a fan. "Use this". Ryou just looked at it before looking at her.
"Well come on then" she said and Ryou sighed before he started using the small fan she gave him. It was only about ten minutes before Ichigo started moaning again.
"I'm bored!" Ichigo whined her arms and legs crossed with a childish look on her face.
"Then do something, baka" Ryou said annoyed.
"I don't no what to do!" Ichigo whined back and Ryou sighed hanging his head.
"Ichi-oneechan come play with pudding Na no da!" pudding shouted grabbing Ichigo's hand and pulling her. Ichigo stood up and ran off with her, pudding still dragging her.
"Ok ok pudding I'm coming!" Ichigo laughed and the two finally stopped.
"Lets make a big hole Na no da!" pudding said happily as she sat down and started digging the sand with her hands and Ichigo soon joined her.
"When are you going to make boss man do something funny Na no da?" pudding asked as she continued to dig.
"When I can think of something funny for him to do, do you have any ideas?" Ichigo asked with a grin.
"Oh ohh pudding knows! We could bury him Na no da!" pudding said excitedly and grinned at Ichigo who smirked back.
"That's an awesome idea, come on lets finish this hole then!" Ichigo shouted and the two began digging faster.
Ryou looked up when he sensed some one in front of him to see Ichigo smiling slyly at him. He sighed.
"What now 'princess' strawberry?" Ryou asked annoyed and Ichigo grinned.
"Come with me!" Ichigo said grabbing his hand and pulling him up. Ryou sighed but blushed slightly as Ichigo pulled him along, they stopped in front of Ichigo and puddings hole.
"Get in the hole" Ichigo said pointing to the whole, pudding was happily bouncy up and down beside her.
"Why?" Ryou asked annoyed and Ichigo frowned.
"Because she told you boss man, you're her slave na no da!" pudding said and Ryou sighed and got in the hole.
"Yay now we can bury you!" Ichigo said and she and pudding started putting sand back into their hole and onto Ryou.
"Hey wait a minute! Stop throwing sand on me! hey!" Ryou shouted standing up until Ichigo smirked at him.
"Sit" Ichigo said and Ryou glared at her and continued to stand so Ichigo crossed her arms.
"Sit" she said again and Ryou raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not a dog" he said and Ichigo laughed.
"I no, your a slave so sit" she said and Ryou reluctantly sat back down as pudding and Ichigo covered him in sand so only his head remained. Ryou who had been scowling the whole time glared at the two girls who where sat laughing in front of him.
"Can I get out now?" he asked and Ichigo pretended to think about it.
"Ok, but then you have to chase us like a scary sand creature, here's some seaweed to" she said dumping seaweed on his head.
"Whatever" he said and started to wiggle to loosen the sand before he stood up.
"Aahhh pudding run!" Ichigo shouted as her and pudding ran up the beach with a very sandy Ryou walking behind them. Ichigo and pudding dived behind where mint and Zakuro where sitting to try and hide.
"Ichigo what are you doing?" mint asked annoyed and Ichigo told her to be quiet.
"We're hiding from Shirogane-san, look he's over there" Ichigo said pointing and the girls looked and had to try and hide there laughter.
"What's he doing?" Zakuro asked eyebrow raised at Ryou who was walking around the beach covered in sand and seaweed with a very scary look on his face.
"We buried him and told him to chase us like an angry sand creature but we hid so now he looks like a weirdo" Ichigo said laughing and mint giggled slightly.
"He does look very...odd" mint said and they laughed again. It took Ryou another ten minutes walking around the beach with random strangers laughing at him till he discovered pudding and Ichigo sat behind mint and Zakuro laughing and that was only because lettuce felt bad for him so gave him a hint.
"Having fun?" he asked with his arms crossed and Ichigo grinned.
"A lot!" she said and Ryou looked like he was about to explode.
"Since you've had your fun can I get this off me now?" he asked with gritted teeth to keep from shouting at them.
"Sure go, and then come straight back up here ok?" she asked and Ryou glared before walking away.
"I think that was a yes" mint said and Zakuro rolled her eyes.
"So what do you want him for now?" mint asked and ichigo's tummy growled in answer.
"I'm hungry!" she said and this time mint rolled her eyes.
"So you're going to get him to feed you then" mint said and Ichigo nodded.
"I'm so clever" she said and mint glared at her.
"It wasn't even your idea in the first place" she said and Ichigo shrugged and sat waiting for her slave to come back.
It took twenty minutes before Ryou came back and Ichigo was not happy.
"What took you so long?" Ichigo asked holding her belly.
"I went for a swim" was all he replied and Ichigo moaned.
"Stupid, I said come straight back up, anyway I'm hungry" she said crossing her arms and looking at him expectantly.
"What?" Ryou finely asked when Ichigo continued to stare at him.
"Feed me" she whined and Ryou rolled his arms.
"You sound like a baby, baka" he said and she pouted.
"Feed me, your my slave now feed me now" she said and he sighed before getting a cake and putting it in her mouth.
"Mmmm yummy~!" she said while still chewing and Ryou looked at her slightly disturbed.
"Don't talk with your mouthful baka" he said rolling his eyes but Ichigo just ignored him swallowing and opening her mouth for another piece. This went on for a while. The other mews had gone to sit with keiichiro and where smiling at the scene in front of them with a camera.
"Aw they look like a couple" mint said and pudding giggled.
"Ichi and boss man sitting in a tree k.i.s.s.i.n.g!" pudding sang happily before lettuce told her to be quiet.
"At least Ichigo listened to me and is getting Shirogane-san to do what I told her, there acting like a couple and don't even realise it" mint happily said smiling smugly and Zakuro rolled her eyes.
"Ichigo probably would've made Shirogane-san do something like this sooner or later, they've become more comfortable around each other lately" and keiichiro nodded in agreement.
"Ever since ichigos boyfriends been out of the equation Ryou feels more comfortable hanging around with her" keiichiro said and mint grinned.
"Yeah he was there a matter of seconds after they broke up protecting her, he doesn't waste time does he?" mint asked and most of them laughed slightly at that before they went back to watching the two secretly.
"Thank you that was yummy!" Ichigo said happily before stretching and yawning.
"You tired?" Ryou asked and Ichigo nodded slightly.
"well it is getting late we've been here for a while and we did walk down a mountain earlier so for once I'm not going to call you a lazy baka" Ryou said and Ichigo smiled at him.
"Yay I'm no longer a lazy baka thanks Shirogane-san" Ichigo said happily and Ryou frowned at her.
"I said for once your not a lazy baka not that your not one" Ryou said and Ichigo pouted.
"I'm not lazy and I'm not a baka!" Ichigo said crossing her arms and Ryou sighed.
"Think whatever you want 'princess' strawberry" Ryou said and Ichigo sighed.
"I will" she replied happily and Ryou smiled.
"But do stop calling me a baka it's so annoying!" she said annoyed and Ryou grinned at her.
"I only call you a baka because you act like one" he said and she pouted again.
"Do not!"
"Do to"
"Do not!"
"Do to" Ryou replied and Ichigo sighed giving up.
"Whatever, you always act like a jerk" Ichigo said smiling innocently at Ryou who raised an eyebrow.
"No I don't" he replied crossing his arms a teasing look on his face.
"Yeah you do!" Ichigo replied laughing slightly.
"Do not"
"Yeah you do!" Ichigo said laughing at him as he sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Whatever" he replied and Ichigo sighed happily.
"I like this" she said quietly and Ryou looked at her.
"Like what?" he asked curiously.
"Us getting on, well kind of" she said with a nervous laugh and Ryou smiled gently at her.
"Yeah me to" he replied and Ichigo looked back at him again but the smile that was on his face had gone before she looked back around.
"Because you're not acting like a jerk for once, you don't have to be my slave any longer, I think I got my revenge" she said and Ryou raised an eyebrow at her, a disbelieving look on his face.
"You're serious?" he asked and Ichigo nodded.
"Well thanks, I guess. I wasn't looking forward to finding out what you had planned next" he admitted and Ichigo giggled.
"Remember this Shirogane-san, I'm a nice person maybe for this you could give e a rai..." Ichigo started but was cut off.
"Don't even start on the raise its not happening princess strawberry" he said and realised he had added the princess by accident luckily or unluckily Ichigo didn't notice and pouted with a sigh.
"Oh well it was worth a try" she said and Ryou rolled his eyes.
"Oh don't make me seem like a bad person just because I won't give you a raise" Ryou said crossing his arms and Ichigo smiled innocently at him again.
"I wasn't, I was just saying it was worth a try since I cut your duties off early and I work so very very hard and everything" Ichigo said with puppy eyes and Ryou gulped slightly.
"Not gonna work" he said and looked away as ichigo crossed her arms and pouted again. The other mews that had been watching laughed.
"It was so going to work, why else would he look away?" mint asked and lettuce giggled slightly while Zakuro just shook her head.
Ichigo yawned again and rested her head on her knees and looking back to sea. Ryou had turned back around since and was also looking out at the water.
"I can't believe we have to leave soon" Ichigo said sadly and ryous eyes flicked to her for a moment before looking back out at the water.
"Yeah it's been fun, we'll have to come back again sometime" Ryou said and Ichigo looked at him with an excited smile.
"You mean we can come back again?" she asked and Ryou smiled at her.
"Sure if the others want to as well" Ryou said and Ichigo smiled.
"That would be good" Ichigo said before they fell into a comfortable silence.
"This must be the longest amount of time I've seen those to close to each other with out fighting" mint said the others nodded and continued eating the cakes keiichiro had supplied while watching the unaware pair.
Ichigo and Ryou sat and watched as the sun started to dip down behind the ocean and everything turned a reddish pink.
"It's so pretty~!" Ichigo sighed dreamily and Ryou nodded.
"Yeah" was all he said before they fell back into silence. Ichigo and Ryou had never sat in silence before with out trying to murder each other. It must've been the relaxing atmosphere around them.
A little while later Ryou felt a weight on his shoulder and he looked down to see Ichigo asleep. He was surprised it had taken her that long to fall asleep since she had been yawning for the past hour or so. Ichigo had fallen onto her side her head on ryous shoulder while the rest of her leaned on him, he didn't mind though. The other mews giggled slightly and Ryou didn't fail in hearing them. He looked over his shoulder at them with no emotion on his face.
"I'm going to take Ichigo to her room, ill be back down for our stuff in a minute" he said quietly even though it wasn't likely that Ichigo would wake up. He scooped her into his arms and stood up before carrying her bridal style back to the hotel.
"Aw that's so sweet" lettuce said and pudding jumped up and down singing again.
"Ichi and boss man sitting in a tree, k.i.s.s.i.n.g!" she sang happily as Zakuro rolled her eyes.
"How are they both so dumb" mint asked annoyed.
"Who knows" Zakuro said before she started packing up there towels, they also packed up ryous and ichigos so Ryou had less stuff to do.
Ryou pov
I looked down at the sleeping strawberry in my arms and smiled slightly. That has to be the longest we've ever gone with out arguing she even brought up the raise and we still managed to sit peacefully. I was going to some how get revenge for her making me walk around the beach like a freak but i wasn't going to ruin our time together especially since it was quiet peaceful. Even though I enjoyed today and our peaceful conversation and such I cant help but miss not being able to tease her so much today. I no it sounds stupid but I quiet enjoy our little arguments, well there not really arguments we just tease each other, its normally quiet entertaining though. Oh well there's always tomorrow for that. I thought as I walked inside the hotel and over to a lift up to the floor our rooms where on. I balanced Ichigo as I opened the door to the girls room and walked inside and over to the their bedroom. I opened the door and walked over to her bed and layed her down.
I sat down beside her on her bed and pushed some of her hair behind her ear and with out realising what I was doing I was leaning towards her and I kissed her head.
"Sleep well strawberry" I murmured before I got up and left the room.
well there you have it hope you liked it :3 im personally looking forward to the next chapter, one of my favorites in my plan so i hope it turns out good ^^, i promise i wont be so long i no exactly whats happening so dont worry hehe :D anyway please review they make me happy and i also feel encouraged to write :D so please review and thanx for reading :D XD hehe
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