65. too human
Title: Appearances
Word Count: 399
Rating: PG
There was defiantly something strange about Kuchiki.
Miziru wasn't always quite certain what it was, exactly, but it was strange. A strangeness that was, somehow, attractive. She was nice enough, he supposed, and very polite, even if her speech was sometimes outdated. He had observed that she liked small, fuzzy animals like bunnies, but she didn't flinch from bugs or snakes or any of the things girls usually made a fuss over.
She spent enough time with anti-social Ichigo to make the rumor mill rabid with speculation, but nothing could ever be proved, beside the fact that Ichigo put up with her easier and more frequently than most other people he hadn't known for years. Even better, in fact, than some of the people he had known for years.
There were moments when she would be different. A flash of violence out of nowhere that flattened Ichigo, covered with torrents of sparkles and loud concern, voiced in almost Shakespearian words.
It was as if she came from someplace different all together. There were times when she would look so lost when something simple came up, and yet so knowing when the unexplained happened.
Out of everyone, Ichigo probably knew her the best – she hardly spent any real time with anyone else. Usually, he wouldn't have any qualms about trusting Ichigo's judgment; as much of a jerk as he could be, his assessments of people were almost always correct.
Kuchiki seemed so sweet, but Ichigo complained how she was "a total bitch". She got confused sometimes over mundane things, but if she dragged Ichigo off she only had minor trouble doing it later. The way her eyes widened at intervals and when she got excited, she just looked so young. (It hadn't escaped him that Ichigo was usually the cause of – or on the receiving end of – her excitement.)
And sometimes she would look to old, to sad, to dark; and Ichigo would never be complaining or commenting. He would just sit next to her like he was trying to see what she was looking at with the resigned air of someone who knew he wouldn't understand even if he could. Sometimes he would catch the person that made her make that face and beat them up.
And Miziru concluded that it wasn't that Kuchiki was to strange that made her different - it was that she was to human.
