Luna: "Happy late Easter everyone!"
Mihara: *cuddling a rabbit plushie*
Rukia: "Ichigo bought that for you didn't he?"
Mihara: "He's so sweet when he's ready."
Nuriko: "lp21 doesn't own Bleach or any of its merchandise, but she does own Mihara and I."
Sunday…
The Sunday morning shined throughout the skies as the commotion and excitement of Saturday night's concert finally began to die down. The Farimont hotel was still its busiest as always but a little quieter than usual, around the pool area only had a handful of people: whether in the chairs, in the water or at the bar. Currently there was three females in the water; Nuriko was in a clear purple pool chair floating away in her black one piece swimsuit with a pair of grey boy shorts, Orihime was swimming away with a large pool shark in a orange bikini, and Mihara was diving inside the clear water in a light blue one piece swimsuit.
The brunette emerged from the water and swam to her floating cousin. "Last night was fun wasn't it?"
The violette nodded as she lifted her dark shades. "Very, and I hope you did A LOT of partying last night because you won't be doing that for a LONG time when we reach back to the Soul Society."
Mihara had a sweat drop fell from her face as she lightly laughed and swam closer to her cousin, placing and folding her wet hands over the chair she sighed, looking in the water where she saw the rippling effects making the image of her legs become wavy-ish like.
"However I can't quite put my finger on it, but didn't you see Kaien looked a little…down last night at the club?"
Nuriko nodded as she watched Orihime swimming away. "He was, after we went for something to drink, his face fell after a few minutes. I asked him what was wrong and he replied saying that he was alright, then walked away."
Mihara sighed as she let her legs float to the top of the water. "Was Rukia ok last night? You know, after she ran to the bathroom cause she drunk too much?"
"Yea, she told me she was alright after we came back." She then smirked and turned her head to the floating brunette. "Maybe because you made her that strong mix of Alize, Vodka and Grey Goose."
Mihara laughed a little. "Maybe, but at least I didn't nearly killed her like I did Ulquiorra."
"I know right, you mixed a big cup of everything with a double dose of Vodka and made the man drink it, surprisingly he took it and nothing happened…but Captain Hitsugaya told me that later on in the night he was head first in the toilet puking his guts out and was greener than his eyes." Nuriko laughed as her brunette cousin blushed and dived into the water, swam to the other side and rising back up.
"Oh hush, he shouldn't have taken it." Mihara said with a blush.
"But all of us pushed him to do it." Nuriko added as Orihime swam to the two relatives.
"Oh Orihime, Is Ulquiorra alright?" Mihara asked.
"Yea, he's doing fine. He had more worse days, like the time I made dessert one night; it was a macaroni, m & m's, beef stew, pig tail and strawberry parfait with cool whip on the top and topped with both wasabi and honey sauce." She answered happily as the two cousins looked at her and then at each other. Mihara mouth 'Poor Guy' in which Nuriko only nodded.
"But you know what questioned me last night?" The young brunette girl asked the ladies as they looked to her.
"Not when Mihara almost poisoned your boyfriend with a heavy drink?" Nuriko asked only to be flipped off her pool chair by Mihara.
"No not that..something else."
Mihara smirked as Nuriko resurfaced with a scowl and turned her face, the brunette then faced the teen. "What then?'
"The fact that Rukia didn't returned from the bathroom in over an hour and a half."
"She did say that her drinks went right through her." Mihara answered.
"But think about it Mihara.." Nuriko replied. "When you're always drunk, you only spend like ten minutes in the bathroom like nothing was wrong."
"Hmm, that's true."
"And not only that," The young woman looked to the other two. "I could've swear that I say Kano-kun last night in the club."
"Even so, he couldn't have come upstairs where we was because it was only reserved for our group only." Nuriko answered while floating in the water.
"Hmm, but did you think it was kind of weird that Rukia didn't come back stumbling in after..you know?" Mihara asked.
"Maybe she stayed on the bathroom long enough to regain her composure." Nuriko replied.
"That or she was with Kano-kun." Orihime added as the two ladies looked at her in confusion.
Nuriko raised an eyebrow. "Why would you say that Orihime?"
"Because while me and Tatsuki was hanging out together, I saw a patch of red hair that was Kano-kun's own…and a dark brunette girl with a shining brooch on her head."
The violette scoffed and did a stroke. "I highly doubt that."
Mihara nodded. "Your evidence is VERY logical Orihime-chan, however we still don't have proof that this maybe true."
Orihime nodded as she dived into the water and swam away. 'I just have a bad feeling about this….'
Monday…
"A Couples bonfire?"
"Yes, Nuriko-san's planning it for tomorrow night before we leave."
Rukia and Orihime were sitting outside the balcony as the ladies felt the Monday breeze through their hairs.
"The reason is for all of us to gather around a bonfire on the beach and to tell everyone else why did you date this person for so long , does it sound like fun?" Orihime said with a smile.
"It does, since all of us are very close to one another, we don't have to keep anything from no one." Rukia replied with a sad smile.
"Mhm, and Nuriko-san's down at the beach fixing it right now."
"Well…that's..nice." Rukia said as she looks out to the city.
.
"And….*grunts* it's done." Nuriko said as she finished threw the last pieces of sticks on a big pile.
Miko was sitting on a built platform watching Nuriko coaching the males in bringing some beach chairs; she had on a plain white t-shirt and short black pants with her hair still in a ponytail and a hat around her forehead. The priestess sighed as she watched her master command the males like a group of children.
"If only she was this serious with training with the new recruits." Miko said as she felt weight going to her head.
"Well at least she's serious about something." Another voice, which was male said as he leaned over Miko's head nearly throwing her off the platform. Miko gripped the male's ankle and yanked him off of her, throwing him in the sand.
"Oww…did you had to do that Miko onee-chan?" The male asked.
"Hmph!" Miko turned her head to the water as the male got up and sat next to her. He dusted his blue locks and grey sleeveless shirt, He then started to play with Miko's hair. "Can I help you Raikou onee-kun?"
"Not really onee-san, I'm just here for fun." Raikou Kaze smiled at the priestess. The female only huffed and continued to look at the water.
"But on a serious note Miko…have you felt, like, something is wrong or so?"
The priestess turned to the bluenair and sighed. "I thought I was the only one. Ever since last night both Senbonzakura and myself felt this weird aura around us that we couldn't put our finger on."
Raikou Kaze nodded as he faced the ocean. "Not only that, did Shirayuki-san told you about last night?"
"No, what happened?"
The lightning user whispered into the female's ears as her eyes widened, she was then about to scream out to her master until Raikou Kaze tackled her and ran a good distance from the shinigami. Miko struggled to get from her 'brother's' grip.
"LET ME GO RAIKOU KAZE! SHE NEEDS TO KNOW!" Miko shouted.
"NURIKO-SAN DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW NOW, PLEASE LET HER FIGURE IT OUT ON HER OWN!" The male replied as he held his 'sister' by the shoulders.
Miko looked to the ocean and then to Raikou Kaze. "Fine! But if anything in Lady Nuriko's inner world either gets burned or flooded, it's your head. Do you hear me?"
The male spirit nodded as a breeze of wind past the two.
Later that night, a few of the girls were in the kitchen quickly making something to eat for the others. Mihara was mixing a bowl of chopped fruit while waiting for her cousin whom was cutting some more.
Tatsuki then walked in the room holding her phone. "I just got a BBM message from Ggio saying that the Shinigami Women's Association has gone off the wall the past few days."
"Haha, I wonder why….maybe because Kyoraku-taicho sneaked inside again and Nanao-san caught him." Mihara said as she and Tatsuki laughed together.
Nuriko smirked as she began to slice some apples. "You two better stop that, besides, that only happened three times."
"Yea…on the same day." Tatsuki added as Nuriko giggled a little. Soon then Nuriko's phone pinged as she asked Tatsuki to answer it, it was on the couch charging.
"It's a BBM from Rangiku-san."
"What does it say?"
"It says 'You wouldn't believe what's spiraling over the BBMs and Iphone convos around Soul Society!'. Oh and there's a picture too." Tatsuki pressed the 'open' link and when she did she dropped the phone back on the couch in shock.
"What's the problem Tatsuki?" Nuriko asked the shocked brunette.
"Yea, did she catch Ggio streaking around the twelfth again?" Mihara added as she and Nuriko giggled at little.
"No…much worse." Tatsuki then carried the phone to the cousins in which they saw what made her flinched. When they saw the phone, Mihara accidentally flicked some fruit out of the bowl, Nuriko on the other hand almost chopped off her finger but instead stabbed the wooden cutting board which then split in half.
"W-W-W-W-WHA WHAT…" Mihara tried to speak but Nuriko beat her.
"WHAT KIND OF WEIRD PHOTO SHOPPING GAMES DOES THESE PEOPLE TRY TO DO?"
"It's no game, Rangiku-san says it started spiraling from yesterday morning." Tatsuki answered.
"Where is Rukia?" Nuriko asked
"By the pool but-"
The violette gripped her cousin and dashed out the kitchen. "Find Kaien and swipe his phone, make sure no one broadcasts that to him and if they do DELETE IT!" The two ran out the rooms and took the stairs to find Rukia. Tatsuki ran to the boys room but only to find Ulquiorra coming out.
"Where's Kaien-san?"
"He said that he was headed to the pool." Ulquiorra answered, Tatsuki then ran down the hallway to another fight of stairs as Ulquiorra shrugged and went to the elevator.
Downstairs, Nuriko and Mihara went in the lobby. "The pool's too… far from here." Mihara said as Nuriko looked from left to right.
"There's a shorter way, I know it. You take the right, I take the left. Whoever finds her first gets her away from public sight."
"Got it." The cousins then went their separate ways; Nuriko running pass the gift shops and Mihara passing the restaurants..but turned back to get a stick of chocolate.
"Ah, that's good. Now back to what I was doing."
Meanwhile Tatsuki entered the lobby and ran past the main atrium where she saw Ichigo and Hitsugaya.
"Guys, where's Kaien-san?" The female asked the two. The two pointed to the direction where the pool was and asked why she was running looking for him, Tatsuki told the two about the picture and they helped into stalling Kaien from his girlfriend.
At the pool…
Karin and Rukia were sitting in the pool chairs in just simple jeans and t-shirts enjoying each others company and also some drinks.
"…And that's why when Yuzu has her future boyfriend, we prevented those weird things to happen that both Toshiro and Mihara-san witnessed." Karin finished her lecture.
Rukia laughed. "Now I can see why dating is not commonly known in the Kurosaki family."
At the bar…
Orihime was at the pool bar drinking a Virgin Cocktail when she got a BBM message from Tatsuki on her pink Blackberry Curve which stated to look out for Kaien and if she sees him to keep him away from Rukia and thief his phone as quickly as possible. The grey-eyed female kept an eye open for the tall raven haired male when she saw her boyfriend, she grabbed her drink and quickly ran to him.
Around the same time Rukia and Karin were talking…
Nuriko stopped running to catch her breath. " *huff* *huff* When…I…get my….hands..*huff*..on that girl…" She then ran to another direction, however if she stayed in that same spot, she would have seen Ichigo and Toshiro running to the pool's direction.
With Mihara…
"I…finally…reached…. Mihara breathed in and out as she reached the pool area; she looked around and didn't saw Kaien. "Yes, I've…beaten…him…"
However not too long later, Kaien came through the main door with Byakuya talking to him. Seeing him come through Mihara instantly rushed to him and grabbed his arm. "Kaien, Byakuya, come let's get something to drink." The female pushed the confused males to the bar but was stopped by another arm gripping Kaien's other arm.
"Kaien-san?" Orihime chirped out as she pulled him to her. "I mistakenly dropped my phone in the toilet and I lost Nuriko-san's pin, can I borrow your phone to get it please?"
Ulquiorra then stepped in. "But Orihime, your phone is right-" However before he could finish his sentence, Mihara sprinted and choked-dropped him, making everyone who saw having either a shocked face or a sweat drop from their face. The orange-haired woman turned back to the tall male. "So can I?"
Kaien scratched his neck. "Well I don't see why not." He reached into his pocket to grab his phone when they heard a loud "FINALLY!" from the entrance, they turned to see a dead tired Nuriko holding into the door rail for dear life. Getting up she saw a confused Kaien and ran to him. "KAIEN, I JUST REMEMBERED, I FORGOT TO ADD- uhhh OH, CAPTAIN UKITAKE TO MY BBM, CAN I USE YOUR PHONE PLEASE?"
"Well Orihime was going to use it first and Captain Ukitake has an Iphone, so he doesn't have a pin." Kaien answered wierded out of his mind.
"Nuriko, would you mind telling us why you and the other women are so jittery." Byakuya said as he looked to his girlfriend.
"Well, what had happen was…" Nuriko began and hesitated as Tatsuki ran through the entrance seeing Kaien giving Orihime her phone, she was secretly fist pumping but his phone then pinged.
"Oh sorry Orihime, I have to take this." Kaien said as all the women looked scared out of their mind seeing him looking at the phone screen. As quickly as she can Nuriko ran in front of Kaien and blocked his screen with her hair. "HAHAHA! Why do you have to answer some bbm right now? Just give her the phone and we'll all be done here."
While all of this was happening, the other tourists including Rukia and Karin and the bartenders were witnessing all of this.
"Wonder what's going on?" Karin asked Rukia.
"Dunno, let's go find out." Rukia got up and went over to where the group was with Karin following. When the two arrived, Nuriko locked eyes with Rukia and frowned. "Do you think this is a joke?" She asked while pointing to the small female. Everyone looked to the two women as Rukia raised an eyebrow. "If I thought what was a joke?"
"Don't play dumb with me Rukia." Nuriko answered as she walked to the female. "If you thought that we didn't found out, we did..the worst way we could."
Watching Nuriko advance to Rukia, Tatsuki tried to intervene but instead bumped into a bartender carrying drinks and ended up spilling all of them over. "I'm so sorry." Tatsuki said apologizing to the bartender, whom just smiled and walked away with the empty cups. The brunette saw Orihime and motioned for her to grab Kaien's phone, nodding in reply Orihime was about to grab the phone.
Meanwhile Mihara rushed to Nuriko's side. "Now Riko-chan, there's no need to be hasty with this."
"Yea." Karin said as she came in front of Rukia. "What's the big deal all of a sudden?"
Nuriko frowned "Oh I'll tell you all what's the big deal, Rukia has-"
"KAIEN!" Two voiced called out to the male as he did a face palm. "What do these people want with me?"
Ichigo and Toshiro ran through the entrance to the pool area, however they bumped Tatsuki and she was slipping in the spilled drink puddle trying to regain her balance. Everyone looked at the three as Renji came running in. "YO EVERYONE!" However as he came in he bumped into the two men ,thus knocking into Tatsuki whom was sliding forward screaming to Nuriko and Mihara. The three women had thrown their phones into the air screaming for Orihime to catch them as they bumped into each other and literally flown into the water.
Orihime caught the three phones as the others looked silently at the women whom were sinking down into the pool…until Renji's phone pinged, he looked into it and gasped. "Yo Kaien, come look at this pic Hisagi broadcasted me." The three women reached the top as they saw Kaien looking at Renji's phone, he then gripped the red torch and raised his eyebrows. "WHAT…IS…THIS?"
By then Nuriko started yelling and punching the water as Mihara and Tatsuki sank back down into the water below.
Later on in the night, everyone gathered into the boy's room for a meeting. Tatsuki, Mihara and Nuriko were in bathrobes smoothing their wet hair and eating their unfinished fruit salad in silence. Rukia sat in a lazy boy chair with her head down as she felt everyone's eyes on her, especially a pair of grey glossy ones that if she looked at them, she would be caught on fire.
Orihime looked at Ulquiorra's neck that don red nail marks on the side. "Mihara-san , you didn't had to tackle Ulquiorra-kun onto the ground that rough you know."
"He was going to rat you out Orihime, that and I couldn't think of anything else but just choking him." She answered eating a grape.
Nuriko faked smiled a little as she saw Byakuya and Kaien enter the room. It was dead silent until Kaien spoke up.
"All of you are not in trouble…" By then everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "But someone better explain what's going on." The air tensed back up.
"Well…" Mihara started. "It all started when we were all conceived-"
"Not that far Mihara." Ichigo cut her off, a few laughed a little but then it died back down.
"I mean about this picture of Rukia and Kano that's going around all the phones in Soul Society." Kaien added. "And you know that some specific persons in the Seretei just love new news coming in every now and then."
'Rangiku-san.' Everyone thought.
Nuriko pulled out her white blackberry torch and opened up the chat that had the picture and frowned. "Well, it looked like the pic was taken when we were at 50-50 after the concert."
"When we thought that Rukia was in the bathroom puking her guts out after that heavy drink Mihara prepared for her?" Ichigo asked.
"No, she didn't drank it…Mihara did." Nuriko answered pointing to her cousin whom was eating an apple.
Kaien nodded his head as he and the others then looked at his girlfriend, whom was currently sinking in the chair. "We heard their take on what happened, so Rukia what about you?"
"W-well, what h-had happened was…" She started as she explained what happened that night; from being bored when Kaien was with Nuriko, to finding Ashido and spending a little time with him until coming back to the group. After hearing the story, everyone had an expressionless face.
"So the reason you left was that Kaien was with Nuriko-san and you were 'bored'?" Ichigo asked, Rukia nodded.
"That makes a lot of sense right now." Karin added. "But why was Kaien with Nuriko?"
"Cause Mr. Head Captain over here-" Nuriko pointed to Byakuya. "Didn't want to dance with me so Rukia kindly let me borrow Kaien."
"All because I don't partake in that type of nonsense." Byakuya said as some persons averted their eyes from the man and others just looked at Nuriko.
The violette just smirked. "Well I can give you that, however going to the club was just a way for us to relax as a group and to chill without working. I guess that was so hard for you wasn't it?"
"No it wasn't, it was just how you conducted yourself made me not to join you." After that comment, everyone turned their heads the other directions while some scratched their heads in awkwardness. Nuriko's face was then turning red and it looked like she was ready to pull out another comment, while some words were being thrown, Kaien grabbed Rukia and headed out the room.
The two were standing in the hallway as Rukia leaned on the wall with her arms crossed, Kaien looked at her as he sighed. "Why you didn't just tell me Rukia?"
"Because I was afraid something like what happened at the theatre was going to happen again."
"The theatre?"
Rukia sighed as she remembered the night. "You and the other girls were looking at me like I did something horribly wrong."
"Yea, you were spending more time with you so called 'friend' instead of your boyfriend. Of course your girlfriends whom knows your boyfriend well will get mad and pissed off." Kaien added as he was smoothing out his hair.
The female sighed and looked down the hall. "Well I'm-" Soon the boy's room door was forcefully opened as a mad Nuriko walked out the room with the four running girls behind her. Rukia sighed as she looked at Kaien. "We can talk this over tomorrow, I guess."
The ebonair nodded. "Yea, let's do that."
Tuesday morning…
Kaien walked inside the girls' suite to see Nuriko in her bathrobe on the balcony, he waked to her and sat down in a chair. "I need you to help me with something."
"That depends; Does it need to be purchased, sold or blown up?" She asked with a straight face.
"Uh…Purchased would be nice."
The violette smiled and looked out to the city. "You're lucky, I was thinking about meeting up with the other girls, they already went out shopping over an hour ago."
"Great, go get dressed and meet me downstairs." The tall male left the suite as Nuriko sighed and looked out to the blue sky. She then got dressed and met Kaien in the hotel's lobby, they soon walked across the road to a jewelry store and went inside.
"So, what are you looking for?"
"Since today's our last day in America, and we're having our Couples Bonfire later tonight, I want to get something for Rukia." Kaien replied as he looked around the store.
Nuriko nodded and walked along the store with Kaien as they looked through the various showcases showing Rings, Necklaces, Earrings, etc. Soon Nuriko's eyes were locked onto a peculiar piece of jewelry; A Silver Diamond Accent Star Oval Locket Necklace inside a display, she gripped Kaien's wrist and pulled him over to the showcase where the locket was. He took a good glimpse at the necklace and smirked.
"It looks nice."
"Nice?..It looks so Rukia." Nuriko added. "This locket is perfect for her." She called for a store assistant so they can look at the locket in more detail.
While this was happening, Ashido was walking down the store's strip talking on the phone.
" Yea….no cause I'm not doing anything now…..really?…well I have to tell him about it then…" He then passed the jewelry store Kaien and Nuriko were in, his eyes diverted to the inside of the store where he saw the two looking at something in Kaien's hand but the way it looked to Ashido, Nuriko was way too close to Kaien and both were smiling at the object while Nuriko was lightly blushing. Ashido frowned and replied to the person on his phone.
"Yea, look man I gotta call you back. I need to do something." He hung up his phone and took a quick picture of the two, he then sent it to one of his contacts and smirked as he walked away. 'Be careful what you do in public Kaien Shiba…'
In reality, Nuriko was smiling at the locket because Kaien had engraved Rukia's full name on the back, he even used her middle name hence the reason why she was blushing, he also personalized the locket for Rukia. 'It's so cute, nothing can go wrong with this couple..'
…Little did she know….she was very wrong…..
Kaien and Nuriko: "OOOHHH WE'RE IN TROUBLE.
Luna: "Not really but yea you get the point."
Rukia: "Read and Review."