Alrighty, here's the third and final part of the L.A. Saga, also the final part before an Epilogue, sorry it's short but doing this on a keyboard that's missing some keys isn't easy. Now, without further adew; I do not own Bleach other than Nuriko and Mihara...ENJOY.
Meanwhile around the same time…
Orihime and Rukia returned to their room after a morning of shopping, the girls placed their things into the bedroom and sat on the carpeted floor.
"I thought it would've been very hard to look for white dresses but I was wrong." Rukia said as she held out a white dress and looked at it.
Orihime nodded as she reached inside her bag and pulled out her ringing pink phone. "Oh it's Ichigo's bbm; he says to don't forget to tell the other girls about tonight because they're in the restaurant stuffing their faces, oh and by the way have you seen Kaien?" The brunette looked to her friend whom shrugged her shoulders.
"I am his girlfriend but I am certainly NOT his caretaker." Rukia crossed her arms and looked away.
The orange haired woman tilted her head to the side and typed away. Rukia looked in her direction. "What are you saying?"
"That you're not Kaien-san's caretaker."
The petite female did an anime fall as she heard a voice note that had Ichigo laughing and saying LOL over and over. She got up and went out to the balcony where she looked over the city of Los Angeles, sitting down on one of the outside chairs she sighed. Then her phone pinged as she saw a bbm message from Ashido, she placed a small smile on her face as she opened the message but then frowned back.
The message had a picture attachment saying "If you don't know what you're so-called boyfriend's doing then look for yourself."
Rukia raised an eyebrow as she opened the picture, when she saw the content of the photo she gasped and almost lost her grip on her phone; the picture was of Kaien and Nuriko in a store smiling at something in Kaien's hand, the weird thing in the pic was that as Kaien was carefully examining his hand Nuriko looked like she was awfully close to him, she looked like she was blushing as well. Rukia closed the picture and sent Ashido a voice note.
"When was this taken?"
*PING* "A few minutes ago, in what looks like a jewelry shop."
"So he was picking out jewelry with Nuriko-san then?"
*PING* "Looks like it. I'm not getting in your business and all but you really need to talk to him about this."
Rukia sighed as she felt a tear drop coming to her eye. "Yea, I guess so."
*PING* "Alright then."
The female Kuchiki sighed and looked out at the scenery. 'Of course he wouldn't cheat on me, Kaien's so friendly with a lot of women…especially Nuriko-san. I trust those two and they wouldn't do anything to destroy that.'
"Do you think so?" A voice asked as Rukia turned her head to see her zanpaktou spirit sitting right next to her in a dark blue summer dress.
"That they would betray both me and my brother?" The yuki onna nodded as the violet eyed woman sighed and placed her legs up to her chest.
"I really don't know. After this past weekend's fiasco, I wouldn't be surprised if he did."
"True, but remember after you two spoke with each other and reconciled the problem? He was okay with it, and besides, you shouldn't trust what one picture from a random guy that popped up in a certain store sent you."
Listening to her sword's spirit, Rukia sighed, Shirayuki then continued. "I have a feeling Kaien-san loves you way too much to do that to you anyways."
The petite female smirked. "He does huh?"
Shrayuki nodded. "Nejibana says that all Kaien-san's thinking about is you and you alone." She then smiled at her master. "If you want conformation, you can ask bith Kaien-san and Nuriko-san."
"Thanks Shirayuki, you're very helpful."
The suites door then opened as Nuriko came dancing inside to her music from her headphones, she didn't see Rukia or Shirayuki at the balcony but they saw a light purple wrapped present in her hands. The violette danced to the closet and was looking for something as the two women outside smiled.
"Probably a present for your brother Rukia-sama." Shirayuki whispered as Rukia laughed at the comment. They then saw Nuriko exiting from the closet with what looked like to be a white bow. "Kaien's going to like what I did to the present." She smiled and walked outside the suite leaving two open mouthed women, Shirayuki then looked at her red master as she held her hands up.
"I-I'm sure there's an explanation to that saying."
The suite's door then opened again as Mihara, Tatsuki and Karin came inside, Mihara waving to Rukia. "Come Rukia, let's get ready for tonight." The raven haired female sighed and rose up from her seat, Shirayuki then vanished away.
Later on as the sun was setting, the girls were in the TV room waiting for the boys. Everyone was required by Nuriko to wear white clothing so the girls were wearing white dresses; Mihara, Rukia and Orihime had short dresses and Nuriko and Karin had on long ones and Tatsuki had on slack white pants and a white polo shirt. They also had white flowers in their hair.
The door knocked as Karin answered it; the boys were outside dressed in white polo shirts and white pants. They each waked up to their significant others and went out the suite in pairs, when Kaien and Rukia were to the elevator she stopped and looked back.
"Kaien, can I talk to you for a minute?" The tall male nodded as they walked to a hallway away from the elevator. Rukia sighed and looked at her boyfriend.
"You love me right Kaien?"
"Of course I do Rukia, I wouldn't be going through this big gathering thing if it wasn't for you." The tall man replied with a raised eyebrow. "Why?
"Oh nothing, it's just that… I think we shouldn't hide anything from one another you know."
By then Kaien became even more skeptical. "What's this about Rukia?"
The violet eyed woman then pulled out her blackberry bold and showed Kaien the picture that Ashido took of both him and Nuriko. Kaien's face flushed a bright red as Rukia raised an eyebrow. "Care to explain this please?"
Kaien scratched the back of his neck. 'Oh crap, she got me now...but how did she get this picture?' He then remembered what happened after the two bought the locket.
FLASHBACK…
While waiting for the gift to be wrapped, Kaien sighed. "I wonder if she'll find out before I'll give it to her."
Soon he felt a hand on his shoulder, the violette looked at the male. "Don't worry, she's smart we know that. However if you can hide it from her until tonight, then it's going to be fine. All you have to do is to don't show it around the other girls or guys, cause they'll snitch."
Kaien nodded as he received the lavender wrapped gift, he and Nuriko walked out the store and back to the hotel.
"When will you give her the locket?" Nuriko asked .
"Tonight after the couple's bonfire, I'll give it to her when everyone's not looking or paying attention."
"Sounds legit. Just remember to keep this a secret until tonight, and whatever you do, do not tell anyone….including Rukia about the necklace.
FLASHBACK END
Kaien sighed as he looked to the ceiling. "I can't tell you the reason why."
By hearing that, Rukia felt a tinge of pain in her chest, her boyfriend didn't want to tell her the reason why they were at a store together, laughing and blushing. She sadly smiled as she put away her phone. "Why?"
"It's something no one needs to know about now."
Rukia then got infuriated as she shoved Kaien away from her, he winced in pain as he made contact with the wall behind him. The raven haired male looked at the petite female whom had her head down looking to the floor, her hair covering her face but a few glistening tears was falling on her cheeks.
She then raised her head so they made eye contact with each other, glossy violet eyes showed pain while aqua green showed trust and hurt. Rukia then ran into her boyfriend's chest, snuggling in his white cotton polo shirt, Kaien embraced her while burying his face in her hair.
"Even though he always do stupid things everyday, he always be there to call me and tell what he did and always end up in trouble."
Eight people laughed as Mihara and Ichigo stood up on the wooden stage, Ichigo then looked to Mihara. "Also, since she's a nag most of the time, I still don' forget about the times she supports me and my family. I loved her so much for the past three years and by her still being with me, more years to come." He then kissed his girlfriend as the sitting audience clapped, Ichigo helped Mihara off the stage and back to her seat.
"That was so nice Kurosaki-kun." Orihime said as Ichigo blushed, she then looked around. "Ok, who's next…Nuriko-san and Byakuya-san, how about you two?"
Byakuya shook his head as Nuriko looked at her boyfriend and raised an eyebrow. "Yeeeaaa…..no. We'll go last." She then looked to Renji and Tatsuki, smirking she pointed to the couple. "I know you two have nothing to say."
"Hmph! After out anniversary fiasco, he's been trying to make up for it by giving me different gifts every month. I sometimes appreciated them but at other times , it gets so ridiculous." Tatsuki then looked away as a few persons laughed, making Renji blush.
Mihara rolled her eyes. "Whatever. That was over four years ago Tatsuki, get over it." She then looked to the last couple. "Kaien and Rukia, why don't you two go up?" The couple looked at each other and went up to the stage; each couple was to hold one another's hands and say how the three years of being with the person made them stay together.
Kaien held Rukia's hand and smiled at everyone else. "Well, what else can I say about this woman? She's my all and everything,"
Rukia sadly smiled and looked up to see her tall boyfriend, she then looked to the others. "I thank you all for supporting us throughout our three years together." The five couples clapped as Rukia smile faded. "I also thank Kaien for being in my life for those past years…." Kaien then looked to his girlfriend as she continued. "As a famous song say: 'They have come to the end of the road'…..unfortunately, our road ends here. I'm deciding to end out three year relationship."
By then, anyone whom was drinking water violently spat it out… and that was a total of nine people that did that. Kaien looked to Rukia whom looked ahead with sad eyes, he hopped off the stage and stormed off inside the hotel. All the men, including Byakuya went after Kaien while the girls went to a kneeling Rukia whom leaned into Tatsuki's embrace, crying.
"But I don't get this, why would you do this Rukia?" Nuriko asked the female as she pulled out her phone and showed the other women the picture, every woman gasped as Nuriko felt four pairs of eyes looking at her. The violette gripped the bold phone and looked to the sender of the message, she saw a head full of crimson hair, she growled under her breath and handed Karin the phone running inside the hotel.
"Where is she going?" Karin asked seeing the retreating figure.
"I don't know but I heard her say 'Kano'." Orihime answered.
Nuriko walked inside the lobby to see the males standing around a slumped figure, she walked up to the males trying to get Kaien's attention but when Byakuya saw her, he gripped her wrist and pulled her away from the group.
"Ow ow, Byakuya, that hurts." Nuriko cried in pain as the force of his grip made the pressure on her wrist unbearable. He then turned around holding her arm in the air.
"You're the reason why Kaien and Rukia broken up." Byakuya said with an ice cold tone.
Nuriko looked up with widened eyes to her love and frowned. "How could I be the one that made those two brake up? I loved that couple and made all of these arrangements for them and us."
"Then, explain the picture that Hitsugaya-taicho has on his phone that showed you being too close to Kaien blushing in a store."
"It wasn't what you and everyone else are thinking, we were just shopping."
Byakuya released her wrist and walked away, Nuriko whipped her head to his retreating figure. "This is all Kano's fault! He took the picture of us and made it look like we were together!…."
The stotic male stopped and looked behind his shoulder. "Making lies to cover up the truth isn't pretty Nuriko."
"But I'm not lying! Don't you see Byakuya; Kano wants Rukia, he used this picture to brake her and Kaien up. He the enemy here, not me."
The two stayed silent, the other males also heard what Nuriko said and looked at Kaien whom was pale.
The violette walked to the stotic male and held his hand from behind. I deeply love you Byakuya Kuchiki, I would do anything for you and no other person can get between us."
"If what you're saying is true…" He turned to see glossy diamond eyes and closed his own. " Then you know you're a liar." She gasped as a frown came to her face.
SLAP!
A brute hit came across Byakuya Kuchiki's face as he felt his now red cheek, the violette glared daggers at the man.
"Fine, if you won't believe me when I tell you the truth then believe me when I say this: WE…ARE….OVER!"
Nuriko walked fiercely out of the lobby but not before pulling off Byakuya's silver ring she had on, she then threw the ring outside in which it landed in the pool. The other males looked at Byakuya silently as his hair covered his eyes, he the stormed away.
The violette walked back out to the beach where she saw the other girls helping Rukia walk towards the building, she looked up and saw fireworks lighting up the night sky. Nuriko's legs gave and she fell down, Mihara ran and caught her cousin as the violette cried into her shoulder.
At the same time, both the four males and four females looked to the sky and watched the fireworks wondering what will come off from the night.
Read and review..next chapter's the EPILOGUE to this season.