Harsh breathing can be heard in the kitchen.
The inhabitants – none escaped without some sort of food smeared all over their body – stood around the table – plates and utensils in hand(s) – giving each other the evil eye.
Yes, even sweet Yuzu is capable of giving the evil eye, but hers was more (or less) a squint.
After a few moments, the kitchen explodes with laughter. Isshin was rolling around the messy floor crying and laughing and Karin and Yuzu were holding onto each other, bodies shaking from laughter.
And Ichigo? He normally doesn't laugh, but when he sees Rukia – not the uptight, restrained Rukia – clutching her stomach and laughing with tears streaming down her face, his face visibly brightens.
End notes:
Thank you for everyone's comments and for reading. jobanasan, thanks for the comment. I realize that it might be annoying to some that Rukia always gets the last word, but after re-reading the earlier Bleach chapters, Ichigo doesn't seem that quick witted. Rukia isn't all that witty either, but she does have some good, snarky lines. I really do believe the only witty characters are Urahara and Yoruichi and maybe Gin; however, Rukia is probably my current bias and so she gets the best lines.
I am trying to be vague about certain character information(s), but Rukia is a bit older than Ichigo in this fic. If I do write any future Ichiruki stories, she might always be the older of the two.
I do apologize for the repetitiveness. I like sarcasm, punchlines, and good banters. (But they can get tiresome.) If I could get away with it, everything would be in a dialogic format, but I'm not writing a script and the format might not be readable.