***Two years ago; Rukon***
"So for chemistry we'll be doing experiments" Miss Ise said clapping her hands. Hanataro looked left and then right, no one to partner himself with…how typical. He'd have to do it himself again; he was a lone wolf anyway…humph more like a lone mouse.
"So" said Bambietta putting a strong hand on his shoulder "looks like I'm stuck with you"
"Wha…" Hanataro almost shrieked. He saw that Meninas and Candice had paired together and Gisselle and Liltotto weren't in this class.
"I hope you know what we're doing 'cause I haven't got a fuckin clue" Bambietta said shoving him toward the apparatus that the teacher had already set out for them. Hanataro merely nodded. She always had to pick on him, people always asked to be her partner but she went to him every time. Why!? Was it because he was good at chemistry or did she just enjoy making him squirm. "Oh Stylo" Bambietta muttered putting her hands in her pockets and leaning on the table. She whistled serenely as Hanataro set to work on the experiment.
After a minute Hanataro noticed Bambietta staring at him. "What?" he asked feeling rather self-conscious.
"Nuthin" Bambietta said looking away. Now it was Hanataro's turn to stare, she was quite the supermodel in waiting. Her skirt revealed enough of her legs to make it sexy but not enough to make it damn right slutty. Her legs were nice, quite strong looking and even at sixteen her t-shirt strained slightly with her bust. He noticed Bambietta always looked so…clean. It was if she took three showers a day or something.
"So I hear there is a new brat coming to that bad kid centre" Bambietta said
"Uh, yeah she's called Shaolin"
"What did that bitch do?"
"Robbed a liquor store I think, they also tied a few assaults to her"
"Oh…" Bambietta said staring into space. She was probably making up a plan on how to make this girl kill herself within a week. Hanataro scolded himself for thinking such repugnant thoughts "What was it you did again to get in here?"
"I uh…" Hanataro looked for a way to dodge the question.
"Bambietta" Miss Ise said "will you help Hanataro with the experiment, please"
"Dude I don't know what we're doing"
"Then you should've listened"
"You should've explained it in such a way that my attention would be drawn to it" Bambietta retorted.
"Why do you have to be like this, Bambietta?" Ise muttered handing her a piece of paper with instructions on it, it was obviously for someone who was Autistic or something and it earned a scowl from Bambietta.
"So we've find a way to ignite that Magnesium?" Bambietta said "without actually a flame on it?"
"Yes" Hanataro said "I'm thinking lithium and water"
"Don't be a faggot" Bambietta grinned "I know something much, much more…" she took a deep breath "explosive"
"Wha…" Hanataro said watching her stalk off to the chemical cupboard. She came back holding a bottle. Hanataro went cold.
"Bambietta put that back" he whispered so the teacher wouldn't catch them. The other students milled around trying to get their magnesium to light. "No…you can't use that much Magnesium too!" Hanataro said as Bambietta tossed an entire roll of Magnesium foil into a large bottle of oxygen.
Bambietta grinned and unscrewed the other bottle and pulled ALL of the White Phosphorus out of its oily slumber. She dried them with a towel and then roared "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" She threw all the pieces into the oxygen bottle. Hanataro shrieked and dived away….nothing happened.
"Huh!?" Bambietta said approaching the bottle. He stared up at her from the ground.
Suddenly everything went white and with a mighty explosion followed by a fizzing sound there was crashing and shouting as Hanataro stumbled around on the ground blinded. "Bambietta you crazy bitch!" Candice wailed "I can't fucking see!"
"WOOOOO!" Bambietta wailed from the ground somewhere near him. Suddenly the light was away and Miss Ise stood wearing shaded safety goggles. She had doused the light with some kind of fire extinguisher.
Hanataro looked at the large bottle…it had melted. "Bambietta and Hanataro!" Ise snapped with uncharacteristic fury "you melted a $400 Pyrex Oxygen jar!"
"I ignited the Magne…"
"Shut up!" Miss Ise almost roared. "You could've killed everyone in the class!"
"Oh come now" Bambietta waved her off
"Silence" She shouted again "Go to the principal's office! Both of you"
"What did I do?" Hanataro squeaked
"Nothing!" She said "you did nothing, why didn't you stop her?"
"I-I-I…uh" Hanataro accepted defeat and followed Bambietta out of the class, he'd never got into trouble with the Principal; what if he tells Ukitake and then he gets kicked off the programme!?
"Never expected Ise to lose her cool" Bambietta chimed as she walked down the corridor.
"Uh-uh…uh" Hanataro said "You're going the wrong way"
"Eh?" Bambietta said raising her eyebrows at him.
"The principal's office is that way" he pointed
"So?" Bambietta said "I'm going for a smoke"
"Oh" Hanataro said turning to go to the principal's office
"Where are you going?"
"The Principals office"
"Don't be a little Muslim" Bambietta said "c'mon and get high with me"
"High?" Hanataro said following her again. He should probably stick up for his morals but he was just too infatuated with Bambietta's…everything to refuse a chance to spend time alone with her. He didn't know why he liked Bambietta especially when Candice and Momo were probably more attractive and both of them were much nicer; well Candice usually ignored him. Or at least- she used to ignore him until he accidentally found her kissing a girl when he was helping the janitor mopping the floors. She'd made him promise not to tell anyone, she even gave him a picture of Bambietta naked to sweeten the pot. Hanataro didn't know how she'd got it but he didn't complain when she gave it to him.
The picture was good for a while but it never compared to the real thing. Bambietta made his heart hurt, every time he saw her he'd get butterflies in his stomach and even now he was bubbling with anticipation. Bambietta eventually stopped when she got to the gym hall. "Don't be telling anyone you've been here" she said
"Uh…okay" Hanataro said watching her climb up the ladder and then getting red-faced when he saw up her skirt.
"Little pervert" Bambietta said as if she knew he was doing it.
"Uh…s-sorry"
"Can't blame a man for being curious" she said as he climbed up after her. The room was full of pipes and a boiler of some kind. "I don't think even the janitor knows this place exists"
"Are you really gonna smoke that?" Hanataro said
"Yep" Bambietta said lighting the joint. She took a long draw and sat on a pipe. "Fuuuuck" she said blowing out the smoke "Candice knows where to get the good shit"
"But that's illegal" Hanataro said
"Taking it up the ass is illegal in this state too but that never stopped me last night" Bambietta chuckled leaning back on the wall.
"How could you let a man do that?" Hanataro said with uncharacteristic boldness
"Yeah…man" Bambietta scowled at the ground "Sometimes I wish I could just…" she spread her arms and made a gesture that Hanataro didn't get.
"I don't get it" Hanataro said
"I wanna be famous" Bambietta said
"You are famous" Hanataro said
"No, nothing happens in this stupid island" Bambietta said "The news are just interested in me cause they hope I'll be the next Paris Hilton… I kinda am but…what the fuck I wanna be a proper nice girl, humanitarian, like"
"Your just about as much of a humanitarian as Hitler was" Hanataro chided. He lowered his head "sorry"
"What did you get arrested for again?" Bambietta said regarding him with a weary stare.
"I…killed a few men" Hanataro shamefully admitted
"Shit, didn't know you had it in ya" Bambietta chuckled "what happened?"
"Well…my father used to be…abusive, but only to me, he loved my sister he'd always hit me and tell me I should be worshiping the ground she walked on and I sorta did, she was awesome, had a different smile for everyone"
"Sounds nice" Bambietta said staring at the smoke rising from her joint.
"Hmm" Hanataro said "one day I…uh some guy had decided she was going to be his…conquest wither she liked it or not"
"Fuck sake"
"Yeah, she killed herself and then my father killed himself, I was left with no one except my big brother who was an asshole who went out to get a packet of smokes and never came back" Hanataro explained moodily "I was left to forage for myself and then…I saw him the man who raped my sister"
"And you killed him?"
"He was with a group of five or six of his buddies" Hanataro said "I'd never felt rage like it, they were all groping at a woman, the poor girl was just trying to go home or something, I blacked out and next thing I remember was waking up to the sound of sirens and there was blood everywhere, the girl said I killed them all…killed them all with my bare hands"
"…bullshit" Bambietta laughed, she trailed off when she saw just how haunted he was, what if he was telling the truth and she was locked in here with a mass murderer!
"It's humiliating" Hanataro said "everyone in the Kotowari Centre treats me like I'm made of porcelain, like I'm gonna break and explode, only Toshiro treats me like a person"
"Toshiro" Bambietta sighed "I'd hit that"
"I know" Hanataro muttered
"You know?" Bambietta laughed raising an eyebrow.
"No. no, no!" Hanataro said with his cheeks going red "Not like that, I'm not gay"
"Mind you" Bambietta said "Toshiro is like the male version of that bitch Yoruichi; turns motherfuckers gay"
"But Toshiro isn't gay"
"One of these days I'm gonna get him to fuck me" Bambietta said handing Hanataro the half smoked Joint, he stared at it for a second before accepting it and taking a long draw. He felt the familiar rise of the mild hallucinogen. "Shit" Bambietta said "I was expecting you to choke like a bitch"
"I used to smoke a lot" Hanataro said remembering how it numbed his pain, the pain of loving a girl who'd rather fuck his friend than him, his life was so stupid. Everyone at the Kotowari centre was cool. Toshiro was a genius, Momo was stunning and kind everyone at the school liked her despite being a 'delinquent', Hiyori was the most feared girl at the school and Hanataro was just…pathetic.
"Zee, you in here?" Gisselle said from the lower part of the room
"Yep" Bambietta said. She chuckled at Hanataro "she calls me Zee because…well I don't really know but I think it's cute"
"Yo can I borrow your…uh" She glanced at Hanataro
"Allow it" Bambietta waved
"Yeah well can I borrow your card?"
"Why?"
"I wanna buy a new bed, mines broke and mom is living on rations as it is!"
"Alrighty" Bambietta said handing Gisselle a black card that looked like a credit card or something.
"Much appreciated"
"Get some cash back too" Bambietta said "keep it to the side for harder times"
"Will do" Gisselle turned and walked away with a smirk replacing her humbled face. Did she just play Bambietta? That was dangerous!
"What was that card?" Hanataro said
"Just a credit card" Bambietta said "since daddy doesn't give me enough hugs I let my friends spend his money"
"Can I ask you something?" Hanataro said sitting on the pipe beside her
"What?"
"Have you been getting…I dunno a strange feeling recently?"
"Like what you get when you're standing on the beach and you see a massive storm coming toward the island?"
"Yeah"
"I've been getting it a lot" Bambietta said "I hoped it was just me"
"Hmm" Hanataro mumbled. He considered his options, weighed them and decided he had nothing to lose. He leaned forward and attempted to kiss her. She moved her forehead forward; it stopped him from placing the kiss on her carnal glossy lips. He didn't think he'd been more disappointed than he was now.
"Don't" she mumbled softer than normal "you don't wanna be with a girl like me"
"But I do"
"No…no you don't" Bambietta said "now come on, back to class"
***Back to present***
Hanataro groaned as he awoke. "Hey" Bambietta said sitting beside him. The light tapping of her fingers on the keyboard of her laptop made him open his eyes. Every time he woke he'd stare and Bambietta and wonder how he'd managed to pull a girl like her. He knew Soifon felt the same way with Yoruichi, He liked to spend time with just Soifon and Toshiro, the three of them were in similar situations: madly in love with someone miles out of their league, maybe not in Toshiro's case but Toshiro considered Momo to be out of his league so it would stick despite the fact it was the other way around. Toshiro could probably get a woman twice as good as Momo easily.
They'd fled Venice after the Stern Ritter attacked them; Bambietta then used her creepy credit card to check into this luxurious hotel in Paris. "There is a Book conference in London" Bambietta said "I got invited, I think I might go"
"Whilst the Stern Ritter are after us?"
"Nah" Bambietta said "that's what they are expecting, they think we'll be hiding somewhere underground, they'll never expect me to be in London signing copies of my murder mysteries!" Bambietta grinned beautifully.
"It makes sense" Hanataro said
"I also got a message from Momo" Bambietta said "apparently Soifon is ill"
"What happened?" he asked
"Dunno, she got shot and then some kind of infection"
"Anaemia?"
"Yeah, I think that's what she called it"
"She'll be fine" Hanataro said lounging back on the bed "they'll give her a transfusion and she'll recover eventually"
"Good for her" Bambietta said "I miss being around our buddies, one day I'd like to go back to Rukon for a month or two, get drunk and have a hella party"
"I feel the same" Hanataro said "sucks that I have to drop medical school"
"You only had a little bit left just get Toshiro or someone to fake your records and paff: Job done"
"Who'd give me a recommendation?"
"Isn't Grimmjow a doctor?" Bambietta said
"Well… he is but I…"
"See he'll cover ya" Bambietta said closing the laptop and putting it on the bedside table. "What's on the box?" she turned the TV on with the remote. "Anime. Never liked Anime I prefer Manga, I always imagine my life as a Manga never destined to become an Anime"
"See what's on CNN" Hanataro said.
"Alright" Bambietta said changing the channel "…what is it on stupid French cable" she flicked through a few more news channels and eventually found it. They were greeted with a mugshot, a familiar dark skinned male with gold hair.
"Today's main story: The Terrorist Marik Ishtar has mysteriously died in prison, the Israeli government are said to be baffled by the man who, reportedly, exploded in his cell. Police are treating the death as suspicious"
"Nothing suspicious about someone exploding" Hanataro joked
"I know that guy he's…" Bambietta thought for a while "Oh…never mind, he was that guy who attacked us at home"
"What was the other thing?"
"You know this?" Bambietta showed him her card which had 'CS10_TIAMAT-5' emblazoned on it.
"Yeah" Hanataro said "what about it?"
"Only a few people in the world have these, it's like a little club…he had one too"
"Oh right" Hanataro said
"Now that he's dead his card will be up for grabs"
"Why does yours say TIAMAT?"
"It's who used to own it" Bambietta said "I'm known as Zee but my mother was called Tiamat"
"What does this club do?"
"Help each other to help ourselves" Bambietta said "though they've been pretty quiet recently I haven't heard from my senior in nearly two years" Bambietta shrugged "maybe it's best, after the conference, to keep our heads down, if someone is killing off Dash 5 members it won't be long before I'm next on the list"
"Now I'm slightly terrified"
"No need" Bambietta said "I've got a SPAS-12 with Dragon fire that'd just love to meet anyone who thinks this teeny-bopper is gonna go down without a fight"
"Can you go a year without killing someone?"
"I went last year didn't I?"
"No you killed that guy who was hassling me at medical school" Hanataro said
"Wha…" Bambietta blushed "I thought you didn't know"
"I do"
"The guy was trying to have his way with me, you'd have put him down on the spot" Bambietta said "you've done it before"
"Only Jayden"
"And the guy from the gas station"
"I never killed him I only…beat him a little"
"Let's just admit we are nowhere near the perfect couple"
"Yeah"
"Okay" Bambietta said "we're off to London tomorrow and then it's book signing and the face of Faline will finally be revealed!"
***Change****
"Eat your soup, Soifon!" Yoruichi said holding out the soup spoon.
"No!" Soifon said indignantly "it's not your chicken noodle soup and therefore I don't like it"
"But…" Yoruichi sighed "you're so difficult"
"Sorry" Soifon sighed and lay back down on her bed. She was still a little pale and red around the eyes but her arm had been patched up and her butt had its dressing changed. She didn't have much of an appetite though. "So" Soifon said with a slightly devious smirk creeping into her looks "how are you finding the music of these past years?"
Now it was Yoruichi's turn to scowl. "Music is dead to me now, Miley Cyrus used to be a little cute thing and now…what the fuck I wouldn't even stick a knife in her"
"Is that the only thing you've noticed?" Soifon said raising an eyebrow "what about good old Justin getting busted and the absolute joke and musical insult that is Bound 2?"
"Haven't heard that yet" Yoruichi said "Are you still on for our holiday?"
"Yeah" Soifon said "I need a break and I frankly do not want to solve another case whilst injured, I did Grantz with my chest ripped open and Aizen with my arm and leg broken"
"Sucks" Yoruichi said "anyway I hope you get well soon 'cause I want to get to London quickly for this train"
"I'm about sick of Britain to be honest" Soifon muttered staring up at the ceiling.
***Change***
Three days later Soifon sighed as she stepped into the cold air of London. The pollution of the densely packed city made her scrunch her nose but Yoruichi didn't seem to mind, she grinned happily as she absorbed the sights. "There's Bambietta" Soifon said pointing at the raven haired beauty wearing pink earmuffs and matching furry uggs. Soifon sighed when she realised she was wearing leggings. Why did girls do that? Big coat, fluffy boots, gloves and earmuffs and she wears leggings with it all?
Bambietta waved happily. "I don't know why she's your friend" Yoruichi said wearily "the Basterbine family is bad news"
"Meh" Soifon said "as long as she'd keeping Hanataro out of trouble she's my friend. Nevertheless I still haven fully forgiven her for breaking my leg"
"What did she do?"
"Dunno" Soifon said "it's blacked out, hidden behind a mental wall"
"Oh" Yoruichi said. Hanataro of course walked beside Bambietta trying not to slip in the ice.
"When I heard you guys were coming to London I couldn't help but come and say hi!" Bambietta chimed. Uggs and leggings were a good combo Soifon's inner pervert admitted
"Yeah" Soifon said "you said you needed our advice?"
"Yeah" Bambietta chuckled "one of the other writers at the convention supposedly killed himself and…well I don't sit right with me, he was an asshole but he was one of those proper uppity people, no way he'd off himself"
"Did he have any altercations?"
"Yeah" Bambietta said "he was at everyone's throat in the first night, can you believe he insulted my Sex scene in 'Rapture'?"
"No" Soifon said remembering the abnormally erotic scene in Bambietta's most famous work that was already being converted into a film. The scene was quite graphic and was probably rather painful…for all six people participating in it.
"I was just hoping for some tips, I don't wanna be killed by some serial killer"
"You are a serial killer" Soifon said
"Oh come on I've only killed…" Bambietta counted with her fingers but stopped when she got past ten "shut up"
They eventually went for some coffee and spent a lot of time catching up. Yoruichi was quiet for the most part but when she eventually got comfortable with the idea of Bambietta as an ally she opened up. At least it wasn't like last time where she covertly tried to kill Bambietta multiple times before accepting that the young temptress had really changed her ways. Of course they didn't spend too long in each other's company despite seeing Hanataro as one of her four 'best' friends beside Candice, Toshiro and Yoruichi she still felt some residing uneasiness between them.
"Oh well" Bambietta said standing up "I've got more book signing to do"
"Have fun with that and we'll maybe see you in Rukon sometime" Soifon said
"Yeah" Bambietta replied awkwardly. Then they were apart again and Yoruichi accompanied Soifon toward the 'buffet' that'd be held for all the passengers of the Orient Express to set a sort of 'meet and greet' situation. It was supposed to be held in some fancy hall in a posh part of town. Soifon wasn't disappointed when she got there, classical music played, all men were in pressed black suits and the women frolicked around in flowing dresses as if they were competing with each other to see who could act the most like a swan in the hall. Yoruichi sighed. "We're so under dressed" Yoruichi said looking down at her faded jeans and black Metallica t-shirt combo. Soifon wasn't very different she too was sporting a pair of jeans and a long-sleeved green shirt with a red t-shirt above it.
"Why do you layer t-shirts anyway" Yoruichi said flashing her and Soifon's train tickets at a guard.
"Dunno" Soifon said "not to many people do it and I guess deep down I'm a massive hipster"
"A what?"
"People who pride themselves on doing things that aren't 'mainstream'" Soifon said "I suppose I'm a little different from that though, I don't want to be cool for doing it I just don't want to be the same as everyone else"
"I feel the same" Yoruichi laughed "It scares me half to death thinking that there is someone the same as me out there"
They got more than a few glances and glares from the other passengers and staff. Obviously these scruffy and confident girls were just not the right standing for this upper class posh event. Yoruichi picked up a little sausage and tossed it into her mouth. "So what do we do?" Yoruichi said as she chewed it.
"Dunno" Soifon said
"Who dey?" Yoruichi said nodding toward three people in suits. Two men and one woman, the woman had a burn of some kind on her face. They talked quietly amongst themselves. Yoruichi watched them for a good fifteen seconds before shrugging and picking up another sausage.
Whoever they were, just the vibe they gave of told her this, they were trouble!
[End of Chapter 43]
Can't wait until Yoruichi and Revy eventually meet it'll be jokes! Never mind all that, Yoruichi was from five years ago that's only 2009…goddamn I feel old.
