A/N: My updates are getting less frequent...sorry 'bout that, its just I'm facing a little bit of writer's block. Anyway, I'm so glad this story has gotten so many reviews, thank you for taking the time and effort to write them :3 I wuv you all.
And don't worry about the servant, I've taken .NelTu.'s advice and locked him in a room with a bloodthirsty Kenpachi..may God help him now.
Anyway, I've started another fanfic, Obsession. Yes, it's ByaRuk, but it's AU, so the story is entirely different. Go check that out if you're okay with Byakuya being a badass XD
Chapter 10
Rukia's head was killing her.
She hadn't been able to sleep or eat properly for days. She wished she could take some sleeping pills from Captain Unohana and just sleep her poor excuse of a life away but she also had Lieutenant duties, and like hell she was going to shirk them. She had worked so hard to get to this position and even nii-sama had…
Guilt racked her body for the hundredth time. She stopped walking and fell on a nearby bench, holding her head tightly. Her head pounded harder as she remembered that horrible scene in nii-sama's room. What had possessed her to do that? She felt so horrible and disgusted with herself.
Kissing him like that! He was her brother Goddammit! When was she going to get that through her head!? Dammit!
And seducing him like that, like he was a lover or something. God! What must her brother think of her? He hadn't done anything besides licking her finger and that could have been a brotherly act, right? He had liked the chocolate anyway. It was she who had made the first move, who had pushed him to the floor and kissed him and opened his robe and kissed…
Ohmygod! Rukia just wanted the ground to swallow her up.
She had made a move on a man who only thought of her as a sister. Urgh!
Nii-sama would have stopped her right then and there if she hadn't been so persistent, he had probably felt sick to his stomach when she had turned on him like a wanton brainless slut!
Slut! You're a slut, Rukia. Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, SLUT!
That crude word repeated itself again and again in her head like a mantra, tormenting her. She knew it, she had reached an all new level of lowness. She had disgraced the clan that had so graciously adopted her. But most of all, she had disappointed nii-sama.
The very thought of facing her brother made her want to die, she knew he had wanted to demand an explanation that night for her outlandish behavior and had probably wanted to punish her for what she had done but Rukia couldn't stay in his room and look at him after what she had done, not without dying with embarrassment.
So she took the cowardly way out and avoided her brother at all costs. She altogether stopped eating breakfast in the Kuchiki Household and ate boxed lunches at the 13th squad headquarters. She made sure to arrive late during the night to have her dinner and quietly go to sleep.
She stayed clear away from the vicinity of the sixth squad building, which meant not going near her favorite place in the forest. Whenever she would go out she would make sure to detect where her brother's reiatsu was, and would stay as far from it as she could. She no longer trusted her body anymore, it always seemed like it had a mind of its own when it was near him.
One day she had slipped and forgotten to check his reiatsu, which resulted in her bumping directly into him when she had turned a corner. She was lucky she hadn't fallen backwards but had gasped, very loudly, when she saw who it was.
He had been surprised to see her as well and had just been about to call her name when she had flash-stepped as far away as she could. He hadn't followed her and she was grateful for that. Maybe he was so embarrassed by the incident himself that he just wanted to altogether forget it ever happened. Rukia could work with that.
Her oath-taking ceremony had been pure torture. It had been a small one, the 13th squad along with the chief commander and some friends of Rukia had attended it. Some of the Kuchiki elders had come as well since one of their clan members becoming a high-ranked officer was always a victory for them.
Renji had come as well, but not alone. His captain had to be present to see his sister become lieutenant, after all, he was the man who had 'made it happen.'
Rukia had had to endure her own horrible thoughts as she stood up on the stage, about what nii-sama was thinking as he stood in front of the crowd, looking up at her with that emotionless face.
She had mechanically gone through the whole thing, forcing herself to not look at him to see what his expression was. She had felt his eyes on her the entire time, silently demanding to look at him. Rukia had stubbornly kept her line of vision elsewhere. After the ceremony, she had quietly left with an excuse of having a severe headache. Everyone had believed her, blaming it on stress and living with someone a stony as the Kuchiki Head.
All in all, she had completely ruined her life by kissing him like that. It was going to remain a thorn in her side, a scar, for the rest of her life.
"Stupid dream," Rukia muttered. "Screwed my life so royally. Stupid, stu-"
"Kuchiki-san!" Two arms suddenly wrapped themselves around Rukia, making her jump a foot into the air.
"Matsumoto-san!" she asked, clutching the front of her robe tightly.
The bubbling orange-haired woman shook her head with a smile, "now now Kuchiki-san! We're friends aren't we? You just HAVE to call me Matsumoto chan, or Matsumoto, 'kay?"
Rukia smiled weakly in return, "okay, um, Matsumoto…chan. Then you have to call me Rukia chan…or Rukia," she replied back.
Matsumoto gave a thumbs up and giggled, "O-kay Rukia. Now let's go!"
Matsumoto started dragging Rukia in the opposite direction by the arm. "Uh, Matsumoto-chan, where are we going?" She was dragging Rukia to the 10th squad building.
"Why, where else? To the meeting," she stated incredulously.
Rukia couldn't recall a lieutenant's meeting today. "What meeting?"
"You'll see," she replied mysteriously.
They stopped by a door with a sign haphazardly pasted on it, the word 'Beeware' scribbled messily in red.
"Matsumoto-chan, the, uh, spelling is wrong," Rukia said, pointing at the warning.
Matsumoto laughed, "Ah that. I guess Yachiru won't be winning any spelling contests anytime soon."
She opened the door and led Rukia inside. A couple of women were gathered there; Nanao, Yachiru, Nemu, Isane, Kiyone. Nanao walked towards Rukia and bowed.
"Welcome, Kuchiki-san, to our club meeting."
Rukia just blinked confusedly. "Thank you for inviting me, but which club meeting exactly?"
Nanao pushed back her glasses and was about to answer when Yachiru jumped up on the table beside Rukia. "The Women's Shinigami Club Meeting Rukichiki!" she bubbled with joy.
"Rukichiki?"
Matsumoto wrapped an arm around Rukia and spoke up, "Well you see, we have these weekly meetings, females only of course. We're inviting you to join! Isn't that fun!?"
Rukia had heard of these meetings, but only lieutenants joined, excluding Kiyone because she had mostly been a lieutenant of sorts for Captain Ukitake.
Nanao looked exasperated for being interrupted. She spoke up quickly, "I am vice president of the club and Yachiru-chan is president. We would love it if you joined, Kuchiki-san."
Kiyone also spoke up from her seat beside Nemu, "It's really cool, we all bring food and have parties and crack jokes about our captians and-"
Nanao cleared her voice to silence Kiyone, "and we arrange activities for women and charity funfairs whose money we donate to Rukongai and-"
"Drink sake till we drop unconscious!" Matsumoto chimed in merrily.
"We do some serious stuff as well though," Nanao persistently added, her eyebrow twitching slightly.
"Aww, come on bookworm!" Matsumoto pouted.
"Only Yachiru-chan can call me that, Matsumoto-chan"
Rukia felt her mood lift considerably. Soon she was laughing, "okay, okay, I'll join!" She laughed.
"Yay! Rukichiki's gonna join!" Yachiru bounced off the table and hugged Rukia by the neck.
"Wait! Wait! Yachiru!" Matsumoto said. "She still has to be initiated."
"Huh?" Rukia froze, her smile beginning to falter. She didn't like the sound of that.
Matsumoto just nodded her head and giggled. She giggled.
"Yes, Rukia-san," Isane cut in, "Everyone has to be initiated to become a member. Usually, Matsumoto-chan decides the task." Matsumoto! Matsumoto decides!?
Rukia balked a little but gave a small smile, "okay, what do I have to do?"
Matsumoto folded her arms and started tapping her bottom lip with her finger, thinking deeply. "Hmm, what should it be? Well, we need more pictures of HIS…maybe…"
"HIS?" Rukia asked.
"Hunks In Seireitei," Nanao said matter-of-factly.
"I know!" Matsumoto blurted suddenly, inspiration hitting her. "I'm going to give you a camera I bought from the real world, snap a couple of pictures of Captain Kuchiki and you'll be a member!" she said concluded happily.
"WHAT!?"
"Oh, but nice ones though, "Matsumoto added seriously, "possibly in his night clothes, maybe with his shirt off..."
"But I can't do that!" Rukia felt her face beginning to get very hot.
"Oh sure you can, it's fairly easy, he's your brother, you live with him."
"But why do you need his pictures!?" She mentally slapped herself. Anyone could figure that one out.
"Actually, we have some shots of him from before, but they aren't good. We're making a HIS album y'know."
"Is there a problem with the task, Kuchiki-san?" Nanao asked curiously. "Matsumoto made me kiss Captain Kyoraku on the cheek. Compared to that your task is fairly easy."
Rukia didn't care about it being easy or not, it was just out of the question! She couldn't even look at nii-sama right now!
Yachiru innocently looked up at Rukia, "why are you blushing, Rukichiki?"
Rukia became mortified and immediately took up the defensive. "Of course I'm not! I'll do the task, I'll even get some shots of him shirtless! Happy?"
Matsumoto just smiled, instantly skipping off in search of her camera.
Rukia sighed. How did she get herself into these messes?
E/N: Hope I got the name's right.
Next...Rukia is forcefully sent on a task she absolutely would love not doing...