Lost and Found?
On a sunny day, Rukia pulled down her shades and let them sling around her neck.
"Good afternoon, Lieutenant Abarai!"
She hopped onto the couch in his office. Renji grumbled and pushed aside a stack of paper, creating a crack about 5 centimetres wide.
"Whaaat?"
Rukia smirked. He scowled.
"Oh nothing..." she smiled sweetly, "Isn't it a nice day?"
"Whatever..."
"Isn't it a shame that you can't enjoy it like everyone else?"
Glancing out the window, he secretly wished there was at least one cloud in the sky to ruin the perfect day.
"Is that why you have a pair of sunglasses?" Renji mumbled, "So you can make fun of me by reminding how you can enjoy the glaring bright sun while I can't?"
"Maybe..."
Renji cursed under his breath and tried to return to his paperwork. Thanks to Aizen, Ichimaru, and Tosen, every other division got twice the paperwork. And that ice cold man who Rukia called "Honourable Older Brother" left him with an undefinitive amount to do.
"Why are you still here?"
He didn't like that glint in her eye. The paperwork suddenly looked very interesting.
"So, I was wondering... where's Chappy?"
"Whaat?"
"Where's Chappy?"
Renji stared through the 5 cm crack between the paper stacks.
"Oh... that stupid keychain? I dunno..."
Rukia gasped and suddenly Renji was looking at her face to face, with Rukia having shoved aside stacks of paper to turn the 5 cm crack turning into a 50 cm one.
"You lost Chappy? And you called him stupid?"
Renji couldn't tell if she was serious or was only joking.
"If it was Yuki or Papyrus, I could understand," Rukia lamented, "But Chappy? Oh, what has thou done to him?"
"Why do thou care?" shouted Renji.
She took a deep breath, "Because... this is CHAPPY we are talking about!"
"You're getting excited over a keychain! What is that all about?"
After they were finishing glaring at each other, Rukia slumped onto the couch. Renji took another shot at the paperwork.
"Mmph..."
"Are you laughing?" Renji asked irritably.
"No... mmph..."
No, she was muffling it. Badly, he thought.
"What's so funny?"
"Since when do you say 'thou'?"
"Since I had the honour of having a Kuchiki in my office," Renji said sarcastically,
"You know, you've actually used it incorrectly, because 'thou' is a familiar term of address, so you're being very disrespectful."
"You started it - you used it first. And I'm a lieutenant. I rank higher than you."
"Ah, but I'm a Kuchiki. I have more social status as a member of one of the highest ranking noble families."
He scowled. "Are you bipolar or something?"
"No! Why would you say that?"
"You were all weepy over that stupid keychain five seconds ago and now you're laughing."
The very mention of the lost keychain had Rukia slumped back onto the couch, seemingly miserable. The black lines on the paper blurred as Renji's mind was distracted with other thoughts. He could understand why people used to make keys look more ornamental, but apparently, humans prefered making keychains to achieve that effect now.
He sighed and quietly opened a drawer.
"Ack!"
He stared hard the paper. Rukia rubbed the back of her head, the supposedly lost keychain clutched in her small hand. Wow... the keychain was harder than she thought. These things were durable.
"What was that for?" Rukia snapped.
Renji ignored her.
"Why did you throw Chappy at me?" Rukia demanded. "That's abuse you know!"
She hopped over the couch and slumped over his desk, swinging the keychain back and forth in front of him. Annoyed, he snatched it from her hands.
"It's my keychain, I'll do what I want with it!"
"Really? Your keychain?"
"Yes! And I'll throw at people if I want!"
He turned to dump it back into the desk drawer and turned back to Rukia, whose eyes were wide.
"I didn't think you'd actually keep it," she said somewhat incredulously, "Well... Here something from Captain Ukitake!"
A big grin appeared on her face as she ceremoniously dumped a pile of paper onto the tall stacks already present on his desk.
"Whaat?"
Renji was almost livid with disbelief. He turned to find Rukia was on his windowsill.
"Is that all you can say today?" she smiled.
"Do you enjoy watching me suffer?" he shouted.
"Maybe just a little, Lieutenant," Rukia smirked, "Bye, Renji!"
She tossed him the shades she had been wearing around her neck and leapt from the window. Renji clutched the shades as looked out of the window and saw a only dazed Rikichi. The 6th Division member never knew what hit him. Renji sighed and sat back at his desk.
Taking the first sheet of the new pile, he found a crudely drawn picture. In contrast was Rukia's neat handwriting.
"Thrown away that keychain, already? I thought so... (insert bad drawing of a face sticking out tongue) Well, here's your real present! You better not break these ones, too!"
Unlike Ichigo, Renji knew better than to criticize Rukia's incredibly bad drawings. He opened the desk drawer again and dropped a scribble of Chappy wearing sunglasses inside along with that ridiculous keychain. Suppressing a smile, he stared out the window at the sunny sky.
Author: Can you believe Renji's funny looking sunglasses cost half a year's paycheck? (I got that from a character book, I don't remember which one.) Thanks for all the kind reviews.