The Chemical Reaction
Atagoki: So I just started watching that new anime, Romeo x Juliet...it's amazing. And Juliet's character is made of win. xD I also finished Blood+...and the people on YouTube were driving me nuttier than an acorn with their "zomgz...is Haji leh daed?" Tch. Anyway...enough of my babble. Thanks to all the reviews and I do hope that this chapter is made of win.
Warnings: Language, as always and one sexual reference.
Disclaimer: If life was fair, I'd be a millionaire...and I'd own Bleach too.
Chapter 5:
She takes a little time in making up her mind. — Garbage
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"Proposition?" she repeated, letting the word ring in her head. She said it again. Rukia liked the sound of the word, but also feared it. "How do you mean—"
She was interrupted by her pager buzzing against her hip and she jumped in the air and squealed in shock, then bit her lip, taking back her wrist from Ichigo. She looked like a fool. Oh, well. What's done is done. Rukia began to search her bag for the pager, and found herself lost in the surplus of gadgets. She began dumping them on the table and talking to herself, not realizing Ichigo could hear her every word.
"iPod...cellphone...PDA...other PDA...that PSP Renji confiscated...Rangiku-san's iPod...a Gameboy SP that Renji confiscated...damn it, where the hell is it?" At this point, she dumped out the rest and picking up items, looking at them, then dropping them on the table.
"Ahem...Rukia...?"
"Urusse. Not right now!" Rukia barked at Ichigo.
"Demo...I have your pager."
"Nani?" she looked up and saw him waving the pager back and forth.
"Ano...give me that!" she snatched it greedily and looked at for a minute, then flipped it right-side-up. "Nani...?"
Rukia made her way to the door, slamming it behind her as Ichigo called after her.
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"Kurosaki-kun," a voice called over an intercom in the interrogation room. Ichigo looked at the tinted mirror and placed his hand on it after he rose and walked to it.
"Inoue?"
"Hai...it's good to hear your voice. I just thought I would let you know that I'm leaving here." Orihime took her own hand and placed it where his was, matching fingers up and sighing. His was much bigger than hers, not that she cared about that.
"Nanze? Why?"
"I made a mistake and I feel that it would be better if I went back to school in Tokyo. I hope you don't mind."
"I-I'm confused. What happened earlier wasn't your fault, you know."
"It's all right. I promise. But, could you be nice to Kuchiki-san while you're still here? She's a good person. And it was nice meeting you, Kurosaki-kun. Maybe in another life we can meet under different circumstances." she forced a giggle, and dropped her hand and turned off the intercom system before the laugh became overtaken by her choked sobs.
Hell, she didn't know why she was crying. Maybe it was because she felt responsible for what was going to happen to him. Maybe she felt bad because she resigned and she didn't want to. Maybe she was sad because she wouldn't see her friends from here again. All she knew is that she was really sad.
Confirming that, Orihime took one last look at the glass, where Ichigo stood, with a confused look on his face, then opened the door and permitted the guard to escort herself out.
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"So, Renji, what was so goddamn important you took me out of my area while I was getting Kurosaki to sign these papers that released Inoue of all responsibility?"
Renji turned down the music on his stereo and then grinned at Rukia. "It doesn't matter anymore. Kurosaki's getting transferred out of here."
"WHAT?!" Rukia shouted. To add emphasis, she slammed the stack of papers on the ground and used her tiny fist to make a loud noise when she banged it on the front of his desk. "He's getting transferred?! Why the fuck didn't you tell me?!"
"Sheesh...calm your ass down. I thought you'd be happy."
"There you go thinking again, Renji. I've been working on this for almost three weeks and you pull me off the case without telling me? I was this close," she took her forefinger and thumb and placed a little gap between them, "to getting him to confess, you dumbfuck." Rukia screamed again and stormed out of the office screaming and hissing and shouting, then came back in. "Why did no one tell me?"
Renji shrugged. "I don't know. I figured that you didn't care and I'd tell you now that he's getting transferred in two hours."
"Two hours? TWO?!"
Renji nodded. Rukia frowned and stormed out of the office, slamming the door behind her and walking back to the interrogation cell, feeling so angry she was left out the loop. Rukia paused in front of the door; to be exact, this had been happening a lot lately. She was being assigned jobs she didn't know anything about, Ichigo had escaped and no one told her until way later, and now he was being transferred and she had received no notice of it. And it wasn't just recently. To be precise, a few weeks before she started working on Ichigo, this had been occurring. Something odd was going on. Rukia inhaled a breath then opened the door.
"Ichigo, we need to talk and quickly. What's your proposition?"
"Look, I'll tell you everything you want to know if you'll just get me the fuck out of here."
"I'll try my best."
"I think someone set me up." Ichigo said, then he looked at Rukia. Her eyebrows were furrowed and she had a dumbfounded look on her face that seemed to ask a series of questions. "Let me explain; about four weeks ago, I get an email from this guy. Back in the United States, I did some stuff I probably shouldn't have done but whatever. The next thing you know, I'm hacking into your systems because some guy wants me to install an upgrade to security cameras, but he doesn't want no one to know. Suspicious, I know. But the job paid good and he had a few authorized signatures from some 'board members,'" he added emphasis by using air quotes, then continued, "so I figured whatever and I installed it. Then my goddamn computer went berserk and shut down. It was a virus. A virus. So I figured maybe something from my computer fucked it up and I tried to fix it as quick as I could by accessing files and things and find it, then terminate it and I guess I accessed some wrong files and here we are."
Rukia chewed on her lip in thought. "Ichigo, do you swear to me this is all you have done?"
"I do."
"Then this changes everything."
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Rukia didn't know what was going on. She felt like a vigilante; a rule breaker; a lawbreaker; a fool. Her pulse was quick, her breath became exasperated quickly and she felt sweat all over her body, even though she was cold prior to entering this area. Was she sure? Not really. Was she going to feel guilty? Most likely. Would she regret it? Definitely. Was she going to stop or turn back? Hell no. Her decision was made. And it was time to show it off. Rukia clicked the "execute" button on the computer.
A cool female voice replied, "Sequence initiated."
Atagoki: Ew...I hated this chapter. It was so horrible, IMHO. xD Hopefully, it'll get better. BAH. That's a guarantee. I will definitely be doing a much better job next chapter. You have my word on that, loves. ;)
Now, I can almost guarantee we're all wondering "What was Rukia doing at the end?" Tch. I'm saving that for the next chapter. It will mostly be centered around Rukia and what she's doing and why, then the point of view will slightly change. It's mostly been Rukia centered, but soon it will switch to Ichigo centered for a bit. I hope I haven't lost y'all, so read and review.
-Dawn