Rain and its Mishaps
Chapter 6- To Plan an Apology
AN Heyaz peoples! Ya know, after reading the 5th chapter over again, it seems like that chapter was the end. Did you think so? Well, ITS NOT! :D I really didn't mean it to be like that, but for some reason it did? Lol XDDD Ah well, I know, its been more then a week, but stuff happened coupled with my laziness, and this was what came up. I usually update within a week, but sometimes stuff happens so I don't. I really to fit in some time, but I dunno, I have a REALLY short attention span, so eh heh heh…I guess I have nothing more to say! Enjoy! This chapter's called "Apology at Dinner"
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If you had seen Ichigo and Rukia that day, you would have started to pack up your things because the world was about to end. After the two got back home, Rukia got ready to go watch a movie with Inoue and their friends, leaving Ichigo at home alone. He was about to sit down on the couch and flip through some channels looking for something to watch when he remembered that the cable wasn't working. He tried getting himself something to eat, but when he opened the refrigerator, there was only a half eaten bologna sandwich and some rotting apples. After throwing the apples out, he spotted a note from Yuzu saying that she was going to pick up the groceries after her club. Then, Ichigo tried to see if he had any homework to do, but realized that he had finished it all during free period while Rukia was off fighting some hollow that she had failed to mention to him. He sighed. Without her talking to him, how was he supposed to know when a hollow came? Whenever he brought his badge to school, it would ring loudly and scare him out of his pants, so he usually just left it at home and got the warnings from Rukia instead. Because of the last week of her avoiding him (or vice-versa) Rukia hadn't told him whenever a hollow came, so he hadn't been in his shinigami form for quite a while.
Shit. There's nothing to do.
He sat up. Didn't Renji mention something about training that morning? Wait, that's for tomorrow…Maybe I could just swing on by today instead? I mean, its not like it really matters whether or not its today or tomorrow….
And with that thought, he sat up, grabbed his badge and walked out the door.
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"Oi! Urahara! Renji! Anybody home?" Ichigo called into the store. He had arrived to see no one there, not even Ururu or Kenta. He walked inside to find Renji vacuuming the store.
"OI! I CALLED A MILLION TIMES AND YOU DIDN'T ANSWER! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?!" Ichigo yelled angrily at him.
"WELL TOO BAD I COULDN'T HEAR YOUR WEAK CALLS WITH THIS VACU-" Renji replied while suddenly Urahara interrupted him.
"I'm sorry, Kurosaki-san, but our vacuum is rather old and loud so Abarai-kun couldn't hear you over it." Urahara said while smiling mischievously. Or you're just too lazy to buy a new one… Ichigo thought to himself. "Was there anything you needed?" he continued.
"Oh, I was wondering if Renji wanted to train with me today instead of tomorrow."
"So Kurosaki-san was looking for a playmate, rig-" Urahara said but was cut off when a fist was founded into his face making him fall over backwards.
"Shut up! I was just bored to heck today! And there isn't much difference between today and tomorrow." Ichigo grumbled as Urahara sat back up looking completely unharmed.
"Sure. Why not?" Renji replied. "It'd be nice to kill some time."
"Wonderful, wonderful! I'll get the trapdoor for you two right away!" Urahara said scurrying off. A few moments later, he called the two shinigami's over. They quickly jumped into the 'basement', ready for a fight.
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"That was such a good movie! What did you think of it, Kuchiki-san?" Orihime asked happily. The girls went to watch "Return of the Zombie Ninja IV" at the local movie theater. They had invited some other friends, but they all had something else to do. ("Sorry. I have a tournament coming up and I have to train." said Tatsuki. "My mom's taking me shopping later!" Chizuru added.)
"That was such a good movie!" Rukia said in her normal voice. Inoue was the only human girl who knew what Rukia really was like, so she didn't need to act in front of her. "I especially liked the part where the Zombie said, 'I only eat the flesh of human girls!' then he spit out a girls arm!"
"Yeah! I thought it was pretty funny!" Inoue replied. "Its weird how he had such good timing!" I don't think it was timing… Rukia thought to herself when suddenly her spirit phone went off. She looked at Orihime. They both nodded and started running towards the hollow.
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"Inoue! You protect yourself and I'll fight the hollow!" Rukia called to the other girl who was busily attending to some people's injuries. The hollow happened to have appeared during a party of some sort, and while most people escaped, a few were hurt and unconscious on the ground.
"Hyaa!" cried Rukia as she brought her sword down on the hollows head, effectively killing it. It disappeared as Rukia ran back to where Orihime was.
"Are you alright?" Rukia asked. "Is anybody badly hurt?"
"No, everybody's fine." Inoue said smiling at her. "They just received minor shock. They should forget everything by tomorrow."
Rukia smiled. Fighting hollows and Inoue were some of Rukia's only constants. But for how long?
"You want to go shopping? I found a new store that had really cute plushies in it!" Inoue asked happily which made Rukia laugh a little. Inoue's the only one who can keep going on with her normal life as if we really were normal.
"Sure. That sounds like fun!"
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"Is that all you've got, Ichigo? Did you get weaker since I've been gone?" Renji called out. They had been fighting for the past two hours, and now he was slightly goading him on. They both knew that they weren't going all out, but training isn't all about that. Sometimes it just cleared your head of all thoughts except "block" and "attack".
It was those times that Ichigo needed at the moment. After the last couple of weeks, and what just happened after school, Ichigo's mind was… a mess really.
Stupid Rukia. thought Ichigo. She got me worked up over nothing!
Suddenly, Renji came out of what seemed like nowhere and slashed his sword towards Ichigo. He just managed to jump back, but out-distanced himself and fell into a artificial stream. Urahara had updated his "basement" since the last time Ichigo had trained there, and there were now artificial trees, hills, plateaus, rivers, and lakes.
"What's wrong, Ichigo? You seem even more out of it then usual!" Renji stated as he helped him out of the water. "I thought you made it all better with Rukia today! Or…wait, did you screw things up even more!?"
"No, you moron! I tried being nicer to her the entire day, then at the end she told me that there was no point, and that she had seen through my act." Ichigo replied testily.
"Hmm…that's at least a slight improvement."
"How the heck is that an improvement!? She must've thought that I was a liar or something!"
"WELL… if you think of it this way… its better then not talking to you at all and ignoring you, right? What exactly did she say anyways?" Renji asked, suddenly curious.
"N-nothing much…" Ichigo replied, but immediately thought of what she said, only a couple hours before.
"Why do you care what other people think as long as we know that it's not true? You -and most importantly- your friends know the truth, so why worry? You're not alone, whether you know it or not."
Rukia astounded him with her way of snapping him out of his depression with only a few words. No matter what happened, he could count of her being there to pound him back into shape, whether it be physically or emotionally. She had a way with words that made you sit up and listen, a way that made you want to meet her standards and give you her rare half-smile. The real smile that she saved for her truest and closest friends.
And no matter what, she always stood beside you through the hardest times, never acting like a 'girl' but like a 'soldier'. That's what she was, a shinigami, so what could he do about it except believe?
"Hey, Ichigo! What's up with you, seriously!?" Renji called out, interrupting his thoughts.
"No, I didn't make her madder at me." Ichigo replied to his earlier question. "I think we're… on talking terms, but not really… ya know… comfortable with each other?"
"Well, that's just dandy. And slightly confusing." Renji said sarcastically. Then he had a idea. "What if you took her out for dinner or something? As friends or whatever you humans do these days?"
Ichigo scoffed. "Why in the world would I do that? And why would she even say yes? She'd probably kick me or punch me and tell me that I'm crazy or something!"
"Then tell her that it's a group thing with our friends! Either way, you'll be able to apologize to her and everything will me normal again." Renji replied, quite happy with himself. Actually…I'm only doing this to set these two clueless lovebirds together…but with the amount of knowledge these two have about romance, they're gonna need a lot of help!
"Fine. Anything to get you and Rukia off my back." Ichigo grumbled.
"So… tomorrow night at 6? We'll meet up at…" Renji said, telling him the place and time of what he had just named "Operation Dinner Apology" or OPA for short.
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After Ichigo left, Renji quickly called up some of his friends for a 'party' and told them about what had happened between the pair over the last week or so and about the OPA. He wasn't the only one who thought, This is going to be fun…
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AN Sorry again for taking so long!! Actually, on Wednesday (last Wednesday) I had half of this chapter written, then after that I added a paragraph or two to it until today (Thursday) when I finally wrote like, 5 paragraphs (not including the Authors Note) finishing it. FINALLY!! I promise promise promise that I won't leave it this late next time!! I had like… another golf tournament last Friday then 18-holes with a friend on Sunday, then another tournament the day after! And today, my mom dropped me off at the golf club near our home and I stayed there for like, 3 hours trying to fix my swing. And guess what? Tomorrow I'm playing ANOTHER 18-holes with THE SAME FRIEND!! Not that I don't like Mimi, but I'm starting to get tired of the same course, and most of all GOLF IN GENERAL!! Phew. Sorry about ranting on and on about that to you all (I had the sudden urge to say "ya'll" XDDD) so too-da-loo! -Cam
P.S I've recently gotten majorly hooked on Maximum Ride. It is SO AWESOME!! It's full of adventure, sarcastic humor, major kicking of the bad-guys butts, and a pinch of romance here and there. Me loves it! 3 I might do a one-shot about it after I finish this fic. (If I EVER finish this fic! O.O) lol XDD See ya! (for real this time!)