Alrighty… ive got another chapter (though late it might be…) ! And so… I'd like to warn everyone that these updates might halt for awhile… at least until the end of the marking period xP… because currently I have astronomy… which goes under my "most hated subjects" category… and because the teacher is crazy. Its just supposed to be an everyday course… until he decides to give us the labs that the college astronomy students do when they come to our school (apparently at random intervals. I was not previously aware of this…) Oh well…
"Meh…" sighed ichigo as he stood guard at the front gates of the kuchiki Mansion. It was much too late… and so far, he was the only one on duty.
He had actually taken to counting the sakura petals as they fell off the tree nearby.
Of course, he was somewhat watching the gate. Just not thoroughly.
He took in a deep breath, and sighed again.
Oh how fortuitous he was to be assigned the night shift!
Ichigo leaned his head up and looked at the sky. It had occurred to him awhile ago that he should continue formulating the plan for Operation: Surprise Party during his copious hours of, seemingly, leisure time…
Ichigo leaned against a pillar of the stone gateway, and was about to fall asleep, when he felt a rather strong reiatsu heading his way… The strange thing was, It was coming from the mansion, not the road.
He leaned over and peered through the gateway… to see the man from the kitchen, Sunda, heading towards him. Ichigo's eyes widened, he hadn't expected to see him at this time!
"…" sunda looked at Ichigo, and continued walking past the gate. Of course there was his "duty" as the guard to keep people both in and out, but to hell with it, why was sunda leaving the mansion?
"Oi!" yelled ichigo, catching sunda's attention. "What do you think you're doing?"
"… leaving." Ichigo, even though he couldn't see past sunda's vidor, could feel the other man's stare burning through him. Ichigo gulped. For some reason, this man was intimidating him…
"uhhh… okay. You can go, I suppose…"
"I do plan to come back…"
"Oh." Ichigo looked a bit surprised, but shrugged it off. Who would ever want to escape this hell, but then willingly come back?!
Ichigo couldn't help but let out an exasperated sigh as he watched sunda disappear. And now, he was once again stuck guarding the gates to the mansion.
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The next day, ichigo could hardly stand up he was so tired. But, of course, he had to help with breakfast.
He went to the same area he had the last time, and tried to cook something at least partially edible. To Ichigo's dismay, Sunda did not show up to help out, so the cooking took a rather long time, and the end result most certainly wasn't pretty.
At least, when the head chef came over to check, he said it looked like poison rather than soup.
The sad thing was, Ichigo hadn't even been trying to make soup, nevertheless a liquid…
Luckily, the kitchen charade was over soon (although Ichigo could not help but wonder if he might've accidentally poisoned Byakuya…). So, technically, this was free time, because Rukia had excused him the duties of guarding her room.
The first thing he did was try to talk to Rukia about his "little plan".
"Oi Rukia…" Ichigo said as he tried to catch up to her. "I was wondering if we could talk about something…"
She was a bit confused, but began following him.
Ichigo led her down a maze of hallways and kept looking in rooms…
Either rukia was imagining things, or he was searching for an empty room.
At that thought, she missed a step in surprise, and fell face first…
…Into a koi pond that they had been passing by.
She had felt ichigo's hand just barely miss the fabric of her clothes, and she had felt a koi fish wriggling beneath her after she hit the bottom.
Oh wasn't this grand? Ichigo had been wanting to talk to her about "something" and now somehow in the process of finding a place to talk she had fallen into a koi pond.
Ichigo reached down and offered his hand to help her out of the water, barely able to hold back a smirk and a laugh.
"Like it couldn't have happened to you, baka!" She yelled, somehow managing to kick him straight in the jaw.
"rukia…"
Oh gawd… Him again?
"I would think of charging him extra if he gets any other… messes… anywhere, so could you please refrain from…" Byakuya stopped short, and looked at rukia.
In his mind-
Hair-wet
Clothes-wet
Feet-wet
Pathway-wet
Koi pond-missing a significant amount of water
Kurosaki-dry
Byakuya attempted to add the facts together, but what he got was completely off…
"Kurosaki, why did you push my sister into a koi pond?"
Ichigo, still recovering from his blow to the jaw, had an angry vein on his head now.
"Why the hell would I push Rukia into a koi pond?!"
"… Well, it appears as if you had some reason… Do you wish to share?"
Ichigo slammed his head against his fist, and sighed exasperatedly. "I. DID. NOT. PUSH. RUKIA. INTO. YOUR. STUPID. KOI. POND!"
Byakuya just looked at ichigo with his normal apathetic gaze. It was actually very difficult to keep from running ichigo through with his zanpakutou for his insolence...
But for now, he just turned around and flash stepped away.
"eh…?" questioned ichigo.
Rukia started walking back to her room to dry off (somewhat disappointed that Ichigo had never found his empty room), and left ichigo with a "sorry".
When was this "work to pay off the debt" ever going to end…????
Hello again! I have something else to ask you all… I just got the Bleach SOULS character book, and… it says that Byakuya's birthday is August 31st and Renji's is January 31st… I was somewhat confused, so I went back to the profiles in volume 9… And it says Byakuya's is January and Renji's is August… Do you guys have any clue which one is right?
Oh… and… please review, I beg of you! It motivates me! And to all those that have favorite/alerted this story, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH…
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Plz…