Gossipmongers
Sorry that I'm slow in updating. Its due to work and other commitments.
Zaraki and Unohana will not make their appearances in this chapter... or I should say, none of the shinigami of higher ranks like, the captains, vice-captains, third, fourth and fifth seats will appear in here... But this is still, mainly, a Kenohana fic...
It's spreading like wild fire... but of course none of the above mentioned will get to hear about it...
"Psst..." a round-faced young girl stopped sweeping and looked up. A freckled-face was smiling at her over the low wall that divided her division from his.
"Good morning!" he greeted. The girl returned her greetings and resumed her work.
"Hey!" the boy called out to her again. "What happened in your division yesterday? Did you guys start another fight with the eleventh division people?" he wanted to create an opportunity to get to know her.
"No! We don't pick fights with anybody!" she frowned. Upset that the others in Seireitei thought they were brutes like 'them' ever since 'that' incident. "Zaraki taicho was supposed to come for his routine check, but he didn't wait for his turn and headed straight into the consultation room!"
"Oh..." the boy thought she looked cute even when she was angry. "What happened after that?"
The girl shook her head, "There was already a patient in the room and the next thing we knew was, he stormed out of our doors suddenly."
"Is that so..." thinking that it was the right time, he tried to ask her for a date.
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"Hey, you know what?" the mustached shinigami was feeling bored. He and the others had to wait outside where the captains were having their meeting.
"What?" the other was about to doze off if he had not been called.
The man lowered his voice and beckoned the other to lean closer, "Remember that day when Zaraki taicho stormed his way through our divisions, scaring the shit out of everybody?"
The one from the sixth division rubbed his eyes and nodded.
"I've heard that it has got to do with the lady taicho of the fourth division." Seeing a confused look, he continued, "One of the guys in my division heard that Zaraki taicho barged into Unohana taicho's quarters and saw Ukitake taicho in it."
The doors of the conference room opened, indicating the end of the meeting, and everyone fall back into their own positions.
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"Stop that! What's with you today?" a girl shampooing her hair turned to her best friend she had known, since she came into Seireitei. She was getting annoyed by her friend's ceaseless sighing and giggling to herself.
"How I wish I could be as lucky as Unohana taicho." the girl soaking in the common bath pool was daydreaming away.
"Since when have you gain the ambition to be a taicho?" she had finished with her hair and joined the other girl in the pool.
"It's not that!" she protested loudly. "My ambition is to find my Mr. Right and be married to him! Someone like, my taicho then I can become the Lady of the house!"
"Fat hope!" she poked her friend on her sides then asked, "What was it about Unohana taicho you were saying?"
The girl stopped her giggles, "Do you know that she is being wooed by two men at the same time?" Seeing her friend's skeptical expression, "It's true! Everyone saw how angry Zaraki taicho was when he saw Ukitake taicho and Unohana taicho behaving intimately in her room!"
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"You must be kidding me!" realizing that she had everyone's attention, the bespectacled girl quickly sat down and continued in a hush tone, "Do you mean, Ukitake taicho and Unohana taicho are in a relationship right now and Zaraki taicho is determined to win Unohana taicho over?"
"I'm absolutely sure!" swearing that she was telling the truth with her mouth full of ramen, "My senior couldn't possibly lie about such a thing!"
"But I'm sure I've told you about my taicho and Ukitake taicho before!" totally forgetting about her own dinner, she adjusted her glasses and reaffirmed the belief that her division worshipped.
"Yes you did... Oh I know!" the girl paused then narrowed her eyes, "Unless... unless Ukitake taicho is double timing on them!"
"No way!" choking on her noodles, the girl removed her glasses and wiped away the tears in her eyes.
"You can't be too sure!" then she went back to eating her ramen.
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"What's troubling you?" he wrapped his arms around his lover and planted a kiss on his ear.
"Its Kyoraku taicho and Ukitake taicho." he leaned back into the warm embrace. "Ukitake taicho wanted to break up. It was after Zaraki taicho found him flirting with Unohana taicho the other day."
"Maybe Ukitake taicho have had enough of your philandering taicho that he was trying to get back at him?" He turned his boyfriend around and smoothed out the crease between his brows, "I'm sorry."
"During the times when I was unable to face up to my sexual orientation, they were the ones whom I looked up to. Seeing how they were together and how they needed each other, finally gave me the courage to walk up to you and tell you I liked you!" looking into the eyes that beheld him tenderly, he knew he will not regret his decision.
"There's nothing you can do even if you worry yourself to death." he tightened his arms around his love and leaned in for a kiss, "I'm sure they can solve it on their own."
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"She's such a beauty, isn't she?" one shinigami sighed at the picture before him, "What would I not give to be transferred to your division? That I can see her and be by her side in every single day of my life!"
The shinigami beside him rolled his eyes upon hearing that. Suddenly remembering something, he took back the photographs and quickly picked out three from the stack, "From now, the prices of these are doubled and sleeping shots like these three increases three folds."
"That's daylight robbery!" the buyer protested.
"Well, that can't be helped." the seller shrugged. "Those shots don't come easy now. Hitsugaya taicho had made it a point to keep watch over her whenever she sleeps in his office."
"Looks like the men are keeping a tight watch on their women." he browsed through the stack and made his choices. "I'd better start saving for Unohana taicho's collection or totally give up on it."
"How so?" he didn't think his fuku-taicho's market worth would be rivaled.
"Don't you know?" his voice dropped into a whisper, "She is Zaraki taicho's woman! It was a well kept secret until that day when Zaraki taicho found out that Ukitake taicho was pissing around in his territory. Now they're going to duel over the sake of honor!"
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He was aware that the group of girls over the wall had been stealing glances at him the whole morning. The increasing volume of giggles going on between them had him strutting like a peacock as he carried about doing his chores.
He was confident of the muscles he had trained up under the drills since he had joined the eleventh division. He must be looking suave now that he was attracting attention from girls.
The girls got together, had a short discussion and nudged one of them out from where they were standing. She had refused at first, but agreed after the other girls insisted.
She walked towards the wall, but kept turning back to get encouragement from her friends. "Hey..." she called out to him and beckoned him to come closer.
"We... errm..." she turned her head back to the group then turned back. "Just... errrm..." he could tell that she was very nervous by the way she was twisting the ends of her white sash. "Just... want to let you know that..." she turned her head back again.
Seeing that the girls were giving her gestures of encouragement, she turned towards the man and said after taking a deep breath, "We are all for Zaraki taicho and we really hope that he will win in the fight against Ukitake taicho!" then she turned and dash off to join the other girls after finishing what she had to say.
"Hey! Wait!" he called out to stop her. "What fight against Ukitake taicho?"
The group broke into giggles and one of them replied, "To win the hand of Unohana taicho!" and they all disappeared behind the door.
Continue~~
p.s. Ho~ Ho~ Ken-chan's getting married nya!