Hi! It's been a while! Here's the first chapter of the year! ...5 months into the year... shhh... hopefully we can pretend those 5 months didn't happen... i'm sorry it's been so long! I really am! I'll let you get to the chapter! ENJOY! ...I kind of wrote this all in one day.... XD not what I like to do...

Chapter 7

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"

"It's called blush Ikkaku, get over it. This was your idea."

Keigo sat outside of the bathroom in Yumichika's room waiting for Yumichika to finish the makeover. How did I get dragged into this?! What the heck is that?! OH GOD! This room is scary! I've got to get out of here!

Keigo started for the door as Ikkaku burst out of the bathroom.

"This is itchy! Why is this itchy?! My face feels weird. Did you really have to paint my nails?!"

"Ikkaku wait! I'm not done yet!" Yumichika called from the bathroom.

Keigo stood there in shock after several seconds before he ran out screaming.

Renji walked into the Arisawa's restaurant at 8:15 to pick up Tatsuki. She was trying to keep a customer from leaving.

"Let me leave!"

"Give me your keys."

"No!"

"You're drunk. You don't live that far away. You can walk."

"I'm fine! Let me leave!"

"I won't. Unless I'm sure you won't take you're bike."

"I can drive! I'm fine! LET ME GO!"

"No."

"Then I'll make you!" The man started to punch her but she grabbed his hand and pushed him against the wall.

"Give me your keys." She hissed angrily.

"Ow! Let me go!"

"Kan, this is for your safety. Give me your keys or stay here until you're sober."

Kan looked away from her then said, "Left pocket."

Tatsuki took his keys and let him go. "Come back sober when you want these back."

She walked to the register and put them away. Then she noticed Renji.

"Oh, hey." She blushed a little remembering when he was there earlier.

"Hi. Uh, are you almost done?"

"Yeah, Let me get my brother to take over." She disappeared through the kitchen door. She came back quickly with a middle school boy with her. "Kan's keys are in the register okay, don't give them to him if he comes back. Bye Hideki!"

"Enjoy your date nee-chan!" He called after her laughing.

Tatsuki gave him a look and pulled Renji out as quickly as she could before her father came out of the kitchen.

"Date?" He asked as Tatsuki and Renji left the restaurant.

"I was joking Tosan. Imagine, Tatsuki on a date." Hideki laughed.

"She still likes Ichigo right?" Tatsuki's father ran to the window to catch a glimpse of the guy his daughter was with, but they were gone.

"How should I know?"

Toshiro sat at home going over everything in his mind; when Momo and Aizen started dating, Momo running away, the fight, and seeing Momo in the hospital. The doctors had told him she was in a coma and they weren't sure when she'd come out of it. I could have stopped it all! Damn it! If only I had done something earlier this would never have happened! Nooooo more cry!! Nooooo more cry!! Nooooo more cry!! Nooooo more cry!! Ashitai! Toshiro's cell phone rang across the room, of course it was Rangiku.

"SEMPAI! IS SHE OKAY?! TELL ME EVERYTHING THE DOCTORS TOLD YOU!" She said through sobs.

"Masumoto, do you want to come over?"

"YES! PLEASE! Can Shuuhei come? He's with me right now."

"Yeah, sure."

15 minutes later Rangiku and Shuuhei were in Toshiro's house. Rangiku had gone straight to the kitchen and had started cooking tempura.

"So, how is she?" Rangiku asked softly.

"The doctors say she's in a coma."

"Oh." Rangiku sniffled. She didn't say anything else and finished cooking. Toshiro and Shuuhei watched her from the other end of the room.

Rangiku served the tempura, the three of them sat down and ate in silence. Shuuhei didn't know what to say, both Rangiku and Toshiro were in their own worlds. He wondered if he really needed to be there.

"So, you'll be out of school for a few weeks?" Rangiku said in an almost whisper breaking the silence.

"Just two. I'm lucky I didn't get expelled."

"I... wonder how... long Momo will... will be..." Rangiku couldn't hold herself up any longer, she burst into tears. "SHE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS! WHY HER?"

Shuuhei quickly went to her side and did the only thing he could. He held her close and let her sob into his shirt. She was clearly trying to stop crying but that only made it worse. Toshiro just stared at his mostly untouched food and blamed himself for everything.

Yuzu sat with her chin resting on her knees in her bed. She stared absent mindedly at the stuffed animals on the other side of the bed. Okay, so, um... I like him. How much? She blushed. At least enough to make me blush when I think about him. My legs shake when I walk towards him. My stomach feels funny when I see him smile at me and I feel really happy when he eats the bentos I make him. So I like him at least that much, but what does that much mean?

Yuzu sighed, she'd been thinking all day, but she still wasn't able to come up with a solid answer. Do I want to confess? She shivered all over at the thought. What if he doesn't like me, and Ururu was just joking? Oh no! Have I been wrong this whole time? Oh nooooooo! My stupid experiment! If I hadn't done that then nothing would have happened, everything would've stayed the same!

She grabbed her stuffed piggy and hugged it tightly. I don't know what to do. I want things to be the same. But at the same time I don't! I like him! I want to confess! I do! I really do! ...I'm going to! Why not? take a chance! If I don't I'll regret it! Tomorrow, when I give him the bento, I'll confess...

Before she could change her mind she went to bed.

Two laughing figures stopped in the street.

"SHHH!"

"Sorry! I'm sorry you're going to be home late!" Renji whispered.

"It's okay. I'll just say we ended up sparing and after you left I kept going on my own."

"Haha, they'll believe that?"

"I do it all the time, don't worry."

"Why don't you tell them the truth?"

"That we spent all day at the river talking and we accidently fell asleep? No thanks, my parents would flip."

"Really?"

"Yeah, my mom would start saying that you're my boyfriend and how cute it is, then she'd ask if that was all we did, and then my dad would want to go hunt you down."

"Okay. We were sparing."

"Yep. Today was fun."

"It was." He gave her a light punch of the shoulder, but his hand slid lightly down her arm and he held her hand. "Good night Tatsuki."

"Good... um... night... Renji." She said nervously. They stared at each other for a long moment. Neither wanted to leave, but they had to. "Uh... bye!"

Damn! Renji thought as he watched Tatsuki go into the restaurant. He turned around and went home disappointed with himself.

"Hey Tatsuki. Did you kiiiiiiiiiss him?" Hideki teased, he was closing up the restaurant.

"N-no!" She blushed.

Hideki was shocked, "WOAH! YOU DID?!"

"I DID NOT! but..." I wanted to...

whew! Yay! Now I can sleep in peace. Good night eveyone, I hope that wasn't too bad... the Yuzu part was a little different, but i'm happy as i'll ever be with it. i'll try to update as soon as i can, i resently started a teen titans fic and write the first chapter so i wouldn't loose the idea. i might post that up soon, but i need to keep working at it... it's a similar style to this, high school setting no actual acton... haha... i guess i like these types of fics... i'll let you know when it gets posted if anyone's interested... okay good night! i hope this came out okay... if i update before June then yay! if not then please wait patiently until the 13th when i'm done with school and i have free time. Jaane!