The Rain Stopped
By:: Melissa

Disclaimer:: I don't own anything in this story, except for the one made up character cameo. Everything belongs to Tite Kubo, creator of Bleach. Constructive criticism is welcome. No flames please.

Chapter 3

The sun was setting slowly in the west. His grey eyes looked into the dying sun, the light reflecting off of them. He had a frown on his face, as if what he was thinking about made him disturbed. He saw the colors of the sunset swirling together and it made his frown even more pronounced.

"Hey Kisuke, what's up?" Yoruichi came up next to him in their favorite field. The sakura trees were in full blossom and the petals were swirling around them in the wind. She looked at the sunset as well, her eyes dancing with light. Kisuke thought about the question and about his answer before looking at her.

"Just thinking is all. What about you?" he asked, looking into her eyes. He had a small intake of breath. It had been a long time since he had looked at Yoruichi well. She was beautiful. Her dark skin contrasted with her bright yellow eyes. Her long purple hair flowed around her, making her seem more erethreal than an angel.

"Not much, a little swamped with work is all." She smiled, sitting down on the grass. Kisuke sat down next to her, not looking at her expression.

"Well that's what commanders have to do!" Kisuke laughed, his blonde head shaking. She looked over at him and smiled. It had been a while since she had last looked at her friend. Work and other priorities had taken precedence over spending time with him. Now that she saw him, she took time to study his features. She looked over his light blonde hair as it moved in the wind, over is grey eyes that always had a mischievous twinkle in them, over his angular facethat was shaped perfectly and just for him. She stopped staring, her cheeks turning red. He looked at her with a puzzled look. Realizing why she was red, he quickly looked away, his cheeks turning a slight shade of pink.

There was a momentary silence that was neither awkward nor stressed. It was a silence that only friends could have. A silence that left you with feeling like you had talked the entire time. A silence that left you feeling like you learned more about that person than you had known previously.

"Hey, do you want to see a new invention I thought up?" Kisuke asked, looking at Yoruichi with a glint in his eyes. She smiled and laughed silently at his enthusiasm. She nodded to him. They stood up and walked together to his home. He led her in and she walked straight back to his bedroom, as if she had been there many times before. She had been there many times before. They were best friends, they used to always hang out with each other when they were younger. She knew his house like it was her own.

He walked past her and pulled out some papers from a drawer. Drawn on there were two new inventions that he had thought up.

"These are called Soul Candy. It's easy to use. Just take one of these candies and eat it and it forcibly makes the soul come out of a body. In it's place, a filler soul would be put into the body until the soul is ready to come back," he explained, pointing to the pictures and smiling the whole time. A glint of happiness was in his eyes whenever he explained to anyone any of his inventions.

"How interesting," she said, looking dazedly at the paper. Whenever Kisuke talked about his inventions, she would always be confused. And when she was confused, she got sleepy.

"And this…. This would be my most extensive invention. This one would take the most time fixing and tweaking. It's like a gigai for souls that have lost their powers in the human world but it's a little different. You see…" Just as Kisuke went on to explain about the invention, they both heard knocking on the door. They looked up then looked at each other before getting up to answer the door. They left the room and the new inventions behind. On the paper, there was drawn a picture of a human body but instead of the energy coming back into the body, they were leaving the body, little by little. They answered the door and saw a hell moth in front of them. Both startled, they waited for the hell moth to give its message.

"Captain Kusaga of the 12th Division has died today. The new captain for the 12th Division will be filled by Urahara Kisuke, as decided by captain Yamamoto." The hell moth spoke these words before leaving to announce the news to the other captains and vice captains of the Gotei 13.

Kisuke and Yoruichi looked at the empty doorway in stunned silence. They both didn't know what to think. Kisuke's hands were shaking and Yoruichi's mouth was half open. They had both heard the news. Kisuke was to be the new captain. Why couldn't they believe it? Why couldn't they think that it was true? They both stood there in silence for a long time before Kisuke spook up.

"What?" he finally stuttered, breaking the silence around them.

"Well…. I…don't know," Yoruichi said in a whisper, unable to close her mouth, however disgraceful it was.

"What just happened?" Kisuke asked again, leaning against the wall.

"Apparently…. You're the new 12th Division captain." Yoruichi finally closed her mouth and shut the door quietly. Her eyes were still wide with shock.

"I know that….but…how?" he asked, looking at Yoruichi. He had fear and anxiety in his eyes.

"Well, you know your Ban Release already….remember? And you're exceptionally strong…why wouldn't they choose you?" Yoruichi stated, walking back slowly to Kisuke's room with him at her heels.

He looked at her back and remembered when he had come up with a way to get your Ban Release in only three days training instead of 10 to 20 years training. It only worked on him though but he was sure that more people could learn it and have his method be successful.

"I just didn't expect…" he started to say but stopped himself. Yoruichi sat down on his futon and smiled.

"Well, Congratulations, Kisuke! Welcome to the ranks of a captain," she said happily. Kisuke sat down next to her, apprehension radiating off of him. "What's the matter? Are you scared?" she asked, looking at him with worry.

"No, not scared….," he said, his face not looking at hers.

"It's alright if you're scared….it's normal for a new captain to be a little anxious." She said sympathetically.

"No, really, I'm not scared…I'm excited!" he said, turning to look at her. He had his eager spark in his eyes again. "With this, I can now make all my inventions actually happen. I can make them real, Yoru-chan. I can make a technology center or a research center or both! I can impact all of Soul Society!" Kisuke looked at Yoruichi and had a wild look in his face. She laughed and Kisuke frowned at her.

"Kisuke, you have so many crazy ideas…." She was still laughing at him.

"Yoru-chan, that's not very nice. You shouldn't be laughing at my ambitions," he said, pouting. Yoruichi laughed even harder and leaned back onto Kisuke's futon. His frowned deepened.

"Come on, it's not that funny, stop laughing at me!" he said but she just laughed even harder. He sighed. It was no use. He couldn't make her stop. She would be laughing at him for the rest of the night. But then he got an idea. An idea to make her stop laughing at him. He smiled wickedly to himself. He turned a little pink at the idea but he knew that it would be the only way to make her stop laughing. "Plus," he thought to himself, "I get something I've always wanted from it too."

"If you don't stop laughing at me, I'll make you stop," he said in a playful threatening voice. She clutched at her stomach but kept laughing. A few tears were running down her face from laughing so much. He waited for 30 seconds for her to stop but she didn't. "Fine then," he said.

Before she even realized it, he was bending over her.

"What are you doing?" she asked through fits of laughter.

"I told you I would make you stop laughing at me," he said softly.

Before she could protest, he leaned down and placed his lips on top of hers. Her eyes went wide and her body tensed. She could feel some of his weight on top of her but she could tell that he wasn't putting all of his weight on her so as to not crush her. His breath was warm against her cheek and his lips were soft against hers. He wasn't forcing anything to happen and waited for her to respond on her own. It seemed like hours when their lips finally parted. Kisuke was red and quickly got up off of her.

A shocked silence was between the two as Yoruichi tried to gather her thoughts about what just happened and Kisuke was trying to hide his embarrassment.

"I…. I have to get going…" Kisuke said hurriedly before leaving through the open window. Yoruichi dazedly got up off of the futon and walked to the front door and let herself out. Closing the door, she walked down the street slowly back to her office. She thought about all that had happened that afternoon.

"He kissed me," she said in awe. As that fact became more real in her mind, she smiled and flashed stepped the rest of the way there.

So the next chapter is done! I think that there are only going to be three or four more chapters before this is done. I'm probably going to do a short little epilogue at the end too. Again, if i've gotten any information wrong, please feel free to correct me. The story is getting a little bit more interesting and it's only going to get more interesting because the next part is about Kisuke's arrest! Oooohhh! Fun! nn Please review! Thanks!