Chapter: Forget Me Nots and Explanations
Shalan's Howdy:Okay I have this pleasant surprise… I WROTE today… XD anyways… here's the next installment of Somewhere Over The Rainbow…
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Rukia watched him sleep, his usually haggard features relaxed peacefully. He had been going for nearly a week since they had gotten the call that he had to fly to Rome for a meeting amongst the brass in the organization. She stroked his hair back from his face tenderly and smiled as his hand gripped her knee, his cheek pressed to her thighs.
"Sleep baby, you deserve it…" she whispered and leaned down, kissing his cheek lightly. His tired eyes fluttered open a crack and she laid a hand on the side of his face. "I love you Ichigo…" she told him and he nodded his head.
"I love you too…" his lips barely moved as he closed his eyes and she smiled softly, settling down.
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Uryu unlocked the door to his house, just using his fingertips to push open the door. As soon as the door was open a pair of warm arms wrapped around his neck and fingers tangled through his hair. "Kazumi…" her name spilled off his lips like a cascade of relief. "Oh angel…" he wrapped his arms around her waist. She didn't seem to care that he was soaking wet or that they were just getting more so by the second. Her lips met his and suddenly all of his worries were left behind for the moment… they weren't gone… but in her arms… nothing meant as much to him as she did.
"You're late…" she whispered and he opened his mouth to explain but she kissed him again. It didn't seem that she wanted to hear excuses. "Next time come home… on time… okay?"
"I'll try…" he whispered back. "Now can we get out of the rain?" He asked and she laughed, pulling him back into the house. Her hands slipped his suit jacket off and tossed it onto the floor as he kissed her, hooking an arm around her waist.
"Maybe we can get out of these clothes…" she laughed, pressing their foreheads together for a moment before he tilted her back slightly until their lips connected. "Don't you want to see Ryuu?" She asked before his lips met hers again.
"Point and case…" he sighed and she laughed again. "Stop laughing at me! I come home and the first thing you d…" she kissed him again, pulling his lips to hers.
"Someone has to make fun of you… to keep you in humor…" she told him and pulled him down the hallway to the nursery. "He's asleep… so be quiet," his wife told him as he walked into the room towards where his son lay in the crib.
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"So is someone going to tell me what all of this is all about?" The woman walked up behind Kisuke as he sat at his laptop.
"Alright… I guess some one has to tell you something…" Kisuke turned around to face her. "Sit down and I'll tell you everything you want to know…" He smiled. "You just have to promise not to tell… otherwise… I'd have to kill you… and I don't want to do that."
"Alright… so explain to me what this organization is that you all keep referring to…" she folded her arms.
"SAPO. Secret Armed Police Organization…"
"Who controls this SAPO?" Rangiku lifted an eyebrow. "And who created it?"
"Haaa…" he sighed folding his arms. "If I told you who the head of the organization was… you wouldn't believe me…"
"Try me…"
"SAPO was created by two Marine lieutenants with one thing in mind, protecting their families… Ichigo Kurosaki and Uryu Ishida."
"The two that came a picked me up?" She sounded stunned as he nodded.
"It was created about five years ago when the boys were 22 and had just been honorably discharged from the Marines. They had just returned from the frontlines in Iraq. The two had formed such a bond that they had made a pact that they would fight for what the other loved…" he chewed lightly on his tooth pick.
"So where do you come into this dramatic plot?" Rangiku lifted an eyebrow and he looked over at her.
"They needed another gunslinger… I just happened to be working a freelance job when they found me… they said they'd pay me well and that I would be able to do everything I love to do…"
"Be a jack of all trades right?"
"Right… from there it expanded we found everyone that was the best at what they do… Renji Abarai, sniper expert, worked for the CIA for three years before pursuing a career as a basketball star. Ikakku Madarame, martial artist and technological expert. Kazumi Hasegawa, electronic engineer and hacker…" He tossed her their portfolios in order to her. "Kenpachi Zaraki weapons specialist, Kaname Tosen special operations expert… hmm lessee who else do I have…" he shuffled through the box of folders. "Momo Hinamori and Toshiro Hitsugaya, con artists." He tossed her their file. "Yeah… we got everybody from every walk of life… ah here they are… Ichigo Kurosaki, weapons specialist and special operations expert. Uryu Ishida, weapons specialist and technological warfare expert."
"These are the leaders of your little organization?" Rangiku looked at the two portfolios.
"No, they're the directors of our huge, international organization…" Yoruichi said from the doorway.
"Ah, Yoruichi Shihouin… biological engineer and biological warfare expert… she also happens to be extremely good at martial arts but that's not why we hired her…" Kisuke sniggered.
"How many people do you actually have in this organization?" Rangiku looked between them.
"About a hundred…"
"Thousand…" Kisuke finished. "There are more than 97,000 operatives across the world working for our organization…"
"And you're supposed to be secret?" Rangiku nearly laughed. There was no way to keep a group that large secret.
"Well… yeah…" Kisuke folded his arms behind his head. "We do a damn good job of it to be honest. We have members in the CIA, the FBI, INTERPOL, the Mafia, the Yakuza… I mean you name it we've got a set of eyes and ears within it…"
"Al Quaeda?" Rangiku questioned and Yoruichi looked at Kisuke.
"I'm not sure… but we probably have some in there as well…" Kisuke seemed to consider this. "I'll call central command and ask them."
"So then why does it seem like the directors are the ones that are doing all the work?" Rangiku folded her own arms.
"Because… they can't stand to do nothing… they take a lot of the dangerous missions for themselves…" Yoruichi explained with a heavy sigh. "Their wives would probably prefer that they stay home instead but…"
"They're both married?" She blinked.
"Yeah… and the two of them are very good friends… one of them is actually and operative for us… Kazumi Hasegawa, now Kazumi Ishida." Kisuke nodded his head.
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He sighed, resting his chin on the top of her head, his arms wrapped around her tightly. Being able to come home to something this wonderful made him smile. The red head in his arms snuggled against him with a sigh. He loved just being able to hold her and relax in her arms.
"It's going to be Christmas soon…" she told him and he nodded. "I love you…" she whispered and he buried his face into her hair.
"Why do you put two things together in one sentence that don't go together…" he stared into the crackling fire as she snuggled closer. "You're already like a second skin you're not going to get any closer!" He chuckled as she buried her face into the crook of his neck, breathing in his scent.
"Because I can… and I know I just wish I could…"
"Could what? Become my permanent growth?" He laughed as she nodded into his neck, planting a kiss there.
"I love being able to sit here with you…" She told him softly and he nodded, stroking her hair lightly.
"I love being with you angel…" he smiled and kissed the top of her head. She leaned up, wanting a kiss and he complied, knowing well that if he didn't she'd put him into a position that he didn't want at the moment.
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"What are these for?" Rukia looked at the flowers as she sipped from the coffee mug. Ichigo looked over.
"They're called Forget Me Nots. I thought you'd like them…"
"I would never forget you… you know that right?" She looked over at him and he smiled, nodding.
"Not willingly anyways…" he told her and she blinked. "I was kidding…" she breathed a sigh of relief as he laughed at her.
"Don't LAUGH!" She flushed. "With you and your groups espionage activities I wouldn't be surprised if you did something stupid like that…"
"C'mon Rukia…" he wrapped his arms around her waist from behind and she pouted. "You know I wouldn't do something like that to you darling…" he kissed her ear, just behind and below and felt her melt into his arms.
"You and your stupid British accent." She muttered.
"What?" He blinked.
"Nothing Ichigo…" she gasped as he bucked his hips against hers lightly to make his point.
"Nothing…" he lifted an eyebrow and she turned around, attempting to back up.
"You don't like my accent?" He lifted an eyebrow and she jutted her jaw. "Or do you like my voice too much?" He purred in her ear and her body tingled. That heavy London accent mixed with his gravelly baritone made her knees weak. If he kept on talking the way he was she could probably skip foreplay.
"Keep your hands to yourself Kurosaki…" she nearly pushed him away but found that her limbs were basically butter. "How can you possibly be horny this early in the morning?" She frowned and his eyes sparkled.
"Bugger…" he pulled out his cell phone as it started to ring. "So much for that…" she was about ready to throw the damn cell phone out the window. This wasn't the first time it had interrupted them. "And it won't be the last sweetie…" he swatted her rump lightly and she yelped.
"Jerk!" She called as he laughed his way out of the room.
"Yeah… what's the situation with Kenpachi?" A little girl's voice spoke over the phone as Ichigo asked.
"Kenny's in the hospital… seems like someone was trying to kill him Ichi!" She sounded slightly panicked and Ichigo nearly fell over. She was so specific.
"Is he awake? Can I talk to him Yachiru?" Ichigo asked. He looked over at the Forget Me Nots as Rukia shuffled them around in the morning sunlight. He knew he shouldn't have bought them.
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HI THERE! We are finally in the final stretch of the story… this chapter was necessary… I hope you guys can mull over the information you received in this one and figure a few things out… XD I love the conversation between them about his accent… I just threw that in for all you fangirls out there…
I AM ICHIGO!
XD I am the god of writing Ichigo's personality… and let me tell you… my beta and I have decided that Somewhere Ichigo (as we call him) is the best of the bunch… he is smexeh… XD
Shalan