Me: Gomen, gomen for the long wait!
Everyone: -glares-
Me: But don't worry! This chapter is really, really long! 12,557 words!
Everyone: -still glaring-
Me: I know! I know! I'm gonna keep this short and begin after thanking everyone!
Ichigo: You suck at updating quickly.
Me: SHUT UP!
Me: -whacks Ichigo-
Kira: -sighs-
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Kaida: That wasn't so hard, was it?
Kira: -glare-
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-o-o- Chapter 7 -o-o-
Bunny Birthday
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'Thoughts'
"Speaking"
It was now Monday, January 12 for the world of the living and Karakura Town, exactly two days after the so called bizarre 'windstorm' at the park. None of the people in the Karakura gang could figure out how that cover up was used for none of them had brought their memory modifiers that day. There had to be someone else that was there that used it. But who could it be? There was no accounts of any other shinigamis in the area that they were aware of. Either someone was sent there secretly from the Soul Society or there was rogue or rogues in the area. For them, hopefully someone undercover.
Apart from that mystery, not much happened to everyone after that on Sunday. Only thing was a Hollow attacking but it took only seconds to defeat it than on Saturday. Rukia did believe that after the Hollow attack she did thought she saw someone she knew but couldn't prove it. The only thing she saw was a faint sight of silver. Ikkaku and Yumichika retreated from Keigo's house for the day to train at Urahara's shop since the owner of the house's older sister had friends coming over that day. And many of them were very like her in a few disturbing ways for them.
However not all of them had days like that after the attack. For instance, Hitsugaya had to actually freeze Matsumoto to her seat to do her paperwork. It had gotten so bad that some of them were almost a month old! And Hitsugaya was actually starting to get some notices from the Soul Society for her so called 'misplaced' paperwork. Other news apart from that were Shiha's little brother discovered her secret hidden candy stash and ate all of it. Since the two were related, he had the same side effects of eating candy like his older sister. Let's just say that she needs to buy a new sofa...
Finally, we head over to the American transfer students. To everyone living in the apartment complex it was actually completely silent to them, shockingly. Not a peep for the whole day. The only sounds that had actually come from them were very, very early in the morning when the people living there left for some reason after receiving an also very early package. So for once everyone was actually allowed to sleep in instead of being rudely waken from Mitsuki screaming at everyone to wake up. Hallelujah!
So, with that all said and done, to lunch at school on this fine, chilly Monday...
"Hey Snowy! Want a lollipop?" Mitsuki asked Hitsugaya, holding out a bag of said treats in it. She didn't notice the very icy glare the boy gave off at her, too interested in her own sugar treat at the moment. Others just snickered at the boy, amused by how he would react.
"No. I do not want one." Hitsugaya growled, twitching and pulsing a vein. "And its Hitsugaya to you, Nagasaki. Not 'Snowy'." Kira poked him in the head when he finished.
"Nah. That nickname fits you, Midget." the girl added, smirking at the more pissed off boy. Hitsugaya slapped her hand away before turning his glare onto her.
"Yumi, you will not call me 'Snowy' or 'Midget'." the boy snapped at her angrily, a bigger and larger vein pulsing on his forehead. Kira just shrugged at him and poked his forehead again before going back to her book.
"Whatever you say...Snowy."
"YUMI!"
"Cool it Midget."
"Ha ha!"
Pulse vein.
"Shut it Mitsuki."
Meanwhile all of that was happening Ichigo, Renji, and Kiyo stared at the...things...Matsumoto and Orihime were currently biting into. They first thought that the package that she was eating was actually onigirls...until they saw they saw that the rice was GREEN. And it had a very faint scent of eggs lingering around them. When the two actually did begin eating into it, the boys grimaced.
"Something wrong you guys?" Matsumoto asked, taking another bit out of her...lunch. Three boys asked quickly shook their heads, paling as they saw their friend eat it.
"N-No. Nothing w-wrong." Kiyo stammered, waving his hands in protest. The two eating looked over at them, confused. It sure didn't seem like that. Kaida whacked his head, stopping her conversation with Rukia about animals at the moment. Topic: Bunnies.
"Don't be rude; if you're hungry all you have to do is ask nicely." Kaida scolded, mentally grinning at the devilish planning forming in her head. Kiyo instantly paled more while Ichigo and Renji smirked at the boy. Quite a predicament the boy had gotten himself into. And it seemed no one was willing to help him out of it.
Orihime in the contrast was delighted. Smiling, she held up the case containing her homemade onigirls to the only transfer student from America that was a boy. "Really Kiyo-kun? You want one?" Asked boy gulped nervously.
"Um...well.."
Shiha whistled quietly, smirking at how this was turning out. Sitting next to her friend Mitsuki she nudged her in the shoulder to ask her what she thought about this. However that turned from talking to her sweat dropping since Mitsuki was paying no attention to it; she was more interested in the lollipops that she had in her hands. Unlike her friend, the purple headed girl did not like lollipops that much despite liking candy. She was more of a chocolate and ice cream kind of girl.
Yumichika crossed his arms as he watched Kiyo slowly take an onigirl from Orihime. "I must admit I sort of fill sorry for that boy." Ikkaku raised an eyebrow at him as if he actually did say that.
"Really?" Yumichika scoffed.
"Of course not."
Sweat drops.
The door to the roof suddenly burst opened, surprising the group. Person that had done that was actually some student from another class in their grade. He looked tired and worn out, as if he had just ran a marathon around the school. A medium sized package laid in his arms, it looking quite heavy. Glancing his eyes over at the still surprised group, he stopped on one girl that had raven haired. Huffing, he stomped over before holding the package out to her
"Package...for...you...Kuchiki-...san..." the boy explained, panting or wheezing after each world. Girl talked to just stared back for a bit before taking the package and thanking him. The boy just grumbled something before going back towards the only entrance/exit to the roof. And before he was fully inside away a gust of wind snapped the door shut behind him. He was so startled that he fell forward. But since the stairs were right there he began tumbling downstairs.
Thump!
"Ow!"
Bamn!
"Umph!"
Clang!
"Gah!"
Crash!
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"I'm...ok!"
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"Maybe...!"
Sweat drops.
"Ok...what's in the package?!" Mitsuki began before whining at Rukia after a few seconds of silence. Everyone did an anime fall.
"Seriously?! The package?!" Kiyo snorted, stunned. Was his sister really that dumb to do something like that? Apparently, yes. Mitsuki just glared at him in return before turning back to Rukia.
"Well?!" Rukia looked down at the package in front of her. It was sealed shut with a red and blue label with words alongside it. Before deciding whether or not she should open it, Rukia decided to read the words out loud to the group in front of her.
It said,
To Kuchiki Rukia
From Your Best Friend and Brother
For Your Birthday
P.S. Don't open until Wednesday!
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"BIRTHDAY?!"
Rukia nodded slowly, shocked that the package was sent from the Soul Society. How the heck did the package get here? The only way would be if someone had actually come from the Soul Society to the World of the Living and give the package to someone to deliver. But they didn't allow people to cross through for that. So, how did it get here to her in the first place then?
"You never said it was your birthday?!" Mitsuki whined, shaking the raven headed girl by the shoulders and making Rukia snap out of her thinking. The candy girl kept shaking and rambling things at her until Ichigo tore the hyperactive girl off his still stunned friend.
"Will you knock it off?!" Ichigo snapped at her, annoyed at how her motor mouthing kept on going and going. He then turned towards Rukia with a raised eyebrow. "And why didn't you say it was your birthday?"
"It's not." Rukia answered, confusing the group. Said group just stared back at her, Mitsuki still rambling in the background until she threw a textbook at the girl.
"Nani?!"
"Well, not until the fourteenth." Rukia clarified. Renji nodded his head, agreeing with that reason.
"Yeah, your brother doesn't seem to be the one that would send random presents like that for no reason."
"Nii-sama would never do something that foolish!" Rukia said, defending her brother. The girl did however blush a little once she realized that her brother did send her a present. Usually birthdays weren't such a big deal in the Soul Society since everyone lived for many, many years.
Shiha scratched her head, confused all over again. "Brother?" She had known and talked a bit to Ichigo before and his friends in the past but not much. Only last week did she actually start to hang out with them since they were somehow friends with Mitsuki and she was friends with her as well. But she did know the school gossip that went around the school whenever there were new students. And there was never any news of having a brother before.
Kiyo nodded his head towards the package in Rukia's lap. "Yeah. Why would it say 'From Your Best Friend and Brother'? I think you're going deaf, Shorty."
PULSE VEIN.
"Take that back NOW!!!"
"Oh crap!!!"
"Not again..."
"Get back here coward!!!"
"Hell no!"
"How pathetic, running from a fight."
"Yes. Most disgraceful."
"HEY! Instead of talking about me how about HELPING ME OUT?!"
"Nah."
"It was your fault."
"Why should we? It's fun to watch! Too bad I don't have any sake..."
"Matsumoto..."
"Eep!"
"Bakas."
"Ok! Enough about my brother!" Mitsuki screamed, interrupting the side by side commentary the group was saying as Shiha chased Kiyo around the rooftop. "We need to plan Rukia's Birthday Party Bash!"
Freeze.
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Blink.
"What?" Mitsuki asked, confused.
"Hell no! Not after last time!" Kaida yelled, eyes wide. Kiyo was trying to yell something along the similar lines but the girl still chasing him around still wanted payback. The others just stared again. Ok...WAY to much staring today.
Mitsuki pouted. "Ok, I know what happened on Christmas was bad-"
"You caused a city wide power outrage!" Kira growled. Cue mouths dropping wide open. The girl just scratched the back of her head.
"So?! It was a great Christmas party!"
Anime falls.
"NO!" Kaida snapped again.
"But this is for Rukia! Not me!" Mitsuki protested, hugging said girl. Said girl sat their awkwardly as the two continued fighting over if they should throw a birthday party. And right now the girl causing it was getting really uncomfortable with the death hold Mitsuki was having on her.
"How about you just help plan it?" Shiha suggested, finally catching Kiyo and kicking him right in between the knees. All the boys that heard the boy scream out in pain in audible distance flinched while most of the girls roared out in laughter or giggled. "I think a party is a great idea."
Orihime nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah! I always wanted to plan a large party!"
Matsumoto swung her arm around Kaida, grinning. "So what do you say, eh?" She kept smiling widely at the girl she was sort of hugging. Kaida glanced at the rest of the group for help in this situation. None of them offered any. Not even her own sister. All of them didn't really care about it as long as they didn't get hurt in the process or reveal the fact that they fight Hollows and blah blah. Hitsugaya wasn't trying to get Matsumoto to stop since he had left shortly after Shiha began running after Kiyo. So only his gigai was there at the moment.
"Fine." Kaida answered, sighing. "BUT," she began again before they began their 'going-into-planning' mode. "it has to be REAL food and nothing that you and Aya created. I do not need that again!" Mitsuki smiled weakly.
"I said I was sorry to the people who got sick!"
Sweat drops.
"Wait! You don't really have to-" Rukia began, finally able to breathe and protest this after Mitsuki let go of her. Her protesting to the idea stopped when Ichigo stopped her from interrupting the party planners.
"Forget it Rukia. Looks like you're having a party either way." Ichigo said to Rukia. He raised his eyebrow once again when he saw that the girl looked...lost? Or something like that. "What? You never had a birthday party before?"
"Um..." the girl muttered, twittering her thumbs. She did have birthday parties some years but it was mostly small ones with a couple of people. This would be the first time she would be having a slightly bigger party with most of her friends. Ichigo stared at her shock before turning it into a smirk.
"Then you're going to have a lot of fun on Wednesday." Ichigo said, making the girl look up in surprise. She stared at the orange headed boy, seeing the smirk in his face. Rukia found herself smiling back in return before quickly turning away, face red. Ichigo just looked at her, blinking at why she just did that. He had no idea why though. Of course...
Anyways...
It looks like this birthday party was one that was going to be an experience that Rukia will never forget.
Monday after School...
Rukia stared at the large store in front of her, eyes wide. She had never thought they would actually drag her here. All the raven head girl was expecting was to go and pick out supplies for the party she was having either way. But then again, she was dealing with Mitsuki.
Said girl pulled...no, dragged...Rukia into the dress store. "Come on! Come on! Gotta buy you a party dress!"
"W-What?!" Rukia choked, tumbling in after her. Matsumoto nodded happily from behind, a reluctant Shiha behind her. The short girl did not like dresses one bit. Or anything really girly in fact. Tomboys did not like to become girly girls after all.
"Yeah! Can't have you at a party without a dress!" Matsumoto exclaimed, digging through the many racks of clothes. Mitsuki was nearby, doing the same thing.
Rukia, finally over her shock, stared at the dresses piling up in her arms. "Guys, I really don't-" she never finished, Mitsuki having pushed the girl into one of the empty room stalls before slamming it shut.
"Nonsense! The birthday girl always have to dress up to a party! Mitsuki's tradition!"
"But-"
"Just trust me, Rukia." Mitsuki interrupted, smirking. "It'll be worth it."
"Plus it's part of our birthday present to you!" Matsumoto added, coming over with some more dresses. "And you can't say no!"
Rukia sighed, seeing that there was no way she was going to out of this any time soon. "Alright."
"Yay!"
Shiha waved her hands towards the two peppy people. Once she got their attentions, which was after Mitsuki dumped two more piles of dresses into Rukia's arms, the purple headed girl pointed towards the exit.
"I'm...just going to buy my own present." the girl explained, not feeling comfortable in the store with so much stuff she loathed. Half of the stuff here was pink or something really bright and way to girly and stuff. She'd rather get the birthday girl something not from this store. And before Mitsuki and Matsumoto could stop her, Shiha had already bolted out the store into the rest of the mall, a trail of dust behind her.
The two blinked, looked at each other, and blinked again. Mitsuki then began pouting after registering that her new friend ditched out on buying dresses. Crossing her arms too. She looked like a child...again.
"No fair! I needed to buy her a dress too!"
Sweat drop.
"Hey, Ichigo. What are you getting Rukia?" Renji asked his headed friend. The two of them, plus Ikkaku and Yumichika, were currently wandering around the mall looking around for said birthday presents while the girls dragged Rukia clothes shopping. Since none of them wanted to sit and look at clothes the whole time, the boys decided to spend their time shopping. And so far no luck for such presents.
The asked boy shrugged, stuffing his hands into his pockets at the same time. "Don't know. Probably one of those bunny things she likes so much or something." Renji sighed, not getting much help for ideas. Turning to the further two, he asked them the same thing.
"Beauty products." Yumichika answered.
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Wow, no surprise there.
Ikkaku however just looked back at the stores with a bored expression. "I don't know. Probably some of those odd human books she reads." They stared back at him, confused.
"What books?"
"Dunno. I saw it the other day when she was reading it."
"Oh, you mean manga!"
"Manga? What the hell is that?"
"Those books."
"Which books?"
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"The ones she was reading!"
"Why would you call a book 'manga'?"
Dead pan.
"Forget it."
"Hey!" the guys turned around, surprised at the sudden sound. They were greeted to the sight of some teenage girl in a Chappy the bunny costume. Very, very odd. "Are you guys interested in Chappy the bunny?!"
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"Um...yes?" Ichigo answered, or more like asked. He wasn't really sure, still getting over the fact that the costume she was wearing was creeping him out. Renji eyed the girl suspiciously.
"Why does-" he never finished. The Chappy girl had pushed past abruptly and grabbed Ichigo. She turned around and then began dragging Ichigo after her. Boy being dragged, one pushed, and two just standing there all reacted with stares.
The girl smiled at her captive, not slowing her pace down. "Then you have to check out our Chappy store! It has everything! Plushies, toys, markers, books, hair accessories, stickers-"
"WHAT?!" Ichigo yelled, trying to get her to stop. But the girl had an iron grip on him and continued dragging Ichigo further and further into the crowds and away from his friends. Renji, Ikkaku, and Yumichika all sweat dropped as the two got further and further away.
Dot. Dot. Dot.
"Should we be worried?" Renji shrugged.
"Nah. He's Ichigo; I'm sure he can take care of some odd girl by himself." the pineapple head replied. Looking around at the stories nearby, he began looking for an art store. Spotting one a couple of stores down, he began walking that way. "Later."
Yumichika sighed, crossing his arms. "Pft."
"Yo! Yumichika!" Ikkaku's voice called from another nearby store. This time a book store. He had an annoyed expression on his face.
"Hurry up! We have Hollow duty tonight!"
"Are you sure this is the right way?" Kiyo questioned, kicking the rock that was in front of him. His hands were stuffed into his jacket pocket, adding to his irritated and bored look. Kaida glared back at him.
"Urusai. The only reason we need to find this damn place is because we received stinking orders to do so yesterday. We wouldn't have to if YOU didn't pretty much blew our cover. Good thing that no one noticed; that was extremely lucky."
"Hey! That girl would've died!" Kiyo argued back. "Besides, it's not my damn fault that they forgot to sent to us until yesterday. If they had sent it with the first package it would've been fine. Besides, the first package was a bunch of nothing."
"Yeah, yeah." Kaida said, not really in the mood to talk anymore. "Just shut up and help me look for this damn place." Sighing, the boy complied.
The two continued down the street, scanning the area for this particular place they were looking for. They bickered from time to time but didn't stop their searching. Both still had a crapload of homework to do when they got back. Soon on street turned to three streets. Three then turned to ten and so on. After about twenty Kiyo finally lost it and said something about it, to Kaida's dismay.
"Ok! I give up! There is no such damn place!"
"Kiyo!"
"Don't 'Kiyo' me! This was all just some stupid trick!"
"It's right-"
"How can they expect us to find the stinking place if they themselves don't know where it is themselves!"
"Oh for god's sake, shut your-"
"What's so great about it anyways?!"
"I swear, one more word-"
"When we get back I'm so killing him..."
"KIYO! SHUT THE-"
"I know! I'll have Mitsuki use her-"
"SHUT THE HELL UP FOR ONCE YOU BAI CHI AND FRICKING LOOK!"
(A/N: Bai chi means idiot.)
Kiyo stopped his fricking angry rant when Kaida screamed right into his ear and whacked his head. Grabbing the back of his head forcefully, the girl turned his head towards the building in front of him. His eyes blinked, trying to figure out what was so great about this. He didn't understand why Kaida had caused him a whole lot of head pain to look at this poor excuse of a place.
"What?!"
Anime fall.
"You idiot!" Kaida yelled, punching him in the stomach anime style. "This is the fucking place!!! I'll been trying to tell you that to your peanut brain for the last five minutes!!!" Kiyo stared at her, dazed.
"Whaaaaat?"
PULSE VEIN.
"That's it!"
"Ack! Stop that!"
"Not until you are actually intelligent!"
"I fucking am!"
"Fucking not!"
"Who put a stick up your ass anyways?!"
"Let's see...the person who has the IQ of a rock!"
"A rock doesn't have an IQ!"
"Exactly!"
"You know what-"
"What? Are you going to admit that you are acting like an ass now?"
"I'm the ass?! I think you need your eyes checked!"
"Why I outta-!"
"Well, well, what's all this racket about, eh?" a voice called out to them, breaking the two from their fight. They stared murderously at whoever it was, not in any mood to talk. But it vanished once they got a clear look of who it was. And boy did there expressions changed immediately. Kiyo dropped his mouth opened while Kaida was staring with eyes as wide as dishes. Only when a minute passed did they blurt out...
"OLD MAN?!?!"
Urahara chuckled, his hat titled to cover half of his face. All that they could see was the smirk he had on. Snapping his fan shut, he gestured towards them and then into his shop.
"Would you care for some tea, Kaida-chan, Kiyo-kun?"
Tuesday after School...
"Hey, Orihime? Where's the sugar? I need some."
"Oh, it's in the cupboard above the counter over there."
"Thanks!"
"W-What?! Sugar?! Give me that!"
"Hey! I need it for the cake!"
"Orihime's making the cake, idiot!"
"But I wanna! I already started on it!"
"MITSUKI!!!"
"Ok! Fine! I'll make some cookies instead! See! Here's a recipe!"
"First: that's a recipe for dog food! Second: you eat the sugar half the time!"
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"Na-uh!"
"Uh-huh!
"NO!"
"YES!"
"SHUT UP!!!"
"Fuck off, Kiyo!"
"K-Kaida-chan... M-Mitsuki-chan..."
"Not again..." Kira groaned, slamming her head into her science book again. It was the fifth time that day. And they have been over for only two hours! She and the others were currently over in Orihime's apartment to prepare food for the party that was going to take place there the next day. They were going to have it then since Mitsuki and Shiha did the puppy dog look. Who knew Shiha could do it... So that left them needing threats, drinks, and of course and cake. Too bad Mitsuki said she, Orihime, and Kaida were going to make it. Hopefully no one will get sick.
Matsumoto chuckled from where she sat at the nearby table. "Aw, cheer up kawaii-chan! It's actually quite funny!"
"Don't call me that." the girl growled, twitching. Hitsugaya up from the paperwork he was doing and glared at the unproductive Matsumoto.
"Matsumoto, do your homework." the tenth division taicho ordered his fukutaichō again. The big busted woman was failing the human classes she was taking and skipping out on doing her paperwork again. He had threatened to take away all the sake from the tenth division forever is she did not start doing the work. And she couldn't run out since she really wanted to help with the party. But Kaida being the one who likes people to not fail was threatening her to do her homework or not attend the party. Sigh, two against one.
Matsumoto pouted at him. "Ah, but taicho! It's Rukia's birthday tomorrow!" Hitsugaya glared.
"I don't care if the world's ending tomorrow. Do. Your. Work." he snapped back. (A/N: OOC?)
"But won't you be dead then?" Kiyo asked, looking up from his math homework. He didn't want anything to do with the sugar problem anymore. Kaida and Orihime could handle it. For now he had to find a way to not fail out of math...again.
"He has a point." Matsumoto added. Hitsugaya throbbed a vein and twitched.
"Matsumoto!"
Whack!
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Kiyo slapped his forehead. "Ok, I know you don't like or anything but seriously? WHY did you throw a pillow at his head, Kira?"
"To make him shut up." Kira answered bluntly. "I'm trying to solve this stupid chemical formula and his shouting is getting annoying."
Sweat drops.
(A/N: This next part might be bit harder to read but that's cause it's happening all at the same time.)
"YUMI!!!"
"Kiyo! Are they at it again?!"
"Hai! But what did you expect! They're worse than when you get that someone really pissed!"
"Hey!"
"Mitsuki! That's too much sugar!"
"Huh? But it makes the cake sweeter!"
PULSE VEIN.
"Baka!"
"I-It's ok, Kaida-chan..."
"Whatever you say, Midget. We get that you're mad. Now shut up for once."
BIG VEIN.
"Um...Kira...you might want to stop now..."
"Nope! This is too much fun to watch!"
"Matsumoto, somehow I don't those two agree at all...
Whack!
"Gah! Kaida! Where the hell did you get the frying pan?!"
"Doesn't matter!"
"It does if it's Orihime's!"
"It's mine, you idiot!"
"Oh...wait! When did you have that?!"
"BAKA!"
Whack!
"Owie!"
"G-Guys...the o-oven's-"
Whack!
"Kaida! Stop!"
"No!"
Whack!
"Yumi! Give me that back!"
"What? It's just some papers. No big deal."
"Yumi!"
"Kira...just give it back. Ugh...I'm getting a headache."
"You should have some sake! It's the best way to get or headaches!"
"Um...no thanks. I don't drink."
"But it's good sake! Plus, if I drink with you I don't have to do all this work!"
"MATSUMOTO!!!"
BOOM!!!
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"...did he explode?"
"KIRA!"
"Holy crap! Snowy exploded!!!"
"MITSUKI!!!"
Whack!
"With that, I'm pretty sure he didn't explode."
"Pft...too bad he didn't."
Anime falls.
"YUMI!!!"
"Oh! He is still alive!"
"MITSUKI!!!"
Whack!
"Haha, taicho! You almost got me there~!"
PULSE REALLY, REALLY BIG VEIN.
"MATSUMOTO!!!"
"Wait, if it wasn't Hitsugaya, then..."
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"OH CRAP!!! THE OVEN'S ON FIRE!!!"
"NANI?!"
"MITSUKI!!!"
"Blame me later! Where's the fire extinguisher?!"
"A what?"
"You're kidding, right?!"
"U-Um...u-under the s-sink!"
BOOM!
"Eep!!!"
"Kya!!!"
"Hurry up!!!"
"I'm hurrying!!!"
"Ack! The cake's on fire!"
"FORGET THE CAKE!!!"
Ten minutes and a whole lot of screaming later...
"Ok...fire's out." Kaida muttered, setting down the fire putter outer. Everybody in the room let out a sigh of relief. Mitsuki looked at the poor cake that was in the charred oven.
"Poor, poor chocolate cake..." the girl whispered, crying anime tears. The rest all sweat dropped at her while Kaida whacked her head.
"Shaddup! It's a cake! You're lucky that the whole place didn't burn!"
"But wasn't it also part of your fault?" Kiyo pointed out. Kaida glared at him before sighing and running a hand through her hair.
"Ok, maybe a little." she admitted. Groaning, she leaned against the counter. "What a mess."
"Was anything saved?" Matsumoto asked. Orihime looked at some of the food that was left untouched during all the commotion.
"Um...some cookies, brownies, the ice cream, and some other things."
"So, pretty much everything but the cake?" Kira summarized. Orihime nodded.
"But we need a cake!" Mitsuki whined. Kaida groaned while Kiyo did the honor of whacking his sister on the head this time.
Kira whacked her head against her science book once again. "Forget the cake!"
"No!" Mitsuki protested. "All parties need a cake! No cake means no real party!"
Hitsugaya raised an eyebrow at her. "Then why not just buy a cake?" Kiyo shook his head immediately.
"No. No way. Last time we brought a cake it was way too sugary that no one but her ate it." he stopped, grimacing as he remembering the memory. "Took almost a whole weekto get her calm down. It was HELL WEEK."
"Now you see why the cake has to homemade?" Kaida questioned.
"Also...it was my gift to Rukia-chan." Orihime added softly.
Enter guilt.
Kaida rubbed her forehead before sighing. "Ok, Orihime, you can use our oven after school tomorrow to bake the cake. We'll have the party at our place instead since so that the oven can be replaced. Mitsuki, you even DARE touch anything in the kitchen I will fry you alive."
"E-Eep!"
"T-Thank you, Kaida-chan!"
Matsumoto smiled. "The party's back on!"
"AFTER you finish your work, Matsumoto!"
Dead pan.
"BUT TAICHO!!!"
Wednesday after school...PARTY TIME!!!
After two days of intense gift buying and planning it was time for Rukia's birthday. How old she was turning was going to seventeen since they couldn't reveal she was over a century or so old. Lucky for them that Mitsuki and Shiha had actually laid off on the pranks for the day so none of the group had gotten detention. So now everyone was pretty much in the apartment getting ready by helping decorate and stuff. Orihime was in the kitchen making another cake. Kaida had a backup cake in the fridge since not everyone would want to try Orihime's cake. And her excuse was that one cake wouldn't be enough for them. Go Kaida!
However, the party girl was in the apartment over, Mitsuki and Matsumoto with her. Both of them had dragged Rukia there straight after school to get her ready. Meaning dress, hair, makeup, etc. They would have made Shiha help to except that she practically almost dared them to try and make her help. She was instead helping putting balloons up.
Renji shot out another curse when the balloon he was blowing up deflated again. "What the hell is wrong with this thing?!" Kiyo looked over from where he was putting up the banner with Ichigo.
"Have you tried tying the end after blowing it up?" Renji scratched his head.
"...No."
Sweat drops.
Kaida stared hesitantly at the cake that was currently baking in the oven. Looking up slowly she watched as Orihime was cleaning up all her supplies. Taking a deep breath to calm herself down, she said, "Um...Orihime..."
"Yes, Kaida-chan?"
"W-What's that?"
"Oh! It's my cake for Rukia-chan!"
"...W-With chili pepper...?"
"Hai! And also some crackers, frosting, strawberries, candy, and other things!"
"...Good to know."
Kiyo snorted, having heard the entire conversation from the living room. Not to be rude or anything in Kiyo's mind but Orihime really needed to get cooking lessons. Mostly cause he was worried about the side effects of eating her cooking. And cause he was worried if it was anything like Mitsuki's he would be out cold for a little while. He shivered; very bad thought for him if that happened.
"Where's Rukia?" Ichigo asked, blowing up another balloon. He had just come about a half hour ago since he had to get his present from his house first. So he had no idea that Rukia was just next door, trying very hard not to yell with all the stuff that Mitsuki and Matsumoto was doing to her.
Renji shrugged, finally tying the end of the Chappy covered balloon. "Don't know. Last I saw her Matsumoto and Mitsuki dragged her into the apartment next door." Ichigo looked back at him, confused.
"What for? She already knows this is her party."
"'Cause those two are dressing Bunny up." Shiha explained, startling the two teens. The purple headed girl leaned over the couch towards them.
"Hyper and Cheery wanted to make Bunny put on the dress they brought for her the other day." Ichigo and Renji blinked.
"Dress?"
Shiha rolled her eyes before heading towards the kitchen to get a drink. "You'll see."
"Hey!" Kaida called from the kitchen. "Can I get someone to help bring the food out?" Chad and Uryū went to do so, seeing as they were already done putting the streamers up around the room where they would hang.
Ikkaku grunted as he finally pinned his side of the banner up. "Tch. Why do we need this?"
"It was Mitsuki's idea." Kiyo explained bluntly, also pinning his side up. He wasn't supposed to be doing this job but Yumichika decided that he was not going to stand up on a chair and pin a banner up. Said he was too 'fine' to do so. So that was how Peacock boy was therefore helping bring the food out.
"And aren't all her ideas great." someone muttered throughout the place. However since there was a couple of people in there, no one could figure out who said that.
Kira yawned, leaning against the wall. She had just finished cleaning up all the trash that was left behind by Mitsuki this morning before they left to school. Normally it wouldn't have been a lot but since Mitsuki was excited about Rukia's party she decided half-trashing the place would be a good idea ten minutes before school started. Hooray! Pft, hell no was that good!
Kaida looked over from the kitchen and seeing her unproductive sister made a suggestion. "Kira, help Hitsugaya-" she never finished, having felt two pairs of lightning bolts at the back of her head.
"NO."
Sweat drops.
"That was quick."
"No kidding."
The front door then opened, revering all attention towards it. They were all greeted to the site of Mitsuki sticking her head through the door, a huge grin plastered onto her place as everyone stared.
"You guys ready yet?" she asked, looking around the apartment. Everyone just replied with a nod, grunt, or just plain ignored her. Such good friends.
Ding!
Orihime smiled brightly before taking out her cake from the over. Turning towards the others, she displayed her multicolored cake to them.
"Cake's done!"
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...
...
"YAY!" Mitsuki cheer, widening the door before speeding towards the kitchen. She never made it, Kiyo having tripped her.
"Forget it."
"But-"
"NO!"
"Wah! Meanie heads!!!"
Anime falls.
Kaida slammed her head into the wall. "I hate my life."
Sweat drops.
"Hey! Guys! We ready?" another voice called from the front door, this time it being Matsumoto. Once again, same responses to her expect Mitsuki was jumping back up and down and up again.
"Yeah! Yeah!" she shouted really fast. "Party time!!!" Many people inwardly groaned.
Matsumoto smiled, happy that everything was ready. Turning towards the person next to her who was cowering behind the wall, she grabbed their wrist and pushed them inside. All doing this very unexpectedly.
"Ah! Matsumoto!!!"
"Trust me, Rukia!" Matsumoto piped back, smirking. She watched excitedly as she saw the mixed reactions everyone gave as Rukia stumbled in.
Ichigo and Renji downright just dropped their mouths wide opened, publicly gaping at their friend. But they were too shock at the moment to register that. If you looked from it far away, you would have thought that were monkeys with the way they were at the moment.
Kiyo, Chad, Ikkaku, and Uryū all just stared too, but more appropriately. They didn't have their mouths wide open as the other two who were shamefully doing so. Still shocked, but more controlled. Only Yumichika seemed to be the least impressed out of them.
Shiha looked blankly at Rukia, admitting that what they did to her was a surprise. Though she excepted this, her two friends really did quite well for Rukia. But that didn't meant they were allowed or ever permitted to do that to her.
Hitsugaya and Kira glanced at this whole thing unamused, the most they doing was raising an eyebrow while watching. Both were not really interested in what happened to Rukia, them seeing as this thing was not a big deal. They just had to say it was different.
Orihime was starring, stunned, before she grinned excitedly. This was definitely something she really hoped they would do to make Rukia's birthday more special. However there was a small part of her questioning at the back of her mind at why she felt a tiny bit jealous.
Kaida just surveyed the rest of the room for their own expressions like Matsumoto while hers remained unreadable. But if you looked closely you could make out that she was grinning slightly at all of this, as if pleased. Why was unknown.
And for Rukia, she was blushing beet red like crazy as she stood awkwardly in the living room. The raven haired girl was actually wearing the dress Mitsuki and Matsumoto had brought her on Monday as part of her present. The dress was a spaghetti strapped snow white dress that ended just at the knees. Small jewels laid embroidered all around it. A glittering second cloth second layer of cloth hanged off the skirt, the sparkles making the snowflakes that were on it look silver and good. Around her waist to top it off was a light pink ribbon that was tied at the back and stopped halfway before her knees. And there was also the fact she was wearing a bit of makeup and some jewelry.
Mitsuki and Matsumoto grinned widely, happy with the reactions to the results of almost two hours on dressing Rukia up. The candy girl skipped towards the two gaping boys, swinging a arm around both of them. Since she was shorter than them about a few inches, she stood on her tiptoes.
"You guys think she's beautiful, right?" Mitsuki asked them with a sly smirk, waiting for their responses. This sent Rukia to blushing even a darker shape of red then before with Matsumoto giggling in the background. Ichigo and Renji jumped at the question while still staring and turning red themselves.
"Y-Yeah..."
"Uh-huh..."
Deep Crimson Blush.
Kaida decided to intervene at this point and save the poor girl from anyone more embarrassment. "Ok, enough with making them uncomfortable. Let's just celebrate Rukia's birthday already." And thus kicked off the party.
First nobody was really doing anything since they were still trying to get over the shock of the dress and stuff Rukia had on. But after a couple of minutes passed everyone finally got over the shock of it. So everyone was now talking and playing games what not. Mitsuki had to be tied to a chair so she doesn't start eating the cake or anything else that contained a pinch of sugar. Or force Rukia to open her presents straight away.
Renji pounded his fist against the stereo, trying to see why sound was coming out of it. Last time he saw one was at Ichigo's house, but it was broken. And he really wanted to know how this box thingy was making sound and noise come out of it. Ichigo was howling with laughter as Renji struggled with it. Kiyo looked over from where he was drinking soda and nearly spit it out when he saw what Renji was doing.
"RENJI?! DON'T KILL THE FRICKING STEREO!!!"
"How the heck is music coming out of this thing?!"
"Hahahaha!"
Pulse vein.
"SHUT IT!"
"Hey Rukia," Shiha asked, catching the birthday girl's attention from where she was talking to Matsumoto. "How long did it take them to buy that dress for you anyways?" Rukia sweat dropped, not really wanting to reveal that information on the almost three hours search that was taken for dress hunting. Matsumoto wasn't that secretly with it.
"About three hours but that cause we wanted the best dress for Rukia!"
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Yumichika poked his piece of cake, aka Orihime's cake, and watched as it wiggled a bit. His face paled as he continued to stare at the very odd game moving around. "What is this?" Orihime looked up from nearby and smiled at him brightly.
"Oh! That's my cake for Rukia-chan!" she looked over excitedly at him. "Do you like it?" Asked boy began sweating really fast as Ikkaku stood near him choking with laughter as he bit into a cookie that Kaida made.
Kaida came out of the kitchen again, carrying another batch of cookies since Mitsuki had finally escaped and gobbled up the remaining cookies. Poor, poor cookies. The older girl stopped when she saw her younger sister almost dozing as she leaned again the wall still.
"Yo! Kira! Wake up!" Kaida said, nudging her sister a few times. Kira stumbled a bit before glaring at her sister for doing that.
"Onee-chan!" Kira hissed, twitching that her older sister woke her up. Kaida just grinned before walking towards the refreshment table.
"No sleeping!"
Dead pan.
Matsumoto smiled as she walked up to her taicho, who was currently watching as Rukia and Ichigo got into another fight about some random thing topic. Apparently, it was actually some sort of game Mitsuki invented that made two people argue over a topic. Very odd and amusing to watch.
"Taicho! Are you enjoying yourself?" she asked him, seeing as he wore his regular expression on like always. Hitsugaya just sent her a glare for not calling him his correct title but dropped it once he realized that she couldn't with five none shinigami people here. So, he just replied with his usual grunt.
Matsumoto pouted, seeing as he was acting like he usually did. Suddenly a light bulb appeared next to her, alongside an idea. Heading quickly towards the kitchen, she asked Kira something. Confused, the girl nodded and pointed towards the freezer. Giving only a quick thanks in return, the big busted woman now raced into the kitchen and pried open the freezer. The two that she had just talked to watched to see exactly what she was doing.
The tenth division shinigami moved a couple of things aside before finding exactly what she was looking for and took one out. Shutting the freezer behind her, Matsumoto raced back to her taicho and showed what she had gotten to him. Hitsugaya stared at her, twitching.
"MATSUMOTO."
"No buts!" she answered, opening the Popsicle. "You'll love this!"
"MATS-HMPH!" Hitsugaya began again before his fukutaichō shoved the watermelon favored Popsicle into his mouth. He gagged a bit, her shoving a bit too far and was about to rip it out when he tasted it. And surprisingly it wasn't that bad.
Matsumoto grinned happily and patted her taicho on his head as he licked it. "See! I knew you love it!" He twitched and glared at her. And then turned it towards Kira and Shiha, who was also watching, as they laughed/slightly giggled at him.
Uryū sipped his drink, watching from the sidelines as Mitsuki got everyone to start playing another odd game she invented. However some of it spilled onto his shirt when Orihime was accidentally pushed into him, alongside with Chad during the game.
Orihime gasped as she saw what she did. "Uryū-kun! I'm so sorry!" Uryū tried hard not to twitch as he pushed his glasses up. Being a member of the crafting club or sewing club or something he very much disliked stains. But it wasn't Orihime's fault; it was Mitsuki for suggesting this game.
"It's alright. It wasn't your fault."
"But-" Mitsuki butted in at this point.
"Orihime! Come on!!!" she cried, pulling the girl after her. And once again she accidentally made Orihime spill the rest of Uryū's drink onto himself and his shirt.
Twitch.
"Sorry Uryū-kun!!!"
"..."
"...Do you want me to get you a towel?"
"Thanks Chad."
About another hour passed with everyone just hanging out and chatting. To say it was certainly lively and fun. Nothing was dull about it since you had Matsumoto, Mitsuki, Shiha, and surprisingly Orihime with it. Games were played, food eaten, drinks drunk, and laugher throughout the place. Too bad it was the middle of the week for them to stay late. But no one was allowed to leave without Rukia opening her presents. No, seriously. Mitsuki would hurt anyone that would try and leave the apartment early. Lots of people would be going home with bruises tonight.
So to make sure everyone would get home before it got too late, Rukia was going to start opening her presents now. She sat on the couch with Renji and Ichigo next to her, Matsumoto's doing, while she waited. Mitsuki wouldn't let anyone else touch the presents but her as she handed them to the raven head. Same thing to if anyone who tried to leave, but this time she bit them. Only Orihime was excluded from this since she baked Rukia a cake for her birthday. Ikkaku chased her around for a while with his sword since she bit his hand. Too bad he ran into Hitsugaya instead. And let's say never to run into the white haired kid when waving a sword around unless you really wanted trouble.
Mitsuki picked up a random present and handed it to Rukia. Picking up the card, the birthday girl read the card that was also attached to it out loud.
"To Rukia. From Uryū. Happy Birthday."
First up: Uryū's Present!
Tearing apart the wrapping paper, the medium sized rectangle shaped revealed itself to be a sewing kit. Many people sweat dropped behind their heads secretly. Such a typical present from him.
"Thanks Uryū." Rukia said, smiling none the less. Uryū nodded as Mitsuki handed her another present since she wanted to know what she got. This time it was a bagged present.
And the card attached said,
"To Rukia. From the Beautiful Yumichika."
Sweat drops.
Second up: Yumichika!
Rukia reached into the bag and dug around before pulling out some bottles of beauty products and setting it onto the table. Many people once again sweat dropped as they saw the very predictable present. The birthday girl just gave him a weak smile.
"Um...thanks." Yumichika flipped his hair over his shoulder.
"No problem. Those products will help you try and achieve my level of beauty."
Dead pans.
'So annoying.' Many people thought at the same time. Mitsuki just handed Rukia the next present and read the card out loud herself.
"Happy Birthday Rukia. From Renji."
Third up: Renji!
Rukia once again tore apart the wrapping paper before it revealed it was a new set of art supplies. The girl's face lit up with delight as she looked over the markers and crayons and other stuff that was included in it. She then gave Renji one of the biggest hugs she gave anyone.
"Thank you Renji!" the red head coughed, uncomfortable with this.
"Ah...no problem Rukia..." his friend let go before accepting the next present and reading the card out loud.
"To Rukia. Hitsugaya."
Fourth up: Hitsugaya!
Rukia opened the small package and found herself with a scrapbook making kit. Everyone stared at the present that was in Rukia's hands before back to the boy standing next to Kira and Shiha. He coughed and looked away, not wanting to look anyone in the face. Kira smirked and whispered something to him, making the tenth division taicho excuse himself very fast before heading towards the bathroom. Everyone looked in confusion before laughing a little at how he reacted. But then who would have thought that he would have given Rukia that?
Well why he hides, next present!
"For Rukia. From Ikkaku."
Fifth up: Ikkaku!
His present was a couple of manga books that he had bought at the bookstore. Rukia smiled none the less and thanked him, happy that she would be able to read what happen next in the manga she was currently obsessed with. Ichigo just groaned, now going to be have to deal with this at night. A couple of people snickered before the next present was given out.
"For the Birthday Girl! Love, Matsumoto~!"
Sixth up: Matsumoto!
It was quite obvious what the present was, seeing as it was bottled shaped. Either way Rukia opened it and revealed that she had gotten a bottle of sake from the tenth division fukutaichō. Many people laughed as they saw how Rukia stumbled to thank Matsumoto for the gift. The woman just replied with a wave and a bright smile. As long as she tried the sake it was fine with her. Let's just hope she doesn't drink it.
Mitsuki read the next card out loud for Rukia before handing her the present.
"Rukia. From Chad."
Seventh up: Chad!
The big guy's present was a painting of Karakura Town as depicted when it was either a dawn or dusk. And it was really beautiful. When asked where he got it, he only said that he had a friend. That confused a few of his friends, seeing as they usually knew who his friends was. Secret friend maybe? Oh well, next present!
"To Rukia. From Kira and Kaida. Happy Birthday!"
Eighth up: Kira and Kaida!
Rukia stared at the oddly shaped package before opening it. She gasped when she saw it was a camera. When she asked the two were they got it and that this was too expensive for her to accept. Kaida put down all her protests saying that the camera didn't cost much and since they had gotten it as a request from a friend too. Kira just leaned against the wall, dozing again. Everyone just watched for a little longer before Mitsuki took the camera away and gave her the next present. They sweat dropped as they saw Mitsuki's angry face.
The ninth card said,
"Here you go, Rukia. From Kiyo. Hope you have happy birthday."
Ninth up: Kiyo!
The older twin brother's present was somewhat thin. When she opened it up she discovered that it was a card that allowed her to take ten free art lessons along with a how-to-draw book. Everyone, even the now returned Hitsugaya, had to either smirk or laugh as they watch Kiyo cower behind Kaida as Rukia howled at him for even suggesting such a thing to her. Her drawings were perfect! Now not everyone thought that but they were at least smart enough than Kiyo to something like this
Mitsuki rolled on the floor in laughter before handing the next present over.
"Yo Bunny. Happy birthday. Shiha."
Tenth up: Shiha!
Rukia opened the purple haired girl's present to reveal that is was a collection of scary movies. She thanked Shiha for the presents, eager to watch some of these movies soon since the Soul Society didn't have movies. Ichigo pounded his head against the couch's armrest, not looking forward to watching a bunch of movies late at night. A couple of people from the Soul Society snickered at his misfortune.
Mitsuki was about to hand Rukia her next to last present when she remember that she had left hers in her room. Tossing the present that was sent from her brother and her best friend to Rukia, the candy girl rushed down the hall towards said room, leaving a trail of confused people. Kiyo just shrugged.
"Just open it up." Rukia complied.
Eleventh up: Byakuya and Best Friend!
Rukia pried open the package and peered inside, Renji and Ichigo doing the same since they were next to her. Everyone else just waited to see what it was. But they had to wait awhile since the three of them were still staring at the contents of the gift.
After about two minutes Kaida interrupted them. "Hello? Guys?"
"What is it?" Orihime added. The three looked up finally. Rukia decided to show them by taking out the things that were in it.
...
...
...
"Is that a bunny?!" Mitsuki exclaimed, going back into the living room and making everyone jump. But what she said was true. The box contained two bunnies, one orange and the other red, with big floppy ears and tails. Their expressions were like bunny style puppy eyes, making them really adorable. But that wasn't why everyone...ok maybe a little...why most of the group was staring at them.
It was the fact that...
Byakuya sent them?!
Ichigo burst out laughing by now, Renji trying to hard down his but failing. "I can't believe your brother would send that." Rukia glared at him and whacked his arm.
"S-Shut up! He didn't send me this! This was from an old friend of mine!" she protested. Matsumoto raised an eyebrow after her giggles ended.
"Then what did your brother send?" Rukia put the bunnies down and pulled out a small case that contained a letter with it.
"This." Everyone stared at it.
Mitsuki asked the question first. "Well, what is it?!" Rukia didn't answer, taking the letter off first and reading it. Her eyes widened as she read what it contained before a small smile passed across her face. Tears pricked at the edge of her eyes. Renji, Ichigo, and the others looked on in alarm.
"Rukia?!" Ichigo asked, startled. Said birthday girl shook her head, wiping the edges of her eyes. She looked up at them and smiled.
"I'm fine."
"You sure?" Renji questioned, wary.
"Hai."
"Then what did he send you?" Kiyo asked, curious. Rukia shook her head, putting the letter and the box back into the package along with the bunnies.
"It's nothing." the people in the room looked on, confused.
"You're not opening it?" Matsumoto asked.
"Later."
Mitsuki pouted." But-!" Kaida covered her mouth before she continued.
"Ok then!" Kaida said, not wanting everyone else to pry anymore into whatever it was. "Mitsuki, your turn!"
"Ok!"
Twelfth up: Mitsuki!
Mitsuki handed Rukia the bag that was with her when she ran into the bedroom. Rukia looked at it, getting an idea on what it is. And when she opened it, she was right. It was bag of candy. Everyone sighed silently, knowing very well that this was expected from Mitsuki. However she had to put the bag away cause even though it was her present Mitsuki was watering at the sight of it. Good thing Kiyo and Kaida had a grip on her.
Matsumoto, taking over Mitsuki's job of giving Rukia's present, eyed the last one that was on the table. "Looks like Ichigo's one is the last one."
Last one up: Ichigo!
Everyone stared at the really badly wrapped large package as it was handed to Rukia. Ichigo fidgeted a bit when everyone shot him looks that questioned what the hell would be so big. Rukia either way peeled away the wrapping paper to see what her last present contained. And once it was all off, she and everyone not Ichigo openly gapped at it.
His present was a large Chappy the Bunny stuff animal that was dressed in a pink and white dress too. It wore a bore on its right ear and smile brightly as any kind of stuff animal could. And in its paws held a large stuff pillow sign. The sign read...
Happy Birthday
Rukia
Love, Ichigo
Ichigo blushed a bit at the last part. "I-I didn't put that there. The crazy chick who dragged me into the store put that on there herself!"
Rukia hugged the Chappy stuff animal happily, loving her present. Letting go of it, she turned and transferred that hug towards the orange haired guy sitting right next to her. Ichigo feel backwards into the couch as she tackled hugged him.
"Ah, RUKIA!"
"Arigatou, Ichigo! I love it!"
Renji laughed at the blushing Ichigo as Rukia strangled-hugged him tightly. Mitsuki and Matsumoto squealed at how cute the stuff animal was and how thoughtful Ichigo was. Orihime did the same thing, but had a lingering thought on why she felt some sort of odd emotion at the back of her head. Everyone else just laughed at how Ichigo got something so girly and how he was getting the death grip for it.
But Rukia was none the less happy. This was the best birthday she had ever had!
Later...
Soon after Rukia released her death grip it was time to clean up since it was getting quite late. But they had to stay even later since Kaida would not allow anyone to leave without cleaning up the apartment. It didn't take long since there was a bunch of people was there to help. However it did get delayed a bit every time someone had to chase Mitsuki down since she was on sugar high.
Once the apartment was clean, they all had to help once again catch Mitsuki before she trashed everything again. She wasn't as sugar high but still was really jumpy. Many people kept running into each other since the space was quite small and Mitsuki was surprisingly swift for someone like her for she kept dodging everyone. It happy ended after ten minutes when she was given two minutes to cuddle with the two red and orange bunnies, nicknamed Ichi and Rena. Guess who named them and from who? However, Hitsugaya thought for a second that he saw Mitsuki stuff something into their mouths but thought it was a trick of the light.
Now everyone was leaving now back towards wherever they were staying/living. And we follow Ichigo and Rukia as they walked back from the party towards the clinic/house.
The two walked in silence, each thinking their own thoughts. Rukia was no longer wearing the dress, having changed back before helping clean up. However it was in the stack of presents she had, seeing as it was part of her number of presents. She was carrying it along with a couple of her other ones. Ichigo was helping with the ones she couldn't pick up. Both were halfway back home when Ichigo remembered the present her brother sent her.
"Hey, Rukia," said girl looked up, seeing as she was shorter than him. "What did Byakuya send you?" Rukia looked straight ahead, not answering. Ichigo frowned.
"Rukia."
The girl remained silent for another minute. Ichigo was about to ask again when Rukia looked up to him, her face soft. The carrot top boy had to be careful that he didn't trip from the sudden change of expressions.
"Rukia?"
"It...It was something that my sister wanted me to have one day." she explained softly, referring to the gift her brother had sent her. Ichigo understood; it was from her deceased older sister and Byakuya's wife, Hisana. He knew what it was like to lose someone. But he had the pleasure of knowing his mother. Rukia never had the experience.
"Aw! So sweet!"
"NANI?!" Rukia yelped the same time Ichigo yelled, "WHAT THE HELL?!" The two looked around, trying to see were the childish voice had come from. But there was no one but them around.
"Hey! Down here!"
"Hurry up! It's stuffy in here!"
Ichigo and Rukia looked at her each other before at the box that Byakuya and her best friend from the Soul Society sent. Putting down the bags containing the other presents, Rukia opened the top off and peered inside with Ichigo. What they saw baffled them.
Ichi, the orange rabbit, popped her head out and looked at the two of them, blinking. "Finally! I thought we would be stuck in there forever!"
Rena, the red rabbit, popped up too. "Yeah!"
Ichigo pointed at each of them, mouth wide. "W-What?!" Rukia stared. Ichi and Rena smiled at them.
"Nice to meet you!"
"Ditto!"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Ichigo yelled at them. Rukia nodded numbly, still shock. The two rabbits looked back at them before jumping up and down.
"Modsouls! Duh!" Ichi nodded.
"Yeah!"
Ichigo and Rukia looked at each other and then back down at the two modsouls bunnies. Ichi and Rena looked back up at them, smiling and giggling. Now the two of them had to deal with two more modsouls along with Kon. And they had no idea how the hell these two came in contact with modsouls.
Well, this sucked.
Meanwhile this happened to those poor two, two figures stood atop one of the office buildings that were scattered along Karakura Town. They were looking down upon the town as people scurried along the streets trying to go home, get dinner, or other stuff. Stars twinkled above them as the moon began to appear. It was too dark too see who the two figures were but all that could be made were that they were both female and that one had blonde hair just past her neck while the other long, straight navy blue hair that ended at her mid back.
The blonde haired girl looked down curiously at all the people that were walking below her. "Humans are so odd. They prefer to be out then at home." Her companion snorted.
"What did you expect? They're humans." the girl answered, her voice cold. The blond girl sighed at her.
"Jeez, Arashi, you're cold as an ice cube." the girl said sarcastically. The blue haired girl, Arashi, glared back at her.
"Urusai, Izumi! I don't get why you're interested in them anyways." Arashi growled back. "They're stupid and careless."
"No they're not!" Izumi snapped back. Arashi just rolled her eyes.
"Come on, we can't stay here long." Izumi sighed, sad that she wasn't going to be able to stay and observe them anymore.
"Where are we going, anyways?" the blond asked. Arashi muttered something about annoyance before vanishing. Izumi cursed under her breath before following.
"Somewhere cold."
"Jeez, you mean that head of yours?"
"IZUMI!"
Me: Wow...finally done.
Cast: IT'S BEEN ALMOST A MONTH NOW!!!
Me: Shut up! I'll been busy! At least I got the chapter up!
Cast: -grumbles-
Me: -sighs-
Ichi: I like being included!
Rena: Hai!
Cast: O_O
Me: Ha, have fun with them.
Ikkaku: How come I have a feeling that those two are going to be a pain in the ass.
Ichi and Rena: Cause we are!
Everyone: -anime falls-
Kiyo: And I thought my stupid sister was worst.
Mitsuki: HEY!!!
Kaida: -whacks her head-
Kaida: Shut up!
Rukia: Thanks for the presents everyone!
Orihime: But you can review too for her birthday present from you!
Me: Ja ne!
*~Kira~*