Ren: Why am I here?
Orihime: This is the omake theater, Ren-san.
Kitora: Really?
Me: Yup.
Kaida: Shouldn't you work more on the chapters than this?
Mitsuki: NO! This is always the funny parts!
Half of the room: Say's you.
Mitsuki: Wah!
Mitsuki: -cries anime tears-
Everyone: -sweat drops-
Me: It would be more funny but I need some sleep...
Me: Zzzzzzzz...
Everyone: ...
Shiha: She fell asleep?!
Ichigo: Must've have been really tired then.
Rukia: Hai.
Matsumoto: -hands Hisagi a note card-
Hisagi: How did I end up here?
Matsumoto: Just read the card!
Hisagi: -sighs-
Hisagi: Says 'The author has been busy with school and had a hard time getting time to type the chapter up. Please don't be mad.'
Hisagi: What?
Hitsugaya: -twitch-
Hitsugaya: Matsumoto, that was YOUR JOB!
Matsumoto: Yeah....later!
Matsumoto: -shunpos away-
Hitsugaya: -pulse vein-
Hitsugaya: MATSUMOTO!!!
Chad: Please enjoy the story.
Uryū: -pulses glasses up-
Uryū: And review.
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-o-o-o- Chapter 9 -o-o-o-
Mt. Fuji, here we come!
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'Thoughts'
"Speaking"
Kaida groaned as she placed her duffle bag down. Stretching her arms a bit, the older sister looked at the clock ticking quietly on the nearby wall. Its little arms moved as it kept circling around. But before the girl could get an accurate read of the time a scuffling noise could be heard from the room behind her. Groaning again, the girl looked back into the bedroom she had stepped out of before holding back the urge to kill someone. She thought of one thing.
'At this rate we'll gonna be late!!!'
And that they were...if they didn't hurry.
"Mitsuki! Hurry up already!" the girl hollered, pulsing a vein at how much crap the girl called out was packing. Everything was going fine until she messed it up. She just had to think that their clean, organized baggage was a garbage can and decided to pour dirty, stinky trash on them. Twelve painful hours were spent cleaning chocolate covered, cotton candy sticky, melted ice cream, and pocky crumbed clothes as quickly as they could before the airport the bus left without them. But with one washer plus dryer and a week's worth of winter clothes for four people was extremely difficult. Especially when you shared an apartment with one like Mitsuki. So there time frame to get to school on time was getting smaller and smaller.
Said candy girl popped up from beside her bright pink bed, which was covered in all sorts of junk, and grinned sheepishly. "I'm almost done! Promise!" Kaida glared. The door across from the two then opened, revealing Kira holding her own duffle bag and a over the shoulder bag. She eyed the scene in front of her; her sister glaring and biting back ordering Mitsuki to hurry the hell up as the other to fit all of her things into her bag. It took her less than thirty seconds before the girl was heading down the hall towards the kitchen.
"You said that an hour ago," the girl clarified, making Mitsuki pout. Kaida on the other hand just got even more pissed off at her. And without a moment's hesitation cracked her knuckles loudly. Girl now being glared at gulped.
"K-Kaida...C-Calm down...please?" the girl asked, backing off slowly. The older sister didn't buy it.
"FINISH PACKING NOW YOU FREAKING IDIOT!!!"
"AH!!!"
Crash!
Bang!
Wham!
Kiyo snorted into his orange juice, having heard everything from where he sat on the kitchen counter. Unlike his female companions, the boy had packed rather quickly once his clothes had been cleaned and still had time to fix himself a nice breakfast. And by packing meant throwing everything back into his bag and lying to Kaida that he had did it correctly. Hey, clothes wasn't his thing. And what Kaida didn't know didn't hurt him.
The older twin raised an arm in greeting as he saw the younger sister walked in, annoyed. Her headache had only gotten slightly better over the past few days, having to deal with the addition of the field trip to Mt. Fuji. The girl didn't seem to care if she wanted to go or not, but then again she didn't really care about a lot of things. But the headache made her pissy to everyone around her, save her sister. Only quiet, peace, and painkillers seemed to make the girl not murder anyone so far. Yet.
Kira nodded back, not wanting to verbally reply since her sister's and friend's yelling would have drown out her voice. So she settled with that before dumping all of her stuff next to Kiyo's ones. Grabbing an orange, the pre-teen peeled the fruit before biting into it. However she spat it back out when she discovered that the fruit was rotten, say a day or two. Scowling at Kiyo's laughing face the girl threw her once bitten orange at the twin's head.
It wasn't her fault the food was rotten; Mitsuki had gone shopping the other day and bought a lot of rotten food home. Some good that was.
"Owie! Kaida!!!"
"Shut up or I'll get the frying pan!"
"NO! I HATE HIM!!!"
"THEN STUFF THE THINGS I ALREADY TOLD YOU A HUNDRED TIMES INTO YOUR BAGS AND LETS GO!!!"
"Ok! Ok!"
The two in the kitchen waited quietly as more noise was produced by the two screaming their lungs out at each other before it died away. They watched as Kaida came storming out of the hallway, practically throwing her bags on top of the other small pile, and then marching into the living room. Not even bothering to sit properly, the oldest one in the apartment jumped onto the couch and laid there, an arm over her face. If you listened closely one could hear the heavy breathing being produced by the older Yumi sister.
Kiyo and Kira, who were still in the kitchen, looked on in confusion. This was unusual for them. No, Mitsuki not following orders was a regular thing; it was Mitsuki. It was the fact that Kaida did not go and actually get the frying pan like she threaten; no matter what she would always get that and proceed to whack the living daylights out of the candy girl. Either she was planning some new form of pain for Mitsuki or she was just too exhausted to deal with all of this.
The older twin set down his now empty cup of orange juice before speaking to the now silent girl. From his experiences never, ever have a silent Kaida after a Mitsuki blowout; she will make his life and anyone else a LIVING HELL. "Yo, Kaida? You alright?" Only silence.
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"That answer your question?" Kira answered rhetorically, not at all fazed by the dark look Kiyo threw at her. All she did was take out another bottle of painkillers and pop another one in. Apparently there was a lot of headaches going on this morning.
"Not helping." the boy growled, annoyed that Kira was still acting pissy. She could at least try saying something useful! But that was totally against her character. And so silence was casted over them all again.
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"Can I bring my can-camera! Yeah! Camera!" Mitsuki's voice echoed throughout the place. The three people she was asking to twitched violently. Was she so DENSE that she didn't know danger when she saw it?! Sadly, yes. It looked like Kiyo was about to yell back at his sister until a much more bigger, more booming voice thundered first.
"NAGASAKI MITSUKI I SEE ANY, AND I MEAN ANY, CANDY IN THAT BAG I SWEAR I WILL CUT YOU UP SO MUCH NO ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZABLE YOU!!!"
Kaida had practically screamed that throughout the town, the most pissed off she had been the whole week. She had sat straight up one second after Mitsuki had made her announcement and had gone into exploding rage at the same time. The girl had just had it with her and killing her seemed to be the best idea ever. Course she wouldn't but it still had the same idea. As long as Mitsuki behaved from the threat and left her ALONE she was good. And it would get rid of her anger.
What she didn't count on was the whole town ACTUALLY hearing her when she had yelled. And all of them had many different reactions to it:
Kiyo, seeing as he was the nearest to Kaida, jumped five feet into the air that his head was just inches away from colliding with the ceiling. When he came back down he laid knocked out and dazed on the floor, trying to get his hearing and other senses back. But his brain was still working at least. And he begged mentally that he was back in America.
The other person in the kitchen instead winced at the sound, having had a higher tolerance for noise from the loud music she listened too. However it still didn't mean she was pleased with it. Curses came flying out her mouth once again, a mix of English, Chinese, and Japanese blending together rapidly. Meanwhile also popping about three more painkillers to calm her now head splitting headache.
Orihime, who was next door, had been making breakfast before she heard the yell. She sadly now had to remake her breakfast now. Why? A rather disgusting pink, wet, spotty pancake batter rested on her head and hair, the liquid leaking down around her and onto the floor.
Hitsugaya, in the nearby room, was threatening Matsumoto to wake up as the latter was trying to stay asleep. The tenth division stumbled a bit from the sudden noise but didn't fall. However Matsumoto decided to fall out of her bed at the exact moment and squish her really pissed off at her taichou.
Renji, who was already heading to school, ran into an old lady at the moment. He was now trying to run away while shouting apologizes over his shoulder at the very angry woman scurrying after him. She was yelling and scolding him at the same time for being so rude despite his apologies.
Tatsuki rolled her eyes when she heard the commotion Kaida was creating. The karate girl was just a few blocks away from school when she heard it. But unlike the others she was able to keep her composure and not crash or bump into anyone.
Ichigo was brushing his teeth when Kaida's voice echoed throughout the town. Five seconds later he was found in an awkward position in the bathtub. Why? He had slipped on the towel he had dropped at the time and slipped backwards and therefore into the tub.
Rukia, who was in Ichigo's room, was trying to stop Ichi and Rena from going at that time. The two bunnies wanted to go on the trip instead of stay in the Kurosaki residence with Kon. But the raven haired girl dropped them from being so startled. It now left Rukia running around the room (quietly) to catch them again. Meaning hopefully not taking as long as twenty-so minutes again.
Keigo, Mizuiro, Chad, and Uryū, who were already at school, just stared towards the sky. All of them wonder if they had heard right or if it was just the lack of sleep. But that was all stopped to sweat dropped when Keigo started crying anime tears when a bird pooped on his head.
Shiha stepped out of her apartment and rolled her eyes as well from Kaida's outrage. She just wondered if her friend Hyper was going to still be alive when she arrived at school. Usually a good chance but with Bossy, aka Kaida, so pissed today it was hard to tell.
Ikkaku laughed at the trouble Mitsuki was going to get in as he and Yumichika approached the school. His beauty loving friend instead thought how rude it was to bleed one's ears such as his with such noise.
The three shinigamis that were staying temporarily in Karakura Town and were currently wandering around town jumped when they heard the unknown voice echo throughout the place. Since the three had just been in town for almost a week they didn't really know who did it. But Kitora did reply with another random quote; Ren looked around for a second before becoming grouchy again from lack of sleep; and Mao spacing out again. Oh, and crashing into a wall.
And Mitsuki? She screamed just as loudly as Kaida had yelled. The candy obsessed girl then began ripping out all of the secret candy she had already packed into her bag and throwing them under her bed instead. Once she finished she then hid under Kaida's bed and began praying that she wouldn't be boiled alive. But wasn't it cut up into little pieces, though? Oh well. A threat's a threat.
Nice way to begin a trip, eh?
Fifteen minutes before the buses leave...
The Karakura Gang, minus Hitsugaya, Orihime, Matsumoto, and Renji, all stood out in the school yard with the rest of their classmates as they waited for the rest. All of them were talking about pointless things, seeing since Tatsuki, Keigo, Shiha, and Mizuiro were with them. They couldn't talk about their mission with them there. So they instead had to deal with talking about what they were going to do at the resort.
Ikkaku stuffed his hands into his pockets and grunted. "What's this 'snowboarding' thing you're talking about?" the regular humans, Quincy, and Ichigo started at him.
"Baldy, it is SNOWBOARDING. You ride a broad down a hill covered in snow while doing tricks. Not that hard to figure out."
PULSE VEIN.
"Who're you calling BALD?!"
"You, BALDY!"
"Why I outta-!" the clearly not 'bald' Ikkaku stormed, only having Ichigo and Chad, surprisingly, hold him back from hitting Shiha with his wooden sword. Threaten girl rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him before starting a conversation with Tatsuki about the dojo they had there. She didn't seem worried or fazed at the fact that a shinigami was ready to kill her.
Ichigo gritted his teeth as Ikkaku trashed around. "Oi, there's no point trying to kill her! She'll just do it again!"
"And you are disgracing yourself as well." Yumichika added, not reacting as his friend shot him a snarl.
"Whose side are you on?!"
"The one where I am up the most beautiful!"
Sweat drops.
At this moment Renji decided to show up, huffing and puffing as he raced through the gates. Big red bruises could be seen all over his body, especially the back of his arms. His friends stared alarmed and oddly at the pineapple head guy as he tried to regain his breath.
"Renji?" Rukia asked, confused and worried over what her childhood best friend had done. "You alright?"
Renji, now no longer panting, picked his head up and directly into Rukia's eyes. "Yeah...maybe."
"What happened?" Ichigo asked, trying to piece together exactly what happened to his rival/friend. But before the tattoo head could reply an old, cranky voice yelled from further down the street.
"Young man! Get back here this instant!" the very same woman Renji had ran into yelled, still scurrying after him as fast as she could. Her fist waved frantically in the air, the tiny wrinkled thing moving back and forth. Beady, squinty eyes surveyed everything that came in her sight. People, animals, buildings, cars, trash. You name it. All while shouting at the boy that had run into her. Man, this was woman was dead set against leaving Renji alone.
Yelled at boy paled a moment as his friends all expressed comical faces. The sixth division fukutaichou that stood up to his taichou, achieved bankai in a few days, and save Rukia from execution was running away from some small, cranky, old woman?! This was so blackmail!
"Give me a break!" Renji groaned, really not wanting to do this anymore. Wasn't almost twenty blocks of chasing and following him enough?! He already said he was sorry about a thousand times. What did he have to do?! Kiss her?!
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EWW!!! GROSS!!!
Ichigo bent over laughing as Renji hid behind a tree, hiding from the old woman as she finally passed the school. Ikkaku, Shiha, Tatsuki, and a few others joined in the laughter as well. It was just so funny that she was so determined and Renji so scared. This would probably never happen again! Unless it had something to do with Mitsuki.
The boy hiding behind the tree scowled at his so called friends while remaining hidden. Yes he ran into some old person, but that didn't mean they could make fun of him! It was that damn woman's fault AND Kaida's fault that he was in this mess. If it wasn't for the older sister's yelling he would had never run into that woman and she wouldn't be chasing him right now. He now had to kill Kaida and Mitsuki when they appeared.
The old woman continued past the school without detecting Renji, her voice however still screeching. "And in my days boys who into others, specially their elders, who always-" she continued, finally turning the corner towards the main road. It sent more people into laughter, meaning the whole entire school pretty much. Renji pulsed a huge vein, getting more pissed off than ever. Way to start a morning.
Shiha wiped her eye, having almost cried from laughing so hard. "Got to say, Pineapple-head, that has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever seen!"
PULSE VEIN.
"SHUT UP!!!"
Uryū shook his head disapprovingly at him. "Running into elderly people? How low even for you."
TWTICH.
"FOR THE LAST TIME IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!!!"
"What was an accident, huh?" Mitsuki asked, her head appearing upside down from the three Renji was hiding behind. She was licking another lollipop at the same time she spooked him and her friends.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
CRASH!
THUD!
Mitsuki peered at the fallen people around her, confused. "Why'd you all go thud?"
"I believe it was from you just appearing in a tree, Hyper." Shiha deadpanned, the only one out of a few who did not drop dead at her sudden appearance. After spending so much time with her best friend always popping up everywhere unknowingly, the purple headed girl finally got to accept it as nothing. The others...not so much.
Ichigo jumped up and quickly pointed a finger angrily at Mitsuki, pulsing a vein. "When the hell did you get here?!" the pointed at girl, who was still hanging upside down, thought about it, a hand placed under her chin.
"Um...five seconds ago?"
Anime falls.
"Already?! We just fricking got here!" Kiyo yelled, revealing he, the rest of the American Gang, and the missing others of the Karakura Group was at the gate. All of them seemed either really ticked, annoyed, pissed, happy, or Orihime like.
Kaida groaned, dropping her stuff on the ground. Spotting a nearby stone, the older girl picked it up. Bouncing the pebble up and down in her hand, the girl glanced at the girl still hanging upside down in the tree and back at her hand. She did this a few more times.
"Get the fuck out of the tree!" Kaida shouted, throwing the pebble at the same time. And so it flew towards Mitsuki.
WHACK!
Mitsuki lost her hold on the tree and began falling. "Gah! SCARY!!!"
CRASH!
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"Renji? You getting up anytime soon?" Matsumoto asked, pretending to worry about the red head. He was the unfortunate one to act as a cushion when Mitsuki had fallen out of the tree. And right now he laid squished between her and the ground. So it must have been very, very, very painful.
The asked boy grunted, seeing as he had swirls currently circling around his eyes. The girl on top of him laid/sat on him in similar fashion. Others that currently knew him were now laughing their ass off, depending on the person of course, at the guy's misfortune.
Ikkaku shouted heartily at Renji. "Hahaha! Nice catch!"
PULSE VEIN.
"Shut up!" Renji stormed, repeating the words again. Then he turned towards the girl still on top of him. "And get the hell off me!" Mitsuki pouted at him before jumping away quickly up when Renji's face continued getting tick marks.
"Alright! Alright!" the candy girl yelled, walking a few steps away so the sixth division fukutaichou could stand. Once she was a safe distance away she pouted. "Party pooper."
Dot. Dot. Dot.
"I think the orange juice she drank this morning made her even more stupid today." Kira deadpanned, watching as the mentioned girl now ran around the area with Renji after he. But it soon changed to Ichigo, Kiyo, and Ikkaku chasing her around since she ran into them. Some accidentally, others on purpose for no reason what so ever.
Orihime looked at the girl, confused. "Orange juice?" Kira nodded.
"She spiked it with sugar. And vinegar."
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"Don't ask." Kaida grumbled, not wanting to deal with this anymore. The group complied, not really wanting to know what the hell convinced the 'monster' to add sugar and vinegar to perfectly good orange juice. One sweet and the other sour. Weirdest. Combo. Ever.
"What took you guys so long, anyways?" Tatsuki asked changing the subject. Course Keigo tried by tackling Matsumoto but was whacked backgrounds by her fist. But before anyone could answer her or yell at the drama king to shut up Mitsuki raised her arm and began waving it around frantically. All the while still running from the four guys behind her.
"Me! Me! Call on me!!!" the girl cried, wanting to answer desperately. Everyone else sweat dropped.
"Um...ok." Tatsuki said after a three second pause. the candy girl cheered before suddenly making a u-turn just when she was about to run into another classmate. However the guys behind her weren't as lucky.
"Oh crap!!!"
"FUCKING BA-!!!"
"MOVE!!!"
"MITSUKI!!!"
CRASH!
CLANG!
THUD!
BANG!
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Everyone stared with tiny dots in their eyes as they watched the crash. There was really no way that girl could actually be in high school acting like that and yet here she was. And not in jail either. That was really the stupidest thing ever; they should have made a jail just for her and keep her there!
"Is that girl even sane?" Hitsugaya twitched, getting more annoyed with all their childish behavior. If it wasn't for the fact that Mt. Fuji was the destination of their mission he wouldn't have dared come on this trip. One cause it was stupid and the other because of the new students. Karakura Town was full of freaks.
"I question that every day." Kiyo muttered, groaning as well. The others nodded in agreement. Girl being talked about jumped around before into another tree again, hugging it as tight as possible. She then yelled out her answer to Tatsuki's earlier question.
"It was me! I did it!"
Dot. Dot. Dot.
No. Surprise. There.
Shiha stared at Mitsuki with an odd eye. "I think she overdoes it sometimes." Many, many, many people rolled their eyes at her.
"YOU THINK?!"
Sweat drops.
The group then....or actually not really anyone...went to help the four boys that were back into the living world of the living after leaving la-la land. All now possessed the urge to strangle and murder Mitsuki; the same feeling Kaida had earlier. If it wasn't for the fact that she was practically glued to the tree they would had. So they now had to tear her off the tear and proceed to beating her up. Too bad they were at school.
Kaida once again groaned while trying really hard not to join in on the 'Try to Kill Mitsuki' fest. Unlike the boys, however, she had more self control whenever they were at school. Well, most of the time and depending on the situation.
Orihime looked worriedly at her friend in the tree as the others began shaking the tree violently to get the girl out. "Shouldn't we help her?" Matsumoto laughed and patted the girl's shoulder.
"Don't worry! They won't really hurt her!" the tenth division fukutaichou smiled. The orange haired girl wasn't too sure.
Uryū sighed at the guys' behavior. "How ungentlemanly-like." Chad nodded his head in silent agreement.
Rukia shook her head at her two friends. "Ichigo...Renji...such bakas..." it was an embarrassment to be seen with them now after doing all of this. Which was true.
The others continued watching this go on for another minute before Mitsuki decided to fall out of the tree and onto the four boys. It wasn't something that most of them hadn't expected; Mitsuki was prone to falling on people often, whether in a tree or anything else. Problem was figuring out when she would do that.
"Yay!" the girl cheered, jumping up and down. She didn't seemed to have any clue that she just squashed three of her friends and brother. In fact, she seemed HAPPY that she did that.
"I stuck my landing!!!"
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"Can we go yet?"
The time for the buses to leave finally arrived, making many students relieved. That was because everyone had the chance to NOT be on the bus with Mitsuki for the trip towards the airport and could therefore relax. But there was of course that feat she would be and make their lives a worse living hell. Those that got her wondered why their lives had to be tortured by that 'demon' girl.
Orihime shifted uncomfortably in her seat, having been squished next to Mitsuki AND Matsumoto. Though she loved her friends, three to a seat was a bit much. Especially when one of them couldn't stop bouncing in their seat.
Ikkaku snored loudly, his head rested against the window. The eleventh division shinigami had gotten bored of the fact that the buses were stuck in traffic and decided to sleep. His seat buddy wasn't so much as a tiny bit happy. Kiyo was trying hard not to gag the man for he did like loud noises, having had dealt enough of that from his sister. All he wanted was a way to relax before they got to the resort and deal with Mitsuki again. Fat chance of that happening.
Shiha sat next to Kira, annoying the latter to a great deal. The Norwegian girl wanted to get the younger girl to loosen up and relax. But all her attempts were in vain with Kira ignoring them all. The most she got out of the girl, apart from pulsing many veins, was her threatening to kill her slow and painfully. Wow...creepy.
Renji and Kaida chatted civilly for once, seeing as they had ended up sitting next to each other. The two talked about a whole bunch of things that ranged from the sports Renji knew nothing about to how interesting the trip was going to be. Ichigo and Rukia, who were in the seat in front of them, added their own comments now and then as well.
Tatsuki was probably the most pissed one on the bus. She had to sit next to Chizuru, the person she would never interact act if she could. Now she was yelling, punching, grabbling, etc. to keep the girl next to her from grabbing the other girls in the seats next to them. Especially when she tried to grab Orihime, Tatsuki went berserk. So far it was almost a hundred punches and counting in the last hour.
Chad and Uryū sat silently as they watched Keigo and Mizuiro in the seat across from them. They were doing saying small comments and sweat dropping while watching their two classmates argue/cry again. And it was of course about being popular with the ladies and what not.
Finally there was Hitsugaya and Yumichika, who somehow ended up sitting next to each other. Hitsugaya was not enjoying the trip at all. The narcissus-like shinigami had decided to blabber on and on out about the dangers of the mountain temperatures again. And the more time passed the more the tenth division taichou wanted to freeze the guy next to him. This was all supposed to be simple . How the heck did all of this happened to him and why.
And during the extra hour it took to arrive at the airport plus the other six to get to land at the town nearest Mt. Fuji this continued.
At the resort...
"Wow!" Orihime gasped, steeping off the bus into an inch deep of snow. After the last hour on the bus from the airport to here she was finally here at Mt. Fuji with all of her friends. She looked upwards and saw how the sun was being to set, reds, yellows, pinks, purples, and oranges blending in the blue sky. Small snowflakes fell towards the ground and melted on touch. A true winter resort.
Matsumoto smiled as she followed, taking in everything around her. Huge, log buildings and cottages laid scattered across the area. Concrete buildings hung in the back, signs telling them that they were the dojo and gym .Lifts were stationed at the base of the towering mountain, offering snowboarders and skiers alike a trip up towards the slopes. Restaurants, shops, and lounges were also among the resort. There was even a lake and spa further away as well.
Mitsuki ran around in circles, jumping and cheering. "We're here! We're here!" her brother rolled his eyes at her before crouching down. Scooping up a pile of snow, the boy patted it quickly into a round ball before chuckling it at his younger twin.
"Shut up! Eat some snow or something!" Kiyo yelled, watching as his snowball came in contact with the back of Mitsuki's head. The girl hit fell forward and into the snow.
"No throwing snow." a random teacher scolded, walking past nearby. Boy scolded blushed in embarrassment while the others laughed.
Kira shifted her bags around. "Can we go already?" she asked. The younger girl didn't seemed to mind the snow or cold that much but looked as if she wanted to sleep. Her headache was gone but it left her feeling tired as a result.
Renji shrugged, answering her question. "Don't know. We have to wait for Ichigo to come back with the keys."
"Keys?" Shiha asked, having just rejoined the group. She had gotten separated from the group during the bus ride here and had now just found them. Turns out her, the Karakura Gang, Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro, and the American Group were sharing a cottage together during their trip. Now she just needed to know what was going on.
"The keys to the cottage." Rukia explained. "Since we're are all living in the same one for the week we need to get a key for each of us." the purpled headed girl nodded, understanding.
Kaida then pulled Kiyo and Mitsuki apart at this point from tearing each other apart and added another thing. "We're also supposed to be assigned a student advisor or teacher while we're here. They're supposed to make sure we don't get in trouble while we stay here too." Ikkaku decided to butt in now and grunt.
"Yeah? So what? What the hell is taking Ichigo so long anyway?"
"Probably got into another fight or something." Tatsuki replied. "He's prone to doing that." Keigo crossed his arms.
"So what? He needs to hurry up so I can head to the hot spr-WHOA!" the drama king began to say until he gasped and dropped his mouth wide open. Everyone else that was there looked at him confused before turning in the direction Keigo was staring at. And many people were shocked.
Ichigo was walking back to his friends, one hand stuffed into his pockets and the other holding the multiple set of keys for them. He didn't seem to notice the stares the group was giving since he was looking a bit uncomfortable. Why wouldn't he? There was a girl walking right next to him.
That said girl was what really shocked them. Why? She had bright orange hair that was cut short so that it was past her shoulders with a teal ribbon bounding the hair into a small pigtail. Two chrysanthemum pins were on the side of head as well, holding her bangs away from her face. Brown caramel eyes contrasted to the bright orange hair she had. Her clothing consisted of a pair of sneakers, jeans, a red t-shirt, and a black thick jacket since it was so cold out. She word an expressionless face as she approached, her arms across her back.
The group continued staring until Ichigo and the mysterious girl finally reached them. The whole group remained silent for awhile as they waited for this to sink in. Ichigo in the meanwhile scratched his head, not really sure how to do this. Keigo, however, did.
"YUMIKO-CHAN!!!" the boy yelled, leaping towards the girl. Specially, the area where she had a larger bust than Orihime, amazingly. "YOU'RE BACK!!!"
WHACK!
Everyone watched as the girl, named Yumiko, smashed Keigo into the ground before he came even close to her. Her eyebrow twitched as she held Keigo's head with her foot. Ichigo was doing the same.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" the boy yelled, irked. Keigo muffled something inaudible back. But you could hear the anime tears and partial whines coming out from his mouth.
"That's what I remember hating him for." Yumiko said bluntly, still twitching. The rest of the group gaped. Wow...very violent for Keigo trying to...you know...
"Who the hell are you?!" Kiyo said, looking at the girl. He then hissed and grunted in pain when Kaida elbowed him in the stomach for being mean. Yumiko looked at the four American students and Shiha, confused as well.
"And who are you?" she snapped back, crossing her arms. Before anyone could snap, yell, shout, or shriek anything back Ichigo spoke first.
"Err...guys...this is my sister, Yumiko." the shinigami representative said, startling most of the group. Meaning everyone but the original Karakura Gang and friends. The others were shocked, none the less. A SISTER?
Mitsuki's mouth was dropped open the widest out of everyone. "YOU HAVE A SISTER?! A TWIN SISTER?!" Mitsuki screamed, pointing between the two Kurosaki's rapidly. They wondered how she could determined they were twins when nether said anything about that. Must be because she was a twin herself. She only stopped when Kira kicked her into the snow.
Ichigo once again scratched the back of his head nervously. "Yeah...she's a student adviser as well..."
"Great..." Renji muttered, not pleased at all. He had meant the twin sister when she had come along with Ichigo to rescue Rukia with the others. But they didn't really meet until after the Aizen ordeal. And that was only for a while before she disappeared to do some secret training or something. Something about wanting to improve her skills in the Soul Society instead of the World of the Living. That was the last he heard or saw from here. Until now.
Yumiko shot a short glare at the pineapple head before pointing towards the other five. "You guys my brother told me about?"
"If it includes a hyper-active energizer bunny girl, cooking maniac girl, the hyperactive sister's twin annoyance, the thirteen year old freak, and a purple headed insane girl, then yes they are." a random student walking past who overheard answered. They were then sent sprinting down the road with four murderous teens after them. The only preteen of the group was pulsing a vein and twitching dangerously instead. The rest deadpanned and sweat dropped as the listened to the person scream bloody murder for five minutes.
"I'll take that as a yes."
Karakura Town...
Meanwhile back in the town the groups were from, three temporarily stationed shinigami were off exploring the place. So far they had already taken down two Hollows without much damage and before any Humans came. Seeing that they were done for the time being they decided to hit the mall.
All of them, after an hour wandering the mall and using gigais, settled upon looking through the pet store, seeing as that was the only place the three girls had something in common. Each of them were watching or playing with one animal or another. Expect Kitora who was petting four different kitties at once. Don't ask how.
"Woof! Woof!" a small black and white border collie barked, its little tail wagging as it looked up at Mao. The puppy wanted to be loved and scratched by the girl right now. However looked at girl glared down at the small bundle of fur.
"Go. Away." she growled, not at all pleased. She was more a cat person, not a dog. The puppy whined at her but cowered away when the usually spacing out girl glared even colder at it. Backing away, the girl's dark look sent the dog fleeing as quickly as it could towards its mother. Ren shot Mao a dirty look.
"Nice going. Scar a puppy for life would' ya." Ren said, not at all pleased with Mao's attitude. It happened every time she was around something she didn't like or detested the most. Dogs was one of them.
"I don't like dogs." Mao explained, not wanting to deal with it. She then forgot all about it as she turned her attention towards the tabby padding in front of her. "Here, kitty, kitty!"
Sweat drops.
Kitora looked up from cuddling her four kittens and over at Ren. "It all seemed to make sense."
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"I hate your way of speaking and her empty mind." Ren complained, her happy mood dampening. The other person that was assigned here as well wasn't even supposed to make contact with them unless they needed help since she had her own mission. So much for a team. It was more of a dysfunctional group of sisters. If you could even call it that. At least there wasn't any trouble or major problems.
But that didn't mean that it was going stay like that for them as long as they were there...
The fourth member of the team watched from the cafe across the mall, observing her teammates. She watched as Mao chased off the puppy and get scolded by Ren. She remained when Kitora curled up with the cats to take a nap and Ren yelling at all of them to knock it off so she could go get a drink. She watched them the whole time, never telling them that she was their fourth member.
Time passed in the mall, the three shinigami just staying in the store and relaxing with the animals. She thought about how it would've been nice to chat with them and get to know them better but she had her own mission to deal with. But it was postponed for now thanks to a setback. But it wasn't a big deal for now.
All she did was sit in that cafe and watch them the whole time. She ate some chocolate cookies and drank some tea but never left her spot. Not even the three girls had to bolt out of the store to deal with another Hollow attack. She just sat there, watching their retreating figures. When they were completely gone from her site did she get up and pay the bill before leaving. However, she instead went the opposite way where Kitora, Ren, and Mao went to fight the Hollow. She instead went towards the exit heading towards the park.
And as she walked, a smile spread across her face.
Mt. Fuji Resort...
The Karakura and American Gang walked down the snow covered path, heading towards their cottage. It was getting late and they needed to get settled down for the week. Most of the latter gang had gone ahead, seeing as Mitsuki was dragging Shiha most of the way. Her brother and Kaida ran after them, yelling and cursing the girl to stop the whole way. The younger sister instead walked with Tatsuki, Keigo, and Mizuiro in tow. So it left the Karakura shinigami and human gang behind, as well as Ichigo's sister.
Orihime walked next to Yumiko as they traveled. "When did you get back, Yumiko-chan?"
"About a day or two ago." the sister replied. "I am actually just here to help you guys up here for the mission."
"So you're not heading back home?" Ichigo asked, surprised at his sister's statement. Usually she was so overprotective of Yuzu, Karin, and him that she barely left them. "Yuzu's been asking when you would get back."
Yumiko remained silence, thinking over the words her brother had just spoke. She had not talked with the younger sisters in awhile, seeing as she was away training to be able to protect them. The last she was home was before she left to train, telling them that she was going on a trip. Did they still believe that? She knew Karin was always one to not accept everything at face value.
"Maybe," Yumiko finally spoke after a few seconds of silence. "If all goes well here I should be able to head home." the group remained silent after that. It seemed as Yumiko really needed to think about this. They also didn't want to discuss the chances of their mission going bad. No need to jinx it.
"Do you know what is going on here, exactly?" Matsumoto asked, breaking the silence again after a bit. They were now just a couple of yards away from the cottage. The strawberry's sister shook her head.
"No. I just got here a few hours ago. And I haven't been able to get away at all." the girl sighed. "All I know for sure is that there have been some problems here that the school was just alerted of today."
"Problems?"
Yumiko nodded. "Yes. Of course. I just said that, didn't I?" the group mentally rolled their eyes. She was returning to her regular self now.
"The problems?" Rukia pressed.
"Right. There have been reports of odd attacks going around at night. Like large holes appearing in the buildings out of nowhere, trees being smashed down for no apparent reason, odd tracks in the woods, people getting knocked off their broads, etc. Unusual stuff."
"Are they by Hollows?" Hitsugaya asked. The girl shrugged.
"Like I said, I don't know. Maybe. I haven't checked the claims yet. Some of the people who gave them were whackos."
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Yup. Yumiko was definitely showing her true personality.
"So we have to protect everyone else while solving the shinigami problem?" Renji asked rhetorically. The girl gave him a pointed look.
"Isn't that what a shinigami is, huh?"
Twitch.
The group continued with the course of action as they got closer and closer to their new living quarters. Any other discussion that was left disappeared once they finally reached the three story wooden cottage. During those few minutes they were able to figure out patrols and methods to fix the problem as fast as possible. Unlike all of their other missions this one was high-leveled and had a time limit. They had only a week before the trip was over.
Mitsuki's head popped out of the door when all of the American Gang reached the front door. A large grin was plastered onto her face, as usual. A clipboard was in her arms as well.
"Hurry up, guys! Unpack and get ready for bed so we can have a fun, bright and early day tomorrow!" the girl exclaimed, bouncing around. She pointed towards the area where the kitchen was behind her. "Kaida's making dinner now." She turned back to the group. "And I got all the room assignments! Rukia, Matsumoto, Orihime, and Yumiko are in one room. Ichigo, Renji..." the group groaned at his point. They forgot one important detail in their plan.
They were staying with people that had no idea what a Hollow or Shinigami was at all.
Unknown to the group a figure stood on top of one of the ledges nearby, peering down at the group. Who the figure was remained completely obscured by the shadows the woods casted over them. Only their arms being crossed could be seen.
They remained silent as they watched the group follow Mitsuki into the cottage, the door snapping shut behind them. No moment was made even after there was no one else nearby. All they did was stand there and stare at the cottage.
Suddenly a sharp ringing sound echoed throughout the air, shattering the silence. Uncrossing their arms, the figure dug through a pocket and pulled out a red cell phone. Opening it, they held it to their ear and listened.
"They're here?" a voice asked through the phone. The one watching the group nodded.
"Yes." they replied, female. The one on the line sighed before issuing one last thing to the mysterious figure and clicking the line shut.
"Looks like it's time to start."
An Unknown Place....
A lone figure laid on a bed in a dark room, eyes pointed towards the ceiling. The lack of light hid their clothing and much of their face, but parts of their head could still be seen. They had fairly tan skin that contrasted to their hair. Pure black hair with white bangs swept over their left eye. The right remained hidden in the shadows.
The figure just laid there, staring straight up at the ceiling above them, not moving. It wasn't for the faint signs of them breathing one could have thought they were dead. But all they were doing was nothing. Nothing.
Suddenly footsteps could be heard outside the room, coming closer towards the room. The figure in the room finally made some movement, sitting up so that the light hit only their back. But they didn't do anymore than that.
The footsteps finally stopped, having ended right outside the door. It remained completely silent once again that one could have heard a pin dropped. Then the sound of a handle being turned began, the door widening along with it.
The door opened just enough so that the one outside could see the figure sitting on the bed, making it about halfway open. Both of them looked at each other but said nothing. Still the small amount of light available could not clear the shadows and show who they were.
None spoke. All they did was stare at each other. Only when a minute seem to pass did the one on the bed speak.
"What is it?" they asked, voice male. The one at the door looked at them squarely.
"I heard you were bored." the other answered, male as well. The one on the bed snorted before leaning backwards.
"I am." he replied. "There's nothing to do."
"Then do something." the other answered.. The first sighed.
"I wish."
The second remained silent after that, not replying straight away. But then he spoke. "They're gone." the first seemed to be interested now.
"Oh?"
"Yes." the first male now stood up, feet planted on the floor. Turning away from the barren landscape outside the small window, a menacing grin could be seen on their face.
"Then let's go have some fun, huh?"
Me: That's the end!
Kaida: Took a long time for you to type it.
Me: Shut up! I'm tired right now. It's almost one in the morning here so stop complaining.
Renji: What with all the mysterious figures that keep appearing? You have like six of them in this chapter.
Ichi: She wanted them in to make the chapter mysterious!
Rena: Right?
Me: Yes. And to start adding in the remaining characters people submitted.
Ichigo: So what's next?
Me: Some funny things, a bit of romance maybe, and a lot of action.
Kiyo: Sounds good.
Mitsuki: -appears with a frying pan-
Mitsuki: Yup!
Everyone: -stare at the frying pan-
Shiha: What's up with that?
Shiha: -points to frying pan-
Mitsuki: -grins-
Mitsuki: Me hitting everyone with it!
Everyone: -pales-
Everyone: RUN!!!
Mitsuki: HEY!!!
Mitsuki: -chases after everyone with the frying pan-
Producer: -sigh-
Producer: I hope we still have actors for the next chapter.
Audience: Ja ne, and goodnight!
Kira: The author needs sleep and reviews will be nice.
Rukia: Hai! And the next chapter might come out sooner!
*~Kira~*