Chapter 5 Taking It Easy
"Ichigo?"...came a voice from Ichigo's arms. "Yeah Senna?" replied Ichigo without looking down at her. "Why are you still carrying me?" Senna said whilst grinning. "Because I GUH?!?" Ichigo stuttered blushing, realizing he doesn't need to carry her now, "Uh-uh...sorry 'bout that." He turned away embarrassed. "Anyway, I'm bored lets go somewhere." Senna smirked. She then grabbed Ichigo's arm and dragged him to the direction of downtown nearby.
Eventually they both arrived at a small cafe, and sat down on an outside table. After a while of ordering coffee, and taking small sips of it because of it's heat, the two of them decided to talk. "So listen, Senna, I think we should be figuring out what exactly is wrong with you." Ichigo broke the silence with. "And just what is that supposed to mean?" Senna assumed while pulling an irritated face. "N-N-N-NOTHING!!" Ichigo started yelling, waving his arms around making a scene. "Uh...heheh sorry" Ichigo apologized to the rest of the people around the cafe.
"Hm..Anyway, that's boring... We should do something fun!!" Senna smiled while pulling the "peace" symbol with her left hand. "Wha?!?" Ichigo questioned while pulling a weird face. "We should be figuring out what's going on for now!!!" "BORIIIINNG!!!" Senna interrupted while swinging on her chair, nearly falling off in the process. "No Senna, this is more important..." Ichigo said seriously. "Bu-bu-but..." Senna began to tear up pulling a chibi face. Ichigo looked at it, and began to blush a little. "O-ok fine, but tomorrow were doing what I want to d-" "GREAT" Senna interrupted while grabbing Ichigo by the collar and pulling him out of the coffee shop. Ichigo resisted long enough to be able to leave some pay on the table before they left. "SENNA SLOW DOWN DAMN IT!!"
Meanwhile, Rukia is seen entering a warehouse of some kind. "Huh?" Rukia stopped only to notice that there was some kind of forcefield covering the warehouse she was trying to enter. Hmm.. "Hadou 31, Shakkahou!!" Rukia attempted a small blast of kidou, however there was no effect... "Grr.." Rukia grunted. "How am I supposed to get in here?..." Hmmm..
Back in town, we find Ichigo and Senna casually walking through a street with a large variety of shops, restaurants, and cafes. The two of them were just looking through the windows of different shops, Senna kept pointing out things she liked, trying to give a hint for Ichigo to buy them for her, when they came across the same shop Senna stole the red ribbon she's wearing now. Ichigo spotted the shop and entered, while Senna, who was planning to continue going down the street, followed Ichigo, surprised at the fact he was entering "this" shop out of any other. "Why're you going in here Ichi-kun?" "SHH..I told you not to call me that!!!" Senna just smirked happily. Ichigo was just looking through all the ribbons on the shelves, only to notice that there weren't any of the same ones that Senna was wearing. Senna meanwhile was outside, petting a small dog that was tied up to the bike parkings by the leash. Ichigo noticed a very expensive looking ribbon on the top shelf, he went up to pick it up, only for it to be snatched from the shelf out of sight. "WHA!?!" Ichigo yelled. He looked over to see who the culprit was who snatched the ribbon...
"Oh Ichigo, fancy meeting you here!!" "R-Rangiku?!" Ichigo questioned with a puzzled look. "Yeah!" Rangiku yelled randomly. "Uh..what, were you doing about to pick this beauty up? It's not healthy for boys to be dressing up like girls you know." "SHUT UP!" Ichigo screamed blushing. "We were..uhh..gonna use this as a makeshift slingshot. Yeah! That..." "Oh yeah that's all well and believable, especially when this is 5000 yen." Rangiku smirkily replied. "What'chya dooing?" Senna said as she glomped Ichigo from behind. "Oh perfect timing Senna" Ichigo said sarcastically, now blushing more. "Oh right yeah.."Slingshot"." Rangiku said using the "Quote on quote" sign with her hands. "Whatever you say strawberry." Ichigo pulled an "I'm so gonna kill you" face, while Senna pulled a more. ":3" face. Rangiku then put the expensive looking ribbon back and walked out of the shop. "I'll see you and your girlfriend around then eh Ichigo?!" "HEY GET BACK HERE!!" Ichigo yelled as he looked around the corner of the shop entrance. "Sigh...". "Hey Senna..." Ichigo said after a while. "Yeah Ichi-kun?". "You can...get off my back now ya know."
The two of them kept walking through town, and eventually the sun went down, to lead them both into a full moon, stuck onto a starry black sheet in the sky. They then both arrived at a familiar place. A place Senna has wanted to go on for a long time now. "Oh Ichigo, can we go on that?" Senna asked hopefully, while pointing at the huge ferris wheel that could be seen not too far away. "Um..s-sure ^^" Ichigo replied. "He surprised himself with his own reaction to her question. He was just thinking to himself that he couldn't possibly say no to her, he didn't know what it was, but something was triggered in him, stopping him from ever going against her now. Next thing he knew it he was in the queue to go on, standing by Senna's side quite closely. Senna then suddenly, possibly out of boredom, or bravery, started to hold Ichigo's hand softly, while pulling herself to eventually hug his arm. Just this one small action forced Ichigo into a deep shade of red, not without a slight smirk.
After about 3 rounds of people going round to watch over the moonlit city, Ichigo and Senna climbed aboard the large ring. Both of them sat waiting for it to reach the top, Senna being quite giddy, and Ichigo watching over the river with a serious look on his face. "Ichigo"..Placing her hand onto Ichigo's. "Huh? Oh..um sorry Senna" Ichigo replied with a smile. "Hey Senna" "Um..yes?" "I've been wondering for a while now, but don't you have any parents to go back to? I mean they must be worried sick." Senna just looked down to her feet while clenching her hands together. "I...I don't wanna go back there..." Ichigo looked slightly worried after hearing this. "W-why?". "My dad beats me". Senna said casually, just to get it out quickly, however she still had a look of despair painted across her face. Ichigo's brown eyes were beginning to reshape and recolor themselves yet again. Trying not to have a sudden outburst again, Ichigo calmed himself down by simply looking at Senna. He didn't quite know how, or why this would work, he thought of it as "instinct". After about a measly 30 seconds, he was back to his normal healthy self again.
Ichigo suddenly after a moment of silence quickly wrapped his arms around her, making Senna look surprised. "Sorry for bringing that up Senna" Ichigo said calmly and softly into Senna's ear. Neither of them cried, the just sat there, watching over the nightlights of the city before them, embracing one another. "Ichigo..." "Yeah Senna?" Senna quickly tucked herself underneath Ichigo's top so that they were both underneath it. "I'm cold" She said while looking up, smirking and blushing at him. Ichigo didn't do anything to try and stop her, but just stared at her for a few seconds while bright red, and then decided just to let this go on, and ended up hugging her tighter, while smirking of course.
Sorry for the looooong wait. ^^; You can expect that a lot with me.
And sorry for not including the Rukia sideplot much at all in this, I wanted this one to be based purely on the couple. Next chapter'll be different. 83
Apart from all that. Enjoy. 83