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Chapter 9:Tipsy bees like to sting
It was a lovely peaceful day in Karakura Town. The sun stood high in the sky, casting its warm rays on town below. Birds were happily singing their beautiful songs and a cool breeze blew through the air. Yugo inhaled excited the fresh air. He had forgotten how wonderful the real world was. He gazed over the town from the high building he was standing on. "I can't believe I'm actually in the real world! There so much I want to do and see! The first chance I get to slip away I'll go visit..."
"Yugo, what are you doing!" Soi Fong's loud voice snapped Yugo back to reality. "We don't have time to enjoy the scenery, we're on a mission!"
"Sorry taichou." Yugo smiled apologizing. Soi Fong had been all fired up since they left Seireitei. She didn't want anyone to notice but she really was excited about coming to the real world and meeting up with Yoruichi.
"You better not space out like that on the mission!" Soi Fong warned him with a stern voice. "I can't have Yoruichi-sama thinking that my subordinates are a bunch of undisciplined oafs. Now, do you remember the rules?"
Yugo nodded sighing. He heard them about a hundred times since they left 2nd division. Soi Fong examined him and crossed her arms. "Good but to make sure I'll repeat them again. First, always address Yoruichi-sama as Yoruichi-sama. Secondly never talk to her unless it's of utmost importance or if she asks you something. In fact, if you have anything to say to her, just come to me and I'll talk to her. Thirdly, no stupid jokes or monkying around on the mission. Is that clear?"
"Yes taichou." Yugo sighed.
"Now, I don't think you would be so stupid but I'll ask to make sure. You didn't bring that dog of yours with you, did you?" Soi Fong asked with a piercing gaze.
"No taichou, I asked Hinamori-fukutaichou to look after him." Yugo replied. Soi Fong nodded satisfied. "Good, now let's be on our way then. The Urahara shop is not far away from here." Without waiting, Soi Fong shunpoed away. Yugo followed her as best as he could, though he had a hard time keeping up with his captain's pace. Luckily for him, they reached the shop quickly. Yugo landed next to his captain, trying to hide that he was tired and out of breath. Soi Fong looked at him with a smile.
"The downsides of the real world Yugo-kun." She said mockingly. "Here you can't use all of your spirit energy so you better get used to it. Off course, if you can't handle it you can always go back to Soul Society..."
"Don't be mean Soi Fong, it doesn't suit you at all." A voice called out. Yugo turned to the voice and saw a dark tanned woman in an orange outfit. Soi Fong turned red and quickly made a bow. "Yoruichi-sama, how nice to see you again."
"So that's what Yoruichi looks like huh? Not bad I suppose..." Yugo held back a laugh when he saw his captain turn red.
"Oh please Soi, don't act so formal, it makes me uncomfortable." Yoruichi moaned. Soi Fong got up,blushing. "I'm sorry Yoruichi-sam- Yoruichi-san."
Yoruichi smiled satisfied and patted Soi on the head. "That's more like it." Soi Fong turned an even deeper red and smiled shyly. Yoruichi then turned to Yugo. "And what is your name young man?"
"I'm Inugami Yugo, Yoruichi-sama." Yugo said solemnly while making a deep bow. Yoruichi shook her head. "Not you too..." she moaned annoyed. "Soi, is every shinigami in your division like that?" Soi Fong grinned sheepishly, something that Yugo never had seen before from his captain.
"Yugo you don't have to act so formal." Soi Fong smiled at him. "I know you want to make a good impression but all those silly formalities aren't necessary."
Yugo's jaw dropped. "But taichou you told me to..." He didn't finish his sentence as he saw Soi Fong's look turn angry, warning him to watch his words.
"At any rate, just call me Yoruichi or Yoruichi-san." Yoruichi winked at Yugo. "And I'll call you Yugo-kun, just like Soi does." Soi Fong once again turned red, now in a shade that Yugo didn't even know that it existed. She gave him an annoyed and angry glare. Yugo knew that he was walking on thin ice now.
"R-really that's too kind of you. I would feel a lot more comfortable if you just called me Yugo..." Yoruichi interrupted him laughing. "Aww you're a shy one aren't you, just like Soi was! Anyway, glad to have you on board Yugo-kun."
Are you all done chatting?" A voice suddenly called out irritated. An orange haired boy came out from the Urahara shop. "I thought we were going to search for the Arrancar?"
"Don't be so hasty Ichigo." Yoruichi replied. "We have to brief Soi and Yugo-kun here first."
"Fine I'll do that then. Arrancar are in town. You find them, I beat them up. Can we go now?"
"What he's trying to say is that we've encountered several strange energy readings in town lately." Yoruichi said while giving Ichigo an annoyed look. "We think that Arrancar or some very strong hollows are behind this. We know that there are at least three different signals but till now we were unable to locate them."
"So three or more targets." Soi Fong replied pondering. "Any idea how strong they are?"
"No but they are stronger than most hollows." Yoruichi sighed. "And they are good at hiding."
"Good, we better get started then." Soi Fong said. "About time..." Ichigo mumbled.
"I suggest that we split up in two groups." Yoruichi started. "Me and Soi will take the west and south side of town while Yugo-kun and Ichigo do the north and east."
"A good plan." Soi smiled, pleased that she was in Yoruichi's team. Ichigo examined Yugo and then turned to Yoruichi. "You sure he can handle this?"
"I'm sure he can." Yoruichi smiled "Otherwise Soi wouldn't have brought him would she?"
"I guess so." Ichigo mumbled. "It doesn't matter anyway. He finds the Arrancar and I'll just kill them."
"Alright let's get a move on." Yoruichi said while dashing off, Soi following close behind her. Ichigo turned to Yugo. "Yugo was it? Here's the deal. You find the bad guys for me and I'll beat them up. Understood?" Yugo nodded sighing. Ichigo smiled satisfied and left. Yugo hurried to follow him, yelling: "Wait! you're going the wrong way, that's the south!"
Soi Fong gazed at the graceful silhouette of Yoruichi as she look around the town from atop of a high building. Then sun made her already hair shine brightly. Soi Fong felt warm inside and her heart throbbed wildly in her chest. Her hands became sweaty and she felt a faint blush burning on her cheeks. Yoruichi truly was a goddess.
"Are you feeling anything unusual?" Yoruichi suddenly asked, turning towards Soi. Soi Fong jumped up in surprise. "E-excuse me?"
"Are you picking up any signals?" Yoruichi asked again frowning. Soi quickly shook her head. "Alright then, let's try somewhere else..." Yoruichi sighed. She was about to leave when Soi fong suddenly grabbed her arm. "Please wait Yoruichi-san." Yoruichi gace a confused look. Soi Fong swallowed and gathered all her courage.
"It's now or never. Today I'll confess my love for her. Come on Soi, you can do this..."
"Y-yoruichi-san, I've know you for a very long time now..." Soi Fong started. Yoruichi looked puzzled but listened. "I-i've always admired you, both as a shinigami and a woman. My dream was always to become like you. I-I wanted to say to you for a long time now... Yoruichi-san I I lo.. I mean I really Li-" Soi Fong sighed and bowed her head. She couldn't say it. In all her dreams and fantasies this moment went as smooth a silk but now that she needed to say it for real she couldn't do it. Yoruichi looked at her pupil. "Soi Are you okay? You've been acting strange ever since you get here."
"Everything is fine Yoruichi-san." Soi tried to smile.
"No, something is bothering you and I think I know what it is." Yoruichi replied.Soi turned pale. "Y-you do?"
Yoruichi nodded with a sly smile. "It's that Yugo boy isn't it? I saw from the start that something seemed weird between you. You have a crush on him don't you?"
Soi Fong went from pale to tomato red. Yoruichi grinned as she saw her pupil's face. "I'm right aren't I? I thought it was strange that you brought some new shinigami on this mission instead of Omaeda. You were thinking to spend some time alone together in the real world huh?"
"That's not true!" Soi cried out. "I-I just brought cause I thought some field experience would..."
"You don't have to make excuses." Yoruichi smiled "I don't mind if you have a lover. You are a healthy woman after all."
Soi Fong lowered her head. How did things turn out like this? She felt like she wanted to cry. Yoruichi patted her on the shoulder. "Come on, let's call it a day and head back to Urahara shop. We can continue tomorrow." Sobbing Soi followed her teacher as she left.
When Yugo and Ichigo reached the shop after their search, Yoruichi and Soi Fong were already outside waiting. Yugo noticed that his captain looked a bit sad and wondered if anything had happened. "Did you find anything?" Yoruichi asked them as they arrived.
"Nothing at all." Ichigo mumbled annoyed. "Well, according to Yugo that is."
"I wasn't lying." Yugo snapped back irritated. "Maybe if you could learn how to sense reiatsu properly you could find them yourself. If you didn't already scare them away with your own large reiatsu before that."
"Calm down boys." Yoruichi tried to soothe them. "Let's take a rest and tomorrow we can try again. Now, Tessai has prepared a room for you Yugo..."
"He stays with Ichigo." Soi suddenly said. Yugo and Yoruichi looked at her in confusion. "What the.. why does he have to stay with me?" Ichigo yelled.
"Because I say so!" Soi replied angry. "It's better to divide our forces so that if anything happens nobody has to face the enemy alone!"
"That's bullshit! I can take care of myself!" Ichigo shouted.
"Too bad cause it's already decided!" Soi turned to Yugo. "Right Yugo?"
"I guess it couldn't hurt..." Yugo smiled nervously. Ichigo made a loud groan. "Fine but if you cause any trouble I'll kill you!"
Yoruichi took Soi aside. "I told you it's fine ,you don't have to hide it you know. I'll tell Tessai to prepare a room just for the two of you." she whispered in Soi's ear. Soi Fong turned red. Yoruichi went inside and called Tessai. Soi's despair reached even greater heights and she bit her lip.
"Something wrong taichou?" Yugo asked worried, seeing that his captain wasn't in a too good mood.
"Everything is just fine." Soi replied. "Get our gigai will you?"
"Okay but why taichou?" Yugo asked.
"Because I really need a drink right now and you're going to buy me one." Soi replied annoyed.
"Actually taichou, I already had other plans and..."
"That's too bad then! I'm your superior and you do as I say, understood?"
"Guess I have no choice..." Yugo sighed. "Oh well, one drink can't take that long..."
Many hours and many, many vodka Martinis later...
Yugo sighed as he walked through the dark streets of Karakura Town while supporting his drunken captain. It was already past midnight.Yugo kicked a can that was lying on the street, annoyed that his little bar crawl with his captain had disturbed his original plans. "It's too late now to go visit her. She's probably already asleep. Beside, I need to get taichou home first."
He looked at his captain. She really was drunk. He wondered if she was still conscious after so much alcohol. Suddenly Soi Fong made some noise. "You okay taichou?" Yugo asked worried.
"No! I'm not... okay! I'm a useless ugly woman." Soi cried, her voice echoing through the empty streets.
"What makes you think that taichou?"
"Today, I was going to confess my love to Yoruichi..." she sobbed. "But I couldn't do it. I just froze in fear."
"Well there's always tomorrow." Yugo tried to cheer her up.
"What does it matter? She doesn't like me anyway. I'm ugly, stupid and fat. who would want me?" Soi wept dramatically.
"That's not true taichou, I'm sure she finds you very pretty."
"Liar." Soi mumbled "You think I'm fat and ugly too huh?"
"That's not true taichou, you are very pretty." Yugo tried to comfort her. "A lot of people would kill to look just like you."
"Really?" Soi escaped from his hold and stood unstable on her feet. "You mean it?"
"Sure taichou, now let's go home. You really shouldn't be out on the streets in your condition." Yugo grabbed her by the arm. Suddenly Soi wrapped her hands around his neck. "You're too kind for your own good Yugo-kun." she said with a drunken smile before pressing her lips against his. Yugo was startled by this sudden kiss but quickly recovered. He tried to push her off but even drunk she was too strong for him. Soi deepened her kiss and to his own surprise, Yugo kissed her back After about what seemed ages to Yugo, Soi Fong released him from her embrace and passed out. Yugo held her, her head resting on his shoulder. He took her in his arms and carried her along the street.
"What was that all about? I know taichou was drunk so she didn't know what she was doing but... why did I kiss her back? I don't love her...do I?"
Yugo sighed as he carried her back to the Urahara shop, still feeling the sweet taste of Soi's lips on his own.
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Next chapter: Regrets... and a hangover.