"Didn't you say that we're not getting something my budget couldn't handle?"
The white-haired male's lips twitched, his eyes narrowing slightly as he was hauled towards one of the most famous (and by famous, we mean big-time-money-spending) restaurants in the city. And she had to pick the table with the freaking "ambience." What the hell does one big painting make a difference in the ambience of the room?!
"While I said I'm not going to charge, I didn't say it's going to be cheap either," Rukia smugly grinned across from him, looking over the menu as a way to avoid Toushiro's flaming eyes. "Besides, you're forgetting that I am a Kuchiki. You can't take me out for less."
"You eat in the burger joint across the campus," he pointed out, the greasy burger joint was a favorite of the raven head, and it sure as hell was a damn-fatty-fast-food that she couldn't care less eating out to every single day. So why the hell did she dragged him here, knowing that he's penniless?
"It's my higher taste calling. Now, I'll get a phad thai, coconut juice and some tom yum with shrimp." She finished, slapping the menu back and crossing her arms over the table, making sure that the prices were over the top. "What are you getting?"
"Panang, and water." He deadpanned. Judging by her personality and evilness, she would no doubt ordered something covering more than half of their bill.
"What the hell is panang?" her brows furrowed.
"It's green curry. Can't you read?" he rolled her eyes at her.
"Oh no, oh-mighty-Hitsugaya-san, my feeble language skills couldn't possibly comprehend your superior accuracy towards foreign languages," she gesticulated mockingly with her hands, "Is it so hard to say green curry?"
Toushiro grinned back at her, "Is it so hard to read?"
"You ass." She glared at him, "This is seriously why Momo-chan was turned off from you."
"Do you always have to childishly revert to that topic when you can't handle the truth?" the white-haired male challenged.
"Yes and no. Then again, you yourself couldn't handle the truth." The raven head shot back, as their orders were taken and the waiter told them to that it will be brought to them soon.
Toushiro scoffed. He didn't understand what she was trying to say. And why the hell would Momo not like him? They had been friends for a long time, he knew so much about her, and she in vice versa. What exactly went wrong?
"The truth is, even though you've been best friends, doesn't mean it's certain to the road of love." Rukia explained, baffling the younger man at the exact thoughts and answer to his question, albeit a little creepy and corny.
"Please don't say that phrase again," he gave her a disgusted look, putting his head down and banging them on the table.
"What? The "road to love?" Oh come on, I think it's pretty cute." Her eyes tinted in amusement, "Can't anyone say: puppy love?"
"Shut." Bang.
"Or, I'm in love with my best friend—"
"The." Bang.
"Then again you could also be portrayed as the third wheel…"
"Fuck." Bang.
"Oh hey, speak of the devil-!"
"Up." …
Before slamming his head on the table for the fourth time, the emerald-eyed male stopped mid-way, eyes widening as he shot his head up so fast he swore he heard a pop of his neck.
"What?"
"Look, its Momo-chan and Sosuke-sensei," she pointed discreetly towards the couple towards the entrance.
"Shit," Toushiro cursed loud enough for Rukia to hear as he ducked, conspicuously hiding his 'red-light-I'm-here-white-hair' out, pulling his hood and zipping his jacket all the way up. What the hell were they doing here?! On the same restaurant no less!
"Let's call them—"
"Hell no!" Toushiro hissed angrily, glaring so hard at the obviously pleased raven head. Was she insane?! Didn't she understand that that was the least thing he wanted right now!
"Oh come on, I worked so hard on finding out that they're going to eat here—'
"You knew they were going to eat here?!"
"-Oops."
And she had the gall to look sheepish.
"Ch-how!? What the hell did you do-?!"
"Hey, for your information, I have to go through some serious, embarrassing stalking mode to get this tidbit info—" she huffed indignantly.
"What the fuck were you thinking!?" he was only saved by the harsh whispers of his voice, less they want them caught—and by Hinamori and asshole-sensei!
"Well, I was thinking—"
Murder was written clearly in his eyes.
"—that I wanted to see how you work your mojo around Hinamori.."
She did not just said "mojo" around him. He was already seeing red.
"I am so going to kill y—"
"Lighten up, little on. This way I would at least have an idea how you try to serenade her, and we'll try to go from there."
"That doesn't fucking—"
"Look! Watermelons!!"
"Wha-where!—Wait!"
"Momo-chan!!" She stood up gaily, waving her hands to and fro.
-Oh no she didn't—!
"Sosuke-sensei!!"
She was (so) lucky they had no fork and spoons yet…for he was going to really stab her for doing this. How the hell could she distract him by doing such a childish trick? Better yet, how did she know his favorite fruit was watermelon?
He could feel the ominous weight, the beating of his heart had now miraculously began to beat in fury, with a mixture of nervousness (for Hinamori) and anger (for the evil-bitch, and their dick-of-a-teacher).
The soft, faint call of "Kuchiki-san!" could be heard as they drew closer to their vicinity, with Hinamori running, and Sosuke-sensei walking casually.
Across from him, Rukia whistled, "I don't blame Momo-chan. Whitey, if you're going up against him, then you have to pull of a better Prada-suit look with those glasses and smoothed-down gelled hair." She turned towards the white-haired male, "You better make this a good impression, boy-genius."
He gave her a depreciating look, "If this goes down, I'm going to kill you."
She, in return, grinned carelessly at him. "Don't worry, I'll be right behind you on this."
Hinamori came to them out of breath, as she beamed brightly at the two individuals with their own ready smiles (well, Rukia with her top-of-the-notch acting face in present and Toushiro with a forced friendly smile, it bordered scary).
"I-it's so good to see you Kuchiki-san," the ony-eyed girl panted, but quickly composed herself, "And—Shiro-chan!? It's great to see you! I haven't seen you for at least a week!" the girl gave Hitsugaya a heart-stopping smile, as the latter couldn't help but blush and cough in embarrassment.
Rukia's brows twitched, 'Speak, idiot! What the hell are you doing?'
She stomped on his toes under the table, jerking the younger man out of his stupor, emerald eyes fiercely connecting with the ever ready smile (yet twitching) of the raven head. Her violet eyes narrowing, and her head slightly inclining for him to say something.
"Ah, hnn—It's good to see you to, Hinamori." He clenched his fist.
"So what brings you here Momo-chan?" Rukia kept the ball rolling as her voice reached an impossibly high pitch, her whole countenance sparkling and glowing with the whole act in place.
"O-oh," the brown-haired girl bit her lip in embarrassment, a blush rising to her cheeks. "We-I—er, I was—"
"We were just about to dine, Kuchiki," the smooth baritone of his voice filled the air, as out stepped in their English Lit. professor, with his own fixed smile. He then recognized the white-haired male who was almost shaking in rage at the interruption. "Good evening to you too, Hitsugaya-kun."
"Oh my!" he swore he was going to be deaf if Rukia kept this up, but she was faring well with looking so damn fake but believable as she gasped, batting her lashes and—is that blushing?!-at the entrance of Sosuke-sensei. "Sensei, I didn't know you were here too!"
"Yes, Hinamori-san here had some pressing questions to ask me pertaining our latest Shakespearean novels," he explained, eyes full of gentleness, fooling everyone except Rukia.
'Hinamori. Huh? Bet you call her Momo while you're alone. Che, explaining Shakespearean novel my ass. Are you acting out Romeo's part too, eh? And mind answering why take her out to dinner for "academic" matters?' While most teachers always thought at first meeting that Kuchiki Rukia was only a clumsy, brainless, rich brat—that was because she was faking it. She didn't want attention that she was quite the heavy thinker, and besides even though she's rich didn't mean she got to Seiretei without using her brain. The raven head didn't particualrly like Sosuke-sensei since he always gave her essay reports a C or a D. All she said was that Macbeth was an incestuous, power-hungry bastard in her first introduction in her ten page paper, she bet he didn't read them all. She even worked so hard perfecting her drawing and illustrating her point, it had shades and color-she used Sharpie for god's sake--SHARPIE!!
Besides that, Aizen's 'I'm-explaining-to-a-child' excuse didn't deceive her one bit.
'I'm the one controlling this game, asshole. Don't give me that sickly sweet smile of yours…even though you're quite hot, doesn't mean I can't see through your rotten personality.' Her thoughts did not betray anything in her face as Rukia kept up the 'I'm-so-happy-and-nervous-in-love-seeing-Sosuke-sensei-up-close-omg-I-wanna-ravish-him' look.
"Oh, is that so?" her eyes briefly looked over her white-haired male companion, seeing his rather silent reaction. 'Dammit, now's not the time to act depressed and plan where you're going to bury this guy, you stupid dummy…!'
Rukia sent him a hard kick under the table. Good intentions, bad move.
"Fuck, Rukia!!"
All eyes swerved to him.
Hinamori was in her OMG position, Sosuke-sensei with perfectly fine eyebrow rose up to his forehead in reserved amusement and Rukia…
With a larger than life smile.
"Er—"
…
Toushiro scratched his head, feeling smaller and smaller at the stares given to him by the whole restaurant-at this point. It was bad enough that he cursed out loud, and even used her name in a familiar manner. Could anyone say dating?? 'This is where your stupidity would come in handy, Kuchiki…'
As if on cue, Rukia took the limelight with her attention-grabbing guffaws, banging her fists on the table. The white-haired male released a breath he didn't know he was holding—
Of course, the raven head wasn't planning to go down alone with this shame.
"Oh, come on now, Hitsugaya-kun! Aren't you moving too fast for our first date?"
He breathed out too early…
Hinamori resumed her OMG position, Aizen's other brow joined the other one high up in the air.
"Sir, ma'am…uh-um your phad thai a-and panang…" the waiter stuttered in between, not knowing what to do at the obviously frozen couple(s). "I-I'll just g-go and get your drinks and utensils…"
'Yes…' Toushiro thought darkly, 'please do.'
He would love nothing more than to fixed Kuchiki Rukia's face with his fork and knife. And he sure as hell would like to take a stab at their English Lit. professor who gave them a warm smile.
"Well my, congratulations to the both of you."
Veins popped all over his forehead.
For someone so young, he sure had a very high blood pressure.
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I love this chapter. And now i want some Thai food...btw panang is sort of like green curry. Anyways, they're such a cute couple! Hope you all enjoyed! Now onwards for the next Hitsu/Ruki invasion :) :) thanks again so much for the revs, you guys are the cooliest!
Answer to youshallnotpass: I'll explain it clearly later, but of course, she also had some very protective "boy" friends, not to mention her brother (byakuya will come later).