Orochi (Great Serpent) is based on the last act of a long puppet play that eventually made it's way on a Kabuki stage.. This happens to be the live Kabuki Ichigo and Rukia will be watching.
So.
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It's nice and sunnny out. Birds chirping and squirrels scuttling about? It was a perfect Saturday afternoon. Nothing to disturbed the peaceful qui-
"RUKIAAAAA!" The sound of girls laughing and giggling outside Rukia's front door disturbed the quiet. Though the neighborhood doesn't mind. It's just school girls enjoying thier day off.
Smiling as she bumbled her way to the door, Rukia happily opens it as her friends all bare sweets and junk food that will last them the whole day.
With the PS3 and the controllers ready to go...
Let the chaos begin.
Chips, candy, and empty cans of pop were scattered all around the room as the four girls sputter obscene words and insults to each other laughing. It's been hours and the girls are still hyped on sugar and junk food and the Champion Chain has yet to be claimed.
"Okay girls!" Akane laughs as she straightens herself out and towers above the three girls below her, "The tournament for the Champion Chawain!" A pillow was thrown at Akane as a burst of boos went against her.
"We want to hear about your time at the public co-ed school!" The brown haired girl known as Kasumi happily chimed as she readied another pillow.
Stuffing a piece of cookie in her mouth, Nabiki mumbles, "Did anyone make a move on you girls?"
"Ohohohohohoh!" Akane happily squeals, "I don't think I've told you about the boy Rukia is-"
"No." Rukia looks at Akane straight in the eyes, "No."
"Aww.. come on! You went together to the Edo Museum yester-"
"Did she go alone with him?!" Kasumi and Nabiki both happily chime with bubbly eyes.
A smug smile she plops down on the couch, next to Rukia as she nudges her, "Neh, You want to tell them what happened or do you want me to-"
"Okay, okay.." Rukia lets out a a half chuckle and sigh, "You guys win."
They were sitting next to one another, in the dimly lit room, throwing back insults and comments between them as the performers on the stage glowed under the spot lights. Ichigo's warm breath against her neck tickles her every time he whispers a snide remark of the live Kabuki-that earned him a quick slight jab to the side.
"Wait-" His breath was moist against her neck as she slightly twitched. "All the Kabuki actors are males?"
This time Rukia made the effort to turn her head as she faces Ichigo. This could possibly the dumbest question Rukia has ever heard. She's been to countless live Kabukis and it was normal for a male actor to act as a woman. But Ichigo, he was confused on why? Why have male acting as a woman when they could just hire an actual actress?
"Did you just crawl out of a rock?" Rukia annoyingly whispered back. "It doesn't matter if the guys are acting as a woman, it's all about emotions, movements, expressions, and colors. That's what makes live Kabuki so special."
With a dead panned look on his face, "I still don't understand."
"What don't you understand?!" Rukia at this point wasn't fixated on the live Kabuki she was so excited for. Her attention is now fixated on an Orange haired boy who can't seem to understand the act of live Kabuki.
"Just everything up until now. It doesn't make any sense! All they do is move around and say nothing! The background music also sucks as-ow!"
It was Rukia who jabbed Ichigo on the side as her violet eyes gleamed under the dark shadows of the theater whose only light source was from the stage. "Don't be a downer. Just sit back and stop over analyzing."
Letting out a huff, Ichigo sank down in his seat, sulking. "This Kabuki thing better end soon..."
Rolling her eyes, Rukia nudges him, "We can leave if you want. I've seen this before with my parents a few years back..."
Without wasting time, he grabs Rukia by her wrist, "Let's go."
"Wait-wait-wait..." Nabiki giggles as she ties up her short black hair and gets comfortable, "He was whispering to you in the dark?" She nudges her fellow friends who picked up the cue and joined in with Nabiki who tsk tsked Rukia. "You picked up some back habits from those girls in that school Rukia..."
"It's nothingf like that!" Rukia disgruntly defends, "We're just friends! Nothing-"
Akane gasps as she keeps the smug smile on her face, "Couple of days ago he was just some guy who sat next to you and now he's a friend!? It took me a little more than a week to be your friend..."
Face palming, Rukia mumbles against the palm of her hands, "Can we just please drop this top-"
"Okay, okay... We'll shut up and let you explain what happened..." Kasumi nudges the girls to be quiet and looks at Rukia, "You may proceed."
Stuffing his hands in his pockets, Ichigo stands next to Rukia as they both wait for the bus to arrive. Though, while waiting for the bus to arrive, Rukia rummaged through her bag and whips out her camera, sifting through the many photos she has taken through their stay in the Edo Museum. They were all project worthy photos and "blackmail" worthy aswelll.
The only thing on Rukia's mind right now was:
How much are the photos worth to Ichigo.
"Oi, Kurosaki..." She nudges him on his side. Her eyes gleam from the radiating light on the camera screen. The photo she's showing Ichigo is him stuffing his finger in his nose. "I could see the concentration in your eyes."
Ichigo wasn't too pleased to see that photo Rukia took of him, so, out of instinct, Ichigo grabs her camera and dangles it above Rukia, taunting her."How much is your camera worth?"
"Not fair!" Rukia cried. "You're taller than me!"
Laughing like a mad man, Ichigo simply responded, "That's too bad you're a-"
"Don't you dare say it..." Her eyes darkens- this only added fuel to the fire.
"MIDGET!"
A quick kick to the shin topples the towering giant as he loses his hold on her camera and Rukia catches it without causing much damge. Ichigo on the other hand...
He's on the ground rubbing his shin, yelling at Rukia who stands above him with her feet planted on his back and her hand up in the air, triumphantly she declares, "Whose the midget now!?"
"Kuchiki..." He gritted between his teeth. "I'm going to kill you..."
"You're going to kill a tiny innocent school girl?" Rukia pouted with big bright violet eyes, "Who do you think everyone is going to believe? The tiny innocent school girl or a giant orange haired brute?"
"BRUTE?!" Ichigo pops himself up causeing Rukia fumble back a little as she looks at him surprised.
"How am I the brute!?"
With the slightest of smiles, "You stole my camera... Only brutes steals cameras from tiny innocent school girls.."
His eyes narrows as he mumbles, "You're not even innocent..."
Letting out a slight chuckle, Rukia walks towards him with her camera. "Look, I'll delete that photo of you picking your boogers..."
But I'm sure not deleting those photos of you and the little girls!
Peering over Rukia's shoulders as he watches her delete the photos and quickly turns it off.
"There. happy now?"
Not satisfied with how Rukia was so eager to turn off her cellphone, Ichigo thought the worst.
What if she took a picture of me scratching my junk?
"Kuchiki." Ichigo slightly tugs at her camera. "Let me see your camera."
Quickly nudging off Ichigo's hand she turned around, back facing him as she quickly quipped, "No."
Ichigo's eyes narrowed. Suspicion started grew within him once Rukia denied him her camera. After all, it's a clear sign of hiding something when Rukia's bubbly eyes started to dart randomly around as she tucked her camera away.
"Kuchiki." Ichigo smoothly addressed once he stood before her, "What other photos did you take of me?"
Dramatically scoffing, Rukia sports a big toothy smile, "Stop flattering yourself Kurosaki... You don't have the charm nor do you-OH!" A flash of epithany alerts Rukia as she quickly rummaged through her bag once she remember the Champion chain she brought with her. She was sure to make Ichigo suffer.
"Kurosaki~" Rukia sweetly cooed once she slowly pulled out teh gold Champion Chain. "I'd dying for compliments..."
A frown formed upon Ichigo's face as she shook his head. "HELLL NO!"
Pouting, "No fair!" A tiny fist gently hits Ichigo's arm. "I showered you with compliments when you had the Champion chain!"
"So?" Ichigo replied stupidly as he rubbed his arm.
"So what?" Rukia angrily pouted. "You said 'I'll do that later..After school when we go to the Edo Museum..Liar..."
"Liar" Ichigo repeated, "When did I become a liar?"
"Just now." Rukia answered meanly. "You're nothing but a lying lieface liar. You horibble lying mon-"
"Okay-okay-okay. I get it. " Letting out a huff, he monotony praises Rukia. "You're not a short little midget-ow!" Rubbing his shins he glares at Rukia, "What the hell was that for?!"
"You know what it was for..." Rukia's eyes narrows. "Be nicer with the compliments..."
"Fine... Jeeze.." He runs his fingers through his orange hair, letting out a sigh. "You're the cutest girl I know... You have beautiful purple eyes where I can just look-"
"Whoa-whoa-whoa..." She looked at him with a smug smile, "That's getting too cheesey ...Save that for lil hime~"
"Really?" A sly grin crept upon Ichigo's face. If it's cheesey and making Rukia uncomfortable, Ichigo is getting his mini revenge.
"But your eyes, they shine under the moon so beautifully and nicely too. Plus, your-"
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Rukia breathlessly laughs, "You're too good at the cheese..."
"Cheese?" Ichigo looked at Rukia confused. "What the hell do you mean cheese?"
Slowly bringing her breathing back to normal, Rukia lets out a deep huff. "It's basically sweet compliments you tell people but a little sweeter than usual...But..." She slightly nudges the confused orange haired boy, "Do you cheese up your lil hime?"
Face palming while running through his hand through his hair, "Why do you always ask such off questions?"
Sporting nothing but a disgruntled pout, "I thought we were friends..."
"We are friends..." He mumbled through his calloused hands.
"But friends tell each other everything..." Looking at Ichigo with one eye opened and happy smile, "Am I not your friend?"
"Fine, fine, fine..." Sighing, the orange haired teen that surrenders to the violet eyed girl.
"She loves it when I-" A slight tingle rushes through him as he utters the words, "cheese her up..."
"He's a cheeseee!" Akane bursts out in laughter only to be glared at by Nabiki and Kasumi who ached to know what happened between Rukia and Ichigo.
Quieting down Akane gathers herself together and nods at Rukia, "You may proceed."
Holding in her laughter, Rukia asks with a straight face, "Does she make cheese her up often?"
Looking around, he quietly whispers, "Sometimes."
"YOU ARE SOOO WHIPPEDD!" Her child like squeals and laughter surrounded her and Ichigo under the bright moon that now lingers above them.
It's just them two that waited on the bus to arrive.
"Stop saying I'm whipped!" Ichigo snapped, "I'm not whipped when I'm trying to keep my girlfriend happy..."
"There is a difference between keeping your girlfriend happy and being whipped..." Rukia's violet eyes gleamed under the bright moon once she calmed herself down. "Keeping your girlfriend happy means, as a couple both of you are happy. Her happiness should be your happiness and vice versa. It's not a one sided thing where you awkwardly shower her with cheese and love when you don't want to..."
"Whatever Kuchiki..." Ichigo leans towards the edges of the side-walk as he looks down the street, scouting for the bus that's only a few blocks away.
"Put away your stuff cause the bus is coming in a few minutes..."
With a smug, sly smile, "Sure thing Kurosaki.."
"That's it?"Kasumi dead panned. "Nothing that makes a nun blush?"
With a confused "What the hell", look, "No. Who do you think I am?"
"We dunno..." Nabiki chimed. "We figured you'd change when boys are added to the equation..."
"What do you mean?" Rukia quizzically asked. "You girls have boyfriends. What difference does it make?"
"It makes a big difference. You are thrown into a pack of girls who already worked hard on how they look and here is a complete stranger who won't be staying long, suddenly grabs the attention of a boy who girls worked so hard on to get attention from. That there is a big difference cause Nabiki's boyfriend is a childhood friend. mine was a family friend's cousin and Akane? She met her's at the movies and you met your's at a Rock con-"
"Okay, okay...I get it, I get- A sudden flush of red washed over Rukia's milk smoothed skin.
Rukia forgot to tell the girls she invited Ichigo to the Future Alumni Balll... And the fact that he agreed to go?
Let the chaos begin...