Me: Sooo sorry for the long wait, i was sick!
Ichigo: You're still sick, dumbass. You even got a shot in the ass for it today!
Me: Okay, ONE, it was in the HIP, thank you very much! NOW who's the dumbass...
Still Me: And TWO...can we NOT talk about my ass?!
Rukia: Pervert. I TOLD you not to watch when they gave her that shot!!
Me: (laughs nervously after noticing Rukia's homicidal tone) Really, it's no big deal, Rukia!! (Sneaky grin) I doubt he cared, he's too busy crushing on Peeeyyyttoonnn!!
Ichigo: I swear, by the end of this fiction, i WILL fucking kill you.
Rukia: Whatever. Enjoy!
"Helloooo! You alive?"
Peyton blinked and saw Rukia waving a hand in front of her face. She yawned and stretched, causing Rukia to jump ever-so-gracefully out of the way of Peyton's hands before she got face-palmed.
Again.
Rukia eyed her suspiciously, perched on her own bed. "I woke up before you. Either the world is ending, or something happened last night."
"Then the world must be ending," Peyton said quickly.
Rukia's jaw dropped and she pointed at her, making Peyton jump. "You're blushing?!"
Peyton made a little "Eep!" noise and jumped up, heading for the bathroom.
"I call dibs on the shower!" She called out behind her.
"Dammit Peyton!"
THREE HOURS LATER...
"When are we going to France? I need some wine," Matsumoto commented cheerfully. She was the first one to comment since they arrived in Epcot, two minutes ago.
They all heard Peyton sigh from behind them, and turned to look. They sweatdropped. Rukia was flitting back and forth around her, asking her about ninety questions a minute.
Peyton glanced up at them and held up a hand. "Wine sounds pretty freaking good right now," she agreed, glaring at Rukia.
Matsumoto giggled, and Rukia whispered something in Peyton's ear. Whatever it was, it made her turn about eight shades redder.
"STOP COMING UP WITH PERVERTED SCENARIOS!!!"
Ichigo sweatdropped. Something told him Rukia had heard about last night...
"Epcot's divided into two parts; Future Land and World Showcase," Peyton explained, entering Tour Guide Mode.
"Future Land's about...well, the future. World Showcase is modeled after eleven different countries, like France and Germany which, thank God, have wine and beer," she explained, saying the last part quietly so Isshin wouldn't hear.
But Karin and Yuzu sure did, judging by the eager looks on their faces.
Before they could even ask, Ichigo simply looked at them both and said, "NO."
"But Ichigooooo!!"
"You two are scary enough as it is without adding alcohol into the mix!!"
"B-But kids at school say it's sooo good!"
"NO."
Rukia sweatdropped and nudged Matsumoto. "I can't wait to see what he's like when he has kids."
While Ichigo was continuing to argue with his sisters, they all looked at each other, then shuddered at the thought.
Suddenly, Ichigo yelled "HOLY CRAP!!"
Everyone jumped into fighting stance. "WHAT?!"
He pointed at the signature landmark of Epcot. "IT'S A GIANT GOLF BALL!!"
Passersby stopped to watch as several things happened:
One, all the Soul Reapers glared at him for getting them all ready to kick ass for no good reason. Two, they all looked at Peyton, who just cracked her knuckles and said, "I got this." Three, Peyton marched over to Ichigo and smacked him upside the head, causing an echoing THWACK sound that could be heard within fifty feet of them.
"Dammit, what was that, Peyton?!"
She wiped her hands together in a "Job Well Done" sort of way. "Ichigo, you've just been Gibbs-Slapped."
They hit Future Land first, and of course they all wanted to ride Mission: SPACE, a simulator ride.
Oh, what an unforgettable time THAT was.
The team could only consist of four members, so they split up as follows; Ichigo, Peyton, Rukia, Karin.
And Yuzu, Toshiro, Matsumoto, and some random guy since Isshin decided to sit this one out.
He was the lucky one.
They had a choice of two teams; orange team or green team. The orange teams had more intense missions, so of course they all immediately picked orange.
Each group had a pilot, engineer, navigator, and commander.
Rukia, the pilot, made them almost crash. Ichigo, the navigator, got them lost. Karin, the engineer, had the only good job, because she was a whiz at engineering. And Peyton, the commander, was almost hoarse after instructing, yelling, and such.
Needless to say, they very nearly died on their mission to Mars.
From what they gathered as they walked around, the other team didn't have much better luck.
Random Guy, the pilot, was flirting with Matsumoto the whole time and almost made them fly into random meteors. Matsumoto, the navigator, and Toshiro, the engineer, then had a fight about Matsumoto flirting back with Random Guy. Yuzu, the commander, tried her best to keep the peace and keep them from crashing.
So Matsumoto was convinced Toshiro was sick or something due to his overreaction, Peyton had to drink about three bottles of water to get her voice back, and Isshin laughed his ass off for about ten minutes straight.
Everyone simmered down as they walked through the countries, starting with Mexico.
Matsumoto and Isshin bonding over margaritas, resulting in their participation in a Mexican Hat Dance? Priceless.
Toshiro and Peyton both kept exchanging looks with each other that read, very clearly, "God I wish I was old enough for some margaritas!!"
Ichigo had snuck one when the girl behind the counter wasn't looking, and Rukia was saving her alcohol craving for Germany. She was more of a frothy beer person.
Who knew, right?
In Norway, they rode the Maelstrom ride, which scarred Ichigo and Toshiro for life.
Soul Reapers on a dark ride about very evil-looking trolls disguised as trees and such? Enough said.
After that was China, in which they all got freaked out due to the newly added Kim Possible attraction.
Apparently, the participants traveled around the World Showcase and found interactive clues that helped them defeat KP's villains.
They were in a store, and Peyton and Ichigo were arguing, as always...
"She pulled it out of me! She's like a conversational wizard!" Peyton said defensively.
"Well, what did you say, exactly? She won't stop giving me perverted looks," he said quickly, glancing around to make sure Rukia was currently occupied.
Peyton fiddled with a random key chain on a shelf. "Well, you know, nothing really..."
FLASHBACK:
"You two did WHAT?!" Rukia screeched.
"Oh, come ON Rukia! That's only, like, the fourth time it's happened! Why is it so different?!" Peyton said defensively.
She eyed her suspiciously. "Was it a dare? Or a competition?"
"Well...no..."
"What a pervert!!"
Peyton's jaw dropped. She was blaming Ichigo? Really? She was off the hook?
Her shocked expression slowly turned into an evil grin, and she let Rukia rant on the pervertedness of Ichigo Kurosaki.
END FLASHBACK
She bit her lip to keep from laughing.
"Yeah, nothing much!"
Ichigo eyed her suspiciously. "...Right...like I'm gonna believe that!!"
"Really, I didn't!"
Which was the truth. She had merely said they kissed and stuff; Rukia jumped to her own conclusions, most likely due to the "and stuff" part.
Not HER fault!
...Much.
Ichigo just sighed and shook his head. "Sure you didn't."
Peyton decided he had asked her plenty of awkward questions, so now was a good time to get even.
"Hey Ichigo?"
"What."
"Why'd you do that, anyway?"
"D-Do what?" He said innocently.
Peyton looked up to give him a sarcastic look, and that's when she had seen it. It was a random, blue, robotic baby rising from the top of the rotating shelf they were currently standing by.
She jumped with a yell. "EVIL BABY!!!"
Ichigo looked up and yelled too, and he was about to go all Soul Reaper on it when they heard two little kids giggling.
They slowly turned to look at them; they had bulky cell phones in their hands, which they pointed at the baby.
The baby continued its robotic crying, then suddenly burped, its red eyes turning gold. It then quietly slipped back down into the top.
Ichigo and Peyton stared at the spot it had been in, jaws on the floor, fresh sweatdrops on their heads.
"Did I just imagine that?!"
"I saw it too!"
"It was a Bitty Baby!" The little girl informed them. They jumped again and turned back to the two kids.
The boy held up a hand. "Duh!"
With that, they laughed at the idiotic teens and went to catch up with their mom.
Ichigo and Peyton looked at each other, sweatdropping again.
"Let's never speak of this again."
"Agreed."
Germany was next, in which everyone but Karin, Yuzu, Peyton, and Toshiro got beers.
This caused them both to start plotting against Ichigo, and resolved to steal his wine when he would inevitably score some in France.
In Italy, they all got gelato for their lunch, and Peyton got the shit scared out of her by a living statue.
And in the United States, Peyton's well-known clumsiness came back.
She had gone to the bathroom, and everyone else said they'd be in the giftshop. Apparently, she wasn't the only one who forgot to get Christmas presents.
When she was finished, she realized she looked kind of pretty with the tiara.
Due to the combs, it made her hair flow down in a way that framed her face almost perfectly. Maybe it wasn't such a bad present after all...
Peyton was later standing at the entrance to the giftshop, looking at an old fashioned collectible-coin maker machine to her left.
Suddenly, she heard Matsumoto call her name from near the restroom. "PEYTON!"
She jumped and craned her head to look, and somehow slipped rather comically over the slick marble floor.
Dazed, she laid there for a second before getting up. She didn't even know how it happened, really.
When she looked over, the whole group were holding their stomachs from laughing so hard.
Limping, she waved off the boy that came to help her. "I'm fine, really."
Wait, he's kind of cute..
He grinned cockily. "Well, in that case, can I at least have your number?"
Peyton shrugged and pulled her trusty Sharpie out of her pocket. "Sure. I mean, if I must..."
She wrote it down on his hand and gave him a half-wave bye, limping slightly as she caught up with the others.
"It was so funny!! One minute you were there, and then the next minute you were gone, since that wood thingie was in the way!" Matsumoto said between laughs.
"It was a gravity surge, that's all!!" Peyton said defensively. That just made everyone laugh harder.
She then shrugged. "Oh well. I got help from a hot guy because of it, I'M not complaining.."
AN HOUR LATER...
"Ready?"
"I've been ready since he drank that margarita extra slow just to piss me off," Toshiro muttered darkly.
They exchanged impish grins, and sprang into action.
Toshiro tackled Ichigo from behind, and Peyton stole the wine bottle before Ichigo hit the ground.
They both yelled triumphantly as Peyton popped the cork, offering Toshiro the first swig.
They grinned at Ichigo. "Thanks so much for getting us a beverage," Peyton said sweetly before taking a sip.
It wasn't the best thing she had ever tasted, but it was alright.
Better than the hot water she had been drinking all day.
Ichigo glared at them. "Of course you know, this means war."
"Oh, we know."
"Good to know you know."
"I know, right? Very good to know you think it's good to know that we know. You know?"
Ichigo sighed in defeat, not able to top that, and stomped to catch up with the others, who were currently getting autographs from Belle and Beast.
"I want that damn wine back by the end of the night!!" He threw over his shoulder.
They exchanged a grin and said in unison, "Not likely, Ichigo."
THREE HOURS LATER...
Every night, Epcot had the IllumiNations firework show. Peyton knew just where to sit; on the bridge between France and the United Kingdom.
They were waiting for the show to start. Everyone but Peyton and Ichigo had gone to get snacks and drinks, and to get their bladders taken care of before the show.
They were in the middle of arguing over what Spam really was when Peyton saw a woman that caught her eye.
Well, not like that. But she stood out from the rest of the crowd.
Peyton started laughing, and Ichigo looked at her like he was seriously questioning her sanity.
"What's so funny?"
Peyton pointed to the woman. "You see that lady right there?" "..Yeah. She's hot, what about her?"
Peyton sweatdropped. "Not what I was thinking of, but okay. She looks just like my mom. Acts like she did, too," she added as the woman laughed and slung her arms around her two friends' shoulders.
"If she were still alive, what would you guys be doing right now?"
Peyton looked up at the sky in thought. "Hmm..Probably celebrating my birthday, actually."
"But your birthday was yesterday," He stated as if she didn't know that.
"She always celebrated it the next day. 'Cause of her job, she always had to work late on my actual birthday," she explained thoughtfully.
I miss that..
The crowd, Ichigo and Peyton included, gasped. Right at that moment, a bright shooting star streaked across the sky before swooping down out of sight.
Peyton laughed shakily. "Tell me I didn't just imagine that."
"You didn't just imagine that. That was one huge-ass star," Ichigo commented thoughtfully.
She blinked quickly as she felt a few tears building up. "You wanna know about something weird?"
"You mean besides you?"
"Yes, besides me."
"Okay."
"After mom died, whenever me or anyone else in the family was having a hard time or something, we'd see a falling star. Every time. But I've never seen one that big.."
Ichigo looked at her. "You know what I think?"
"You think?"
"I'm serious. I think that was your mom's birthday present to you."
Peyton grinned. "Maybe so. Maybe so.."
He squeezed her shoulder. "You alright?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, fine."
The firework show was good, but it was nothing compared to that star.
Rukia: Wow, that was cool!
Me: Yeah, I know right? That actually happened on my birthday, but it was my granddad instead of Peyton's mom.
Rukia: That's so sweet...!
Ichigo: Yeah, yeah, sure. Peyton flipping and hurting her ankle was the funniest damn thing I've seen in a while, though..
Me: (droops) Yeah, that happened to me, too...only I sprained it..
Rukia: (excited) Did ya get the hot dude's number?
Me: (miserable tone) No... (cheers up) He got mine!
Ichigo: Someone wanted your number? YOURS?!
Me: (looking very menacing and lethal) You sound shocked.
Ichigo: (Totally clueless) I am! YOU got hit on in Disney World? And the guy wasn't retarded or ugly? You're sure?!
Rukia: (backing away slowly. in the distance the audience hears battle sounds and yelling) Uhh....REVIEW!!