Requested by Bowser Blanchette, and inspired by the emails that Waterstones keeps sending me- apparently, if you buy a Valentines gift there, you get the wrapping paper free. I can already see the flocking crowds…
Ichigo x Kiyone
Stuck
She walked into the room to find Ichigo stuck to what looked like three miles of wrapping paper. He sat cross-legged in the middle of the floor with irregular shapes cut out of gold and pink paper scrunched up all around him. There were bits stuck in his hair and bits taped to his clothes, and wrinkled up sellotape abandoned on the carpet.
"Ichigo?"
"Yes?"
"What's going on?"
"Nothing."
She raised an eyebrow and pulled her gloves off, trying not to laugh at the sight of Ichigo trying to look nonchalant in the middle of the carnage of paper. She intentionally did not stare at the lump in the plastic bag that was half-sticking out from behind Ichigo's back.
"Okay then."
She smiled at him, and knelt in front of him, to start picking bits of paper out of his hair. She did give into laughter at the sight of Ichigo's annoyed and half-amused face, wincing every time she tugged too hard. She had to laugh again though, the next night, when he took her out for a Valentines Day meal, and her present was beautifully, professionally wrapped, with ribbon and curly bits of decoration. She knew he'd cave and take to a shop in the end.
Kiyone kissed him.
It was the thought that counted.