Disclaimer: Bleach and its characters are the property of Tite Kubo. Some people have all the luck. ;)
Rating: K+ (I refuse to believe that anything involving the 11th division could possibly be rated K)
Lucky
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The Luck-Luck dance started out as a fool-proof way of pissing Yumichika off.
Their wanderings through Rukongai hadn't been all fun and games, or blood and mayhem as the case may be. Meals had to be made, dishes cleaned, and clothes washed. By mutual decision (after Yumichika refused to bandage Ikkaku's wounds for a week in retaliation) these chores were to be assigned to the loser of a small contest. They had started out with Rock, Paper, Scissors which only served to escalate the problem as new objects were added to ensure a win on their respective parts (Katana which loses to Rock but beats Paper and Scissors, Fan which beats Katana and Paper but loses to Scissors and Rock, Sake which beats Fan, Paper and Rock but loses to Katana and Scissors, etc). Eventually they abandoned this method when Yumichika invented Fist which wins against everything by knocking Ikkaku out cold.
They tried riddles and guessing games after that. It worked fairly well. Until Ikkaku insisted that by remaining silent he hadn't been outwitted because he'd never, in fact, attempted to answer. This resulted in a small feud which started with Yumichika bringing back Rock, Paper, Fist for the evening and ended with Ikkaku pinning him against a wall followed by an embarrassing misunderstanding with the man they'd 'convinced' to let them use his spare room for the night.
They eventually settled on throwing dice. They changed the game every night as this, combined with the inherent randomness of dice, would keep the contest fair. The outcome depended largely on luck. Something Ikkaku seemed to have quite a bit more of than Yumichika who, despite his suspicions, couldn't figure out how Ikkaku could possibly be cheating. His obvious irritation and careful observation of his friend's every move was a constant source of amusement for Ikkaku who never missed an opportunity to tease him about it. Eventually Yumichika accused him flat out of cheating and demanded Ikkaku confess how he was doing it. Ikkaku replied with a slightly drunken "It's because I'm lucky!" followed by an early version of the luck-luck dance and an empty sake bottle being broken across his head.
Yumichika's initial reaction didn't deter Ikakku from perfecting and using his new dance at every opportunity. Much to Yumichika's annoyance, and later Ichigo and Ganju's confusion.
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