A/N: Heya folks! Katze here with a sequel to Byakuya's Day Out! Yay! I had been planning to write one for a long time but a plot never came to me. I hope you'll like it, it's very long, 11k+ to be exact, so I divided it into two parts for people like me who can't stand uber-long chapters XD
NOTE: If you have not read Byakuya's Day Out, then I suggest you read that first, otherwise you won't understand a thing. This sequel tells about the repercussions of what happened in that story. Some of you (who did not read my author's note) might have stopped reading it midway because you thought Byakuya was OoC...I'd suggest you read the WHOLE thing and then decide if that's the real case.
MO-as-in-MOronic beta-read this VERY long one (or is it two?) shot...so a big hug for her XD I love you, Mo
"So guess what Ichigo did after hearing that?" Renji asked with a huge grin on his face. "No need to guess, I'll tell ya…"
Rukia wordlessly played with her food while Renji continued to babble on. She would first shift her rice to the right side of the bowl, and then to the left, not leaving behind a single grain. It was quickly becoming a game for her.
Why didn't I realize it wasn't him?
"…so the idiot jumps into the lake! I mean he jumps! Pure diver style!..."
She immediately forgot about her food and Renji, falling into her thoughts.
I mean, when he started to act that way, I should have caught on easily. Nii-sama would never do that. But still…
Renji laughed maniacally. "And the water was freezing cold! Man, it's just so easy to egg him on!"
Sure, he was a mod soul but…I hadn't known that. And I had been…k-kissing him.
Oh my God
"Yeah, even though he won the bet and all, but seriously….uh, Rukia?"
OhmyGod I had been kissing him! I knew that he was Byakuya nii-sama and still I had been kissing him! Why had I been kissing him!?
Renji waved a hand in front of Rukia. "Oi, Rukia. It'd be nice if you paid attention ya know. Oi!"
I knew better but I didn't stop him. In fact, I had been wanting more…shit.
"Oi! Seireitei to Rukia, come in Rukia. Hellooooo…..HELLO!"
Why had I been kissing him?
"Rukia, this is seriously pissing me off. Why the hell are you ignoring me!? I swear I'm gonna…"
Why had it felt so…good?
"That's it!"
Why-
"OUCH!" Rukia lurched out of her thoughts when her forehead started throbbing out of the blue. She looked angrily at Renji with squinted eyes. "What the hell was that for, you idiot?!"
Renji dropped his raised fist and gave her a satisfied smirk. "Well, that's what you get for spacing out on me. You can thank me lat-oof!"
Rukia had just dealt him a blow in his stomach. She straightened up and smiled sweetly at him.
"I just did."
Renji rubbed his stomach as he glared at Rukia. "Why you little brat!"
Rukia glared right back at him. "Weird eyebrows!"
"Shorty!"
"Freak!"
"Bitch!"
"Bitch!"
"You're such a moron!"
"Well then you're a moron-er!"
Renji abruptly paused, looking at Rukia with a strange expression. Rukia blinked, wondering what he was thinking. She blanched when she realized what she had just said.
"Uh…I-I meant to say-"
She broke off when Renji fell into fits of laughter. She immediately hid her embarrassment with a scowl. "Stop laughing, you idiot. It wasn't that funny."
"Ahahaha! Moron-er!"
"Dammit! Stop laughing!"
"Hahaha, ah, you don't have to be ….hahaha…embarrassed," Renji's laughter slowly died down to a smile. "I bet it's a word you nobles use all the time. Captain Kuchiki must use it a lot."
Rukia's eye twitched on being reminded of him but glared at Renji nonetheless. "Oh, quit your yapping."
"No no!" Renji gestured her to stop talking. "I can actually picture him saying it." He suddenly straightened up and set his grin into a scowl that was scarily similar to nii-sama's. He looked at Rukia disdainfully.
"Rukia, I would advise you to stop acting like a moron-er."
"Renji, that isn't funny."
Renji ignored her and pretended to wrap a scarf around his neck. He raised his chin up high and looked over his shoulder. "Senbonzakura, do not act like a moron-er in my presence."
Rukia bit her lip.
Renji turned towards his other side. He swished his head and pretended to flip his hair. "Do you think my hair looks moron-er?"
She couldn't stop from giggling when Renji continued to swish his hair from side to side and pretended to flip them. He abruptly stopped and looked back at Rukia with a scowl.
"Abarai, send team moron-er to district moron-er-er. Some hollows have moron-erly appeared to be moron-ers."
Rukia let go at that last one, laughing like a maniac. Renji stopped and joined in as well. They both stood like that for a while, holding their sides while they cackled. Rukia sat down when her laughter had subsided to random chuckles. She handed Renji his water bottle and took a sip from her own.
"Haha, Renji. You'll always be an idiot," Rukia said well naturedly, grinning at him.
Renji shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "Hey, at least I made you-what do you want?"
"Huh?" Rukia followed Renji's annoyed glare and saw Matsumoto standing behind her. She perked up.
"Matsumoto-san!"
Matsumoto smiled happily down at Rukia and hugged her tightly. "Rukia-chan! I'm so glad to see you!"
Rukia chuckled and returned the hug. She shifted over to give the other woman room to sit. Renji wrinkled his nose. "Oi, no 10th squad lieutenants allowed!"
Matsumoto fixed him with a disgusted look. "Bite me, baboon boy!"
Renji moved to get up. "Why you-"
"Okay okay!" Rukia gestured them to calm down. She turned towards Matsumoto, eager to change the subject. "So, how are you?"
The other woman quickly ignored the fuming red head and smiled mischievously at her. "Ah, but how I am isn't important. It's how you are that matters?"
Rukia blinked at her, confused. "Huh?"
"Oh, no need to be shy, you can totally tell me." Rukia instinctively leaned backwards when Matsumoto leaned towards her. The gleam in the other woman's eye was beginning to freak her out.
"How dangerous were you?"
Rukia paled when she realized what this conversation was about. Dammit! She silently cursed herself for forgetting about Matsumoto being in the club with her that night. Of course the woman would have seen something. How could she have been so careless?
Renji quietly looked from one female to the other. He then shrugged and raised his water bottle. "Tch, Rukia doesn't have the balls to be dangerous; it would scare the bejeezus outta Captain Kuchiki."
Matsumoto looked slyly back at Renji. "Oh, I have a feeling Captain Kuchiki wouldn't be scared by her. In fact he'd feel something else completely. And our Rukia-chan has been very dangerous." She abruptly looked at a very pale Rukia.
"So, was Byakuya-kun a good kisser?"
A fountain of water suddenly hit them. "Eww gross! Renji, drink with your bloody mouth shut!" Matsumoto cried.
Renji ignored her, temporarily incapacitated by his coughing fit. He quickly drank some more water and looked at Rukia with teary eyes. "Who was a good kisser?" he rasped.
Rukia froze, her eyes becoming wide. Matsumoto quickly spoke.
"Oi! I'm the one asking her questions, so pipe down!" She looked at Rukia. "So, come on tell me, I'll keep it a secret. Was Byakuya-kun sloppy or good?"
Renji again chose to ignore the orange-head. He looked at Rukia with eyes bulging. "Holy shit! You kissed Captain Kuchiki! When? Where?...When?"
"Oi! I told you to zip it!"
"Bite me!"
Rukia forced herself to find her voice. She cleared her throat and suddenly got their undivided attention.
"I-It wasn't nii-sama."
"Eh?" Matsumoto butt in. "But I clearly saw you lip-locked with him." Rukia blushed furiously. "Aha! See! You're blushing!"
Renji for the first time turned towards Matsumoto. "Where'd this happen?"
Matsumoto animatedly turned looked at him. "At a club in the real world."
He looked surprised. "Didn't know the captain hit clubs."
"I know. I was pretty shocked too."
"Tongue?" he asked conversationally.
Matsumoto grinned like a psychopath. "Totally"
Renji made an O. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…she has been naughty." He then mirrored Matsumoto's grin.
"Sex?"
Rukia immediately cut Matsumoto off from replying, shooting straight up and banging her fists on the table to regain their attention. She quickly pinned each of the shinigami with a fierce glare, her flushed cheeks ruining the effect.
"I just told you it wasn't Byakuya! It was a modsoul!"
Matsumoto looked crestfallen. "Oh, I see." She looked away from Rukia as if she had just betrayed her and for a moment, Rukia actually faltered. She quickly tried to think of something that would cheer her up.
"Matsumo-"
The women suddenly perked up and smiled like a looney again. "So, was Byakuya-kun a good kisser?"
Rukia blanched. "I just told you that he wasn't-"
"But was he good?" The women practically looked liked she was foaming from the mouth. Rukia gulped.
"Well…yes, but-"
Renji sprayed another fountain of water at them. Rukia was quick to dodge it from hitting her but Matsumoto wasn't so lucky. The woman looked at the red-head furiously.
"What the hell! Should I teach you how to keep your trap shut!?"
Renji took the offensive. "Yeah? I dare you to come over here!"
Both of them suddenly got up, taking up offensive stances. Matsumoto tossed her hair off her shoulder.
"Don't expect me to go easy on you."
Renji snorted. "Yeah right, more like, don't expect me to go easy on you. You still haven't reached bankai right?"
"And you still look like a baboon, right?"
"Why you…"
Rukia looked from one shinigami to the other and made the mistake of taking a step back. Instantly, both of them forgot about tearing each others throats out and locked down on Rukia. Matsumoto placed a hand on her hip.
"Oi! You're not going yet. You still have to tell me how hot he was. As a member of the Women's Shinigami Association, it's your duty," she said in a grave funeral-like tone.
Rukia went into panic mode, her mind going blank. Her eyes kept glancing around for possible exits or other nosey shinigamis who might eavesdrop into their conversation.
Renji looked sympathetic. "Ah, you don't have to tell it (indignant huff from Matsumoto). Who knows, she just might tell other people. And ya do know that I'm your trusted friend." He looked specifically at Matsumoto on that.
"You trying to imply something here, weirdo?"
"Ah, nothing besides the fact that you can't keep a secret even if your life depended on it…dumbass."
"I've kept many secrets!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!" Matsumoto smiled. "Unlike you whom nobody tells anything because they don't trust you enough. So tell me, do you have anybody else's secrets?"
"…"
"HA!" Matsumoto looked triumphantly at him. She then turned to Rukia. "So, how far did you two go?"
"Quit annoying her!" Renji said angrily. "Of course she won't tell you anything!" He looked at Rukia. "So, why didn't you tell me you were dating him?"
Rukia groaned. "I'm no-"
"How far did you two go?" Matsumoto repeated insistently.
"I-no-"
"And with Captain Kuchiki! Fucking hell!"
"N-No…"
"Tell me, Rukia-Chan!"
"Rukia!"
"Rukia!"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Rukia burst out, closing her eyes tightly shut. She opened them to see both the shinigamis' staring at her. She immediately panicked and took a step away from them.
"Uh," Renji looked cautiously at her. "Where are you going, Ruk?"
Rukia ignored them both and flashed stepped out of their sight.
"Dang it," Matsumoto muttered. Renji sighed. He looked at Matsumoto.
"Wow."
She nodded an affirmative. "I know…wow"
"But ya' know, this is a delicate topic for Ruk, we should give her some privacy."
Matsumoto nodded again. "You're right; we should keep it a secret. Give her some time."
"Yeah, it would be the right thing to do."
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
They both fell into silence, looking at each other for a calculated moment. Then they both narrowed their eyes at each other, cautiously widening their stances.
Then suddenly they both flash-stepped in opposite directions.
Rukia only stopped flash-stepping when she reached her squad headquarters. She took a couple of hasty breaths to calm her wildly beating heart and stepped through the main doors.
And then she paused mid-step.
Instantly, she was greeted with…silence. The entire hallway was filled with shinigami and not one of them was talking. It was a silence where a pin could fall and scare the living hell out of you.
A man on her right had been about to say something but then the woman next to him nudged him to be quiet.
Was it even necessary to say that they all were looking at her?
Rukia swallowed hard and hesitantly walked forward. She tried her best to ignore the unbroken stares she was getting. She had this extreme urge to see whether there was something on her that was making them all look at her. Were they even bloody blinking?
She was quickly falling into panic mode. The thought of turning around and heading straight out was becoming increasingly appealing by the second. Could it be possible that they knew?
It couldn't be possible. Matsumoto had been the only one that night in the club and Renji had just recently found out. She trusted Renji to keep her secret but she wasn't so sure about Matsumoto.
Dammit! Why did she always end up making a fool of herself? Why the fuck had she not stopped that mod soul!?
"RUKIA-CHAN!"
A person suddenly collided with Rukia from the back, bringing them both to the floor. Rukia let out a moan of pain when her shoulder hit the floor hard. She tried to get up but two arms kept her pinned to the floor. She tried to get a view of her attacker.
"Rukia-chan, is it true!?"
"Kiyone-chan," Rukia gasped. "Why did you tackle me?"
"Oh," Kiyone finally realized in what position they were and shot up, helping Rukia to do the same. "I guess I was excited. Sorry."
Rukia furtively glanced around, mentally going through her list of excuses. She just knew where this was going.
"So?" Kiyone looked expectantly at her. "Is it true? Did you and Captain Kuchiki go out?"
What!?
Rukia did a double take. She grabbed hold of the girl's shoulders and shook her, hard. "What the hell!? Who told you that!?"
Kiyone looked innocently at her. "Why, Matsumoto-san did. I just heard of it." She quickly shrugged out of Rukia's grasp and grabbed her shoulders. Then she began to shake her the same way, only harder.
"So is it true? DID YOU TWO GO ON A DATE?"
Rukia swore it got even quieter after that. She could feel the tension coiling up inside of her like a spring. Rukia stalled in answering, thinking of the best way to answer the other girl's question.
She came up with only one.
"Uh"
Dammit!
"OHMYGOD! RUKIA-CHAN!" Sentaro burst towards them, his cheeks heated from running double-time.
"HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH CAPTAIN KUCHIKI!"
"…"
Kiyone punched Sentaro on the arm. "What the- Who told you that!?"
"Renji just told me," the man answered while rubbing his arm.
Renji? He said that?
"OhmyHolyGOD! An affair!?" Kiyone turned towards the object of their discussion.
"Is it true?"
Rukia froze; her eyes as wide as saucers. She ignored the stab of pain she felt on being betrayed by a certain redhead and decided to deal with said redhead later.
Right now, she needed to clean up this mess. Clean it up before it blew up in her face. Rukia noticed how the two seated officers were hungrily looking at her. She then noticed how everyone else was also hungrily looking at her. It appeared as if the hallway had become even more crowded than before. She swore that there hadn't been as many shinigamis in the hallway as there were now.
She gulped again under the intensity of their stares, feeling like she owed everyone an explanation.
Rukia cleared her throat and the sound echoed to the end of the hall.
"Uh" Uh…Uh…Uh…uh…uh…uh…
Kiyone and Sentaro both inched expectantly towards her. Everyone else mimicked the same action. She tried to speak again.
"Uh."
DAMMIT!
"Rukia-san," a voice called from her back. She turned around to see Isane, lieutenant of the 4th squad standing there.
"Yes?"
"Captain Unohana requests your presence for an urgent matter," she said, turning around and heading outside.
Hallelujah!
Rukia gave a sigh of relief. She turned back towards her friends and smiled at their overly annoyed expressions. She waved at them and headed out. "I'll be back soon."
Yeah right!
Kiyone and Sentaro looked at each other for a moment before turning around towards the people in the hallway. "Well, there you have it. You've got your answer, now get to work!"
The shinigami instantly hustled back to their posts, turning back to their usual loud selves. The volume in the hallway instantly increased. Sentaro looked gleefully at Kiyone.
"Wow"
Kiyone nodded. "Yeah…wow"
"I'M TELLING THE CAPTAIN!"
"NO YOU AREN'T! I AM!"
Byakuya quietly walked outside of the 5th squad building after having given his set of reports to Captain Hitsugaya. Usually, his lieutenant was the one to do such a task but unsurprisingly, he had not reported back to the headquarters since lunch break.
Another reason why he would never consent to Abarai becoming a captain.
He mutely took a left, passing a group of huddled shinigami who were engrossed in a certain topic he would no doubt have no interest in. Listening to gossip was not his custom.
"They were what!?"
"Exactly. Matsumoto-san saw the whole thing. Practically glued to the lips was what she said."
Byakuya mentally sighed. He pitied the subjects of their discussion. The people of Seireitei could become absolute savages if given the right kind of gossip. Those two were obviously going to have an unpleasant day today.
"Captain Kuchiki sure knows how to have fun, eh? Ehehe"
Byakuya paused mid-step on hearing his name.
"Kind of naughty, don't ya think? I mean, they live together and all."
He felt his breath catch. It could not be that they were talking about him and-
"Haha, yeah. Pretending to act like brother and sister in public but getting down and dirty when no one's looking, clever I tell you."
"I just knew there had been an ulte-ulter-"
"Ulterior"
"Yeah thanks," the guy turned around to thank the new addition to their group and froze.
Byakuya looked down at the shinigami with narrowed eyes. He resisted the urge to slaughter the bastard with his bare hands.
He then opened his mouth and spoke in a clear, audible voice.
"I will give you ten seconds for you to explain yourselves, after which you will vanish from my sight before I kill you all."
All the shingamis' in the group looked back at him fearfully.
"Ten…"
Rukia flash-stepped alongside Isane, trying to ignore the constant looks the other shinigami gave her along the way. They ranged from worshipping to suggestive to downright murderously jealous.
Hmm, she wondered why some of the male shinigamis looked like the latter along with all the females. It obviously did not freak her out.
Call it her sixth sense, but she had this odd feeling of impending doom. Like something bad was going to happen anytime soon. She shrugged it off, pinning it as a result of frazzled nerves. She'd see to Matsumoto and Renji soon but right now, she had to fulfill her duty as a shinigami.
She'd massacre those two assholes after she met with Captain Unohana.
The two women stopped in front of the 4th Squad Captain's office. Isane turned around after giving Rukia a pat on the back. "You are my hero, Rukia-san! Good for you!"
Rukia confusedly looked at Isane's retreating figure, wondering what the hell she was babbling about. She blinked a couple of times and straightened herself, knocking loudly on the wooden door.
"Kuchiki Rukia from the 13th squad," she said in a clear, loud voice.
"Ah, come in, Rukia-san," Unohana's singsong voice came from the other side of the door. Rukia opened the door and walked in to find Unohana standing in front of her desk.
"You requested for my presence, Captain?"
"Yes, I did. I think it would be best if I cut to the point, yes?" she said with a sweet smile.
Finally, someone who isn't insane!
Rukia frowned but nodded. This was the impending doom she had been feeling before, something serious must have happened. She prepared herself for the worst.
"You see, Rukia-san," Unohana continued on. "I would usually suggest that two people be bound by holy matrimony before I tell them this. But I feel that it is important that you know beforehand, since your case is extremely different."
Rukia's frown increased. Now what on Seireitei was this woman babbling about? Rukia was finally beginning to believe the rumors about the fourth squad; that they were all a little gaga in the head.
"Forgive me, but I fail to understand what you mean," she said in her most humble tone.
"Well, the thing is, people can get urges and sometimes, Kuchiki-san, it becomes difficult to resist those urges, and in your case, it would be very difficult indeed. Since you two are extremely close."
Close? What the hell? Could she be any more confusing? Rukia tried to keep her annoyance off her face. Unohana quietly continued on.
"And I do believe that times have changed, so it becomes necessary to change with the times, do you not think so?" Since she had asked a rhetorical question she continued on without confirming an answer from Rukia.
Good in Rukia's case since she had absolutely no fucking clue what the woman was saying.
"Therefore, I would advise that you consider protection when having sexual intercourse."
"…"
Unohana took Rukia's stunned silence as an affirmative and continued. She moved aside to show the two items she had on her desk. One was a banana and the other a round rubbery…
"HOLY SHIT!" Rukia jumped backwards, her back slamming against the door. She had definitely not prepared for the worst. Fuck! When had she closed the damn door!? What the hell was going on here!?
Captain Unohana looked strangely at Rukia. "I see that you know what this contraption is. I've heard it has become extremely popular in the human world, along with some sort of pill." She looked at the condom with an awed smile.
"Quite ingenious I might add."
Rukia tried to steady her heartbeat, counting backwards from ten.
It didn't work.
"Why do you think I'd need that!?"
Unohana looked back at her, her expression surprised. "Why? Well because knowing about your intimate relationship with Captain Kuchiki, I would suggest that you use protection while having sexual intercourse with him. I'm sure he would not want you to get pregnant so early, since he knows how devoted you are to your shinigami duties."
Rukia could swear she was going to have a panic attack. She was so going to have a panic attack and die at an early age.
"Well, this isn't something popular among nobles but since your case is entirely different and you are already in a physical relationship with your lover, I think it would be best if you start using this now. This way, you can continue on with your shinigami duties along with enjoying sex without any worries."
Rukia felt like her eyes were bulging out of their sockets. She tried to swallow but her throat wouldn't let her.
"We did not have sex!"
She immediately clapped a hand over her mouth after bursting that out. The overload of mental images saying that line gave her made her woozy. Him and her, together, naked…doing that…MOTHER!
Unohana blinked. Then she made an expression as if she finally got it. Rukia mentally let out a happy sigh.
"Oh, I see. " She turned around and picked up the banana and the…that. "You don't know how to use it. Well, it is very easy. Let us just assume that this banana is a-"
"STOP IT!" Rukia shouted, her cheeks beetroot red from all the imagery Unohana was creating. "He's my brother for God's sake!"
Unohana frowned delicately. "But I thought that you two aren't really related. So does that mean he actually is your biological sibling?"
Rukia frowned as well. "Well, no. I'm an adopted sister."
The Captain smiled, "well then, I believe it's alright. Our society does not condemn such a relation from being intimate. I should know."
She then lifted the two items in her hand, "well then, shall I teach you how to use this 'condom'?"
"NO!" Rukia quickly turned around, fumbling crazily with the door handle. Blasted thing kept slipping from her grasp. She quickly zoomed through her list of excuses, coming up with only one.
"I-I just remembered that Captain Byaku-I mean Kuchiki had asked for me as well!" Dammit! Why did I have to pick that name? The woman would bound to-
Unohana gave an airy wave. "Ah, can't wait to get to your lover I see. Remember Kuchiki-san, practice safe sex."
"AH!" Rukia pelted towards the exit like an escaped prisoner.
"Ah, young love," Unohana said pleasantly. She then looked at the items in her hand dejectedly; she had really wanted to show her new find to someone. Suddenly, her expression brightened.
"Isane! Please come in my office. I have something amazing to show you! Quite ingenious I might add!"
Byakuya took one step into his squad building and instantly confirmed his thoughts. The silence that fell on the entire hallway after he had stepped inside was most definitely because of the recent gossip about Rukia and him. He clenched his jaw and walked resolutely towards the center of the hall way, the sounds of his foot steps emanating loudly.
"If I see anyone standing idly, he or she will be my opponent in the next battle practice!"
That got the result he had desired. Immediately, everyone set to getting back to their duties, running like mad in the entire hall way. Byakuya mentally smiled, moving leisurely towards the end of the hallway where his office was situated.
A female shinigami bowed in front of the door.
"Captain Kyoraku and his Lieutenant have come to see you," she said in a small voice.
Byakuya nodded. "Has my Lieutenant reported back?"
"No,sir"
"The moment he does, tell him to come to my office," he said in his monotone voice. So that I can finally fire him.
"Yes, sir"
Byakuya opened the door to find Kyoraku sitting in his chair behind the desk, his head resting on his folded arms, snoring loudly. He raised an eyebrow at the man's lieutenant. She readjusted her glasses with an annoyed jerk.
"Drank too much sake, as always," she said with a huff. "Tell him not to and he drinks more. Idiot."
Byakuya found it amusing how the 8th squad lieutenant openly insulted her captain. He watched as she got up and smacked him upside the head with her file. The man jolted awake with a "what the hell?" rubbing the back of his head while he pouted at the woman.
"Nanao, now was that a nice thing to do? Ladies such as yourself should be delicate and…sweet"
"No one can act 'delicate and sweet' when it comes to you!" she said with a fierce glare.
Byakuya silently stood at the door, silently calculating how much of his time they would waste. Kyoraku finally took notice of him after a moment.
"Ah! Captain Kuchiki! I was wondering whether I would ever get to meet you!"
"You would eventually, Captain Kyoraku," Byakuya said dryly. "It is my office."
The other man gave a lopsided grin. "Well, that is true."
"To what do I owe the pleasure?"
Kyoraku got up from his chair and walked towards Byakuya. "Nothing serious, if that's what you mean." He patted Byakuya on the shoulder, which he resisted to shrug off. "Just wanted to congratulate you."
He blinked, not getting what the man was going on about. "I fail to understand. Congratulations on what?"
"On finally getting a love interest, my man!"
"…"
"And boy did you choose a perfect one. Rukia-chan is the epitome of a lady," he looked backwards at Nanao. "Isn't that right, Nanao?"
"I agree. She is a good match for Captain Kuchiki. But captain, you should stop spending your time looking at other girls."
"Aww, but Nanao, you know that you'll always be the only girl for me."
"That's because the commander general won't post me anywhere else."
"Ouch"
Byakuya stood there, silently looking from Kyoraku to Nanao. He then spoke up, silently wondering why his voice sounded so hoarse.
"Who told you that?"
"Eh?" Kyoraku looked back at Byakuya. He then scratched his head. "Well, Nanao told me. Nanao, who told you?"
"Matsumoto-san. She and Renji-kun are spreading the word. I suspect it has become a game of theirs."
"Ah," Kyoraku chuckled. "Matsumoto-san is always the first to know. But seriously," he looked back at Byakuya with an expression he could only pin as leery.
"I would have never picked you and Rukia-chan as the type to prefer living in sin. It seems you two have been hiding a lot from everyone else, eh?"
Byakuya's eyes widened considerably, his breath stopping in his throat. Kyoraku laughed loudly.
"Guess it's difficult to control those urges when you're living together! Haha, man do you nobles know how to play dirty!"
"What the hell are you implying, Captain?" Byakuya asked in a tight voice.
Kyoraku just chuckled again, patting him on the shoulder once more to which Byakuya only clenched his jaw at.
"Nothing. I'm just saying that it's nice to see you have a naughty side, it's healthy. Good for you!"
He walked out of the office with one last laugh. "Have fun, Captain!"
"…"
Nanao walked quietly towards the door and stopped in front of Byakuya. She looked at him resolutely.
"I can understand your situation, Captain Kuchiki. But the love between two people is a sacred thing and marriage is the most sacred bond of all. Rukia-chan would like that. Good day."
Byakuya mutely watched the lieutenant walk behind her captain, noticing how all the shinigamis in the hall way were surreptitiously trying to glance at him along with moving about. He suddenly felt molten hot anger boil inside of him.
He followed Nanao out of his squad building, his back ramrod straight and his jaw clenched tight, flash-stepping the moment he stepped outside of the building.
Right now, there were two people on his list whom he planned on killing.
One of the shinigami's watched him vanish from her sight, whereon she turned to her friend.
"OhmyGOD! It's true!"
"Wow, I never would have guessed he was the horny type."
"Kind of hot. Ya' think he's gone to Rukia-san?"
"Probably. Dammit! Why are the hot guys always taken?"
"Wait till I tell Suki from the 2nd squad!"
Rukia halted to a stop when her sides began to ache. She was in a random street where nobody would be able to find her. She rested a shaky hand on the wall beside her to support her while she calmed her breathing.
She would definitely get nightmares from her visit to Unohana's. Rukia didn't even want to try to recall a second of it. She shivered again. Dammit, she had a feeling that she would never get over this one!
Damn that Renji and Matsumoto! It was their entire fault that she had gone through that mental trauma. If she ever got her hands on their bloody necks she seriously didn't know what she'd do. Or what she wouldn't do.
Probably mutilate their bodies, cut them into teeny tiny bits and then eat them right up! Without any bloody chopsticks! Oh yeeeaah, that sounded so gooood…Rukia'ssmile was sadistically sweet.
Rukia stumbled out of the deserted alleyway, still mulling over the best way to punish her so-called friends when she suddenly bumped into someone.
"What the fuck! Watch where you bloody wa-Kuchiki-san!"
Rukia turned to find Captain Soi Fon standing there. "Good afternoon, Captain."
"Yeah, sorry about that, didn't see where I was going," she said well naturedly.
"Ah, please don't apologize, Captain," Rukia said humbly, bowing once. "It was completely my fault."
Soi Fon smiled and patted her on the shoulder. "Forget about that. My heartfelt congratulations on getting pregnant, Kuchiki-san! My idiot of a lieutenant just recently told me about the good news."
"…"
"I'm sure that you and Captain Kuchiki will make wonderful parents; especially since they'd end up with both of your genes. Bound to become excellent additions to the Gotei 13."
"…"
The other woman continued to smile. "Even though I'm nine months early but do include Yoroichi-sama in the baby shower. I'm certain she would love that. Anyway, make sure you take care of yourself."
"…"
She bent down to wave right in front of Rukia's stomach. "We don't want to harm little Kuchiki, now do we?"
"…"
Soi Fon straightened up and waved at Rukia this time. "Congratulations again, Kuchiki-san. I'll make sure to congratulate the father as well, but first, I should inform Yoroichi-sama about this right away. Yoroichi-sama would be happy to hear about it." She walked away.
"…"
Rukia silently looked down at her stomach. She slowly lifted a hand and placed it over her belly. She mutely looked up at Soi Fon's retreating back and then back at her stomach.
She then shifted it over her sword, grinding her teeth loudly.
"Matsumoto…I..will…KILL you!"
A/N: Oh heya! How are you? Me, I'm great! Sure sure, be my guest and keep reading....go on shoo! *waves goodbye*