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A Shifting of Life	By : Strailo Category: Bleach > General Views: 20784 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Title: A Shifting of Life

Fandom: Bleach

Part: 20

Series: A Shifting World

Characters/Pairings: Ichigo, Byakuya, Renji, Rukia, Ulquiorra, Hanataro, Kira

Warnings: Verbal smackdown/sparring

Word count: 1,388

AN: Ooh, I had FUN with this one. *cackles* My friend called me mean to my characters before cackling with me while I was rewriting this. I love it. :D

Enjoy!

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Byakuya cleared all emotion off of his face before he spoke. “What is going on here?” he asked, his voice cold as he, Ichigo, and Renji walked up to the group, eyebrow raising.

“Renji-kun, you mind going to get me some dango? Something sweet I think for today,” Ichigo said softly, smiling up at the redhead, getting a nod from the man. Renji took the pouch of money that was offered to him by a still blank-faced Byakuya.

“Dango would be nice. There should be enough in there for all three of us. You know what I like,” Byakuya said, glaring his sister down when she went to speak.

The three knew what would end up happening if Renji was in the same area as Rukia when she started to complain about something or another. Ichigo and Byakuya though wanted him away for a few minutes while they tried to figure out what had crawled up her ass this time. Renji just smiled and took the money, pressing a kiss to Byakuya’s cheek before pressing one to the top of Ichigo’s head, leaving the area and looking for the dango stand that they had passed by.

“So, Rukia-chan, care to tell me why you’re bugging my guardian?” Ichigo asked sweetly, voice dripping with innocence. Ulquiorra could feel his hackles rise as he moved to stand near Ichigo, not really wanting to be in her line of sight if she really let loose with her tongue. It wasn’t often that she did, even as her normal gender, much preferring to use her body to convey her displeasure. But when she let loose with her words it was a thing of beauty.

He had seen her let loose only once before, while she had been staying in Los Noches, and discovered that when she used her mind and her words, she was much more deadly than when she used her zanpakuto.

And he learned that a person didn’t want to be in her line of sight when she started.

“We all know that he’s not supposed to be here. Hell, he’s not even supposed to be in Soul Society at all. He’s an Arrancar! The enemy!” Rukia hissed, glaring at the younger female. Ichigo just cocked an eyebrow and looked over at Ulquiorra with a curious expression on her face.

“Hey, Ulquiorra, are you going to destroy anybody?” she asked, smiling sweetly at the Espada who raised an non-existent eyebrow at her.

“I don’t believe that I will be. Is there anyone here that would wish to harm you?” he asked in return.

Ichigo took a thinking pose, one hand on her hip while a finger on her other hand tapped at her bottom lip as she thought. “Nope, I don’t think so. There is someone who doesn’t want me to have any fun so she ignores the invites sent to me through her, but not someone who wants to hurt me,” she mused, her eyes turning to Rukia. Rukia blanched under the look, her eyes going wide as she fidgeted. “I’m actually lucky that Yoruichi-chan came around last week to ask if I was going to the festival. Otherwise I would never have been on such a wonderful date with Byakuya-san so far,” she continued. Her smile was soft and caring as she gazed up at the taicho next to her.

“It is a pleasure to have you as my companion,” Byakuya said softly, bringing one of her hands up to his lips, kissing the back of it. “As for you, Rukia, you have quite a bit to answer for. I haven not had had the time to speak with you about your attitude towards Ichigo-san in the last few weeks. Much less what you did after you returned to the Seireitei. We will speak later tonight. Do not think that hiding will get you out of it either.”

“Yes, Byakuya-san,” Rukia said, her voice high and squeaky with her stress. She knew that she had just become screwed over, especially if he knew everything that she had done. She had no doubt at all that he knew everything, he always found out everything. And if he didn’t know it, he would soon enough. No one in the Kuchiki clan had better connections than her older brother after all. She knew she was about to be watched with a magnifying glass, making any of her plans that much harder to get done.

Harder but not impossible.

“And you will also leave Ulquiorra-san alone. He has done nothing to you since he arrived in Seireitei, especially since I doubt that he wishes to upset Ichigo-san. You will not antagonize him and otherwise ignore him, otherwise I will force you to go back home and deny you the right to do anything but work,” Byakuya warned her, his voice cold, making Rukia flinch and nod.

“Oh, that reminds me. I need to find and talk with Hanataro about the dates that I ended up missing because of the misinformation,” Ichigo said. She looked around and spotted a dark head that was moving through the crowds alongside Renji, who was carrying their dango bowls in hand. “Looks like Renji has our lunch, and Hanataro with him,” she told Byakuya, tugging on his sleeve slightly, wanting to leave the glaring Rukia behind. Kira sniffed and threaded his arm through Ulquiorra’s, drawing him away from the pissed off Kuchiki.

“I said something about buying you some of the various snacks before we were interrupted, Ulquiorra-san. How about we go to another area to buy our food?” Kira suggested, drawing the unresisting Espada off. They left Byakuya and Ichigo to greet Renji and Hanatarou as Rukia stalked off with a snarl.

Ichigo caught a few of her muttered threats that were aimed at them, making a note to tell Byakuya later on. After their day of fun was done since she really didn’t want their day to be ruined by the woman.

“So, as requested, I got you some chichi and mitarashi dango, since you’re still on your sweet kick, Ichigo. I picked up a few skewers of anko dango for myself and for Byakuya-san, I got you some denpun and kuri dango,” Renji said, smiling as he handed over the bowls that held their dango.

“Oh, thank you, Renji. It looks good. And smells delicious,” Ichigo chirped as she took her split bowl, Byakuya taking his own. Hanatarou smiled at them. “Hanatarou-san, I wanted to talk with you, clear something up with you actually. I discovered that Rukia was telling lies to everyone who were waiting for responses to my invitations. Especially since I never actually got any of them,” she said, reaching out her free hand to lay it on his arm.

“I have always wondered why you would say no to every single invitation that was extended to you,” Hanataro mused, frowning before he shook his head with a glare in the direction that Rukia had stalked off to. “I’m actually surprised that we didn’t ever figure out what was going on with her and what she was doing at the time. Much less that.” Ichigo nodded with a sheepish smile, shrugging a shoulder.

“Yeah, well, I’m not really thinking about her at the moment. I just have to find out exactly how many invitations was sent to me and who sent them so that I can tell them what happened,” Ichigo said. She picked up one of the skewers and gently bit into the side of one of the round balls. Byakuya made a thoughtful noise as he followed her example, Renji panting next to them, having taken a large bite.

“What she has done will get around the ranks rather fast since Kira was here. Somehow he has a gossip chain that rivals the Kuchiki contact list,” Renji said after he finally chewed and swallowed his bite. He licked at his lips.

“Well then, that’ll just make my job that much easier,” Ichigo snorted, smirking at her friend. “Remember, Renji-kun, smaller bites. Then you won’t burn your tongue.”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. You sound like Byakuya-san I’ll have you know,” Renji huffed, pouting at the young female, getting a smirk and raised eyebrow.
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