Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ The String ❯ Soda Pop and Party Games ( Chapter 4 )

A/N: Ok I wrote this between the hours of 12:00am and 4:30am the Sunday after Thanksgiving so forgive me if it's a little weird. I was going partially crazy due to all the food I ate that week and was probably falling asleep on the keyboard. There's also probably a bunch o' typos that the spell check I conducted didn't catch. Once again I apologize.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or the characters. I just stay up `til 4:00 in the morning over Thanksgiving break writing silly little stories for it when I should be sleeping or reading Great Expectations.

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Four: Soda Pop and Party Games

 

Uryu had been uneasily waiting for the door to swing open and someone to invite him in for a few seconds when he heard the doorknob turn. He immediately turned his attention to the door expecting it to reveal Orihime or Tatsuki behind it. For a brief moment he had the insane and ludicrous idea that Orihime's father was going to answer the door. He instantly felt like the stupidest person in the world for forgetting, even for a fleeting second, what Orihime's condition was. Putting it from his mind, Uryu focused his eyes on the girl standing before him. “Oh, hi Ishida-kun!” Orihime said brightly. If she had been the sun, the entirety of the Earth's population would have been blind long before now. She was just so bright and cheery all the time. Even when she was `mad' (Uryu didn't think it was possible for her to be truly upset at something) she was still so sweet and… well harmless. Uryu could not imagine her actually being upset. It just couldn't be possible.

 

“Hello, Inoue-san…” he said, straightening his glasses. He still had his right hand in his pocket and was fiddling with his key just to give his hands something to do. Orihime invited him inside to the living room where Tatsuki was already seated and offered him some soda. Knowing Orihime, he thought he should look to Tatsuki to see if it was ok to drink. Getting the ok he replied with a yes and she emerged from the kitchen holding two purple cans, leading Uryu to think it was grape flavored. He was right.

 

“So who all said they would be here?” Uryu inquired.

 

Orihime started reeling off the names of people who had confirmed their presence, “Oh let's see. Ummm…. Kurosaki-kun, Kuchiki-san, Sado-kun, Abarai-kun, Youroichi-san…I think that's about it… Oh no wait, Keigo said he would be here too I think… Maybe Mizuiro…?” she finished. Uryu shifted uncomfortably. He didn't know Youroichi and Keigo were going to be here. That should be interesting. This was definitely going to be the most exciting party he'd ever been to.

 

They sat around and drank soda until everybody had arrived, which only took about ten minutes or so. Once the last person had walked through the door everybody cheered and said stuff like, `Yeah, now we can get this party started!' and `That's Ichigo for ya, always holdin' up the works…' It was all in a playful manner though and he was in a good mood so, fortunately, nobody got popped in the head. Keigo and Mizuiro called to let them know they'd be there a little later on and Mizuiro didn't know if he would be able to come at all. Once they had all settled down a little, Youroichi asked the one question none of them knew the answer to.

 

“So what do you guys wanna do?” she asked. Everybody sort of said the same thing. That reply was `I dunno, whatta you wanna do?'

 

Uryu was the first to see it. Youroichi had a small, somewhat evil little grin on her face. Uryu had never seen her like this before and he was sure he wasn't going to like the idea she had.

 

“I have an idea…” she said, trailing off to put them in a state of suspense. Oh no. Here it came… Why did she have to keep them hanging in her every word like this? In all honesty, Youroichi was kinda scary when she had `an idea'. Noticing that she had effectively grasped everyone's attention, she continued with, “We could play Seven Minutes in Heaven…”

 

Uryu was horrified, and yet intrigued; appalled, but interested. This was either very bad thing or very good thing. Definitely more bad than good. Yes, this was absolutely not good…

 

Everybody else, except for Rukia and Renji, looked very thoughtful as if pondering the same issue he was. Rukia and Renji looked very, very confused.

 

“Hey, waitta minute! Hold on! What is this game and how do you know about it?” Renji asked.

 

“I'll answer the last question first.” Youroichi replied. “I know about it because I've been in this world longer than you have and I know more things about it. You've only been here a few months. And to answer your first question, it's simply a simple and somewhat childish party game that people like to talk about more than they like to play it.” Renji still had a puzzled look on his face. “The rules are very simple and there are several ways to play. We are going to play the way that requires the least amount of preparation. Inoue-san, do you have an empty bottle somewhere? Preferably glass?”

 

“Uh, yeah, I think so…” and she went to the kitchen. A few seconds later she came back holding a glass soda bottle and handed it to Youroichi.

 

“Perfect” she said.

 

“Ok but you still never told me what the game is!” Renji sounded extremely frustrated. Rukia just looked on, ready to listen if the cat-woman ever felt like talking. It was now evident that Youroichi was trying not to get frustrated with Renji.

 

“All you have to do is spin the bottle and go into the closet with whoever it lands on for seven minutes. Everybody gets a turn, at least that's how I play,” she explained.

 

“Well what's the point of that???” Renji almost shouted. Youroichi must have had another idea because hat smile had appeared on her face again. She must have felt particularly evil that day because her answer to Renji was, “Let's just say you'll get to know each other a little better…” Uryu could've sworn that he heard the evil laugh going on inside her head just then, and he actually felt kinda bad for Renji.

 

A few minutes later, they had arranged themselves into a big circle with the bottle in the middle. No one wanted to go first of course. Ichigo, being the impatient one, said, “So who's gonna go first?”

 

Youroichi was quick to answer him, “Well since you're so impatient to get started, why don't you do it?”

 

“What?!?!? No way!!!!!! You're the one that thought of it!!! You go first!!!”

 

“What's wrong, Ichigo? You don't want to kiss any of the lovely ladies here today?”

 

“Wh-What??? I-I, no it's just th- but- hey that's not-” he blustered, all the while turning more and more red. Uryu was relieved that Ichigo was the first one to be embarrassed and not him.

 

As he looked back and forth from Ichigo to the girls' faces to Renji's reaction to finding out what the game really was, he couldn't help but start laughing. He tried to keep it in, he really did but it's just no fun to have a laughing fit in your own head and before he knew it he had let out a snort, and then didn't even try to contain himself anymore. It was just so funny!

 

“Hey what're you laughing at?!?!?!?!?” Ichigo yelled.

 

“I'm sorry Kurosaki-kun. It was just so funny all of a sudden that's all.” Ichigo thought about it for a minute and seemed to agree because he said no more and spun the bottle.

 

Three or four turns later, Uryu found himself in the closet with Tatsuki. How had that happened? He was a little nervous about this, but he didn't think she was going to do anything and he most certainly didn't like her in that way. Besides, he was saving his first kiss for… well not for her.

 

As if she had read his mind she said, “Listen, I know you like Orihime and I only like you as a friend so we don't have to do anything if you don't want to. I mean I don't care one way or the other, but I'm just saying, it's whatever you want…” Uryu smiled and mentally thanked her for that.

 

“So how long have you known?” he asked her.

 

“Oh, a few weeks. A little over a month I think…”

 

“Oh. So how'd you find out?”

 

“Anyone with eyes can see it. I'm just sorry Orihime is so blind” she said sympathetically.

 

Uryu blushed slightly and said, “It's ok. I don't really mind-”

 

“Oh, yes you do. Don't lie to yourself like that.

 

“Ok, fine, I do but I can't do anything about it. She will NEVER notice me. She's too busy trying to get Ichigo to notice her, which is fruitless effort. Everyone knows he likes Rukia and Rukia likes Renji so there's no way he'll get her either. Especially since Renji likes Rukia back. Why don't they just go out already and solve all our problems?” he asked.

 

“Oh so you figured out the little love string we got goin' on here too, huh?”

 

“Yeah. It was a little while ago. As I was thinking about it I realized that everyone likes someone but no one likes me. It doesn't really bother me though. If someone liked me, they'd probably just be disappointed as well. This whole thing is very complicated.”

 

“Yeah I know…Geez it's dark in here. How much time do we got left anyway?” Uryu checked his watch. He was glad he had brought it with him.

 

“Um about two and a half minutes… I'm glad this thing lights up in the dark,” he answered. He was very glad that it lit up because, as Tatsuki had just said, it was very dark in that closet. He could barely see anything even though his eyes had adjusted to the lighting. He took a deep breath and slouched against the wall a little more. Suddenly he felt that Tatsuki was very close to him and before he knew it her lips had brushed against his very lightly and fairly quickly.

 

Now this was a surprise… Didn't she just say she only liked him as a friend and they agreed they weren't going to do anything?

 

“What was that for?” he asked.

 

“Oh don't be so weird about it. It was just a little friend kiss. I don't like you or anything. It just meant you're a really good friend. Also, it's part of the game. We had to do something or it wouldn't be any fun. That can barely even count as a kiss anyway. Just calm down about it.”

 

This sort of made sense to Uryu, but apparently not as much as it did to her. He decided to trust her. She seemed to know much more about this kind of stuff than he did. Besides that, it hadn't really bothered him all that much. He was just surprised and confused. He looked at his watch again and saw that they had about a minute or so left. He said this to Tatsuki and she leaned against the wall in acknowledgement.

 

“So who were you hoping to get if I may ask?” Uryu questioned to break the silence.

 

She answered, “You may, and Ichigo actually. I don't really like him anymore but I used to have a crush on him when we were younger. We've known each other since we were four, you know. Anyway, I think I just wanted to make sure I didn't still have feelings for him. Oh well. Better luck next time I guess.”

 

Just then Uryu's watch beeped and a few seconds later they were let back into the room and were almost blinded by the light. It wasn't even all that bright due to the fact that it was getting dark outside. They carefully walked back to their spots and sat down to continue playing the game. It was now apparently Uryu's turn. He took the bottle from Rukia and spun it around very fast thinking only one thought: Who would he get?

 

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A/N: DUN DUN DUN!!! Who will he get? Rukia, Youroichi, Orihime??? Find out next time on The String -only on Mediaminer.org and probably Quizilla.com… and fanfiction.net if the evil barrier would ever break down and allow my stories to pass through the heavenly gate to the living (or mechanized) glory of the Great Beyond!!!!

 

(Lucy: She's had issues posting her stories on that place)

 

Oh and I was originally going to make this chapter and the next all one chapter, but when I looked up to see how much battery I had left-

 

(Lucy: she was using her mom's laptop and sitting in a big green chair in her living room)

 

-and noticed it was 4:23am, I decided I better go to bed.

 

Oh and I think I'm going to make Keigo come in at the end of the Seven Minutes in Heaven game. I think he would just be too eager to play it and he's so hyper that I don't really know what to do with him yet. I'll Figure it out though. Unless you don't want him to come in at all… Tell me whatcha think!!! (^_^)

 

Yayyyyyy!!!!!!!!! Imodocons!!!!!!!!!! I can make a monkey @o_o@ and a fishy <>< and a………

 

(Lucy: Oh, God help us! Not that again!!!)

 

………and a kitty =^-^= and a birdie {*> and a...*rambles on and on*

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Oh and that bird right there-----------^

I made that up at 4:30 in the morning…

Ain't I `mazing?

 

One more thing, I think I'm going to devote a few chapters to the party because, even though it's relatively short, the events take a long time to write about and I don't want to tie it all into one chapter because it would be tiring for me to put together and a very long chapter indeed. Also, I'm sorry if the bird didn't come out right. It's a multi-line thing and I can't really space it right because the `Mediaminer' pages are wider than the `Word' pages.