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[1stguardian]

All right. What's the plan now?

Or don't you have a plan? You don't, do you? Can't say I'm surprised. You never know what you're doing.

Whatever. Just don't take forever figuring it out. I've still got a lot left to do and I don't have time to wait on you.

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[1stguardian]

[ Why are you such an asshole? ]

Why are you such an asshole?

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[repelling]

[ What?

He drops the pencil, snatching it back up before it rolls off the pad. ]

[repelling]

I'm n-

[ He'd thought they'd gotten past the weirdness, slid back into the familiarity of insults.

What's gotten into Kurosaki? Pushing at his glasses. Going for a dry tone, but not quite making it. ]

If I've hurt your feelings, Kurosaki, don't expect an apology.

[1stguardian]

[ Although Ichigo doesn't consciously recognize it, Naruto's easy friendship with Ishida is grating on him. "I call him Uryuu" and "Friends don't call each other by their last names" and he wants to ask what the hell's wrong with him. But he knows. He doesn't truly need to ask.

Shinigami. Quincy. They'll never get along. ]

Yeah, right.

[ A quiet scoff under his breath. ]

Like I care. Just get on with it. Or are you reneging on that offer?

[ When in doubt, deflect. ]

[repelling]

[ Easy friendship? Little does he know. But, unaware of the actual issue, he can't offer anything reassuring. Instead, it's as if-

There's an old American television show he's heard about. The Twilight Zone. He might just be there.

As if Kurosaki being a Shinigami had ever really mattered for a long, long time. ]

I don't really think you'll trip, all right?

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[1stguardian]

[ He blinks. Blinks again. ]

Oh.

[1stguardian]

[ Awkward Ichigo is awkward. ]

So.

[ Not knowing what else to do, he cranes his neck, trying to see the notepad. ]

What're you drawing?

[repelling]

[ Gladly going along with the shift. ]

Rabbits.

[ He pulls the pad out of view. As cool as he thinks Don Kanonji looks, Kurosaki definitely couldn't pull off that ... ]

[1stguardian]

[ Ichigo's nose wrinkles. ]

What's with you people and rabbits?

[ A beat, and then; ]

I thought you were drawing that cape! Don't put rabbits on my cape!

why am i still awake

[repelling]

You people? Are you lumping me in with Kuchiki-san?

[ That Shinigami?! Though, it was as a nod to her that he even lied about rabbits. Also, never mind what he just said, because now: ]

Why not? I think she'd approve.

ffff, go to sleep!

[1stguardian]

What do you think? You're the one drawing rabbits!

[ Oh, hell no. ]

You aren't gonna say one word about this to Rukia!

ffffffffff i guess i did!

[repelling]

Does Kuchiki-san have a monopoly on rabbits?

She'd find out anyway.

[1stguardian]

[ No. Yes. Maybe. He doesn't know. And that's not the point. The point, is; ]

Yeah, if you tell her. Which you won't. Because your sewing days would be over if you did.

[ Emptiest threat in the world and he knows it. ]

[repelling]

[ Not even worthy of a response.

He just looks at him. ]

[1stguardian]

C'mon, Ishida. Just once, pretend you don't want to embarrass the hell out of me.

[repelling]

While that would be lying, that shouldn't even be an issue. Kuchiki-san would adore it.

[ The sad moment when he hasn't actually drawn a single rabbit. ]

[faeth]

[ wow i'm so blind i missed the comment train :( forever late to the party but maybe that's ic... ]

Ah, no, no, Ishida-kun. We can't use a standard pattern, they'd expect that. Maybe we could start Kurosaki-kun's design off with an original logo?

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[repelling]

[ ): i almost stormed into yours- wait i did- i mean tagged you too, but i thought him saying the obvious re: her as the princess (not a lackey!) was maybe a little dull (thinking)... ]

[ Who would expect that? ]

Putting a pattern of any kind on a cape is risky; after all, it would make it difficult to wear with patterned clothes. What sort of logo was Inoue-san thinking of?

[repelling]

Something with a strawberry? [ Just because Kurosaki said he would. ]

Perhaps '15'. A skull's a little tacky...

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[faeth]

[ there goes my opportunity to tell him that his princess is in another castle......................... :( ]

I guess so... maybe we can print the logo on the spandex, instead. That way, it's less prone to wrinkle in case of an unruly breeze.

[faeth]

[ Captain Strawberryeadsklfjeasdf nope, not even going to push it. quick, change gears! ]

Eh-heh, well, then he'd get mistaken as the basketball star or a pirate, me thinks. [ in spandex. ] Maybe we can use a zoological interpretation? Like a turtle, or a rather ferocious-looking butterfly.

[repelling]

[ stop taking mushrooms!! ]

That... would keep it clearer...

[ Kurosaki in spandex. That had been mentioned, hadn't it. Still, it's a painful mental image. As cool as superheroes are, they really need to rethink their wardrobes! ]

A cockroach.

[ Oh-so-seriously. After all, he's just about impossible to crush, isn't he? ]

[faeth]

[ you're not the final boss of me!! ]

You don't really think, [ because suddenly this is a concern that she completely overlooked. so, yes, her expression subdues abruptly and completely. ] that the powers-that-be will resort to a nuclear war, do you?

[repelling]

[ are you sure ]

[ ...where did that come from... no, he can sort of follow that train of thought, which is a worrying thing in and of itself. ]

The- what? Of course not.

[faeth]

[ marginally sure ]

I guess I should scratch insulating foam off from our shopping list, then...