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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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[willoffire]

Plans are overrated, y'know! [ Speaking from experience here.

Also. Yalo thar, Ichigo. ]

[1stguardian]

[ Remembering the impromptu invasion of Hueco Mundo, he kind of has to agree with that. ]

Heh. Yeah, all right. I guess they are. Sometimes.

Sometimes they're good to have, though.

[ Why, hello! ]

[willoffire]

Yeah, yeah, sometimes we don't need plans, see? Except, my friends always say I ought'a plan more. [ A bit of a beat. ]

What about yours?

[ LALALA MAYBE KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THAT ALREADY? ]

[1stguardian]

[ He snorts. ]

Sounds like your friends have a lot in common with mine. Wouldn't happen to call a guy named Ishida friend, would you?

[willoffire]

[ That gets a quiet laugh out of him. ] As a matter of fact, I would.

Well. I mean, I call him Uryuu. But it's Ishida Uryuu, right?

[1stguardian]

Huh?

[ Not expecting that at all, he blinks. Then scratches awkwardly at the back of his neck. ]

Uh, yeah. That's him. Ishida. [ A pause. ] You really call him that?

[willoffire]

Yep! All the time. 'Course, he didn't like it much at the start, but he's my friend. Friends don't call each other by their last names, dammit!

[ Uh. Someone is a little opinionated. ] Just like I wouldn't call you 'Kurosaki'. It'd be weird.

[1stguardian]

That's because he doesn't like anything that isn't sewing. Sure they do. Well, some of them do.

[ Ichigo doesn't. That implies a certain level of decorum he doesn't have the patience to observe. ]

Hey, if you're not calling Ishida Ishida, you better not be calling me Kurosaki.

[ Because clearly this is some sort of competition now. ]

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[willoffire]

Hey, sewing is cool! Don't knock it! [ Pffft. He will defend Ishida's right to sew and be a weirdo forever. ] ] No, they don't. It's stupid. ...you still call him Ishida.

You're friends, right?

[willoffire]

[ lkadhjghs crap. There's a pause and with it, some internal debate. ] I couldn't call you Kurosaki. You don't. Uh. You don't call your precious people by their last names either.

[ A W K W A R D ]

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[1stguardian]

We're more like comrades. You know. Guys that go to the same school and fight hollows together.

[ Denial. Still alive and well in Kurosaki land. ]

[1stguardian]

[ And now it's his turn to pause uncertainly. Because sure, he has precious people, but he doesn't really admit it, and no one's ever called him that before either. ]

Oh. Yeah, you wouldn't. I mean, don't. You just... You call them whatever you want, right?

[ Say something that isn't stupid, why don't you? ]

Probably means I oughta call you by your first name, huh?

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[willoffire]

[ Oh man, he knows bullshit when he hears it. ] Don't gimme that. You'd go to hell and back to help him if you had to. An' he'd do the same for you.

Go on, tell me you wouldn't.

[willoffire]

[ Oh yeah, just rollin' in all the awkward up in here. Naruto nods quickly and clears his throat. THIS DOES NOT HELP AT ALL. ] Yeah! Yep! That's it, yes, you got it.

[ There's a beat. Then there's another. ]

You don't know my name, do ya'?

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[1stguardian]

[ THIS WOULD BE THE DEFENSIVENESS KICKING IN. ]

Yeah? So? I do that kinda shit all the time.

[1stguardian]

[ Crap.

The sneaking suspicion that he ought to know the guy's name begins to weigh far too heavily on him. But he just doesn't and he knows he can't lie about it. ]

...No. [ Crap. ] But I will if you tell me.

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[willoffire]

[ Right back ath'cha there, Ichigo! ] Then why can't you call him Uryuu, huh? It's not hard to pronounce! UR-Y-UUU! See?!

[willoffire]

You don't. Know it.

[ Oh. Oh, that's just. ]

[willoffire]

[ TYPICAL. Isn't it? YES, IT IS. IT'S TYPICAL! He's not even surprised anymore, except maybe he is. Never mind that he's never even spoken to this particular Ichigo before.

Nope, that doesn't much matter. ]

[willoffire]

Yeah, yeah you don't know my name. You might not remember it even if I TOLD YA' YOURE BAD WITH NAMES, RIGHT ICHIGO!?

[ Watch as Naruto shoots from deceptively calm to almost raging. Also there's some flailing here. ]

NAMES DON'T MATTER ALL THAT MUCH ANYWAY, WHY WOULD THEY?! THEY'RE ONLY STUPID NAMES, LIKE PEOPLE ARE JUST STUPID PEOPLE!

[willoffire]

[ Taking a moment to breathe! ]

Even if I tell you, you might forget again. YOU DO THAT, AFTERALL! YEAH, YEAH! TELL A GUY YOU LOVE HIM, SURE THING, FORGET HIS NAME A FEW MONTHS LATER! NOOOOO PROBLEM!


IT'S JUST ANOTHER DAY FOR KUROSAKI ICHIGO!

...done.

[willoffire]

[ Wheezing as he pauses. ]

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[1stguardian]

I know how to pronounce it! I'm not stupid, I'm just not --

[1stguardian]

[ Double crap. It looks like the guy's getting upset.

Way to go, Kurosaki. Make the guy feel like shit. ]

Hey, look...

[1stguardian]

[ The attempt at being comforting is abruptly derailed by the guy going from sad to furious in less time it takes Ichigo to blink. ]

Wait, what?