Set The Sky On Fire

[Filtered to Friends, Family and Cool People - now with Kensei]

House change, folks. Southern Forty-First, the shark and lizard are still outside.

[Filtered to Ukitake-soutaicho]

I need to talk to you when ya got the time.

[Filtered to Nobuu.]

You. Explain this shit I've heard about pranking Hitsugaya-taichou. Now.

[Now is the time for Kuukaku to make up for birthdays, it seems]

[On Renji's desk in the morning will be a nice-sized box. Within will be, among other things, the two kidou air conditioners he ordered. Along with them is a bottle of very nice sake , some assorted candies, some Kuukaku-approved kidou manuals, a tiny sombrero and a strange looking toy. With them are two letters. One is the instructions for the air conditioners, the other is the following note:]

Didn't tell me it was your birthday! Belated birthday spankings are in order, beware!


[In Ganju's dorm room, when he returns from classes today, will have a bed with a large box in it. Within is a nice leather sheath made for his strange zanpakutou, some dried vegetable treats for Bonnie-chan, assorted candies, one of the kidou air conditioners and a heater, a care kit for the sheath, and some books thrown in as well (one of them might or might not be a girlie magazine). The note attached reads as follows:]

Happy birthday, dorky little brother. Your bottle of sake is here at the house whenever you come by to visit next.

Good job on your studies, keep it up!

Ganju, Yoruichi, Kisuke...not a word.

Not a word outta none of you!

[Grumpy Shiba-san is grumpy and doesn't want to be reminded about her birthday, kthnx]

[Filtered to All Friendlies, that meaning [Family], [Friends] and [Gotei Allied (except you Kurotsuchis)]


Hakyoku Kiseki's gone. However, she did manage to leave me a note on my phone. (Some kind of voice message - how did my zanpakutou become so much better with this thing than I have?)

The short and the dirty is that the zanpakutou got a talk with Shinsou about "going home" and regaining their powers. Some took the opportunity, some didn't for various reasons. All I know is that leaving means they're separated from us forever. At least thats what Shinsou told her.

(Kira-taichou? She also mentioned something about you giving Wabisuke more hugs. I dunno what that means, its Hakyoku.)

I'd like to take the chance to remind everyone that though losing our zanpakutou is hard, devastating, this is no time to fall the fuck apart. If the last 80 years of my life taught me anything, it taught me how to be ambidextrous and that we have more available to us than our zanpakutou. We have kidou, hakuda and base zanjutsu. Take this time to hone your other skills, give yourself something to focus on (besides paperwork) and keep growing strong. 

So don't fuck around!

[Private to Renji]

Still up for those zanjutsu lessons when you get back?

[Filtered to: The Family, Friends, and Members of Seireitei That Are Not Named Kurotsuchi]


So. I would like to remind you all that my house is underground, so its nice and cool right now. I also have this nifty lake in my backyard thats got a nice little ramp made for diving off of. I also have plenty of booze from the party (you people disappointed me!) that's nice and chilled in the basement.

In other words, come visit me, damnit. Nobody's going out so nobody's wanting fireworks, so I've got nothing to do but to shunpo around in this heat and practice kidou. I mean, I don't know how to entice you people more except to offer free hookers in the deal as well. And candy. Hookers and candy, damnit, don't make me get them.

...

And Hakyoku wants to meet some shinigami and some zanpakutou "while everyone is being social for once" according to her. She only looks like she's half demon, I promise.


[ooc: Dont mind me, noisy Kuukaku muse and just wanting to show off new icons~]

[Private to Ichigo, Renji, Rukia, Shinji, Isshin, Ganju and all Gotei Captains and Vice-Captains.]

Umm, yeah.

If any of you guys hear something about a hollow attack in the 30s...that was me. Or my zanpakutou that is. Hakyoku kinda manifested out of nowhere and she says she can't go back into the blade.

What the hell's going on here?!

[Filtered to Ichigo, Rukia, Ganju, Renji, Shinji, Yoruichi, and Urahara]

I moved the house - we're outside Northern Rukongai, Twenty Seventh District. Still have the flower baskets. Lot fucking cooler up here, too, and there's a lake real close by. Am I smart or what?

[/Filter]

To whoever left their underwear in my kitchen during the party:

You're not funny, motherfucker. I will find you and make you eat your own weeks-old fundoshi with wasabi. I know who you are, too. 

[Ichigo Party Filter is go]

This is the last day to RSVP for the party folks.

To reiterate:

-Zanpakutou are to be peacebound.
-No fighting
-Clean up after yourselves
-Be here at sundown
-No fighting
-Fireworks at midnight
-Try to suppress your reiatsu til Ichigo gets here.
-No. Goddamned. Fighting.
-Bring whatever food or drinks you want, but all alcohol will be subject to my strict approval.

My house is located five kilometers outside the edge of Southern Rukongai. There will be escorts to show you the way to the house at the edge of the district, they'll be riding boars
( Filtered to Ukitake-soutaichou )


[ooc: Holy hell, eljay, what did you do to my formatting? ;_;]

[Meant to be Private, but instead is left as a Friends-Only filter]

I'm kinda shocked about hearing about Inoue-san. I mean, it was only a few days ago when she healed up my arm and all. Damnit, she was a nice girl, real sweetheart. Sincere too, not a lot of people like that left in this world or the others.

I think I'm more bothered by the fact that I was probably the last person she ever used her powers on before her death. More bothered by the fact that a Hollow was just... there at the right time to swallow her up. Even if she was freshly dead, she would still have her powers, right? There's no way that a garden-variety Hollow got her. That shit is more on my mind than her actual death.

Yeah, I know that makes me a shitty person, but I can't help it. I wasnt as close to her as any of the others, but... I owed her big time. There's no way you just walk away from a person that just completely changed your life like that. I really wanted to return the favor somehow, but now I dont get to pay back the favor and that really bothers me.

Ichigo said she was buried in Inuzuri. Really Ichigo? Inuzuri? Forests for miles around here and you bury her in a slum like that? I think I'm gonna go for a walk. Bring her a little sake, even if she wasnt a drinker. I just feel itchy by not paying some respects.

I think I'll go visit Kaien too, bring him a bottle of that god-awful beer he loved. Him and Miyako.

Goddamnit, the shit never stops, does it?

[The following is a voice message]

Hmm, lets see if this works.

I'm looking for an Inoue Orihime. I need to speak to you as soon as possible.

Thanks.

The message ends as quickly as it began. Seems at least Kuukaku understands voicemail now.