B Side pt.6

B Side
Chapter Six: Balls About
"Oh come on Ichigo, it's only fair," Rukia huffed in frustration, Ichigo put his nose in the air and pouted like a small child, "No way, I am not subjecting myself to that kind of torture and more importantly I'm not letting a BLOOD SUCKER around MY pack, it's bad enough I let him around my MATE, you understand that if my father knew about that he'd cut off my head?" he replied, Rukia rolled her eyes, "Oh PLEASE Ichigo, your father is incapable of cutting off the head of ANYTHING accept MAYBE a cake shaped like a dog, but even that I doubt," she replied, he sighed and rubbed his eyes, "Rukia... you'll understand when you're-" "What? Older?" ".... Wolfier," she sighed and shook her head, bringing her nife down on the chicken breast on the cutting board, "Look Ichigo, Uryuu is civil enough to accept the deal now the best way to show them you're civil is to accept too," she explained, scooping up the small, diced peices, and dividing them equally between three bowls before going to cut up another peice of chicken, having six dogs, four cats, and two ferrets could certainly be a chore... "Who said he was being civil?" Ichigo huffed back, looking down at the tiled floor of the kitchen, she glared at him, putting the cut up chicken into the rest of the bowls and setting them on the floor, "Ichigo, we're going, you're not complaining, and that's the end of it, now go call the babies for dinner," he sighed and trudged off, "You sure do have that disciplinairy motherly thing going..." he muttered, "What was that?" "Nothing~"

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"Oh come on Uryuu!" Orihime begged, Uryuu sighed, "Orihime, I love you dearly, but to associate myself with that... that... MUTT...." he said with a cringe and a shake of his head, Orihime sighed lightly and frowned, "Please Uryuu? PLEASE?" she begged, batting her eyes at him, Uryuu stared at her for a moment before sighing and closing his eyes, "Alright... alright just.... don't make that face at me..."

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Typing with one hand, scratching the dog's head with the other hand, it was a usual routine for Rukia, "Rukia! Aren't you ready yet? You're the one making me go to this stupid vampire-baseball game," Ichigo grumbled as she looked up from her laptop screen, "I know I know, just give me one more minute," she said, the gold and wite collie beside her, Hermione, wimpered slightly and hopped down from beside Rukia, going over instead to try to get some attention from Ichigo, who merely reached down and scratched her behind her ears for a moment, "It looks like it's going to rain..." he muttered with a sigh, staring out the window, "It is, that's why they're having the game today," Rukia replied, closing down her laptop and walking to the closet to get dressed, "What morons play baseball in the rain?" "Apparently the thunder covers up the noise," Rukia replied, Ichigo huffed, "You better have a rain coat and an umbrella ready, you are NOT going out there and catching pneumonia," "Yes DAD, I hear you," she scoffed back, Ichigo flinched, "Don't be like that..." "Be like what? You're the one treating me like a child," she replied, he huffed, "I am not," he muttered back, "You're right, now YOU'RE acting much more like a child,"

"Hey Rukia! How are you?" Orihime chirped happily as Rukia skipped across the feild, "Just fine, Ichigo is in a royal mood though," "Oh?" she asked, looking over her shoulder at the pouting werewolf, "Not happy about the game huh?" "Oh no, that we settled a week ago, he's not happy because I refused to wear a raincoat," she replied, "Oh," Orihime laughed lightly, smiling at the two, "So who are the other players in this game?" Ichigo asked, tilting his head, the feild was empty so far, all except for the three of them and Uryuu, who was off putting the bases down, "Uryuu's cousin's covn," Orihime chimed, "Cousin's coven.. that's a mouthfull..." Ichigo chuckled to himself, "Speaking of, now that I think of it why doesn't Uryuu have a coven?" Rukia asked curiously, "Ah... well.... that's sort of a long story so I'll tell you later," she replied, hearing a wistle and turning around, apparently that was the signal that the rest of the coven was coming, Ichigo had to resist a growl as the distinct scent of vampire filtered through his nose, "Well well, what do we have here? A mutt and an appetizer," cackled a blue-haired man, "Grimmjow," a cold looking man with green eyes said, "I am sure our cousin has reason to bring such trash to our game," he said, "HEY!" Ichigo snarled, Rukia held her hand up and he reluctantly stepped back, "Uryuu, what's the meaning of this?" asked a young woman with green hair and a pink tattoo across her nose, "The woman is a close freind of Orihime's, the wolf is her mate, Orihime invited them," he replied, pushing his glasses into place, "Boy, you sure know how to pick a crowd," Grimmjow scoffed, picking up the baseball on the ground and tossing it between his hands, "I guess it really doesn't matter though, let's pick teams and then.. game on," he chuckled

Ichigo moved uncomfortably on the bench he was sitting on, he had been watching this game for what felt like hours but in reality had only been about one hour and his butt was going numb... "Are you as bored as I am?" he grumbled, rubbing the back of his sore neck, "As a stick," Rukia replied, leaning on his shoulder, "So why don't we leave?" "That would be rude and besides, Orihime and I are trying to make our CHILDREN get along," she replied with a light laugh and a distinct glare at him on the word "children", Ichigo sighed lightly, "Where's Orihime anyway?" "She went down the street to get some hot dogs and drinks, she said these games could go on for hours," she replied, he thought on that for a moment, "How long do you think it would take for me to just, you know, strangle myself?" she rolled her eyes

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"That was hair raising in the worst of ways," Ichigo grumbled as he stumbled towards the car, he wasn't sure how much time had passed... but Rukia insisted it was only three hours.... luckily though it hadn't started raining yet, it was just overcast so it was understandable why the "thunder" (or vampires swinging baseball bats) was starting early, "Come on Ichigo it wasn't that bad, atleast you LIKE baseball," "But they were just running around slamming together, it was dizzying," he grumbled back, opening her car door for her, "Ichigo," she said with a sigh, "And I want another hot dog, who in the world considers ONE hot dog lunch?" he replied, she sighed and leaned back, buckling her seat belt and shutting her door, "Apparently not werewolves," she mused as he walked around to the other side of the car and got in, "Look on the bright side Ichigo, tommorrow is your game, so they-" "Aha! ... I will never let them eat! That's how I'll show them!" he chuckled, she rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Maybe you can rethink what I meant by that after dinner..."

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"This is so exciting! I've never watched werewolves play football before!" Orihime chirped happily, Rukia nodded once, "It's alot more fun than watching humans play it but it can still get pretty boring," she replied, noticing that Ichigo had suddenly started to stand up straighter, "Ah, the pack is on the horizen," she said, smiling to herself as a group of people walked towards them, in the front was a red-haired man with tattoos, to his sides were a bald man and a man with orange and green feathers in his eyelashes, behind those three were two young girls, one with light, sandy colored hair, and one with black hair slightly longer than Rukia's, and finally behind them were two men and two women, one man was tall and dark-skinned with dark hair, the other was very short with spikey, wite hair and teal eyes, the women were simaler in size, one was tall with long, strawberry-blonde hair, the other short with brown hair wrapped in a blue cloth, "What are vampires doing here?" growled the bald man, "The girl is Rukia's freind, the vampire... is with the girl," Ichigo replied, Rukia cleared her throat and stepped forward, "Everyone, this is Orihime, she's like a sister to me, Orihime, this is my pack, Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Yuzu and Karin who are Ichigo's sisters, Chad, Toshiro, Rangiku, and Momo," she said, pointing to each person respectively wile listing their names; wile most of the girls seemed happy and accepting of Orihime most of the men did not, the exceptions being Yumichika and Karin respectively holding opposite opinions, "Don't worry about them, let's get this game on!" Ichigo shouted with a smirk, with that, the girls all went over to the bleachers that stood on the highschool football feild they were on, "Rukia, are all these girls werewolves or just mates?" Orihime asked cheerfully as she followed her freind, "Werewolves, but Momo is actually Toshiro's mate as well as a wolf in her own right," Orihime nodded slowly, "You said two of them were Ichigo's sisters.. so do all family members become werewolves?" "Yes, the wolf gene is genetic and spread by.... er.... certain contact, transfer of blood or uh... other such things..." she mused, rubbing the back of her neck, "So are Ichigo's parents..?" "His dad is in charge of another pack, an older pack, once Ichigo became eighteen he split into his own pack so that he could mate, atleast that's the primal reason for it, politcally it's just so that the packs don't get too big and overwelming to control, it's easier to keep track of who's who and such, but the packs still alli eachother so it really isn't too big of a deal," she explained, "And his mom?" Rukia looked down, "His mom... passed away when he was eight," Orihime's mouth opened slightly, "O-Oh... I'm so sorry..." she nodded once, "Just don't bring it up to him, he doesn't like thinking about it," "I understand," she replied quietly

"So then they aren't going to turn into wolves at all?" Orihime asked with a pout as the men on the feild continued on with their barbaric sport, Uryuu was watching from a bench on the sidelines, apparently uninterested, "Nope, they'll bite and claw at eachother though," Rukia replied, "Oh..." Orihime replied, a bit dissapointed, she was sort of hoping for something more Twilight-ish... "Oh by the way Rukia, did you get that doll yet?" they heard, looking up to see Momo staring down at them from the bench above them, "Doll-? OH! Yes! I got her in yesterday! Do you want to come over and see her after the game!?" she asked excitedly, Yuzu and Momo both agreed happily and Rangiku just shrugged, "Well I don't go for dolls but I'd love to come over and have dinner! You're such a good cook Rukia!" she said with a smile, "Well thank you but I won't be cooking tonight," "Oh? Alpha Ichigo then? Hm, I guess he'll do-" "No I won't be cooking because Ichigo and I are going to be at his father's house for dinner, we have to talk to him about watching our pets for us when we go on our honeymoon," she replied, Yuzu smiled, "Oh Rukia I'm sure Dad will be fine with it," "I know but I need to make sure about a few details," she replied, "I thought I was babysitting," Orihime mused, "Aren't you going out of town that week?" she asked with raised eyebrows, Orihime thought about that for a moment, "Oh... yeah... I have to be away Wendsday through Friday of that week..." "Exactly," luckily for Ichigo and Rukia they had three choices of babysitters, Orihime, Renji, and Ichigo's dad and sisters, but more times than not it came down to Ichigo's dad, Orihime had to leave town fairly often so pinning her down was like trying to catch a greased pig in the rain, Renji was... well... Renji had BAD cat allergies... and so it usually came down to Ichigo's family, but if on the worst case scenario his father and sisters were unable to babysit Ichigo did have an entire pack to turn to, surely SOMEONE could take care of a few dogs and cats for a week... and ferrets.... or at the VERY least come by and feed them and change the litter boxes and pappers, Rukia would ask her brother but he wasn't exactly an animal person, ferrets scared him, dogs were too loud, and he hated cats for some reason Rukia still don't know about, unless it was because he was afraid the cats would eat his pet fish..... ah fish.... the only animals her brother Byakuya had any tolerence for.... "Orihime you'll come by too right?" she asked, Orihime tilted her head, "Oh... well... I don't know if Uryuu would be too keen on that..." "Well ask him! Come on we can have a few hours of girl time since the boys always go out to have some lunch or terrorize a village or something after the game, as if playing football doesn't make them feel neandtheralish enough as it is," she said with a slight laugh, "Yeah they REALLY need to feel masculine," Rangiku laughed, "So Orihime?" Rukia asked hopefully, Orihime smiled lightly, "Sure, Uryuu can do something by himself for once," Rukia smiled and patted her on the head, "Now THAT'S my girl!" she laughed