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WHO: Luke and Ichigo. Nel is welcome to invade.
LOCATION: ~~THAT HORRIBLE SANDPIT~~ Agrabah
TIME: Evening
WHAT: Mutual wound licking after the whole Maleficent fiasco.
RATING: TBD

Luke flinched as he rolled over in what was supposed to be his bed. His shoulder was still sore from being flung around like a ragdoll last week, though he suspected the fact that the whole ordeal at that world had been a massive blow to his ego had something to do with everything still hurting. He had been pretty out of it and extra snippy to anyone that tried to drag him out of it.

Not to mention rolling around in bed was officially his new hobby.

Though he knew that wasn't going to last. Any second now, he had a feeling there was going to be that knock on the door. The knock that signified that either Nel or Ichigo were going to try and talk him out of being a lump on a log. It happened at least once a day, after all. Aaaaany second now...

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"Oi, you awake?"

It was Ichigo's turn this time around to see if the guy was still breathing. Nel was worried about Luke and the potential possibility of accidentally offending him so Ichigo had taken the initiative of bothering the guy. Truth be told, he was annoyed with the red head. Sure, they hadn't exactly won and they all took blows but he couldn't stand to see the other like that. Just as he had once been not too long ago, he couldn't help but sympathize.

The strawberry didn't wait for a response, he just made his way inside and sat himself on the floor in front of that bed Luke was brooding on.

"You still alive? You haven't eaten. You hungry?"

Luke practically jumped when Ichigo just invited himself in. Talk about rude! Who the heck does stuff like that!

"O-oy! Don't just walk in!" he exclaimed. "I could have been changing or something!"

But, no, there Ichigo was, sitting on the floor next to him. He made a face... before stubbornly flopping over so that his back was to him.

"M'not hungry."

Of course his stomach had to go and betray him, letting out a loud rumble of protest against that statement.

"Tch."

Screaming at him and lying to him all in the short time span of a second, Luke really knew how to annoy the guy. With his hands on his knee's, he leaned forward and glared.

"Nel and I are worried about you and all you can do is just mope around in bed? Stop that! I'll kick your ass out the door myself if you don't shape up!"

Luke let out an indignant noise, grabbing his pillow and curling up around it. In the process, whether it was intentional or not, his butt ended up jutting out toward Ichigo, as if in an unspoken challenge.

"Don't tell me what to do!"

Having an ass thrown at him in response was the last straw. Without much hesitation, Ichigo was up on his feet and kicking the guy on the backside repeatedly.

"Don't give me that face, asshole! Look at me when I'm talking to you!"

Luke literally squawked as he went flying off the bed, landing on the floor in a surprised heap. It took him a moment, but it wasn't that long before he was back up on his feet. If he were a bird, his feathers would probably be ruffled, though he managed to pull off the look anyway.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"

"I don't want to look at your ass when I'm trying to talk to you, bastard!" He exclaimed not at all offended by his reaction or surprised. He did what he had to do after all, Luke was being a jerk and clearly violence was the best remedy.

"Will you talk to me at least? What's wrong! You're pissing me off and we're really worried about you!"

"That's no reason to kick me!" Luke bellowed back, looking like he wanted to hit someone. Or something. Or whatever; he was pissed!

"And what the hell do you care?!" he snapped. "I'm in a bad mood! I don't need to explain it to you!"

"You're bad mood is starting to spread and it's ticking me off. What part of that don't you get?" He muttered, moving sideways to sit on the bed beside Luke. He was clearly not going anywhere until he got answers.

"What's wrong?"

Luke made a face, turning away from Ichigo. "Nothing's wrong!"

The strawberry heaved a sigh before moving a hand over to rest it on Luke's shoulder.

"You can tell me, you know. We're friends. We need to help each other out."

Luke remained stubbornly defiant... for a moment. Then he just sort of deflated, resting his chin on his knees. Silence hung over the room for a long moment, before Luke finally spoke.

"...am I really that useless, Ichigo?" he muttered. "I couldn't do a thing against that chick. How was I supposed to save a whole city if I can't even stand up against one person?"

"You're not useless Luke." He began, the grip on his friends shoulder tightening as he leaned in. "That chick was just a once in a life-time thing. We got overwhelmed. It's not your fault."

He tried to give him a weak smile. "You can do anything you set your mind to, Luke. Someone very wise once told me that strength comes from somewhere inside. It sounds corny but I think I get it."

Luke pouted over his shoulder. "That's not corny, that just sounds stupid."

Still, he wasn't entirely convinced. Sure, he had come a ways since first being blasted out of his manor. He wasn't fighting blindly any more, not just reacting on instinct to survive a fight, but what was he really? Even Guy was a much better swordsman than he was. He needed Master Van's help just to keep his hyperresonance from exploding out of his control. That Asch guy always called him a dreck.

...was he really that useless?

"How can you brush it off if you never tried it?!" He shoved him. Hard.

"You're not going to anything about it just laying around being depressed. If you want to get stronger then get stronger. Train. Go out. Fight things. If you stay here, you'll never change and you'll start rusting like an old man. I don't want to push you around on a wheel chair all my life."

Ichigo shoving someone hard doesn't usually bode well for the person being shoved. Naturally, Luke went tumbling forward, rolling until his back splatted against the far wall, legs dangling up in the air. He narrowed his eyes at the other teen, not pleased in the slightest.

"Ichigo?" he began. "This? Doesn't help."

"I never said I was good at this." He muttered, crossing his arms and just watching him. And truth be told, he really didn't know how to help him. He did but how could he when he had his own demons on the subject?

"Fight back. You can't let me push you around. You can't let anything push you around." And that's all he could really think about, it was what originally had him continuing whenever everything went dark. "You got too much at risk, don't you? So why the hell won't you try?"

Luke flopped over, before pushing his upper half up, giving the other boy a sour look.

"Fight back? Against you?" he asked. "Are you nuts? Your pinky finger could poke holes in me!"

"No it can't. I'm not that strong. Don't piss Nel off, she might break holes with her pinky, though." And he wasn't lying. That girl gave him a smooth run for his money.

"I'll prove it to you, okay? I'm not really human right now."

Luke gave him the blandest look ever.

"Really? I couldn't tell."

All the sarcasm in the world, Ichigo. Just for you.

"Don't give me that face." He'll punch you, you know.

"I can't get back to normal, I can't find my body." And that's probably going to sound very weird, isn't it?

A little bit weird, yes, and Ichigo made the mistake of saying it to the grand puba of spazzing. Luke stared... and stared... and then what he said clicked in his head, and he flailed.

"WHAT-- YOU-- BODY!?" was about all he managed.

"Shut up, oi! Don't be so loud." He's just going to stick a pinky in his ear to stop the ringing in his ears.

"I'm a human, okay? I'm just a substitute shinigami." He frowned, this was hard to explain. "I leave my body and I can- I just don't have it so I don't even know how everyone can see me. They just can."

Luke just stared, at a loss for what to say.

"So... you're like a... ghost?" he asked finally. "And how did people on your world see you before?"

"You can say that, I guess." He scratched at the back of his neck. Luke was actually taking this very well. Strange, he had taken the zombie thing pretty bad.

"I was a normal school student back home. As long as I was in my body I didn't have to worry. People could see me just fine. Rukia, another shinigami, she'd pull my soul from my body and I would be invisible. Only people with a strong sense for that could see me but I think the communicators here help. Everyone can see me just fine."

Luke's trying not to freak out, but mostly his confusion is keeping him in check. Ichigo's a ghost, but he's still alive... how does that what even he doesn't know.

"Maybe everyone here has a strong sense for that sort of thing?" he suggested. "I mean, most people here have special powers."

"I don't think so. I don't sense reiatsu from a lot of people here." And he let go of Luke's shoulder and frowned.

"So you see, right? You're pretty damn strong."

"...re-it-su?" Luke echoed, trying to work his mouth around the unusual world. "So... what, you can sense that in me? And what's a shiny-gami supposed to be, anyway?"

Ichigo eyed Luke for a bit. "I don't know. Everyone is weird here, they all give off something different. A shinigami are guardians of souls that are passing on. Sometimes they deal with bad spirits so they have to be well trained."

He gave a chuckle. "Normally, if you saw me like this, you would probably be dead. But don't freak out me now."

"Well, no... I know I'm alive, so..."

Luke paused, hesitating. He looked down at the ground, wiggling his toes as he tried to think. Master Van told him he shouldn't tell anyone about their plans... he hadn't even told Guy, Tear... no one. He couldn't tell them, but... well, Ichigo was telling him about himself, so...

"...I've... kinda got a power too..." he mumbled, poking at a crack on the floor.

"Oh?" That made the strawberry raise his brow, leaning in a little closer. "What is it?"

He couldn't even begin to imagine what his power was. Luke had never really shown anything and if he had, Ichigo hadn't caught him. He knew Nel was on the same boat.

Luke scratched his head. "Well, uh... I don't really understand it myself, and Master Van was going to show me and everything when I got to Akzeriuth..."

He paused a moment, scrunching up his face. "But, uh... well, on my world, there's this thing called the 'Score'. It tells the future and stuff, so people follow it and everything. In it, it says I'm the 'Scion of Lorelei', and that means I have a special power that no one else has."

Luke paused again. Well... his world was gone right now, right? And who knew when he'd ever see it again... if ever... so Master Van wouldn't be too upset with him... right?

"Um... Master Van called it 'hyperresonance', and I'm the only human that can do it on my own," he finally said. "I don't really know what it does though. The first time it happened, I ended up transported halfway across the world, and Master Van said it was an incomplete one, so..."

Ichigo's eyes widened, whatever this hyperresonance was it sounded pretty darn interesting. He gave the guy a smile, he knew Luke was special he just didn't know how. That was one way of making it show.

"It sounds awesome. Maybe it'll just grow on you again. Most of my skills I learned by just fighting. When you're under stress, abilities just show up I guess."

"Yeah, but... what if it's really dangerous? What if it can kill people?" he asked. "Master Van said he could help me control it... I dunno if I could do it right without him around."

"I'll help you. Nel and I can take a pretty good beating. Besides, you can't know until you try." Or at least he's trying to keep the same optimism Urahara kept with him.

Luke didn't look entirely convinced. After all, if Master Van said he could help him control it, how would anyone else be able to? After a moment, he let out a sigh.

"...worth a try, I guess..."

"Don't sound so depressed." And he poked him in the forehead since he figured punching him or kicking him would only piss him off. This just seemed like middle ground to him.

"We'll figure it out, okay?"

Luke pouted, reaching up to rub his forehead. That hurts, Ichibrat; you seriously don't know your own strength when it comes to humans.

"Yeah, sure," he muttered, flopping a bit. "...I wish the others were here. I..."

He screwed his face up.

"I miss Guy... and Tear. But mostly Guy."

You're complaining about a poke? Wait till you get poked by Nel. She breaks bones, man. Her breasts can break your back and your neck.

"We all miss someone. But we'll get 'em back. Trust me." And just like Ichigo always was, he was positive. Sure, he didn't know how but that was the least of his worries. He'd figure out a way. Eventually.

Death by melons... that's probably the only way to die Luke would approve of. He let out a heavy sigh, before he straightened himself, pounding a fist against an open palm.

"Well, when should we do this? And where? I don't want to be powerless like last time."

Luke's new attitude pleased Ichigo and without much of a complaint, he smiled again. About time he saw his friend out of his stump.

"Whenever you want, just say the word."

Luke grinned slightly. Man, even though he missed Guy, Ichigo was a lot like him. It was kinda scary.

...he wondered if the other redhead ever wore tights...

"All right! Maybe later this week, we can figure something out. That'll give us time to find a place to practice."

"You're on."

Sorry, Luke. Ichigo doesn't wear tights. He's a manly man. Manly men wear whatever the hell the shinigami wear and he's okay with this.

"I'm glad I could help."

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Why is this notif so late...

G-mail doesn't like you? D:

Probably not ;;

//snuggles forever

//SITS ON

//SAT ON

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