With the Captains suffering casualties and heavy injuries on their side, all hope seemed to be lost... until Shinji Hirako appeared, along with the rest of the former Shinigami. Though the aid of the Vizards certainly helped to draw the battle in their favor, it seemed Aizen's power alone proved too much for them.
Graciela skidded to a stop in front of the first store they passed. Her eyes gleamed as she saw all the designer clothes, and might have actually started to drool. She looked over her shoulder and slurred her words together very quickly.
"Oh my gods, we have to go in here, please please please please!", she groveled at the knees of her two companions.
She let her bottom lip shove out, and her eyes began to twinkle. She had practiced this look before they left knowing fully well that it would be her ultimate weapon.
"C'mon please, Stubby-san, Drunken-sama!", she called the two by her nicknames for them.
Adan rubbed his face with his stump of a left hand. Originally, he had planned to watch and sneak up on these two... Gracelia and Samuii or something... But then they had caught him and he had pretended like his intentions were to follow them around. It worked just as well. He'd just have to hold off on the sneaking up on them bit.
The only problem was, they wanted so badly to go into girls' clothing shops. It wasn't exactly good for Adan. "Can we try somewhere else?"
He was in a gigai, after all. People could see him... and worst of all... what if someone saw them? Caught him in the act of looking at clothes with these two? Well, on one hand they might be jealous as hell, but on the other hand, well, he was a guy. In a clothing store. For girls.
He didn't want to risk being seen.
He slipped his stump into his jacket pocket, which was dark blue compared to the rest of the jacket's light gray. "Ah, let's find some place with food or something. I think that'd work better! C'mon, le'sgo!"
He had only taken a few steps forward, not actually having any idea where he was going to be headed. For whatever reason, he had a feeling they were gonna drag him into the store with them.
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Samuii huffed. Just how was she dragged into this again? She did not like having friends, nor did she really need them. To her, they just got in the way. But for some inexplicable reason, Graciela persuaded her to come along on one of her shopping trips. And she had agreed.
"Stop calling me that!" she said in annoyance. What's with the Drunken-sama shit? Okay, there was that one time...but that didn't count! She didn't even remember that night, the consequences of being severely intoxicated.
And then, to make things even better, another one joined their little party. He had introduced himself to them, but Samuii prefered Graciela's Stubby-san. It suited him perfectly. Well that, and the fact that she was terrible with names. So, the three Musketeers went on their way, though the two were really just following Graciela and wherever she took them, they followed. Until the clothes store.
Usually, Samuii couldn't be bothered with clothes. What was the point of wasting money on trivial things like that, anyway? She was about to say no, when she noticed how uncomfortable Stubby-san was. Would she be that terrible and force a man into the trenches of feminine articles?
"I actually like that jacket over there...I wonder how much it costs."
She gave Adan the most scariest look she could ever give as he began to speak. She hopped on his back and began pulling his hair screeching.
"STUBBY-SAN YOUR GOING IN!",she roared to the poor man.
She let him down after listening to Drunken...erm-Samuii's first comment. She began a pout and was beginning to get down on her knees again.
She smiled victoriously as she gripped both of their hands and began to drag them in. The only way they were getting away is if they sneaked.
Fat chance.
In the next few moments she had two piles of clothes that she gathered. One for Samuii to try, and another for her to try. She pointed to a seat as she commanded Adan to sit and be the one to tell them how they looked.
This day was beginning to be so fun for Graciela. A nice break from her quiet and alone life. Not that she didn't mind it was just that communication was good, and it felt nice.
"ITAI! ITAI!" Adan screeched as his hair was practically ripped out of his head by the hyper-active Graciela. His hands flew up, clawing the air, then moved back towards her to try to shove her off. "Ge'roff!"
His eyes squeezed shut with pain, and before he knew it, he was sitting down inside of the shop. Oh great, he'd been dragged. He buried his face in his hand, his stump rubbing against the back of his head.
"Oh please be merciful, please be merciful," He murmured under his breath. Hopefully, word of this would never leave the human world.
And if it did, he had problems.
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Only the jacket. Samuii really only wanted the jacket. She let Graciela drag her in so that she could buy the jacket.
But as she looked down at the pile of clothes Graciela generously 'plopped' in front of her, the red-haired arrancar couldn't help but frown. Damn. That was a lot of clothes. She couldn't honestly be thinking that she'd actually put them on. She pulled a tiny silver dress from the pile and frowned some more. No, scratch that. Not a dress, a tube of shiny cloth. How the hell did it stay on?
Obviously, Samuii had never heard of strapless dresses.
"I'm supposed to wear this?" she asked slowly. Maybe she shouldn't have caused Stubby-san excruciating pain and humiliation...
If I behave? Adan questioned mentally. Maybe following these two was a bad idea. Maybe getting caught in the act was an even worse idea. And who did she think she was?! Bossing Adan around?! He removed his hand slightly and then decided, Ok, I'll just give them hell.
A slight smile crossed his face. A mischievious smile.
Payback would be ever-so-sweet, and ever-so-his.
And it was then that he was struck in the face by a weird, poofy scarf. Pink in hue. He brought his stump up to his eye and began to rub it furiously, as if it would remove some of the stinging.
"Na? Why're ya askin' me?" Adan drawled as soon as he recovered. He couldn't get motivated to add any humor to the night here! If he did, he'd be ganged up on and murdered!
Call him a coward.
"Actually, you look like someone spilled paint all over your uniform."
Or call him suicidal.
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Three? She had to put on three? That was three too many in Samuii's case. But, if she ever wanted to get out of the store, she had no choice but to. Randomly pulling out two pieces of clothing (a green sweater and a purple turtleneck) and swiping the aforementioned jacket from the rack, Samuii dragged herself to the dressing room. "If I don't come out, I killed myself." she said as she slammed the door shut.
First, she tried on the jacket. It was nice; she was definitley going to get it.
Next, she put on the green sweater. Not a good idea. Green sweaters and flaring red hair made her look like the spokeslady for Christmas! Did she have to come out with it on? Graciela would probaby drag her out anyway. Opening the door, she stuck her head out and saw said Arrancar wearing a pink dress. Ew. Pink was not a good colour. But that was because with red hair, pink is a big no-no.
"I hate pink," she remarked. And then Stubby-san opened his mouth. Samuii smirked. There was going to be violence~!
She blinked twice and looked at Samuii. She smiled at her and pretended to forget what the man had said.
"I think.... you look great!" She said even though she thought she looked like a Christmas tree.
The more she tried to forget Adan's comment the more it irked her.
She took her hand and slapped him across the face. Twice. No three times. Scratch that she ended with five. She looked at her hand and gasped.
"Yare yare, you hurt my hand. BAKA! Now take this and get dressed in it. OR ELSE!" She screamed at the boy and handed him an article of clothing under a blanket. Under it was a ruffled blue dress.
She looked to Samuii and made the motion of drinking and pointed up five fingers. She was telling her that they would go drinking in five minutes.
If Adan had the balls to not put on the dress she would have to cut off a limb.