(repost) [Bleach] Gesundheit
Title: Gesundheit
Series: Bleach
Character/Pairing: Ichigo, Rukia
Rating: G
Genre: Humour
Author's Notes: I know that usually (or at least in the Shinigami Cups) sneezing in Bleach is used as a "hey, someone is talking about you", kind of like how your ears are supposed to burn.
However, there is another superstition dating from the Plague that if you sneezed particularly strongly that your soul would be expelled from your body. (Previous to that, it was actually good luck to sneeze, as it was believed to dispel evil spirits from your body.) A superstitions website
Kind of obvious, but I wrote this soon after sneezing partiularly violently.
"Here." Rukia thrust some ground pepper under Ichigo's nose, causing him to sneeze and catapult his spirit form out of his body.
"Eh? How does that work?" he stared down at wonder at his body lying on the floor behind him before patting down his spirit form.
Rukia, instead of answering, grabbed his hand and hauled him along, checking her soul pager as she ran. It was only when she was being carried piggyback after the hollow purification did she bother answering.
"Idiot, where you you think those myths about sneezes catapulting the soul out of the body came from?"