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[conqueredhero]

[Ichigo's default state is "not particularly happy."

So when he appears on video in the late afternoon looking downright displeased, something is certainly up.]

What. The hell. Is going on?

I've been eating non-stop since I woke up this morning, and it's just getting worse. I can't stop feeling like-- what is this?

[Heightened sense of paranoia

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[ video ] LOL IDK IF THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN ;; if not, i can delete!

[unifying]

K-Kurosaki-kun too..?

[ video ] SKJDHFKJSDHFKSDF it's public, she can comment!

[conqueredhero]

[Oh HELLO there girl he knows has a crush on him and oh dear that just made something inside him kind of twinge a little.]

Y-yeah, you too? I don't understand, it's-- I just don't get it.

[ then... then FOREVER VIDEO. maybe. ]

[unifying]

[ Orihime is BLISSFULLY UNAWARE of this new-found knowledge of his, and is therefore able to set aside her usual blushy-fluttery behavior around him because this is CONCERN right here, and she has loads of it. ]

I.. I thought at first I was just feeling picky... [ The device shifts, and he can see the DISASTER of a kitchen just behind her. It seriously looks like a tornado went through it. ] So I made everything I could remember.

[forever video until... awkward, because it's inevitable, yep.]

[conqueredhero]

[Let's keep her unaware juuuust for now. The talk with Renji did a tiny bit of good, but he's still gonna keep it under wraps and, just this once, not feel like he should be trying to dissuade her from looking all CONCERNED. Because, yeah, this is a good time for it.]

It's like... not even hungry, but. Uh. Feeling kind of-- [What's the pilot way to say he feels like someone just gave him a hormone overdose? And also, whoa, Hime, whoa.] That wasn't even enough...? Dammit, Arawn and that, that other lady, they're up to something!

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[itsatrep]

Maybe you're not eating the right thing.

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[conqueredhero]

[Well, this is the very definition of "I don't need this shit right now."]

Unless you had something to do with this, I don't want to hear it.

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[itsatrep]

I'm just trying to help you out.

I'd like to take credit for it, but it wasn't me.

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[conqueredhero]

If I wanted your kind of help I'd go hurl myself in the damn ocean because I've gone insane!

I didn't figure you did. Aizen's at least got more class than this shit.

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[swordsinside]

It better not be the mark, I just got here yesterday.

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[conqueredhero]

[Oh lord she has breasts. He's just going to avoid looking directly at the screen now.]

Oh. Damn, I guess we... you're feeling it too, then, right?

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[swordsinside]

[Shura is so used to that reaction that she doesn't even bother picking at it like she might other things.]

Yeah, I've been eating on and off all day. Nothin' works, not even alcohol.

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[conqueredhero]

[That will save at least a little awkward. Not much! But a little!]

...Great, can't even drink the-- the feeling away, that's great. You don't know anyone that's managed to shake it off?

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[subdueme]

[Looks down at the remaining blood tablets he has before turning on the video function of the communicator. The first thing you'll notice is the person you're talking to doesn't have a mark on his cheek (though there is a huge tattoo on his neck on the side the mark should be at)]

Everyone is like this? [Might just be a little visibly relieved by this news.]

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[conqueredhero]

[No mark. That's hard to miss, unless that giant tattoo is... what they evolve into or something, hell, Ichigo isn't thinking hard right now.]

Everyone I've talked to today. It just won't stop, dammit.

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[subdueme]

[That would be a freaky ass evolution. But Zero's just relieved that this unquenchable thirst is just a part of what is going on and not something specifically to do with him.]

I don't know if knowing this is a good or bad thing. It's nice knowing it's not entirely our fault but...[Yeah.] If this is the sort of thing they're gonna do to us. It's like some twisted competition of self-restraint.

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[conqueredhero]

[Hey, at this point, he'll believe anything. It's not like he's even close to the right mood to think something's impossible.]

It's a bad thing. Nothing here is good, dammit! [Okay, deep breaths, deep ones.] Hell with them, I'm not giving in. You listening, Arawn? I'm not giving in!

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[howlingcircle]

[He really shouldn't say it, he knows he shouldn't, just look at the concern on the guy's face. He sounds like he's going crazy, but since when does Ichigo go crazy? He probably owes him one from somewhere but...

No, he can't, he won't, but it's so tempting.

So tempting.

He's really not good with self control.]

...You pregnant?

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[conqueredhero]

[Congratulations, Renji.

Not since our second duel, way back when the adventure first began practically, has Ichigo wanted to punch you in the face more than right now.]

I'm going to find where you live and pound your face into the sand, Renji!

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[howlingcircle]

[Time to play innocent.]

What the hell!? I'm just lookin' out for you!

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[conqueredhero]

[Oh no you don't mister.]

Go to hell, you're just trying to piss me off!