When you want the world to stop, cheer up a friend.
This is a K4 fiction, a 'feel better' fiction for a very good friend. *snuggles* Hope you enjoy ~
The Beach
Kaien sighed and mentally checked his internal list again, he was sure it shouldn't be this much trouble to organise an outing to the Nexus beach, especially when all the people going were fourteen or older - but, this was his family.
After seeing Kon looking a little more down than usual (the 'secret' porn stack had been unraided in two whole days), and knowing all the twins had been through in the last year, he had decided nothing was a better idea than a nice relaxing family day at the beach.
...That was before he started to organise it.
Kon had been no trouble, he just mentioned the beach and his youngest brother had been off in raptures of delight, muttering about such wonders as the string bikini.
Shiro and Ichigo had been the hard ones to convince, Shiro didn't see the point of going all the way to the beach to hide under a beach umbrella and be slathered with so much sun-cream he smelled like "a fucking coconut cocktail". While Ichigo was obviously too caught up in his budding relationship with Ishida to be bothered by such things as a geeky day at the beach with his brothers.
He'd strategically invited both Orihime and Ishida to convince the twins, and was half successful when Orihime gleefully not only agreed, but offered to make up the picnic basket. Ishida politely refused, explaining he was not much of a swimmer and did not enjoy sunbathing, so Kaien had to think of another way to persuade the strawberry.
Eventually he'd hit on convincing him that Chikinomi would enjoy the ocean, and Ichigo had grudgingly agreed to come along - of course, that would have made it all too simple so it was inevitable that this decision had caused an international incident, as Kon argued he didn't want to go anywhere with that 'soft-toy murdering, Kai-eating, destructive animal'.
Kaien didn't quite know how he'd finally managed to wrestle his entire family, plus a small hollow who growled possessively if anyone went within three feet of Ichigo, to the beach. But he had, and that was all that was important. It had taken so much to get them here that Kaien was just more determined to make this day perfect - and after all, now they were here nothing could go wrong.
Closing his eyes for a moment of well-deserved peace, Kaien only had time to take one deep breath before he was interrupted by a chorus of voices.
"--Kaien-niiiii--"
"--Yo, big bro--"
"--I'm going home--"
Without opening his eyes, Kaien forced himself to reply calmly and not show his fraying edges.
"What? What is so bad that we have to leave when we just got here?"
The answer came, final and unable to be argued with, in a united chorus.
"It's raining."
The Beach
Kaien sighed and mentally checked his internal list again, he was sure it shouldn't be this much trouble to organise an outing to the Nexus beach, especially when all the people going were fourteen or older - but, this was his family.
After seeing Kon looking a little more down than usual (the 'secret' porn stack had been unraided in two whole days), and knowing all the twins had been through in the last year, he had decided nothing was a better idea than a nice relaxing family day at the beach.
...That was before he started to organise it.
Kon had been no trouble, he just mentioned the beach and his youngest brother had been off in raptures of delight, muttering about such wonders as the string bikini.
Shiro and Ichigo had been the hard ones to convince, Shiro didn't see the point of going all the way to the beach to hide under a beach umbrella and be slathered with so much sun-cream he smelled like "a fucking coconut cocktail". While Ichigo was obviously too caught up in his budding relationship with Ishida to be bothered by such things as a geeky day at the beach with his brothers.
He'd strategically invited both Orihime and Ishida to convince the twins, and was half successful when Orihime gleefully not only agreed, but offered to make up the picnic basket. Ishida politely refused, explaining he was not much of a swimmer and did not enjoy sunbathing, so Kaien had to think of another way to persuade the strawberry.
Eventually he'd hit on convincing him that Chikinomi would enjoy the ocean, and Ichigo had grudgingly agreed to come along - of course, that would have made it all too simple so it was inevitable that this decision had caused an international incident, as Kon argued he didn't want to go anywhere with that 'soft-toy murdering, Kai-eating, destructive animal'.
Kaien didn't quite know how he'd finally managed to wrestle his entire family, plus a small hollow who growled possessively if anyone went within three feet of Ichigo, to the beach. But he had, and that was all that was important. It had taken so much to get them here that Kaien was just more determined to make this day perfect - and after all, now they were here nothing could go wrong.
Closing his eyes for a moment of well-deserved peace, Kaien only had time to take one deep breath before he was interrupted by a chorus of voices.
"--Kaien-niiiii--"
"--Yo, big bro--"
"--I'm going home--"
Without opening his eyes, Kaien forced himself to reply calmly and not show his fraying edges.
"What? What is so bad that we have to leave when we just got here?"
The answer came, final and unable to be argued with, in a united chorus.
"It's raining."