At the Gay Bar

Later that day, Yuzu carefully sneaked into Ichigo’s bedroom to retrieve the clothing he had left strewn about his floor. Once successful in her mission she retreated back downstairs and proceeded to separate the laundry. She picked up a pair of Ichigo’s jeans and when she turned the pockets inside out, a small piece of paper fluttered out and landed on the washing machine.

“555-9881- Lola,” Yuzu read aloud. Her eyes grew wide in shock. “Karin!!” she yelled as she went running into the living room where her sister was playing video games. “Karin! Karin! Karin!”

“Geez, what do you want?” she replied, barely taking her eyes off the TV screen.

“Look what I found in Ichigo’s pocket!” she said excitedly as she thrust the piece of paper into Karin’s face, distracting her just enough to kill whatever little creature she had been playing as.

Karin glared at her sister and took the offending piece of paper. “Well… now I really wonder what Ichigo was up to last night.”

As luck would have it, that was the moment Ichigo decided to grace the world with his presence. He came stumbling down the stairs massaging his head trying to get rid of the last of his horrid headache.
“Hey Ichigo!” Karin called to him in a teasing tone.

“Karin don’t. You shouldn’t tease him!” Yuzu whispered to her. Ichigo just looked blankly in their general direction.

But of course since when has listening to advice like that ever been fun? “Ichigo,” Karin continued, “who’s Lola?” she asked with the biggest grin.

“What are you talking about? What kind of name is Lola?” Ichigo walked over to his sisters and took the piece of paper from Karin, studying it carefully.

“It’s a foreign name isn’t it?” Yuzu offered.

“Oo, Ichigo scored with a foreign chick!” Karin exclaimed.

Ichigo barely got his mouth open to respond when his father barreled into the room knocking Ichigo off his feet and grabbing the paper out of the air. “Oh, you were with a foreign girl? I hear they’re pretty lascivious! No wonder you couldn’t make it past the door last night! HA!” Isshin continued to laugh as his children stared at him in bewilderment.

Ichigo shook his head as he tried to regain himself and stood back up. “First of all, I have no clue what you just said. Secondly, I don’t even know who Lola is!!”

Karin, Yuzu and Isshin all gasped. “I never thought my own brother would be such a lecher!” Yuzu cried in disgust.

“Seriously Ichigo…” Karin continued, “that’s really bad.”

“Now Ichigo, I’m not saying you shouldn’t have fun, you’re a young man! You should have fun while you can. But you should at least learn the girl’s name before you take her-“

“I didn’t do anything with anyone!” Ichigo cut his father off. “I’m not a lecher, I didn’t do anything bad and I don’t remember meeting any Lola!” Ichigo yelled as he tackled his father and snatched the phone number away from him. He threw on a light jacket and slipped on some shoes and stormed out the front door. Everyone stared at the door after him.

“You’re raising a man slut dad,” Karin stated bluntly.

“You two, remember to not go around guys like Ichigo when you get older,” he sternly said to his daughters. Yuzu nodded in complete agreement, Karin rolled her eyes and restarted her game.
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Once in the sanctuary of the outside world, Ichigo stood leaning against the wall with his hand on his forehead, trying so hard to fend off the headache threatening to reappear. Giving up after a very short battle, Ichigo looked at the paper in his hand. Lola. Who the heck is Lola? Let’s see… Last night… last night.

Ok, Renji took him to a bar; there was a big lady behind the counter… he drank a lot of who knows what. Then there’s a big blank spot in the memory. And then the kiss that just will not leave his thoughts. It was still so fresh in his mind. Could that be Lola? Did he hook up with some woman at that bar? Ichigo closed his eyes and replayed the kiss for probably the hundredth time. Well there’s only one way to find out. He’d have to go back to that bar and try to find Lola. That’s an easy enough plan. Ichigo began walking down the street.

Wait, where is that bar? He had no clue where Renji took him last night. Ok so he’d have to elaborate on that easy enough plan. First, find Renji. Second, make Renji take him back to the bar where hopefully he can find something out about Lola. That shouldn’t be too hard.

Now how in the world do you find Renji? Crap! Why does this plan have to get harder and harder? Well may as well start walking. Ichigo headed out to where he and the others had been fighting some Hollow the previous night. Maybe if he started from there he could figure out where Renji had dragged him. If lady luck is on his side, maybe he’d even run into Renji.


oOEnd Part TwoOo