'D'-Day...

Ichigo was not amused to say the least. That is to say, he found himself bunking at the Minamino\'s. Shiori was a sweet woman gentle fragile and she looked like she would easily break, she had married another and gained a new last name but he had a heck of a time remebering it. No, that was not that part that didn\'t amuse him. It was the out right LIE that he was being forced to live. First off he was in no way shape or form related to Shuichi Minamino, in fact they weren\'t related at all and up until this morning had not met. So he was just a tad bit annoyed as he stood there in the living room of Kurama aka Shuichi\'s home listening as Shiori talked about how he would be crashing in his cousin Shuichi\'s room during his extended stay and it was nice of him to come for a visit. How she had missed him and how was the rest of the family. Then there was Shuichi was speaking gently to her, as if humoring the woman and yet Ichigo cold tell he did love her in his own right as if she were his mother compeltely and truly. Before they were finally allowed to go upstairs.



Truth be told Ichigo was half expecting to be told he was sleeping in a closet. It seemed to be the passing theme with visiting Shinigami at least every time Rukia visited she thought she would be crashing in his closet and that was in its own rights a little annoying he couldn\'t really do anything with her right there. No...Shuichi\'s room had been arranged so that not only was the other\'s bed right there but so too was a futon. Looks like he\'d be sleeping on the floor. Then there was the lack of clothes. The explination? His suitcases had been lost in the airport somewhere believed to be somewhere in either Paris, Rome or who knows where else at the moment. He fought the urge to say that they were back home, where he felt like he should be.



Which was why as he stood there in the room with Shuichi sitting in his desk chair looking at him bemused did Ichigo feel like hollaring at the top of his lungs why me. No the worst of it was Kon who was in his stuffed lion\'s body and sitting on Kurama\'s bed looking amused.



"The room smells like a garden." Kon said as he bounced around. "You sure you\'re really a guy Kurama?"



"Yes." Kurama answered good naturedly it was clear by this casual tone that it wasn\'t the first time he had had such a question asked of him and it clearly didn\'t bother him.



"Right, and you really are okay with Ichigo crashing here?" Kon said and ignored the eyebrow twitch that Ichigo was developing.



"Of course. At the moment it is the best course of action." Kurama said lightly he seemed to be such a polite spoken man that Ichigo was certain he\'d get on the guys bad side pretty soon here.



"Right..." Kon said looking at him. "You do realize Ichigo is probably the worst roommate right? He\'s grouchie, moody has serious personality probe...."



Ichigo didn\'t let the mod-soul finish as he chucked the stuffed animal out the window looking highly pissed at the moment. Kurama laughed behind his hand his other arm folded over his stomach as he closed his eyes. Ichigo looked back at him as Kurama waved his hand in the air.



"Sorry Kurosaki-kun." Kurama said as he looked at him wiping tears of mirth from his face. "I wasn\'t sure how long you\'d put up with it."



Ichigo shrugged and looked at him then moved and sat down. "Kon is Kon, he just annoys me sometimes..." At Kurama\'s look Ichigo shrugged. "Okay a lot of the time."



Kurama smiled and nodded. "The only thing I ask is that you be careful of my plants and not for there sake but yours." He said as he stood up and walked over reaching out and touching a leaf before him...which Ichigo watched do one of the funkiest things ever. It danced and bobbed weaving up to curl about Kurama\'s hand and further along traveling up his arm to brush against his cheek and Ichigo realized that Kurama\'s plants weren\'t normal.



"Right I\'ll keep that in mind." Ichigo said smirking. "I\'ll keep that in mind."

~*~

The man was much much taller then him. Probably if he had to guess about Yoko Kurama\'s fox height, including the silver ears. As well as quiet the looker. Short silver hair and cold impossibly cold teal eyes. He had a Zanpakuto at his back and the room if possible was so very cold his breathe was forming clouds in the air every time he exhaled although the man the source of the insane cold was glaring at him.



"Where is he?" The taller man asked narrowing his eyes.

"He\'s in the living world at the moment working on a case assignment." Koenma said as he looked at the Captain before him trying to keep calm. Kinda hard when all your teeth wanted to do was rattle out of your head.



"Why did he come here?" the other asked to which the answer was.



"Because I sent for him of course." Koenma said and smirked. "He\'s going to be working for me until this all said and done."



"Then so am I until I can bring that fool back to where he belongs." the other said and Koenma nodded. There was the other one. Soul society would send out someone to make sure Ichigo came back in one peice not that that was a problem with Yusuke and the others. He would come back just fine.

~*~

Yoko Kurama consindered his misfortune and took a deep breath. There was simply no easy way to do this. It wasn\'t that the death berry. AS Ichigo\'s name translated out two ways. \'Gaurdian\' which is what he probably perfered and \'Strawberry\' which seemed to be a nickname he detested. But...that was hardly his concern at the moment. No his concern was how did he suduce Ichigo into his bed.



The main problem being and why he tried to detour Koenma who he had noticed plotting this was that he was going into Heat. It was easy to avoid those feelings with his mother around but this? This was torture. He moved and walked up to Ichigo who looked at him confused and kissed the deathberry. Feeling Ichigo stiffen he ran his hands along his sides feeling the other relax.



"Shu...um Kurama what are you doing?" Ichigo protested.

"Taking care of my problem." Kurama breathed as he pushed on Ichigo backing him into the bed and removing the restirctive clothing. After all he heard his family all step out so he would have time to ravage Ichigo.....