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Yukata shopping!

WHO: Shiro and Orihime
WHERE: To a city shop
WHEN: Before the Berry House New Year party (which makes this backdated before the backdated party yet to come)
WARNINGS: None.
SUMMARY: Shiro and Orihime are going to the a shop in the city that sells yukatas.
FORMAT: Whatever we feel like!

It was the last week of the year, and excitement was abound over the upcoming holiday. New Years Eve! Once the Christmas spirit had passed, but the void was quickly replaced with the festiveness of New Years. To Orihime, most of the house appeared to be enthused about the coming new year.

Things, as usual, were bustling and lively at the home. When she weren't working at the club, Orihime was flipping back and forth between putting up some leftover decorations and finding recipes for traditional foods for New Years. She had spent New Years alone before, but this year made it all the more exciting, since it was being spent with the people she cared about.

But of all the days to prepare for the part, today was an important day, and that was because she and Shiro were going to venture into the cold to go find yukatas to wear for their little event. She was in the process of getting her puffy winter jacket on, while hoping she wasn't making Shiro wait.

"Just one minute, Shiro-kun! This darn zipper isn't zipping!" She was trying so hard to get it to work, because they had important shopping to do!

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Shiro WAS waiting, but he didn't mind. He'd wait for Orihime as long as she cared to take. He was already dressed in a warm black coat with white fur trim, a blue and black striped beanie pulled down over his hair and ears. For his little outing, he has none of his more hollow features showing; after all, it's hard to wear gloves and boots with claws. He's eager to use the fleecey tail warmer that TZ had gotten for him, but he decides against it for today's trip. Either way, he was starting to notice she'd been struggling with that zipper for a good while now.

"Here, lemme see that!" He crouches down in front of her and identifies the issue; a bit of cloth that had gotten stuck in the zipper. He removes it, then looks up at her. "There! Try it now!"

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She does as told and tries it after he's identified and helped her with the problem. It zips up without a problem, which leaves Orihime smiling and grateful for his help.

"Thank you!" Orihime replies, sticking her mittens back on her hands. She does one final check to make sure her hat is secure on her head, and then looks ready and raring to go. By the looks of it too, Shiro looks like he's been ready for a little while now. "I think we're good to go now!"

Orihime was excited to go out, regardless of the chilly winter weather. However, upon grabbing the door handle and opening the door, a gust of cold wind swept into the house for a second, making her realize just how chilly it is. "Ehe, into the cold, blizzard-y tundra," she tries to crack a joke.

"Damn us, we look like we're ready to go on an Alaskan expedition or something!" Shiro huffs and stuffs his gloved hands into his pockets.

He turns his head down and away from the blast of frigid winter air. "Well, let's get this over with. I wanna get to the store as soon as possible!" Of course, as he steps out, he notices that there is a small problem; being out in the suburbs as they are, no one has bothered to plow their roads. "Eh... eh?! Seriously?! Guess this means a cab is out of the question..."

He looks over at Orihime, then gives it some thought, before crouching down in front of her, back to her. He looks behind at her and jerks his head forward a little. "C'mon. Hop up. It'll be cold, but it'll be faster than walkin' all the way to the plowed roads." Actually, using Sonído would probably be faster than using a taxi at all.

"We'd probably freeze up like popsicles if we didn't bundle up. It's so cold!" But she's sure he knows better than anyone else. She know he's been disliking this cold weather a lot recently.

Upon seeing the bad roads, she's a little disheartened at first. With walking as her next train of thought, she'd didn't think it'd be so bad if they kept up a steady pace and walked to keep warm, but it would definitely take a while. That is, until Shiro turned and suggested she get on his back. "E-Eh, but that seems a little much wouldn't it? I'd rather you get there quicker and I would meet you there. That way you wouldn't have to carry around my weight, even if it's just for a moment or so!" She's adamant because she's heavy and it would be troublesome for him.

Shiro rolls his eyes. He doesn't have the patience to walk all the way into the City to be perfectly honest. He just gives her a hard look, "It's nothing, I can carry Ichigo, I can carry you too." He gives a smile, "Come on, I ain't that weak!" If she refuses again, he'll just walk with her, but hey, it's worth at least one more shot, right?

"I know you're not weak!" She retorts, but takes another glance at his back before giving in. It really would take forever to get there otherwise, and they probably will be frozen solid by the time they arrive. "...O-Okay, but if I'm too much, you should put me down, alright?" She puts her hands on his shoulders and 'hops up', so to speak.

"Tch!" Shiro lets out a bark of a laugh and the accompanying puff of steam from his mouth, "You'll be fine, and I'll be fine! I'm tough!" He wraps his arms around her legs to hold her in place snugly to his back (and trying not to show that, ajkdsajdkasd boobs). "Hold on! Sonído is way faster than Shunpo!"

A lie, really, because it's only a little faster than Shunpo, but hey, who's really counting? A staticy burst and a blast of cold wind and Shiro is standing on top of a chimney of another house at least a quarter of a mile away, if not more, and just for a split second. He takes another step, and another, each one a little faster and longer than the last. It only takes about five minutes to get out of the suburbs and into the City, and indeed, right in front of the small shop displaying some traditional Japanese and Chinese clothes in the window. It was pretty cold, due to the wind, but it wasn't too long to be outside.

"Phew. How was that?" he asks, letting her down gently back on to the sidewalk.

Now she's looking a little peculiar at first, trying to take what just happened in. She was amazed at how quickly they were able to get there, but she had never experienced Sonido before, so it left her a little blank at first.

As he put her down, she grinned and suddenly looked really enthusiastic. "That was really cool! You went so fast!" And with the shop right in front of them after only five minutes, she knew they won't be any more chilled than they were when they just stepped out of the house. "Thanks you, Shiro-kun!"

He chuckles a bit and rubs the back of his neck. "Ah, yeah, it's a pretty quick way to get around. It's a little rougher than Ichi's Shunpo, though. But it's balls-freezingly cold out here. Let's get inside."

He opens the door, a beckoning cat and a bell above the entrance welcoming them into the heated room. Like the gentleman he is (not), he holds the door open for Orihime.

"Oh, thank you, again!" Orihime steps inside quickly, rubbing her mitten-covered hands together to warm them up. The warmed room is so nice, especially since the blistering cold was pretty unbearable if out too long. She looks around, amazed to see all the kimonos and yukatas all over. "I would have never imagined the city having a shop like this. It's nice to see the traditional clothing, even in another place!"

"Ah, yeah, we're near the part of town where a lot of people from Japan and China live, so I'm not surprised there's a shop here. This one's got the best selection though." Shiro closed the door behind them and blew on his gloved hands to warm them a bit before heading over to a rack of yukatas.

The shopkeeper is an older Japanese woman, currently reading some sort of magazine. She's more than a little surprised by the ghost white person in her store, but at least he seems interested in the merchandise. And the girl seems normal.

Shiro thumbs through the rack, not stopping to look at any yukatas that are not black, blue or white in some sort of combination.

"Then we're bound to find something in no time!"

Orihime turns to a nearby rack that has kimonos. She hadn't exactly thought out of what she wanted beforehand, aside from wanting something of a warm color if she could find one, so she just sifts though the rack to see whats there. At one point, though, she turns back around to Shiro.

"Was there any specific color you were looking for?" She figures maybe she could help glance through them, if wanted an extra pair of eyes at all.

"Black," he states simply. Then he gives it some thought, and adds, "Or blue. Or white. Or silver. Or something with dragons." He keeps thumbing through the racks, stopping to look at a blue yukata with a koi pattern before moving on.

"What color are you looking for?"

She keeps in mind those colors as she looks through them all. They were nice colors, she had thought; ones that would fit him perfectly.

"Maybe something yellow, or orange. Red could be nice too." She halted as she saw a pink one, but craned her head to look at it more thoroughly before leaving it be and continuing on. "Something with the warm colors, I think."

Shiro nods as he keeps looking through his rack, his face set in a hard line of concentration. "Yeah, I think warm colors for you, Inoue, definitely! Something that'll go well with your hair. Maybe an orange kimono with an obi that matches yer hairpins?"

Orange and blue would be an interesting color combination, after all.

"Yeah, the teal might work out really nicely! It would be good contrast!" After passing through many varieties and styles, Orihime finds an interesting one, cream-colored as the base with a flowery pattern on it. The flowers are all different colors, but most are the warmer colors she's thinking of.

She could've sworn she saw a section with obis around on their way in, but just a glance before. It's a small enough shop so it doesn't take her too long to find it, and she looks around for some obi that would match it. She finds a blue obi that managed to match pretty well, in her opinion.

"Ne, how does this (http://i51.tinypic.com/qsw7pw.jpg) look together, Shiro-kun?" She's where he's at to ask for his opinion on the two together. "I think it's cute, but I want to see what you think too."

Shiro is still thumbing through the racks, starting to get discouraged that he'll never find what he's looking for, something that suits his very specific tastes.

He turns around when Orihime calls out to him for attention and he grins, "Ah! That's gorgeous Inoue! It suits you so well." He gave a soft, very human smile, one that few people ever got to see. "I'd bet it'd look really awesome on you." Shiro moves to a second rack and as soon as he does, he finds something that catches his eye; a jet black silk yukata with silver embroidered dragons dancing across the shoulders and back and sleeves.

"Oh... ah!" He pulls it out and looks at it. The dragons just aren't on the top, but cover the entire yukata, twining amongst each other and following the contours of the garment. "This is it!"

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"Ah, thank you!" She beams at him, a little red in the cheeks, but very glad to have gotten a good opinion and his approval. "I think I'm going to get this one then!"

Orihime was holding her choice out in front of her, still enjoying the colors and combinations, when Shiro exclaimed he had found his yukata. Looking up to look at it, she was amazed by the garment, especially the fine detail.

"Oh wow, that's such a nice one! The colors and dragons suit you so well too!"

He lets out a bit of a laugh. Her smile and happiness is catching. Perhaps that's one of the many reasons he likes to hang out with her so much.

He nods enthusiastically, holding it up against his body. It seems like it will fit just great. "It's perfect! Now I just need to find an obi to go with it..." Before he heads off, though, something else catches his eye. "... Hehehe. There's a matching one in here that Ichigo would love," He smiles a bit to himself then heads over to the rack of more simplistic obis. "Hmm... a blue one would look good, don'tcha think?"

"Do you think we should get it for him too, while we're here?" Referring to the matching garb, of course. "It might not be here if we waited!"

She had followed him to the obis and found herself agreeing with him. "A blue would look very nice, yes!" And so Orihime starts to file through them to search for a blue one that would match with his yukata well.

"Hmm..." The Hollow gives it some obvious thought before shaking his head in the negative, "Nah. We'll ask the lady up front to hold it, and he can come look at it himself. It's kind of expensive, so I don't wanna buy it without him knowing fer sure he'll like it, ya know?"

He moves through the rack quickly, ignoring pretty much everything that isn't blue. "Why are there so many with fish on 'em? I don't want fish!"

"Oh, that's a smart idea!" Orihime keeps looking through the obis. "You two seem pretty in-tune with each other though, and it's a nice looking yukata, Kurosaki-kun is bound to like it!"

She continues sifting through them, until she finds a blue one, sans the fish, and holds it up for him to see. "What about this one?"

"Yeah, we are. Hehehe," he grins a bit, "Guess it comes with the 'same person' territory. Either way, I like my plan." He pulls the other yukata out and hangs it over his arm before going back to the obis.

"Mm?" He looks over at the obi and takes it out of Orihime's hands, running his ivory-white fingers over it with an eyebrow arched. It has a bit of a pattern on it, some sort of leaf and branch motif. He holds it against the yukata he chose for himself and smiles. "I think this is the one!"

"It's a very good plan, indeed!" Orihime paused for a minute though, glancing back at the racks of clothes. "Ah, do you think we should look them over for Zangetsu-san as well?"

Upon seeing how he seemed to like it, she smiled in similarity to his. "Oh good! It does match quite well with your yukata!" She pumped a fist into the air, looking confident. "We'll be looking so stylish at the party with these!"

"For Zangetsu?" He shakes his head, "Nah. I don't know his taste well enough. He and Ichigo can come back and look. I'm sure he'd want somethin' black, though"

"Hell yeah we will!" He beams and then jerks a thumb at the register, "Shall we check out?"

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