Sweet Naivety

Chapter 32: Revealing Doodles

Chapter 32: Revealing Doodles

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Instead of being woken up by my alarm, I was woken up by my Uncle Juushiro. His voice coaxed me into the waking world, and I stared up at him through a bleary gaze. I rubbed my eyes to try and clear my vision, wondering why he was waking me up early... or had I overslept? I glanced over at the clock to see that it was an hour before my alarm was set to go off. Yeah, it was definitely early.

"Uncle?" I questioned sleepily.

"Juna, some friends are here to see you." He explained, his voice calm and patient, as always.

I was thoroughly confused. But suddenly it all made sense when two familiar voices sounded from the hallway outside of my door.

"Juna! Get your ass up!" Ikkaku yelled.

"If you had answered your phone then we wouldn't be having this problem!" Yumichika yelled after him.

I sat up immediately, making my uncle laugh at my reaction. "Hang on, guys!" I looked down at myself to make sure that I was decent before turning my attention to my uncle. "I think I forgot to tell you that they're my brothers now..." I mumbled apologetically.

"They were eager to explain that to me themselves..." He chuckled softly. "They said that you needed someone to look out for you. And they decided that they would shoulder the responsibility."

I ruffled my hair as I squinted up at my uncle. "Yeah... something like that."

"Well if it means that you've got two of Kenpachi's students keeping an eye on you, then I'm alright with it." He turned to open the door, but spoke again before he did. "As long as they don't get you into too much trouble..." He gave me a humorous and knowing look before opening the door and letting my 'brothers' into my room. "I'll go and make breakfast."

"Thank you, Mr. Ukitake!" Yumichika called out politely.

But Ikkaku just shouted out "yeah, breakfast!" as he plopped down onto my bed beside me.

Yumichika and I both shook our heads at our bald friend. Then, Yumichika took a seat at the foot of the bed, sitting so that he could face me.

"So what are you two doing here so early?" I mumbled at them, still trying to wake up.

"Well, we're your brothers." Yumichika responded as if that should explain everything. When I continued to look at him questioningly, he elaborated. "So obviously we wanted the time to talk to you about your date before everyone else got a chance to harass you about it."

"Duh." Ikkaku echoed after him. "So how was it?"

I sighed. I pondered over whether I had too many nosey people in my life... but decided that I just was lucky to have so many people that cared about me. "Like I already told you in the texts... it was great."

"We want details, Juna!" Yumichika snapped at me, facing me directly from the foot of the bed.

"He didn't try anything with you did he?" Ikkaku asked suspiciously. "'Cause I'll totally kick his ass." It was strange how he could sound threatening in spite of the fact that he was cuddled up next to me, snuggled comfortably into my pillows and blankets.

I couldn't help but laugh at him, though I managed to shake my head in denial. "Nothing happened... so you don't need to kick any asses for me today, Ikkaku."