Sweet Naivety

Chapter 43: The King Arrives

Chapter 43: The King Arrives

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Orihime had mustered her courage and asked Ichigo to dance. And of course he had said yes, so they were out on the dance floor. Keigo was running around trying to find a girl to dance with him, since Ikkaku had punched him when he had asked me again. And apparently Mizuiro was some type of playboy, so he was having no trouble finding girls to dance with. Everyone else had arrived, and they were all either dancing or at the bar drinking. I had managed to dodge Chizuru until Tatsuki had pulled her away. And now I was just kinda swaying to the music by the bar with Renji, Shuuhei, Ikkaku and Rangiku.

"Where the hell is Gin?" Rangiku grumbled, glaring over at the "Employees Only" door.

I shrugged. "He must be busy with whatever has been keeping Grimmjow all day..."

"Wanna dance with me, Juna?" Renji asked, getting down from his barstool.

I grinned at him. "Sure."

"I wanna dance..." Rangiku whined. And then she set her sights on Renji. "Hey, Renji. Dance with me."

"No." He snapped at her, turning to look away as he took my hand.

"Aww, why not?" She let out a frustrated groan.

"Because I'm going to dance with Juna." He was about to pull me away, but I felt bad.

So I stopped him. "It's okay, Renji. You can dance with Rangiku... and I'll wait for the next one."

His face puckered for a moment and it almost looked like he was scowling. But then he sighed and let go of my hand. "Fine... come on, Rangiku."

"Yay!" She squealed happily, grabbing his hand and dragging him onto the dance floor.

I leaned back against the bar next to Shuuhei... and then I heard him chuckle.

"You're kind of naïve, aren't you?" He murmured as he lifted his glass to his lips.

I pouted, wondering what he was talking about. "What do you mean by that?"

"There's a reason that Renji asked you to dance..." He kept mumbling, a smirk on his face.

I was frowning now, looking at him skeptically. "Well, yeah... he wanted to dance and he knows that I like dancing."

He chuckled again, setting his now-empty glass aside and stepping off of the barstool. "You wanna dance? I'll dance with you."

I decided to just ignore his nonsensical ramblings and smiled at him. "Okay." And then I took his offered hand and followed him out to the dance floor.

As we were dancing, I caught sight of Orihime and Ichigo... and I couldn't help but smile at them. Ichigo seemed to be mesmerized by her. And she was blushing uncontrollably with the most adorable smile on her face. I was watching him smirk and say something that made her giggle when Shuuhei spun me around before catching me in his arms again. Shuuhei was actually a really good dancer... he led me step by step... his legs and feet were confident and deliberate... his hands moving from my waist to my hips to direct me in the way that he wanted... it was fun dancing with him.

It wasn't until the song was shifting into another that I realized that we had migrated over to where Renji and Rangiku were. Renji's brown eyes widened when he saw us. And Rangiku grinned.

"I'm gonna spin you to Renji and grab Rangiku..." Shuuhei murmured into my ear. "Okay?"

I blinked, but nodded to show him that I understood. "Okay."