#bear in mind i haven't watched bleach since the end of the bount arc

[alteredphoenix]

A fic in which Tatsuki is invited to Ichigo and Orihime's wedding post-canon and just. Takes it all in. At what could've been, imagining herself in Ichigo's place. But such is life, and she's not going to get in the way of things. Princesses always go for the knight, never the dragon. So it goes.

After a while she leaves the venue. Chizuru's out there, and under all that clownery she can tell something's up; she's not quite the fool she paints herself out to be. They shoot the breeze as the night wheels high overhead. No one's noticed they've left. Ichigo and Orihime haven't noticed (the guys, however, might have - Chad and Keigo and Mizuiro, all quiet glances and subtle, gentle words with hidden meanings).

The night is young. There's a bar down the street that's open 24/7 that always has baseball games running on the wireless TV sets - the one with the pool tables and poker machines. The wet bar isn't anywhere near fancy as the ones the hall's serving, but they're delectable and succulent in their own way. Chizuru suggest they go there, unwind (doesn't say, merely shows in the way the streetlights glint off her glasses, it's to help Tatsuki get her mind off the wedding, and all the possibilities that could have been).

It doesn't sound like such a bad idea. Not a bad idea, at all. Tatsuki agrees and goes with her.

#like most of my ideas - about 95% of them - they come to me out of the ether at work #this one occurred around...two weeks ago IIRC? yeah. two weeks #but this mostly came from me looking at the bleach tag and seeing the glow-up #the karakura town cast got with kubo's current art style #bear in mind i haven't watched bleach since the end of the bount arc #and yeaaaars before TYBW got announced for its anime adaptation #so i'm waaaay behind #i'd have to watch/read bleach from the very beginning all over again #even if the human cast just phases out after - what - the fullbring arc? #always makes me wonder if the other students were ever going to be 'more' than just that #which is a shame b/c i think if there was somebody in that group that deserved the most attention #it had to be tatsuki b/c of how integral she was to orihime getting her powers #idk that's another topic i'd need to get into at another time #this turned out to be an odd little idea #b/c from what i remember chizuru was always that 'gonna sexually harass you For The Lulz' kind of girl #but she kind of just showed up in this WIP so i'm like 'yeah i think i can make it work' #bleach #armi's wip ideas