100 shots of RukiHime: Fandom Issues

"How could you?"

"What do you mean Kuchiki-san?" The auburn girl looked at her friend while picking out food to make for dinner between her girlfriend and herself after a rough day of training together. How they enjoy training a lot frequently since the auburn girl is school free. Sometimes after training, the auburn girl would bring her raven-haired friend to the pastry shop. How the auburn girl often enjoyed working there as it helped her de-stress from school, that is before going back home to do homework and watching her favorite shows up at night. One might wonder how such girl can still keep her smile throughout those years. "How could I what, Kuchiki-san?"

"Hide the fact those fanbrats are making fun of you."

"It's called freedom of expression, Kuchiki-san. Surely fictional characters like us shouldn't care since we're ink and paper, right?" Orihime said, as she took the vessel and poured water inside, setting the temperature on the stove.

"You're in the top ten characters that should die off! How co-"

"I doubt Kubo-sama cares, Kuchiki-sa-."

"He obviously does, Inoue! The creator's tired of the hate you get! Why do you think whenever people think you deserve less panel time, Kubo does the opposite?" Not to mention my panel time decreases but that's understandable.

The auburn girl stood shocked as she puts the noodles inside the vessel and turns her head back to her raven-haired lover. "Hm? Shouldn't be. The series is about Kurosaki-kun. We, including Abarai-san, Sado-kun, and Ishida-kun are his comrades and we fight side by side. Sure, Ishida-kun opted out but he had a reason hence less panels. If I chose to not help Kurosaki-kun rescue you, I'd get less panel time too. Not to mention how out of character that would be, Kuchiki-san."

"How are you so calm about this? Everyone's pissed on how a smart, kind, and strong girl is hated so much! Even Ichigo's blaming himself for that!"

"How I'm so calm, Kuchiki-san? Here's my answer. You can't fix idiots. That's my answer."

Rukia heard the change in tone of Inoue's voice as she spoke. When did Inoue ever speak like this? She thought while the

"Now. What do you mean you can't fix idiots? Quite easy, Kuchiki-san. Idiots have to fix themselves. Besides, if my haters can call me a usless, big breasted bimbo or a whore while man whoring the guys in het and yaoi couples and you in a harem of guys, not even batting an eyelid towards other big breasted females like Rangiku-san, Yorouichi-san, Nemu-san, and Neliel-chan, then I have every reason to call them illiterate, hypocritical idiots right behind their backs."

"Inoue? Are you…ok?"

"Eh? Right. You've never seen me speak like this, have you, Kuchiki-san? Then again, neither did Tatsuki-chan and we've been friends since middle school. "

"No! How come you never do? And for that long?"

"Easy. You guys would probably assume I had a bad day if I talk like this. Or perhaps someone messed with me so hard to form Kurosaki-kun number two. Not even Rangiku saw this behavior of mine and since you and I have been in a relationship for at least a week so far, it probably means I've opened up to you. You being rather popular by the fans, I loving you as much as them, I can't close my true feelings around you anymore and see no need to. I always thought I was your number one fangirl since I'v always held you in high respect like Kurosaki-kun."

Orihime paused for a moment to catch her breath from saying so much as a time. Rukia heard and saw Orihime with shock and amazement at the same time, eyes widening from the words of her human lover. "Never knew you had it in you, Inoue."

"I always did. I'm waiting for the day I can perform a legit battle or I'm wasting my time training with Tsubaki and should've been just a minor character with powers like the Karakura risers."

"Who's Tsubaki? And that's not true at all! Don't even think about putting yourself down like that, Inoue!"

"Oh, that's right! I've never shown you my Shun Shun Rikka before! Hold on a moment!" Orihime said, releasing her Shun Shun Rikka fairies out from her hair pins continuing back to making dinner for her and Rukia.

Lo! Six fairies beamed out, a frustrated one yelling at the auburn girl for releasing them for no real intention. "Oi! Why did she call us out if she's not in danger! Why I otta-"

"It shouldn't really matter. She's our princess so it's our job to come whenever she calls, be it for training, healing, fighting, or inviting people for tea. Must you pester her so, Tsubaki?" said the female spirit with glasses and pink hair.

"Princess? You mean you guys ar-"

"Yep. You might say we're her source of power much like your zanpakuto, shinigami. My name's Ayame," said the female spirit with black hair and wearing a long dress.

"I see…I don't mean to be rude. But, does she have names she give you guys or-"

"Not necessary, shinigami. We already have names of our own. My name is Shuno by the way. Don't worry. We know yours and the names of other friends of Inoue. Kuchiki Rukia, correct? Foster sister of Kuchiki Byakuya?"

"Yes. How di-"

"We are within her conscious much like your zanpakuto is in yours, Kuchiki-san. We hear about what she says. Don't worry. She's rather positive about people she's around. Especially about you, Kuchiki-san."

"Well…we are in a romantic relationship. So that's not surprising. I've often talked about how kind and sweet Inoue really is. Even nii-sama is happy about me being around respectful, kind women like her."

"Oh? She never mentioned about a ROMANTIC relationship! That's wonderful! With your nobility and adult-like manner, it will balance well with our bundle of joy over there! Lovely!"

Then the black-decked fairy approached Rukia in the face, shocking the raven-haired girl. "You better not break her heart! Ya hear me, shinigami? Don't think I'm going to play nice just because you're a woman."

"Eh? Why would I do such a thing to her?"

"Don't worry about it. That's just Tsubaki being Tsubaki. He always has that attitude towards people around her. Especially those dirty boys taking pictures of her unknowingly. No respect I must say," the male spirit with the eye patch says.

"Yeah. But don't worry! I'm not like that at all!"

"I honestly feel bad for our princess. All that hate going at her. If Kubo made her a boy, she'd get a bunch of fangirls no doubt. While I do feel bad that some fangirls use you just like Bella Swan; to insert themselves to be with 'their' fictional boy or boys," Lily said.

"Not MY fault I have three shikai moves and have yet to beat a strong opponent! I even have kido! HOW do I lose?"

"Simple, Rukia-san. Butt-kicking girls NEVER happen in the shonen industry anymore. It's always the boys that get to play hero. Only time girls do is shojo industry or if it's series before the start of 21st century, Kuchiki-san. Even Yanagi-chan was so strong when she destroyed the enemy by bringing people back to life! Hanabishi-kun has a lot of strong females*. Even Gash-kun as well with Tio-chan!**" each of the fairies said, taking turns phrase by phrase, except for Tsubaki and Baigon, who kept quiet.

"Yeah. If they keep this up, they might as well make it an all-boys series if it's only us girls getting the beat down. Only guy getting as much beat down as us is Aizen and he's long gone for now. I mean, look at Momo! Even Toshiro is sick of her anti fans! Poor girl she is!"

"Ready!~"

The auburn girl was setting down the food. The main dish was a bowl of ramen with sushi around the arcs of the bowl like how waiters and waitresses in restaurants put a slice of lemon on an arc of the cup when serving tea. The Kuchiki girl was surprised. She cooks normal food now? I guess I must've missed out a lot!

She later saw the girl mixing up sweet and spicy things in her ramen bowl. "Making the ramen was rather easy. I have to thank Haruno-chan for getting me the ingredients from the ramen place Uzumaki-kun usually eats in," Orihime said, eating her new mixed up dish of her own.

"You really love to make friends, Inoue. Even with the cast from Naruto?"

"Yeah! I know Kurosaki-kun's struggling since he isn't a big eater like Luffy-kun, Uzumaki-kun, and Goku-san."

"Goku's understandable! He was raised a human. Never really born one. So, I can understand since he's literally from another planet. I guess the saiyans probably ate lots of food because they burn it off through training or blowing planets up."

"Yeah. I guess."

"Let's finish up and go to bed. All this fandom talk is giving me a brain sore."

"I agree. It's hard to keep up sometimes. I hope our series doesn't go above six hundred chapters. It's bad enough One Piece did and Detective Konan has over eight hundred!"

"I agree. We already reached the 500th chapter. I suppose twenty-thirty more should be enough to close the series."

"Yeah."

The two girls quickly ate their dinner and went to sleep in Orihime's room, both holding on to eachother for warmth.

* Flame of Recca

**Zatch Bell/Gash Bell?