Title: on the care and preservation of items of particular value
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eatsyourfaceFandom: Bleach
Rating: G
Characters: Byakuya, Rukia, Renji
Summary: Three ways Byakuya's scarf was stained.
Notes: Thanks to
wintersjuly for betareading for me =DDD. Comments and criticisms muchly appreciated.
The Most Noble Lord Kuchiki Byakuya was in fact quite concerned with maintaining his appearance to the utmost degree, while at the same time giving off the impression that it was in fact
effortless. Contrary to popular belief, Byakuya wore the kenseiken not as a sign of his status, but as a way to keep his hair in control (especially during particularly strenuous exercises, not that there were any worth mentioning). His ginpaku kazahana no uzuginu was... worn purely for vanity's sake. It was very pretty, all things considered.
Thankfully, he being a Shinigami of high degree (a captain, as it were), making sure that certain kinds of accidents did not befall him was quite simple; in fact, in his long life span, there had been perhaps only three events that had resulted in the clothing on his person being stained quite severely - all occurring to the aforementioned ginpaku kazahana no uzuginu. (His hair had remained safe.)
He first stained it during a sake drinking session. Fortunately, the only witnesses to that particular incident were Shiba Kaien, Shihouin Yoruichi, and Urahara Kisuke.
Unfortunately, the witnesses were
Shiba Kaien, Shihouin Yoruichi, and
Urahara Kisuke.
In the end, they promised not to say anything on pain of death. ("You have to catch me first, Byakuya-bo," Yoruichi had smirked.)
The second time it was stained was when Rukia, attempting to play the part of a good sister, brought him dinner while he was still at work in the sixth division main office. She slipped on a report that had fluttered off the desk when the door had been opened, and splashed teriyaki sauce all over Byakuya.
("Byakuya-niisama! I - I -"
"That will be all, Rukia," he had said.
He ate the rest of the food anyway, after she'd fled.)
The third time occured just after the fight with Renji, when Renji revealed his bankai. At the end, Byakuya rested his scarf on Renji's battered body; he had thought that it would not be long till his Vice Captain's death.
Renji later returned it to him, dry cleaned, with a note demanding replacement sunglasses as repayment for the laundering costs.
(All three times, the costs of having his scarf cleaned - as well as the time taken - had been quite high. Thankfully, Byakuya was not a man lacking in resources. He went about wearing his spare while he waited for his favourite one to be returned.)
ADDENDUM:"Oi Renji, do you know that Earth have this system called 'insurance'?" asked Rukia.
"What's this?" he grunted.
Rukia took the moment to look smug. "Every time you break something, the company reimburses you."
"What kind of system is that? How do they make any money?"
Byakuya privately agreed with Renji; it seemed a wasteful practice.
Rukia sniffed. "Such a practice could only benefit a person who goes through sunglasses - designer brand I might add! - faster than a woman goes through shoes, and must starve if they wish to persist with this habit."
(As their conversation degenerated into another one of their arguments, Byakuya wondered whether such a company would cover the costs of dry-cleaning items such as his ginpaku kazahana no uzuginu.)
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