Easter is Coming [Ukitake, Yumichika + Any]

[Yachiru]

[We already plan on Yumichika joining us, anyone else who wants to join the Egg Hunt that this will lead to is welcome to pop in here. You don't NEED to join this thread to join in the egg hunt however.]

It was definately going to be a big event. Yachiru could tell already, and the eggs had only just finished cooling after being boiled. She and Ukitake had only just started painting them, and already she was ready for tomorrow. The big egg hunt, in honor of the human world holiday, Easter. She liked the idea. A big rabbit coming and hiding eggs, and leaving candy for good kids. It was like Christmas, only it was warmer and it had a rabbit.

She was still managing to keep going on her current egg. It was a sloppy rather messy process, for Yachiru anyways. She already had paint on her hands, and a bit on her face, from the few eggs she'd already painted. Her eggs were in no way perfect works of art, with splashes of blue here, and purple there, and green all over one side. It was like an organized sort of chaos as she set to work painting this one all pink, and setting it down to dry so she could add more colors later. Then she reached for another one, almost dropping it, but managing to hold on. This one would be...purple and orange, like Yumichika. Yes, that would be perfect.

"This is gonna be tons of fun Ukki! You really think the Easter Bunny's gonna come?"

Her biggest fear was that the Easter Bunny only went to the human world. That would mean she wasn't going to get candy, and there would be no egg hunt. That would be disappointing. Then again, Santa came year after year, didn't he? Maybe the Easter Bunny could find his way to the Soul Society by asking Santa. Maybe they were the same person. That would be silly tho', how could a happy fat man be a bunny too. Then again, nothing HAD to make sense. Especially not when Yachiru was thinking about it.

LET GEARR POST FIRST DB<

[Jushiro Ukitake]

Sitting he swept the brush finely across the egg, leaving a delicate line across it as he did. There were many of the human holidays that the old captain enjoyed, some above all the others, this was indeed one that would fall into the group of 'above the others'. One could presume it was because of easter's link to confectioneries, and perhaps that was indeed a part of it, but more so it was simply because of the fact it tended to bring people together. That was his usual reason for liking anything like this, the art of bring things and people together was something the world could lack at times, but on days like this in his mind all those times converged in a union that very much defined how things were at the heart of it all. This was what things were about, being with those you cared about, but also who cared about you. Without those factors life was nothing but duty, and duty could never be the core of life.

"This is gonna be tons of fun Ukki! You really think the Easter Bunny's gonna come?"

Blinking he looked of from the egg, soft gaze settling across the pain splattered girl. What a mess she was making, no doubt he should have been worried about his walls and floor, perhaps even the roof by the looks of things, but nope, instead he face the sakura haired child a goofy grin. “Of course~!” With a chuckle he tapped a finger against his chin. “He's come every other year, hasn't he~?” More than likely it had been he himself distributing the candy the little girl obviously sought, that really wouldn't at all have been a strange notion to any that at all knew the white haired captain. The thought of seeing her disappointed by the thought that an overgrown rabbit may not visit, even though he knew well enough that it didn't actually exist, was a fairly disturbing thought. Now this wasn't to say he was about to go dressing up like some giant rabbit, though perhaps given the right nudge he actually would (frankly it was best to avoid that situation), but he was certainly perfectly more than willing to do everything so that she believed such a thing had come along.

Thinking on he looked over toward the girl's egg. “What are you painting~?” He queried, obviously curious and entirely interested in what she was doing. This whole thing really would be no fun at all if he paid no attention to the small child, that was after all what this was about. For him the greatest pleasure of this was not the whole egg painting thing as a whole that was going on, no, whilst amusing that was not the focus of what he was looking for in this. His greatest pleasure from this was seeing how she was finding this, her amusement in this was his, her pleasure to this was what made it worth it, doing something just because he wanted to... Well where was the point in doing it? He could see none at all. His theory was simplicity itself, if others were happy then all was well and he too was happy, if they were not... If they were not then he would seek to make them so, he'd push to find what brought them sorrow so he could remove the factor so that once more they'd smile as they should be from the start.

Crappy and late fhnfghfghfg BC