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[fighting_boy]

[Filtered to Friends--and family as in Kuukaku only] [VOICE]

[Ichigo sounds like death warmed over, his voice rasping, but he obviously tries to speak as evenly as he can]

... Yeah, 'course I won't take long, but they're linin' down the damn hall to kick my ass as it is. [pause] Thanks.

[closer to the phone, now] 'Kay, guys, 'm still kickin', so

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[friendly filter]

[bewerethecat]

You're an idiot.

[friendly filter][voice, and sometime later]

[fighting_boy]

An idiot who took down Sz-z--that pink-haired fuckwad's hybrid thing down on his own, y'know. Other'n that, tell me somethin' I don't know.

[friendly filter][voice, and not letting that get in the way of the fact that he is still an idiot]

[bewerethecat]

You want me to give you plaudits for doing stupid things? Because you know damn well you're not going to get them from me for charging in like a damned fool.

You're lucky you morons got away with it.

[friendly filter][voice, and rapidly edging towards angry]

[fighting_boy]

Like you haven't already wrested the details from some--somebody, know ya that well. Then you'll also know it wasn't some wild goose chase. An' tell me we're not better off with him dead. Go on.

[filter--voice]

[howls_at_stars]

You glory-hogging sonovabitch, I was supposed to have the dangerous part of the job, not you! The hell you get off bein' the one to get the shit beat out of him?? That was not part of the arrangement, young man.

[filter--voice][also sometime later]

[fighting_boy]

Oi oi, no fair callin' me names when I can barely talk, you jerkass. An' I seem--seem to remember a couple times a certain loud bastard was def'nitely the one bleedin' on the floor when all was said 'n' done.

[filter--voice]

[howls_at_stars]

S'called seniority, greenhorn. You're a hundred years too early to get that beat up.

[That's Renji-ese for 'I'm really really glad you're not dead'.]

[filter--voice]

[fighting_boy]

Oh, sorry, didn't mean to crash in on your turf, mossback. Actually, you can have it right back. Feel like an elephant ran over my ribcage.

[And that is Ichigo-speak for "I appreciate the worry, and good to see you in one piece, too."]

[the_rotator]

You moron.

[And this is Rulia dropping everywhere to get to the Fourth, presumably because she had to go home and bathe at some point or start discouraging the medics from coming near Ichigo's room.]

[fighting_boy]

[Ichigo takes it as it is meant, and hopes to be awake when she comes tumbling in through the door not much later. <3]

...what a typo. I shouldn't be allowed to tag before breakfast.

[the_rotator]

[He appears to be so, but just to check he's really no longer comatose, she pokes him hard in the shoulder once she gets there and takes a seat.]

Action!

[fighting_boy]

[She chose well, as most of his torso is covered in bandages, so the usual jab in the ribs would have disastrous results right now. He winces awake, blinking even at the soft lighting in the room. His reiatsu is perhaps the most dramatic casualty, though, as it drifts about the room in errant tatters, faint and unfocused.]

What the hell... oh. Hey. Thought you were there.

[Friendlies Filter]

[asano_san]

What happened to you?

[Friendlies Filter][Voice, at some point in the evening]

[fighting_boy]

Got into a scrape with a really nasty critter.

[Friendlies Filter]

[asano_san]

Were you trying to be the big hero again?! Give some other guys a chance!

[shiba_explosion]

Yeah, I sent your Pop a message on the network. If he reads it or not is up to him. Karin has some sort of freaky filter on her phone, so I can't reach her. Im sure Kuchiki or someone else will get the news to her, though.

Kensei's gonna be fine eventually.

You and I are gonna have a talk after this. You, me, Kensei and Renji. And by talk, I mean to somehow get it through your heads that you guys need to cut the fucking shit about thinking you can do every fucking thing alone.

[friends filter][voice, some time later]

[fighting_boy]

Thanks. All I could ask.

I'll... mention that to Sandal-Hat, makes no damn sense ya can't talk to her.

Kuukaku... Okay, look, 'ready had this talk with Yoruichi-san. But we can have it 'gain some time after I can talk properly.

Re: [friends filter][voice, some time later]

[shiba_explosion]

Oh, I plan on that. You're going to be good and conscious when I get my turn to chew your ass out.

[friends filter][voice, some time later]

[fighting_boy]

Sounds great. I can yell back.