“M-matte kudasai!” Mugen shouted after Haruka. Haruka, who was already by the door and would be in the way of the students quickly filing out of the room if she did in fact wait, decided the best course of action would be to wait outside the classroom’s door. She leaned up against the wall near the said door and waited for Mugen to come out of the room.

Mugen pushed through the crowd of students exiting the calssroom. He tripped right near the door and was trampled by the students coming out. When everyone passed, Mugen popped up in front of Haruka, cleaning off his uniform. He leaned back to see if anyone else was coming. He sighs in ease and turns his attention to Haruka.

"Hikyou-sensei is a strict teacher, isn't she? Man, I thought she was going to kill me at one point for messing up the motions." He rubbed the back of his neck to add to the moment. "So..." He said, starting to get more serious. "Have you met anyone else from the real world? It gets kinda lonely since Rei is avoiding me."

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It was true that Rei seemed like she was avoiding Mugen. They met several times in the hallway since Mugen proposed to her. Each time she seemed distant, any conversation Mugen tried to start up was met with simple answers. He asked several times if she made up her mind yet but when he did, her face became bright red and she ran off. Mugen's hope was beginning to diminish. "Maybe I should have never asked..." He thought several times. He would shrug and go do what he had to do.

Just that morning, the two met again. This time, Rei was the one who stopped Mugen in the hallway. He was walking away from her to his class when he heard her soft, sweet voice from behind him. "M-Mugen." He turned on his heel to see Rei standing opposite of him, only a few feet away. He forced himself to be stoic. "Yes Rei?" He simply said, some eagerness in his tone. Rei approached him slowly and embraced him. "I have decided..." She looked up at his face, tears in her eyes and a smile on her face. "I accept your proposal, Mugen, my love. I want to marry you and become your wife. I made appeals to the Gotei Captains to be assigned to whatever squad you may be placed in upon graduation, so we can be together." Mugen didn't say anything, he was too happy to. He just held her in his arms.
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"She accepted my proposal this morning," Mugen told Haruka casually. "I'd actually like for you to be at the wedding or however marriages are performed in the Sereitei. I'd also like for anyone you met from the real world to be there too. That's why I asked." He smiled kindly and looked around. "Well then... on to the next class, yeah? S'ya around Haruka-chan." Mugen waved off again and started off down the hall (the wrong way). He stopped suddenly and jogged back the other way, pausing in front of Haruka to say "Wrong way." And continued on to the Nature of the Zanpakutou class.