Toshiro Hitsugaya opened his eyes and looked around his room. Lately, he had been waking up at odd hours of the , since he's been restless so often, he would either just lay there and reminsce or he'd stare out his window. He had been having a lot more troublesome problems going on without his lack of sleep issues. He wasn't allowed to see his best friend anymore. They knew each other since they were in diapers but were seperated somewhere down the line when she had been adopted into a wealthy family instead of being in the orphanage down the street from his house. Then, they were reunited just to be seperated again. He liked her a lot, more then a friend. Of course, no one else except for the two of them knew this. He could say he was almost in love with her. He sat up and sighed, wishing he'd could go and see her. He looked out the window and seen a figure walking barefoot across the perimeter of the bay. He could tell it was a girl's figure, he quickly put on his sweatershirt and climbed out his window onto the bay in sweatpants and bare feet. He crossed his arms and shivered, how could see walk around when it was so cold out here? He looked at her to notice that she had stopped walking and was looking toward the water but her head was tilted up towards the sky. She turned halfway toward him and looked at him with an emotionless face. He looked over all of her features; her gentle violet eyes, her glowing pale skin, she soft looking lips, and her raven black hair. This was no doubt his best friend. She let a warm smile grace her vacuous face as she giggled a bit, looking at him. Before he could speak, she took of running. "Rukia! Wait!" He called before he started to chase after her.

The two of them ran through the small town for a long time before they reached the park, her strides started slowing and this gave him the chance to grap her arm. As he went to do this she turned around, this made the two of them fall to the floor. He was hovering above her and she was laying on the ground wide eyed. She laughed a bit before staring into his eyes. Everything was silent. He leaned down, prepared to kiss her. She put her arms around his neck and leaned up as well. Their lips got closer and closer... "Toshiro!" They paused and he sighed. He looked at her, she smiled at him but there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

"You should go" Her voice cracked a bit when she said this as if she were about to cry,"I wouldn't want to get you into trouble again" She pecked his cheek and hugged him before he got up and walked away. She stared after him sadly, she knew he was in trouble for just even thinking about her. She felt heartbroken everytime this happened and it happened almost all the time. "Bye Toshiro" Her voice cracked as she stared at his back for a moment.

"Toshiro, I thought I told you to stay away from that girl! She's nothing but trouble!" His father boomed.

"You don't know, Rukia! We've been friends for a long time! You didn't think she was trouble then but now that she finally has a family you're going to treat her like trash? That's so... there's no word to discribe how sickening it is!" Toshiro yelled back at his father, he would defend Rukia no matter what. They were friends forever, they promised.

"It's not just any family, Toshiro! It's the Kuchiki's! Soon enough she'll start acting high and mighty and I'm just trying to avoid you getting your heartbroken!"

"No! Rukia's not like that! She knows who she is and where she originally comes from! Rukia wouldn't break my heart, she my best friend!"

"Then, why have you been sneaking out to see her? Don't you see? She's getting you in trouble when ever she can!"

Toshiro stood up so quickly his chair fell, he slammed his hands on the dining table and stared at his father intently. "Don't you dare blame her for that. She doesn't tell me to come out, I do it on my own! Since you won't let me see her, that's when I do! Why won't you just let me be with who I want?" He got up and stormed off to his room. He sat ther quietly for a minute before opening his desk drawer and taking out a bunch of pictures. Most of them were him and Rukia, there others he didn't care about. He looked through all of the pictures but stopped at one of them, he felt a small smile appear across his face.

"We'll always be friends.. Right, Toshiro?" Rukia looked at him innocently, sitting on the swing next to him with her hands on the chains.

"Yup! Forever!" He smiled at her, rocking back and forth lightly.

Rukia smiled, getting up and standing in front of him. "We have to promise to get married, too!"

He looked at her,"Why?"

"Because then we'll be friends forever without anyone being jealous and splitting us up!"

"Okay" He wrapped his pinkie around hers.

"I, Rukia, promise to marry you, Toshiro, so we could be the bestest friends forever!"

"I, Toshiro, promie to marry you, Rukia, so we could be the bestest friends ever.. I mean, forever"

Toshiro smiled at the memory and put the on top of his desk. He wanted that memory to repeat in his head over and over again. He didn't care who knew about him and Rukia, all he cared was that they fulfilled their promises. But then again, that was easier said then done. He smiled and laid back down in his bed. He closed his eyes and smiled, managing to go back to sleep in no time at all.