Hey guys it's me Sakura478 (duh) and this is my first bleach fic. I'm a huge fan of ichiruki and I feel like it's time to write a story about it. I hope you all like it this is just the Prologue. Please enjoy and let me know if you want me to continue if any of you like Naruto fics that usually what I write. So without further ado Fourteen Days:)

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or ichiruki would be real and Karin would have a bigger part.

Fourteen Days

Prologue

"Hurry up midget we're going to be late!", Ichigo yelled as he scowled in the general direction of the stairs. He didn't know what was taking Rukia so long, for gods sake they wore a uniform how much simpler could getting ready be.

"I'm coming Ichigo hold on a second", Rukia called back before bounding down the stairs. Ichigo's father had taken Karin and Yuzu to a 'father daughter bonding extravaganza of awesome awesomeness'. Karin had punched him into a wall after he told them with an enthusiastic thumb up, and then she started packing. Isshin began crying about how his daughters were growing up which resulted in Karin punching him again before walking out to the car. With years of practice Yuzu ignored them and made sure Ichigo knew how to heat up all the leftovers before going to join her sister and now bruised father.

They had left the day before and wouldn't be back for over two weeks which left Ichigo home alone and allowed Rukia to wonder freely around the house. Despite having multiple bedrooms Rukia still stayed in Ichigo's closet much to his irritation.

"Hey Ichigo come back to the real world we're going to be late for school", Rukia mocked as she grabbed an apple before walking out the door but not without throwing one last smirk at Ichigo's growing irritation.

"It's ok ill give you a head start I know your short legs have a hard time keeping up", Ichigo teased as he followed Rukia in the direction of their school. He settled into a comfortable pace beside her as she cursed him under her breath. Not that he hadn't heard it all before they did this far too often for him to have not memorized her every reaction. His life had taken on a pattern: wake up and bicker with Rukia till they arrive at school and pretend to be casual friends, mock Renji's eyebrows, scowl at his friends, avoid Orihime's cooking, go home to his crazy father and beat the crap out of him, be a caring brother to his sisters before bickering with Rukia before bed. Usually killing a few hollows in between but overall his life was pretty normal and that's the way he liked it.

He didn't get to continue his thoughts before he heard the rising voices of his idiot friends. He looked to his left and noticed a lack of a hollow killing midget before noticing her walking with Orihime and Tatsuki. Before he could think about how shed gotten over there so fast Keigo was was in front of me talking about his latest woman escapades, or as we all called them epic failures.

"But she was totally digging me", Keigo whined to Mizuiro who had rolled his eyes at Keigo's far fetched tale.

"Yeah and that's why she went home with me right", Mizuiro asked obviously smug.

"Wait she went home with you I thought you preferred older woman", Keigo explained with tears streaming down his face. All Mizuiro did was shrug before walking into their classroom.

Ichigo finally took his eyes off his shoes that he'd been staring at to avoid punching his friends in the face and looked up as he saw Renji arguing with Uryu. Rukia, Tatsuki, and Orihime were looking back and forth between them like it was a tennis match.

"Sewing doesn't make me gay", Uryu told Renji while clenching his fist. The beginnings of what looked like a wallet was on Uryu's desk. Considering it was magenta Ichigo could see where Renji got the doubts about Uryu's sexuality.

"It's pink", Renji deadpanned.

"It's magenta", Uryu fumed before snatching the wallet and throwing it in his bag and sitting down in a huff. Once it was obvious the conversation was over Renji walked back to his desk and sat down with a satisfied look on his face. The girls seemed almost disappointed by the lack of action but Orihime's expression brightened up as soon as she saw the guys in the room.

"Hey guys I made some new brownies, they have chocolate, carrots, honey, and croutons. Do you want to try some", Orihime asked her eyes sparkling with the thought of her new recipe. Everyone within hearing range winced at the thought of eating the odd concoction. Thankfully the teacher decided it was the perfect time to stop sleeping in the teachers lounge and start teaching. Everyone sat in their sits and Ichigo slouched down trying to find the perfect position for taking a nap unfortunately the universe didn't agree with him because at that moment Rukia's hollow pager went off.

Rukia looked up and caught Ichigo's eye before raising her hand so she could start her performance.

"Yes Rukia what is it", the teacher asked looking up from the textbook shed been about to bore the class with.

"I'm not feeling good I feel rather fa-", Rukia whimpered out before collapsing out of her seat. She landed near Ichigo's foot causing him to shift closer to the window.

"Ichigo don't just sit there take her to the nurses office", the teacher demanded exasperated. As he picked her up bridal style he was beginning to wonder if she sat next to him for the sole reason of him being the one to take care of her whenever she had an 'incident'. He walked down the hall and as soon as they turned a corner he dropped her. The site of her rubbing her back as she sat up was nearly enough for Ichigo to smile. His face remained in the same scowl as normal but the look Rukia gave him let him know that she knew what he was thinking.

"Stop scowling midget, your getting old wouldn't want your face to set like that permanently", Ichigo reprimanded her before setting off to the roof.

"Shut up strawberry",Rukia scowled as she stormed off to the stairwell. Ichigo sprinted to catch up with her before reaching the school's roof. Rukia reached her hand right into Ichigo's body and yanked his soul out. Ichigo repressed the wave of nausea that always came afterwards but ignored it and preceded to move his body to a small shed near the edge of the roof that his body had become very familiar with the past few months.

"Come Ichigo we gotta go", Rukia told him already in her Shinigami form. She began sprinting in the direction of a small park and Ichigo had no choice but to follow her.

They ran side by side on the tops of the buildings not bothering to speak as they had done this many times already. As they neared the park Ichigo felt a small spike in spiritual activity. Without any prompting the two increased their speed before landing in a small field.

They were greeted by a small hollow barely even a minor threat. Ichigo felt his eyebrows twitch in irritation at the fact he'd sprinted across town and risked detention for something Rukia could have clearly handled on her own.

"You dragged me across town for this, this won't even take two seconds", Ichigo griped as he unsheathed his Zanpakutō.

"If I'd known he was going to be this small I would have gone by myself. And why are you complaining don't tell me your all the sudden happy to sit in class what happened to the Ichigo Id know and loathed", Rukia barked out sarcastically. She plopped down in a huff before taking out her notebook and beginning to doodle. "Well what are you waiting for", Rukia exclaimed as she set out drawing a rabbit holding a Zanpakutō.

"Fine I'll purify the hollow while you draw your shitty rabbit drawings", snapped at her before launching himself at the hollow. It dodged but wasn't fast enough to get away completely resulting in Ichigo cutting off one of it's arms. It howled(no pun intended) before lofting it's other arm to try to swipe at Ichigo. With a flick of his wrist the hollow lost it's other arm.

"Stop messing around and finish it up already we've been gone almost 20 minutes we need to get back to class", Rukia ordered while putting away her notebook. Ichigo sighed before pouncing on the hollow and driving his zanpakutō into it's chest. The monster let put one last yell before disappearing completely.

"Good now that that's over with I would like to get back I have made a miraculous recovery and I'm sure Mrs. Satomi(A/N I don't know their teachers name or if they even ever said it sorry) will be very glad her favorite student is no longer ill", Rukia told him letting out a smug smile. Ichigo would have argued with her but he knew he wouldn't get anywhere. Although it did rather unnerve him how infatuated with Rukia all the teachers were, it's like they were clueless to her inner devil.

"Whatever let's just hurry up this was such a waste of time", Ichigo complained before taking off back towards the school. Rukia just scowled at him before following him back onto the rooftop. Both went back to their human forms before going back to their classroom. As Rukia predicted Mrs. Satomi was very pleased that her prize pupil was alright. Ichigo just rolled his eyes at the whole scene and proceeded to stare out the window until lunch finally arrived.

A loud bell signified the end of lessons however brief the break was. Ichigo grabbed his bag and followed his friends out inti their usual spot for lunch on the roof despite this growing hatred of that part of the school. As he walked out he heard what seemed to be Rukia arguing with someone behind the stairwell. Curious Ichigo hid behind the wall and started to listen to what she was saying.

"Yes I know it's a great opportunity. Yeah I get it but it would take two years and I wouldn't be allowed to visit the human world". Wait what. Not visiting, great opportunity, two years what the hell was Rukia talking about. "Yes I know but I like it here and...yeah I know I'm not human but it's still enjoyable. I know the mission would be a great way to get recognized for a promotion but it's a big thing ok". So it was a mission she was talking about, Ichigo snuck a glance at Rukia and saw that she has her back to him with her soul society pager in her hand which explained why he hadn't heard the other persons part of the conversation. As she continued speaking he leaned back. "Well at least give me two weeks to decide, theirs a human dance coming up and from the other girls expressions I believe it is fun and of I'm going to leave I wish to experience it". Ichigo knew what she was talking about homecoming was in two weeks and he knew that Rukia was very excited for a 'human high school experience'. She had bout VHF dozens of mangas on the subject and was convinced it was a magical night of romance when really it was a bunch of girls with too much make up and short dresses dancing and all the boys who were dragged there by said girls standing around waiting to leave. But even Ichigo wasn't headless enough to crush her dream. "Alright I understand I'll talk to you in two weeks bye".

Ichigo walked away from the railing and went back out to his friends his mind in turmoil. Would Rukia really leave? I mean he knew he wasn't always nice to her but she seemed to enjoy it here. And quite frankly he couldn't imagine a day without her let alone two years. She was one of if not his best friend and partner and a person he considered very important to him even if he didn't show it. As he sat down he ignored his friends mindless chatter and just kept thinking about it. About Rukia leaving.

Wait Rukia hadn't said she was leaving she had said she would think about and that meant he could still change her mind. He felt a smile almost creep onto his face as he realized all he had to do was make her stay. He didn't know how but he would.

And he'd have fourteen days to it.

Alright that's it for the prologue if you guys like it I'll make another chapter over the long weekend after I write my other chapter for Return (a kakasaku fic). Thanks bye:)

-Sakura478