Chapter 1
New Student
Outside the window was the sound of birds singing, the voices of people and vehicles driving down the streets. A pair of lavender eyes opened to look into the bright window. The small petite girl yawned and turned her head over to the alarm clock. It was 7:10 AM. Rukia gave a small groan of annoyance and got up.
She went to the bathroom to shower and got dressed into her clothes. She tippy toed to the kitchen, not wanting to wake up her older brother Byakuya. Rukia sat down and ate her breakfast quietly. The door to the kitchen opened slowly, as her brother walked into the small room.
"Good morning brother." Rukia said while munching on her cereal.
"Morning." He replied emotionless, as always.
Byakuya sat down next to his relative, while reading the daily newspaper. The girl finished her breakfast and walked over to the sink, cleaning her bowl and putting it back into the cupboard. Byakuya didn't let himself get distracted by the noise his little sister was causing in the kitchen. Rukia walked up stairs to get her school bag and shoes. She walked down the stairs as she met her brother in the hallway.
"I'm working late tonight, there will be some miso soup in the fridge for you to eat." he explained.
"Okay, thanks." his sister replied as she was putting on her shoes.
"And don't let those guys pick on you again." he said in a strict tone.
"I don't think they will anymore. I have to go now though, bye!" she murmured and closed the front door behind her.
The young man gave out a sigh, as he went through his raven locks with his hand, and walked towards the bathroom.
Rukia walked in a slowly pace to school, playing with her cellphone. In front of the school she turned it off and walked into the building into her classroom.
"Rukiaaaa~!" a girl yelled happily, running towards the small raven haired girl.
"Orihimeee~!" Rukia cheered happily as the two girls fell into each other's arms.
After their morning hug, they walked into the classroom together. Orihime sat down on her desk as Rukia stood before her.
"What did you bring for lunch today?" Rukia asked.
"I brought sushi! And for dessert I brought grilled bananas with honey on top." the ginger explained.
"Yay! Can I have some too? I brought two sandwiches with a small bag of chocolate chip cookies." The small girl said proudly.
"Sure! We can also discuss about going to the pool." Orihime smiled.
Rukia smiled back at her as she walked towards her own desk. About five seconds later the teacher entered the classroom, putting her books on her front desk and skipping through her papers. The pupils got out their math books while chattering with each other.
The female teacher walked from her desk to the chalk board. She took a deep breath and raised her finger up into the air. The students grew quiet and looked at their superior.
"Class, we are getting a new student here today. His name is Ichigo Kurosaki. Please be nice and respectful!" the woman demanded in a friendly tone.
The class started chattering again. Most of them where looking confused or nervous. Rukia looked back at her friend giving her a confused look. The ginger smiled at her and waved at her. Rukia turned back to her desk, getting a little red in the face as she smiled.
"Class quiet now please!" the woman in the front ordered her students.
"Kurosaki-kun, would you be so kind to enter the classroom now?" she continued in a sweet voice.
Everyone stared at the door, waiting for it to open, someone grabbed onto the handle and opened the door to the classroom. A tall teen entered the classroom.
All of the other kids stared at the boy, looking at the tall figure. The teen had a tall built figure, with chocolate brown eyes and his head was covered with orange hair.
"Class, as I just told you this is our new student, Kurosaki Ichigo!" the woman smiled at her students.
The orange haired boy stared down at the crowd. Looking at every single face, he met eyes with Rukia. The girl stared at the tall guy with her big dark lavender eyes. As she recognized that over her face grew a bright shade of red she put her head down, pretending to look into her math book that was in her small lap.
"Kurosaki-kun..." the woman replied.
"Please take a seat next to Orihime, the girl in the back with the reddish hair" sensei finished.
Ichigo walked to his new seat, plopping down on the chair. He got out his pencils and books. A lot of students where still looking at the boy. It was mainly because of his really orange hair.
"Now class, please turn to page 194 in your math book, we are going to re-check the problems one to twenty-three." the female explained to her pupils.
Finally, after four hours of class the lunch bell rang. The kids got up to go into lunch break. Rukia got up to stretch her sore back from sitting so long. Orihime came from behind to hug her small friend.
"Let's go eat, I'm so hungry!" the ginger demanded.
The lavender eyed girl nodded and they walked to their hangout place. The two girls sat down and got ready to eat their lunch.
"That new boy in our class, he was very orange hair." Orihime commented.
Rukia chewed her food looking at her tall female friend. The ginger looked confused at the black haired girl.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
Rukia swallowed her food and said: "Nothing just a little tired, that's all…"
The female stared at her, wondering what could be wrong. She took a deep breath: "Well you better not be when we go swimming this Saturday!" she cheered. Orihime looked at her clock: "Oh I'm sorry Rukia but I still have to go to Rangiku at the other side of the school. She wanted to give my bathing suit back."
"It's okay, we'll see each other in class than." Rukia replied, watching her friend packing her lunch box back together.
The tall female got up and stuck her tongue out at the petite girl, she giggled and ran off to the school building. Rukia sighed and packed her things, so she could go back to class.
"Hey Kuchiki!" a male voice yelled out behind her. A group of three teenage boys walked towards the girl. Rukia was in shock, those where the three boys who picked at her two weeks ago, Byakuya came into school and beat them up for harassing Rukia.
Kuchiki grew pale in the face, and she felt her heart beating fast in fear. One of them grabbed Rukia by the hair, yelling at her.
"You little bitch! Too scared to beat us, so you send your brother to help you? What a wuss!" the guy laughed and pulled her hair some more.
Rukia wanted to cry but she couldn't, it would show that she was in pain. Instead she stayed calm trying not to let the tears flow out her eyes. The blonde haired guy whispered something into the ear of the other blondes. The blonde who was pulling on Rukia's hair smirked.
The teen pulled her by the hair and dragged her into the back of the school building. The other two males held her down as the blonde haired boy let go of her hair.
Rukia was too scared to say anything, her body was so under shock that so couldn't defend herself. The male got on top of her and started unbuttoning her shirt.
The small girl started kicking, trying to defend herself. She knew what he wanted to do with her. She tried to scream but he covered her mouth with his hand. When he was almost done unbuttoning her shirt there were footsteps heading their way.
"What do you guys think you're doing with her?" a deep voice asked.
"Who the fuck are you?!" the other blonde holding Rukia down yelled.
The orange haired boy walked towards the four teens, not looking amused at all. He looked at the male on top to Kuchiki.
"Now tell me, were you about to rape this girl?" he asked in a serious voice.
The red head next to the two blondes replied: "No man of course not, we and Kuchiki were just wrestling that's all…right guys?!"
The two other boys nodded on what the red head said to the tall boy.
Rukia was pale was the wall, she was even to scared to breathe, so many things were going through her head right now. She was paralyzed, she fainted while lying on the rocky floor. Ichigo walked up to the blonde on top of Rukia and pulled him off her, he started punching the blonde in the face without taking a break. The other two males let go of the girl, running towards the two fighting.
Rukia was on the floor, still unconscious as Kurosaki was beating up the three males. For his height he was pretty fast, he beat up every single one of them. He left the three teens of the floor, in bruises and blood everywhere.
Everything was pitch black. Rukia opened her eyes slowly, but everything was still blurry.
"Hay, you okay?" someone asked.
Rukia's sight was still blurry, she looked into the direction from where to voice came from. She saw a face near hers, and that moment her eyesight returned to normal.
It was Kurosaki, the guy who beat up the three males. Rukia's eyes sprung right open, she tried to get up as she head-butted the male.
"Owie..." she whined quietly as she rubbed her temple.
"Ow, that freakin' hurt…" the boy complained.
Rukia looked at the boy, not able to say anything. Her classmate looked at her with a confused look, he looked also sort of angry.
"You okay?" he asked her as he gave her a little smirk.
The petite girl caught her breath again, staring at him. She nodded slowly, not losing eye contact with him. "What bright orange hair…" she thought.
"Can you talk..?" the male asked her.
"Ye…yes..." she whispered while blushing a little bit.
"It's okay, I took care of those assholes. They shouldn't do anything like that again." The boy explained.
Rukia kept starring at her classmate, she was so thankful but too shy to say anything.
"I'm Rukia…" she murmured.
Ichigo smirked lightly: "You already know my name, but just call me Ichigo."
Rukia looked around her, the environment was totally different, this wasn't the school, neither was this her house. She was sitting on beige' couch in a pretty big living room. In front of her was a table with a flat screen TV. The wall carried the color green with black curtains on the windows.
"Where am I?" Rukia asked Ichigo.
"My place, I didn't take you to the nurses office cuz I'd would have gotten into trouble for beating those guys up and you would have been put into a hospital." He answered in his deep voice.
Rukia smiled shyly at the orange haired guy. "Thank you..." she whispered shyly. He looked at her confused but then smiled at the raven haired girl.
"No problem." He answered.
Silence filled the room, Rukia was blushing hardcore and Ichigo was looking every five minutes into another direction. After about twenty minutes the male took a breath and asked: "Do you want me to take you home? It's already 7:35 PM..." he told her.
"That would be nice, thanks." she replied.
"Okay, get your shoes on and let's go, you have to show me where to go though." He reminded her.
The teens left the apartment and used the elevator to exit the huge building. In the elevator the two started having a conversation.
"Won't you parents get worried when you're out late?" she asked him.
"Huh? No, I don't live with my parents. My parents got divorced and I didn't get along with my new stepmother so my father gave me this apartment to live in until I go to college." He explained the tiny girl.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that. My parents died in a car accident so my brother raised me since I was 8." She explained the teenager. (*Rukia is ten years younger than Byakuya*)
Ichigo replied with a quick: "Sorry 'bout that", as the elevator stopped on the floor where the exit was.
The male walked Rukia home, they talked about all kinds of different things on the way there. He even made fun of her height, Rukia only was 4'10 and Ichigo was almost 6'3 tall. As they reached Rukia's front door the petite girl turned around and asked:
"May I have your cellphone number? So we can hang out sometime?"
"…Sure, here let me type it in for you." the boy told her.
Rukia took her cellphone out of her book bag and turned it on, she handed it to Ichigo and he typed in his number. After he was done he returned her the cellphone.
"I also saved my Skype name in there for you, if you want to add me." he explained.
Rukia smiled a little bit and said: "Okay, thanks Ichigo. I'll see ya tomorrow" she smiled.
"Yeah, see ya. And get on Skype tonight." he ordered.
Rukia nodded and waved the tall young man good bye. She sighed and entered the house. She took her shoes off, looking if her brother was home from work. She looked at the clock. It was already 7:56 PM.
"He should be home in about an hour" she thought to herself. She walked into the kitchen and put the miso soup into the microwave. She went upstairs and got her laptop and entered her password.
Rukia took her cellphone out as she signed into Skype. Then she sent Ichigo a contact request. The microwave let the bell ring and the girl got up to get her miso soup from the kitchen. She sat down and ate her supper.
Minutes later her Skype notified her that Ichigo accepted her request. A second later she got a message.
Ichigo: Hey!
Rukia looked at her laptop, after she finished eating the last of her soup she put the bowl on the side and replied to his message.
Ichigo: Hey!
Rukia: Hi :)
Ichigo: How are you?
Rukia: Fine, you?
Ichigo: Same. Hay I have the homework for today so you can still do it and not get into trouble tomorrow.
Rukia almost forgotten about her homework, she sighed in relief. She waited for Ichigo to send her the homework.
Ichigo: The homework for today is:
Math: Page 158 number 3-6
English: Page 205 number 2a and 2b
And that's about it… :D
Rukia: Thank you so much! ^-^
Ichigo: Np, but get to work now, it's pretty hard. Btw I got this from some girl named Rangiku in our class. And don't worry about getting in trouble tomorrow either. My dad called for me after lunch the school so we won't get into trouble either.
Rukia: Okay, well I'm going to do my homework now so see ya. Bye~
Ichigo: Yeah…later.
Rukia signed out of the chat and turned off her laptop. She cleaned the bowl and put it back into the cupboard. After cleaning her mess up, she grabbed her book bag and ran upstairs to her room and did her homework.
After sometime she heard the door open downstairs, she went down and looked. It was Byakuya, who came home from late shift.
"How was work?" she asked nicely.
"Good" he replied as he took off his coat and shoes.
"Did you do your homework and eat dinner yet?" he asked his sister.
"Yep, all done. I'm going to bed now anyways soon." Kuchiki replied.
Byakuya went into the living room with a bowl of miso soup and switched on the TV. Rukia went into the bathroom and took a bath. As she relaxed and thought about all what happened today.
She didn't know Ichigo that well but she already saw him as a friend. She was so glad that he saved her, who knows what the guys would have done to her?
Rukia got out of the bathtub after an hour and got ready for bed. She went to bed and turned on her alarm clock. Her eyes got heavy and soon the girl fell into a deep slumber.
Author's note: So, this is my first chapter I have written in my whole life! XD Review, Follow or Favorite :D