wOk, so…um… this is my first fanfic and it actually is the result of a bet (I lost); so please review after reading and just say what u think about it( good or bad I don't care; I just want the truth )
I don't own any of the characters just the scheme is mine.
Normal POV
"Shit shit shit shit."Ichigo kept cursing aloud. ' I was supposed to be in class an hour ago' he thought. 'Ukitake sensei is not gonna be happy.' He was running in the corridors in an attempt to make it to the conference room.
Today is a very special day at Sereitei High School; every year two students, a first year student and a final year student, are chosen at random through a draw to work on a project where they have to represent the school at national level. The subject of the competition is different every year and the school of the winner is awarded the title of best school of the year. Sereitei High School has been the winner ever since Yamamoto Genryuusai Shigekuni and Urahara Kisuke started co-directing the school, aka for more than 15 years.
After 5 minutes of running through corridors, the doors of the auditorium finally came in sight. Opening the door discretely, Ichigo was surprised to hear the noise the students were making; apparently the one of the teachers, Kyoraku Shunsui, was not here yet. "Must have dozed off again," Ichigo thought as he scanned the room for his friends. They were not difficult to find; all he had to do was look for the group of students that stood out the most.
Ichigo quickly made his way to the back where his friends were, avoiding Keigo who came at him shouting his name and letting him fall face first down due to the speed he ran at and ignoring him. "Hey guys, what's up?"
"Oh hello, Ichigo, they are gonna start the draw shortly. I advanced the time by 1 hour." Rukia replied smiling. "I wonder who're gonna be the chosen ones and what the subject is this year." Saying that she pattered the seat next to her, " Here, I kept a seat for u since I had a feeling you were gonna be late."
Ichigo frowned at that, " You told me that the draw was at 9:00 instead of 10:00 so as to make sure that I was on time?" Rukia nodded in answer. At that Ichigo burst out laughing, "Are you really trying to become my mother?" A hit on the head stopped his laugh though.
Rukia and Ichigo knew each other since their childhood days. Ichigo's family owns a clinic in their house itself and The Kuchiki (Rukia's family) had brought her for treatment once since the clinic is nearer to the kindergarten compared to the hospital. Rukia had fallen down after school and wouldn't stop crying saying she wanted her Aniki. It had been about a month since Ichigo's mother death and he was still recovering. The weak and emotionless 'tadaima' he said got to Rukia who stopped crying and despite her bleeding knee she got off the bed and limped to Ichigo.
" My name is Kuchiki Rukia and what is your name?" she had asked him smiling. But when Ichigo looked up at her, the sadness and emptiness in his eyes caused Rukia to automatically hug him and from that moment Ichigo had got a third sister.
They got admission at the same primary school and have been together ever since. Though Rukia's elder brother, Kuchiki Byakuya didn't like Ichigo very much but Ichigo rarely saw him. Byakuya was a real prodigy in both sports and studies and the very incarnation of the word refinement. He was handsome and had quite a large number of fans (even some of Ichigo's friends). But he never took them seriously and he still doesn't even if he is now in his last year at Sereitei High. Rukia and Byakuya were completely different in characters but they had one thing in common; their drawing skills sucked.
His memories were interrupted when the headmasters entered, followed by the other teachers, and greeted the students who fell into a pin drop silence. Headmaster Yamamoto was the one who spoke.
"Well the lets start this draw." He pointed at two containers on the table, "These contain the names of each end everyone of the seniors and the first years. One from each group will be chosen and the pair will represent the school."
Headmaster Urahara was the next to speak, "We shall now begin the draw and the chosen ones are expected to stay back for more details, clear?" "Well then Yoruichi-sensei please start with the seniors."
Shihoin Yoruichi, the chemistry teacher, put her hand in one of the containers and drew out a folded piece of paper which she handed to Headmaster Yamamoto.
The headmaster unfolded the paper and called out, "Kuchiki Byakuya from 7A…" a loud wave of cheers from the girls interrupted him, "uhum(silence again)….Kuchiki Byakuya, please come on stage…"
"I really pity the poor guy or girl who is gonna be teamed with the ice prince of Sereitei," Ichigo whispered to his friends who all grinned at him, all except Rukia who glared at for making fun of his brother.
"Unohana-sensei would you please choose for the juniors," Headmaster Urahara asked the school's nurse. Unohana Retsu took out a folded piece of paper from the other container and handed it to Headmaster Yamamoto.
" Kurosaki Ichigo from 1C, please come on stage," the headmaster called out.
With Ichigo
On hearing his name, Ichigo thought he was imagining things. Of course this could not be true, absolutely impossible. The gods didn't hate him that much, did they? "Say it's a joke," he thought' " tell me it's a fucking joke!"
"Why me…why me….why me…"
Normal POV
"… o…go….chigo….ICHIGO!" Ichigo broke out of his thought and looked at Rukia who was calling him. " What is it?" , he asked stupidly. Rukia pointed to the stage.
"Kurosaki Ichigo- kun would you please come over here or do you need an invitation written on paper?" Headmaster Urahara asked him.
"Go Ichigo, they've been calling out for you for almost five minutes now," Rukia said.
Slowly Ichigo got up and marched towards the stage. The "Good luck Ichigo" from Renji barely registering in his head. He felt like he was going towards his die on that stage.
"Well then now that Kurosaki-kun finally graced the stage with his presence, the draw is over and everyone, except the two chosen, please proceed to your respective classes and have a good day."
Ichigo looked in at his friends who all went out giving him sympathetic looks, even Rukia, since she knew how things was between her brother and Ichigo, as they exited the auditorium.
Headmaster Yamamoto was the one who spoke, "The opening ceremony will take place next week and you'll be taken there from school and will be accompanied by me and two another teacher. The details of the project will be announced then and for the sake of the school's reputation you two will have to forsake your first term holidays since you will be working on the project. Use this week to get to know each other better. I'll meet up with the both of you tomorrow and I advise you to start befriending each other as from today itself. For now you may proceed back to your classes. "With that he left the two teens alone.
Byakuya was the one who broke the silence that had fallen, "You will have lunch with me as from today…"
"Hey, don't go deciding everything yourself," Ichigo protested.
"Trust me when I say I don't want this even more than you but we've got no choice and unless you want to bring the school's honor down I suggest we work together, at least until the end of this project," Byakuya said.
"Fine but you'll have to accept the fact that my friends, which include Rukia, will be joining us since unlike you I'm a social person," Ichigo said, grinning evilly.
"Is that an insult?" Byakuya asked him.
"Afraid Byakuya-kun?" Ichigo asked smiling.
"You'd wish," Byakuya said " I will tolerate you and your friends but only until the project starts. After that you will be eating alone with me and since we'll be busy discussing the project others cannot stay with us. Let's see if you can stand that Ichigo." Ichigo gulped.
Only then did they realise how near they got to each other, especially their faces, during their little argument. Both blushed (Ichigo's face was pink while Byakuya's blush was faint and temporary) and took a step back.
"We'll see each other at lunch then, Kurosaki Ichigo," Byakuya said before exiting the auditorium. Ichigo followed soon before heading to his own classroom and thinking how to announce to his friends that the school's idol was going to have lunch with them.
TBC