Dreams You Don't Wake Up From Eventually Become Sadness

[IchiRuki[HitsuOC

Chapter 1

Rukia Kuchiki slowly climbed in to her bed. It had been a long day of hollow slaying and random people with weird faces dying. She had just barely escaped death, but, right now, all that Rukia wanted was some sleep. She laid her head down on her pillow and quickly fell asleep.

Rukia's Dream

All that was heard was the pitter-patter of Rukia's feet on the sidewalk. She was running to Ichigo's house to tell him something. A Hell Butterfly had appeared in front of her while she was buying a magazine. The message was "We need you, Kurosaki, and one other to come to Soul Society. Report to Ukitake-taicho when you arrive." When she had reached Ichigo's house she took off her shoes and ran to his room. She opened the door and Ichigo and Hailey were sitting on the ground playing cards.

"I WIN! Ha! I beat you, Ichi-nii!" Hailey yelled.

Hailey had started living in the bottom half of Ichigo's closet. She was a shinigami also, but she was an orphan. Ichigo and Rukia had seen her fighting a hollow so Ichigo took her in.

"Rukia, I thought you were at the store," Ichigo said.

"I was, but I got a Hell Butterfly and it said that we have to go to Soul Society and bring someone else with us."

"What for?" Hailey asked.

"I don't know, but we have to leave immediately," Rukia said.

"Well, I guess I'm up for an adventure."

"Beat them up, Ichi-nii!" Hailey shouted, spreading the cards around the room.

Ichigo's drawer opened a bit and Kon popped out.

"Ichigo, me, and Hailey are coming, not you, Kon," Rukia said.

Hailey grabbed Kon and hugged him. "We'll be back for you, Kon-chan, be careful!"

"Take me with you, nee-chan!" Kon had apparently gotten close to Hailey so that he didn't have to get stomped on by Rukia or Ichigo. They were like best friends, but on the way out Rukia and Ichigo both stepped on Kon to shut him up and prevent him from following them. Hailey waved goodbye to Kon and closed the door.

Rukia opened the portal to Soul Society along with Ichigo and her friend, Hailey, from the Real World. They walked around Seireitei awhile until Hailey stopped them and pointed at a white-haired boy who was talking to a couple of adults that looked much older than him.

"Rukianee-chan, who's that over there? I wanna go talk to him," Hailey said flatly.

Rukia looked over at the place that Hailey was pointing at. "That's the 10th Squad Captain, Hitsugaya Toushirou. I don't think that you should go talk to him. He can get very . . . irritated at times. He'd go mad by the likes of you . . ." Rukia muttered under her breath.

"Oh yeah? Is he trying to be mature and all that blah-blah-blah stuff? I'll make it so that he smiles at everyone in Seireitei," Hailey said smiling with her hands out wide. "I'll ask kindly or do it by force."

"Poor Toushirou, he got stuck with the lunatic," Ichigo said as Hailey skipped off towards Hitsugaya. "So, Rukia, what do we do first?"

"Well, the letter from Ukitake-taicho says that we have to confirm our mission instructions with him. C'mon, I'll show you the way." Rukia and Ichigo weaved in and out of people and passed by Hailey. Hitsugaya was trying to get Hailey to stop hugging him.

"That girl will never learn," Rukia said. They had reached the 13th Division base and entered. Rukia and Ichigo walked to Ukitake's room and opened the door. Rukia quickly got down on her knees and bowed her head while Ichigo leaned on the door with a straight face.

"Ukitake-taicho, we have come to get our instructions from you so that we can continue on our mission." Rukia then raised her head. Ukitake nodded in approval and proceeded in giving them their instructions. Once they had left, Rukia told Ichigo the instructions again since he had one of the most confused faces she had ever seen.

"Look, we're supposed to go to the Soukyoku and fight off the Arrancar that appear. If Aizen comes and happens to have the Orb of Distortion then we defeat him, take it, and give it to Mayuri-taicho. Got it?" Rukia said. Apparently she could still see little question marks flying around Ichigo's head.

"Just us? We're supposed to fight all of those Arrancar alone?" Ichigo asked.

"No, because we'll have Hailey with us and I think that she can easily surpass your strength. She's only twelve and has mastered Bankai without ever coming to the Academy. She's scary strong and her reiatsu could bust a whole building down. I don't want to even mention her zanpakutou. Do you think we'll be safe now?"

"Yeah, yeah, I get it. She's stronger than me, so what. But still, out of all of the captains couldn't we at least get Hitsugaya on our side?"

"Well, you guessed right. They appointed Hitsugaya to help us out whenever we need it. So we're completely covered by three of our strongest people."

"Three? Who's the third?" Ichigo asked.

"Me, of course. You're still a seedling who hasn't mastered all of his power yet," Rukia said as she smiled devilishly at Ichigo.

"HEY, don't make fun of me, shorty!" Ichigo shouted.

"Don't call me shorty, carrot-head!" Rukia yelled as she and Ichigo rambled on in the streets of Seireitei. Meanwhile, Hailey was still trying to convince Toushirou to like her. She had followed him to his office and was begging for his acceptance.

"To-chan, if I do all of your paperwork correctly, will you at least hold my hand?" Hailey said.

"It's Hitsugaya-taicho and no, you can't do the papers nor will I hold your hand."

Hailey put on one of the cutest puppy faces and somehow Toushirou caved so Hailey got down to work. In thirty minutes flat, she had finished and was sprawled out on the couch of the 10th Squad office waiting for Toushirou to come back. When the door opened Hailey ran and hugged the person at the threshold. That person looked down and said, "What are you doing?" Hailey looked up and saw that it wasn't Toushirou, but an older lady with orange hair in a Shinigami uniform, but without the captain part.

Hailey said, "Who are you?"

The lady answered, "I'm 10th Squad Lieutenant, Rangiku Matsumoto. And who are you?"

"I'm To-chan's girlfriend!" Hailey answered. Matsumoto's eyes went wide and she tried to suppress a giggle. She immediately ran off to who knows where and Hailey called out, "Bye, onee-chan!" Hailey looked down the left side of the hallway and saw Toushirou walking towards the office.

He said, "What are you doing?" with an edge to his voice.

"Waiting for you to come back and check my work, To-chan." A small pulse appeared on Toushirou's head and he headed into the office with Hailey right behind him. He sat down at his desk with a fresh new pile of papers beside him. He pulled up the stack that Hailey had done and looked over it quickly. He sat frozen in his seat and looked up at Hailey who was standing by his side. She smiled and gave him the peace sign.

"You filed every single one of them correctly with not one mistake. How did you—"

"My prize?" Hailey said holding out her hand. Hitsugaya took her hand and Hailey led him out the door and into the streets of Seireitei. Nanao and Yachiru were absently passing by.

"So Matsumoto was right, the young's captain's got himself a girlfriend. Poor Hinamori," Nanao said. Hitsugaya had heard this and let go of Hailey's hand. He flash stepped out of Nanao and Yachiru's view with Hailey chasing him and calling his name.