"R-Rukia, what are you doing here!" Ichigo questioned, the short girl had arrived rather unexpectedly at the doorstep of the Kurosaki family home. A large smile on her face. Her arms wrapped around Ichigo's waste, her head burying into his chest. "Rukia?"
Behind him, Ichigo could feel the gaze of his family as she pulled away picked up a suite case and entered. "Hello everyone."
"Rukia-nee-san." Yuzu smiled seeing Rukia, not to mention the blush on her brother's face was a plus."
Isshin looked at Ichigo confused, the orange haired teen had no answers for his perplexed father. "Sorry I didn't call a head of time or rather I'm sorry for inviting my self in to your home." Rukia gave, feeling Isshin's gaze.
"N-No it's fine," Ichigo closed the door and walked in, slightly snatching the suite case from her hand, "Come on, I wanna talk to you." Rukia had no time for protesting as he pulled her quickly along and up the stairs to his room.
"Hey Rukia." Karin sighed stepping out of her shared room and walking down to the kitchen, "Is the world ending again?"
"No, why do you say that?"
"Cause, Rukia's back when ever she shows up something bad either has happened or is going to happen."
Mean while up stairs Ichigo fought with Kon's lion stuff animal body to spit out the pill that contained his soul. When he realized there was no chance of that happening he opened the window and dropped the obnoxious and protesting doll into the bushes below.
"Okay so now," Ichigo sat down on the bed, where as Rukia hadn't even moved from her place in the entrance of his room, she'd only moved enough for them to close the door. "Will you please tell me what is going on?"
Rukia grinned from ear to ear. "I did it." Ichigo raised and eye brow, "I did it." She exclaimed again.
With a sigh Ichigo leaned forward on his knees, "You know repeating 'I did it' doesn't explain everything that-"
"I told Renji, Byakuya, and the clan elders that I wanted to be with you, here."
"You did...What!"
"I told them that." The small shinigami shrugged her shoulders, "I want to be with you, Ichigo, I did the first thing for my self in a long while."
"Rukia? Why, why would you do that why now after you've become a lieutenant?"
"I still have my position, I still carry the Kuchiki family name, however." She walked over and knelt down in the space between his legs and looked up to his brown eyes with a large smile, "I can stay with you," Her hands reached up and rested on either side of his face, "Byakuya supported me! He said that even though he doesn't understand it, he is proud of me. That I was able to tell them what I wanted, that I didn't just bend to their whim." A stray tear fell from her violet eye and immediately Ichigo's large hand cupped her face, stopping the tear.
"Why didn't you tell me though?" He asked her, "I thought that we would have talked about this."
"Ichigo," Rukia smiled, "Your to much of someone that wants to make everything okay, you want to make sure that everyone, but your self is happy. I wanted you to be happy, I know you love your life here. Your family and your friends, I love them to. So I'm staying here with you, when ever I'm not needed in the Seireitei, but for the most part..." She drifted off and raised up to her knees and kissed the side of Ichigo's face, whispering into his ear.
"...My life is here." Rukia felt the weight of the world lift off her shoulders, and enjoyed the weight of Ichigo pulling her deeper in to the tight embrace.
This fic means a lot to me, because it really reflects something that has happened in my life and it is such a relief to know that the parts of my life I was still clinging to I am officially able to let go of.
Thank you all for reading, I do not own Bleach Tite Kubo does.
