"Just Another Dramatic Love Story" Ch. 1

"Okay, I know we've unpacked the boxes in our van—"

"We've unpacked all of the boxes, sis."

"—But we still need to check your car one more time—"

"I'm pretty sure I already checked."

"Are you sure you—"

"Hisana!" Rukia laughed. "I've got EVERYTHING. I'm positive. I'm ready to start college now."

Her sister looked at her with watery eyes. "Oh, please don't start crying again…" Rukia groaned.

Hisana sniffed, wiping the tears from her brilliant lavender eyes. "I-it's just…so surprising! M-my l-little sister is grown up already! If only…if only M-mom and D-dad were h-here to s-s-see you!" With this, Hisana burst back into hysterics, and Rukia stood on her tiptoes to give her a hug.

"It's alright. I'm going to be just fine," Rukia said, eyeing her brother-in-law Byakuya. He was looking at her curiously with those cold gray eyes of his.

Hisana smiled, and after five tears-of-joy filled minutes, Rukia watched her sister hop in the car and say her final goodbye. "I love you so much, Rukia! Have a great time, and don't forget to call me every day!" Rukia grinned, laughing, and returned the curt nod that Byakuya had directed at her before the van slowly backed away, leaving Rukia by herself.

As she walked back up to her dorm, she pulled out her class schedule and dorm information, going over it for what seemed like the millionth time. A small box on the sheet of paper at the top of her stack read, "Rukia Kuchiki, age 17, freshman. Dormitory: Rukongai Hall, room 313. Roommate: (if applicable) Orihime Inoue."

Rukia crinkled her nose. She had almost forgotten that she had a roommate. I hope this Orihime girl isn't some psycho murderer like in all of those movies, she thought.

Rukia heard the sharp ding! of the elevator, but before she could even look up, she was tackled by something large and strawberry-blond. "Woah!" Rukia cried.

"Kyaa!" the person on top of her squealed. "You must be Rukia. You're so cute!"

Rukia managed to squirm out of the girl's grip and gasped, "Yeah…yeah, I'm Rukia…" Looking up, Rukia saw that the girl had long, wavy hair, icy blue eyes, and a rather large chest area.

"I'm Rangiku," she replied, still smiling widely. "You're a freshman too, right?"

"Umm…yeah—"

Rangiku grabbed her by the arm and pulled her across the hall. "C'mere, you have to meet the others!" Rukia was dragged almost all the way to Rangiku's dorm before she managed to get on her feet and walk the rest of the way herself.

The door swung open, and Rukia saw at least ten other girls her age mingling around the room. Rangiku wasted absolutely no time in quickly introducing Rukia to every last one of them.

First, she was walked up to a tall, green-haired girl that was equally as busty as Rangiku. "This is Neliel, she's my roommate. Most people just call her Nel."

"Oh, hi!" Nel squealed. "You're Rukia, right?"

"Yeah, nice to meet you—"

Next, Rukia was introduced to two skinny black-haired girls with slightly harsh expressions on their faces. "This is Nanao, and that's Soi Fon. They're the heads of the dorm." As they walked away, Rangiku whispered, "That means they're the ones who try to keep us from having too much fun."

By the time Rukia was introduced to everyone in the room, she felt slightly overwhelmed. So many names to remember, she thought.

Suddenly, a light bulb went off in her head. "Hey," Rukia said, nudging Rangiku. "Where's this Orihime girl?"

"Orihime? Is she your roommate?" Rangiku asked. Rukia nodded.

"Hmm…she moved in about a week ago, I think. She hasn't left her room much, so I'd check your dorm," said Nanao, who had been eavesdropping.

"Is she, um, a serial killer or anything?" Rukia asked.

Rangiku laughed. "Not that I know of. Gosh, you are so cute!" she added, enclosing Rukia in another tight hug.

Rukia managed to break away from Rangiku and Nel, who were still giggling over how "kawaii" she was, and found room 313. Nervously, she twisted the doorknob and walked in.

"Hello?"

There was a gasp from somewhere inside the room. "Oh, hi! You're Rukia, right?" A thin girl with long, auburn hair walked out from the shadows, and once again, Rukia noticed that her chest was rather large for someone of her age. Did everyone in this school get plastic surgery or something? Rukia thought.

"Yeah. Are you Orihime?" Rukia asked.

"Yep!" Orihime said cheerfully. "Come on in. I'm so excited that you're finally here, I've been so lonely the past few days!"

Rukia made her way inside and sat down on her bed. "So, have you met the other girls yet?" she asked.

"Oh, yeah," Orihime said, looking nervous. "Nanao and Soi Fon kind of scare me, though…"

"I think they scare everybody," Rukia laughed. Orihime giggled, and Rukia had a pretty good feeling that they would end up being friends. For the next ten minutes, they sat on their bunk beds, talking about their High School and life before College.

"Ooh, and don't tell anyone, but my High School crush is coming here, too!" Orihime whispered, blushing and smiling at the same time. "His name is—" SLAM!

Orihime was interrupted by the loud banging noise of their door hitting the wall as Rangiku and Nel marched in, grabbing Rukia by the arms.

"Oh, look, you two have met already," Rangiku said nonchalantly as Rukia struggled within her grip.

"Hey! What are you—" Rukia said, squirming out of Rangiku's arms.

Rangiku smiled sweetly. "Come on, you have to meet some of the guys now!"

Rukia's eyes widened. "Guys? I don't wanna meet guys!" A total lie; honestly, she couldn't wait to see if there was anyone hot on campus, but she was also pretty nervous.

"Awwww, come on, they don't bite!" Rangiku teased. "Nel, come help me get this poor girl to where all the smexy bishies are."

"Um…" Orihime murmured.

"Oh, you can come, too!" said Nel, who was now grabbing the legs of a writhing Rukia and assisting Rangiku in hauling her out the door.

Five minutes later, the two released Rukia and walked inside the elevator. Orihime was following awkwardly behind, with a look that clearly said, 'I think I'm surrounded by maniacs,' on her face.

"Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?" Rangiku said in a babyish voice.

"You didn't have to drag me out of the dorm…" Rukia muttered.

Rangiku grinned wickedly. "You know, I'm glad you're opening up a little. The first time I met you—which was approximately thirty minutes ago—I was afraid you'd be one of those quiet, sulky, lives-in-an-emo-corner types of girls."

"You thought I was emo?" Rukia asked incredulously.

Rangiku winked. "Oh, hey, look, there are the guys!"

And sure enough, there they were, about five male figures standing outside the glass doors of the girls' dorm.

With a gasp, Rangiku pulled them outside squealing, "Yay! Shiro-chan's there, too!"

"What's up, Rangiku?" Said a tall kid with curiously bright orange hair. Looking closer at him, Rukia saw that he seemed to be keeping up a sort of 'tough-guy' demeanor. He's kind of cute, actually, Rukia thought.

Orihime nudged her painfully in the side. "That's the guy!" she said through her teeth. So this was Orihime's High School crush. Rukia shook her head mentally, erasing all previous thoughts that this guy was good looking. If Orihime had a crush on him, there was no use in Rukia liking him too.

Rukia smiled back at Orihime, giving her a small thumbs up, and then walked over to join Nel and Rangiku. "Rukia, this is Toshiro! I like to call him Shiro-chan, but he doesn't really like it," Rangiku said, pressing a small white-haired kid about Rukia's size into her boobs, practically suffocating him.

"Mff!" said Toshiro.

"What was that?" Rangiku asked, pulling him back and looking into his very red face.

"I said," the kid snapped, backing away, "Get the hell off of me!"

Rangiku and Nel just giggled, and both reached out to mess up his hair as he walked away.

Next, Rukia was dragged back over to the ginger kid and introduced to him.

"Ohhhh Itsy-gooooo~! Itsy-go, this is Rukia," Nel said, beaming up at him. "And this is Orihime."

Ichigo managed a cool grin. "Yeah, I know Orihime, we went to school together." Rukia saw her friend blush brighter than her crush's hair. "I'm Ichigo."

"Hey," Rukia said, shaking his hand. The four of them stood there awkwardly until Ichigo finally spoke up again.

"Uh…this is Uryu," he said, dragging a black-haired boy with glasses over. "Orihime, you probably know him already, he went to school with us. The blue haired punk over there is Grimmjow, and the red-haired kid…ABARAI! C'mere!"

Rukia's head jerked up. Abarai? She had heard that name before. No way. It couldn't be, she hadn't seen him since middle school…

But as he got closer, Rukia could see a resemblance between the red haired boy walking towards them and her adolescent friend.

"What the hell do you want, Kurosaki? Can't you see I'm busy sweet-talking some seniors?"

Rukia's jaw dropped. That voice; it was him! "R-Renji?" she said in disbelief.

Renji's head jerked to the right, to the left, and finally downward. His eyes widened, making his eyebrows looking more strange than usual. "Rukia? Is that you?"

"Of course it's me! Who else would it be, you idiot?" she laughed.

His eyes narrowed as he stared at her once again, giving her the once-over. "Man, you're short."

"Asshole!"

Author's Note

Mkay, so, incase you didn't know already, this story is supposed to be one of those dramatic love story fanfics (actually, more like a love OCTAGON, lol) where you don't exactly know who's going to end up with who, because life's just complicated like that XD Some possible pairings are: HitsuMatsu, IchiRuki, RenRuki, IshiNemu, IshiHime, IchiHime, UlquiHime, GrimmHime, HitsuKarin, and a WHOLE bunch of other stuff. Good luck figuring it all out :D

I'd also like to apologize about this chapter moving kind of slowly; it IS the first chapter after all. I promise it'll get better :3

Please leave feedback, reviews make me ecstatic.

Later,

-JediEspada/Potterwatcher1997