A/N: It's been a long journey but I finally finished this sequal. I guess I owe it to myself to get working on the last one, oh just incase you didn't know this one will have a sequal you'll see what later. Have fun with this and hopefully you like it.

It was morning and Ichigo had just opened his eyes to one of his most cherished memories. He stared for a little while and then grinned slightly. He was happy. He was happy that everything had come together and he was able to see eye-to-eye with his loved one—Rukia. He watched her sleep as lie there next to him.

"WAKE UP ICHIGO!!!!!!!!!" Isshin yelled as he violently broke down the door and ran into Ichigo's room. Rukia woke up from the loud crash of the door being broken and quickly looked over to where the door used to be located. Ichigo did the same.

When Isshin got a good look at Ichigo, and the other person in his bed he stood quietly for a moment. He stood there staring, frozen like a statue. He had no expression on his face and he didn't seem like he was going to have one anytime soon. Suddenly he managed to unfreeze himself and he grinned broadly yelling,

"MY BOY IS A MAN!!!!!!!!!"

Ichigo quickly got up and hit his father with the strongest right hook he could. Isshin went flying into a wall and nearly broke it. Ichigo yelled, "IDIOT!!! HOW CAN YOU JUST BURST INTO A ROOM LIKE THAT?!?!?!?" Isshin's crumpled to the ground with head was spinning. He had no idea what was going on.

"Is everything alright?" Yuzu asked from downstairs. She had heard the loud noises that had come from upstairs but it wasn't until she heard the loud breaking noise that she got a bit worried.

"Everything is alright Yuzu," Ichigo answered.

"Are you sure? Dad said he was going to wake you up."

"He's here now, but he'll be coming down in a bit."

"Ok! And hurry up! You have to go to school in ten minutes!"

Ichigo whispered a small, "Shit" before turning to Rukia. She was sitting up on the bed, slightly leaning, putting her weight on her left arm. Neither of them wanted to move. They just looked at each other, and gave each other a warm, full smile. It was a small blissful moment they shared before they had to deal with the hardships of the day.

"Ichigo, five minutes!" Karin yelled

He quickly snapped out of his blissful moment and ran towards his dresser. Rukia, too, went to her closet, jumped in, shut the door and pulled out some clothes. Ichigo thought about that for a second. She closed the door? Why did she close the door? They had just been together NAKED and she wouldn't change in front of him? He was about to knock on her "door" when she opened it and came out already dressed.

"I know what you're going to ask; why did you close the door if we just had sex? Well, I still need my privacy," Rukia tried to explain.

"What privacy? I saw you naked!"

"Well a girl still needs her privacy."

Ichigo stood there a moment baffled by this whole privacy idea. Rukia just shook her head and gave him a good smack in the head and opened the window. "I'll see you at school."

"Wait, I thought we'd go together!" The night before, Ichigo thought about what the morning would be like. Sure things would be new between them and nobody else really knew about them, but he though that maybe they could take at lest this little step.

Rukia looked at him and said, "Idiot, do you really think we need that type of attention? If everyone knows about us then when we leave to get the hollows they'll think other things are happening."

"What other things?" Ichigo asked idiotically.

"You know—the OTHER things." Rukia started to blush a bit. She couldn't imagine trying to tell him what things they could do.

Ichigo just stood there with a blank expression. He had no idea what other things Rukia could possibly be talking about. All he saw was that they'd leave like normal and that's it. Things wouldn't be different like he'd hoped, but Rukia was being smart about it. She knew that if people saw them together, they would start talking.

"I'll just see you later ok? And remember, no hints, no suggestions, no telling, no nothing. We are just friends got that?" Rukia questioned Ichigo as he finished getting changed.

Ichigo just nodded, slightly disappointed, as he picked up his bag and headed downstairs to get a quick bite to eat before having to get to school.

Orihime got up slowly and stretched a bit. She took off the small bandages she had on from the day before, and headed to the bathroom. Looking at herself in the mirror she tried to clear her mind. She had been thinking a lot lately and she just wanted some time off from her thoughts. But as hard as she tried to turn them off, they would still come back.

"Ichigo—what should I do?" She had been trying to figure out what to do with him. Her feelings for him were still very strong.

She let her clothes slide off of her as she hopped into the shower. She let the warm water engulf her into another world—a place that she finally felt at peace, in total happiness. The water pouring down her body became small droplets that felt like heaven's blessings all around her. But even in her temporary paradise where all of her fondest thoughts were, Ichigo still came into her mind. He came up to her slowly, stared at her for a moment and finally laid one hand where he thought her heart was.

This soft but intimate touch caused Orihime to come back to reality. She looked around and let the truth of the daydream come. She shampooed and conditioned her hair. She did this mechanically lately since she always wanted to look her best—for him. She washed the rest of her body and turned the shower off. Finally, she stepped out of the shower and looked at herself in her full body mirror.

"I wonder if he even notices me. All of the other guys do but he never says anything."

She quickly wrapped a towel around her, brushed her teeth and picked up her pajamas. She skipped to her room, threw her dirty clothes in the hamper and grabbed her uniform. After she dressed quickly, she sprayed herself with some perfume. The perfume matched her scent of her shampoo—ripe strawberry. It reminded her of a particular person every time her hair was around her nose.

When she was done in her room she went to the kitchen. She quickly made herself a salsa-cover squid sandwich, got her bag and left. "I still have some time before school starts." (It was 5 minutes till school started and she had to walk about a half a mile.)

A/N: Well we start now and for another 4 more chapter. Hopefully this was to your expectations. If you ave comments on this then please leave me a review and Iwill answer back.

Next up: School.