Please ignore the lack of speech marks, the keys weren't really working for some unknown reason. I don't really plan on checking spelling, grammer what ever so please bare with me. I don't quite see Ichigo/1

ICHIGO

He hugged the petite framed girl before him, his hands around her small shoulders and her arms around his waist …

Just for now allowing themselves to melt into each other.

Rukia

'He loved her, it was as simple as that.' she felt strangely happy as she spoke those words out loud to herself, it felt nice as it rolled on her tongue. But then it was returning from the beautiful dream, they both knew that she couldn't and neither could he. They knew they felt the same about this, but they were still too stubborn yet to admit it.

They were leaving each other,... it was not forever as they would still be there but things in this lifetime just wouldn't be the same. She guessed it was a miracle in the first place that two unlikely people like them had just,'… fallen in love with each other' she finished breathlessly.

Ichigo

He didn't want to admit it, he wasn't going to admit defeat so bloody easily but as he layed on his unusually uncomfortable bed staring around what he now recognized as to be a small bare room he felt himself almost accept it. Almost…

There just had to be another way he almost moaned bitterly again as he brought his arms from underneath his head and automatically scratched his already sore red neck in irritation. But he couldn't leave Yuzu… he couldn't do that to her and Karin. Leaving them with only crazy Isshin Dad for company and he knew, he just knew that Rukia wouldn't, could never leave from what Inoue had once called her home, the place where her family though true not completely biological still lived.

He had to protect Karin and Yuzu now that Mum was gone.

He guessed that he should have known that, known that of course when she had refused him the first time. To come back with him after rescuing, returning the favour as he had foolishly said then, from Soul Society. But ... was it wrong for having hope?

Was it his fault he loved her the way he did, was it was even her fault slightly that she had allowed his own feelings to grow too, but from all the confusion and pain of trying to find a key to the lock which seemed impossible. He couldn't blame her.

He didn't even yet blame himself for what was happening, and had happened. After all how could the lowly half shimigami not fall in love with the Kuchiki Princess? Even if in reality she was an annoying yet… surprisingly warm midget he smiled to himself sincerely. scratching his orange head for all it was worth in confusion.

I'm planning on haveing a happy ending, just to tell you