Rukia laid in the hospital bed, the dark room scaring her.
She was alone.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw someone but couldn't really name it. She squinted her eyes and saw his toned chest.
"Kaien?" she immediately asked, pushing the covers off her body. The man stopped walking and stood there, looking down her.
The man slowly began to walk again but turned as he almost made it to the bed and went behind her. Suddenly, everything went black but she didn't panic, since the man wrapped his arms around her neck and laid his chin on her shoulder.
He slowly slid his fingers down her shoulders and to her navel "I love you." He wrote on her belly and she smiled.
"I love you too, Kaien." And she cupped his face with one hand, turning her body around so that she was facing him.
He slowly took off the piece of cloth he used to blind her and she blinked a couple of times.
"Do you still love me?" he actually spoke and Rukia almost panicked, it wasn't Kaien. She looked up at him and saw him.
"Ichigo?" her voice sounded panic, she could barely breathe, was this really Ichigo?
"You were so oblivious, Rukia." He whispered, laying her down on the bed with him on top of her.
Rukia looked at him before specking "I don't understand?"
Rukia sudden awoke, her forehead sweaty and her heart pounding against her chest. She sat up and looked around, noticing someone sleeping next to her.
Kaien.
She cupped her face, whipping away the droplets.
It was just a dream.
She swung her legs over to the edge of the bed, covering her naked body with her purple silk rob on the night stand by the bed. She walked to the balcony of their new condo in France, a beautiful sight shown only at night.
"What was with that dream?" she murmured to herself, the wind kissing her skin as she rubbed her eyes.
She doesn't understand.
"Kaien?" her face lit up once Ichigo came into the room.
Ichigo walked up to her and sat next to her in bed, taking her hand into his "Yes." And she smiled up at him, kissing his cheek.
"The nurse said once you came we can walk around." She said and Ichigo smiled down at her, she was always happy even in her condition. "Can we go eat somewhere, I'm like really hungry."
"Duh." He wrote and she giggled, swinging her legs to the edge of the bed, sitting next to Ichigo.
"Here" He wrote on her shoulder and took a hold of her arm to help her. She shoved him off and Ichigo looked dumbfounded.
"Let me do this myself," she smiled up at him, assuring him that she wasn't mad, but just wanted to do it herself. "I wanna try to walk on my own." So Ichigo got up first and stood there, waiting.
But just as she tried to get down from the bed, she nearly slid down. Ichigo quickly ran to her, wrapping his arms around her waist and twisting his body so she will fall on top of him.
"Clumsy." He quickly wrote on her belly and she began giggling.
"I'm sorry; I guess I still need help with these things." She turned her body around, facing Ichigo as he lay on the floor. "Thank you." She lean in and pecked his lips. After that kiss, she kissed him again and again, her hands entangle in his hair, his arms wrapped around her body.
"Do you think she's happy?" Ichigo asked Renji as they ate in front of the television. Renji turned his head slightly, sighing at his friend.
"Ichigo, when are you planning on letting her go?" he took another large bite of his burger.
Ichigo looked down at his plate in hand, should he really let her go? "Do you think that's best?"
Renji rolled his eyes "Let her be happy."
"Ya' wanna know something?" Rangiku suddenly popped up, sitting in-between the two boys. "She's coming to visit."
"When?" Renji asked, offering her a bite of his burger.
She took a bite and giggled "Tomorrow." Ichigo got up and left, leaving both his roommates worried.
-X-
"Something on your mind, Momo?" Toushiro asked his girlfriend whom was laying her head on his bare chest.
"Nothing's wrong, Shiro," she traced his chest with her index finger "why you asking?"
"You know you're not a very good liar." He chuckled lightly and that made her blush.
"Nothing's wrong, Shiro, I promise."
"It's true, Byakuya showed me these sign-in sheets and it said that Kaien visited every day." Ranigku said as they sat at a café downtown.
"I just can't believe it, Rangiku." Momo sighed, pocking her cinnamon bun with a fork "Like, I know Ichigo and it's obvious that he likes her."
"I agree with you, hun, but we can't argue with it." She took a sip of her latte before talking again "Anyways, as much as I don't believe it, Kaien was there."
"What about Ichigo, wasn't he there?" She questioned her friend.
"He was there, I know that for a fact since I dropped him off countless of times, but Kaien was there more."
"I guess he does love her," Momo sighed again, finally taking a bite of her bun "In his own special way."
Byakuya sat in his office, smiling down at a picture of himself and his late wife.
Hisana.
He turned his head slightly at a picture frame on his desk. Rukia was smiling up at Kaien, whom smirked down at her as they held hands. He couldn't help but feel warm inside. Maybe it wasn't such a bad Idea to let Rukia marry him...
-X-
"Kaien, do you remember when you fed me?" Rukia smiled as she placed two plates on the table. One for her, one for him. It was the night before their visit back to Tokyo, back to them.
"Yep." Was his only response, digging in to the rice.
"That was nice." She smiled as she sat down, but Kaien was too busy eating to notice.
"Course it was babe." He said with a mouth full of rice and a couple of small shrimps. Rukia closed her eyes, trying her best not to yell at him or cry.
"Can I ask you something?" Rukia asked, stretching her hand out to him.
"What babe?" he asked, looking up at her.
"Do what you use to do at the hospital." She asked and he froze. What did he use to do?
He took her hand and kissed it, Rukia had disappointment written all over her face. "Happy?" he began to eat again, not even waiting for an answer.
"I'm not sure..." she whispered to herself, taking a spoonful of rice and began eating.
A/N: SQUEAL! Took alot of brainstroming, mutiple rewrites and deciding between two idea's I had that I really liked. Thanks for all the reviews on *Oblivious* ! I really wasn't expecting for it to be such a hit in my world and that I will be having to write it a squeal..
Just like *Oblivious*, this will be a Three Part One Shot. I'm thinking about making a Squeal to this. But only time will tell.
Thank you Hekka! Your idea was amazing..
Review? I hope you do!
