Disclaimer: Pon & Zi belongs to Azuzephre, Bleach to Kubo Tite.and spiders belong to Mother Nature.
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Don't ask why Rukia was even reading it.
The book. The book she'd found rather badly hidden in Ichigo's shelf. The book that she'd absent mindedly picked up, unaware of what it contained, believing it to be a manga. The book. The story itself was informal, it was demeaning (Ugh, if she ever got caught reading this book…) it was explicit in images and there was no way it could happen to her in real life. Yet, as Rukia chanted the lines in the enchanting book, she found it amazingly wondrous, the words flowing like poetry through her mouth. Why hadn't Ichigo shown her this wonderful book? Did any of her classmates read it too? And even if they did, would they dare tell? She was honestly surprised Ichigo even had these types of books.
She shrugged, whatever. If he caught her reading it now, he'd probably turn as red as his strawberry namesake and snatch it away from her or something. So she'd better finish it before he came back from dinner. She flipped a page.
"Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet," She recited happily,..
Yes, The noble Kuchiki Rukia was reading nursery ryhmes, the type that were used to entertain bored 5 year old kiddies. A thousand and one Nursery Ryhmes, to be exact.
"Eating her curds and whey. Along came a –"
…And a spider dropped right on the book.
"-AIEE SPIDER!!" she shrieked, throwing the book across the room and scrambling up from her lolling position on the bed. Unfortunately, while the book suffered a lot of damage, the spider didn't. Instead of getting squashed by the book, which Rukia had been hoping for, it merely twitched from the fall and started scuttering towards her.
"Get away!" she twitched and hoisted herself even further up on the bed, drawing her knees together and shuddered as the spider edged its way even closer. Rukia had never liked spiders, even when she was young. It'd pooped on her teddy bear once and she had never forgiven it. (Do spiders even poop?) Therefore, Rukia thought it wise to scream and act in this totally un-Rukiash way. Which included writhing, shrieking, and screaming blue murder. She really didn't like spiders.
This was when Ichigo finally decided to come back from his dinner (more likely he heard the screams and thoight a banshee had entered his room) and he stared in disbelief at the scenario in front of him- Rukia cowering in his bed, hiding her head in her arms to avoid looking at the spider just a few feet away from her. The mighty Kuchiki Rukia, fallen by a mere spider!
Ichigo would have laughed, if not that he was really worried Rukia would freak out even more. He made a move to grab any nearby book to squash the spider with…
He stared at the book. "Hey, what's my One Thousand and One Ryhmes doing outside here?"
Rukia lifted her head from her knees and yelled back, "Just kill the spider already!"
The spider seemingly heard its name and started scuttling even nearer to the frightened Shinigami. Rukia let out another shriek and dove under the blankets, shivering like it was 0 degrees outside.
Ichigo rolled his eyes and slammed the book down on the spider. However, he missed it entirely and merely just covered it with his hand. Quick as a flash, the spider reached out and bit him on the hand.
"ee-YOUCH! That thing BITES!" he winced in pain, and gathering his remaining energy he slammed the book down on the unfortunate spider again. This time it hit its mark, and the mighty One Thousand and One Ryhmes defeated the stubborn spider.
Ichigo sighed as he gingerly touched his bitten finger, and winced again. It hurt. Damn, all this just to kill a stupid spider for her.What if he got poisoned?
Rukia got up slowly from his bed, twisting the sheets around her nervously. She stared apprehensively at the spider which now lay on its back, and she stared back at Ichigo, his throbbing finger in full view. "You..killed it for me?" she murmured awkwardly. That looked
like a real nasty bite, she thought, as she made her way across and settled down in front of him.
"Umm, yeah." Ichigo rubbed his head awkwardly. "Be happy,ok? I killed it for you."
As Rukia slowly surveyed the bedroom that had become a castrophe zone due to that spider (she'd tried throwing things at it, it had avoided ALL.), she smiled slowly and looked at Ichigo, who went at lengths to kill the spider for her-including injuring himself- straight in the eyes, and said,
"I'm not kissing that finger for you."
A/N: Ehehs. Slightly weird…unless you really know Po & Zi. Buttt I hope to improve!R&R? Constructive criticism appreciated…)