Taada! My brand-spanking new series.

It's a partial gender bender, mainly focused on Ichiko (Ichigo's female counterpart), and Rukio (Rukia's male counterpart). But, that's not all I'll be focusing on, and not all the characters are gender bent, I just decided to be a little different.

I'll be taking prompt requests, to see what people want to happen :)

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01 — Vignette

Midnight

The house was quiet, as she crept through her own house, the walls she'd lived within for years, felt odd to her right now—it was ridicules, it really was.

For what odd reason or another, she just couldn't settle, it was 3 am already, and she hadn't been able to sleep, sure she'd tried, but the attempts hadn't gotten her far.

She stood in the refrigerator light for the moment, really thinking, what the hell was keeping her up.

"Good morning to you too, Chibi-ko." the deep, masculine voice she'd come to know greeted her.

Him. Familiarity sort of seeped into the room. She knew this, she knew him.

"So, you're back, huh, Rukio. Took your time." she kept her back to him, and it passed through her head, briefly—she was in her pyjamas. Not that it really mattered, but not even her friends had really seen her in anything other than her uniform.

"Surprised to see you're still awake…?" he answered, still sitting in the darkness across the kitchen.

"Couldn't sleep." was all she left him with, as she drank out of the milk carton briefly, but ended up putting it back, feeling his stares. It was uncomfortable. "What are you gawking at?" she turned on him, holding the refrigerator open with her foot, letting the light flood the room, so she could see him.

He sat up on the bench, in what looked to be some of her father's clothes. Tall, lean…and completely…Rukio.

"Better yet, why're you down here? When'd you get back?"

More like, how did you get in…?

"Ah…a few moments ago…was getting a drink of water…" he almost looked sheepish for a moment, before he got off the counter, and it didn't really do much to change his height—freaking giant—and he crossed the kitchen in a pair of strides, and closed the fridge door, half stooping over her to do it, so she was face level to his chest, as the room went dark again.

"Ah-ha…" she stepped back at his sudden closeness, and felt the stare again, but she saw it as well, this time, his eyes brazenly looking at her body, not her face. "Will you stop that?"

"Hmm? Stop what?"

"Staring. I can see it—my face is here, bub."

"Ah…" he seemed taken aback, and took a few steps away. "I… I apologise…I guess I'm still not used to seeing this much of a woman's skin…"

"What kind of church school did you come from." was her only verbal reaction, her cheeks heating, and she crossed her arms over her partly bared waist, perhaps this singlet was a bit short.

She didn't give him time to reply, as she turned, and started back for the stairs.

He remained in the kitchen for the moment, staring at the doorway for a moment, before turning away, and running a hand through his hair, mentally reprimanding himself.

She stopped at the bottom of the stairs, realising he wasn't following, and backtracked to the kitchen, leaning her head through the door way, she stopped short, mouth open to ask him something, and had to bit her lip to keep from laughing—he was ridicules.

"Are you coming or what?" she couldn't hold the slight giggle to her words.

His head lifted, almost alarmed, before her wordlessly began to follow, as she padded softly back towards the staircase.

Yeah, she thought. It was because of him.

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Just to clear this up, a drabble is exactly 100 words long, maybe one or two more or less. Vignettes are short, but can be a lot longer than 100 words, kinda like they're the length of a short one-shot.

I'm hoping to be posting when I can. Be mindful, that, I don't have full, 24hour access to internet like some people.

Note: here's a few things you might want to know for this thing, 1, Rukio is really tall, and while Ichiko isn't small, he teases her about it. And 2, in this series, I am not turning Ichiko into a weaker character, I'm not sure I really showed it that well here, though…

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed—thanks for reading!

See ya again!