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Chapter 2
Just like a Contest
"Hey" His voice was cool and calm. Like her presence didn't faze him at all. He laid himself op top of his covers. He casually interlocked his fingers and placed them behind his head, his gaze settling on the ceiling. He watched as the trees' shadows swayed in the breeze his expression unchanging.
"You know this isn't the heat getting to you combined with your sleep deprived senses. I am here." She said looked at him oddly.
"I know. Why….no never mind don't answer that" he said shifting his gaze to the open window. A breeze blew through the open window he closed his eyes.
It had been months since they'd seen each other. But it wasn't like it was years.
The Soul Society changed him. All the battles and the close calls, where no one was sure if they would make it, risking their lives. How could it not have? She looked down her dark hair falling into her face covering part of it.
"Maybe I shouldn't have come…at all." Standing she said it sternly but her face betrayed her words.
He let a short sarcastic laugh escape. His facial expression never changed though. "Now who's the idiot?"
"Huh?" she looked up
"Nothing it doesn't matter. But at least have the decency to go see them. They fought for you too." Then his face changed. It was twisted in anger and confusion.
He's grown up. He's grown colder. I don't blame him.
His expression softened. He rubbed his head and turned to her. "Why did you come here Rukia?"
At first she didn't answer as if she didn't have a reason. She opened and shut her mouth a couple of times. Finally she just let her head hang. "I don't have an answer for you."
That's a first.
He hadn't realized it but as some point, probably when he was yelling at her, he had gotten to his feet. He walked to the closet and gently slid open the door.
"It's late." Yawning he walked back over to his bed and laid back down. He let out a second laugh.
"What?" she didn't even bother to turn around thinking it was going to be another sly remark.
"I just….I haven't touched that since the day you left. Nothing in there has changed. Yuzu's pajamas are still in there I bet."
She hoisted her self up onto the mattress. She began to pull her feet in as she slid the door shut. She stopped a sliver of moon light shine through. Her face softened in admiration. "Goodnight Ichigo" she said and finished sliding the door shut without a sound.
"Night Rukia" he said back.
It was like it was the most natural thing in the world for them. But the night seemed to drag on. Even though they were both exhausted both emotionally and physically they both lay awake staring at their respective ceilings.
Finally Ichigo's eyes began to flutter shut. Rukia slid the closet door open just enough to see. The sun's first rays came through the window, bathing his body in a golden light. Just like it would an angel.
He looks so peaceful. Shutting the door she finally let her eyes shut and allowed sleep to overcome her senses.
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