Thank you all for reading and enjoying the last chapter of Strawberry Violet! Really love your support, anyway enough of my yammering onwards with chapter 2!
Ichigo laid on Rukia's body for longer than expected due to him being in the frozen state of Yuzu and Karin staring at the two's incident. At this point the staring was getting ridiculous, Ichigo had now just wanted to get off Rukia, explain to Yuzu and Karin this was a whole big misunderstanding and...
Wait...what was Rukia doing here in the first place? That was a major question Ichigo wanted answered first.
Though before he could get that answer, he had to clear up things with Yuzu and Karin, so he went.
He let out a small gulp. "Y-Yuzu...Karin i-it's..." As Ichigo tried to go on the next thing he knew Yuzu dog piled onto the two of them.
"RUKIA!" She screamed out in joy and tried to hug Rukia through Ichigo.
Karin just stood back and continued to stare until she let lowered her eyebrows. "I'm heading back to bed..."
Ichigo was relieved when knowing that Yuzu and Karin hadn't thought about it in the wrong way, it saved him a lot less explaining when the two had came over. He sighed in relief and turned back to Rukia who had looked amazingly angry.
"Oh...Hey Rukia." Ichigo casually spoke to be responded with a huge slap to the face, making him roll of f of her. As he did Yuzu fell off of him before he could get a full roll in.
He rubbed his cheek for a second. "Ouch! What the hell's your..." Ichigo stopped before noticing Yuzu on the floor. He slid over next to her as she was on the floor. "Yuzu are you..."
She jumped up from the ground. "Rukia! You've returned!" Yuzu ran over to her and gave her a big hug.
Rukia just blushed up. "Y-Yeah..."
"I've missed you so much!" Yuzu started to hug her tighter causing Rukia too look as if she were about to explode.
"Y-Yuzu I think you've..." Before Rukia could collapse Yuzu stopped her hug.
"I'm sorry..." Yuzu scratched the back of her head. "You know it's just been a long time."
"I suppose you can say that." Rukia replied with a casual smile.
"What brings you back?" Yuzu stared happily at Rukia.
Rukia redirected her eyes to Ichigo when Yuzu had said that. "Just some business is all."
"Ah I see." Yuzu nodded. "Well I bet you're starving, don't worry i'll..."
"It's okay Yuzu." Rukia declined her offer. "I'd really just like to rest from my trip."
Yuzu nodded once more. "Ok then, well great to see your back!" She smiled and wondered back downstairs. As she did Ichigo gawked at Rukia.
"What type of business are you here for?"He asked to be answered with another slap.
"Ow! Damn what's your problem!?"
Rukia's emotion immediately turned back to her usual self. "You fool! Why don't you look where your going next time!"
"You already slapped me for that! Why another?" Ichigo complained as he rubbed on his cheeks, it didn't hurt much but still had a sting.
"Because you still haven't learned!" Rukia responded.
While they continued to bicker, Ichigo started to get that feeling he usually now got whenever he would think about her. Since of that he stopped, as Rukia kept yelling at him Ichigo admired every little detail of her. Again it was the way she looked when she was mad that made him go a little nuts over her, she had such a cute and adorable manor when just yelling at him.
"Look at her...the way she gets so angry it's so..." Ichigo was snapped out of it by another one of Rukia's ongoing slaps.
"Again!" He yelled out as he was hit on the same spot of his cheek, the constant hits started to pile up and was now turning into the pain of someone his size slapping him.
"Did that help your hearing?" Rukia scolded at him.
"Why are you even here?" Ichigo said angrily after being pelted with slap after slap.
Rukia stopped before going ahead, she instantly calmed down and now had a light blush on her face.
"I-I..." She stammered rubbing her shoulder.
Ichigo really hadn't seen that look from Rukia in a while, and it had looked even cuter of her causing him too look at her with a sense of compassion. It made him now at this point really care about why she was here and it also had made Ichigo feel stupid at just yelling out the question why she was here.
"R-Rukia I didn't mean to..." He was stopped when Rukia walked up close to him with a shy look.
"Ichigo...i have a question."
"W-What?" Ichigo quietly stammered.
"Did you...miss me?" Rukia asked staring at the floor.
With that question it was too clear to Ichigo that he had missed her but not knowing if she had felt the same for him, he kept his answer short and understanding, well at his perspective.
Ichigo rubbed the back of his orange heap of hair and his eyes wondered off to the left. "M-Maybe..." He then paid his attention back to Rukia, she looked now a bit more tensed up.
"R-Rukia?" Ichigo felt a little bad about his answer, though he didn't know whether to confess or hide.
"You fool..." Rukia mumbled from her mouth with a annoyed tone making Ichigo brace for another slap.
But she didn't slap, instead she lifted her head up high to Ichigo in a courageous manner. "It's obvious you missed me, cause I know you couldn't handle all those hollows cleanly on your own."
Ichigo lowered his hands away from his lightly wounded cheek, he stared at Rukia for a second and couldn't help but to let out a grin, every time she'd get on at him at first but in the end manage to surprise him in the end.
That was one specialty he had always loved the most about her.
The two walked into Ichigo's room, after entering Rukia fell onto his bed and yawned making Ichigo blush a little when seeing her. "It's been too long hasn't it?"
"Well it hasn't been an eternity has it? Also how did you manage to come back here?" Ichigo sat on his chair next to his desk.
"Ukitake taichou allowed me to come back here and let me have a little break, due to nii-sama and all the work that has been going on." Rukia clarified shortly.
"Ah, well that's nice to hear besides, Byukaya can always find someone else to do all that pointless work."
"Plus it's great to see him actually agree to let you stay here for a while." Ichigo laid back on his chair.
Rukia slowly rose up from the bed upon hearing that. "Nii-sama currently doesn't know but..."
Ichigo rolled his chair over to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Eh don't worry about it right now, besides you need to make the most out of this little break while you've got the chance."
Rukia nodded. "You are right...still Nii-Sama."
"Don't be so nervous that everything's gonna go wrong Rukia, Byukaya will be just fine with all that paperwork I promise." Ichigo smiled to her confidently.
Rukia couldn't help to smile back, she guessed this was Ichigo's way of paying her back for all the times she had given him one of those pep talks. "Y-Yeah, I'm just being to cautious is all."
After that a momentary silence had came in, which Ichigo broke before it could get even further. "So now that you're here, um...whatcha wanna do?"
Rukia let out a quick yawn and stretched, making Ichigo again blush, it was just the way she did everything that made her even more attractive,adorable and even cute, but Ichigo wasn't just in love with that but what made Rukia, Rukia.
Ichigo hadn't noticed though he was blushing at her after she had done her small bedtime routine. "I-Ichigo?" Rukia started to blush while he stared at her.
He shook his head. "Oh sorry just I saw something."
"Saw something huh?" Rukia asked in curiousness as always. "What could that be?"
"N-Nothing." He stammered quickly.
Rukia stared back at him for a second and shortly yawned again.
"Have you slept at all?" Ichigo spoke with a hint of concern.
"Why ask? I'm perfectly fine." Rukia defended.
"You sure?"
"Positive."
"Rukia..." Ichigo lifted a brow.
"Don't worry it's...it's nothing." She yawned falling back onto the bed.
Before Ichigo to say anything, Rukia was then asleep, he smiled at her as she slept quietly.
Ichigo sat on his chair wondering so much about her, the girl. Rukia Kuchiki a soul reaper who had changed his life, to protecting everyone and everything he had always wanted to. But she didn't do just that but gave his life meaning, being there in the toughest of times and even the weakest always cheering him on no matter what the cost.
He knew it wasn't just a coincidence that these feelings had came from the blue but instead Ichigo knew this point was going to come and he was ready and greatful that it had finally came.
Ichigo started to yawn after thinking, he stretched his arms out then laid onto the bed next to Rukia. It made him feel like they had belong together after all this time yet he didn't know when to tell her, neither less Rukia had the same thought. Both had amazingly high love for each other and wanted to confess yet, none of them what was the best time plus if they would be shot down by one of each other.
Either way someone had to make the first move, though who would it be?
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