Chapter 2:The Secret Place

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Previously

"We didn't start well so lets start again I am looking forward to working with you"with that he raised his hand for a shake.

"Sure why not" was Rukia's answer while holding his hand for a hand shake.

After Ukitake san explaining Rukia and Ichigo about their work he went with Kiyone to open the place for others to come. The place had an arrangement everyday at 8:30pm they would burst fire crackers from far for people to see and enjoy while ice skating Rukia felt it cute. But the fact that she and that orange haired strawberry were the ones who were going to burst them.

"Kurosaki san please take care of Kuchiki san and guide her properly"Ukitake san gave one last command before leaving.

"So midge- I mean Ku-kuch Rukia we first have to go to the store room to bring the stock" he turned around not facing her anymore.

"Hey it's Kuchiki by the way and don't act so bossy okay"she said walking ahead.

"Well I am going to call you Rukia cause Ku-chi-ki is a mouthful"

"You can't call me from my first name"

"I can and if not that then I'll call you midget so choose"

"Okay fine call me whatever you want Kurosaki"

He smirked and walked on 'One point for me' he thought while showing Rukia where the store room is. It as a five minute walk from the place. While walking she thought to break the silence by talking cause she was not the mean types.

"Hey so from the rumors your pretty rich then why did you take this job?"she innocently asked.

"Well that is personal, what about you?"

It is personal too..."

The awkward silence took the lead. She glanced up to him to see him staring right at her.

"Hey you are not like other girls, you don't melt when I talk to you"

"Don't you even compare me with them"

"We reached the store room"a small 1 room wooden house was in front of them.

"Well it took a while to reach here why is it separated from the place anyway?"

"Here is from where we have to burst the fire crackers thats why I guess"

"So what do we do now" she raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, keep those boxes in there first."

They both go inside there was a lot of dust around there and it was pretty dark, there was not a single bulb for light except faint moonlight. She kept the boxes as Ichigo instructed and took out the particular things which she supposed they'll need. After a while of work in the store room Ichigo checked his wrist watch before saying "Perfect" and grinning.

"Nows the time for the real deal" he said his grin widening.

She saw him put two-three fire crackers or rockets taking them he looked at her before lipping a 'wait and watch' to her. He started burning the firecrackers as they exploded illuminating the dark night sky.

She was staring at the beautiful night sky wide eyed when someone disturbed her from her little daze.

"What are you doing there just staring at the sky come here and help me."

Without saying a word she went back to the grumbling orange haired strawberry and started helping him with burning more firecrackers.

After they were done with the last firework they look up in the night sky and see the remnants of the light of the fireworks. Rukia sighs at the beautiful sight.

"It's so pretty I wonder how it looks from the ice skating place"Rukia mumbled.

"Yeah"Ichigo glanced at her "Come on lets go we have to clean the rink too"he said.

"Hm"with that started walking together side by side to the ice skating place. On the way Rukia was wondering why had Ichigo asked her that question about her not being like the other girls and all. So she decided to break the peaceful silence.

"Hey Kurosaki why did you ask me that question before?"she asked innocently.

"Which question?"

"That me not being like other girls..."

"Oh! You really are curios to what I Ichigo Kurosaki or the king wants to tell you, huh!"

"I just asked what it was you know"

"Well I think you will end up falling for me Rukia"

"Falling for a guy like you never"

"Oh really, are you challenging me or something miss Kuchiki"

"Nah, I'm just telling you to not keep your hopes too high cause there are some people in the world who actually have brains you know"

"Well then lets see you are my target, you know you should surrender cause I am a pro at this"

"Never, bring it on Kurosaki"

"Hey wait I might play dirty"a smirk growing on his face.

"Were you two making out in the woods?"this snapped both of them to reality.

"Sh-shut up Kiyone" Ichigo growled.

"No, it's just you two get along so well that I thought you are dating each other and...you know...making out in the woods all alone in the dark."

"We are not dating and we just did our work and came" this time it was Rukia.

Kiyone couldn't stop laughing looking at their two blushing faces they really looked cute together was Kiyone's suggestion to them.

"Okay so lets start with cleaning the rink"Ichigo said while taking a mop with a long rod.

After they were finished with the fireworks the place was closed Ichigo and Rukia now had to clean the ice rink while Ukitake san and Kiyone went to keep their things in the store room.

"Soo...how do we clean this?"Rukia said to Ichigo who was searching for something in a box.

"It's easy just wear these ice skates and skate around while mopping the ice"he gave her, her ice skates and smiled a real smile "It's fun and easy" he said.

Well there came the problem Rukia didn't know how to ice skate what was she gonna do.

"H-hey..."Ichigo turned to face her "I don't know how to ice skate" yeah now he is gonna make fun of her.

"What!you don't know how to ice skate how did you get the job?"he half screamed.

"Okay are you just going to scream on me are help me learn ice skating"

"Oh I give up now come fast"she wobbled to Ichigo with her ice skates on.

He slowly guided her to the ice rink while holding her hand gently yet firmly.

"Okay, slowly one leg at a time" he gave her instructions.

"Yeah I guess I am ready you can leave me" she said while focusing on skating.

"Okay here you go"he left his hand from Rukia's.

She was able to skate on her own though not as good as Ichigo's but still it was fine. She had a bit of problem ice skating with the mop in hand to clean to but she still the ice rink was done cleaning.

"Watch out, BAM!"Rukia had lost balance while trying to stop and had ended up crashing into Ichigo. But luckily she ended up on top of Ichigo so she was not hurt.

"I thought I was gonna die" she said opening her eyes to find Ichigo's face just an inch away she froze at the spot and stared into burning amber.

It all just happened in a second that he had no time to even register the moment he fell his back hurt like hell he cursed under his breath, next Rukia is on top of him her cold amethyst staring right at his amber ones.

"Hey you look pretty cute you know " he said it with a smirk on his face.

"W-what are you saying idiot?"she said as her face turned to a tint of red.

"It was a complement don't go nuts on it"he said coolly as she started to get off him.

She laughed a small laugh and gave him a hand to get up"Sorry to make you fall"

He took her hand and he got up while saying a "it's okay" to her. He looked at her , her cheeks were still a bit of pink from the blushing she was cute but still an irritating midget.

"So lets call it a day"Ichigo said while sitting on a bench near a drink stall.

"Oh!wait"Rukia said.

She went to the drink stall and asked for something warm, then she went back to Ichigo smiling from the hard work of the first day of her part time job. She had two cups which contained warm hot chocolate her personal favorite drink and offered one to Ichigo.

"Here take this as a thanks for teaching me ice skating and sorry for making you fall"he grabbed the cup from her hand.

"Thank you"she smiled and sat beside him.

"You know what you are really good at ice skating"she praised him while taking a sip from the cup.

For some reason Ichigo just froze then and there as she complemented his skating his eyes wide. He just remembered his mother who died a couple of years ago. She had once bought him to the same ice skating place it was her favorite that time he didn't know how to ice skate. His mom taught him how to ice skate though he fell two three times she would encourage him. The way after their ice skating she had bought the same hot chocolate from the same stall and said that he was really good at ice skating...

He couldn't stop the flow of thoughts he was getting, he placed the cup beside him on the bench and faced Rukia.

"Rukia..."she looked at him to see his face not much visible because of his orange locks.

The next moment his face getting near hers and then his lips touched hers. He was kissing her! It was a bit rough though he was gentle at the same time, she didn't know but the way he kissed her made her kiss back. He cupped her cheeks with his hands and angled his head to deepen the kiss. He prodded his tongue and she ended up fighting for broke the kiss by withdrawing his lips back and his hands off her cheek.

For a minute their faces were near and they were staring at each others eyes when, he smirked...yes he smirked.

"You taste delicious"he said and playfully licked her lips.

She turned beet red now in full conscious."W-what was th-that for...?"she said

"You mean the kiss...umm...because I felt so"

"That was the lamest answer for kissing someone, you know"

"Oh come on was it your first kiss"he saw her blush.

"Y-yes! got a problem with that"she said turning her head in the opposite direction.

"Well you even kissed me back are you already falling for me"

"No way I am leaving"she started walking near the staff room to let Ukitake san know that she will take her leave today.

"Hey wait" Ichigo came running from behind.

He grabbed her wrist and pulled her near him while she was saying some colourful words for him. He leaned down to her ear and whispered "This will be our secret place"

She let go off her hand and said a "Secret place my foot" and stormed to the staff room.

"So how was your first day at work Kuchiki san?" Ukitake san said happily.

"Well it was pretty good"she fake smiled.

No it was hell no...worse than hell does somebody get kissed and what if it was their precious first kiss on the first day of job how is it good.

"I'll be leaving now thank you for today"she said.

"I'll be leaving too then"she turned to the source of voice and glared at a particular orange haired strawberry.

He just smirked he was having fun playing this little game of Make-Rukia-piss-with-all-your-might. She went out of the place after wishing farewell to Kiyone and Ukitake san. He followed behind her.

"So do you want me to drop you till your house"he asked willingly.

"No I am fine on my own Ichigo"she said angrily.

"Hey its late and its not good for a girl to go alone you know and..." he slyly smiled and got hold of her wrist "Hey it was the first time you called me by my first name"

"Well thanks for your concern but I am fine on my own and if you can call me Rukia then I can call you Ichigo got that."

"Okay,okay got that as you wish"

With that they went on their ways back home.

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