~Chapter two~

I looked out through the window and saw the sun set and the moon rise and night feel over the town below my window. I looked at the door when someone knocked and opened the door.
"Rukia-sama, you should go to sleep." Matsumoto smiled. I smiled back and nod.
"I will, I just want to look at the moon a little while longer. Is that okay with you?" She nod with her normal and gently smile.
"Do you need anything before you go to bed?" I looked down a little bit.
"Will you come with me to the new town, Matsumoto?" I asked straight out. She looked at me for a short while before she answered.
"I don't know, Rukia-sama. I don't know what the plans is, just that they are preparing for your journey." I nod and looked out at the moon again and I heard how she walked over to me.
"I wished you could come with me." I smiled a little bit when I felt her hand at my head and heard her giggle.
"You would manage it anyway, with or without me. I'm not worried at all!" I smiled and giggled with her and then nod. She had faith in me so I should have faith in myself to.
"I will do my best!"
"That how it should sound!" She said happy. "But don't be up to long now, Rukia-sama. Byakuya-sama won't be happy then."
"I know." I smiled and waved to her when she walked out from the room with the lamp in her hand but I jumped when someone appeared in the window next to me. I turned to the person and saw Ichigo. He looked at the door Matsumoto just went out through.
"She can come with you, if you want that." He looked at me. "We are not slave-drivers or something like that even if people think so." I smiled a little bit and nod and turned my gaze to the moon.
"You are having a mask over the real you. Why do you hide who you are? You are not this hard type you appear to be." He giggled and looked at me.
"Because if someone of us show a weakness our clan can be in danger and be in a risk zone for an attack. I can't let that happen, even if I'm soft." I smiled. He admitted he was soft, just like that. I sat down at the floor and laid my back against the wall and looked up at him when I felt he gave me a very worried gaze.
"It's okay. I'm okay, I'm not going to faint or anything like that even if I'm tired pretty often."
"You never got completely free from that disease, did you?" I shook my head.
"No. Sometimes I get really sick and fall asleep for days. It was some months since last time so it will probably come soon. That's why I want to see the moon tonight. I fear that will happen tonight."
"Is it your key back from it?" I shook my head.
"No, more like something I can keep in my mind under that time. I'm not completely asleep under that time and… Wait, why am I telling you this?" He laughed and jumped down from the window with soft steps.
"I don't know, but I don't mind. And I want to know more about you." I looked at him and grabbed his coat as he lifted me up and carried me like a princess to the bed. "But not tonight, you need to sleep." I nod a bit and looked at his face as he placed me at the bed and under the blanket.
"Ichigo, what will you do if I fall into that state when you need to return home?" He looked at me.
"I will wait, I guess. I'm not in such a hurry to get home at any specific day or so." I nod and closed my eyes for a bit.
"Good. It will probably come this week if it doesn't come tonight." I opened my eyes and they widened in surprise when I felt his lips at my forehead and how he smiled against my skin.
"Then I will protect you until you wake up from your slumber, hime-sama." I looked at him and smiled wide.
"I will be waiting, prince." He smiled when I closed my eyes when they got to heavy and fell asleep.

-Ichigo-
I looked at her sleeping face. Ishida had already counted that the deep sleep, or Sleeping beauty syndrome as he called it, would hit tonight. And I could hear at her breath that she slowly fell into a deeper sleep. I looked against the window then Ishida appeared. Speak of the devil.
"Did she fall asleep, my lord?" I nod and looked at her again.
"Why didn't it cure her, Ishida?"
"I'm not sure myself. But there is probably something else causing this but the real reason hid behind that disease."
"And its better that they think it's because of it, right?" I saw how his shadow nod.
"What will you do now?" He asked.
"I will do as I promised her. I will protect her until she wakes up again from this Sleeping beauty syndrome as you call it. Sooner or later the little hime-sama will wake up and I will make sure she will be waking up without any wounds."
"My lord… Do you have feelings for her?" I looked down a little bit before I straightened my back and turned against him and nod.
"I do. I haven't even told you but since I got the news that they had found me a fiancée I have been visiting her at some points and along the way I fell for her." I smiled and pulled away some of her bangs from her forehead. I won't let her get hurt even through this travel probably will hurt her the most of all. She will be separated from the world she knows after all.
"We need to go, the maid is coming back." I nod rose from the bed and let my fingers slide over her cheek. I will protect her, that wasn't an empty promise. She had protected me so many times before even if she didn't know it and now is it my turn to protect her, my future wife, no matter which dimension she needed protection in.
"I will make sure she is safe, no matter what my clan thinks about it." I turned around and looked at Ishida who smiled.
"They won't deny you that; they are just happy that you are serious about her, a real woman, and wants to be with her." I smiled a little, looked at Rukia once more before we jumped out through the window and the maid entered the room.

Please write a review and tell me what you think! :D