"Rukia-Chan!" Keigo yelled. He waited for her to come out of school, but got too distracted by Orihime's rack to see Rukia walked right passed him. He ran over to see her and Ichigo walking home. Why is that jerk Ichigo always with her? Hmph, oh well.
"Rukia-Chan, would you like to come sledging with us tomorrow? Almost everyone is going!" He waited for the beautiful Kuchiki Rukia to answer but before she could say anything, an obnoxious strawberry interrupted. "NO. Not interested." Then he started to walk away.
Keigo sighed and also started walking away but was stopped by someone's hand on his shoulder. "I would be happy to come, Asano-kun," said Rukia, with a beautiful (beautiful to him, fake to Ichigo) smile. "Yes! You will not regret it Rukia-Chan!"
"Fine, then I'm coming, too." There was Ichigo again, at Rukia's side, like usual. "Fine, fine Ichigo, but just don't hog Rukia-Chan tomorrow," he said and got a big punch in the face for it. Still, Keigo walked away a happy man.
The next day they all were there, Ishida and Orihime, Chad and Tatsuki, Keigo and Miuzuro, and Ichigo and Rukia. Ichigo brought a toboggan, since that was the only sledge his tall body could fit on and Rukia brought a small, pink, plastic sledge, about the size of her.
Rukia was extremely confident. Ichigo had told her about twenty times yesterday what a sleigh was and what it meant to go sledging, and she understood him perfectly; jump in the sledge and slide down the hill. Please, compared to fighting Hollows, this was child's play. She sat in her sleigh and waited to go sliding down the hill and nothing happened. She got out and got in it again but still got the same turn out. No movement.
"Oi! Ichigo, what am I doing wrong?" she yelled. Ichigo, who was climbing up the hill with his toboggan for the third time, sighed. "You have to push off, baka," he yelled back at her. Push off? Push off what? Then she felt hands on her back. When she turned around, she wanted to scream. Keigo was about to push her down the hill. "Let me assist you, Rukia-Chan," he said with a glint in his eye. Oh, how Rukia wanted to kick him so hard, but before she could say anything, someone did it for her.
Thank God for Ichigo. His foot hit Keigo at the perfect angle, square in the face! Keigo went rolling down the hill and everyone laughed at him, including Ichigo. Rukia let out a sigh of relief, "Arigatou, Ichigoooooooooo!" Ichigo foot made contact with her sledge and she went speeding down the hill. "There's your freakin' push," he yelled down to her, with a smile on his face.
Rukia screamed at the top of her lungs for about fifteen seconds. Then, when it all sank in, she clutched her sledge in excitement. This is fun! She was speeding down the hill, her hair blowing back. Then she started yelling in excitement. I'm going so fast. This is great! Ichigo smiled as he saw Rukia rush down the hill with a smile on her face. Her smile is so… Then he saw it. "Hey! Rukia!"
BAM!!!
Rukia's sledge, with her on it, slammed into a tree. The only thing Ichigo could see was Rukia's small figure crashing repeatedly against the ground as she rolled down the hill.
"RUKIA!"
No one dared to move…except the most daring person there. Ichigo went running down that hill like there was no tomorrow. "RUKIA!" When he got close enough to see her, he could only see her still body…and red snow. "Rukia!" He knelt down beside her and pick up her body. "R-Rukia."
Then he felt something hit his head, hard. The impact made him fly about ten yards. He could have gone father but he crashed into a tree. "Danmit! What the hell was that?" Then he looked up to see a certain Kuchiki in shinigami form.
"Rukia!" Bam! Another kick in the head sent him flying again. "Baka! You are so stupid, to think a tree could take out a shinigami from the 13th company," she walked over to him yelling. "Ru-Rukia…how did you-? What did you-?"
"God Ichigo, a shinigami always cares soul candy with them! When I saw the tree coming I jumped out of my gigai, bakamono!" With a sigh of relief, Ichigo stood up, ready to take the offensive. "You think I'm stupid?! I'm not stupid enough to drive right into a freakin' tree!" God, this woman! Does she want to kill herself? "Well, I'm not stupid enough to get worried over nothing!" What did she mean 'nothing', she crashed into a freakin' tree, like hell I was worried!
"Whatever. Now, what do we do with your body?" How was he going to explain this to everyone up the hill? He looked over at her to see her sighing. "You really are stupid, Ichigo. You're going to go up there, say I'm fine but I want to go home, that will be your excuse to leave," she continued, "then you'll carry my gigai to Urahara, and he'll take care of the rest."
Surprisingly he did it; he was too tired to argue. Ichigo, carrying Rukia's gigai, and Rukia, still in shinigami form, walked down the empty road in silence. Rukia couldn't help but remember her ride. The adrenaline running through her, the feeling of the wind; she couldn't get it out of her head. "Ichigo," she said looking at the ground, "do you think we could go sleighing again soon?" Ichigo looked up at her in surprise and then smiled, "Yeah.
But next time, let's go to a place with no trees."
