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FINALLY! CH.2!! It's been forever since I have updated due to other stories I have been writing, so you will be expecting 2 new chapters up in the same day!! Enjoy
DIRTY DANCING: RUKONGAI MUSIC
CH.2
Honestly, Rukia still couldn't believe she stumbled into a guy like that. She always tripped and what not, but never into an actual person!
After entering the banquet area, she was escorted to her table. Almost everyone at the table was rather really old or five years old. To her left was an old couple talking about what they were going to do during their stay at the hotel and to her right was a little girl playing with her hair.
Rukia sighed; she knew this was going to be a long and boring night. Her thoughts drifted to the man that saved her.
"Why did the guy have to be so handsome? Why couldn't I have fallen onto some ugly guy? What was his name again? Oh right, Ichigo."
The announcer began speaking telling of the events to come. "After you enjoy you're lovely dinner, music and dancing will be provided. Now, please hear the words of the Owner, Mr. Yamamoto."
Everyone clapped and waited as the owner reached the stage.
As the owner spoke, Rukia couldn't help but stare at his old face and ridiculous white hair. She didn't particularly care about what the old man had to say.
She loved acting this way, careless and lazy. Rukia was always use to properness and acting polite. Its not that she wanted to be rude and careless, she just liked the feeling of acting different.
No one was there to tell her every five seconds to pay attention and act like a perfect angel. No one was there to spy on her and send reports to her brother, where she would later be scolded on what she did and didn't do right.
No one could stop her and ruin her fun, and she loved it.
Rukia looked at other tables, seeing if there was anyone close to her age around.
She even looked around for bright orange hair. "Maybe he's here." Rukia thought hopefully.
Unfortunately, there wasn't a single head in the room with the color orange.
Something bright caused Rukia to glance to her left. All she could see was a bright glare coming from the direction.
After she moved her head, she could see that the brightness was coming from a pair of glass.
The owner of the glasses was a handsome one. Rukia could tell by the way he sat that he was charming.
Going everywhere in the world, Rukia met many people. She saw what sort of personality someone had just by looking at the way they stood or even sat.
The man wanted to make it known that he was rich. He sat up straight and tall with his hand on the table. His sleeve from his shirt was pulled up slightly, revealing his platinum gold watch.
Rukia was so observant that she didn't realize his eyes staring at her. She blushed madly and turned away.
When she looked back again, the man was still staring, and smiling confidently. Rukia quickly turned her attention to the waiter and asked some silly question.
After dinner and desert, the music and dancing began. Rukia stood up and looked at the man with glasses. Some guy came up to him and whispered something in his ear.
Rukia immediately got chills. The guy had silver hair and squinted eyes. He smiled even when the man with glasses didn't say a word to him.
They both looked at Rukia and smiled
She walked closer to the dance floor, mingling in with some people so she wasn't seen.
A live jazz band was performing music and Rukia found herself really enjoying it. The only music her brother aloud her to listen to was classical music. Again, jazz music was different and Rukia was satisfied with that.
The song ended and people clapped. A moment later, the band was playing their instruments again, this time the song was slow. Rukia felt a tap on her shoulder and she slowly turned around, afraid of what was to happen.
A boy of about eighteen stood in front of her. Short bangs with ear length hair. He seemed rather shy. Rukia greeted him and he smiled back.
"Um, I was just um wondering," the boy began; Rukia could tell he was nervous. "Well, would you like to dance?" Usually Rukia would say no, but she felt bad for the shy boy and agreed.
"So, what is your name?" Rukia asked politely. He froze for a minute, than began talking again. "I'm Hanatarou, my grandfather owns this hotel." Rukia nodded, trying to look impressed.
He focused on Rukia again. "So, what is your name?" Hanatarou asked. Rukia smiled and said "My name's Rukia, I'm visiting the island for the summer and staying here." The boy smiled brighter and began talking.
"This is a great hotel, and I am not just saying that because my grandfather owns it. There are so many things to do and things to see." Rukia giggled. "Yes, I really do like this place, it's relaxing."
"So what are you visiting for?" Hanatarou asked. "Well, I love history, and Rukongai has one of the most interesting histories I have ever seen."
Hanatarou continued to smile; his bashfulness was slowly going away. "I like the history here too, but we don't get many tourists now-a-days. We use to get them all the time."
"Well by the time summer is over, I will basically be a citizen here." They chattered a bit more about the hotel and Rukia when the song ended. "Thanks a lot, it was fun." Rukia said kindly. Hanatarou said the same.
Rukia really liked Hanatarou; he was really nice and easy to talk to.
There was more clapping and a longer pause. "Why isn't the music playing? It's too early to be over." Rukia thought to herself.
That's when she saw him, bright orange hair above everyone else's. "He must be really tall." Rukia thought.
She saw him stop in the middle of the dance floor, so she pushed through people to get a better view.
That's when the music started. But it wasn't the soft jazzy music Rukia had heard before, this music was different. Finally getting close enough, she saw why Ichigo was in the center of the dance floor.
Everybody had separated to watch them. They were amazing. They moved as if they were one, but each partner had different steps and rhythms making the dancing more entertaining.
Rukia heard someone murmuring about salsa music and dancing. Ichigo's moves were good, but the girl he danced with was even better.
Her hips and legs hit every beat of the music. She twirled gracefully. Ichigo lifted her, and she softly lifted her legs and arms in the air, making the movements look simple.
Rukia was jealous, no, envious of this beautiful girl. Not just because of the way she danced and moved, but because of whom her partner was.
During the middle of the song, Ichigo and his partner quickly stopped dancing and started to dance with people around them, teaching them the steps.
"So is that what he is? A dance instructor?" Rukia thought, making a mental note to sign up for dance lessons.
She continued to watch him dance. He would switch around with different people. He mainly danced with some of the older women.
Ichigo smiled politely as an old woman moved a bit too close to him. Rukia didn't blame the poor woman, he was gorgeous.
Rukia was questioning rather or not she should go and try to dance with him, but her bravery failed and she decided to return to her hotel room. On the way out she once again saw the charming man with glasses smiling at her.
Once Rukia reached her hotel room, she quickly pulled out a pair of shorts and a t-shirt to wear. She wanted to go to bed a little early that night so she would be well rested for the day to come.
After calling and explaining her entire day to her brother she finally laid down to sleep.
About an hour of sleeping deeply, Rukia quickly rose from her sleep. "What the heck was that? Did something just crash?" Rukia slowly tip toed from her bed and turned the bedroom light on. Realizing nothing was wrong, she walked slowly into the living room.
Everything was fine in there too. She heard voices and what sounded like broken glass coming from just outside her hotel room. Rukia cracked the door open to see some guys and a girl picking up c.ds that were scattered everywhere on the ground.
"Oh, do you guys need any help with that?" Rukia asked, hoping she didn't frighten or surprise them. They all stared at her. "We are so sorry ma'am if we woke you up; there usually aren't very many guests on this side of the wing."
Rukia was well known of that fact; her brother wanted her to have privacy. She stepped out of her room and started helping them pick up the c.ds. They didn't try to stop her.
"Oh no, it's quite fine." Rukia finally replied. As Rukia helped, she glanced at the others. There were three guys and one girl. One of the men was bald with weird eye shadow on the outside of his eyelids.
Another guy had dark, shoulder length hair with strange feathers encircling the front of his bangs. The third was a big muscular guy, with a sleeveless shirt on and a gray bandana.
The woman was very curvy to say the least, and it seemed she wanted to get that point out. She wore a pink, low cut tank top exposing just about everything, and a miniskirt with pink pumps. Her hair was golden and wavy.
The man with feathers soon spoke. "When we put the c.ds on this rack here, one of the slides came off so all of the c.ds flew onto the ground, that's what caused the loud crash."
After picking up every c.d, they all apologized again and began to walk away. "Well, hey," the woman said "If you aren't busy, there is a party at the club house to the right of the hotel. You are welcome to come. It's the least we can do since you helped us."
The others looked at her like she was crazy, but she ignored them. They soon joined in. "Yah, why not, what the hell!" the bald man exclaimed. "Just follow the trail at the back of the hotel and it leads right to the clubhouse." The muscular man said.
"Oh, thanks for inviting me, I will see if I can go." Rukia said smiling. The group waved and left.
Rukia walked inside her room and closed the door. "I'm such a loser! I mean they invited me to go to a party and all I say is I'll see if I can go! Geez!"
She looked at her clock, "It's only 11:55 and they obviously know I was sleeping. My eyes have huge bags under them, I'm in pajamas, and my hair is a total mess!"
Before Rukia even knew it, she had changed into a casual outfit and fixed her hair and makeup. "Why not," Rukia thought to herself "it's not like I'm living here for the rest of my life, I should try something new."
She strolled out of the hotel looking for the trail, and sure enough she found herself walking right along the path that led to the clubhouse.
Getting closer, Rukia could here music blaring. She saw a few people walking into the party and stayed behind them. The one thing she didn't want was for everyone to stare at her when she walked in. If she was with more people it would not be so embarrassing.
As soon as the clubhouse doors opened, Rukia felt like she was in another world.
The music was insanely loud. Rukia tried not to cover her ears in fear of looking like an idiot. The room was much smaller than she would have expected for so many people.
That was what frightened her most, everyone there. People were latched onto other people, rubbing and doing who knows what on each other. They danced wildly, as if nothing else mattered.
It was like their soul mission was dancing. Rukia was going mad, how could people be so uncivilized? Never in her life had she seen such movements.
Taking a deep breath, she turned around to leave when she heard a feminine voice. "Oh hey! You came!" The woman from before called out. Rukia walked over to her and greeted her.
"Pretty wild isn't it?" The woman asked. "Yah, it looks fun though." Rukia replied, lying through her teeth. How could something so absurd be fun?
"The name is Matsumoto Rangiku." The woman said. "I'm Kuchiki Rukia, nice to properly meet you." The woman laughed. "Rukia, that's a really pretty name."
Rukia and the woman, Matsumoto, were practically yelling so they could hear one another over the loud music.
"So, why are you in Rukongai?" Matsumoto asked. "Oh, I'm just staying here for the summer. This trip was sort of a graduation gift from my brother."
"That's cool, well hey, come with me and I will introduce you to some people." Matsumoto shouted. Rukia was a little scared, she hated meeting a people in big crowds, even though she always had to meet people with her brother.
Some way or another, Rukia and Matsumoto made it through the insane crowd of dancers. When Matsumoto stopped, Rukia saw the three guys that she had seen before plus a few more.
"The first bald guy here is Ikkaku, the guy with the feathery things is Yamachika, and the third guy with the gray bandana is Ganju. The one with the glasses and the big guy are Ishida and Chad. You guys, this is Rukia." Matsumoto said.
They all waved at Rukia and continued to talk. Rukia once again found herself confused by the dancing. She had attended school dances and had seen some pretty rough dancing, but what these people did didn't even come close to what she had seen before. Rukia felt extremely uncomfortable.
All of the sudden everyone was cheering and yelling. Rukia looked towards the entrance to see bright orange. "Ichigo" Rukia thought.
Following behind Ichigo, was his partner that he had danced with at the banquet. The crowd started moving and dancing again.
Rukia was in for a crazy night.
Authors note: What did you guys think eh? Want to guess who the two men at the banquet were that were smiling and staring at Rukia? I tried to make the chapter longer so hopefully everyone was satisfied. It's so much fun to make Rukia all proper and nerdy. You will get to see much more of Ichigo in the next chapter which is updated also.
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