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As Ichigo held open the door for Rukia, they walked into the large ice cream shop that Rukia had picked out. Ichigo gagged as he looked around at the bright colors and tiny, freaky looking rabbits everywhere.

"What the hell is this place?"

Rukia stomped on his foot and looked around dreamily. "It's Chappy's Ice Cream!"
Ichigo sighed and rubbed his head. Following behind Rukia who sprinted to the front counter, his mouth dropped as he saw the prices.

"I'll have a triple scoop strawberry ice cream in a bowl with Chappy sprinkles and whipped cream please!"

Ichigo's eye twitched and he looked up at the girl who was expecting him to order. "Er, just a chocolate cone."

"That'll be 1479.78 yen."

Ichigo turned white as he pulled the money out of his wallet, while Rukia seemed oblivious.

As they sat down, Ichigo looked over at Rukia who wasn't eating her ice cream.

"Oi, eat the damn expensive thing."

Rukia looked up and nodded as she began to slowly eat the ice cream.

"What's the matter? Don't you want it?"
"Yea, I do. I'm just scared about what I'm going to have to do now. I mean, am I going to have to perform in front of all those people? What about school?"

Ichigo frowned as he watched her. Damn brat, this is going to hurt.

"It'll be fine. Trust me, I know."

Rukia looked up and raised her eyebrow at him.

"I used to be a singer." Ichigo winced as the pain hit his head.

"What? You did? Who did you sing for?"

"I don't…remember."

"Oh. Must have been a long time ago then huh?"
"Yea. I was so scared that I disguised myself as I performed." Ichigo groaned and held his head.

"Are you okay? Did you get a brain freeze?"
"Yea. Something like that."
Rukia shrugged and returned to her ice cream. "Were you any good?"
Ichigo scoffed and flicked her ear. "Of course, I was fuckin fantastic."
Rukia smiled and ate her ice cream. Ichigo scowled and was about to comment when suddenly his world went black and he fell to the ground.

"Ichigo!" Rukia fell onto the ground next to him and tried to shake him awake. Suddenly, Orihime popped above her.

"What happened?" Orihime pushed Rukia back and began to do some sort of magic on Ichigo. His chest glowed green and he began to awaken.

Rubbing his head, Ichigo looked up in surprise at Orihime. "Inoue? What are you doing here?"
Ignoring him, Orihime turned to Rukia and frowned. "Did you make him remember? Don't you know that you could've turned him into a Hollow!"

Rukia gasped. "I didn't…"

"Inoue, shut up."

Orihime and Rukia turned to Ichigo as he sat up.

"She doesn't know about all that stuff."

"But Kurosaki-kun…"

"I decided to tell her. The brat was upset. It's my choice, drop it." The seriousness in his voice stopped all protests the orange haired girl had and she nodded before poofing back to what Rukia expected was Hisana. Ichigo sat up and rubbed his head as Rukia sat staring at the ground.

"Oi, cheer the hell up. I'm fine."

Rukia frowned. "No, I didn't know. I shouldn't have pried."

Ichigo rolled his eyes and smacked her head. "I said I'm fine midget. Now, let's go home."
Rukia smiled as she kicked his leg. "Okay."

Ichigo growled and opened the door for Rukia. "Hurry up."

"How did Orihime know that you were hurt?"

Ichigo opened his mouth, but paused and scratched his head. "I don't really know."

Rukia laughed and got into the car. "Wait, how did you get that money too?"

"Er- never mind that."

The cashier went to put the money in the drawer and screamed. The manager ran out of his office and sighed as he saw that there was monopoly money in his register. "Damn kids these days…"


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Rukia woke up the next day to her phone ringing off the hook.

"Hello?"

"Good morning Honda-chan!"

Rukia looked at her caller id and it said that the best manager ever! :P was calling. "You're my manager?"
"That's right. Now, get pretty little voice out of bed and get dressed! I'll be there in twenty."

Next, Rukia only heard a dial tone. She got out of bed, stepping on Ichigo for good measure and got dressed.

"Ichigo, let's go!"

"Shut up idiot." The now lion shinigami complained as he floated into her purse and glared up at her.

"Don't make such a face; you're supposed to be cute." Rukia pouted

"And you're supposed to be in school."

"Aren't you the one that told me I could do this?"

Ichigo opened his mouth and then shut it. "Brat."

Rukia smiled and then jumped as she looked up and saw a tall man in a green suit with a large, ugly hat pulled over his eyes. He grinned and waved a fan in front of his face.

"Talking to your stuffed animals Honda-chan?"

"No!" Rukia blushed and bowed. "You must be my manager."

"Kisuke Urahara at your service. You can call me Urahara. Now how about we make you a star hmm?" Urahara dragged Rukia behind him and tossed her into the passenger seat of a green convertible before climbing into the driver's seat. Smirking behind his fan, he turned to Rukia and smiled.

"Hey Honda-chan?"

"Yes?"

"Don't make a habit out of talking to your stuffed animals." Urahara laughed as Rukia blushed.

Rukia giggled and covered Ichigo's mouth with her finger. "Sorry."

Rukia and Ichigo in lion form gaped at the huge building they now stood in front of. It was a 60 story building with Gotei Recording on a large sign in the front. A doorman opened the door and they walked into a lobby that was nicer than Rukia's entire house. Rukia felt poor just standing there. Urahara led them to an elevator and Rukia kept close to him as she stared up at the massive guards in front of it.

"Yoruichi's floor please." Urahara grinned and the guards moved out of the way and they stepped into the elevator. 55 stories later, the doors opened to reveal a short hallway and two large glass doors with an etching of a cat on each with a Y in the middle. Urahara opened the doors and turned back to Rukia.

"Stay here Honda-chan. I'll be right back."

Rukia looked around nervously as Urahara disappeared. She looked down at Ichigo who shrugged and dug deeper into her bag.

"So, you're Honda are you?" A deep, feminine voice interrupted her confusion. Rukia looked up to see a dark-skinned woman with beautiful eyes and figure. She was wearing a low cut orange suit with a pair of slim black pants. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail and her catlike eyes looked playfully at Rukia.

"Yes!" Rukia bowed and Yoruichi laughed.

"I'm Yoruichi Shihoin. You can call me Yoruichi." She grinned and Rukia felt at ease. She pointed a manicured finger at a chair behind her and turned and sat behind her desk. Urahara was sitting in another chair a nervous look on his face.

"So, we already have a song ready for you. Learn it by Wednesday." Yoruichi popped a cd into a large boom box behind her and some fast-paced pop music blared out of it. Rukia blanched and looked down at Ichigo who covered his ears. Yoruichi was tapping her head along to the music and Rukia coughed and Yoruichi stopped the cd.

"Problem Honda?"

"Um, well yes. The truth is Yoruichi, that I hate it." Rukia looked down at the ground and blushed.

Urahara jumped up and started laughing. "Kids these days, always such jokers. We'll do the song right Honda-chan?"

Rukia scowled. "No."

Urahara sweatdropped and hid behind his fan.

Yoruichi glared at Rukia. "You think you can do something better?"

Urahara yelled out. "No! Everything you do is fabulous Yoruichi!"

"Shut up Kisuke." Yoruichi looked back at Rukia.

"Yes, I believe I can write a song that means something to me."

Yoruichi slowly grinned. "Allright."

"What?" Urahara gaped.

"Let her do it." Yoruichi smiled at Rukia. "Don't mess up though, this is your only chance." Yoruichi looked at her seriously.

Rukia grinned and jumped over the desk and hugged Yoruichi which surprised the woman. She tapped Rukia's back awkwardly and laughed.

Rukia was so excited that she ran out of the office leaving her bag behind. Yoruichi closed the door behind her and saw Ichigo lying on the ground.

"What do we have here?" She picked up Ichigo and grinned. "What a pretty lion."


"I'm home!" Rukia opened the door to her house and smiled as she saw Hisana was in the kitchen, Orihime in sheep form sitting on the counter.

"Hello!" Hisana smiled gently and hugged Rukia. "How was your day?"

Rukia grinned. "It was amazing, but I have a lot of work to do, so I'll be in my room!"

"Okay!" Hisana turned back and saw that Orihime was missing. "Where did I put my sheep?"

"Okay Ichigo, let's get to work." Rukia looked over at her bag and saw that the lion shinigami wasn't there. "Ichigo?" Rukia dug through the bag and started throwing stuff out. "Oh no."

Orihime popped above her with a scowl on her face. "You forgot Ichigo!"

Rukia blushed and rubbed her neck. "Yeah, I might've."

Orihime sighed. "Listen, I'll go get him. Watch over your sister."

"Don't bother."

The two looked over as they saw a ragged looking Ichigo crawling through the window. "That woman is crazy!" He flopped onto the floor and Rukia ran and hugged him.

"I'm sorry Ichigo!"

Ichigo blushed and transformed into a shinigami. He ran his fingers through his hair and shrugged. "It's okay. I survived. I can't believe you forgot me though!"

"I'm sorry! Will you help me write this song though?"

Ichigo sighed. "Okay what do you want to write about?"

Rukia bit her lip and thought. "I want to write about love."

Ichigo nodded. "Okay that's good, what about?"

Rukia looked up at the poster of Kaien's band. "Kaien."

Ichigo scowled, but then hid it. "You really miss him huh?"

Rukia nodded. Ichigo patted her head and walked into the next room. "Well too bad you can't just turn the clock around and fix everything."

Rukia froze. "I've got it!" She ran over to her desk and began writing.

This is going to be amazing!