Author's note: Okay, sorry for the little…rant on the last chapter. My moods have been settled. Anyways, it's time for…

WINTER BREAK!!

Can anybody say relief? Oh my god, I am so happy that's it's winter break, teachers jamming finals and projects up our asses before we leave school, I am so glad!

I get to go back to school on January fourth; I get to see all my friends again! I know, but I'm enjoying break, it is going to be so good!

By the way, tell me what you are doing for Christmas, and if you do, maybe I'll surprise you with a few more chapters!

I love how everybody has been reviewing, thank you, it makes me feel special!

By the way, when I said 'geisha slut' in my last chapter, please overlook that, I know geishas are not sluts, so that's it.

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, and if I did, I would make some awesome ass pairings.

"If anybody is going to destroy this marriage, it's going to be you."

That hurt, it really did.

He knew that if he took in a concubine, she would be mad.

What wife wouldn't be?

To know that they were outdated and that their husbands didn't want them or have any specific need for them, but never like this.

He knew Rukia was being upfront and expressing her emotions, it's not everyday where the perfect wife gets replaced.

He was sitting at the lunch table, Rukia on his right and Orihime on his left, Rukia was chatting quietly with Momo and…Hitsugaya Toshirou.

Ichigo cut his amber eyes at Hitsugaya who was smiling at everything Rukia had to say while Rukia was smiling back.

He had come in this afternoon and Rukia had wonderfully put it his arrival at this,

'Ichigo, he'll be staying here in the mean time, besides, it's not like you are the only one who can play dirty.' Rukia said with a gleaming smirk on her face as she watched her husband's jaw go slack at the sight of his hand and Rukia's hand placed on top of each other in a 'friendly' way and start laughing at something as they walked to the dining hall.

With close inspection, he saw that Rukia was eyeing Orihime out of the corner of her wise violet eyes and saw Orihime shoveling food down her throat. Rukia stopped talking to Hitsugaya for a moment with a bat of her eyelashes to clear her throat.

"Inoue, would you please stop…eating for a moment?" Rukia asked and Orihime looked up and immediately patted her mouth with a napkin and splayed her fingertips on the edge of the table and Rukia smiled.

"Is there something wrong Rukia-Sama?" Orihime said and Rukia narrowed her eyes, when was Orihime allowed to call her by her first name? Before Rukia was about to protest to it Ichigo turned to Rukia.

"I gave her permission to call you that." Ichigo swiftly interfered and Rukia glared at him as her fake and pretty smile came back on her pink lips.

"Orihime, every good lady knows not to eat like a pig, you should be more elegant in eating, eat slowly, not like a fierce hungry animal, more gently and calmly, but at a slow constant pace." Rukia said calmly and Orihime nodded and her gray eyes hardened at Rukia's advice, but she took it nonetheless.

"Yes, but if I remember, you do not control me." Orihime said and everybody stopped what they were eating and looked at Rukia and Orihime, Orihime wore a scowl while Rukia was still smiling.

'Don't lose your temper.'

"Yes, but I am sure this is common knowledge, besides, I was just trying to teach you how to be a proper young lady." Rukia said gently and Orihime scowled before she muttered a weak apology and went back to eating the way Rukia had suggested. Ichigo glared at Rukia and pulled on her kimono sleeve.

"What the hell was that for Rukia?" Ichigo hissed and Rukia shot him an innocent look.

"What are you talking about?" Rukia whispered and Ichigo glared at her.

"You just acted rudely towards Orihime." Ichigo lashed out and Rukia gave a slight angered exhale and narrowed her violet eyes at him.

"I wasn't acting rude; I was just merely giving…advice for your concubine. Even concubines need to know how to act properly." Rukia bit back, it was a good and sensible comeback and Ichigo shook his head before he started engaging into a conversation with Orihime.

"Eh Rukia, thank you so much for inviting me to your lovely home, it's been years since we've seen each other." Hitsugaya said and Rukia put a sleeve to cover her mouth as she giggled like a little school girl.

Of course they weren't attracted to each other, but they were pretending. While Hitsugaya agreed for fun and so noble girls would get off of his back for a while, Rukia did it for revenge.

"I know, it will be such a delight to have you…" Rukia stopped talking as she looked over at Orihime who being a little more than touchy feely with Ichigo and Ichigo was responding back. She cleared her throat loudly, "If both of you cannot hold your hands in, I suggest you take it to the bedroom." Rukia snapped as she slapped her chopsticks on the table to get their attention. They stopped their…fondling and looked at Rukia who was scowling and tsking at their overall appearance now. Disheveled kimonos and robes and such, Rukia pursed her lips at them.

"Rukia, is there a problem?" Ichigo asked as Orihime straightened out the top of kimono that was loose from Ichigo's hand tugging on it. Rukia shook her head at them and then waved a small hand at them.

"If you wanted to put her to good use as you requested, all you had to do was walk out of the dining hall, not assault her while we are in eating in public." Rukia hissed as she closed her eyes and revealed purple colored eye lids, different purple shades formed on her eyelids and it looked really nice on her. She flashed them open and violet eyes were burning at the presence at the two. Ichigo then nodded and got up and grabbed Orihime's hand and brought her up before they walked out of the hall. Rukia rolled her eyes at them in secret and Momo and Hitsugaya looked at her.

She looked close to strangling someone.

"So what are you going to do now?" Momo asked and Rukia pushed her bowl of rice and food in it and sighed.

"I have no idea." Rukia said as she rubbed her temples and Momo patted her hand in hopes of comforting her friend.

"Rukia, I have an idea." Momo said and Rukia's ears perked up and Momo's lips turned into a wicked smile. "When you go to sleep tonight…"

Night time:

People were settling off to sleep, Ichigo was sitting up on his bed and reading a scroll that was given to him for business, and he was waiting for Rukia to finish up before he could talk to her. He heard the soft padding of feet as he adjusted his eyes to the scroll that was a small letter from Renji who was telling him that he should be careful and that Rukia would not go down so easy. He scoffed, what did Renji know?

Renji wasn't Rukia's husband.

But of course, they had been best friends since they were children and Renji knew every dirty little thing that ran through Rukia's mind. He then heard the soft padding of feet grow larger and he knew that Rukia's presence had walked past in front of their bed. He looked up and then widened his eyes. Rukia…

Rukia was wearing a short sleeping yukata, it stopped at mid thigh and it was held nimbly and loosely by a loosely tied sash.

He swallowed the growing lump in his throat and he opened his mouth.

"R-Rukia, what are you wearing?" Ichigo asked, his throat turning dry and Rukia stopped at her side of the bed and cocked her head cutely to one side, revealing a slight opening and he could see the skin between her breasts and the forming roundness of them.

"I'm sorry Ichigo, what are you talking about?" Rukia asked as she stepped back a little and Ichigo swallowed dryly.

"What are you wearing? Is that even clothing?" Ichigo asked and Rukia smirked at him, her petite lips into a tasteful smirk as she climbed into her bed. The yukata rose higher and showed more skin and then she sat down.

"I'm wearing a yukata silly, and yes it is clothing." Rukia responded curtly as she took out a book and started reading. He just stared at her as her hair that was lying around loosely on her shoulders covered milky skin that her yukata didn't cover up. Slender arms pulled themselves out of their sleeves to hold the book, the blankets draping over her legs didn't cover all of her bottom half of her body.

"So what about your guest, has he situated himself well here?" Ichigo asked and Rukia placed the ribbon on her page and closed the book crisply.

"Yes in fact, we are going out for a walk tomorrow." Rukia announced as she put her book away and Ichigo looked at her.

"Is there something wrong with you?" Ichigo asked and Rukia looked at him.

"Did you have fun?" Rukia asked and Ichigo arched a slim orange brow.

"What did I have fun with?" Ichigo asked and Rukia kept on looking at him.

"With your concubine after you left lunch, surely you must have had fun with her if both of you were playing around when lunch was in process." Rukia said and Ichigo's fantasy of playing around with Rukia stopped at her statement and he narrowed his amber eyes at her.

"Why do you address her simply as a concubine?" Ichigo asked angrily and Rukia arched a brow and scowled at him.

"Am I supposed to address her by her real name, like I need to give her any respect, she called me Rukia-Sama, that is not a form of respect towards the head lady of this household." Rukia snapped and Ichigo glared at her.

"You call her a concubine like she is just some whore without a name." Ichigo spat and Rukia glared at him.

"Would you like me to call her a courtesan instead? Because me calling her a prostitute is way better in what I call her as of right now, I can't believe you are defending her over your own wife." Rukia said with sarcasm dripping within her voice and Ichigo glared at her.

"Why do you hate her so much?" Ichigo asked angrily and Rukia glared at him and shook her head.

"How would you feel if I got another man to sleep on the side with?" Rukia yelled and Ichigo furrowed his brows.

"This is a completely different case!" Ichigo yelled and Rukia shook her head as she slipped out of their bed.

"No, no it isn't, it is just the same, just forget it." Rukia breathed out as she went to her closet and changed back into a regular sleeping yukata and saw him watching her as she stumbled back into their bed.

"I could sleep somewhere else if you want." Ichigo said softly and Rukia shook her head and climbed into bed and then lie on her side.

"It's fine, just go to sleep." Rukia said and Ichigo looked at her, he knew he wasn't making Rukia feel any better about the situation by fighting with her about it. He was just…he just didn't want Rukia to be stressed over this situation than she already was.

He then put down his book and shut off the lights.

He lied on his side of the bed. It felt weird.

He and Rukia, before the whole incident slept curled in each other's arms.

Now it had come to a situation where both had their sides and if anyone intruded, they would simply nudge them.

He lied on his back and looked up at the ceiling, white walls staring back at him until he saw his inner figure come out and look at him.

'What's wrong King, feeling a little upset?' Ichigo glared at him, he hated this one of the two inner figures he had in his body.

'Go away.' Ichigo shot back and Kamen* put his hands on his hips.

'That's rude King.' Kamen said and Ichigo glared at him.

'Why are you here anyway, escaping from Zangetsu kissing the daylights out of Shirayuki?' Ichigo said, his voice dripping with sarcasm, but he knew that was probably true, that Zangetsu and Shirayuki were probably kissing the living lives out of each other.

'You miss her being all cuddled up against you don't you?' Kamen asked and Ichigo closed his amber eyes, tanned eyelids trying to block his vision.

'Shut up, we are just…going through a turning point of our life.' Ichigo said, he knew it was a pathetic excuse to give to Kamen but Kamen snorted, it was a pathetic excuse and he knew it too.

'King, why don't you just tell her that you love her? That you want her back by your side? I think she wants to know you still care about her, not that…that…what's her name again?' Kamen asked with a confused brow and a confused mouth placement and Ichigo glared at him.

'Her name is Orihime Inoue, you and Rukia are just the same?' Ichigo shot back and Kamen smiled.

'King, just listen to me, your characters weren't matched up for anything, you didn't marry for anything, you didn't become best friends for nothing, both of you are the same and suitable for each other. I bet if that Orihime what's her face's characters were matched up with yours it wouldn't even match a decibel where Rukia's did with yours.' Kamen responded and Ichigo's eyes were forced open and saw Kamen's face right in front of him and he smirked, his blue tongue hung out of his mouth.

'If you don't do that, I'll take over your body and talk to Rukia by myself, maybe I'll get her to actually talk and maybe I'll-"Kamen started and Ichigo glared at him.

'If you even lay a hand on her bastard I 'll," Ichigo said and got a smirk in his face.

'Watch me right now.' Kamen started crawling over Ichigo on the bed and went right to Rukia's form and started massaging her shoulders, making Rukia involuntarily shudder.

"Go away; you aren't going to be forgiven." Rukia muttered through her sleep and Kamen smirked and looked back at Ichigo who was more than enraged that Kamen started to come out now. When Kamen was about to tug on the shoulder of her kimono, Ichigo tried to speak but found out he couldn't. Ichigo watched in horror and then he realized Kamen stopped his actions and Ichigo looked as Kamen turned his head to him and then smiled,

'You should be able to talk after I leave, the next time, I'll be sure, I'll get her, so long King.' Kamen said as he disappeared and Ichigo panted heavily as he opened his eyes to see Rukia shaking him gently. Ichigo swallowed dryly in his throat and looked up and saw Rukia looking at him with concern.

"Ichigo, I felt him, are you alright?" Rukia asked as she took a small rag and wiped the sweat appearing on his forehead and set it away. Ichigo swallowed dryly.

"You woke up because my levels were becoming haywire didn't you?" Ichigo asked as he still looked up at Rukia's face and calming him down, in fact, Rukia, ever since she found out would always wake up and comfort him when he began to do that. Rukia knew Kamen sometimes liked to come out and play for a while.

"Yeah, it's kind of hard not to sense it, but I don't really mind, anything to get you to sleep." Rukia said quietly and Ichigo nodded as she bid him goodnight again and cuddled up next to him, to comfort him. He knew she wasn't doing it because of the old ways, just to comfort him. He sighed and then closed his eyes.

He hated his life now.

Author's note: Kamen, when I was watching the English dub on Saturday, they used his name as Kamen, so I decided to name him that since I didn't want to just name him, 'Hollow.' So that's it. Don't be confused by it.

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