I dont own Bleach!
Ichigo and Renji looked around the garden while they waited for a servant to lead them to Byakuya or Rukia. There was many statues of what they guessed were Kukichi ancestors. Renji walked up to the last one and touched it's nose. When he did, it broke off and he juggled it in the air trying to catch it. Ichigo just rolled his eyes and sat down on a bench. Renji tried to replace the nose, but to no avail. Suddenly, a very snobby looking lady briskly walked out and tilted her glasses at them. She sighed. "Welcome to the Kukichi Estate. My name is Ryu." Another girl with a happy smile and her black hair in a bun, popped out from behind her. "And I'm Momo!" She said cheerily.
"Er- hi, Ichigo Kurosaki."
"Renji Abarai."
Ryu sniffed at them and turned around. "If you would follow me."
Ichigo and Renji raised eyebrows at each other and then followed them. They were lead through the front doors, which were unusually large for a set of doors. They were large and dark with a white K in the middle of each. Then they were taken into what looked to be a office space. There was a large, mahogany desk in the middle of the room. On it, there were neatly stacked piles of paper. There was random plants in corners of the room and a large portrait of a young woman with violet eyes and two bangs hanging in her face. There was a table beneath it with incense lying on it. Before they could look further, a young man with a serious face and long hair held back by clips walked into the room. He nodded to the chairs in front of the desk and then sat down behind it. Ichigo and Renji sat down in the chairs and looked at each other.
"My name is Kukichi-sama, you will address me as such. Who are you?"
"Renji Abarai, Kukichi-sama." Renji said bowing slightly in his seat.
"Ichigo Kurosaki." Ichigo said nonchalant.
Byakuya looked at Ichigo with disdain for his lack of respect. Renji's eye twitched as he glared at Ichigo.
"Right. You have two weeks to return Rukia to Aizen safely. If she is harmed in anyway or late, I will personally hunt you both down and kill you."
"Hai, Kukichi-sama."
"Ok."
Byakuya sighed and turned around his chair, facing the portrait. "I cannot give you any money because Rukia would ignore it. She likes to tend to herself. Secondly." His voice got cold, causing the room's temperature to decrease severely. "If you touch a hair on her head, I will hunt you down and I will make you suffer. I will cut in on every part of your body avoiding all major organs to make you stay alive longer. Then, in the most painful way I can imagine, I will slowly kill you. Do we understand each other?"
"Yes sir!"
"Whatever." Ichigo grunted knowing full well that he cannot die. That would hurt though.
"Very well then. Momo shall take you to Rukia." He turned his back on them, ending the conversation. Momo popped up between them, scaring them half to death and hustled them out. She skipped down a hallway to a white door. She knocked quietly and a voice was heard from inside. "Come in." The voice was so sweet that it made Ichigo's heart start pounding for some reason. Momo opened the door, and a small girl with raven hair was sitting in a chair with her back towards them. She was sitting in a violet kimono and was writing in a book. She turned around and looked at them. Both Renji's and Ichigo's heart stopped when they saw her violet eyes.
"Oh, hello. My name is Rukia Kuchiki."
"Renji Abarai, Kuchiki-san." Renji said bowing.
"Ichigo Kurosaki, nice to meet you midget." The next thing Ichigo saw was black.
"Ichigo?" Ichigo felt a slap on his cheek, but couldn't open his eyes. "ICHIGO!" Ichigo's eyes popped open and he was sitting in the hallway with an hole the size of his body in the white door in front of him. He was covered with debris.
"What happened?" Ichigo asked, rubbing his sore stomach.
Renji grinned. "You called Kuchiki-san midget and she kicked you through the door before you even blinked." Then he busted out laughing and Ichigo glared. He looked up and Rukia was standing in the hole of the door, a sweet smile on her face.
"Oh my, Kurosaki-kun. You seemed to of had an accident." She said in a squeaky voice.
Ichigo's eye twitched, but it calmed when he saw Byakuya was headed his way. He growled and muttered curses, but bowed to Rukia. "I apologize, Kuchiki-san."
Rukia smiled a victory smile and turned back to her room. Byakuya looked at Ichigo and raised his eyebrow at the mess. Then he shook his head and kept walking. Ichigo glared at the man's back.
Aizen's castle
"Gin!" Aizen called. Said man appeared next to Aizen and bowed.
"Yes?"
"Go and kidnap Rukia from Kurosaki. I want to have a good reason to kill him." Aizen grinned and laughed an evil laugh. Gin chuckled and sped off towards the Kukichi Palace.
Back to Ichigo and Renji
Ichigo and Renji stood outside the castle gates waiting for Rukia. They had her horse and Renji was already mounted on his. Ichigo leaned against the wall and muttered curses.
"Damn, midget and her super strong kicks."
"Well, she isn't all human you know."
"Exactly! She shouldn't be able to hurt me!"
"Ichigo… didn't you listen to me at all?"
"Eh? No."
"I said she was a human that developed witches powers. She's incredibly strong and trained in the best forms of martial arts and sword fighting."
"Oh…that explains a lot." He said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck.
"She's like a half-witch. Kinda like you Ichigo."
"Meh."
They turned as Rukia walked out with Momo on her side. She bowed respectively to Byakuya and turned to Ichigo and Renji with a small smile. She looked at Ichigo with amusement in her eyes, which caused him to glare. Then she hugged Momo and walked out of the gates.
They watched as Rukia turned and looked at a dark-haired male standing near the gate. She bowed to him and he waved sadly.
Rukia tried to get up on her horse but failed. She grumbled curses and tried again when she felt hands on her hips, lifting her up there. She blushed and looked at who it was. Ichigo helped her up there and then turned away with his hands in his pockets. Renji just raised his eyebrow at the scene. They gave one last wave to the Kuchiki household and took off. Ichigo was walking and Renji and Rukia were trotting behind him.
"Kurosaki? Why aren't you riding a horse?"
Ichigo promptly ignored her and kept walking, she stuck her tongue out at him and turned to Renji.
Renji grinned. "He's bad with animals." He laughed when Ichigo threw a rock at him. Ichigo looked up and saw the sun was about to set. He grumbled and looked at Renji.
"Let's set up camp." Ichigo grumbled and went to find firewood.
"Wait!" Rukia called. "Why aren't we just going straight through the night?"
"Well, I don't know about you princess, but I'm damn tired." Then Ichigo ran into the woods.
"Stupid Kurosaki!" She yelled then turned back to the open spot. She looked at Renji who was trying to remember the spell for a tent. She laughed and he blushed at her.
"Shut up…" He mumbled. "I'm not good at kido yet."
Rukia smiled and waved her pure white wand. An entire campsite was set up wordlessly with three tents and a fire and chairs to sit on. She grinned and walked into the lavender tent. Renji sat there and gaped. Embarrassed, he went into the red tent, leaving the black tent for Ichigo. Ichigo came back and smiled at the camp, he threw down the firewood and looked at the river. He looked up at the sun, well he still had some time left. He took off his clothes and jumped in the river.
Rukia had gotten changed into pajamas and walked back outside the tent. She was frozen on the spot when she saw a god in the river, bathing. He had a rock hard body and you could see the muscles rippling when he moved. She gaped and wiped a little blood from her nose. Then she saw who it was and blushed. Ichigo turned around at the same time and saw her blush. He grinned and got out of the river.
"See something you like princess?" He said cockily.
She blushed more and threw a rock at him. "Put some clothes on fool!"
He laughed and got dressed. Then he looked at the sun and ran into his tent. While Rukia and Renji ate dinner, Ichigo hid inside his tent. When Rukia had asked why he didn't come out, he said he was sick. Rukia was listening to Renji babble about something but kept looking at Ichigo's tent. When Rukia and Renji finally went to sleep, Ichigo slipped out of his tent, giving one last look at Rukia's before running off to the woods.
THE NEXT MORNING
Ichigo and Renji were up far before Rukia. Rukia woke up when they were still talking and placed her head against the side of her tent, listening.
"Ichigo? How come you always like to be alone?"
"It's just better that way Renji, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is build a giant wall around my cave."
"Well, won't that keep everyone out?"
"That's the point idiot."
"What have you got against the world?"
"I don't have a problem with the world! They seem to have a problem with me. They take one look at me and go AH! A tall, terrifying monster. They don't even know me and they hate me. Just like with Rukia, she judged me before she even knew me."
"Well, I didn't judge you Ichigo. I don't think you're some big, terrifying monster. Even if you are really, really tall."
Ichigo laughed. "I know Renji. Just hurry up and go get Rukia. We're staying here another day. It'll take an entire day to get through the woods and it isn't safe to stay there at night. I'll go get water for the horses."
After Ichigo walked away, Rukia exited from her tent. Renji jumped and blushed.
"Good morning princess."
"Good morning Abarai. Where is Kurosaki?"
"He went to get water for the horses. And please, call me Renji." He grinned.
Rukia smiled. "Then I expect you to call me Rukia."
"Yes, prin- I mean Rukia."
"Renji?" Rukia asked, turning her back to him. "What did Ichigo mean by that he is a monster?" She heard Renji shuffle awkwardly and there was a pause before he answered.
"I don't have the right to say that Rukia. You'll have to ask him."
"Rukia, why do you look so sad?"
Rukia paused and looked at Renji. "I didn't want this. I was in love with a man named Kaien. Now, I'll never see him again."
"I'm so sorry. I'll go help Ichigo."
"Very well." Rukia then entered her tent and got a towel. "I'm going to bathe."
Renji blushed and bowed to hide it. When Rukia had walked away, Renji looked around and snuck into a bush near the river. He peeked out and saw Rukia getting undressed. He blushed and watched. Just when she was about to take everything off, Renji was jerked out of the bush and thrown back towards camp.
"What the hell!" Renji turned around, wand drawn. Then he saw it was Ichigo, with his arms crossed. "Hehe, oh it's you Ichigo."
"Peeking in on Kukichi are you?"
Renji blushed and ran into his tent. Ichigo smirked and looked towards the river, when he saw Rukia however, he blushed and sat on the log, making breakfast. It was bacon from a warthog he had caught last night, and some eggs from a bird's nest. A few minutes later, Rukia came up from the river, all clean and sat next to Ichigo. There was silence for a few minutes.
"Kurosaki…" Rukia started.
"Ichigo."
"What?"
"Call me Ichigo. My dad is Kurosaki." He turned the eggs over.
"Oh. Ichigo then." Rukia blushed. "Well, I wanted to say I'm sorry."
Ichigo turned to look at her, amber eyes blazing. "What?"
Rukia's eyes got wide and she turned her head to hide her blush. What is this feeling? I love Kaien. "I said I'm sorry about yesterday. I was rather rude to you."
Ichigo laughed and handed her breakfast. "Don't worry about it. I deserved it. You are a midget." The next thing Ichigo felt was eggs and bacon all over him. He turned and growled at Rukia. She sat there smiling sweetly. He glared and threw her over his shoulder. She screamed and beat his back. He threw her in the river and held her in front of him. She blushed but tried to glare.
"What do you want Kurosaki?" She said emphasizing the last word.
He glared. "It's Kurosaki now Kuchiki?" Then he tossed her under the water. He laughed as she came up gasping, before she tackled him underwater. They came back up and Ichigo had his arms around her waist and her face was close to his. Both of their eyes got wide, and their hearts began to beat fast. Renji came into the camp carrying more firewood. They flew apart and listened to the voice.
"ICHIGO! RUKIA! Where are you guys?" Renji called from camp.
They looked at each other and Ichigo glared at Rukia. "Sorry Renji, some stupid midget got food all over me and I threw her in the river." She glared back and ran out of the river.
He frowned and looked at his hands. "What was that?" He shrugged and followed her out of the river.
Okay! Sorry its so short. At least I have two chapters to turn in?