OnigiriKami: My school is going to start tomorrow! So that means that I won't be able to update so quickly anymore :( But I will update every sundays from now on! The bolded words in parenthesis is my A/N. I think this chapter sucked a lot, because when I read it all over, to double check, I didn't think it made sense. I don't know, but please tell me if this chapter did make sense or not. READ AND REVIEW!!!!!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Bleach! If I did then I would kill everybody, because I'm a sadist!! (lol)

Rukia Kuchiki was so nervous today. She was basically shaking to her knees. It had been a very long time since Rukia had been to class. She wouldn't worry when she skipped all of the classes, because she had already known everything the teachers taught to the students of the sophomores, she had known all of the subjects at the level of a junior. She just didn't really want to go to classes, so that she could distance herself from her classmates. She couldn't trust anyone anymore, after that incident (OnigiriKami: look at the previous chapter, when Rukia had a flashback). But today had been for a very important reason. Yesterday a certain orange haired teenager had stolen Rukia's school bag, with her precious belongings in it.

Rukia was right in front of the classroom 1-3, of the second floor, in the Karakura school (Just randomly named it) building. The hallways had a white theme, white flooring, white ceiling, white walls, white classrooms, everything was white. The window of the building was on Rukia's back side and the classroom door was on her front. She slowly reached for the handle of the door with her sweaty little hand, her face trickling with sweat. Somehow, Rukia wanted to make a good impression. She didn't know why, maybe it was, because she wanted to give friendship another chance, or maybe because she didn't want to let everyone think about her as an "unsociable weirdo" all of her school life.

Rukia slowly turned the golden door knob. 'Remember what that damned Ichigo said, be cheery, be cheery, be cheery!' Rukia thought nervously. As the door opened slowly, Rukia had come into the classroom.

Everyone was looking at her. Rukia searched around the room, looking to see if the stupid orange haired boy was in the same class. She thought she saw a little glimpse of orange in the back, but only thought. Then Rukia took in a deep breath and said, "Hello everybody!" with the most cheerful voice that Rukia could think of, and she even put on a big smile.

"My name is Kuchiki Rukia, nice to meet you all!"

Ichigo saw the door of the classroom open. He and everybody else thought it was the teacher of first period coming in early, but no, to Ichigo's surprise, it was a small, black haired girl. It was Kuchiki Rukia.

After yesterday, when he had "borrowed" Rukia's bag, when he thought through of his plan, at his house, he didn't really think that Rukia would come to class. He had thought that she would have ditched her belongings. He even planned on giving Rukia's bag back at lunch.

But what had surprised Ichigo even more than her showing up was when she talked to everyone in such a cheerful voice. The Rukia that Ichigo knew was the calm, so called "Ice Princess". This girl, who was in front of Ichigo, couldn't be her, but then again she had introduced herself as Rukia Kuchiki. "Does she have split personalities?'

The entire class had started whispering:

"That's the 'Ice Princess'?! I thought she was supposed to be very cold!'

"Wow! Never expected her to be so happy looking!"

"I thought she was an unsociable weirdo, she so friendly"

"Is that really Kuchiki Rukia?!"

"So that's Kuchiki Rukia, right Kurosaki-kun?" said a soft voice a couple of seats behind him. Ichigo turned around to see who it was. It was Orihime.

"Oh, yeah, that's her, Inoue" Ichigo replied.

"So, aren't you going to welcome her?" said a new voice.

"Yeah Tatsuki is right, you should Kurosaki-kun." Orihime said, her face a little red.

"Okay," Ichigo said, and then turned around to face the front of the class; he stood up next to his seat, and yelled out to Rukia, "Oi, Rukia, over here!" He saw Rukia's violet eyes immediately whip to the spot where Ichigo was. First her eyes had looked surprised to see that Ichigo was in the same class as her, but then realized that he was asking her to join him so then she went over to him.

"Hello! Ichi-Kurosaki-san!" she said while putting on a very fake smile.

"What's with that split personality attitude?!" Ichigo asked. Rukia kicked him in the shin. Ichigo was about to fall and said in a painful voice, "What was that for?" just before Ichigo fell to the ground, Rukia had caught him and said in a dangerously low voice, "Even though I'm not usually like this, and I don't really hit people, I still have some pride, I'm not bipolar!" She had lifted Ichigo gently up, with another one of her fake smile.

"There you go, Kurosaki-san, be careful next time, you could have tripped!" she had reverted back to her friendly voice. Ichigo made a scowl on his face at Rukia, but she just ignored it. Then two girls surprised Rukia, when they jumped on her.

"So you're Rukia!" Tatsuki said.

"H-Hello Kuchiki-san." said Orihime, timidly.

"H-Hello." Rukia had said awkwardly.

"The name's Tatsuki Arisawa! And this girl here is Orihime Inoue!"

"Pleasure to meet you, Arisawa-san! Inoue-san!" Rukia said, back to her cheery voice.

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

The door of the class had opened again and a long, brown haired woman with glasses came in.

"Okay, class, take a seat!" said Ochi-sensei. The class had shuffled around to their desks. Ichigo had gone to his desk, walking painfully. When he sat on his seat, he saw that Rukia had followed him, and was sitting right next to him on his right side.

"Huh?! You sit next to me?!" Ichigo whispered.

"What? You didn't notice me from the first day? Yeah I sit here, but on the first day, I skipped class at lunch time." Rukia whispered with her usual calm voice.

"So that's why the seat was always empty."

"You Just noticed, you idiot! Remember, you better give me back by school bag!"

"I might change my mind if you keep being hostile towards me"

"You bastard."

"Kurosaki Ichigo!" Ochi-sensei had called out Ichigo's name out of the attendance sheet.

"Here!" Ichigo yelled.

"And Kuchiki Rukia is absent…"

"I'm here! Ochi-sensei!" Rukia said. Ochi-sensei looked up from her attendance sheet, in surprise. Rukia was just smiling at her.

"Oh… welcome back, Kuchiki"

Lunch...

Rukia had gone to the usual tree she always went to. She had a box of pocky, that she had took out from her locker. She sat under the shade, on the grassy half of the surface. She leaned her back on the tree trunk, stuck a pocky in her mouth and looked at the clear blue sky.

Rukia heard someone approaching her. She first had thought that it was Ichigo again, but then when the person called out to her, she was wrong.

"Hi Rukia!" Tatsuki said.

"Hello Kuchiki-san." said Orihime.

Rukia smiled and said, "Hello Arisawa-san, Inoue-san!" She felt like she was a good actress, because nobody had known that Rukia was just acting like this. Only Ichigo did.

"Can we join you, Rukia?" asked Tatsuki.

"S-sure!" Rukia said. But she really didn't want them to, but then she didn't want to be mean and hog the place.

Tatsuki and Orihime had sat around to make a triangular shape. Orihime had a big loaf of bread, and a can of red bean, Tatsuki had a normal bento, that had some grilled chicken teriyaki over rice. Rukia had finished up the pocky that was in her mouth, and was popping in another one of the chocolate covered sticks into her mouth. There was a silence, before Orihime talked.

"Hey, Kuchiki-san, do you like Kurosaki-kun?" Rukia had started choking on her pocky when Orihime had asked that. She pounded on her chest, and coughed a lot, before she replied to Orihime.

"W-What!?"

"I was wondering if you liked Kurosaki-kun…"

"Why would I like a guy that I just met?"

"That's exactly what Ichigo said, when I asked him!" Tatsuki said. "Maybe you guys could make a good couple, you guys think alike."

"Tatsuki-chan!" Orihime yelled at Tatsuki. Rukia was wondering why she had yelled at her, and then it hit her.

"Inoue-san… you like Ich-Kurosaki-san, don't you?" Rukia asked. She saw Orihime blush.

"N-N-N-No! I was just wondering if you liked Kurosaki-kun."

"Right, Orihime." Tatsuki said with the most sarcastic voice ever.

"Tatsuki-chan!"

"It's all right Inoue-san, I won't tell Kurosaki-san" Rukia smiled to her.

"T-Thank you, Kuchiki-san." Orihime embarrassedly said, before she took a bite out of her bread.\

Ichigo was sitting on top of the school roof. It had a wired fence around it, to keep the students safe from accidently slipping off of the roof. There was a little white building that stuck out of the roof's flooring and in the building was a stair case that had led to the roof.

Ichigo, Chad, and Ishida had already finished up their lunches and were just chatting.

"Kurosaki, did you finish up your homework, from the 5th period teacher?" Ishida said.

"Yea-" Ichigo was cut off, because a student had came in from the little building. He was a red-head, with a bandana tied around his forehead.

"Ichigo…I….knew you were…here.." said the breathless man.

"Isn't that Renji Abarai, from the track and field team?" Chad said.

"What are you doing here, Renji?" Ichigo asked.

"W…Well…" Renji paused for a while to catch up his breath, "We have a racing competition in a month, with the Sakurano High, and one of our three best guys, Hisagi Shuhei, just broke his leg! We need a replacement for him, and the only person that I could think of that can replace him would be you, Ichigo!"

"What! The "Kazeshini" broke his leg!?" Ichigo asked.

"Yesterday, Shuhei-senpai wanted to get extra practice. While he was running, a Sakurano student tripped him. He twisted his ankle pretty hard." Renji replied.

"The Sakurano made Hisagi forfeit!?"

"Yeah, Shuhei-senpai told us."

"Why won't you make the Sakuranos forfeit also?"

"We tried, but the judges, Kira and Iba, said that we had no proof to make the Sakurano student representatives to forfeit."

"Why are you guys even racing anyway? It's not like a real tournament." Ichigo asked.

"Well our track and field team and their track and field team are fighting over this really good practice place." Renji replied really embarrassedly because he thought it was embarrassing to be fighting over a small thing.

"Why couldn't you guys just take turns in having it?!" Ichigo asked.

"We tried! But they said that they needed it every single day!" Renji replied angrily. "So can you be our representative, Ichigo?" Ichigo was pretty fast at running, but he was way to busy. He had to study for all the tests, and do his homework; he didn't want to get a bad grade, (who would?).

"Sorry, Renji! I'm to busy to practice everyday. You should go to someone who isn't that busy." Ichigo said.

"Come on, Ichigo! Please do it for the Karakura track and field team!" Renji begged Ichigo. "Besides, who's almost as fast as Shuhei-senpai and isn't busy to participate in this?! Please; we need this practice field!" Ichigo thought for a while. 'Even if Renji begs, I still can't do it, so I got to find someone fast and that isn't busy. Someone fast and that isn't busy…. Someone fast and that isn't busy…" Then an image of a girl had popped out of Ichigo's mind. '…She was fast when I first saw her… and she isn't busy… Perfect!'

"Hey, Renji!" Ichigo shouted.

"What?!" Renji's eyes were sparkling with hope. "Did you change your mind, Ichigo?"

"No," Renji's head had lowered down, "But I know someone who can!"

"REALLY!!!?" Renji shouted with joy.

"But there's one thing I want to ask you. Can girls participate in this race?" Ichigo asked.

"I…I guess so, because one of the Sakurano's representative is a girl…"

"Then this is all perfect, I'll just need to 'ask' her after school." Ichigo said with the sneakiest grin.

"Achoooo!" Rukia sneezed.

"Are you okay, Kuchiki-san?!" Orihime asked.

"I'm okay, my nose just tickled a little."

After School

"Ichigo, hurry up and give me my bag back!" Rukia said. Ichigo and Rukia were standing in the middle of a row of desks, in their classroom.

"You know, you're attitude has been unusually weird today, you used to be all calm, then you became a goody-tissue, now your just so hot tempered, are you really sure that your not bipolar, or even tripolar?" Ichigo asked.

"I AM NOT!!" Rukia yelled. Right now, she didn't care if she yelled, because nobody was in the classroom at all, just the two of them. "It's because you've seriously made me mad! You're the one who stole my bag!" Rukia had tiptoed really high to match Ichigo's height a little. She didn't know that there was a book on the middle of the floor, (What the hell?! Where did that book came from?) that she had tripped and was falling backwards. She fell hard on the floor. Part of Rukia's shirt had shown her belly, it was pale, and on the right side of her belly, was a very long scar. Ichigo had seen it and was curious of why she had a very long scar on her belly. But before that, he had to help her up.

Before Ichigo could even lend his hand to Rukia, she had screamed at him, "DON'T TOUCH ME!" Ichigo's eyes had widened, never had Ichigo seen Rukia scream so loud. Then he realized that all this time, Rukia had always avoided touching him bare. When she had kicked his shin earlier, it was his pants, and when Rukia had held him up from falling onto the floor, she had been careful to only touch the cuffs of his shirt.

It was silent. Rukia had looked down, and was blushing, embarrassed for her actions.

"Sorry," Rukia had paused in her sentence, "It's…it's just that I don't need help."

"You could have said it nicer like, 'I'm okay, I can take care of myself.'" Ichigo said.

"Can you give my bag back now, Ichigo?" Rukia asked quietly.

"Can you be a replacement for one of the representative, for the track and field team? They have a competition next month with Sakurano High School's track and field team." Ichigo asked.

"Why are you changing the subject, Ichigo?"

"Just answer my question."

"If I say 'no'…what will happen?"

"You're not going to get your bag back for a whole month." Ichigo said with a grin.

"WHAT!" Rukia protested. "I already went to school to get my bag back, now you're going to make me join a team?!"

"If you promise to practice everyday, and participate in the race, then I'll give you your bag back tomorrow afterschool." Ichigo said. Rukia had thought for a while, about a minute passed by, and then she came to a conclusion that she had to agree. She needed her wallet and cell phone back.

"Fine." Rukia replied.

"Good, meet the team tomorrow, at the school track, around 3:30 in the afternoon." Ichigo said. "Oh and if you break your promise, then you have no pride at all."

"I never break my promises."

OnigiriKami: I feel so asian right now, because I'm drinking green tea and eating rice crackers (yummm). Oh, if you're wondering about the scar and why Rukia didn't want Ichigo to touch her, they will be revealed slowly through the chapters. The flashback from chapter 3 will be also be revealed slowly through the chapters. Also if you don't get why Rukia was a good person to be in the track and field representative, it was because in chapter 1 Ichigo saw how fast she ran out of the school, and how she always skips class means that she doesn't have any homework or tests. Oh and about the random Rukia sneezing part, you know how Japanese say that if you sneeze, it means that somebody is talking about you, well Ichigo was talking about Rukia, and that's how I stupidly gave a hint to you guys.

Why does Rukia have a scar on the right side of her stomach? (will most likely be revealed in next chapter)

Stay tuned to find out!

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