"When it was clear that the person hates you in an argument, you should pretend he is your closest buddy and respond to him better"-Q

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Note: Incest is an intimate relationship (inappropriate) between close blood related individual (ex. Siblings and etc.). STOP! (I hate that word myself. It's immoral and disgusting) BUT REMEMBER: BYA and RUKI are not blood related. AND this FIC is AU. (sorry for the rant :D

Warning: This chapter is going to be super long (at least for my own writing style…pls. let my mistakes on slide….) Constructive Reviews are most appreciated.

A/N: AU setting. Rukia faces the task of parenting her 15 year old son. How can she handle her silently rebellious son? Will Ichigo finally be the role model father he wanted to be? Enjoy.

Good Parenting

-OPgirl

Chapter 4: Teach your children how to deal with things that are happening in real world

"Kuchiki Rukia!" Shinwu suddenly exclaimed.

Byakuya is seating on his chair reading the files submitted to him by his assistant. He was so busy lately from all the paperwork that are needed to be filled out. Especially that their corporation is planning to acquire Las Noches Inc.'s market share.

The piling stress started to wear him down yet he refused to back down from competing with their rivals. This is the time when the Kuchiki corporations will be able to get back on power and rule over the entire military forces and market of SS.

SS is a code name for an elite society that rule over the entire country behind the scene. This group is the sole responsible in maintaining the sustainability of the country. They have special powers over the ruling authority. Even the President of the country won't be able to say no to this people.

Except from the stress from work, he was constantly bothered about his family life. As far as he knew, the turning point of his life happened 25 years ago. And starting from that point on, he become a different person than what he thought he could be.

He was the only son and heir to the Kuchiki corporations. Back then, they didn't have as much power as their clan have today. Though Kuchiki corporations is vast, they work behind the scenes. They didn't use their clan's name in conducting business on the surface. They use various trademarks (ex. Black butterfly enterprise and etc.). Almost no one recognize how powerful this clan is. The only thing the people knew was that Kuchiki is a super strict and traditional clan.

So it was a shock to everyone when the leader of the clan took a little girl on his wing and gave her the prestigious family name. The elders were in chaos.

. Flash back from 25 years ago…..

A brunette girl of 8 years old was standing beside the clan leader of the Kuchiki. She was fidgeting a little from all the attention on her.

Byakuya stared at the young girl in front of them. He was setting beside the eldest clan elder, who was his grandfather and the former clan leader. He could clearly see anxiousness on her features. Though she was trembling, he applaud her for being able to stand her ground amidst the calculating stares from the elders.

She's brave. If one of my cousin was on her place, they would have fainted from fear.

Byakuya smiled mischievously.

Good! At least I could have some fun later.

Byakuya is 10 year old spoiled brat. He act so refined in the surface but actually, he was just like any other rich kid. He was rotten to the core.

Byakuya's father (Sojun Kuchiki/ current clan leader) knew about it and wanted Byakuya to learn the reality of the world. Sojun is a very soft spoken person and he always tries to be a good father to Byakuya.

Byakuya's mom died in child birth. Thus the sole responsible in raising up Byakuya was his father. Though Sojun didn't really have any time for his son because of his responsibility to the clan. It was his grandfather who took care of his trainings and look after him. Yet it was not enough, because his grandfather was a very busy person as well.

No one watched over his wellbeing. Though he had everything, he did not have the most important thing a child need, a good parenting.

He grew up to be an excellent boy in opposite from what the other children of his condition could have become. The people praised him and showered him with everything artificial. Up until he learned to loath people, especially those people who are lesser than him. He learned that those people that are lesser than him, want nothing but benefits from him and his clan. They are spineless and cunning people, they will lick at your shoes and then stab you in the back.

Byakuya knew all of it from observing the people around him and his father. And those type of people who were also known as the elders of their family was staring down at the street rat who came from nowhere.

"Interesting" Byakuya uttered.

Byakuya's grandfather sat properly. He heard his grandson's comment. He was going to invalidate his son's request but he thought deeply about it. And he concluded that, this is a win-win situation. He knew what his son was up to. He wanted to see where this event will lead.

"She will become, Kuchiki Rukia from now on. I owe her so much and she is quite an interesting child" Sojun reasoned. (It was a very lame reason….. Byakuya's grandfather deadpanned yet the elders took it very seriously)

"But Lord!" the elders simultaneously objected.

Sojun stared up at them.

"W-we mean….. it (they refer to her as it….they don't see her as a person but an object)…came from that place" They stuttered. "It will not pass our standards. It will disgrace our clan" they said simultaneously.

Byakuya scowled. He knew that the elders look down at his father. The only reason they listen to him is because of his grandfather.

Rotten fools!

"Nonsense! I will see to it that she will grow up to be a fine Kuchiki lady" Sojun said a little loudly. The elders were caught off guard at his fierceness. It was not every day that Sojun would raise up his voice. He look down at the silent girl and smiled at her.

"I approve" Byakuya's grandfather announced. Everyone were shocked. "I believe she will be a great asset to us" he concluded.

..end of flash…

Byakuya unconsciously played the gold band on his ring finger.

It's been many years since the girl proved her worth. She was a very valuable asset to the clan and a very important person to him.

. Flash back from 16 years ago…

"Rukia" Byakuya called at the woman standing on the veranda. She was wearing a beautiful kimono. She had just finished performing a traditional dance for that important event as the clan's representative. She proved herself to be a very fine Kuchiki lady than any born Kuchiki women.

Rukia turn around and look at him. "Nii-sama" she greeted politely.

Byakuya was caught off guard from her cheerfulness towards him. Their relationship before was very terrible. They are practically strangers to each other many years before until that incident.

Ever since Byakuya revisited her school and bond (not really) with her group of friends. Rukia did her best to keep him company (Which she never did before. She ignored him all the time. She won't speak properly at him. She always wanted to excuse herself from him whenever they meet, it's like she doesn't want to have anything to do with him). Their relationship become lighter and less awkward. In Rukia's eyes, he finally became the role model brother/family that she wanted to have.

"Rukia" Byakuya uttered. His voice fell a few decibels.

Rukia noticed something is off. Immediately she realized that something very serious is up. "What is it Nii-sama?" Rukia asked.

Silence engulf the both of them after she asked. Rukia was getting more anxious as the silence drag on.

"Do you like Ichigo? Byakuya asked seriously.

The blood rushed on Rukia's head.

What's up with Byakuya?! That's not something he should ask so straight forwardly! I thought someone died because he looks so serious when he called me but THIS?! His asking me if I like Ichigo? How did Ichigo even get in our subject?!

"Err….Umm…his my…friend….." Rukia stuttered.

Why am I stuttering?! And my answer is so out of the question!

Rukia look up at Byakuya.

Byakuya was still waiting for her answer.

Like? I mean…. I like him alright!... I don't know! I don't understand exactly this question is so hard to answer….what does he mean by like?... I think he is asking me a rhetorical question….something like a great code..or a puzzle…. If I said the wrong answer…..something bad will happen…

Rukia was visibly sweating and her brows were connecting with each other. Byakuya stared at him. He sighed.

Rukia did not notice the out of character expression Byakuya did. She was so caught up within her thoughts.

Like? What is like?... Is it a sense of gratitude?... I mean Ichigo changed my world…. He showed me how to live the way I wanted to… he mend my friendship with Renji….. and he change my relationship with Byakuya…he did so many things for me…even though I never asked for it…. I was contented with the way how gloomy my life turn out… I accepted the things the way how it was….. I tried to change it but I could not…. The clans hold on me is so strong…..yet in the end he….a person….who just came out of nowhere….. beat the crap out of SS to save me….he saved me…yet he never explained to me why he did it in the first place….. He was just someone who she helped….and become friends with… she made him into her errand boy and do things to him….yet he saved her….. she don't understand….. is Like…. Related to having the unexplainable feeling of wanting to be with him… to wake up in the morning inside his closet…. To walk to school with him…..to stand by his side….. to always be around him…. I don't know…..

"His a very important…friend" Rukia concluded.

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Byakuya stood up from his seat and arranged the other files on his table while leaving out the blue folder. He walk over the window and closed the curtain. He saw the people walking beside the road. They look like ants who were very busy doing their goals for the day. Like them, he needs to achieve his goal as well.

Ichigo was walking towards his house. Though he was not really paying attention to the people walking around him. It's been a while but he still feel kind of lonely for no reason. (Actually he was in a constant denial)

"Rukia. When are you coming back? You said you will go to college with us (me). You didn't attend our post-graduation celebration. Everyone (I) missed you" Ichigo muttered.

"Come to think of it. She did not even texted me?!" he exclaimed.

Suddenly, he saw Byakuya standing beside the road. As if like an instinct, he run towards him and grabbed his collar. "Byakuya, where is Rukia?!" he yelled.

Byakuya shook off Ichigo's hand away from his collar.

"I remember not giving you permission to call me by my name" Byakuya said.

"Cut the crap! What happened to Rukia?!" Ichigo asked. "Did your clan forbade her to stay with us (me) again?!" he yelled.

"Kurosaki. You are making a scene" Byakuya uttered.

Ichigo look around and saw that he was indeed making a scene in the middle of the sidewalk. People where curiously looking at them.

"Let us go somewhere" Byakuya stated. He let the carrot top's rude attitude slip. Yet truthfully, he don't understand why he put up with his attitude. Maybe it was gratitude. He owe Ichigo so much.

After sometime, they arrived at a secluded yet classy restaurant.

Byakuya knew that the brat could get even a lot louder. He wanted to talk to him seriously.

"What is your plan with Rukia?" Byakuya asked directly. "Do you like Rukia?" he asked.

"WHAA!?... Rukia?!..I like her?...like that midget….she's so rude…always gets in trouble…funny hair…weird attitude…..she's bossy…loud…tiny…..small….( he continued to enumerate all Rukia's bad qualities. Unknown to him Byakuya is getting so annoyed every passing breath. He wanted to kill the brat for saying those things about his Pride (Rukia). Ichigo ranted on and on)…... she's a very important friend to me …." he concluded.

After a while, Ichigo was left seeping a cup of tea inside the expensive restaurant. He was having a good time. He felt like some of the thorns were lifted from him.

"Byakuya is a good man. I can't believe, he treat me to these expensive restaurant" Ichigo mumbled as he sip his tea. Suddenly realization hit him.

"CRAP! He still did not answer my question!" Ichigo yelled. He run as fast as he could, luckily he found him walking near the cottage in the middle of the pond. He immediately crossed the bridge. As soon as he reached him. He grab his sleeves.

"Let go of my sleeve, Kurosaki" Byakuya instructed.

"Byakuya. Where is Rukia? Answer me?! Why did she not return? She was not answering my call? Is something happened to her?!" Ichigo yelled.

I keep on dreaming about her silhouette and voice, she is calling to me.

"She's engaged" Byakuya answered. "I ask you if you had plans to marry her but it seems you don't have (Byakuya ask him if he likes Rukia and Ichigo ranted about Rukia's bad qualities: conclusion…he doesn't like Rukia…they are both clueless)" Byakuya informed.

"Byakuya! Why did you let that happen?! Is it because of the stupid rules again?!" Ichigo yelled at him.

Byakuya remained silent, though he wanted to explode just like him. It would be unbecoming of him. He tried his best to give Rukia other option (Like running away with Ichigo…yet Rukia said things like….It is her duty, that she doesn't want to ruin Ichigo's future and that she is grateful for everything but it is time to face reality and accept her responsibility by becoming a strong connection to bind Las Noches and Kuchiki corporations… this way she would be able to repay the late Kuchiki's clan leader's generosity) but she is so stubborn with her decision. He confronted the elders but his grandfather, who acted as temporary clan leader refused his request not to marry off Rukia. The old man gave him a very difficult option that he didn't even stop to think about it. So he decided to talk to Ichigo about it and the idea was turning up to be a bad one. Ichigo would not be calm about it.

"Did Rukia approve of it?!" Ichigo asked. "Of course she did, she's always like that. She wants to sacrifice herself for that stupid clan"

"Ichigo Kurosaki." Byakuya warned. "If you don't have a plan. I suggest that you stay away from her. I won't let you drag Rukia around without serious commitment. She is a Kuchiki lady. I won't let you play with her feelings even if you are the one who saved her"

Ichigo remained silent.

"Are you sure, you are not the one playing with her feelings?! Isn't your clan who drag her around like a puppet?!" Ichigo yelled back. "You tried to kill her?!"

Byakuya remained silent. He turned around.

"You have 3 months left before everything is settled. If you finally understand your own feelings about her. Come talk to her, convince her. I will help you to the best of my ability. Yet if you don't plan on marrying her, if you ruined her. I will personally kill you myself" Byakuya warned.

"Byakuya. If I knew that you and your clan ruined her life again. I will make sure that I will haunt every last one of you, Kuchiki" Ichigo warned.

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Byakuya was signing piles and piles of paperwork. From time to time, he would look at his phone. Suddenly someone knocked on his office door.

"Enter" he said.

"Master. An orange haired guy is making a scene in front of the building" the head of the security informed.

Byakuya massaged his forehead.

Of course, Ichigo would not yell at him at the phone. He would gladly do it in person.

"Assist him to my office. Don't let anybody near this room" Byakuya instructed. The security nodded although he was baffled at the master's instruction.

After sometime. His office opened revealing a very angry carrot top.

"BYAKUYA! You sick bastard! Why the hell are you marrying your own sister?!" Ichigo shouted like a battle cry and attack Byakuya without another thought.

Ichigo punch Byakuya but he easily move past him.

"I AM GONNA KILL YOU!" Ichigo shouted again as he attack him but Byakuya avoided all of them.

"BAM!" Ichigo landed a punch on Byakuya's face.

Byakuya this time fought back and punch Ichigo to his gut.

They fought fiercely. It had been a year since they fought this hard with each other. Ichigo wanted to kill Byakuya. Byakuya on the other hand knew Ichigo won't listen to reason up until he was beaten.

After sometime, the inside of the office were an unrecognizable mess. The two was lying on the floor, both are trying to catch their breath. Ichigo tried to punch Byakuya as hard as he could but he was so exhausted.

"Now tell me. Why did you do that? I thought you are a morally upright person" Ichigo asked while trying to think calmly. "Is this one of your stupid clan's tradition?!" he yelled. His energy was returning.

Ichigo has a fast recovery. I need to get this over with before he regained his energy.

"She's not my sister" Byakuya stated.

"LIAR!" Ichigo shouted as he throw another punch towards Byakuya.

Byakuya punch him back. "I am not lying strawberry (Ichigo)!" he yelled. He finally lost his composure.

"How dare you call me Strawberry, you stick in the mud?!" Ichigo yelled back.

"That's the meaning of your name, Idiot!" he shouted.

"What did you say?! My name has nothing to do with that fruit!" Ichigo retorted.

(Note: There argument is straying so far from their main topic)

Their fight lasted for 2 hours before, Ichigo became sensible again.

"If I marry her now my grandfather's other option for Rukia will be fulfilled (Option 1: Rukia will abandon her responsibility willingly and Option 2: Byakuya will marry her… since Rukia is a person who won't sacrifice others for her own was so stubborn to accept option 1 and option 2 for her is out of the question). The elders won't leave her alone up until she get married because the late clan leader (Sojun) gave Rukia an inheritance from the Kuchiki corporations (30%)" Byakuya started to say.

"Those money worshipping fools!" Ichigo yelled.

"As I had stated before, she is NOT my sister by blood" Byakuya reiterated.

"Isn't it still the same?!" Ichigo stated.

"Think whatever you want. The point is, as soon as I become the clan leader. I will have the power over the clan and by then I will be able to revoke the marriage" Byakuya informed.

Ichigo was silent for the first time.

"I don't know what your intention towards Rukia is but I know I can trust you with her wellbeing" Byakuya added.

Ichigo remained silent. He trusted Byakuya and respected him. He already knew at some point about his intentions. He just came to clarify things and get to the bottom of the matter.

...Ichigo's flash back…..

Ichigo spent the entire month after Byakuya informed him of the engagement, thinking about his feelings towards Rukia. He knew something is there but he wasn't so sure if he wanted to settle down with her yet. After some brainstorming, he decided to visit Kuchiki mansion. Just as Byakuya stated, the place was heavily guarded if it wasn't for Byakuya he won't have a chance to even sneak inside (his the type to wreak havoc instead).

Yet when he finally confronted Rukia, she just turn him away saying his being a fool.

"Ichigo you stupid strawberry! What are you doing sneaking inside my room?!" Rukia asked.

"Yo Rukia. I think I've read this plot somewhere. A girl from a prominent family and a boy who love the girl. The girl was engaged to other man and the boy sneaked inside the girls room and convinced her to elope with him" Ichigo ranted.

Rukia was hit with realization.

"Me too! I remembered reading about it. I think it's one of your manga. Both of them died after drinking a poison. That was such a tragic ending" Rukia agreed. "I think the writer is Snakesper"

"He wasn't Snakesper dumbass! He is William Shakespeare and it wasn't a manga" Ichigo corrected her. (Shakespeare is Ichigo's favorite author)

"Who are you calling dumbass you idiot?!" Rukia yelled at him.

"By the way, I came to save you" Ichigo announced.

"Idiot! Who need saving? I am surely not in need of saving" Rukia said.

"I came to save you from yourself" Ichigo retorted.

"Dumbass! How can you save me from myself? Go back home" Rukia ordered him. "This is my choice"

"Don't be stubborn midget. I came here to save you from yourself so I won't accept any opinion from you. Got it?!" Ichigo smirked evilly.

"Stupid! You're the one who doesn't get it. I am doing it by my own free well"

"Lady Kuchiki?" One of the guard outside of her room called. "Is someone there with you?" he asked.

"No one" Rukia answered innocently. Ichigo scowled at her pretentiousness.

"Now go home Ichigo before anyone caught you. I just wish Byakuya won't know about this" Rukia said as she pushed him out of the window. She have no idea that Byakuya collaborated with Ichigo.

"I will be back tomorrow" Ichigo said. "Wait. Who are you marrying to?" Ichigo asked before jumping out of the window.

"Jaggerjaques from Las Noches Inc. the one with the blue hair. His one of the executives" Rukia informed him. "Now go!"

.end of flash back….now back at the present time inside Byakuya's office

"Grimmjow Jaggerjaques is bad news" Byakuya concluded. "His a notorious playboy and certified psycho" Byakuya added. "There is no way I will let Rukia have that kind of husband. He is not worthy for her"

Ichigo cringed at Byakuya's word. It would be the worst person to get married to. Yet truthfully, he was more worried at what Rukia might do to the man she was going to marry. (He remembered her sadistic smile as she stab her opponent ruthlessly during one of their online game match.)

"Grimmjow" Ichigo uttered.


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