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Heart Of The Ocean

Naori sat on the bed with her pajamas on, kicking the air with her feet. She was obviously very bored. "Rukia! You look fine in that dress", Naori said as Rukia tried on her tenth outfit.

"I know, but I want to look good when I-", Rukia stops in mid-sentence as someone knocks on the door.

"Looks like the evil stepmother's here", Naori sarcastically says as she jumps off the bed and quickly heads for the other door.

Rukia", Uryu opens the door and sees Rukia sitting at her jewelry desk. "I know you've been angry and I wanted to save it for the engagement. But here it is."

He opens his jewelry box and inside sat a huge blue diamond cut cleanly and beautifully into a heart. Pure, clear diamonds shone and glittered with the light as it surrounded the blue diamond. The entire jewel hung from a gleaming silver chain.

"Good gracious!" Rukia stared at it with her eyes wide open.

"It is called 'The Heart Of The Ocean'", Uryu said as he placed the necklace on Rukia's neck. He gently places his hands onto Rukia's shoulders. "I have nothing to give you. There's nothing I could give you, if you opened your heart." He said before leaving for some business.

Rukia stared at her gift, with her hand resting on the diamond.

"Wow! That's a huge gift you got there", Naori said as she re-enters the room.

"I hate it", Rukia bluntly says.

The Next Morning…

Rukia and Ichigo were walking side by side, together at the side of the ship.

"Ichigo, I want to thank you for what you did ", Rukia thanked him gratefully.

"Your welcome."

"Look, I know what you think, a poor little rich girl, what does she know of misery." Rukia babbled on.

"No, no", Ichigo said as he placed his hand on some ropes. "It's not what I'm thinking. I was thinking of what could've happen to this girl to think she had no way out."

"Well I…" Rukia walked a little closer to Ichigo. "It was everything, my whole world and all the people in it."

Rukia showed Ichigo her wedding band.

"God look at that thing!" Ichigo exclaimed as he stared at the sparkling diamond.

"500 invitations gone out. All the Philadelphia society will be there. And I was in there, in the crowded room, screaming my lungs out, and no one would ever look up at me." Rukia exclaimed.

"Do you love him?" Ichigo asked curiously.

"You're being rude, you shouldn't be asking this", Rukia answered disgusted.

"Look it's a simple question: Do you love the guy or not?"

Rukia looked at him and smirked a little. "This wouldn't be a suitable conversation."

"Why can't you answer the question?" Ichigo smiled victoriously.

Rukia, getting very annoyed now, exclaimed, "You don't know me, and I don't know you, and we are not having this conversation anymore."

She took his hand and shook it. "Mr. Kurosaki, it's been a pleasure to meeting you", Rukia said as she kept shaking his hand. "We met, I said thank you and now I'm leaving, goodbye!"

She still kept shaking his hand.

"I thought you were leaving?" Ichigo asked her.

"Yes, I am", Rukia said as she lets go and started to walk away. Suddenly a thought came to her head. "Wait, I don't have to leave. This is my part of the ship." She pointed down to the lower decks. "You leave!"

"Well, well, well. Now who's being rude", Ichigo said with a smirk.

Rukia, finally ticked off, snatches the book out of his hands. "What is this stupid thing you're always carrying around?"

She flipped through some of the pages. " What are you, an artist or something?" she said as she continued flipping.

"These are rather good", Rukia said as she sat on a lawn chair. "They're very good actually."

Well, well, well", Rukia said as she flipped through a bunch of drawings of naked women. In fact, most of the book was full of naked women. She noticed that a certain woman kept appearing in the naked drawings.

"You like this woman. You used her several times." Rukia said to Ichigo.

"Well, she had beautiful hands", Ichigo showed her a picture of a pair of hands.

"You love her?"

"No, I liked her hands", Ichigo said shaking his head. "She was a one-legged prostitute."

Rukia looked at him.

Seeing she was confused, Ichigo showed her the picture. Rukia wanted to throw up badly after seeing it.

Meanwhile…

At the first class lounge, many people were having a nice chat with each other and drinking tea. Music was softly played, yet the passengers loud chatting drowned it out.

"So Ichigo would do that!?" Naori exclaimed at Hitsugaya.

"Yeah, he's the type", Hitsugaya answered.

Suddenly another question popped up in her head.

"Has Ichigo been acting strange lately?" She curiously asked Hitsugaya.

"Well he's been staring into space a lot. And he's also spending a lot of time with your sister."

"Do you suppose they like each other?"

"I'm not really sure. He has this thing with girls, so it's hard to notice."

"Well I noticed", Naori tried to back up her statement. "He's been looking at Rukia a lot with those eyes of his."

"Hn", Hitsugaya smirked at her, smiling at the fact she would say something ridiculous like that.

She does have a point, though. He thought. It's been some time since Ichigo was this happy.

At a table next to them, Shunsui and the captain were having a conversation of the rate of sailing to New York.

"Can you sail the ship any faster to New York?" Shunsui asked the captain.

"I may as well sail her faster, but I'll have to check with the boiler room", the captain calmly answered.

At Sunset…

Ichigo and Rukia were leaning over the railing, staring at the red and orange sunset.

"Why can't I be like you, Ichigo", Rukia silently told him. "I've always wanted to have no worries. No side straddling, just riding with one leg at each side. Heck, I even want to know how to spit like a man."

"What! Didn't they teach you at school?" Ichigo exclaimed.

"No" Rukia meekly answered

"Well, come on, I'll show you."

"Watch this", Ichigo said as he spat into the ocean.

"That's disgusting!"

"Now you try."

Rukia tried spitting and failed. Her spit just ran down her lips.

"That was awful." Ichigo said. Then he taught Rukia the steps of spitting and Rukia spat better.

"That was better, but you kinda go like this", Ichigo began to gather spit in his throat when Rukia noticed her brother, Byakuya, walking down the hall. Rukia tapped Ichigo and he noticed Byakuya too. He instantly swallowed the spit.

"Brother", Rukia walked to Byakuya. "I want to introduce you to Mr. Kurosaki."

"Hello, Mr. Kurosaki. Rukia, it's almost time for dinner. You better get dressed", Byakuya quickly said.

"Alright then", Rukia walked away along with Byakuya and his friends. "I'll see you there, Ichigo."

Ichigo nodded and continued to stare at Rukia as she walked away and disappeared at the corner. Yoruichi lightly tapped Ichigo and got him to snap out of it.

Son, were you having a conversation with her?" Yoruichi asked him.

Ichigo shook his head a little. Yet, it was pretty obvious he was lying.

"Looks like a snake just bitten you …Now what do you plan on wearing?"

Ichigo shrugged and gestured to the clothes he had on now.

"Well, I figured", she started to take him away to her room. "Come on."

At The Same Time…

"He's going to be there right?" Naori said when she waved goodbye to Hitsugaya.

"Of course, he will." Hitsugaya answered as he thought of ways to process the lessons that Naori taught him to Ichigo.

Ending it there. Please review!!!

Preview: Hitsugaya slapped his forehead and Naori dropped her head, in heaps of hopelessness.
"What exactly did you say to him?"