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"I am not doing it!" Rukia all but screamed at Ichigo.

"Because you are a scared little midget." The big jerk said.

"Not scared!" She rumbled, her temper building. "I am just don't want anyone to see us going in there in our uniforms." She added the last part in to convince him to see things her way. Rukia had a chilling suspicion that they were being watched and given her recent heat, she wanted to stay under the radar. But the big jerk-face fixated on watching something that look like even she shouldn't be watching it.

Two hours before...

Ichigo and Rukia walked down the street on their way back home. They stopped by an ice-cream parlor and got a couple of cones and then continued on their way only to came to a stop that read 'Fifty Shades of Grey" on a movie theater poster.

About a week ago, Rukia had returned to the real world on vacation thanks to her captain.

'Ah...bless him'.

After a cloud that looked like a weird pink bunny, she was integrated back into the curriculum of Karakura High. All in a day's work.

It was nice to see her human friends again and forget life as a soul reaper for a couple of weeks.

Ukitake had talked to her, wanting to know what she was so fired up about according to the death toll of fifty two hollows including two Menos Grande. She lied through her teeth of course saying that nothing was wrong and staying away from all things Kuchiki. After a hesitation he smiled that kind smile of his where his eyes close while his mouth split his face. She knew her captain dropped the subject on purpose to make her feel less pressured and she was grateful to him for it.

Rukia knew that elders interest in her had spiked especially after she heard what they said in her absence at the meeting and Byakuya's reaction. She didn't need to be under anything else.

Since that morning of the meeting, things only got stranger at home. Byakuya completely and utterly avoided her as if there was something that she should have done and didn't do. At first she was happy about it because seriously; who the hell orders a brother marries his sister? The embarrassment of it all and what's more, Rukia knew what they wanted from her, how they saw her.

Falling back on habit of leaving out earlier than needed to get to the barracks, diving into paperwork to overwork herself to come home later than usual or not at all-sleeping at the barracks on a cot when the paperwork had been annihilated completely.

So it isn't surprising that the only one that knows she's off planet Seireitei is her captain and the third seats. Not that it would take a genius to know where she was but one else cared anyway.

OK, she felt a little bad about not telling Renji but she didn't need him poking around her business.

So here she was in front of a movie theater with Ichigo arguing about seeing a movie. Yet somehow, she understood that this was his way of showing her a good time. Apart from her shocking him with her return by popping out of his closet one day when he came home from school and the obligatory, " What the hell are you doing here!?" he hadn't said anything else. He still brought her food and let her sleep in his closet. But she could feel his eyes on her, watching every emotion that leaked out onto her face. He could be so cool when he wants to be.

"...maybe they wont let you in because you're such a midget. They might think that you're a just a kid who's still waiting to reach adulthood."

He was such a big idiot-jerk face!

"Call me a midget one more time." Rukia warned, hands clench into fists.

"Or you'll do what?" Ichigo goaded. "Face the facts four point none, you're stuck at midget status for the rest of your life and it seems like you can't even go to a perfectly good movie either."

Rukia was ready to flatten him.

Suddenly he grabbed her by the hand causing a spike of heat to pinken her cheeks. When he dragged her around the corner of the theater and stood right in front of her too closely , pink turned to crimson.

"What are you doing?" She all but screamed.

"Shh." He was poking his head around the side of the building. She guess he saw something or someone that he didn't want to see them or him. "I could have sworn that I saw something that looked like a cat."

"Huh?" Rukia asked, stunned. "A cat?"

He looked at her so solemnly that Rukia swallowed the ridicule she was about to dish. "How many cats do we both know that is black and can talk?"

"Yoriuchi." She confirmed but why would Ichigo be hiding from the cat-woman. Wanting to know why she was hiding too, Rukia asked. "So what's the harm if she sees us?"

Aside from the touch of a catish deviousness, Yoriuchi wasn't all that bad to be around.

At almost two hundred years old, she looked like a chocolate lovers fantasy made flesh.

"I don't know but the hairs on the back of my neck rise whenever I'm around her. Like she is up to something." He paused, seeing the back door of the theater.

"Come on, lets go see that movie."

Rukia pushed at his chest and he backed up.

"You need to cool off some steam plus you owe me for breaking into my house a week ago." He said pointedly.

"Fine. But do you even know what this movie is about?" She said feigning her anger.

"It's a woman wearing a mask, how bad can it be?" He had an mischievous gleam in his eye.

This was why she picked Ichigo to hang out with. He was the devil to her devil plus he reminded her so much of Kaien, it's heartbreaking. If she were to marry someone and she didn't have to rob the cradled, then it would be someone that she could be real with like Ichigo.

The theater was relatively empty since it's during the week and late afternoon. Rukia and Ichigo sneak into through the back. How hard can it be for a seasoned tomboyish soul reaper and battle hardened high school kid?

They were in.

Snagging a great look out spot up high and thanks to the darkness and the cover of thick red curtains, no one saw the two kids in the back above the box seats, waiting for the show to begin. They sat back to back on the broad beam.

"Here." Ichigo offered a bowl of popcorn and Rukia could see that he even had a couple of sodas

The movie hadn't started yet.

"When did you?" Rukia trailed off and just accept it. Being with Ichigo is always fun. .

He shrugged. "I figured you would be hungry and popcorn is a traditional food at a movie."

Nodding Rukia started munching on buttery salted goodness. She almost moaned her approval. If only the soul society had great food like this.

The introduction was starting, the usual advertisements flashing on the screen. People chatter and laughed below them.

"I haven't ask because when you got to my house you looked like you were stressed out about some stuff but I think as your friend I am entitled to know what is going on with you, Rukia."

Ichigo had such bad timing. Rukia thought.

Though she couldn't spill the beans on what was going on in her family because hot headed Ichigo would just go to the soul society, sword drawn and calling anyone with the last name Kuchiki an asshole. She stiffed a shuddered at the thought of another meeting with the wrinkled members of the Elder counsel.

"I cant tell you...," She trailed off a bit, she could feel his scowl. "All the details."

"Does it have something to do with your brother?" There was no anger in his voice at the mention of Byakuya-yet.

When she didnt say anything, he said. "I kinda figured."

To her surprise he dropped it and she figured it was because the movie was starting. The ceiling lights went dim and the chatter dead with them.

"Hey." Rukia said.

"What?"

Thanks for being my friend Ichigo. She thought but she said. "Here's the popcorn."

She passed it to him without looking so she missed the knowing half smile that curved at his lips.

"Pass the soda please." She requested.

The movie started off with woman on the poster doing her hair.

"Why did you want to see this movie anyway?" Rukia asked. She took a straw-full of refreshing orange aid and this time she couldn't hold back the sigh of satisfaction that welled up after the drink washed down the popcorn.

"Keigo suggested it, said that his sister really enjoyed it and she's even more boyish than you are."

She was going to floor him when the movie was over.

"If it sucks then you have to watch it all the way through." She challenged turning slightly to look at him. Knowing he wouldn't back down.

He faced her then, their eyes met.

"Deal."

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