a/n: don't you just hate it when authors put translations at the END of the fanfic? and then you're reading the japanese like 'wtf?' and once you're at the end you have to go back and reread it again with the right translation but then at that point you're like 'where is it again?' and once you find it you don't know what's the point of this anyways and then finally you're like: 'fuck this!'
well that's why i'm putting it at the beginning :D (which if i think about it, isn't any better really -_-" aw well, tell me what you guys think!)
Kendo: a modern Japanese martial art that's from swordsmanship, or kenjutsu
+Shinai: bamboo sword
+Bokken: Japanese wooden sword
Ichigo heaves her down carefully to the floor, but they both know she's the one that clambers off of him instantly and takes in deep gulps of breaths. Still leaning against the wall, Rukia opens her eyes only to find him staring back at her; she scowls.
"Don't give me that face baka, I'm fine."
He smirks, "Yeah, you are." He shuffles over to the side of the room and opens a closet door, rummaging through it. Rukia recovers and stands up straight, catching a flying shinai.
She stares down at it in awe, "...This..." -she looks back up at him in wonder- "...how do you have this here? I never heard that the kendo club was still around on this campus."
"There used to be a kendo class around here during my freshman year," Ichigo sits on a nearby wooden chair, putting his chin against the handle of his shinai, "I didn't know about it until Kenpachi slammed the kendo club sign into my face," he grimaces at the memory, "I wasn't too happy about that, but the moment he saw me, he just wouldn't let me not join so I did."
"As if," she snorts, "he forced you to fight him without any of the usual uniform 'cause he thinks that's not manly, found out your potential, and wouldn't let you leave until you joined them."
Rukia notices Ichigo's stare and averts her eyes from his, dreading the moment when all the scared comments would pour down to crush her. Then he did something she never thought he would-
-he laughs.
"First the textbook memorization and now this?" he shot her a curious look, "what else do you have up your sleeve?"
"Who knows?" Rukia says with an innocent shrug. "Maybe you're just too dumb."
"YOU-"
She flies at him with her shinai and smiles sweetly.
"Now that I have you riled up, we should do more fighting, less talking," she pushes him back and flashes him a wild look, "besides, it's payback time don't you think?"
The life drains from his face, and before they leap back to strike at each other again, he thinks-
-thank god I didn't give her a bokken.
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Guest: Lol, I also realized it after I posted it. ^^" Thanks for reviewing! And here's an early chapter for ya! Hope you like it~ ;D