Again! I do not own the characters of Bleach, and I also do NOT own this story. This story is the property of another author. I just loved this story so much that I put it up, hoping that the author would come claim it and also upload the sequel.
It was a lovely Saturday morning and I had nothing but divine dreams about last nights date. After the morning routine I was making my way downstairs, I heard a groan coming from one of the rooms.
I took a peak inside, Urahara was leaning on of the tables, over a mobster, an Arrancar who was yelping and moaning as Youruichi was fidgeting, her hands covered in blood as he shrieked in pain.
"Help!" the arrancar yelled at me, Kisuke smirked and wacked the Arrancar with his cane
"Stop making a fuss, unless you want another bullet, and the next one will be in your head instead of your ass"
The Arrancar whimpered as Yoruichi tried to heal him. I sighed and walked away, this was normal, it wouldn't be normal if they didn't interrogate someone for more than a week. Now our family is not an sinful mafia, our government is corrupt, and we survive by doing 'illegal' things, helping the poor as well as fighting the rival gangsters, one of the most dangerous and murderous gangs, the Arrancars, were mobsters that stood in ranks of Espada's, Arrancars and most of all Hollows- but the main title for their mafia was the Arrancar Mob.
Our motto was something along the lines of 'steal from the rich, give to the poor, leave some for yourself and shoot any motherfucking Hollow that stands in your way'
The Espadas's, head of the Arrancars had plenty of henchmen, Hollows, and they ruled over the Eastside underground district, the most horrid place in Karakura, Hueco Mundo. The Don of their mafia was Don Barragan- sick old bastard.
This country is ruled by fear, ran by money and power. I wanted to get out if this place, though I couldn't imagine living without my hare-brained family.
"Ahh Rukia-chan! Ohayo!" Kisuke said waving his fan and giving another kick to the prisoner. I gave a short nod, "were you informed? We're holding a banquet in Byakuya-sama's honour?"
Of course, it was Nii-sama's birthday soon.
"Yeah, I know"
Kurosaki was lying on the couch; he saw me, paid no attention and went back to watching T.V. Yuzu, Karin and Inoue (who stayed over) were dressed up and ready for the Saturday outing in the park. I grabbed some breakfast, the bento I prepared yesterday morning. The girls ran outside, getting into the car with Shuuhei.
I stood in front of the T.V
"Get your fat ass out of there" Kurosaki snapped trying to get a better view craning his neck around. I stepped in closer, to add more irritation. He sighed and gave up, leaning his back and surly looking at me.
"Renji told me you got the tickets…to take me to the theatre" I began.
"Tch! That asswipe!" Kurosaki snapped. This carrot-top was always in bad mood, his casual facial expression is constantly a frown or a glare. I saw him being uncomfortable with me knowing his true intentions. As much as I can't stand him, it was very sweet of him.
"Thank you" I said, handing him a homemade pastry puff filled with custard that I made late last night, deciding that this would be the best way to say thank you. He used to worship the dessert as a kid. He had his hands crossed over his chest, suspiciously looking at the dessert. Then he grabbed it and stuffed the whole thing in his mouth in one go. He still worshiped them, much to my relief.
What a glutton.
We arrived at the park; Karin ran to play football with Ginta while Yuzu, Orihime and I spread out the blanket and placed the food. The girls persuaded Kurosaki to come, unfortunately, so the slob pounced on the blanket as soon as we set it out
"This is not placed for you, dimwit! Move!" I yelled trying to kick him away, he was lying down with his eyes closed, ignoring my feeble bickering.
"Be gone underdeveloped woman, and get me some food" he yelled turning to the other side. An idea popped into my head as I saw Yuzu chewing on one of the gummy bears. I took a small green one out and gave a good lick. Kurosaki noticing the silence opened his eye. I, taking some distance between us threw the gummy bear.
With a plop, it landed straight in his forehead, he looked up crossing his eyes and I could see him going red from anger. I couldn't help it and burst out laughing. Yuzu and Karin seemed to enjoy the idea, and began licking all the gummy bears and throwing it at him. He dodged them desperately as they began sticking on his arms, face and hair.
I laughed so hard, my abs began to burn. He looked pissed of; he took out a can of whipped cream I made a run for it, but I didn't get very far, he caught up and wrestled me to the ground. I fell straight on the grassy ground as his heavy body heaved me onto the ground. I felt the light cream being poured all over my face, I shrieked trying to get him of me. He roughly grabbed my hands and pinned them above my head. I tried to shake my head to get the cream away from my face.
"Apologize!" he roared spaying the cream all over my face mercilessly.
"Hahaha! Okay! Sorry!" I shrieked as the cream dripped down my face. My hands were still pinned above my head and his body was hovering above mine. I realized in what position we were in and blushed immediately trying to squirm away
"Ew! Get a room!" Ginta yelled
"Shut up! Don't make me stick this up where it doesn't belong, brat!" Kurosaki boomed waving the can around dangerously. Inoue was staring wide eyed from the distance, and I could see there was blush on her face.
I laughed as few gummy bears were tangled in his orange hair; they looked like hair clips in the orange spikes. I couldn't stop laughing; I was so tired I couldn't even try to wrestle away. His furious face eased, and he grinned seeing me laugh.
"You look like Santa with a beard growing out of everyplace in your face" he said smudging on more cream. I shook my head
"Get of me! I feel violated" I yelled squirming. He smirked and leaned in
"Virgin?" he whispered. The closeness of our bodies was head-spinningly close
"Get off!" I shrieked, he rolled his eyes and stood up, brushing away the left over gummy bears.
"Its not like I would do anything to you" he said, over exaggeratingly shuddering. I kicked him in the chest, he fell over and I stomped away. For some reason, taking so many insults from him all from all these years, strangely enough a silly one like this one seems to…offend me to some extent. I suddenly became self-conscious of my sex appeal. I thought about the women Renji and Kurosaki have encountered, how many big breasted, model-like, gorgeous girls were dying to sleep with them?
Suddenly all that giddiness about me being with Renji seemed to shrink. I wiped of as much cream as possible, chewing on some strawberries. I stared of into space, wandering what Renji thinks of me…as a girl. As tainted as it sounds I wanted to Renji to find me as not only a goodie-goodie with a good family background and a status of an ubber nerd, but I also wanted him to find me attractive…sexy…beautiful. I looked at my gloomy face on my reflection as I drank coke, and tried not make myself depressed.
Yuzu-chan poured me another cup as Inoue was doing her hair.
"Rukia-onee-chan, you and Ichi-nii act like an old married couple" Yuzu said.
The coke went up my nose as I coughed and choked, Inoue panicking began smacking my back like there is no tomorrow.
"Yuzu, don't ever say that" I said regaining my breath and lying down on the blanket. I looked at Kurosaki who was being harassed by Karin and Ginta.
Serves that bastard right, Ginta should get out his baseball bat and blast him to the moon. Yuzu went to play tag, and Orihime lay down next to me, watching my depressed face
"Rukia-chan what's wrong?" she asked facing me; we both lay under the hot sun, barely opening our eyes to see each other. Her locks of hair were laid out like smooth silk, and she took up the space for two people, because there was her body and then there were her boobs, she needed extra space for that!
"Nothing…just tired I guess"
Even Inoue is a gorgeous girl, though a wee bit weird sometimes. I smiled and closed my eyes trying to picture Renji, I cringed as the image of that damn Kurosaki hovering over me with gummy bears partying in his hair kept on popping into my mind.
"Rukia-chan you know" Inoue began laughing lightly "Yuzu-chan was right about you bickering like an old couple…it looks really sweet though" she said. I grimaced
"Inoue, what are you talking about? We hate each others guts, sure we used to be really good friends, we're like bickering siblings…we just changed…and I don't get along with him anymore. He's even disgusted by my body" I trailed off not wanting to even remember that.
"Rukia-chan, you're very pretty, and around you Kurosaki-san acts really like himself, you have an amazing influence on people. I'm sure he wasn't 'disgusted' with your body, maybe he just found himself in an uncomfortable position because he lay on top of his best friend's girlfriend?" she said smirking.
Wow, those were the most intellectual words Inoue ever said…
I blushed
"I-I'm not his girlfriend" I say smiling and trying to cool down my cheeks. We both giggled as I told her how the date went in full detail. Then Inoue randomly asked
"You remember when Kurosaki-san left abroad to study for a few months?"
"How could I forget, they were the best few months of my life…" I heaved a sigh dreamily.
"I found out from Karin-chan that he actually came back because he missed you" she whispered. I gave her are-you-just-crazy-or-plain-dumb look. She nodded violently
"Its true its true! Karin-chan said he mumbled it out when he was drunk from a party"
"Exactly! The imbecile was drunk!" I said getting up to help myself with another strawberry.
"Hi!" a girl's chirpy voice said from behind. Inoue and I turned, squinted from the sun trying to get a at the dark silhouette of a girl slightly taller than me. We met a pair of gorgeous golden pupils. We mumbled a greeting, staring at her, wondering if by any chance we know her.
"I'm Senna, Ichigo's girlfriend, its nice to meet you"
We were driving back in Kurosaki's jeep in silence. Ginta was smashing the buttons on his PSP, and Karin and Yuzu were snoozing together. Inoue and I sat in the middle row, listening to Senna's shrilling voice as she chatted away in the front seat with Kurosaki.
"Ohh Ichigo-kun told me loads about you Rukia-"
"N-No I didn't! Senna, how much sugar did you eat today? Stop talking" he snapped clutching the steering wheel with his left hand, while Senna kept a strong grip on his right hand. Inoue kept on watching me and Kurosaki, back and forth, as if she were watching a game of tennis. She was still hard headed (literally) about Kurosaki and I being 'something'
"Ichigo-kun! You meanie! Why are we going this way anyway?" she asked looking around.
"We're dropping off Ginta" he said. We stopped outside the store, outside it may look like some shabby corner shop, but there is a whole secret base to practice with our reiatsu and Uncle Tessai, the owner, was our family gun dealer. Ururu was sweeping outside, I asked her to come to the park, but she politely declined saying she needed to load guns for the upcoming banquet.
Yeah, the security is the tightest at this time of year, the Don's birthday.
Ginta left the car, and another awkward silence passed
"S-So Senna-san, when did you and Kurosaki-san start dating?" Inoue timidly lighted the conversation
Senna was thrilled to be asked, "Well I met Ichigo abroad, and we were both studying in the same course. After a few months I moved here and suddenly he asked me out yesterday" she grinned as if Kurosaki wasn't even there. I could see his face was unfazed, as if she wasn't talking about him at all. I could see his frown reflected in the rear-view mirror. He looked up and met my eyes
I turned away, and for a moment my heart skipped a beat.
It's the middle of the night, and I'm absolutely terrified. The wind howled outside and the rain splashed against the windows. And I was dreading the resonances and noises. I was terrified of the thunder. I winced as I dreaded the violent swaying and the gushing of the trees. Not being able to go back to sleep I crept down the hall into the kitchen. The kitchen is located in the middle of the house so I couldn't hear the thunderstorm as much. I wanted to wake someone just to keep me company.
I wished Ukitake-san to come, but he and Nii-sama left for business, and I'm not even getting near those two horndogs: Urahara and Shunsui…I was thinking of going to Yuzu-chan and Karin-chans room, or even desperate enough give a good kick for Kurosaki to come, but as I moved I heard the thunder roar.
"Kurosaki" I whispered, closing my eyes tightly as fear gripped my body.
I winced and collapsed on my knees, sliding into the corner of the cold kitchen floor, desperately closing my ears. It was frightening, the thunder felt like its going to tear everything apart. I held on tightly to my body. A shadow of someone stretched across the floor
"K-Kurosaki?" I whimpered curling into a ball, as I saw him come in. His hair was a mess, and he looked like he punched himself to wake up. With nothing but boxers on he made his way towards me, his face absolutely displeased and exhausted. He saw me, and his expression turned into sympathy. He cautiously made his way and crouched down on his knees, a step away from me.
Carefully he stretched out his hand, patiently looking into my eyes.
"Its okay, Kuchiki, its just thunder, its miles away" he soothed, waiting for me to uncurl, let go of myself. Shakily, I stretched out my hand towards his as he enveloped me in his arms, I cried out and held on tighter as another lightning flashed, followed by a roll of thunder. I was shaking in his arms.
He picked me up with ease as I curled into a ball; he carried me up the stairs into my room. As I held on, I could feel his heart beat drumming, and mine was too. His body was hard, but his skin was very warm and soft. He dropped me on my bed, and wrapped me in the blanket. His eyes were falling back to sleep. He sat down on the floor, leaning against my bed and placed his head in his hand, breathing slowly.
"Go to sleep, I'll stay here until the storm settles down" he mumbled into his hand. I wanted to reach out for him; but didn't know what to say. His presence eased my fear of thunder, it felt better, easier to breathe.
"Kurosaki...I don't know what to- I mean thank-"
"Go to sleep!"
"B-But-"
"Sleep!"
"Fine!"
Huffing I lay down and felt like sleep enveloped me once more, but I didn't want him to stay like that all night. But I reddened at the thought of inviting him to share a bed with me. I clenched my fist, clenched my bum and took a deep breath.
"Kurosaki, you can sleep here for now… your back will be aching tomorrow, I think its going to rain all night…" I said sliding the other side of the bed, and patting the empty space.
He looked, thought for a moment, but I could see he was half asleep. He grimaced and stood up sitting on my bed. He looked at me for a moment and made a face
"Ew…"
Slap!
"Ouch!" he yelled holding his head.
"I'm being nice and you 'Ew' me?" I snapped furiously
"I'm the one being nice, I'm the one who crawled out of my comfy bed just to drag your quacking ass down here, and now I have to sleep in a roomful of Chappi's gaping at me" he snapped back
"Well thank you for your sacrifices, so now shut up and go to sleep" I whispered trying to listen if we woke anyone up.
"No you shut up"
"You shut up"
"Can't believe I woke up-"
"Shut up!" I snapped hitting him with a pillow.
After we finally settled down from out bickering, I turned away, but I could feel the body heat from him, and the bed lightly heaving up and down, slowly and peacefully. With a small smile, I drifted into sleep.