The Fourth Chapter of Strawberry Violent has finally came! Please enjoy and i'll meet you at the bottom as always :D
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June 12th
9:45AM, Monday
Another day came quick as the sun shined bright all around Karakura town.
Sunlight poured itself all over the town painting everything with light including Ichigo's room as always. Only thing that was different, was his lover lying with him that morning.
Ichigo opened his eyes and yawned silently. He glanced left and right of his room as light was spotted everywhere. He did a quick yawn and stretched out his arms, only to widen his eyes a little more.
There he spotted, a girl with black hair, who had buried her head into his chest. At first Ichigo had freaked out for a second when remembering yesterday, along with the words that had caused all of this.
"I Love You!"
It had made him slightly go red hearing that in his head but it was the truth, the two had a great love for each other and that being known to both Ichigo and Rukia had let of a huge weight of their shoulders.
Ichigo stroked Rukia's hair softly as she continued to sleep blissfully on his chest, that is before spotting the time on the alarm clock.
He turned to the clock to see the time. At first when he saw the time, he freaked out until he remembered he had a break from his college due to construction and maintenance being around the area.
Ichigo gently pulled Rukia off his chest and laid her onto his pillow. Quickly doing that, he wondered off to the bathroom to take a shower and get dressed. When finished with those two tasks, he headed downstairs to be greeted by Yuzu happily.
"Morning Onii-Chan!"
"Morning Yuzu." Ichigo replied.
Ichigo's eyes wondered around the house as he noticed Karin was missing from the scene.
"Where's Karin?"
Yuzu shrugged. "I saw her earlier, but then she just went off."
Ichigo just nodded at that response, he walked over to the kitchen and sat at the table. He looked down at the plate Yuzu had made for him and was about to eat until Yuzu interrupted.
"Is Rukia still asleep?"
"Yeah." Ichigo answered eating a dumpling.
"Wow she must've been exhausted from last night." Yuzu worriedly spoke.
"I bet she was." Ichigo agreed sarcastically.
"Probably from all the kissing..."
A couple minutes passed by, and sooner than later Ichigo finished his breakfast. He got up from the chair and washed out his plate. Soon after, he went upstairs towards his room and opened the door to see Rukia still asleep.
Ichigo just stood there watching his newly found lover sleep in a blissful silence. She looked beautiful to him, like a goddess from above and had now became part of his usual the more he did stare at her, the more the thoughts of her came to him. Ichigo felt so passionate for her, he never wanted to let go of Rukia no matter what the cause.
And with that, Ichigo knew it was right for the both of them to reveal their feelings yesterday. So why should he have been embarrassed if anyone heard them? So what if they disapproved, at least they would know that the both of them had a deep love for each other and would be there for anytime of their need. It made Ichigo hate those thoughts he had back then, but it didn't matter much now. All that mattered now was Rukia. His beloved violet eyed, raven haired princess of his life.
He smiled as she slept, but time was going by quick and it wouldn't have been the most adequate thing to let her just sleep by breakfast.
Ichigo walked towards the bed and sat next to Rukia as she continued her endless slumber, however before he could lay a hand on her, he was startled by a yawn.
Rukia sat up with that yawn along with a stretch to go with it, and of course Ichigo just watched Rukia as she did this routine.
Once Rukia finished her yawn, she scratched her back and looked around the room before sighting Ichigo sitting right there.
"Hey..." Ichigo greeted with a smile.
Rukia had a startled expression on her face for a second, then her face went back to normal.
"H-Hey Ichigo." She responded in a shy tone along with a smile.
The two were quiet for a brief moment, showing nothing but a shade of red.
"So why were you...watching me." Rukia broke the silence.
"I-I was going to wake you up!" Ichigo quickly stammered.
Rukia just nodded. "Is there still anything for breakfast?"
"Yeah, Yuzu made your plate."
"Thats nice of her."
"I'm going to go freshen up, I'll see you downstairs." Rukia went on.
She sprang up from the bed and was about to walk out, but instead she stood at the doorway.
"Ichigo." Rukia called out, causing Ichigo to focus his attention back on her.
"Don't you have somewhere to be at?" She turned towards him with another smile.
"W-What?" He checked his watch and saw the time.
"10:16!" Ichigo yelled in his head, he hopped the bed grabbed his jacket and gave Rukia a kiss on the cheek.
"I'll see you later!" And he rushed off.
Rukia couldn't help but to keep her smile as Ichigo left the scene, she had no regrets about the two's confession last night, even before she woke up Rukia knew that this was the start of a new beginning for the two and as well as Ichigo wouldn't let nothing get in the way of it.
Aside from his schoolwork and part-time job, what more?
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Ichigo dashed towards Unagiya's Shop.
Although it was usually weekends he'd be off from his wacky job, since his college was having construction being done. Ikumi had managed to find out and make Ichigo do more than just slacking off, even though she and him knew that he didn't need the extra work.
As Ichigo continued on his run, he was instantly stopped by someone grabbing the collar of his shirt with such a force it made him fall straight onto the concrete.
"Ouch!" He caressed his head. "What the..."
Ichigo stopped before exchanging eyes with his manager.
"Ichigo! I was just out to look for you!" Ikumi shouted.
"I was already on my way!" Ichigo answered.
"Thats hard to understand when your a whole hour late." Ikumi lent out a hand to Ichigo in which he pulled himself up with.
Once Ichigo was up on his feet he was just about to defend himself.
"No talk! We have an important client on our hands." Ikumi put up a hand when spotting Ichigo's mouth open.
"Well where is he?"
And sooner than later, Ichigo was pointed directions towards Urahara's house. Which was kinda ironic due to the fact that his house was just a block away from where he was at.
Ichigo stood in front of the doorway knocking continuously on Urahara's door.
He continued to stand at the doorway for nearly a whole five minutes, the heat at that point was starting to be unbearable. Ichigo constantly tugged the front collar of his shirt hoping to gain a breeze.
"Where the hell Is he?"
When the door finally opened, no one came to greet him. So Ichigo just walked in calling out for Urahara.
"Urahara-san? You here?" Ichigo called before getting hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat.
"That'll teach you punks to stop entering without permission!" The voice came from behind Ichigo as he got up from the ground.
"Jinta!" A voice called out.
As Ichigo rose up from the hit on the head, he rubbed the back of his heap of orange hair once more.
"The second time!" He complained.
"What i'd tell you about hitting random...?"
Ichigo!" The voice quickly redirected to him, instantly being identified to Urahara as it was heard a inch next to him.
"What brings you here?" Urahara asked immediately, shooing Jinta off.
"My boss told me she got a call from here."
"Oh really? That must've Tessai calling for you. He was complaining about needing help on the A/C." Urahara smiled.
"Does it still need fixing?"
"Nah, he's got it all fixed now."
"Ok, well if he fixed it guess I've done my..."
"Hang on Ichigo." Urahara called out stopping Ichigo from heading towards the exit. "I've got a couple more minutes with you, and I'm not gonna just let you leave and waste perfectly good time."
Ichigo quietly sighed and turned back to Urahara who had suddenly appeared with tea.
"What's wrong? You don't like tea?" He smiled.
Ichigo just gawked at him for a moment and sat down as Urahara poured him a cup.
"So I hear Rukia is back, am I right?" Urahara spoke.
"Yeah."
"You seem a bit tense at the moment. Anything happen between the two of you?"
Again like Uryu, Ichigo wanted to tell about what happened but telling Urahara would make him feel a lot more awkward then just telling people like Uryu, Orihime and even Chad.
"No, everything's fine." Ichigo hesitated at first.
Urahara stared at him for a moment and just nodded.
"Well it's good to hear that she's back from all of that work I've heard her brother has been making her do."
Ichigo mentally nodded at that.
Shortly after Urahara went on with pretty standard questions and Ichigo just answered casually then would take a sip of the tea that he had made. However Ichigo did feel lonely and bored, he didn't hate Urahara he really just wanted to be reunited with Rukia.
On that thought, he was wondering the whole time while Urahara was talking, about what she was doing while he was out.
While doing this, Kisuke just kept going even though he saw Ichigo's eyes wander off the whole time.
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Rukia laid on Ichigo's bed drawing in her notebook waiting for him to return and like Ichigo she was bored, only difference was everyone had left the house.
Yuzu had went out to buy groceries for tomorrow's breakfast, Karin was still of heavens knows where and Isshin was still out on his business trip, leaving Rukia alone in the steaming hot house. Only good thing with everyone out was all the fan's around the house weren't being used giving Rukia a cold haven to survive in this burning hell she had to admit.
As the fans blew on her constantly, Rukia continued to draw more pictures of her bunnies awaiting for someone to come home, but minutes turned into hours and soon enough it was already 5'o clock. By then Rukia had gave up drawing in her journal and had read some manga's lying around Ichigo's room. One manga she found was about two people who had similar feelings like Rukia and Ichigo were experiencing only difference was the girl in the manga hesitated too long to reveal her feelings when the boy had to move to different schools.
It did make Rukia sad when reading it however, she was just about finished until Ichigo entered the room.
"Hey." She greeted quickly hiding the manga away.
"Hey." Ichigo responded exhaustively.
"You look tired." Rukia noted.
"I know I do." Ichigo yawned, he was about to collapse onto his bed until his eyes darted to the manga Rukia was reading, it had been terribly hidden behind her back.
"Hey what's that behind your back?"
"W-What do you mean?" Rukia smiled awkwardly, shifting the book around behind her.
"You have something behind your back. I can see it." Ichigo smiled and rushed towards behind Rukia.
"W-What are you doing?" Rukia questioned as Ichigo tried to grab the manga away from her.
"Stop hiding it!"
"It's nothing!" Rukia went on hiding it left and right.
"Then why are you doing all of this?"
"Because..." When Rukia was about to hide the manga somewhere else, Ichigo leaned out too far and lost balance causing him to shift his weight onto Rukia, causing him to land on top of her.
"Not again!"
Ichigo pulled up and glanced down to see Rukia staring back at him with red as always now. He had also noticed she wasn't angry at him she just stared at him with a look that he couldn't lay his eyes off of.
"Those...eyes."
"Rukia..." Ichigo put a palm on her cheek and leaned down towards her for a kiss.
Just as he was about to, Rukia put a finger on his lips.
"Don't think you can just sweet talk my name and expect me to be so gentle." Rukia smirked.
She pushed Ichigo off of her towards the right of the bed, and jumped on top of him.
Rukia smiled in a courageous manner. "It'd be a shame if any of this leaked out to any of our friends."
"Oh really?" Ichigo grinned. "Let's see about that."
Ichigo sat up and kissed her in the lips as she sat right on his lap with her legs crossed behind his back.
The two's lips stayed together as if they were glued shut, neither of them declining or holding back from each other.
When almost reaching a minute, Ichigo pulled out.
"I love you."
Rukia just smiled. "I know that, you baka."
Ichigo just smirked at her and went back to kissing, before spotting the manga she was hiding right next to his pillow. He moved his arm slowly from Rukia's waist onto the manga.
Ichigo stopped kissing again. "So this was what you were hiding?" waving the manga in her face.
She just smiled again. "Alright, you caught me."
Ichigo smirked again at that comment, he stared at the title before remembering it.
"Hey I remember this, I was in middle school when I bought it." Ichigo shuffled through the pages. "You know, this manga reminds me about me and you."
"How so?" Rukia added sarcastically.
"Cause if you've already figured out, we love each other like these two do. And I know me and you wouldn't want it any other way." Ichigo went on.
Rukia couldn't help but to blush at that line, it was a bit basic but she loved him a lot to not care if what came out of his mouth was corny or stupid.
But when Ichigo had made that reference to the manga, Rukia felt a bit down when remembering that boy who had to change schools. Rukia imagined herself in his shoes, only difference was she had to go back to Soul Society some point or she'd be in trouble with Byukaya. Her blush disappeared, there she just sat on Ichigo's lap looking towards the sun as it went down.
"Hey what's wrong?" Ichigo asked with worry.
"I-It's nothing...just." Rukia turned away from the window. "I have to go back to the Soul Society, or..."
Ichigo place his hands on her shoulder.
"Rukia stop worrying, we'll be fine. Like I said Byukaya can find someone else to do all that work, right now your with me and I'm not going to let him or even anyone else take you away from me no matter what the cost."
She instantly shifted towards Ichigo's direction. "You always know what to say don't you?"
"Give me a perfect reason not to."
Rukia smiled and embraced Ichigo.
He returned that smile back to her. "Tell you what, we'll go to the Soul Society tomorrow and talk to Byukaya about this okay?"
"Yeah, but...I think it's better if you stay here."
"What?" Ichigo's eyes widened. "Why?"
"It's nothing personal, just I think it's better if I see Byukaya myself. If you came, you'd probably boost his opinion." Rukia rubbed her shoulder.
Ichigo nodded, he understood where she was coming from.
"I see."
"But hey, we'll still be together no matter what he says." Rukia confidently smiled at Ichigo.
"Isn't that what I'm supposed to say?" Ichigo rose a brow.
Rukia beamed out another smile and leaned back in to Ichigo's kiss.
The rest of the evening, was cascaded with nothing but hugs and kisses. But tomorrow would be a tough day, Rukia would have to return to Soul Society to inform Byukaya and possibly Ukitake about the two's relationship otherwise it would mean Rukia would have her hands tied in this whole ballyhoo.
However, even if Byukaya or Ukitake had denied that the two's relationship would not work. She did mean that they would stay together, right?
Been a long while hasn't it? 2 months now? Well I'm happy I finally had some time to establish this chapter. Thanks for reading and I apologize for the delay, it's hard writing a fandom when you have a lot of time on your hands and then shiz hits the fan.
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