Chapter 7 – Second Night: Bath
N/A: Sorry. I really can't say anything besides that, hope there's still someone who would like to read it! ahahah well... the inspiration didn't kick in... and then just someday... it did.. hope it went well.. I don't have chap 8, not even a phase of it.. so it'll take a while...sorry! but hey! maybe i have another flash and write it in a second! hahhaha But truly...I've been busy lately...
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They got back at home really late, Ichigo was pretty tired, since he was the one that brought all the prizes. He just wanted to take a bath and sleep, and hope that Rukia wanted to do the same.
"I'm going to take a bath first..." she announced when she was going up the stairs, while Ichigo was putting the leftover in the refrigerator.
Rukia didn't wait for him to say something, and he was pretty tired to do so.
He actually dragged himself up the stairs. A day with her was really tiring and stressful.
On the way to his room, he took a glance to the bathroom's door, but quickly made himself turn, but someone showed up and scared him.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Rukia didn't say a word, just grabbed the collar of his shirt and made him walk inside with her in the bathroom.
"I'm going to clean you up!" she said, like she had the most wonderful idea in the world.
Ichigo got annoyed.
"Hey... I'm not a dog"
He was glaring at her while she was taking his clothes off. That didn't make her stop, she didn't even look at him because she knew he was pissed.
"Funny... your hair and your glare makes you look like one!" she said smirking finally looking at him, after she had took his jeans off.
"You're missing a piece" he said, smirking back, realizing that she was not going to take his underwear off.
"Shut up... I'll never do that myself" she said, blushing a little and tossing him a towel.
"Come... the water's ready!" she said heading to the bathtub first, while he wrapped a towel around him, like her.
"We won't fit in the bathtub!" he said while approaching her.
"Of course we will! I'm not small for nothing..." she said while pulling him to get inside.
In the end, they did fit in the bathtub, but was a little tight, especially for Ichigo, but was kind of relaxing. And the bubbles were nice too, there were tons of it, he did complain about it being childish at first, but she said it was fun.
"Hey... Come here" she called him.
Ichigo opened his eyes, he was lying his head on the edge of the bathtub, but moved up to see what she wants.
"Come on..." she said again while pulling his arms to make him get up and sit straight.
"What do you want?" he asked after doing what he was told, but she didn't answer him, Rukia just grabbed his neck softly with both hands.
"You looked tired..." she said while massaging with her toes behind his earlobes.
Ichigo changed his look at her, wanted to say something, but didn't know what. She wasn't looking at him, was just concetrated to do her little job.
He embraced her gently by the waist, putting his hands on her back. The warm water made his touch softer.
"You're tempting me..." he whispered in her ear.
She gave an evil smile also in his ear and said:
"What would you do if your sisters come in?"
Ichigo jumped away from her and looked at the door. She started to laugh her lungs out.
"That's NOT funny!" he said angry.
"Of course it's!" she said between her laughs.
He was pissed, but a cute one since he was also blushing.
"I'm leaving" he declared, getting up from the bathtub.
"Hey! I don't wanna see that!" she covered her eyes with her hands "And I didn't finished!"
"Yes! You did!" he gave his back to her and turned the shower on.
"You're killing my bubbles!" Rukia yelled trying to catch the bubbles that were left.
"I need to get this soap out of me!" he said, still angry and moving quickly so he could get out of the bathroom as soon as possible, away from this crazy bitch.
Rukia didn't just make him angry, she just have that hability to go beyond that. Angry! Ha! Keigo makes him angry, his father makes him angry and ashamed. But, Rukia did more than that, she makes him feel possessed, frustrated, embarassed and he just hated her for that.
He have a lot of scars, she noticed, even on his back. Ones seems old, anothers seems fresh and a weird feeling came to her, she wanted to do something… like a little child wanting to touch something new or weird to her, just to satisfy her curiosity. But she knew it wasn't curiosity and wasn't something perverted either, just a little compression on her heart and her fingers just wanting to touch the path of his past pain.
"What the hell are you doing?!" he instintly move forward away from the touch and looked back at her.
"You have tickles" she said relaxed, smirking.
"Shut up" he said in a normal tone.
At least he wasn't yelling anymore.
"I thought Inoue's power didn't leave scars."
"It doesn't, some scars are from before that and others were not so serious to be treated, major injuries got priority. If she was going to cure everything, she was going to need a clone or two for the job" he said, while getting out the soap from his hair.
Rukia made a 'Ohh', but didn't have time to think any further, Ichigo pulled her so she could stay with him below the shower.
"Alright, you're forgiven" and he kissed her.
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"Hey" she whispered.
Ichigo opened his eyes and rolled his eyes to her.
"Hey…"
"I can't sleep" she said on 'her' side of the bed, laying sideways while he was laying on his back.
"I noticed" he said, tired and closing his eyes.
Rukia, on the contrary, was moving her hands like she wanted to tell something awesome.
"I grow up in-" she started enthusiasmed.
"I don't wanna know" he cut her.
"Why?"
"It won't make a difference."
"But I want to tell you… I'm bored!"
Ichigo sighed a little.
"I want to tell you too…"
She got quiet, thinking a little about what he just said. She smiled.
"You're not as bad as I thought you were…"
"But you're as bad as I thought you were!"
She tapped his chest.
"I had someone in my life… that I admire…" she started again, softly.
"Rukia! I can be a lot of things, but I'm not patient!" he said, raising his tone a little.
"Are you jealous?" with a singing tone.
"Are you trying to piss me off?"
"You're so easy to tease! Almost irresistible! That's your weak point!"
"Shut up! You're the same!" Ichigo was really tired, but listening to her words were unbearable.
"But you don't have the guts to piss me off."
Ichigo smirked and contained the laugh.
"Let's say… your drawing could actually burn a little child's eyes."
"That doesn't bother me" but a vein was popping up on her forehead.
"Chappy is a stupid idiot habbit!"
"Don't talk about Chappy like that!" she said, obviously hurt.
"See?"
"Shut up!" she pushed him and sit up.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"Chappy will be sleeping with me tonight."
"You mean US! I'm not going to share my bed with a stuffed animal, having you is already enough!"
"I'm not a stuffed animal!"
"Well, funny! Your face and your size makes you look like one!"
Ohh! She was fuming! He really does know how to make her angry! She moved intending to jump across him so she could get Chappy, but Ichigo didn't let.
"No way you're going to sleep with that!"
"You started it!" she said, pretty angry.
"Then I'll finish it!"
He hold her by the waist and forced her to lay down with him on top.
"Pff! You're suffocating me! You're heavy, you know!" she said, breathless, trying to push him away, but couldn't.
"Wanna get up? Be my guest." Ichigo said, relaxed and smirking, on her ear.
She tried to push him a little more, but couldn't, Ichigo didn't make any effort to easy on her.
Rukia throw her arms on her sides.
"Gave up already?"
"Too tired… I wanna sleep…" she said, closing her eyes.
She heard his breath on her ear, after a while he whispered:
"I really don't need to know…"
"But I'll tell you someday…" she whispered back.
"Yeah… me too…" Ichigo's voice was now sleepy and soon he was breathing heavily.
"Hey! Don't sleep ON me!" Rukia yelled, bu he didn't listen.
Well, he decided not to listen.