a/n:Hello everybody! This is Moon-chan's seventh one-shot! Finally, after writing it part by part during my physics class for a week, I was ablt to finish it. It took me long time, but atleat I finished it! Yey! So, not really quite fluff. Hope you still like it! I am not sure about the grammar, spelling, and the like. I only proofread it once. Please review! This might become a series! Anyway, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own BLEACH! Trust me! I don't!


Rukia Goes to the Mall a.k.a. Ichigo and Rukia's First Date

"Ichigo," she blinked a few times, quite impressed with an 'attraction' in front of the mall. "What is this?"

The female Kuchiki pointed at a shapeless structure that seemed to be made of water. Correction, water flowed out of somewhere and was released at high pressure. What's more the container in which this geyser-like structure was placed doesn't seem to overflow. How were the humans able to perform such magic? And at the bottom and side of the pool-like container were lights and of different colours too! How was that possible? A few days ago, Ichigo explained that light bulbs should not be sprayed with water unless she wanted to kill herself. The water would conduct the ele-elec… (Whatever that was called) and it could kill!

What was this geyser-like thingy that never seems to overflow?

"It's a fountain, genius." Ichigo rolled his eyes and crossed his arms as he waited for Rukia to stop her embarrassing actions.

"A foun-what?" Rukia didn't quite get what Ichigo said.

"Fountain." The orange-haired boy repeated. "Now, may we please go?"

"Ichigo," she didn't care that he wanted to get going. "What does this foun-thingy do?"

Ichigo rolled his eyes again and pouted. "What do you think it does?"

"Do people take a bath here?" She asked in a serious tone.

"Heck, no!" He shouted. "Do you see any person bathing?" That was it. Was Rukia being serious about not knowing what a fountain was? He was at the brink of losing his temper. If she asked one more stupid and impertinent question, he swore he would swing his zanpaktou through her and bang his head on the pavement. And he swore to Kami that he would never bring or take to Rukia to any place in the human world.

Rukia was wearing her stupid, happy smile as she inspected the fountain. She ran around the perimeter of the attraction like a seven-year-old. She tried reaching for the gushing water while trying not fall into it. She looked like at idiot but in fairness to her, she looked surprisingly cute. Cute? Did Ichigo thought that Rukia was cute? He needed to check himself. Perhaps Kon was spending too much time in his body, Ichigo told himself.

"What does it do then if you don't bathe in it?" Rukia raised an eyebrow still not satisfied with the Kurosaki's answer. The boy rolled his eyes.

"Really? You just look at it?" she blinked in surprise. "You just watch it?"

Ichigo nodded. "May we, please go inside now?" he asked hoping that he had answered all of Rukia's pointless questions.

"How does this thing work, without the water flowing out and all?"

Ichigo rolled his eyes again. If answering her question would get her inside the mall quicker, then why not. "See those pipes?" Rukia listened intently to Ichigo's 'all-knowing' explanation. "Those tubes circulate the water in the fountain. They suck water somewhere. The water travels down those pipes and the pipes carry the water to pumps. And they get ejected out in the air and presto, fountain. It just repeats over and--" Rukia's attention was wandering. "Rukia, are you even listening? I'm pouring my heart out in explaining. The least you could do is pretend to listen."

"But Ichigo look." Rukia pointed at a mother and a child on the other side of the fountain. The mother gave her little boy a coin. After the boy threw the coin, he clasped his hands, closed is eyes and murmured something. At least, she knew where the coins on the bottom of the fountain came from. All she needed to know was the reason behind the throwing.

"Why did he throw a coin?" Rukia asked.

"He made a wish, idiot." Ichigo frowned and crossed his arms.

"A wish?" Rukia was puzzled.

"You know, like the one you do with the stars." Ichigo explained. "You ask some heavenly being something want."

"I know what a wish is!" Rukia shouted. It bothered her that if they could wish on stars why wish on fountains or coins. "I MEAN, why wish on coins?" She wanted to know everything there is about fountains and there impact to modern society.

Ichigo continued his lecture. "It's just like star wishing only this time you pay for your wishes. It's capitalists' way of getting money from kids of the common folk."

"Capitalists?" Rukia was unfamiliar with Ichigo's newly introduced term.

"Ichigo ran his hand through his hair and sighed. He needed a simpler meaning and hopefully it would shut Rukia for good. "Forget what I said. It's basically like wishing on stars. Only you throw a coin instead of finding a star. Basically, that's that."

A glint appeared in Rukia's sapphire eyes. Ichigo mentally slapped himself. It was a bad decision for him to explain to her the coin tossing ritual.

"Ichigo," she demanded. "Give me a coin!"

"No! I will not waste my money on some stupid gig!"

"Come on Ichigo, pweety pwease!" Rukia said in a cute girly tone.

"No way, no how, Uh-uh." Ichigo glared at the girl.

"But--" she protested.

"I said no!" he repeated.

"If you can't give me a coin," Rukia's tone changed. "Then I'll have to force one out of you!" She jumped at Ichigo unaware of the crowd forming around the couple. She avoided Ichigo's arms trying to get her away from him. She reached for his pockets and then grabbed the coin purse. Ichigo yelled and screamed about what the people looking and gossiping about them. He was shouting about they could be mistaken to be on a date and how it was going to look bad on his reputation if someone from school saw them. Rukia didn't care. She was just contented with getting her hands on any coin and tried to wish. She took a coin and threw it in the fountain.

"I wish that," she began but murmured the wish. She ignored the orange-haired boy behind her. He froze into a half-zombie half-idiot person upon realizing that Rukia threw a 500 yen coin into the water. When he came to his senses, he tried to jump in the water to retrieve his money. However, Rukia stopped him.

"That's my wish." She said as she grabbed Ichigo by the collar. "And I don't want anyone taking it back."

"My money!" Ichigo shrieked. He tried to reach for the water, however to no avail. After a few seconds or so, he stopped his screaming and returned to his oblivious state…until Rukia snapped him back to reality.

"Here Ichigo," She handed Ichigo a 10 yen copper coin. "Why don't you make a wish?"

Ichigo blinked back to reality. "Me? Make a stupid wish?"

"Isn't that what I said?" Rukia frowned.

"Why would I do something as stupid as that?" He was back to his old self.

"I said, make a darn wish already!" Rukia yelled back at him.

"No! I won't!" he frowned. "May we please just go inside the mall now?"

"No!" she replied with thrice her usual stubbornness. "We are not going inside until you make a wish."

Ichigo was silent for a while. He weighted all the possible outcomes and consequences of his actions. He looked at the coin intently as if asking it if he would throw it or not. He then looked at Rukia, her sapphire eyes. She gave him a threatening look that if he didn't throw the coin, he would regret his life not does so. After thinking deeply and being threatened intently, he decided that he cared for his life and he would throw the coin.

"Oh, for crying out loud," he grabbed the coin from the girl's hand. He threw the coin as far in the water as he could and clasped his hands. He mumbled something and blushed. Thankfully for him, Rukia did not see his face. He frowned and began walking towards the mall's entrance.

"There," he snorted. "I made a stupid wish. Satisfied?"

Rukia smiled. She followed Ichigo towards the entrance of the mall. Everything was going well until Ichigo passed through a door frame like object and beeped liked crazy. Rukia was taken aback swore to Ichigo that she would not through one of those. If Ichigo didn't pull her, they would be able to get pass the unknown object. As soon as Rukia, went through it, it beeped. Rukia tucked behind Ichigo's back.

"There," he said trying to get Rukia away from him. "That wasn't so bad, right?"

"What was that?" Rukia asked.

"It's a metal detector." He replied as Rukia finally let go of him. He felt warm gush on his face but mentally shook it off.

"A what?" Rukia didn't quite get what he said. "What does it do?

"As the name implies, metal detector." He replied irritated with Rukia's stupidity and apparently forgetting his reaction seconds ago. "They check if people brought guns or other dangerous stuff. Understand?"

Rukia nodded and followed closely behind Ichigo. Just when he thought they could go inside the mall, the closed doors suddenly opened with anyone operating it. It was as if a spirit or a divine entity opened it for them. Rukia pointed hysterically at the extraordinary door. She had never seen anything door like it in Soul Society. How could a mere glass door slide open by itself?

"A sensor, Rukia." Ichigo ran his palm through his face. He could take it anymore. It was a mistake to bring her to the mall. But no, he had to! He was such a genius to take Rukia a long with him. His father only wanted him to by wipe-out, a ballpoint pen, and some freakin' gummi bears! (Why would he want that?) Putting that point aside, getting those things was not suppose to this hard! He was just at the entrance and he was already losing his nerves! May some divine being have mercy on him? He looked at Rukia behind him. She was still looking curiously at the sliding doors. He ran his palm through his face again and took a deep breath.

He will not survive this...


a/n: That was the end. Yeah, the last part was a bit rushed. Comments, suggestions, violent reactions? Tell me! It will really help me improve future fics! Please review! No! The previous chapter was not suppose to be angst! My bad! Til next oneshot!