Hey people, so I hope this chapter is okay for you all, Worked at it quite alot, and it's definitley my longest chapter yet, Wrote some of it In the car, then about 3000 words of it at my nana's and then in the car again, to which I felt extremely Ill at because of my Dad's stupid Driving either way, It took a while to write, and is kinda different from what I planned but either way, I hope you guys enjoy it! OH! and just so you know (I dont know if iv'e mentioned this or not) Each chapter name, is the name of a song, so when you read them, listen to the music, hopefuly it makes them better xD

(This hallelujah Is K.D Lang's version - It came on the radio in the car when I was writing some of this, hence the notice xD)

Rukia: 'Animaddie does not own any of us Bleach people, Just the plotline to this story (even thoguh it's kinda spacy)'


Ichigo P.O.V:

"Ah what a daaay!" Keigo leapt behind me, stupid boob, I dodged, he went flying

"Moron" I turned, to go the other way, swinging my bag over the shoulder,

'SMACK!'

"Oof, ahhh . . . " I turned around, something had slammed into my bag and fallen over, sounded like a person,

"ICHIGO You IDIOT, what did you do that for?" Rukia Kuchiki turned on the floor, yelling at me with a bloody nose covered by a hand, what a klutz,

''Wasn't my fault you're so uncoordinated" I huffed, turning back around again,

"HRrrrrgggggghhhh!" I heard scuffling of feet, sounded like she was getting up

"KYA!"

"UNGH!" I felt a sharp stab in the back of my knees, they buckled and I smooshed right into the pavement

"Moron, 'don't be so uncoordinated'" The assailant grunted at me as she stepped on her heel, turned, and sped off mumbling.

"GAH!" I flipped over, facing a Keigo who was in tears clutching his stomach

"Ohhh man, Ichigo you suck, getting beat up by Kuchiki!" he squeezed his stomach again, bouts of laughter escaping his lips

"Shaddup! Like YOU can talk, every time you even try to talk to her you get scared and run!" I back lashed, rolling to my feet

"Whatever, It's a good job its Senna you're going out with otherwise you'd be DEAD by now" He sniggered. I got up from my sprawled-on-the-floor position, and grunted grabbing my bag again, there was still a face imprint in the leather, LOL – Wait, WHAT? I Mean HA HA HA!, where did LOL come from? Stupid mind – well, stupid computers.

"Hmm, I wonder if she'd appreciate me making a cast of her face." I wondered out loud – Keigo just stared at me incredulously, it was quite funny actually

"If you do, MAKE ME ONE! What I wouldn't give to have that face stare at me all day!" He fantasized, I retched and looked at him weirdly, Keigo is one weird guy I tell you that, stupid pervert, don't wanna know what he'd try and do with that if I actually made one – I shuddered

"Stupid Perv, why would you want that face staring at you all day anyway?" - I inwardly face-palmed, shouldn't of asked

"Are you kidding man? She's almost as good as Inoue! The petite frame, fair skin, violet eyes . . ." I could see the hearts in his eyes

"not to mention that awesome B-"OKAY I get it I get it" I Grunted, sooo Did NOT want to be thinking of HER b-never mind. She is the scariest thing I've ever met, worse than Tatsuki!

"You do realise if you start talking like that she'd probably ninja-you into the next century right?" I asked him, we started walking out of school, on our way home

"You don't say!" His eyes widened "Her and Tatsuki are the scariest force of nature I've ever known" – heheh, see? – "did you see them beat up that Grimmjow kid when he tried to make a move on Inoue?" What a Stupid question, 'did you see' COURSE I SAW, I WAS THE ONE THAT HAD TO FREAKIN' RESCUE HIM! I looked at him blankly

"OHHHhh, sorry dude, forgot, how is your back now?"

"Still slightly crippled, I swear, there's some other-worldly-force going on with them two, no girls are meant to be able to do that"

"Yeah well, maybe they aren't even girls, would make sense at least . . ." He did just say that, right? I must've made a face because the next thing I knew he was crying and 'YUCK'-ing on the back of my shoulder the next moment

"SHOVE OFF you FREAK!" I yelled, punching him in the face and walking-swiftly- away

"Ichigo, come Baaaaack! What if I'm g-"SHUT UP, I gotta go to work, I'll see you tomorrow at school!" I waved and walked away from his crying figure. Okay, he just freaks me out sometimes, I huffed walking through the front gate.

"WAIT! ICHIGO!" I span around to face a puffed-out Keigo

Oh for kami's sake "WHAT NOW?"

"A few of us are going out tonight, it's not school tomorrow you berk – it's Saturday, are you coming?" ah, I remember Senna mentioning something about this so, annoyingly, I have to go

"ah yeah, sorry man forgot about It, but yah I'm coming, Senna wants' to hang out with the girls, and she's forced me to come" I huffed, His eyes glinted

"Dude she has you whipped" he smirked

"Yeah yeah, whatever" I flapped my hand at him "Anyway, gotta go to work now, what time we meeting?"

"At about 9" Right, that gives me about an hour to get ready and pick up Senna, plenty of time

"Alright, see you then!" I waved

"Later!-Wait, you don't know where we're going"

"Senna does"

"Ah, sorry man" he sniggered "Bye then"

"Bye."

RUKIA P.O.V

"9! I HAVE NO TIME!" I jumped around wildly wrenching stuff out of my wardrobe

"Rukia-saan, we have 5 hours, of course we have enough time!" Orihime reassured me

"enough for YOU, all you have to do is put on something pretty and you look killer, I need to have a shower, shave my legs, do my make-up, do my hair, get changed, put on perfume, get money and put away the car!" I whined

"Rukiaa" Orihime arm-flapped me (It was our way of reassuring each other, don't ask how it started, no-one knows) "Stop fretting, Ill sort out the car and the money, I have to get mine too, and we'll do each others' hair – it'll be so much faster, and well, make-up shouldn't take too long, perfume doesn't even count, we can just take that with us if we run over-time a little" She 'ticked' each problem off of her fingers, my eyes filled up

"Aww 'Hime you're the best! What would I do without you?" I cried at her, leaping to her for a hug, she laughed

"Aren't we meant to save that kind of talk for when we've drank a load?" she smiled, I laughed

"I guess so, but who knows, never actually been drunk before, kind of scary aspect really" I pondered to her

"Well ditto, but that's the impression I get from all of the T.V shows, never really agreed to drinking, not with all the publicity our age group gets for it" She explain-thought

"Agreed, but at least it's legal for us now, AND we'll be with a load of people we can trust, I mean, we'll be with Tatsuki, Renji, - we giggled at both their names together, they both adore each other, although they are very unwilling to admit it – Uryu – she blushed at his name, and I laughed – Senna and Ichigo, and Keigo –we both cringed at his name, stupid creep – for definite, I'm not sure about the others" I ticked

"Well it's definitely enough to not have to worry, although I don't really know Ichigo all that well"

"Same" I nodded "But we know Senna, and if it comes to the worst I can execute some uber shinigami powers and you can use your shun-shun-Rikka" I smiled, she laughed

"Definitely-anyways, enough chatting, time to get ready so put on the radio" She clapped her hands together and we 'set off' laughing.

I ran to my bathroom while she ran to her bedroom to get her stuff sorted. seeing as neither of us have any parents, and we've known each other for a long-long time we decided to move into the same house when Orihimes' poor brother died to save each other from loneliness, I'd been staying at a-'FLASH'

"Ungh!" I crouched down clutching my head, where had that pain come from? I was in the middle of remembering whe-'FLASH'

"Cripes!" I clutched my head again "What the hell?" I heard running footsteps and Orihime shot into my room,

"Rukia I heard you grunting, are you okay?" She put the back of her palm against my head (Seeing as that was which I was clutching) doing the mandatory 'are you feeling alright' expression, I focused in on what she said, and then the pain stopped, as quickly as it had come, it had gone . . .

"Yeah I'm fine, just a random headache, it's gone now" I assured her, kind of confused myself

"Are you sure? You still look a bit pale, maybe we should miss out today and just go next time" she stroked my head (In that big-sister/motherly way, that was just our closeness, others would think it were weird but we're just that comfortable around each other is all)

"yeah I'll be fine, probably just nerves or something" I laughed, I didn't mention it was because I was trying to remember a time before her brother died, It was quite a painful (now, quite literally) subject for the both of us, and I didn't want to make her sad before we went out to celebrate – although no-one knew exactly what it is we are going to celebrate-, the thing I was trying to remember was slipping from my mind now anyway, I'll tell her another day

"Okay its 5 O'clock now" I checked my watch, and then again . . . "CRAP! It's FIVE!" I ran to my bathroom, kicking off my shoes on the way "c'mon Orihime we're not gonna have any TIME!" I heard her laugh and leave for her room.

3 and a half hours later . . .

'briiiing bring' . . . 'briiiing bring' . . . "Rukia can you get the phone, I'm just running to the cash machine!" I heard 'Hime yell as the door slammed shut

"KAY!" I ran downstairs to the phone and wrenched it off the hook

"Inoue and Kuchiki residence!"

"hey, is that Rukia or Orihime?" A deep male voice grunted through the phone

"It could be, why, who's asking?" I bit through the phone, it wasn't Renji, and no other guys ever ring our number unless they're begging for 'Hime, so obviously I had to put on my annoyed take-no-prisoners-voice

"For God's-sake midget it's ME!"

"Kurosaki?" My voice went startled, how does HE know our number?

"Obviously, who else would it be?"

"I dunno, hmm let me think, Senna maybe?" I grunted, I was gonna have words with her later, If HE knows our number who knows what could happen.

"Shut-up, she's still getting ready" – haha I could almost hear his blush – "anyway, I overheard her speaking to Keigo about you guys getting a taxi, and wondered if you wanted a lift, now Keigo knows he'll probably try to . . . er . . .annoy you both and Taxi's cost a bomb anyway . . ." wow, he was being NICE! *Shock-horror* moment

"What's in it for you?" I scrutinized

"What?" Wow, he must've taken acting classes, he genuinely sounded surprised

"I said, what's in it for you? Surely you aren't doing this out of the goodness of your heart" I mocked

"WELL FORGIVE ME FOR BEING CONCERNED! CHRIST!" I could hear the swooshing of an about-to-be-hung-up-by-an-angry-person phone

"WAIT WAIT WAIT!" I yelled, He obviously heard

"WHAT, GOING TO RAT AT ME SOME MORE ARE WE?" I cringed as he slammed the phone to his ear again, he WAS just being concerned after all, wow can I be stupid sometimes!

"Hey! I'm sorry, I thought considering I kicked you in the back of the knees before you'd be fooling me"

"Yeah well, I'm not doing it for you, I feel bad for Orihime, you just happen to live with her" . . . okay, OUCH!

Quick Ichigo P.O.V

Okay that sounded a lot meaner than I meant it to, kind feel bad now, and that wasn't true, I was worried about the both of them, even with kuchiki's temper/feist, you just don't know what will happen nowadays, especially with two (possibly) drunk girls alone, she was just being annoying (and the fact for some reason, I feel kinda protective of her, which makes no sense, I barely know her, but I dunno, sometimes when I'm around her, I get the briefest flashes of things –that obviously don't amount to anything- and for a second, it feels like I've known her a lot longer, but obviously I'm not gonna let her know that.

"oh, Right thanks! I'll tell her right away, are you sure it's okay? Moron" Okay now I felt even worse, that 'oh' just before she spoke was almost un-intelligible, if I'd moved I wouldn't of heard it, and what I did hear wasn't that pleasant, there was pain in that miniscule noise she uttered and then covered with an obviously fake kind of mocking-me-annoyed-'thankful' tone, if I wasn't so used to it from myself, I would never have been able to hear the pain that still lingered in her voice. What had she gone through that made her be able to mask pain so well?

"Yeah, just be ready in 10 minutes" I grunted and put down the phone.

RUKIA P.O.V

Berk. It was people like him I could do well without. I slammed down the phone as Orihime rushed through the door

"'Hime, Change of plans, were not getting a taxi!" I yelled

"How are we getting there then?"

"Ichigo and Senna are giving us a lift"

She popped through the door finally

"Ichigo and Senna?" she asked incredulously

"yeah"

"but, since when would they want to give us a lift, you know what Senna's like when it comes to, er, staying close to Ichigo" I knew what she meant, she was one of our friends, but she was awfully clingy when it came to Ichigo, including to not want others around him whatsoever when she was with him (which was almost always)

"By the sounds of it, it was his idea, so I'm guessing he's driving"

"Whoa, wonder what made him wanna risk Senna's wrath for us?" I laughed; her eyes were almost popping out of her head with surprise.

"Well apparently it's not so much for me, but for you, he's worried what Keigo will try to do to you if we're alone" I smiled, 'Yeah well, I'm not doing it for you, I feel bad for Orihime, you just happen to live with her' I felt a pang in my chest, stupid berk, why was I letting him get to me? I barely know him for crying out loud!

She cocked her head to the side slightly

"But you'll be with me" she looked honestly confused, I laughed

"True, but I'm guessing I'm not strong enough" I stuck my tongue out at her "Hey, you never know, maybe he's just using that as an excuse, maybe he likes you" I teased

"Ruukiaaaaa, don't say that, senna will Kill me" she cried, I laughed more

"I know, and oh, poor Uryu, he'll be so devastated to know you like Kurosaki" she blushed violently

"RUKIAAAA, Don't say that, and anyway I don't LIKE Kurosaki-kun I-"just like Uryu" I teased –again- she blushed even redder

"Right, that's it!" she lobbed my plushie yoshi at me, it hit me on the nose

"HEY! That hurt, you're gonna mess up my make-up!" I whined, usually I wouldn't be bothered, but I went out of my way to make an effort tonight, she laughed manically, and hence started a lob-a-teddy war.

(10 minutes later)

Ichigo's P.O.V

I was facing the front door, senna clinging to my arm, I know she's my girlfriend, but that does get kinda annoying sometimes, especially now. I could hear a lot of giggling and running, okay if Keigo were here . . . I'm not even gonna say it, but it does make one wonder, I dinged the bell, there was a stop of noise and I could hear two sets of footsteps heading to the front door - Which I forgot to mention was kinda nice – for a door, their entire house was nice, lots of space, and cool views – there were a lot of rumours about how they could afford things, but I'm too used to them to know that most are fake, I noticed a tree around the side of their house with two tyres hanging from it, and a load of others that had obviously been climbed many a time, okay scratch that it wasn't a 'cool' house it was awesome, they had obviously spent a lot of time working on it to make it somewhere to enjoy, I grimaced very slightly, they must be so lonely . . .

'Scrape' 'CLANG'

"HELLOOOOOOOOO, Visitors!" Both said at exactly the same time looking kinda puffed-out (WHAT HAD THEY BEEN DOING?) and giddy

"Yo" I said whilst Senna just 'Helloed' timidly clutching fiercer onto my arm, they both looked at her the slightest emotion (although what, I don't know) flashing through their eyes, before they yelled a big

"COME IN!" Okay, whatever had happened, obviously Ruki-Kuchiki had gotten over her annoyance at me. We stepped into their house and they closed the door, giggling. That's when everything fell into place, this place was HUGE, their front door opened straight into a giant living room with an open kitchen on the right of the door but the back of the room with a long table in front of it windows strewn around the room, beyond (the room was so big I could only really see the doors, and not what was inside) was a short hallway with two doors on the right, two on the left (both fairly spaced from each other on either side) and one straight down the hall right across from the front door, but miles ahead of it, slightly ajar. It was weird, the door that was slightly ajar was dark, yet there was a dull light flickering in it, candle light perhaps? Okay, 'coz that doesn't make a guest curious, hmm, I wonder where the stairs are, there's obviously an upstairs from the outside, but I can't see any, must be through one of the other doors. This place was nice they had obviously decorated according to the house - Which itself was very cottage-y, with long beams on the ceiling, a log fire and an old granite kitchen with the biggest of stove's (black) – the curtains were hand-made (I could tell because Yuzu made ours and they looked incredibly similar in the way they were made) the rugs on the old-oak floors were antiques as were the sofas, they'd made throws for them both obviously, and the light was dim enough to look like firelight but bright enough to see what you were doing, no doubt the rest of the house would be very similar in fashion, okay, I'll give it to her, (I wouldn't have had a doubt about Orihime but I wouldn't of expected from her) Kuchiki had taste. That's when I noticed the piles of teddies and plushies strewn all over the place, so they were at war. I wanted to laugh, this place had a great atmosphere, and added to their obvious innocence, (which was weird considering Kuchiki certainly didn't seem the innocent type to us she beat up) it lightened a person's entire mood to see such free people.

"erhm Kurosaki-kun" Orihime giggled waving her hand in front of my face, I snapped out of my observation-stupor to look at them, they were both trying to hold laughter "are you okay?" She giggled again

"Yeah I'm fine why?" I smiled they both instantly looked taken-aback -I could almost see the words they were thinking to each other pass through the air-

"eherm, nothing, it's just you've been stood there staring for about 3 minutes straight" Kuchiki glanced at me, humour still in her eyes, but more settled/startled

"AH! Gomen!" I looked to the side, kinda embarrassed; I just couldn't get over how different they could be, and that was just from seeing their HOUSE! I have the feeling not that many people have actually seen the inside of this place, or maybe even the outside, because everyone thought Kuchiki was this stuck-up little rich innocent person, or to those who 'know' her a tiny bit more (AKA, the one's she beat up with Tatsuki) a complete and utter demon who has no ounce of innocence whatsoever and Orihime an Innocent rich no-brain. It seems only Tatsuki, Renji and Uryu would know anything different of them and I'm pretty good friends with Tatsuki. Who ARE these girls to be able to deceive so many people? What's worse is that so many people stereotype them, including myself, yet I'M stereotyped nearly every stinking day! How much of a hypocrite could I be? –and how the hell have I 'read' all of this from what their house looks like? I really wanted to slam my head on a desk at that moment.

"Oi Kurosaki" I looked back to Kuchiki "stop looking so ashamed, sit down for a bit, we still have ten minutes 'till we need to set off, obviously you too senna" she smiled at me, and gestured towards the double-couch facing a smouldering log fire (which was on the left on the wall of the door) I nodded and I went to sit on the couch, then realising that senna was still on my arm, so going slower (which to be honest was kinda annoying, it sounds stupid but I really wanted to just sit there, on my own) and finally sitting down, facing the fire, it was so peaceful, it would've been better if senna wasn't there. Both Orihime and Kuchiki then left the room, to give us privacy, or to go and sort themselves out, I don't know, either way, I kinda wish they had like dragged Senna with them (I smirked to myself then guiltily) or just stayed, the lack of their presence was fairly noticeable, especially considering how different Kuchiki was here. Then I noticed the soft music playing from a sound system in the corner of the room, it was odd, it looked so much more sophisticated than anything else in the room (or house I'm guessing) it was obviously 5.1 surround sound, and the make was, Dennon? *FLASH* 'I feel it in my fingers . . .' *FLASH* "Argh!" What the hell was that? Someone was stood on my bed, singing? The girl I was sat next to looked directly at me then,

"Ichigo are you okay?" Her voice was sickly sweet and unfamiliar, who was she?

"Wha?*FLASH* "ARGH!" I clutched my head, what had just happened?

"Ichigo are you okay?" Senna asked,

"Yeah I'm fine, just a random headache, don't worry about it" I put my arm around her, that was so weird, it feels like I've just forgotten something that just happened, all I can remember is looking at the hi-fi and than a load of head-pain and then Senna asking if I'm okay . . . weird. I sat thinking for the next 8 minutes, the feeling of peace was still there in the room, the hi-fi playing softly some channel, K. D. Lang's version of Hallelujah (AN: Sorry I shouldn't do this, but search that version, it's beautiful) Senna rested her head into my chest, again, I felt a bit uncomfortable, it's like I should have a different head leaning on me. . . WHAT? I mean none at all! . . . I think . . . Ugh; my head is so messed up right now.

"Kay, is everyone ready?" Orihime and Kuchiki walked back into the room, Orihime at the front, I finally kind of took in what they were wearing, Orihime was wearing a modest white sundress with some high heels and her hair pinned up, it was very simple, but she looked great, Kuchiki was gonna have to work to keep all the pervs away from her. Then I noticed Ru-KUCHIKI, CHRIST HOW MANY TIMES AM I GONNA DO TH- . . .! I stopped mid thought, maybe it was the song (still K.D. Lang) I don't know, but whatever happened, she caught me off guard completely, she was also wearing a white sundress but the sleeves were more t-shirty, for once her hair was scraped up off her face with wispy bits here and there, her eye shadow was smoky emphasizing her eyes, which were looking directly at me, making her look all the more se-AND she was wearing simple white flats, I've never seen someone look so beautiful in my life, not even Senna could. I was officially speechless. If I thought She'd have a time keeping all the pervs off Orihime, then I was gonna have to work ten-to-the-dozen to keep them off her! – wait me? I shook my head, I mean, Tatsuki or something, my brain really couldn't function right at this moment.

"So whaddya think?" Orihime smiled and twirled in a circle as did Ruki-Ku- whatever, I couldn't stop staring at her (Rukia), her dress turned out to be backless too, making me stare even more, her skin so snowy and ethereal set off the dress perfectly, If it wasn't for that very moment when Senna tugged on my arm, I probably would've ran to her right then, picked her up and carted her off to some-other place, so before I could get carried away, I answered

"Hn n-nice . . . very . . . pretty" I yammered like an Idiot.

Orihime laughed, "Great lets go then, you and Senna jump in the car, we'll be right behind you!"

I was about to ask why, but I felt small palms on my back pushing me to the door, and out (It was Senna) so I unlocked it, got in, and waited, Senna in the front.

Rukia P.O.V

"'Hime what was that for, they may as well of done that in th-MMPH!" She clamped a hand over my mouth, her eyes gleaming

"SHHHHHH!"

"Mopht?" I tried to yell in her hand, I'm guessing she understood

"Kurosaki likes you" She smiled kinda evilly

"MOPHT?"


Okay, that's all for this chapter, hope you guys enjoy, hopefuly it wont take long to update a new chapter, but then, we're starting exam stuff after today so who knows :'( Please don't forget to review! :) (Oh and if you could'nt tell 'Mopht' Is meant to be 'what' - just with her mouth clamped)