I am soooo sorry!!! I've been so tired lately and my parents have been dragging me here and there...i haven't had a descent night of sleep for a while and i think thats why I haven't updated much. I am soo sorry.
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Chapter 7
The rest of the day was damn straight boring. After lunch, everyone went inside towards their classes. Ichigo had followed Rukia to her class. It was all theory, unfortunately for a disappointed Ichigo, and really, no-one aside from Rukia was paying attention in the class. Sure he had tried to pay attention to the teacher, but found his voice was mono-tone…very plain and boring. He glanced at her every now and then-only to see if Rukia was really paying attention or not (sure Ichigo, sure). He then looked around the class again for the tenth time that afternoon. Rukia was, apparently, the only girl in this class. He wasn't exactly sure why but he made a mental note to ask her later. As the teacher droned on about fighting techniques and the last battle of the stupid war, Ichigo couldn't help but find something else – anything else – to keep him awake. He found that in one Kuchiki Rukia.
The final bell rung; informing the students that it was time to scram and do their mountain piles of homework. For the healing ranks sure, but for the fighting ranks…that was a piece of cake. All they had to do was perfect their fighting techniques.
Rukia walked out of the school gates, closely followed by Ichigo and a million rumours and gossips. She made a right turn and bumped into something. She stumbled back and bumped into Ichigo, who caught her and helped steady her balance. Rukia looked up at his face. He looked down at her like she was blind or something of that sort. She quickly pushed herself away from Ichigo and prepared herself to scowl and shout at the person she had bumped into.
"Oi watch where you're going!" she shouted. Her eyes widened to see who she bumped into - to be more precise, what she had bumped into. It turned out to be Ichigo's horse. 'What the hell is a horse doing here at a school?' she wondered. Her thoughts were interrupted by loud laughs and sniggering from most of the school students. Everyone saw it. Kuchiki Rukia was shouting at a horse. Boy was that about to make good news.
She ignored all the laughing and sniggering and made her way back to the Kuchiki mansion. A slight shade of pink made its way up to her pale cheeks - but you could only see it if you were very close to her.
Ichigo made his way up onto his horse, and trotted beside Rukia, making sure he left a certain amount of space. He could feel the heat being emitted from her tiny frame. He looked at her, and she looked at him. She was surprised that he had owned the horse. She expected a person like him to be picked up in one of those things that made loud sounds, had spinning black things, windows all around and that can also make a honking sound. Aka; a car.
Some guys from Rukia's class followed behind her. It wasn't unusual, but it wasn't usual either. They snickered and whispered about her little run in with the horse trotting beside her, all the while making sure she was able to hear every single word.
She had had enough. It was bad enough that they had seen what had happen, bad enough that most of the school did too, bad enough that she found out that she was involved in some stupid war, had a childhood friend right by her side and that she is the only girl in out of the whole school to be in the fighting ranks, but she really did not appreciate people like them boasting about her mistakes. Haven't they made mistakes as well?
"Arrgh!! Would you bastards just leave me alone?!!" yelled Rukia. Everyone looked at her. Her face was pink, her blue eyes blazing with rage and even more heat was being emitted from her. The boys stared at her for a little longer. The Kuchikis' were supposed to be able to control their temper, but obviously this one couldn't. They snickered some more and continued talking about her. That was, until the leader of the group decided to walk up to her.
His name is Kariya. He would probably be considered the bully of the school and has four other followers almost 27/7 around him. He is a senior, but because Rukia is such a smart and talented student (and because she is part of the Kuchiki clan), she instantly got moved with the seniors instead of starting out as a freshman like other comrades her age. That is the reason why he despises her so much; that and because she had beaten him once during sparring lessons. He made it part of his life to make her life at school a living hell. He partly succeeded. But now all that has changed, he has the perfect opportunity to make it hell.
"Kuchiki Rukia," he says in an almost saddened voice. Of course, Rukia was not fazed by this. "Does Rukia want to become a pony whisperer instead of a useless fighter?" they all sniggered.
"At least I'm more useful then what you are!" she lashed back. She took a few deep breaths in. She needed to calm down.
Kariya was not fazed by that statement. He just continued to smile and throw insults as well. "But Rukia-chan seems to be so good at it! You would be great at taking care of my horse, you know, shovelling all the stuff that comes from its ass," His comrades started to laugh along with him. He took a step closer to Rukia. "But you know," he took another step closer to her. She stood her ground and craned her neck to look up at him. "It really would be such a waste to see such a pretty face end up somewhere like that." He says as he reaches his hand up to her face. Rukia froze on the spot. Did he just compliment her?
As soon as his hand makes contact with Rukia's face, Rukia jumped back a few metres. He laughs. She furrows her eyebrows together. Rukia clenches her fist and makes ready for a punch to the face. But even before she could move, Ichinose is already in front of her. Her eyes widen at his speed.
"What should I do Kariya-sama?" he asks.
Kariya stops laughing and ponders on the question. "Do whatever you think is appropriate," he grins. "Just make sure you don't scar that pretty face of hers."
Ichinose nods. Rukia prepares herself by standing in a particular fighting stance. He walks towards her and she starts to edge back. Kariya starts to laugh once again. Rukia isn't sure why. Ichinose still moves closer to her and Rukia continues to edge back. A few more steps and Rukia finds herself in a predicament. It isn't that bad, but she didn't realise she was in one. She takes one more step back; she waits for her foot to touch the ground. But nothing came. What she felt was -mud! She instantly sinks into the mud hole without realising it. Her head goes under the mud. Everyone waits to see her reach the surface. Nothing comes.
An arm pops out and Rukia's head appears moments later as she gasped for air. Her face and hair is covered in mud. She coughs and out comes blood. Kariya and his gang are too busy to even notice this. Rukia is now filled with rage beyond anything. She scoops up a handful of mud and with her accurate aiming, sends it flying towards Karyia's face. It hits him. Everyone stops laughing. But all he does is smile.
"You bitch!" screams Mabashi, an orange hair subordinate. "Don't you ever do that aga-" but he never got to finish his sentence as another flying mud ball hits him squarely in the face. Mud balls are also aimed at the other people in the gang.
"Why you friggin' bitch!!" he shouts as he walks to ward her while rolling up his sleeves. He was going to show her the meaning of pain.
End of Chapter 7
I really wanted to add a scene in which Ichigo and Rukia would have a sparring match but again, I really want to get to the real plot soon so i had to cut out a lot in this chapter..and my other ones as well...I will try my best to update next week. Thank you to everyone for putting up with me and my lateness/lazziness/sleepiness and me overall.
