My Life is a big "What If"
AU What if they lived a so called "normal" life? With a twist… hahaha… Did you ever think of what might have happened after years passed? A story of serendipity… The love between a girl who has never believed in love and a guy who once made her see its magic... Only to prove that years and obstacles are not enough to separate true love and that no matter how far apart you may be, you will always find each other… Ichiruki :D
Disclaimer: I don't own bleach :P ( I wish I did XD)
Chapter 7: Are you hurt?
"I guess I'll just call her since you can't do it." Rukia said picking up her phone.
"Why wasn't she around before again?" Momo said as she lay down on the red couch. It was ten in the evening. Ken'ichi was already asleep in his room upstairs for the "early to rise" thing while the two older women where in the living room— living.
"Well, her grandmother was sick so she has to take care of the poor old woman." Rukia said staring at the phone and sitting next to the lying Momo on the couch.
"Wait—didn't she say that last time her mother was the one sick?" Momo raised an eyebrow.
"Well yeah, and last, last time she said his father was sick—" Rukia looked at her.
"What the hell? Does her family have some kind of disease or something? Aren't you worried little Kichi might catch it?"
"Not really, Kiyone is a really sweet girl. She doesn't look like she has a disease or anything—"
"Be careful, I think the last person that said that had bubbles coming out of their mouth." Momo tried to act like a person being strangled to death.
"Che, stop that!" Rukia threw a cushion at her.
"I guess it's my fault too." Momo said looking down.
"Hey, don't say that, you have a life too and I can't blame you for trying to live it." Rukia said smirking.
"I guess."
The next morning…
"Ken'ichi… I'm going now…" She whispered as she patted the sleeping boy's head. The boy just groaned and Rukia smiled. She kissed his forehead and went out of the room. She went inside her room and tried to wake up the girl sleeping on the bed.
"Oi! Momo! I'm going now!" She whisper-screamed while shaking her friend. Momo frowned and groaned. "It's still early Shiro, go back to bed." She growled. Rukia sighed and let her continue her sleep. She approached and opened the front door but surprised to see a girl almost her height with grey eyes and short dark blond hair standing outside wearing a school uniform. She looked like she was about to knock but Rukia opened the door before she could. The girl gasped and Rukia blinked.
"Oh… Kiyone! You're early." Rukia said with a bit of shock.
"Well, I was out about a whole two weeks so I thought that being early should be enough to pay for the lost time." She replied smiling.
"Oh… I see so how's your… family…?" Rukia was about to ask for her grandmother but she figured that there's a great possibility that the grandmother wasn't the only one sick.
"Oh! Their fine." She smiled brightly. "Oh, where is Ken'ichi?" She looked around as she entered the house.
"He's still upstairs sleeping. Well, I'm leaving everything to you." Rukia patted her shoulder.
"Oh! Okay! I won't let you down Ms. Rukia!" She said full of enthusiasm. Rukia then left leaving Kiyone in the living room. The girl sat down on the couch and opened the TV but end up falling asleep on the couch. Momo went downstairs and stopped mid-way when she saw the girl sleeping on the couch.
"She's already here? Wow Rukia, another victim of your 'being TOO early to rise syndrome'." She shook her head and continued to head down stairs.
Ken'ichi opened the door of his room and went downstairs. He saw a sleeping Kiyone on the couch and headed to the kitchen where his aunt was drinking coffee.
Momo smiled and raised her cup. "Good morning, coffee?"
Ken'ichi frowned, "Shouldn't you be offering me something like milk?"
"Hmmm" Momo thought. "Coffee with milk?" She smiled but Ken'ichi just sighed and took a carton of milk from the fridge and took a seat.
"You're babysitter is here." Momo told him.
"Yeah I saw her sleeping on the couch." He replied.
A few seconds later they heard a gasp coming from the living room.
"Looks like she's awake." Momo took another sip of coffee. Then they heard footsteps approaching the kitchen.
"Oh! Good morning." Kiyone bowed at the two.
"Good morning" The two replied.
"Coffee?" Momo stated.
"Milk?" Ken'ichi added.
"Coffee with milk?" They both said at the same and they both started laughing.
Kiyone looked confused. She tilted her head. "Huh? Um… I think I'll just have some water."
Ken'ichi walked out of school it was dismissal time and his fetcher is late. Almost everyone left already. He sighed as he walked around the campus not far from the main gate of the school.
Ichigo finished work early today—more like he gave Ishida all the work. The ones he really did were the many papers to sign. Orihime was still at the day care, he thought so he decided to just drive home. He went inside his shiny red car and started to drive himself home.
"What's taking her so long?" Ken'ichi mumbled to himself. His stomach started to grumble. He looked around and went out of the school campus. Across the street he saw an ice cream store just seeing it made his mouth water. He looked to his right and started to walk across the street to the store.
Ichigo was driving comfortably and his radio was turned up high, then his phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was a message from Ishida. The message said: "Damn it Kurosaki! Stop skipping work! And stop dumping me all your work! We're not in college anymore you know?"
After reading he chuckled a bit then looked back on the road. He saw a boy crossing the street which made him step on the breaks quickly for a complete stop.
Ken'ichi looked at his left and saw the red Ferrari go into a complete stop. It ALMOST hit him but he just stared at it.
Ichigo's heart was pounding knowing that he almost hit the kid. He was sweating like hell. He threw his phone at the seat beside him and went out of the said car. The boy he almost hit was standing still and staring at the hood of his car.
No good, did I hit him? Ichigo thought. No way, he would have fallen over if I did. He told himself. He went towards the kid and kneeled on one leg to look at the boy but the boy wasn't looking at him.
Ken'ichi stared at the red car not minding the man in front of him.
"Hey kid, you okay?" He asked with a scowl but the boy didn't respond. He started to shake the boy as gently as he could. "Hey, are you okay?" he asked again.
Ken'ichi slowly faced the man. "Is that your car?" he stated like a whisper.
Surprised by the question, Ichigo eyed the boy, looking for any injuries but answered. "Yeah. Why?"
Ken'ichi gasped. "AWESOME!" the boy yelled and touched the hood of the red car.
Ichigo's eyebrows shot up he was still eyeing the boy.
It seems that his alright. He said to himself relieved. He then stood up and opened the door to the driver's seat but stopped when he heard the boy's voice.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Ken'ichi cried upon seeing the man going in the car.
"I'm going home." Ichigo replied plainly.
"You can't!"
"Why not?"
"Because you need to pay for what you've done!" Ken'ichi cried.
"Pay? I didn't do anything." Ichigo replied closing the door but not going inside.
"Yes you did! You almost hit me!" Ken'ichi replied coldly.
"Look kid, you're fine so—"
"Ouch! It hurts!" Ken'ichi cried curling into a ball. Ichigo ran towards the boy.
"Hey! What's wrong?" Ichigo asked frantic. Some of the people walking passed them we're eyeing him with mean looks which irritated him.
"Okay, okay. What do you want?" He asked in defeat and with that Ken'ichi stood up and pointed towards the ice cream store like he wasn't in any pain at all.
"Hey you're not even hurt at all are you?" Ichigo asked with an irritated tone but Ken'ichi just raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms as he looked up to the tall man.
"Are you gonna treat me or not?" He asked.
"Since you were just lying about being hurt then NO—"
"Ouch… The pain… it hurts like hell." Ken'ichi curled up again.
Ichigo growled, "FINE! Just stop that!"
And they both went into the ice cream shop with a scowling Ichigo and a grinning Ken'ichi.
A/N: Weee! I couldn't help myself! I can't stop writing! Oh, I know I'll regret this later but, oh well! Besides the fact that I have a lot of other things to do, I just can't ignore the call of this story. Although this chapter ended up short, I think, I really liked it but if it was me who almost got hit by a Ferrari, I would have fallen down and have a trauma in crossing the street hehe... Oh, I'm not following my more than 500 less than a 1000 words rule! Well, anyway I would like to thank those who reviewed and those who are reading. Thank you for bearing with my lack of knowledge when it comes to grammar and spelling.
Special thanks to:
Rukes and Theoracle-san
I hope you guys keep on reading and reviewing. I'm really enjoying writing right now :P I love you people and God bless!
