I know I said that both version will have a different ending, but being as lazy as I am, I decided to make them more similar than previously intended. So if you were keeping up with both of them, you won't find much of a difference. So yah, here it is.

"When I close my eyes and fall alseep,

There's only one last thing I do...

I can't sleep without haveing that thought...

My final thought of you..."

Chapter 9- Hurricane's Reign

Rukia

"Wake up, Takuya!" I shook the sleeping figure as we neared our stop. We were on a bus, traveling to the location presented o nthe note.

Takuya got up with a start.

"You were muttering in your sleep. It was kinda frightening..." I said to him.

He seemed not to hear me as he looked around the bus, "Do you feel him?"

"What?" I was completely confused.

"Do you feel him, Ichigo?"

"What are you talking about?" This guy was really started to scare me.

Takuya sighed, "Just close your eyes and breathe."

Though i was convinced he was crazy, I decided to close my eys and follow his directions. As soon as I inhaled, memories of Ichigo flooded my mind. His smile...the way he helped me when i was sick...everything came to me as though it was compelled to...

"You felt him, didn't you?" Takuya asked.

I nodded. there wasn't any other way to explain it.

"They were here...I know it." He said, looking around.

I knew he meant Ichigo...but who else?

Ichigo

"We're here..." Rin stopped walking as we entered a playground. Just a normal playground with swings and slides...what could be special about this place?

I watched Rin take a set on one of the swings as her hair covered her small frame. She looked frightened.

"What if he doesn't show up?" Rin thought aloud, shaking, "What if he hates me now?"

"Stop saying that!" I commanded. Rin stopped shaking as she listened, "There is no way that after a love like yours, Takuya can just run away!"

Rin stuttered, "B...But I did..."

"No you didn't! That's why your here today, right? All you did was postpone what was to eventually happen. You guys have to make things right again."

Rin was silent for a long time. Then, as quiet as a mouse, she sai "Thank-you..."

Suddenly, I felt that we weren't alone. To confirm my suspisions, I heard a male voice recite:

"When I close my eyes and fall alseep,

There's only one last thing I do...

I can't sleep without haveing that thought...

My final thought of you..."

Rin didn't miss a beat:

"On how your smile keeps me warm

And how you keep the sky so blue..."

He continued:

"It's a wonder that I once drew breath

Before loving you."

Together:

"So when i close my eyes and sleep

there's only one last thing to do...

Think of the smile that keeps me warm,

And how you keep the sky so blue..."

I looked to see Takuya emerge seemingly from nowhere. He ran to Rin, as though if he walked, she go away again. Rin didn't budge as he neared her.

"Takuya..." She said softly.

Takuya shushed her and moved her hair from her face. Beneath the locks was a beautiful woman. A woman Takuya missed.

"Takuya...how can you gaze upon me and not feel disgust?!" Rin looked bewildered.

Takuya just smiled...then her brought the space between their lips to a close.

Rukia

I watched behind a nearby tree as Takuya reunited with Rin. I saw Ichigo's face flash from happiness to depression. I wanted to go over there...but I was afraid...of what, I didn't know.

Suddenly, He looked in my direction, as though compelled to. I felt my body tense as he came closer and closer.

"S-Stop!" I yelped as he stood before me, "Please don't!"

He looked hurt and confused, "Why Rukia? What Inoue said couldn't be true, could it? I didn't kiss her, did I?"

I shook, "Y-yes..."

I watched him get on his knees--something that I thought I'd never see him do--as he apologized, "I'm sorry Rukia. I was under the influence of a drug Inoue slipped into my drink...I can't imagine myself with some one other than you!"

My heart beat rapidly underneath my chest, "Really? You really mean it?!" My eyes let streams of fugitive tears flow down my face. I closed my eyes to try to make them stop.

Suddenly, I felt a warm hand wipe my tears. I opened my eyes to see Ichigo staring into them.

"I...Ichigo?"

"I love you Rukia. and nothing can ever change that.

I felt my eyes watering again as he cupped my chin in his hand, "Ichigo...Ichigo..." I didn't know how to say anything but his name right then. he just smiled and kissed my lips...and it was the most wonderful feeling in the world.

"I told you." Takuya said, walked up to us with RIn by his side.

Ichigo broke the kiss and looked up, What do you mean?"

Takuya smirked and said ""I don't care if I have to look for you a thousand times…I'll find you."."

Ichigo blushed, "How'd you know I said that?"

"Because..."

And as though he had just woken up, Ichigo remebered the voice that told him "no." when Inoue told him of Rukia's leaving. Takuya's voice.

"Thank-you Ichigo...for your kind words." Rin said, smiling for the first time.

Takuya nodded, "And thank you, Rukia, for befriending me. It's been a while since I knew someone besides Rin."

Ichigo and I smiled, "You're very welcome."

Then we watched the two of them walk off in the opposite direction. They seemed to dissapear in the distance...

Ichigo

"Ichigo?" Rukia said uncertainly.

"Yes?"

"Did you mean it?"

I sighed, "YES! Now let's go home! Finding you is harder than you think!"

She laughed and took my hand as we started to walk to the bus stop.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!"

Rukia and I froze as an angry voice called to us. We turned to see Inoue, dressed in nothing but a bra and skirt. Her arms looked like knitting with the criss crossing nicks, and across her stomach rested a deep scar.

"Orihime! Are you okay?!" Rukia asked with motherly overtones.

"Don't baby me!" Inoue looked like the devil himself, "I won't let you have Ichigo! I WON'T!" Her anger was so overwhelming, the ground beneath her started to crack.

"What's happening?!" I yelled as the shook. Suddenly, a large black hand reached out from beneath the earth.

"Anger..." It growled. It seemed to block out the sun as it reached over Inoue towards Rukia.

"Rukia!" I pushed her out of the way just as the hand slammed down. It missed me by less than an inch.

"Get out of the way Ichigo! Soon you'll be mine!" Inoue's eyes seemed to turn red with hate.

The hand grew bigger as it began to slap down again.

"Ichigo!" Rukia said, putting on her glove.

I got the hint, and was prepared for when she shoved my soul out.

The hand slammed down on my empty body.

"AH! MY BODY!" I screamed.

"It's fine," Rukia assured me, "Just stop that hand before we see what it's connected to!"

I nodded and released my Zanpakutou from it's cloth, "Bring it!"

The hand ignored me and went straight for Rukia. thinking quickly, I ran in front of her and blocked the demon hand. My body began to crack through the ground as the weight pressed down on me.

"DANKU!" Rukia screamed the spell. A barrier came up in front of the hand. Ichigolowered his sword and rested, "Thanks Rukia..."

"IT"S ALWAYS RUKIA!" Inoue was furious, "When is it ever my time?!?! When is it ever ORIHIME!?!"

As though getting fed power, the hand burst through the shield. I barely had time to block, but managed to do so as I skidded across the floor.

Rukia

"Ichigo!" I began to summon the barrier again.

"Wait, Rukia! Don't!" Ichigo struggled.

"What?!"

"Go for Inoue! Somehow, the angrier she get, the stronger the hand becomes!"

I looked to the scorned Orihime. She looked like a demon, her eyes bright with disgust.

"Right...Rikujoukourou!" Six beams of light came from above and slammed into Orihime's stomach. When the smoke cleared, she was standing as though nothing even scratched her.

"What!" I was bewildered. Are my powers still that weak?!

"Do it again! That scar has to be her weak point!" Ichgio could barely breath now as half of his body fell through the earth.

I nodded, "Okay...RIKUJOUKOUROU!" The beams of light came again, brighter and more defiantly than last time. They smashed into her stomach, sending her flying into a nearby building.

The hand became lighter and lighter as Ichigo pushed it up. "This ends now!" He yelled, slicing his sword between the palm of the wicked hand.

The beast to which the hasnd belonged to screamed and recoiled. The ground began to fix itself as the anger in the vicinity subsided.

"What was that?" Ichigo said breathing heavily.

"I'm not sure...maybe a kind of Hollow..." I said, breathing just as hard. As I watched Ichigo get back into his body, I remebered Orihime.

I got up and ran to where I last saw her fly. There she was, embedded in the wall with her eyes closed.

"We'll take it from here." Ichigo and I turned to see his father and sisters running forward with a strecther.

"She dissapeared just a few hours ago, "Isshin explain, "She was in no condition to leave the hospital. Her stomach wound was still way too fresh."

I looked as Yuuzu and Karin gently lifted her from the wall and onto the strecther. Orihime seemed to be sleeping, for her face held no pain or anger.

"I think she needs another hospital...for mental illness..." Ichigo said, still a bit tired.

I nodded, "Someone shouldn't be alone as long as she has been..."

I felt Ichigo take my hand, "Come on! My dad will drive us back to my house in the ambulance."

I gripped my hand tighter and smiled. I guess there is happiness after pain...in fact, pain is what makes it worth while.

Epilouge coming up.