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As promised, chapter 9 of Fall.
Previously on chapter 8:
"There. It's mine. No more protests!" He proudly declared as he placed a paper on the chair with his name written in bold letters on it. Rukia couldn't believe how immature the boy is becoming, but then it fits him anyway.
"Alright you maggots, anyone who sits here, will answer to me! This is my chair okay? And it stays here permanently!" He yelled and all eyes were on him. Rukia shrunk in embarrassment, she tried to take her seat with her and get away from him when he stopped her and slapped a: RUKIA KUCHIKI on her chair.
"What the hell is your damage?" She whispered thorough gritted teeth. Ichigo ignored her and ran back towards the stage. Yoruichi and Urahara giggled to no end.
This isn't funny, this is so utterly embarrassing! Ichigo will pay!
"Hey, Ichigo… what did you do? Label her yours?" Hisagi teased. "SHUT UP!" Ichigo flared. "Then what did you do?" Hitsugaya plunked on some keys.
"…."
"Feh, Guilty old goat." Hitsugaya grinned.
"I DID NOT LABEL HER MINE!" He bellowed. Everyone in the studio heard his outburst. Urahara and Yoruichi guffawed. Rukia was red all over and there was 'murder' written all over her face. "You're so dead Kurosaki Ichigo." She growled to herself.
Hisagi almost toppled to the ground to the hilarity of it all. Chad giggled and Kaien shook his head in amusement.
"Cut it out! Let's do this or not at all!" Ichigo yelled.
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Disclaimer: Not mine. The story/plot is mine though. I don't own Garfield.
Type: AU, may exceed to more than one chapter…
Rating: T. Because of some languages used; Profanities are praised here a lot.
Pairing: IchigoxRukia
Summary: Rukia Kuchiki goes on fulfilling her dreams as a manga artist, and stumbles upon band vocalist and lead, Ichigo Kurosaki who makes her coordinated life become a bit more spontaneous.
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Title: Fall
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Chapter 9: So what if she has a boyfriend?
Kuchiki Rukia was not pleased, not pleased at all.
Kurosaki Ichigo, is not comfortable, totally not comfortable indeed.
The raven haired young woman frowned, her arms crossed in front of her chest, as she heaved out a disgruntled sigh, jerking the uncomfortable carrot top beside her.
Said carrot top opened his mouth,
"You just embarrassed 10 years of my life. I have never felt so eargh!" Rukia cut in.
"Hey, it was an honest mistake. You know I didn't mean it that way, I was just proving something!" Ichigo protested.
"Like what? How childish you are? And you even tagged me along with your stupid antics!" Rukia glared at him.
"It wasn't childish! I was just making a point that it's my chair! And… And… argh! Why am I actually explaining myself to you?" Ichigo turned away from her and crossed his arms in front of his chest.
After the practice, everything died down. Rukia just buried herself (almost) under the table to avoid the glances from the staff and from Urahara and Yoruichi, who seemed to have not stopped giggling after Ichigo's oh so wonderful yelling incident.
Ichigo on the other hand, ignored everyone and played at his pace. Hisagi was growling over to him how tired he was for making him catch up with his insane plucking, Chad didn't react and did his job, Hitsugaya ranted to him about not having four hands to play the keyboard and catch up with him also and Kaien just smiled, he's really used to Ichigo being that way anyway.
"So what? You're just too slow. You should practice then." Ichigo raised an eyebrow. Urahara snickered; their wonderful Ichigo is becoming too cocky because he's pissed.
And now, said carrot top and raven haired young woman are arguing.
"What are you so embarrassed about anyway? It's just that, it's not like any of it is true." Ichigo turned to look at Rukia again.
"I don't care about that! I know it's not true! What makes you think I'm embarrassed about that? I have never, ever in my life had people stare at me! It was intense! They were so many! I'm not used to that!" Rukia almost whimpered.
"Eh? You're afraid of people looking at you?" Ichigo raised an eyebrow, this was interesting.
Rukia shook her head. "Not afraid of people looking at me, but more of like I get conscious if they are so many and simultaneously looking, gawking! It's like stage fright, only not on stage!"
"There's nothing wrong with that. I get that a lot." Ichigo smirked.
"It's because you're a rock star. You practically enjoy the limelight." Rukia scoffed.
"Alright…" Ichigo breathe in. "I'm sorry. Besides, I don't think they found anything bad when they looked at you. Last time I checked, you look fine—pretty even." He mumbled the last part for Rukia not to hear.
"Fine. Took me by surprise really… But don't do that ever again okay? Ms. Yoruichi and Mr. Urahara we're giggling at me up to the end of the practice." Rukia calmed down, she shouldn't make a big fuss out of this. She's determined that she's going to be the mature one between the two of them. "Oh, by the way, you were playing like crazy back there. You made poor Hisagi, Hitsugaya, Chad and Kaien scramble to keep up with you."
Ichigo pouted. "Well, yeah… They should get used to it. Chad and Kaien didn't complain about it. Hisagi and Hitsugaya are just a couple of babies; always whining."
"Hey."
"Yeah?"
"Kaien."
"What about him?"
"He's really, really good, why don't you just get him as your drummer then?"
Ichigo raised an eyebrow at her and sighed. "Wish we could… I mean, we would love to have him in the band… unfortunately; he's tied to some other job. Plus, the guy doesn't really plan on making it his career… I respect that, actually, WE respect that. We can't force him to join, we're just glad he's willing to help us in times of need."
"Oh. Bummer." Rukia frowned.
Ichigo grunted. "What? You like him or something?"
'Rukia flushed. "What? No! I just thought that, you know, it sucks… Just when you have seen someone perfect to replace your former drummer, he turns out unavailable."
"Well that's life." Ichigo groaned, obviously wanting to cut the conversation about Kaien. What the heck? There's nothing wrong about it right? He sighed, must be because Rukia's pointing out the obvious about the dark haired man, he already knows that he can't play for them, yeah, that's it. That must be it.
"So, I'm eating out today… wanna come?" Ichigo looked at Rukia.
"Oh, I'll pass. I really need to go home, maybe next time then." Rukia smiled.
"So there's a next time?" Ichigo's face lit up.
"Of course there is. We're friends right?" Rukia perked up and then frowned. "Oh, except of course when you make a fool of yourself, count me out of that."
Ichigo scoffed but the grinned. "Some friend you are."
"One thing, don't call me up and pop up with unplanned stuff for the day. I'm not used to that." Rukia took her bag and headed towards the door, after bidding farewell to the other members of the group. Ichigo accompanied her towards the gate.
"I'll try, but I can't promise anything. I'm all about surprises, Rukia." He grinned, and Rukia just shook her head.
"You sure you don't want me to take you home?" Ichigo offered.
"Nope, thanks anyway. Besides, if you spoil me too much with that car of yours, how am I suppose to get accustomed in this place if I don't even know how to ride a bus home on my own?" Rukia waved her hand and went towards the nearest bus station.
Ichigo didn't leave until he can no longer see her retreating form.
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It's been a week since the rehearsal slash embarrassing day at the studio. To Rukia's peace and relief, Ichigo hadn't pestered her for anything, other than send her occasional text messages and all. He must be busy since their gig/charity concert is tomorrow, Tuesday, so that makes today a Monday.
Great start of the week for Rukia actually, contrary to popular belief thanks to Garfield that Monday sucks. Well, it does actually to some people, even her sometimes. It just so happens she's happy today.
She was able to jot some stuff in her notepad, stuff like email this and that, file portfolio, file recent manga works and file story proposal. Yep, all things are about her manga artist goal.
She had yet to look for a publisher; she needs time for it actually since she's not yet familiar with said publishers available in this place. So all she has to do now is mail her friends or if lucky, get to chat with them. She sat down on her desk and turned on her computer.
Last week when she got home early, Hinamori fumed to her about it, saying that she should have stayed longer with Ichigo. She told him that he did something stupid and she wanted out for the day. She didn't want to get into details but Hinamori is one persistent woman.
So she told her everything, even how they played. Hinamori was envious, and when Rukia suggested that they trade places, she was surprised she denied, but frowned at her reason.
"It looks much cuter if you're the one there! Imagine the surprise, the thrill of someone who doesn't have any idea here to be shown around by rock star Ichigo Kurosaki?" Hinamori squealed. Rukia sighed and didn't want to talk about it anymore. She knows the other reason for it is because she's more interested in Histugaya than Ichigo. So the raven haired young woman smirked, remembering the photo.
"Hinamori, look… If I give you something that you desire, would you leave me alone for now?"
"What's that? Something I desire? Well I guess I coul--." Then Rukia shoved to her Hitsugaya's sexy looking picture.
"GYAH!" Hinamori came in contact with the floor with a loud THUD! "Hey, you okay?" Rukia asked, worried.
Hinamori smiled. "Oh Rukia, I love you! You're my number one cousin! You're my favorite ever!" The sweet girl cooed, pressing the picture against her chest. "Thank you dearest cousin, that's so nice of you. Now if you please?" Rukia gestured to the door. Hinamori violently nodded her head in understanding, as she headed towards the door.
Rukia smirked and shouted: "By the way, you're the only one who has a 'Hitsugaya picture' in that pose!" Hinamori's squeal was heard all over the house. Rukia grinned.
And that's what happened as she recalled the events from last week, thanks to the picture; Hinamori promised she won't pester Rukia about Ichigo for the remaining days. Maybe that's why she's incredibly happy, even on a Monday.
The amethyst eyed woman perked up as she caught sight of Orihime online.
'Hey.' She typed her fingers excited.
'RUKIA:P How are you doing there?' Orihime replied.
'Fine, just fine… how about you guys? Got my email the other day? I sent one to Byakuya and Renji… they haven't replied yet I wonder why.'
'You know your brother Rukia, he's too busy. I know he didn't mean it when he can't send you mails. Renji is away for now, he's at his grandmother's you know how rural it is there, and so I don't think he can reply yet. I sent you one only its short teeheehee.'
'Yeah, I got it. So, you and Uryuu are working together in his dad's company eh? That's good. I'm still jobless here, but it's all good.'
'I know why… hehehehe'
'Huh? Whatever do you mean?'
'Remember when you told us about your newfound friend? Uryuu and I researched him, he's a hottie Rukia.'
'Eh? He's more like a pain in the butt… But he's good company so, I tolerate it.'
'Good catch. So, does he like you?'
"Why does everybody think that? I have a boyfriend Orihime, I'm not like that.'
'She was just kidding you, btw, this is Uryuu.'
'Hey. Uryuu, nice to chat with you.'
'Nice to chat with you too Rukia, anyway I just came by to say hi, I'll bring Orihime back.'
'Fine with me.'
'He's such a doll.'
'You're perfect for each other.'
'Thanks. Anyway Rukia, we're going home, we just came from work so I'll just mail you okay? Good luck there, I know you can do it. )'
'Yes bye, take care. Love you guys and I miss you.'
Rukia sighed; she signed off and played some music in her computer. Great, chatting with them made her feel homesick. Maybe should go get herself some ice cream or something to cheer her up.
Hinamori was at work right now, so she told her aunt Unohana that she would be going out for awhile. "Just don't wander off too much." Unohana smiled.
"Sure Auntie, I'll just go get me something at the convenient store by the road." And then she left.
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"Oi, Ichigo. I swear, your place keeps looking like a garbage dump everyday." Hisagi complained as he stepped on to some potato chip wrapper.
"I don't have time to clean it, sorry, perhaps after the concert okay?" Ichigo grumbled from the kitchen.
"Have you invited Rukia-chan? Last time we've seen her was during the rehearsal." Hisagi sat down, scrapping off the books on top of Ichigo's couch. "OH SHIT!" Ichigo bellowed.
""What happened? Cut your finger or something? Geez, you're such a pansy." Hisagi chuckled.
"No you idiot! I forgot to ask her! Shit! Where's my cellphone?" Carrot top scrambled to look for it.
"In this mess? Good luck to you." Hisagi smirked and placed his feet on top of the also messy center table.
"You could at least help!" Ichigo growled and tossed the mess around.
"I could go call Hitsugaya and Chad to help; this is mountain trash we're talking about."
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"Hmmm.. Let's see… choco, vanilla… ah! Strawberry!" Rukia smiled and opened the fridge door. "This should perk me up a bit."
She then decided to look around for more snacks but then found herself trying to choose between two chips.
"The one on the right tastes much better than the one on the left." A voice came from behind her. She looked up to see who it was.
"Kaien-san…" Rukia gaped.
"Hey, Rukia… Nice to bump in to you here." Kaien smiled. "Looking for nice tasting snacks eh? Here, let me help you pick the good ones."
"T-Thanks. Yeah, I got pretty homesick after I had talked to my friends back at home… I Kinda wanted my attention to divert a bit other than well, home." Rukia scratched her head and followed Kaien.
"Well, if you want a snack that would really help you forget, I know this crepe parlor at the park. They sell mighty, heavenly crepes there." Kaien beamed. "So, wanna go?"
Rukia nodded and followed the dark haired young man.
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"There you are!" Ichigo bellowed.
"What the hell, you asked us to come here to look for his cellphone?" Hitsugaya glared at Hisagi.
"Hey, he was panicking; I can't have an Ichigo panicking with me alone. Plus, a few hands are handy when looking for something in this mess." Hisagi snickered.
Ichigo, oblivious to what the two are talking about, dialed Rukia's number and waited.
"For damn sakes Ichigo, hire a cleaner or something!" Hitsugaya flared, kicking some of Ichigo's things away from his feet.
"I don't think he hears you." Chad pointed to the carrot top, still concentrated on his cellphone.
"What's this all about anyway?" Hitsugaya asked, smacking some books away from his path.
"Ichigo forgot to ask Rukia-chan for tomorrow's concert. The idiot." Hisagi sneered.
Chad just stood there, quite amused at the now angry face of Ichigo. "She's damn not answering!" Then the voicemail went on. "OI! MIDGET! ANSWER THE PHONE!"
Hisagi shook his head. "Temper, temper. You're not in the position to get mad at her Ichigo, you're the one who forgot." Histugaya smirked. "Idiot."
"Stop harassing me okay? I messed up, so what? I can still—I can still go to her house and ask her then!" Ichigo's face brightened and he made a mad dash towards the door.
"Shall we?" Chad asked. The two nodded and followed.
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"You're right Kaien, this is good. Thanks for bringing me here." Rukia smiled at her strawberry banana crepe.
"You seem to be fond of strawberry." Kaien chuckled as Rukia nodded in reply.
"So, you work at a computer company. That's like, wow. You must be really good with techie stuff." The Raven haired girl swung her legs at the park bench. "Just a bit… I guess." Kaien leaned back.
Rukia sighed; somehow, the crepe doesn't really make her forget about home, and Renji. Why didn't he even mail me that he was going to leave for awhile? I even learned of it from Orihime. What's up with that guy?
"Something's still up. Come on, you can tell me." Kaien threw his empty crepe wrapper in the trash can positioned near the bench.
"My boyfriend Renji, he hasn't even mailed me for days now. I have like, sent him boxes of it if it were snail mails." Rukia scoffed.
"Ah, you have a boyfriend?" Kaien's eyebrows rose. "yeah? What about it?" Rukia asked back.
"It doesn't strike you as one." Kaien chuckled softly. "What the hell do you mean by that?" Rukia glared.
"Oh, don't get me wrong. I just thought you were too, you know… unreachable, since you're pretty and all… plus you have the brains. That Renji must be one lucky guy then." Kaien laughed as he waved his hands around.
Rukia blushed and raised her nose up in the air. "Well, thank you for the complement. But I'm not that easy to get too, Renji had to go through hell before he got to me." She giggled at the memory and Kaien smiled back.
"You know, you shouldn't think about it so much. Focus on what you're here for. I'm sure Renjij has an explanation, I think he would also think the same if it's you who's not replying." Kaien grinned at her.
"I guess, Thank you Kaien… uhm, I think I should be heading back." Rukia stood up. "Let me walk you home then." Kaien offered.
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"She's not home? Where did she go? I thought she was not familiar with this place? When will sh--."
Hitsugaya stomped onto Ichigo's foot and cut in. "I'm very sorry ma'am, my friend is kinda not himself today. Could you tell us where Rukia went?" The white haired boy asked politely.
Unohana smiled, "I understand. But don't worry, Rukia just left to get some snacks, she won't be long, you can wait for her inside."
"Thank you for your hospitality ma'am." Chad bowed his head in respect.
Hisagi held on to Ichigo who was cursing inwardly and holding on to his aching foot. Hitsugaya motioned for them to go inside when Unohana opened the door for them to come in.
Before Ichigo and Hisagi could step forward, the familiar voice of the petite girl came. "Ichigo?"
'Ichigo's head turned to look at Rukia. "Ruki—urk? Kaien?" He frowned and let go from Hisagi's support.
Limping, he approached the two. "What are you two doing together?"
Rukia frowned at him. "I bumped into Kaien inside the convenient store what about you? What are you doing here?"
"Che, I'm here to ask you to come to our concert tomorrow… unless Kaien had already invited you." He grumbled, wincing a bit at his foot, Hitsugaya damaged his foot for pete's sake.
"What happened to you?" Rukia approached him, avoiding the previous conversation.
"The idiot tripped. What do you expect?" Histugaya snickered, making Hisagi chuckle a bit and Chad, with muffled laughs. Ichigo glared at the three of them. I swear they'll be the death of me!
"Geez, can't you do anything that doesn't involve making a fool of yourself? Let's get you something for that." Rukia walked past him.
Ichigo looked back at Kaien a bit and scoffed.
"Oi, Ichigo, you just acted like a jealous boyfriend…" Hisagi whispered taunting the carrot top. Ichigo growled at him. "SHUT THE HELL UP HISAGI!"
"She has a boyfriend already." Kaien butt in.
The four, including Ichigo looked at him. "Ha?" Ichigo tried to sound uninterested. "I don't give a shit." He then turned towards Rukia's house.
Kaien smiled. "Right, so what if she has a boyfriend? Doesn't make her less interesting ne?"
Hisagi raised an eyebrow. Hitsugaya looked at Ichigo, and then signaled to Chad that they should leave.
"Oi, buffoon brain, are you going to do something about that foot of yours or are you going home limping away happily? I haven't got all day!" Rukia approached him. He quickly placed his arm around her shoulders for support. Looking at Kaien for a second and then frowning as he turned his head to look away. "What the hell did he mean by that? Kaien's acting weird!"
"Oi, Kaien… what's the meaning of all that?" Hitsugaya looked at the dark haired man.
"Huh? What… Oh that? I was just stating a fact. What? You thought I meant something more?" Kaien's eyes widened, in disbelief.
"Well, you were acting all serious and stuff and saying: 'right so what if she has a boyfriend? Doesn't make her less interesting?'" Hisagi mimicked Kaien.
Kaien laughed. "Well, I was trying to boost Ichigo a bit I guess, and then again maybe it was for me." Kaien guffawed.
"Damn it Kaien, stop talking in riddles! You're like giving double meaning to everything you say, I don't get it." Hisagi frowned and slapped Kaien at the back.
"Geez, you're so unpredictable at times." Hitsugaya sighed.
"So, she really has a boyfriend?" Chad asked. "Yeah. Unfortunately, I think she's having a bit trouble with him, but of course, we're not like that to pry on why." Kaien smiled and glanced back at the house.
"Poor girl, she must be having a hard time and Ichigo's not helping at all! That's it; I propose we make her have the time of her life here so she forgets about her troubles." Hisagi declared, punching his fist in the air to only have it hit the car ceiling. He cried in pain.
'Idiot, you and Ichigo should be like twins or something. I swear if my car ceiling has any dent or dirt, I'm gonna pummel you to death." Hitusgaya growled as he started the car. "geez, you care more for the car than your friend." Hisagi mocked a sad face.
"It's because the car doesn't annoy me." Hitsugaya smoothly replied.
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"Stay still, you big baby!" Rukia frowned.
"It hurts damn it!" Ichigo growled back.
"Well if you weren't stupid enough to trip, this wouldn't have happened."
"I told you, Hitsugaya drilled his shoe heel on my foot! That prick prodigy is a sadistic little monkey!"
"yeah, yeah whatever. Stop making a racket okay?"
Ichigo pouted and sulked on the couch. "So, what did you and Kaien do or talked about?"
Rukia sighed as she gently massaged Ichigo's foot. "He treated me to some crepe because I was depressed, that's after we bumped into each other."
"And?" Ichigo pressed.
"Nothing, we talked about his job, what I do and your band for the love of all that is good." Rukia pressed on his foot harder.
"Oweeiiee!!! Alright, alright…" Ichigo cringed.
'Why are you so insistent on knowing about it anyway? Why? You got some kind of gossip complex? Oh my Gosh, are you gay?" Rukia pretended to look shock as she placed her right hand over her mouth.
"Shut up, it's not that. So I want to know? Big deal?" Ichigo grumbled and sulked even more.
"No, that's not the real answer. Why are you so persistent?" Rukia pressed on the sore muscle gently, and Ichigo felt himself relax at the touch.
"He said you have a boyfriend." Okay, so he lied, but that was nagging inside him for reason, so technically he didn't lie, he just didn't say the whole truth.
Rukia raised an eyebrow, almost pissed. "And that's your concern because…?"
Great, I don't know why, I just felt like that! What would I tell her? Great, she's hardening her grip on my foot, save the foot! Think! Think!
"It's just that… I thought you were my friend. I thought that we would be honest about each other? Well since because we are friends." He coughed, giving emphasis on the word friends. Okay, again, he didn't lie, he just didn't tell the whole truth. Not that he would say it since well, he doesn't really know the truth on why he is like that either.
Rukia sighed and gave up, stroking gently again at Ichigo's foot, adding more jasmine extract oil on it to calm the nerves.
"You didn't ask… I didn't feel the need to tell." Now Rukia felt guilty.
"Well, now I'm asking." Ichigo sighed at the smooth massage strokes Rukia did to his foot.
"Yeah, I have… If it makes you happy, I was depressed because he hasn't been writing me back." Rukia stopped and placed Ichigo's foot over a soft pillow. She stood up and sat down beside Ichigo.
"Sorry if I made you feel like I'm not honest with you." She added.
Ichigo gulped, she actually bought it, now he felt guilty himself. "It's okay. No big. Anyway, you should just cheer up, I'm not saying forget about it… but maybe you know, he's busy, just wait maybe he'll mail you some other time."
"Yeah, I guess you're right, I suppose I got a bit emotional. Thanks Ichigo…" Rukia smiled. "Anyway, you rest there for another 20 minutes and you're good to go, nothing's sprained just a bruise."
"Thanks." Ichigo sat down comfortably. Awhile ago, he wanted to throw curses at Rukia's boyfriend for being so inconsiderate, but then again, that makes him emotional like Rukia too, which in this case won't do any good.
All he thought about now is how to cheer Rukia up. He felt he had to make her stay here comfortable and good.
'Right, so what if she has a boyfriend? Doesn't make her less interesting ne?'
Ichigo shook his head, he had yet to find out what Kaien meant by that, but by some strange reason, he sort of agreed to the said statement.
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And now they know she has a boyfriend. Haha! But what did Kaien meant by that anyway? Want to find out? I could explain… hehe. And oohh, Ichigo somewhat agrees with that statement… And more Rukia pampering! Hmm. A lot doesn't seem to like Kaien butting in… but don't worry, he's not just a villain er… rival or something, he has a big role in this. Please don't stab me for that, I promise, this won't be as sadistic as you think. Hehe. Yay! What do you think guys? Please tell me. Oh, and thank you all of you for the wonderful support you have given me and this story!