How You And I Came To Be

By: NekoWriter

Chapter 10: The Corrupted Night

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." -Mark Twain

"Well now that that's over and done with…" I dusted my hands off as I walked back into my room; Rukia on my tail.

"I really didn't think you needed to punch him that hard." Rukia said looking concerned. What could I say he didn't deserve it! He better not have thought he could get off unscathed for putting his nose where it shouldn't be?

"No, I think I took it too easy on him." I shuffled through my dresser looking for clothes pulling out a dark purple t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.

"Put on the dark blue one. It looks better with orange." She mussed flipping through a colorful looking manga.

"Oh, so now you decide what I wear? I'm a man you know, I can make my own choices." Inconspicuously, I switched the purple shirt to the blue one before leaving the room.

"I saw that." She shouted after I closed the door.

Damn shinigami training.

………………

The shower was refreshing, yet felt like a waste. All that was Rukia drained away along with the soapy water. Every spot she touched slowly seemed to fade from my memory.

I can't believe how big of an effect that had on me.

I sighed running the soap through my hair scrubbing any dirt that had been left over from the war. That was right…the war was over. No more worrying about the next fight; whether I'd win or lose, Rukia live or die? Relief washed through my system signaling the start of normalcy…well as normal as it got.

"Ichigo?" Rukia knocked from the outside, "Can I get something really fast!" She pleaded as I unlocked the door while being concealed by the shower curtain.

She walked into the room,withing moments I could hear the shuffling of bottles and containers, "What do you have to get?" I asked while peeking out the side of the shower to see if she found what she was looking for.

"Um, Aspirin for your dad. He thought I'd be rude if he came in." My breathing stopped as the door slammed shut.

"Rukia!" I screamed jumping out of the shower, lucky enough to have my representative badge with me, changing into my shinigami form. "Why the hell would you listen to my dad?" I barked using Zangetsu to break down the door with ease…too much ease. It seemed as if the wind just blew it shut.

"Ichigo!" She screamed as I turned to look at her.

"You know what he would have done. He would have trapped us for a long ass-"

"No not that you idiot!" She barked as she glanced at the ground growing bright red.

"Well don't look!" I yelled back at her seeing myself on the floor; naked.

"It's not something I can overlook!" She scoffed folding her arms over her chest.

"Why the hell not?" I questioned starring at her.

Well, if you saw naked Rukia on the ground would you look away?

"Because my foot's stuck…under you're…" Her red face expanded to the rest of her body. In fact I even blushed. Her leg was wedged between the sink counter and my body so she couldn't pull it out.

"Oh um, right. But here's the problem…if I get back in my body I'll be naked and on your…foot." And on top of that I really didn't feel like experiencing the pain of her kicking me in the balls.

"Well, it's kind of stuck so you're going to have to deal with it." She retorted pointing at me, well the me I wasn't preoccupying at the moment. "Why the hell are you so heavy anyway?"

"it's muscle!" I defended walking over while emitting one large gulp.

"Hurry up…I…I don't have anything on my feet!" This was definitely something I never dreamed of happening. Even in the future when I would think about being married…and doing everything that went along with that, would I ever have thought my boy parts would end up touching someone's feet.

"You'll kick me though." All my pride was gone, at least in front of her. Then again with my naked body laying on her bare feet I didn't think I could keep any as it was. Not to mention the pain I'd erect from there would be bad enough.

"I won't kick you." She sighed; her eyes practically screaming, 'but if you don't get over here in the next five seconds I will do worse than that'. Well, it was a chance I had to take I guess.

So, I slipped into my body. My, well, thing, could feel Rukia's feet and I had to say this touch coming from her wasn't all that pleasing.

I wonder what I'd be like if it were her hands?

Shit, now I'm imagining that!

What's so bad about that?

Do you know what happens to guys when they 'imagine?' I practically shouted in my mind as I felt it coming on…I was going hard…very hard. It was just a quick image! Please god! Why?

"Ichigo…what is happening…" She nervously said with a slight shakiness to her voice. I couldn't get up and expose myself that might have ended worse.

"Now Rukia don't over react, but I might possibly be…growing." That sounded as innocent as I could get it, yet it still sounded really dirty.

"As in growing you don't mean…? Ichigo!!!!!!!" She overreacted, like I told her not to, kicking me as hard as I thought possible, which she promised she wouldn't do either.

"Rukia-" I barely croaked out as I slid down the wall I was thrown against hardly gripping the area of displeasure.

"Well, you deserved it!" She shouted starring me down until she realized I was still naked despite my frail state. My body slumped over still clutching. God it hurt like a mother fucker.

"No…I…did…not." I had to argue even if I wasn't in the best state to.

"Rukia…where's the aspirin?" My dad complained walking into the bathroom gripping his head tightly.

"Um, I couldn't find it." She spoke quickly, blushing before quickly rushing out of the room.

"This is all your fault." I harshly moaned dragging myself up.

"Son, cover up, you may have an impressive penis, but you won't win Rukia over like that. Then again you two confessed earlier so-" I punched him despite still seeing the stars twinkling around my own head.

"Shut up." I managed as I clothed myself.

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"Well, this morning was…painful. But! Don't worry we have a fun filled day ahead of us!" Dad happily spoke occasionally rubbing a sore spot on his body. How I wished I could rub where I was sore right now, but with Karin and Yuzu standing right in front of me it was impossible.

"Do you mean fun for you or fun for us?" I knew the answer, but maybe I'd be surprised.

"Fun for me of course!" He replied not even giving us the decency to lie. "Everyone follow daddy!" He yelled as we all walked in line out the front door.

………………..

Rukia and I fell behind the group as we walked for the ninth hour. Neither of us felt the need to embarrass ourselves any further by accompanying them…and besides we spent enough 'quality time' with them at this point. They had dragged us to almost every Christmas shop in town.

Why the hell do they have so many damn Christmas stores in this town anyway?

"I'm sorry about…earlier." She very quietly whispered not looking in my direction.

Apology accepted!" I sighed digging my hands into my pockets.

"What? I say sorry and you're not even going to return it?" She sounded dumfounded and annoyed. Why would 'I' have to say sorry?

"What did I do? You're the one who came into the bathroom on orders from my dad." I yelled at her bending over some.

"You're the one who made him need the medicine to begin with." She retorted sticking her nose up in the air.

"Did you forget why I did that in the first place?" I argued hoping she hadn't really forgotten earlier this morning because in all truthfulness I was looking forward to having a repeat, minus dad, of this morning tomorrow.

"He's your father! Of course he's going to snoop." She sighed putting her hand over her eyes.

"No, snooping is one thing, acting like a third grader is another. He practically has the town wired in case he misses anything." I scoffed walking a little faster.

"The bickering couple back there! I'm taking my lovely first two daughters somewhere to eat." Dad shouted pulling the twins away a little too fast to avoid suspicion.

"What the hell are they up to?" I wondered out loud shrugging it off. "Alright then lets go eat- Rukia?" The petite shinigami was already stomping away looking like she didn't want to be followed.

"Fine then I'll eat alone." I shouted not sure if she heard. My heart felt like it crashed and trust me it wasn't a pleasant feeling.

You're an awful fiancé.

It's fine nothing's going to happen. I'll go look for her in a little while. Since when do you give marrital advice?

Since I felt that kick to the balls, I mean holy shit king. We're lucky we're standing.

"Stupid Ichigo! Dumb Ass! Are you really that clueless?" I shouted to the inanimate trees I was surrounded by. Thankfully I found a spot near the park but away from everyone to 'express' myself.

He had to fight me every step of the way!

"Who would want to marry an idiot like you anyway?" I yelled punching the bark of a tree actually leaving a partial indent. Then I sighed, I wanted to marry that idiot, that was exactly who.

"You didn't even say sorry! Even if it was for a stupid reason!" I kicked the side of the tree with all my might, which in the grand scheme of things probably wasn't a good idea on my part. At first there seemed to be nothing but an odd numb sensation, but then the pain kicked in as I keeled over to the grassy floor clutching at my foot. It was swelling, I could feel the liquid build under the skin, this was bad. No way in hell could I put any pressure on it. Hell, I'd be lucky if I could manage not to scream. After the first few rounds of excruciating pain passed I shakily dared a glance at my foot. It was swollen, like I guessed, but the bulge that was now visible through my sock did not look very pleasing.

"Oh fuck. This is not good." I complained to myself pulling my body against the nearest tree. "No cell phone or walking capability. What the hell do I do now?" I braced myself for the next wave I could feel coming on. "And it's dark. Damn daylight savings crap."

"It could be worse." I thought to myself imagining a hollow or arrancar attack at this exact moment, but I knew that was highly unlikely. No hollow in their right mind would attack after their leader was just defeated. And the smarter of the species probably would have more common sense then to attack the person who slew their leaders fiancée.

"What's a pretty young lady like yourself out here by yourself for in the dark?" a laugh came from the shadows to my right as all the dark spots around me started to close in revealing four men.

"None of your damn business." I replied sourly refusing to show the pain that wanted to.

"Strong words for such a small girl." The leader, it seemed, announced walking closer pausing maybe a foot in front of me.

"I may be small, but I'm no push over." I almost laughed at my bluff, I was no push over…when I was able to move and in shinigami form. Neither of which were possible at the moment.

"Hm, could you fend off four grown men?" An evil grin grew as his hands jerked me forward out of my sitting position and into a standing one, which did not agree with my ankle. As soon as he let go I crumpled back over gripping my foot. "Oh, so you're injured? Well, this just became a hell of a lot less fun." He looked disappointed. Good.

"Stop fooling around." A skinny man in back stepped forward into the light highlighting his bum attire with the stubble around his mouth.

"You take the fun out of everything." The man in front of me said taking a step back revealing a dark brown beard and mustache with just below average citizen attire. The other two stayed out of sight probably the look out people.

Wait, look out people? Shit.

I sighed, this was more troublesome than scary. Sure, I was scared a bit, but nothing really has a huge impact on you anymore after over fifty years of being a shinigami. Not to mention the last few years with Ichigo and his close calls were enough to completely dement the meaning of the word afraid for me.

"Let's get started shall we?" The man smirked grabbing my arm while at the same time ripping my shirt clean off. Next went the skirt, which was very painful only because on top of my struggling the said piece of clothing had to come off via the way of my ankle.

"Not bad." All four sets of eyes eyed me like I was a prize they'd one.

"Get away from me!" I screamed before getting smacked across the face.

"Aw, don't worry we won't hurt you, we just want to have a little fun." His smile seemed to become more demented as the seconds ticked by.

"Boss." One of the two 'look outs' called halting his hand right before it hit my chest. "There's a boy coming this way." He whisper-yelled making everyone turn around towards his direction. It was Ichigo, he was about fifty yards away.

He'll find me right? I mean he can sense my reiatsu…oh shit. He's horrible at sensing reiatsu.

"Ichi-!" A hand was clamped over my mouth before I could finish, I faithfully hoped that Ichigo heard what little I was able to yell.

"Who the hell is that?" The man in front of me asked harshly pressing me against a tree partially suffocating me.

"Ichigo." I let out smiling still trying to use as much air as I could.

"Who the hell is Ichigo?" He grumbled noticing how dangerously close he was getting.

"My fiancé." my smile did not wither, it stood strong. Upset cries pestered the area quietly for a second before the man gripping me quieted them.

"He couldn't possibly take us all down. Look how weak he looks." they all laughed. If they only knew what I knew they'd be trembling in fear.

"Don't underestimate him." I barked taking it personally.

"We won't have to. He left. It looks like he couldn't find you." One of the watchers spoke looking more at ease. I could tell that he could sense that Ichigo was no push over and that he frightened him somewhat.

"What a pathetic person." the men laughed as the man holding me brought out a knife.

Great, a knife.

One second it had been in his hand, but the next it laid inanimately on the floor along with its owner.

"What were you saying about a pathetic person?" Ichigo grinned as he stood in front of me which I assumed for two reasons one to block everyone's view and two to look a lot more menacing than he normally did. "Now…who's first?"

A/N: Sorry there was such a change half way through, I just saw something my ex- boyfriend said on his profile about me that made me extremely pissed off. Why are guys complete jerks? No offense to you guys, but get this he posted the song "Give you hell" By All- American rejects where he used to say how much he cared about me. And if you really get those lyrics there hurtful, like he's a guy who reads through everything so he knew exactly what he was posting. Then my best friend saw it and completely told him off. But still I can't help but feel angry, oh so yeah that's why it turned to men being pervertish…sorry. -Your NekoWriter

*Hope that wasn't going overboard, like I'll take it out and redo the chapter if no one likes it.

*And to tell you all now that is a detailed description of spraining your ankle, i did it in volleyball as some of you know, about a month and a half ago and it's still not better. But, yeah it hurts probably as bad as smeone jabbing a sword through your foot over and over.

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