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A/N: Arigatou to everyone who reviewed! Woo! More than 50 now!! Okay, I'll stop talking now and let you get to the stor –

Ichigo: HOW COULD YOU?!? YOU HUMILIATED ME IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!!!

Rukia: Don't be shy, Ichi.

Ichigo: ARGH!!! THE PERFECT IMAGE I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR YEARS IS RUINED!!!

Me: Ichigo, stop whining. I could easily make you kiss her, you know.

Ichigo: …

Rukia: Ooh, he's thinking about it. winks

Ichigo: Yeah right!

Rukia: I bet you're wondering what it's like to kiss me.

Ichigo: As if…

Rukia: He hesitated! He hesitated!

Me: Well aaaanyway, back to the story!

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"Ichi, I want a kiss."

"Why Rukia, I would be more than happy to give you a kiss." And he leaned down and kissed her passionately, after which they decided to go out.

Then everyone was happy and they all lived happily ever after, except for Keigo, of course.

THE END

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Just kidding. Sorry, I was bored. XD Okay, now I'll get back to the story.

"Ichi, I want a kiss…"

She looked up at him with her big eyes. Ichigo felt his arms weakening. What was he supposed to do now?

Everyone had gone silent, waiting to see his reaction.

"Uh…" he stammered. "I – "

Forget saying the unthinkable, because just then Rukia did the unthinkable. She leaned up and kissed him lightly on the lips.

At that moment Ichigo's entire face turned about twenty-nine shades of red. He'd always known Rukia loved making his life miserable, but she would never go as far as to…

Okay, so she just had.

He wasn't exactly sure what to do. Obviously he couldn't keep kissing her in front of everybody, because that would mean he liked her. But he couldn't just break away either…not when she was looking so…well…cute.

Not too many options.

He actually didn't mind that much…not really. It felt nice to be hugged by Rukia. Her small body was so soft and warm, and –

"Oh my." Mizuiro's voice broke through his thoughts.

Ichigo gasped and pulled away, panting. "R-Rukia…"

For a moment it was quiet, except for Ichigo and Rukia's fast breathing. Then Mizuiro said, "Wow. I didn't know you guys…uh…liked each other so much."

Luckily for Ichigo, he was spared having to answer when the teacher walked in. "Everyone to their seats. Come on! We don't have a lot of time."

The crowd gradually broke up and everyone settled into their seats. Rukia, despite being the one who had started everything, was resolutely looking anywhere but at Ichigo. Ichigo, on the other hand, couldn't help staring at her.

Even Rukia couldn't act that good…had she really kissed him just to humiliate him? Or had there been another reason…?

(Me: Getting your hopes up, eh, Ichigo?)

(Ichigo: Shut up.)

"Okay, everybody listen up. Our class has been chosen to prepare a play to raise money for our school. So you'd better all do your best." She glared at them over her glasses. "Or else I'm flunking you all."

There was a unanimous groan from the class.

"Hey! Don't complain!"

"Sensei, how come it's our class?" Tatsuki yelled.

Miss Ochi made a face. "Because as freshmen, you guys are at the bottom of this school. In other words, you have to do all the dirty work that everyone else doesn't want to do."

"Ohhh. That makes sense," Tatsuki said sarcastically.

"Okay, that's enough! I'm going to go into the details now. The play is…er…let's see…apparently, it's a romantic tragedy." She adjusted her glasses. "How interesting."

"Who wrote the script? I'd like to go kill him."

"You know, Tatsuki, it could be a her."

"Okay, okay. My point is – "

"Aaand…we doing exactly have time for tryouts or anything, so we're going to have to vote for parts, okay? The play is in two weeks."

"What?!? Couldn't they at least give us some more time?" Keigo whined.

Miss Ochi glared. "Watch it, Asano."

Keigo shut up.

She read on. "And the play is…"

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I know, I know. It's so clichéd. It seems like a bunch of mangas have class plays in them, but I needed an excuse for Ichigo and Rukia to be forced to kiss (or almost kiss), so…

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