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Chapter 11: Happy birthday Ichigo!
Rukia spent the rest of her afternoon making finishing touches to the Kuchiki mansion. Her house was cleaned and sparkling after a long morning of sweeping and scrubbing. Her kitchen and living room is filled with games and food enough for the whole neighborhood. It was beautiful and worth all the hard work she put into it.
'Perfect,' she thought creeping up a sophisticated smile.
She called Renji over earlier to help her out with hanging left over streamers. He had also set up the snack table and blew up balloons. As Renji was hanging up streamers, Rukia was running around the house trying to make everything perfect by inspecting every inch of the house and fixing things to its perfection. Renji watching in amusement shakes his head at her and laughs.
"What are you laughing at?" she said looking back at him with an embarrassing scowl.
"Nothing at all Rukia!" Renji chuckled nervously looking away from her face. "Anyway how's the kitchen doing?" he asked changing the subject. "It seemed like you were going berserk!" he pointed at her making chuckling noises.
Rukia glared at him deeply making him look like he took back what he said.
"Well," she stared. "It's perfect," she said with a proud look. "All I really need is a gift for Ichigo; but the thing is, I have no idea what to get him." Rukia said looking down. "It's been bugging me all week, how am I supposed to know what he likes. I'm thinking I should go buy it right now before it's too late."
"Good idea."
"Would you like to come?" she asked.
"Yeah" he mumbled with a roll of tape hanging off his mouth. "Let me tape this streamer up first."
"Alright," she said walking over to the foyer. She slipped her tiny feet into her new flats putting them on slowly so Renji could catch up. She started to leave out the door and she looked back and smiled. "Hurry up!" she yelled behind her as Renji started jogging to the front door.
Renji and Rukia entered into Karakura mall scanning for gifts in little shops. Rukia was trying her best to find something that would be perfect for Ichigo. They nearly spent 2 hours inspecting every object and still could not find anything that's considered 'Ichigo's type'. They were more likely walking in circles because Rukia swore she saw the same pet shop 7 times.
Rukia sighed, "It's hopeless," she said taking a sip of her banana smoothie she bought just moments ago.
"Well, what are you planning to get him?"
"I was thinking something cool and expensive," she answered with a thinking look.
Renji flashed a disappointed look. "You know not everything has to be expensive Rukia. Get something for Ichigo that might mean a lot to him. Something he can remember and smile about."
'Something he likes?' she thought.
"Buy something cheap and decorate it to something amazing or make something homemade; Ichigo is the type who likes creative things."
Rukia thought for a moment. "Can I buy him something and make him something?"
"Whatever floats your boat," he smiled.
"What should I make him?" she crossed her legs and pouted thinking to herself.
"I don't know, whatever you think is cool."
'Cool… cool… cool… what's cool? If I come up with something amazing this would be a great way to confess how I feel about him.'
Rukia's thought for a moment then suddenly her mind instantly sparked and her pouting face lightened up. "I know something!" she yelled standing up from her chair running to god knows where.
"You left your smooth-
"Who cares, come on!"
Renji stood up and sighed shaking his head. 'Sometimes no one knows what that girl is thinking about'
As she ran to the crafts store she thought how Renji is honestly the most amazing friend she could ever have in the universe, he was like a close sibling to her. Without him nothing would have been happening today. As she heard before that he was the one who came up with the pretend dating scheme. Which lead her to thinking about Orihime. She hadn't heard of her all week but if she meets face to face with her it won't be a face to face talk; it would be another fist to the face talk. She smiled at the thought as she skipped to the store with Renji trailing behind her.
That night…
Rukia was in her large luxurious bedroom getting ready for tonight. Once she got home she quickly made her present which took three hours because of all the cute drawings she drew and the markers she used. When she was finished she instantly went digging into her closet for an hour trying to find something good to wear. Rukia wanted something nice but not formal. Finally after piecing together random clothing she found a nice casual look. She wore a little black dress with a fitted white leather jacket and heeled boots. She looked wonderful with the look but she felt like something was missing; her necklace. She wished she could find it because it would have looked amazing with the dress but sadly it's gone. She looked down at her neck and frowned.
'It'll be back someday.'
She sat down on her bed looking at the sparkly gold wrapping that she wrapped for Ichigo. She felt too nervous to give it to him tonight but it's too late to get something else now. At least she bought a backup to cover up her embarrassing gift. Her gift she was giving him is something she made specially and she hoped it would make him smile and remember the whole dating experience. The time where he asked to date her and fulfilled her dreams, basically...
She felt like she was drifting off so she shook her self and stood up finally finishing her procrastination moment. Rukia opened the grand door to the enormous hallway to be met up with Renji sitting on the small bench outside waiting for her. He was looking down staring into space but then realized Rukia was standing there looking glamorous.
"Man, what took you so long dammit!" he got up looking like he had flares in his eyes.
'Holy rage' she thought.
"I didn't ask you to wait for me, did I?" Rukia walked over to him smirking.
He scowled.
"Anyways how do I look?" Rukia said spinning around in her dress. Nothing twirled because it was tight; it was more like a pose.
"Two hours and you look like this?"
She frowned and gave him an I'll kill you in your sleep glare.
"I mean you look splendid!"
"Why thank you sir." She said bowing
"Loser," he murmured "So people are coming in half an hour. For the time being, do something better than looking at yourself in the mirror."
"I'm not the one who's-
"Whoa wait," he suddenly said
"What?" she scowled.
"How is Ichigo getting here?"
"What? I never thought of that!" her eyebrow changed to a worry look. "All this time I spent and I forgot to invite him!" Rukia said panicking.
"Idiot..." Renji said rolling his eyes smacking his head with his right hand.
She glared at him. "Anyways for now I'll just call him to come over just to hangout, its 6:30 right now so I'll tell him to come at 7:30."
"Great plan, now let's go get the phone!"
Renji and Rukia sat on her bed dialing Ichigo's cell phone number. As the phone was slowly ringing the sound of shuffling was heard and a questioning hello.
"Hey Ichigo, it's Rukia!" she exclaimed twirling her hair like a girly-like way while Renji raised his eyebrows at her.
"What? R-Rukia? What are you calling for?" he said in a nervous voice.
"I just wanted to know what you were up to silly, don't get worked up."
He didn't answer. She assumed he was shaking his head but really he was blushing.
He then finally spoke. "Oh yeah sorry, I'm not doing anything today why?"
"I- I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out with me and Renji at my place."
"Uhm, yeah sure."
"Okay be here at 7:30!" she said giving Renji thumbs up.
"Hey why so late?" he asked in a sly voice. "It's only 6:30."
"N-No reason just come at that time me and Renji are just busy… busy doing um…"
Rukia was nervous and Renji smacked his head in disappointment AGAIN. He then quickly grabbed the phone from Rukia and answered.
"Look we're just helping Byakuya with a few things alright?" Renji shouted with a scowl.
"I can help," he answered.
"No! Just- just.. bye!" Renji yelled smacking the phone down.
"Dude, relax," Rukia said giggling.
"I'm just trying to be dramatic," Renji said in a superior voice.
"Yeah right, so did you invite Ichigo's family like I asked you to earlier..?" Rukia asked.
"Of course," Renji said feeling like he accomplished something. "They will be here soon."
"Great," Rukia said with a smile. For the rest of the time they both talked about party laughing.
The clocked ticked as it reached to 6:45. The guests that Rukia and Renji specifically invited had arrived one by one. They greeted Rukia with a slight bow and big thanks for the invitation.
Rukia smiled as she saw Uryuu, Chad, Keigo and Mizuiro walk into the grand hallway. She quickly dashed over to greet them.
"Hey guys, glad you came!" Rukia said waving them over for a place to sit in her living room. The four guys sat in leather chairs in a large room that's filled with Japanese modern furniture. It looked like it hadn't been touched before. Keigo felt like if he touched something it would be left with fingerprints so he shifted away from there to the snack table with Mizuiro trailing behind him.
"Yes, we came for Ichigo, and of course for you," said Chad. "Your house is nice too Rukia, it's great that you decided to do something great for Ichigo. This whole creepy Orihime stuff had been stressing him out."
Uryuu nodded in agreement. "I agree he seems a bit better thanks to you Rukia," he said as she blushed a light shade of pink.
"Even though Ichigo and I don't seem like the best of friends. We actually are in our own weird way," he continued. "So yeah this is amazing Rukia to plan something nice. Also you look very nice today, I like your interesting combination of styles." He complimented as she continued to blush and tried looking away.
"Why thank you," she answered "Would you two like some drinks? Or punch?"
"Punch" said Uryuu and Chad nodded.
"Alright."
As Rukia walk over to the table she saw more friends from her class and started talking to them about summer school. Luckily it's almost over soon because all the tests she had been taking were stressing her out. She waved the girls off and chatted with other follow classmates.
Soon after everyone had arrived and Ichigo was going to be at the front door in five minutes. Earlier she had a chat with his family who also came for the party. His sisters were beautiful in their cute tops but sadly after Rukia turned around they went off talking to some people they knew and Isshin went to join Byakuya in his creepy library.
Rukia gathered up all the guests to announce what's going to happen.
"Listen up everyone! Ichigo is ALMOST here so we all have to hide in a non-visible place like the living room. When I open the glass doors to the room everyone jump out of their hiding place and shout Happy Birthday. Is that clear?" she shouted.
"YES M'AM," the crowd cried in response.
"Good," Rukia said with a smile.
As all the high school teens scrambled around the large living room jumping behind chairs and hiding behind large bookshelves and plants, Rukia was trying look out the windows to see if Ichigo was here or not. As her eyes squint she caught a glimpse of his orange hair coming closer and closer.
"SHHH, everyone quiet down he's here!" she shouted across the grand hallway as she started dimming the lights down.
Once the whole house was silent a knock on the door was heard. The room gasped.
"Shut-up guys!" yelled Renji coming up behind Rukia.
Rukia took a deep breath and opened the double doors. Ichigo was standing right there looking freshly showered. He was wearing a gray buttoned down shirt and fitted jeans. The sleeves of his shirt were folded midway up his arm.
"Hey Rukia," he said smiling pulling her in for a hug. Renji starred at them both for a long time.
"Oh hey Renji!"
"That's more like it."
"Anyways thanks to you guys I can't celebrate my birthday," he said pulling out of his embrace with Rukia. "Though I can't celebrate it anyway because I don't know where my old man and sisters went," he said curiously. Rukia sneaked a tiny grin.
"Sorry Ichigo," they both apologized.
"It's fine I don't have anything better to do, anyway why the hell is the room so dimmed! Where's the light switch?" he asked looking around. Once he spotted it he went towards it.
"No don't turn it on!" Rukia screamed grabbing his hand to hold while blushing because of the sudden contact.
"Eh, why?"
"Well Uh- uhm- because Byakuya wanted to save electricity! Yeah that's it, right Renji?" she asked elbowing him.
"Yeah that's right, Byakuya is being environmentally friendly!" he exclaimed as Ichigo raised his eyebrow at them.
Renji thought how funny Rukia's dumb excuses were, if they were in public lying to people's faces. They'd get caught in no time.
Ichigo starred at Renji weird. Renji was starting to feel nervous so he shook the feeling off.
"What are you starring at? He is saving electricity.." Renji tried sounding serious.
"Whatever," Ichigo said.
"So is it hot or is it just me?" Rukia started. "I feel like sitting in the living room it's way colder in there," she said sarcastically leaving to go to the living room hoping Ichigo would follow. Luckily he did and the more steps Rukia took the more nervous she was about it. She finally stopped in front of the double glass doors. She took in a deep breath and turned the silver knob and pushed the doors wide open.
In a quick movement she and Renji jumped at him and yelled "SURPRISE!" Ichigo's eyes widen when a whole lot of people he knew jumped up from behind their hiding places and yelled surprise and danced around popping confetti everywhere.
Ichigo was stunned his jaw dropped and finally he took in what happened. He flashed everyone a big smile and looked down at Rukia. His eyes looked down at her softly like he was thanking her. The more she looked into him the more her heart melted with warm goodness. Then the good moment was ruined by a loud voice.
"LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED FOR OUR MAN ICHIGO, WOO!"
Everyone scrambled around dancing to loud music and munched on goodies. They were all having a good time yelling and screaming song lyrics and chants. Rukia knew Byakuya would be mad but a party as good as this won't affect anything.
'I bet he's having his own little party upstairs. As in writing papers and talking to Hisana. '
Rukia shook off her thought and realized she had not talked to Ichigo since the surprise. He was being dragged away by everyone into the crowd. His classmates were talking to him one by one and girls were flirting with him but she didn't mind. Rukia knows that she and Ichigo aren't even together for real. Rukia sighed and looked down feeling bored. Once she looked up she saw Ichigo in a crowd looking straight at her. He looked like he wanted to get out of there, she giggled as he pushed his way through the people. He stood right in front of her.
"Busy?" she asked teasingly.
"Yeah I'm busy, busy with you," he smiled. "Sorry I took long, I'll be sure to make this time up to you," he said as he took her hand and grabbed it. "Also people were dragging me around asking me how was my summer. I swear I answered that question fifty times."
"I can see that," Rukia said giggling.
He chuckled. "Thank you Rukia."
"For what?"
"For.. doing this. I never thought you would be willing to spend all your time on me, you shouldn't have."
"I did it because I wanted to silly,"
"Well thanks anyway," he pulled her in for a hug. Her heart felt better.
As they stood there in their embrace Keigo came up to them and pulled them apart.
"SO YOU LOVE BIRDS, WHEN ARE WE OPENING GIFTS?" he asked loudly.
Everyone heard and crowded around the awkward pair. Loud voices of "yeah when are we opening gifts?" were repeating. Rukia's heart sank. This is a moment she didn't want to happen.
She took a deep breath. "Well Ichigo, would you like to open your gifts." She asked.
He shrugged a little and smirked.
As the large group of people walked to the 2nd living room, the place Byakuya hangs out at. They saw a mountain of presents stacking up almost touching the tall ceiling. Rukia spotted Renji trying to stack them up to make more room for everyone to sit.
"Everyone gather aroud, and we'll start opening the presents one by one," she said as some people sat on the ground and some pulled chairs in to sit.
As Renji pulled down box by box Ichigo slowly unwrapped presents. He received a 'I'm stupid' T-shirt from Keigo, a watch from Chad, custom made clothing from Uryuu, books from Mizuiro and gift cards from his other friends. His class mates and acquaintances he knew in the school gave money, clothes, or gift cards. As each present was opened, Rukia felt her present felt more embarrassing than ever. Good thing she bought a backup, she has to hand that to him first and the second one in private.
Soon after the room was filled with wrapping paper and gifts. There were two gifts left and they were both Rukias. Renji passed them over to Rukia as she kept the bigger one in her arms and handed Ichigo a small bag. He carefully slid her card out, ripped off the envelope and unfolded her card. His heart was beating a little faster than usual.
He smiled at her and proceeded to read out loud her card, it said:
Dear Ichigo, I can't express how amazing you are to me. You mean the world in every possible way. You are my hero, my saviour, my man, my boyfriend. I can't say anything negative about you, all I can say is I love teasing you. You are different, spontaneous, and very handsome, I can't ask for anymore because of your kindness. I truly hope this day is very important and special to you because it is to me. So have a Happy Birthday Ichigo, I love you.
Love, Rukia.
Ichigo was surprised and confused at the same time while Rukia was blushing madly and the crowd is aweing.
Was Rukia confessing or was it a way to make everyone think they're actually dating? He didn't know. If it were true, he would obviously return the feelings because by now he knows what it's like to love someone. Ichigo looked over at Renji smirking like this meant something.
Once his friends stopped aweing, Ichigo looked over at Rukia looking down. He grabbed her hand and lifted her chin up, looking right into her eyes.
Rukia's heart was racing. She hoped he thinks that it was a plan because it's not. That's her confession in a way that seemed like they were already dating.
"I love you too, girlfriend," he pulled her into a tight squishy hug.
Everyone awed and some people cried sobbing the sentence "This is like a Shoujo manga!"
"Now quiet down I'm opening the gift."
Ichigo pulled out the tissue paper covering the gift. As he threw the paper around, he finally reached in and pulled it out. His face instantly brightened up and he grinned.
"OH MY GOD, HOW DID YOU KNOW I WANTED THIS?"
He was holding a new pair of RayBan sunglasses that he wanted so badly.
"Well you told me your other one broke so I decided to buy you a new pair."
"You are honestly so perfect," he pulled her in for another hug. Yet again everyone awed.
"You two are honestly too cute for words," Tatski said pointing at them with her thumb and everyone was nodding in agreement.
They both smiled in their embrace.
"So is the party back on or what?" someone yelled.
"HELL YEAH IT IS." A loud voice shouted as loud music started playing again and everyone scattered up stairs to the kitchen.
"Ichigo, I actually have another gift," Rukia said shyly. "I made this myself and it's a bit embarrassing."
"Nah its fine," he said as he grabbed the golden wrapped gift out of her hands.
He slowly peeled off the wrapping revealing a rather large book of some sort. As he moved the paper out of the way it read out: 26 reasons why I like you. A-Z
His heart warmed as he opened up the large book and read A: Amazing, B: Badass, C: Cute, D: Different, E: Excellent, F: Funny. Each letter had pictures of them they took last week.
"Rukia this is honestly outstanding, I love it. Best present ever."
"Do you mean it?" she said looking up.
"In every possible way," he smiled.
He pulled her in close and kissed her on the cheek.
"You are so cute,"
She giggled. "No you are!"
"No, I'm not," he said. "Wow, I'm really hungry I should go get food," he said getting up.
"No stay, I'll get it for you. You sit right here."
He sighed. "Fine."
Rukia walked up the steps and danced towards the large snack table that was surrounded by hungry guests. As she gathered punch on a tray and stacked cheese and crackers on her plate she swore she saw something familiar on the corner of her eye. As she kept filling up her plate she kept glancing at that thing she saw. She froze and her heart stopped beating and the world stopped spinning. She was certain what she saw was actually there. She dropped her plate onto the ground cracking into pieces.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS SHE DOING HERE?"
A/N: Finally longer chapter blah blah blah, I know, grammar and spelling mistakes blah blah blah, that's not a cliff hanger is it? Blah blah blah, finally got around to updating very sorry. I don't know when the next update is but it will be soon or long…. depends.
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