Hola my wonderful readers I'm back with another chapter and I must say Evalyd Yamazaki u are like a mind reader! How did you know I was going to make an interlude chapter?! But any who that's what this chapter is because I have been doing my research and seems Ichigo doesn't met Ishida until a couple days after the Don Kanonji show, so this chapter takes place the next day. Also the powers list won't be at the beginning of this chapter since Kat doesn't use her powers in this chapter. So enough of my rambling enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach only Catalina Vazquez and Eita Harada

Chapter Eleven: The Date

I looked at myself in the mirror drying my hair. I had just gotten back from training with Yoruichi and Eita. I looked at the door were I could hear mumbling coming from the other side. It sounded like two people arguing about something. I walked over to the door leaning against it trying to listen to the two people arguing.

"Just ask her damn it!" I could hear Rukia hissing angrily.

"She's probably busy!" Ichigo protested nervously.

I smiled softly at the sound of Ichigo's voice. The butterflies in my stomach started flying all over the place just at the sound of his voice. Also it could be the fact that I'm now officially Ichigo Kurosaki's girlfriend. My heart skipped a beat at that thought and my breath hitched in my throat. I still couldn't believe I was dating Ichigo. I always dreamed what it would be like to date Ichigo and now that I am…it's just weird. It would suck if all of this was just a dream…but it isn't or else I would have woken up by now from all the pain I have received…right?

"Ask her damn it! Or I'll do it for you!" Rukia shouted.

"Damn it! Stop Rukia! Wait!" I heard him shout angrily when someone quickly knocked on my door. I pushed myself off from my door and opened the door.

I looked at Ichigo who was pounding on his bedroom door like idiot trying to get in.

"Damn it Rukia open the door!" Ichigo hissed angrily.

"Ichigo?" I questioned confused raising an eyebrow.

"K-K-KAT!" Ichigo stuttered nervously turning around to look at me. His face was sweating blots and he was making some weird gestures with his hands.

"Where you the one who knocked?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest.

"U-UH…" Ichigo stuttered trying to think of an excuse. He simply sighed looking at me while he rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Yeah, I did." He answered softly.

"Oh what's up?" I asked happily looking at him.

"W-W-Well I was wondering if…" Ichigo stuttered and fumbled around with his words at first. "Ifyouweren'tbusywouldyouliketogoonadate withme!" Ichigo spoke everything at once.

I looked at him confused blinking a couple of times. I'm pretty sure what he was trying to say was, "If you weren't busy would you like to go on a date with me." But it all come out all smashed together.

"Um, are you trying to ask me out on a date Ichigo?" I questioned confused. He nodded his head quickly. I giggled softly watching him act all flustered and nervous, and the faint blush on his cheeks just made him even more adorable. Now that he's my yummy strawberry I don't plan on sharing. "I'm your girlfriend now Ichigo. If you ask me to go on a date with you I'm going to say yes. I could never refuse some time alone with you." I whispered the last part softly and he looked at me surprised.

"So that's a yes?" He asked quickly.

"Yes. Let me just get ready." I spoke happily.

"I'll help!" Rukia shouted happily stepping out of Ichigo's room.

She quickly shoved me into my room closing the door behind us. I walked over to my bed sitting down on it and watched Rukia rummaged through my closet.

"Rukia I really don't need help getting ready." I stated laughing softly at Rukia's behavior.

"Yes you do! If I don't help you, you won't wear something cute!" Rukia complained.

"I never took you for the girly type." I muttered softly. "Ow!" I hissed rubbing my head where Rukia had hit me.

"I just find it entertaining to watch Ichigo blush and lose his ability to speak around you. Also find it hilarious when he loses he cool guy act when he's around you." Rukia snickered happily and I just giggled at her reasons for helping me.

I lay onto my bed staring at the ceiling. It's strange…four months ago I was shy, quiet, weak, no family, no friends and no one to love me Catalina Vazquez. Now I'm Catalina Vazquez still a little shy, not so quiet anymore, strong, I have a family, I have friends and I have someone to love me. Oh crap. I sat up frowning sadly.

"What's wrong?" Rukia questioned sitting next to me concerned when she noticed my frown.

"I'm a horrible friend." I stated softly.

"No you're not…why would you say that?" Rukia questioned confused.

"I accepted to be Ichigo's girlfriend without taking in count Orihime's feelings. She also likes Ichigo…a lot." I whispered softly.

"But Ichigo chose you." Rukia stated seriously.

"I didn't give him a chance to get to know Orihime…I showed up in his life before he met Orihime…before they became friends." I whispered softly. I just realized I screwed all of that up. I really have changed the whole bleach plot.

"That's not true. Ichigo had one whole month to get to know Orihime well you were gone away with Kisuke. In that month he got to know her and become friends with her…but in the end he still chose you…because he wants you." Rukia spoke seriously squeezing my shoulder. "Here, wear this." Rukia exclaimed happily placing something on my lap.

I looked down on my lap and gasped shocked. On my lap was a dress I had bought when I first got here and I went shopping with Yuzu and Karin. Yuzu keep insisting that I buy this dress that I would look very beautiful and that Ichigo would love it. I gave into her adorable sad face and bought it…I haven't gotten around to wearing that thing. The top of the dress was in the shape of a heart, short and stopped a little above my knees, it was also strapless. The dress is black with a small white ruffled outline on the bottom part of the dress and on the middle of the chest it has a small red bow.

"R-Rukia, are you crazy?! I'm not wearing this on our first date!" I practically yelled shoving the dress back to her.

"What are you talking about?! This is perfect!" Rukia stated happily. "I read in a book that human teenage girls like to dress up in short revealing clothes to draw their partner's attention." Rukia explained thinking back to the book that she read.

"You should really stop reading books." I hissed. My eye was twitching in annoyance and I was pretty sure I was blushing too.

"Come on wear it! If Ichigo is practically left speechless just by looking at you in your school uniform…" Rukia snickered with one of the creepiest smiles I have ever seen plastered on her face. "He will totally lose the ability to speak at the sight of you wearing this dress." Rukia concluded happily.

"Uh…" I spoke still doubting if I should wear that dress. But I really do want to look nice for our first date.

"Fine." I mumbled grabbing the dress.

I took my clothes off changing into the dress. I didn't mind changing in front of Rukia; I mean she's a girl just like me. I pulled the dress over my mild wet hair quickly fixing the tight fitting dress so there weren't any wrinkles on it.

"You look so cute!" Rukia cooed happily.

I sighed softly walking over to the body length mirror and looked at myself. I felt weird looking at my body and not seeing any bruises or cuts from when my father would beat me. Now if I have bruises or cuts it's from fighting hollows. Strangely enough…those don't hurt as much as when my father would inflict them.

"What's wrong?" Rukia asked standing beside me.

"It's just…I haven't worn a dress in a long time." I whispered softly. "I look really pretty wearing one." I added grabbing the brush. I brush my hair softly letting it cascade down my back and some on my chest.

"Why haven't you worn a dress in a long time?" Rukia questioned confused.

"It was harder to hide all of the cuts and bruises my father would inflict on me." I explained softly. I grabbed my bracelet placing it on my wrist.

"Is that why you live with Ichigo?" Rukia questioned shocked.

"Yea." I replied softly. I looked at Rukia a little confused, "He didn't tell you anything?" I asked confused.

"He just mention you had problems at home…I never imagine it was something like that." She muttered softly.

"It's alright." I smiled softly looking at myself in the mirror. "The past is the past, it doesn't matter anymore. What matters now is the present…and my present involves Eita, you, everyone from school, everyone from Urahara's store and…" I smiled happily thinking about my orange hair strawberry. "Ichigo." I stated softly and Rukia smiled at me.

"Alright then!" Rukia exclaimed fist bumping. "You should get going! Ichigo is waiting for you!" Rukia exclaimed happily.

I opened the door and saw Ichigo standing there waiting for me with his arms crossed. He is wearing a white long sleeve shirt the sleeves slightly pushed up with a collar and a V shape opening on the front of his shirt with a pair of black jeans, and a belt. My stomach did back flips while my eyes memorized every inch of his body.

"I'm ready." I spoke just above a whisper.

Ichigo looked at me and I swear his jaw almost hit the ground when he looked at me. I watched his lips move but they just couldn't articulate words. I giggled softly and I could hear Rukia snickering from behind me. When simply a faint blush formed on Ichigo's cheeks I smiled walking over to him and grabbed his hand softly.

"Let's go." I stated happily heading downstairs. I put on a pair of black slip on shoes while Ichigo put his sneakers on. "Karin! Yuzu! Isshin! Ichigo and I are going out on a date! We won't be until later!" I shouted through the house.

I grabbed a shocked Ichigo's hand dragging him out of the house. When we reached the corner from where the house was I heard all three of them shout, "WHAT?!"

"Why did you tell me that?!" Ichigo asked shocked.

"Well for starters I'm not a lair. Second because they would have found out sooner or later we were dating." I explained happily.

"So um…what do you want to do?" Ichigo asked softly.

"Can we go to the zoo?" I asked shyly.

"The zoo?" Ichigo questioned dumbfound. I felt him start to relax a little at the fact we were holding hands.

"Yeah, I've never been to the zoo and I thought my first time would be a lot more fun if I went with you." I explained happily and he looked at me smiling softly.

"Alright. Let's go." He replied.

"But you'll have to lead the way or else we'll get lost." I added sheepishly and he scoffed teasingly.

"No duh, with you leading we might end up in Tokyo." Ichigo mumbled.

"Hey!" I yelled pretending to be offended. But who was I kidding we totally would have ended up in Tokyo if I led the way.

We walked off to the train station were we took a train for a couple of minutes. We got off the train and walked a couple of blocks when I could see the zoo up ahead and I felt the excitement run through my body. Ichigo walked over to the both to buy both of our tickets. We walked into the zoo and I couldn't stop looking around. I felt like a little kid trying to figure out what I wanted to do first.

"What should we see first?!" I questioned happily still holding Ichigo's hand.

I dragged him to the huge map of the zoo and looked at what we could see first.

"Oh, let's go see the penguins first! Oh, wait, no the polar bears! Giraffes! LIONS!" I exclaimed happily getting a little too excited.

"How about we start from one end and make our way around." Ichigo suggested looking at the map.

"Yea! Let's go!" I exclaimed happily.

After about a couple of hours of walking around the zoo we decided to take a break sitting down on a bench. I waited for Ichigo on the bench looking around the zoo. I smiled softly as I watched the moms pass by with their kids…with their dads…one big happy family. I sighed leaning my head back looking up at the blue sky instead. I watched the white puffy clouds pass by slowly.

"You ok?" I heard Ichigo's voice.

I looked at him smiling softly, "Yeah, I was just remembering something." I stated softly.

"Here." Ichigo offered nervously.

I smiled softly accepting the plate of french fries.

"So are you ever going to get over being nervous and shy around me?" I asked happily eating some french fries.

"I'm not shy or nervous around you." He snapped and I smiled happily.

"Yes you are. You lose your cool guy act around me." I teased happily offering him some french fries.

He grabbed some while looking at me weirdly, "Cool guy act?" He questioned confused.

"Yea, your cool guy act." I stated happily. I looked at him smiling softly, "I just want you to be yourself. Nothing has changed between us…we are just dating now. Instead of calling ourselves friends…we called ourselves boyfriend and girlfriend." I stated happily and he just smiled at me softly.

"It's hard for me not to be nervous around you. You are beautiful, smart, and strong and caring…I'm scared I might do something to push you away now that we got to this point." He explained seriously looking away and I smiled softly.

I grabbed his hand intertwining his fingers with mine.

"I'm never leaving your side…unless you tell me to." I whispered the last part softly.

He frown at me angrily, "I'm never going to ask you to leave my side." He stated seriously squeezing my hand softly.

I smiled at him, "I know you won't." I stated softly.

I looked at my plate of french fries and then at my hand, "Uh, I kind of need my hand to finish my fries." I mumbled sheepishly.

Ichigo laughed softly letting go of my hand; I knew I was blushing.

"What were you thinking about earlier?" He questioned me remembering how I was spacing out earlier.

"Uh, nothing really." I stated softly. "I was just trying to remember all of the good times I had with my mom." I whispered softly looking at a little girl that was walking by holding her mom's hand. "I try so hard to forget about my father…that I hadn't realized I was starting to forget about my mother." I explained softly.

"You won't forget about your mother. No matter hard you try to forget about your father. Your mother's memory will always be with you. She loved you and you loved her." Ichigo told me softly.

"I resented her after she died…she probably hates me." I whispered looking at my lap. My free hand grabbed a fist full of my dress.

"She doesn't hate you." Ichigo stated seriously. He softly placed his hand on top of mine, "She understands everything…she's your mother…she just knows you didn't really mean to hate her." He explained softly.

I kept looking at my lap and just stared at Ichigo's hand. I looked back up and smiled softly at him.

"Can we take a walk through the park?" I questioned softly.

"Yea." Ichigo replied smiling a small smile. "Why are we going to the park?" He questioned as we headed to the exit of the zoo.

"Well I wanted to tell you about my past and I rather my first time at the zoo with you stayed a happy memory. I want it to stay free of my father's memory…" I whispered holding his hand.

"You don't have to tell me Kat." Ichigo replied seriously.

"I want to share…me sharing means…I trust you and care about you." I added smiling softly. I looked up at him and his face held a surprise look but he smile nodding.

Ichigo and I had been walking around the park for a couple of hours and the sun was slowly starting to go down.

"Kat…" Ichigo started off slowly.

"Yea?" I asked looking at him.

"Y-Y-You…" He stuttered trying to get a concrete word out. Ichigo stopped, closed his eyes and opened them again taking deep breaths, "You look really beautiful today." He finally spoke with his free hand behind his head and a faint blush on his cheeks.

I smiled happily. I swear my smile grew twice its size with his comment.

"I'm glad…because I'm only going to dress up like this for you." I added shyly also blushing slightly.

We kept walking when I stopped at the sight of something.

"What's wrong?" Ichigo asked when he noticed I stopped walking.

"You've got to be kidding me." I mumbled shocked.

"What?" Ichigo asked confused.

I pointed across the park and Ichigo looked at where I was pointing at confused. His jaw fell to the ground when he saw what I was pointing at it.

"No way." He muttered shocked.

"That bastard. I knew it seemed strange he wasn't trying to get Orihime's attention anymore." I stated smirking.

In front of Ichigo and I stood Rukia and Eita holding hands. They were walking out of the park smiling and laughing.

"No wonder she was insisting so much that you and I go out on date." Ichigo mumbled while we still looked at them.

"I wonder how long they have been going out." I pondered confused placing my free hand on my chin thinking.

"We should head home Kat, it's getting late. Plus thanks to you I'm going to get killed when I get home." He groaned and I giggled softly.

"Don't worry I'll protect you." I spoke happily standing on my tippy toes and placed a soft kiss on his cheek.

I started to walk but stopped when Ichigo pulled on my hand a little and I walked back slowly.

"What's wrong?" I questioned confused.

He slowly pulled me to his chest leaning down towards my face. I looked at him surprised at how close our faces were.

"I'm going to kiss you." He whispered softly. His breath below all over my face and I felt my legs turn into jelly when he said that. My heart beat speed up while the butterflies in my stomach intensify. I don't know why I'm acting like this, I kissed him before.

"Don't tell me, just do it." I whispered back fluttering my eyes close when he placed his lips over mine.

I kissed him back smiling into the kiss. I may have kissed him before, but this is our first kiss as boyfriend and girlfriend. This kiss is a million times better than the other one. Ichigo pulled away looking at me and I smiled happily still holding his hand.

"Thank you Ichigo." I whispered softly.

"For what?" He questioned confused.

"For saving me." I added happily and he smiled a little.

"I will always save you." He stated back seriously.

Ichigo and I walk up to the house door steps and I looked up at him happily.

"You know, maybe I should move back with Kisuke…so your dad doesn't get any wrong ideas about what we are doing when we are alone." I whispered blushing at the thought of Ichigo and I, uh yea, you get the picture.

Ichigo also blush but quickly shook it off, "It's better if you stay here…this way I know you are safe." He added seriously squeezing my hand and I smiled.

"Ready?" I asked.

Ichigo nodded opening the door as I walked into the house first. We took our shoes off and headed into the living room.

"We're home!" Ichigo shouted.

We stepped into the living room and Ichigo quickly let go of my hand pushing me softly out of the way.

"ICHIGO! YOU BASTARD!" I heard Isshin shout.

I looked at Ichigo shocked while he blocked Isshin's kick.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO POOR KAT-CHAN?!" Isshin shouted standing in front of Ichigo pointing an excusing finger at him. "ICHIGO I THOUGHT I RAISED YOU BETTER?! DEFLOWERING-" Ichigo didn't even let his father finish the sentence as he punched his father in the face.

"What the hell are you talking about?! We just went on a date! You fucking pervert!" Ichigo shouted.

Ichigo and Isshin broke out into a really goofy looking fight. I sighed softly but looked to my side when I heard someone snickering and someone giggling. Yuzu and Karin were standing there looking at me with a creepy smile.

"Soooooo" Karin started off happily. "Kat-chan, you and Ichi-nii dating now?" Karin asked snickering happily.

"Yes." I whispered softly looking away.

"Oh I knew it you two would up together! You two look so cute together!" Yuzu cooed happily. "Kat-chan if you and Onii-chan get marry that means I can call you Onee-chan!" Yuzu squealed happily.

I blushed frantically at just the thought of marrying Ichigo, "SHUSH!" I stated embarrassed looking away from them.

I turned back around again looking at a happy Karin and Yuzu talking about Ichigo and me being together. I looked over at Ichigo who had just got done beating up his father.

Ichigo didn't know I wasn't from this world yet…but he doesn't have to know…because I don't plan on leaving any time soon. I'm done worrying about changing things. They have already changed, big time. Ichigo and I are together. Rukia and Eita are together. Everything is different…and I'm fine with it.

Violeta's aka Obscurestar's Replies to Reviews Section:

Evalyd Yamazaki: Yea! I'm improving! I just hope I don't slip back to my old habits =/ But I will continue working on my writing and keep on improving it =) Ichigo's dad reaction is the only one I really had an idea of how it was going to be xD Ichigo's sisters was also kinda easy since they were already trying to get Ichigo and Kat together. But I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out how Orihime would react…I mean I have an idea but I'm still thinking about it.

Scaehime- Lolz that is why I love Kon he is just hilarious. I have many feature scenes I want to write about Kon that will be hilarious xD I have been rewatching the sub version on animecrazy to refresh my memory about what happens in the first couple of episodes and also reading the manga from the beginning again.

XxanimeaddictxX- Do not fear xxanimeaddictxx the poll is still open and nothing is written in stone there is still a chance she will end up with Ulquiorra =)

lostfeather1- Thank you I really enjoyed making the story cover since it has almost all of my favorite guy characters. I ogled at that cover a lot xD But after the poll closes I will be making a new one where it has Kat in the middle and on one side of her will be the winner and on the other side the second place winner. Yea I want her to meeting everyone but I'm still not sure.

Angels of Crystals- I hope you really enjoyed this chapter it was all about Ichigo/Kat =)

Guest- Thanks. Orihime's reaction won't happen until the next chapter though. Thanks again =)

Infinity Wolf- Thank you, well do =)

Kurisetina- Yea I really enjoyed writing that chapter. That episode is one of my favorite episodes since it is so funny xD

metsfan101- Thank you

Bookgirl- Yep I have been meaning to go back and fix those small mistakes xD But thank you and I'm glad you are enjoying the story.

Bookgal7- Yep they are finally together!

ShirahimeSenpai- You're most welcome look forward for more updates this week =)

So my readers there are officially 5 chapters left before they go off to the soul society to rescue Rukia. Also the poll will officially be closed on October 1st! So, vote people! Before time runs out! Next update hopefully tomorrow, so keep an eye out for it =D