OnigiriKami: Sorry for my late update, I got a little lazy.... well next chapter will be randomly updated also!
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Rukia woke up tiredly in Yuzu and Karin's room. Her hair was a big black mess, and she had drooled. Ishiin had brought a extra bed, from the patient room, for Rukia to sleep in. The girl's room was stuffed and squishy, since there were three people who had to share one room.
It was very uncomfortable for Rukia, since she had been living alone for a while. She sat up from her bed and started stretching her arms, and then lazily wiped off her drool.
'How the hell did it turn out like this? Oh yeah....'
Flashback:
"Let's just enjoy the fireworks."
Rukia pulled away from Ichigo's embrace. Her face had been nudged tightly into Ichigo's chest, so she couldn't breath at all. She gulped in a deep breathe, and started yelling in front of the dumbfounded Ichigo.
"IDIOT! I can watch the fireworks, without you suffocating me!"
"Ah... sorry, must not know my own strength." Ichigo scratched his head.
Rukia rubbed her nose and glared at Ichigo. Then suddenly a burst of fireworks had come all at once, showing the last of the fireworks. This was the end of the festival, it was the festival's finale.
Ichigo had suddenly got up, "We should go home now."
"What about Inoue?" Rukia asked him. He didn't responded quickly, it had taken him a while.
"She wants to go home with Tatsuki."
"Oh..." Rukia got up from the ground, and used two hands to pat away the dirt out of her skirt. She got her bag from the ground and patted it off too, "Okay then, let's walk together."
At the words that Rukia had said, Ichigo's cheeks colored a little. They walked out of the gates, maneuvering through the dozens of stands. They entered the street, and walked on the sidewalk.
Throughout the whole walk, they did not exchange words, and when it was the point to where they had to split up to each individual's house, they said their goodbyes.
"See you on Monday, Ichigo!" she walked toward the direction of her house. She smiled at him and she was still wearing the goofy Chappy mask.
"You too!" Ichigo walked over his own house, then he suddenly had jumped when Rukia had shrieked into the air.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!!!" Rukia screamed with both hands on her head, ruffling her hair.
"What is it, Rukia!" Ichigo ran over to where she was and to his amazement, he saw Rukia's house destroyed. A big tree had fell over it, and many tiles and wood planks had been scattered around the half broken house. "What the hell happened?" Ichigo had said in astonishment.
"I don't know! How can this happen, when there was no storm!" Rukia yelled. "What if all my limited edition collections of Chappy are all ruined!"
"Uhhh..... shouldn't you be more worried about finding a place to stay.....?" Ichigo asked awkwardly, as if she didn't even heard his comment. Then suddenly, he heard running footsteps behind him, and he turned around to see that his old man had suddenly ran over to them.
Ishiin had looked nervously at Rukia at first, then he smiled at her (somehow, his teeth shined), and he put his fingers on his chin, like he was thinking, "Hmmm.... Are you finding a place to stay....?"
"Old man, why the hell did you suddenly pop up!?" Ichigo yelled kicking Ishiin in the stomach.
"AH! I couldn't help it! I looked out of the window, and saw you--" he held Rukia's hand gently, "And this beautiful young girl walking together, and I happened to hear your conversation--"
Ishiin was kicked again by Ichigo, "Let go of her hand, you dirty, old man!"
"AH! You're so cruel, Ichigo!" Ishiin had rubbed the spot that Ichigo had kicked. "Well, Rukia-chan! We would really like you to live with us for a while, until we can find you a new house!" Ishiin clasped his hand with Rukia's, and his eyes started to sparkle.
"Uh...okay....thank you... Kurosaki-san....." she said awkwardly, while sweat rolled off of her cheeks.
End of Flashback
Sadly, after Rukia had found out about her house being wrecked, all of her special edition Chappy collectibles had never been recovered. And all her clothing was not traceable, so she had to borrow Yuzu's clothing. It had pissed her off when Ichigo started laughing hilariously, at how she could fit into a 6th grader's clothing. The only good thing was that she still had her money, and cell phone.
'Wait! How did Ichigo's father already know my name?!'
Rukia had just notice this when she had recalled yesterday. How the heck did Ichigo's dad know Rukia's name, when she didn't even know him in the first place? Had Ichigo mentioned about her before, to his father?
'Yeah, maybe that's it...'
Rukia was interrupted in her thoughts by the waking of Karin. Karin rubbed her eyes and sat on her bed. She looked bored at Rukia. They stared at each other for a minute.
"Hey, are you and Ichigo going out?" Karin finally asked.
"Huh? Uhh.... WAIT! No we are not!"
Karin stared at Rukia once more in silence, then Karin laid back on her bed and faced away from Rukia. She got her orange blanket and tucked herself in. Rukia's vein popped when she heard Karin mutter:
"Tch! Another idiot."
"Good morning, Rukia-chan!" Ishiin squealed in delight as Rukia entered the kitchen. It was where they ate. The wooden table had many food piled up on it, almost as if there was a feast.
"Ah! Good morning, Kurosaki-san!" Rukia greeted back to Ishiin.
"Rukia-chan! You don't have to call me that! Call me Otou-san!"
"Huh? Otou-san?" Rukia asked, not getting the reason why.
Ishiin had went to a whisper, as if it was to dangerous to talk loud.
"It's because later on, Ichigo will be-" Ishiin was cut off when a foot landed straight into his face. Rukia turned around to see who was the dangerous man who had just knocked down Ishiin. It was the furious orange haired teenager, who was blushing.
"Ichigo! What did you do to your Otou-san!?" Rukia scowled Ichigo.
"Idiot! Didn't you know that he was giving you wrong thoughts in your head!?" Ichigo screamed at the thick-headed Rukia.
"Hah? You think that I don't know when someone's giving me wrong thoughts?!" Rukia was close up to Ichigo's face. And Rukia's knuckle had been below his chin.
The beat up Ishiin looked at them, through his bruised up eye and sighed like it was a dream, "Ahhh~ Young love! What I would give to be young again!" without even looking at the fallen Ishiin, Ichigo had kicked him on the other eye.
"AHHH! Son! Why did you do that! I'm blind now! And I was planning on going camping this weekend!" Ishiin cried. Then he stood up, with his injuries all fixed up.
Ichigo and Rukia started sweating at the quick recovery of Ishiin. They both, at the same time, thought, 'Uhhh...What great stamina....'
"Okay now, everyone eat up! We're going camping!" Ishiin said while he flailed his arms out at the dining table. He got a punch from Karin this time.
"Crazy fart! Summer's almost over! Why would someone go camping at this time of year!?" Karin yelled.
"B-But.... we have a new family! We have to celebrate! You'll be the person who will be in charge of the nature walk?!" Ishiin bribed Karin.
'I-In charge?!.....' Karin thought. "Okay, you got yourself a deal."
"YOU HEAR THAT! WE'RE GOING CAMPING!!" Ishiin screamed to the heavens and started crying in joy. Then he zoomed to Ichigo and leaned on his shoulder, he whispered in Ichigo's ear, "This is payback for not bringing me to the festival... heh heh heh....."
"Ummm...?" said Rukia's voice.
"Yes, my dear Rukia-chan?"
"Well, how long is this trip going to last? We need to go to school, don't we?" Rukia asked. Ishiin had walked over to Rukia and ruffled her hair.
"You're such a good kid-- except for that boy, over there-- we'll be staying at Mount. Ishiin---heh, I named that!-- for three days!" Ishiin said, in a high squeaky voice.
"Ah... that's okay then..." Rukia said, relieved that it was short. "May I go somewhere?"
"I'm coming with you!" Ishiin had declared, before Rukia had even explained why.
"Oh! But it's my track and field team. They might be at school, practicing."
"Hah! I'll go with you, because Ichigo is not a man enough to protect you!" Ishiin said as loud as he could, as if wanting Ichigo to hear.
"Old man! I don't trust you! I'm going to go too!" yelled the pissed Ichigo.
"You're really going to miss three days of practice running?" Hisagi asked. His cast was now gone, and he was trying to recover (he SPRAINED his ankle, not broke it) He had looked like he had something on his mind, when he first sighted Rukia.
"Sorry, senpai..." Rukia said apologetically. Ishiin was focusing on Hisagi's face and looked like there was something on it. He glare at him, making Hisagi feel awkward at him.
"HAHAHAHA! I know! You want to come with us too! Isn't that right, uhhh... Junpei!?" Ishiin yelled at the surprised 69 tattooed man.
"Uhhh..... my name is Hisagi Shuhei......?" Hisagi asked, not sure if Ishiin even heard him.
"Well! Junpei! Come to the camping with us!"
"B-but! I need to stay, I'm the-"
"Okay then! Junpei-kun is coming camping with us!" Ishiin had grabbed Hisagi. "Where's your house, Junpei? I'll come with you!"
'More like, you don't want me to escape...', Hisagi thought. "Ahh... Kurosaki-san.... I can come alone..."
"Nonsense! We men must stick together!" Ishiin had dragged Hisagi, while Hisagi had pitifully pointed out where his house was.
2 hours later...
"HAHAHAHA! So how do you like it? This is Mt. Ishiin!" Ishiin yelled dramatically. Everyone behind him was growing tired, they had been following him in a nature trail for an hour already. Even the fastest runner, Hisagi, was getting worn out. "Just a little more! There's a great place where I found a waterfall near it, and the great part is, is that it's really warm!"
"You old fart! I thought I was supposed to be the leader of the nature trails!" Karin shouted at the man who had been leaving her behind. Yuzu was growing weaker, and she tripped on a little pebble.
"Otou-san, I'm tired, can we rest." Yuzu said, while she picked herself up. Rukia had ran up to her and was helping her dust off the dirt on her clothing. Then Yuzu tiredly went over to Karin's side.
"Don't worry, Yuzu! If Otou-san can do it, while on handstands, then you can do it to!" Ishiin had put both his hands on the dirt ground, and lifted his whole body. He started to walk on his hands, as fast a he could.
"I-Ichigo, how much stamina does he have?" Rukia whispered to Ichigo who had slowly caught up.
"Don't ask, I don't even know." Ichigo said.
"Why was I dragged into this?" Hisagi said lifelessly. His face was all gloomy. "Why me? Couldn't it have been Toushiro?"
'Th-that would be worse...' Rukia and Ichigo thought again. Then they saw Hisagi becoming his old self again.
"Well, to bad for Toushiro! I get to eat marshmallows, I'll be boasting in to that bastard!" Hisagi said triumphantly, as if he has won a battle. He laughed as if he wanted to get rid of some kind of bad feeling.
'Uhh.... another stamina freak....' Rukia and Ichigo thought again.
Then Rukia had suddenly realized that Hisagi was staring at her. It felt like he wanted to ask her something. Did Toushiro lie about never bothering her again? Her spine tingled at the thought that Toushiro had told Hisagi about her. "S-Shuhei-senpai, what is it?"
"Ah? Ah! Nothing..." Hisagi was snapped out off his thoughts and answered quietly, he glanced at Rukia one last time, before he caught up to the running hand stand, Ishiin.
"The hell was that, Rukia?" Ichigo asked with worry in his voice.
"I don't know..." Rukia grabbed Ichigo's arm and squeezed it, as if it was soothing to touch him. Ichigo blushed and yanked his arm out of Rukia's hand. He was red, and somehow he thought that if Rukia squeezed his arm more, then she would know how fast his heart was beating right now. His heart had almost burst when Rukia touched him for comfort. Rukia looked up at Ichigo, with a confused look in her eyes, then she blushed a little and said, "S-sorry, I didn't know that I was hurting you."
'STUPID! DUMB! BLOCK-HEAD!' Ichigo screamed in his head. This Rukia was seriously thick-headed and didn't realize what she was doing. All the stupid things that she did to Ichigo made his heart race. This dumb idiotic stupid head! He just wanted to give her a good bump on her head to realize what she was doing to him.
"Tch! It's okay, let's just catch up with the rest of the crew!" Ichigo yelled, his face red and his brows were furrowed more than usually.
When they had reached the camp base, it was just how Ishiin had described about the waterfall. There was a huge waterfall in the middle, and trees encircled around the area. Rocks were near the big pond that the waterfall made. Steam had formed out of the water, making the pool of water foggy.
And there, in the middle of the big pond, was Ishiin. He was red from the hot heat of the water. But when Rukia saw him, she too had turned red, and covered her eyes with her hand. Ishiin was nude.
"OYAJI! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Ichigo yelled at the infatuated Ishiin (I don't really remember, but I think Oyaji means 'old man' in Japanese...)
Ishiin had slowly reacted to Ichigo's response, his eyes looked dazed and his whole cheeks were red, "Oh, son, why don't you come and join me?" his voice had sounded like he had drank a lot of sake.
"HELL NO!" He turned to face Rukia a little, then he faced back at his father, "Get out of there, or you'll burn Rukia's eyes out!- OH MY GOD!" Ichigo saw a flying Hisagi, cannonballing in the pond.
"Ahh~ this is a good feeling." Hisagi said with peace in his voice. Then when he saw Rukia, he panicked, "K-Kuchiki! Go to the girls now!"
"Y-yes!" she ran clumsy with her hands still on her eyes. She tripped a little on the rocks, then picked herself right back up, to the girl's tent.
"Tch! Shuhei-san, I seriously didn't know that you were just like my old man!"Ichigo had noticed that Hisagi was not entirely focused on what he had said. Hisagi's eyes were still on the back of the petite raven haired girl, and now at the tent that she had disappeared too. This had made Ichigo feel insecure. "Shuhei-san?"
"Huh? Ah, sorry, Ichigo, do you want to join us?" Hisagi said. he had a light smile and his eyes had become unreadable.
"No, I'm going to set our tent." Ichigo walked away from the two men that was relaxing in the pool of warm water. He got the pack of tenting equipment, that was tossed carelessly to the ground, and opened it to start setting it up.
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When Ichigo was done with the pitching of the tent, he crawled inside and laid in there, tired, with sweat all over his body. The ground beneath him was all rough and poky, it irritated him. The only thing that had made him settle and fall asleep, was the sound of the waterfall falling into the pool, and the humming of the crickets. Night was falling.
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In the tent, Rukia had laid down, and was staring sadly at a white rabbit mask. She clutched it tight with one hand. Ever since Ichigo had given it to her, she had never stopped carrying it, almost as if she was scared of losing it.
She was replaying the memory in her head. She felt a little pain in her heart, when Ichigo had deliberately yanked his arm right out of Rukia. She needed his comfort right now, she needed his soothing touch. She then shook her head, almost shaking away her thoughts. She couldn't do it. There was no confidence in even falling for him. She always had resisted, but it was hard. All the time, she acted like a block-head, she never wanted him to know that she was very self-conscious. She dropped the white mask onto her stomach and stared at the tent 'ceiling'.
'Thoughts of him... is not necessary............ nothing more than a friend'
OnigiriKami: What was all that, that Rukia was thinking about?
Sorry if this thing has any mistakes! And if it was a rush then tell me (but try to tell me nicely!!) So maybe the next two chapters will be the camping. HEHEHEHEH, I let Rukia live with Ichigo.... This chapter is not meaningless, it is actually following the plot line!
WAAAH! Why did Hisagi have to be dragged into this! Ishiin, your so sly!
Next Chapter: The Courage Test
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