Chapter 13

After their lunch Ichigo and Renji went back over to where their friends were still sitting.

"Why are you guys just sitting here?" Renji asked as he and Ichigo made their way back over to the blanket where everyone else was. Ichigo sat down next to Rukia and pushed her bangs away from her face for the thousandth time that day.

"We were waiting for the both of you to finish eating." Rukia replied. "We didn't want the two of you to miss out on any of the fun." Rukia stood from the blanket and kicked of her flip flops. Ichigo watched as Orihime stood and didn't the same, soon all of her friends had stripped over their over cloths and were ready to get in the water.

"You coming Ichigo?" Rukia asked.

"Uh….nah… I uh, still have 15 more minutes before I can get in the water." She said. Her lame excuse seemed to be just enough for her friends, who only nodded and left her by herself to attend to the towel and the sand around it.

"You know your fifteen minutes were up about twenty minutes ago." Renji said as he stood in front of Ichigo with his hands on his hips.

"I don't feel like swimming." Ichigo replied as she stared past him at her friends who were still playing in the water.

"Why not?" Renji asked.

"I don't want to get my hair wet." Ichigo replied." it pretty to look at but it's a pain in the ass to have to blow dry and straighten after I get wet."

"Well I guess you have no choice." Renji said simply.

"What are you talking about?" Ichigo asked. He didn't answer he took one large step forward and wrapped his arm around Ichigo upper body, pinning her arms down to her side.

"What the hell are you doing Renji?" Ichigo screamed. Her legs flailed wildly as she was hoisted from the ground and thrown over his shoulder. She beat her small arms against his back only to be dropped down into the water seconds later.

"Don't drown squirt." Renji said as he grabbed her and lifted her almost completely out of the water. Ichigo opened her eyes and looked through the curtain of hair covering her eyes. She reached out and grabbed both sides of Renji head before spitting a mouth of water into his face.

"Who the hell are you calling a squirt?" Ichigo asked as she pushed her wet hair completely away from her face.

"You little one," Renji said completely releasing her body making plop back down into the water.

"Dammit Renji!" she yelled as she struggled against the brand new sundress she was wearing over her bathing suit.

"Why don't you just take it off instead of fighting with it, it already wet anyway." Renji said.

"You just wanna see me without any cloths on you dirty pervert." Ichigo snapped. Renji entire face went red.

"No I…it wasn't anything like that!" he yelled.

"Whatever, you pervert." Ichigo replied crossing her arms over her chest.

"Fine then, be that way!" Renji replied in a loud voice. He reached down and swept his hand through the water, splashing Ichigo in the process.

"Hey watch where your splashing that!" Ichigo yelled while splashing him back. It was long before the two were in a full on water fight.

"Well at least they aren't beating the snot out of each other." Rukia said as she watched her two friends wrestling around in the water a few yards away from them.

"The only reason that he hasn't really hit her yet is because she's a girl." Ishida said as he stood alongside Rukia watched the fight.

"And because he likes her." Orihime added.

"That too," chad said as he fell into line with the rest of them.

"It looks like we really have found a match in the two of them." Ishida confirmed, the rest of them just nodded.