Story: Playa Playa
Chapter Thirteen: Lightning Strikes
Rating: Mature
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Bleach
A/N: I had to write this in Text Edit because Microsoft was being a Bitch! So, I have no idea how this will look, or what, so please excuse it if there are any problems, and I will fix it when Word stops acting like a little Puss, and just works! Done with the rant and on with the story.
Rukia stood up from the edge of the cliff, grabbed her zanpakuto, looked to the sky and giggled, 'this ought to be fun, let's see if I can channel that power Ichigo said I was using.' Rukia thought to herself.
Ichigo's eyes widened as he watched Rukia, "You aren't thinking about using that power on me are you?" Ichigo asked in a concerned voice.
Rukia turned her head to Ichigo and gave him a sly smile, "I'm going to be honest here, the thought had crossed my mind." Rukia replied.
Ichigo returned that same sly grin, "Well, then if you are going to use that, I am not going to hold back!" Ichigo explained.
Rukia tilted her head in confusion, "You were holding back before?" she asked.
"Of course I was! I wasn't going to use my full power on someone who just learned bankai." Ichigo answered like it should have been obvious.
"But, you said, you were." Rukia added.
"I know I did, I had to in order to help you train, you didn't want to fight someone who was holding back, and I knew you wouldn't be able to fight me at all if I didn't." Ichigo explained further.
"So why are you going to do it now?" Rukia asked.
"Because, I want to win, and you are certainly stronger than before." Ichigo replied. Ichigo reached his hand behind his head and grabbed the cloth wrapped tang of his sword and it immediately started unraveling.
Rukia fell forward onto her knees as Ichigo's full spiritual pressure was released, her hands balled into fists against the hard ground as she tried to lift her body up to face him. 'What unbelievable power, I don't think I can even move my body, this spiritual pressure surpasses captain class shinigami by far.' Rukia thought to herself.
Ichigo smiled as he watched Rukia struggle to stand. 'I know I shouldn't be happy about this right now, but I had to do it.' He thought to himself as stuck the tip of his sword in the ground and stopped letting out so much spiritual pressure.
"Why did you do that?" Rukia asked as she finally stood.
"I didn't want to lose." Ichigo replied.
"No, stop letting out your spiritual pressure." Rukia corrected him.
"Oh, as much as it pleased me to know that I might win this time, I didn't like seeing you like that, I didn't want to hurt you." Ichigo replied.
Rukia grabbed her zanpakuto and tilted it counterclockwise to the side "Dance, Sode No Shirayuki." Her sword turned white and her spiritual pressure started flowing strong. 'Maybe this time, I will be able to remain standing when he releases his spiritual pressure again.' She thought to herself.
"You think that will help do you?" Ichigo asked
Rukia cocked a grin "I am hoping so!" she replied.
Ichigo threw his sword in the air, caught it by the cloth and spun it around in circles above his head, he let go again and caught the tang in his hand and pointed it at Rukia, and replied, "Me too!"
Another wave of spiritual pressure overtook Rukia, she wobbled, but was able to keep her stance by putting her sword in the ground to steady herself. Ichigo watched her response closely, seeing her stance wobbling more by the second he flash stepped behind her, grabbed her shoulders to steady her and whispered, "We could call this the end and say I won."
Rukia smiled, turned and whipped her sword at Ichigo's head and replied, "I don't think so, I am not giving up that easy! I admit you are stronger than expected, but no way in hell am I just going to give up!"
Ichigo dodged the attack with ease, he felt her the moment she moved. "You are going to have to move faster than that if you want to get me." Ichigo yelled.
"Fuck you!" Rukia screamed.
Ichigo couldn't help but feel cocky; he knew he had this fight in the bag. "Right now?" He asked sarcastically. "I am down!"
Rukia was getting more irritated by the second, 'focus Rukia, he is just messing with you.' she told herself. Rukia took a breath, closed her eyes and tried to remember what her friends had told her in the past.
"Rukia, you are so strong, you just have to believe in yourself." Hisagi said to her when they were in the soul academy.
"Rukia, you are own worst enemy, you are so hard on yourself all the time, and you wear yourself down. You have to think positively, always look ahead, and know you are strong, know you can do whatever you want." Rangiku said to her when she had failed a training mission.
Ichigo watched her as she was lost in thought, and took the opportunity to flash step behind her, Rukia felt him "Some no mai, Tsukishiro." and caught his feet in the ice. "Stop messing with me Ichigo, and just fight me!" Rukia shouted, as Ichigo broke free with ease.
"I am sorry, it was just too easy, when you were sitting there like a bump on a log with your eyes closed during a battle." Ichigo shouted back.
"I was focusing." Rukia yelled in anger.
Ichigo laughed, "Well, you sure as hell weren't focusing on the battle that is supposed to be going on right now." Ichigo replied sarcastically.
Rukia smiled "You are wrong about that, have you not noticed I am standing here on my own and was even able to catch you in an attack?" Rukia asked.
"I will just have to turn it up a notch then." Ichigo replied. He grabbed his zanpakuto with both hands and lifted it above his head "Getsuga Tensho!" Ichigo shouted and a giant blast of spiritual pressure was sent flying towards Rukia.
"Fuck!" Rukia yelled as she was hit by the attack and sent flying. As she struggled to her feet she muttered to herself, "That was much stronger than the ones he attacked me with the other day, how many of those can I withstand."
Ichigo heard her and yelled "hopefully one more." he lifted his sword above his head again and with more force this time he swung down "Getsuga Tensho!"
Once again Rukia put her sword in front of her body to block the attack and was sent flying into the rocks behind her. Rukia stood to her feet, coughed up some blood "Tsugi no mai, Hakuren!" Rukia shouted as she stabbed the ground with her sword creating another circle of ice and then stabbed it four more times sending a wave of ice at an unsuspecting Ichigo.
Ichigo was encased in the ice within seconds, but within one more second he was free. "If you don't want me to get out you need to use your bankai ice, so I can't use my powers" Ichigo taunted.
"Uhmmph..." Rukia scoffed. "Fine with me! Just remember you asked for it, also remember if I am able to use that power you saw, I don't know how to control it, so you just might die." Rukia shrugged her shoulders "But, I guess if that happens, it would mean that I won the bet." she added.
Ichigo smiled, "You really are a cold hearted bitch, ya know that?" Ichigo asked, and then answered his own question 'And you are the fool that is in love with her.'
Rukia bent down on one knee and stuck her blade in the dry dirt, "Bankai Tenshi no Shirayuki." Her sword disappeared and a wave of cold air flowed over the top of the mountain.
Ichigo shivered, as he ogled the Ice Princess in front of him, oh yeah, he was ogling; he was taking mental pictures of her bankai.
Once Rukia was in her bankai, how she was able to manipulate the elements before came back to her. "You better wipe that smirk off your face, and get into your bankai, and you better do it fast." She explained to Ichigo, as if it was an order.
Ichigo gulped, "You remember, don't you?" Ichigo asked in a concerned voice.
"Oh you bet your sweet ass I do!" Rukia replied as she started strutting towards him, his spiritual pressure no longer an issue.
Ichigo still as confident as ever, flash stepped and met her half way, he ran his finger gently down her exposed cleavage "You are forgetting sweetie that I have a bankai too." Ichigo jumped back before Rukia could smack his hand away from her body.
Rukia had to admit to herself, that Ichigo's touch sent heat throughout her cold body, she wiped that thought out of her mind as Ichigo pointed his sword out in front him, gripped it with both hands and yelled "Bankai!"
As his sword turned all black, he wasted no time before attacking Rukia "Tensa Zangetsu!"
Rukia easily sidestepped the attack and walked towards Ichigo, "watch this," she said. Her head fell back, she lifted her hands to the sky, and immediately the clouds rolled in.
'God, I wish I wasn't always the one battling her so I could just watch her, she has so many attacks, she doesn't even use a sword when she is in bankai, yet she still kicks ass. She is so versatile.' Ichigo was brought out of his thoughts, when the crack of lighting hit the ground in front of him.
"I knew you were watching me and not the sky like I asked you to do so I didn't let that hit you in the center of your head, but beware I won't be so kind next time." Rukia explained.
Ichigo looked to the sky it was black, there was cloud to cloud lightening and loud thunder.
"Some no mai, Konayuki!" Rukia said quietly.
Ichigo expected snow to fall, just like what had happened in their past battles, but the snow never fell, instead ice came flying towards him. "Tensa Zangetsu!" Ichigo yelled as he fired a blast towards the sky.
"You better keep those attacks coming, because I have an endless amount of ice." Rukia explained.
Ichigo thought quickly, "To get rid of the ice, I have to get rid of the person controlling the ice." Ichigo fired another attack directly at Rukia. Rukia used her right hand to put up an ice wall in front of her for protection and used her left hand to send an ice attack directly at Ichigo. Ichigo quickly sidestepped the attack and fired a counter attack at Rukia as she whipped her barrier down, he hit her right arm, sending her backwards.
"I've got you figured out now! You can't fight me if you can't see me, you have to take down that barrier in order to attack me, so if I time it just right, I will get you every time." Ichigo explained.
Rukia laughed "You think so?" she asked as she ripped part of her dress and tried to tie it around her bleeding arm.
Ichigo flash stepped to her, grabbed the wrist of her bleeding arm, ran his hand up it slowly, when he reached the cloth he pulled the ends hard and tightly tied it to her arm, "I know so."
Rukia just watched as his hands sensually made their way up the skin of her arm, 'he sure is smooth, the sad part is it is working' Rukia thought to herself. As Ichigo was about to leave she grabbed his wrist, "this time you better watch." She held him there as she lifted her index finger to the sky. She started spinning it in circles, and the clouds started following the motion. Ichigo looked up at the sky and then down to her finger, and back again, he watched as a cyclone started to form, 'Shit she is doing that tornado thing again.' Ichigo thought to himself.
Rukia cocked a smile, looked to Ichigo and said "have fun!" as she gave him a hard, forceful push backwards sending his body flying.
Just as Ichigo caught his balance twin tornadoes were swirling towards him. "Tensa Zangetsu!" Ichigo yelled as he sent a large attack at the tornadoes.
They were cut in half, and swirled apart but were quickly pulled back together. Ichigo flash stepped to avoid them, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Rukia with her hand above her head again, about to conjure another one. 'Fuck, she is about to make another one, this controlling the elements shit, is ridiculous, I call foul, I call it cheating!' Ichigo muttered to himself as he continued flash stepping the tornadoes ripping towards him.
He had to think fast, he had to stop her from making another one. He flash stepped the tornadoes again, this time making his way towards Rukia. As he reached her he stuck his arm out, grabbed her and pulled her with him, slamming her tiny body hard into the rock face.
It took Rukia a moment to register what just happened, then she noticed Ichigo breathing heavily over her. "What the, f..?"
She was interrupted by Ichigo who grabbed both of her wrists and held them above her head, "Don't you even dare!" Ichigo shouted as he saw Rukia swirling a free finger in the air, he cupped his hand over her tiny hands and raised zangetsu to her throat with the other, Rukia gulped. "I think you can call this a win for me." Ichigo said menacingly, eyeing Rukia's body with intent.
Rukia's chest was heaving, from the exhaustion of the battle, and proximity of Ichigo's body to hers. Ichigo removed his blade from her throat and trailed it down her body gently until the tip of the blade hit the ground, and he released it from his grasp. With his now free hand he wrapped his arm around Rukia's waist and pulled her body even closer to his. "So, I won, are you going to go through with your end of the bet?" Ichigo asked, his eyes filled with passion.
Rukia pushed herself off of the wall and wrapped her arms around Ichigo's neck and replied, "I never back out of a bet."
Ichigo unwrapped her arms "Well, I can't go through with my end of it, I just can't make you go out with me because of a bet, I want you to want me." Ichigo explained, as his eyes changed from happiness and passion and filled with pain and heartache.
Rukia smiled and gently placed both of her hands on his cheeks, "Ichigo, I was going to say yes before you made the bet, had you not interrupted me with your goofy smile, I would have told you that." Rukia explained
Ichigo had a mix of emotions, "Rukia what the hell? Why did we have to battle then?" Ichigo asked.
Rukia gripped his bankai outfit and pulled him down to her "Ever since our first battle, fighting you really turns me, especially when you watch me with piercing eyes when I am in my bankai outfit, you send chills throughout my body and I knew whatever outcome I would be with you."
Ichigo's heart was racing, she wanted him just as much as he wanted her. He dipped his head the final few inches taking Rukia's mouth with his in a rough kiss filled with want. Rukia wrapped her arms around his neck and he roughly slammed her up against the rock face again and let his large hands roam her curvy, sensual body memorizing every spot he touched. "Ru.. ki.. a... " was moaned from his lips and into her mouth as she let her hand wander his now bare chest and that was it, she lost control.
A/N: This didn't come out as great as I promised! :( I still thoroughly enjoyed it though. I had it all planned in my head the way I wanted it go, but then I decided that wouldn't work, and I got myself all confused! haha As my parents would say "you are easily confused!" Oh, ya! I have parents who tell me like it is! Hahaha They are the bestest though. Okay I am done ranting... So, I think this works, let me know what you think! Expect a nice sexy chapter to follow!