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Sorry for the last confusing chapter, I need to work on my plot better.
Want to thank all my readers for sticking to this story so far. I hope I don't disappoint you
Ch: 14 after the play and confessions
Rukia was sitting at one of the tables at Yamamoto's family restaurant, she was wondering herself why he did that. Sure she said yes at that time, but that was at the heat of the moment. So now she was here waiting for Yamamoto to come and meet her so that they can walk to the park.
"Miss Kuchiki?" Tsuyoshi called out
"Yes?"
"Here is you order, Takeshi said that he will be down in a minute."
"Okay thanks Yamamoto-san." Eating her sushi she waited until she saw Yamamoto come down.
"Ready to go Rukia?" he said with a smile on his face.
"Sure."
"I am going out old man, I'll be back later to help out."
"Don't worry Takeshi, take your time." He responded and waved them goodbye.
x-x
Walking at the park Rukia seemed deep in thought, Yamamoto looked at her and asked.
"What are you thinking about?"
"I was just thinking how did this happen? I mean I known you, for what, a few months? And now I am your girlfriend? Tell me when did you fell in love with me?"
"Oh? Is that all? That easy, I fell in love with you when I first saw you."
"That kind of sweet talk won't work on me. Try again."
"Want the truth?"
"That would be nice." Rukia crossed her arms and Yamamoto let out a small sigh.
"I started to have feelings for you when I was about to jump off the roof after the incident with my arm. At first I didn't realized it, but slowly I had more feelings for you. " He grabbed her hand. "I was so happy when we had the starting roles in the play, but then Grimmjow-sensei told me something."
"What did he tell you?" Rukia interrupted
Yamamoto packed his things after baseball practice; Grimmjow was standing near the door. As Yamamoto walked past the door, he heard something that made him stop.
"You're going to lose her if you keep stalling for time."
"What do you mean, Grimmjow-sensei?"
"Shit, are you really that retarded. That is all I can tell you, ciao." He left the locker room, leaving Yamamoto with questions.
"At first I didn't get what he meant, but when I saw you kissing Gokudera I lost control. It was there that I understood what Grimmjow-sensei meant. It was also there when my feelings for you got stronger." He turned around facing Rukia" it was only at that time that I had the guts to tell you how I felt." He gave Rukia a quick peck on the lips before continuing. "That is all there is to it, anything else?"
"No, it's just that I haven't talked to you in a deep conversation, so I was wondering why did you do that."
"What are you talking about, you comfort me when I was sad. You didn't see me as the baseball star, but as Yamamoto Takeshi. It was your words and your actions that caught my heart. I want you to promise me something."
"What is it?"
"I want you to open your heart to me as well. You opened your heart to Sasagawa and her sister, but I want to see the real you."
"Who said that I ha-"
"You cant lie to me either, Rukia. I want you to trust me, please." Yamamoto said in beg-like tone, and Rukia lightly karate chopped him on the head.
"Baka, I already trust you. I can see it in you eyes that you are telling the truth and I believe those eyes. Also we shouldn't tell anyone, well at least not yet. Since I want to find my true feelings for you, can you wait?"
"Yeah I can wait, so we should act like before in front of others?"
Rukia nodded and lightly punched his chest. She started running, "try to catch me slowpoke."
Yamamoto looked confused for a moment, and then he thought about it. He smiled "your on", and started to run after her.
x-x
It was Monday and it was time for school. Grimmjow left earlier because as a teacher he had to be there two hours before her. She made a quick breakfast so she can leave as soon as she can. She grabbed her schoolbag and left the apartment. She felt like she was being watched, but she ignored it since she was about to late.
x-x
"Hey you fucking shrimp, you're late."
"Yeah, I know but– "
"No buts, detention for a week with someone named Hibari?" Grimmjow said; people were whispering around her. 'What wrong with this Hibari?'thought Grimmjow.
"You idiot, you just gave me detention with one of the city's most dangerous delinquents" Rukia muttered under her breath. Grimmjow gave her a questioning look; he got closer to her whispering to her. "What wrong with them, and who is Hibari Kyoya?" Rukia wanted to strangle him, but she couldn't. She sighed for her fate with the perfect of Namimori middle.
"Just sit down you fucking brat and wait for your next class." Ordered Grimmjow.
x-x
She was walking to the rooftop to have lunch with Tsuna and the others when a group of girls stood in her away.
"Can I help you?" she was slapped by the girl in the middle of the group. She slowly walked away from the group of girls.
"Who the hell do you think you are, you little bitch?" One of the girls asked
"Huh?"
"Yamamoto and Gokudera are way out of your league." Another girl responded, slapping her again.
"What?"
"We are the Yamamoto and Gokudera fan clubs, we get first dibs." Another girl slapped her a third time
"We are going to teach you a lesson, you whore." They started to get closer. Rukia wanted to defend herself, but she was forbidden to use her kiddou on civilians. Run away or not, rules needed to be followed. For now she was defenseless. She waited for the pain to come, but it never did. "What the…" she saw in front of her none other than the perfect of Namimori middle.
"H-Hibari-san." One of the fangirls said they all took a step back.
"Looks like found myself a flock of herbivores. Why are you crowding here?" he raised his tonfa "I'll bite you to death." He said with a cold glare.
"Quick, run away" the group of fangirls started to run away from Hibari he started to look at Rukia, he raised an eyebrow "why didn't you fight back?"
"Because I am not allowed to hurt them, that's why."
"Remember that you have detention with me this afternoon."
"Right, see ya in Grimmjow's gym class, if you want to see my strength come to class for once."
"I'll think about it." He said, watching her as she walked up the stairs going to the rooftop.
x-x
"Rukia-san what happen to you?" Tsuna asked as he saw the bruise left by the fangirls.
"I had a little accident, I'm fine really. Although Grimmjowis going to give me hell because of the bruise." Rukiasmiled at the group, "are you guys ready for Grimmjow's class after lunch? It is going to be brutal."
"Why do you say that?" Gokudera asked.
"I've known him for a long time and he can be merciless at anyone who can't keep up with his 'exercises' to say the least I had a hard time following that expectation."
"Is it that hard?" Yamamoto asked.
"Just prepare yourselves, that is all I can tell you." Rukia looked at Tsuna who was starting to panic, and Yamamoto and Gokudera trying to calm him down. 'Prepare yourselves' she thought while looking up to the sky.
x-x
Tsuna, Yamamoto, Gokudera and Rukia were at the gymnasium waiting for Grimmjow to show up. Along with Ryohei they were waiting for him, Ryohei was running laps around the gym.
"Oi, turf-head, stop running around its giving me a headache."
"What was that octopus-head?" Ryohei stopped to yell at Gokudera, and Gokudera fought back with him. After a few minutes they all heard the doors to the gym slam open it was Grimmjowwith a child behind him, the child had a green sweater and blue jeans. He had a white and red scarf. His hair was dirty-blond. He had a big book that said rankings.
"Fuuta, what are you doing here?" Tsuna asked the little boy.
"Tsuna-nii, what are you doing here? Grimmjow told me that I needed to make some rankings. I didn't know that I was about Tsuna-nii and his friends."
"Grimmjow who is this child?" Rukia asked.
"This is the petit prince Fuuta, also known as ranking Fuuta." Reborn showed up in a basketball suit.
"Reborn, don't show up like that, but what's Fuuta doing here?"
"Reborn and Grimmjow-oji asked me to come."
"You know Grimmjow?"
"Yes he and shielding princess watched over me before. He was really friendly." Fuuta smiled 'he? Friendly? I never knew Grimmjow was the type to like kids.'Rukia thought.
"Anyway he is here so that he can rank on what I need to work with each of you. Fuuta if you don't mind?"
"Of course," he walked up to Ryohei looked up to him. "This is Fuuta, I can hear you ranking planet." Things around the gym started to float in the air. " The three things that Ryohei-nii needs to work on is… number 3 his voice, number 2 his temper, and number one his footwork when boxing." He turned to Gokudera "the three things that Gokudera-nii are, number three his footwork, number 2 his stamina, number one his speed." He then turned to Yamamoto "the three things that Yamamoto-nii needs to work on are, number 3 his strength, number 2 his speed, number 1 his combat skill." He turned to Rukia. "The three things that Rukia-nee needs to work on are, number 3 her physical strength, number 2 her speed, number 1 the Shun Shun Rikka." Rukia and Grimmjow looked up in surprise, Grimmjow was angry. He grabbed Fuuta by the back of his head.
"Repeat that again, you stupid brat."
"Grimmjow drop him." Rukia ordered.
"Who are you to give orders, you fucking shrimp?"
"Drop him, and I'll tell you what has happen in these two years regarding that power." Rukia said; Grimmjow had no choice but to drop him and listen what she had to say.
"I don't know why or how but every time that me or the others are in trouble Santen Kesshun appears."
"What do you mean that you don't know?" Grimmjow was shouting, 'why is Orihime's power working if she is dead, and on Rukia '
"I just don't know, ok. Is that what you want to hear you insensible jerk." Tears were starting to form in her eyes. "Don't blame me for the past, you have as much guilt as I do. So I don't want to hear something like that from you."
"Um Grimmjow-sensei" Yamamoto interrupted
"What, can't you see that we are having a discussion?" Grimmjow shouted
"The class you idiot." Reborn was standing on Tsuna 's shoulder
"Oh right, everybody I am in a bad mood. So do 5 miles in 15 minutes. Just be glad that I am in a generous mood as well."
"But, Grimmjow-sensei." Tsuna started to whine, but stopped when he saw Grimmjow's glare.
"Time is ticking you brats, if you don't fucking finish with in the time limit, guess what, all of you will have to do it again until you can finish."
"But-" Tsuna tried to get out of it, but was punched by Reborn.
"Start running." Grimmjow smirked about it; before Rukia started to run she and Grimmjow were alone.
"Never mention her in front of them again or else." Rukia started to run
x-x
After an hour of running (since Tsuna was the only one who couldn't finish.) all of them were exhausted except for Ryohei, he was the first one to finish.
"That was an extreme running." Ryohei said watching everyone else catch their breaths.
"Shut up, turf-head" Gokudera said while panting for breath
"What was that octopus-head"
"Both if you shut up, now its time for sparring lessons," Grimmjow smirked at them; Rukia knew that nothing good would come out of this. "I've calmed down a bit, and I want to spar with you Rukia."
"Me?"
"Yes you, tomorrow it's your boyfriend's turn. But for today it is your turn." Rukia blushed at that comment; she did not want to look at Yamamoto. She was way embarrassed for that 'how did this bastard found out about us?'Rukia thought in her head. "Here shrimp," he threw her a wooden sword and handed her a white rose. "Now lets start shall we? The rules are simple each of us will have a rose put on our chest. The first one who loses the entire rose is the loser. Ready or not here I come."
Grimmjow charged in first, not waiting for Rukia to get ready. She jumped to avoid a hit, Grimmjow took advantage of that and disappeared from everyone, appearing behind Rukia. A direct strike on her back, the force made her fall on the floor.
"Come on, don't tell me that you gotten softer." Grimmjow went to strike again but was stopped by Rukia and one of her kiddou.
"Hadou no. 33 Soukatsui" blue fire surrounded Rukia protecting her from the attack.
"Reborn she is going to burn the gym."
"Calm down, Baka-Tsuna, see." Reborn jumped down to the floor, when he hit the floor started to move like waves in the ocean. Its colors changed frequently giving it an aurora color. "This floor along with the walls and windows are protected so that the other students don't notice what is going on in the gym while you are here."
"That's a relief, but how come Grimmjow-sensei can disappear?"
"He is not disappearing, he is moving at high speed. It is a move they call shunpo "
"Grimmjow-oji is ranked first in Mafioso that move at high speeds." Fuuta added
"How is Rukia going to compete with that?"
"She won't, it already over." Reborn said as the others looked in shock for Grimmjow's strength.
Rukia couldn't keep up with Grimmjow's shunpo, she was about to lose when she notice that the hairpin on her neck started to glow. The hairpin split into three and formed a shield around her. Grimmjow struck the shield, causing him to be defenseless for one second. Rukia took advantage of that and charged in, pointing the wooden sword at him. The shield broke and Grimmjow's rose fell to the ground in petals. Grimmjow let out a small sigh and turned to Rukia.
"Congrats you shrimp you barely beat me. Or at least I could say that but look at your rose." Pointing to her chest. Rukialooked and saw that her rose was gone; the white petals were on the floor, along with Grimmjow's red petals. "I'll give you credit though, you manage to make it into a tie." He stated to walk away "the rest of the time is yours to do what you want, I'm out of here."
Tsuna and the others were confused on what happen in the duel, they saw Rukia going for the rose. However they didn't see Grimmjow cutting her rose. It was too fast to keep up. They all went and surrounded her.
"That was EXTREME Rukia." Ryohei said (yelled), grabbing her shoulders
"Are you alright Rukia-san" concerned for her back after seeing how hard Grimmjow hit her.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just a little sore for the back, but it will go away soon."
"Can explain what happened, none of us could see what exactly happened." Gokudera asked.
"I'll explain." Reborn jumped on Yamamoto shoulder. "You see when Rukia went and jumped to finish the duel, Grimmjowreacted fast enough to knock the rose off her. But he couldn't save his." Reborn looked at Rukia "can you tell them about the duel?"
"Sure, okay the name of this type of spar is called the rose duel. Kuchiki Elders created it. It was mostly used to test their students in combat. It is also used when Kuchiki bosses invites other bosses to stay at the manor. Almost like a symbol of a friendly competition."
"Wow, so are we going to do this type of duel as well?" Yamamoto asked
"If he is keeping his promise, then yes you will all have to go through it." Rukia looked at her watch. "Great now I have to go to detention with Hibari." Rukia walked out of the gym, Yamamotofollowing her. Everybody looking at them as they left, they gave each other a questioning look.
"Is it me, or are Yamamoto and Rukia-san hiding something?"
"Yeah it is EXTREMELY strange."
"Lets go home, Tsuna." Reborn ordered, al of them were walking out of the gym, going home after a long day at school.
x-x
"Rukia wait." Yamamoto caught up to Rukia who was going into the main building for detention.
"What wrong Yamamoto-kun?" Rukia asked
"Do you really have to go to detention with Hibari?" he asked, "I can go with you or something?"
"I am going to detention, I am not going to get eaten." She reached up and gave him a quick peck on the lips. "I'll be fine, promise." She ran into the building for her detention with Hibari. Yamamoto stood there silent for a moment and a smile came up to his face, "she's right, I should bring her and Grimmjow-sensei something from my old man's shop." He turned around and saw Tsuna and the others staring at him, "you guys saw that, didn't you?" they all nodded and Yamamoto started to laugh nervously 'how am going to explain this to them?' he thought.
After a long awkward silence Gokudera was the first to speak up. "You got some things to explain, baseball nut."
x-x
"Huh? What do you mean that detention is cancelled?"
"Didn't you hear right herbivore, I said detention is over because there are some things I need to take care of. Now get out, or I'll bite you to death."
"Yeah, yeah I'm going. Sheesh can't you be nice to a least one person." Rukia turned around; she felt his aura rise faced him a tonfa was going her way. She stepped aside in order to dodge it. "What is your problem, Hibari?"
"Don't take lightly. I am not like those herbivores that you hang out. I hate crowds, but you on the other hand. Tell me why didn't you dodged the hits you received from those girls?"
"I told you I cant hurt civilians. Even if they are hurting me." She sighed, walking to the door she stopped for a moment. "You know, you might known as a delinquent, but I think there is more to you that meets the eye. Well I have to go, I don't want to be bitten to death."' She left leaving Hibari by himself, he smirked looking outside the window "Kuchiki Rukia, she is going to be an interesting prey"
x-x
At home Rukia went to her room to leave her things. She grabbed her towel and soap; she went directly to the bathtub and dipped herself in the warm water. She started to relax in a nice bubble bath. She started to doze off when she heard someone banging the door.
"Get the fuck out of the bathtub, the pack of idiots are here for you."
"Can you tell them to come back?"
"Get the fuck out, NOW."
"Fine just tell them I'll be out in a few minutes." Rukia got out of the bath, wrapped a towel around herself, she started to run to her room, locking it.
x-x
Rukia sat in one of the couches of her apartment, in the other sat Tsuna, Gokudera, and Ryohei. Yamamoto decided to sit on the floor, Grimmjow left to get some more beer, do they were alone.
"Tell us what is going on with you two?" Gokudera asked (demanded)
"Calm down Gokudera-kun, if they don't want to tell us then it is not of our concern." Tsuna said drinking the tea that Rukia offered them.
Rukia leaned down to Yamamoto's ear and whispered to him "how did they found out?" He whispered back to her, "they saw us, so now what do we do now?" Rukia thought for a minute, she decided to tell them the truth.
"I think that it would be obvious, but if you haven't figured it out me and Yamamoto are dating." Rukia saw trying to ignore the blush that was probably on her face. There was a small awkward silence until Tsuna spoke up.
"Well congratulations to both of you." Ryohei was not happy and went and grabbed Yamamoto by the collar of his shirt.
"I am going to tell you this once, Rukia is like my sister if you make her cry I will kick your ass to the EXTREME got that?" Yamamoto nodded and Ryohei dropped him on the floor.
"Onii-chan, don't do that to Yamamotohe is my boyfriend now. I wont forgive you if you hurt him." She put her hands on her face and started to pretend to cry. Ryohei started to panic and kneeled down to see her face.
"Calm down Rukia, I EXTREMELY promise not to hurt him at all, just please don't cry."
"Fine, thank you onii-chan." She pulled a smile that put Ryohei 's heart at ease. He sighed and sat back down. "So now that you know, I guess I should offer you dinner since you are all here." She went to pick up the phone and dialed some number and put the phone to her ear.
"Grimmjow? Its me Rukia, I need to stop at the groceries on your way back from beer and get me as much steak meat as you can find." She listened to what Grimmjow was saying over the line. "I don't care how much I'll pay you back with interest. Thanks, I appreciated. Bye." She hung up on him; she turned to the rest of the group and had a grin on her face. " I hope everyone is hungry, since we are having steak for dinner."
"Alright, steak to the EXTREME." Ryohei said while walking to the table. Tsuna looked worried at Rukia.
"Isn't steak really expensive?"
"Yeah, but Grimmjow can afford it. Lets leave it at that." Rukia smiled they all waited for Grimmjow to return with the meat so they can have dinner. Rukia looked out the window. She could feel the dark aura in the air, but it was not from a hollow but from something else. She knew that something would threaten them soon; she just hoped that they were ready for that.
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A/N: so yeah I had to do that with Ryohei, I see him as an overprotective brother. Oh well, this is my Christmas present to my readers. Happy Holidays.
Can anyone guess where I got the idea for the rose duel?
Till next chapter.