Hi again! Last chapter was the least amount of reviews I ever got…
It's still a bit sad to think about really and it wasn't even a sad story!
But hopefully this time it'll be different!
"Hey your new here huh?" a girl's voice called out towards a tiny boy just her age, sitting on the porch of his house alone.
"Huh? Uh yeah, I just moved here" "Cool! I'm Rukia, what's your name?" the tiny girl strolled over towards the boy jumping onto the porch, in the end sitting beside the kid who in turn looked at her like she were an alien.
"Toushiro"
"Hi there!" placing her hand out with a bright smile on her face, beaming with a light tint over her plump cheeks, her raven colored bang covering most of her petite face.
Looking at the girls hand in suspicion Toushiro remained to himself not moving to take the girls hand when she opened her eyes in question,
"It's called a handshake"
"I know what it is"
"Then why don't you take it? I'm not dirty"
"…I can't talk to strangers"
Wide dark purple orbs stared in amusement before bursting into laughter! Making the boy flush red in embarrassment.
"W-what's so funny!?" holding his tiny child like arms across his chest
"I'm not a stranger stupid!"
"Yeah you are! We don't know each other!"
"No, you know my name and I know yours! That means we're not strangers" smiling like the child prodigy she wasn't, Rukia gave a smirk to the white haired boy; who looked away.
"Fine we're not strangers…."
"Then take my hand" holding out her hand once more, Rukia brought on her smile again this time Toushiro stared for a moment just to be a brat before taking it with a shake. Thus the start of their odd friendship, that would be the backbone of their relationship into future years.
"Hey Toushiro!" running to her best friend Rukia now only six, two years after meeting said boy; the two had become inseparable.
"Yo Rukia, what's up?" smiling at his friend, Toushiro sat on his porch waiting for the girl to come up to him and tackle him to the ground in a bear hug, with strength that would take him by surprise every time.
"I found this really great super high hill with lots of dirt! Its prefect to play on!"
"Awesome let's go!" jumping up and pushing away his books and toys, the boy ran with the girl hand in hand towards the hill. Laughing and smiling all the way there.
"Is this it?" Toushiro gasped out looking at the large hills of dry dirt, millions upon millions of hills for him and Rukia to play on! It was a dream for any six year old.
"Yup! Told you they were super high!" breaking her gaze from the hills Rukia let her purple eyes clash with bright lime green. They were going to have a ball.
"Race ya!" flashing a wink Toushiro ran towards the piles of dirt as Rukia yelled back at him
"You cheater! Come back here Toushiro!" running after the boy, the two played in childhood bliss completely forgetting the world around them.
The only ones in their world were the both of them and only them, running after the other in tag. Hiding behind each and every pile of dirt in hide and seek, making the other one find the other through noises and no eyes in catch the rabbit. They had dirtied them selves so much their once white clothes were dyed brown and green. Their mothers weren't going to be happy.
"Hey Rukia I think we have to get home now! It's getting late!" looking at the sky and seeing that the sun was a long while past the mid horizon, the boy knew from his books that they were going to be really late to dinner if they didn't hurry home. And an angry mommy wasn't pretty.
"Hey Rukia did you hear me! Lets go!" looking around when all he got was silence, Toushiro was starting to worry. From the pile of dirt he had climbed earlier, Toushiro stood up to see if he could see any form of Rukia's little raven head. Only when he didn't did the boy start to really panic.
"Rukia where are you! Answer me!" fear for the worse had risen in his normally sangfroid eyes, he had read what could happen to child when they weren't with an adult, they were kidnapped and taken away from their families and friends and never seen again.
Oh god! What if Rukia…… "RUKIA ANSWER ME PLEASE!"
"T-Toushiro!" he had heard it! H-her voice! That was Rukia's voice!
"Rukia where are you!" looking over all the hills he could see from his short height, the boy still couldn't make out a raven head.
"Here! M-my leg is stuck in this hole! Help me Toushiro!" calling out to the boy he ran towards where he hoped his best friend was, upon arriving he was beyond words to see the girl was there; and not kidnapped or worse.
"Rukia, thank goodness! Here stay still I'll get you out!" careful where he walked, Toushiro took a good look at the petite girl's foot in the collapsed hole of dirt and took hold of her leg, "Alright I'm going to pull it out on three okay!"
"Yeah" nodding Rukia braced herself for the pain, that in an instant shot through her leg automatically once it was out.
Never did Toushiro hear such a heart wrenching sound.
"How are you holding up Rukia?" Toushiro asked as he carried his best friend on his back, after tying her angle in a bandage or his now ripped shirt.
"It hurts but I can deal with it. Thanks for saving me Toushiro" tightening her hold on the boy placing her nose into the crock of his neck, Rukia failed to realized a heat form on the white haired boy's face.
"I just did what I've read to do, nothing special"
"Don't be like that, if it weren't for you I don't know what'd I'd be doing right now…probably crying my eyes out still stuck in that hole"
"You cry? Wow! Now that'd be a sight!"
"That's mean Toushiro! I would cry just like you would!"
"Me cry?! Now there you have it wrong Rukia, I wouldn't cry"
"Liar" poking her friend in the cheek causing him to turn his face the other way,
"Stop that unless you want me to drop you"
"You wouldn't do that" her voice thick with tease, bring a blush to the poor boys face once more.
"Try it again and we'll see" he threaten with a smirk bringing a blush to the girls cheeks…of course he would never do such a thing to anyone much less Rukia but it was still fun to tease the teaser.
"….you're a mean person Toushiro" sticking her tongue out as if to reprimand him, Rukia placed her chin on the boys head.
Suddenly he got a bad feeling. "What are you doing Rukia?"
"Nooothing" once the word left her smirking lips, she slammed her head onto the boys head.
"Ow!! Rukia!" moving his head away his hands almost slipping from under Rukia,
"Ahh! Toushiro I'm going to fall!" grabbing at what she could she pulled on the boys hair causing the boy to yell
"Ahhh! Ow ow ow ow ow! Let go let go let GO!"
"Then don't drop me!" both regaining their posture, Toushiro stood still for a moment as Rukia held on tight but not too hard to cause Toushiro to 'freak out' again.
"That was too dangerous Toushiro!"
"You pulled on my hair!"
"You threaten to drop me!"
"You…got your foot stuck!" lame…..
"Yeah that was all my fault!" pouting the girl sat in Toushiro's arms as they continued home. Soon silence engulfed them as the sky turned light pink
"Hey Rukia are you awake?" looking back at the silent girl on his back, he felt her shift a little "Rukia?"
"M-my angle hurts a bit"
"You want me to put you down?"
"No, it's okay we have to get back home"
"Yeah, right!" heading onward the silence that filled them was almost unbearable as Toushiro tried to get the girl talking. "Today was really fun, except your angle thing"
"Heh heh yeah, I don't think my parents will let me go out for a while"
"But they won't be too angry right?"
"…I don't know, my daddy is really mean.. but if my mommy is there then he'll be nice!…I don't think he likes me like he likes my mommy though" the girl softly spoke into the boy's neck
"Don't say that, your daddy loves you"
"Toushiro's lucky to have a nice mommy and daddy"
"Rukia too"
"Maybe…." hiding her face in his dirty collar she lightly clenched her small fists, when she felt the boy under her stop in his tracks.
"T-Toushiro?"
"Don't talk like that again got that Rukia?"
"…."
"Got it?!" anger was evident in his voice, shocking the raven haired girl for rarely did he ever raise his voice to her.
"Why does it anger you so much Toushiro?"
"…Because if you give up then how can….?" murmuring the last part too low that even Rukia couldn't hear him.
"What did you say Toushiro?"
"I said…if you give up then how can I save you!" flushed deep red with blush the white haired boy looked forward, home was just ahead.
"Save me? H-how?"
"If you give up then I can't save you because then it wouldn't be fun"
"You see saving me as fun!" practically screaming with an equal blush along her face for reasons different to Toushiro's
"Well it's a lot better then you being sad!" making his point Rukia got silent. Only to tighten her hold on the boys neck, moving her face into his neck "R-Rukia?"
"Just shut up and go on, so I don't get sad and boring for you to save" pouting her smiled, unknown to her that Toushiro smiled just as well.
"Whatever you say loser."
Me- please read and review!!
Please! Last time all I got was 2 reviews!! That was so sad! I mean really!