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21Ichigo: The more the merrier, who said this shit?
Listening to: Always love NADA SURF
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Ichigo Kurosaki,the one whose going to beat your ass!Hows it gonin.
Ichigo
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"Okay. Let's see. Water and sodas?"
"Checked!"
"Cucumber sticks?"
"Checked!"
"Bread and cheese?"
"Checked!"
"Salad, vinegar and all?"
"Checked!"
"Lasagna?"
"In the stove. Checked!"
"Chocolate cake?"
"In the tin, we'll put it in the stove after the lasagna. Checked! And beer, checked! Everything is ready" He said happily.
"Wait, wait, wait, what beer?"
"Well, it's written on the list." He casually said with a shrug.
Tatsuki snatched the sheet of paper from her boyfriend's hands. She read carefully the piece of paper, frowning. "I don't understand, I wrote this list myself, it's the same as mine." She mumbled while reading down.
Renji looked over her shoulder and put his pointing finger at the end of the list. "Here, look. Beer."
Tatsuki raised her eyebrow and looked at him blankly. "Are you serious? Do you really think I can't set apart my handwriting from your crappy one?"
"What is written can't be unwritten. It's the rule." Renji retorted solemnly.
"What I wrote must be done. You doesn't count. THAT's the rule."
"That's unfair." He simply said.
"Life is cruel."
Renji sighed. "Why is beer prohibited? We always have beer!" He whined.
"This is our house-warming party. It's a new beginning in our life. I want it to be fine. I don't want to deal with 3 drunk guys."
"As if we can be drunk with beer only." He said matter-of-factly. His girlfriend stared at him asking if he was serious. Renji rolled his eyes and sighed. "Okay. But you won't have to deal with 3 drunks. Ishida doesn't drink much."
"Oh, I'm ecstatic to learn that I will only have to take care of 2 drunks tonight. Really, you made my day." She said sarcastically.
"Well, they're already bought, we can't waste them, we have to drink these beers!"
Tatsuki rolled her eyes. "Don't be so dramatic…" She begun, but she was interrupted by the doorbell. She sighed. "This conversation is not over." She said before making to the door.
"Yeah, yeah…" Renji said nonchalantly as he followed his girlfriend to the door.
Tatsuki opened the door to see Inoue and a dark haired pale man standing there. "Hey Inoue, how are you?"
The ginger head smiled. "Fine, am I late? We stopped to buy a bottle of wine on our way."
Tatsuki gestured them the apartment to let them in. "Not at all, you're actually the first there."
The couple came inside. Inoue showed the man who was tailing her. "Well, this is my boyfriend, Ulquiorra." She introduced him.
Tatsuki smiled. "Yes I already met him. He was Ichigo's college mate, wasn't he?"
Ulquiorra nodded silently. Inoue smiled. "Yes he was." Ulquiorra held out the bottle of wine. "Oh, yes, the wine. As I said earlier, we brought a bottle of wine." She explained.
Tatsuki laughed. "You didn't have to!" She turned to her boyfriend. "Take it." She ordered.
Renji took the bottle from Ulquiorra. "Do you want me to open it?" He asked Tatsuki
Tatsuki looked at Inoue asking her silently if she wanted to drink some now. The ginger head shook her hands. "Oh, no no no! We'll wait for the dinner."
Tatsuki nodded. "Put it in the kitchen then." She told her boyfriend. Renji walked away while Tatsuki led her guests to the couch.
Inoue looked around and smiled. "So, how was the moving in? I can see some changes already."
Tatsuki looked around and bent down. "Don't repeat it, but Renji was right for once." She whispered. Inoue's eyes widened, it was not everyday her best friend was admitting her boyfriend was right. Tatsuki chuckled. "I was practically living here before anyway. There weren't so much changes." Inoue smiled, glad to see her friend so happy. It was time the two of them move together after all. She was about to say something but interrupted by the doorbell. Tatsuki excused herself and went to the door and opened it and smiled. "Hey Ishida!"
Ishida smiled. "Tatsuki! Am I the first to arrive?" He asked as he went in.
Tatsuki chuckled at her friend's arrogance. "Actually not."
Ishida raised his eyebrow. "Really? One of the two stupid heads of our favorite couple is actually punctual?" He asked unbelievingly.
Tatsuki rolled her eyes. "Ichigo and Rukia are not always that late. Plus you're forgetting someone." Ishida frowned and looked at her quizzically. "Orihime is already there." She finished.
Ishida's eyes widened a little hearing his ex-girlfriend's name. He took a second to collect his wits. He looked at her friend and cleared his throat "Orihime… of course." He paused. The two friends stayed awkwardly silent for a while until a cough broke it. They both looked at the source of the noise. The green eyed woman looked emotionlessly at her boyfriend, but the said man knew the she was indeed annoyed being ignored for this long. Ishida put his arm around his girlfriend making her blush. "I'm so light-headed and impolite. Will you forgive me?" He said looking tenderly at his girlfriend. He put his other hand on her shoulder and pushed her lightly to place her before him. "Tatsuki, let me introduce you to my girlfriend, Kurotsushi Nemu." He stated proudly. He tilted his head to look at her face. "Nemu, Tatsuki, one of my best friend." He said.
Nemu bowed. "It's an honor." She said.
Tatsuki laughed. "No need to be so formal. We're among friends here." She said. "Well, why are we standing at the door, come on, let's sit in the living room." Ishida smiled and handed her a bottle of sake before moving. Tatsuki looked at the bottle and raised her eyebrow. "A bottle of sake? Seriously Ishida?"
Ishida scoffed. "Don't misjudge me, it's not even for you, it's for you idiotic boyfriend, who happens to be one of my friend. It's been a year he's trying to convince you to move in, we must celebrate, whoo!" He said without great conviction.
Tatsuki looked at him sternly. "You know, now that I'm living here, he's not gonna have a party this soon. You can forget your weekly male bonding time." She said teasing as she went to the living room. Ishida grabbed Nemu's hand and followed her. As they arrived in the living room, they saw Inoue and Ulquiorra making out on the couch. "There aaaare also rooms if you want." Tatsuki said in a sing-song voice. Inoue and Ulquiorra parted away, both red from embarrassment. Tatsuki shrugged. "I'm just saying it."
As soon as he saw the couple, Ishida paled. He absent-mindedly and silently dropped Nemu's hand . His eyes narrowed to slits as he glared at the couple. Inoue timidly took a glance at her ex-boyfriend but immediately looked away when saw his murdering gaze. Ishida was trying to burn hole in the dark haired man's skull. Ulquiorra, seeing his girlfriend's uneasiness turned his head slowly to look at the source of the problem and immediately spotted the ex-boyfriend glaring at him. Ulquiorra held Ishida's glare for a second, a slight smile on his lips. Ishida felt his blood boiling inside as Ulquiorra looked back at him arrogantly. He clenched his fist, the same hand that was previously holding his girlfriend's. Nemu turned to Ishida and saw his hateful stare. She followed his eyes and found Ulquiorra staring back at him and Inoue fidgeting on he couch. She couldn't help but stare down, she couldn't bear seeing the jealousy in her boyfriend's eyes, jealousy for someone who was not herself. All that tension irradiating from the two couples was relieved by one voice. "Hey guys, beers?" Renji said happily as he finally came from the kitchen, carrying his dear pack of beer. Ishida immediately walked to him, took a beer from his hand, Renji took the top of the bottle before Ishida drank avidly. He wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand and mumbled a thank you. Renji looked at his friend in shock. Ishida, drinking a beer. Ishida drinking a beer this early in the evening. Was he dreaming? He looked around suspiciously. "Oooookay… did I miss something?" He asked carefully eyeing each person present in the room.
DING DONG
Everyone looked at the door. "It must be Rukia." Tatsuki said absent-mindedly. She turned to her boyfriend and asked. "Can you get it?"
Renji nodded. He pushed the pack of beer against Ishida's chest and dropped it in his startled friend's hands. "Here bro, looks like you're gonna have a few tonight." He said with a grin ignoring Ishida's glare. He made a few steps to the door before turning to face them again. "Don't move! I don't wanna miss anything else tonight." He said before going to the door making Tatsuki roll her eyes.
"Rukiaaa!"
She smiled. "Hey, Renji!"
"Been long since I last saw you!" He said putting her in an embrace.
"Guess you've been busy with Tatsuki moving in." She said breaking free from the embrace. 'I kept you apart because I felt uneasy about Ichigo.'
"Yeah, must be that. God it's good to finally live together!" He said with a grin. 'You were avoiding us because of Ichigo.' He looked at the man standing behind her. He extended his hand to him. "Kano." He said solemnly.
Ashido smiled and shook his hand. "Abarai. It's nice seeing you."
"Yeah, nice seeing you too."
Ashido looked around. "It has quite changed since I went there. Much more… tidy?" Ashido said with a smile.
Rukia scoffed. "A woman finally came to clean this pigsty."
Renji raised his eyebrow. "Does that mean I'm a pig?"
Rukia rolled her eyes. "You're a guy, that's almost the same." She said mischievously.
Ashido pointed at himself. "Do you mean that I'm a pig, Rukia?"
She shook her head. "You're an alien." Renji burst out of laugh. She grabbed her boyfriend's arm, making him bend toward her and kissed him on the cheek. "But that's why I love you." She whispered in his ear.
Renji cleared his throat. The couple looked at him quizzically. "Please, save this for somewhere more… private?"
"Come on Renji, you've seen worse." Rukia snickered.
"Doesn't mean I want to watch again." He grumbled. "Go with the others instead of acting all lovey-dovey!" Rukia giggled as she led Ashido who smiled sheepishly to the living room.
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He leaned on the kitchen counter, a bottle of beer in his hand. She was in front of him, dressing the salad. He took a gulped of beer and sighed. "Okay, I'll be straight. Can we cancel this party?"
"What do you mean?" She said although not bothering to look at him, staying focused on what she was doing.
"Well, we go in the living room and say something like… I dunno.. Well, we are sorry but the lasagna burnt in the stove. Yeah, we know, it was frozen lasagna. How can we fail on one frozen meal? Well, we just did it. So there's absolutely nothing else to eat, so I suggest everyone to go home and go back to their respective life, okay? Okay, then bye!"
Tatsuki turned around and looked at her boyfriend sternly. "Are you fucking kidding me?" She muttered.
Renji gulped. "You know that I'm right!" He said sweat dropping.
Tatsuki put her spoon harshly on the counter top. "First of all. It's our party, we can't just cancel things now that they are here, hey dumb ass! Secondly, I know we both suck in cooking but come on, failing on a frozen meal? We would never do that!" She shouted.
"It was just an example ok! I didn't criticize your cooking skills for real." He argued.
"I don't care, take it back!"
Renji scowled. Tatsuki could be so annoying sometimes. "I take it back, now happy?"
She huffed. "You shouldn't have said it in the first place." Renji rolled his eyes, he bit his tongue to prevent him from adding that her cooking skills indeed sucked. Tatsuki who had returned to her salad, stopped and turned again to her boyfriend. "By the way, why are you standing here doing nothing? You're an hindrance, hurry up, go to the living room!" She ordered.
"I'm not going back there." He said out of breath.
Tatsuki rolled her eyes. "Oh don't be such a wuss"
"Seriously Tatsuki, do you wanna go back there?" He asked but she ignored his question, returning to the salad instead. "That's what I thought. They are too weird. Inoue is uneasy because she made out with her boyfriend, the said boyfriend is gone territorial, while Ishida is going back, has he ever been there, to the freaky ex-boyfriend, and doesn't even see he's hurting his own present girlfriend! And Rukia and Ashido are just… Weird."
"I think they had a fight. And the worst hasn't come yet." She said with a sigh.
"Yeah, I dunno what's gonna happen when Ichigo will be there…" He said gravely before having a gulp of his beer.
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Ichigo was driving fast, he was late and even though he didn't want to go to his friends' party, he couldn't arrive too late either, Tatsuki would burn him alive. His phone rang. He glanced at the passenger seat where he had dropped his phone earlier, and managed to read the name Tatsuki on the screen. He sighed, yup, he was definitely late. His phone ran again, and this time he wondered wether to answer or not. He began a mental conversation in his head. Tatsuki would not greet him and ask him straightly where he was, insulting him on the way. He would grumble that he was going to be there soon. She would retort that she would had prefer half an hour ago than soon. He would sigh and answer that he was on the road and couldn't drive faster. She would say that she didn't care if he lost his driving license but she wanted his stupid ass there now before hanging up. Okay. That's how the conversation would be. He didn't need to answer the phone now. HE would probably suffer from his friend's wrath later, but he could deal with it. It's dangerous to answer while driving after all. Yes, he wanted to enjoy his last moment of peace before going on the field of war.
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The eight persons present in the room were chatting happily. It was what it seemed at least. But deep inside, they were all tense, hiding a buried burning feeling which was eating them. They could not do anything but pretend everything was alright, it would be a shame to spoil their friends' party. But the pretense could not last forever. They were like a big bomb, ready to explode, they only need something or someone to light the fuse and thus waste all their efforts to pretend that everything was alright. One person.
Ding Dong!
Tatsuki raised her head. "Ah, must be Ichigo. I'll go get it." She said before standing up and going to the door. She opened to her scowling friend.
Ichigo scratched the back of his head. "Sorry, I'm late." He said with a forced smile while scratching the back of his head.
"Don't worry, we were just waiting for you before beginning to actually eat." She said sarcastically. "You're the last." She said to emphasize her lecture. Ichigo rolled his eyes as he followed her to get to the others.
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Tatsuki came back to the living room and clapped her hands together. "Okay guys, now that the diva has finally arrived, let's move to the dining room and have diner." She shouted happily.
"You have a dining room?" Inoue exclaimed.
"Actually, she's talking about the table in the living room. THAT's the dining room." Renji corrected.
So they went to the table and as they all took a seat, they greeted the last guest. "Always the last, Kurosaki." Ishida said.
Ichigo chuckled. "The best always arrive last." He said cockily.
Renji put his arm around his friend's shoulder. "Yeah but the absents often miss something." He said with a sigh.
Ichigo raised his eyebrow and looked at his friend. "What did I miss?"
Renji let go of his friend. "Well, there was a huge drama earlier and-" Renji gulped and looked at the rest of the room who was glaring at him. He waved his hands in front of Ichigo's eyes. "I didn't say anything." He said in a fake mysterious voice before making a twirl in front of Ichigo and going away.
Ichigo grabbed his shoulder before he could escape. "Hey I wanna know!" He whined.
Renji shook his head. "No I can't tell!" He sooted dramatically. Then he looked around quickly and said in a lower voice but not enough for the others not hearing what he was saying. "I'll tell you after." He winked.
Tatsuki rolled her eyes. "When you'll finish all you babooneries take a sit so we can finally begin to eat." She said sarcastically.
"I'm gonna take the salad." Renji said seriously before going.
Ichigo looked at Inoue and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry Inoue, with all his buffooneries I forgot to greet you." He said.
Inoue shook her head. "No, it's alright, I'm glad to see that you and Renji-kun still get along."
Ichigo chuckled. "Get along… yeah…" Then he turned to Ulquiorra. "Long time no see Ulquiorra." He said with a smile but the dark haired man didn't respond. "Nice seeing you." He added. He turned to Ashido and extend his hand. "Kano." He said gravely.
Ashido made a small move back with his head, taken aback by Ichigo's greeting gesture, but he shook his hand nonetheless. "Kurosaki."
Ichigo nodded silently. "Well, now that I said hi to everyone, will you forgive me for my lateness Tatsuki?" He said.
Everyone immediately looked at the petite raven haired woman standing right next the last man Ichigo did greet. Her face remained emotionless and they could only see a glint of sadness in her eyes before she looked down. Ichigo's eyes were locked on Tatsuki. He knew everyone was watching at Rukia. He, like everyone desperately wanted to look at her, see her beautiful face, how she did react, but he knew he couldn't. If he did, he would smile at her and tell her how much he liked her and she would be sad. She asked him to stay apart after all. "Will you forgive me Tatsuki?" He repeated.
Tatsuki took one last glance at her raven haired friend and sighed. "You're such an idiot Ichigo." She pulled her chair out and sat down before everyone. They all looked at each other and decided to sit down as well since the mistress of the house was already sitting down.
As everyone was pulling their chair, Rukia noticed there were only 7 seven seats. Shouldn't there be only couples, she wondered. She looked at Ichigo who was still standing, gazing absently at nowhere. She hesitated asking but finally her curiosity won out. "Riruka couldn't come, Ichigo?"
Ichigo immediately looked at her in was surprise, first because she actually talked to him. Weren't they supposed to ignore each other? What did she want? He didn't understand anything. Then was the question. He wondered wether to answer or not, or how to answer. He decided to brush it off and ignore she question, even ignore she talked to him. He pulled out his chair and sat down. "Rirukia couldn't come?" Rukia repeated.
"No." He answered slowly. He paused. "She was busy." He added evasively.
Rukia frowned. Ichigo didn't seem to want to answer but she wanted to ask more. "But I thought she was living with you."
Ichigo looked at his friends sitting around the table, Ishida, Inoue, Tatsuki, seeking for help, but everyone was looking at him expectantly, all waiting for his answer. He gulped, he didn't know what to say, but he couldn't escape. He sighed. "Okay, I know you'll think I'm asking something stupid but…" He looked up sheepishly. "Who is Riruka?" He asked hesitantly.
As soon as the words escaped from his mouth, everyone gaped at him in shock. That's when Renji arrived raising he plate of lasagna and shouting proudly. "Lasagna!" No one took notice of him. Renji looked at the deadly serious table. "I can sense some tension here…" He said seriously. "What did I miss?" He added in a sing-song voice.
"Kurosaki doesn't know who Riruka is." Ishida said plainly before lifting his glasses up.
"Oh you're talking about his fiancee." Renji stated bluntly as he put the plate on the table.
"My what?" Ichigo exclaimed.
"Kurosaki has a fiance?" Ulquiorra asked.
Inoue looked nervously at him then at Ichigo and Rukia. "Well…"
Ulquiorra followed his girlfriend's stare and his eyes fell down on Ichigo and Rukia. His eyes widened. "Good lord." He whispered.
Renji flashed an horrified look at his friend. "What? You were talking seriously?" He said unbelievingly.
"Of course I was!" Ichigo shouted.
"Kurosaki." Ishida said dryly. Ichigo turned to him. "Remember when you came back from Kaien's." He simply said hoping it would be enough to put some sense in his friend thick head.
Ichigo frowned and tried to recollect his past week. Kaien… Come back… Fiance… His eyes widened in realization. "That!" He shouted knowingly. "Riruka and the whole fiance thing, I remember now!"
"How can you forget about your own fiance?" Rukia asked suspiciously.
Ichigo winced. And here came the million dollar question. How could he forget this girl. Face the truth? Run away? "Well. It's kind of complicate." He begun slowly. Rukia looked at him expectantly while the others were more curious about how he was going to explain. "This girl… Er… Riruka…" Rukia nodded, silently telling him to go on. Ichigo gulped. "Well… the thing is… she's not really my fiance." He finished breathlessly.
Everyone looked at him in shock, they thought he was gonna come out with a more or less shitty answer, they definitely didn't predict he would tell the truth. Rukia frowned, her throat were dry as his words sank in. The question who remained in her mind was why?… "What d'you mean?" She said in a whispered.
Ichigo sighed. "It was all fake, she wasn't, isn't and will never be my fiance, Rukia." He said firmly looking intensely at her. I was, is and will forever be in love with you. He wanted her to know how he felt. If he couldn't tell her, he wanted her to understand. When he saw her clueless eyes, he looked away with sadness. "I can't believe you even believed this nonsense." He added bitterly. I cant believe you don't even see it.
Ashido looked at her and saw mixed emotions on her face. He couldn't see what she was thinking, did she understood Kurosaki's plan? Did she saw the hidden meaning behind. Rukia's lips were parted away. She closed her mouth and gazed blankly at the table. "I… I don't know what to say." She whispered. "But why did you do that?"
Ichigo closed his eyes and gritted his teeth in frustration. Why couldn't she? Why couldn't she understand. He wanted to grab her by the shoulders and shake her hard shouting 'Because I love you, dammit!' He scowled. Kurosaki Ichigo, now is the time to bring out your best acting skills. He shrugged nonchalantly. "Dunno, guess I was bored." He said acting as it was nothing but his eyes were dull, his voice void of emotion.
"So you just lied to everyone because you were bored." Rukia said as she studied her friend's face trying to get a better answer from it but his eyes remained emotionless. "But who does that?" She asked after a pause.
"Obviously I do." He answered coldly. He didn't even try to argue, he just wanted to drop the topic and go back home.
"You got so upset about me not telling you I lived with Ashido in the States and now you lied to us to get entertained. That's just hypocrite."
"How can you say that? The situation was totally different and you know it!" He howled. Rukia cringed a little and looked away. "When you were in the States, we were… I mean, now we aren't-" He begun but stayed quiet when he saw Rukia's dead look back in full force. He burst out into a freaking nervous laugh. "Seriously Rukia. I'm an hypocrite? You're the queen of the liars!" He exclaimed. "If I recall, you're the one who wanted all that shit. Now what do yo say huh?" Rukia paled. "What cat got your tongue? Say something dammit!" He shouted.
Rukia's throat was dry. She wanted to shout back at him but she knew he was right. She fought back her tears, she couldn't answer already, she surely didn't want to show another weakness now, but tears formed in the corner of her eyes anyway. Ishida saw it and ran to her rescue. "Kurosaki stop, you're at fault too." He snapped.
"Oh shut the fuck off Ishida." Ichigo immediately retorted rolling his eyes. He turned to his friend. "You think you're better? You think I don't know about you and Inoue?" He added.
"What!" Everyone shouted. Inoue and Ishida's eyes widened. They both gulped thinking "how much does he know?" Ulquiorra stared fixedly at his girlfriend, his eyes hard and accusing.
Seeing his friend's face distraught Ichigo chuckled. "You thought I was so stupid I wouldn't notice? Such bad luck" He snarled.
"Okay, what's going on? What happened?" Renji asked looking between Ichigo and Ishida.
Ichigo snickered. "Ichigo don't." Ishida warned him darkly.
Ichigo smirked cockily. He looked round. "Our friends Ishida and Inoue have been screwing each other since they broke up." A dead silence followed. "You always say that I'm a womanizer who know nothing but screwing around. Well, at least I come to terms with myself. You just do the same but behind their back. And I'd never think that Inoue would agree. I thought-"
"Ichigo that's enough." Tatsuki snapped bossily.
Ichigo turned to her and raised his eyebrow. "I'm glad you joined us Tatsuki." He said faking a smile.
Renji put his hand on Ichigo's shoulder making him look at him. "Stop Ichigo. Else you're gonna say things you will regret later."
Ichigo smiled. "Don't worry, I actually like you the most Renji. You're such considerate toward the person who casted you off like an old rag, one can't be more forgiving."
Tatsuki immediately looked down. Renji saw his girlfriend's distress and shook his head. "Ichigo…" He said reproachfully.
"What? Did you forget how she reject you, treat you like a crap when the only thing you wanted was to love her. She broke up, you begged desperately for forgiveness while you did nothing wrong and she sent you packing like a good-for-nothing."
Renji sighed. "Now that let you all your frustration out, can you stop now Ichigo?"
Ichigo turned to Rukia. "Forgive me Rukia, I may have said a mistake. We're not all liars. Renji is a good one. But you still won in that department." He said smirking.
Ashido placed himself in front of Rukia, between her and Ichigo. "Renji's right Kurosaki. You've said enough. Now is time to stop don't you think?"
Ichigo laughed. "Oh, I completely forgot that prince charming was there. Here you are protecting everyone like the perfect guy that you are." Ashido hold his stare without flinching. "You just came and so easily took my place. Best friend, lover, I can't really compete." He said with sadness. He smiled. "But don't worry. Go on, the coast is clear. I'm off." He said before grabbing his things and leaving slamming the door.
Silence fell in the room. "Well. Guess this is our take to leave." He said darkly. He turned to his friends. "Tatsuki, Renji." He said before leaving, Nemu following him, looking perfectly calm and not surprised at all.
Ulquiorra turned to Inoue. "Orihime." He called her sternly.
"Yes." She nodded. "Renji-kun, Tatsuki-chan, we're leaving too. Sorry…" She said softly before taking her leave as well.
Ashido put his arm around Rukia's shoulder. "I think we should go too. Do you mind?" He asked softly but she didn't answer. He sighed and looked at Renji. "Abarai, do you mind us going as well. I think Rukia need some rest."
Renji cracked a smile. "Yeah, I understand. Have a safe trip back home."
"Thank you." He whispered. He squeezed Rukia's shoulder. "Come on Rukia, let's go." He whispered in her ear.
When they all left. Tatsuki slumped in her chair, staring blankly to nowhere. "Renji, I'm so sorry…" She whispered, her eyes watering.
Renji shook his head and sighed. He took a seat next to her and stroke her back. "Shush… Don't worry." He whispered.
She raised her head and looked at him in distress. "But-"
"I don't care. I forgot this. Really, I don't care Ichigo was not really thinking tonight."
"But-"
"Something set me thinking. I don't know how I came to this but…Ichigo the way he spoke…" He chuckled. "Well, you'll probably think I'm stupid but… Do you think Ichigo and Rukia were once dating?" He asked out of the blue.
Tatsuki stared at him with wide eyes. "What?"
Sorry if there are a lot of mistakes I didn't have time to check it…
I know you think that Rukia and Ichigo's relationship is evolving too slowly. And I honestly think the same now. But the thing is I already wrote a few chapters and I don't want to change them... I rewrote two or three scenes but the whole plot will stay as it is... Sorry. (I'm so complicate...)
Well, hope you enjoyed it.
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