Disclaimer: It would be so cool. Wouldn't it? Thanks for the support you guys. Nice to know there are fans of this fic. Hang on tight cause things are just heating up! It's going to start off weird, just bare with me. Inspiration came to me when I had the strep so it'll go into a dream sequence at the beginning. At first I wasn't sure I was going to be able to post this up tonight because I had fallen asleep sitting up! Ahh! No good! That's what happens when I have to skip a nap. but early bedtime here I come. Oh and Happy Thanksgiving. It might be a whole lot longer before I post another chapter, and I have this idea for a new fic. Just keep your ears and eyes open okay?

Track 21: Dreams

Rukia peered into the refrigerator not really feeling up to eating, but knew her body needed it. She felt really groggy, and she believes that her sinuses were starting to act up. It's been about a month since Rukia agreed to Yoruichi's plan, and they started the process right away. Next thing she knew Rukia was at Yoruichi's gym that wasn't really a traditional gym. It was a pole fitness place, and Rukia wanted to turn her tail around, but Yoruichi insisted it would do her a ton of good.

Rukia rolled her neck and shoulders feeling the popping and sore sensations rolling over her body. She couldn't lie that her despite all the heaviness her body felt she did feel and look physically better. Yoruichi even had her do flexibility training, and Rukia could see the results. She couldn't fathom herself really getting the splits down, but she was getting there.

She groaned and rested her forehead on the cool door. Kisuke was another story though. She remembered him being laid back, but during the past few weeks he was on her ass. At one point Yoruichi had to give her a pep talk to get her rear end back in the studio, and start singing her throat out if she wanted to rise above the mess. Rukia never prided herself in being the best singer, but it was obvious that Kisuke and Yoruichi really trusted in her abilities. That trust led her to record two songs. Kisuke was ready to push one out on the radio, and by the time it was in the middle of the summer he wanted to push out the second single.

The plan was to put her on hell week times eight. Re-image, a new sound, and a new look. Yoruichi had Yumachika come in and redo Rukia's hair, and he couldn't stop talking about how the guys were doing. It wasn't like Rukia didn't want to know about them, but she found it hard to keep the conversation going. Yoruichi made him swear not to tattle back to Luxus what was going on with Rukia. He agreed, but he wouldn't keep how good-looking she was becoming a secret.

Gin had his fiancé come up with a new look for Rukia since they were close friends. Rukia had to admit that though she often showed her legs off she wasn't confident in her midriff, and Rangiku was switching things up. The racks of clothes Rangiku brought in had a considerable amount of stylish crop tops. Rukia had protested, but Rangiku promised that she wouldn't ever do her wrong, and that Shuuhei will be begging her to come back. Rukia had rolled her eyes at that comment. It was actually becoming annoying to the point where Rukia wanted to tell Rangiku to piss off with Shuuhei-this-and-Shuuhei-that. Rukia was a firm believer of seeing is everything, and she wasn't seeing it. In fact she wasn't even hearing from them either so… But she still wanted to help Luxus out.

Rukia sighed as it felt like her energy was sapped out from an invisible force. She sighed once again, and ixnay the idea of eating altogether. Making it up to her room she texted Kaien that she was kind of feeling under the weather, and that she had to cancel on their dance session. Yoruichi was choreographing Rukia's music video, and she had employed Kaien to help along because she knew that the Shibas had rhythm arsenal in their family. Rukia just couldn't shake the damn guy, whatever. She was used to him being close to her again.

Rukia quickly stripped down into her undergarments and slipped under her comforter. Her eyelids automatically got heavy, and she heard her phone bing off in the distance but she was already falling under.

"Remember don't let yourself get too high," a familiar gruff voice said nearby.

Rukia's eyes snapped open, and she found herself looking at Grimmjow who was seated across from her. She had a bizarre feeling of otherworldliness, and a million questions came to her mind, but all she could manage was, "What? What did you say?"

Grimmjow shook his head softly and smiled that wicked, sexy smile of his. "I'm just trying to figure out your support system. How did you get so high up?"

"I-I don't know what you're talking about," Rukia said frowning and looking at the glass tabletop. "How did you get here?"

"Obviously you invited me here," Grimmjow scoffed and looked off up into the sky.

Rukia contemplated what he just told her. How could she have invited him here? Why in the hell would she invite him here? Just them two on the back balcony over looking the land. It was such a nice day though so maybe she invited him over for a talk. 'But I thought I was sleeping.'

"Your support got you so high up, but will they be there when you fall?" Grimmjow asked and kept staring off high into the sky. "Will they catch you?"

"I'm strong enough to where I can stand on my own two feet. Especially after all the things you and Gotei put me through," Rukia said and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Rukia, I never did anything to you," Grimmjow stated as if it was clear as day. She noticed that he was still staring into the sky.

"What are you looking at?" Rukia asked again and put her hand up to block the sunlight to try to get a better look at whatever Grimmjow was preoccupied with.

"I'm watching Luxus fall."

"What?"

"And now you're falling."

"What?!" Rukia frantically searched the sky and she had no clue what the hell Grimmjow was talking about. "Have you gone mad?"

Grimmjow turned his attention back to Rukia. "Your support got you so high up, but they can't reach you. Who will save you from the fall?"

"I will," Rukia said with determination.

"Are you sure?" Grimmjow asked and tilted his head with a slight smile on his handsome face. He didn't wait long for her to reply before he turned and headed for the French doors to go inside. Rukia watched him go back inside her room before she rushed through the doors, and ended in the halls of Gotei XIII.

"Grimmjow?" She called out tentatively. Rukia rubbed her eyes, and started to run through the hallways. She was heading for the exit, but every time she found the door she ended right back where she was. It was a paradox, and she felt the tightening of her chest forming into panic. 'How the fuck do I get out of here? Where are the windows?' Rukia ran around some more, but got winded and rested her hands on her knees. "This is a dream. It's got to be a dream," Rukia panted. "Wake up Rukia, wake up. Wake up Rukia, wake up."

"Wake up Rukia, wake up," a smooth voice chanted with her.

Rukia gasped and stood straight up. Down the hallway stood Aizen minus his glasses with his hair slicked back. Beside him was Gin and Kaname looking off to the side. Without saying anything to them Rukia walked backwards keeping her eyes on their forms.

"Don't be so sure of yourself," Aizen remarked appearing behind her holding her shoulders firmly in his hands. He turned her around so she could face him.

Rukia steeled herself and stared into Aizen's eyes. "What do you want from me?" Rukia asked exasperated. "I'm not getting in anyone's way!"

Aizen shook his head and tsked. "I have nothing personal against you my dear," he said smoothly. "I just have a sadistic nature in watching people fall. The more delicate looking, the better I get off," Aizen said and shoved Rukia hard.

She braced herself for the impact, but found herself choking on lack of oxygen as wind rushed past her. "Oh my god!" She breathed. Rukia was falling from the sky like a shooting star, and the ground was rushing close up. "This is a dream," she whispered. "I can do whatever I want in my dream, so I can fly." She came to this conclusion as the wind continued to rip past her. Trying to keep her hair from whipping in her face Rukia tried to will herself to fly. It shouldn't be that hard. 'Just fucking fly!' But to avail Rukia was still falling at a rapid rate.

"Rukia wake up!"

Rukia was back talking to Grimmjow and frowned when she heard someone shout something that she couldn't understand.

"And now you're falling," Grimmjow said.

Rukia looked up and gasped. She could see herself falling now. Rukia ran to the marble banister and shouted at her other self. "Rukia wake up!"

"I'm still here you know. Let me catch you," Grimmjow suggested.

Rukia looked over at Grimmjow with an incredulous look. "Why would you do that?"

"Let me stand by your side, and let me do my damn job," Grimmjow stated gruffly. "Remember, it's me and you. Do you trust me?"

"I trust you!" Rukia shouted as the wind picked up all of a sudden, and she was back as the falling Rukia. As she found herself approaching Grimmjow she flipped over and curled into a ball just in time to be caught by him. She was surprised that it was a soft landing into his strong arms. Rukia looked up to her savior, and saw that he was wearing a sad smile on his face. "Now why can't you do that in the real world?" he asked and brushed her stubborn bang off her face. She watched as he leaned in closer to her lips, and she was willing to accept the kiss. In fact she couldn't wait to kiss her ex. How much she missed him? She couldn't put it into words.

"Rukia wake up."

Rukia closed her eyes and sighed. She was getting tired of going in circles. This felt different though, and Grimmjow wasn't around to be seen anywhere.

"This concerns me. Hisana got sick like this," a familiar deep voice said.

"I believe Hisana's incident is unrelated. Let's not fret over the unknown quite yet," a gentle voice said. Rukia couldn't recognize who it was so she felt herself sinking back into the blackness.

"Why don't you try calling out to her again Byakuya? Her vitals are picking up," suggested the gentle voice.

Byakuya grunted and looked over at Kaien. "Why don't you give it a try this time?" Byakuya had gotten a text earlier in the day from Kaien letting him know that Rukia wasn't feeling well. Since it didn't seem like an emergency he stayed at the office until six in the evening, and didn't make it home until around seven. He immediately checked in on Rukia, and found that she wasn't waking up, but she was breathing. Finding that a bit disturbing as it had reminded him of late wife he decided to call in on the family doctor, Dr. Retsu Unohana. He then called Kaien and interrogated him on anything else Rukia had told him which was almost nothing.

Kaien offered to come over to help keep an eye on Rukia. He partially felt bad because he should've been more curious about what was ailing her, but he figured it wasn't awful considering that her text didn't carry on an urgent undertone. He leaned over her slightly and called out to her softly. They watched her stir a little, and Dr. Retsu quickly checked her temperature with an infrared forehead thermometer. "Need her to wake up so she can tell us what's going on," she muttered. Dr. Retsu sighed and placed a cold towel on Rukia's forehead, "Try once more Mr. Shiba."

Kaien leaned all the way down to her ear, which caused Byakuya to narrow his eyes. The position was too intimate for his liking, especially for a married man. He couldn't hear what he was whispering, but it seemed to finally stir Rukia from her deep slumber. Kaien sat up fully, and watched as Rukia's eyes slowly opened. "And there's sleeping beauty," he cracked a joke and got off her bed.

Rukia moaned and rolled over onto her side wanting to get back into her sleep world, but Dr. Retsu wouldn't allow it until she did a full check up. She shooed the males from the room and conducted the exam. Fifteen minutes later, and Dr. Retsu emerged from Rukia's room. "It's exhaustion."

"That's it?" Byakuya asked.

"Rest assure that it's nothing like Hisana had. Rukia has been overworked. Combined with a poor diet, and lack of rest her body just simply shut down to help repair itself," Dr. Retsu explained. "Just give her a couple of days with plenty of food and water," she said and looked at Byakuya.

"And little exercising," she said looking over to Kaien.

Kaien held up his hands in defeat. "I'll take it easy on her," he promised.

The doctor gave Byakuya a bottle of prescribed drugs. "These are to help her sleep if she's having issues. She might be restless for awhile so see to it that she gets ample amount," she bid goodnight and left the premises.

Kaien sighed and shook his head. "Well it seems like you can handle everything from here. Don't worry too much Byakuya, Rukia is strong."

"And you would know this," Byakuya said and looked at Kaien coolly.

Kaien felt like he could be wrong, but he felt that the man in front of him was trying to get a jab at him. Well he wasn't going to fall for it. "If it's anyone you should know that it's just in her personality," Kaien turned to leave. "I'll catch you around."

Byakuya watched the man go and went back upstairs to look in on Rukia. She had fallen back asleep after Retsu had given her a check up, and then the doctor told them to let her sleep through the night if Rukia wishes to. Byakuya was just hoping that their plan would succeed, and hoping that they hadn't pushed her too hard. If Rukia had come to him, and complained that she didn't have a desire to become a pop star then he would pull the plug on their little operation, and not even give it a backward glance. Rukia hadn't done anything like that, in fact she kept all her appointments and rehearsals and carried on her life.

Byakuya mulled his thoughts around. Rukia has the best support. Way better than what Luxus have going on at the moment. She needed to hang on for just a moment longer, and everyone's hard work will pay off.

After a couple days of rest Rukia was back in Yoruichi's studio with Kaien going over the routine. Kaien was walking around as Rukia and two other females were practicing the second chorus of the dance. Kaien raised an eyebrow as they came to the body roll. "There it is," he said to himself. He motioned for Yoruichi to pause the music. "Rukia what was that?"

"What was what?" She asked and threw her head back to prepare herself for a Kaien Shiba lecture.

"Those body rolls. You're half assing them," he said bluntly. "You technically don't have to ad lib on this part so I want to see full body movement."

Rukia walked over to her duffel bag and grabbed a towel from it to dab at the sweat on her face. "That wasn't full enough for you?" She asked with a little attitude.

Yoruichi who was in the back going through her phone for business issues sucked her mouth in to not laugh. Kaien was right though, Rukia could put a bit more oompf into it, but Rukia's mood was in full swing apparently. "I thought Dr. Unohana said to give me a break?" Rukia shouted across the room to Kaien.

He nodded his head in agreement. "She sure did. So once I see two full out rehearsals then you can go home." Rukia sighed deeply. He was getting on her nerves. "Again!" Kaien shouted and Yoruichi started the track from the beginning. They got through the first half, and were through the second chorus when Kaien demanded they stop again.

"Seriously?!" Rukia asked. "I can see myself in the mirror. It looks correct to me."

"It's not sexy enough."

"Nice way to put it bluntly," Rukia retorted.

"The other two dancers are coming through," Kaien explained. "I don't need them to overpower your dance moves.

Yoruichi waved her hand in the air. "Hey, I'm going to take this phone call. It's Hitsugaya to confirm the date of the shoot."

"If only Rukia can get her body roll down," Kaien said and then turned to the other two dancers. "Could you guys give us some time?" The two females left the dance room in relief of finally getting a break.

Once everyone was out of sight Rukia rounded on him with her towel in tow. "What the hell is your problem?" Rukia asked and swung her towel at Kaien's face that caught it, and pulled the towel causing Rukia to get closer to his body.

"I'm just trying to help you out. Don't you want to be the best?" Kaien asked. "There isn't going to be some sorry dancing if there's a Shiba backing it up."

"Oh please, like you could do better," Rukia snorted and pushed him away.

"Is that a challenge Kuchiki?" Rukia didn't say anything, but rolled her eyes to the heavens. "Fine then." Kaien took his top off and walked over to the sound system. "Get in position," he demanded.

'So pushy.' Rukia got in position although she wasn't in the mood anymore, but she willed herself to do it full out along beside him. As it got to the second chorus Kaien spun around, to end up behind Rukia for the body roll and told her to do exactly what he was doing. "Start from the chest," he directed. "Push out your chest, roll her shoulders back down through to your navel. Let your shoulders fall back, and repeat," he said softly.

Rukia looked at the mirror as they executed the body rolls, and she had to admit there was a big difference in what her previous body rolls looked like. Though she couldn't tell if having Kaien right behind amped up the sexiness or just the fact that her body rolls improvement amped up the sexiness. "Keep going," he said softly. They both continued the routine with Kaien doing his own choreography to suit his role as the male counterpart.

Yoruichi had snuck back into the rehearsal room, and was watching the two dance. Rukia came to her ending pose as the song ended. "One more time please," Yoruichi said from the back. "Where do you think you're going Kaien? Stay with her."

Kaien frowned in confusion, but stood slightly behind Rukia on her left side. Yoruichi started the track from the beginning, and watched the two intently. She couldn't believe she hadn't noticed this before, but they were a match made in dancing heaven. Kaien executed the same dance moves he did previously when it came to the body rolls, and Yoruichi observed how in sync and unperturbed at how close their body was at that moment. When the song was over Yoruichi clapped her hands and smiled mischieviously. "How did I miss this?" Yoruichi asked. "I must've been out of this game for too long, but Kaien you are now male lead role."

"Come again?" he asked. "I'm here to help with the choreography, remember?"

"Yes, I do remember, and you just saved us all a headache from searching for another male to take the lead. You are it," Yoruichi patted him on the shoulder. "Deal with it."

The two dancers watched as she walked out of the studio. "Well I guess that concludes today's practice," Kaien said and scratched the back of his head.

"I guess so," Rukia sat down by her duffel bag and began to dry herself off with another towel. Kaien dried himself with the towel Rukia attacked him with.

"How are you feeling by the way?" he asked her.

Rukia shrugged her shoulders. "Still exhausted, but it's getting better. A bit hard to actually get rest now that Byakuya is looming over me every time I lay my head down to sleep."

Kaien pulled his shirt back on. "He's only worried about you."

"Yeah, but I don't want to see him looming over me as I'm waking up. That's down right creepy," she said and made a face.

"Do you want to come over my house to rest?"

"No Kaien," Rukia immediately shut that idea down, but added, "If it was the beach house, yes, but your home-home, no."

Kaien grunted in response and picked up her duffel bag. "Maybe you should start home shopping yourself."

"That wouldn't be such a bad idea," Rukia mused over the thought. It would be another place like home, but away from home. Her little coven without Byakuya hovering over her, and then she could have Kyo with her at all times. Darn, that would mean she would have to look up dog walkers whenever her schedule was packed. She figured she'd be able to figure something out. "You only want me to get my own place so you could barge in whenever you want to."

He twirled one of Rukia's bangs around his finger. "I just want to make sure my Kuchiki is doing alright."

"You could just send a text," Rukia batted away his hand and put her sunglasses on. "By the way are you sure you want to be in this music video?" Rukia asked and prepared herself for the paparazzi to be waiting outside the studio's doors. Kaien followed suit, and put his own sunglasses on.

"Why wouldn't I be? I've been with you from the start. Why would I back out now?" Kaien asked leading Rukia through the mini army of cameramen and their cameras. He kept them away until they reached his car. Rukia put her hand up as they attempted to take a picture of her in his car despite his tinted windows. 'Dumbasses.' She leaned on her hand, and waited for Kaien to start the car up.

"You never answered my question."

"I didn't want anyone to pick up on our conversation," Rukia said bluntly. "You're going to have to focus back on your family soon Kaien."

"They're still away," he mumbled.

"And summer doesn't last forever, and I'm not always going to be here. In the music industry you tour, you leave home," Rukia kept rattling off her mental list. "You're only to help get me back on my feet, but once I'm up you're good to go."

Kaien quickly glanced at her then focused his attention back on the road. "Why do you do this?"

Rukia sighed and rested her head against the window. "Because I'm trying to bring you down to earth."

"No, you're trying to irritate me," Kaien grumbled.

Rukia looked at him as if he had grown three extra heads from his shoulders. "News flash, reality check, you're fucking married!" Rukia yelled at him. "You can't be seen with me like this all the time. Your wife is going to think something is wrong." It was much easier, way much easier to play pretend five hours away on the beachfront. But once back home in the main territory, and closer to danger, it was harder for Rukia to play this game. It was hard enough to have dance practice with Kaien all the time, and seeing his body like that, and being so close to him. Yet being the furthest person from him. She was frustrated because of this, and knowing that she wanted to be close to him, but knew it was all sorts of wrong.

"To hell with that talk Rukia," Kaien said calmly. "I know what goes on in my life." He didn't know what suddenly got into Rukia, but he knew that she was taking her aggression out on him. She's been doing it all day. If only he could get her alone for a few minutes. He finally pulled up to the back driveway of the mansion. Rukia was quick to get out of the car, and tried to grab her duffel bag before Kaien could, but she wasn't fast enough. "You're supposed to be taking it easy remember?"

Rukia glared at him through her sunglasses and entered the Kuchiki residence, and went straight up to her room. Kaien placed her bag in a far off corner of the room, and looked out the balcony door windows. Byakuya kept his backyard clean despite having a few sakura trees scattered through the lot, and was that a pond? Kaien smirked and turned his attention back to Rukia who just climbed up onto her bed.

She reached across to the nightstand and grabbed the prescription pills Retsu was having her take. Rukia shook the small bottle and looked over at Kaien. "Do you mind if I go under?" she asked him and sprawled out on her bed.

Kaien appeared over her and gentle took the container from her hand. "Actually I do mind," he pocketed the bottle to keep it away from Rukia. "You should only be taking these at night remember?"

"I rather just sleep the rest of the day away," Rukia groaned. "We should've stayed in the city."

"We can always go back," Kaien suggested.

"Such a hassle since we're all the way out here," Rukia played with the bang that was constantly in her face. "You should go home. I'm being a bore now."

"You never bore me Kuchiki," he crawled on top of her and Rukia questioned him with raised eyebrows. "Just take in the time we have being together," he said while lowering down giving Rukia's jaw line a few pecks. He was making a path to her lips when his phone went off. Kaien stopped and checked his phone silently cursing to himself.

Rukia watched his eyes tight, and climb off her. "I have to take this."

She sat up and watched him exit through the balcony doors. Rukia let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. "That was close," she whispered to herself. Kaien hadn't made such a bold move since their little escapade out on the coast. She knew that he's been dying to do something with her whenever he could use an excuse to get closer to her. In example, their dance practice, and now he has infiltrated himself into her video shoot.

Rukia let out a moan and closed her eyes. She was really trying to push him away by being passive aggressive, but he knew her too well. He did bring up a valid point. She did need her own place.

A week later Rukia found herself walking the hallways of Gotei XIII by herself. She was trying to remember in which corner she knew where there was a vending machine since she banned herself from the cafeteria. Who knew who could be down there right?

She found the correct corner and proceeded to buy the better-than-junk-food selection along with a couple of sweets. Kisuke wasn't joking around when he said he wanted two singles out for the summer, and he made that happen. The first single had a low-budget quality type of music video, but it got the peoples' attention. For her second single they did a secret midnight release with the high quality video, dancing, her and Kaien…everything. The public ate that shit up. No one knew the little princess could dance a little something. It was a great feeling not being at the bottom of the totem pole.

"Rukia?"

"Hmm?" Rukia distractedly grabbed her food from the slot and turned to the voice. "Oh! Hey…"

It was Shuuhei in all his glory, but he looked like half his life was drained out of him. Paler than usually, hair lackluster, and his stance wasn't boasting confidence.

"How are you doing?" She asked timidly and swirled her finger around the top of her soda can.

Shuuhei slowly shook his head, and leaned on the wall with a heavy sigh. "I'm so over it."

"Is everything okay?" Rukia bit her lip and waited for the answer hoping that despite what she knew about the dirty deeds that none of it turned out to be true.

"The band is just falling apart. Like sand slipping through the cracks," Shuuhei opened his eyes and looked at Rukia. "Izuru is always fucked up. He's never on time for sets, and he's letting a lot of our fans down. Renji isn't taking anything seriously anymore, and Ichigo isn't acting like himself. I'm at the end of my own rope Rukia, I just don't know what to do anymore."

"Shuuhei," Rukia breathed and gave him a hug, and he returned it with a tighter hug clinging onto her little form. She leaned back a bit to look him in the eyes. "I'm going to help you guys out. I promise. Just give some time."

"But what can I do?"

Rukia rapidly thought of a plan. "Don't make anymore music."

Shuuhei gave her a questioning look that prompted Rukia to explain herself. "You're not making quality music Shuuhei, and that is your dream. You're not make revenue, but instead you guys are wasting money and digging a deeper ditch in the pockets."

"We are still under contract for two and a half years," Shuuhei said angrily.

"Go on hiatus," Rukia said with a twinkle in her eye. "We hear about hiatus all the time."

And for the first time since she saw Shuuhei there was a glint in his eyes that reminded her of the perverted scheming man she knew. "Rukia, I like your style of thinking."

"Just give me some time and I'll get you guys out of this mess," Rukia promised.

Shuuhei leaned his forehead against hers and took in the moment of finally being near Rukia again. It was like he was dreaming. He was almost positive that he was since it felt like he was going through this world in a haze as of lately. "This is for real?" He just had to ask to make sure. "I'm not dreaming am I?"

Rukia reached up and pinched his shoulder causing him to slightly jerk. "Okay that was real," he said with a small chuckle, and tightened his hold on her hiding his face on the top of her head. "God, I miss you so much Rukia. We all do."

"I miss you guys too," Rukia responded clutching onto his biceps. Inside the temperature-controlled building being wrapped up in someone's arms feel really good to Rukia, but she needed to get back to her studio room. "I'm going to have to head back soon," she said quietly.

Shuuhei sighed and slowly unraveled his arms from the petite woman, reluctant to let her go. "It was nice seeing my nympho," Shuuhei cracked a joke and was awarded a genuine smile from Rukia.

"As long as you can still pull those jokes from the air then I know you're going to be alright," Rukia felt better that Shuuhei was slowly coming back. Slowly but surely. The only thing she was missing from the man was a good groping fest from him, but she could also tell that he wasn't quite there yet.

Rukia turned to go and stopped in her tracks. "What are you doing this weekend?"

"Nothing," Shuuhei shrugged his shoulders. "I plan on breaking this hiatus break to the guys once I return to the room."

"Would you like to come with me house hunting?" Rukia offered. She figured Shuuhei could use the time away from all the crazy drama, and she could definitely use the excuse to get away from Kaien. She really missed the guys, but she'll have to deal with them one at a time because she didn't want to cause any suspicions within the company.

"House hunting? Where are you moving to?"

"Back in the city would be idealistic, so as close as I could get," Rukia asked hoping he would come along.

Shuuhei smiled, "Consider it a date then."

A/N: Just a teeny tiny bit short, but hey I wanted to close this off with Shuuhei coming back into the picture. So yes the dream sequence was actually from my mind when I had the strep throat. It wasn't fun, and I was having all these crazy dreams drifting in and out. Being sick just isn't fun in general. My weirdness came through for real, but I feel alright about this chapter because Shuuhei is coming back! YOU GUYS SHUUHEI IS COMING BACK INTO THE LIGHT! *whispers* Shuuhei is back you guys. XD