Chapter 27.
"I'm in trouble I'm an addict
I'm addicted to this girl
She's got my heart tied in a knot
And my stomach in a whirl
But even worse I can't stop calling her
She's all I want and more
I mean damn,
What's not to adore" –Never Shout Never.
"Suspension" Kuchiki Byakuya said while looking, uninterested, at the others members of the board "I find it quite appropriate, although, I do not understand why Kurosaki Ichigo is being suspended too."
Yoruichi grinned and looked at him.
"I'm surprised" she said "shouldn't you be asking why we're suspending your little sister?"
Byakuya fought the urge to glare at her, she was obviously trying to get on his nerves and he wouldn't fall for it. Besides, he couldn't easily come and tell her how Kisuke Urahara, who was also in the meeting, had told him about how Makoto, the damn bastard, got a job inside the school. After all, it wasn't as if Yamamoto Genryusai was aware of everything that was happening with the Kuchiki family.
Those were private affairs.
"Rukia is well aware of how much her bad behavior upsets me" Byakuya explained "she knows she can't get away without consequences."
Yoruichi frowned.
"Damn Byakuya, how a girl is supposed to have fun with someone like you as parental figure?"
"I fail to see how making a scandal in the middle of a school event is having fun" Byakuya said coldly.
Unohana chuckled.
"It's obvious how Kuchiki Rukia inherited her free spirited personality from her sister" she said amused.
"Her good looks also" Yoruichi agreed and Ukitake smiled.
"Rukia is a nice girl" the white haired man said "it's unfortunate that we have to suspend her but youngsters need a lesson once in a while."
Kyoraku nodded.
"Are we waiting for someone?" he asked "we have to discuss the other student's punishments."
Yamamoto, who was at the center of the table, nodded.
"Our last member decided to show up today" he said "apparently he made time inside his tight schedule."
Ukitake smiled broadly.
"It'll be good to see him after so much time"
Byakuya wanted to disagree but he knew better than to start speaking. The inability of the last member to come on time, as if he was the only one with a difficult schedule, was a nuisance. Byakuya could already imagine what he would have to say about the suspensions and the whole punishment procedure. He was too soft and fond of children after all.
There was a knock on the door and Byakuya could already feel a headache growing.
"Come in" Yamamoto said.
It was then when Kurosaki Isshin stepped into the room, smiling without a care in the world and wearing his Doctor's coat.
"Someone told me how my third daughter is going to be suspended" he said taking a seat next to Byakuya "why, such a good girl, is being punished?"
Yoruichi laughed.
"The Kuchiki heir right here was asking why your child was being punished" she said to him "what's going on between your families? Some marriage contract we should be aware of?"
Byakuya sighed.
"Let's suppose that our families have an understanding" he said "what makes you think that we would inform you about it?"
Yoruichi pretended to grab her chest dramatically.
"You hurt me little Byakuya" she said "I was expecting to be invited to the wedding."
Byakuya decided to ignore her for the rest of the meeting.
"Aren't you worried about Ichigo's suspension?" Urahara asked Isshin "he's in trouble after all."
Isshin waved a hand dismissively.
"I've taught him to fight his battles fiercely, yet he acted like a coward at the dance, a little time away from his friends will help him" then he closed his eyes "how am I supposed to have cute grandchildren when he keeps hurting Rukia-chan like that?! He's acting like a disgrace to the family!"
"Kurosaki Ichigo was a victim" Byakuya said "the boy is a disgrace but only because he cannot handle alcohol, unlike Rukia, who danced with another boy letting Kurosaki Ichigo go, she is the one to blame I believe."
Urahara's eyes widened.
This was an interesting conversation.
"Oh no!" Isshin said "Rukia-chan would've let that boy go if only my son had shown some backbone! How a girl can be attracted to a boy without balls?!"
"How can a boy take serious a girl who goes around town looking for trouble with a blue haired criminal?" Byakuya retorted.
Isshin seemed to ponder those words for a second.
"Well, Ichigo looks like an orange haired criminal." He said finally.
Yoruichi laughed.
"Can we go on with the meeting?" Yamamoto asked "we'll discuss the other punishments."
Everyone nodded, although most of them were having fun with the argument at hand.
"Suspended" Hisana said while reading Rukia's report "you've been suspended."
Rukia nodded sadly.
"Last time you were suspended it was because you and Riruka decided to recreate a scene from the "Fight club" on the rooftop" Hisana said "somehow, I wasn't disappointed that day."
Rukia smiled bitterly.
Her fight with Riruka was memorable because she realized right there how valuable as a friend she was, and how scary as an enemy, the fight was how they came together. Although the suspensions were always bad news she couldn't help but noticed how her sister looked relieved? She wasn't yelling or enumerating the several punishments that Rukia would have to endure, that was weird.
"Well…" Hisana said finally "this convenient considering how we're sending you to your grandfather's house."
Rukia frowned.
"Do I really have to go?" she asked.
Hisana nodded.
"Some fresh air will help you" she said "go and pack your things, Ginrei-sama will come for you in a few hours."
Rukia nodded and left the room.
When the meeting was over Byakuya was planning on going home, Ginrei was going to pick Rukia up and he wanted to be there to say goodbye and inform his grandfather about what they were going to do while Rukia was away. He wasn't ready to see Makoto, cleaning one of the hallways, while looking around him as if he was waiting for someone. Byakuya didn't want to talk to him, he had heard from Hisana everything what he had done to her and Rukia and that was enough to loathe him, but still he needed to try one last time.
"Oh" Makoto said while looking at the Kuchiki heir "what brings the highest scion of society to this humble school?" he greeted sarcastically.
It didn't help at all that Byakuya considered himself the highest scion of all Karakura town, but he didn't say anything. That sort of comments brought Byakuya to think that this man was very well aware of what kind of disadvantage he had against him.
"This school is one of the best schools around town" Byakuya said "I wouldn't be here if that wasn't the case."
Makoto snorted.
"Obviously" he said.
"I wish I could keep talking to you, but you're not worth my time" Byakuya said and Makoto frowned "so if you could just set your price right now I'll make a check and we can all go home satisfied."
Byakuya noticed how Makoto's expression changed completely.
"I don't understand why is so hard to believe that I don't want money" Makoto said "I just want my daughter."
Byakuya looked at Makoto threateningly.
"Why now? She's already a grown up with friends and family, she doesn't need you."
Makoto huffed.
"That's the thing" he said "she doesn't need me but I need her."
Byakuya tried to think what could Rukia give to the man, first of all she didn't have money, Byakuya was obviously going to leave the family fortune to her but there was still plenty of time before that, also, he was pretty sure that a man like Makoto wouldn't be able to handle her or to give her everything that he had given to her the last years, so if it wasn't about anything that Rukia could give him now, then it had to be…
Byakuya's eyes widened.
"Oh" Makoto said without noticing Byakuya's expression "you should warn that orange haired teenager to be careful, he got in between when I tried to approach my daughter some days ago, I haven't forgotten."
Was this man seriously threatening Kurosaki Ichigo's life?
"See you around, Kuchiki-sama."
Byakuya didn't even look at him when Makoto decided to leave him in the middle of the hallway.
"I thought you weren't going to stay to the practice" Renji said while walking with Ichigo towards the soccer field "Kaien is begging the coach to let him come to the practices although he is suspended, he's been crying for nearly an hour."
Ichigo sighed.
"I'm not going to stay, I'm not in the mood" he said "I was just looking for something in my locker, but I wanted to say goodbye before leaving."
Renji stopped walking and Ichigo looked at him.
"Is something wrong?" Ichigo asked him.
"Not really" Renji said and Ichigo could see how he was slightly nervous "unless you think Kuchiki Byakuya is going to kill you when he sees you."
Ichigo frowned.
"He probably wants to kill me" he assured him "but I'm not planning on seeing him anytime soon."
Renji gulped.
"You have a horrible luck" he said and pointed in front of them "he's coming this way and he looks murderous."
Ichigo turned around and paled a little. Renji wasn't lying, Byakuya was looking straight at him and he looked like if he was determined to kill Ichigo, hell… Ichigo was completely sure that Byakuya could beat the shit out of him any fucking day. Not only he was scary, but he could remember how one day Rukia told him that Byakuya was a swordsman or some cool shit like that.
"If I die here" Ichigo said looking at Renji "tell Rukia that I was the one who peed on the bed while we were on summer camp."
Renji gaped.
"You made everyone think that I was the one who did it bastard!" he said "how could you?!"
Ichigo raised his hands in surrender.
"I was desperate!" he said "you would've done the same!"
"No! I wouldn't have!" Renji said "I thought that it had been Rukia and I wanted to save her from public embarrassment!"
Before Ichigo could say anything else Byakuya stood next to both teenagers and cleared his throat.
"Kurosaki Ichigo" he said coldly "may I speak to you?"
Ichigo nodded fearfully and Renji ran away saying something like "soccer practice" and "I don't want to know".
"Drive" Byakuya ordered the chauffer while taking a seat with Ichigo on the backseat.
Ichigo started to sweat, this felt like an scene of a movie and in which the villain, Byakuya in this case, kidnapped a poor bastard, that would be Ichigo, only to interrogate him about why did he sleep with his daughter, luckily Ichigo hadn't done anything like that to Rukia, and when the interrogation was done the villain decided to kill the poor bastard. Ichigo started to pray, nothing could save him from Byakuya's wrath.
"Kurosaki Ichigo" Byakuya said coldly and Ichigo tensed "we have a lot to discuss."
Ichigo gulped.
He started to count the seconds, then the minutes, Byakuya said that they needed to talk but he couldn't bring himself to ask about why and the tension was accumulating with each passing minute, then the silence became unbearable Ichigo exploded.
"I never meant to hurt her! Okay?! I was drunk and she was there looking like a goddess dancing with that asshole and I couldn't bring myself to stop her! I wanted to, I swear to you Byakuya that I wanted to! I thought about punching the guy right there and take her away! Seriously! But she's like the moon, I mean have you seen her? She looks so precious and so unattainable that I just went to the punch table and started to drink" Ichigo sighed "I… I don't know what happened."
Byakuya blinked.
"I see." He said.
"Aren't you going to kill me?" Ichigo asked him.
"Why would I do that?"
"Well…" Ichigo said while scratching the back of his head "I made her cry."
Byakuya closed his eyes.
"You did not" he said "you were victim of a teenage girls plan but you weren't the one who made her so unhappy, we could blame the Maebara girl for that."
Ichigo nodded at that.
"That's why I decided to talk to you today" Byakuya said "what are your intentions towards Rukia?"
Ichigo groaned.
He didn't want to talk about this with Byakuya while he wasn't completely sure himself, but this was the first step, acceptance, so if he wanted to keep going with the plan he needed to grow some balls, and nothing yelled "courage" more loudly than admitting to Kuchiki fucking Byakuya how deep his feeling for Rukia were. So he took a fighting pose and looked at Byakuya with all seriousness and after taking a deep breath he said:
"I'm in love with Rukia."
Ichigo wasn't an expert at reading Byakuya's facial expressions but he could tell he surprised him.
"If that's the case" Byakuya said after ten awkward seconds "why are you still letting the Maebara girl getting close to you?"
Ichigo blinked confused.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"While I agree about how you didn't know what you were doing when the whole incident happened I didn't see you trying to stop it." Byakuya explained "if it's true that you are in love with Rukia why is the Maebara girl still going around you?
Ichigo frowned.
"I never thought…"
"Exactly" Byakuya interrupted him "you never stopped to think about how much it upsets Rukia to see you with her and how you don't seem to mind, no girl likes to be a second choice."
"Rukia is not a second choice she's…!"
"Then prove it to her!" Byakuya ordered "then perhaps I'll consider you suitable for her."
Ichigo frowned.
"How?"
"Get rid of Maebara Yui" Byakuya said "let her know how much Rukia means to you and then you can try to have a relationship with Rukia."
Ichigo gaped.
"Are you giving me your blessing?"
"Don't be a fool" Byakuya said and glared at him "Rukia is not allowed to have a boyfriend until eighteen, but I trust you and I trust that for the time being you'll take good care of her, so unless you want to leave the free path for the blue haired boy I suggest you to start thinking like a man."
Ichigo nodded.
"I will." He promised.
"Excellent" Byakuya said and then the car stopped.
Ichigo noticed how they were in front of his house.
"Another thing" Byakuya said "I'm sending Rukia away, she leaves tonight, so I suggest you to act quickly."
Ichigo's eyes widened.
"Where are you sending her?" he asked afraid to hear the answer.
Byakuya just gave him a look that suggested how he wasn't going to answer.
"Where the fuck are you sending her?!" Ichigo insisted "Please don't tell me that you're actually sending her to a convent in England!"
"What if I did?" Byakuya asked.
Ichigo couldn't help it, he grabbed Byakuya by the collar of his shirt.
"I suggest you to let go off me" Byakuya said seriously "now."
Ichigo obeyed him.
"Get off the car" Byakuya said but before Ichigo could move he added "keep your promises, Kurosaki Ichigo."
Kaien was miserable, well not really, but he was eating lots and lots of ice cream while watching TV because he wasn't allowed to stay at the soccer practice and he was suspended, he still blame his cousin for the whole thing although deep inside he knew that they hadn't done anything. Kaien was determined to find out who had spiked the punch to make him pay, luckily he was sort of popular so he was planning to use his charming to get the answer.
But for now he was still eating ice cream and sulking so when his cellphone rang he answered without looking at the screen.
"Who is it?" he answered unhappily.
His eyes widened when he heard the frantic response at the other side of the line.
"Would you calm down?!" Kaien asked "repeat everything."
It took two minutes for the person at the other side of the line to explain everything.
"Fine" Kaien answered "I'll be there in five."
"Wait!" Riruka said while stepping into the Kuchiki mansion and seeing Rukia with her bags "you're leaving me? In this town? Alone?!"
Rukia nodded.
"Take me with you! You have to take me with you!" Riruka begged "don't leave me here!"
Rukia looked with puppy eyes at Hisana and Riruka joined her.
"Oh no!" Hisana said "I mean there's nothing wrong with… but at the same time, I mean, no! stop looking at me like that! Ugh, fine, you can both go."
Riruka hugged Hisana.
"You should adopt me too!" she said.
"Don't push your luck." Hisana said playfully and both girls laughed.
"Okay, repeat that" Kaien said while Ichigo got inside the car "where are we going?"
"First we're going to a travel agency, I need to buy a ticket to England" he explained "next we're going to Yui's house and after that you're dropping me at the airport."
Kaien looked at his cousin as if he had gone mad but started to drive.
"Are you running away to England so Uncle Isshin won't kill you for your suspension?"
"No" Ichigo answered "I'm following Rukia, Byakuya is sending her to a convent."
Kaien hit the brakes suddenly.
"Why you didn't say it sooner?!" he asked "we got to hurry the fuck up!"
Ichigo was really thankful, even after Kaien ignored several red lights and almost crashed with another car he couldn't imagine doing this with anyone else.
When Yui opened her house's door she was surprised at seeing Ichigo, her eyes widened and she couldn't help but stare at how handsome he looked, he was breathing heavily as if he had just ran a marathon and he had some tickets on his hand. Yui thought right there how he probably wanted her to travel with him now that they were both suspended and it made her smile with pride, perhaps this boy right here didn't want Rukia so much, otherwise he would be already looking for her.
"Ichigo" she said "what are you doing here?"
Ichigo took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry Yui" he said and put his hands on her shoulders "I'm in love with Rukia, I'm leaving the country right now to look for her and I hope you understand how we can no longer keep playing like this, you're nice and everything but you're not Rukia."
Yui gaped.
It was then when everything hit her, she had kissed him and she had gotten his attention and yet he couldn't stop thinking about Rukia! It was like if they had an unbreakable bond and it drove Yui crazy! She didn't like Ichigo like that, not in the romantic sense of the word because they weren't that close but why?! Damn it! Why was Rukia so goddamn lucky?!
"You cannot break up with me!" she shrieked "what the fuck?!"
Ichigo cringe at the tone of her voice.
"Sorry" Ichigo said again "but we never dated to begin with so this is over, I just feel that you should hear this from me, goodbye."
Ichigo ran towards Kaien's car and Yui stood there, speechless.
"You'll pay for this Kurosaki Ichigo!" Yui yelled "you're an asshole!"
Fine, her plan to make Rukia pay was over but she could just try to ignore them for a while, she would make both of them suffer later.
Rukia sighed while looking through the window of the car, she felt weird leaving her brother's house and she was already missing her sister.
"It'll be okay loser" Riruka assured her "we'll come back before you notice."
Rukia nodded.
She really hoped so.
"I can't believe you're actually leaving" Kaien said while looking at Ichigo who was waiting to get on the plane "call me as soon as you get there."
"Oh shit!" Ichigo said "I forgot to call dad!"
Kaien rolled his eyes.
"Here, use my cellphone."
"Thanks" Ichigo said and took it.
He dialed his father's number.
"Hello?" Isshin greeted.
"Old man" Ichigo greeted "listen I don't have much time, but I'm leaving tonight, to England, I'm going to bring Rukia back, Byakuya sent her to a convent so tell Karin and Yuzu that I'll come back soon, okay?"
There was a pause that lasted thirty seconds.
"Are you drunk?" Isshin asked him finally.
"What?! No!" Ichigo said "I just told you that…"
"Yeah, I heard you! But Ichigo Byakuya didn't send Rukia to England, he sent her to her grandfather's house on the countryside of Karakura, just a few hours away."
Ichigo was shocked.
"What…? How do you know this?" he asked "are you sure?"
"Byakuya told me today in a meeting" Isshin said evasively "where did you get the idea that he would send her too England?"
Ichigo couldn't speak.
"You know dad, tell Yuzu that I need dinner, I'll be there soon." He hung up after that and looked at Kaien.
"What happened?" Kaien asked him.
"Byakuya fooled me" Ichigo said "I just spent all my savings in this stupid ticket when Rukia is at her grandpa's house!"
Kaien didn't stop laughing the whole way towards Ichigo's house, and Ichigo couldn't blame him, he was such an idiot, but now he knew where to find Rukia so it was just a matter of time. They went to Ichigo's house and in the end Kaien stayed to have dinner with Ichigo and after saying goodbye Ichigo went to sleep but before turning off the light he sent a text.
Grimmjow was coming out of the shower when his cellphone rang so he picked it up to read the new text he had received.
From: Unknown number.
"Hey motherfucker, it's me Ichigo, I just wanted to tell you that I'm not giving up and I'm guessing that you're not giving up either, so challenge accepted. You won't take Rukia away for me, so good luck asshole, you'll need it."
Grimmjow smirked and saved Ichigo's number.
He was always up to a good challenge.
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