29.
Title: Never
Look Back Philosophy
Rating: PG
Pairing/Character/s:
IchigoxRukia (lightly)
Word Count: 307
Warning/s:
Spoilers for 181
Summary: It
doesn't matter if no one gets it.
Dedication:
Beck-senpai, cuz she's always willing to help helpless ole me.
A/N: Kind of
sappy, but not really. I dunno.
Maybe no one gets it, but Ichigo doesn't really feel like explaining exactly why he'd been able to leave Soul Society without so much as a backwards glance.
Because it's not important, really, for anyone to get it if they haven't on their own already anyway. To Ichigo, it doesn't matter if no one else in the world gets it so long as he and Rukia do.
And maybe that's a little bit selfish, after all they all went through to get her back, but his friends are a thousand times smarter than him, and he's pretty sure that even if they don't get it exactly, they understand.
They understand that just because she chose to stay, it doesn't mean that…
"Ichigo…"
He looks up at the sound of his name and there she is. She steps through the open window with that smug little expression of hers that she's so damn good at, one of those legendary death gods dressed all in black and with the prettiest face he's ever seen. Here she is, sneaking into this high schooler's bedroom in the dead of night even though he's got class the next morning.
And all he can do is smile back. "Yo."
Her lips quirk upwards as she takes him in, and she gestures with her chin, back towards the outside world. "Let's go, Ichigo."
Anticipatory, he gets up, having already taken Shinigami form hours ago. "All right."
And they disappear into the dark together.
Just like that, they're together again, running as fast as they can, side by side in the middle of the night chasing Hollows like nothing's changed, because really, it hasn't.
And Ichigo grins like he's having the time of his life, thinking to himself that it doesn't matter if no one else gets it, so long as he and Rukia do.
END
