Chapter 50
In The End
"We're going to fuck them up." Ichigo says in a low voice, and everyone in the room starts to get fired up.
"Damn straight!" Renji says in agreement.
"They'll regret this for sure," Sado chimes in.
"You fucking piece of shit, you will leave here a loser just like always!" Tatsuki screams loud enough for him to hear her. "You keep getting more and more stupid!" Tatsuki yells loudly.
Inoue nods her head angrily as she remembers what happened to Aizen's previous victims. Both her and Ishida had been disgusted and angered when they'd heard the details.
"I won't lose this time," Aizen says loudly, and the kids all hear him since Ishida cracked open the window to try out his slingshot for a second time. "That didn't sound like Rukia. It's good that she's not the only young lady in the residence tonight," Aizen says with a delighted chuckle.
"You're delusional!" Rukia shouts out when she hears that perverse comment coming from his mouth. Aizen's loud laugh can be clearly heard in the house, and all three of the girls shiver with disgust at the sound of his confident and sadistic chortling.
Ishida aims a rock towards one of the men Aizen claimed to be his Espada, the man is ridiculously tall, and when Ishida lets the rock loose, he hits this time. The tall man on the end is instantly brought down when the rock hits him in the center of the forehead.
This seems to be the signal, and Aizen immediately advances towards Yumichika with his followers directly behind him. Kenpachi runs in front of Yumichika and immediately raises his own sword to start to fight with Tousen. When Tousen senses the man upon him, he's shocked by the incredible power that the man obviously possesses.
"What in the hell are you?" Tousen asks in a low voice since every instinct he has is frantically telling him not to fight with this man.
"I'm your worst mother fucking nightmare!" Kenpachi tells him with a big smile. "I can't waste too long on you, there are others that I want to kill. You shouldn't have come to this place." Kenpachi says with an excited laugh. Ikkaku comes from the side of the house and immediately begins to engage Gin in battle.
They keep coming and Ichigo watches as Yumichika begins to engage the only woman in the group who came with Aizen.
The kids all stare in horror when the front door opens, and Ichigo prepares his weapon. Aizen allows his followers to enter first, and the blue haired man immediately rushes to be the first one in Rukia's house.
Ichigo immediately pounds him with several savage blows, using his three sectioned staff until the man falls to the ground.
Sado immediately goes after the largest in the group, the man is larger than he is too. The guy grins when he sees Sado pulling back to punch him.
"You can't beat Yami!" The man says with a laugh as he kicks Sado before his punch can reach him. Sado is knocked back several feet and he quickly gets back up. Ichigo hits the blue haired man who was starting to stand ,so hard he's knocked out at the moment he sees Sado hit the ground.
Toushirou darts in and flies with his foot aimed at the pink haired man that has entered the room. The man is so caught off guard and Toushirou flies onto him, beating the living daylights out of the man.
Toushirou's success seems to psyche up all of the people in the room who are fighting for Rukia, and Inoue runs forward and beats the pink haired guy over the head with her bat, and Ishida sends another rock, this time flying at the big black guy who looks like he's about to grab Inoue by her hair. The black man grabs at his head and shoots Ishida an evil look.
One man, whose face is covered by a strange mask jumps over the brawling with his sword out to attack Rukia, though not with a fatal type blow. Rukia snaps open her fan instantly, blocking the attack, and the man grunts in surprise, and that is the moment he is knocked into oblivion by Ichigo.
While that was happening, Ishida had prepared another rock, and once again, his mark is true as the eye splatters into the black man's left eye, causing blood to spray out onto the pink haired man that Inoue is still beating over the head with her bat.
Inoue suddenly notices the black man begin to flail and so she strikes his groin with her bat as hard as she possibly can, sending him to his back in an unmoving heap.
Tatsuki flies with her fists at the blue haired guy who started to get up to go after Ichigo now that he's no longer concentrating on him, and Renji assists her and they attack him together. Tatsuki kicks him in the cheek hard enough to make him think he's been kicked into the next year, but then Renji pulls him into an effective chokehold.
Aizen hasn't actually entered the room yet, he's at the doorway, and Toushirou suddenly leaps off of the pink haired man to dive past a very old man, at Aizen.
"You mother fucking piece of shit!" Toushirou's voice is so loud it wakes up Karin next door.
One Espada who had been doing nothing, and was more accustomed to being lazy whenever the occasion suited him, suddenly found himself being targeted by Tatsuki. He's amazed that such a young girl is so skilled in the martial arts when she elbows him in the face.
"Ow! You bitch! What did I do to you?" He asks in a pained voice.
"You came in this house you jackass!" Tatsuki yells before she kicks him in the throat sending him completely unconscious.
Outside, Kenpachi has just slit Tousen from his shoulder down to his waist, and the man crumbles to the ground, bleeding to death. Kenpachi laughs gleefully. He just loves battle.
At the same time, Ikkaku cuts away Gin's pants and castrates Gin. Then he moves to his back and pierces his sword into Gin's Achilles heel, causing the man to fall to the ground, unable to walk at all.
Kenpachi and Ikkaku advance closer to Aizen, who is currently being attacked in a flurry of directions by the voluntary kid bodyguard who had shown up.
Ikkaku and Kenpachi exchange surprised glances as they think the same exact thing.
That kid is pretty fucking good.
Yumichika is fighting and losing to the Espada woman, in fact he's already seriously injured, even though he isn't dead.
Ikkaku notices the condition his brother is in and he blocks the killing blow as he looks angrily at the blonde who had attacked his twin brother.
"I'm your opponent now." Ikkaku informs her, even as Isshin races over to help Yumichika.
"Don't worry, I've called the police," Isshin reassures the injured man.
"That woman is as strong as a man…" Yumichika whispers before he loses consciousness.
Back in the house, Sado is facing Yami again, and this time he lands a punch on Yami at his full force, and the man is surprised when Sado's punch actually knocks him to the ground. Rukia flies forward and whips a Jiulong knife from her sheath and holds it to the large man's throat.
"I will kill you if you move a muscle." Rukia says in a dangerously low voice.
Sado turns his attention to the old man and punches as hard as he can at the old guy's face. The old guy thinks he's just been sent to heaven as he flies out the open door and several meters in front of Rukia's house.
Toushirou just landed a vicious kick to Aizen's crotch and he smiles with satisfaction when Aizen grunts in pain.
"Does it hurt, you piece of shit?" Toushirou asks him before he uppercuts Aizen in the chin, causing Aizen to fall backwards and lose consciousness for a couple of moments.
"You fucking people quit hitting me in my goddamned chin!" Aizen growls as he comes to. He rubs his chin, which is throbbing painfully.
He remembers how Rukia had caught his chin in her bedroom when he had last fought with her. It pisses him off that he got caught in the chin yet again. He can't let this end like the last time, even if things are looking grim.
It hurts like a son of a bitch.
The man who's eye got hit by a rock before he entered the house staggers in and kicks Toushirou so hard that the kid flies against the wall on the opposite side of the room and Toushirou crumbles to the floor into unconsciousness.
Kenpachi immediately tries to slash the man who kicked Toushirou but the man moves out of his way and slashes Kenpachi instead. Kenpachi falls to his knees gasping even as a picture flashes across his brain of his daughter who is away at boarding school. He promised her that he wouldn't die.
"Yachiru…I won't die." Kenpachi says in a soft voice as he breathes deeply.
Ichigo is fighting a black haired man with green eyes, who shows absolutely no emotion on his face. The man has been able to block all of Ichigo's attacks, and Ichigo can feel the sweat falling down his face, and he watches in amazement as the man he's fighting dodges a rock that Ishida managed to shoot off at him. The man appears to be extremely skilled when it comes to fighting. He seems like the type who could easily fight, blindfolded.
Inoue attacks the man who kicked Toushirou with her bat, and the man hadn't even seen her coming at him when she crushed the bat into his midsection and then thrust it forward into his neck, causing him to land on his back, panting for breath.
Toushirou has recovered from being kicked and he rushes furiously back over to Aizen and begins to choke the life out of him.
He notices that Inoue is clobbering the guy who kicked him over the head repeatedly with her bat as she yells about not attacking children and women. He can hardly believe that the seemingly friendly girl is that angry.
"You are evil! You don't attack women or children!" Inoue is still ranting and raving.
Kenpachi who was on his knees from getting slashed, smiles when he realizes the man who slashed him is laying on the ground from Inoue's beating and he immediately kills the man by swiping his sword across the man's neck so deeply the man is nearly left decapitated. Inoue stops beating him with her bat when she witnesses that brutal slash.
"Payback can be a fucking bitch." Kenpachi says as he watches the light immediately go out in the man's eyes. "Don't you agree?" Kenpachi asks with a sardonic laugh. Inoue's mouth just drops open since she' had been right there for the the end of it.
Toushirou squeezes Aizen's neck even harder. He grips the man's neck with every ounce of strength his body possesses and he squeezes with all of his will…for his sister's sake.
"Do you know who I am, you fuck nut? I am Hinamori Momo's little brother. I'm here for her vengeance! I hope this hurts…" Toushirou hisses at Aizen. "Die and go to hell!" Toushirou spits in his face. These are the last words that Aizen hears as he struggles unsuccessfully to breathe and he falls into darkness. "I don't believe you're dead, I'm not letting go!" Toushirou says in a low angry voice to the man's purple face.
Ikkaku thrusts his sword into the woman's chest and he watches as she falls to the ground, bleeding to death.
"It's over for you now. Die." Ikkaku says to the blonde woman, even as he hears more fighting still going on within the house.
Back in the house, Ichigo lands an Iron Elbow on the stoic man that he's facing and Rukia leaps on the man from behind after Ichigo's savage hit and begins to choke him from behind.
Kenpachi watches as the police pull up and Isshin rushes over to him.
"It's going to be alright, the police are here now," Isshin tells Kenpachi, even as he eyes the serious wound that was inflicted on his body.
The police jump out of their cars and rush towards the house, where several officers check on the people littered out in the front yard.
When they enter the house, they're shocked to see people all over the floor. In particular, a white haired child appears to be choking Aizen Sousuke, who looks like he's already dead. Their mouths gape open a bit before they are actually to able respond and it takes several officers to pry the boy away from the dead man, since he's hanging on with a vice-like grip.
One officer feels Aizen's neck for a pulse to confirm his death and he nods his head at the other men.
"He's dead." The officer tells the others, as they survey the damage that was done to the convicts who broke out of jail.
The officers quickly round up the ones still living, but it appears that several of Aizen's group lost their lives in the scuffle.
Only the man that Ichigo had fought last, the man who called himself Yami, the black man, the masked man, and the really lazy guy who Tatsuki had knocked unconscious are still alive, though they're all severely injured.
Aizen, Gin, Tousen, the woman, the pink haired man, the blue haired man, the old man, and the tall man are all dead. The police are more than shocked with the body count, not that the kids can exactly be held responsible.
"He's dead?" Rukia says in surprise, even as the truth actually hits her. Ichigo hugs her close.
"He's dead." Ichigo confirms with a happy smile.
"Really?" Rukia asks in disbelief, even as she stares at his corpse.
"Toushirou did it." Ichigo whispers into her ear, and Rukia can practically feel Hinamori Momo smiling broadly down on her brother.
"Hitsugaya-kun did?" Rukia whispers with wide and happy eyes.
"Yep." Ichigo says with a relaxed grin.
"It's really over?" Rukia asks in a bit of disbelief.
"The insanity is really over, but our life together is still just beginning." Ichigo tells her softly, earning a happy smile from Rukia. He puts his arm around her and gives her a comforting squeeze. Rukia feels like all of her troubles are swiftly dissipating into nothingness.
A car is heard screeching outside and Byakuya jumps out of the car, and rushes towards the house. Rukia immediately waves to him and Byakuya rushes over.
"Ni-sama!" Rukia calls out and Byakuya looks relieved to see her looking okay and well, even as he surveys the yard and injuries.
Byakuya sees that Ikkaku is the only bodyguard who appears to be minimally injured. Byakuya also notices immediately that the key players in Rukia's misery all appear to be dead.
"I hurried back as quickly as I could…I guess I was a little bit too late." Byakuya says as he realizes that Rukia is holding her iron fan in her hand.
"I think we're all okay," Rukia says as the kids all seem to be for the most part uninjured.
"I'm so glad to hear it," Byakuya says with relief.
"Life will finally get peaceful?" Rukia asks Ichigo hopefully, as she looks up at him still feeling a little bit anxious.
"It can't get anything else, with Aizen dead, can it?" Ichigo asks her softly. Rukia shakes her head and she buries her face into Ichigo's chest.
"Thank you, Ichigo." Rukia tells him as she wraps her arms around him to hug him tightly.
Ichigo suddenly notices that Karin has run over and doesn't seem to be at all concerned about the dead bodies laying around, instead she's kneeling next to Toushirou looking awfully concerned about his injuries, and the way she's looking at him reminds Ichigo of the way Rukia looks at him, and his eyes narrow as he watches his sister fawn all over the kid who killed Aizen.
"You have got to be shitting me." Ichigo grumbles as he watches his sister's face light up in a relieved smile when Toushirou assures her that he's fine.
"What is it, Ichigo?" Rukia asks as she pulls her face away from his chest. She looks up at him, and he's obviously focused on something besides her, and so Rukia follows his gaze and sees Karin telling Toushirou that she's so glad he's okay.
Uh oh. Maybe I should distract him.
"I think my sister has developed a crush." Ichigo grumbles to Rukia, who smiles up at him with amusement.
"Well she's more than twice the age we were when we developed our first crushes." Rukia reminds him.
"Gin was killed." Byakuya tells Rukia, who immediately smiles.
"Really?" Rukia asks, thinking the night just keeps getting better.
"You won't have to worry about him ever again, either." Byakuya assures her with a rarely seen big smile.
"That is a relief!" Rukia says, letting a large gust of air out as she realizes how great that news is.
"Everything is looking up." Byakuya assures her in a quiet voice.
J J J J
When Rukia receives the earrings from Ichigo for White's Day, she absolutely adores them. They go wonderfully with her engagement ring, and she knows he must have spent a lot of his reward money on them. They're sitting on her bed, all alone.
"You are the sweetest man alive." Rukia said when she looked at him after giving the earrings a long admiring look.
"I'm glad you think so, since you're stuck with me," Ichigo tells her with a sexy wink.
"Being stuck with you is a fantasy that many women share, but only I get to experience." Rukia tells him with a soft laugh.
"I only care about your fantasies." Ichigo whispers in her ear.
"My fantasy is for you to make love to me," Rukia tells him with a mischievous glint in her eyes. She sets the earrings on her nightstand to give Ichigo her full attention.
"What a coincidence, that's my fantasy too." Ichigo informs her as he leans in to kiss her. Rukia smiles and kisses him back.
Like always, he makes her body shake in want and excitement when he runs his hands and tongue wherever the desire strikes him. He gives Rukia a nice long and quivering orgasm before he ever even enters her. He loves the way her body reacts to him, since he knows his body is the same way when she applies her touch to him.
"Ichigo…" Rukia murmurs as he keeps on kissing her, taking his time not to rush and to bring her complete satisfaction.
"I love it when you're hot like this. My future wife." Ichigo whispers sensually to her before he starts nibbling on her earlobe.
Rukia shivers at the closeness and then his lips move to her neck, one of her most favorite places to be kissed, not that there are only a few of them, since she has tons of favorite spots to be kissed when she's with Ichigo.
"I love you, Ichigo." Rukia says, just as Ichigo is positioning himself to make love to her. He gives her a very intense and loving look as he's penetrating her and he lets her know how he feels as he does.
"I love you, Rukia." Ichigo tells her in a clearly turned on voice. Rukia loops her arms around his neck and begins to hold on tighter and tighter as he makes love to her harder, and faster with each thrust. To her it feels wondrously perfect. Experiencing this type of love is a gift in her mind.
J J J J
Rukia's gymnastics competition that she's spent so many months working hard for is finally upon them. Everyone that Rukia extended an invitation to showed up for her performance too. Ichigo, his family, Renji, Tatsuki, Sado, Michiru, Inoue, and Ishida all came to support her.
Rukia had received red roses this time, right before she entered the gym, since Ichigo had caught her before she could enter. He had also promised to ride back home with her, since she had arrived separately from him with her coach. Rukia feels like her body is in perfect shape for the strenuous exercises that she has planned for the competition.
Karin has become withdrawn for the most part, ever since Toushirou returned home, but they're pen pals now, and she definitely managed to make friends with him, even if he hasn't truly noticed her as a girl yet. She does enjoy watching the gymnastics though, so she's in a rare good mood as she looks around the gym.
Ichigo and Rukia's friends are filled with excitement when they see Rukia appear on the floor with all of the other contestants. Her coach is there today, and Ichigo wishes he could be down there spotting her like usual, but today her coach will take over that duty.
"I think she can win. I've seen so many amazing moves out of her the past few months at the gym." Tatsuki says with a big smile to Ichigo who is catching Rukia's gaze and smiling.
"What?" Ichigo asks absentmindedly.
"I said that I think she can win after all of the moves I've seen her perform lately, jeez…you two never get bored with each other, do you?" Tatsuki asks as she smiles at him.
"I haven't seen you getting bored of Renji either," Ichigo points out, and he smiles victoriously when Tatsuki blushes.
"I guess that's how it is, when you're in love." Tatsuki admits softly, causing Ichigo to smile and nod.
"It just makes life seem so much better, doesn't it?" Ichigo asks her, before he looks back at Rukia.
"Yeah, I think you're right about that." Tatsuki says with a grin.
"Her bad dreams have completely disappeared, and our wedding plans seem to be coming along nicely." Ichigo says in a quiet voice as he watches Rukia stretch. He has the same type of reaction that he always does to that sight, and he crosses his arms as he stares at her.
Everyone cheers for Rukia after all of her performances, which are clearly more difficult than the performances she had put on just before she had moved to Karakura Town.
Not one of her friends are surprised when she actually wins the competition, and is given a gold medal. Rukia holds it up in the air, and she smiles when she hears Ichigo and her friends all cheering loudly in appreciation.
Rukia smiles at all of them, even as she realizes that her life has gotten a million times better ever since Ichigo came back into it. She even has more people cheering for her at her competitions now.
Even better than the medal though, is the congratulatory kiss that Ichigo gives her the very second they're finally together after she's left the floor.
"Congratulations, you deserved to win. I am glad they finally chose the right contender to be the winner." Ichigo tells her with an adoring smile. Rukia grins back at him.
"You would say that even if I didn't deserve it." Rukia accuses him even as she can't stop smiling.
"You did deserve it though. Nobody knows better than me how hard you've worked for this competition and it really paid off. You blew the leotards off of those other girls." Ichigo tells her with a wink.
"Thanks for working hard with me everyday." Rukia tells him even as their friends gather around to congratulate her.
"You were phenomenal, Rukia!" Tatsuki and Renji say it at the same time, and then they both blush at that. Rukia grins at the couple.
"Thanks!" Rukia tells them brightly.
"I was impressed, Rukia." Byakuya's voice sounds behind her friends, and Rukia's eyes widen in shock and happiness.
"Ni-sama! You came to watch?" Rukia says in a soft and pleased voice.
"I made sure I wouldn't miss this one." Byakuya tells her with a hint of a smile playing at his lips.
Rukia's eyes tear up as she looks at her friends, her fiancé, his family, and her brother. She feels emotional at their group show of support for her. She's never had this many people come to root her on in a competition.
"It's like a dream come true! Thank you so much, everybody for coming to watch and cheer. You don't all know what it means to me." Rukia says and Ichigo yanks her into his side.
Her emotional show of happiness ends up making Byakuya feel a bit guilty that he was really never around to attend her competitions before. He is relieved he attended the one where she actually received the all around gold medal.
"That triple back flip dismount that you did was riveting!" Inoue assures Rukia with a big smile.
"I liked your floor routine! Will you do an encore when we get back to Karakura Town at the gym?" Tatsuki asks Rukia with a big grin. Rukia looks back and forth between the two girls she's become such good friends with over the past several months.
"Of course I'll do an encore, for my friends!" Rukia says, and everyone begins smiling and laughing.
Rukia's coach walks over before he goes to leave in his own taxi. He gives Rukia a very proud look before he congratulates her quietly and then leaves the gym.
Rukia's smile is radiant, she feels like a winner in so many different ways, not just the gymnastics competition.
J J J J
When Rukia and Ichigo arrive home from traveling to France and Italy during the summer vacation, their friends surprise them with a welcome home party.
Rukia walks around the crowd of their friends at Inoue's house, where the party was determined to be held, and she feels an overwhelming amount of happiness as she walks around holding Ichigo's hands and talking with all of their friends.
Rukia feels like she's been walking around in a dreamlike haze. Not only did she graduate her first year at Karakura Town with the highest marks in the class, she also managed to survive a couple of encounters with a serial rapist, and survive other attempts at abductions. She's also won her last gymnastics competition and Ichigo's love still feels as miraculous as it always has felt.
"You look happy." Ichigo tells her as he smiles down at his bride-to-be.
"I'm thrilled!" Rukia tells Ichigo with a big smile as their friends continue to party all around them.
Rukia walks around reveling in how wonderfully different her life has become since Ichigo re-entered her life, and she wonders why she has been blessed with such good luck and such a great love.
"You look beautiful." Ichigo whispers down as he admires her radiant face. Rukia smiles happily up at him.
"I love you, Kurosaki Ichigo." Rukia tells him with a lot of feeling in her voice.
"I love you too, Kuchiki Rukia." Ichigo whispers back, with equal feeling in his voice.
"I'm going to keep on loving you…forever." Rukia whispers solemnly. Ichigo nods his head in agreement and leans down to kiss her cheek in front of all of their friends.
"You'd better…or I'll go insane." Ichigo tells her in a fervent voice.
It's so fabulous! It's like I'm on cloud nine and there's no getting off of this cloud!
J J J J
Ichigo feels his heart beating in complete excitement as he watches Byakuya walk Rukia down the aisle for their wedding. Rukia's dress is far more beautiful than any of the gowns he had seen in France or Italy when they'd gone to visit. It's strapless and it looks like it's mostly made of silk. The train isn't overly long, but she still looks like a princess as she walks towards him. She's wearing the sapphire earrings that he gave her last year on White's Day, and the sapphire necklace that he had presented her for this year's White's Day present.
Rukia had invited Tatsuki, Inoue, Michiru, Karin, and Yuzu to be her bridesmaids, and as a result, Ichigo's groomsmen were Sado, Renji, Ishida, Keigo and Mizuiro. The wedding party was filled with family and friends.
When Rukia finally reaches Ichigo's side, and Byakuya presents Rukia to him, Ichigo can hardly believe that what started when he was four is finally coming to fruition now that he's eighteen They had picked the end of July to get married, and the weather was quite agreeable, though the wedding was indoors rather than outdoors.
Ichigo feels like his head is in some sort of haze throughout the ceremony, and he worries he'll wake up and find that his happiness with Rukia was just a great dream. He pinches himself before he's told he can kiss his bride, and he smiles widely when he doesn't wake up.
Ichigo puts his hands on Rukia's tiny waist and leans down to give her the sealing kiss of their union. Rukia can feel her heart beating so fast as Ichigo leans down to rest his lips on her own. She wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him lovingly as the entire room breaks out into thunderous cheers and applause.
Isshin steps forward with tears in his eyes as he looks at the couple that he's watched grow since they were children.
"I'm so happy that you two have kept your word to get married! Now when you have children, I can show them the videotapes of you two falling in love as children!" Isshin says with a big jovial smile, even though his eyes still have tears in them. Everybody who heard him, laughed when he said that and the newly married couple blush furiously.
"Children!" Rukia says with a breath of excitement.
"Wait until you finish school to work on that though," Isshin says even though he wouldn't mind holding his first grandchild as soon as possible. Rukia hugs Isshin, as she sees the expression in his eyes.
"Don't worry, you won't have to wait overly long," Rukia promises him, earning a big happy smile from her new father-in-law.
"I always knew you would be the only girl for my son, and all you do is keep on proving it!" Isshin says as he hugs her back.
Ichigo pulls Rukia from his father's embrace forcibly, and Rukia grins at Ichigo when she's dragged back.
Rukia is pleased to see Zaraki Kenpachi, Ikkaku, and Yumichika all at the wedding, she had been so glad when she'd learned that nobody had died in their quest to protect her. Rukia thinks that Kenpachi has the most adorable little girl, she looks ultra cute perched on her father's shoulders.
Rukia had invited Toushirou to the wedding and reception, and she notices that Karin has spotted him and has gone over to talk, since she looks far more feminine today than she ever has in the past.
Yuzu had invited Jinta to the wedding and Rukia sees them laughing as they eat some of the hors d' oeuvres. Rukia smiles up at her husband, he may not like that his sisters have crushes, but he hasn't stomped on their dreams either. Jinta ended up coming to the wedding with his father, Urahara Kisuke, and his older sister Ururu. Rukia had been so pleased to see Urahara again, since she was always fond of her hidden blade barrettes. It had been surprising to learn that the father of Yuzu's crush was Urahara Kisuke.
Byakuya had decided to present them with newly made weapons as a wedding gift. Ichigo was presented with a new saber-like sword that was as long as his body, and extremely powerful looking. Rukia was presented with a long thin sword that appeared almost white in certain light. They had thanked Byakuya profusely and agreed they'd display the swords in their home as a symbol of their love for one another.
When it comes time to begin the dancing, Rukia is sure she's experiencing a bit of heaven as Ichigo twirls her around the dance floor and stares deeply into her eyes as though she's the only woman that exists in his eyes.
Soon, everyone joins in the dancing and Rukia whispers to the photographer when she sees Karin and Toushirou slow dancing, that she wants pictures of it.
Karin's face is bright red, even though she was the one who invited him to dance. It had been a fast song when she'd took him to the floor and it had changed into a slow one as they had gotten ready to dance. Toushirou had shot her a little grin and then he'd stepped forward to put his hands on her waist. Karin had turned completely red, but she put her hands on his shoulders and she let herself enjoy being so close to the boy she's been crushing on for over a year now.
"You look beautiful today," Toushirou said into Karin's ear once they started dancing, causing Karin to turn even more red.
"Thanks," Karin tells him happily. She can hardly believe the way her entire body seems to be having little explosions like fireworks traveling up and down her body at their closeness and his words.
"We've been friends for a long time now…" Toushirou trails off, and Karin pulls away a tiny bit to look at him.
"For over a year." Karin agrees as it had taken time to get him to actually consider her a true friend.
"Now I'd like to know if it would be okay to take you out on a date sometime." Toushirou tells her with a red face. Karin's mouth drops open but she smiles hugely. She nods her head yes at him as she blushes as red as he just did. She notices her sister dancing with a red haired kid and Karin sighs happily.
Rukia didn't fail to notice Karin and Toushirou's red faces, and she's sure they'll one day make a fine couple.
The wedding reception continues until Ichigo picks up his bride and prepares to leave, as everyone shouts congratulations to the pair. Rukia and Ichigo stare lovingly into each other's eyes and then they grin at their well-wishers.
Ichigo takes Rukia to the limousine that is waiting to take them to their own honeymoon suite at an expensive Tokyo hotel before they head out for their honeymoon the next afternoon.
They smile as they drive away, since they can still hear everyone cheering.
In the end, they look into each other's eyes with an exceptional amount of love.
