Hello everyone, it's me; Just shipping. It has been a year since I updated a story, but for this year I wanted to participate with IchiRuki Month. Even if I have to work on my thesis, I want to participate as last year I did not. I wrote this oneshot and hope that you will like it. Please do not mind the grammar, as English is not my native language. I hope you all like this oneshot and please, do review.

Author note: I do not own Ichiruki, if I did, well...

Prompt: Future

''Oh my God, Rukia. I am so happy for you!'' Rangiku cheered with her champagne glass for her raven-haired friend, who was getting married the next day.

''I agree, you and Kurosaki-kun are a dreamy couple and everyone has been waiting for you two to get married.'' Inoue Orihime sang, raising also her glass.

Rukia smiled and drank of her Sprite. Right now, she was having her bachelor party with some of her closest friends at the karaoke bar. She already had a bridal shower, but Rangiku wanted to party some more. Rukia agreed but told that she did not to make it a late night as tomorrow she would marry her high school sweetheart, Kurosaki Ichigo. She still could not believe that they were going to get married the next day. Rukia could not help it, but remember when he proposed to her.

''Now Rukia, are you sure that you do not want to drink some more champagne?'' Rangiku asked for the hundred time of the night, while raising her eyebrows, bringing her back to reality.

Rukia shook her head. ''Nope, thank you! I already had enough and I do not want to get married, while nursing a hangover.''

''You are right, Kuchiki.'' Tatsuki said. ''Then you cannot enjoy the first day of your marriage.''

''Well, you must be talking from your experience, right Tatsuki?'' Karin said while grinning at her. This made all the girls laugh, as Karin referred to Tatsuki's marriage to Renji, while both were hammered in Las Vegas. The group of friends was shocked when they heard what happened, when the couple came back in Japan, but Tatsuki and Renji wanted this marriage to succeed as both were crazy about each other. They did have a little reception with their friends and family later in Japan, as they wanted to celebrate it with them.

Tatsuki just smiled ''Trust me, remembering your first day as a married couple as you being the one who threw up on your husband; no, that was a bad start.''

''But look at you two now; a year later and Renji just made promotion.'' Rukia cheered for her friend.

''Well, I don't know if Gin will ever marry me, drunk or sober.'' Rangiku thought by herself. Seeing all the girls stare at her, she asked what the matter was.

''You do know that he is crazy about you, right?'' Rukia asked.

''He sure does have a soft spot for you.'' Nanao said, while taking a sip of her champagne.

''I remember that he could be a bully, until he met you.'' Tatsuki said.

Rangiku smiled. ''Yes, he sure does show that he is crazy about me. He always makes me feel special.''

''Does onii-chan also do that, Rukia-nee?'' Yuzu asked.

''Of course he does, Yuzu. Why else would Rukia-nee marry him? I mean, look at them. Rukia-nee could get more handsome man, but she chose him.'' Karin said.

''Ahw Karin-chan, you make it sound like onii-chan is a Pokémon!'' Yuzu whined.

Tatsuki sputtered out her drink and laughed. ''These two did not know that they had the hots for each other. They sure took their time to get together.''

''I agree, whenever I told her that he liked her, she would say; no, he does not.'' Nanao said, while trying to mimic Rukia.

''Correction; he did not like her, he immediately started loving her.'' Inoue joined them.

''Even I could see it'' Nemu said.

Rukia was not surprised to hear the girls say those things. She remembers how frustrated her and Ichigo's friends would get and looking back; she cannot blame them. They sure took their time to get together. And look at them now. Tomorrow they were getting married. The couple had a big wedding. They wanted to have a little ceremony, but with both the groom and the bride being noble, they had to make it big. Both were sleeping at their parent's houses, as Rukia wanted to enter their new house as a married couple.

''Well, I think it has been enough for tonight. We have a long day waiting for us tomorrow and we all need to rise up with the sun.'' Nanao told the girls. The group agreed and stood up to leave.

As they all entered the limousine, all the girls would get dropped at their home. When it was the twins stop, they asked Rukia if she wanted to go with them inside, to see their big brother. Rukia declined saying that starting the next day, she would see him every day.

After all the girls were dropped off, only Rangiku and Rukia were sitting in the limousine. Rangiku would stay with Rukia as she would also be her make-up artist for tomorrow.

Drifting to sleep in the limousine, Rukia started to see a dream.

Entering a bedroom where rays of sunlight was coming into the room. Sheets were laying on the bed and on the floor. On the bed was a couple, barely dressed except for the sheets covering them, caressing each other and the women could not stop giggling. Rukia could see a hint of orange hair on the man's head.

''Oye!'' the man whispered to the women and Rukia could see the women's black hair on the pillow.

''Hmmm?'' she replied.

''It has started to rain'' he whispered in her ear.

''Does it bother you?''

He smiled ''No, I am not planning to go outside. Is that alright?''

''Really? Then what are you planning to do today?''

''To celebrate our first wedding anniversary the whole day inside the house, most of the times in bed or in the bathroom.'' He said wiggling his eyebrows.

''And you did not talk with me about it?''

''Did I have to?''

''Yes, as it's both our wedding anniversary, maybe I do have other plans.''

''Oh sorry. Tell me, my dear wife, do you have other plans to do today to celebrate our first wedding anniversary?''

She thought for a while and then looked at him while biting her lip. Shaking her head, she laughed ''Nope, just exactly the same as you have for today.''

The man laughed and started to kiss her. After a while he broke the kiss and whispered ''Happy wedding anniversary, Rukia.''

''Happy wedding anniversary to you too, Ichigo!'' she said while dragging him down to kiss him again.

''Oiye, Rukia! I do not know what kind of hot dreams you are having right now, but you need to wake up. We are here!'' Rangiku said while shaking Rukia to get him up as the limousine had stopped in front of the Kuchiki mansion.

Rukia got up in shock and realized what she just dreamt. It was her and Ichigo and according to the dream, they were having their first wedding anniversary.

''Hmmm, it looks like you had a great dream.'' Rangiku said, judging by Rukia's expression.

''Shut up, Rangiku'' Rukia said while getting out of the limousine.

After their nightly rituals, Rangiku had given Rukia a mask to sleep with, so she would wake up refreshed and moisturized. Putting it on, Rukia thanked her friend and shut off the lights.

''Rukia?''

''Yes?'' Rukia replied with her eyes already closed.

''Are you nervous about tomorrow, like feeling cold feet?''

Rukia opened her eyes and thought for a while ''Yes, I am nervous as I want everything to go perfect tomorrow. But no, I am not feeling cold feet. In fact, I cannot wait to marry Ichigo tomorrow and be his wife and him being my husband and to start our future together.'' Rukia finished her sentence while smiling.

Rangiku smiled. ''You two really took long enough to get married. I cannot think of another couple who are perfect like you two.''

Rukia's smile grew bigger ''We really made you all go crazy with denying our feelings for so long, huh?''

Rangiku gave a deep sigh ''Honestly, you have no idea. But look at you two now; from dating in your senior year of high school, finishing your universities and now the two of you are getting married. Isn't it funny how things change within time?''

''Yes.''

Rangiku yawned ''Well, let's go to sleep. Tomorrow there is a big day and as your maid of honor, I have to look great, next to you of course.''

Rukia laughed and wished her a good night.

Before falling asleep, she heard her cell phone buzz. Grabbing it, she saw that she had received a text message from her fiancé.

So I heard that you all went crazy with karaoke?

Rukia smiled and replied to him.

Ara Kurosaki-kun, are you spying on me?

He immediately replied to her.

Maybe I do, maybe I don't

She replied to his message

Or maybe you were also singing at the karaoke bar with the guys?

I think you would immediately find that out, Keigo and Renji do not sing, but they yell when they think that they are singing. He replied back.

I know, but I think I have heard worse than those two today. Ichigo, I want to go to sleep as tomorrow is a big day. I will speak to you tomorrow. She texted back.

Oiye Rukia, can you believe it? He texted her.

Believe what? She replied.

That in a couple of hours you will become Mrs. Kurosaki Ichigo. He replied back.

We will see about that, maybe I will not go along with the ceremony. We will see; She replied last and shut off her cell phone.

Very funny, Rukia!

You were joking right?

Oiye, reply to your fiancé!

Fine, good night, Rukia, soon to be Mrs. Kurosaki Ichigo!

Rukia sat at a desk, grading papers. Looking at the time, she saw that it was already past midnight and she still had a lot of work to do. Great thinking of grading the papers at night after dinner, she scolded herself. But she had been busy the previous days and today she finally could grade the papers.

Hearing a knock on the door, she looked up and saw her husband enter the room, with two bowls. When he sat down next to her, she saw that there was ice-cream in it.

''Oh and for what do I deserve it?''

He chuckled ''It seems like you forgot, midget. ''This earned him a slap with her proclaiming that she was not a midget. ''You said that you would eat some ice-cream after two hours of grading and I saw that you did not. So take a little break and eat some ice-cream with your beloved husband.''

She smiled ''Strawberry, my favourite. And chocolate, your favourite!''

''Well, we only get those two flavours in house, so what else did you expect? But enough chit-chat, let's eat our ice-cream!'' he said while eating his ice-cream. Rukia couldn't control herself and put her hands around his neck to pull him to her, kissing him. When she pulled away, she gave him a big smile.

''And this flavor I like the best.''

''And do you know which one I like the most?''

''Which one?''

He kissed her back and when he pulled back, he nuzzled her neck. ''This one.''

Rukia closed her eyes and enjoyed his nuzzling. Until she opened her eyes and saw the two bowls on the desk. She pushed him away and turned around to lean with her back on his chest. ''As much as I liked your nuzzling, I would like to enjoy my ice-cream.''

''So, you do not want to get freaky?''

''Ichigo, it's late and I still have some papers to grade. And you already had your fun yesterday.''

''But Rukia...''

She turned her head towards him and raised his eyebrow. He sighed ''Fine, let's enjoy our ice-cream.''

She smiled and turned back to eat her ice-cream.

Rukia woke up, hearing some voices. She woke up in a king-sized bed, which was in a beige bedroom. She could see a make-up table and big walk-in closet. Getting up of the bed, she walked towards the voices. The voices were in the room next door. Looking into the pink-striped room with flowers over the walls, she saw her husband braiding their daughter's hair.

The little girl who had raven hair was telling him a story about school, while he was doing her hair.

''So I told Dai that I was going to win the race and guess what, daddy?''

''Tell me, princess.'' Ichigo replied calmly while finishing the braid.

''I won!'' she cheered while standing up to do a victory dance. Ichigo told her to stop moving, while he tied up her braid. Tying it, he picked her up and hugged her. ''That's my little girl. I knew that you would win. You sure did show that Dai, huh princess?!''

The little girl nodded and then looked towards the door.

''Mommy, you are up! Look, daddy just did my hair.'' She showed her mother while twirling around.

Rukia laughed and bent down. ''I can see that, my little Aimi-chan is all ready to go to school, I see.''

Aimi nodded fiercely and dragged her mother out of the room, to the kitchen, to get some breakfast. Apparently Ichigo already made breakfast, Rukia thought looking into the kitchen and put the food on the table to start breakfast with her family.

After breakfast was over, Ichigo told Aimi to get her bag as he would drop her off to school. When she left the kitchen, he turned to Rukia.

''I was thinking of telling Aimi today about the baby, what do you say?''

Rukia put her hand on pregnant belly of four months and smiled. ''I think that that's a good idea. We need to tell her before I start to show.''

''Yes, I agree and because in the fifth month it became clear with Aimi that you were pregnant, I thought of telling her now.''

Rukia nodded and put her hand on Ichigo's ''But let's wait after she comes back today from school then we will tell her.''

Ichigo nodded and seeing Aimi running towards the kitchen with her school bag, he kissed his wife goodbye. Aimi also hugged her mother deeply and gave her a big kiss, saying that she would miss her at school. Rukia seriously wondered who missed whom more, as she also missed her little girl whenever she would go to school.

Rukia woke up and sat up straight. Those two dreams looked so real, she thought by herself. After taking a deep breath, she laid back down and smiled. Even if they were just dreams, she thought that they were lovely dreams. Twirling her engagement ring, she started to think about the dreams. And without realizing it, she drifted back to sleep.

''Daddy, I want the coconut flavour'' Five years old Aimi told her dad, while looking in the ice-cream parlor. Rukia smiled and looked at her almost two-years old son, who was sitting in his pram. It was a warm day and the Kurosaki family had decided to go out and eat some ice-cream.

''Ichigo, for me strawberry and lemon flavour and for Isamu only pistachio flavour.'' Rukia told her husband. While Ichigo was giving the order, Rukia looked for a table to sit while pushing the pram. When she sat down, Aimi ran towards her mother and brother, while carrying her ice-cream, along with the one of her little brother.

''Just give it to him, Aimi-chan. He can eat it by himself.'' Rukia told her daughter. Aimi did like her mother said and sat down to eat her own ice-cream. Ichigo joined his family and gave his wife her ice-cream. ''Here you go.''

''Don't forget, Ichigo. Tomorrow we are having dinner at my parents' house.''Rukia told her husband, while licking her ice-cream.

''Oh, do I have to go?'' he whined.

Rukia put on a fake smile and glared at him ''No, you do not have to go. Just like you don't have to sleep in our bed, but on the couch.''

He sighed ''Fine, no need to get drastic.''

''I'm all done with my ice-cream, mommy and daddy.'' Aimi cheered. Both her parents looked up. ''You sure did finish that quickly, princess.'' Ichigo said and Rukia nodded in agreement.

Aimi just smiled and asked if she could play at the swings in front of the ice-cream parlor. Ichigo nodded and she ran. When he checked on his second child, his eyes got wide in shock.

''Isamu, what did you do?!'' he exclaimed.

The almost two-year-old orange haired boy scowled at his father with his violet eyes, while holding his cone. The pistachio flavoured ice was on his cheeks, his neck, his hands and arms and his clothes. Seeing that his father wanted to grab his cone, he shook his head and cheered. Rukia smiled ''Just let him be, Ichigo. I knew that this would happen, hence I got some extra clothes with me. It's fine.''

Ichigo rubbed his neck and shrugged ''If you say so. You sure do love ice-cream, huh Isamu?''

Isamu looked up at his father, smiling and then continued to eat his ice-cream.

Rukia woke up, thanks to her alarm. While thinking of her last dream, her mother entered her room.

''Time to wake up, sweetheart. It's a big day today.'' Hisana told her daughter while sitting on her bed. ''And good luck waking that one up.'' She said referring to Rangiku, who was still snoring.

Rukia smirked ''A bucket of cold water should do the magic.''

Hisana smiled at her daughter's reply. ''I cannot believe that my little girl is all grown up and getting married today. I remember it just like yesterday, when Ichigo-chan came in our house. You introduced him then as a class fellow, but I already knew that he was going to play a big part in your future.''

''You knew it then already! Why didn't you tell me?''

Hisana shrugged ''You had to figure that out by yourself, but he also had to. And you two were sure slow. You have no idea how many times Isshin-san and I would complain to each other about the two of you.''

Rukia frowned ''Why am I hearing this now?''

''I knew that your friends gave you both a hard time complaining about it, so I figured not to bother you then. But now, why not?! Now, enough chit chat, we have a big day ahead of us, so get up!'' Hisana said while standing up to give her daughter a kiss on her forehead.

''But know this, I am very very and very proud of you.'' Hisana whispered while holding her daughter's cheeks. She then left the room and Rukia turned to Rangiku, thinking of ways to wake her up.

It was done. The wedding ceremony had taken place and both her and Ichigo had said yes and exchanged the rings. They had sealed the deal with a kiss and were right now at the reception.

''Mrs. Kurosaki?'' he asked while hugging her from behind.

''Yes, Mr. Kurosaki?''

''Do you wonder how our future will look like as a married couple?''

She smiled thinking back of the dreams she had ''No.''

He raised an eyebrow ''Really?''

She nodded and he asked why she did not.

She turned around to put her hands on his shoulders ''Let's say that I had a vision that the two of us are heading to a pretty good future.'' She said and he smiled at this, kissing her again.

So this was my prompt for storytelling. I know I am late, but it's really been hectic. I hope you all liked it and please do review.