Disclaimer: Second fic! Woo hoo!

A/N: This is just something that I thought at ice- skating. Ichigo feels sad about not being able to go out and have fun like she used to, so the monkeys ask her to teach them a few of her favourites.

P.S: Big thanks cuddles to Guy Who Reads Too Much Fantasy for the whole 'Antauri Protecting Ichigo' idea!

A Promise Made

Ichigo watched as the Monkey Team dodged swirling saws and lasers in the training room. She gazed wide- eyed at the weapons. The rather large weapons. The rather large and vicious- looking weapons. The training stopped and Chiro came over, sweating and wiping his face with a towel, he looked at her and smiled,

"OK, Ichigo, your turn" he said, walking over to the controls and sitting down. Ichigo looked back at where all the weapons poised ready for battle, and sweat dropped.

"Uhhhh... That's OK, Chiro! I think I'll just watch some more!" she stammered quickly, feeling the sweat run down her neck and a knot of unease appear in her stomach.

"C'mon, Ichigo! You've been sitting on the sidelines the whole time! Time to shake that tail and beat the crud outta some training modules!" called Sprx, pumping his fist in the air. Ichigo gulped again and felt a shiver run down her back,

"N-no! That's OK, seriously! I'm happy here, just watching!" she shook slightly at the thought of facing those things full- on.

"Very well" said Antauri, nodding at Chiro to start the module, Chiro smiled and complied.

Soon; they were jumping around, avoiding saws and laser beams again. Ichigo sighed quietly,

'This is crazy! I can't do that! I mean, heck I'm just a 16 year old girl! True, I'm stuck in a robot monkey's body, but I just can't go out and face things like those" she thought as she watched Gibson manage to duck under a saw. She turned slightly and saw Otto battling a few lasers, deflecting their beams with his saws, she noticed that Sprx seemed to nod and he nodded back and deflected a laser beam her way. She jumped to one side of it and sighed in relief, then got hit in the back as it deflected off a wall behind her. The force sent her flying into the fray and she worked her wings backwards to stop herself flying further. She righted herself and hovered slightly as she got her bearings, then she whizzed backwards, quickly dodging a beam and a saw. Then it hit her and she felt numb, she'd fallen into the training space and now she was being attacked too! She dodged, ungracefully, squeaking slightly when a saw swung a little too close.

Antauri leapt onto the podium in the middle of the training room and did a double take when he saw Ichigo there, desperately trying to dodge attacks, and anyone could see that she wasn't enjoying it one bit. He avoided a couple of saws coming at him and ran to where Ichigo was.

"Ichigo!" he called, running up to her side. Ichigo turned to him and he could see she near tears with fright. She flew over to him and hugged him,

"Antauri" she said, relieved that someone was helping her, "I didn't mean to fall in, honest!" He patted her back and coaxed her behind him as he deflected anything that came their way. Ichigo floated behind him, looking over his shoulder at all the weapons being fired at them. Then, one managed to slip through and Antauri was knocked sideways a bit, leaving Ichigo out in the open. She gasped and flew over to him, checking to see he was alright,

"Are you alright?" she asked, looking over him for any injuries, unaware of the laser targeting her behind her,

"Yeah" he panted, hands on his knees as he recovered from the shock. He looked up just too late to see the laser fire at Ichigo's back, or more specifically, her power cell. He gasped and froze slightly as Ichigo was shot and flew across the room, landing in a heap on the floor. Antauri gaped in horror at the sparking wires sticking out of the large hole in her back, and then his brain seemed to start working again,

"Stop the training! Ichigo's been hurt!" he shouted at Chiro, who jumped up and quickly powered down everything. Everyone stopped and ran over to where Antauri kneeled next to Ichigo's motionless form.

"Is...Is she?" asked Chiro shakily as Gibson checked her over, he stood back again,

"No" he said finally, picking her up and carrying her into the medical ward, "But we'll need to act quickly" Otto followed close behind with his tools.

And, as the door to the medical ward closed on them, the others began to think about what just happened,

"Why was she out there, anyway? I mean, she said that she didn't want to join in!" asked Nova, looking around as she spoke.

"I believe she was involved, involuntarily" said Antauri who remembered what Ichigo said earlier about not meaning to fall in.

"But, how would she fall in? I mean, it would take someone pushing her or something..." Chiro broke off as he noticed Sprx trying to sneak away. Sprx felt someone watching him and turned to around to see the others glaring at him, especially Antauri. He turned to face them and put a hand behind his head as he sweated slightly,

"How 'bout that, then. Uh... well maybe we should see how Gibson and Otto are doing with Ichigo?" he suggested, backing away as Antauri slowly stalked up to him. He heard Antauri growl quietly and tried to think of some way out,

"I... I think they just called out something! Maybe... maybe we should go see what they want?" he said, and was about to run like the wind when Antauri grabbed hold of his neck. Sprx felt doom looming over him and turned to face a murderous- looking Antauri,

"Why. Did. You. Knock. Ichigo. In?" he said slowly, menace and pain for the red monkey in his words, Sprx laughed nervously,

"Me? You think it was me!" he said in mock hurt, "why Antauri! How could you think such an awful, terrible..." Antauri bared his teeth and tightened his grip; behind him, Nova cracked her knuckles and glared. Then, Otto came back in, wiping his hands and Sprx saw his way out,

"Otto did it!" he cried, pointing over to the green monkey, who looked up in shock at suddenly being accused of something,

"Huh?" he said, looking at each member in confusion, "What did I do?"

Antauri threw Sprx down and walked up to him,

"Apparently, you knocked Ichigo into the training area" Antauri said calmly, gazing at Sprx sceptically, Otto fidgeted with the towel a little,

"Well, yeah. Sprx said that Ichigo needed to get out and find out what it's like to be in a fight! So I... deflected a beam so it knocked her in..." he admitted, shamefully, as he realised his folly, "I'm sorry, Antauri! I didn't mean for Ichigo to get hurt!" he said hurriedly, feeling guilt crawl through his body. Antauri's eyes softened slightly when he realised Otto was being sincere,

"Alright, Otto, I forgive you. But, in the future, never listen to Sprx's suggestions!" he ordered, and turned around to face Sprx again,

"And now for you..." he growled low, razor claws out ready to shred Sprx to bits. Sprx squeaked and looked around to see the others readying themselves to beat the crud out of him.

"I...I..." he stared wide eyed and ran screaming as Antauri jumped at him and chased him all around the Super Robot.

"Up. Down. Sideways. Good, backwards? Excellent!" said Gibson happily, satisfied that Ichigo's wings were functioning again,

"May I go now?" asked Ichigo quietly as she hovered above him, Gibson smiled and nodded. Ichigo grinned in thanks and flew out of the medical ward in search of a certain black monkey. She paused when she heard her stomach rumble loudly,

'Hmm... Snack first' she decided, flying into the kitchen and rummaging through the fridge, she pulled out a carton of strawberries (BTW Ichigo in Japanese means strawberry!) And scooped out some ice- cream into a bowl and flew off again in search of her boyfriend. She noticed the door to her bedroom open and saw that Antauri was meditating on her bed. Ichigo flew in and saw that he was in such a deep trance that he didn't hear her enter. She waved a hand in front of his face to see if he would notice; satisfied that he was too preoccupied, she sat on the bed and ate a strawberry as she wondered what she could do to him. As she licked her lips she had an idea, and scooped out some ice- cream and shook it so it fell out and ran down Antauri's chest and stomach. He jumped at the sudden cold feeling and opened his eyes to see Ichigo licking the remaining ice- cream off the spoon; she looked up at him and smiled shyly. He looked down at the trail of ice- cream on his chest and grinned at her,

"Hungry?" he asked, pointing at the trail, she giggled slightly and nodded, his grin widened and he crawled over to her. He wrapped his arms around her and faced her so they were nose to nose, "want more?" he asked, she nodded again, rubbing his shoulders slightly. He leaned in so he was over her,

"Good" he murmured before kissing her deeply.

Ichigo rolled over as the bright sunlight hit her in the face,

"Uh..." she moaned, opening her eyes and looking at the lump beside her. She snuggled under the covers and cuddled up to Antauri, who awoke at the movement,

"Good morning" she whispered, kissing his nose playfully. Antauri yawned and blinked sleepily,

"Mornin'" he murmured, shuffling closer to her, she laid her head on his shoulder and scratched his back gently as she pondered various things, then she noticed the time and realised that if she was still human then she'd be getting ready for her lectures now, she felt a wave of sadness take over her and sighed,

"What's wrong?" asked a muffled voice near her ear, she lifted her head to see Antauri looking up at her, anxiously,

"Nothing" she said in a sad tone, "just...thinking about what I'd be doing if I were human" she answered honestly, she'd never been much good at hiding things or keeping things that bothered her to herself. Antauri sat up on his elbows and looked at her,

"You really miss being human, huh?" he asked, looking into her eyes to try and work out what she was thinking, she just shook her head and he noticed her expression was distant,

"No, just the things I used to like doing" she replied softly, "like going out to clubs and parties with friends or shopping or ice-skating... dancing and acting too. Or even just going to the regular hang- outs like the zoo or the pool" she listed them as she remembered them and he noticed a little spark of happiness return when she thought of them, then it went when she realised she couldn't do them anymore.

'Why not?" thought Antauri determinedly, 'if she wants to do them then I'm sure we can go out with her! After all" he looked over her at how she'd been changed and realised how much she'd had to change her life, plans and dreams to fit in with theirs' 'she's changed so much of her own life to suit us, we should do something in return!'

"Hey Ichigo?" he said, prepping himself to ask her, she turned and looked at him with a slightly nostalgic smile,

"Hmm?" she replied, he took a deep breath and jumped in,

"How about we do some of the things you enjoy? I mean, you've changed so much to suit us; it wouldn't be fair if we didn't change somewhat for you!" he said sincerely, rubbing her arm as he spoke. Her face suddenly brightened immediately,

"Really!" she squealed in amazement, hugging him tightly and kissing his cheek, "Oh thank you, Antauri! You're the best boyfriend a girl could wish for! I love you so much!" she squealed, nuzzling him happily.

"Alright, alright! But how about we get some more sleep first?" he asked, stifling a yawn. Ichigo laid down and cuddled close to Antauri,

"OK" she said, stifling a yawn herself.

Pretty soon, Ichigo's breaths came out steady and slow as she slept on and Antauri suddenly realised something,

"How the heck am I going to get the others to agree!" he thought in despair.

Woooooo! New story! New plot! But, hopefully, equally good as the last! Review and tell me!