Hey people! I'm back with the second chapter of "Never Leave You". Like I said, I'm just getting warmed up.

Thanks for the reviews btw.! I want more though haha!

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Chapter 2: Realization
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"Where am I?" Rukia wondered. She was in a white mysterious place, it was all so bright that her eyes squinted. She started to walk around, sweat dripped down her temple, she was afraid, she didn't know her surroundings. Actually, there was no surroundings, that's what scared her. She started to walk more slowly, then ahead of her, she saw Ichigo, his back facing her. He was in his Death god clothes, but he didn't have his soul slayer. She ran towards him, grabbed his shoulder and forced him to face her.

"Ichigo! What's going on?" she asked with panic.
"Isn't that what I asked you earlier today Rukia?" he said.
Rukia let go of him, then backed away slowly. She didn't know what to say again.
"I told you! There's nothing going on Ichigo! I thought that you weren't going to go on my case!" she said with her knuckles turning white.
"Relax Rukia, nothing bad is going to happen, everything that you want is going to happen." Ichigo said with a smile.
"Everything that I want?" she said.
"Everything that you want Rukia." he answered.
He started walking towards her slowly, his smile however disappeared, his serious face was back. Rukia tried to move, but she couldn't, she was frozen. Ichigo was finally where he wanted to be, he was right in front of her but really close, so close that their bodies were against each other's.
"Ichigo…" whispered Rukia.
Ichigo smiled, he then held her by the waist and pulled her more against him. Rukia put her hands on Ichigo's strong, muscular arms, she then started to clench his sleeves tightly. She was becoming really nervous, her heartbeat increased rapidly, it was as if her heart was about to explode. Ichigo then lowered his head slowly.
"He's going to kiss me! I can't let this happen! It's going to ruin everything!"
His face started to get really close to hers but then he stopped, their lips were so close that Rukia can almost taste them. He smiled, he was just leaving suspense in her heart, making Rukia's eyes widen.
"I can't let anything happen! Push him away! Push him!" but no matter how hard Rukia tried, she couldn't push him, she couldn't even move a finger.
"Don't be scared Rukia." he whispered
He then finally placed his lips on hers, causing a really simple and wonderful kiss. It was an intense feeling for Rukia, she couldn't move at all. His lips tasted sweeter than she expected, she didn't want this to end but she needed it to end. Ichigo then let go, he looked deep into Rukia's violet eyes and smiled.
"Stay with me."

Rukia sat up suddenly, breathing heavily. "It was only a dream…a stupid dream." Her body was drenched with sweat, she couldn't believe that she had that kind of a dream. "Everything that I want…whatever I want is far from that." Then, suddenly, it hit her. "I am in love with him, I can't deny it anymore, that dream meant something. Damn it! I am in love with him!" Rukia sighed. "This is terrible." She laid back down and turned to her side. "Idiot." She sat up a little and leaned her head against her hand, while the other hand opened the closet door. Once she opened the door, she saw Ichigo, sleeping peacefully, he was facing her so she can see his face. "How can I be in love with such an arrogant, disrespectful, rude guy? So immature." she wondered. Ichigo's eyes then opened unexpectedly, he was looking straight into Rukia's eyes. "Oh shit." She closed the door right away and put her head against her pillow. Her breathing started to become heavy. "Shit, he saw me. Shit! I hope that he wasn't awake enough to know his surroundings…I guess we'll see in the morning." Many thoughts ran through Rukia's mind that night, so many that it made her fall asleep, although it wasn't a peaceful sleep.

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Rukia awoke the next morning, terrified about the day that lay ahead. "What if he confronts me…" Then she realized something, Ichigo wasn't knocking on the closet door like the madman that he was, in fact, there was no one knocking on the door. "Something's wrong…" she guessed. Rukia dressed up quickly into her uniform and grabbed her bag, she opened the door and found no one else but her in Ichigo's room. She looked around the room, but there was no sign of Ichigo. His bed was already fixed and his door was already closed and locked. She then looked at the clock near Ichigo's bed, it was actually pretty early to head to school. "Hmm…I'll just head out anyway, it's good to be early." she thought, then jumped out the window and headed to school.

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Rukia sat at her desk once she got to school and started reading her textbook. Nobody was in the classroom, not even Ichigo, she was really early. "Oh well, I wonder where Ichigo is though." She sighed. "What am I going to do?" she thought desperately, she shrugged the thought off and started reading her textbook, since she had nothing to do.

About an hour or more later, people started coming. They were coming in groups, friends were laughing with each other and sitting on their desks, but Ichigo didn't come yet. Inoue and Tatsuki then came in. "Mornin' Kuchiki!" said Inoue cheerfully, waving. Rukia looked at her and waved back with a smile on her face. "Inoue! I missed you last night!" screamed Chizuru who came out of nowhere. As she was about to jump her, Tatsuki went in front of Inoue and stopped Chizuru with her hand on her face. "Can't you leave Inoue alone for just one minute!" said Tatsuki angrily. Rukia then turned to her side and saw Ichigo already sitting down at his desk, her heartbeat increased again, it felt as if it went a mile per second.

"Ichi-"
"Alright class! Hurry up and get those textbooks out! I had too much coffee today so bare with me!" screamed out the teacher who suddenly came in the room. She seemed more hyper than usual.
Rukia looked at Ichigo more closely, his face was serious, as always.
"I wonder what he's thinking…"

During class, the teacher kept dancing around due to her excessive amount of coffee, leaving many arching-eyebrow expressions on her students. Rukia however, wasn't paying attention to the teacher, she kept thinking about last night, and that dream. That intense dream. Also, it seemed as though Ichigo was ignoring her, he didn't look at her during class, not even once, he didn't even say a word to her about anything. "This does not look good. It's all ruined. I'm such an idiot."

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Rukia went by a tree during lunch, the same tree from yesterday. She liked this tree cause it was big, it gave her shade against the sun, and sometimes people wouldn't be able to find her when she was there. Rukia closed her eyes and leaned her head against the tree. "I should pretend as if nothing happened last night." she thought to herself.She then sighed heavily.

"Juice?"
Rukia opened her eyes and saw Ichigo looking down at her. He was holding out a juice pack with the straw already inside it, and another one in his other hand for himself.
"Uh, thanks." she said, and took the juice pack. She started to drink quietly.
"Good juice."
"Yeah." said Ichigo, drinking his juice.
"Can I sit?" he asked.
Rukia stopped drinking. She paused for a second.
"Remember, pretend as if nothing happened." she told herself.
"Sure." she said finally.
Ichigo sat close beside Rukia, he leaned his head against the tree and took a deep breath. Their arms touched and it made Rukia's heart skip a beat. She tried her best not to move her arm or else it would make him suspect something, due to her thoughts.
"Rukia, I want to ask you something." said Ichigo.
Rukia almost choked on her juice and tried her best to make it not noticeable.
"What is it Ichigo?"
"Why were you looking at me last night? And when I caught you, you panicked and closed the door so fast. What's up with that?"
Rukia felt as though she couldn't breathe when she heard his words.
"Think of something, quick!"
Rukia tried her best to act cool.
"Hm. I heard a sound and I thought that you were in trouble, you know it's my job as a Death god to protect you and to warn you of anything. To add to that, what makes you think that I panicked?" she said with her voice as calm as her usual self. A grin then appeared on her face, she thought that she got away with it.
Ichigo looked at Rukia with the same typical serious look on his face.
"I see." Ichigo chuckled. "But I know that you panicked though, I can see it in your eyes." he continued with the straw in his mouth. "I also saw your reaction when you saw me in class, but I didn't say anything." Everything suddenly went silent for a couple of seconds, but it seemed like forever to the both of them.
Ichigo then got up and stretched. "Well I'm gonna go now, that annoying Kiego might be looking for me." he said, then started to walk away.
Rukia was speechless, it was as though he can see right through her.
"Damn." she thought, and continued drinking her juice.

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During the rest of the day, the teacher seemed to have calmed down a little bit, but gave out a lot of homework, making the students groan with despair. Inoue gave Rukia the ice cream that she promised, and to Rukia it tasted like dirt, but she pretended to enjoy it. Rukia still walked with Ichigo to his house despite their conversation earlier. It was quiet as usual, making many thoughts race through Rukia's mind again. They did their homework, then went to bed right away after due to its terrible amount. Ichigo fell asleep right away, as for Rukia, she lay down with her head on top of her hands.

Rukia tried her best to go to sleep that night, but she couldn't rest her eyes and mind no matter how hard she tried. She was really restless that night, moving everywhere making her sheets wrinkle. It was useless for her to fall asleep. She then went against her back and sighed. "There hasn't been any Hollows lately, but I shouldn't panic, Ichigo will protect me…Ichigo…" Playbacks of her time with him went through her mind, some funny moments and some awkward moments where she thought that there was something between them. "I can't live without him. Soul Society will come and get me but I can't leave him, I need him. If they do come and get me, I'll always be by his side anyway, right?" Thoughts from her dream of Ichigo started to race through her mind. "Ichigo…" The image of them kissing, it sent a pleasant chill down her spine, then the image of him looking deep into her eyes, and then those soft, sweet lips, saying those words. "Stay with me." Rukia's eyes started to develop tears, they were rolling down the side of her face till they reached the pillow. "I never knew that loving someone could hurt this much…" Rukia then turned to her side, her hand went on the closet door to open it. "I want to see him again." She then opened the door to look at Ichigo but to her surprise, he wasn't there on his bed. His pillow had the mark of his head on it and his blanket was still there, it was just crumpled. Her eyes widened. "Where could he be!" She opened the door more, making it more wide, she looked around the room only with her eyes, her body was still on the bed.

"Ichigo!" she screamed.
She started to panic, he was gone, if something ever happened to him, it was her fault, she would feel guilt for the rest of her life. Her love for him too made the situation even worse.
"Ichigo!" she tried again.
"Fuck! What am I going to do…"
Her body started to shake, then she heard someone chuckling.
"Idiot."
Rukia looked down at the floor to find Ichigo, lying there with his hands behind the back of his head.
"Gotcha." he said with a grin across his face.
She looked at him with her violet eyes wider than ever. She had been caught, she had to think of something fast. She tried to say something, but nothing came out of her mouth. She prayed that he wouldn't realize what's going on.
"Oh shit."

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This chapter was short, I know. I like making short chapters though, saves time. Teehee.
Ch.3 coming soon! WOOOOAAAA!