Hi! As always there are a few warnings before this chapter:
- I know absolutely nothing about sports, and English is not my mother tongue, so in case I made a mistake in the gym class scene I apologize.
- Do you remember Sung-sun? She was one of the girls who in the winter war arc controlled a chimera along with other two girls. Well, she appears in this chapter so I'm letting you know in case you don't remember her.
That's all for today, happy reading!
Chapter 13
When the bell ran Grimmjow stood up as fast as he could. According to his schedule they were now going to gym class, which was fine by him, but judging by Ashido's face he really wanted to talk to him because he hadn't stopped watching him the whole damn class. Grimmjow groaned inwardly, hadn't the asshole received the message? If Kurosaki were to see him talking to him the deal would be useless! Perhaps God really wanted to make him pay for sexually harassing a novice.
On my defense, God Grimmjow thought angrily I didn't know she was a novice.
Sighing heavily Grimmjow left the classroom and walked towards the bathroom, he knew Ashido would follow him, he only prayed that Kurosaki wouldn't notice.
Senna, Nel, Loly and Menoly stepped into the bathroom. Loly took out her cellphone and smirked at her friends smugly, as Menoly made sure that there was no one else inside that could eavesdrop their conversation.
"I explained everything to my cousin towards text message" Loly said and the smirk never left her face "she told me to call her in…" she checked her wristwatch "five minutes."
Senna crossed her arms and smiled.
"We'll find out who the mysterious girl is in a matter of time" she said and then looked at Menoly "do you really think you can find her on social media?"
Menoly nodded, confident.
"I'm friend of a couple of guys from Seireitei High School" she said "we'll start the search through that."
"How come your cousin is so cooperative?" Nel asked curiously "isn't this dangerous for her work? What if someone catch her?"
Loly shrugged.
"Apparently she's curious too" she said "Kurosaki Ichigo had never interfered with his friend's check-ups but for this one he was inside the room with his father and the girl the whole time, not to mention that she's the first girl he takes towards his father personally."
Nel's eyes widened.
"Oh" she said smiling "now I'm curious too, call your cousin."
Loly nodded and dialed the number.
Sung-Sun was a slender young intern with long, flowing, black hair, long eyelashes, and cute eyes. She had been an intern at the Kurosaki hospital for a few months and was expecting to be officially hired soon. Just as most of the other nurses she was well aware of all the gossip around the hospital and the newest one was about the mysterious girl that was with Kurosaki Ichigo. So when she received her cousin's text message she couldn't contain her curiosity and decided to follow the plan, that's why she was in front of the lab in which the blood samples were under storage.
Sung-sun stepped into the lab with a satisfied smile. When she saw Kurosaki Ichigo alongside a pretty girl she couldn't help but wonder what their relationship was, not every single patient was lucky enough to go straight to the owner's office, not to mention that apparently, after the check-up was over, Kurosaki Isshin took the blood tests personally towards the lab. She didn't know if the results were ready but it was worth a shot.
Her cellphone rang and she put it on speaker on one of the tables inside the lab.
"Dear cousin!" Loly greeted with a sing song voice.
"Hello, I don't have much time, but I'm here" Sung-sun said while looking at the blood samples before her "if it wasn't for the fact that Doctor Kurosaki brought this on his own it would be hard to find, apparently it was labeled as urgent."
"Oh" Loly said at the other side of the line "I wonder why, do you think the girl's pregnant?"
Sung-sun snorted.
"I doubt it," she said "something tells me that he wouldn't have brought it here if that was the case, the Kurosakis have a couple of private clinics outside the hospital. Perhaps she's sick?"
"Hopefully" Senna said at the other side of the line "perhaps that's why Ichigo's been really close to her, he probably pities her."
Sung-sun nodded, she knew who her cousin's friends were so she wasn't surprised at the fact that they were listening to the conversation too.
"That's a possibility, the girl looked extremely pale when I saw her" she said "I'll check whatever the results say."
"The last name is the most urgent thing" Loly said.
"What's her name?" Sung-sun asked.
"Rukia" Senna answered.
"Well, this has to be her" Sung-sun said while grabbing a vial along with the sheet of results next to it "this results are to be delivered directly to Kurosaki Isshin and…"
"Name, please" Loly said a little bit impatient.
Sung-sun placed the results sheet on the table and held the vial, she read the label and her eyes widened.
"Her name's Kurosaki Rukia?!" she screeched surprised and the girls at the other side of the line gasped at the same time.
"There has to be some sort of mistake!" Senna said offended, her voice was rising angrily.
"There's not!" Sung-sun said and scoffed "but she cannot be related to them that little bitch looked unhealthy, thin and…"
"Ugly as hell!" Senna yelled enraged "why would Kurosaki Isshin lend his last name to a complete stranger?!"
"It doesn't make sense" Sung-sun agreed "unless she's…"
"Important to me" a deep, male voice said behind Sung-sun and she jumped a little scared. In the midst of her carelessness she dropped the blood vial and it fell on the table and it broke, Rukia's blood spilled ruining completely the results sheet and Sung-sun gulped nervously. Turning around she found herself face to face with an, obviously enraged, Kurosaki Isshin.
"Hello? Cousin? Did something happen?" Loly kept asking on the phone "Senna is losing her shit over here!"
Sung-sun didn't dare to move from her spot as Isshin walked towards the table in which her phone was. He picked it up and kept on listening.
"Sung-sun?" the unmistakable voice of Senna said "are you sure that the skinny bitch's name is Kurosaki Rukia?"
"I see that talking to your parents about how I didn't want you interfering in my family life was useless, Senna" Isshin said "should I contact them again?"
There was a deafening silence at the other side of the line.
"Senna" Isshin kept saying "stay away from my family, please. I do not wish to make your parents uncomfortable again and, for the record, Rukia is now part of family so stay away from her too."
The line went dead and Isshin sighed heavily as he looked at Sung-sun who hadn't move from her spot. It was more than obvious for Isshin how Rukia's results were now useless, the worst part was the fact that he didn't have the chance to read them.
"Shall we go to my office?" Isshin suggested as he turned around and started to walk.
Sung-sun followed suit.
Ashido had a sense of déjà vu as Grimmjow pushed him against the bathroom wall. He groaned due to the pain and glared at the blue haired boy with all his might, what was his problem? Last time they talked they were on good terms.
"Didn't you get my message?" Grimmjow asked angrily "as long as I'm here we don't know each other, I don't want anything to do with you!"
Ashido frowned.
"Kurosaki Ichigo broke my phone, idiot!" he explained upset "you wanted information and I gave it to you! What's your problem?!"
Grimmjow shook his head. He couldn't explain to him that he had made a deal with Kurosaki Ichigo, as far as Ashido was concerned Grimmjow and Ichigo were enemies and nothing more so there was no use in getting into details.
"I appreciate it" Grimmjow said finally "but our business relationship ends now, I don't know you and you don't know me. Forget about your work."
Ashido pushed Grimmjow as he remembered how Ichigo told him that he would lose his job, seriously? How come someone like Grimmjow would listen to Ichigo? And why? Now he didn't have a way to make money and, on the other hand, he didn't have Grimmjow's support at school. How did everything go so wrong in a matter of days? All he did was to send a stupid picture of the new girl…
Ashido's eyes widened.
"This has something to do with the new girl, right?" he asked angrily.
Grimmjow tensed.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" he asked pretending to be confused.
"Don't play dumb," Ashido said accusingly "our information interchange was working perfectly until she came around, do you know her or something? Did she threaten you? Who the fuck is she anyway?"
"Stay away from her," Grimmjow said menacingly while grabbing Ashido by his shirt "stay away from me and forget about Kurosaki. I'm done talking to you."
Ashido groaned as Grimmjow let go off him before stepping out of the bathroom.
"Hell no" Ashido said angrily "someone will pay for this, I swear."
"Okay" Rukia said as she put her cellphone on her backpack "my profile is done, I already followed you but why is my profile picture a Chappy picture?"
Riruka rolled her eyes.
"Because you do not have any other picture!" she explained "you can take some decent selfies this weekend, just make sure that the background is not a really known place and you cannot take pictures wearing the uniform otherwise your father will come back here."
Rukia nodded.
"Fine," she said "I guess I'll take some great pictures on the countryside."
"The countryside?" Riruka asked curiously as she approached Rukia to comb her hair "it's a good thing that your hair is long enough for a short ponytail, just make sure it's always covering the hickey."
"Sure, thanks" she said.
"What were you saying about the countryside?" Riruka questioned.
"Oh, I haven't told you" she said smiling "I met Ichigo's godmother at the hospital and she invited me to her house this weekend, Ichigo and his family are going too."
Riruka smiled.
"You're winning over everyone close to him, aren't you?" she asked jokingly "did the twins already agree to live with you?"
Rukia frowned.
"Ichigo said that he would talk to them tonight at dinner" she said "I'm nervous about their answer, what if they don't want to? It'll be awkward for Ichigo."
"I think they'll accept you" Riruka said casually as she finished her job with Rukia's hair "don't worry too much over it, they invited you to dinner this Friday, right? I bet my entire Chappy collection that you'll start living with them on Friday and you'll enjoy the whole family weekend with them."
"I hope you're right" Rukia said.
"I'm always right" Riruka said smugly "now, it's time for class, let's go."
"Now" Isshin said as he took a seat behind his desk "Sung-sun, when we accepted you as an intern here, you signed a document where it was stipulated that the patient's information was strictly confidential. In that same document you agreed to respect not only the patient's information but also the Doctors and Nurses work, including mine, and Rukia's treatment is my personal responsibility."
Sung-sun gulped, she was sweating nervously from head to toe.
"You violated my patient's information and ruined the results, now I'll have to take other tests" Isshin said "before listing the amount of consequences you'll be facing I must ask, why did you do it? Why did you interfere with my work and why were you informing about this to Senna and your cousin?"
Sung-sun's eyes widened.
"Oh, yes" Isshin said after seeing her surprised face "you were so focused on insulting Rukia that you didn't realize that I was inside the lab with you the whole time, I heard your entire conversation, to say that I'm upset is an understatement."
Sung-sun gulped.
"Well?" Isshin pressed on.
"Doctor Kurosaki" Sung-sun started nervously "I was simply curious, I saw the girl when she came with your son and…"
"Yes," Isshin said crossing his arms "I cannot decide what upsets me more, the fact that you were really comfortable insulting one of my patients, a girl you don't personally know, or the fact that my son's personal life is an object of gossip around here."
Sung-sun braced herself.
"It won't happen again, Sir!" she said desperately "please, my parents were really proud about the fact that I got an opportunity here and…"
"Well" Isshin said calmly "they won't be proud once they realize that you won't be working here any longer, not to mention that you'll have to explain to the board of directors why you were messing up with important blood samples. This will go to your record for the rest of your life, you'll be lucky to find job in another hospital."
"Sir, please" Sung-sun begged as tears started to roll down her cheeks "blood tests can be taken again it's not that hard…"
Isshin sighed heavily.
"No, these tests are not like that" he said and Sung-sun noticed how angry he was "since you won't be telling anyone about this I'll explain, Rukia is deadly scared of needles, I had to be extremely careful when I was taking the test and I promised her that she wouldn't need to go through that again for the time being. Now I'll have to explain to her all of this."
"Sir…" Sung-sun tried again "I'll do anything, I just…"
"All you'll do is to go to your locker and take your stuff" Isshin said finally, the menacing tone on his voice was scaring Sung-sun "I'll be reporting this and the board will be contacting you so you can explain this serious misconduct of yours. I'll also have to inform Rukia, I seriously needed those tests."
Sung-sun sobbed.
"I'll leave it to her whether to press charges or not" Isshin said finally.
"Oh no" Sung-sun said frantically after listening about legal actions "I'll apologize to her, perhaps her family will understand… stuff like this happens all the time."
"Not in my hospital" Isshin said with hard eyes "and for the time being I'm Rukia's parental figure, so speaking on behalf of her father I'm telling you right now, I won't let this go that easily."
Sung-sun gaped, who was this girl?
"Do me a favor and inform Senna and your cousin about this" Isshin said "if they are that curious about Kurosaki Rukia they can come and ask me directly."
"Sir…"
"Leave, now" Isshin said "go and tell your parents how you ruined your whole career for the sake of gossip."
Sung-sun stood up and left the office crying.
"Listen here, assholes" Zaraki Kenpachi said as he observed the class in front of him "since you love to waste my time, I'll make you waste yours."
"Is it okay for a teacher to call the boys "assholes"?" Rukia asked Riruka.
Riruka shrugged.
"I guess… I think is not against the rules or anything" she said not really interested.
"What makes you think he's not calling you assholes too?" Ichigo asked Rukia.
"DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE WITH THE CLASS, KUROSAKI?!" Kenpachi yelled and Ichigo frowned.
"No, Sir" he muttered annoyed and Rukia chuckled.
Ichigo looked at the midget next to him and was surprised at seeing how well she managed to hide the hickey with a ponytail. He could only hope that she wouldn't forget to be careful about it, otherwise the rumors would escalate a lot, he didn't need that. Ichigo then looked at Grimmjow who was looking at the teacher slightly afraid, well… until now the blue haired boy hadn't broken the deal so he supposed that things would go smoothly.
"Now" Kenpachi kept saying "I need you to make two teams, Rukia and Dokugamine will be the captains so all you have to do is to choose in which team you bastards want to be."
"Sir" Ginjo Kugo, a tall and lean-built boy with brown eyes, and shoulder-length black hair, said "I believe that when it comes to sports boys should be the captains I mean…"
Rukia and Riruka frowned.
"What? Is your dick going to fall off just because you follow a girl's lead? Is that what you're saying?" Kenpachi asked angrily "that's a nice way you have to say "I've never being close to a girl" Ginjo!"
Ginjo blushed angrily as the rest of the class laughed.
"Choose your captain!" Kenpachi ordered finally as Rukia and Riruka positioned on opposites sides of the gym.
Ichigo was the first one who walked towards Rukia's side and she smiled smugly at him.
"You don't feel your manhood being threatened by being under my command?" she asked jokingly.
"Unlike Ginjo I do not have a fragile masculinity" Ichigo said smirking and Rukia chuckled.
In the end Rukia's team consisted of Ichigo, Renji, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Keigo and Ishida while on the other side Riruka's team consisted of Grimmjow, a very reluctant Ginjo, Ashido, Ulquiorra, Tsukishima, who was really close to Ginjo, and Mizuiro. Riruka observed her team and sighed heavily, they didn't look like winners and she disliked all of them.
"God is really on your side, right?!" Riruka asked Rukia.
"I can say a few prayers for you" Rukia joked although she had to admit that her team looked better than Riruka's.
"Now" Kenpachi said while grabbing a red, rubber ball "we'll play dodgeball, the team who has one last surviving member wins. Very simple, right? As you know according to the rules if you hit someone above the shoulders it does not count and you'll be disqualified so do your team a favor and leave aside stupid rivalry and play fair."
Riruka noticed how Rukia smiled wickedly after the teacher mentioned "dodgeball" and gulped. Was she really that confident when it came to that? Were the nuns sort of violent and liked to play this sort of thing? No, it couldn't be. She hadn't asked her a lot about the convent but as far as she was concerned Rukia spent most of her time praying and hating the whole "I'm a novice" experience.
"The losers will have to run several laps at the end of the class, so do your best" Kenpachi said "you have exactly one minute to plan a strategy with your teammates."
Rukia turned around and looked at her team, Ichigo noticed how she was smiling as if she had won the lottery.
"Hear me out" Rukia said in all business manner "we have to take the slower ones out first, sorry Keigo but I want you to point at Mizuiro. Ashido and Ginjo are the ones we'll hit after that, they are fatter than the rest so they should be easy, the only one who represents a real problem is Grimmjow so I'll leave that one to you, Ichigo."
Everyone blinked confused as they looked at her.
"What?" Rukia asked.
"Where did you learn this?" Ichigo asked finally in awe.
Rukia scoffed while blushing slightly.
"Do you all agree with the plan? Any suggestions?" she asked.
"I want to protect my beautiful face" Yumichika said "may I be placed at the back?"
Rukia nodded.
"Sure" she said and then smiled at him "but if you don't want to play why don't you point at the ugliest face of the other team? That way you'll be disqualified and they'll have one less player if you knock him unconscious."
Renji and Ichigo exchanged a surprised look.
"Nice plan!" Yumichika said clapping "I'm taking out Ginjo then, I do not like him."
"He's the one with a fragile masculinity, right? If you knock him unconscious I'll tell Riruka to share her skincare routine with you" Rukia promised.
Yumichika smiled.
"I like her" he told Ichigo "if you don't date her I'll get her a boyfriend, that's a promise."
Rukia blinked confused.
"Fuck" Ichigo said scratching the back of his head awkwardly "if that's all we can all start playing, right? Time's over anyway."
Everyone nodded and the game begun.
"I called to ask you if something bad came up with the blood test" Yoruichi said through the phone as she walked around her store fixing some things "but you're saying that an intern ruined it?!"
"Yeah" Isshin said at the other side of the line and he sounded upset "do you want to know the worst part? All she wanted to know was her last name."
Yoruichi scoffed while placing a hat on the counter.
"Is the girl going to pay for that?" she asked.
"Yes, she will" Isshin said as a matter of fact "unfortunately the other ones who were working with her won't face any consequences."
"What do you mean?" Yoruichi asked confused, how many interns were involved with this?
"Do you remember Senna?" Isshin asked.
"Ichigo's stalker" Yoruichi said as she remembered the annoying girl "what about her?"
Yoruichi heard Isshin sighing as he began to explain Senna's role in the whole mess. The dark skinned woman was really beginning to get upset, why was Rukia so damn unlucky when it came to girls? She was a novice, didn't she have divine protection or something? Perhaps it was good that she managed to enroll in a school full of boys. Yoruichi couldn't believe what she was hearing, was Hisana that unlucky too? Well, there was a couple of women who were jealous as hell when they saw her holding Byakuya's hand, perhaps it ran in the family.
Her goddaughter was beautiful so it made sense.
"Teenage girls are crazy" Isshin concluded "the worst part is that Rukia is afraid of needles, I didn't want to take the tests again."
Yoruichi sighed.
"You can explain everything to her over the weekend" she said calmly "I have a couple of things to tell her too."
"Yeah, talking about that" Isshin said "I also wanted you to talk to her about Ginrei."
"Why?" Yoruichi asked apprehensively "I won't hand them the girl…"
"I know that" Isshin interrupted her "I don't want her to go to them yet, I don't think she's ready."
"Then?" Yoruichi asked.
"Ginrei is not feeling well" Isshin explained "ever since they found out that Rukia forgot the Preptol at the convent he's been worried sick, I think that hearing from Rukia would help him feel better."
Yoruichi frowned.
"Do you want me to convince her to call him?"
"Basically" Isshin said "she doesn't have to say anything she doesn't want to, but if Ginrei finds out that you're keeping an eye on her he'll feel better."
Yoruichi had to agree with that, besides knowing the girl she probably missed her family too, a call wasn't a big deal.
"I'll do it" Yoruichi said finally "I make no promises, the girl escaped from the equivalent of a prison if I pressure her too much she might escape from our watch too."
"I have complete faith in you" Isshin said and Yoruichi could picture him smiling "after all it takes a noble, rich woman to understand a noble, rich girl."
"Tell me about it" Yoruichi said rolling her eyes.
To say that Kenpachi was impressed by the Kuchiki heiress was an understatement. The girl took over her team in a matter of seconds and she was actually enjoying the game, was that blood-thirsty satisfaction behind her eyes after seeing the opposite team struggling? She had more in common with her stuck up father than he thought. Much to Kenpachi's surprise Yumichika was the first one to attack, he looked weak but the amount of strength he put on the ball was not a laughing matter.
"Ha!" Ginjo yelled "as if the butterfly could actually…"
"Dodge!" Riruka yelled interrupting him but it was too late, Yumichika's ball hit Ginjo right on the face and the black haired boy fell backwards, completely unconscious. Tsukishima ran to aid him but there was nothing to do, he was completely out.
"Yumichika!" Kenpachi said "out!"
Yumichika wasn't affected at all by that, instead he flashed Riruka's team with a handsome smile and shared a high five with Rukia.
Riruka frowned.
"Grimmjow" she said and looked at the blue haired boy.
"How do you know my name?" he asked her.
"Never mind that" she told him "I need you to take two of her teammates at once, can you do that?"
Grimmjow nodded.
"Which ones?" he asked seriously.
"What makes you think this is the time to chat?" Rukia asked interrupting Riruka's conversation.
"Careful, princess" Riruka yelled back at her "you're way too open!"
Rukia's eyes widened as she saw a ball coming directly towards her, she reacted quickly and dodged it gracefully but Keigo didn't have the same luck, he was hit on the stomach and was out of the game within seconds.
"I almost had her!" Ashido complained and Rukia frowned, that felt like a personal attack.
"Ichigo" Rukia said while looking at him "I want Ashido out, but don't hit him on the head, I need you for this."
Ichigo nodded.
"Understood" he said.
"I won't let you attack, Kurosaki!" Grimmjow said as he threw the ball, Ichigo did the same. Both boys dodged easily and while Ichigo failed at hitting him Grimmjow didn't fail, he hit Ishida and the bespectacled boy fell painfully on the floor.
"Nice aim, idiot!" Tsukishima told Ichigo.
"Watch yourself, Idiot!" Renji yelled and Tsukishima didn't have time to react as Renji hit him with on the stomach with a ball.
Rukia cheered as she saw how Tsukishima was out of the game, she didn't like him.
"You're the best, Renji!" Rukia told him smiling, and the redhead smirked smugly at Ichigo.
"Don't think too high of yourself, idiot" Ichigo told him.
The match kept going like that, Ikkaku managed to take Ulquiorra out of the game although it didn't look as if the green eyed boy wanted to participate that much. Renji hit Mizuiro who was also glad to be out of the game but Ashido hit Ikkaku and Renji so in the end Ashido, Riruka and Grimmjow ended up against Ichigo and Rukia.
Rukia clicked her tongue, through the whole game Ashido had been aiming all of his attacks towards her and she couldn't help but think that he had something against her which was ridiculous, she hadn't even talk to him yet! Rukia wanted him out of the game as soon as possible, he was distracting her so she couldn't attack Riruka freely, what was this guy's problem?
"If he attacks you once more" Ichigo said lowly so only Rukia could hear "I'm beating the shit out of him."
Rukia shook her head.
"Ignore him" she advised him "the point of the game is to attack each other."
"Stop flirting, Kurosaki" Ashido said "the whole school already knows about you two, there's no need to bring this to the classes too!"
Rukia frowned, what did he mean by that?
"Are you jealous?" Ichigo retorted smirking.
"Of what?" Ashido asked angrily while looking at Rukia from head to toe "I can say that I'm not missing anything!"
Riruka gasped offended while Rukia blushed but Ichigo's reaction was the worst, Ashido never saw it coming. The orange haired teenager threw a low ball with such strength and speed that it was barely visible, Ashido only realized what happened when he felt the rubber ball hitting him right between his legs.
Every single boy of the class winced.
"Shit" Grimmjow muttered as he saw his teammate holding his balls and falling to the floor painfully.
"Say something like that to her again" Ichigo threatened "and I'll make sure you remember that pain."
Rukia couldn't help herself as she jumped and hugged Ichigo, saying over and over again "you're the best, carrot top!"
Ichigo was feeling quite proud of himself but the feeling didn't last long because Rukia let go off him quickly to avoid one of Riruka's balls. Now they were even and Ichigo felt determined to win, if it meant that Rukia would hug him again it was completely worth it, not to mention that he was dying to hit Grimmjow.
"Can I ask something?" Riruka asked Rukia.
"Sure" she answered smiling.
"Where did you learn to play like this?" Riruka asked curiously.
Rukia smiled.
"I'll tell you only if you win" she promised.
"Deal!" Riruka said.
After the girls said that both, Grimmjow and Ichigo, didn't hesitate to attack each other. Riruka and Rukia stepped out of the way and suddenly the match turned out really competitive and violent, Rukia didn't know what to do or where to look but Ichigo and Grimmjow were attacking each other with everything they had. It was quite a sight, but everything changed when Grimmjow pretended to aim at Ichigo but instead turned to look at Rukia in the last second. Rukia knew how to dodge but instead, before Grimmjow could actually throw the ball, she made a puppy face at Grimmjow and the blue haired boy hesitated.
Grimmjow had a sudden flashback of the day he met Rukia and her scared face after he threatened to steal her virtue and Ichigo took advantage of his hesitation to hit him.
Grimmjow was out of the game.
"That's cheating!" Riruka gasped and Rukia laughed.
Now, Riruka was alone against Ichigo and Rukia but she decided to play by Rukia's rules. She knew Ichigo was about to throw the ball but Riruka decided to speak before he could.
"Hey, loser" Riruka said to Rukia "the hickey is showing."
It was a lie but Ichigo's eyes widened as he looked at Rukia to make sure that she would cover it quickly but his distraction gave Riruka the perfect moment to hit him, and just like that Ichigo was out of the game.
Rukia rolled her eyes as Riruka laughed.
"I'll make you pay for that" Rukia said but before she could throw the ball the bell rang.
"Okay, that's all!" Kenpachi said "all of you fucking losers will run laps the next class. Someone please tell Ginjo, after he regains consciousness, that the girls are the only winners today, we'll see if his dick falls off after he finds out."
Rukia and Riruka chuckled while all of the boys groaned disappointed, all the boys except for Ashido.
Ashido was seeing red, he was mad at the fact that he had lost his job, his connection with Grimmjow, his cellphone and his dignity. So while he was still in pain he grabbed a rubber ball and decided that detention was going to be worth it, he wanted someone to pay for everything that was happening to him and he decided that that someone was going to be Rukia. So while everyone was talking and walking towards the lockers he followed her discreetly in the middle of his classmates and got ready to hit her on the head.
Ichigo noticed this before anyone else.
"Careful!" Grimmjow yelled as Ashido threw the ball at Rukia and she turned around just in time to see Ichigo getting between her and the ball.
Rukia gasped as Ichigo got hit full on the face and fell on the floor, he wasn't unconscious but he was disoriented and judging by his silly face he couldn't listen to her.
"Carrot top! Carrot top!" Rukia said while kneeling next to him on the floor "are you okay?!"
Ichigo closed his eyes as the pain on his head brought back a memory.
He was laying on something extremely soft, he was in heaven. He couldn't remember anything before going to bed but this had to be a new pillow, right? Perhaps his father had brought some pillows and decided to change his as a surprise, he would thank him first thing in the morning. Did this pillow have a special scent? Ichigo couldn't tell but it smelled wonderful.
"So soft…" he muttered sleepy as he buried his face deeper in the pillow.
Without thinking too much, because it was the middle of the night and he didn't feel like opening his eyes, he caressed the pillow with one hand and squeezed gently. Yes, it felt wonderful.
"Ichigo?" he heard a deep feminine voice asking groggily.
Ichigo was pretty sure that he was having a dream and that his new pillow was talking to him.
"You're my favorite pillow" he said as he caressed the pillow again and fell asleep.
"Ichigo!" Rukia's voice brought him back to the present.
Her gorgeous violet eyes were looking down at him worriedly and the rest of the class was surrounding them, it didn't take too much for Ichigo to actually realized that he had just remember how he squeezed Rukia's boob in the middle of the night. He felt the need to thank Ashido for hitting him and giving him back the memory but he let that thought aside as he focused on Rukia.
"Ichigo?" she asked confused as he looked at her with a silly expression.
"You have the softest boobs I've ever touched" he said stupidly.
Rukia blushed madly and without thinking too much she grabbed the rubber ball and hit Ichigo on the head again.
The orange haired teenager was unconscious within seconds.
"Well," Renji said while kneeling next to Ichigo to carry him towards the infirmary for the second time in a week "he deserved that."
"So…" Ukitake said as Kenpachi brought Ashido to his office after gym class "what happened?"
"I didn't do anything!" Ashido said fearfully, he didn't understand why he let his anger get the best of him but this was too much, he didn't want to face the principal over something like this, his parents would kill him.
"Then," Ukitake said calmly while looking at Kenpachi "why are you here?"
"This bastard" Kenpachi said without reservations while pointing at Ashido "attacked a fellow student."
Ukitake's eyes widened.
"Who? Why?" he asked surprised, it was really weird for someone to get in problems during Kenpachi's class.
"Sir" Ashido said "I swear…"
"The new girl" Kenpachi interrupted him "Ku…" he made a pause "the Rukia girl."
Ukitake frowned angrily at Ashido.
"Is she okay?" he asked.
Kenpachi nodded.
"Kurosaki Ichigo protected her" he said "he's going to the infirmary as we speak."
Ukitake sighed relieved, he knew Ichigo could handle a few hits on the head, he trained under Kenpachi after all. It was a good thing that Ichigo and Rukia were so close, if Rukia had suffered serious injuries he would've had to inform a member of her family, luckily nothing like that happened.
"Are you going to suggest a punishment or should we go with the usual detention?" Ukitake asked Kenpachi.
Ashido started to sweat nervously.
"You're letting me choose the punishment?" Kenpachi asked smiling "that's unusual."
"I know how much you dislike men who dare to attack girls without hesitation" Ukitake said calmly as he enjoyed the image of Ashido trembling from head to toe "so?"
Kenpachi smirked.
"I'll handle this boy" he said while nodding "I can make an example out of him."
"I'll leave it to you, then" Ukitake said and Ashido gulped.
He didn't want to know what he was going to do.
"You have to stop sending that boy towards the infirmary" Riruka said as she walked with Rukia towards the rooftop. They took a shower after gym class and were wearing once again the sailor uniform, Rukia put on Ichigo's sweater again to keep hiding the hickey.
"He's an idiot" Rukia said "everyone heard him! Now, the whole class knows he touched my boobs!"
"Didn't you say to me that you don't care about gossip?" Riruka asked.
"I don't care as long is fake" Rukia said as she took a seat to eat lunch "but lying is a sin, if someone asks directly I won't be able to lie."
Riruka rolled her eyes.
"How are you going to survive your life as a runaway novice if you don't lie?" she asked her.
"I haven't lied, yet" Rukia said proudly "as I told everyone I'm new in town, and as far as everyone is concerned I came to the school because being near to Ichigo is beneficial for me, see? No lies."
Riruka nodded, she was impressed.
"Well, I have to admit you've been doing great" she said "now eat, Doctor Kurosaki told you to eat better, right?"
Rukia nodded.
"That's why I grabbed Ichigo's lunch" she said smiling "he won't need it since he's probably going to sleep until the classes are over."
"Isn't stealing a sin?" Riruka asked.
Rukia shrugged.
"He stole twenty percent of my virginity" she said while blushing "it's only fair for him to give me his lunch."
Riruka chuckled.
"I guess you're right"
Ichigo woke up as he heard the last bell of the day, he checked the clock on the infirmary wall and groaned inwardly. He needed to talk to Byakuya and ask if he was going to help Ginrei-sama today or if he was going to work at home, either way he had plenty of things to do and now he also needed to copy all of the classes he missed. He wanted to be mad at the midget but the whole thing wasn't entirely her fault, it was Ashido's.
Besides, he sort of deserved it.
He smiled as he remembered her blushing face when he talked about her soft boobs, how could anybody blame him? Sighing happily he decided not to touch the subject again, he would treasure the memory forever, but he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable again. She was a novice so he promised he wouldn't do anything indecent to her again.
"Is that okay with you, God?" he asked aloud "if I don't touch her again I won't end up in the infirmary, right?"
"I didn't take you for a religious one" someone said and Ichigo looked at Unohana smiling at him.
"Unohana-san" Ichigo said "I'm sorry, I was just…"
"Praying?" she asked smiling and Ichigo chuckled.
Unohana was a slender and very youthful woman with blue eyes and black, long hair. Ichigo knew her quite well since she sometimes worked at his father's hospital, she was kind and a wonderful professional. Sometimes Ichigo was quite curious about how someone like her met and fell in love with someone like Zaraki Kenpachi.
"I don't know if you can call that praying" Ichigo said awkwardly, perhaps the midget was getting to him. Ever since when does he pray?
"Well" Unohana said "the classes are over and someone is waiting for you to go home."
"Who?" Ichigo asked and then Rukia stepped into the infirmary holding her backpack along with Ichigo's, she blushed when she saw him.
"Carrot top," she greeted smiling "I never thought I would hear you praying."
Ichigo smirked as he got off the bed.
"Shut up, midget" he said and they both went home together after thanking Unohana.
Isshin arrived at his house exactly at dinner time. He knew Ichigo was already at home since he told him through text that Byakuya allowed him to work from home, which meant that Kuchiki Rukia was also at his home. Isshin was still trying to process the fact that his best friend's daughter was hiding from his best friend at his own house, it was a mess but he knew that it was for the best, the only thing left to do was to talk with Yuzu and Karin.
Which was probably the reason why Ichigo looked nervous as hell while having dinner with the twins.
"Girls," Isshin said as he enjoyed his dinner "we have something to tell you."
Ichigo stopped eating and Isshin smirked. It was only natural for him to be nervous, Rukia would be the first girl he would bring home, while it was a serious topic Isshin knew he was going to enjoy the conversation.
"What is it, dad?" Yuzu asked with widened eyes.
It wasn't every day that you would see Kurosaki Isshin serious after all.
"Well," Isshin said "remember when you were both younger and you said that you wanted an older sister?"
Karin scoffed.
"Does the fact that you're single finally caught up with you? Are you having a middle age crisis?" she asked her father and Ichigo laughed.
"You are not going to adopt a teenage girl, right?" Yuzu asked fearfully.
"Well…" Isshin said unsure "adopt is not exactly the right word."
Byakuya would kill me Isshin thought.
Karin frowned and then looked at his brother.
"What is he talking about?" she asked Ichigo "he's scaring me."
Ichigo sighed.
"Remember Rukia?" he asked "the same Rukia who's going to have dinner with us this Friday?"
Karin and Yuzu nodded.
"I'll tell you a little bit about her, okay?" Ichigo said "but you have to promise that you'll keep everything as a secret, you cannot talk about this with anyone at school or outside the house, okay?"
"We're not five, Ichi-nii" Karin said rolling her eyes "what is it?"
Ichigo exchanged a look with his father and they both nodded.
"Rukia is a novice" Ichigo started as Karin and Yuzu looked at him as if he had gone mad "she escaped recently and I'm helping her to hide from the nuns who are looking for her and her father. I won't go into details, because I don't know them and even if I did I think it's up to her to share them, but while she was inside the convent she had quite a difficult time."
"Bullying?" Yuzu asked with a sad face.
Ichigo nodded.
"She doesn't like to talk about it, she's free now and she's trying to enjoy a normal life" he explained "she goes to my school, as you saw, and she's been enjoying herself. Today she even won a match of dodgeball."
Karin smirked impressed.
"Well, I liked her for a reason" she said "so, why are you telling all of this to us?"
"For two reasons," Ichigo said "the first one is so you don't interrogate her too much the next Friday, she doesn't talk about the convent so we should respect that."
"Okay," Yuzu said nodding "what's the second reason?"
Ichigo ran a hand through his hair, this was the tricky part.
"Since Rukia is running away her housing situation is not easy," he explained calmly "she has to use the bathroom at unholy hours so she doesn't bother anyone, she keeps quiet most of the time, when she leaves towards school she uses a window and the place in which her bed is doesn't have sunlight."
Karin gaped as Yuzu's eyes shone with unshed tears.
Isshin crossed his arms, now he understood how Ichigo managed to hide the girl from him. Quite clever but just as he thought it wasn't healthy for someone like Rukia to keep hiding like that.
"What?!" Karin asked indignantly "then?!"
"Well…" Ichigo said scratching the back of his head "how do I explain this?"
Isshin cleared his throat.
"I met Rukia-chan yesterday" he explained "she went to the hospital with Ichigo."
"Is she sick?" Yuzu asked sadly. She couldn't believe how someone so pretty and kind had so many problems, she wanted to know if she could help her.
Isshin nodded.
"Yes, but she's already on treatment and I cannot share everything with you" he said "patient's confidentiality. The thing is that after hearing her story I decided that I wanted to help her, I like her and she's become really close with Ichigo."
Karin smirked devilishly at Ichigo who looked at the ceiling as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.
"So I offered her to live here, with us!" Isshin said finally with a huge smile.
Yuzu gasped.
"Did she accept?" she asked.
Isshin shook his head.
"She told me that she would accept only if you two were okay with sharing your room with her" he said "she was really worried about your reaction, she says that perhaps you won't feel comfortable while sharing the house with a stranger out of the blue."
Karin's eyes widened, she was really considerate.
"But we have space!" Yuzu said while standing up "after all daddy expanded our room two years ago, so another bed fits in with no problems and Rukia-nee seems really polite and kind! Besides, who knows what kind of people live with her?! You should've brought her immediately! She's sick! Living with a doctor will be great for her!"
"I guess that means that you accept" Ichigo said smiling and then looked at Karin "what do you think, Karin?"
Karin shrugged.
"Well, she seemed nice enough" she said pretending not to be interested "she's pretty and she thinks I'm badass, I think that living with her won't be hard."
Ichigo smiled at that.
"And perhaps that way the neighbors will stop gossiping about how single you are" she added while looking at Ichigo.
"Shut up" Ichigo said frowning.
"Then it's settled" Isshin said while standing up and then looked at Ichigo "when will she move in?"
Ichigo thought about it for a second.
"I'll bring her along with her stuff on Friday" he said finally "since she's going with us to the countryside it'll be best for her to sleep here that night."
Karin and Yuzu exchanged a smile.
"We'll finally have another female on the road trip!" Yuzu said excitedly "Oh, Karin-chan! We need to make space in our room!"
Karin nodded.
"Females will run this house in no time!" she said smugly.
"Mom!" Isshin said while running towards Masaki's poster "we have a third daughter! We finally have a third daughter!"
Ichigo groaned, he didn't want to imagine how Rukia was going to react at his family's dynamics. Although he was thankful, and happy, at the fact that the midget was finally going to live normally inside his own house.
Rukia sighed as she finished eavesdropping the whole thing from upstairs, Riruka was right, the twins were fine with her living with them.
"Thank you" she said while looking up "thank you, God."
She couldn't wait for Friday night.
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS THE DINNER AND THE BEGINNING OF THE WEKEEND ON THE COUNTRYSIDE!
Okay, I've been dying to write about that so I'm excited, I hope you're excited too! It took me a lot of time to write this chapter so I would appreciate reviews, and if you could tell me which was your favorite part of the chapter is I would love it.
Now, to thank everyone who reviewed the last chapter!
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