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Chapter 18


"How weird of you to come so early," Kukaku Shiba said smiling at Yoruichi "is our weekly drinking night going to turn into a serious conversation?"

Yoruichi shrugged.

"I was babysitting two little earthquakes today," she explained while taking a seat next to Kukaku at the bar "I just dropped them at their houses so I figured out that we could start earlier today."

Kukaku nodded as the waiter poured sake for both of them. This was their weekly routine, to share a few drinks together so they wouldn't lose touch and to remember good old times.

"You seem troubled," the dark haired woman commented while eyeing her friend "what happened?"

Yoruichi sighed, leave it to Kukaku to notice something was off, she was observant like that.

"Do you remember Hisana?" Yoruichi asked.

Kukaku nodded.

"Your best friend, the sister you never had and the girl that gave you enough courage to run away from home and look for a life on your own," she waved a hand "I remember you two being inseparable."

Yoruichi smiled fondly at that.

"When she died and I was denied, by Byakuya, the chance to see Rukia" she said without hiding her resentment towards the Kuchiki heir "I thought that my relationship with the Kuchikis was over for good."

Kukaku took a sip of her sake as she listened intently.

"Then out of nowhere, just a few days back, that past stepped into my store without a care in the world."

Kukaku blinked confused.

"What do you mean?" she questioned.

Yoruichi smirked at Ikkaku.

"Kuchiki Rukia, my goddaughter and the only heiress of the Kuchiki clan, escaped" she explained "and now she's hiding from her father while learning to live like a normal girl."

Kukaku gaped.

"Okay," she said after a few seconds of silence "why don't you explain from the beginning? Something tells me you're going to need more sake."

Yoruichi nodded.


"Calm down, Rukia-chan" Isshin insisted over dinner "you're not making any sense."

"It was my fault!" Rukia said urgently "I was the one who Ginjo was going to punch and..."

"Ginjo was going to punch you?!" Karin and Yuzu asked at the same time.

"Yeah, but then Grimmjow and Ichigo stood up for me and..."

"Grimmjow and Ichigo?!" Isshin asked surprised.

"And they beat Ginjo up and I asked them to stop but it was too late because Kyoraku-sensei saw everything and..."

Isshin raised a hand to make her stop her babbling.

"To summarize," Isshin said "Ginjo, who I personally don't like, was going to hurt you but, for some weird twist of fate, Grimmjow and Ichigo defended you and they got in trouble because of that."

Rukia nodded.

"Yes," she confirmed sadly "they got detention and..."

"And you don't want me to give my useless son a hard time because of that?" Isshin questioned while smiling.

Rukia blushed while nodding.

"Well," Isshin said while crossing his arms "I'm still going to have a word with him, that's not up to discussion."

"But..."

"But I won't punish him," Isshin reassured her "he did it for you, that's what a man does."

Karin smirked at Rukia blushing face.

"Ichi-nii has this super hero tendency," Yuzu explained proudly "you shouldn't feel guilty, Rukia-nee."

Rukia nodded, she still felt extremely guilty at how messy she was making Ichigo's life.

"I'm home!" Everyone heard Ichigo saying and Rukia's eyes widened.

Isshin was on his feet instantly. He had prepared one of his amazing kicks for him, especially after hearing about his detention, but the moment the front door opened Isshin stopped abruptly, words failed him as he realized that Ichigo had brought someone with him.

Grimmjow was standing, awkwardly, behind him.

Isshin's eyes widened as both boys avoided his look.

"Dad," Ichigo said carefully "I'm sorry but..." he cleared his throat "we have homework to do."

Isshin nodded wordlessly as he let both of them inside the house.

What the fuck?! Isshin thought alarmed.


Kukaku whistled surprised.

"That girl is seriously something else!" she exclaimed after hearing the whole story "well, it was to be expected, she's a Kuchiki after all."

Yoruichi chuckled.

"I like to believe that she gets it from Hisana's side," she said with a proud smirk "she used to be the same, she made Byakuya-boo suffer by hiding from him a couple of times, the poor bastard begged for forgiveness every single time."

Kukaku smirked.

"No one would believe that, Kuchiki Byakuya asking for forgiveness? Impossible."

"Hisana was the only one capable of making him squirm," Yoruichi confirmed "and now their sweet offspring is going around making him sick to his stomach with worry, is quite a sight."

Kukaku nodded.

"Kaien mentioned how Ichigo was getting closer to a girl," she said "I never imagined that it was the Kuchiki heiress herself, I cannot decide whether he has an amazing taste or if he's suicidal."

"Both" Yoruichi said while taking out her cellphone and showing a picture to Kukaku.

The dark haired woman's eyes widened.

"Look at those eyes!" she exclaimed "no wonder poor Ichigo is head over heels for her!"

Yoruichi nodded. She had taken the picture just a few hours back, it was a selfie in which Rukia was smiling with Yoruichi by her side.

"So, the Kuchiki heiress is going to Kaien's party?" Kukaku muttered while closing her eyes "please tell me that I won't have the Kuchikis' security team raiding my beach property."

Yoruichi shook her head.

"I believe they are extremely confident that they'll catch her at the convention," she said "so they are not actively looking for her for the time being."

Kukaku nodded.

"Do you want me to keep an eye on her? You can always come to the party, you know. I won't mind."

Yoruichi sighed.

"I thought about it," she admitted "but I want her to enjoy her freedom, having her godmother watching over her like a hawk might make her apprehensive around me."

Kukaku nodded understanding.

"I'll be there," she told Yoruichi "just making sure they do not destroy the house, other than that I leave the teenagers to their own devices."

Yoruichi sighed.

"Will you...?"

"I'll make sure she's safe inside the property," Kukaku assured her "but if she goes outside I make no promises."

"That's enough," Yoruichi thanked her "besides you'll see the way Ichigo looks at her, the poor boy has lost it."

Kukaku chuckled.

"What does Isshin thinks about the whole thing?"

Yoruichi smirked.

"He feels at ease while having the girl under his wing and at the same time," Yoruichi smirked wider "he's internally panicking about how Byakuya will react when he finds out."

Kukaku smiled while lifting her glass.

"Cheers! To your sweet goddaughter, for worrying the most powerful clan around Karakura, making you act all maternal and having Kurosaki Isshin near a heart attack! All in a matter of days!"

Yoruichi laughed as they clank their glasses together.


After an awkward greeting with the rest of the family, Grimmjow and Ichigo walked towards the living room and took a seat to start working on their formulas. Kenpachi told them that they had until seven in the morning to leave it on his desk and, since none of them wanted to stay at school at night, they chose to work at Ichigo's house, although Grimmjow was reluctant to do so.

"So," Ichigo started as he opened his notebook "if by tomorrow we don't have this done Kenpachi will make us beat the shit out of each other."

Grimmjow nodded as he remembered Ashido and Ginjo unconscious on the classroom floor.

"I'm not looking forward to that" Ichigo summarized.

Grimmjow agreed, something was telling him that if, by some wicked twist of fate, they ended up fighting it would escalate quickly. He didn't want that, he didn't want anything to do with Ichigo anymore, the fact that he was at his house was bad enough.

"So," Ichigo kept going with his babbling "how do we do this?!"

Grimmjow rolled his eyes, the formulas were impossible, they weren't on the internet and none of the textbooks around the library had them. This was on another level, an incomprehensible, terrible and troublesome level.

"Listen," Grimmjow said "why don't we call your cousin? He might know something, perhaps he already studied this..."

"Nah," Ichigo answered "Kaien sucks at math."

A delicate chuckle called their attention and they both looked how Rukia stepped into the living room and placed two mugs with hot chocolate in front of them.

"You both seem to be in quite the predicament" she said and then sighed "sorry, the whole detention and the punishment is my fault."

"It is not" Grimmjow and Ichigo said at the same time.

Rukia sighed again as she took a seat next to them.

"What are you doing here?" Grimmjow couldn't help to ask. He thought that she was visiting the Kurosakis but something was telling him he was wrong.

"I live here," Rukia explained smiling "but don't tell anyone, it's a secret" she added while winking at him.

Grimmjow looked at Ichigo questioningly.

Ichigo shrugged.

"I'm not going to explain," the orange haired teenager said while looking at his textbook "that's completely up to her."

Grimmjow frowned and then looked at Rukia again.

"You don't owe me explanations, Princess" he assured her.

Rukia smiled gratefully.

"But if this bastard ever treats you wrong," he added while pointing at Ichigo "there's space at my place, my mom would love to have a pretty novice around."

Rukia blushed and chuckled.

Ichigo glared murderously at Grimmjow.

"Asshole," he growled while clenching his fists "stop that and start working."

Grimmjow groaned.

"What do you want me to do?!" he asked impatiently "we don't know how to do this! We might as well beat each other up tomorrow and forget about it."

Rukia blinked as she grabbed the notebook, her eyes widened as she realized that she had seen these sorts of formulas before, it was complicated indeed, but she knew it was not impossible.

She bit her lower lip.

"Okay," she said seriously "I might be able to solve this."

"Really?!" both Ichigo and Grimmjow asked surprised.

"Yeah," she said frowning "well, I don't know if I'll succeed but in case I don't I know someone who might help me."

"Who?" Ichigo asked.

Rukia shook her head, she couldn't tell him, she didn't want him to know who she was yet. Taking a deep breath she started to work as she remembered the first time she saw these kinds of formulas.

"What's this?" eight year old Rukia asked, she was sitting on her father's lap while observing the documents in which he was working.

They were at his studio, Soujun and Ginrei were also there, everyone was focused on different documents and Rukia was simply enjoying their company. She loved whenever they would work from home.

"Math formulas," Byakuya answered "I'm trying to calculate how much our income will increase if we were to make an alliance with a certain enterprise" he explained calmly "although considering these results I don't think we will."

Ginrei nodded.

"We told you," he said sighing "you're just stubborn."

Rukia looked at her grandparents.

"All of you know how to do this?" she asked with awe.

Everyone nodded.

"I want to learn!" she gasped while looking at her father's face.

"You will, eventually" Byakuya assured her "I believe that for now is quite advanced for you."

Rukia pouted.

"Don't get him wrong," Soujun said after seeing her expression "we all know how smart you are but these sort of formulas are for older people to use."

Rukia tilted her head.

"So, I'll learn it once I finally go to school?"

She pretended not to notice but all of them stiffened after she mentioned the school and she tried not to frown. She wanted to go! Being home schooled wasn't fun but all of them got really tense whenever she would ask about it.

"Or at home," Byakuya said finally "your tutors will teach you."

"Or you could teach me!" Rukia suggested smiling.

Byakuya patted her head.

"I'm afraid teaching is not my forte," he said apologetic "I'm not patient enough, but you can observe while I do it."

Rukia nodded as Byakuya kept on working, she understood how he was moving the numbers and the results, but when it came to the process of getting one amount right and getting the result he was looking for she felt entirely lost.

"Troublesome" she muttered as she memorized the name of the enterprise and the amount of money the Kuchikis wanted to gain with the possible alliance.

The enterprise wouldn't hold it, they were babies compared to the amount of money the Kuchiki enterprise had.

She understood that much.

"Sometimes it helps to think about these numbers," Byakuya pointed to the signs and numbers that Rukia didn't understand "as pure money"

"I know this is all about money" she said confused.

"No," Byakuya insisted "you know the results will show me an amount of money but you do not take the numbers through the whole process as money, that's why you get confused."

Rukia's eyes widened as she realized what he was talking about.

"I see it more clearly!" she gasped and the pouted "but I still don't know how you do it..."

"You will, eventually" Byakuya said as he patted her head again and Rukia threw her arms around him to hug him.

She loved it whenever he would work from home.

Rukia sighed as she repeated the process twice and blinked furiously to get rid of the unwanted tears. She didn't want to think about her father and she didn't want to think about how much she missed him, not for now, if she was unable to do the math in the end she would call her granddaddy. Although it wouldn't be wise, considering the time he was probably having dinner with her father and grandpa.

Grimmjow and Ichigo pretended not to pay attention to her as she worked, they both noticed her conflicted expression and how upset she looked as she repeated whatever she was doing, as if the whole formulas brought her unpleasant memories. Ichigo thought that perhaps she had learned it at the convent and he wanted to tell her to stop, he didn't like to see her like that.

"Okay," she said sighing heavily "look at that."

Ichigo grabbed the notebook and he couldn't help but smile.

"Fuck!" he exclaimed surprised "you managed to get the result Kenpachi wanted!"

"I don't know if the process is correct," she said "what happens if you both fail the assignment?"

Grimmjow shrugged as he grabbed the notebook Ichigo was handing him.

"Nothing, I believe" he answered "he probably just want to torture us the whole night for the fun of it" he said and his eyes widened as he realized that she had, somehow, gotten a result out of the things he couldn't understand.

"Well," Rukia said clapping once "show me the other formulas, we have a long night ahead."

Both boys nodded at her and, as Rukia tried to explain, they all started to work.


"Rukia-chan is really something, isn't she?" Yuzu, who was eavesdropping the whole thing with Karin and her father, said.

Karin scoffed, she was also surprised.

"My third daughter is amazing!" Isshin said with dramatic tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Those three won't be able to sleep tonight," Karin exclaimed while yawning "you'll have to make quite the strong coffee tomorrow, Yuzu."

Yuzu chuckled.

Isshin, who was inwardly panicking, knew he wasn't going to sleep an inch either. There was no way in hell he would be able to leave those three without any kind of supervision. Besides, perhaps he would be able to hear something interesting, he wanted to know why Grimmjow stood up for Rukia, why Ichigo looked sort of comfortable with his ex's presence and why Ginjo wanted to punch Rukia, he knew the teenager was an asshole, but to actually try to punch a girl? Something was off.

Sighing he prayed that no one had discovered her last name yet.


Once Yoruichi stepped back into her house she was welcomed by her husband, it was past midnight so she assumed that he would be asleep, apparently she was wrong.

"Long day?" he asked grinning.

Yoruichi rolled her eyes at him. He was wearing his pajamas, ridiculous slippers and he was carrying a mug with coffee, he always drank coffee whenever he was going to stay up until late working on something.

"You've no idea" she said.

Her cellphone beeped then and blinking confused she took it out and opened the message.

From: The rebellious novice.

"Can you believe I'm helping teenage boys with homework at this hour? Is this how normal high school life works? If it is perhaps now I know why daddy always looked like having a heart attack whenever I would mention going to school! The girls back at the convent would never believe it! When will I see you again?! Today was awesome!"

Yoruichi laughed out loud when she saw the attached picture.

Rukia was in Ichigo's living room while working on some textbooks and, oh surprise, Ichigo and Ichigo's ex were with her looking extremely sleepy. Rukia was smiling from ear to ear, apparently she was really glad about having another "normal girl experience." Yoruichi shook her head as she passed her cellphone to Kisuke who grabbed it curiously, his eyes widened as he recognized the house and the people in the picture.

"My, my…" he exclaimed "Isshin must be having quite the night."

Yoruichi laughed alongside her husband.

Hisana, I wish you could see this she thought happily.


The next day Riruka stepped into school and approached Rangiku and Momo who were waiting for her, she smiled once she stood next to them in the middle of the hallway. Half of the boys looked curiously at the group of girls but they kept walking, they didn't want to be caught staring, Riruka had quite the violent reputation.

"I got your text," Riruka told Momo "what are the plans?"

Hinamori smiled.

"I was thinking about going shopping today," she said and then looked around "where's Rukia?" she asked.

Riruka shrugged.

"She's on her way," she explained "but don't worry I'm pretty sure she'll be thrilled with the news! After school?"

Rangiku nodded.

"We'll go in my car," she said "it's been a while since we've been near the downtown shops! And since we're all going to the beach we need to be ready!"

Riruka nodded.

"Sounds good!" she agreed "then…" she was about to suggest one of the stores until she saw Rukia stepping into school and she gasped surprised.

She had huge, huge, bags under her eyes, her hair was disheveled, her uniform was a mess, was it Riruka's imagination or was she wearing the skirt backwards? She was carrying a thermos that obviously had coffee inside and her backpack was opened revealing all of the books that she had obviously put there in a unorganized manner and, while she looked as if she had been drinking the whole night, the thing that surprised Riruka the most was that she was flanked by Grimmjow and Ichigo.

Both boys were walking behind her as if they owed her their sorry lives.

"Well," Riruka heard Ichigo saying as he and Grimmjow started to walk towards the teachers' office "we get to live another day."

Rangiku, Momo and Riruka approached Rukia then.

"Loser," Riruka asked "are you okay? Did you lose your virginity in a threesome with Ichigo and Grimmjow?" then she raised three fingers in front of Rukia's face "how many fingers do you see?"

Rukia didn't answer, instead, she rested her head on Riruka's shoulder and started to snore quietly.

Riruka patted her friend's back.

"We'll go shopping today, okay?" she asked.

Rukia simply nodded and Rangiku and Momo cheered at that.


"Okay, motherfuckers" Kenpachi said as Ichigo handed him the assignment "let's see how you did it."

Grimmjow and Ichigo exchanged a tense look as Kenpachi eyed the process and the result of the formulas. They had spent the whole night working and, in Rukia's case, taking pictures while telling them about everything that happened at the hospital, it was quite the night.

Kenpachi's eyes widened as he smirked sadistically.

"You lucky bastards!" he said laughing "go to your fucking classes! You did it!"

Grimmjow and Ichigo smiled proudly as they turned around to leave the office.

"Oh!" Kenpachi added smirking wider "and thank the Rukia girl for saving your sorry asses, that girl has more brains and balls than any other boy here!"

Ichigo shook his head as he ran a hand through his messy hair.

Well, that's the midget for sure he thought.

Grimmjow didn't fail to see his proud smirk.


Senna was about to go to classes when her parents called her to the dining room. Sighing she walked downstairs, they were probably going to tell her to stop spending so much time on her phone or something like that, it was a pretty common occurrence in her morning routine, so when she stepped into the dining room she paled immediately when she saw Kurosaki Isshin chatting amicably with her parents.

"Hello, Senna" Isshin greeted without a smile "it's been a while."

Senna gulped.

She was done, she looked at her parents with panic written all over her face and her heart started to beat anxiously as she realized how pissed her mother looked. She realized then that she would have to lie in order to go to the beach, she was obviously going to be grounded, besides there was no way she would stop her plans now.

Rukia and Riruka were going to regret messing up with her.


Rukia slept through most of the classes but no one dared to call her attention, not even the teachers, and it was all thanks to Ashido and Ginjo. When they stepped into the classroom everyone gasped surprised, they were all beaten up and they looked in a lot of pain and, since they weren't allowed to talk about their detention, everyone assumed that the responsible was Rukia. By lunch time the rumors had escalated to the point where everyone believed that she was the only daughter of a really powerful, dangerous and wealthy mafia boss.

Twitter was on a rampage.

"Man! No wonder why she hides her last name! We're better off not knowing!"

"Why are the unapproachable ones the prettiest?!"

"Rich, powerful and gorgeous?! Sign me the fuck up!"

"Man, no wonder why she took a liking to the orange haired idiot, she probably has gangsters around her mansion regularly and God knows he looks like one!"

Ichigo, who was eating lunch while Rukia slept with her head on his shoulder, scoffed. He kept on reading the stupid tweets.

R1ruka: "Look at her, not caring in the least whatever bullshit you think of her."

The tweet had an attached picture of Rukia sleeping peacefully on her desk and it had already several likes. Ichigo rolled his eyes as he liked the tweet and saved the picture, he checked the likes and wondered if glaring at those boys would help Rukia's situation.

He doubted it.

Besides, he sort of believed that it was for the best, anyone would think twice before daring to come close to her again. Sighing he decided to check twitter one last time.

Yumi5: "Mafia Princess or not if the orange haired bad boy does not show interest I'm getting her a boyfriend, is someone interested? Yes or no?"

There was a poll down the tweet and sixty percent of the idiots were interested.

Ichigo also voted yes hoping that Yumichika would get the idea.

"So," Riruka said casually "we'll go shopping so we can be ready for the beach trip with the sleepy beauty after classes, any objections?"

Ichigo frowned as he looked around.

"Why are you asking me?" he questioned.

Their group of friends weren't paying attention to them, luckily, so he guessed that this had something to do with Rukia's secret.

"Because she lives with you, idiot" Riruka said.

"It'll be okay," Ichigo assured her "just tell her to let the old man know and make sure she gets home before dinner."

Riruka smirked devilishly and poked Rukia on the forehead.

"Oi!" Ichigo said frowning.

"Ouch!" Rukia exclaimed while rubbing her forehead "what was that for?" she asked groggily.

"Your boyfriend here wants you to let your adopted father know about our shopping trip," she explained as Rukia blushed and Ichigo looked at the sky pretending not to listen "send him a text so you can go!"

"Fine," Rukia said as she took out her cellphone.


Isshin took his fifth cup of coffee of the day when his cellphone beeped and he smiled at the message.

From: Third daughter.

"Oji-san! Some friends want to go shopping today after classes for our beach trip, is it okay if I go? I'll be home before dinner, okay?! Also, Ichigo says hi, he's been his sulking self as you can see in the picture. See you!"

Isshin smiled at the picture. Ichigo was eating his lunch, while frowning at the camera, and Rukia was smiling by his side, they were obviously at the school's rooftop.

"Byakuya is going to kill him…" Isshin lamented chuckling "well, at least he'll get to enjoy the beach with her before dying."

He took another sip of his coffee as he sent the picture to Yoruichi.

No one imagined how eventful the beach party was going to be for everyone involved.


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