Chapter 21
The week after they came back from the beach was quite eventful for everyone, especially for Ichigo. The rumors followed the orange haired boy through school like crazy, everyone considered him part of a big, and wealthy, criminal association and, according to the majority of his classmates on twitter, he was born with the looks for the job.
"I bet he's his father-in-law's right hand man! He probably gifted him a gun or a sword!" a random boy tweeted.
"No wonder he got the girl! She obviously loves shady-looking ones…" another one added.
Ichigo wanted to punch them all on the face but he knew how to ignore the undesired attention, unlike others.
"Are you okay?" Ichigo asked Grimmjow the Tuesday after the beach weekend.
"Never better," Grimmjow lied "idiot."
Ichigo rolled his eyes and left him alone after that, but he knew he was not okay, because he was also being a victim of all the rumors spreading around and Grimmjow hated stupid rumors and the attention that came with those. Somehow some of the guests of the party got to the conclusion that Grimmjow transferred to school thanks to Rukia's father and that was why he defended her from Ginjo before, and that was also the reason why Ichigo and Rukia came back to the bonfire with Grimmjow as company.
Now, some brave classmates, smiled at Grimmjow and greeted him whenever they would see him, they didn't consider him that intimidating and dangerous now that they believed he was on Ichigo's side.
Grimmjow, like Ichigo, wanted to punch them all on the face.
The only one who didn't seem to care about the rumors was Rukia, Ichigo noticed how she seemed to be having a lot on her mind, she was texting with Yoruichi constantly and Riruka always had "something important to tell her" so they would disappear at lunch time without telling anyone what they were up to.
Ichigo cornered her on one of the unused classrooms one afternoon after classes to ask her about it.
"Why did you bring me here?" Rukia asked him while taking a seat on the teacher's desk "do you want to confess again?"
Ichigo chuckled, he had to admit that being alone with her like this brought him memories of when he revealed his messy past with Grimmjow, not much time had passed but it felt like years to him, was it possible to feel as if you had met someone your whole life even after spending just a few weeks with them? Well, Rukia definitely had that gift.
"Fortunately I just have one dangerous ex," he assured her "so don't worry, you won't find out anything more about me today."
Rukia smiled at him.
"Then, what is it?" she asked him as he put himself in front of her.
"I wanted to ask if everything is okay," Ichigo admitted while putting his hands inside his pockets "you've been running around with Riruka and texting Yoruichi, are you planning something? Don't you want me to help you with anything?"
Rukia tensed slightly as she looked aside, she wanted to tell him about her plans for the Chappy convention, she wanted to yell on his face "Carrot top! We share the same godparents!" and joke about how small the world was but she couldn't, it would be giving away too much information and she wasn't ready, she trusted him a lot but a small part of her still believed that he would panic if she were to reveal she was a Kuchiki.
She didn't want to lose him because of her last name, she wouldn't be able to stand it.
But looking at him worried over her and feeling left out because she wasn't sharing anything was making her feel guilty, he deserved at least a little bit of truth for now.
"Fine," she sighed finally "I'll tell you but promise me you won't panic, okay?" she asked while looking at him again.
Ichigo frowned but nodded.
"There's a huge chance that I'll see my father next Saturday," she blurted out "that's why I've been planning how to avoid him, that's what Riruka and I had been discussing."
Ichigo's eyes widened.
"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked.
"I didn't want to worry you!" she exclaimed apologetic "don't panic!"
Ichigo scoffed while running a hand through his already messy hair.
"I cannot help but worry, idiot" he muttered annoyed and then grabbed her by her shoulders "why would you see him? He cannot take you away, Rukia!"
Rukia smiled at him.
"That's why I've been planning the whole thing like crazy, carrot top" she chuckled "calm down."
"That's why you've been texting Yoruichi as well?" he questioned.
Rukia nodded.
"Yeah," she admitted "your godmother likes me, she was also a runaway back when she was younger."
"I know," Ichigo smirked "I'm glad you two met."
"She's awesome," Rukia agreed, her voice filled with fondness towards the dark-skinned woman "I keep thanking God each day at the fact that He brought you to me, I wouldn't be having this amazing life otherwise."
"Make sure not to get caught, midget" Ichigo mumbled, their faces were only inches away from each other "we haven't had enough time yet, there are several things we need to do."
Rukia blushed slightly.
"Afraid of losing your kissing partner?" she joked.
"As if," Ichigo whispered while leaning down "crazy as hell midget."
Rukia chuckled and then Ichigo closed the distance between them, he kissed her and it took Rukia two seconds to melt into the kiss, Ichigo put his hands on both sides of her successfully trapping her on the desk while Rukia deepened the kiss by putting her arms around his neck, they didn't notice the sounds they were making or how they were both more eager than usual.
Rukia gasped as Ichigo placed her on the desk and crawled on top of her, she was breathing heavily as Ichigo looked down at her with a mix of lust and kindness.
"May I leave a hickey on the novice?" he asked huskily.
Rukia gaped as she nodded.
"You may," she breathed and Ichigo leaned down to work on her neck, she gasped happily and wrapped her legs around his waist wanting to feel him closer "don't stop, Ichigo" she moaned as she closed her eyes.
Ichigo didn't know what was happening and he didn't want to stop to think about it, he was feeling nothing but pure bliss and the sounds she was making were enough encouragement for him to keep going, he wanted her and not only in the physical sense, it was deeper than that.
"Fuck," he groaned against her skin and bit her earlobe "what exactly are you doing to me?"
"Making you sin," she answered breathless "I'm…"
"Then it'll be okay as long as I confess later, right?" he asked as he let one of his hands to roam under her uniform.
Rukia blushed madly but didn't want him to stop.
"Yes," she answered as she closed her eyes "yes, it'll be okay."
She felt how Ichigo smirked against her neck to keep on kissing and sucking, she thought that there was no better feeling until Ichigo started to caress the skin under her uniform, his hand travelled from her abdomen to her boob and she moaned once he started to touch it with circular movements, she wondered why he kept his hand over her bra instead of teasing the skin under it, was this how it worked?
"Ichigo!" she moaned one more time.
Ichigo was pretty sure that he was going to suffer from blue balls after this but he decided that it was worth it, he didn't want to test his luck with her, or to pressure her too much, so he was about to ask if he could touch under her bra until a knock on the classroom door startled them both.
"Shit," Ichigo cursed under his breath "they caught us."
Rukia's eyes widened as she wondered if she would get expelled because of this, she hoped not, her heart was beating frantically on her chest as she waited for the person outside the door to leave.
"I don't want to ruin the moment," the unmistakable voice of Renji apologized "but unless you want the janitor to lock you in there you should come out."
Ichigo sighed relieved as he looked down at Rukia one last time, he wanted to memorize the sight of her blushing and gasping under him to enjoy it on the days to come.
"We should leave this for other day," he suggested as he hopped down the desk and helped her to sit down again "okay?"
"Yeah," she agreed while getting off the desk "another time."
Once they both recovered their breath they left the room holding hands and Renji promised to keep the secret.
"Everything's almost ready," Soujun announced on Wednesday morning while stepping into Byakuya's office "the crew will begin the decoration work by tomorrow morning and it should be done by Friday."
Byakuya nodded.
"Once the doors of the building open on Saturday the security team will take their positions," Soujun added "only a trained ninja would be able to escape from the premises."
"That's what I thought when I saw the convent and decided to send her there," Byakuya pointed out "so let's not push our luck, as much as I hate to admit it she does take after Hisana when it comes to this."
Soujun nodded.
"I wonder what Hisana would think about this," he admitted while smiling fondly "she would…"
"She would be proud," Byakuya muttered while looking at the city from his office window "she would be laughing and placing bets with Yoruichi about when we would catch her, she wouldn't blame Rukia for wanting to run away from me."
"I'm sorry, son" Soujun said smiling sadly "I didn't want to bring you painful memories."
Byakuya scoffed.
"It's not painful," he lied "it's annoying, if she were here she would know where she is."
Soujun nodded at that.
"This silly game will end on Saturday," he promised "so let's wait for now."
Once Thursday came around Rukia and Riruka met up with Yoruichi after school for one last planning meeting and Yoruichi was quick to figure out that Rukia was hiding something.
"It's quite humid for you to be using a sweater," Yoruichi pointed out "and that sweater happens to have my cute godson's name, what don't you want me to see?"
Rukia blushed madly under Yoruichi's cat-like grin.
"Please don't make me look it at again!" Riruka exclaimed dramatically while taking a seat on Yoruichi's table "I swear that I only took my eyes off her for one hour!"
Rukia glared at Riruka, she obviously had told her about what happened at the unused classroom, she had to after Riruka asked her how many hickeys she was hiding under Ichigo's sweater now.
"Oh," Yoruichi smirked "I'm guessing that one make out session took an unexpected turn?" she questioned.
"It's a hickey," Rukia muttered while crossing her arms "nothing more."
Yoruichi laughed at that and Riruka joined her.
"Such a fine novice!" Yoruichi joked and then poked her on the forehead "I do approve of you living all of the experiences that awful place denied you but," she frowned seriously at Rukia "don't you dare to let that boy have his way with you unless you want me to castrate both of you, it won't kill you to wait until college, you know?"
Rukia gasped embarrassed.
"I know that-!"
"Not to mention that you're kissing without a label!" Yoruichi added "Ichigo is respectful but I can tell you drive him crazy by just looking at him, child!"
Rukia blinked twice.
"Should I stop kissing with him?" she asked sadly.
"Damn," Riruka mentioned "you sound devastated at that thought, hell no, I don't want to see you sulking around school" she frowned "what Yoruichi-san is trying to say is that you two should talk about where you stand before taking things further, having friends with benefits is not a sin."
"Exactly," Yoruichi agreed "besides you have to take care of yourself as well, you don't have Ichigo's experience."
"Not that he has much," Riruka said, she was unaware about Ichigo's past "the rumors about him being a womanizer must be crap."
"Better safe than sorry," Yoruichi said "just slow down, kiddo" she patted Rukia's head "I don't want you to hurt each other over meaningless lust."
Rukia nodded.
"Don't worry," she said "I don't want to lose him over a silly mistake like that."
Yoruichi sighed relieved as she made a mental note to inform Isshin about the new hickey, although she was sure that he would find out on his own, Ichigo and Rukia would leave him bald with all this sneaking around.
"Okay!" Yoruichi exclaimed "now, where were we?! Oh yes, the Kuchikis' security team! Go!"
Rukia stood in front of the table and placed a drawing on Yoruichi's wall.
"This is the main threat," Rukia said while pointing to one of her drawings, a blonde bunny with black sunglasses "his name is Robert."
Yoruichi blinked.
"Do we seriously do not have any pictures of these people?!" she asked aghast.
Riruka laughed hard at that.
"Oh, come on!" Rukia exclaimed blushing "I did my best! This is how I remember Robert!"
"Sorry, he doesn't strike me as a threat" Riruka snorted at the poor drawn bunny "we need pictures."
"Say no more!" Urahara exclaimed while walking into the room with a rolling whiteboard "it took me a while but we have everything we need here!"
Yoruichi smirked proudly.
"Now that's what I'm talking about," she said as Kisuke placed in front of them a whiteboard filled with pictures of the Kuchikis, their security teams, a map of the building and some coordinates "I'm impressed."
Rukia's eyes widened as she took in all the information in front of her.
"Me too," she scoffed "how did you get this?"
Urahara bowed dramatically.
"You shouldn't underestimate your godfather!" he said.
Rukia chuckled, since she had been spending most of the week with Yoruichi she had also been getting closer to Urahara, who happened to be awesome on his own weird way, his little candy shop was their "base" and he even promised to keep everything as a secret.
"Awesome," Riruka said "now I know who Robert is, is he American?"
Rukia nodded.
"Robert is the head of Daddy's security team," she explained while pointing at him "he has been working for the family even before daddy met my mom, he is an ex-navy soldier."
Riruka gaped.
"These next to him," Rukia continued "are Iburo and Kevin, they are Robert's main men and daddy trusts the three of them equally so they represent the same level of threat as..." she pointed at a picture of Byakuya on the top of the whiteboard "Kuchiki Byakuya."
Yoruichi nodded, she was familiar with some of the Kuchikis' employees and she could remember perfectly how Byakuya placed under Hisana's service his security team once they started dating.
"What about your grandpa?" Riruka questioned while pointing at a picture of Soujun "he looks..." she paused "intimidating."
"Grandpa is inoffensive," Rukia said while waving a hand carelessly "he only represents a threat when he is mad but he would never get mad at me," she smiled fondly "he's probably thinking that we are playing hide and seek like we used to when I was a child."
"I disagree," Yoruichi said while crossing her arms "Soujun-sama might not get mad at you easily but there is a reason why Ginrei-sama decided not to tell them about our alliance."
Rukia frowned.
"Right," she muttered "the fact that I'm living with a boy."
Yoruichi nodded.
"Soujun-sama won't consider this a game," she said "he will take this as seriously as Byakuya-boo to protect you from the scoundrel who's keeping you all to himself."
Rukia blushed while Urahara and Riruka laughed at her shy expression.
"If anything I'm the one who's using him," she scoffed "but fine, we definitely have to keep our eyes open for Grandpa, he's quite jealous when it comes to me."
"Oh, to be the spoiled rotten brat of a trio of powerful men who want nothing more than to give you the world!" Riruka exclaimed dramatically "seriously, I don't know if you're extremely lucky or extremely unlucky."
"Both," Rukia said chuckling "definitely both."
"Now," Yoruichi said "you two are going to memorize every single face of the security teams and then we move onto the entrances and the exits," she ordered "the main objective is to win the ticket so no matter what you cannot leave the building until you have that piece of paper on your hands."
Rukia and Riruka nodded.
"I won't go inside the building because that would be too suspicious," Yoruichi continued "but Kisuke and I will be just one block away pretending to be a married couple..."
"We are a married couple!" Urahara exclaimed.
"… and once you're ready for us we'll pick you up as fast as we can!"
Rukia nodded and Riruka smirked.
"Daddy won't know what'll hit him," she said "oh, there's a secret exit here," she pointed to the building map "I used to play around there the whole time."
"Awesome" Yoruichi praised.
Riruka scrunched her nose.
"What's the worst case scenario?" she questioned.
Rukia bit her bottom lip worriedly.
"They catch us," she answered "if they manage to take us to the mansion we won't be able to escape from there."
Yoruichi frowned.
"That won't happen," she swore as she snapped her fingers once and in a few seconds Tessai, Urahara's assistant, stepped into the room place a couple of boxes on top of the table "ladies, while you were enjoying your golden years at the beach I went to a wonderful store."
Rukia and Riruka gaped as Yoruichi opened the boxes.
"You didn't expect me to send you against Byakuya-boo unarmed, right?" Yoruichi smirked.
"They won't recognize us!" Riruka cheered as she looked at the contents of the box "and we have something to attack!"
Rukia couldn't help but smile along her best friend.
"We're ready," she said while exchanging a look full of determination with Yoruichi "we will win the ticket and beat the security team."
"That's the spirit, kiddo" Yoruichi praised.
"This is our target," Soujun explained as he pointed to a picture of Rukia on the center of the room "you all know her already so there's no need to explain much about her," he looked at the security team that was gathered in front of him "but I do feel the need to insist on capturing her as discreetly as possible at the convention, we cannot allow mistakes."
Iburo raised his hand.
"Yes?" Soujun asked.
"Is Rukia-sama aware that the convention is a trap?" Iburo questioned.
"Absolutely," Byakuya answered "she is the only person in this world that knows about our assets better than us," he explained while pointing at a map of the building on the whiteboard "every single entrance and exit will be blocked to prevent any tricks."
"Rukia is unpredictable," Soujun explained "we know she won't listen to us but we do not know to which lengths she is willing to go to avoid us, we should expect anything coming from her."
"Not to mention that the presence of thousands of other girls will make this harder," Robert pointed out "we have to be careful about not scaring anyone."
"Yeah," Iburo agreed "the last thing we need is screaming teenagers with long nails attacking us."
Ginrei took a sip of his tea calmly.
"We're also going to keep an eye open on girls with pink hair," Soujun mentioned as she pointed to the picture of a pink wig on the whiteboard "that's one of the few leads we have, Rukia was seen with a pink haired girl in a Chappy store so the chances of them sowing up together are high."
"Well, capturing a random girl should be easy," Iburo mentioned "I mean-"
"Don't underestimate girls," Byakuya warned "we're dealing with a girl who escaped from a heavily guarded place in the middle of the night and left no traces behind," he pinched the bridge of his nose "something tells me the pink haired girl is also troublesome like that, otherwise they wouldn't have become friends."
Ginrei chuckled at that.
"Besides all of you remember Hisana, Right?" Ginrei asked the security team "she was a force to be reckoned with so expect her daughter to be the same."
"Oh yes," John said "I remember Hisana-sama kidnapping you once, Ginrei-sama."
The whole team chuckled at that.
"One of my best days," Ginrei smiled fondly at the memory "Hisana and Yoruichi took me out of the office to have a wonderful day."
"While I was at the office about to have a heart attack over my missing father..." Soujun muttered not amused in the slightest.
The security team laughed at that.
"Worst case scenario?" Iburo asked.
"We come home empty handed," Byakuya answered "but that's not going to happen."
"If you manage to get your hands on Rukia, or her friend, no matter what they do" Soujun added "don't let go of them, we can pay your medical bills later so even if they sink their nails on your eyes, don't let them go."
"How much damage can two teenage girls make?" Kevin asked aloud as the team laughed.
Byakuya didn't want to answer him but his gut was telling him that the damage was going to be considerable.
It does not matter, Byakuya thought I'm bringing you home without a doubt.
Isshin was not having the best week of his life, far from it, he was dealing with headaches and lack of sleep and he wanted to blame Ichigo for everything but it wouldn't be fair, he knew that his son was good at heart and besides, wasn't he the one who taught him to always help those in need? To always offer a helping hand?
Of course, when Isshin taught him that he was talking about the less fortunate, poor people and orphans, he wasn't referring to a millionaire heiress who was going through a rebellious phase and escaping from her scary as hell and powerful family but, who could blame Ichigo? The girl was impossible to overlook and, considering the unique circumstances in which they met, they were obviously going to grow closer with each passing day.
And Isshin was happy about it, really.
But, couldn't they grow closer at a slower pace?! Without leaving hickeys on each other and trying not give Isshin more anxiety issues?! How was he going to explain Byakuya later on?
Oh yes! I left my son and your princess to their own devices and a few kisses were exchanged, can you forgive me? Isshin was sure that Byakuya would have his head faster than he could say "sorry."
"Oji-san," Rukia said over dinner on Thursday night "is it okay if I stay over Riruka's place tomorrow?"
Isshin smiled at Rukia, Yoruichi had shared with him the whole plan regarding the convention and he believed that it was madness, there was no way the girl would be able to escape from Byakuya's grip on his own territory but he was not going to intervene, it wasn't his place to do so.
"Sure," he answered "are you going to have a sleepover?"
Rukia nodded smiling, she was wearing Ichigo's sweater and looking proud about it, Isshin found her endearing, why did she like his son? Ichigo looked like a criminal.
"Yes," Rukia answered "there's a convention on Saturday and we'll go together."
Isshin thanked the fact that Ichigo was not around, he was pretty sure that he was unaware about his boss planning the convention so it was better that way.
"The Chappy convention?!" Yuzu asked.
Rukia smiled and nodded at the blonde girl.
"Oh I wanted to go!" Yuzu pouted "but we have a silly field trip with our class."
Karin scoffed.
"Yeah," she agreed "what exactly are we going to learn by cleaning the beach shore? I know I shouldn't litter, why don't they tell the tourist to clean up their own mess?"
"Don't complain," Isshin advised "Kukaku promised to let you stay at her beach house once you're done."
"I'll buy you something at the convention," Rukia promised the twins "just tell me what you want."
Yuzu cheered and Isshin smiled gratefully at Rukia.
Half of him wanted her to come back on Saturday smiling as usual and the other half of him wanted her to talk with her father to clarify this mess.
He just prayed that things could end up well.
"What do you mean?" Ichigo asked Byakuya "I do not understand."
"We'll be unavailable the whole weekend," Byakuya answered while handing him the documents "so I need you to study this case, we will be joining some business with this associate and you'll be present at the negotiation, I want you to be ready."
Ichigo blinked.
"You want me to be in a meeting with you?" he asked "really?"
Byakuya frowned.
"Why the skepticism?" he questioned "believe it or not I do appreciate the work you do for me, otherwise I wouldn't even look at you, boy" he crossed his arms "you mentioned how you wanted to grow inside my family enterprise, your commitment all this time is what has brought me to place new responsibilities on your shoulders," he raised an eyebrow "unless you don't feel ready."
"I'm ready!" Ichigo exclaimed determined "I swear I am ready!"
Byakuya nodded.
"Well then," he said "go to your house, we'll talk on Monday."
Ichigo nodded as he smiled, he was about to say goodbye until a question popped on his head.
"Why will you be unavailable on the weekend?" he asked "is everything okay?"
"We have a family affair to attend to," Byakuya explained "do not worry about it, just do what I just told you."
Ichigo nodded as he smiled gratefully at Byakuya.
Everyone was ready for the weekend to start.
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