Chapter 2: Silver Hawk
Ichigo blinked. One minute she been crying and the next she had kissed him just like that! It had not been a soft peck on the cheek; it hadn't been gentle at all. She had kissed him on the lips with such force that his head was now firmly on the pillow and the demented midget was well and truly on top of him.
"You... you kissed me, y- you gave me my first kiss!" he stammered out. She gave him a funny look in reply before changing to smiling like a cat that just got the cream.
"Well you were acting so supportive and caring towards me... so I thought I show you my gratitude" and with that she grinned at him then winked seductively. Ichigo gulped.
"Rukia get of me right now!" He screamed in absolute terror.
"But it fun up here, plus I can do this" And with that she wiggled her bum suggestively. Ichigo felt the heat in his checks rapidly rise.
"Aww... You're so cute when you blush Ichi-chan" she said in a cutesy tone. Ichigo rapidly pushed her off him to his side.
"You're worse than Yoruichi Rukia!" He shouted at her loudly. Rukia face turned to one of anger.
"Wait a minute… you dated Yoruichi!?" She exclaimed in a fury.
"No it wasn't like that at all" he rapidly replied in embarrassment "She use to tease me by turning from cat to human form in front of me… without any cloths"
Rukia giggled, her features softening from her previous angry look.
"So you ever thought of me without any cloths on?" she asked in a tone that was way too innocent considering her question.
"Of course not!" He shouted back at her rapidly. She much to his surprise then smiled.
The lamplight went off, and he heard the ruffling of blankets and then the touch of Rukia's head on his chest and her arm around his waist.
"Then this should be absolutely no problem for you... since you clearly don't think of me that way"
Ichigo sighed in defeat and was thinking of some kind of sarcastic remark to make in reply when he heard knocking at the door.
"Hey Ichi-nii, Rukia are you two finished shouting?" The calm voice that came from the other side of the door was Karin's.
"Erm… yes we are!" Ichigo shouted back.
"Will coming in mentally scar me for life by the way?" Karin asked. Ichigo paused a few moments.
"Coming in would be a bad idea Karin…. but not because of that!" Ichigo replied nervously.
"Right just remember to take 'preventive measures' for 'that' which is not 'that'" she said in a sarcastic tone that was clear even if her voice was slightly muffled by the door.
"By the way Rukia, we talk about the whole Shinigami thing in more detail after school tomorrow ok?" Karin said in a calm tone like she was talking about the latest football results. "Anyway goodnight you two don't keep up that much longer ok, you both being sleepy will get lot of people talking, trust me"
Ichigo quietly waited as he heard his sister go back to her bedroom. Strangely enough it was quiet nice having Rukia leaning on him like she was…
"She actually killed Hallow and met Captain Hitsugaya too" Rukia said in a rather serous tone after a while "So I think were going to have to be open with her, about everything now"
Ichigo laid there in the silence for a while thinking of the changes that having a sister who was not only aware of more supernatural elements of his life, but clearly taking a strong interest in them,. Then Rukia bit his ear.
"Ow!" he screamed in pain. Rukia sniggered. "What was that for?"
"I wanted a taste of things to come" she badly punned. Ichigo sighed.
"Rukia, I think you are forgetting a very importing thing" Ichigo calmly explain "that thing is I'm only fifteen".
Ichigo let the information sink into her brain.
"Can't be too Chappy?" she ask with a slightly depressed tone to her voice.
"Defiantly can't be too Chappy Rukia" Ichigo explained to the overexcited Shinigami.
"Well that delays my plans slightly… very slightly" she said playfully. Then her tone changed to a more serous one "and I do have plan for us... my love" she said the words my love with such an uncharacteristic gentle tone.
"Just sleep well for now...my love" he said as he wrapped his arm around her.
The following morning went slightly awkwardly. Yuzu was in a surprisingly upbeat mood. While Karin was fairly quiet and Ichigo's dad was… himself.
"My son has finally turned into a man!" he shouted happily before dropping in front of his mother's portrait "sweet Masaki, our dear Ichigo has finally started dating... and dating a lovely beautiful girl who mysterious appeared in his life last summer!"
Rukia just ate her breakfast and tried very hard to avoid eye contact with his insane father.
That was the morning at home, what happened at school took Ichigo completely by surprise.
"Class!" his sensei said when everyone was sitting down "It time for you to meet our new international student, Black Timothy, who come all the way from England"
It was the same guy from the Kuchiki estate who had tried to become a retainer. He was slightly shorter than Ichigo, but far thinner and virtually had no muscle mass to speak of. While he wasn't wearing the stupid Matrix styled trenchcoat, he was still wearing the shades and had his blond hair back in a pony tail, held in place with a silver ring with some weird writing on it.
While he was wearing the normal school uniform, his left arm seem to be lightly bandaged up except on his fingers, another odd addiction was a small old fashioned dark brown bag on his right side. His eyes went to Ichigo as he walked in, through he was clearly trying to dress it up as nerves, he was clearly still pretty scared of Ichigo.
"Hello fellow classmates!" he said in the excessively respectful and polite tone he used at Kuchiki's place. "I will be joining your class for the foreseeable future, please make no special allowances for me and treat me as you would any other class mate!"
He then went to sit next to Rukia, on the other side to Ichigo and smiled politely at everyone. He seemed to spend the rest of the day trying to get to know everyone better especially Chizuru Honsho. He was fairly polite and talkative to Rukia as well, but seemed to mysterious disappear into the crowd when she wanted to talk to him alone. He completely avoided Ichigo and it wasn't hard to see the fear in his eyes whenever Ichigo caught his attention.
So Ichigo and Rukia hatched a cunning plan and put it into action. They sent Chizuru towards Orihime with the lure that Orihime would really enjoy a romantic poem that Rukia had found in a book and then they carefully sneaked up on Black. Unfortunately that where things went wrong, because he seemed to quickly realise that they were sneaking up on him and started running like a girl.
Ichigo and Rukia then gave him chase and it quickly became clear that he wasn't that fit or fast as they slowly started gaining on him. Then he did something they hadn't expected.
"Second tier transmutation, Bears endurance!" Black shouted in a rather panicky tone while making fanatical motions with his fingers. Through there were no flash or bang, the effect was clear, he was suddenly a hell of a lot fitter.
"Gah he's getting away!" Rukia shouted in annoyance. Ichigo decided to get serous.
"Rukia catch me! He shouted as he shifted into his Shinigami form and speeded up dramatically as a result.
Then the Hallow showed up, Black was too busy looking back at Ichigo in terror to have notice the spider like monster behind him. Ichigo reacted without thought and struck down the Hallow after a quick flash step.
"Wh…. what!" stammered Black in surprising, turning to see the Hallow die and then falling back onto his bum.
"Now will you frankly stop running and actually talk with us for whole five minutes if you can." Ichigo said to the mage flatly. Black with more speed than expected, turn from Ichigo and started grovelling at Rukia's feet.
"Oh glorious and beautiful Kuchiki-dono, I thank you for the mercy you show on this pathetic conjuror, by instead of setting your dark and most powerful minion on me, that instead you use him to save my life"
Ichigo blinked.
"He's my friend and lover actually" Rukia explained, Ichigo felt himself blush inviolately at the lover comment "He also what's called a Vizard, a Shinigami who instead of stumbling to a Hallow that infected him, he instead defeated it".
Black looked between Ichigo and Rukia with a look that was a mixture of disbelief and incredible curiosity.
"Infected by a Hallow, then defeating it and taking it power for his own?" Black said while staring at Ichigo. "That's quiet a feat you know friend of Kuchiki-dono."
He looked pretty impressed.
"I'm Kurosaki Ichigo by the way Black-san" Ichigo said to the wizard "Maybe you can explain a little bit more about what you up to in Japan, aren't you pretty far from home here?"
"Yes I am aren't I?" Black said as he dusted himself off and stood up "The reason I'm here is because my sensei is much a much better diviner than me, and she thinks this place is interesting."
"Interesting in what way?" Ichigo asked curiously.
"It's rather high in spiritual energy, far more than even places like Stonehenge and the Pyramids that were designed to attract spiritual energy." He calmly explained in a far less grovelling tone.
"Why?" Ichigo asked.
"Neither I nor sensei have any idea, which is why she sent me here, to try and find the source" he answered.
"Hum" Rukia said with a thoughtful look on her face "Still want that retainer job Black-san?"
"Of course oh glorious and beautiful Kuchiki-dono!" he said after dropping to his knees and bowing repeatedly.
"Right here my first order, your going to come with Ichigo and me and help with some explaining as well as explaining a bit more about your own abilities" Rukia said in an authoritarian tone.
"Yes Kuchiki-dono!" Black said while jumping up and doing a salute.
God help us thought Ichigo as they walked home.
Rukia in the real world
Dear members of the Shinigami Woman's Association
I write to you as requested by third seat Kotetsu Kiyone of Thirteenth Division with some of my investigations into the real world of the living.
As of late I been investigating common forms of entertainment and recently spent some time playing 'Lands of Battle' on Ichigo's computer. This 'game' is set in a fantasy world in which the 'player' take the role of heroic person with skill in one of many fields or 'classes' as they are called.
So I decided to play this 'Lands of Battle' with a female warrior. Since the game had a medieval European look I spent much of my first hour or so looking for some chainmail or platemail since she was a warrior. However as I did so began to notice the other female character all seem to wearing chainmail beachwear. Suspecting something was amiss I then shouted my dear Ichigo into the room.
After a rather tense talk with him, he then admitted that -all- female armour in 'Lands of Battle' looks like medieval beachwear. Since this little talk Ichigo has been banned from playing 'Lands of Battle' as his character 'Vicky the she Vixen' and I advise you to follow my example if any male members of your squads show an interest in 'Lands of Battle'.
Kuchiki Rukia - Unseated Shinigami of the Thirteenth Division