Yellow!

Finally, after all that waiting—

Here it is!!! Yeah!

It took me some time to come up

with this because I just couldn't decide

how the ending should go.

"Should Ishida Kiss Rukia?"

"Should Rukia and Ichigo have some relationship difficulties?"

and…

"WHERE IS THAT DAMNED BLACK HAYATE?!?!"

WARINING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ SOME FLUFF AND CHEESYNESS

I don't own Bleach or Ms. Yukari or Ms. Kurosawa! But I do own a Kirara doll!

Enjoy!

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It must have been well into the night when Rukia thought she was ready to go back to the Kurosaki Residents. She had long stopped crying and she had finally finished writing her paper on someone that she loved. To be accurate, it was more like a poem but it had ALL the works that any fan girl would die to read- so pleasing Ms. Yukari and making her show it off to her former school mate Ms. Kurosawa, who would obviously get jealous, was no-pro-blame-o.

Rukia jumped down from her branch and landed softly on the sidewalk. She looked up at the starry night sky. She started to remember the sunset that she had seen earlier that day and she started to miss that moment. Everything seemed more simpler then, but now knowing Ichigo and Orihime were together…It would make looking at the sunset all too painful again.

'I should just accept it as it is,' thought Rukia as she started her walk to the Kurosaki Residents. 'I mean, I can't pretend that it's not happening anymore and besides…It's making Ichigo happy, and…I love seeing him that way.'

Rukia continued walking.

Her stomach grumbled.

"Ah, I forgot to eat dinner! (is something wrong with me?) I guess I better sneak through the front door and take some from the…frig-thingy.

QUICK, TO KUROSAKI FRIG-THING!"

-----------(At the Kurosaki Residents)-----------

'Where could she be?' thought Ichigo as he stared out his window. It had been about 5 hours since Orihime said good bye and left his house, saying something about "Going to see Ishida". Before she left he thanked her once again for the 'kiss' and vowed that he would "wait for Rukia (maybe for ever)" and "not leave that spot" until Rukia was back home. And so, he began his long, cramping, wait for Rukia. It wasn't as boring as it would seem, because he was constantly thinking of Rukia. 'I love that hair style that she always seems to mange…It's like some one had thrust a carved pumpkin on her head and put jell on the ends to make them stand up and be pointy…' which lead to the thought of 'She's really original…I've never met anyone who was so curious about the things that I and probably the rest of society take for granted…When ever she asks me a question, even if it was rhetorical, she makes me feel wanted. Needed. Useful.' Which lead him to think of all the things that she had ever asked.

''Ichigo, what's that?' 'Manga?' 'Hey, there's picture's in this book!' '

''What's that?' 'A theme song?' 'Asterisk?' 'I never knew we had one!' '

''Why does Paris Hilton always say 'That's hot'?' '

Oh yes, Ichigo always did feel needed when she asked a question. He was just about to think of another question she had asked when he heard a little creeekk coming from the kitchen.

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Rukia walked up to the Kurosaki Residents with only one thing on her mind; food. She was at the front door and fished in her pockets for her keys but she couldn't find them anywhere. 'Damn. Why does Azuma always make people in fanfics lose their keys at nighttime? Baka…' But little did Rukia know that it was in fact not Azuma's fault that Rukia had lost her keys…it was her own damn fault. 'I guess I'll just have to sneak in,' thought Rukia as she took out a paperclip that she had just happened to have in her pocket after snatching it from Ms. Yukari's desk. She bent it this way and that until it fit perfectly in the lock of the door. 'Bingo- who's a genius?' She silently pushed the door open and walked in. It wasn't too dark in the living room/ kitchen. Rukia dashed to the refrigerator-thingy and (in slow-motion) reached her hand out and carefully, very carefully, grabbed the handle and (in an unbelievably slow, redundantly carefully, that it was so so so aggravating to watch and not think "C'MON ALREADY!!") opened it. It made a very irritating creeekk noise that made Rukia shudder. Ah, but inside…it was a wonderland-of—'Wait,' thought Rukia 'where's the Ramen?! Don't tell me this family doesn't eat Ramen!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?' Rukia was just about to think 'what a bunch of-' when she hear the thumping of someone running down the stairs, interrupting her thought. She stiffened.

"Rukia!"

She stiffened some more. She knew that voice. She loved hearing that voice. She didn't want to hear it now.

"Rukia," panted Ichigo as he ran to her. She took a breath, then turned around to face Ichigo. She then stiffened more, if it was possible. There wasn't something right about his face. It didn't have its usal frown or low brow; the brow was up on his forehead and he was… 'SMILING?!' thought Rukia.

"I'm so happy that you're here!" Ichigo said as he stopped in front of her.

'There is something not right with Ichigo,' thought Rukia 'he sad the word 'happy'- and he didn't use it to express sarcassim or anything like it. Is this an imposter?!'

"OI, what's with that stupid face?" Ichigo asked her dully.

'Good, that's the Ichigo I know and…lov..' She couldn't finish her sentence.

"Anyway, Rukia, there's something that I really want to tell you!" he said, becoming happy again.

"Ichigo," butted in Rukia. "I…I know what you want to tell me." 'I just can't hear it'

"WHAAAAAAAT?!?!" Shouted Ichigo as his moth dropped to the floor, with a loud bang. 'SHE KNOWS?!?' he thought 'B-B-BUT HOW COULD SHE HAVE KNOWN?!? IS MY LOVE FOR HER THAT OBVIOUS?!?!'

"Ichigo," Rukia now fully faced him, the shining light of the refrigerator casting a soft glow on her face. She took a deep breath. "I…I'm happy for you. I'm happy that you and Orihime are together."

----------(at the Ishida Residents)----------

Meanwhile, we meet our notorious 'wet blanket' who is currently at his high-tech, or "modern" apartment where he is beating himself up for how he acted earlier.

"Dammit!" cursed Ishida. "Why didn't I act nice around Orihime? I didn't even try! Damn!" He looked outside his balcony window. The stars were out. "But no," he gritted his teeth. "I just had to act like a geek, didn't I?" (Personally, I am not a geek, but I am proud of being an otaku: Azuma) Ishida continued to look outside. He lowered his eyelids, casting a softer expression. "…I am so ashamed at myself…"

'Knock, Knock'

"WHO ARE YOU?" Shouted Ishida as he spun around to the direction of the two knocks, which had obviously come from his front door. "I'm sorry," he hastily said, running to open the door. "That was rude, I'm sorr-WHA?!" Ishida stood there at his front door, gaping at a certain red hair girl.

"Hello Ishida-kun!" Orihime said happily.

"Wh-wh-wha- WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Ishida was still gaping.

"Um," Orihime thought some, and then lied "My house has flooded and, uh, me and Tatsuki-chan are in a fight, so I can't stay at her house…So I was wondering if I could spend the night here."

"Why here!?" Ishida blurted.

"Because…I think you're a nice person and…," She bit her lower lip "and, I like you."

Ishida stared at her.

After some time, he asked "…Would you like to come in?"

"Yes! Yes, that would be great!" She thanked him as she walked inside. Maybe it wasn't something that could be seen in the electrical lighted apartment, but when Orihime and Ishida both walked past the balcony window, it was in the shining star's light that you could see the faintest of all smiles…behind the mask of two faces….

---------(back at the Kurosaki Residents)------

"What the hell?" said Ichigo. What the hell was wrong with her? Why did Rukia say that? What could have made her think that he and Orihime where- 'Aah, I understand now,' thought Ichigo 'She must've thought this when she saw me with my shirt off and Orihime was standing next to me…so that's why she overreacted…'

"'What the hell' what?" asked Rukia. 'Why did Ichigo say that?'

"Listen, Rukia. Let me make one thing very clear," and in slow motion, he embraced her. He leaned his head down so that it was next to the shell of her ear. "Me and Orihime aren't going out." He whispered. Rukia's eye grew very big, and became a glistening blue color. "But if you'll let me…I'd like to go out with you."

Rukia stiffened when she heard that. Had she heard right? Yes! Yes, she had! She didn't know what to say, she was so happy. It felt like a giant stone had been released from her chest. Tears started falling from her eyes. "Ichigo," her voice sounded muffled on his chest.

"What is it?" asked Ichigo as he moved from her ear and looked straight into her eyes.

Finally, Rukia got to do what she had wanted to do for sometime. She quickly wrapped her arms around a smiling Ichigo and immediately closed the gap between them. However, she had done it a bit too fast, so instead of their lips crashing into each other and started their long anticipated make-out scene-- it was their teeth instead.

"Ow!" they shouted in unison. "Damn, I think I think I chipped a tooth."

"Oi, Rukia!"

"What-OMG! MY TOOTH!" There it was, lying on the floor of the kitchen, instead of being tightly fasted into Rukia's gum.

(OMAKE)

Urahara is the kind of guy who likes to take it easy.

He's the kind of guy who likes to make sure everyone's alright.

He's the kind of guy who likes to get some sleep.

Those are the reasons why he makes such a great shop keeper.

That's why tonight, when he got a call from one of his favorite customers that something was wrong,

he sleeply got up from his futon bed, took his time walking over to this favorite customer's house of his,

and asked what was wrong.

"Urahara-san, there's too much Ramen in my refrigorator. I need you to take it."

And so, Urahara did. Because that's the kind of guy he is.

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Well, that ended on a weird note. ;p

So, next chapter is when we will all find out—

WHO THE WINNER OF THE CHAPPY THE BUNNY T-SHIRT IS!!

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