When You Left Chapter 15: ◊ Rukia's Final Chances ◊, a bleach fanfic

A/N: I'd like to start with a simple apology for not updating weekly or biweekly like I do with some of my other stories, this is because I'm working hard on a short story that I'm publishing in honor of my little sis who reminds me of Hyuuga Hinabi of Naruto. Who knows why that is a good reason but hey, it is for me. So back to the story and sorry for lack of updates. The short story isn't finished so don't expect one yet, sorry again. Aniecä

◊ (Rukia's Final Chances) ◊

∆ (The Apartment Complex) ∆ - Φ (Rukia) Φ - ¤ (A week later) ¤

I was taking care of Karla when there was a knock on the door. I opened it to find Hitsuguya there. "Here, it's a message from Soul Society." He said and walked off. I took the letter at sat down on the couch.

Rukia: The news we found is some that would definitely interest you specifically. The genetic artificial birth of a half hollow and half Shinigami is impossible as proven here. The soul is nonexistent of hollow or Shinigami genetic encoded births; it's just a basic soul with normal soul energy. It is incapable of becoming the strength of a Shinigami or a hollow. This hereby disproves the factor of hollow X Shinigami births. However, it is still in fact illegal to have Living X Dead cross births. I'm sorry to disappoint you. The good news is that Dead X Dead births are allowed still in Soul Society and so are marriages since there is no danger that the Shinigami could carry traits of being a hollow. Division 12

I didn't get why this… in formation would interest me. Hm. How come?

"You got a message from Soul Society?" Unohana asked.

"Hai, it's a message from the 12th Division."

"Really, what news."

"I don't really get it." I handed it to her. "The information is especially directed and posted to me, but why?"

"I understand but I refuse to share." She said handing me the letter and walking away. I sighed.

"I don't get it!" I yelled. Ichigo knocked on the door. "Come on in." I said sighing.

"What's up?" I tossed the letter to Ichigo. "If you figure out why this is important to me, tell me."

"Yeah, it's not very interesting toward you specifically. It's probably saying that the baby will be taken back soon."

"Or it's saying that the women are no longer in danger of hollow-Shinigami births so we're safe to return."

"Wrong." Unohana said walking to the kitchen.

"How does she know?" Ichigo asked.

"She read it, she understood; but she refuses to tell me."

"Why not?" Ichigo asked.

"She said quote "I understand, but I refuse to share"." I sighed. I didn't get it. I fell down on the couch.

"Maybe it's just our narrow mind and round of thinking Ichigo, maybe we need and outsider's opinion." I said.

"Another human?"

"That's good but another Shinigami-live person like Ishida or Orihime." I said jumping up and running out with Ichigo following me.

"Kuchiki-sama, what is going on?" Hinamori asked.

"I'm trying to understand this letter." I said handing her the letter.

"I understand it's saying that you and Ichigo can get married?" I blushed and looked at Ichigo. It sounded, um, sort of right but didn't sound completely right.

"Well thanks; we'll talk later, alright?" I asked.

"Sure, bye." She said.

"It seems like that's what its saying but it could also be saying that… I don't know." I yelled and fell to my knees.

"Calm down Rukia, it's not that hard is it?"

"It is if we can't understand it!" I said sighing and leaning against the wall.

"We'll try Ishida; he'll help us over all analyze it." He put out his hand and helped me get up.

We walked to Ishida's room and knocked on the door. He came to the door. "Help me!" I said and pushed the note in his face.

"Rukia, help you read?" He asked.

"No, help me understand why this news is important for me to understand!" I said.

"Come sit, we'll break this down." He said. Ichigo nodded and escorted me inside.

"First I'll underline the main parts of it, main terms and such."

"Alright, now what?"

"Write down all the phrases." He said handing me a sheet of paper.

Interest you specifically half-hollow and half Shinigami are impossible soul is nonexistent hollow or Shinigami births basic soul with normal soul energy incapable of becoming the strength of a Shinigami or a hollow. Disproves hollow X Shinigami births illegal to have Living X Dead cross births. Disappoint you. Dead X Dead births are allowed are marriages Shinigami could carry traits of being a hollow.

"That's all the important parts." I said.

"Alright, it's still a bit much to but as normal letters by important people tend to be short, simple and to the point meaning that the whole thing was as short a simple as it could be while making sense." He said.

"So now what?" Ichigo asked.

"Yeah, what now?"

"Patience, now we look for our question. What is it?"

"Why it's important to me." I said.

"Why it's important to you, our keyword being you." I nodded.

"That's what I said." I replied.

"What two sentences use the work YOU in it?" He asked.

"It interests me specifically." I said.

"And… to disappoint you."

"Alright, we have to know broaden what was before the second part about you." He said.

"Okay it said. "This hereby disproves the factor of hollow X Shinigami births. However, it is still in fact illegal to have Living X Dead cross births. I'm sorry to disappoint you." 'I quoted from the paper.

"So what does it mean?" I asked.

"What?"

"The parts we underlined in there." He answered.

"You underlined "Disproves hollow X Shinigami births illegal to have Living X Dead cross births."' Ichigo said.

"What is disappointing to you, Rukia about hollow X Shinigami births?" He asked.

"Nothing really except maybe that the baby is going back to Soul Society." I said.

"But Captain Unohana knows the secret behind the letter and she said that wasn't it." Ichigo reminded me.

"Yeah, so what now?" I asked.

"Second part." He said.

"Alright, Rukia." Ichigo said.

"What's disappointing to you about it being illegal to have Living X Dead cross births?" I jumped up and then collapsed to my knees.

"It's all too obvious, my visions. That's why. All to there." I said crying. Ichigo knelt down to my level, picked me up. He then, took me to my room and sat me on the couch.

"I thought I'm dead too." He said.

"I'm not sure either but apparently they think you're alive since you're stable in the real world." I answered sadly.

"Close." Unohana said. I sighed and took the letter out again.

"Help me please?" I asked.

"Come in my room, this is a little more personal then I'd like to share with Ichigo." She said.

I nodded and came into our bedroom. I sat on my bed across the room from hers. "What?" I asked.

"Ichigo is 33 Hollow, 33 Alive, and 33 Dead."

"So is it illegal or not?"

"That's why it's disappointing. If by chance that the genes sent out are dead, then you'll have a child."

"But it'll be dead, and miserable."

"We're all dead here but I guess it would never have a chance for life so I guess it's true. This is why Shinigami learn to strive away from love; it's not the most pleasant thing." She said.

"What if it's alive?"

"Then it's illegal, you and Ichigo arrested, it killed." I jumped back a bit.

"And Hollow?"

"It's a normal soul, no Shinigami ability so it'll be like the little baby there but couldn't become a Shinigami so when it's eventually grows up, it'll be sent out." I sighed.

"So there is no way for…"

"You and Ichigo can only be happy as one and one, not another, sorry." She said walking over to me. She rested her hand on my shoulder and walked out.

"Surely someone in Soul Society is in love and has a child?"

"Love is very common but having a child is not. The only souls who find love here didn't have it in the other world, new souls like you and Renji."

"So why wouldn't we have a child?" I asked.

"Because… the child would be born into the state you were. Did you enjoy your early years here?"

"No, not really, it was hard." I said looking at the ground.

"Exactly, that's why it doesn't happen. There is no way for it to happen that turns out good. Especially in your case. There's a third of a chance it'll be killed by law, third of a chance it'll be killed by being born or the last third is eventually it will grow without Shinigami capabilities and be taken away from you when it's about 5."

"It's not fair. I didn't get a life to live before this, not long at least and I can't have it here with the person I, love either. It's not fair!" I said crying.

"Life and death aren't fair and neither is war so you have to understand that it just happens. Think about Ichigo… it'll help."

"Ichigo… he gave up being alive to be able to save me. That's a sacrifice the old me would have made, and probably the new me as well but… it's amazingly nice of him. I feel bad for him." I said.

"Don't think of it negatively, he loves you so by partially dying, he saved you from disappearing, so…"

"… he gets to be with me but he can't live a life either. He's just as doomed if not more then I am."

"Actually less doomed because he doesn't understand what it's like to have no chance for normal things like school that why you like it right?" I nodded. "He would most likely be fine with a child but are you?" She asked and walked away.

"No, I'm not." Ichigo came in to the room but I was so confused by everything that I broke into tears.

"Rukia, what's up? What happened?"

"There is just no hope for our child. That's what the note was saying." I scribbled what she told me on paper.

33 alive traits- killed. 33 dead traits- miserable child. 33 hollow traits- removed.

"There is no winning but what if we're not in Soul Society?" He asked.

"Huh?" I asked.

"The rules only apply in Soul Society right?" I nodded.

"If we have the key on." I added.

"So if we don't then the rules don't apply. So if it carries alive traits it'll survive."

"But the child was 50-50 and it died."

"It wasn't stabilized with a Gigai either, we are but a new born baby isn't. If we can even but a whole dead child in a Gigai it would have a chance for a life, right?" I nodded. He was right. I smiled and hugged him.

"Thinking is painful."

"You just think so much and so hard it hurts." He said pulling my head onto his lap and rested his hands on my side.

¤ (Night Fall) ¤

"A hem." Unohana said waking me up while Ichigo was still sleep quietly.

"Sorry." I said.

"It's fine but he has watch duty and needs to return to his room." I nodded and turned around.

"Ichigo, wake up." I said calmly. He opened his eyes.

"What time is it?"

"Midnight." Unohana answered.

"Man, I want to sleep more but guard duty is so much more fun." He said sighing. He kissed my forehead and left the apartment returning to his.

"You two are soooo weird." Unohana said.

"Haven't you ever been in love?" She blushed.

"Of course, but I avoid it simply."

"You can't avoid it forever." I warned.

"I've been avoiding it for quite a long time only dealing with it on highly special occasions, and I think and can continue." She said.

"One day it'll catch up with you and overwhelm you." I warned.

"If it does then maybe after that, it'll stop." She answered.

"Who?" I asked.

"That happens to not be your business." I pouted, covered myself up in my blanket and went to staring at my eyelids.

"Do I know him?" I asked smirking.

"Maybe."

"I do." I said.

"Yes, maybe you do. I'm not sure but you probably do." I sighed. She was an easy target.

"Well I'm going to sleep now." I said closing my eyes and focusing on the moment ahead. I jumped up. "The baby?"

"What about it?"

"I left her in her pen." I said.

She sighed and pushed me back in the bed. "I'll take care of it, easy work." She said and I watched as she brought the baby in the room and laid it in the crib. "See."

"Thanks, did you have a child?"

"I… don't remember… I can't even recall as to how I died. Most can't so it's best not to try and remember, young souls do however but they don't like to talk about it." I nodded.

"Sorry, so would you like to take care of her?" I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I'm going to be out for a few days with Ichigo, with school starting and all. I was just wondering if you wanted to watch her." I asked.

"I guess but school?"

"Yeah, it's something that Ishida and Ichigo go to 9 months of the year 5/7ths of the week."

"I remember school, but it always seems like a monumental waste of time."

"It is but you learn a lot of things that I never got to. I'm taking the chance I get now."

"Alright then, you go to school and I'll watch her."

"Thanks." I said turning over and going to sleep.

"Night." She said.

"Yeah, Night. Hope you enjoy watching her." I said.

"I'm sure I will."

¤ (Morning) ¤

I heard a loud pounding on the door. "Oi Rukia, wake up, school!" Ichigo yelled. I opened the door and smacked him upside the head.

"Hm."

"What's up with you?" He asked.

"You probably woke everyone up, and I'm ready." I said holding my arms out and spinning around for emphasis.

"Fine, let's go." He said wrapping his arm around me and walking downstairs. We met with another happy couple.

"Rukia!" Orihime said walking over to me. I stepped away from Ichigo and hugged her as Ichigo stepped next to Ishida.

We followed behind our respective boyfriends: Ichigo and Ishida. "Those uniforms look nice on you Rukia."

"Well thank you."

"Stop." A voice said. I turned around to see everyone behind us with everyone besides Nemu, Ise, Unohana, Isane and Matsumomo in uniforms from Ichigo's school.

"Don't tell me…

"… It's less suspicious." Hitsuguya finished.

"Come on." Ichigo said. He nodded.

"Where are they going?" I referred to Nemu, Unohana, Karla, Ise, Isane, and Matsumomo.

"They're staying at an assistant center to get part time jobs in the shopping center during the day except for Unohana who stays in the store all day." I nodded.

"What's school like?" Hinamori asked.

"Difficult." I said. "But if you try it's easy." Ichigo sighed.

"I'm sure we can handle it anyway." Kukaku said.

"These outfits have a special name too!" Yoshiro said excited.

"Uniform?" I asked.

"Yeah, what does it mean?" She asked.

"It means you only need to wear it during this time of day." She nodded.

"They're not the prettiest little things in the world." Kukaku added.

"Of course not, it's to try to stop the attention to people of the opposite nature." Ishida said.

"But it doesn't work well, in most cases." Ichigo added.

"It looks like it." Hitsuguya said.

"They can't totally hide our forms but it does a good job trying." Hinamori said staring at her skirt.

"Its kind a cute, short and delicate." Hitsuguya said.

"For girls," Hitsuguya said.

"Stop complaining Toshiro." Hinamori said. He looked at her.

"Oh yeah, we call everyone by their first names here." Rukia said.

"That sounds… weird." Toshiro said.

"It does, Toshiro." She burst out into laughter. Orihime and I joined in and laughing.

"Uryuu," Orihime said. Ishida looked at him but everyone was looking at him.

Ichigo coughed. "Uryuu Ishida."

"Ah, that's right." Toshiro said. "Rukia, do we need formalities as well?" He asked.

"Yeah, to fellow classmates and the teacher yeah but not when you're on a break or such." He nodded.

"I'm Momo-chan." Momo said laughing. "Rukia-chan, Ichigo-kun, Orihime-chan, Renji-kun, Kukaku-chan, Yoshiro-chan, Toshiro-kun, and Uryuu-kun." She said breaking into more laughter.

"I don't get what's so funny about formalities or using last names?" Ichigo asked.

"In Soul Society a formality is using both the formal ending and last name. So you'd be Kurosaki-kun or Kurosaki-taichou-kun making it as easy as Ichigo-kun would make you and idiot back home, so it's weird."

"I'm here." A person said showing up. She didn't look normal compared to everyone, not normal at all.

"Yoruichi-chan!" I said walking up to her and hugging her. "Nice to see you again, you look absolutely great." I said.

"Hey Rukia, how is all here?" She asked.

"Alright, I guess. Aren't we?" I asked them. They all nodded or something.

"Sorry to cut things short but if we don't get moving we'll be late." We all nodded and ran off at super speed to our spots and then stopped in a back alleyway behind the school and went in.

"Welcome Ichigo, Orihime, Ishida, and Rukia, welcome back." I nodded and waved. "Who are these people, your friends? Do they have transcripts?" Toshiro nodded and handed her the paper.

"Hinamori Momo." Hinamori said bowing. "Hello Sensei."

"Hitsuguya Toshiro. Hi." He said bowing as well.

"I'm Yashiro. It's awesomely awesome to meet you." Yashiro said jumping up and down.

"Yashiro…?"

"Yeah, you're right, Yashiro." She said smiling.

"She needs your last name." I explained.

"Really it's Kusajishi, but why would you care? Rukia said we call people by their first names. I've never ever needed to say my last name before. How cool!" She said running and jumping around the classroom.

"Yoshiro, calm it." Toshiro said.

"Man, I was enjoying myself." She said pouting. "You're no fun."

"School isn't fun Yoshiro, its hard work." Toshiro reprimanded.

"Sorry Toe-kun." He gave her a glare. She smiled and hugged him.

"Um… Yoshiro, you may want to give him space."

"For you to hug him, sure." She said smiling. Hinamori blushed and the teacher sighed.

"Great one serious boy, a love struck girl, and a crazy girl, perfect."

"You remember me?" Renji asked the teacher.

"Of course Abarai Renji, you decided to return?" She asked.

"Yeah, and brought my friend Kukaku as well." He said smiling.

"Kukaku…?"

"Shiba. You won't need to write that on any form. I intend to sit, do work and then eventually when my time of departure comes, leave." The teacher nodded. "Sit." She called and everyone in the class sat down and she took her seat and the teacher began the lesson after the remained unfazed ones, meaning Ichigo, Orihime, Ishida, Renji and I sat.

School was going to be better this year now that I planned to study and do well in school. Before I was only here temporarily so I had no need but I was staying so this is important.