ME PATHETIC …sometimes…

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Chapter 8

A woman with black hair entered her room. She found nothing suspicious at all.

Why would she suspect of anything anyway?...

Ichiyuki gazed at the woman and found her very moving for some reason.

Rukia saw a trace of orange from under her desk.

"Orange…" she picked up her zankpaktou and stood up to check if there was an enemy.

"Come out…" she said.

Ichiyuki was shocked and slowly crawled out of the desk.

"Gomen na sai…" the kid showed a rather innocent face.

"Ah…" Rukia's eyes glistened as she saw the little orange haired kid. She fell onto her knees and embraced him.

"Uh…" Ichiyuki felt strange… but safe.

He leaned his head against his mother's and smiled mischievously while wiping his little nose with his index finger.

"So, where did you come from?" Rukia asked as she offered him a warm cup of chocolate milk.

"Ah, chocolate1 My favorite!" Ichiyuki smiled and sipped.

Rukia smiled. Normally, people of soul society don't know about chocolate, especially her, but, she knows her son loves it.

"I came from a place called Karakura. It's really peaceful most of the time… except for…" Ichiyuki remembered the times hollows attacked and paused talking.

"Hm?" Rukia smiled tenderly at him which took his worries away.

"What's your name Onee-chan?" Ichiyuki thought of her as an elder girl, not an adult.

"Ah… My name is Rukia. I'm a shinigami here." She smiled.

"What's a shinigami? It's sounds cool!!! Is it a mecha robot? Are you a pilot? Like the people of Maringer Z or Voltez V?!" Ichiyuki smiled in curiosity and innocence.

"We help bring dead people to a safe place like here. Soul society." She drew pictures.

"Ah! You mean, when people are tired and go somewhere, they come here?" Ichiyuki drew pictures as well.

"Ah… You're really good! Is that!?" Rukia stared at his toddler drawings.

"Ah… Rukia-san's good too! Ah! It's…" he became really energetic as he saw his favorite character on the woman's sketchpad.

"CHAPPIE!!!" they both repeated the rabbit's name.

(heheh… one of my friends call chappie, "crappie". x'D)

"Please… Tell me your name…" Rukia was smiling.

"Ichiyuki!" he smiled brightly.

Rukia was about to cry, seeing her son had grown, but she can only be as close as that. Seeing him was already bad enough for their situation, how much more if he discovers she is his real mother.

There was a knock on the door.

"Rukia, you still up?" Renji asked from outside.

"Come in." she said.

"He looks extremely like that baka." Renji commented.

Rukia smiled mockingly at him and covered the kid's ears.

"Hn?.." Renji saw the kid's drawings. He picked them up and smiled.

"I guess I don't stand a chance anymore. You've got him, he's got you." He looked at her.

"What do you mean?" she paused.

Ichiyuki yawned.

"Take good care of Rukia okay?" he scruffled the toddler's orange hair as he fell asleep on the futon in Rukia's room.

(futon those Japanese "foldie" beds)

"He's gonna sleep here?" Renji asked.

"What's wrong with that? After all, he's already too tired to be carried to another room. Ichiyuki's a light sleeper." She lightly brushed his soft bright hair with her warm fingers.

How does she know that?.. Renji thought, and them smiled. He stood up and slid the door open and stepped out.

"Oyasumi." Then he closed it. Rukia looked at his shadow gradually getting out of her sight.

Next morning…

"Ah…" Ichigo let out a short scream. He was tired.

"I think they're waiting for you there. Getting into Soul Society wouldn't be so much trouble for you anymore, considering the last time you went there." Kisuke giggled.

"Hn! They should let me in."

"I'm not doing anything harmful. I'm not even sure if Ichiyuki's even in Soul Society, and I doubt that fate would be twisted enough to take away his mother and them bring them back together and shock the poor kid!" he grunted.

"Just go check anyways. Ichiyuki's bound to be somewhere safe right?" Kisuke sternly looked at Ichigo.

"I hope." He shot back his usual serious look.

"Don't be so negative! SMILE!" He jokingly mocked him.

Ichigo entered Soul Society the same way as he used to, except that he had no companions. He was all alone. There was also no quincy who brought an extra cape after his first cape was bitten off by the thing in that realm.

He arrived in the same district in Rukongai. He visited the Shiba's place. There, Kukkaku and Ganju met him at the gate as if they knew he was coming. They invited him in for tea.

"What's your purpose for coming here Ichigo? Looking for Rukia-san again?" Ganju turned to him.

(Forgive me for the errors! I dunno how Ganju addresses Rukia in front of Ichigo, especially because of the fact that he thinks she is his brother's killer.)

"I'm looking for my son. I don't know about Rukia." He said.

Both Kukkaku and Ganju's face went blank and blue.

YOU HAVE A SON?! That statement echoed from outside the room and into the hallways, making Kogane-san's ricecakes fall…hehe.

"You haven't seen a mini-me around here have you?" he blankly asked them.

"Mini-Ichigo?! That's adorable! I have lots a free time, let's look for him!" Kukkaku smiled brightly.

"Two Ichigos… And I thought one was enough……" Ganju remarked.

"Don't worry. We'll find the kid. I'm sure he's safe." Kukkaku patted Ichigo's shoulders violently which made the cup of green tea spill on his lap.

YAAAAAAA……… he shook from pain, while Ganju laughed at him.

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So sorry it took me a really REALLY long time to publish this chapter! I'm really busy with school, and I simply had no time to even go online. We had just finished our 2nd quarter periodical tests, and I'm so happy I got to finish this chapter!

I hope I can soon make the next! It may take really long but please bear with me! Thanks!

Punish me if you want to! I am really sorry. I'll try to make the next chapter ASAP!

Well, that was chapter 8. I hope I can make the next chapter soon!

Preview:

"Please… save him… I will even give this life I have for him… save him from himself." Rukia clutched her husband's arm and wept. The blasting blue and red aura of the surroundings had pinned their hearts broken.

"I… can't… but… I need to… I want to…"

"I don't want to lose him again…"

"Do you think we should interfere? They're in big trouble Kuchiki-taichou!" Renji restlessly said.

"We were ordered not to… We can't do anything. You know that." Byakuya grasped his zankpaktou as if he were to pull it out.

xD bye bye