A/N – Just wondering, do any of you read author notes? I hope you answer this. It's because sometimes author notes may contain important notes to the story. Oh and Senna (a character in the bleach movie) looks lots like Rukia eh?

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Disclaimer: Bleach is Kubo's work.

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Ichigo laid in his bed, thinking of what had happened a few hours ago. He didn't know Rukia's parents were dead. It was rather shocking to find out about it. He also decided to follow her to their graves in the weekends.

Ichigo walked Rukia to the bus stop and made sure Rukia took the bus safely. Ichigo wanted to walk Rukia all the way home seeing that she's still unstable after remembering her past. She protested to the idea and she told him she is capable of going home herself and she don't need to rely on him and added that her house is quite far and that he has to prepare for a test tomorrow so he should go home. He argued back that it's not safe and that it's already late but Rukia said shut up and that she is not scared.

Waiting for the bus, they remained silent. It was a bit awkward for Rukia to talk to Ichigo after telling him about her past and crying infront of him. Rukia thought about asking him to visit her parents graves this weekend since he already know. She wondered whether Ichigo would like to go.

"Hey, do you want to go with me to my parents' grave this weekend?" Rukia asked.

"You're sure that I can follow?"

"Yeah, that is if you want. Byakuya nii sama can't go with me to visit them this year because he's away on a business trip."

"Ah sure."

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It made him think about his own family. His mother died four years ago, leaving him with his father and his twin sister Karin and Yuzu. It was hard getting use to his mother being not around. Yuzu would wake up in the middle of the night crying and his father would always go and comfort her.

Yuzu later tried to fill in the role of their mother and took care of the house and cook meals for them. As a brother, it hurt him to see his sisters and his father suffering. The death of their mother was partly his fault; his mother saved him from getting hit from a car. The driver lost control of his car and ram into the pavement hitting both his mother and him. His mother protected him and died due to the massive loss of blood and brain damage. He lost his mother the same way as Rukia lost her parents and he somehow felt he could relate to Rukia.

Ichigo looked over at his clock and it was already 11.30 pm. He decided that he has to get some sleep as there is going to be a test tomorrow.

Ichigo walked to school the next day and once he stepped into the school. People were acting weirdly. They kept staring at him and the boys looked like they wanted to bash him up. He doesn't really care about them; he always got into fights with gangsters as they hate his hair. Nevertheless, he was wondering what he did to make them stare at him weirdly.

He went to the lockers to put on his school shoes when he met Rukia.

"Yo Rukia." Ichigo said. Rukia stomped his foot and looked around.

"Oi! What was that for?" Ichigo said, rather pissed with her and rubbing his foot. Damn, for a petite girl like her, her stamp is already so powerful.

Rukia shot him a glare and put her own shoes back in the locker, carried her bag and walked away. Rukia, barely above a whisper, told Ichigo to meet her 10 minutes before lessons start at the rooftop. Though Rukia spoke very softly, he caught every word she said. What the hell did I do? Ichigo wondered.

Ichigo walked to his classroom to put down his bag first before going to meet Rukia at the rooftop. He walked into the classroom and everyone went quiet, Ichigo shrugged and went to his usual seat. He was about to sit down when Keigo pounced on him.

"Ichigooo! How could you?!" Keigo said shouting at Ichigo and pointed his index finger at him.

"What?" Ichigo said, not sure what did he do or what is Keigo talking about.

"Rumours has been circulating around the school that you and Kuchiki are dating." Ishida said, pushing up his glasses.

"What?!?!" Ichigo replied, even louder.

"I'm not dating Ru- Kuchiki! What made you say so?"

"Someone saw you and Kuchiki san after school together! Ichigooo! I thought you weren't interested in Kuchiki san!" Keigo said in between sobs.

"That's because I had to show her around the school Keigo! I'm not interested in Kuchiki! We aren't dating! Whatever, I'm going out." With that, Ichigo walked out of the classroom leaving the sobbing Keigo and his friends behind.

"Class is going to start in about 7 minutes Ichigo." Tatsuki called after him, hearing the whole conversation.

"I'll come back before that." Ichigo said and went out of the classroom.

Ichigo soon reached the rooftop, Rukia was already there leaning on the fence waiting for him.

"I was held back by stupid Keigo just now. Anyway, what's this all about?" Ichigo asked.

"There had been rumours about us dating because-" Rukia paused for a moment. "Apparently someone saw us meeting each other after school."

Oh, so that's was what it is about.

"But I'm not very troubled about it, but I know you are. You got this whole thing about reputation." Rukia continued.

"Actually I'm not really bothered by it; this whole thing will just die down in another week or two. I can put up with this shit." Ichigo replied.

"I guess so, anyway, wonder who's the person who spread those rumours."

"Yeah." Ichigo said darkly. "The bastard that saw us and went on jumping into conclusions about us dating and spreading rumours around the school. If I ever found out who was it I'm going to bash him up." Ichigo said angrily.

"I'll help you with the bashing." Rukia said grinning.

"Sure." Ichigo grinned back.

"We should get going, or else we'll be late for class."

"Right, you can leave first if you want not to be seen together. I think you're the one bothered by it." Ichigo replied.

"Seriously, do you think I'm bothered by it? Anyway, they really thought I would date someone like you?"

"Yah, you stomped on my foot just now and what is that suppose to mean Rukia?" Ichigo said rather annoyed.

They walked back together, laughing, talking and bickering along the way. There wasn't anybody in the hallway as it was 2 minutes till class starts. They soon were back at the class and ignoring the stares, they went to their usual seats.

Yamamoto sensei soon entered the classroom and everybody settled down.

"Alright, before we begin the test. I want to announce that. We got a literature project to do."

This was met with groaning of the classmates but the teachers ignored the groans and continued.

"I'll be pairing according to index numbers. For example boy register no. 4 is Ishida Uryuu and girl register no. 4 is Inoue Orihime are to partner together. This project will be included in your final year overall so you all better make an effort in it. You're given two weeks and make sure you complete on time or marks will be deducted."

Yamato then went one telling who is partnering who in case they did not know and in the end Ichigo and Rukia were partnered together as their index numbers are the same. (No. 6) Everyone in the class thought it was such a coincidence and everyone was talking again. Ichigo and Rukia were surprise too; they never thought they had the same numbers. My God, this'll add fuel to the rumour. Ichigo thought darkly.

They began their test and the class was once quiet again.

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Ahh, I hope this is not a boring chapter. If you find it boring, please forgive me. (

It's true that Ichigo and Rukia are no.6 for male and female index no. You can check it at ichiruki fanlisting

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