Gah! This is like SO overdue! My most humblest apologies dear readers!

7. Trickster

Rukia had noted one habit of Ichigo's whenever he was doing his homework. If you asked him any question, he would quickly answer it before going back to his work. The tougher his work was, the more distracted he would be and thus, would pay less attention to the question itself. So he would end up blurting out the answer before he could fully process the question

Rukia flipped through her manga casually as Ichigo sat on his desk and poured over his assignments. Rukia eyed the open book before him and guessed it to be his History work. No use asking him anything right now because he was extra-cranky when it came to this subject. She would ask him when he would come to Maths. His concentration level was greater on that subject.

She watched him from the corner of her eyes as he picked up his Maths book with a sigh and started his work. Rukia broke the silence with what she hoped was a casual sounding voice, "So did you manage to get that Hollow during break?"

In a distracted tone he replied back, "Yeah I managed to get it."

"It wasn't too tough was it?"

"Nothing but a weak runt."

"But you took a while to get it."

"Stupid thing kept running around."

"What happened between you and Inoue?"

"She fell on me."

Ichigo's pen stopped moving over the paper as he realized what he had just said. Rukia grinned at Ichigo, "She fell on you? Why do I get the feeling that there is more to that story?"

Stiffly Ichigo replied, "There's nothing to tell. She just fell on me."

"You don't sound terribly believable you know."

"Well it's none of your business what happened."

"Aha! So you admit that something happened!"

"I never said that!" Ichigo looked ready to toss his pen right at her head. But she pressed on.

"But you didn't deny it."

"There's nothing to deny!"

"If there was nothing to deny then why are you blushing?"

His face turned even redder at her statement. "Just shut up already wouldja?!"

"So something did happen!" Rukia crowed triumphantly.

Ichigo groaned and let his head fall to his desk with a loud thump as Rukia grinned at him.