Author's Note

1. Some of the things in this story are different from the actual Bleach story, as you will find out when you get farther into the story.

2. I do NOT own Bleach or any part of it. Bleach is the sole property of Tite Kubo. If I did own Bleach, the storyline definitely would not be half as good, and I would've killed off half the characters, as well as adding some romance to the story.

1/28 - Thursday

Ichigo awoke with a yawn, and listened to his mp3 player through breakfast. After being driven to school, Ichigo, not finding Rukia anywhere, went to where he knew Orihime was.

"So how did you fare with your essay?" asked Ichigo.

"I had to stay up until 2 a.m. to finish it," responded Orihime.

"Yikes, that must've been rough."

"How are you doing on yours?"

"Well, I have all the research, but I haven't started the actual essay yet. I stayed up late talking to Momo."

"That wasn't very smart. You're going to be staying up pretty late tonight."

"Yeah I know . . . It probably wasn't the wisest move I could've made. How did you do in terms of studying for your Foreign Shinigami Arts II exam?"

"Well I was going to stay up all night to study for it, but I decided not to."

"You really should've . . . It's an extremely hard exam."

After their conversation, Ichigo, along with Hisagi, walked Orihime to her next class. The two exams Ichigo was taking that day were in his two easiest subjects. The first exam however, had a question that caught his interest. The question was: 'What are feelings of fondness that one friend feels for another?'

It was phrased along those lines, and it caught Ichigo's interest was that he was feeling that intense fondness towards Orihime. The answer to the question was 'attraction'. This meant, unfortunately for Ichigo, that he was very much attracted to Orihime.

Before approaching his next class, the class he had with Renji, his best friend, and Rukia, his girlfriend, he waited for Orihime outside of her classroom. They, along with one of her other friends, wandered the second floor until they had to go to their next classes. They said goodbye, and upon entering his next class, Ichigo spotted an empty seat between Renji and Rukia. Unfortunately for him, one of Rukia's friends was sitting there, but was not however, physically there at the moment. A few minutes later, as Ichigo was talking to Renji, he gave Ichigo a suggestion.

"Screw it . . . no one's sitting there now. Sit there until Rukia's friend gets back."

Ichigo sat down in the seat, and held Rukia's hand until her friend came back. After the exam, Rukia went over to play cards with a group of her friends. Unfortunately, there were no empty seats left around the table, so Ichigo took the liberty of playing Palace with his friends.

Afterwards, when he went looking for Renji, he came up to him, handing him a dark blue binder filled with loose leaf paper. It was Ichigo's diary.

"Here ya go Ichigo."

"You read my DIARY?" exclaimed Ichigo.

"Calm down, will ya? It's your own fault for leaving it lying around in your backpack like that."

"Renji . . ." Ichigo fumed.

"Oh . . . and December 4th was the day of boldness my ass!! You were afraid as shit to ask her out! You even had to have someone ask her if she liked you just to work up the courage to think about asking her out."

"Yeah, well, it didn't help thatyou were sitting behind me the whole time, telling me about how if Rukia and I ever went on a dat, you'd be following us the whole time."

"That doesn't matter. You were acting like a chicken anyway."

After their argument, since the teacher had said electronic devices were allowed, Ichigo decided to give Momo a call. She hadn't been at school that day.

The explanation for this was a simple one. Hinamori had been hit by a car when she was younger, and suffered from extremely painful headaches, causing her to miss school. The phone continued to ring, and the call went to her voicemail. Ichigo left a message, then handed the phone to Renji so he could leave a message.

"So Momo, I was just reading Ichigo's diary, and you would not believe some of the stuff he has written in there . Maybe you should read it sometime."

All the while Ichigo was yelling:

"No, shut up Renji! Momo, don't believe anything Renji says! He's delusional!!!"

Later in the class, Ichigo went back to Rukia, and they held hands, sharing the same seat. He then walked her to her bus, encountering Orihime along the way, and introducing the two to each other. Rukia was behaving strangely that day, and would not allow Ichigo to give her a hug before she entered her bus. Instead, she quickly walked up the steps to her bus without saying goodbye.

After school, on his way to the library, Momo called him back.

"Diary, eh? Well, I mean, to each his own, but this just further proves my point that you're dumb."

"What, you're dumb? I know."

Ichigo surfed the internet and talked to Momo from about noon to 2:45. When his mom arrived to pick him up, the first words out of her mouth were:

"Give me the phone."

Ichigo fished around in his pockets and dug out his cell phone, which handed to his mother. She explained to him that he had used 3216 minutes talking to his friends in the last six weeks, and how he had been talking to his friend at 11:30 the night before. She reminded him that he was not allowed to be talking on his cell phone, etc.

When he got home, Ichigo, feeling gloomy, and already in a bad mood, set off to the task of writing his essay, which was due the next day. In the end, he finished the essay at around midnight, and then he had to complete a review packet that was due the next day for a test grade in his last period class. He finished his packet within around two hours, and ended up going to bed at 2:15 am, exhausted.

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