Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach

A/N: I got this chapter posted up a lot faster than I first thought I would. School's going to start in two days for me. :( I'll have less time to update my stories, but I will update them. So you don't have to worry.

Many thanks to my readers and reviewers: Denidene, Shadow Pain, Isillome003, SukiAmaya, and Rukia Martinez.

'thoughts'

"talking"

'Is this the right place? He lives here! Holy mother!' Rukia stared at the big house Toshiro lived in. Yeah, she's used living in a big house since she's a noble but she would never guess that Toshiro lived in a huge house. Rukia, feeling guilty for making Toshiro mad, asked people (Ukitake-sensei) if they knew where Toshiro lives. She got her information and went on the search for his house.

Rukia took a deep breath and knocked on his door. She waited for a full minute before knocking once again. Someone finally opened the door. It was an old lady. A short, old lady. "Tosh- err hello." said Rukia.

"Hello." the old lady said, her eyes closed.

"Granny! Who is it?" said Toshiro as he walked to the door. When he saw Rukia, he frowned. "It's you."

"Come in, dear. I'll go make some tea." Granny said as she let Rukia in and walked to the kitchen.

"Toshiro, look, I'm sorr- What happened to your hand?" Rukia asked when she saw his hand. His knuckles were a purple-red color and swollen.

Toshiro looked down at his hand. "Nothing. Why are you here?"

"I'm sorry if what I said made you mad." Rukia said sincerly. Granny came back to where they where. She handed Rukia a cup of tea, then to Toshiro and then left. "Who she?" Rukia asked after she took a sip of her tea. "Mmm. This is delicious."

Toshiro took a sip of his tea. "She's my grandma."

Rukia finished her tea and set the cup down on a table near by. "Well, I should get going. Tell your grandma her tea is delicious. Bye." Rukia left.

Toshiro closed the door. 'She came only to apoligize. Maybe I'll tell her what I like.'

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'Must resist the urge to strangle her.' thought Toshiro as he sat next to Rukia. Rukia was being more annoying... that's what Toshiro thought. Never in his life has he seen Rukia talk as much as she is right now. The reason why she was talking so much is very simple. Toshiro told her what sport he liked and played. Soccer. Rukia never imagined him playing soccer, so she let her (wild) immagination go crazy! Every once in awhile, the word "short" would slip out of her mouth making Toshiro want to either slam his head on the desk hard or strangle Rukia. The second one seems better to Toshiro but he didn't want to deal with an over-protective brother. Not now, not ever.

"Join the soccer team." Rukia finished whatever nonsense she was saying with a smile to Toshiro.

"Yea- WHAT!" Toshiro yelled causing the other students and teacher to stare at him. "Err, sorry. I'm not going to join the soccer team." He said in a much quieter voice to Rukia.

"Whhyyyyyyyy noooooooot?" whined Rukia, causing some students to stare at her.

"Because I don't want to." said Toshiro.

"But," Rukia pulled Toshiro close to her, heads side by side. " You'll get many friends!" Her hand gesturing to all the students.

Toshiro moved away from her. "I'm not joining." Rukia pouted but didn't say anything else.

Hinamori was walking back to her seat, passing by Toshiro and Rukia, when she gasped. "Hitsugaya-kun! What happened to your hand?" She said her voice ending high pitched.

Rukia looked at Toshiro and Toshiro sighed He was about to say what happened when he noticed Hinamori batting her eyelashes at him. 'Oh hell no!' "Nothing happened." Toshiro said. Hinamori muttered a quiet okay and left.

Rukia waited until Hinamori sat at her desk. "Why didn't you tell her?" hissed Rukia.

Toshiro put two fingers up. "Two reasons. One, you also want to know what happened. Two, she was batting her eyelashes. I hate when girls do that."

Rukia rolled her eyes. "Oh sorry. Why don't I go punish her." Rukia said sarcasticly. The bell rang and the students got up quickly to head to lunch. Rukia walked out with Toshiro. "Please! Can you join the soccer team?" Rukia asked looking at him with puppy eyes.

"That's not going to work." Toshiro said with a smirk. Rukia and Toshiro continued walking without bothering what the other students were saying.

"Is that Kuchiki with Hitsugaya?"

"Are they friends?"

"Are they a couple?"

"What is she doing with him?"

"Doesn't Shiba, Kurosaki, Abarai and Jaegerjaquez know that Kuchiki is hanging out with him?"

"Come on Toshiro!" said Rukia for the hundreth time. Not really the hundreth time but it felt like it.

"No. Shut up already." said Toshiro. They were sitting under a tree, outside eating their lunch. Usually it's Toshiro by himself but this time Rukia is with him.

"But-" Rukia stopped and grinned.

Toshiro, who is now scared for his life, said. "Rukia, what are y-"

"Ukitake-sensei!" yelled Rukia, running towards Ukitake-sensei who is the coach for the soccer team.

"Dammit!" Toshiro cursed as he ran after Rukia.

Rukia saw that Toshiro was running after her so she said to Ukitake-sensei quickly. "Hitsugaya-kun would like to be part of the soccer team!" She ended up yelling the last part when Toshiro caught up to her. Toshiro tried to deny it but Ukitake-sensei spoke first.

"Really! It's great to see you participating in school sports, Hitsugaya." beamed Ukitake-sensei.

"But I- fine." said Toshiro, defeated. He's so going to kill Rukia.

Ukitake-sensei smiled at the two. "I'll go tell Aizen-sensei. Practice starts tomorrow at six p.m." He informed Toshiro. After Ukitake-sensei left, Toshiro looked at Rukia. Rukia grinned and ran off. Toshiro ran after her.

Rukia ran and almost crashed into someone. She looked up. "N-nii-sama!" She squeaked out. "What are you doing here?"

Byakuya looked at his little sister. "I'm here about your grade in Math." He said in his cool voice.

"Oh. I'm working very hard on trying to bring it up." said Rukia. Byakuya nodded and left. Toshiro finally found Rukia.

"Rukia, now that I'm part of a sport, you better leave me alone." said Toshiro with a glare.

"Of course." Rukia said with a nod. Toshiro left thinking that Rukia was going to leave him alone but was he wrong.

A/N:

You guys wont learn about his past until Rukia and Toshiro become closer. Don't forget to review!