Chapter 5: Monsters In the Closet
Rukia walked into her bedroom and plopped onto her supersized bed. If she wanted to, she had the space to roll over 4 times to get from one side to the other. Not like she needed all the space, if anything it made her feel lonely.
Laying down Rukia stared at her purple ceiling. She was almost killed today if it wasn't for Ichigo. But he just murdered that guy. No, he attacked first.
"You okay Rukia?" Rukia jumped up from her spot and was now sitting wide eyes facing Ichigo who sat on the bed a foot or two away from her.
"I-I'm fine" she said relaxing a great deal that is was just Ichigo. "Thanks for that, you really saved me"
"Yeah sure but I'm sorry you had to see that. I wanted to keep you pure from the violence but it didn't work out too well"
"Yeah" they chuckled awkwardly. "Can I ask you something?"
"You just did"
"Okay I'll take that as a yes, even though all I did was be mean to you, you still killed that guy and stopped him from taking me"
"It's my job"
"But I bet normally someone would leave and not put up with me"
"Well I don't run out on people. And I can understand why" Rukia pouted and slapped his head. "What the hell was the for you midget"
"Asshole!"
"Bitch!"
"Oversized berry!"
"Brat!"
"Strawberry!"
"Midget!" at this point there for heads were touching. Rukia stared into his amber eyes and he stared into her violet orbs. The anger and frustration that resided there was slowly being replaced by an emotion they couldn't quite place. Ichigo coughed awkwardly and pulled his head back. He slackened his school tie a bit. "Is it just me or is this room really hot?" he asked.
"Uh, yeah it's pretty warm in here" Rukia said. Ichigo stood up and walked out the door. "What just happened?" she asked herself. Rukia's phone began vibrating and she picked it up. "Renji"
"Hey Rukia, what you doing?"
"Nothing, laying in bed with Ichigo"
"WHAT?"
"Just kidding" she laughed. "So wanna go to the mall or something?"
"Yeah meet you in the front of the mall in twenty"
"K" Rukia hung up and put on a pair of black skinny jeans, a red v-neck shirt with Chappy written on the bottom in small white letters. She slipped her small feet into her red and black converses and walked out her door to find Ichigo with his arms crossed.
"Where?"
"Mall"
"With?"
"Renji"
"Date huh…..I'll keep to the shadows then"
"No you don't need to come" Ichigo walked into his room and tore of his shirt. Rukia admired his toned back and they was his muscles rippled while he put on a black t-shirt. She saw him pull a bag from under his bed and pull out a gun. "WHOA! NO NEED FOR THAT!" Rukia said.
"In case you forgot, we both wouldn't be here right now if I didn't have a weapon at hand. And I was lucky to get to that knife. Now if I have Zangetsu I don't have to worry about that"
"Wait who?"
"Zangetsu is my gun" he replied mater of faclty.
"You name is?"
"My mother gave it to me and told me the name. if you treat a weapon like an extension of yourself, it will work more fluidly with you"
"Whoa fortune cookie much?"
"Shut up and let's got" Rukia nodded and they walked out the front door. The mall wasn't to far from where Rukia lived so they could walk.
After 10 or 15 minutes of walking, Ichigo slipped into the background.
"Rukia, how are you?" Renji asked as they walked into the mall.
"I'm hungry"
"Let's get some late lunch then"
"Or dinner?"
"Sure"
…. (Yeah, we don't care about RenRuk)….
After watching them on their date, Ichigo followed Rukia and Renji to the shopping center. After some walking, Ichigo saw a girl from school named Soi Fon run up to Renji.
"Hey Renji what brings you to the mall today?" she asked with a smile on her face that Ichigo didn't like. He noticed Rukia didn't pick up on it. She was one dumb smart girl.
"Nothing much, just hanging out" he said.
"Nothing much, just hanging out?" Rukia said crossing her arms. "So I'm nothing much huh?"
"Oh you're here with Rukia" she said with some disgust in her voice. "He's right though, you aren't much"
"Bitch you want me to show you much?" Rukia said shifting her wait to one foot and putting her hands on her tiny waist.
"Whoa what are you PMSing or something, you sound like the desperate whore you are"
"No I'm not but I'll gladly show have you shed some blood. And remind me, who's the desperate whore? You're the one coming up to my boyfriend during my date trying to flirt"
"So, he didn't seem to mind" this made Rukia stop. The bitch was right, he didn't seem to mind at all. Rukia turned to Renji.
"Have fun with her" she said before walking away. She could hear him shout out after her but ignored it.
Ichigo sighed. He was hired to protect her not play the shoulder to cry on. He ran after her and finally caught her shoulder.
Rukia was startled when she felt the hand on her shoulder. Instinct told her it was Renji so she grabbed the hand threw it off her shoulder.
"Shove off Renji"
"Okay don't ever compare me to that oversized pineapple again" Rukia turned to see Ichigo staring down at her. "Come on, let's go home"
"…yeah"
"So he's following you know?" Renji asked as he approached Rukia and Ichigo.
"No, but I don't own you any explanations. Renji you just flirted with another girl while on a date with me saying you were just hanging out. And you didn't even defend me when that whore came and insulted me."
"Hey, all I did was answer her question. I am just hanging out. And why do I need to defend you, you could always defend yourself"
"But maybe she needed her boyfriend to defend her." Ichigo said stepping in front of Rukia. He took the words out of her mouth.
"Rukia are you gonna let this guy come between us?"
"Well you did the same thing with Soi Fon. I think it's time for a break Renji. I don't need extra drama in my life okay?" Rukia grabbed Ichigo's hand and headed for the exit.
Renji watched as they walked away.
"I hate that girlfriend stealing bastard. He's gonna pay for that" Renji said through gritted teeth.
Gin smiled wider, if it was possible, and walked up to Renji.
"I see he took something of yours?"
"Yeah he did"
"I think we could help each other out then" Renji looked at the man and nodded.