So, here is chapter two. I hope you all like it. I didn't really like how it turned out, but hey, I can always fix it.
Ichigo woke up with a sticky forehead again, panting heavily while he sat straight up again. It was that same dream that gave him that unnerving feeling but he was still hanging with that twisting feeling in his stomach. He punched his pillow in frustration. He didn't remember anything and it was really bugging him at this point, not knowing what possible things his unconscious mind was coming up with. He fell back onto his pillow to face another sleepless night.
Rukia woke up, yawning and stretching and opening her eyes slowly. Butterflies were in her stomach but she didn't exactly know why. But then it hit her of yesterday's previous events and the feeling of happiness and nervousness. She giggled slightly as she smiled to herself and shivered.
"He's mine," whispered Rukia to her Chappy plushie that she was holding so close to herself. She got up and just couldn't stop smiling and feeling so happy. She now realized how much she really loved Ichigo. But what if he didn't feel the same? She let her face fall as she came upon this thought. If he didn't feel the same, then… what would happen at the dance?
'No Rukia, you have to think of the positives' she said to herself. She got up and opened the door to her closet, seeing the beautiful dress that her sister wore so long ago.
"IIICHIIIGOOO!" there was a yell from his father as he was lunging to tackle his 'sleeping' son. Ichigo drew back his arm and let it go with full swing, punching his father square in the stomach.
"What the hell? What kind of father gives a wakeup call like that?" he yelled at his father, now on the ground, holding his stomach.
"What's wrong with a lively morning?" he retaliated as he smirked and held his stomach harder. "You really pack a punch!"
"Whatever, old man," he rolled his eyes as he stepped on his dad's face, hearing a muffled grunt.
"You only have two days left, you know," said Isshin as he stood up, holding his nose. "You don't have much time left!"
"Like I said," Ichigo turned around only to give a kick to his father's stomach, "whatever, old man."
Ichigo's dad flew backwards, hitting the wall while Ichigo swung open the door to go into the hall to get his breakfast.
When he entered the kitchen, a familiar smell of pancakes and maple syrup hit his nose and he inhaled deeply through his nose and sighed. He saw his younger sister, Yuzu, in a pink apron, tending to the pan with breakfast in it. Karin, her twin sister was sitting on the couch in the other room, watching television, mostly channel surfing.
Yuzu turned around as she heard the footsteps into the kitchen, seeing her brother walk in lazily.
"Ichigo, I made pancakes with strawberries," she started while tending to the pancakes, "I hope you like them, onee-san."
"Thanks Yuzu, I bet they taste great," Ichigo said while sitting down to eat his stack of strawberry pancakes, pouring whipped cream on them. Taking his knife and fork to begin to cut his pancakes, he noticed that Karin was being less critical of Yuzu than usual. He turned around only to see that Karin was gone from the couch.
Ichigo quickly finished his pancakes and cleaned his dishes only to realize that it was almost time to go find Urahara and Yoruichi.
Ichigo grabbed his shoes and slipped them on and left his house without a word to his family. He walked to a small shop in town called "Urahara's". Urahara was a family friend of the Kurosaki's for as long as Ichigo could remember. Urahara had been more of an uncle, but Urahara saw Ichigo as a son. When Ichigo couldn't get good advice from his father, he always went to Urahara, and he usually gave him good advice. He had also taught Ichigo how to spar and how to fight.
Recently, Urahara had started dating a woman named Yoruichi. She was tall and beautiful but it seemed like they weren't a couple, but it worked for them. They seemed like a happy couple but Ichigo wondered if something was going on between the two of them.
Ichigo went in through the back door of the small shop, to see Urahara and Yoruichi together, on the floor. Yoruichi had her head on Urahara's shoulder and he was petting her, almost as if she was a cat.
"Ichigo, what a surprise!" said Urahara, looking up at him, still petting Yoruichi.
"Hey Urahara, how are you?" Ichigo asked while taking a seat on the floor.
"Great at the moment," he said and looked at the woman next to him.
"Ichigo have you not heard?" Yoruichi asked, sitting up. When she did this, the man in the striped hat looked disappointed to see that she was no longer on his shoulder.
"Wait," Ichigo was confused about what was going on. "What's happened?"
Yoruichi smiled and held up her hand to reveal a rather large diamond ring on her slim finger. Ichigo looked at Urahara and he looked at Yoruichi to see that her arms were beginning to slink up to Urahara's neck quickly. Ichigo looked away from the couple, making a disgusted look on his face as he heard the kissing between the two. Urahara laughed as he pulled Ichigo back towards them.
"We're sorry Ichigo, she's just really excited about the whole thing," said Urahara as he looked at Yoruichi with a loving face while Ichigo made a gagging noise and Yoruichi laughed as she put her head on his shoulder again
"You'll understand one day, when you find you're true love, Ichigo," said Yoruichi, giggling while Ichigo started to blush brightly and looked away. If he told about Rukia now, Yoruichi would just burst out laughing.
"Well, you see Ichigo," started Urahara, kissing her forehead, "the minute I finally saw Yoruichi more than a friend, I knew from the start that she was the one that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with."
"That's the reason I came here, Kisuke," Ichigo began to blush as he said this, and Yoruichi instantly perked up and smiled slightly. Ichigo knew what was coming, but was prepared for the worst. "I really like this girl and I ended up asking her to the Heaven's Dance on Saturday," his voice trailed away as he saw a smile on Urahara's face and a suppressed laugh on Yoruichi's.
"Ichigo, who is it?" asked Urahara.
"Rukia Kuchiki, she's in my class and we've been friends for awhile now," said Ichigo, still blushing madly. Just then a laugh came from Yoruichi as she held her sides, falling over to the ground, in fits of laughter.
"Ichi-ichigo...Rukia… Kuchiki?" her stifled laughs were barely audible but non-the-less, he understood every word that she was saying. Her laugh attack was causing her to start to tear up, tears flowing down her face fast and they just kept coming and coming, and there was no stop to them. Ichigo was blushing as he hid his face behind his hands.
"Don't worry Ichigo," said Urahara over the laughing woman's squeals, "just be yourself and she'll love you just the same… Well that's what happened to me and Yoruichi."
"I just hope that Rukia will like me for who I am," said Ichigo. He now thought of the possibilities of Rukia didn't have the same feelings for him, but he pushed them aside. Yoruichi was breathing heavily as she tried to regain her sanity.
"Ichigo, who couldn't like you?" started saying, hiccupping while she said this. "You're tall, handsome and a great guy. Sure you sulk around a lot and you just keep to yourself and you never show your emotions but that's not the point." Urahara elbowed her in the stomach at the words handsome. "Oh come off it, Kisuke, you know I only have eyes for you," she smiled and kissed his nose as he laughed. "What I'm trying to say, is that there's no way in hell she won't love you."
"She's right Ichigo," said Urahara, smiling towards the woman now on his lap, "Byakuya's sister would defiantly fall for you, if she hasn't already."
Ichigo hadn't thought of this before. Did she already like him or was he just too stupid to notice anything. Did she ever give him clues or was she just shy about it. But it didn't matter as long as he got to hold her in his arms.
"Oh Byakuya?" Yoruichi looked up at his name, "I used to date him when we were in high school!"
Urahara raised an eyebrow as she giggled. He obvious didn't like what he was hearing.
"Kiskuke, you're so jealous!" she scolded him playfully and he couldn't keep a straight face at her words. He smiled and kissed her forehead. Ichigo was getting sick of this whole lovey dovey act between the two.
"Well, that helps a bit," Ichigo said as he stood up to leave, "Thanks for the help, and congratulations again. Tell me when the wedding is."
"We'll see you at the heavens dance, Ichigo, look out for us!" called Yoruichi as he turned to leave the couple. He left the shop with his hands in his pockets, not really paying attention to where he was going, just walking aimlessly. He thought to himself how shocking it was to see Kisuke with a woman, he was always the flirty with women and Ichigo couldn't see him staying with one woman for the rest of his life. But, the most unlikely always become a couple. He thought of his mother and laughed to himself when he thought of his dad and his mother being in love, his dad being so accident prone and his mother so graceful. He wondered how they actually fell in love.
"Rukia! Wait for me!" A girl with long orange hair and large breasts was running after Rukia, huffing after her. She finally caught up to Rukia who had run ahead to the pet shop. When Orihime had finally found Rukia by the rabbits, she was looking into the little hut that they were in, almost like a chicken coup, but filled with small rabbits. Rukia peered into hut, eyeing each rabbit. She was smiling widely and put her arms in the coup to pull up a small, pure white rabbit. Orihime smiled at Rukia. She knew that Rukia had a huge thing for rabbits and Orihime never got in the ways of Rukia and her rabbits.
"Rukia," started Orihime, "We do need to get going if we are going to get to the park on time."
Rukia looked up to her, the small white rabbit in her arms, curled up and sleeping. She smiled as she pet the small rabbit and put it back in the small pen with the rest of the rabbits.
"Rukia, you really love rabbits, don't you?" asked Orihime, laughing slightly at her friend as Rukia smiled and simply nodded.
"Orihime, are you going to the Heavens Dance?" asked Rukia shyly as she blushed. Orihime blushed as well and nodded.
"I am, with Uryuu Ishida," said Orihime as she giggled lightly, "he asked me yesterday." Rukia squealed and hugged Orihime as she squealed also.
"Oh Orihime," said Rukia "that's so exciting! I've always told you he liked you back!"
Orihime laughed as they both walked out of the pet shop, simply walking where their legs took them. "I knew he liked me, just that neither of us had the guts to ask the other one out," Orihime said this while she giggled again. "But who are you going with?"
At these words, Rukia stopped walking as her heart started to race again. "Oh, just that strawberry head. Ichigo, but we're going as friends."
Orihime screamed at the words Ichigo and jumped up and down in excitement as she held both of Rukia's hands with her own. Rukia felt like jumping up and down with her friend but she knew if she did, she would give away the obvious fact that she liked him.
"Rukia! You should've said that when you saw me! Oh this is so exciting!" started Orihime, speaking fast and she didn't stop jumping up and down.
"We're only going as friends," Rukia yelled at Orihime, but in a jokingly way, laughing a bit. "I told you, we've been best friends since I can remember, I don't like him like that." When she said this, her stomach turned and twisted a bit because she knew this was a lie. It seemed like when she lied about her feelings, she usually showed it in her face, but she tried the best to hide it. "Besides, last time I checked, he didn't like anyone," her heart stopped when she said this. As much as she hated to admit it, she knew that it was true. Her heart slightly made a jolt.
"Oh that doesn't matter," said Orihime, "I bet after the dance, both of you will be madly in love with each other and maybe even kiss," Orihime nudged Rukia at these words and laughed.
"I'm not so sure about that, Orihime," joked Rukia, "Why would he even like a short midget like me?"
"How can he not like you!" she gasped at these words dramatically and her eyes widened. "You are amazing! Beautiful, small, petite and adorable!"
"Psh, I'm not that great," said Rukia, rolling her eyes and laughing. They both laughed together and realized it was already after four o'clock. They both said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.
As Rukia was walking home by herself, she remembered the feeling in her stomach when she said that Ichigo didn't like anyone at the moment. Her stomach lurched and made an unpleasant noise that sounded like when you step in mud with your bare foot, the squelching sound that you hear when your stomach is begging to fed. 'Is it true? Does he really not like anyone?' it would have given her hope if she knew that he liked someone and she could prove to him that she was the right choice instead of the nameless girl that he did like. She shivered at this thought and shook her head.
Without realizing it, she had made it home, but the sun was much lower in the sky then when she had remembered. She must have been just walking aimlessly around town for at least an hour. She sighed and went inside to see her brother wasn't inside. She went up to her room and laid on her bed, and just wanted to sleep and only awake if Ichigo truly loved her. Then she drifted away to sleep even though it was so early in the day.