Well, this was random. Anyway, my halloween fic is up!!

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or the characters. You no sue, I be happy.

Costumes and Customs

Ichigo glared at the costume. He was never going shopping with Rukia ever again. Right now, he would rather die than put the stupid costume on. Nope. He would die before putting it on. There was no way in hell he was going to wear that thing. She would have to sit on top of him and dress him herself if she expected him to wear that. She could go alone if she wanted, but he was not wearing that God-forsaken costume. Not in a million years.

Nope.

So, how was it that, an hour later, Ichigo was dressed in the costume and forced outside by Rukia?

We will probably never know.

She must have sat on top of him and dressed him herself.

But now he was holding the stupid orange pumpkin bag and they were going hunting for candy. Which Rukia seemed to think she was going to eat a lot of at once. But there was no way Ichigo would let her have it all; he had found out how hyper she got when she had too much sugar when she had drunk five juice boxes in an hour. It must have had to do with how little sugar there was in the Soul Society.

He guessed she wasn't used to all the sugar, but she was not getting more than five pieces of candy.

And only if she was nice.

He was taller, and could inforce the candy rule easily.

So, as they walked up to the front door of the first house, with Yuzu and Karin giggling at him from behind, Rukia hauled him by the ear and made him ring the doorbell. They had Karin and Yuzu stand in front, because it would look awkward of two teens were the only ones knocking on the doors.

As the door opened, Rukia held Ichigo's ear tighter so he didn't get any ideas about running away.

Yuzu happily asked for candy, and the kind woman at the door put a little extra in her bag before handing out candy to the others. The second the door closed, Ichigo ran away, hiding n shame as he tried to tear the costume to little pieces. But Rukia came up to him and took him by the ear again.

"Let me go, Baka!" Ichigo yelled, reaching up to take her hand away. But Rukia just pulled him forward.

"Nope. Come on, Yuzu and Karin are getting ahead. Your dad told us to watch them, and I plan on doing just that," Rukia said, tugging on his ear again to get him moving.

Ichigo groaned, and was forced to come alone to several more houses.

Soon, their bags were getting full, but Yuzu and Karin didn't want to go back yet. Ichigo and Rukia were now hauled along by Ichigo's sisters, who were dressed up as a cat, Yuzu, and a witch, Karin. Rukia smiled and bounced along, already having eaten some of her candy. She was currently dressed up a bunny. Nothing too much, just a pair of ears and a few other things.

But before next year, he was going to have to make sure that she knew the difference between boy costumes and girl ones.

Grumbling, Ichigo followed behind them, sulking as Karin rang the doorbell on what he felt was the millionth house.

Rukia, who didn't want anymore candy, stayed back with Ichigo as the two twins chatted with the girl at the door, who they appeared to know from school. Rukia was poking around with one of the Halloween decorations when a ghost suddenly sprang forward from the soft, inflated rubber. She screamed loudly, backing up fast.

Ichigo made a sound that came out somewhat like "Oomph" as Rukia hit into him and they both fell to the ground.

She landed right on top of him, her face inches away from his. Suddenly very aware of their position, Rukia jumped back up and glared at the ghost to hide her blush.

Ichigo's face was about as red as blood as he tried to look anywhere but Rukia. If she hadn't moved when she had . . . he probably would have kissed her.

"What is that thing?" she asked.

"Well, it's a decoration. Tradition. People put them up in their yard to scare the little kids. And the older ones, too," Ichigo added as an afterthought, mental images of Rukia hitting him for the insult ramming into his mind.

"Why?"

"I don't know. It's a Tradition . . . or a custom. My dad had one of these things last year."

"Ghosts don't look like that, though," Rukia argued. "They look the exact same as when they died."

"So the guy was incredibly old and was wearing a sheet. So what?" Ichigo asked, punching the ghost to make it go back inside.

"So, it's wrong," Rukia decided, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at the ghost again. Ichigo sighed.

"No, it's not really. It's just someone else's opinion."

"Someone who knows nothing about ghosts."

"So what?"

"So what what?"

"Rukia!"

"Sorry."

Ichigo groaned and stuffed his hands in his pockets, looking up at the sky. It had long since gone dark, and the stars were filling the sky with a bright light.

"Soo . . . if ghosts look so wrong in this world . . . I wonder what Santa Clause really looks like," Rukia said, her face scrunched up in concentration. Ichigo sighed again; something he was doing a lot tonight.

"Santa's not real," Ichigo said.

"Yeah he is," Rukia protested.

"No, he's not."

"Is."

"Not."

"Is."

"Not."

"Is!"

"Not!"

"Is!"

"Is not, you wacky little nutjob!"

Rukia growled and Ichigo stopped talking. She looked like she was going to bit him . . .

If you were hearing this instead of getting it explained to you, you would probably think it was an argument between two small kids. Well, Ichigo and Rukia are small in the head, so we will forgive them. Back to the story.

"Are you two done yet? It's time to go home," Karin said, walking up and kicking Ichigo in the shin. Ichigo groaned in pain as he hopped down the street.

"Well, at least you do your costume justice. You're hopping," Rukia said, smiling at Ichigo. He smiled back and Karin rolled her eyes, muttering something like "Idiots in love" under her breath.

As you might have found out already, Ichigo was wearing a bunny costume. It was much like Rukia's, only he had bunny feet to go with it, and a weird little nose.

And if you were to watch closely as they walked home and Karin and Yuzu were the only ones to go inside, you would see Ichigo and Rukia take a different path. And if you were to watch really close, you would see two bunnies kissing in the soft, cold night air.

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