As promised I have written another Bonus Chapter. Sorry about the cheesy titles I suck at coming up with them... ENJOY THE OMAKE!

Change: Bonus Chapter

"Rukia! Hey Rukia!" Renji shouted running down the hall. Today I'm going to ask her out. I've got to, before that bastard does. "Ruki-" He stopped quickly when he realized she was with said orange-haired bastard. He could not for the life of him get along with that jerk.

"Hey Renji." She turned and smiled at him. "What's up?"'

"Oh... uh.. I was just.."

"Spit it out moron!" Ichigo shouted.

"Who are you calling a moron, MORON!" Renji spat at Ichigo.

"Guys! Stop it! Why can't you get along?! For me?" She pleaded.

"That's impossible. When this moron can't keep his fucking mouth shut." Renji said jabbing a finger in Ichigo's direction.

"Renji!" Rukia shouted, "You know what?! Until you two get along I'm not going to speak to either one of you!" She stomped off.

"Now look what you did." Ichigo muttered.

"Me?!" Renji exclaimed grabbing the bastard's collar, but froze when he overheard some girls talking about Rukia.

"How can a girl like Kuchiki have two guys like Kurosaki-san and Abarai-san fight over her?"

"I know! She even has that hottie brother to protect her! It makes no sense! She's not special at all."

"Yeah, she probably thinks she's better than us! Let's teach her a lesson."

Ichigo and Renji looked at each other, straightened their clothes and walked over to where the voices came from.

"What do you plan on doing to Rukia?" Renji asked the plotting girls, his eyes were dark and he had an evil grin plastered on his face.

"Do you actually think Kurosaki-san, Abarai-san and that hottie brother will let you get away with anything?" Ichigo came up next to Renji wearing the same evil face.

"A-A-ABARAI-SAN! KUROSAKI-SAN! WE'RE SORRY!" The girls screeched and ran down the hall.

"Good, now no one will mess with Rukia. Thanks to us." Renji said triumphantly.

"Pft! Us? You mean thanks to me! What was with that lame line 'what do you plan on doing to Rukia?' How was that supposed to scare them?"

"What do you mean?! I was making our presence known! That alone scared them! Why did you quote the part about Kuchiki-sempai?! That wasn't necessary!"

"Of course it was necessary! I was implying that we had heard everything they said!"

"Baka! I already did that by asking them what they were going to do to Rukia!" Renji was about to punch Ichigo when he heard Rukia laughing behind him. "Rukia?"

Rukia laughed even harder when she saw the guys' stunned faces. "Thanks guys. You really care about my friendship that much? To become friends the second I tell you to or else?"

"What?! How are we friends? We're arguing!" Ichigo exclaimed.

"Yes, but not in the usual way. You guys seem more friendly," Rukia smiled, "also, thanks for defending me."

"You saw all that?" Renji asked.

"Yeah. I thought I was too harsh, so I came back to apologize and I saw you two standup for me. Thanks." She gave them each a hug, they both blushed.

Renji watched Ichigo and Rukia in disappointment, their normal conversation quickly turned into an argument as soon as they entered the restaurant.

"Here's your bill." The waitress put the bill on the table and walked away quickly from the arguing high schoolers.

"Okay! So, who's getting the bill?" Renji asked, the two stopped and stared at him for a second.

"I'll get it!" They both said at once, starting a new argument between them.

"I guess that means I'm paying..." Renji mumbled as he got up from the table to pay at the register.

"Here's your change, Eyebrows."

Renji looked up and realized Tatsuki was at the register handing him the change, "Tatsuki?! What are you doing here?"

"I work here. Duh! This is the restaurant my family owns. Didn't Ichigo tell you?"

"No. He didn't" He said glancing back at him, "They've been in their own world since we got here."

"Oh. Yeah, there is barely a day when they aren't arguing. I guess it's how they flirt with each other."

"Yeah, well. Now that I know you work here I'm gonna have to come back." He grinned.

"Sure. Come back when I finish. Like at 8?"

"Okay. It's a date." Renji walked away not realizing he said that last part out loud or left Tatsuki as red as one of the tomatoes he'd just eaten.

When she was in her first year of middle school she met him. Her first day in the Karakura High Karate Club, she was sparing and he flipped her right over his shoulder. For the first time someone had beaten her other than Ichigo, who had only beat her for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

Did I get weaker? Or is everyone stronger? She asked herself over and over again. She could not figure out what happened. She fell into confusion as more and more people were able to beat her, no one as quickly as he did, but she still lost.

She started to practice long after practice ended, sparing with Ichigo every weekend, doing what ever it took to get stronger. There was no way she was going to let this continue to happen. As soon as she started to get stronger and beat her opponents again, she once again found herself sparing against him, the karate vice-captain, Abarai Renji. She lost after 5 moves.

"Ichigo?! What am I doing wrong?!" She wheezed.

"I don't know. You're definitely working hard enough. Maybe you've reached your limit." WHAM!

"Don't say things like that!" She cried, tears streaming down her face. Ichigo wiped his bloody mouth and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Then stop crying and keep working toward your goal. If you stop and ask why then you're not going to get any stronger."

Tatsuki wiped her eyes and held her fists up to Ichigo, ready for another round.

Months went by and sparing with Ichigo every weekend dwindled to every other weekend to once a month to whenever he wasn't with Rukia. He had taken it upon himself to introduce the new transfer from the most elite school in the country to everyone in her new ordinary public school. Tatsuki's frustration only worsened when she realized he'd rather hangout with Rukia than her.

Tatsuki practiced every moment she could to distract herself. Her grades fell, she skipped out on shifts at the family restaurant, and her parents rarely saw her. They became very worried about her, they called the Kurosaki residence only to find out that Ichigo was out with a new friend. Realizing this was why their daughter was acting so weird they decided to send her over to the Inoue house with some food, the poor girl had just lost her brother, her only family member.

Buzzzzzzz! Buzzzzzzz! Buzzzzzzz! Tatsuki tapped her foot against the ground anxious to deliver the food and get back to practicing. "Inoue?!"

"Hello?" a quiet voice came from behind the door.

"Uh, hi. I'm Arisawa Tatsuki. My family sent over some food for you."

"Oh, you're Arisawa-san's daughter?!" The door swung open revealing a small girl with short orange hair at the door. She seemed cheerful, but her eyes were sad. It looked like she had just been crying.

"What's wrong?" She asked before she could think.

"Huh?" The girl stared at her in shock, "What do you mean?"

"You've been crying."

The girl stared at her for a second. "Yeah. Do you want to come inside."

"Uh.." She wanted to go back to practicing, but for some reason she wanted to stay with this girl. She wanted to make sure she was alright. "Okay."

The girl grabbed her arm and pulled her inside. "My name is Inoue Orihime, but you can call me Orihime if you want."

"Uh.. okay.." This girl is a little weird.

"You can put the food there," she pointed at a small coffee table then wandered off and came back with a picture frame. "This is my Onii-chan. He died 5 months ago."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"Would you like to pray with me for him? I do it every day before I eat."

"Sure..." Orihime pulled Tatsuki over to the small alter where she put down the picture and knelt down to pray. Tatsuki knelt down next to her. Orihime's onii-san, I hope you are well where ever you are. Don't worry about Orihime... I'll make sure she's okay. I'll protect her for you.

Tatsuki didn't know what came over her except the intense need to watch over this girl and keep her from crying.

"Thanks Tatsuki-chan." Orihime smiled at her, "Itekimasu!"

Tatsuki quickly became best friends with Orihime, they were together as much as Ichigo and Rukia were. They studied together so Tatsuki's grades would go up; Orihime visited Tatsuki during her shifts at the restaurant and went to her karate tournaments.

Tatsuki continued to practice after school, and sometimes with Ichigo. With Orihime cheering her on she got stronger every day. One day in her second year of junior high, when practicing a little later than usual, the red-haired captain stumbled into the school dojo.

"Aren't you in the Karate Club?"

"Yeah."

"Why are you here so late?"

"I want to get stronger." Tatsuki went back to practicing by herself.

"Do you want a sparing partner?"

"Are you volunteering?"

"I guess so."

"Sure. My goal is to beat you anyway." She said without thinking.

"Really? Then lets get to it."

They practiced with each other twice a week until she knocked him out with a hard blow to his cheek. "I guess you've reached your goal." he said 10 minuets later.

This is all I have for now, hopefully I'll be able to post another chapter or two before break ends. I have a lot of homework to do and friends who i'd like to see. I'd like to thank all of you who have not ditched this fanfic. and I'd like to thank my friends Meme and Emily again for beta-ing this fic, even though i haven't asked for your help for a couple of chapters it's thanks to you that i have the confidence to post now. I'll also probably go back and edit a lot once i finish. :)