Disclaimer: Bleach belongs to Kubo Tite

A/N: Thanks to cherrygirl6 for giving me the idea of making Rukia sick as a shini- uhh… I mean dog. ON WITH THE STORY!

Fruits!

She opened her azure eyes, a bit startled too see Ichigo's sleeping face opposite her. Rukia noticed that he was smiling.

She said softly, "Ichigo, you really should smile more. You look really cu-" She stopped. What am I saying? Ichigo is just a friend! Nothing more. Maybe a splash of cold water will help you get back to your senses.

She tried to get up, but instead she noticed that Ichigo's arms were wrapped around her waist tightly. She went red in the face. "Ichigo! Wake up!"

He opened his eyes slowly. "RUKIA! Why are you in my bed! Get back to your closet!" He let go of his embrace.

She looked confused. "Rukia, have you gone stupid? I told you to get back to your closet!" She whacked him at the back of his neck. "It's you who has gone stupid! There's no closet in this tent!"

"Tent?"

"We got lost yesterday, remember?"

He sat up and looked around. True enough, they were in a tent. "Oh yeah…" Now it was Ichigo's turn to look confused. "Anyway you didn't have to hit me!"

"Hmmph! Well, I'm going to go to the river."

At the riverbank, Rukia smiled. Ichigo hugged me! She slapped the forehead Ack! What am I saying? Really, I hope this water is cold. Very cold She splashed her face with the cooling river water.

"Rukia,"

SPLASH!

Rukia was so surprised she accidentally jumped in the river. "ACK Ichigo! Help!" Ichigo went in the water and pulled her roughly. "Oi, Rukia, you know this water is not even waist deep?" She looked down. Sure enough, she was standing steadily, Ichigo holding on to her arm.

"W-well you… you pushed me!"

"Did not! I just called you!"

"W-well you s-startled me!" Her teeth were chattering from the cold.

"You're wet. You should change your clothes."

She left, shivering from the surprise bath she just took. Ichigo followed, chuckling. "Don't laugh at me, you a-a-achoo!"

"You're getting cold, go and change your clothes"

Teeth still chattering, she went in the tent to change. Later she went out wearing a pink dress that went down to her knee.

"You are wearing a dress?"

"Yeah, so? It's not like you're gonna buy me some clothes. So I had to some take from Yuzu"

"If you want to take some of my sister's clothing at least take some of Karin's. She won't wear a dress."

"What's wrong with wearing a dress?"

"You can't wear a dress in the forest!"

"Well why not?"

"Because, because…"

"Because?"

"What if the dress gets stuck with a low branch or something?"

"You're too picky!"

Ichigo hmmph-ed and went into the tent. "RUKIA!"

"What?"

"The tent is wet! You made it wet so you will clean it!"

"It wasn't entirely my fault! You scared me at the river."

He ignored of her protests and threw her the shirt he wore yesterday. "EWW!"

"Shut up and help me clean!"

They spent the whole morning cleaning the wet tent. Somewhere around 12:30 p.m., Rukia grumbled, "I'm hungry."

"What do you want me to do?"

"I don't know, go and catch a fish or something?"

"Oh and I suppose that I'm gonna use my Zanpakutou and spear the fish, eh?" he said sarcastically. She said nothing but merely went to the tent and rummaged in her bag. She came out with a red glove with a skull on it.

"Wha- RUKIA! I was being sarcas-" She pushed his soul out. "Okay so now you can catch some fish while I gather some fruits or something." She smiled and left. Then she stopped. "Oh and you better catch some fish, or else…"

"I really should not open my big mouth!" he grunted and went to the river.

He tried to spear the fish but he failed miserably. "Stupid fish!" He got frustrated and stabbed the water continuously and fiercely. Until…

"AHA! I got a fish, at last!" He caught it purely by accident. Plus, the fish he caught was a big one too. "Let's see what Rukia thinks of my fishing skills now." He grins. When he got back to the campsite, he noticed that Rukia is still wasn't there. "Better light up a fire while I wait." So, Ichigo went back to his body. He was glad that no animal harmed his body while he was gone.

He searched his bag for the matches but he could only find a box of empty ones. "Baka Rukia snapping all of them" So he searched her bag and found a chibi Chappy doll. "Whaa? Rukia is crazy about these stupid rabbits" He rummaged through it some more and at last he found a box.

Right after he it up a fire, Rukia came back with an armful of yellow and purple oblong-shaped 'fruits' "Look at how much I gathered! I've a lot more behind those tress. I'll go fetch them." She took a lot more fruits and at last she said "Well that's the last of 'em. Oh wow. You caught a fish. I thought that your fishing skills were lame. Guess I was wrong."

"What do you mean 'oh wow?' Be more happy I actually caug -wait- if you thought my fishing skills were lame then why did you asked me to catch some fishes anyway?"

"Just to bug you, I thought you couldn't do it but you did." She grins

"You…" Ichigo stared at the 'fruits' that she brought. "Are these even edible?" He took one and observed it "They look sorta…well, poisonous to me"

"If you don't wanna eat it, don't. I will anyway." She took a bite from the fruit. "It tastes yummy, you know. Sure you won't eat some?" she offered him some of it.

"Uh… no thanks I prefer to know what my food is first, then I'll eat it. Think I'll just eat the fish."

"Suit yourself. More for me!"

"I don't think you should eat that…"

"Buh it taeshs naish!" She said with her mouth full.

"You'll get sick you know. And if you do, I won't take care of you."

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"Any luck Mr Hiroshi?" Ms Mayuki asks the camp facilitator.

"I'm sorry. We didn't find them. I think that we need your students help for this we don't have enough facilitators."

"But they came here to enjoy themselves."

"If we aren't here there couldn't be any activities anyway. So will you let them help us?"

Ms. Mayuki agreed.

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That night Rukia couldn't sleep her head hurts and she felt a bit queasy. "Ichigo," she said weakly. "I don't feel so good. I feel like my head is going to burst. And I think I got a stomach-ache."

Ichigo sat up immediately. Rukia really didn't look good. Her skin was paler than usual and actually, it was sort of green. He felt her forehead. She was burning. "Rukia, I think you have a fever." She said nothing but merely just laid down.

Ichigo went to the river and soaked his towel. "We're lucky that we got lost near a river." She didn't protest when he put the damp towel on her forehead. She rested her dizzy head on Ichigo's lap. Rukia was breathing heavily.

After Rukia was sleeping, Ichigo searched for the first aid kit. "There must be something in here that's like a fever medicine. Is this it?" He looked at a bottle filled with red coloured liquid. Biople fever medicine "Got it!"

"Rukia, Rukia wake up. You have to eat this" She opened her eyes slowly and she saw Ichigo. His eyes are filled with worry. She clutched on Ichigo's dark blue shirt and leaned her head into his chest. "Rukia… come on you have to eat this or else you won't feel better…" He said softly. She ate the medicine. It tasted awful but swallowed it forcefully.

"Better? You can sleep now." He comforted her and gave her the Chappy doll he found earlier.

"Ichigo…" He came closer to her. "Thank you." And with that, she smiled and slept.

"Baka, I told you not to eat that fruit," He smiled. He tried to stay up all night taking care of Rukia but in the end sleep overtook him.

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The next morning, Ms Mayuki announced, "I've some good news…"

"YAY!" cried the students

"…and some bad news"

"AWW…" groaned the students.

"Okay since we're not actually doing anything here, we're gonna go out to the forest today…"

"YAY!" cried the students

"… to search for Kurosaki and Kuchiki" said Ms Mayuki

"AWW!" groaned the students.

"… but there will be some fun…" said Ms Mayuki

"YAY!" cried the students

"…after we find them" said Ms Mayuki

"AWW!" groaned the students.

"So come on everyone, lets go out to the forest!" she said enthusiastically

"YAY!" cried the students

"… to search for Kurosaki and Kuchiki" said Ms Mayuki

"AWW!" groaned the students.

"Right! I'm gonna pair you up. Girl-guy since that will be at least a bit safer. We're gonna come back right here at…" Ms Mayuki glanced at her watch "… 2:30 p.m."

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Rukia woke up first. She was feeling much better. "Baka, I thought you wouldn't take care of me." She smiled "But I'm glad that you did"

She saw the fruits that she brought yesterday. She took one and tossed it somewhere. SPLAT. The fruit smashed on a tree nearby. "HAH! That'll teach you to make me sick!" She took another one and threw it somewhere else. "This is getting fun," She took another and let it fly.

Ichigo woke up hearing splats outside the tent. "What the-" He went out to investigate. And splat the yellow and purple fruit hit him right in the face. Ichigo wiped it off "Rukia!" Rukia laughed but her laughter didn't last long as Ichigo chucked one at her. "So its war!"

Since Rukia gathered quite a lot last night the fruit war lasted for quite sometime. In the end, both of them were very sticky and well, fruity. The both laughed at the sight of each other.

"I'm going to the river to wash up." Rukia said.

"Mmm fine," Ichigo was wiping some of those sticky fruit stains off his face.

I'm glad Ichigo took care of me yesterday… Rukia washed her face with the fresh river water until suddenly…

"Waaaaa!" SPLASH! Ichigo pushed her to the river. He laughed loudly at her.

"You baka… " she splashed him with the water. "Oi! You're gonna get me wet!"

"You got me wet!" Rukia splashed more water on him.

"You are going to get it now…" He smiled evilly. Rukia tried to run to the deeper side of the water but Ichigo had a firm hold on her arm "Haha! Gotcha!"

She yelped as he splashed water on her. And so begins a water war. In the end they both are feeling equally tired and decided to just relax in the cool, clear water.

"Looks like you're feeling better." He said, breaking the silence.

"Em… thanks to you," She smiled softly at him.

"I'm going out. Damn, this water is cold."

"Eh Ichigo wait!"

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This chapter is a bit weird, isn't it?. Random things kept getting to my mind and well, I was having writer's block so… why not use those (weird) plots? GAAAH I keep on having writer's block… maybe I'm more of a oneshot gal than this multi fic thing…

Yea.. another not so very funny one isn't it? Anyway pleeeeaaaasssseeee review –makes very cute puppy dog eyes- Review… :3