HIYA OLD CHAPTER BUT NEW STUFF ENJOY LOL

"Hohoho, looks like we have someone new don't we Ichigo?" said an old man. He walked into the cave and saw Ichigo relaxing against the stone wall with his arm slung over his propped-up knee. Across from him was a young girl glaring who was obviously upset.

"Grandpa, you're back." Ichigo gracefully jumped up to greet the old man.

"You girl, what's your name?" the old man said while looking at Rukia.

"Umm, I'm Kuchiki Rukia, pleased to meet you," Rukia stated very kindly while bowing to the old man.

"Well, I'm Kon. I've been looking after Ichigo in the jungle here since he was about 4 years old." He walked over to Rukia and they began to chit chat. Ichigo was jealous at this point. He had practically saved her life and in return all he received were glares and pouts. But in walks the old man and she instantly comes alive. If you asked him, it wasn't fair.

"Rukia, I'm an old man and not going to live much longer. It's about time Ichigo learns to travel and live in modernized cities. Could you do me a favor and when you leave this jungle, will you take Ichigo with you? I want him to live a good life after I'm gone," Kon asked her with a puppy-dog look on his face.

"Kon-dono, I'm not sure Ichigo could get used to the world outside this jungle. He killed a hunter with a rock for goodness sake, what if he attacks random people?" Rukia asked with worry in her face. After everything she'd been through the last thing she wanted to do was take him with her.

Ichigo looked at Rukia with a frown on his face, thinking the same thing, and went outside to get away for a bit.

"Jeez, look Rukia, he's sad now. Please take him out of here, even if it's just for a month."

Rukia glanced outside and made her decision. "I will on two conditions. The first one is you show me where the Ruin is around here, that's what got me into this whole mess in the first place. The second condition is you stop looking at my chest." Her voice went cold with the last statement.

"Oh, hehehe, sorry. It's been awhile since I've seen any girl." Kon smiled and tried to cover his nose with his large hand.

"Sure…Anyway, it's late so I'm going to try and get some sleep if that's alright with you." Rukia grabbed her torn up cloths and tried to make some kind of make-shift bed out of them. "That's one hard floor," she thought to herself as she lay down.

Kon bid her goodnight and took his own position on the floor. "Maybe this child can look after Ichigo. The question is, will they get along?" Kon had wondered.

Outside the cave…

"Grandpa, you don't like me anymore? I don't understand," Ichigo wondered to himself deep in his thoughts.

"Ichgo, it's not he doesn't like you anymore, it's in fact he's dying and worried about who's going to take care of you when he's gone," stated the black-panther Yoruichi.

"He's dying? What does that mean Yoruichi?" He asked back in Yoruichi's language.

"That means he will no longer be in this world," Yoruichi said while looking at the stars.

"I don't want that Yoruichi, Grandpa said he would always be with me," Ichigo said while grabbing onto the panther's back.

"Ichigo, I've told you before, it's okay to let tears out when you're sad," stated Yoruichi.

"Eh, that's not what Grandpa said. He said that only weak people cry," Ichigo replied quietly.

"Say Ichigo, that girl Rukia, she's cute don't you think?" Yoruichi replied with a mischievous smile. (A/N try to imagine a panther smiling)

Ichigo said bluntly, "What do you mean by cute?"

Yoruichi jumped up and snapped at Ichigo, almost scratching his face.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Ichigo yelled out loud, not even bothering to speak in the panther's language.

"You've got a lot to learn kid." He growled back. "Ichigo, this is probably going to be the last time we will see each other. You'll be leaving tomorrow."

"Where do you think she's going to take me?" Ichigo asked in surprised.

"Don't know where. I'm a panther; I don't travel much outside of the jungle. Where ever she does take you, you'd better be nice to her so she'll be nice to you."

"Wha?" Ichigo then sighed, "I don't get you sometimes Yoruichi. I'm going to sleep now, alright?"

"Good night then Ichigo and good bye friend." Yoruichi jumped off the small cliff and ran into the jungle. In a matter of seconds he was swallowed up and completely invisible.

"So if I'm nice to her then she'll be nice to me, heh," Ichigo thought to himself as he fell asleep.

Meanwhile Kon had brewed some tea for himself and sat drinking it while gazing at Rukia. "I wonder if that child will do well in the city. It's been almost 20 years since I was last there and Ichigo had been just a child at the time."