Title: Dreamer
Rating: k+
Characters: Ichi/Nel
Word Count: 330
Warnings: Spoilers, sort of. Other than that there are none really, unless you see this as a bit pedophile-ish.
Summary: She had her heart set on him.
Dedication: bob115, for requesting this and being my first reviewer
A/N: I decided to buckle down and get all of the requests done. Sorry these took me so long.
It was love at first sight. One-sided love, sure, but Nel wasn't an idiot. She had dreams sometimes, of a pretty lady with her hair and mask, so it had to represent her future. And until then, she would teach him just how to handle kids.
Not that he needed much instruction. He held her when she cried, and told her stories at night. He taught her the important things, like how to annoy Uryu, and how to become friends with Yachiru. He bought her ice cream on hot days and hot chocolate on the cold. More importantly, he helped Urahara create her a gigai that grew with her body, so that she could be a real kid, and introduced her to his family so she would have some stability (although they provided more humor than anything).
He also taught her the things he would never know that he had, like boys had a nice scent even if they didn't mean to, but that didn't mean their feet couldn't stink, and that holding someone's hand on a cold day would be enough to keep her warm.
And one day, he took her to Orihime, who tried to fix the crack in her mask. Combining three powers (Nel's will, shunshun rikka, and super glue), they fused it back together, and she transformed into the beautiful woman from her dreams.
She still held his hand on the way home, and he had been forced to explain to his family that their little Nel-chan was a ghost, and had been sick, but now she was better. Then he and his father had gotten into a fight about being perverted, and Yuzu had pulled her into the kitchen to make cookies.
That night, he met her on the roof, and she taught him something he had never taught her (good thing, too, or he would have been a pedophile). And as their lips met, Nel had never been more glad to know Ichigo Kurosaki.