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Waiting for You

Lilaznbabe

It's been weeks now and still no new of Rukia's condition. Besides getting pound on by his father, mornings seem quieter lately. There was no one there to talk to him, to yell at him or to argue with him, it was as if he was missing a part of himself for some reason. He didn't understand it at all, if Rukia was gone, his life should be back to normal, right? But it's not, Ichigo's missing someone important in his life again and this time he was truly the cause of it.

School seemed the same, everyone was greeting him and Keigo was still annoying as hell. Still, even though people are going on with their daily routine, things were still diverse to him, Ichigo felt unusual. Chad, Orihime, and Uryu were the only ones to notice and they knew why.

Ichigo would just sit in his desk now, day dreaming, wondering and silently praying to see rukia show up through the window like she did before. He wanted to hear yell at him, telling him to quit moping around and get his ass in gear. But just like every other day, she never showed up.

Orihime took a glance at Ichigo, she felt sorry for him and a little bit jealous. She cared for Ichigo a lot, enough to love him probably and she had to admit she was a bit envious towards Rukia. She knows she shouldn't be but she couldn't help it. 'Ichigo how can I bring that smile to your face like she did?' she thought sadly.

School has finally ended and Ichigo felt like crap. Usually, when he felt like this Rukia would always catch him and ask him what was troubling him. She never did it in a nice way but it was her way of asking that made it so easy for him to open up to her. Having no one to turn to, he decided to talk to someone who he knows will listen to him. Even though he can't see this person or hear this person, he was sure able to feel and know that that person was there to listen.

"Hey Mom," he sat himself down next to a grave stone. "Can you hear me?" He smiled a bit. "Well, I hope you're listening because I really need to talk to you." He took a deep breath and began his confessions. "Well, I have good news and bad news," "Good news is, I think I might like this girl." "Yeah, wouldn't dad be happy to hear that huh?" he chuckled a bit and then became sadder.

"I think you'll like her mom,"

"She a big pain in my ass…" he stops for a moment.

"But she really knows how to cheer me up."

"She likes to make me mad, pick on me, call me names, hit me and just does a pretty good job at annoying me too."

"But that's what I love about her." He smiled for the first time in a long time. In his mind an image of Rukia appeared. But he then shook it off because he remembered what he had done.

"Too bad you won't be able to meet her though."

"You see mom,"

"I killed someone very important to me again."

"I know when you died; people would say that it's not my fault."

"But this person I killed was truly my responsibility this time."

"I wish you could meet her though mom, she's really special to me."

"She's almost as special as you."

"I swear, she has your gift when it comes to cheering me up,"

"But now that she's gone, there's no one else to make me happy."

Once everything was said and done and his confessions were spilling out, Ichigo felt his eyes welling up and tears flowing down his cheeks. He traced his mother's grave as if he was trying to feel her mother's spirit.

"Mom, how do I make this pain go away?" His head fell and suddenly a familiar voice spoke from behind.

"I'll tell you how Ichigo, suck it up!"

'No way, is it?'

Ichigo swerved around to find a…"Rukia?!"

"No it's your mother in Rukia's body," "of course it me you fool." She mocked.

Ichigo just sat there in awe and disbelief. Normally he would retort back from that type of insult, but what he did really shut Rukia up.

His arms were wrapped around her tiny body and she couldn't help but blush from his warm touch. After her shock, she hugged him back. He held her like there was no tomorrow. He held her and wouldn't let go it was as if he feared that Rukia would leave again if he did. Rukia didn't mind though, she was happy to see Ichigo and was very happy to hear what Ichigo was saying to his mother. Little did he know that she heard every confession that came out of his mouth.

"So, Ichigo," she spoke up. "Who's that special girl you keep talking about?"

Special moment now over and Ichigo is in for some deep shit.

Damn he is in some deep shit now. Will confess to her or lie is ass off. U'll find out if you keep reviewing. thank you!