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A/N:Sorry for the supper late update! Please read and review! Enjoy the last chapter of Bleach: Halloween special.
Ichigo stepped into his house and admired the calm atmosphere. Rukia had gone to Orihime's house to work on their Halloween costumes together, for later. So the air around him was I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TYING TO SAY and still. Making him feel at peace, Rukia's spastic personality wasn't there to taint the quiescent mood. He believed she had a double personality disorder. Sometimes she was like a spastic monkey, other times she was cool and quiet, and he felt really comfortable around her presence.
This week had obviously been a spastic one.
Ichigo took a deep breath of the sweet air around him. He went up stairs deciding to take advantage of the lack of Rukia and take a steaming shower. He wasn't long in the shower when he thought he heard something. It sounded almost like a low humming noise. Ichigo strained his ears to hear past the running water. What he heard only confused him more.
"…" a muffled ghostly moan came from somewhere behind the shower curtain.
"What the hell?" he said to himself
The voice continued. "I'm going to kill youuuu! Leave my house or I will kill you when you least expected it! OOOOOOO" He then realized that Rukia must have come back and was trying to scare him once more.
Ichigo decide he'd hurry incase Rukia had gotten any ideas to stab him while he showered, from any horror movies she might have seen. He tried to reassure himself that the door was locked, but he knew deep inside that, that wouldn't stop her. Once he turned off the water he noticed the noise had stopped. He dried hand dressed in an eerie silence. He did a 360 degree scan to make sure she wouldn't pop out of nowhere. He decided to cheek down stairs for her. There he discovered a note on the table from Yuzu.
Ichi-nii, we went to the store to buy some
Halloween candy and treats! We won't take long.
Then later we're going tick-or-treating1
You can come if you want and dinner's in the oven
~Yuzu
So that's why the moaning stopped. Rukia must have left with them. Ichigo climbed up the stairs once again, deciding to tidy up his room before eating. He still hadn't made his bed from the morning. Ichigo slowly ascended the stairs. Ichigo entered his room, which was getting really messy.
Might as well start with the bed. Ichigo thought.
He extended a hand to his bed. The sheets shifted and began to move upward. Ichigo retracted his hand and stepped cautiously closer to his bed. He slowly moved his hand towards the sheets, every second his hand descended to the sheets felt like a minute. Ichigo noted his open window. Could it be some sort of animal? Like a raccoon. Or worse, maybe it was Kon. Once his hand was no more than a centimeter away from the sheets they began to rise faster and taller than any animal or Kon. He stepped back in surprise. The sheets continued to levitate off the bed. He looked around the room to look for anything that would explain this supernatural event. There were no strings pulling the sheet up or any signs of a ghost. Ichigo backed up further towards the door. With every step he took back the sheet only rose higher.
An idea struck Ichigo. He would get his bat and beat the sheets back on to the bed. That would teach the linen to mess with him. Just as he was about to grab his bat the bed sheet floated off the bed and began to charge at him. It also began to moan.
"What the hell?!" he yelled at the moaning sheets running out of the room.
"I'm going to eat your soul and kill your family if you don't leave my house!" the sheets moan as they ran after him. Ichigo made to the stairs. He automatically registered the voice to none other than the Kuchiki Brat's
"WHAT THE HELL, RUKIA?!" Ichigo yelled running down the stairs.
"You can run but you can't hide, I'm going to get-" the sheet ghost was interrupted by the wall. Rukia had managed to run blindly head first into the wall outside his door with a loud THUD. Ichigo who was now half way down the stairs began cracking up. Rukia had been knocked out cold as a result of her poorly thought out plan. He slowly climbed up the stairs, having to stop once for his inability to move because he was laughing so hard, and sat down next to the fainted Rukia. He lifted the sheets off her small figure and saw her sprawled against the floor, her eyes half way closed and a red mark on her forehead. His hand slowly moved to her forehead when the unconscious Rukia spoke ever so softly, "Boo." Her eyes completely closed after her last words. Ichigo jumped slightly at her words, he was sure she had been unconscious.
***
"ICHIGO YOU LOST FAIR AND SQUARE!" Rukia yelled at him at the top of her lungs.
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, RUKIA," Ichigo replied just as loudly. "I was NOT running in fear! AND I WAS NOT YELLING IN HORROR! I was yelling at you!"
"That's not how I remember it! You were pretty much cryin' for your mama!" she snapped back.
"That's not right! You don't remember do ya? 'Cause you were knocked out!" Ichigo realized feeling the battle coming to a close in his favor.
"UHUH!" She continued to protest despite Ichigo's newly found evidence. "I SAW you crying and yelling with my own eyes! Are you trying to call me a LIAR Kurosaki?! Kuchikis don't LIE! Unlike other people I know!"
"Rukia, you had a sheet over your head. You couldn't have possibly seen me." Ichigo left her at lost for words.
"Ichigo, you bastard! I let you get away with this yesterday 'cause I thought it would be fun to get you a second time but now your cheating, AGAIN! That's not fair!" She bellowed furiously.
"Whatever happened yesterday did count! Plus you didn't even scare me! Not today and not yesterday! You can't even REMEMBER what happened! You couldn't even SEE! Rukia you totally lost! Face it! You owe me Pocky!" Ichigo was sure he had won, especially by the expression she wore. She KNEW she lost.
"NO!"
He simply stared at her.
"No!" she shouted again. This time there was defeat in her voice. "Fine you'll get your Pocky, but you're gonna pay Kurosaki Ichigo! I WILL have my revenge!" her voice was icy and threatening. She stormed out of the room, slamming the door. He tried to not let her word get to him. But he couldn't shake off the feeling of fore boding.
***
Ichigo was sitting on the couch in front of the T.V. with his mountain of Pocky to his right and Rukia to his left. It was already getting late, the sun had set an hour ago, and Rukia had decided to stay home and watch horror movies with him instead of going out trick-or-treating with his sisters and crazy father. Which was fine by him, he didn't even mind sharing his newly won Pocky with her. In fact Ichigo was in a really good mood, he had found a way to erase the dreadful feeling that Rukia's threat had brought.
"SHIT!" Rukia squealed at his side jumping in her seat. They were currently watching Ju-On. (The Grudge) It was a pretty freaky movie in Ichigo's opinion. Rukia seemed thoroughly engrossed and afraid of the images. Perfect.
Just as the girl in the movie was entering the haunted house (despite Rukia's mantra of "Don't go in, don't go in…) a loud crashing noise from up stairs. Rukia jumped a mile high in her seat and swore loudly.
"Ichigo what was that?" she asked worriedly.
"I dunno… I'll go check it out…" Ichigo pushed himself off the couch, only to be pulled back by her hand.
"Ichigo! Don't leave me alone! What if it gets you?" Rukia seemed to be thoroughly freaked by the movie. He couldn't otherwise explain her pale terrified face.
"Chill out, you'll be fine if you stay here, and I'll take the bat." He said grasping the bat he almost attacked her with. He left her on the couch, and headed up the dark stairs to the unknown threat.
Rukia waited patiently, no longer sucked into the movie. Instead she was at the edge of her seat straining to her anything from up stairs. The eerie music from the movie only added to her fear.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Ichigo's scream carried down the stairs, accompanied by a loud thud and another crashing noise. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Ichigo yelled, another thumping noise.
"ICHIGO!" Rukia sprang from the couch and ran up the stairs to help her friend. She had barley reached the hall when she ran into a dark orange-haired figured. "Rukia! I told you to stay down stairs!" another tall dark figure emerged from his room.
"ICHIGO! LOOK OUT!" Ichigo heeded her words and dove to the floor, bringing down Rukia with him, both of them narrowly missing the swinging of a bat. Apparently the dark frightening figure had taken possession of Ichigo's bat, the one he took to protect himself.
Ichigo swiftly pushed himself off the floor and rammed into the figure causing the mysterious form to fall down the stairs- but not before grabbing a hold of Ichigo and taking him down with it. Both landed with a house-shacking crash.
"ICHIGO!" Rukia cried dramatically down the stairs her voice full of concern and horror.
A chorus of booming male laughter came from below. Confused, Rukia headed down the stairs to see what was going on. Halfway down, she stopped seeing the red tattooed head of Abarai Renji laughing his ass off alongside Ichigo, who had tears in his eyes. Her face brightened with enlightenment.
"Ichigo you freaking bastard!" this only caused him to laugh harder. It seemed like he was trying to say something, but he was laughing so hard that he only made his laugh sound like he was chocking. "I said you would pay, Ichigo! Renji!" her last word held the tone of a command.
Renji promptly stopped laughing and straightened up. As if hearing an order he answered her with a "Hai!" he turned to Ichigo, whose laughter was subsiding due to his confusion. "Sorry, Ichigo" Renji said before knocking Ichigo out with one solid punch to the side of his head.
"Well, Rukia I'm gonna be off. I had a lot of fun during this trip in the real world, I didn't only fight hollows... You humans sure are interesting… Anything ya want me to tell your brother?" he asked wiping off dust from his pants.
"What! I am NOT a human!"He only laughed. "Anoo… can you tell Nii-sama that I am fine and that I'll come see him in a few in a few weeks!"
Renji nodded, "Sure thing. And ummm… have fun?" he looked down questioningly at Ichigo's lifeless form. "Whatever you have planned just be sure to stay out of trouble." He sounded doubtful.
"Don't worry I will! Later Renji!" she replied casually.
***
"TRICK-OR-TREAT!!!!" Rukia chimed cheerily. This was her forty-third time (she had been keeping count) saying that, and she still hadn't grown tired of saying it.
"RUKIA-CHAN! What a CUTE costume you have!" Chizurou sang. "What are you supposed to be? The grim reaper? Ummm… Kurosaki isn't gonna jump at me is he?" She looked down at the wagon Rukia had in front of her where a pale Ichigo laid in a mass pile of candy. He looked dead. But Chizurou didn't want to be taken unaware.
"Nah! Your safe! And yes you guessed right! I am the grim reaper! And Ichigo is dead! Inoue-san halped me make my robes!"
"LUCKY!" she squealed enviously. "Should I just drop the candy in the wagon?" Rukia nodded. After collecting her candy Rukia backed up to the street where she pulled out her bell and rang it loud crying, "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!"
That night Rukia gained twice as much as Pocky than she had lost, Feeling victorious. It was all about the Pocky in the end.
A/N: So what did you think? I liked how I ended this. Rukia takes Ichigo trick-or-treating with her but, she never really wins and he still gets his pocky so kinda like a win-win but Rukia gets more win. ^^ What was your favorite part and who ever guesses where the 'bring out your dead' part was from gets free pock. Sorry for the supper late update!!!! And this is kinda like a thanks giving thing too! If you live in America and celebrate that holiday, well anyways please review!
~Gady
P.S: If you want more of my writing and are an IchiRuki fan consider reading Realization.-thanks!