Disclaimer: I do not own any of Bleach; they belong to Tite Kubo. This is just an AU fanfic.
"Tomorrow's the prom night, class. Make sure you dress nice and look nice, and the guys, please be gentle with the ladies tomorrow evening since you're going to be gentlemen. And I hope you all have fun at the event." Nanao, the teacher of class 3-1 said to her students, and they all were a little tense for the event; all but Ichigo.
He was never interested in parties or anything like that. And he never joined the previous proms that were held in the school, but this time he decided to attend for Momo's sake.
Since their first date together they started going out and they had fun together. Ichigo felt better and wasn't that much distant to the girls anymore but it doesn't mean that he is all chatty with them.
He talks to them only sometimes. Momo also felt the barriers in her heart disappearing, and wasn't afraid of loving anymore.
Later, Momo ran back home without Ichigo walking her there, and she quickly entered the house as she excitedly greeted Rangiku a good afternoon. She panted from all the running and grabbed her friend by the arms, her face looking desperate.
"Rangiku-san, I need your help here." Momo breathed loudly, and the strawberry blonde raised an eyebrow.
"How about this one?" Rangiku showed an ebony silk dress in front of Momo, who was thinking of her opinion.
"Black is not my color, and I'll look evil in that dress. I want the one that Ichigo will love." She answered and Rangiku hanged the dress back in the cabinet, taking out the next dress.
"Okay then this one." The dress this time was so red, and it was sleeveless and shows a girl's chest, making them look good. Momo shook her head. "Too spicy red. I don't want to look like a temptress and seduce all the guys." Rangiku laughed and showed her the next dress, which is a cobalt blue dress that reached up to the ankles.
"What about this?" Momo was taken in by the dress. "I love that, but let's see about the others. Let's just put that on the bed for now." Rangiku agreed and tossed it on the bed, removing the other dresses that had yet to be judged by the girl going to the prom tomorrow. "Okay, I have this pink dress."
"Put that with the blue one." Momo requested, fidgeting out of nervousness.
"Hmm, this turquoise one suits you too." Rangiku said, looking at the teal dress that was shining like emerald gems.
"That too." After giving their opinions and handing out dresses, there were only five dresses left on the bed, waiting to be chosen by Momo.
"Well, that's all the prom dresses I have for you to wear, and your choices are either the pink, the white, the brown, the blue or the green one." Momo had to choose, and she was thinking carefully.
The pink dress would make her look cute and cheerful, the white one would make her look fresh and angelic, the brown one makes her look simple but pretty, the blue makes her look cool and elegant and the green one makes her look nice and balanced. It was hard to choose one as she liked them all.
After a long while which Rangiku waited patiently for, Momo made her decision.
"Ichigo! Tomorrow's the big night! Let's go buy you a suit for your girlfriend so that you'd look perfect in her eyes." Isshin exclaimed excitedly for his son, and Ichigo just rolled his eyes as he sat on the car and they started going to the dress shop. Ichigo entered as his father stormed in like an idiot.
Only when the old man entered he became serious and mature again, and this made Ichigo sigh to how fast Isshin could change his mood.
After a long time of fitting and looking at the mirror, the orange head held out a certain tuxedo in front of his father, pairing it with black shoes that were shiny and lovely to look at. Isshin agreed and took it, paying the price which was a lot of yen.
They went back home and Ichigo wore it, looking at it in the mirror.
He looked at a tiny box lying down on the bed, and what was inside was very expensive though luckily there was a sale a month changed back to his normal clothes and looked at the box, fiddling with it. Ichigo put it inside the drawer and fell asleep, thinking and dreaming of Momo.
At five in the late afternoon everyone was in school, wearing the best clothes they have at home. They were all in the large auditorium, the teachers and students chatting with each other. There was lots of food, and lots of punch. And the whole place was full of lights.
Ichigo was sitting on a chair, holding the box in his hand while quietly saying a lot of words repeatedly and making them better the next time he says it; like he was reciting.
He wanted it to be perfect, no mistakes made on this.
He stopped talking when he saw the most beautiful woman among all of the girls of Karakura High, she was wearing a light blue dress which she made all by herself within an hour.
She couldn't choose between the white and the dark blue dress so she decided to make a dress with the two colors combined. The dress was sparkling under the white lights, and her hair was very beautiful. It was glossy and layered. And the make up on her was simple though it made her look ten times more beautiful than she was before.
Ichigo hid the box in his pocket and approached her as she approached him too. Momo gasped when she saw what her boyfriend looked like.
He was wearing a tuxedo that made him look a hundred times more handsome, and it gave him a cooler, more confident and smoother look. The shoes were great too, and the hair was silkier than before. He looked incredibly divine.
Now with them together, the real prom was just about to begin.
A/N: Okay, after the next chapter which is about the prom I will end this story and start with an sequel entitled Peaches and Strawberries, but I am still busy with my other stories. Thank you Nightkill for being loyal to this story from the beginning.