Love & Ichigo

If You really Cared

"Rukia san" Orihime said as she walked up to Rukia who had nearly forgotten all about the conversation she had asked to have. Rukia couldn't believe out of all the people she could tell she was leaving it was going to be her, Rukia knew her leaving would give Orihime the perfect opportunity to admit her feelings to Ichigo. Rukia really couldn't say she didn't care because even though Ichigo never admitted to having feelings for Orihime, doesn't mean he won't in the future and thats what scared Rukia the most knowing that when she comes back if she ever comes back Ichigo won't be hers to touch, hug and kiss anymore he would be somebody else's, he would love somebody else.

Orihime caught up to Rukia only to find her eyes full of guilt and pain with a slight hint of torture. 'Rukia had always been so strong, what could have her this broken' Orihime said to herself, Rukia had always been a role model to her so strong and smart in her eyes, she could even make Ichigo smile, something she could never do, and for some reason she could make the rain stop, she moved the clouds that stopped his heart.

"Rukia chan whats wrong?" Orihime said with a pleading look in her eye's.

"Orihime I" Rukia said starting what would be another guilt, another mistake on her belt. "For the last past five months me and Ichigo have been going out"

"What do you mean, please don't tell me Rukia chan that that's the reason" Orihime tried to get out but was stopped by Rukia.

"Orihime please let me finish" Rukia saw Orihime bow here head, giving Rukia a signal to continue on. "In 5 day's I'm going back to the soul society"

"What do you mean?"

"In other words, I'm leaving the world of the living Saturday"Rukia said trying to get past the obvious.

"So does that" Orihime stopped realizing the way Ichigo and Rukia have been acting lately "Wait does Kurosaki kun know?"

"Well, I, Um" Rukia said trying to figure out an excuse.

"How could you be so selfish as to not tell Ichigo kun"

"It's not like that, you don't understand"

"I've seen th way you 2 look at each other. He loves you and you abuse it" Orihime said getting riled up.

"You don't know what's going on" Rukia said pleading for her friend to not make it any harder.

"Then tell me, you're never together anymore, why is it so hard why can't you tell him?"

"He'll only make it harder for me, he'll ask me to stay, 5 weeks ago Renji came and told me that I'd be leaving and every since then, Ichigo and I have been fighting. Truth is I don't know why i stayed this long, why I just didn't leave with him because I know now that I can't bring myself to tell him that I'm leaving."

"You have to be strong Rukia, tell him that your leaving because if you don't and you just leave he'll never forgive you" Orihime said feeling hurt

"I'm so confused I"

"What about Ichigo?"

"I don't know"

"He'll come for you Rukia, he'll come looking for, then he'll regret you and when you come back if you ever com back, he'll regret everything you guys ever were, he'll change. He won't be Ichigo Kun anymore. I can't let you do that to him, his mom left without saying goodbye, don't you think thats enough, Don't you care?" Orihime asked

"Of course I care!" Rukia said as tears began to rip from her eye's

"Don't you love him?"

"Of course I do but..."

"There's no buts in love, If you really loved him, If you really cared" Orihime said as she began to walk away then stopped to finish her sentence. "You would've told him 5 weeks ago.