The Plan

At present, Rukia, Tatsuki and Orihime were in a club. A club, which they knew Ichigo and his gang frequented. It was no coincidence that they were here; they had a specific objective in mind. Especially Rukia.

Ichigo's group was sitting in a VIP booth and the girls acted as if they didn't notice them. Rukia had to act fast before Ichigo approached her. This was going to be as easy as pie…or whatever that is easy to bake.

The club was crowded and the guys hoarded towards the girl like ants to sweets. Tatsuki and Orihime chose a guy and took off towards the dance floor. They left the best guy for Rukia, since she had purpose for all this fiasco. The guy, whatever his name was, and Rukia proceeded to the dance floor too. The events that followed could be described as a 'Plan Fail' for Rukia.

As soon as they were on the dance floor, Ichigo got up from his seat and started walking towards them. That was a good thing, they could have a big fight right then and there and she could wash her hands off of Ichigo.

Hell broke loose as the guy, whatever his name was, put his hands on her hips. She was yanked behind some one and a loud crunch was heard, which could be the sound of a fist hitting a face. Yep! She was right. Poor guy, he had a good face which was now rearranged, all thanks to Ichigo. She was pulled back by Renji and Ichigo's fist was embedded in the guy's face.

Currently all the three girls were sitting in a VIP booth, surrounded by very imposing looking bodyguards a.k.a Ichigo's gang. Rukia felt like banging her head on the wall till her head split open. She hadn't achieved her goal and a guy was injured in the melee.

Rukia looked to her left and saw Renji staring at her. She always knew that Ichigo's best friend had a crush on her from the very first time they met. However, she hooked up with Ichigo, so he couldn't do anything about it. May be now was her chance, Ichigo could beat up some random guy but not his close friend; she could capitalize on that. She somehow managed to coax Renji to dance with her, with Ichigo's consent of course.

Renji wasn't a bad dancer, just a bit awkward. Somehow, she was enjoying it; for a minute she forgot about why she was doing all this and went with the flow. It felt even better when Renji relaxed a bit. They were very close, grinding against each other without any inhibition. Again the same sequence followed as before, she was yanked away and then a crunch. Oh Crap! Ichigo's fist was embedded in Renji's face. At that instant Rukia lost her cool.

"How could you do this Ichigo? Is this your way of saying that I can't even dance with my friend?" the whole club was silent, even the DJ turned down the music. Ichigo just looked at her with guilt written all over her face. Rukia should have been the one feeling guilty, after all, two guys were hurt and Ichigo looked ready to crawl under a rock all thanks to her behaviour. Instead, she walked out of the club with the girls on her tail.

The next day she got up feeling very light. It was over; the words 'break-up' weren't spoken out loud, but somehow she felt that Ichigo was not going to approach her in the near future. She literally skipped to the campus, where a dismal looking Ichigo was waiting for her. What a wet blanket!

"Look Rukia I'm sorry for how I acted yesterday. I even apologized to that guy and to Renji. So please forgive me. I promise I'll never do such a thing ever again. But please don't hate me."

Shit! Now what? If Rukia ignored him now, she'll look like a jerk who broke an innocent person's heart. All the girls were 'aww'-ing at him. The way he said all this even made some of the guys to pity him. Curse her life! All this drama to get away from him, but she could only utter the following words.

"I forgive you…"

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