I hope you like the story so far, here's chapter 2.

And I think I forgot to put in the disclaimer for the last chapter so this one is for both Chapters 1 & 2.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

Enjoy!

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Rukia walked slowly down the hall, wondering if things could get any worse. She felt so ashamed. She had made it all this way only to kicked out of class on the very first day. She dreaded what she would have to say to Renji later. Thinking of Renji only made her feel worse; he hadn't even looked at her. Did he even wonder where she was? Rukia let out a depressed sigh as she slowly opened the door to the administration office.

The administration lady looked up at the sound of the door opening and smiled when she recognized who her guest was.

"Hello, Rukia! How was your first day?"

Rukia grumbled to herself. This lady was way too happy for her own good. Really! Did she look like she had a good day?

"I didn't make the class," mumbled Rukia.

"What did you say?" as the cheery woman.

"Ounabara-san kicked me out of the class for being late," she said a little bit louder.

"Oh!" gasped the lady finally getting what was going on. "I'm so sorry! I should have warned you, Ounabara-san is one of our strictest teachers."

"No, it's really just my fault," said Rukia miserably. "Uh…Do you have a new schedule for me?"

"For the regular class?"

How many other classes were there? "Yes."

She reached into her desk and pulled out new schedule for Rukia and handed to her.

"Dear, I wouldn't be too miserable if I were you. Don't worry. Just because you're in the other class doesn't mean you won't become a Shinigami," she said giving a comforting smile.

Rukia didn't answer. She just gave the woman a pained and very forced smile as she took her new schedule and walked out the door.

When Rukia finally reached her dorm again, she quickly put all her things away (which were few) and sat down on her bed. She just sat there for a second just trying to calm herself down. She would still become a Shinigami, so she was staying. She would show that teacher how wrong he was. No! She wouldn't even think about him, he was of no concern to her, she would just have to learn from someone else, from….she looked down at her schedule to see the name of her teacher. It was someone named Ochi-san.

Suddenly, the bedroom door opened to reveal a small girl who looked about her own size with dark hair pulled back into two short pony tails.

"Hello!" greeted the newcomer. "I guess I'm your new roommate." As she said this she dumped all of her things on to her bed and then walked over to Rukia with a sweet smile.

"I'm Momo Hiniamori," she said. "You can just call me Momo! You don't have to worry about suffixes either!"

Rukia returned the smile. I think I'm really going to like my new roommate. "My name is Rukia."

"Nice to me you Rukia!" she said giving her a huge. Rukia was a little taken aback by her boldness, but she found that she didn't it, coming from this friendly girl.

"It's nice to meet you too," replied Rukia as Momo broke away to return to her side of the room to start unpacking.

"So," began Momo. "What class are you in?"

For some reason –maybe it was the good mood that Momo had brought to the room- she didn't feel quite as bad about that topic as she only minutes before. "I'm in the regular classes. What about you?"

"I'm in the advanced classes, but I don't know why!" the girl looked frantic, in an amusing sort of way. "I don't think I'm going to last too long, but it's worth a shot!" She had a little bit of determination at the end there.

Rukia laughed lightly, this girl's behavior was really very funny. Or maybe she had just nervous about it being the first day of school.

Rukia and Momo talked late into the night. Momo was going around talking about how nervous she had been that day and how she didn't think she would make it the whole way through. Momo had need afraid she might trip over a watermelon and sprain her leg while trying to get to her afternoon class while carrying her heaviest books! Rukia just sat and laughed at the girl's ridiculous, yet funny worries. They finally went to sleep when Rukia said she needed to go to sleep because she had her first class tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning.

The next morning, Rukia woke up still a little tried. She slowly got out of bed and stretched as see looked over to the clock. She froze. The clock read 7:45. She groaned. Not Again! She thought as she dashed to the get changed.

Rukia ran across the grounds, sprinting towards the classrooms. Talk about Déjà-vu. The only thing that would make this compete would be if that orange head showed up. As she rounded the corner to get to the front, she prayed she wouldn't crash into anyone this time.

She made it around the corner and ran towards the door. Rukia didn't have any way of telling time, but she could tell it was getting close because there were a bunch of others that seemed to be in her same position.

As she sped up Rukia raced past classrooms and finally came to the correct hall way with what looked like a little bit of time to spare.

"You know, you're going to kill someone someday if you keep up this running habit of your," came a voice to the right of her.

Rukia turned her head to find the orange hair boy from yesterday running up alongside her. She was surprised, but she also started getting angry again remembering what happened the day before.

"Why?" she answered. "Do you want to die? I can arrange that if you want."

"What the hell is your problem?" he said, his voice climbing a bit.

"You made me late yesterday! Not to mention you also crashed right into me!" yelled Rukia, not really caring who heard their conversation.

"Well it's not like I'm the one who made you late today!"

"Yeah, and it doesn't look like I'm the only one late," said Rukia with a smirk.

"Shut up midget! Its way too early in the morning for any sane person to be up!" he said trying to defend himself.

"What did you call me!" yelled Rukia. Unfortunately for the boy they had arrived at the classroom causing them to stop, making it easy for Rukia to deliver a nice punch into his stomach. Then she turned around and walked into the classroom. Leaving her parting words to the boy who was now doubled over in pain, "You should have learned you lesson yesterday."

"Welcome!" greeted the teacher as her last two remaining students came into the room. "What are your names?"

"Ichigo Kurosaki," answered Ichigo with his regular scowl on his face.

"I'm Rukia," said the raven haired girl with a smile and a face that said I-am-so-innocent-and-perfect.

Ichigo glanced down at the girl. Did she really think she could pull off that act? But, the rest of the class didn't really seem to notice, in fact, Ichigo saw that they watched the girl with interest, especially those of the male gender.

"Welcome Ichigo and Rukia!" said the teacher. She didn't seem to care if they were a little bit late. "Now you two can go over and sit at the table over there towards the back by the window."

I have to sit next to him?! Thought Rukia

They had better change seats soon. Thought Ichigo.

They walked to the table where Ichigo claimed the window seat. Rukia gave him a small glare that went unnoticed by the rest of the class. But, Ichigo refused to move and unless she wanted to make a scene she was forced to sit in the seat next to the aisle.

"Now that we're all here let's go over a few things. First…" Ichigo stopped paying attention and drew his gaze toward the window. I can't believe I had to wake up just for this. He sighed; it was going to be a day.

Board, Ichigo turned to see what the raven head next to him was doing. Unexpectedly, she wasn't paying attention either. I guess she found this to be pointless too. (Actually there were only a few student left who were actually still paying attention.) Rukia had taken out her sketch book and was drawing, but what it was, Ichigo had absolutely no idea.

Rukia, feeling his gaze on her paper, turned to face him. "What do you want?" she said quietly enough so that Ichigo could easily hear her, but no one else could.

"What the hell are you drawing?"

"Are you really that dumb? Obviously it's a rabbit."

"A rabbit?" repeated Ichigo disbelievingly. "You could have fooled me."

"You just know true art when you see it!" Rukia was starting to heat up again.

"No," said Ichigo. "I think I know the difference between the drawings of a professional and a five year old."

Rukia didn't say anything; instead Ichigo once again felt her foot come into contact with his leg.

"Oww!" said Ichigo a little too loudly.

"Is there something wrong Kurosaki-san?" came Ochi-san's voice from the front.

"No," lied Ichigo sending a death glare in the direction of the raven haired girl who was now laughing at him from behind her hand, her violet eyes dancing.

"Well, either way I suggest that everyone start paying attention now because the next information is important," said Ochi-san to the class. Everyone immediately came out from their dream world in order to pay attention.

"Now," continued the teacher when she was sure she had everyone's attention. "While you attend the Academy, you will be partnered up with someone from this class and for the rest of your classes as well. This will help you learn and improve and they will be your partner for you preliminary assignments in the world of the living while you are still in school. It will also help you with the skills you need when working with other people as you will do when you become a Shinigami. " She paused a second, waiting for the information to sink in.

"Who will be our partners, Ochi-san?" said one of the students.

"Hold on I was just getting to that!"

Ichigo and Rukia were pretty much thinking the same thing, I don't care who I'm with as long as it's not-

But, Ochi-san cut off their thoughts. "Alright everyone! I want each of you to look at the person sitting next to you. They will be your partner at the Shinigami Academy."

Ichigo and Rukia turned to look at each other; their eyes open wide in shock. Their faces were both saying the same thing:

What?!?!?

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I would like to thank CharmedNightSkye for reviewing chapter 1 and if any one has any comments, suggestions, ect. please just drop me a quick review I would like to know what you think of the story so far.

A/N: 1. I have been trying to keep the characters from being too OOC and I think I might have had some in this chapter, especially with Momo, but for this chapter I wanted her to lighten up the mood a bit and so I made he over friendly, but I'll try to draw her back in later chapters.

2. The thing with the partner thing, I don't know what you guys will think of that, but I wanted to force them together some how and I needed them to be working togther some how for future events.

Thanks for reading! Please Review!

~StrawberryShinigami