A/N~ I want to thank any one who left a review for the first part of my story. To return your kind gesture here is Chapter 1.

Please read and REVIEW, so I know I do have readers who are interested in the story....

Disclaimer- Bleach belongs to the genius that is Kubo-sensei!

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CHAPTER 1: In the Beginning

Rukia felt somewhat relieved after writing down her thoughts on paper. She knew she could never verbalize her feelings in to words, let alone have the boldness and courage to tell Ichigo face to face. She decided that the best thing to do was move out on her own. Although she was strapped for money, she would find a part time job or something. She would think about it and figure it out. There was one thing Rukia was and that was resourceful. She would figure out a way to make her move without giving herself away to Ichigo. She needed to be away from him and that small room she shared with him for so long. To be away from the only family she really knew. To be away from Ishiin, Karen and Yuzu who were nice and sweet and treated her like one of the family.

She would definitely miss hearing the Father and son's early morning fights. She would miss Yuzu's cooking delicious meals. She would also miss Karin's sarcastic comments.

She would miss the Kurosaki family very much. Yet, as much as she loved them, she could not continue living under the same roof as Ichigo.

As she began gathering her small belongings in her favorite Chappy bag, she continue reminiscing on the wonderful memories she had of Ichigo and herself...

~*Flashback*~

She remember the first time they met in Anatomy class back 2 years ago. It has been a Wednesday, and Matsumoto-sensei was know to give surprise pop-quizzes out of no had studied religiously the past few day because she did not like to be taken by surprise. Rukia always tried her hardest to be ready for anything and everything. These where some of the wise words her beloved sister Hisana had bestowed upon her since she was a child. As Matsumoto-sensei entered the classroom, all male (and some female) eyes fell upon her voluptuous body.

Rukia would always look dumbfounded at how obviously perverted the male population in her class were. Although Rukia did admit to herself that Matsumoto-sensei was a gorgeous woman with more than just a beautiful face, but also with enough assets to make someone like Rukia feel self-conscious of her lack in certain physical areas.

Rukia immediately realized that the guy with the spiky bright golden orange hair that sat next to the window in the far left corner never once drooled or looked at Matsumoto-sensei like the rest of the male students in class. Rukia immediately found him a bit interesting because he always seemed to be deep in thought and had a serious scowl in his face. She was curious about him, why he did not act like the rest of the males in her class. She was looking at him with such an intensity that said boy turned around and stared back at her. Rukia gasped at the look of his had never seen such intense eyes, and the color of his iris was like honey, or a golden sunset. As she shook herself out of her stupor, they boy got out of his seat and walked over to her seat.

Rukia instantly panicked when she realized that he was coming over to her seat. She did not know what to do, so the only capable thing that came to her petrified mind was to look down at her notebook and doodle Chappy the rabbit and try her hardest to run to her happy place. She wanted so baldy to kick herself for being so incredulously moronic. Rukia's desk was on the far right, close to the door. She always liked to sit next to the door so she could leave faster and make it in time for her next classroom. Today seemed that she should have considered running out of her classroom and out of the boy's way. He kept his eyes on her and then rushed past her and exited out the door. As he passed through her desk, Rukia swore she was about to faint. She did not know what to do. Once she realized that he had left out of the classroom, all she wanted to do was either for the floor to miraculously open up and swallow her whole or for Chappy to become magically alive and take her back to Chappy land where she would never have to come back. Just as she considered her options, Matsumoto-sensei said the 2 worse words she could have uttered: POP QUIZ! The class as a whole moaned in complaint, Rukia pulled out her lucky Chappy pen and put on her determined face that she was ready for the pop-quiz and that she was going to do her best and ace it! As Rukia continued refreshing her mind in the few minutes that she had left before Matsumoto-sensei passed out the pop-quiz, she felt that someone was looking at her.

She looked up and looked around to see if anyone was looking at her. When she noticed that one one was looking at her, she told herself that she must have been concentrating really hard that might had made her feel she received her quiz paper, her determined look took over her face and she began to take the quiz.

One thing Rukia was not aware of that the boy with golden orange hair had looked at her intently.

After 30 minutes Matsumoto-sensei rose from her chair; "Alright class, time is up! Now the fun part begins. Since we have 20 minutes left, I will be calling your name and pairing you with another of your classmates to go over each other's quizzes. This will give all of you an opportunity to review the material and receive 10 extra points for correcting your mistakes. As I read your name raise your hand and I will tell you who your partner is, let's begin Arisawa, okay, Asano, okay you two will partner up, ....Honsou, okay, Kojima, you two will pair up... Inoue, okay, Ishida, you two will partner... Kuchiki, okay, Kurosaki, okay you two pair up... Rukia almost chocked in her own saliva when she saw the person that raised their hand... the hair with golden orange hair raised his hand when Matsumoto-sensei called the name Kurosaki out...

Rukia became agitated as she began to collect her belongings and begin to move 3 desks down to be sitting next to the golden orange haired boy named Kurosaki. As she schlepped herself across the desk, she felt uneasy, her inner self was screaming - "RUN RUN RUN!" She tried breathing slowly and told herself : "Rukia Kuchiki, what in the world is wrong with you? This person is only a boy. Why are you acting like a girly girl? Kuchiki's do not act girly and definitely do not run away. So calm down!" She exhaled slowly and thought of Chappy for a while and then found herself feeling better. She took the desk next to him and she waited for Matsumoto-san to pass the pop-quizzes back to them so they could go over the answers together. While she waited she began to doodle Chappy in her notebook. While she was deeply enthralled in her "art" she was knocked out of her concentration when she heard some one's voice snort and said voice said "what in the hell is that? a rat?" Rukia felt her temperature rise and her eyes turn red towards where the voice came from thinking out loud: "Who the hell would dare call Chappy the RABBIT a rat!" She began to yell and fume to the voice that had the nerve to call Chappy such a horrible name! Her eyes locked with his and she felt her insides melt. She gasped and turned her face back to her notebook and begin to fiddle with the edge of her page. The golden orange haired boy said to her "Oi! What the hell was that all about? Who do you think you are midget to be yelling at me out of no where."

Rukia's eye began to twitch, first this orange carrot top called Chappy a rat, and now he was calling her a MIDGET!!! No one dare make fun of a Kuchiki and survive to tell about it. She turned around, got out of her desk and went over to face him face to face. "Look I don't know who the hell do you think you are carrot top, but no one calls me a midget, you overgrown buffoon!" "Ha, take that you pushover" Rukia thought in her head. Said carrot top started spurting "Blpt, carrroot top,bb--bb-uu--ff--oon!?!?!" He got up and began to yell at her:

"Dwarf!"

"Orange!"

"Mini-woman!"

"Jerk!"

"Loud-mouth!"

"Overgrown carrot!"

"Bitch!"

"STOP YELLING!" Matsumoto-san yelled. "Kurosaki Ichigo and Kuchiki Rukia both of you can spend more time together after school in detention where you two can spend more time yelling sweet nothings to each other." Ichigo said "sweet what? What are you thinking? I don't like this midget." Rukia glared at her, "what makes you think I want to spend time with Strawberry."

Ichigo turned bright red in anger and this only caused Rukia to chuckle in amusement. Matsumoto-san gave them both an evil glare "Shut up or Get Out!" They both sat down automatically and shut their mouths...

She was abruptly awoken from her flashback and began to pick up the pace when she looked at her cellphone and realized it was already 4pm. They would all be home in about an hour.

She picked up her shoes and took one last look at his room, his desk and her... well his closet. She would miss him terribly. But the ache in her chest brought her back to the reality that she needed to hurry up. She called Tatsuki one last time to make sure it was okay to stay with for the night...

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A/N- So I hope you guys have enjoyed this chapter. If you enjoyed it or not leave me a review so I know you are reading. If I do not receive any reviews, then I won't be encouraged to post the next chapter which *gasp* is almost done! If you leave a review, I will definitely get back to you.