A/N-Thank you very much to everyone that has made this story or me a favorite of theirs, and in particular anybody who has reviewed. I tend to look at reviews more than once, via the review page, and I always find great inspiration from those of you who give me feedback…especially you DH! In fact because you have been inspirational to me for years now, I'm double dedicating my entire next long story after this one to you and Lithium Rukia!
…Yes everybody, I already have the plot of my next long story, thanks Lithium Rukia! (her concept, my twist!) I hope everybody continues loving Bleach and loving my favorite pairing! I've never loved a couple as much as I love Ichigo and Rukia together. I just hope we get to see Kubo's version of them being together, to see which of my one shots was closest to the actual Ichigo and Rukia dynamic.
If you haven't read any of my other work, it's my suggestion that you go check it out. This one and AGREED TO IN INNOCENCE are my only AU stories. Everything else is Ichigo and Rukia as Shinigami, although I admit I sometimes get carried away with whatever plot I'm doing and they become OOC. Try to be understanding on that, I have plenty with them IC too!
Tidbits on my next story…for now you can only find that here. It will be a fun story, where Ichigo finds himself in a situation he never thought he'd find himself in. Ichigo and Rukia will be Shinigami, however, their daily lives outside of Shinigami work will drastically change when a terrible incident takes place. Watch Ichigo have to endure a situation none of us ever thought he'd find himself in.
I will begin that one immediately after I finish this one, but no matter how excited I am to write the next one, I'm also thrilled with the way this one is coming along. The end isn't really close as far as I'm concerned in this one, the excitement has only just begun.
Alright, enough notes from me, although I rarely post authors notes this long, I just felt like giving everyone an update, before continuing on with the story. Please Enjoy!
Chapter 22
Workout
"It has been way too long since I've had a serious day of workout." Rukia announces, and Ichigo lifts an eyebrow at her.
"What do you call what we've been doing? We've hardly left this hotel room, if you consider how much time we've already been here." Ichigo objects, and Rukia grins at him.
"Honey, that's an awesome cardio workout, but I feel like my muscles are starting to become weak! I was sore after I lobbed that thug when working with the FBI!" Rukia admits to Ichigo, and he frowns at her.
"I'm sure the way I treated you prior to leaving had more to do with that than you tossing that douche bag down the road." Ichigo says, and Rukia sighs.
"It doesn't matter Ichigo, there's a gym here, and I'm going to be making up for lost time. I've gotten a bit lazy since I met you." Rukia says, and Ichigo frowns again.
"I'm coming with you."
"Why do you sound angry?" Rukia asks, and Ichigo doesn't lose the sour look on his face.
"This is coming from the wife I thought spent hours playing video games…" Ichigo grumbles, and Rukia realizes his feelings are hurt because she made it sound like it's his fault she's lazy.
Well it is, but not in the way he took it…
"I have spent hours playing video games…but I've also had serious workouts, since I was thirteen." Rukia admits quietly, and Ichigo bites his lip since he's going in blind on this one.
"How serious?" Ichigo asks, and Rukia holds his gaze with her own.
"Very serious. There were even weekends where I trained in the mountains, and deep in the forest, where I'm sure few men have been before." Rukia says, and Ichigo isn't sure what that means.
"What did you do?"
"Many difficult training exercises." Rukia says distantly, and Ichigo isn't sure what to make of that, even though he knows she's ridiculously strong.
"Sounds dangerous."
"It was, but Ichigo…when I said I've been lazy since I met you, I wasn't insulting you, it was more like I was admonishing myself. The priorities in my life quickly changed, and I forgot all about working out when you came in my life." Rukia says, and her husband finally starts to smile.
"Does this mean the honeymoon is over?" Ichigo asks, since she's thinking about working out now.
"Not really…I was reminded that I need to work out after the whole FBI deal, not to mention, you and I are supposed to go train some of their best guys…I want to prepare and give those men the respect they deserve." Rukia says fervently, and Ichigo nods his head.
"I'll come with you, but you're going to have to help me, if working out with you gets me rock hard. You'll make the swelling go down, won't you, honey?" Ichigo says using his hands to indicate he is talking about his erection, and Rukia smirks at him.
"No. I'll let you suffer. I'm going to be selfish today Ichigo, so maybe you'll have to get some help from your right hand until the workout is complete." Rukia says, and she nearly laughs at the way her husband gasps, at her response and is now visibly pouting.
"Your workout won't be complete without your cardio." Ichigo reminds her, and Rukia laughs.
One track mind!
"When you're right, you're right. I can't skip the cardio because I'm doing weights. I have to go all the way." Rukia says, and Ichigo looks like he might start cheering.
"Hey Rukia, why don't you give your neck a good workout before we head out?" Ichigo asks, and his wife turns bright red, when he points at his crotch with a goofy look on his face.
Rukia seems uncertain for a moment but then she points her index finger at her husband before she makes her announcement.
"You owe me."
Ichigo is speechless as he watches his wife bench press what's more than likely twice her weight without any apparent difficulty.
I hope she never gets mad at me…
"I feel like I won't be able to do sets if I add anymore weight." Rukia grumbles, and Ichigo blinks twice.
"Don't you have enough weight on there?" Ichigo inquires, wondering where the hell she's pulling all her strength from.
"Even though I said I'd go all the way with the workout, I didn't want to get too aggressive and hurt myself, when it's critical I'm in condition to train the FBI guys. If I hadn't strayed from my typical routine, I'd be lifting and pressing a lot more." Rukia tells him, and Ichigo is amazed.
He's not so amazed that he doesn't still stare at every inch of his wife's body. She's got on some spandex shorts that go down just past her knees, and a sports bra. Her hair is tied into pigtails, and he can't wait for their cardio workout. The little beads of sweat on her, only turn him on more. He feels his groin react to what he's seeing.
I can't get enough of her…I want to strip her naked and do her right here…
"Ichigo?" Rukia says, since he hasn't responded, but she catches the glint in his eyes, and she's actually surprised. "You're a damn sex addict." Rukia informs him, and at the mention of the word sex, his ears twitch a bit.
"Let me do you right here." Ichigo says, and Rukia's eyes widen.
"Anyone could walk in here! At any time!"
"Who cares? The reporters are only on our ass in Japan anyways. You're too sexy for me to stop myself." Ichigo warns her, and Rukia is in a tough spot since she can't just dodge out of the way. She has to carefully set the weights back on the bar, and by the time she's accomplished that, he's on top of her, peeling up her sports bra.
"You're nuts!" Rukia squeals, as his hands cover her breasts, and he leans down to whisper in her ear.
"It'll be a quickie, I promise." He seals that promise with a kiss, and then works on sliding down her shorts and panties in one smooth motion.
Rukia's eyes widen as he frees his beast from within his pants, and he spreads her legs apart, leaning his head in, to make sure she's wet enough to take him on such short notice. She gasps in pleasure, and he works his tongue as fast as he can possibly move it, with short and long strokes across her clit making her hips thrust involuntarily, letting him know he was making the progress he was looking for.
He makes one final effort, trying to duplicate what he'd just done a moment earlier, before he backs off, and then gets his other head near her entrance.
He slides into her easily, and he groans as he does.
"God Rukia, your pussy is so tight, and it tastes so sweet!" Ichigo announces, not realizing that the door to the workout room has opened, and Rukia's brother is standing there with a look of death on his face. Renji and Kenpachi are directly behind him.
"Rukia!" Byakuya bellows at the couple and Ichigo rushes to pull Rukia's bra back down as quickly as he can.
Kenpachi is snickering, and Renji chokes, as Rukia's eyes open and she realizes precisely who has shown up.
"Ni-sama!"
"What in the hell were you thinking! Have you forgotten where you come from?" Byakuya shouts, and Rukia rolls her eyes, but not before she gives Ichigo's ass one giant squeeze for all eyes to see.
"Payback is a bitch, Ichigo." Rukia whispers, and Ichigo looks like he's about to go into an epileptic seizure, and not in the good sexual type of way.
"Don't ignore me, young lady!" Byakuya shouts again, and Rukia glares at him.
"Don't you dare take that tone with me, I'm on my honeymoon! If you and your bodyguards aren't gone within three seconds, I'll come kick your ass in front of everyone!" Rukia yells back, and Byakuya quickly steps back, slamming the door shut. Ichigo lets out a snort, while he eyes his wife, as she quickly gets her shorts back on.
"You call me crazy? Why'd you anger the beast?" Ichigo whispers at her as he yanks his pants up, and then looks lost as to how to hide his hard on which hasn't gone away…and that's disturbing in itself, for Ichigo.
Rukia notices, points at his dilemma, and then openly laughs. Ichigo shakes his head in dismay, as he looks around for her bag, hoping there are two towels in there.
Ichigo and Rukia exit the workout room, with Ichigo looking like her pool boy with a towel draped over his arm held out in front to try and hide what everyone knows he's hiding.
"We need to talk." Byakuya says, and Rukia frowns.
"What's so important that you had to interrupt my honeymoon?" Rukia inquires, and her brother looks like he wants to wring her neck.
"I'll tell you soon enough."
The walk is quiet, and soon they're in the hotel room directly below their own honeymoon suite. They all enter, and Ichigo notices it's as luxurious as their own. Byakuya motions them towards the couch.
"Has something happened ni-sama?" Rukia asks, and Byakuya pins her with a stare that would surely kill her if looks could kill.
"Just Hurricane Rukia, out to destroy the Kuchiki family." Byakuya says coldly, and Rukia's eyes widen.
"What are you talking about, ni-sama? We won't do it in the workout room again, if that's why you're mad." Rukia says, sensing that now is not the time to mess with her brother.
"I've heard about your latest mission." Byakuya informs her coldly, and Rukia is truly shocked. She gasps in response to his statement, because so few people know, and the plan wasn't supposed to be leaked yet.
"How?" Rukia breathes, as her face turns white, and Ichigo crosses his arms, waiting on the explanation from Byakuya as well.
"A private investigator." Byakuya says, and Rukia's eyes narrow.
"The only ways you could have learned about my latest mission were if you were snooping into my personal business!" Rukia snaps, but Byakuya holds up a hand.
"Don't take that tone with me young lady, or I'll have Kenpachi put you in handcuffs!" Byakuya threatens, and Rukia glares openly at her brother.
Kenpachi is one man I'm not sure I could take…
"Don't act like you're my father!" Rukia growls at her brother, and he gives her another angry look.
"That's not the point! What in the hell are you trying to get yourself into? Are you so damn ignorant that you're willing to risk the lives of every person who knows you?" Byakuya asks, and Rukia scoffs at the mere thought of such a thing happening.
"That's crazy, ni-sama."
"Is it? The enemies you have picked…they have absolutely no sense of honor, or fair play. The moment they discern you're their enemy, they'll pour their resources into destroying you. Don't think they can't match the Kuchiki Group in terms of funding, they absolutely can!" Byakuya's voice is loud, and he looks like he's about to lose all of his cool, just like he always used to when they were younger.
"What do you know about it anyways?" Rukia asks, and Byakuya is practically breathing fire.
"I know that these are the types of people that will bomb a bus full of school children! These are the type of people who will slit your throat with a dull knife, and videotape it to show how barbaric they are! They'll gang rape you and worse!" Byakuya shouts, and Rukia's eyes begin to flash.
"I'd like to see them try it!"
"They'll come after your family, they'll come after your friends, they'll probably even come after your husband's family! And your plan is such that it will anger the world of those fiends to no end!" Byakuya sneers, and Rukia crosses her arms.
"I have the full support of my husband."
"You insist on going along with this scheme of yours, even after I've told you about the danger?" Byakuya says, his eyes showing his amazement, and Rukia practically snorts.
"Ni-sama, as ignorant as you assume I am, I have done research. I do know my enemies. I do know I'm insulting them, and you know what? I don't give a rat's ass! I am insulted that my mother-in-law couldn't attend my wedding due to their foul sense of what's right and wrong! They started this war, I'm going to finish it!" Rukia says, and Byakuya looks like he wants to pull his hair out.
"Then I'm leaving the two bodyguards with you. While you're in America, you should really get some sort of protection. Like a gun." Byakuya says, and his sister scrunches up her nose in disdain.
"I don't need bodyguards or a gun! My hands are deadly enough weapons." Rukia objects but her brother is feeling particularly stubborn at the moment, so he doesn't let her have her way on this one.
"If you insist on getting involved with such a dangerous scheme, I don't want anybody at your funeral saying I didn't do enough to protect you." Byakuya warns her, and Rukia feels dread in her stomach.
Somehow I doubt the bodyguards are all ni-sama has planned…
"Don't forget Rukia, I'll be getting regular reports, so don't do anything stupid." Byakuya warns her, and Rukia resists the urge to stick her tongue out at him.
"Okay! Bye!" Rukia says with a wave, and then she rests her hand on her husband's ass, squeezing it ever so tenderly, getting her brother to shake his head in a hopeless manner.
"He's already going back? It's such a long plane ride though," Ichigo says with surprise, but Rukia shakes her head no.
"Ni-sama is probably going to stay here long enough to see something on Broadway. He loves theater, believe it or not." Rukia tells her husband, and he glances behind him at the large intimidating bodyguard and Rukia's childhood friend.
"He also loves being annoying." Ichigo mutters, and Rukia nods her head in agreement, before she motions him to bring his ear down so she can whisper in it.
"Want to lose the help, and go have sex in a public place?" His wife suggests, and Ichigo's eyes widen.
Not particularly… considering who busted in on us last time…
Rukia can see her husband's hesitation, and she gives him the smile of a true rebel.
"I just love to make ni-sama squirm uncomfortably, and you owe me." Rukia says, and Ichigo shuts his eyes for a second, wishing he had the ability to tell her no, but he doesn't.
"Fine."
"Okay, we should shower together then." Rukia says loudly enough for the bodyguards to hear, and Renji turns his head and pretends to be deaf, while Kenpachi eyes them with interest.
"Right behind you, Rukia." Ichigo says, and he can feel his crotch reacting to the idea of showering with her.
Ichigo looks up towards the ceiling of the hotel, hoping there is a god in the heavens to hear his prayer.
Please don't let us get interrupted again, please!
"We can't jump off the roof." Ichigo says in a stubborn tone, and Rukia rolls her eyes.
"We're not jumping off the roof, we're jumping to the next roof." Rukia says calmly, but her husband puts his hand up.
"No. I'm not and don't think I'll let you do it either." Ichigo says, but he doesn't expect his wife to begin a running start the moment those words leave his lips.
She runs and leaps into air, pushing off the roof with an amazing amount of power, his jaw drops as she sails over to the next roof and lands as perfectly as a housecat.
"You coming, Ichigo?" Rukia calls out, and Ichigo can no longer deny her wishes. He's not about to say he won't do it, when she did it so perfectly.
He dashes at top speed towards the edge, and leaps with all of his might towards his wife, who looks excited to see he's decided to join her.
He's not nearly as graceful as his wife, and if she hadn't stepped forward for him to crash into her, he probably would have cracked his head on the roof from his own momentum. Rukia manages not only to stop him from falling to his face, she manages to keep from falling to the ground herself, despite the impact caused by his body coming at her with gravity to help it along.
"This is nuts…" Ichigo says, in a panicked voice, and his wife just grabs his ass with lots of enthusiasm.
"Just one more building before we go down the flights and walk outside." Rukia says encouragingly, but Ichigo shakes his head.
"Haven't we tempted death enough by that last crazy leap? And you are in such a short skirt! How can you do this so easily?" He asks incredulously, but his wife is in complete disagreement.
"We can tempt death some more! Come on! The only one who will see up my skirt is you!" His wife extracts herself from his grasp rather easily, to his disconcertion and takes a running start on the roof towards the next building.
She goes sailing through the air once more, and Ichigo feels his heart drop through his stomach.
"Damn it Rukia, until death do we part, didn't mean you're supposed to try to kill me!" Ichigo yells, and he can hear his wife laughing from the next roof over.
"It's only one more Ichigo, you can do it!" Rukia calls out, and Ichigo shakes his head at his own madness, for following her even across roofs, in order to be able to have sex with his wife again…
This will teach me to take her more seriously the next time she says I owe her…