A.N: I'm so sorry about the fact I posted the last chapter twice . It's hopefully all sorted now!

Chapter III: The Raven Who Could Slow Down Time

~Tuesday~

::Rukia's POV::

I feel like shit... My shoulder aches like hell and I don't even know where I am... Is it a hospital? It seems plausible, the walls are all white and it has an overly clean feel.

I sit up and immediately, the orange haired idiot from yesterday runs to me.

"You okay?" he asks, obviously concerned.

I nod, "Yeah, I'm fine."

A sharp pain arises in my shoulder and I wince.

He notices, "You're not."

"Oh, piss off." I snarl, it's not like he should care. I'm just some stranger after all.

He scowls, "This is my house, Dumbass."

I laugh, "Yeah right! This is a hospital."

"Yeah, this supposed hospital is actually my old man's clinic." he retorts, pushing me back down onto the bed gently.

"Stop touching me!"

He chuckles, "You remind me of someone, you know."

"Who?" I ask, crossing my arms and glaring, "Your girlfriend?"

"Hell no!" he yells, "Man, that's just disturbing..."

"Not your girlfriend then." I remark, snickering slightly, "Boyfriend then?"

He makes a gagging noise.

I burst out laughing, "Your reaction is so damn hilarious!"

"Glad you find mentally scarring me so funny." he says, sighing slightly.

I smirk, "It's my speciality."

"I would never have guessed."

"Yeah, I know."

The boy grinned, "Kurosaki Ichigo." he announced holding out his hand.

I grabbed his hand and shook it, "Kuchiki Rukia."

The pain is back... I clutch my shoulder tightly, groaning.

"Lie back down," Ichigo commands, "You're going to reopen the wound if you don't."

Not wanting to make the pain worse, I heed to his instructions and slowly lower myself back down into a lying position on the bed.

"Try and get some sleep, okay?" he advises trying to be all smart ass doctor like or whatever. It made me wanna throw up on his stupid converse trainers.

I do what he says though just because I'm too tired to argue anyway. I slowly shut my eyelids and soon enough I'm traveling to dreamland. A land which is mainly filled with agonising memories and nightmares, anything but your lovely marshmallows and bunnies like I would prefer.

::Ichigo's POV::

This girl is strange. I don't understand her at all to be honest. There's so many questions I have to ask her.

Like, "Why did you save my life?"

Rukia splutters, now awake and listening to my questions, "Does there have to be a reason?"

"You risked your life for a total stranger. Are you saying that was just a coincidence, huh?" I argue.

She shakes her head, "Can't I just be a good person who didn't want to see someone murdered right before her eyes?"

"Well, it'd make more sense than practically killing yourself trying to save them."

"What about the time when you saved that little boy from getting run over by a truck?" My youngest sister, Yuzu started saying as she walked in the room with a tray full of food for Rukia.

"Or was that you just not wanting to see the little boy's guts splattered over the road?" completes Karin, Yuzu's slightly older fraternal twin sister. She set down some painkillers next to the glass of water on Rukia's bedside.

Damn them.

"That was completely different."

"No, it wasn't." they answer in complete unison.

Rukia snickers, "Hah, you're a goodie goodie kid saving two shoes, are you?"

I open my mouth to protest but Karin beats me to the chase, "Yep, he definitely is. Managed to land himself straight in A&E at his friend's dad's hospital too."

"I don't really need to explain myself then." says Rukia, with a pleased smirk on her face.

Yuzu giggles and stands on her tiptoes to whisper in my ear, "I like her. She's a real keeper."

I blush, "We're not like that, Yuzu!"

"Like what?" Rukia smiles with a fake innocence.

"So you two aren't dating?" Yuzu pouts.

Rukia's eyes flash with a playfulness I've never come across before, "What made you think that?"

::Rukia's POV::

Time to have some fun.

"We've been dating for a while."

Thee light brown haired girl gasps, "I knew Brother was going out with someone! I knew it! I knew it!"

The other girl, the one with the dark hair, looks at me knowingly. She's too smart to fool but she replies playing along, "It was pretty obvious."

Ichigo shakes his head, "There's nothing obvious because we aren't even dating!"

I go teary eyed, drama after all was my speciality, "Y-you're breaking up with me?"

The light haired girl smacks Ichigo, "How could you?! You heartless monster! That is no way to treat your girlfriend!"

"She's not my girlfriend!" Ichigo retorts.

The dark haired girl just purses her lips, "That's a whole new low, Ichigo."

Ichigo splutters, "For the last freaking time! She. Is. Not. My. Girlfriend!"

Another man, in his late forties maybe comes bumbling in, "My son isn't gay!?"

Ichigo just slaps himself in the face, "What did I ever do to deserve this?"

I just giggle. Who I assume are Ichigo's family are downright hilarious. It makes me feel almost bitter.

See, my parents passed away when I was about thirteen years old. There was a massive car collision and as they say, the rest is history...

My sister brought me up since then, along with her boyfriend. But recently, she's fallen extremely ill and we don't know what to do. I really don't want to lose someone again.

The light haired girl's chirpy voice brings me back to reality, "Now, Future Mrs. Kurosaki, you should probably ea- Oh! You're crying! What's wrong!?"

I shake my head, "N-no, nothing's wrong."

"Doesn't seem that way." It was Ichigo speaking. He was holding a cigarette and a lighter.

The older man sighed melodramatically, "You'll end up killing yourself, my boy. If not, you'll end up killing someone around you."

Ichigo waves his hand, the one with the lighter, before lighting his cigarette and throwing the lighter on a stray table next to him, "Whatever."

"You should listen to him," the dark haired girl replies picking up the lighter that Ichigo had thrown to the side.

The light haired girl rolls her eyes, "You're no better, Sis."

The dark haired girl smirks, "We all have our guilty pleasures."

"What am I meant to do? No matter what I do you guys don't listen to me..." The older man says plopping down onto the hospital bed next to mine.

Ichigo snorts, "Try being less annoying."

"Brother! Don't be so mean to Daddy!" The light haired girl chastises.

"Eh." Ichigo shrugs, his cigarette between his teeth. He took a deep breath and then exhaled the smoke through his nose.

"Smoking in a hospital is illegal, you know." I tell Ichigo.

He grins, "It's a clinic."

"Same thing." I reply.

"The woman has a point." The older man says, grabbing the cigarette Ichigo was holding before throwing it to the ground and stomping on it.

Ichigo groans, "When did you become the sensible kind of dad?"

The older man ignores Ichigo and holds his hand out to me, I take his hand and he smiles, "Kurosaki Isshin. But you can call me Daddy."

Ichigo sighs, "Please don't."

I giggle, "Okay, Daddy~"

Isshin laughs, "Welcome to the family, my forth daughter!"

"Who's the third daughter?" Karin asks, raising an eyebrow.

"Uryū-chan obviously."

Ichigo bursts out laughing at his father's response.

"Who's this Uryū-chan?" I ask curiously.

"Brother's friend." The light haired girl says before she remembers, "Oh! I've never really formally met you! I'm Kurosaki Yuzu!"

"Kuchiki Rukia." I say with a smile.

"Nice to meet you, Kuchiki-san." Yuzu gestures to the dark haired girl, "This is my twin sister, Karin."

Karin gives a small nod, "Hey."

These upcoming weeks I'll be staying in this hospital bed are going to be interesting. I know that for sure.

As Ichigo gave me a small smile I felt like I could maybe fit in with this crazy little family.

A.N: Ah, hello! I'm so happy with how this story is progressing! I better tell you that my posts will be quite erratic and I'll just be posting when I have time.

Huge thanks if you've left a review! Questions you've asked will be answered in due time. Don't be afraid to say what you think but please don't be harsh about it? I'm very inexperienced with writing fanfiction for public viewing.

And you might of noticed in the previous chapter Orihime called Sora "Onii-chan" but Yuzu (maybe Karin) calls Ichigo "Brother" in this chapter but I've decided once and for all I'm doing this story with minimal Japanese words. Just using honourifics because I feel they give you an idea of how close people are in their different kinds of relationships. I'll go back and edit things a lot as we go through I think ^_^

~Sammy-chan17