Okay... This was supposed to be 'the sims 3' but I kinda scrapped that idea at the last minute. I had this story in my hard drive for a while now, actually I totally forgot about this until I came across it 2 days ago and well after editing it a bit here and there this came out!

Hope you all like it!

Chapter 3

Left 4 dead

It all started late one afternoon with a harmless bet.

The first to make it to the Kurosaki's house get's whatever he/she wanted, no excuses, no take backs. It was just a simple race with a simple bet.

Of course Ichigo got the upper hand what with his tall, sturdy stature and long legs, compared to Rukia who was shorter.

So of course he readily agreed.

What he forgot was that Rukia could easily outwit him.

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Ichigo sighed. He looked up at the wide array of chappy related items on display. There was a chappy bag, a chappy themed notebook, erasers and pencils, pencil cases, plushies and so on and so forth. There was so many of them Ichigo didn't know how to react, sure chappy the rabbit was popular among the little girls but this was just ridiculous.

There was, absolutely as hell, no way was he going out of the store with a chappy bag, much less a chappy doll. It has to be one of the smaller items, a pencil or something, Ichigo thought.

While browsing through the displays Ichigo couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that something was wrong, well aside from the fact that he was staring at the hundred faces of chappy. Ichigo shook his head, as if it could help. It was then that he noticed something in his peripheral vision.

Turning his head Ichigo spotted two girls a couple of aisles over, staring strangely at him whilst whispering to one other. The both of them were wearing the same school uniforms of the girls in his class, which could only mean one thing. Shit!

Thinking fast on his feet Ichigo swirled around and made his way to a nearby CD rack. Pretending to be interested with whatever it was, he picked up the nearest CD and pretended to read the description on the back.

Unfortunately the girls didn't buy it and continued to stare at him, their eyes following every move he made. Ichigo shifted on his place, feeling uncomfortable under the gaze of the two girls. Having enough of the uneasy atmosphere he grudgingly made his way to the counter, purchased the CD and made a quick dash for the exit. Thankfully the girls didn't make any move to follow him.

Good news, bad news.

Good news, nobody he knew, or knows him, saw him buy the stupid chappy item.

Bad news, he wasn't able to buy the damn item for Rukia, again. That and he was forced to buy something he doesn't even need.

"Stupid girls…" he hissed under his breath. Sighing in defeat he stuffed his hands in his pockets and walked silently home, occasionally muttering an apology when he accidentally bushed up on somebody.

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Ichigo plopped himself on his bed, dully staring at the CD in his hands that he had unwillingly bought. The drawing on the front was of a hand, a disintegrated, rotting, four fingered hand. On top of it, written in bold red, left 4 dead.

"Well at least it looks interesting…" he mumble, a small smirk forming on his face. "Maybe it's not entirely a waste of money after all."

Jumping off his bed he started up his laptop and patiently started the installation process.

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-8:00 pm-

"I'm back!" Rukia sing sang as she entered the Kurosaki house, the usual school girl smile plastered on her worn face. Her cheeks were slightly flushed from all the running she had done that day. She still adorned her school uniform, which was slightly dirty and disheveled with a small rip here and there.

"Welcome home." came the perky reply as Yuzu stuck her head out of the kitchen. She was, as always, wearing her favorite bear apron as she busied herself in the kitchen. But the usual smile that greeted everyone as soon as they stepped into the warm house was gone only to be replaced by a small frown.

"Hello, Yuzu-chan! Do you need help with anything?" Rukia asked, her smile still in place, as she tried to peer into the kitchen over Yuzu's shoulder, but was promptly shooed away.

"Rukia-chan you should go ahead and take a bath, you look like you've been in a fight. Don't worry I've got everything here under control, besides I'm just tidying up here. I made a batch of your favorite cookies; they'll be finished in a while. Now go." Rukia frowned. Looking down at her dirty, slightly ripped skirt she huffed once and stared softly at the back of Yuzu's head.

A hollow had suddenly appeared a good distance from the house a couple of minutes earlier, thankfully just as she finished her dinner. It took her over thirty minutes to find it and purify it, what with its constant running around. It wasn't really strong, per say, but it was fast. She was able to corner it at a dark alley and promptly finished it off. The only problem left was to find her gigai which she left after her skirt got caught in a bush, thus the dirty state she was in.

Letting out a defeated sigh she ascended up the stairs and disappeared in her room which she shares with the twins.

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Rukia stepped out of the bathroom smelling as fresh as a daisy. She had on her favorite pajamas, a white, short-sleeved, cotton top with a fairly large drawing of chappy the bunny and a light pink, cotton bottom with small, pink chappy the bunny imprints all over it. Her wet hair pooled on the towel that she had hung around her shoulder.

Idly she walked back to her- rather their room when a muffled curse reached her ears. Raising a brow she turned and stared at the door of a certain "hot headed idiot".

"Damn it!" there it was again.

Rukia scrutinized her eyes. She hesitantly walked over to the door, silently debating whether she should knock or leave him alone. Another curse, only this time it was a bit louder than the other two.

"Ichigo? Are you okay?" she knocked on the door but didn't get a response.

"Ichigo?" she tried again but got the same results.

Twisting the doorknob she slowly opened the door. Poking her head in she immediately found Ichigo, who was staring intently at his computer monitor, headphones covering his ears from the outside sounds. No wonder he wasn't replying.

Rolling her eyes Rukia was about to leave when a thought occurred to her. What exactly was he doing?

Softly closing the door behind her she silently crept up to Ichigo. Half way into the room the closet door slowly slid open reveling the head of a certain 'loud' stuffed lion.

Rukia froze in her place and sent a warning glare at Kon, which the little toy had so blatantly ignored and proceeded to jump at her shouting something about goddess and valleys, which Rukia wasn't so keen to understand.

Grinding her teeth together she caught Kon mid-air and proceeded to throw him out the open window. Stiffly turning her head she mentally prepared herself for the strawberry to explode at her.

Ichigo, however, seemed completely oblivious to his surroundings and continued with whatever it was he was doing.

Silently thanking God for the invention of headphones she continued to silently creep up to the crouching Ichigo.

Stopping just behind his chair she tried to peer over the messy orange locks of his hair, to the point of actually going on her tiptoe. Unfortunately for her something made Ichigo jump just as her head was positioned only a couple of inches behind his head.

"Jezz…" Clutching the back of his head Ichigo whirled around; irked that someone had once again decided to snoop in his room.

"What the hel-" he stopped, his eyes widening quite a bit. Rukia was sitting on the ground using both her hands as she tried, and is miserably failing, to cover up her bleeding nose. Ichigo sat baffled at his seat, a few second earlier he was just sitting there in front of his laptop enjoying a game of zombie massacre and the next thing he knew his head was aching and the sight of Rukia with a freakin' nosebleed.

Finally realizing the situation at hand Ichigo jumped off his seat "Oh, jezz Rukia are you okay?" he asked as he knelt beside her reaching for her bloodied hands.

"I'm fine. Sorry it was my fault." She replied shifting away from Ichigo.

"Come on, let me help you." He persuaded softly, feeling a bit guilty, considering he only got a small headache.

"No, I got it." Rukia shakily stood up, wincing a bit from the pain shooting up her nose.

"I said let me help you!"

"And I said I got it!"

"Just shut up and let me help you freakin' midget!"

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"Damn bitch!" Ichigo cursed some more as he rubbed his shin. He was sitting outside the bathroom waiting for Rukia to finish cleaning up. She had refused to let him help and had locked the bathroom door behind her; that is after she planted a good hard kick at Ichigo's shin.

"Shut up! Jezz you're so annoying. Hey, what were you doing anyway?" her voice was muffled from the cloth she had pressed over her nose, and the door that separated them made it a lot harder to understand her. Ichigo actually had to press his ears on the door just to hear her.

"Using the computer, duh!"

"I know that you buffoon!" she snapped, suddenly opening the door.

Losing his balance Ichigo frantically started flailing his arms around; trying to grab on to the nearest object his hands can reach. Seeing his thrashing arms Rukia quickly backed away, narrowly missing his right hand that tried to grip her leg.

Stepping over Ichigo's body she idly made her way to his room, curious to see as to what could possibly be so interesting in his laptop.

Tilting her head to the side she tried to make out the still image that absolutely made no sense "Hey Ichigo is this a new game?"

"Ah, it's called left 4 dead." He answered, looking over her to the monitor.

"Left 4 dead? What's it about? And when did you get this?"

"It's a game that I bought that you can't play." He said a little bit smugly. Whether Rukia hear him or not it didn't show on her face as it stayed blank while she stared at the computer.

"Why can't I?"

"Because if those freakin' zombies in your little game" Rukia glared at him "freaks you out then this will give you a month's worth of nightmare."

She was about to argue with him when she finally realized exact meaning of what he said earlier. "... did you say you bought it?"

"Yeah so what?"

"And exactly when did you buy this?"

"This afternoon... so what?"

"So you bought this" she said jerking her thumb at the monitor "when you were supposed to buy me chappy?" she growled.

"Yeah and... oh... I can explain." He said nervously, slowly backing out the door.

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"Hah! Take that you rotting piece of flesh!" she exclaimed. Her eyes that were fixated on the screen had a dangerous glint to them and her mouth was twisted in a sort of deranged kind of smile that sent shivers down Ichigo's spine.

"Hey take it easy" Ichigo said from his seat on the bed.

"Shut up Ichigo, I'm concentrating here! Hah! You'll never beat me! Take that you bastards! Teach you to stand in between me and chappy!"

Ichigo sweat dropped at her remark, silently making a note to himself to buy chappy tomorrow.

Wee... so whadaya think? I kinda think it was nice.(Well duh, I wrote it)

Anyway, yeah this is sort of my gift to you all...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Oh yeah and by the way this is the last installment of gcba.

I had fun writing them but alas... I suck at computer games! .