Disclaimer: I bet you can guess what I'm going to write here. No, I do not own Bleach.
About this chapter: Without warning, the last chapter arrives! Sorry I didn't tell you guys sooner. I just hope you enjoy this last chapter. Please read and review.
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I'm eighteen now. Ichigo and I had been dating for four years when we broke up last month. I took it hard, but I'm slowly starting to get over it; four years is a long time. We fought, and at the same time said that we're over. We'd fought before—all couples fight- but not like this. Thinking back on it—which I do more often than I like to admit—I can't even remember what we were fighting about. All I can remember is being really angry and ending it. That was after our senior year had ended, so I haven't seen him since. Tomorrow I'm going off to college in Tokyo where I will be studying to become a doctor like my nii-sama. Though it may sound cold of me, I hope to never see Ichigo again. My reason is that if I do, I don't think that I'll be able to handle it. I loved him, I really truly did, and seeing him without being able to call him mine will break my heart in more places than I can handle.
I've cried about this in my hot pink room many times, sometimes alone, sometimes with Hisana, or Byakuya, or Matsumoto. I know I sound weak, but Ichigo was my first boyfriend and my boyfriend for four years. Anyone would be upset.
I look around at my room, counting the boxes that will be moved with me to my new apartment in Tokyo. My bed is still here since it is too big for the small apartment, which will be nice because I know that I can come back when I need to and have my bed waiting. Another thing I will need to leave behind is Kawaii. The apartment doesn't allow animals, so my baby will have to stay with Hisana and Byakuya. After much persisting I got them both to agree to let him sleep in the bed with them; Hisana had agreed to it right away, but Byakuya took some more talking to. He'd agreed only after Hisana threatened to move into my room and sleep with Kawaii instead of being in a room with Byakuya.
I walk through my closet and into my desk room, looking around. My desk is packed up and ready to go, and so is my bookshelf. There's nothing else in the room.
I look outside and see that the day is completely grey; perfect to fit my mood. I'm not necessarily sad—except when thinking about Ichigo—but I'm not happy. Who could be happy when they're about to move out and they just broke up with their boyfriend?
I go over and lay on my bed next to Kawaii. He puts his head on my stomach and looks at me like he understands what I'm going through. I rub the spot between his eyes and he closes his eyes like it feels good. I smile and feel tears fall out of my eyes, sliding down over my temples and into my hair. They're silent tears, but they're sad tears no less. He opens his eyes and licks my hand, then rolls over and falls asleep.
I watch him sleep for a minute, then stand up and start looking around. I look over and see Hisana watching me from my door. She smiles at me sadly, then walks over and hugs me.
We hug each other for a few minutes, just standing there, saying nothing. When we pull apart I see that she's crying, too.
"I'll go make you a snack." She says. She kisses my forehead and walks out, going down the stairs to the kitchen.
I pull out a list of things I need for school and check it for the millionth time. I go through the now-memorized list and see if anything isn't crossed off. I get to the bottom of the list and see something I've penciled in that isn't crossed off yet. I don't remember writing it, so I must have put it there late last night. It says good book to read. I smile at myself, the memory of writing it coming back; it was late last night. I pull on a yellow rain jacket over a short striped dress and a matching yellow hat over my hair. Then I put on some yellow rain boots and grab a yellow umbrella, all matching my boots and jacket. Hisana bought me the set for Christmas one year, and I've worn it every rainy day since. She gave it to me quite a while ago, and everything still looks brand-new. Everything also, unfortunately, still fits, meaning that I haven't grown enough for it to be too small in the years since I got it.
I think of Ichigo calling me short, and try to block all the memories that come as soon as I think of him.
Okay. I tell myself, trying to get Ichigo out of my head. I need to get a book. I'll just go to that book store a couple of blocks away. I then think of the first time I talked to Ichigo, and about how it was in that very bookstore, and decide that I'll go somewhere else. They built a small book store about a block from Matsumoto's house, so I decide to walk there instead. I grab my purse and head out, yelling to Hisana where I'm going.
I walk along the empty streets, opening my umbrella when it starts to sprinkle a little.
I get to the book store and start feeling hungry. I'll just find someplace to eat something quickly when I'm done here. I think, and I head inside. After asking a man who works at the store about what books to read, I check out a large bag of books and head out of the store. I'm in a little area with a few stores and restaurants, and since the man liked to talk a lot about how good different books are, I'm starving by now. I look around for a good sounding restaurant. I walk into a little yakisoba restaurant and take a seat.
I look around at the cute restaurant and notice that it seems incredibly familiar, though I can't say why. I sit down and order, still looking around. I can't get rid of the feeling that I've been here before, but I also can't think of when I would've gone to a restaurant so close to Matsumoto's house. Generally when I go out to eat with Hisana and Byakuya we go someplace bigger and nicer. The waiter comes back to my table and tells me how long a wait it'll be for my food. As soon as he walks over I realize when I was here before.
"Is it too late to get that to go?" I ask, and the waiter shakes his head, going back to change the order.
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I sit outside on a bench, rain falling all around me. I've placed the bottom of my umbrella strategically in between two pieces of the bench so that it shields me from the rain while I eat my yakisoba-to-go. I look around at the park, empty of everything but memories. They even took out the playground some time ago.
I finish my meal and stand up, picking up my umbrella and heading home, disposing of my trash in a trash bin on my way.
I walk up the steps from the park and up to the street. It's unusually cold for this time of year, so I decide to hurry up and get home as the rain starts to come down harder.
I'm walking through an empty street when the door to a house opens ahead of me. I see a puff of bright orange hair, and hear a familiar voice talking.
"Thanks Kumari-San." He says, waving to an elderly woman standing in the doorway to the small house.
"I'm glad that you're feeling better, Ichigo." She says, and she shuts the door.
I stand there, frozen, I really can't move. I try to run, but I can't. Please, don't notice me. Please, please, please. I think this, but I know that in my bright yellow clothing in an empty street on a grey, cloud-filled day, there's no way that he won't notice me.
"Rukia." I don't hear him say it, but I see his lips move to form my name.
Finally, my legs start working, and I run. I run as fast as my short legs will take me. I can hear Ichigo shout my name, hear his footsteps splashing through puddles as he runs after me. One would think that he would catch up to me right away, but somehow I manage to outrun him, getting lost in the process. I run through a small street in an area of town I've never been in, hoping to come across a road I know. If I can just get home then I can get inside and cry my heart out to Hisana while Byakuya glares at Ichigo through a window until he leaves. That is, if he stays long enough for Byakuya to have to glare at him.
Wait. I think to myself. Why is he even running after me? It makes no sense. We're not together anymore. Is it possible that he still-still-still lo—
Right as the impossible thought forms in my head, I slip going through a puddle that's thickening into ice. I fall head first, going down into a large puddle of water that collected in an indent in the cement road.
"Rukia!" I hear him shout, and I feel his arms wrap around me before I black out. The last thing I see is his orange hair.
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"Ichigo!" I wake up, and I sit up quickly in bed, I have to lie back down again because of a sharp pain in my head and the dizziness from sitting up too quickly. I sit up again, much more slowly this time, and look around. I'm in a small clinic room, lying in a bed with white sheets. I look down at my feet and see Kawaii sitting on my feet, keeping them warm. He's sleeping soundly, but he still looks very protective.
I notice a movement out of the corner of my eye and look to my left. I gasp when I see who's sitting there.
"Ichigo." I say quietly, like I can't believe my eyes.
"I'm here." He says, taking my hand and gently pushing me down so that I'm lying back down in bed.
"Don't go." I say, unable to say anything else. I feel a tear fall down my cheek for the second time today.
"Don't worry." He says, wiping off the tear. He leans over me and gently kisses my lips, pulling away far too soon.
"I'm not going anywhere ever again."
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It has been an honor writing this for you.
SayonaraXD