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ugh...what time is- 5 A.M.?! Pft! SNOOZE!
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*SIGHS* 5:15?! SNOOZE!
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Ugh- 1:45?!
Shoot! Shoot! I'M LATE! I'M LA-
Rukia rubs her eyes and looks at her cellphone and face palms.
10 text messages from Akane.
Akane.
Rukiaaaa I'm waiting... 7:00
Hurry up! 7:04
I'm seriously going to leave! 7:08
I'm not going to wait for you. 7:10
I'm going to leave without you! 7:15
I'm walking away right now! 7:18
Any second... 7:20
I'm seriously leaving right now! 7:23
:( I'll see you at school... 7:30
Hahaha! You're either going to love me or hate me cause I'm coming over with that orange haired boy~ 12:30
Rukia face palms as she rubs her face, Why Akane... Why?
Letting out a lazy huff, she rolls off her bed and gets ready for the day.
After a few hours of cleaning the house and getting her papers ready, her cell phone vibrates.
Akane
Rukiiiaaaa! We're coming right now! Don't forget to tell me about what Happens when I leave you with him! :) 3:03
Rukia plops down on her couch and makes herself comfortable as she nestles her head onto the pillow on the couch.
She began to slowly slip away...
The sound of the school bell rang as the students all break out in chatter and gossip. Akane on the other hand, she had a mission to accomplish.
Get Rukia a date for the Future Alumni Ball.
Happily prancing down the hallway towards Rukia's assigned room, Akane slowly peers inside... Scanning the room for an oran-
"Oi! You!" Akane loudly whispers, "You with the orange hair!"
Breaking away from the conversation he was having with the bubbly brown haired girl, he looks at the direction of the voice confused.
"HUH?"
With a cheeky smile, Akane confidently walks right in with her head held high, "I'm here to take to Rukia's place..."
"Rukia?" Orihime quietly mumbles as she tilts her head at Ichigo, "Why are you going to her place?"
Chuckling uneasily as he scratches his signiture orange hair, "I'm suppose to go to her place so we can work on the project we were given yesterday.."
Orihime pouts as she looks away, "Go. I don't need you.. I have Tatsu-"
"Come on Orihime.." Ichigo quietly coaxed, "I promise to call you tonight..."
Letting out a soft sigh, she turns around and holds his hands, "Promise?"
"Promise."
The mere sight of Ichigo speaking to Orihime nearly made Akane want to puke-but! Being a student from All girl Karakura prep, Akane has to keep her compure because she represents everything that is All girl Karakura prep.
"I don't have all day..." Akane taps on her watch, "Hurry up!"
Letting out a sigh Orihime sends a glare to Akane as she kisses Ichigo on the cheek, "Remember to call me tonight okay?"
A smile and a nod was all that was needed as he turned around and headed towards Akane who stuck her tongue at Orihime beofre leaving.
"So." Akane casually spoke as they walked out of school, "It seems like you and Rukia re friends now huh?"
"Well, Kuchiki isn't really a friend.. I don't know her that well to consider her as a fri-"
"So," Akane interupted, "You seem like a decent guy... Are you busy this sunday?"
"What?!" Ichigo looked at Akane mortified. Was she trying to hit on him?
"This Sunday? Are you busy cause Rukia is in a need of a date for the Future Alumni Ball our school is hosting..."
"Future Alumni Ball?" Ichigo dead panned. "What's his Future Alumni Ball all about?"
Stuffing a cookie in her mouth, "It's basically a extravagant ball where prospective University professors and deans search and recruit students they deem worthy of attending their university or just to check up on the progress of students and what to expect in the future..."
...
Laughter was what Ichigo earned from Akane when he had nothing to say.
"Yup," Akane smiles, "That's how much we care about our education... Plus... Would you like to go with Rukia as friends to the Ball?"
Go as friends?
"I'll think about it..."
Vaccination of rebellion.
Smell the dead roses
Numb yourself
with limitless time-
The door bell rings.
Stupid Shuuhei and his stupid songs...
Rukia rubs her eyes, as she mumbles, "Who is it?"
"It's Kurosaki."
Rukia yawns as she walks towards the door, "Right..." she opens the door and sees Ichigo and only Ichigo.
"Eh?" Rukia peers around Ichigo, "Didn't Akane bring you-"
Slowly walking in, Ichigo looks around the Chappy decorated room and lets out a huff. "Kuchiki," Ichigo plops down on the couch in front of her, "Where's the pa-"
Rukia proudly points at her laptop, "I Aced it too.."
Ichigo grabs a hole of Rukia's laptop and chuckles, I guess we can just turn it-"
"No!" Rukia looked at Ichigo moritfied, "We can't do that. Turning in something you already got graded on can't be graded again..."
He face palms, "It's already finished. Why fix something when it's not broken?"
Rukia glares at Ichigo, "It's the principle of things..."
Ichigo laughs, "The Principle of things?"
"Yeah. You have to be honest with yourself. You need to follow the rules-"
"Fine, fine, fine..." Ichigo leans back on the couch, "What else did you have in mind for this project."
"The Edo museum on Friday cause they have live action Kabuki on Fridays..." Rukia looks up, "Are you up for it?"
"Sure, sure, sure..." Ichigo looks around, "Anything else?"
Rukia sifts through her papers and lets out a huff, "That's about-" Her PS3 catches her attention...
"Oi, Kurosaki..." Rukia walks towards her PS3 with a cheeky smile she whips out Tekken, "You up for a challenge?"
A grin appears on Ichigo's face cause let's face it, no guy turns down video games."You bet."
Rukia turns the PS3 on as she chucks a controller towards Ichigo, "You're player 2."
"Pass me your controller."
"Why?"
"Cause I wanna be player 1."
"No. It's house rules. Who ever lives here makes the choices. I live here. I make the choices." Rukia smiles as he sticks out her tongue, "Choose your character."
Ichigo chuckles, "Panda? Really?"
Rukia shoots a glare at Ichigo, mocking him, "Jin? Really-wait!"
She runs into her room as she come bursting out in a plastic gold chain with a plastic golden charm reading, Champion.
Ichigo bursts out in laughter, "What the hell is it?!"
Rukia playfully scoffs as she grabs her controller and plops on the couch, "It's the champion chain.. When ever a few of my track and field friends come over we play a few rounds of random games. Who ever wins the most games gets the champion chain, bragging rights and the winner can make others shower them with compliments and praises..."
"So." Ichigo looks at Rukia slyly, "If I win against you in Tekken, does it mean I get the champion chain?"
Rukia confidently scoffs, "It's impossible for you to win against me..."
"We'll see about that!"
And the games begin.
Ichigo was all into the game while Rukia? Rukia just plays like she normally does... with the occasional shit talking.
"Ohohohohoh! What was all that about Kurosaki?! Oh! Capture! What now!?"
"Shut up!"
"Wait! Wait! Wait for it... BAM! HA!" Rukia rings Ichigo out, laughing like a mad man as she hovers above him with her arms wide open, mercilessly taunting him, "What now Kurosaki?!"
Ichigo glares at Rukia who hovers above him laughing and taunting him,"OOOOHHHH! You got owned by a girl!"
"One more round"
Rukia shrugs laughing, "One more round? I guess you've haven't learned your lesson huh?"
Ichigo rolls his eyes scoffing, "I'm taking the chain away from you."
"Just choose your character already."
With that said and done. Ichigo began to pound away on the buttons.
"Look! Look! Look at that!" Ichigo was actaully winning against Rukia who was trying to get a hit in only to be cornered by Ichigo who was manically pushing buttons.
K.O!
"HA!" Ichigo extends his arm laughing, "The chain!"
Rukia lets out a sigh as she takes the chain off, "Next time Kurosaki... Next time-Oh!" Rukia attempts to snatch the Chain back but fails to since Ichigo already grabed it and triumphantly wears it.
"Tomorrow is the Champion Chain marathon!" Rukia angrily pouted.
Ichigo stares at Rukia stupidly, "Champion Chain marathon? What he hell is that?"
"My friends from the track and Field team have a game night where we all play games to decide who gets the Champion chain... So. you can't take the Champion Chain cause I'll be needing it."
"Then they'll have to challenge me for it then..."
An evil glint shined upon Rukia's eyes, So he wants to challenge us eh?
"Tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll speak to Akane about this and-" A cheeky smile forms on Rukia's face the moment her stomach started to grumble, "It's late... you wanna grab a bite? I know this little quaint Okonomiyaki stall near by that's always open late..."
"Nah...I actually have to go home and call Ori-"
"Come on! I think I can get you a free Okonomiyaki.. I'm a frequent customer of his since I don't do much cooking..."
Ichigo looks at this watch and shrugs, "Sure.. How far is it?"
"It's just a couple of clocks down the street..." Rukia grabs her coat, "He doesn't close till late so it's a perfect midnight snack..."
"Right..." Ichigo stuffs his hands in his pockets as they both began to walk, "Who was that guy?"
"Eh?" Rukia looks at Ichigo oddly, "What guy?"
"The guy that was screaming your name yesterday..."
"Oh! You mean the cheating two faced backstabbing jerkface?" Rukia coldly responded, slightly startling Ichigo.
"I suppose you don't want to talk about-"
"It's up ahead!" Rukia quickly adverted confrontation as she ran towards the Okonomiyaki stall. Ichigo tailed her.
Rukia takes a good whiff of the Okonomiyaki smiling, "It smells sooo good Satome san!"
Satome whole heartily laughs, "Rukia chan! Hows it been? I haven't seen you since forever..."
"I've been busy with home-"
"Is he your new boyfriend?" Satome points at Ichigo as Rukia bursts out in laughter, "Noooo... He's just my partner for this group project in school..."
"Oh? What happened to Shu-"
"I'll have the usual and," Rukia cuts off Satome who understands when she does this. After all, Okonomiyaki stalls don't pop up out of nowhere...
Rukia nudges Ichigo, "Make your order."
"I'll have everything... Make it spicy..."
"Oh?" Satome looks at Rukia with a sly grin, "Rukia chan.. Your man likes it spicy...Are you spicy enough for him?"
He laughs as he began to quickly cook up their Okonomiyaki.
Ichigo slightly blushes as Rukia face palms laughing, "Satome san!"
"Alright, alright...two orders of Okonomiyaki coming up!"
"Ah.. Sorry about that.."Rukia faces Ichigo, "He likes to tease me like that..."
"Yeah.. No problem..." Ichigo looks at his watch and taps it, Ah... I'll call her later on...
"Rukia chaaannn!" Satome sweetly cooed, "Here's the two free Okonomiyakis!"
Rukia giggles as she takes the Okonomiyaki, "Thank you Satome san!"
"No need.. Just promise me you'll come and visit more often!"
"Promise!"
"Ha! I'll tell that to Satome san when I have time to visit him..." Rukia stops as she lets a huff, "Well Kurosaki! This is where we will be parting! See you tomorrow!"
They both wave goodbye as Rukia happily prances away towards her house.
But she stopped.
The strumming of guitar strings hummed quietly...
Is it possible for you to love me?
Like the way you use to?
After all i did to you
I broke your heart-
"Shuuhei." Rukia callously called out, "Singing me a song won't work on me again..."
"But you didn't hear-"
"I don't want to hear anything from you." Rukia starts to walk, "Why don't you go back to the the groupie? I'm pretty sure she's waiting for you with legs wide open."
"Come on..." Shuuhei firmly grabs onto Rukia's shoulder, "I'm serious right now... I really want to-"
Rukia chuckles as she slowly peels Shuuhei's hand off her shoulder, "If you were serious you wouldn't have made out with her now would you?"
"I told you she was a groupie! There's no-"
"Save the sob story for someone who cares... Now, if you'll excuse me," Rukia moves away from Shuuhei, "I have class tomorrow..."
She walks way, leaving Shuuhei alone with his guitar.
Stupid lousy jerk face just wants a moan and a groan...
The following morning was an awkward somber one while Rukia and Akane walk quietly with one another to school which was very out of character for both Akane and Rukia since they are, basically best friends.
"Akane..." Rukia sadly broke the silence as they walk towards School, "I have some bad news..."
Akane arches her eyebrow, "What is it"
"It has to do with the boy in my class..."
"What about it?"
"I lost it Akane..."
Akane's eyes widen in surprise, "No.. You didn't..."
"I-I-I don't- It just went by so fast! I-I-Just don't know..." Rukia face palms as Akane hugs her, whispering, "It's okay, it's okay.." Akane quietly comforted, "You know what we have to do now right?"
"Yes..." Rukia sniffles, "I know..."
"Good...We must now face him head on... Challenge him again so we can get back that Champ chain..."
Rukia nods, "I know.."
Akane loosens her hold on Rukia as she gently places her hands on her cheeks, softly,"Don't disappoint us now..."
A nod was all that was needed to pull Rukia up as she gathers her strength, tells Akane to meet her up after lunch and walks right into her class with her head held high. Her confidence that day has never been any higher than that.
Just as Rukia sat in her seat next to Ichigo, Rukia whips out her chappy stationary, quickly scribbling a message a few minutes before class starts she quickly passes a note to Ichigo.
My Place. After school. Bring the chain.
Rukia intensively watched Ichigo from the corner of her eye as he shakes his head grinning while scribbling on the chappy paper then quickly sending it back before Misato (the teacher) notices.
Nah, I'm quite happy with the chain.
Pft. You're just afraid I might beat you and win it back. Loser.
Bitch! I'll show you who the loser is after I win against you AGAIN.
Whatever. My place after school. Be there with the chain.