Miss Insensitive writer is back!
Ps: Si nu uitati daca sunteti romani, care mai stationati pe aici, faceti-va simtita prezenta! :)
- annia9semi - thank you :). let me know what you think about this one
- your-darkangel07, i agree with you. He needs Rukia and the girls that will follow her won't be able to beat her memory, but i still have the feeling he'll end up with Inoue...otherwise how will you explain that she appearing more often... and she's always next to/ behind Ichigo.
- tituslepetitlion, bon essay avec l'englais (voyons le mien avec le francais, haha). En ce wui concerce "but I knew she won't stay for long" cela fait refferance au fait que Ichigo et Rukia n'ont eu que des breves moments ensemble, et que cette fois, meme s'il est conscient de l'impossiblite de l'avoir toujour a son cote, il va risquer tout pour ses sentiments... Et d'ici va resulter "the unexpected" cet seconde partie va parler :)
- saiya-jinPan140, really it was like a song? Maybe i should start witting love longs... Kidding! I know where i need to stop :) Glad you like it though.
- Delinasiva, Thank you! of course it was wrote it all on my own.
- Guest, Yep? Glad to hear it! :)
- purplepam, this second part it follows the events of the first one... but focused more on Rukia's feelings. You like it, the prologue? So happy !
- SchelmaAnimeFan, I;m really glad... i was really troubled by the fact a little poetry might have bored the readers.
- Noctis Vee Caelum, yep mine was canceled for the moment... that's why for more byaruki i'm waiting for your update, haha :)
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The cute feverish bunny
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On the porch of his shop, Urahara was fixing some soul candies when a black cat started to cuddle around his ankles.
"Hello, kitty-kitty…" He said with a smile.
Instantly, the cat grated with its paw.
"Who do you think you're talking to, Kiskue?" the cat replied with a voice of an annoyed man.
"I'm talking with you, Yoruichi-san, am I not?" Urahara replied with his singing voice.
The cat jumped on his lap, and fixed him with her yellow eyes.
"Where's Ichigo and Rukia?" she asked.
"Isshin came today and picked them up… Rukia is still recovering, but both she and Ichigo wanted to go home."
The cat started to wave her long, black tale around Urahara.
"Did she say something before leaving?"
Urahara put away the candy souls on which he was working and started to pat the cat.
"She asked us to not chase after Haruna Ryoing…" he replied as he turned his gaze to the window. "Her words were: "Ichigo explained me anything about the Kazuki blade, but I'm humbly asking you to not try to capture or punish my cousin, Haruna Ryoing. At least not for the moment…I owe her Byakuya-sama's life…"
"Why would she say that?" the cat said intrigued.
"I'm not sure yet…" Urahara replied thoughtfully. "Perhaps the death experience made her see things in a different perspective."
"And are you willing to fulfill her request?"
"I'm not willing anything at this particular moment… but if Miss Ryoing was really planning something she wouldn't have done things so obviously."
"Are you referring to the Kazuki blade?"
"Yes and also to the fact that she is in Seireitei, where she is totally exposed. I think it's best to wait and see her next move."
They both remained silent for a while. They Youruichi suddenly said:
"Byakuya-bo and Ichigo had fought the death itself to save Rukia…"
"The death's cheaters…" Urahara commented with a smile.
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In Ichigo's room Rukia was laying on his bed, looking at the window with a thoughtfully expression. Since she came back to this house, this was one of her rare moments of loneliness. Ichigo was now downstairs, but only because he was supervising Yuzu while preparing Rukia's porridge. The food and the toilet were the only moments he was leaving his room. "Our room" he started to call it recently. The sound was strange, but she didn't reject it.
It's been already a week since she was lying in bed. It was too much for her. She wanted to get up, but the wound of her stomach was really healing really slowly so she couldn't move yet. If ichigo wouldn't have kept her company, she would have gone mad.
She smiled. She was so lucky to have Ichigo by her side.
She suddenly remembered how he came and saved her… How he brought her back to life. Her memories were not clear. She only knew that one second Oza tried to attack Ichigo and the next one its sword passed through her body. Then she woke in total darkness, hearing voices that kept saying: "It's too late. She's dead already." She guessed that one of the voices belonged to Urahara. She tried to talk back, to yell, to shout, but no one heard her. And then, in that total darkness Ichigo answered her. She kept hearing his voice for a while, but it was far away and it faded slowly. For no particular reason she started then to think of Byakuya. She called him also, but his voice never reached her back. Then slowly everything started to disappear…. The next thing she knew was Byakuya who was holding her tight assuring that Ichigo was on his way…
Ichigo saved her. But nonetheless, Byakuya did the same thing…
"Nii-sama…" she whispered clinching her fists.
She had escaped death, but she knew that she couldn't escape the wedding… and Ichigo was still not aware of her engagement. With these thought crossing her mind, she was only half happy that she came back to life.
She heard the sound of door opening. "Ichigo must be back with the food already" she thought.
"Ichigo… If that porridge it's too hot you know that I won't eat it!" she said , still facing the window.
"The porridge must be hot! Sick people need hot food!" a voice different from Ichigo replied from the threshold. She turned surprised.
"Oh… It was you, Isshin-san…" she stated.
The man put a hand on his chest with theatrical gesture.
"Isshin-san?..." he stated intrigued. " Why are you breaking my heart, Rukia? You are my daughter! You ought to call me father!"
"Daughter?..." Rukia stated unsure.
"Well… technically not yet! But you'll be soon!... Very soon! Right, Rukia?... Because…" and here he closes the door and lower his voice, adopting a serious expression: "… You'll break off the engagement, right?"
Her eyes widened. Her lips startled, but she didn't say a word. Isshin approached her and she noticed that he was carrying a piece of paper and a biro.
"Ichigo asked me to bring you these… He told me that you wanted to right down your report for Ukitake…"
She tried to fake a smile; relieved by the fact the he had dropped the "engagement" topic.
"Oh! Thank you!" she replied and stretched her hand to grab the paper, but Isshin pulled back his hand not giving her the paper.
"But wasn't your report already written and send by Renji?" Isshin asked suspiciously.
Her mouth remained half open. Before she could manage a lie or an excuse, Isshin added:
"You asked for this paper because you wanted to write to Byakuya. Am I right?"
She tried to answer for a couple of times, but finally she gave up and lowered her head. Isshin approached and sat on the edge of the bed:
"Just tell me that you are writing him to call off the wedding…" he said gently.
Her eyes widened alarmed.
"I can't break off a wedding through a letter!" she snapped.
"But you will call it off… sooner or later, right?" he added calmly.
She lowered her eyes again.
"Please, give me a little more time…" she finally said, hoping that her evasive answer will make Isshin understand what he wished to understand. Unfortunately, Isshin was far from being an ignorant person…
"You need time for breaking the engagement…or for making your choice?"
She bit her lower lip.
"I guess you can't' give me an answer on this,Rukia…" he stated sorrowfully and got up from the bed. " But I will tell you this: You are dear to me…but Ichigo is my son… and he risked his life countless times to save you… Don't play with his heart!"
She clinched her fists, ashamed of herself. Isshin let the paper and the biro on the bedside and headed himself to the door. In the threshold, he stopped again, turning to Rukia with an intrigued expression:
"I've kept asking myself, Rukia… Why on earth would you marry to Kuchiki Byakuya? I know you're not blood related, but… do you even have feelings of that sort for him?"
Rukia raised her face with a troubled expression. There was no point in lying to him:
"I do not know…" she said simply. "If you had asked me this a few months ago, I would have presumed that you are mocking me, but now…I honesty do not now if feelings of "that sort" exist or not…"
He frowned.
"But what do you know then, Rukia?" he asked.
"I know that I certainly love Ichigo…" she instantly replied. " And I don't want to play with his heart!"
Isshin's expression suddenly softened and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
"Then you don't love Byakuya…" he said relieved. "Because you can't possibly love two men at the same time…"
She smiled sorrowfully.
"I hope you are right…"
"You shouldn't hope…because I know I am right!.. You're just confusing the kindness with love…"
Her eyes widened, but Isshin opened the door.
"Write about this in your letter, Rukia…the kindness…the love… It's better to make him suffer now, then to force him into a loveless marriage" he added and then left the room.
Rukia looked at the paper, wondering how she should start her letter, but shortly after that Ichigo burst into the room bringing the porridge and an incredible good mood. After a few bites of porridge from Ichigo's hand she totally forgot about the letter… and about Byakuya in general. Before she knew the evening came and they watched a movie together. He ate the dinner in bed, to keep her company and Rukia wished she could be ill more often so that he could take care of her.
Then Ichigo looked at her and suddenly asked:
"Have you finished writing your report?"
And then she remembered again… Byakuya .
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But Rukia was not the only one who needed to stay in bed for the rest of the week or the only one being taken care of. During his reiatsu recovering, Byakuya also seemed to have his own personal nurse. The difference from Rukia's case was that Byakuya's "nurse" was not kind at all.
"Eat!" Haruna snapped.
Byakuya didn't react. Standing up in his bed, dressed in his sleeping yukata, he was fixing the wall in front of him with a stiffed, arrogant look.
"Eat!" Haruna repeated herself.
"If you'll raise your voice at me once more, I swear I'll call the grads to kick out of this house!" he growled, still not facing her.
She cocked her eyebrows.
"Oh…" she stated with a fake surprise. "We are impeding today, Toto, aren't we!" she continued with a fake sugary voice as she raised the bowl with food and headed the spoon to his closed mouth. "Eat already! You're making me look like a beggar, standing like this!" she snapped again, annoyed.
"I will not eat when you command me! And I will ask you to free this room, instantly! I didn't permit you to enter here, in the first place!"
"So you want me to understand that you don't wish me around?" she asked widening her beautiful eyes.
"Indeed!" he snapped. "Leave!"
"As if!" she stated untroubled and pushed the spoon to his lips once again, trying to force the food in. " You're such a bad actor, Toto, pretending to you hate me when I know that in the depths of your heart you love me and desire me more than anything in this world…"
He turned to her with big eyes and an offended expression.
"Ok… ok…" she defended herself. "Maybe I exaggerated on the last part… but I know that you love me… and i love me too, even though you are engaged…"
Here his expression suddenly changed. All his stiffness disappeared, replaced by a troubled frown on his forehead.
"Am I really engaged, Nene-cha?" he asked.
She put the spoon back on the tray and looked at him worried:
"Why would you say such a stupid thing?"
"I don't know why I am doing this, Nene-cha… It seems that I made a practice from involving myself in loveless marriages…"
She frowned. She knew he was referring of the marriage he had with Hisana, but Hisana wasn't half as warm and capable of loving as Rukia was.
"Toto… what is wrong?"
He turned to her.
"Nene-cha… when I went after her… After Rukia… I saw where her heart lies. It's with Kurosaki Ichigo… not with me…"
Her eyes widened for a second, then a motherly smile appeared on her lips.
"It may be so… but how can you explain that you were the only one that could reach her? How can you explain that she called you right before she died?"
He looked at her dumbfounded.
"See, Toto? …there's no need to worry. If she wouldn't have loved you, she wouldn't have married you… It's not like she said "yes" because of the many or status… because you already made her the hair of the clan…"
But Haruna's words weren't enough. He was still worried.
"And she is safe also…" she added. " Ukitake received her report last week… and yesterday you told me that she sent you a letter."
He didn't say anything.
"Well she did send you that letter, right? You didn't lie, right?"
"No, I did not…" she finally said. "She sent it..."
"And did she mention something about her heart being entrusted with that Kurosaki boy?"
"No…" Byakuya answered almost whispering. "She only thanked me for saving her… and she said that she misses home…she asked me if everything it's alright here…"
Haruna smiled with a cheerful expression.
"See? If she said that she misses home, it means that she implicitly misses you. So there's no reason to be worried!"
Haruna's words were truly encouraging. Slowly that troubled frowned disappeared.
"That's better…" he said with a motherly voice. Then she retook the bowl with food and filled it. "Now, eat!" she snapped ruthlessly.
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Ichigo yawned as he was watching the cast of the movie that just ended. He stretched his arms, looking for the remote, but then he noticed that Rukia who was sleeping for a while now, was woken up by the sound of his yawn. She slightly opened her eyes with the expression of a sleepy little child and then she cuddled around him.
"Shhh… go back to sleep…" He whispered, patting her forehead.
"How did it end?" she mumbled, obviously referring to the movie.
"Well… they got married and lived happily ever after…" he replied. "You didn't miss anything"
"And the dog?..." she mumbled as she closed her eyes, preparing to fall asleep again.
"What dog?..." Ichigo asked.
"You know… the dog, she was living with… when they moved in together… they also took the dog, right?"
Ichigo laughed.
"Is that all you remember from the movie?... A dog?"
"Well…he was… fluffy… and cute… and…" she replied but then she yawned, hiding her nose behind his back. He turned and took her in his arms, after he put the blacked over them.
"Will you stay with me tonight?" she asked with a low, childish voice.
"Am I not doing this every night, bunny?" he replied with a smile.
"Bunny?..." she whispered intrigued. "Who is bunny?"
"You are the bunny…" he replied with a slight laugh.
"I couldn't…a bunny it's cuter…" she replied intrigued.
"Well let me being the judge of that…" he said and put his forehead on hers with a gentle smile. Her eyes widened and her lips startled because of the proximity between them. He smiled again. Those reactions made her look even cutter. It was an invitation he couldn't resist.
He gently put his lips on hers…
Her tenseness disappeared and slowly she closed her eyes.
"You are always so warm…" she whispered after they parted.
"Shhh… Go back to sleep"
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When Rukia fell asleep Ichigo continued to watch cheap movies on TV. From time to time he put his hand on her forehead. She still had fever. She had if all day. On the beginning he was worried, but Urahara reassured him that Rukia will be fine. Her healing was slow, but she will recover all her strength.
Ever since they come back home, Rukia was always dizzy and feverish. She spent all day in bed playing with the TV remote or sleeping. It's been more than two weeks since then and he didn't left her side once. Staying all day inside the house was not actually an easy thing to do, but since it was Rukia the one he was keeping company, he didn't know when the minutes, the hours, the days were passing by… Sometimes Isshin was worried about him, but physically, Ichigo was alright. After he came back with Rukia, due to Byakuya's help his reaitsu was fully restored and he didn't suffer any injury…
He felt like he owned a lot to Byakuya…
He knew that Rukia wrote him a letter last week. Maybe he should have followed her example, but somehow he felt that his heart was heavy… He couldn't address to Byakuya. Rukia didn't remember a lot from the time she passed into the shadow of death, but he remembered everything. All the memories her heart showed him, all her hesitations and wonders… and above all the omnipresence of Byakuya. He couldn't say it out loud, but it was bothering him…
He knew that something must have happened between him and Rukia in those two months she remained in Seireitei. He guessed that it was something of great importance but all his suspicions were far from the truth. His worse scenario was Byakuya retiring from the position of leader of the clan, compelling Rukia to take his place …
He remembered the kenseikans she wore that day Oza attacked her. He remembered the ring she wore on that portrait drawn by Byakuya. With that coat of arms, it looked kind of official … Indeed, Rukia as the 29th Leader of the Kuchiki clan was his worse scenario…
"Ichigo… I-chi-go…" she mumbled in her sleep.
"I'm here…" he whispered taking her in his arms.
"Tell them to call it off… to cancel it!" she mumbled troubled by her dreams.
"Shhh, Rukia… It's alright…"
"I don't want it… call if off!" she cried.
"Rukia…wake up… it's just dream…" he said gently.
But then Rukia clinched on his clothes and felt into a dreamless sleep. He leaned and kissed her feverish forehead.
"My cute feverish bunny..." he whispered.
Well , as i promised this part will be composed of this kind of intimate and sweet moments (until of course something will come up... but you'll see later on what it consists. ) Hope Ichiruki fans are happy.
And one more thing. Don't think of Rukia as a two-timer... Nope! That's not the case, it's more complicated than that ( i'm sure you know it). She only tries to make everybody around her happy. That why she doesn't have courage to tell Ichigo about the engagement... that's why she can't break the engagement with Byakuya. Be sure that in the end she will chose only one of them . To be the one she loves the more or the one she truly needs? And who's who? Hmmm... only reading you'll find out ( haha, i'm sounding like a commercial right now! )
Anyway, until next time let me know what you think!