It seemed like yesterday was a dream. I felt so dazed. During class Ichigo looked at me and gave me that tender but teasing smile. Actually all day today, every time he caught me spacing out he gave me that look. Speaking of Ichigo, I wondered why he wanted me to change clothes after school was done…

"What's up with you and Ichigo?" Rukia asked me as I placed my school shoes in my locker.
"What do you mean?" I lied. She rolled her eyes.

"Don't play dumb with me. I saw what you guys were doing throughout the day."

I'm pretty sure she meant us at lunch and me playing footsies with him; Ichigo giving me glances and smiles during class; us secretly holding hands under the table while we studied..there was probably a lot of stuff we did that made it really obvious. My face heated up as I realized the things we did were probably a bit too much.

"So Mari, why're you blushing?"

"W-well, why are you questioning me?" I stuttered to Rukia, avoiding her question.

"I'm here to let you know that he doesn't much time..and you don't either."

I was quiet. "Or did you not tell him about you?"

Rukia sighed, "I know it's not my place to say, it's just a reminder."

All I could do was nod.

"Hey Mari!" Ichigo said as he approached us.

"See you later," Rukia called.

Ichigo watched her go. "What's with her?"

"Nothing," I said.

Ichigo gave me that look; the look that he gave me all day. "Well, we can deal with her later. But, for now, I want to show you something."

I looked at him but let him take my hand and guide me. "I think you're really going to like it," he said.

We were slowly approaching our destination and I realized where we were. "This is," I began to say.

"Well you did say you wanted to learn how to skate," Ichigo said.

Excitement filled me as Ichigo went to go rent skates. I couldn't believe I was going to be learning how to skate in the rink. If I knew where we were going I would have brought skinny jeans to wear. I had a brought a shin lengthed blue skirt to wear. "Mari! Over here!" Ichigo yelled.

"Ok!" I said as I jogged towards him. He led me to a bench and sat me down.

"Alright, so how do these things work?" I asked.

"You have to take your shoes off and put these on," he said as he held up the skates. I quickly did as I was told and watched him lace up my skates.

"Ok, you're ready, so let me finish lacing up and we can go," Ichigo said.

I nodded and watched him.

"Alright, let's hit the ice."

Before he pulled me up he placed his scarf around neck. After he helped me walk across the floor before getting onto the ice. "So all you have to do is glide across the ice like this," Ichigo said as he showed me. I tried to hide my smile, he was trying to play it cool with the scarf thing. I quickly nodded as my attention went back to his feet. It looked pretty easy.

"Alright, you're turn," he said. He held both my hands and skated backwards. I concentrated insanely hard and followed his foot motion.

My eyes brightened, "H-hey I'm getting it!" I exclaimed.

Ichigo laughed, "Alright, I'm going to let go now," he said.

"N-no!" I said. But as I said it was too late, he had already let go. As soon as he let go I started to lose my balance.

"Wah!" I exclaimed.

"Don't worry, I'm right here," Ichigo said. His hands were already reaching out to me just in case.

I struggled but eventually regained my balance. "Now skate towards me," he said as he slowly started skating away from me. I thought I was doing good..until I took my first step towards him. As quickly as I regained my balance, I quickly lost it.

"Hey Mari!"

He was too late. Before he could get a firm grip on my hand, I took a fall. "O-ow?" I said.

"Sorry, you okay?" he asked as he helped me up.

"Sure," I said. As soon as he helped me up I felt my chest tighten.

I started coughing as I stood up. "Hey, you okay?" he asked.

I nodded, "Yeah, I just started having a tight sensation in my chest. I don't think it's too much to worry about though."

"Maybe we should head back. You can't really afford to get sick."

I sighed but agreed. I knew he was right, especially me. Ichigo couldn't fight or use any power.

Once Ichigo and I returned the skates we headed off. "Here you go," he said as he placed his jacket on my shoulders. "I don't need this," I said crankily. I hated it when he babied me.

"Just shut up and take it," he said roughly. I laughed before taking his jacket and putting it on. Now he was starting to sound like the Ichigo I knew.

My eyes followed Ichigo as we walked together. His long sleeve clung to his muscular arms. He was so much taller than me and I felt myself falling for him more and more.

"Did you have fun today?" he finally asked. A small blush lightened his cheeks.

I smiled and wrapped my arms around Ichigo's waist, "Yeah I think this was a great first date."

He laughed and placed his hand on top of my head.

Sorry this chapter was short. I was running out of stuff to write.

So far, I like where I'm taking the story and I thought I should give Ichigo and Mari a happy little story. I really had fun writing this chapter, especially since it was based on the Bleach episode. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed and please let me know what you think of this story! No negativity! Thanks!

-kira