Rosario Diaries: Blood And Moon-Chapter 8
Moka sauntered down the path to school, happily replaying last week's memory in her head. Today, she was actually feeling a lot chipper and jollier, than before. And not to mention, she was feeling excited about seeing Ichigo again. She knew this wasn't like her, but she had asked herself this plenty of times. 'Why am I so excited to Kurosaki-kun?' she pondered. 'Is it because he...' Her mind drifted off to the time Ichigo literally fed her a piece of cake. Moka's hand instantly flew to her mouth, blushing like crazy. '...that he...No! No! No! Stop it, Moka! You don't like him and he doesn't like you. Can't you just see that he likes Hime-chan, not you?' as she told herself that, she felt her heart swell up in emotional pain and jealousy. 'But...why do I feel jealousy, when I think about him and Hime-chan being an item? I don't have a crush on him, so there is no reason for me to feel jealous.'
As she trudged through the hall, Moka with all her might, tried to ignore the mysterious stares she was recieving. 'What's going on?' Walking by, she heard many whispers about her with her name in one of them and it was making her feel uncomfortable. Deciding to shake it off, she walked inside her first class, thinking that no one would notice her. But unfortunately...the people that were now around her, in the classroom, immediatly noticed her and begin to whisper, not to mention stare. 'Why is everyone looking at me like that?' she pondered once again. "Moka-chan!" shouted an all too familiar voice. Moka looked towards the voice to see Orihime and the girls jogging up to her. Moka went to greet them, but didn't get a chance, only to be dragged off outside on the courtyard. The girls patrolled every inch around them, making sure that no one was eaves dropping before turning to Moka, with serious looks. "Moka-chan, what didn't you tell us?" Orihime asked, innocently, yet it sounded kind of sad.
Moka tilted her head in confusion. "Tell you what?"
"Well..." Michiru started, but Mahana just had to cut in.
"That you and Ichigo were an item! Of course!"
Moka stared in disbelief and shock from what she was hearing. Her and Ichigo...a couple? A plain old rumor wasn't something the pink-haired arrancar would worry about. Sure, there were plenty of rumors about her and Tsukune being an item, but with someone else...no. There is no way that Ichigo and herself, would be an item that quick. "What?! Hold on a second-"
"So, what's it like going out with a guy that scary?" Michiru asked, amazed.
"Well...um-" Moka started.
"How did the two of you get together so fast? Did he actually ask you out?" Mahana, this time asked.
"N-No! But-"
"I'll say! I bet you the two of you kiss, after he asked you to be his girlfriend and marry him! Did he make love to you afterwards?" Chizuru, this time cut in.
"Absolutely not!"
"Then, what? Are you saying that the two of you aren't actually going out?" Mahana asked.
"Yes!"
"That's the biggest lie I ever heard and you know it. You two practically talk, eat, and hang out together. Plus, the two of you always pass love letters to each other in class. So it's gotta be possilble for you two to be a couple!" Chizuru predicted.
"Those were not "love letters". They were class notes, that I needed to copy from. We might have talked and hung out, but I never ate with Kurosaki-kun before, nor will it happen." Moka explained by heart, while blushing madly.
Chizuru looked on in somewhat, bewildered and questioning. "Oh? So the two of you never ate together, then?"
"Yes." Moka nodded.
"So it wasn't true that Ichigo fed you in a bakery last week?" Mahana asked, deadpan.
Moka tensed up at that sentence. How'd they know that Ichigo fed her a piece of cake? They weren't even there, when he did. Moka was about to give a response, but she was saved when the bell ranged. 'Thank goodness, I'm saved. I don't know what would happened if I gave the wrong answer and...upset Hime-chan by it.'
As class was going on, Moka couldn't take her mind off the subject of her and Ichigo being a couple as she wrote in her diary. They barely knew each other, so it was impossible for the two of them to be a couple. Though...it sounded kind of nice... 'What am I thinking? I can't think like that. Hime-chan likes him, not me.' She suddenly felt a slight pang in her chest, for thinking that. 'There it is. There's that sad feeling again. But why does it have to feel so sad?' Closing her diary, she suddenly found a nicely folded note on her desk. Reculant, she opened the note and read the letters that: "Meet me on the roof, after class. Don't let anyone see you." Moka's eyebrows furrowed in suspicion. 'Who wants to meet with me?' When the bell finally rang, Moka wasted no time sitting there and headed up towards the roof, just like the note asked. She took a look around and saw that nobody was there. Not even a little bird was there. Just nothing. "Is this a set up?" she asked to herself, feeling a little cheated.
"No. It isn't." interjected a familiar voice, making Moka spun around, astonished, but then let out a sigh of relief, when she saw it was only Ichigo. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you."
Moka shook her head. "No. You just startled me, that's all." She took a few more seconds to regain herself, before opening her mouth to speak. "So what are you doing up here?"
Ichigo stared at her in confusion. "What do you mean? I asked you to come." Seeing that she was even more confused, Ichigo decided to break it down into small words. "The note that was on your desk?" he questioned as if trying to give her a hint.
It didn't take long for her to finally realize that it was Ichigo, himself that laid the note on her desk. "O-Oh, right. That note."
Ichigo could only snort with laughter. "Don't worry, it's not like I called you up here, so I can molest you or anything." he said, though it sounded pretty obvious to Moka that he was far from being a monster, like any other lustful guy. "I just needed to talk to you, if it's not too much trouble."
Moka could only nod. "Sure. I have time to listen."
"Moka, tell me something..." Ichigo looked at her, with a dead serious look. "...while you were walking down the hallway, did you notice everyone staring at you?"
"Yes. I did."
"So you know exactly what's going on now, right?" he questioned. Moka nodded. "There's a rumor going around about us dating. I just wanted you to know that..."
"That what happened back at the mall, didn't..." she stuttered out, with a blush.
"Yeah. It didn't mean we were dating or something." he agreed, with a blush as well.
"Y-Yeah." she added, though she sounded a bit upset. "So you just want to forget that none of this occurred back at the mall, or..." she trailed of, not sure of what to say next.
"Uh...no! We don't have to do that. We can just say that we hung out together." Everything was silent. "As friends." he quickly added.
"Yes, but there's one small problem, though." she said, making Ichigo look at her confused. "They know about the part, where you fed me at the bakery. How could we possibly tell them that we're not actually dating, if they saw what happened?"
Ichigo face could only put on a grim look, in defeat. "Oh yeah, I forgot about that." he groaned in realization. "But that doesn't mean that we're actually dating."
"So you're suggesting that someone might have hoaxed up this idea, about the two of us being an item?" she speculated, questionably.
"Yeah. Come to think of it, that might be the reason all of this nonsense started."
"So you think we should find out who might started it?" Moka asked.
"Yeah. Because I have a reputation that's on the line and the last thing I need, is for someone to ruin it by some stupid rumor." Considering the rumors that had gone around , the last thing Ichigo needed was for anyone to think that he was a "two timer cheat", because people usually thought that Rukia and himself were dating. His classmates could be so annoyingly nosy. But regardless of what anyone thought, Ichigo didn't want his friends, or Moka, most importantly, to think of him that way. He wouldn't want them to think that what had been going around wasn't true.
"So we should try to find out, who started this?"
"Yeah. We'll discuss it at my house, after school. Deal?"
Moka gave a nod. "Yes. Well, I have to hurry to my friends, before they think that I'm with you. So after school, right?"
"That's right. Don't forget, meet at the front gate."
Moka gave a nod and sauntered down the stairs, not even noticing Keigo and Mizuiro walking by her up the stairs. Keigo and Mizuiro, then became suspicious about what they saw. Keigo grinned cockily at Ichigo. "So?"
What?" said Ichigo, distracted.
That smile alone was enough to let Ichigo know that these two can NOT be trusted. "What happened this time? How'd it go with her?"
"What are you talking about? How'd it go with who?" he asked, confused and irritated.
"With you and Moka-chan, dude!"
Ichigo scowled. Why did he have a feeling he had heard this conversation before? "What about me and Moka?"
"Well, you two were obviously passing love notes to each other, during class," said Keigo, who looked extremely proud that he had caught this minor detail, "...had to be something interesting if Moka-chan was smiling about it the whole time." There was a hint in his tone that suggested he wanted to know what that something was.
"It was nothing," said Ichigo shortly. "I was just lending her some of my class notes, since she couldn't seem to find hers. Honestly, that girl seriously doesn't know how to keep up with her stuff."
Mizuiro chuckled. Mizuiro was prompt to change subjects. "Anyway what's for lunch?"
Ichigo rolled his eyes. He definitely knew better. "Answer me this, you guys, why don't you people just DROP it, already?" he said heavily.
"Drop what?" Keigo said.
"Don't play dumb with me, Keigo. You know exactly what I'm talking about." growled Ichigo.
Mizuiro continued playing innocent. "No, I'm afraid I don't. Please be more specific."
If looks could kill, Mizuiro and Keigo would've collapsed on the floor
"Me and Akashiya-san." hissed Ichigo, this time saying her last name for the first time, like it was a bad taste in his mouth. "When are you and the rest of you people going to stop pestering me about her? It's been at least three or four weeks already and you're insisting we're together!"
Mizuiro looked momentarily puzzled by this. "You mean you aren't together?"
Ichigo wanted to kill both of them. "For the last time, we are NOT a couple, nor will we ever be!"
"You'll eat your words later, Ichigo, I guarantee you that."
Ichigo groaned, and muttered under his breath. Mizuiro chortled again. "Aw, c'mon, Ichigo, don't tell me you haven't ever thought about it before! The rest of us have!"
"I figured." said Ichigo bitterly, "You idiots actually believed what people are saying about me and Akashiya-san."
"Well, how can we not believe what's going around?" said Mizuiro, "You two always walk home together, you pass notes to each other, and you even call her by her first name. Rumor has it, that the two of you hung out together at the mall and you even fed her. Plus, she was up here with you, not long ago." Yes, that was true, thought Ichigo to himself, but those were certain reasons why he would have to. "Plus, you do tend to get a little overprotective of her." added Mizuiro suddenly.
"What? Where the hell did that come from?" he choked.
"He said you're a little possessive over Moka-chan." teased Keigo happily. Seeing the glowering look on Ichigo's face, he quickly changed that idea. "Just a little!"
Ichigo's face wore the usual scowl. "That's not true." he said, defensively.
"It is true." said Mizuiro, persistently. "You never let any guy come near her, unless you're around!"
"Yeah, like me!" Keigo said, pouting. "I'M innocent!"
'Yeah, right ' Ichigo thought, smoothly ignoring him. What Mizuiro was in fact true, but that was because Moka was his friend and if he'd had to, he would throw them out the nearest window, for even thinking about touching her."That's because we have hormonally driven pricks, like you and Keigo around, who only think with their-"
"Hey! That's not true!" Mizuiro squeaked, his face turning a bright shade of pink.
"Yeah, we respect the ladies around here equally, unlike you, who just gives them the brush off."
"Right...sure..." Ichigo replied, not believing any word of what they were telling him.
Both Ichigo and Moka were chattering small words to each other. On the way there Ichigo opened the door to his house, gulping when he heard his father yelling. Quickly pushing Moka to the wall, he slammed his back against it, placing his arm over Moka, who blinked and watched baffled as Isshin came crashing through kicking out and smashing into the wall screaming his son's name. Moka blinked as she looked down to Ichigo's father sprawled on the floor.
"You are getting good, my son. Oh, and I see the lovely Miss Moka has come along with you." Isshin said, gleefully.
Moka just smiled and waved down to him. "Hi, how are you doing these days?" she greeted with her angelic voice ranging through his ears.
Isshin piped up to his feet with a big smile. "Oh, I'm just doing great, my dear! Just having a rough time during the days. So, how's Ichigo been treating ya? Did he ask you to be his girlfriend?" he asked cheerfully.
"Uhh..." Moka just stuttered in confusion.
Ichigo growled under his breath. "I let you talk for one minute and then you go sprouting nonsense! When are you ever going to understand that not every girl that I bring over is NOT my girlfriend?" Ichigo yelled.
"It sure looks like it to me." Karin commented, smirking.
Yuzu turned back to Karin with a panicky and shock expression. "Karin-chan! Don't say things like that!" scolded Yuzu to a smirking Karin.
"I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like he's a little kid." Karin said.
"Uh...uh...Akashiya-san, is it about time we went upstairs and studied?" Ichigo said, smiling nervously, while grabbing Moka's arm, trying to escape from the embarrassment that his family were putting him through.
Moka looked back at Ichigo with confusion painted across her features that he would call her by her last name. "Study?" she questioned. Ichigo nodded and motioned his head upstairs. She then realized that they had something to discuss with one another. "Oh! That's right. We have that big math test to study for, tomorrow! And we have to be on our feet for it!" Ichigo sweatdropped at what she said. 'Be on our feet? What the hell is that suppose to mean?' he thought to himself. "Well, we better get going. See you, Mr. Kurosaki." With that said, the two of them quickly marched up the stairs and Ichigo shut the door, locking it. Moka sat on Ichigo's bed, sliding off her shoes before laying her feet upon it. "So how we going to do this and be able to find whoever did it?"
"Well, I planned on..." After 17 minutes, or so of coming up with a plan, the two of them still didn't have a plan to find out, who did it. By now, Moka was tired out and already asleep, including Ichigo. Well, he was half asleep at least. He finally took notice that Moka had fallen asleep during his talk of plan. Who could blame her for going to sleep, though? He talked on for minutes and minutes, untill it decided to put her asleep. Ichigo looked down at his watch as the time showed 12:51; it was getting late for both him and Moka. He wondered if he'd should wake her up and walk her home, but then another thought popped in his head. "Maybe I should let her stay here for one night, since it's late and all." he suggested to himself, feeling as if it was no problem. Little did he know, that there was a problem. "Ah, crap. Where am I gonna sleep?"
There's chapter 8. If you're wondering if Keigo spreaded that rumor, than no he didn't. And about Moka have a whole somewhere on her body, she doesn't have one, because she's different from the other arrancars and that's why a few arrancars and espadas hate her so much, because she doesn't have a hole like the rest of them do. If you want to know the reason why, all of that will be explained later on in one of the chapters. If you want Moka, or Orihime to get kidnapped by Aizen just look on my profile and on my poll and vote for the one you want to get kidnapped. I can probably have Ulquiorra intimidate Moka, by telling her that she going to die at Los Nochas with no one caring about her. If you want that. Besides Grimmjow is probably lucky to have Moka as his friend. And it will be pretty tense when Ichigo and Moka learn the truth about each other as well as Grimmjow and the ones she's loyal to.