Je suis desolee tout le monde! (I'm sorry everyone) it's been too long! But life's at fault here not me!
But anyway here is the next installment!
For my one and only Youshallnotpass-taichou, who has been the best to me since the beginning and a new friend of mine ViperineVampire who loves vampires! of course who doesn't!…at least the ones not sparkly
Soundly a pair of high heels hit the uneven cobble stone under her feet, with a slight sway of her hips and a pair of clenched fists, a raven haired beauty glared and cursed under her breath.
"Stupid bastards! They make me work ungodly hours of the day and night and for what?! I get no where!" ready to kill someone Rukia had finally arrived at the place she was headed, Dublin Pub.
The sound of the ringing bell on the heavy worn out green door resounded throughout the Irish pub, allowing its patrons to know another of them had entered. A woman with a busty chest and bright strawberry-blonde hair looked up at the familiar sound of the light stomping footsteps, she smiled
"Hello to you too little Rukia"
"I'm not in the mood Rangiku"
"Heh I can see that, your regular right?" without even a nod of the head Rangiku turned around and began to make the tiny girl's drink when she spoke
"No, make me something stronger"
"Are you sure? Your regular is pretty strong already"
"I need something to forget…" with a light nod to her friend, Rangiku began to make something a little stronger, she knew what alcohol did to her friend. Silence filled the two girls as the pub surrounding them bustled with life and merriment, Rukia got her drink and took it down piece by piece,
"Come on little Rukia, your job can't be that bad"
"It is Rangiku! They make me work and work and I try to always be the best worker! But no matter what they always keep me in my same position! I never get any higher!"
"It's a hard job…." the bartender tried to convince her friend
"That's still not enough! I've been working there for five years Rangiku! Five years and I've gotten no where…." holding her head from falling onto the bar table, time slowly dwindled away and before long the small pub was emptying and midnight was approaching.
"Rukia I think it's time you get home"
"Don't make me leave Rangiku….I can't go home…" talking into her arms as she laid on the table, the sudden sound of the door bell ringing attracted the busty woman's attention
"Welcome sir"
"Hello" the man's voice sounded throughout the pub only a handful of people left.
Rukia had long finished her drink and was now just sitting slouched over in her chair, the man sitting beside her she gave no heed to him and with Rangiku in the back to get more supplies there was little to no reason to care. Until…
"A lady must never show her frown to the public"
"Are you talking to me?"
"I believe so" looking to his right at the woman, his glass of alcohol still in his hand
"Do I look like I give a damn what anyone thinks?" her dark purple eyes shining with a gaze of annoyance.
"I'm sure you're a woman who walks to her own beat"
"Damn right!" pushing herself up from the table, Rukia looked to her left and got a good look at the man beside her, he was a young man about late twenties but his hair showed differently, it was pure white and hung in an odd shape that oddly seemed to frame his fine face, clashing well with his Irish green eyes. "Who are you anyway?"
"Isn't it proper etiquette to introduce yourself first?" looking amused he placed his glass on the table
"You're a real ass you know"
"Am I?"
"Yeah" glaring at the beautiful man, Rukia got up and paid for her drink wobbling to the door, as a pair of green eyes watched her
"Are you going home?"
"Why the hell do you care?" she called back, turning her head to glare at the man again, Rukia took one step more towards the heavy door before her heel gave way to her alcoholic wobble when suddenly a pair of warm and strong arms surrounded her waist and a flash of glowing red and flush white appeared in front of her eyes, before finally fading to black.
The sound of soft footsteps echoed along the old buildings of Ireland, past the gothic church, swift over the green pastures, running across the babbling waters. A tiny flutter of black lashes showed that the petite woman was awake
"Are you alright now?"
"Hmm where am I?"
"You're on my back, and I'm taking you home"
"What!?- ow my head" holding her head Rukia placed it back on the man's shoulder blade trying to keep the pain away by resting her eyes
"Why are you doing this for me?"
"Hmm?"
"You're a stranger, taking home another stranger….you're not a pervert are you!?" about to jump off the man, he held her legs tight against his torso
"I'm not pervert I can assure you"
"Then why…." somehow his voice made her believe him.
"You looked like someone who needed someone to lean on" with wide dark purple eyes Rukia was stunned for a moment before letting the drinks affects drown her senses,
"…I am, thank you"
"I'm at your service" smiling at the response he got, the man continued to walk towards the destination the worried bartender had given him, walking with ease through the darkness after some time had passed Rukia stirred.
"Bad dream?"
"…yeah"
"Would you like to talk about it?" letting his gentle voice sooth her Rukia nodded as she held onto the man tighter
"It was about my family back in Japan, my mother and father died when I was just a baby along with my sister, I was adopted by a family friend who now I call my big brother…."
"…." giving her time to collect herself, the man kept walking silently listening
"He gave me everything I could ever want, he had status, power, money everything but…. He never gave me what I guess what I really wanted"
"That would be?"
"Love…" hearing the strain in her own voice Rukia pressed her head deeper into the man's neck, holding him tightly as if he were her on and only life line. It was painful to give voice to the past she had tried so hard to run away from, but with this man…. It felt relieving "all I wanted was to be someone in his eyes, but nothing I did was ever perfect enough to get his attention, after years of trying I finally moved out… and moved here to Ireland"
"Did you leave without telling him?"
"Even if I did would he care?" sleep began to take over her consciousness and her soft voice began to waver
"I believe he would, I know I would be if you left me"
"Nii-sama would never want me back….no one would" just as the words left her red lips a bitter tear fell from her closed lids onto the man's back, and for a moment through the darkness a sadness gazed his face, sadness that seemed to bathe in sorrow; as if he knew her pain and more.
Placed in her bed comfortable and warm Rukia finally woke up once more, only to find out she was in her room, in her apartment.
"W-wha how did I?"
"I used your house key and placed you in bed" whipping her head towards the sound of the intruding voice, Rukia automatically regretted it
"Gah! My neck"
"Whipping your head will do that" smiling at the girl the nameless man walked towards the foot of her bed and looked her in the face, just the same with Rukia.
"T-Thank you, for bringing me back home"
"It was my pleasure"
"You know, you aren't the kind of guy I thought you'd be" a handsome smirk appeared on his face
"And what type of man did you see me as?"
"The old kind who thinks they're all that, like you always know something no one else knows but you won't tell them what it is no matter how much they ask"
"You aren't completely off" giving the man a smile for the first time, Rukia spoke
"My name is Kuchiki Rukia"
"Hmm?"
"What's your name?" smiling at her with an equal grin he answered as he walked over to her side, taking up her hand he bent over laying his smooth lips on her outer palm in a tender kiss; making the raven haired girl flush pink.
"My name is Hitsugaya Toushiro"
"Toushiro hmm? Well then Toushiro pleased to meet you"
"The pleasure was all mine" glancing up a light flicker of red gleamed in his eyes before disappearing into the moonlight.
"If you want you can spend the night" Rukia advised the white haired man, for some odd reason she felt like she could trust this man, trust him with everything as if he were there for her…. Her and only her, no one else.
"I would love to, thank you" taking her palm again Toushiro kissed it once more before bending over towards the slowly drifting raven haired woman as he softly spoke in his velvet voice, thick with an Irish accent. "I promise when you wake up, I will still be here, I will not leave you Rukia"
With a light smile from her weak lips she answered "don't leave me Toushiro."
Authors note- I know ViperineVampire it didn't have much vampire-ness but if you look at the it on a deeper form you can see! But I'll understand if you don't like it and ask for another one with more vampire-ness! Even I want to make another one more vampire-ish! But the plots for those are a bit harder…..
And to taichou! I hope you liked it! Next time I'll try to do one from your G.B!
And of course to everyone else! Sorry it's been AGES since I was last here for these one-shots! But ideas such as these are hard to think of and/or just randomly come to me!
But enough about that, please read and review!!!!
