That night Rukia's phone had not ringed norsended orders to eliminate any hollow that tried to attack some unsuspecting soul in Karakura. So, Ichigo took the chance to catch up with the homework and Rukia was sitting on the bed and looking to the window, appreciating the clouds, as innocent as a little child, just waiting for the chance to copy the lessons of Ichigo.

A strange lightning crosses the sky, far away from there and draws Rukia's attention.

"Hey, Ichigo, look! A lightning crossed the sky!"

"It shall rain, then."

"With clear skies the way it is? I don't think so."

"So forget it."

Rukia looks at him, who wouldn't look away from his notebook.

"Ichigo, that lightning was strange."

Ichigo looks at her with a look of disdain.

"Does that means that every time a lightning crosses the sky we'll have to check if there's something wrong? C'mon, Rukia! Just forget it, tonight is way too good for me to waste my time getting up just to go see why a lightning is lost and can't find where the rain is."

"You idiot! What I was saying is that that lightning seemed a kidou!"

"I think that's pretty impossible, since if it was a kidou we would have sensed it'sreiatsu, concluding that the idiot here is you! Now let me enjoy this moment of peace and leave me alone."

Ichigo was right. Though strange, that lightning did not emanated any traces of reiatsu. Rukia thought she was imagining things.

"Knock, knock, knock"; someone knocked at the door.

"Come in." SaysIchigo.

It was Yuzu.

"Ichi-ni, Rukia-chan, dinner is ready."

"We'll soon go downstair, Yuzu."

"Thank you for calling us, Yuzu-chan."

"I expect you both for dinner, try not to linger." Yuzu says with a smile and withdraws from the room.

Ichigo gets up from the chair and stretches his muscles. He looks at a concerned looking Rukia, then says:

"Look, if that lightning worries you so much, after dinner we can go to it with the help of a GPS."

Rukia smiled.

"No need, I agree with you. If it was something for us to worry about, we would have felt something different, but as we did not felt, then it's just a flash."

A moment of silence.

They both laugh.

"Let's go downstairs before Yuzu gets tired of waiting us for dinner."

The two go down to the dining room.

{Bleach - OST 01 - Track 04: Oh so Tired}

Dinner is thoroughly enjoyable. Kurosaki family dinner is in harmony and, as always, there is the warm presence of Ichigo and Kurosaki Isshin exchanging blows rather than shoving food into their mouths. Karin dinners in silence, after all that was no longer a novelty at dinner also got used to it, except for the part where she'd have to put up with Ichigo Kurosaki stressed inside the room until bedtime. Only Yuzu was still trying to calm the waters of the two with a grim smile on the table.

"I hope they survive 'till desert."thought the girl.

Not far away, on top of a roof in the neighborhood ,a serene and solitary figure was watching that family in particular and with great interest.

"They have changed a lot" she thought as she smiled.

"Beep, beep, beep!"Rings the hollow alert. She looks back to the family and realizes that Ichigo and Rukia also received the signal.

It was time to act as quickly as possible. She looks in the direction indicated by the sign and disapeares of the roof with a quick step.

Ichigo was still playing stupid boy's fights with his father when Rukia's cell phone rings.

It seems that this pleasant evening was over.

"Ichigo!"

"Uhm, I know. Yuzu, sorry, but I'll have to go and solve a problem as quickly as I can. I promise I'll be back for dessert. Save some for me and Rukia."

"Okay, but Ichi-ni, take care."

"Do not worry, I'll go with him Yuzu-chan."

"Let's go Rukia!" insists Ichigo.

The two run out the door.

"Ahhhhh! Our boy is so grown up, Masakiiiii! You'd feel so proud of hiiiiimmm!" Isshin says, running and babbling toward a giant picture of a beautiful woman on the wall.

"Oh ... it seems that Ichi-ni is realy growing up ..." Karin says sighing.

"What? What do you mean, Karin chan?" Yuzu says worriedly.

"Looks like we'll have to learn how to take care of ourselves soon ..."

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