-Please Don't Take My Sunshine away-
"Nuuuuuuu!" Kiyomi who has cake all over her face, giggles as she runs away from Rukia who's hold a nicely cut piece of cake, "You can't run far!"
"But nee-chan... It was PURELY by accident! I didn't mean to smash the cake in your face..."
"Really? An accident... Doesn't seem-"
The door bell rings.
Kiyomi smiles as Rukia signals her to stay where Kiyomi was as Rukia wipes the cake off her face before opening the door, "Hel-"
"Hello Ms. Kuchiki, this is Mr. Hyabusa Okada... We would like to get Kiyomi into the rightful fam-"
Rukia's eyes widen. "They" want to take Kiyomi away from her.
"I'm sorry, but Kiyomi is too busy having fun with her family right now... Maybe next ti-"
"Nee-chan?" Kiyomi quietly peers over the corner, "Who are-"
"Kiyomi?" Hyabusa happily addressed, "It's me dad..."
Kiyomi's eyes widen as she clings onto Rukia, "I don't have a dad... I only have a nee-chan..." Kiyomi hides her face away from Hyabusa, mumbling, "Make him go away..."
Rukia looks at the lawyer and Hyabusa, "It seems like Kiyomi doesn't want to go..."
The lawyer scoffs, "I doesn't matter if she wants to or not... You are not related to her."
The lawyer looks at Hyabusa and give him a nod as he grabs Kiyomi only to have Rukia pull her back.
"Kiyomi doesn't want to go..."
"Well," the lawyer pushed his glasses up, "It doesn't matter what she wants... She belongs to Hyabu-"
"Kiyomi isn't an object..." Rukia mumbles as she tightens her hold onto Kiyomi.
The lawyer chuckles, "Hyabusa, handle Kiyomi... I'll take care of ... Ms. Kuchiki..."
Hyabusa rips Kiyomi off of Rukia as she screamed and sobbed for Rukia to help and save her... to grab her back... to never abandon her...
Rukia heard Kiyomi's pained sobs and cries. Rukia wanted nothing more than to dry those tears and tell her everything will be fine. Everything will be back to normal...But that's not going to happen as Rukia desparatly tries to run past the "Lawyer" who blocks her from Kiyomi... Rukia's only sunshine.
"NEE-CHAAAAAAAANNN!"
The last words Rukia heard before they drove off, leaving Rukia alone... once again...
-Counting stars-
"Nurse Yasadori!" Nanao happily called, "Can you hand this to nurse Kuchiki?" Nanao handed Ayame a orange packet.
Ayame takes the orange packet as she lets out a sigh, "Nurse Kuchiki isn't here today..."
"Can you send it to her? I want her to rest assured we have her covered... She doesn't have to worry about the medical board... Some made sure of that..." Nanao snaps her finegers smiling, "Oh! There is someone else I want you to send this to..."
Ichigo's hands trembled. He realized he messed up... He messed up big time...He accused Rukia for something she didn't did... Something that turned Rukia's world upside down. This time.. Ichigo began to hate Orihime... She's the one that lied to him... She's the one that plotted all this...
"Ichi-"
Ichigo crumples up the paper, "Orihime... Did you lie to me?"
Orihime began to sniffle, "You don't beli-"
Ichigo tosses the crumpled up paper and tosses it at Orihime, "This proves Rukia didn't beat you up... Rukia is right handed... The hand prints on her cheeks don't match Rukia's hand prints... The scars on your arm... It was all self inflicted..." Ichigo looked at Orihime in the eyes, "Why?"
"She was tearing us apart! I saw the look in your eyes when you talked about her!"
"She was my first love! How the hell do you think I'd react?"
Orihime was filled with anger. She wanted to scream and tell him he was an idiot, a fool and a tool.
But instead she slaps him. She slaps him.
"I saw you holding onto her when she was crying.. cuddling with her... I tried to pass it over but now? I can't..."
Ichigo kept quiet. He was confused with what he got himself into.
"Orihime... Rukia needed me... She was a mess when I-"
"Don't you think I need you too?" Orihime quietly mumbled, "You are the best thing that has happened to me..."
Ichigo rubs his face mumbling, "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid...Why didn't I listen to her?"
-I Need a Hero-
"Rukia?" Ukyo slips into Rukia's room holding a big bag of what Ukyo likes to call, "Nectar of the gods"
"Ukyo... They took Kiyomi away from me..."
"Yeah... I heard... Here... There's an orange packet that was in your mail slot...And congratulations...You won against the big breasted monster..."
Rukia lifts her head as she looks at Ukyo oddly, "What do you mean?"
Ukyo grabs the orange packet away from Rukia as she opens it herself and hands the papers to Rukia, "See, turns out the doctors at the hospital love you..."
Rukia reads the papers and tosses it to he side, "I don't care if she wins or not... All I'm worried about is Kiyomi..."
Ukyo lets out a sigh... "Let's talk to ...Mr. Sake"
Few hours later
"That damned Strawberry sure feels like a tool I bet!" Kiyomi giggles as she pours Rukia another cup of sake, "Come on Rukia! Speak to ! He's all ears!"
"Kiyomi was sooo cute when she first called me Nee-chan... She was smiling at me and was missing her two front teeth too... She was just too cute..."
"You know what Rukia... You should rub your victory into that big bre-"
The door bell rings as Rukia's eyes widen.
Maybe it's Kiyomi!
Maybe she came back!
Maybe the lawyer has a heart!
Rukia races down the stairs. Her heart was wildly beat from Rukia's sheer optimism. But once she opened the door... Her heart dropped...
"Rukia..." Ichigo hesitantly addressed, "I want to-"
"Rukiaaaa!" A drunk Ukyo fumbles her way down the stairs giggling as she waves a half empty sake battle, "You're not done talking to ... Mr. Sakeeeee..."
Rukia face palms, "Look Ichigo... I'm not ready to talk about-"
"Rukia... This is important...I REALLY need to talk to you..."
Rukia looks at Ukyo who is passed out on the couch smiling as she drools and mumbles, "Let's party with Mr. Sakeeee.."
"Come in... Just don't wake Ukyo up..."
Ichigo walks in with Rukia as she leads him to the kitchen and seats him across from her, "What's so important that you need to talk to me?"
"It's about Orihime..." Ichigo sputtered, "We had an argument and she slapped me... I thought about everything that had just happened and broke up with her... "
Rukia leans back as she looks at Ichigo, "Why are you telling me this? Why would I want to know what you do with-"
"I want to hear what you have to say..."
Rukia was shocked. She didn't expect this day to come... She didn't expect Ichigo to sit across from her willing to listen to what she had to say.
"You left me.." Rukia mumbled, "You just left me alone... You never called, mailed or even emailed me... I waited for you.. You-"
"He's a tool Rukia... You can do sooo much better than that..." Ukyo slurred, not knowing Ichigo is over.
Rukia chuckles a little, "You sent a postcard... A postcard with no heartfelt meaning behind it... I was crushed... I couldn't eat, sleep or so anything right. I just lost myself. It took me a long time before I could trust anyone... I wanted SO badly to just-just-just" Rukia wipes away her tears, "I just wanted to disappear... Let the anger, gloom, and resentment wash away... But I couldn't... I just couldn't... I just kept thinking about you... Thinking on how I was a lousy girlfriend... how I didn't love you enough... how I didn't deserve you... I hated myself because of that.. I drove you away... But that was when I met Kiyomi... Kiyomi is everything I needed.. and I'm everything she needed... "
Ichigo sat still, he was absorbing what Rukia said as he tried to formulate an explanation... He just couldn't because he had no good excuse. He clearly abandoned Rukia.
"Rukia... I'm soo sorry.. I really am-"
"Oi Rukia..." Ukyo is on one of her drunken tirades, "Who the hell names their kid strawberry? It's a girly ass name..."Ukyo giggles as she falls back to sleep.
"Ichigo..." Rukia looks at Ichigo straight in the eyes, "I'm tired of hearing I'm sorry...If you were really sorry you'd stay away from me for awhile... Please..."
I think the next chapter or so will be the last ones cause I don't really want to drag it out...
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