*Author's note*
Holy hell!
An update?!
-Clocks-
"Naomi!" Rukia whole heartily cheers, "Looks like your on the path of full health!"
It's passed 30 days and Kiyomi is happily back with Rukia who made a deal with Kiyomi's grandfather to let him spend time with his own grandchild before he passes-which is the least Rukia and Kiyomi can do for him. Though Rukia doesn't mind... She's at peace because she knew when it hit 30 days, Kiyomi will be back for good and everything will be well. She has Kiyomi, Ukyo, Renji, and the rest of the hospital staff...
What more can Rukia ask for?
"Yup Ruki-chan!" Naomi smiles as points at Rukia's chappy key chain, "It's soo cute! Where did you get it Ruki-chan?"
"NEEEE CHAAANNN!" Kiyomi runs towards Rukia with arms wide open, "I MISSSED YOU SOOO MUCH!"
Kiyomi glomps Rukia who whole heartily laughs and hugs Kiyomi tighter, "I heard you were spoiled rotten there in California..."
"Nuuuuu... Ojii-san insisted I get the candy and toys..."
"Really?" Rukia gave Kiyomi a sly look, "You sure you didn't pout your way?"
Kiyomi giggles as she looks through her messenger bag, "I got something for you nee-chan..." Kiyomi pulls out a chappy nurse key chain "I was looking all over for this because I remember you losing it when we were playing at the park..."
A smile appears on Rukia's face as she remembered what was said between them...
"Okada-sama... "Rukia humbly addressed, "I was thinking about what you said..."
"So you changed your mind Kuchiki san?" The frail old man hopefully chirped, "I can have my grand child back?"
Rukia chuckles uneasily, "Kiyomi wouldn't like that... She would never forgive me if I left her when I promised her I'll never abandon her..."
The frail old man looks at Rukia defeated, "I was hoping you would talk to Kiyomi about coming with us back to California... Back home..."
Rukia sports a soft smile as she looks at him, "I was thinking more Kiyomi goes to California for 30 days and comes back for good... She will come to visit when she has school off and I will be there with her... If you don't mind...
The frail old man stood there as the thought to himself and smiled, "Kuchiki san... Since Kiyomi sees you as an older sister, I'll be your Ojii-san..."
Rukia looks at the frail old man confused, "What do you mean?"
"You are now part of our family... That is if you don't mind Kuchiki-san..."
A smile appears on Rukia's face, "Thank you Ojii-san..."
Rukia happily responded, "It was a gift from my younger sister when she went to visit our Ojii-san..."
"Eh?" Naomi tilts her head, "Why didn't you go with her?"
"Well... I'm a nurse... I have a duty to-"
"Nurse Kuchiki..."
Rukia smiles because she recognizes the voice well enough to happily respond, "Yes Dr. Abarai?"
Naomi looks at Rukia slyly as she cheered, "Looks like Ruki-chan has a crush on a cute doctor!"
"Oh?" Rukia looks at Naomi, "What makes you think that?"
Naomi rolls her eyes, "I'm not a little baby here... The way he looks at you screams 'I'm gonna tap that'
Rukia face palms while Renji chuckles uneasily, "Wanna grab some lunch Rukia?"
-Autumn-
"It's so nice out Renji..." Rukia folds her fingers with Renji's as they walk down the street to a quaint little cafe, "How was your day?"
"Chief Yamamoto assigned me to implant a kidney for a patient who has been waiting for years... Kinda nervous about that..."
"Eh?" Rukia looks up at Renji, "Why is that?"
"I haven't done a transplant for awhile and I'm just nervous I do something wr-"
Rukia tightens her hold onto Renji's hand, "You'll get it... Just stop over thinking about it..."
"Nee-chaaaannnn!" Kiyomi bumbles her way in the ICU quietly giggling, "Guess what?!"
"You're ranked number 1 of your graduating class?"
"Nuuu... I invited Karin and Yuzu to sleep over!"
"Really? Just Yuzu chan and Karin chan right? Plus, When did I agree with this?" Rukia folds her arms smiling.
"Yup! and... Just now." Kiyomi bats her eye lips ever so sweetly making Rukia laugh, "Are you going to finish your homework before they come over?"
"Of course nee-chan! I might not be ranked number 1 in my graduating class, but i'm ranked 17!"
"I'd like it better if you were ranked 1 though..." Rukia sticks out her tongue winking.
Kiyomi scoffs, "It's only because they do extra credits and turn in their projects ahead of time..."
"Well, maybe you should start do that huh?" Rukia messes with Kiyomi's hair, "There's someone I want you to meet..."
"Eh?" Kiyomi tilts her head as Rukia leads her outside, "Who do you want me to meet Nee-chan?"
"You'll see..." Rukia looks around the hospital lobby as a smile appears on her face, "Look, Can you see him?"
"Where?! Where!? Where nee-chan?! where?" Kiyomi's eyes darted all around the lobby confused. Rukia laughs as she points at Renji which isn't hard to miss since he's the only doctor with red hair that's tatted up.
"What do you think Kiyomi?"
Kiyomi's eye brow raises as she butt bumps Rukia, "Nee-chan likes bad guys..."
Rukia bursts out in laughter, "He's not a bad guy..." Rukia looks up as Renji walks towards her, "Kiyomi... Call him Renji-chan..."
Kiyomi sports a chummy smile because she's about to make sure Renji is worth dating Rukia...
-Beyond the memory-
"Ukyo chan! Guess who I met today?" Kiyomi drags Ukyo up the stairs towards Rukia's room, "Nee-chan has a boyfriend!"
Ukyo laughs as she plops onto the bed next to Rukia while Kiyomi joins them.
"Kiyomi... Ukyo already knows about-"
"If Rukia had babies with him does that mean your babies will be born with tattoos?
Kiyomi bursts out in laughter, "Nee-chan would never do the nasty when we haven't given him a war-"
Ukyo covers Kiyomi's mouth, "Soooo... Let's visit Mr. Sa-"
The door bell rings...
"Sorry Ukyo... No Mr. Sake today... Kiyomi invited friends to sleep over..." Rukia jumps out of bed as she bumbles her way down the stairs towards the door, "Who is it?"
"It's Karin and Yuzu!" A tiny voice pepped.
"YUZU! KARIN!" Kiyomi bumbles downthe stairs giggling behind Rukia who opened the door.
Though when Rukia opened the door she saw Ichigo... Ichigo carrying Karin's and Yuzu's luggage alone.
"Oi, Karin, Yuzu, Here's your luggage...And," Ichigo looks up.
Their eyes met.
"Hahahaha! I'll see you tomorrow at class Rukia!"
Rukia smiles as she continues to walk towards her dorm room. It was nice weather out...The once green lush trees are now an earthy brown color as it leaves floats in the air listlessly. The wind wisps through the field, catching Rukia off guard as the papers she was hold sprays across the floor.
"Noooooo!"
Rukia darted around the field grabbing her papers before they could float away.
"Okay.. This is all-wait!" Rukia's eyes darted all over the field, "Where's the blue-"
"Heh, are you looking for this?"
Rukia looks up as her wild violet eyes met his bronze brown eyes.
It was love.
Rukia's eyes darted away as she looked at Yuzu and Karin smiling, "I think you guys know Uky-"
"Little ladies!" Ukyo squealed.
"Ukyo chan!"
Yuzu and Karin both drag in their luggage giggling while Ichigo quickly dashes to his car, avoiding confrontation with Ukyo.
"So hows that Doctor of yours naughty nurse..." Ukyo nugdes Rukia who laughs and face palms. (Look! Look! There's one over there!)
"Ukyo... Why are you so-" (I see it! I'm gonna catch it!)
Ukyo slowly pulls out a bottle of sake, smiling, "That's what happens when you're a bartender for a hotel...Besides, I bet you two had it going on daily sin-" (It's flying away! Hurry!)
Rukia bursts out in laughter, "Really Ukyo? Why are you being so perverted?" (I caught it! I caught it! Yuzu! Kiyomi! Get the jar!Get the Jar!)
Ukyo gives Rukia a chummy look as she takes a swig of sake, "It's Mr. Sakee... He loves me too much... He's always there when I'm at work.." (It looks soo pretty!)
"Ukyo... I think you should st-" (Let's get some more!)
Ukyo pouts as she tucks away her sake bottle, "Nuuuuu... Stop ruining my relationship with Mr. Sakeeee..." (Shhhhhh... there's one near the edge of the lawn...)
"Come on Ukyo..." (slowly walk towards it Kiyomi...)
"Wait-wait-wait... I'll put Mr. Sakeee away..." Ukyo takes one last swig of sake as she shakes her head and claps her hands, "Okay! Ukyo is back!" (AHAHA! GOTCHA!)
"Wait-how-what-huh?" Rukia looks at Ukyo confused. She was drunk one moment and now? She's renewed and sober? How does this happen?
Ukyo chuckles as she leans back onto the grass, "Rukia, Rukia... I'm a bartender... people buy me drinks... I get to drink on the job cause my boss is cool like that... Plus, the person buying me drinks is putting money into my pockets...it's a win-win..." (It's flying away! It's flying away!)
"So you never get drunk?" (Hurry up and catch it!)
"You can say that..." Ukyo lets out a huff as she jumps up smiling, "Where are my little ladies!?"
"Ukyooo-chan!"
Yuzu, Karin, and Kiyomi come bumbling towards Ukyo who looks at Rukia, "What do you think of my new little underlings?"
Rukia face palms, "Really Ukyo? Really?"
"Nee-chan! Look, look look!" Kiyomi grabs the jar of fireflies as she bumbles towards Rukia, "Isn't it nice looking."
Rukia laughs as she takes the jar of fire flies. When she takes a good look at the fire flies the sound of violins and violas filled the air...
Memories came rushing back...
It's been a year since Ichigo asked Rukia out and he has a "bright" idea for their one year anniversary... He's been planning this for weeks with the help of some of his friends of course...
"Okay Rukia...You have to promise me to keep your eyes closed"
Ichigo has Rukia blind folded as he left towards what seemed to be a forest, making Rukia worry more than she should.
"Ichigo...I don't feel so comfortable with-""No,no, no...I promise you Rukia...I promise you nothing bad will happen..."
Rukia tightly held onto Ichigo's hand as she fumbled her way next to Ichigo, "Ichigo... Are you sure we're going the right way?"
"Trust me Rukia...I know where we are going... We're almost there..." Ichigo tightens his hold onto Rukia's hand reassuring her he won't abandon her...
Right?
"Ichi-"
"Okay!" Ichigo loosens his hold only to have Rukia tighten it, "Don't leave me.."
Ichigo chuckles, "We're here..."
Rukia removes her blind folds and looks around in the quiet darkness...No one is around. Just ichigo, Rukia and the big bright moon...
Right?
"Ichi-"
"Wait!" Ichigo runs towards the nearest tree and fumbles around with a few glass jars, "Okay!"
Rukia's eyes widen. The night sky was lighted by the many fire flies that twinkled beneath the bright moon as the sounds of the viola and violin encased Rukia in its welcoming music... Rukia was smitten. If she could, she'd fall in love with Ichigo a times over...
But things didn't turn out that way.
Rukia's smiles disappeared as her hold on the jar loosened. Rukia felt a needle poking at her heart.
She thought she was over that...
She's with Renji who loves her unconditionally. Renji who won't lie, cheat, or leave her.
But Ichigo?
As much as Rukia hates to admit, Ichigo has a permanent spot in Rukia's heart. Not matter how much she wants to get rid of him, he's still there... After all, Ichigo was practically her first for everything...
That's what Rukia hates about Ichigo.
He never leaves when she wants him to... She wants him to leave her heart... He won't...
"Lemme see!" Ukyo grabs the jar from Rukia who snapped out of it.
"Ukyo chan! Not so rough! you're going to kill them!" Yuzu pouts as Karin flocked towards Ukyo. Though Kiyomi sat next to Rukia. She knew something was wrong...
She can tell by just looking at Rukia.
"Nee-chan... Are you okay? Is something wr-" Kiyomi gasp, "Did Renji-chan hurt your feelings?! Just wait till I tell Ukyo chan about-"
Rukia softly chuckles as she messes with Kiyomi's hair, "No, Renji didn't hurt my feelings..."
Kiyomi blinks her eyes, "What's wrong then?"
"Nothing..."
"Nee-chan... Somethings wrong...I can tell.."
Rukia laughs as she looks at Kiyomi, "You have me all figured out now... At such a young age too..."
Kiyomi folds her arms as she gives her a look, "Nee-chan... You can tell me... I'm big enough to know..."
"Next time okay? Next time I'll tell you... Let's just enjoy- Attack!" Rukia tickles Kiyomi who began to giggle and run away, "Nuuu.. Nee-chan no fair!"
"It's completely fair! Ukyo!" Rukia's eyes darted at Ukyo who smiled and nodded, "Well little ladies...I'm gonna give you guys a three second head start..."
-Night Fleeting-
"Okay... Everyone took a shower right?"
Rukia looked at Yuzu, Karin, and Kiyomi who all nodded in Unison.
"Okay then! A happy movie then sleep...But..." Rukia looks at Ukyo who nods and checks on the locks on the doors and windows, confusing Yuzu, Karin, and Kiyomi.
"Eh?" Karin looks at Rukia confused, "Why aren't we watching a scary movie?"
"You want to watch a scary movie?" Rukia looks at Ukyo, "Hey Ukyo... Karin-chan is a brave soul... She wants to watch a horror movie..."
Ukyo frowned, "I don't think they should wa-"
"No, no, no... Let them watch...Kiyomi waws talking about how much older she was earlier... Right Kiyomi" Rukia looks at Kiyomi who was beginning to become wary of Rukia.
"Nee-chan... Is there something wrong?"
"Eh?" Rukia tilts her head, "What would be wrong? Everyone is safe inside... Unless..."
"Unless what?" Yuzu huddled in a ball as she faces Rukia.
"Unless you're talking about the child eating monster..."
Yuzu and Kiyomi's eyes widen while Karin remained unphased, "There's no such thing as a child eating monster... Rukia-chan is making it all up..."
"Oh? Am I making it up Ukyo?"
"Nope. The Child eating monster exsists... It goes by the name, Kinomi Kaibutsu (berry monster)"
Rukia holds in her laughter, "Yeah, that's his name, Kinomi Kaibutsu..."
"Why do they call him Kinomi Kaibutsu?" Kiyomi chirped as she huddled next to Yuzu.
"Ukyo, turn the lights off! You know that attracts him..."
"Right..." Ukyo turns the lights off... The slither of light from the bright moon is the only light source as Ukyo sat next to Rukia, adding dramatic effect. They were both determined to make them scared.
"Okay...Yuzu chan asked me why the monster is called Kinomi Kaibutsu... Well... It all started when he was younger... His real name was Mamoru... He wanted to protect everything he had and did what he wanted no matter what people asked of him..."
"Yeah..." Ukyo chimmed, smiling because she knew where Rukia was going with it, "He has big bulging brown eyes, nasty nappy orange fur, and it's insanely obnoxious too!"
"Wait, wait, wait..." Karin looks at Ukyo and Rukia suspiciously, "How come you guys know so much about this?"
Ukyo looks at Rukia who came up with a story on the spot, "Well, when we were very young-like you guys, at your age...Ukyo and I had a sleep over at my place and we forgot to lock the windows... Kinomi Kaibutsu had me and Ukyo dangling in the air..."
"We begged him not to eat us... We even told him when we got older we'll get little girls to offer him... making his meals easier...He made us promise..."
"You know when I make promises I never lie... Right Kiyomi?"
Rukia looks at Kiyomi who hesitantly nods.
"That's why Ukyo made sure the doors and windows were locked..."
"Yeah...He even gave us a warning..."
"Warning?" Yuzu gulped hard, "What kind of warning?"
Rukia looks at Ukyo then Yuzu, "He told us, if we went back on our promise... He'd rip us limb from limb."
"Made sure we were alive to feel the pain."
"Made sure we saw what was happening."
"He made sure we heard him crunching on our bones."
"Made sure we-"
"Nuuu!" Kiyomi and Yuzu hid under the covers, "Stop Nee-chan..."
Rukia and Ukyo both look at each laughing, "Okay.. okay... we'lll stop... we'll stop...Just don't let Kinomi Kaibutsu get to-"
"Nee-chan!"
"Okay, okay..." Rukia gets up as Ukyo follows, "We'll leave you girls alone... Have fun now!"
I smashed in two chapters of Abandoned Reloaded because I'm just going to update from here... and the fact that I don't like how Abandoned reloaded is turning out... and I'm at the WTF moment with my Smooth as water fanfic...
So there will be some tweaks but completely different story line...
I wanna focus more on Rukia and Ichigo's neutral love/care for one another no matter how much they deny or try to push each other away because, after all, they were each others first for everything and you never truly get over your first when they practically was your first for everything...
Reviews and likes are greatly appreciated...