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And to be clear, here are the couples I write for: Ichigo and Rukia (Bleach), Momo and Toshiro (Bleach), Uryuu and Orahime (Bleach), Youraweichie and Kiuske (Bleach), Kagome and Inuyasha (Inuyasha), Sango and Miroku (Inuyasha), Ayame and Koga (Inuyasha), Kagura and Seshomaru (Inuyasha), Seya and Haji (Blood), Winry and Edward (Full Metal Alchemist), Roy and Riza (Full Metal Alchemist), Naruto and Hinata (Naruto), Sakura and Sauske (Naruto), Rachel and Jimmy (Case Closed), Harly and Katie (Case Closed), Ren and Kyoko (Skip Beat!), Kenta and Karin (Chibi Vampire/Karin) Maki and Winner (Karin),

A Modern Cinderella

A Modern Cinderella
(This takes place after FTB)
"Bye Ichigo! Be back in a few days!" Rukia chimed, makeing an attempt to leap out the window, but she noticed then that Ichigo had grabbed her rist, so she sighed and asked the question that she new she'd regret asking, "Wat?" "Well, Midget, wat part of 'You're never going to Soul Society without me again' don't you understand?" Rukia's mouth dropped slightly, "Wa- You were seriuose?! I thought you were just over-reacting because I came back slightly injured last time!" At that statement Ichigo was standing, glareing at her with obvouse anger, "'Slightly injured'? 'Slightly injured'?! You were way more than 'slightly injured' Rukia! Besides, I was about to make that a rule anyway, frankly I don't trust your brother not to kill and or marry you off wen I'm not looking," Rukia rolled her eyes, honestly, he was so overprotective! "Going alone is out of the question, Rukia," "And wat are yo going to do to stop me? Hm?" Ichigo grinned, "Two words: Pad locks" Rukia glared at him, "Let's not add lateness to my list of reasons to be disowned," and at that they were off, although frankly Ichigo thought that getting the Kuchikis to disown her would do more good than harm....
"You have to stay here," Rukia said simply, opening the door to her room in the Kuchiki manor, "Why?!" "Because I'm going shopping," "For wat?" "None of your buisness!" she shouted, "Wait...isn't tommorrow your birthday?" Rukia glared daggeres at him, "Yeah, so?" "Uh, um, well, never mind," and with that the door slammed shut, 'Tommorrow's her birthday, hm, Renji's probbably getting her a Chappy, so wat should I do?' he thought, and then it hit him like a ton of bricks, the perfect present!
Ichigo grinned, looking at the clock, admittedly he was a bit uneasy remembering that they were on their way to this big formal party, espically considering that he would be their as Rukia's personal guest and Byakuya had tried to "reason with her" and therefor get him banned, luckily for Ichigo it didn't work, aparently there was some sort of tradition that no one close to Rukia could see her before the party, and as he waited for her at the bottum of the large stair case, he had the sudden feeling that she wasn't paticuarly fond of this "rule" either, and then he heard the announcer call her name, he looked up and she was wearing the most beautifull kimono, it was pink with purple flowers and her hair was tied up with a small purple rose, "Wow," he wispered, "Wow wat?" "Agh!" Wen had she stepped next to him....? She tilted her head, "Wat's WITH you?" she aasked, "Um, nothing," he followed her to a less crowded area of the ball room, "These parties are so boreing, I wish I could just celebrate my own way," Ichigo grinned, "Then...let's leave wile they're distracted," he wispered, Rukia smiled, "And were would we go?" "I have an ideah,"
"So do you no how to ice skate?" Rukia rolled her eyes, sitting on a wooden bench near a frozen pound, "Ofcourse I do!" Ichigo grinned, "By the way, here's part one of your gift," he handed her a pink box and she looked at him questioningly, "Part one?" "Yep, there are two," Rukia shook her head slowly, opening the box, and wen she saw its contents, a complete look of shock came over her, "Are these....?" she wispered, pulling out a pair of the most beautifull slippers she had ever seen, "Are these....glass?" she wispered, Ichigo nodded slowly, "Do you realize how hard it is to find glass slippers?" she smirked, "These are just for show right?" "No, you can wear them, and by the way, look on the bottum," she turned one of the shoes over, and her mouth dropped, "Are these...ice skates?" Ichigo smirked, "And finding glass ice skates is even nmore difficult," there was a small blade on the bottum of the slippers, but they were quickly out of her grasp and resting in Ichigo's hands, he smirked, neeling before her and slideing her ice skates on (she had already taken off her sandals) he smiled at her, "So are you ready to ice skate?" "Yes, but it looks like someone beat us to it," she said simply, "Oh, well let's go to the other side of the pound then," he took her hand and they walked up the path and over the small bridge, wen Ichigo stopped, "I think there's something written in the ice," Rukia looked over the side of the bridge, and the words "Marry Me Rukia" were etched in the frozen pound, she swished around to see Ichigo neeling before her, ring in hand, "Marry me Rukia," he said, Rukia smiled, took the ring, and wispered, "Ofcourse," before kissing him lightly on his lips, she truley felt like a modern Cinderella, "Happy birthday, Rukia,"

Coldness Of Winter

It had just started snoweing again, how ironic, snow was her elemant, something she had always loved, but now it had taken something preciouse from her, she wouldn't go so far as to say that the Espada had been too much for him, but he had been injured previously and now she wished that she had taken on the stronger of the two, she neeled down in the snow, she woundered then, if she would dispise the snow and ice the way she did the rain, she had once loved nothing more than to twirl and spin and laugh on a rainy day, but now everytime she saw the sky water she just wanted to scream! The rain had taken the only person to except her since she had become a Kuchiki, and now the snow was takeing the only person that she ever truley loved undyeingly, besides her brother and Renji ofcourse, oh how she hated herself for telling Orihime to stay home! She bit her lip, wat was she really but snow and ice? Would her element, the very thing that saved her from life in Rukongi, now make her blood boil with anger? She wanted nothing more but to stop the snow fall, she glanced at Sode No Shirayuki, such a kind sword, but right now she didn't care about anything except for him, she was filled with anger and greif and every raw emotion in between, and the feeeling of those things evolving inside her brought forth the most sickening feeling she had ever felt! It was unimaginable, the pain, the confussion, the simple sickness that flooded her, she wanted to end it all! But he had always cherished her life, why- then she thought of something, the great Romeo and Juliet, she hated tragic love stories, but such an exception as this one must mean something, before she could think she had grabbed Sode No Shirayuki and pulled her next to her, she didn't want to prolong this, after all the sword had always held the better part of her soul, she didn't want to wake the slumbering spirit, she then tugged his head onto her lap, but she stopped, her hand lingered on his face, he was so...cold, not once had he ever felt like this, he had always been so very warm, everything he touched was always warm, everytime he touched her....for a breif moment she remembered his soft touch, how it melted the ice right off of her, but noow he was as cold as the snow surronding her, how she hated the forces that took away the warmest person in her world! No one had ever felt like him and now he's gone! Not even his warmth remained, he was so sickeningly cold, she shook her head vigerously and lifted her blade to her throat, but before she could make that fatal cut, the strangest thing happened, she heard "Silent Night" blare over the speakers of the square, and her blade fell beside her, she broke, the once proud standing Kuchiki, always bent but never broken, had been reducved to a heap of tears laying in the snow, she had no choice but to cry, she would do it, she wouldn't live without him, but for this moment she would mourn, ironically she had never liked the word "mourn" and now she was postponeing her death for it, she wasn't exactly sure wen it happened, but at some point she had fallen asleep,
Warm, she was suddenly so warm, but then she remembered the night before and cracked her eyes open, glanceing around the room, she realized that she was in his room, and in HIS bed, her heart skipped more than one beat wen she realized that someone was tightening his grip on her tiny frame, "Finally awake are you?" he sounded terrible, hoarse and unnaturally quiet, "I-Ichigo?" then again she didn't sound any better, "Don't wear your voice out with stupid question Rukia," she shot straight up, but immediatly regretted takeing her body out of his hands, wen everyone told her that the outside world was cold they meant as litterally as they could, "H-how?! I thought you were dead!" she rasped, she regretted doing that too, Ichigo sat up slowly, "I went to Orihime's after I woke up and found you nearly frozen, I cecked your pulse and wen I was sure that your midget heart was still beating I took off, then we came home after Orihime and fell asleep, by the way, is that why you were crying? You thought I was dead?" "I-I wasn't crying you Idiot!" "Rukia, yes you were, it was so cold outside that your tears froze into icesicles," Rukia cringed, "Um, Ichigo, why are we both..." she trailed off, not noing how to put it, "Oh this? Simple, we were cold and I didn't want you to get hypothermia," "Wat's 'hipo-therma-riha'?" "Hypo-therm-ia! And it's wen you pretty much freeze to death, geez, we really need to sighn you up for a modern health class, who nos wat you'll get into this time of year,"Rukia grinned for the first time in 24 hours, she haad been so stupid the night before wen she- her thoughts stopped, "Sode No Shirayuki!" she sqweaked, "Is safe with the rest of your Soul Reaper powers," he noted, Rukia then realized that she was in her gigai, "I'm not even going to ask how you did that," "Good," a moment passed before he finally decided to take the fatal plunge and ask her, "Rukia? Why were you crying last night wen you thought I was dead? And why did you have Shirayuki next to you?" "I can't live without you Ichigo, it's that simple, so make your own conclusions," she wispered, "Expand that info a little more will ya'?" "I love you you Idiot!" "That's all I needed to hear," he smirked and before she could ask why his brain was suddenly missing, he had locked her in his arms and he was kissing her, they stayed like that for wat felt like too short of time, but then they saw that they had both turned blue, "By the way Midget, I love you too," Rukia smirked now, and curled up next to Ichigo, she was so happy that he was here as her sorce of warmth in this dead coldness of winter

Cut Like A Sword

"Hey Rukia, wake up, come on, wake up, don't," tears started filling his eyes, "don't die on me," he wispered, his hand dug into the land beneath him, he used his other hand to shake her limp body gently, he didn't care that tears rained down his face, he shook her more, nothing, he felt his heart beat faster, but it wasn't from the many injuries that the war had given him, "Don't tell me," he wispered, "Don't tell me I did all that for nothing! All the fighting, and blood, and pain wasn't for nothing Rukia! WAKE UP! Please wake up! Don't leave! Don't leave me again! Don't abandon me here!" He screamed, shakeing her vigerously, he finally turned her body over and held his breath, her amythist eyes were closed, blood and dirt stained her porcelin face, her entire body was absolutely masicured, his tears streamed more viciously than they ever had, stareing at the carnage of her body, "NO!!!!!!!!" he yelled, cradeling her in his arms, he stared at her face again, her lips were no longer pink, but a sickly red, from the blood staining them, he bent his head and kissed her bloody lips softly, tasteing her blood in his mouth, he leaned up and then it happened, he felt that somehow, an angel must be keeping his heart safe, because as soon as he pulled away, she inhaled sharply and was breathing again, he didn't want to hide the smile that overcame his features, "Rukia!" He yelled, sqeezing her tiny body in his strong arms, "...Ichi...squishing...me! ....Can't....breathe!" she moaned, he quickly released her and watched as her eyes returned to their original size, her lips then curved into a smile, "Ichigo," she wispered, reaching her tremebeling hand up to his face and wipeing one of his tears onto her finger, "why are you crying?" a playfull tone danced in her weak voice, "Shut up! Ya' no...red really isn't your couler, you should fix that," "Um," a sudden look of worry came over her face, "why is my blood on your lips?" "Wat?!" He was blushing viciously, "That's MY blood Idiot," "Oh, so then... YOU wear Srawberry Glamour Lip Gloss #5 too?" "....I hate lipgloss," her grin widened, "So then...did you give me CPR or something?" well, he COULD lie and say "yes" but this incedent had him worried, it was like a sighn, a sighn saying he needed to tell her now, "No, ....I kissed you," her eyes grew wide, "Y- you, k-k-kissed me?!" "Well, um, yeah, I did," Rukia grinned, "You idiot," and then her lips were pressing against his, he didn't reject them, even the sour taste of blood was sweet in this moment, finally takeing a moment to breathe, Ichigo said, "Ya' no, now is wen I should say something really cheesy, like... you are my ray of light of something," "And?" "You are my ray of light," Rukia giggled, "How did I no that was comeing?" "I dunno, ...Rukia?" "Yeah?" "I love you," the information struck her with surprise, a moment passed and he said, "Ya' no, ....first your hesitation was cute, now it's starting to scare me," she grinned, "You idiot! Ofcourse I love you!" she hugged him, he didn't mind the pain, it felt like fairy dust comparred to the thought of loseing her, that mere thought, cut ilke a sword

Trust Thy Heart

*Beep beep! Beep beep!* Rukia flipped open her cell phone, well, the hollow looked weak enough, she decided not to bother wakeing Ichigo, after all why wake the sleeping dragon right? So she hopped out of the closet and headed to the window, popping a Soul Candy in her mouth and comanding Chappy to go to sleep before jumping out the window and heading towards the hollow,
Ichigo woke up slowly, there was a draft, he slid out of bed to shut the window and, wile he was up, decided to check on Rukia, he had a feeling that he needed to, so he creeked open the closet door, and to his surprise (and delieght) there lay Rukia, sleeping sweetly in her makeshift bed, something seemed wrong though, but he couldn't help but smile at the image, after all this was a rare sight, here was the tough and rough Rukia Kuchiki curled up in a ball, sleeping like an angel, he grinned, if he only had a camara... ohhh the black mail! Although his smile faded wen the Soul Reaper's bright amythist eyes fluttered open and an unusually large grin spread across her face, she leaped up, "Spying Stwabewwy Pyon!" the mod soul sqweaked, "Oh you're Chappy! Were's Rukia?!" "Went to fight hollow, Pyon!" Ichigo maneged to claw the little pyon-ing thing away from him long enough to leap out of the window, searching for this midget would be a real pain and you better bet she was getting a real good tounge-lashing as soon as they got home!
Blood trickled down Rukia's arm, the hollow had gotten in a lucky shot, her radar said there was only one hollow but there were actually TWO, and ofcourse she was looking at getting yelled at by Ichigo the very second she entered the room, perhaps she could delay the royal lecture if- "RUKIA!" she breathed an exasperated sigh, he had woken up, he had come after her, he had gotten VERY mad, how very lovely, she felt his hand slip over her shoulder (not the injured one though) and sqeezed it tightly, "Let's go," she could tell that he was saying it through clenched teeth, his tone was very angered, she started to wounder just HOW mad she had gotten him, but guessed that she would find out soon enough
"How STUPID can you be?!" Rukia sighed, watching Ichigo pace around the room, "Wat do I keep TELLING you abuot fighting alone you little twit?!!" She really wasn't paying much attention, "HELLO!? Are you going to answer me?!" "I didn't think you wanted an answer to a rhetorical question," "You weren't even listening!" "Oh? I suppose I missed something, wat did you ask?" she could see Ichigo becomeing more and more annoyed by the second, his eye was twitching and the big vein in the middle of his forehead was throbbing and bigger than she had ever seen it, Ichigo neeled down on the floor and rolled up Rukia's sleve, "I asked if you even HAVE a conciouse," he mumbeled, cleaning the blood from her arm (and not bothering to be gentle like he normally would) "Wat do you mean?" she asked, the question takeing her by surprise, "I mean, don't you no how torn up I get wen you make me worry like this?" "Ichigo," Rukia winced, "Am I wrapping it too tight?" "Y- yeah, a bit," "Good, you deserve it," Rukia glared at him, although, it wasn't that bad,
They sat there for a few moments, neither tired enough to go to sleep, "You're too overprotective," Rukia stated dully, Ichigo looked at her, surprise written on his face, "I can take care of myself you no," Ichigo glared at her, "Then wat do you call this?" he sqeezed her arm and she winced, "It's just a scratch," he sqeezed her again, she winced again, "Stop doing that! You're hurting me Moron!" "Then it isn't just a scratch now is it?!" She bit her lip, he was just being mean now! "Why are you acting so obnoxiouse all of a sudden?!" she spat, "Because you made me worry! You're SO inconsederate sometimes!" "Inconsederate?!" "Yeah! You never think about how YOUR actions affect ME!" "That's bull! I think the vein is speaking now!" "Really?! You didn't seem to think about how much it would hurt me the night you left and were taken! And the VEIN wasn't too happy about THAT either!" "That was a long time ago!" "And you STILL don't think about me! I bet you didn't ONCE think about how much it would hurt me wen you screamed at me to go away! All those days locked in that tower did you ever ONCE consider that?! And don't even TRY lieing because you're a terrible lier!" she was silent, "Did you ever think about how scared I was?!" "Ofcourse I did! Wat a stupid question!" "Scared for YOU Moron! Did you ever think about how terrified I was that I was going to run out of time and loose you?! Huh?! I'm waiting for your snarky answer Rukia! Don't tell me that you've finally run out of things to say!" He was geneinly angry now, not just angry because of her fighting on her own, or ignoring him, but he was angry because she obviously didn't comprehend her importance to him, "You complain that I didn't think about your feelings?" her tone was low and dark and just above a wisper, "You think that I really didn't no you'd be comeing after me?" her tone was riseing, "Or that I would jump into your arms like some fairy tale princess and beg you to save me?! Do you really think I would want you there?! I always say that Soul Society is a wounderfull place and for most it really is, but for others it's like a torture chamber! I should no! I've been on both sides of the line! Do you really think I didn't consider how badly I was hurting your feelings?! Wat about MY feelings?! I new you were comeing I just hoped against it! I couldn't die peacefully with your death hanging over me! One was enough! Two was unbearable! You talk about ME being inconsideret, YOU'RE the one who's being inconsiderete! Did YOU ever think about MY feelings?! You said that you were worried that I was going to die! Well if that DID happen didn't you ever think about my inability to rest in peace with your death hanging over me?! Don't you ever THINK?! You're such a JERK! Don't you understand how crossed I was?!" she paused, tears begining to cloud her eyes, "You just don't understand, I wanted more than anything to be with you and no that everything was ok, but I new that I couldn't do that, I just, I just wanted your safety that's all, and I only wanted to be away from you so that you would be ok, don't you get it?" "Then why do you keep doing this to me? If you realize how much it hurts to see you in danger then why don't you let me protect you?" "For the exact same reason, I want to protect you too, and I want to be equal to you, Idiot, you can't possibly understand,"
There was a long pause, "Ichigo, I want you to be safe, I want you to have a better life, and so, I guess wat I'm trying to say is that, I'm causeing too much trouble, I need to leave," but before she could say anything else Ichigo's lips were crushing her's, at first it felt like he was pressing too hard, that he just wanted to shut her up, but after only a second, he seemed to lighten his hold, makeing the kiss less demanding and more pleading, it became very soft and he eventually pulled away from the stunned girl, leaving her laying across his bed, "Why.... did you do that?" "How else could I shut you up? Wat was I gonna do? Slap you or something?" "...You could've," "I wouldn't," "Ichigo listen to me, I don't-" wat was she going to say? 'I didn't enjoy that'? Lie, 'I don't want to have that relationship with you'? Bigger lie, 'Don't kiss me'? Yeah right, 'I don't love you'? That one would make a lie detector go berserk, "You don't wat?" "...I don't no," she sqweaked, "Rukia listen to me, I love-" "Stop, don't say it, please, don't say that, my heart can't take it," "Rukia, I love you," and that was that, the final string snapped, she couldn't take it anymore, and she started crying, "I told you not to say it," "I wish you felt the same way, Rukia," "I DO you fool!" "Then wat's the problum!?" "I don't.... deserve you, I shouldn't-" but she was cut off again, he was holding her hands tightly in his, her lips being pressed shut by his, her eyes lingered on his orange hair for a moment, and they finally slid shut, "Listen to me Rukia, if you are good enough to make my heart go all jumpy, and to fall in love with, then don't you think that's good enough?" "...I don't no," "Well guess wat? I DO no, and I say it is MORE than good enough," "...ok," "Well, it's good that you finally understand," "Ichigo?" "Yeah?" "By the way, I love you too,"

Revealing

'If I could go back in time and change one thing about my life in the last year it would defenitly be the part were I explained Halloween to Rukia, yes, I would delete that completely!' Ichigo thought, eye-twitching, he just new that any minute she would come walking into this room in some skimpy playboy bunny outfit, because we all no that she loves bunnies more than anything and that, let's face it, no self respecting creature that can possibly communicate with humans would EVER wear one of those fuzzy bunny costumes, espically not a little Soul Reaper who's ideah of a fun time is to see how long it takes for Ichigo to pass out, he new it was his fate, and worse yet Uryuu was so busy sewing Orahime's princess costume that he couldn't count on the quincy to make Rukia's costume, therefor telling him, that if he made her costume into any kind of playboy bunny THING he would personally exterminate the last quincy, unfortinatly, he didn't get the chance to do that, and so, Rukia, not haveing the time or pateince to shop for herself, accepted his father's offer to pick up the outfit for her, and noing his father, Ichigo was sure that he would choose the worest bunny outfit possible, the door sqweaked open and he was perpared for the worest, but instead of seeing Rukia in a trashy bunny outfit, she was wearing a nice blue sun dress, he had never loved that sun dress more than he did at that moment, "Ichigo?" she asked, and then he noticed it, she had four clothing bags in her hands, great, "Yeah?" "Um, wat are you wearing for Hal-low-een?" "A ninja outfit, and please stop sounding out Halloween, it's annoying," Rukia sat on the floor looking disapointed, "Oh! That dosen't help me! I was hopeing we could wear matching costumes so I could choose!" Ichigo sighed, well, as long as she hadn't made a decision maybe he could find her something less.... bunny-ish, and that gave him an ideah, "Well, if you can't decide I'll help you," "Really?! That'd be great!" her face lit up, how adorable! Uhh, did he just think that that was adorable? Maybe he took one too many blows to the head, but before he new it Rukia was rusteling around in the closet, "Rukia? Um, wat are you doing?" "I'm gonna model these for you! Your dad said that it'd be a good ideah to let you choose wich one you like best," she shouted from the closet, "Um, my DAD said that?!" "Yeah! He gave me the costumes that he thought you'd like!" Ichigo's eye started to twitch, this could NOT go well...
The first costume he was ATLEAST perpared for! Sure enough, she stepped, or rather waddled, out of the closet in bunny ears, a long bostie', a mini skirt (this revealed her very suddle belly button by the way) fish net stockings, a bunny tail, and high heels that were so high a skyscraper would've been jealouse! Ichigo had three things kept in is mind for sure, 1. He would kill Isshin as soon as he got the chance, 2. He was NOT going to let her wear THAT and 3. He had to find something wrong with that outfit other than the obviouse, why? Because if he had to explain to her the obviouse reasons why that outfit wasn't a good ideah he had a feeling that he would spend the night explaining the birds and the bees to her, honestly she was actually very innocent, so, he simply said, "Rukia, that isn't something you would want to wear," "But why not?" "Because,.... you can't walk in those heels, you'll fall and kill yourself," she seemed to understad that because she slid back into the closet wordlessly, he was suddenly extremely thankfull that Rukia dosen't wear heels...
The next costume was COMPLETELY unexpected, she stepped out of the closet in a police hat, a very revealing, very short, very....tight, police dress, with black tights and black boots, twirling a pair of handcuffs on her index finger, Ichigo's eye twitched, "....One question," he maneged to choke out, "why a cop?" 'If you can even call it that...' he thought, she stared at him wide eyed and confused, "But... you're dad said you would like ths one," "And? Wat ELSE did he say?" Ichigo was fumeing and not hideing it very well, "Well, he said that I needed to dress as a police officer because someone needed to wip you into shape, and then he told me to do this," she pulled on the handcuffs with both thumbs, closed one eye, grinned, and stuck the end of her tounge out, Ichigo's mouth hung open, her cute little face! That cute litte winking expression, her adorable little pink tounge, 'Arrest me,' he thought, but then he mentally slapped himself and cursed at himself, 'No! I must stay calm! If I don't get it together she'll go out like THAT infront of all those perverted teenagers! I can't let her do that!' he gathered himself and said, "Um, why don't you try on the other two?" she nodded and climbed back in the closet, man was that short skirt tight!
She emerged yet again, Ichigo's mouth was hanging open yet again, and the outfit Rukia had on was revealing, YET AGAIN, he was glad that there was only one left after this, "So? How is it?" she asked, Ichigo blinked a few times, Rukia was wearing a nurse's hat, a VERY small nurse-like-kinda dress with straps, wite fish net stockngs, high heels, and a red and wite garter belt with syrenge shaped pen in it, "Oh! I almost forgot!" she said, pulling something out from the closet, Ichigo's eye twitched and his bottum lip trembeled wen he saw her pull out a fake (or it may have been real considering the sorce,) stethoscope and she began walking towards him mumbeling a few things that he didn't really pay attention to, but then the words "examine you" caught his attention and he sprang up, took Rukia by the shoulders, turned her around, and pushed her towards the closet, "Let's see that last costume ok?" he begged, luckily she agreed and he was able to keep his dignity, he really didn't like this stuff but there was something about Rukia as a nurse that really hooked his intrest, ofcourse, considering that she heals him so frequently he was begining to see why, the police thing was starting to make sense too, after all, she COULD frighten any milatary officer so bad that they would crawl under the bed...
The closet door slid open for (hopefully) the last time that night, and out stepped Rukia in a Little Red Rideing Hood costume, she had the hood up and the string was tied around her neck with a little strawberry button on the bow, the dress was extremely short and as revealing as the other three, she had black leather boots and basket of fake strawberries accompaning her ensemble, Ichigo rubbed his temples, although he had to admit that she looked cute in that, so sweet and innocent- wait a minute, innocent! That's the key! If she wore that then everyone (after he explains it to them with his fists) will think about that paticuar outfit as being, well, Little Red Rideing Hood, AKA innocence! Despite the fact that it was incredably riskey, "Rukia," he said sternly, "If you MUST choose one of those four then choose that one," he said, Rukia smiled and nodded, she had a feeling that this paticular costume was a good ideah and apparently she was right!
After Ichigo was dressed he and Rukia started down the stairs and were on their way outside wen Isshin came flying towards them, all Ichigo had to do was pop him in the face quickly and death-glare him before takeing Rukia and leaving, he would have to kill Isshin later, like wen Rukia wasn't around to see the carnage, "So," Rukia began once they were half way down the street, "how exactly is this going to work?" Ichigo gave her a questioning look, "I mean, are we going to a party or something?" Ichigo rolled his eyes, "For the millionth time yes!" "Then.... why are we dressing so strangely again?" "Because it's a COSTUME party," "And remind me the purpose of this?" that was it, he slapped himself in the head, he was suddenly thankfull that they were walking up the steps, before he could even ring the door bell Keigo swung the door open dressed as a pirate and mumbeling something about the party, Rukia stared wide eyed at everything going on, it was all so coulerfull and loud and lively, not at all like the ones in Soul Society! And then, before she could even say anything, Keigo had her hands engulfed in his and was starting to ramble on about a few things that Rukia had never heard of, but then Ichigo hit Keigo in the face and he flew a few dozen feet, but Keigo sprang back up and came at her again, so, Ichigo stepped in front of her, arms crossed over his chest, and he said, "Let me explain something to you, Rukia is dressed as Little Red Rideing Hood-" "Exactly! And such a wounderfully revealing costume it is!" "No, that unfourtinatly, was unplanned, she's dressed as Little Red Rideing Hood to potray INNOCENCE you idiot! In other words, BACK OFF!" and before anything else could be said Ichigo was dragging Rukia through the crowd of people,
Well, he new that this would happen, after threatening the fith guy about Rukia he turned to see said midget looking gleefully at a bucket of apples in water, this could only mean one thing, "Ichigo I want to try!" she chimed, oh lovely, she was already bending over the tub of apples as Ichigo said, "Rukia! That isn't a good-!" but there she was, dunking her head in and pulling out an apple, "ideah," he concluded, but luckily her dress wasn't quite short enough for anyone to see up it even wen she was bent over, Ichigo breathed a sigh of relief as Rukia took a bite of the apple she caught, "Want some?" she asked innocently, she really was innocent for someone like her, he had always thought of the fact that Rukia was not like other girls because she was lacking something, innocence, she had seen blood and death and had never been sheilded from the outside world like most girls should be, but seeing her like this made him realize that Rukia was probbably the most innocent person in the entire room! And there were ALOT of people in the room! Includeing Orahime, who hadn't really noticed them due to her own costume and the fact that she had decided to cling to Uryuu, Ichigo grinned, stupid quincy, that's wat he gets for not makeing Rukia a costume and putting him through this! "HELLO?!" Rukia hissed, Ichigo looked down at her, her hair was still soaking wet, "I asked if you wanted some of my apple?!" Ichigo just shook his head, apples were really the last thing on his mind,
They were able to stay for about an hour before a group of older people (Keigo's sister's freinds) came in, uh-oh, as soon as those guys saw Rukia.... he shook the thought from his mind, sure he could beat them all to bloody pulps, but he would just rather leave, "Well, come on Rukia, let's go," "Why?" she winned, "Because it's getting late and you can't possibly want to stay in those shoes much longer, right?" Rukia pouted but followed him out, earning herself a few wistels from the older guys and she was really starting to get annoyed with that, because she'd been receiveing wistles and hollers and even a few howels all through the night and she really didn't understand WHY! Or why Ichigo had been acting so overprotective all night, hm, maybe it was the full moon? She HAD heard of the full moon causing humans to act strangely, yes, that really must be the reason
Everything was going well, that is untill... Rukia yawned, "Tired?" Ichigo asked, she nodded, her eyes closed for just a moment, but in that moment, she maneged to find a rock, trip over it, and fall flat on her face, "Rukia are you ok?!" Rukia pushed herself up, "Yeah, I think," Ichigo took her small hands in his and pulled her up, her big puppy eyes stareing into his pools of amber, "Come on, let's go home," as they walked Ichigo's arm snaked around Rukia's bare shoulders, she leaned against his strong chest, she felt it was once again safe to allow her eyes to close softly, trusting that Ichigo would protect her from any other rocks that were seemingly out to get her,
After walking in and Isshin being sent into a nearby wall Rukia looked to Ichigo, waiting for him to follow her up the stairs, "Go wash your face, I'll be right there," he commanded, she was too tired to argue so she just started upstairs, in the distance she heard Ichigo crack his nuckles and a few choice words directed at his father, she shook her head, he honestly could act like a child sometimes, really,
"Ow," Rukia winced, pulling her leg back a little, "Rukia it won't hurt as much if you stay still," Ichigo told her, she really WAS trying to stay still, but everytime he touched one of the scrapes that the sidewalk had given her, she flinched by reflex, "Honestly Rukia, you're so delicate, it's a wounder you haven't been torn to shreds already!" "Well SOR-RY that my body ISN'T made of steel!" "You no that isn't how I meant it!" "Well maybe you should say wat you mean and mean wat you say!" Ichigo shook his head but couldn't keep a smile off his face, he put the last band aid on her slim leg and stood up, "You'd better change," he said, unwraping the cloth from his face, Rukia nodded and walked towards the closet, glancing again at Ichigo,
"Rukia? It's almost November, aren't you cold?" Rukia was wearing the wite baby-doll nightgown that she had gotten for her birthday, it was short (although not that short at all compared to wat she HAD been wearing) and was sleveless, she shook her head, "No it's fine," Ichigo stared at her a moment longer, "You sure? Because-" "Ichigo?" she interuppted, "Why have you been acting this way all night? So overprotective?" Ichigo flopped down on his bed, Rukia sat down next to him, "You," he began, he had tried to avoid this conversation but hadn't succeeded, "you really don't understand why that isn't a good outfit do you?" she shook her head, "Rukia, that outfit is a bit revealing, don't you think?" Rukia's eyes lit up, "I thought so! I was freezing in that thing!" Ichigo rubbed his temples, "Rukia, do you have any clue as to why all those men were stareing and wisteling and.... howeling, at you?" "No," "Well, it's because that outfit suggests alot of things, I was just trying to make sure that none of those things happen to you," "Oh, I see," she said, "So do you hate Halloween yet?" "No not yet," there was a short pause, "Hey Ichigo?" "Yeah?" "You're a really decent guy, you no that?" "I did, but tell me why I'm decent anyway," "Well, you're probbably the only person that could have made a move on me tonight and you didn't, thank you," "No problum," "Although, I kinda wish you had made SOME sort of move," "Really?" "Well um, yeah," Ichigo smiled, "Well Rukia, why didn't you say that before?" and before she could say anything else, his lips pressed lightly against her's
The kiss continued as long as it could, but eventually their faces started turning purple, and so they had to release for a moment, "And? Do you hate Halloween?" he asked slyly, "No you idiot! ....It's my favirote holiday, and how could I hate something I love?" "Hm, that's an interesting-" "It was rhetorical Moron," Ichigo smiled, "Yeah, I no," and their lips met again, and this time after releasing, Ichigo couldn't resist it any longer, he cupped her face, "Rukia, I have never had a better Halloween, and I have never loved anyone more than I love you," Rukia smiled, "And I can honestly say the same thing," "Well ofcourse you've never had a better Halloween, this is your first one," "Does it matter?" "...." "I suppose you'll be thanking your father for buying me those outfits," "Oh no! That is NOT happening! That thing caused more trouble than it's worth!" "But we came together over it!" "No, we came together over us wanting to be together," "... That's just stupid,"