"Rukia!" Rukia went flying and slammed into a nearby wall, this hollow was stronger than they thought, she rose up, her body slightly shaking, "Rukia, I'll handle this," "No! This one's mine!" Ichigo rolled his eyes, she never gave up, did she? "Dance, Sode No Shirayuki," she turned her sword as the ribbon flowed and her Zanpokto changed, "First Dance, Tsukishiro," a wite beam shot at the hollow and it froze, she leaped over to the frozen creature and sliced it in two, sheathing her sword she turned and began to walk away from the scene, "Hey wait a minute! Were do you think you're goin'?" "Home, why do you ask?" "Uh, because you were just slammed into a wall!" "I'm fine Ichigo,""Oh, well, if you're fine, I guess you don't mind if I do this..." he pushed lightly on her back, were a very large bruse was beging to show on her skin, "That, that dosen't bother me," "Really?" he flicked the side of her head, more blood slowly trickled down her face, she gripped her throbbing head, "Now, wat was it you were saying? 'I'm fine Ichigo'?" "This proves nothing!" she said between clenched teeth, he gently elbowed her in the stomach were a horizantal cut was continuing to bleed, she dropped on her nees and rolled to her side, "It's safe to say that you were lying," Ichigo replied, later that night...

"Rukia?" "Hey," Ichigo was sitting on a grass covered hill, glancing up at the raven haired girl standing before him, her face shone in the moonlight and it shone with a beauty that he hadn't noticed before, her short hair looked more like flowing silk as the pale moonlight hit it in just the right angle, she sat next to him, he noticed the slenderness of her arms, hands and fingers, as she stroked the back of his rist, she looked so much more elegant without her heavy Shihaksho draping her body, she looked at him with swimming violet eyes, and said, "It's a beautiful night, don't you think?" Ichigo felt his cheeks begin to burn with a rosey blush, he looked down the hill, and saw were her body stopped, noticing just how small she was, however not being able to see the beauty of her bare legs disapointed him, as he looked at the heavy black Hakama and wite tabbi socks she wore, he looked back up, noticing for the first time that all that covered her chest were bandeges that hugged her slender figure, starting just below her shoulders and stopping right above her belt, "Hello? Are you alright?" his eyes shot back in his head as he saw her small hand waving in front of his face, "Ah, wat?" "You were starring into space and didn't answer my question," "Oh yeah, aren't you-" "It's a warm night, Ichigo, and I perfer not to wear something heavy, and I'd perfer not to wear my night gown," she said, sarcasum dripped in her crystal clear voice, that's another thing about Rukia that he just noticed, how her voice rang like bells and how he always understood every word she said, how her voice was more clear than anyone else's, Rukia stared into the night sky, she felt something warm wrap around her, she looked at Ichigo and realized that he had put his shirt around her shoulders, looking at his bare chest made her blush deepen into a scarlet red tint, "You no, the sk is the only thing that's exactly the same in Soul Society and the World Of The Living, Ichigo looked at the speaking girl, "The moon is the same, the sun is the same, the stars, the clouds, the rain, as opposed to the ground, in your world the roads are paved, in Soul Society the roads are covered in dirt, you no?" "This is my world too now, I'm really close, we're really close," "Yeah, I no, you'll make changes, I'll make changes, we all will, and I bet in a year, Soul Society will be SO much diffrent, for the better ofcourse, I mean, you really do have a great sense of justice," "Ok, how much of those KuKu drugs did they give you?" Rukia shoved him playfully, Rukia felt him put something around her neck,she looked at the necklace, "A bird and a strawberry," "The strawberry wasn't my ideah, it was custom made and the girl said she couldn't undo it," "I love it," "A little 'congragulations' gift for you, for being promoted to captin, and for me being promoted to captin commander," Rukia leaned her head on Ichigo's shoulder, 1,000 words couldn't discribe this moment,

The birds sang, *snap* Rukia cuddled closer to the warmth that she felt, *snap* she heard again, Rukia opened her eyes, looking up at the noise disturbing her sleep, "Renji!" Renji was standing over her taking pictures, she leaped away and tried to take the camra away, just then noticing that she was outside and had been snuggling up against Ichigo, Renji grinned, "We fell asleep!" "Yeah I no," "We were just talking and we fell asleep!" Rukia tried to sntch the camra out of his hand, Renji jumped running towards the "Soul Society's Women's Leage" office, if they got ahold of that they would publish it everywere! She rolled her eyes, "Wake up Ichigo!" she kicked him lightly, "Huh? Wat?" "I said wake up! We fell asleep," Ichigo looked dazed for a moment, remembering the night before, "Oh," he got up and they both walked back to Rukia's house, on the way she thought about the dream she had had, how Ichigo had died and how she was lost in this world, the last thing she remembered about the dream was how she had dropped to the ground and screamed at the top of her lungs wen she realized he was gone, she rubbed her neck lightly, remembering the pain that ripped through the inside of her flesh, she winced at the memory, wen she woke up she was some wat releaved wen she saw Ichigo next to her, that is before she saw Renji taking pictures, she gripped her arm in an attempt to forget the pain, "Rukia?" she looked up, snapping out of the transe, "You ok?" "Yes, I'm fine," Ichigo lightly gripped Rukia's rist and dragged her along, she quickened her pace to walk side by side with him, she gripped the shirt that draped her shoulder with the other hand, smiling at the memory,

Rukia stood on the small bridge that covered the running stream in front of her house, she leaned on the rail of the bridge, she smiled softly, then she felt something sharp hit the back of her neck, she felt around to find watever it was, and it pricked her finger, she drew back, blood beging to trickle out of the small cut, then a sudden pain struck her, she felt her body sway, "Ichigo," she said, Ichigo was inside the house, "Ichigo," she said a little louder, he stepped out of the house in time to see her falling, she couldn't stay steady, she waited to feel the harsh, unforgiving wood on her face, but it never happened, warm arms wrapped around her small body, she couldn't stay awake anymore, she just couldn't

Rukia awoke slowly, a little annoyed, everything was too quite, too calm, wat had happened? She felt her chest move up and down as she breathed slowly her necklace slipped to the side of her shoulder as she sat up a little, Ichigo was asleep next to her, holding her hand, she smiled softly, he was very preciouse to her, weather she liked it or not, she slid her fingers through his hair, "Rukia," he mumbled, she retracted her hand, "Don't go," "Ichigo, I'm not going anywere," she looked at her rist, a small bandege lay on her skin, she felt the back of her neck, a small bandege laying under her hair, she sighed deeply, wat had happened after she fell unconciouse? She wanted to ask Ichigo, but she didn't want to wake him up, that would be cruel of her, she felt a hand on her shoulder, she jumped slightly, "You feelin' ok?" Ichigo's voice slipped into her mind, "I feel fine, wat happened?" "Get this, someone shot you with a poisened needle," she rubbed her sore neck were the needle had hit, "We don't no who did it," Rukia twirled her necklace in her fingers, not really paying much attention to wat the boy was saying, it was kind of strange, you would think she wanted to no who tried to kill her, and she did, but not right now, it was dark outside, the sun had already set, she smiled, pulling up a floor bed that was next to her bed, revealing a small pink bunny with a Strawberry hairclip, clipped to one ear, "You brought that with you?" "Shhhh! Don't let Brother no that I sleep with a Chappy doll!" "Oh? You mean like this? Hey Bya-" she silenced him with her lips, "I'm sorry, I was- I mean-" he silenced her with his lips, they both fell into the kiss, Rukia threw the small bunny toy on her bed and wrapped her arms around the boy's neck, wen they broke apart she leaned her head on his shoulder, he pulled her closer, "I want you to no that I love you," Rukia said, "Good, I love you too," they kissed again, pale moonlight slipping through the window, 1,000 words couldn't discribe this feeling