Rukia flipped a page in the magezine she was reading, "Ichigo," she said, "I'm bored!" "The stop reading and do something else," he replied irritated, now, why is he irritated? Well, with him there's no telling! "But I LOVE reading magezies!" "Then you aren't bored," "I don't no how to explain it... My mouth is bored" "Then chew on some bubblegum," "Bubblegum?" "Oh no! Don't tell my you've never had bubblegum before!" "No, we don't have as many treats back in Soul Society" "How did I go wrong? The night you got here I shoulda' givin' ya' some gum!" Ichigo walked out of the room, returning later with two peices of wrapped bubblegum, "No wounder you're so boreing!" he stated harshly, earning him a kick in the shin, "Me boreing? I bow down to the KING of all boredom!" "Just shut up and chew on this, and wat ever you do, DON'T SWALLOW IT!" "Why?" "Because gum is for chewing not for eating" "Why?" "Why am I having this conversation with you? I didn't think I'd ever have to have this conversation again after Yuzu was born, or atleast not right now" that earned him another kick in the shin, "Why?" Rukia repeated, "Because it's sticky, and gooy, and WILL glue your insides together! Trust me, I no a guy" "It dosen't feel that way" "It will after you chew on it for a wile" about 20 minutes later... "Ichigo?" "Wat now?" "Can you do anything with bubblegum?" "Like?" "Like, with a cherry stem you can..." "Use it as a kissing test? No, blow bubbles, yes, watch," Ichigo popped his gum and blew a bubble that soon popped as well, "Cool! Show me how to do that!" Rukia demanded, acting alot like a child at the time, "Ok, spred your gum out like a sheet using your teeth and tounge," he said demenstraiting, "Den, move ur oung an bow" he said, demenstraiting wile speaking, he blew another sizeable bubble, Rukia tried, and didn't get it at first, "It's ok, you'll get it! Just keep trying!" Wow! Ichigo actually encouraged her! So all that afternoon Rukia read magezines and practiced blowing bubbles, unfourtunatly, within that time they both fell asleep, and Ichigo had fallen off the bed, ith his head next to Rukia's mouth, and sure enough... two hours later, "AHHHHHHHHHH! There's gum in my hair!" Ichigo screamed, 'Why didn't I tell her NOT to fall asleep with gum in her mouth!? Although, she does look so sweet like that, curled up on the floor, my midget! I mean my Rukia! I mean! I don't no wat I mean! She isn't mine! But...' "Ichigo," "Wah, wat?!" "There's gum in your hair," "Yes, I realize that Captin Obviouse! Now go get some Peanut Butter!" "Why?" "To get the gum out!" "Why Peanut Butter?" "Because it works!" "Why?" "I don't no just do it!" thus began the "Get the gum outta my hair" saga

The next morning... "Ichigooooo!" "Wat?" "How much longer will it take to find a lead on the Espada?" Rukia complained "I dunno, the way I see it, the longer it takes for Toshiro to find a lead, the longer we get a vacation" "Yeah, but it's so hard to wait! I want to get this done and over with already!" the young Soul Reaper winned, "I no!" she began, "Let's go outside!" Oustside, it seemed like running around in the snow was more fun wen she was thinking about it, she lyed down in the snow and began to make a snow angel, she rose up slowly, leaning on her hands, and suddenly, BOOM! A mound of snow fell on her head, "Wat the-? Ichigo! Ugh! That's freezing! Do you want my face to freeze?!" "Not like that! It'd be terifying!" "Why you!" but instead of going over to pound or kick Ichigo sensless, she did something else, she used snow! And thus, the crazy snow war began, using everything from snow balls, to snow mounds on tree branches to hit eachother with, finally, it got late, they got tired, and so, they truged into the house through the back door, lest they be caught by Ichigo's phyco dad!

Laying on the floor of Ichigo's room, Rukia shivered, chills going up and down her, Ichigo lay on his bed, one eye closed, the other looking down at the small bundle of chills spred eagle on the floor, both of them panting, "So?" he said between pants, "Who won?" "Tie," Rukia wispered, a sudden blast of chills going through her, "I-I-I-Ichigo?" she asked shivering, "Yeah?" he replied not so chilled, "I'm c-cold" she wispered, "Oh?" he asked getting off his bed and walking towards the closet, were he reached up to a high shelf and pulled down a spare blanket, he unraveled it and shook it lightly, walking over to her, he then threw the cloth over Rukia, much like a tent, it then surronded her and took form, "HEY!" she yelled, half confused about wat the orange haired teen had done, "Wat is the meaning of this?!" she was sitting straight up now, "I wanted to warm you up, most heat escapes outta your hot head ya' no," "WAT?! 'Hot Head'? Yes it does, nd so does all of my breath! Let me out of here!" "You get out," "Wat!? Ok, fine!" Rukia stood and proceeded to try to shake the blanket off her, but instead she actually made it worse, as the blanket was twice Ichigo's size and he was about twice her size, do the math! It equels a big blanket! "Let me out!" Rukia sqealed, but by this time Ichigo was in hysterics! He laughed so hard that not long after that Rukia heard a THUD! Then an "Ow!" "Ha Ha!" Rukia mocked, the two despretly tried to get out of their perdecaments and still keep their breath wile laughing at eachother, Rukia under the blanket and Ichigo on the floor in a war with the bed sheets! Finally Ichigo untangled himself and walked over to free Rukia from the monster blanket trying to consume her, wich he could swear had gotten bigger, "Here let me help!" he said in between giggles, "I don't want karma to hurt me anymore!" he laughed, as the first bit of light began to come in under the "tent" a little cracking sound came about with each tug, "Tch, tch, tch,tch tchhhhh" and as it came off, Ichigo noticed that the "tch" was static electricity, and it had punished Rukia's hair! Wich was sproinged, standing out, unraveled and just plain messy!

After a well needed hair brushing, Rukia looked normal again, and walked over to Ichigo, "Ichigo? "Hm?" "It took me a long time to get my hair back to the way it should be" "Mm-hm," "Since then, I repeat, 'I'm cold' and if you do that again a kick in the head is coming your way!" "Alright, alright, I'll admit that the closet is pretty drafty, you can sleep in my bed tonight, but only tonight" "Gee, I was told that's wat you say to puppies and yet never mean it" "Tch" was all Ichigo responded with, he got off his bed and returned moments later with two cups of Hot Choclate "You've had Hot Choclate before, right?" "No, I told you, we don't have such treats in Soul Society" "Oh, but you have abundent Rock Candy?" "Yep!" "It's going to be really rough going to live there" he said handing the raven haired girl the cup, "Careful, don't burn your tounge" he said setting his on the table, "Now you tell me?" she said practically stticking her tounge out and making a sad face, there are two ways to cool you down, one is to eat a posicle, but we don't have any of those, and the only other option is," he trailed off, closed his eyes and kissed the girl deeply, coming up for air later, "Was that it?" "Yup,""There's always one thing that puts me at the pefect tempiture" "Yaeh?" "Strawberrys" she said, a develish grin playing on her features, they both fell back onto the bed, Rukia burried her face into Ichigo's chest, breathing in the softness that was him, "Kokoro kara anata o ishite imasu" h e wispered, "Wat does that mean?" Rukia asked gazing up with her violet eyes to see that his amber eyes were closed, but he was defenitly still awake, "I love you very much, it's the only Japenese I no" "Kokoro kara anata o ishite imasu ashiteuru; I love you very much too, and yes, I understood wat it meant, I just wanted to here you say it for real," "I love you very much," "I love you very much too," Ichigo pulled the tent blanket over them, the two soon fell asleep, comforted by the armth surronding them, not the blanket, but the cxurling up of eachother, 'It's winter nights like these that make me glad to be alive' they both thought peacefully as sleep entered, they were ready for more winter nights like these
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