Rukia flipped a page in the magizine she was reading, "Ichigo," she said, "i'm bored" "Then stop reading and do something else" he replied, irritated, at wat? Well, with him there's no telling! "But, I love reading magizines!" "Then you aren't bored!" "I don't no how to explain it... My mouth is bored!" "Then chew on some bubble gum!" "Bubble gum?" "Oh no! Don't tell me you've never had bubble gum before!?" "No, we don't have as many treats back in Soul Society" "Were did I go wrong? The night you got here I shoulda given ya' some gum!" Ichigo walked out of the room, returning moments later with two peices of wrapped bubble gum "No wounder you're so boring!" he stated harshly, wich earned him a good kick in the shin "Me boreing?! I bow down to the KING of bordeum!" "Just shut up and chew this! And watever you do DON'T SWALLOW IT!" "Why?" "Gum is for chewing not for eating!" "Why?" "Why am I having this conversation with you?! I didn't think I would ever have to have this conversation again after Yuzu was born! Or atleast, not right now" that also earned him a kick in the shin "Why?" Rukia repeated "Because it is sticky, and gooy, and WILL glue your insides together! Trust me I no a guy!" "It dosen't feel that way!" "It feels diffrent ounce you chew on it a wile" about 20 minutes later...
"Ichigo?" "Wat now?" "Can you do anything with bubblegum?" "Wat do you mean?" "Like with cherry stems, can you..." "Use it as a kissing test? No! Blow bubbles with it? Yes! Watch," Ichigo popped his gum and blew a rather big bubble wich 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 your tounge," He replied deminstraiting "Den, ou move ur ounge an bow!" he demenstraited, albeit muffled and blew a bubble then Rukia tried she blew a tiny one "It's ok, you'll get it! Just keep trying!" Wow! Ichigo actually encouraged her! So all that afternoon Rukia read magizines and continued to practice blowing bubbles, unfortinatly, within that time, they both fell asleep, and Ichigo had fallen off the bed, with his head next to Rukia's mouth and sure enough... 2 hours later, "AHHHHHH! There's GUM in my hair!" Ichigo screamed, 'Why didn't I tell her to NOT fall asleep with gum in her mouth!? Although, she does look 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 no that Captin obviouse! Go get some peanut butter!" "Why?" "To get the gum out!" "Why peanut butter?" "It works!" "Why?" "I don't no now shut up and 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 these Espada?" Rukia complained "I dunno, the way I see it, wile we wait for Toshiro to get a lead, we get a vacation!" "Yeah! But it's so hard to wait! I want him to find a lead soon so that our initiation ceremony will come quicker!" The young Soul Reaper wined "I no!" She began "Let's go outside!" Outside they were happy, but didn't quite no wat to do, Rukia layed down in the snow and began to make a snow angel, she rose up slowly, leaning on her hands, 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 terrifying!!" "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 mounds of snow on tree branches to dump on eachother, finally, it got late, and they got tired, so they truged into the house through the back door, lest they be caught by Ichigo's phsyco 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, with the open one he glanced 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 break of chills shot through Rukia "I-I-I-Ichigo?" she asked shivering "Yeah?" he responded, not so cold "I'm c-cold" she wispered "Oh?" he asked getting up off his bed, he went over to the closet were he reached up to a high shelf and pulled down a spare blanket, he unraveled it and walked over to her, shaking it lightly, he then threw the cloth straight over Rukia, much like a tent, it then surronded her and took form, "HEY!" She yelled, half confused at wat the orange haired teen, had done, "Wat is the meaning of this!?" "I wanted to warm you up! Most heat escapes out of your hot head ya' no!" "WAT!? 'Hot head'? Yes it does, so does all of my breath!!! Let me outta here!" "You get out!" "WAT?! Ok, fine!" Rukia stood and proceeded to try and shake the blanket off her, but instead she actually made it worse, as the blanket was twice Ichigo's size, and he was a little less than twice her size, do the math! It equals a big blanket! "Let me out!" Rukia sqealed by this time Ichigo was in hystarics! He laughed so hard that not long after that Rukia herd a THUD! Then an "Ow!" "Ha ha!" Rukia mocked the two despretly tried to get out of their perdicaments, and keep their breath wile laughing hystarically 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 gigles "I don't want karma to hurt me anymore!" he laughed, as the first bit of light began to emerge under the "tent" a little popping noise came about with each tug it popped "tch, tch, tchhhhhh" and as it came off Ichigo noticed wat the "tch" was, it was static electricity, and it had punished Rukia's hair, wich was sproinged, standing out, unraveled, and just plane messy!
After a well deserved hair brushing Rukia looked normal, and walked over to Ichigo "Ichigo?" she said "Mm?" "It took me a long time to get my hair back to the way it should be," "M-Hm" "Since then I repeat, 'I'm cold' and if you do that to me again, a kick in the head is comin' 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 that was wat is always said to puppies, and yet, is never meant" "Tch" is all Ichigo responded with, then he got off of his bed and returned to the room moments later with to 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 is going to be really ruff going to live there!" he said handing the ravin haired girl the cup, she simply shrugged "Careful, don't burn your tounge!" he said, setting his cup on his night table "Now you tell me!" she says, partically sticking her tounge out and making a sad face "There are two ways to cool you down, one is to eat a popsicle, but I think we're out, so the only other option is," he trailed off, closed his eyes and kissed the girl deeply, coming up for air later, "Was that it?" she asked, "Yup!" Ichigo said, "There's always one thing that puts me at the perfect tempiture," Rukia replied "Wat's that?" "Strawberrys" she said, a devilish grin playing on her features, they both fell back on the bed, Rukia burried her face in Ichigo's chest, breathing in the softness that was him, "Kokoro kara anata o ashite imasu" Ichigo said "Wat does that mean?" Rukia asked gazing up with her vilot eyes to see that both of his amber eyes were closed, but we was defentitly still awake "I love you very much, it's the only Japenesse I no" "Kokoro kara anata o ashite imaso ashiteiru; I love you very much too, and yes, I new wat it meant, I just wanted to hear you say it for real" "I love you very much" 'I love you very much too" Ichigo pulled the large "tent blanket" over them both, the two soon fell asleep, comforted in the warmth surronding them, not the blanket, but the curling up of each other 'It's winter nights like these, that make me glad to be alive, and love, to be in love' they both thought peacfuly, as sleep entered, they were ready, for more of these winter nights