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