There's a little princess,
She lives her days all alone,
Stareing into her imagination,
Swinging back and forth on her little swing,
The poor little princess is so lonely,
The poor little princess on a swing
The song repeted back in her head a million times, as much as she loved it, she hated how much it applyed to her, her strawberry necklace remained perfectly in place as she swung on her lonely little swing, she wished, she wished that she was stronger, that she could protect Ichigo the way he had protected her, it was late in the day wen it happened
'It was so bitter-sweet!' she thought, the morning had been perfect, Ichigo had even given her a strawberry necklace, it was so nice just to be near him, and then somewere between the snowball fight and Rukia compareing Ichigo's hair to fire balls, they had actually gotten...close...they had kissed....and announced their love to eachother...Rukia kicked the snow on the ground, she ignored the pain that shot through her leg, that viciouse battle replaying in her head, it had been so simple too, it was her fault, she new that, Ichigo was about to lay the finishing blow on the hollow but.....she got in the way agin, running up behind him, she distracted him, causeing injury to herself AND to Ichigo, the hollow had slammed her into a wall, and then done the same to Ichigo, the latter constantly proclaiming that he was alright, the former constantly proclaiming that she was to blame, she kicked the ground again,
Ichigo looked at Rukia's back for quite some time before finally aproaching her, "Ya' no.....haveing your fiance' frozen like a popcicle really isn't the best thing in the world," "Sorry" she mumbeled, not even looking at him, Ichigo gently pushed her off the swing, "It's also no good to have a fiance' that's depressed," "Sorry" she mumeled again, he turned her around to face him, "Rukia, it wasn't your fault, it was MY fault for getting distracted," finally she started to show some emotion, "Wat? That's ridiculouse!" "Then you no how ridiculouse YOU sound," her face scrunched up a bit in dislike, she new it was true, she hated it, but she new it was true, she looked down, "Look, Rukia, it was an accedent ok? it's no one's fault," she turned back to him, "But I-" "But, you just don't acknowledge accedents right? You were taught that there ARE no accedents, everything is always someone's fault, right?" she opened her mouth to argue, but decided to accept this, she new that, once again, he was right, she shouldn't argue, ".....Let's just make an unspoken rule that you never blame me for anything, ok?" Ichigo grinned, "NOW you're talkin' my lanuege," he replied, wrapping an arm around her and leading her towards the house "But that dosen't give you permission to start breaking things, destroying the house, OR bring home countless woodland creatures, because THAT, I WILL blame you for,"