"Kurosaki-sensei, can you walk a little faster? I have to go home soon," someone called out from behind him.
A nervous chuckle came from Ichigo as he scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Ha ha ha, yes, I'm sorry." He increased his speed by a notch as they turned the last corner that would lead to either his doom or his paradise (if Rukia got everything out then the stupid rumor would finally die!)
Ichigo gulped when they came in front of his apartment. "Um, here it is," he told them.
"Well let's get this over with," a second person informed him.
Ichigo nodded as he slowly made his way towards where the stairs were located.
"Kurosaki, which floor do you live in?" Uryuu suddenly asked, stopping several feet away from the staircase. And since he and Chad were standing in the front, everyone else stopped behind them.
Ichigo turned around and frowned. "Um, second floor…?"
Uryuu sighed as he pulled his glasses off and started to wipe the lenses with a beautifully embroidered handkerchief. "I'm really not wearing the right shoes to walk up the stairs."
Ichigo was silent as he continued to frown at his friend.
"Want to take the elevator then?" Chad asked.
This time Ichigo's confused expression was directed to his bigger friend.
Uryuu shook his head. "It would seem pointless to ride the elevator for merely one floor, but," he sighed as he looked down at his shoes, "I really don't want to ruin these shoes."
"Umm, excuse me Ishida-sensei, but should we really be discussing this here?" someone asked from behind them.
"They look really expensive. Are they new?" Chad asked.
"Are you two ignoring me?" the same person shouted.
"Why yes they are! Thanks for noticing Chad," Uryuu nodded his head in appreciation, continuing to ignore the teacher who tried to interrupt their conversation.
Chad nodded back before looking at the stairs. "I really don't feel like walking either. I was forced to participate in a relay this afternoon because a student was absent in one my classes."
"Then maybe we should take the elevator," Uryuu inquired.
Chad shook his head. "I'm too big so we won't all fit in."
"Ano, excuse me?"
The two turned their head to see Orihime standing before them. "Yes?" they asked together.
"Um," the brunette frowned, "Is this really necessary? We should really go up to Kurosaki-kun's apartment and check things out."
"We know that, and at the moment we're discussing the best method of going there," Uryuu informed her.
Chad nodded in agreement. "So this is necessary."
Orihime pouted. "But it's taking too long."
"You should never rush someone when they are making an important decision," Uryuu crossed his arms in front of him and smirked, "You'll only end up losing the war a lot faster."
Her expression quickly brightened. "Ah, I see!" Orihime nodded in excitement.
"What the hell are you guys blabbering about?"
The three all looked down to see an angry Hitsugaya glaring at them.
"I'm sorry about your shoes but I really want to get this over with. I have important business to take care of," he snapped at them as he pushed passed the three and stood in front of Ichigo. "Hurry up and lead the way," he ordered.
"Um sure," Ichigo looked at Uryuu and Chad skeptically before smirking at his shorter friend. "Do you want to take the stairs or the elevator?"
"Kurosaki!"
"Fine fine fine," Ichigo raised his arms in defeat as he turned around and went to the stairs. The others quickly followed.
As Uryuu passed by Hitsugaya, he smirked. "If my shoes get ruined from the walk, then you owe me a new pair."
"Fuck off Ishida," Hitsugaya growled as he pushed passed him again.
Ichigo sighed, not sure if his friends were really stupid—and Uryuu really gay—or was helping him out. If it was the latter, then that meant they already knew about their situation…
Which wasn't surprising since Uryuu was the one who gave Ichigo all those warning about having a relationship with a student. Man, looks like those two bastards really knows something, Ichigo grunted at the thought.
They finally reached the second floor and made their way down to Ichigo's apartment. The orange head stopped abruptly in front of his door when his phone suddenly rang. He quickly flipped it open and read the message on the screen.
We're good.
Ichigo smirked as he quickly pulled out his key and opened the door. "Here we go," he announced as he stepped aside for the others to go through. Uryuu and Chad walked by him first, both giving him a skeptic look, before being followed in by the others. Ichigo followed after them and closed the door. "So, is there anything specific you need to check out?"
Several people looked around the kitchen and some were checking out the items in the living room.
"Ano, where's your room, Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked.
"Oh, it's this way," Ichigo led the way before opening one of the doors. "This is mine and the other one—" he pointed to the closed door across the hall from his, "—is the guest room."
Somebody quickly entered the guest room and looked around while Orihime entered Ichigo's room along with Uryuu, Chad and Hitsugaya.
"Hmm," Chad looked around, "Nothing seems suspicious."
"I agree," Hitsugaya nodded, obviously not interested in rummaging through someone else's room.
Orihime just giggled as a blush appeared on her cheeks. "Still, I can't believe I'm actually in Kurosaki-kun's bedroom. This is the first time."
Ichigo just smiled awkwardly at her.
"Ahem, Kurosaki-sensei."
Ichigo turned around to confront a greasy looking man with a balding head looking at him through a pair of thick, bug-eye like glasses. "Yes, Nakamura-sensei?"
"What is this?" he lightly coughed as he held up a pair of Chappy underwear between his fat fingers. The other teachers quickly looked over and gasped. They huddled together and started whispering among themselves.
Already prepared, Ichigo groaned as if annoyed. "Sensei, I know it's your job to search for anything suspicious, but I would really appreciate it if you didn't go through my sister's stuff."
"Sister?" they all questioned in unison as they looked at him.
Ichigo nodded. "I have two sisters—twins—and they like to visit me once in a while. They use the guest room when they're over here. Maybe somebody mistook them as a student or a teacher from our school when they were visiting."
The other staff members looked at each other before frowning.
"A-are you serious?"
Ichigo nodded.
Hitsugaya sighed as he quickly exited Ichigo's room. "This whole trip was pointless. Why couldn't you have just informed us of your sisters beforehand?" he glared.
Ichigo shrugged his shoulders. "Because I knew none of you guys would have believed me until you checked it out for yourselves. So I was just patient. And I should be the one who's pissed off, not you," he quickly glared back.
"Whatever," Hitsugaya shrugged as he continued to the front door, "If there's nothing else to check then I'd rather get going now. There's no need to stay here any longer." He was quickly greeted with agreements as others quickly followed him.
"Nakamura-sensei?" Ichigo called out.
"Yes?" the said teacher turned around to see Ichigo's outstretched hand in front of him.
Ichigo smirked. "I would appreciate it if you would give me back my sister's underwear."
Everyone who heard him quickly looked down to see the said panties stuffed inside the wrinkled pants pocket of the older teacher who was now laughing nervously. "Ah ha, sorry. Old habit," he kept laughing as he handed Ichigo the underwear.
Ichigo only smiled back, more in relief that they were leaving, as one by one his co-workers disappeared through the open door.
Hitsugaya, who was holding the door opened, was about to leave when he looked back inside. "Are you guys coming?" he asked Uryuu and Chad who were still inside the apartment.
"Just go on without us," Uryuu replied, "I needed to talk to Kurosaki about something anyways."
The shorter teacher just shrugged his shoulders as he closed the door. Orihime, who was standing next to him, waved at the three men just before the door shut.
As soon as they were gone, Ichigo let out a long sigh of relief. "Thank god that's over."
"Good thing you were able to make up that 'sister' thing quickly," Uryuu sighed as he pushed his glasses up.
Ichigo just stared at him before shaking his head. "I don't know what you're talking about." His two friends just stared back at him and Ichigo glared off to the side. It was likely those two already figured him out, but it was best to keep it low just in case.
"We should get going," Chad suddenly suggested.
"Yes, I agree," Uryuu nodded as they walked over to their shoes. They quickly slipped it on and opened the door. "Oh and Kurosaki," he stopped midway and looked back, "You still owe me."
"Hmm?" Ichigo raised an eyebrow but couldn't say anything else as his two friends quickly left his apartment. "What the fuck was that?" he muttered to himself before pulling out his cell phone. He quickly dialed a number and waited for the other end to pick it up.
"Hello?" she answered.
"They're gone," Ichigo said before he heard the call getting cut off. He stared at his phone for a few seconds before glaring. "You could've said 'bye.'" In less than a minute he turned around when he heard the front door being opened abruptly. "Oi," he greeted Rukia who was standing in the threshold with several stuffed bags behind her.
"Are they really gone?" Rukia breathlessly asked, obviously having ran up the stairs once she got the call.
"Yeah," he smiled as he walked over to help her carry in her stuff, "Where were you hiding?"
Rukia groaned as she stepped inside. "I was just outside the building, hiding in the bushes that are by the front door."
Ichigo smirked. "Man, so we almost got caught, huh?"
"Yeah, it would have been problematic if Ishida-sensei and Yatsuro-sensei hadn't stalled them," Rukia let out an exasperated sigh.
Ichigo paused when he looked over. "Wait a second, you heard all that?"
Rukia nodded her head. "I was coming down the stairs when I heard Ishida-sensei talking about his new shoes."
"Man, we were really close," Ichigo scratched his head. "Guess I really do owe those guys something now."
Rukia smiled as she quickly opened one of the garbage bags to pull out her shoes. "I wonder what might have happened if we weren't fast enough."
"Don't even bring that up," Ichigo expression turned sour at the thought as he pulled out some of her belongings including her school supplies and several pictures. "I was lucky to use my sisters as an excuse again for some of your stuffs here, but we should still try and be careful. Oh, that reminds me…" he paused to pull something out of his pocket and handed it over to Rukia. "Here. Nakamura-sensei tried to take it."
Rukia glared at the offending item he was holding. "Burn it," she growled.
Ichigo smirked as he quickly threw it into the nearest trash bin. "Good thing it wasn't one of my favorite ones."
Rukia only rolled her eyes as she continued organizing her stuff. "Why am I surrounded by so many idiots," she groaned as stood up to put away some of her Chappy plates.
Ichigo chuckled as he stood up to follow her to put away some of her girly magazine. "But your life would be boring without me hanging around."
"Please, you're the source of all my problems," she groaned as she tried to go back to the living room when suddenly Ichigo wrapped an arm around her waist and stopped her. "What?"
Ichigo smirked as he pulled her closer to him. "But would you have wanted things to go differently?"
Rukia glared at him before looking away. She mumbled some incoherent words to the side, barely above a whisper.
"What?" he asked as he used his other hand to pull her chin towards him.
"I said 'you're an idiot,'" she muttered, "You're an idiot if you don't already know the answer to that question."
The smirk just widened. "I knew you'd be helpless without me."
"Shut up."
Ichigo leaned down and placed his lips over Rukia's dainty ones, smiling through the kiss as he caressed her sides. A small moan came from the back of her throat as Ichigo tilted his head to the side to deepen it and—
"Oi, we forgot—"
A total of four people froze in everything that they were doing at the sudden unexpected situation that just came in front of them.
Ichigo and Rukia pulled away to stare out the door where Uryuu and Chad were staring at them with wide eyes.
"K-Ku-Kuchi—" Uryuu stuttered as he kept staring at the two people who were still wrapped around each other. It took a good few seconds before he could regain his sanity. "WHAT THE FUCK!"
Ichigo quickly pulled Rukia behind him as tried to reason with his friends. "G-guys, i-it's not what you, um what you might think it is—"
"Oh, I think it's obvious what this is," Uryuu spat back.
"Well you see—"
"Ichigo, we pretty much saw everything," Chad interrupted.
Ichigo looked between the red-faced Uryuu and the slightly calmer Chad back and forth several times before dropping his head in defeat. "Fine, you won."
Uryuu and Chad quickly stepped into the apartment and looked around the living room. Several bags, which weren't there several minutes ago, were opened with several feminine items spewed throughout the apartment.
"Kurosaki," Uryuu growled as he glared at his friend.
Ichigo sighed as he turned back to Rukia. "Hey, can you step outside for a moment?"
"Huh?" she looked up at him like he was crazy, "Why?"
"Just for a few minutes," he smiled reassuringly, "Why don't you go to Urahara's and buy some of the stuff we were planning on buying today? I'll come get you once I have this all cleaned up."
Rukia was about to retort when she heard coughing from Uryuu. She looked at Ichigo before pouting. "Okay," she quietly muttered. She turned to bow to her other teachers before quickly running past them and going outside.
Once the front door closed shut the screaming began.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" Uryuu yelled again.
"SHUT UP!" Ichigo yelled back, "You're annoying me with that high-pitched voice of yours."
"I don't think now is the time to be talking about shit like that, Kurosaki," Uryuu snarled, "Do you have any idea what you're doing?"
Ichigo stared at his friend before scratching his head. "I thought you figured it out."
Uryuu sighed, trying to control his breathing. "Yes, I knew about it but I—for god's sake Kurosaki, Kuchiki?" he stared at his friend in utter disbelief.
Ichigo rolled his eyes. "You're making it sound like I fucked the princess or something."
"No but damn close to one!" Uryuu shouted. "What happens when someone checks the student information and finds that your address is the same as Kuchiki's?"
"You don't have to worry about that," Ichigo said, "Rukia's address is written under the landlady's address."
"Yoruichi-san's?" Chad asked.
Ichigo nodded. "She already knows of our situation. Heck, she and Urahara were the ones who actually pushed for our relationship even though they already knew she's my student."
"Wait a second, those two perverts actually played a part in this?" Uryuu eyebrows furrowed in complete rage, "Do they not know what this would imply if the authorities find out about this?"
"That's why I need you guys to keep quiet about this," Ichigo said.
"How can I possibly stay quiet about this?" Uryuu shouted.
"Calm down," Chad said, "Let's not talk about that now. What's more important is what we're going to do from here on out."
Ichigo raised an eyebrow. Since when did Chad talk this much? "Look, this is really serious so I would appreciate it if you guys can keep this to yourselves. Only until she graduates."
A different colored brow went up. "'Serious'? Just how serious are you about this relationship of yours?" Uryuu asked skeptically. "For all I know you might be screwing her just for fun and that girl could be trying to get good grades from you—" his words got abruptly cut off when Ichigo grabbed his front collar and fiercely pulled him forward to come face-to-face with an angry orange head.
"Don't talk shit like that about Ruka," Ichigo threatened through his gritted teeth.
Uryuu just stared at the rage shooting out from his friend's eyes. "Or what?" he asked, trying Ichigo's patients.
Ichigo brought up his other fist, ready to collide it against Uryuu's nose when Chad quickly came forward and grabbed his wrist. "Ichigo, stop," the giant ordered.
Ichigo stood in that position for a while, his muscles still tense before slowly calming himself down. He released his grip on Uryuu's shit. "Sorry," he quietly muttered.
"Whatever," Uryuu rolled his eyes as he straightened out his clothes, "I'm already used to your pathetic threats so it doesn't bother me."
Ichigo remained quiet before he looked over to the front door that Rukia went through only a few minutes ago. "I'm serious," he suddenly said.
Uryuu frowned at him before realizing what Ichigo was implying.
"How much?" Chad asked this time.
A smile appeared on Ichigo's face as he looked at his two friends in all seriousness. "I want a future with her."
Uryuu and Chad looked at Ichigo with disbelief. After a few seconds, Uryuu pushed up his glasses and smirked. "Looks like Kurosaki Ichigo has finally given his heart to someone."
Ichigo smirked. "Yeah, I think I did."
The three friends looked at each other as the apartment got filled with their happy and amused laughter. They never noticed the shadow of a fourth person standing outside that had been listening to everything that they were saying through the small opening of the window.
Inoue Orihime tightly gripped her mouth shut to stop her screams as tears started pouring out of her eyes. The laughter from inside almost felt like it was mocking her.
A/N: Sad ending, I know. But I thought it was finally time to give her some closure. But what will Orihime do with this new, heartbreaking, news?...well, I'm not really sure yet either *sweatdrop* But hey, at least Ichigo finally confessed what he really feels for Rukia! *CHEER!*
I know that part with the teacher finding Rukia's panties was similar to the chapter when Renji found her bra...Why did I recycle this plotline? Well, I thought it was funny. Also, there needs to be a short moment when it seems like the protagonist is going to lose, but then he gets back up and saves himself just in time. And I serious don't believe anyone can pack up all of their belongings in less than an hour. So Rukia left some stuff (that can't be traced back to her) in her room since she knew Ichigo would make some sort of excuse for it. Hope this clears up some stuff.
Also, many of you guys were asking if Renji was the one who slipped it to the principal about Ichigo living with a woman. And I will say this upright: NO, he did not. I tried to present this in the beginning by saying the rumor (which never really stopped since it first started) was just being whispered around by students and the principle heard it. But this might not have caught everyone so I'm explaining it now. Why did I not make Renji do this? To save him from all the criticism? NOPE! I did it because... well, you'll see in a few more chapters, MUHAHA!
Again, thanks for all the reviews. I can't believe how much support I'm getting for this story. Please continue to read and don't forget to review!
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Christmas at the Kurosaki's. Isshin is back! HAHAHA
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