Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ The Best Time of the Year ❯ December Starts ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, but one day, just you wait and see...


Prologue

"What is this, this Christmas?" Rukia asked Ichigo, befuddled (only she said it: Tristmas)

"It's a holiday, it sucks, don't get your hopes up," Ichigo didn't really mind Christmas, in fact he used to love it. It was o.k now, but he had preferred it much more when he was a kid.

Rukia studied his face hard, she wasn't an idiot. She knew when he was thinking hard, and she usually didn't know why. Except, when it came to his mother, she always saw the pain in his eyes,

"Don't give me that bull," she told him angrily

"Shut the hell up, I know what I'm talking about," he muttered even more angrily back at her.

Sighing, Rukia got up from the cupboard and walked over to Ichigo's bed. Taking his chin in her hand and turning it towards her, she said,

"I don't know much about this holiday, but I know that you can, for once, be happy, o.k?"

He knocked her hand away roughly, who the hell did she think she was talking to?

"And, I know you don't want to hear this, but this is also the time when hollows appear most frequently,"

Ichigo looked up at her, his eyes widening slightly,

"And I'm not done, tell me about this Christmas," she nagged,

"O.k, now I'm done," she said when he didn't answer her.

Rukia waved a hand over his face. Ichigo just turned over on his bed and pulled a pillow over his ears.

Rukia poked him, moaning that if he wasn't going to tell him she would...

"Shut up," he said. Eventually, seeing that her attempts were fruitless, in anger, she jerked the pillow away.

"WHAT THE HELL, YOU BITCH?!" he yelled, rubbing behind his ears in pain.

Snuggling up to the pillow and shoving Ichigo to the other side of the bed, she told him to tell her.

"Fine, jeez..."

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Rukia's eyes sparkled at the promise of all that Ichigo had explained to her. Unconsciously, she had moved closer to Ichigo as he had explained all the wonders one by one,

"And then?" she breathed,

"And then, a year goes by, and it happens all over again," Ichigo said, shrugging,

"Wow," she gave a shiver of excitement, but mistaking it for cold, she moved that little much closer to Ichigo. He gulped.

"What's wrong?" he asked her, she looked very sad,

"I can't celebrate it, I have no one to-" caught up in the moment, Ichigo placed a finger on her lips, silencing her.

Leaning forward so that their lips were millimeters from each other, he said, "You can celebrate it with my family,"

Rukia shivered as she felt his warm breath on her lips, this time, however, she did not mistake it for the weather. He moved forward, closing the gap between them.

BEEP. BEEP.

Ichigo pulled back just as they were about to lock lips,

Rukia looked at the phone in her hand, "It's starting."

A/n: To those who don’t celebrate Christmas, sorry if this offends you, to those who are Jewish (my dad and his side of the family are), Happy Hanukkah!
Till next chapter, which will be nearer to Christmas (in their time, not ours, I will hopefully update much sooner!), lets imagine that the date of this happening is the first of December.
It is the holidays (we are working on the southern hemisphere times – in my country) so they will be spending ll of their days together…
Glad we got that sorted out.