Bond

Bond
"Rukia... Rukia... Rukia please... please wake up... please... please...." that voice... it sounded so familiar... "Please Rukia, please open your eyes...." Rukia....? Slowly, bright purple eyes stared up into a set of deep coffee ones, and a smile broke over his face, a smile that signified a new begining

The war had ended no less than a week ago and despite everyone saying that she still needed to rest Rukia was quite antsy and wanted to do something, ANYTHING but lay around all day in bed, so, after much pleading and bribing, she had convinced Ichigo to play a tennis game with her behind the squad four building, there was no net and tennis was by FAR not her favirote sport, but she couldn't convince him into anything more straining like soccer, he more than likely would refuse, "Alright Ichigo, just tell me if you get all tired and need a break!" Rukia said in a sarcastic manor, the ginger-haired man rolled his eyes, "I should be saying that to YOU," he replied, she rolled her eyes and tossed the ball into the air, easily hitting it with her racket, "So were'd you find this stuff anyway?" Ichigo asked as he hit it back, "Oh, Hanatarou showed me a closet of sports equipment, sometimes the paitents get restless so they use these for exercise," she replied, swatting it back, "Oh," he said, batting the little ball once more, but this one was too high up and she missed it, he smirked, "One point for me~!" "Didn't get cocky," she muttered, running over to pick up the ball, suddenly she felt something odd, like her body was getting lighter, "Rukia!!" she heard, before falling over onto the ground

Rukia coughed slightly and slowly opened her eyes, "Nah...?" she muttered, "Oh hey, you're awake," she turned slightly and found Ichigo sitting in a chair next to her, "Man... wat happened...?" she muttered, putting a hand to her head and attempting to sit up, "Ah, lay down," Ichigo said, placing his hand against her chest and pushing her back down, "I TOLD you that you weren't well enough to be up and around, you lost alot of blood in the war and you exertied too much energy before it could all come back, so because of that you now have to have a transfusion," she sighed and stared at the blood going into her arm, "Perfect..." she muttered, it wasn't the FIRST time she had required such a thing, the FIRST time was back shortly after her academy days, she had been training with Kaien and suddenly passed out, the reason for this is that she had cut her arm earlier in the day but didn't tell anyone and lost alot of blood, once she woke up it was already night and Kaien had told her that he had given her blood, she was elated that she had been asleep through the ordeal so she didn't have to be anywere near that needle OR confront Kaien about any of it, "I couldn't be happier," she said sarcastically, he shrugged slightly, "Ah, don't get in such a nitch about it, I warned you," "But I shouldn't be so weak," "You're not weak! This is strong! Do you have any idea how bad your injureries were!?" she "hmph"ed and looked away, not accepting that, "Why do you have to be so difficult Rukia?" he muttered, closing his eyes and rubbing his temples, "Like you're any easier to watch after! Don't you remember your sixth hollow fight?!"

"Ichigo, let me heal you," Rukia said gently, pulling the substitute over to a tall, grassy hill, he had gotten a bad gash in his arm and despite being low on her kido power she figured it'd be better to heal it than wrap it in bandeges and let it go, "Tch, I'm fine, let's go, I have a test tommorrow," he muttered, scratching the back of his head with his good arm and walking off, her eye twitched, "HEY! I SAID get over here and let me heal you!" "Nope, it isn't that bad," less than an hour later he was complaining about feeling light-headed and she had to end up exerting MORE energy to heal the bum....

Ichigo cringed at the very memory, that hadn't been a fun night... "Look Rukia, I don't no why you're making such a big deal out of this," "I'm not making a big deal out of anything," Rukia mumbeled childishly, "Yes you are," "No. I'm. Not." "Are," "Not," "Are," "Not," "Are," "Shut up!" she muttered in annoyence, "Look Rukia, seriously, it isn't all that bad, I mean atleast you weren't awake wen they put the needle in," he felt chills go up his spine, not too long after noing Rukia did he learn that she had a pretty extreme phobbia of needles, they had been walking through school on the way back from a hollow hunt and happened to pass by the nurse's office, Rukia glanced in the window, saw the nurse drawing a needle, and promptly fainted, only after another few months of being freinds with her did she admit to having a needle phobia, "Yes it is, I don't want some stranger's blood in me!" "Maybe it isn't so much a stranger..." he muttered, she tilted her head, "Huh?" she said, he stood up, "N-Nothing, I'm going to go get you some ice water, it'll make you feel better,"

Rukia stared up at the ceiling, trying to figure out wat Ichigo had meant earlier, "Hey," she turned to the door and smiled slightly, "Here," he muttered, handing her the cup of water, "Thanks," she mumbeled back, never had there been any form of awkward silence between them, but here it was, she sighed slightly and closed her eyes, 'Why can't anything ever go right...?'

Finally after another hour the transfusion was complete and Rukia was under strict orders not to be doing any rigerouse activities, "Hmph" she had mumbeled, "Ah, Rukia, it's already pretty late in the day," Ichigo noted as he stared at out the sun, it was starting to set already, that's why he didn't care much for winter, "Yeah..." she muttered, he sighed, scratching his head, "Don't get so depressed Rukia, so you-" "Wat's that?" he blinked, "Wat's wat?" "That, on your arm," "Huh...?" he lowered his arm to see wat she was talking about and then put it by his side again, "Er... that's nothing..." "A bandaid? Did you hurt yourself?" "N-N-No.. um... not really... just a small cut...." he muttered, she frowned, it may have been on his arm but it was in the crease of his elbow, "That's a pretty odd place to get cut, wat did you do?" "Nothing! Ok? I did nothing!" she stood up and walked over to him, boxing him into a corner, "Wat's your problum?" "NO.THING.!" he protested, she rolled his sleeve up and stared at the bandaid before suddenly things clicked, "You..... you mean YOU gave me blood?" he shrugged, "As it turns out my blood is like my reistsu, hot and overflowing," she frowned, "Idiot! Why did you do that?!" "Because I wanted to make sure you were ok! DUH!" he replied, resting his hand on her shoulder, he smiled softly at her, "Really Rukia, use your head, as if I'd let some stranger's blood get in you," he chuckled, leaning down and gently kissing her lips, she blushed slightly, "W-Well-" "But I don't want you to use it all up so stop blushing and no bleeding," her eye twitched, "I'm gonna kill you,"