Love Is Blind

Love Is Blind
(AU)
"Come on Dude don't be such a chicken!" Keigo prodded, Ichigo rolled his eyes, wen he was little Halloween meant free candy, but now it meant getting pranked and pranking back, especially now that he was eighteen and getting put up to doing things, "Keigo if you're so brave then why don't you do it?" he replied angerly, "M-M-M-M-ME?!!! B-B-B-B-But wat if there are GHOSTS in there or something!?" he shouted in fear, Ichigo just rolled his eyes, "Come on Ichigo, aren't you just the least bit curious?" Renji asked, "No, not really," Ichigo replied with a shrug, "Come on Man, do it for us?" sighing and having nothing better to do on Halloween night, he decided that he might as well, "Fine, but if I make it through the night I get $100.00 and you guys BETTER not cheat me!" "Fine, we'll come pick ya' up tommorrow morning, but if you aren't here, YOU pay US," Uryuu said as he pushed up his glasses, "Tch.." Ichigo watched in irritation as his "freinds" took off down the road, he sighed and looked up at the old, spooky house that he had been dared to spend the night at, "Well... might as well get this over with.." he mused as he started up the porch steps

The Kuchiki mansion had been around since he was a little kid, but no one new who, if anyone, lived there, there were no cars in the driveway, ever, the lawn was never kept, it looked completely abandoned, especially since no one was ever seen going in or out of the house, however, wat made this house so terrifying weren't any of these things, but the fact that some people swear they've seen a girl looking longingly out the window, day in, and day out, many people have seen this girl but no one nos who she is or if she's even real, many say she's a ghost, mostly because she's only there for a few seconds before she dissapears, that's why Ichigo was dared to go into the old house and spend the night, to see if it was really haunted or not, now ofcourse Ichigo, being a reasonably minded man, didn't believe in such nonsense, he remembered wen this house was constructed and new for a fact that no one ever lived there.... or so he thought.... he quietly turned the doornob and pushed the old door open, being a bit surprised that it actually wasn't locked, but wat surprised him even more was how nice the house looked from the INSIDE, no cobwebs or excess dust like he had imagined it would be, in fact, the floors looked freshly mopped and the walls freshly painted, there was no dust that he could see and there were even lights on, he negelected to notice, however, the pair of women's shoes sitting by the door on a rug, "Hm... if someone does live here, wich I doubt, then who? And why are they living in this old place to begin with? Why don't we ever see them? It makes no sense..." he muttered quietly to himself, he looked at the walls and was surprised to see pictures hanging on them, some were of a young girl with dark black hair and purple eyes, others of a young man with slightly longer hair and slightly smaller eyes, and others were of them together, "So someone DOES live here...." he muttered, then, all of a sudden, he heard music playing, "A piano?" he asked himself, finding that it was coming from the upper floor, curiosity ofcourse, got the best of him and he had to go investigate

Ichigo walked quietly up the stairs and through the long hallways, the sound of the paino getting closer and closer with each step, until he finally came to a room, it was a large room and the door was open, and sitting at the piano was a young girl, the one in the pictures, her black hair fanned her shoulders and her blue dress encircled her petit body, then, suddenly, she stopped playing as he arrived in the doorway, "Brother? Is that you?" she asked, turning around, he held back a gasp, her purple eyes were draining of color and he could tell by the focusless look that she was blind, "No... I'm not your brother..." he said quietly, he could see shock and fear depicted on her face as he said this and she shreiked loudly, "P-Phone.. I have to get to the phone..." she mumbeled to herself, scrambling to get up and trying to make her way over to the phone, "W-W-Wait! Relax! Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you!" Ichigo said frantically as she clumsily looked for the phone, "Who are you!? Wat do you want!?" "I-I'm sorry! I had no idea anyone was living here! I ws dared to come in here... I'm sorry... I didn't no... really..." she frowned and seemed to ignore him as she took a step forward, not having noticed the book on the floor, his eyes widened and he rushed forward to catch her as she fell, "Th-Thanks..." she wispered as he reached out and took her arm, stopping her from hitting the floor, "See? I'm not such a bad guy," he offered her a smile even though she couldn't see it, slowly, hesitantly, she reached her hand up and traced her fingers over his face, "You have a kind face," she wispered, standing on her own, "Perhaps.... I should hear you out...."

"I didn't think anyone lived here, my stupid freinds all dared me to come in this spooky old house and spend the night," "So you figured why not," the girl shot back, "I'm sorry... I didn't want to at first but.... I mean..." he sighed, "I guess there's really no excuse..." he muttered, she frowned, "Certainly not," she replied, standing up from the bench and walking towards the door, "H-Hey! Were are you going!?" "To my bedroom, if you haven't noticed it's fairly late at night," "It's only eleven..." he muttered back, "Um... here let me help you," he offered, taking her hand, but the second their skin made contact she jerked back aprehensivly and glared at him, "I don't need your help! Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I can't even find my way around my own house!" she hissed at him, continuing to walk, he made sure to stay no more than a step behind her though in case she DID run into something or fall, "How do you no were you're going if you can't see?" he asked quietly as she opened the door to her bedroom, unlike the room with the piano in it, this room was rather small, much like his own room, it had a small bed with pink bedding, a desk in the corner with a laptop and a lamp on it, a large bookshelf at the back of the room covered in books, and a stereo near the desk, "I mean not to be rude or anything," he clairified, "You aren't being rude, I had a long time to memorize this house from top to bottum wen I was going blind, it wasn't that hard, there are thirteen steps on the staircase, it takes fourty steps to get to my room from the piano room and ten to to get to my bed, five to get to my desk, not hard to remember that sort of thing wen your vision is slowly failing and you have nothing else to occupy your mind with," she didn't sound sad or sarcastic wen she spoke, but the words drove daggers through Ichigo's heart, it hurt to hear her speaking about not being able to see, worst of all was that she had once been able to and slowly lost that ability, that given right to sight, he wasn't sure why it hurt him so much to hear, but it did, it most DEFINATLY did, "So then you weren't born like... this?" he asked quietly, she sat down in her desk chair, "Wat? You mean BLIND?" he flinched, "No, I wasn't born blind," she said with a slight smile, "I was, however, born with a birth deffect that causes my sight to slowly deterate over my life, I surprised doctors by keeping it past fifteen, the past year I've only been able to see things right in front of me, like a book or a laptop screen, then, as of last month, I couldn't see anything at all, though the doctors haven't declaired me legally blind yet," she said quietly, "Wow... I'm sorry..." "It's alright, it's just one of the consequences of being born premature," "Premature?" "Yeah, I was only about six or seven months old wen I was born, alot of things didn't work right, heart, lungs, vision, I've gone through alot of diffrent medicines, surgeries, all sorts of things, my sight is one of the only things I haven't gotten in control of by now," she said quietly, "Why not?" "There's no way to fix it," he frowned, "I find that hard to believe, my dad is a doctor, he owns the clinic a few blocks from here, I'll talk to him about it," "That's alright, my brother already looked into it," he sighed lightly, 'I still want to ask my dad though..' he thought to himself, "So do you live here alone?" "No, I live with my brother, Byakuya, he works at night so that he can stay with me during the day," "And your parents?" she was quiet for a few moments, "I never had a dad, never even heard of a name, and my mom jumped off our balcony wen I was a year old, I was too much for her to handel," he flinched again, "I'm so-" "Sometimes I wonder why I was cursed to be born so early.. that there are so many things wrong with my body... wrong with me... I wonder if I did something wrong or if the universe is out to get me sometimes, even though that sounds completly stupid and rediculous," she wispered, suddenly she was engulfed in a warm feeling and she gasped, immediatly being frightened by not noing wat it was, "G-Get off!" she shreiked, "I'm just hugging you... I won't hurt you, I promise, and even though we only met just a few minutes ago.. I already no that you're a good person, you didn't do anything wrong, anything to cause this, there's nothing wrong with YOU, these things just happen sometimes... there's no real reason that I can think of or that anyone can I think... it's just.. fate... for some reason that hasn't announced it's self yet," he said quietly, "Wat's your name anyway?" "Rukia, Rukia Kuchiki," she replied quietly, slowly wrapping her arms around him and snuggling her face into his shoulder, "I'm Ichigo Kurosaki,"

Ichigo surprised Rukia greatly by coming back the next night, "Wat are you doing here?" she asked quietly as he entered the piano room, "How did you no it was me?" Ichigo asked with a smirk, "Your shoes, you're wearing the same shoes you wore last night, they make a distinct sound on the floor," she replied, turning around on the piano bench to face him, despite not being able to see him, he smirked, "Very perceptive," "I have to be," she replied, he smiled lightly at her, "You really should lock the door or atleast have an alarm or something Rukia, it's dangerous not to," "I don't because my brother is afraid that I'll accedentally go outside and lock myself out or open a door or window and set the alarm off without being able to punch in the right keycode," she said quietly, "But you're smart enough to work a key or an alarm," "Yes, but my brother is very protective of me, he doesn't want me to do anything or take any chances, since he basically raised me and our parents are gone he's scared of loosing me I guess," she replied with a shrug, "Then I guess I'll just have to protect you wile your brother is gone," he said with a smile, but Rukia didn't smile back at him, "I don't need everyone to take care of me just because I can't see!" she protested, standing up and racing to her bedroom, he gritted his teeth, 'Crap... messed up again...' he thought, rushing after her, "Rukia wait!" "Wat?!" "I..." he paused, trying to find the right words, "I didn't mean to .... offend... you in anyway... I just mean... I had such a nice time talking to you last night... I sort of figured we were freinds and since your brother doesn't let you out of the house I thought I'd come to you to keep the freindship going..." he said quietly, "I just... wanted an excuse to come over I guess..." her face softened considerably, "I'm sorry for getting so worked up..." she wispered, biting her lip, "I just... I'm just sort of scared of new people I guess... I wish I could see you Ichigo, I really do," "Yeah... I wish you could too Rukia..."

He returned all that week, and the week after that, and the week after that, every night without fail he would go to see Rukia and spend hours talking to her, she fascinated him in every way, he would teach her things and she would teach him things, it was amazing how close they were in only a month's time, the more he visited, the closer they became, "Hey Rukia?" "Hm?" "How can you play piano if you can't see?" she smiled at him and scooted over on the bench, placing her hand next to her, "I'll show you," she said, he watched her for a moment before hesitantly sitting next to her, "See I've played since I was a little girl, it comforted me that I had no signs of ever going deaf since my favirote thing in the world is music," she said, grasping his hands over her's, "Hm, you do kendo?" "How did you no?" "The callouses and scars on your palms come from handeling a sword," she replied, "How-" "I used to too," she said, running her fingers over the piano keys with his on top of her own, "I memorized the keys by naming them, do, rae, do, me, do, do, rae, fa, me, rae, do," she said as she pressed each key

"You have yet to tell me about your work Ichigo," Rukia observed one night, Ichigo had offered to cook for her since her brother couldn't cook and would often bring her home some sort of pre-cooked food, she could cook but it had been three months since she was able to see well enough not to hurt herself or burn down the house, "Oh, well actually I'm an artist so I can work at home and on my own hours," "Wat kind of art?" "Manga art," she smiled sadly, "Mm... that's one of the worst things about going blind.... I doubt there's brail manga," she said, "You read it?" "I did, wen I could still see, that's all that's on my bookshelf," "Oh... have you learned brail yet?" "No and I don't look forward to it, I get annoyed wen it takes a long time to master something and I prefer manga to actual books so... I don't really look forward to it," "Wat kind of manga do... did... you read?" "Shounen Jump stuff mostly, Case Closed, a little Shojo Beat," "Ever read Bleach?" "Oh sure, it was only my favirote," "Were did you leave off?" "Hm.... I think I left off... sometime after the 'her words put me at ease thing'," "Ah a fellow IchiRuki shipper," he chuckled, she blushed a bit, "Well Gin is presumably dead, he betrayed Aizen," "Oh, anything else IchiRuki happen?" "Not yet," "Shoot..." they were quiet for a moment, "Ichigo.... I'm wondering if you could do me a favour..." "Sure, wat is it?" "Well before I went blind I actually read quite a few fanfictions and some of them were incomplete wen my vision failed..." "Want me to read them to you?" she smiled brightly at him, "Oh could you?! It wouldn't be too much trouble!?" "No ofcourse not," he laughed, "This is almost done cooking, we'll go read them once it's done," he had never seen her smiling so brightly in his short time of noing her, but one thing was certain, he wanted to see it more often

" She began sobbing "You will wat?" she was crying in his ear now, "Try to be the one," they kissed and the lit candel on the floor went out " Ichigo looked over from the laptop to Rukia, who was curled up on his side with her hands gripping his shirt tightly, "It's so amazing..." she wispered, he smiled at her, "Is there another one you wanted me to look up?" "Yeah but I doubt it's finished yet," "So? I'll just come back and read to you until it is," he said with a shrug, she smiled softly and he watched as a pink blush coated her cheeks, "Er... it's called 'Soy Latte', this one is on DeviantART, it's by Rawr823," "IchiRuki again?" "Ofcourse," "Ofcourse," he laughed, pulling up DeviantART on her computer, "Hey... is this your account?" he asked, noticing the bookmarked page was already logged in, "Yeah," "You write?" "Wrote, it's so sad, I never got to finish my writings before I went blind..." he frowned, "I even completed some books but I never got the chance to publish them,"

Rukia grumbled to herself in frustration as she struggled to finish buttoning her pajamas, not hearing the door to her bedroom open, "WOAH! S-S-Sorry!" Ichigo yelped as he found her half-dressed state, she frowned, "Ichigo I..." she hesitated, biting her pride back for only the second time in their fairly short relationship, "I need help..." she said quietly, those words were all he needed to hear to put aside his embarressment, "How can I help?" he asked, "There are too many buttons on my top.... I feel like I buttoned it all wrong..." he stepped forward, over to were she was sitting on her bed, and hesitantly reached out to touch her shoulder, running his thumb over the soft skin a few times to notify her that he was standing right there, only a breath away, "The top three are done well, it's the last seven you messed up on," he said, "Can you do it for me?" she asked in a quiet wisper, glad that atleast she already had her shorts on and the top three buttons done so that he couldn't see anything, he crouched down and set one hand on her leg, sending chills up her spine, "Don't be scared," he wispered into her ear, making her breath catch in her throat, "I won't hurt you, I promise, I'll be carefull," he said, slowly undoing the buttons and re-doing them, Rukia made sure to close her eyes on instinct, even though she already couldn't see, she felt self-conciouse and shy and new that her skin must be flushed red because of how her skin felt heated up, like she was standing out in the sun, "Alright, all done," he said, standing up again, 'Good.... because I feel like I'm going to pass out...' she thought

Ichigo and Rukia had been freinds for just over three months now, every night he snuck into her house, though you couldn't really call it sneaking since he was allowed to be there, through the front door and up the stairs into her room, yet every night she seemed to surprise him some way or another, like tonight for example, wen he walked in on her doing ballet, "I didn't no you could dance," he said after watching her for a few moments, she turned off her stereo and stopped the fluent movements of her body, "Yes, I've been doing that since I was a little girl too," "How can you dance without being able to see?" he asked, in the past few months he learned that she wasn't sensitive about being blind and didn't mind his constant questions like he worried she would, she was only sensitive wen it came to him treating her diffrently or trying to help her wen she didn't need it, that made her quite mad, "Oh like I said I have my room memorized, the entire house really, so as long as I don't mess up I should be alright," she said, he smiled at her and sat in her desk chair wile she plopped down on her bed, "Wow, you're good at everything aren't you?" he chuckled, "No not at all, I only learned to dance because of The Little Mermaid," "Inspired by Ariel were you?" he joked, "Nope, by Gabriella," this surprised him actually and he frowned, "Who?" "I'm guessing you never watched The Little Mermaid," "No but my sisters did... I don't remember a Gabreilla though..." "She was a deaf-mute mermaid who used sign languege to communicate, she wanted to sing like Ariel," "Oh yeah.... her.... I remember her..." he muttered, "She never let being deaf get in the way of wanting to sing, and I won't let being blind get in the way of me wanting to dance," she replied quietly, "But you'll let it get in the way of wanting to write?" "N-No..." "Rukia, I talked to my dad today, he said that your condition SOUNDS fixable, he'll need to take a look at you first but... if you'll come by and let him examine your eyes he might just be able to fix them," she stared at him with wide eyes and gasped, "Really!? But... wen? My brother..." "Why wouldn't your brother let you go to get your eyes checked?" she frowned, "I said he's overprotective..." "Then you'll go at night, we'll explain it to him after you get examined," he suggested, she frowned slightly, "I... I don't no..." he came to sit next to her on the bed and stared into her blank eyes, even though she couldn't see him, "Wat are you scared?" he joked, "N-No!" "Rukia..." he wispered, "Please trust me..." she didn't say a word as he leaned forward, slowly pressing his lips against her's, he could feel her gasp, the sharp intake of breath cooled his lips and he leaned closer, slowly moving his mouth against her's, trying to coax her into kissing back, slowly, very slowly, she wrapped her arms around his neck and started to kiss back, he smiled against her soft lips and wrapped his arms around her waist, his hands slowly running up and down her sides, and then she started too flinch and twitch as if she was bothered by something, curious, he repeated this motion and then heard a quite, muffled sound, almost like... laughing... "Ticklish are we?" he chuckled, "I-Ichigo NO!" she protested, he didn't listen though and found it quite easy to tackle her to the bed and run his fingers up and down her sides, across her arms, and even snake up her tank top to skim over her flat stomach, "S-S-S-S-STOP!!!" she laughed, tears pricking at her eyes as she convulsed in laughter, "Oh but Rukia you're so amusing!" he laughed, she was quite tired of being taken advantege of and without warning took a chance, she swung up and pounced on him, nocking him down on the bed and trying to tickle him back... the problum was... he wasn't ticklish... and even if he was she couldn't see were she was touching and could easily be moved to a dull spot, "Shoot..." she muttered, he smirked and once again flipped her over, "I-I-Ichigo no!!" she cried as his fingers brushed over her neck, "C-C-Can't we go back to kissing!?" "Gladly, LATER, I like hearing you laugh too much," he replied, now using his lips to skim over her cheek, "P-P-PLEASE! I give! I give!" she shouted, suddenly though they both stopped, turning around wen they heard the door open, "Wat on earth is going on here?" Ichigo reckognized the man as being in some of the photos that covered the house, "B-Brother!" Rukia shouted, scrambling to get out of Ichigo's grasp to stand on her own and bow her head, "My deepest apologies Brother, this is Ichigo Kurosaki, he's a close freind of mine... we um... well he saw me dancing and we started talking and he-" "He wat?" "We just got into a small tickle fight, nothing to worry about," she said quickly, "And how did you meet this boy?" Ichigo frowned, "Er... about three months ago his motercycle broke down and he came to the door asking if he could use the phone and I let him in and since it took a wile for a tow truck to get here we started talking and... we became fast freinds, we've seen eachother every night for the last three months," she partically lied, 'Wow... she's good at making things up... definatly a writer...' Ichigo mused, "I see," Byakuya growled, walking past his sister, "Get. Out." he demanded, Ichigo glared, "No way! Not unless Rukia wants me to leave," "I SAID get out," "No!" the next thing he new Ichigo was being pushed out of the room, "I-Ichigo! Brother!" Rukia shouted worriedly, not noing wat was going on, Byakuya pushed Ichigo again and he stumbled down the stairs,"Out," Byakuya repeated, chasing Ichigo and nocking him out of the house, "HEY!" Byakuya shut the door and despite Ichigo trying to open it again he found that apparently there was something blocking the door from the other side, "Crap...." he muttered

Rukia gritted her teeth, "I hate being blind!" she shouted, hitting the wall of her room with her fist, she had no idea wat just happened, if Ichigo was ok or not, if her brother was ok or not, she heard them rush down the stairs but that was it, "Why?" she muttered to herself, holding back tears, "Wen I finally make a freind.... heck.... BEYOUND freind.... why does my blindness have to get in my way!?" she screamed, kicking the wall this time, "I'm so hopeless...."

The next night wen Byakuya was gone Rukia made a decision, usually Byakuya left around nine and Ichigo came in around eleven, so she was going to use the two hour gap to her advantege, "I'm tired of living like this," she muttered as she grabbed a dufflebag off of her top shelf and put some clothes in it, "I'm not going to let my brother run my life anymore either... and I'm GOING to see Ichigo!" 'I want to see wat he looks like so badly...' she thought as she left her room, she came to the stairs and took in a deep breath, she usually stayed upstairs though sometimes she'd go downstairs with Ichigo, the thing is, he usually carried her, since she lost her sight completly she had been too scared to walk down the stairs on her own, but she was positive that there were only thirteen steps in her house, so, using the rail and the wall to support herself, she slowly started to walk, "One," she said, "Two, three, four, five, six," she continued to count as she walked down the stairs until she came to number thirteen, she took in a deep breath and stepped down, her bare feet feeling the diffrence in the floor from the carpeted stairs to the hard wood of the hall, she breathed lightly and mentally found herself jumping over one hurdel, "Ok..." she wispered, walking to the front door and slipping on her flip-flops, she slowly turned the doornob and was delighted to find that her brother's threats of putting a lock on the door were yet to occur, breathing in the fresh air for the first time in months was exhilierating and definatly nice, she shut the door behind her and walked down the three steps of her porch, then frowned, 'How do I get from here to Ichigo's?' she wondered, walking down the sidewalk to were the road started, "Taxi!" she heard someone yell, and then it came to her, "Taxi! Taxi!" she shouted, smirking to herself that surviving on her own wasn't as hard as her brother told her it would be, "Taxi!" she shouted for the sixth time, hearing a horn honk right in front of her and making her jump, hesitantly, she reached out and ran her fingers down the door of the cab, finding the handel and clicking it open, she nitted her brows but decided to take a chance and just stumbled into the cab, closing the door, "Were to?" the man asked, "Um, do you no were the Kurosaki clinic is?" she asked quietly, "Yeah," he replied, taking off, she could feel the car drive down the road, "You no the clinic is closed right Miss?" "Er... no... but my freind Ichigo lives there and he-" "Ichigo? You mean YOU'RE Ichigo's freind!?" "Er... yes?" "Seriously?!" "I... I don't no..." "You're his blind freind that lives in that spooky house right?" "Oh um, yes..." "Wow he was right, you ARE cute," she blushed, "Th-Thanks.... I think...." "I'm Renji, one of the guys who put Ichigo up to breaking into yor house," "Jeez great..." "Um, if you don't mind me asking.... how is it that you're blind and maneged to make it out to the cab without help?" she sighed, "I'm blind not stupid, I no how to get around my own house and I figured calling a cab was the best thing I could do,"

"Here, let me help you," Renji offered as he helped  Rukia out of the car, "I can get there myself thank you," she said, "Yeah but even if you can Ichigo would kill me if I let anything happen to his preciouse girlfreind," she blushed as she heard Renji open a gate, "How much do I owe you Renji?" "Nothing, keep it, Ichigo owes me, this can be his payment," "B-But I.. I mean he doesn't even..." "Rukia I'm only kidding, you're Ichigo's girlfreind, you got him out of his stupid depression, believe me I owe you," he said, she frowned as he opened the door and she walked inside, the air in the house was definatly warm and inviting and so much DIFFRENT from the cold, stiff air of her own house, "Yo Ichigo! Get down here!" Renji shouted, Rukia heard her unofficial boyfreind groan, "I'm trying to get dressed!" Rukia opened her mouth but Renji quickly shushed her, "Want to have a little fun?" he asked, she nodded slowly and he helped her up the stairs, "Why do you go see this girl anyway Ichigo? She's blind, not like she's after your looks, so wat does she want with you?" Renji asked from outside Ichigo's bedroom door, Ichigo groaned, "Shut up Renji..." "Oh I get it she's just lonely, well maybe I'LL go give her some company," "Don't you DARE!" "Didn't you say her brother kicked you out last night?" "Yeah... but tonight I'm going to go get Rukia.... I really hope she has her two cents together because if I have anything to say about it I'm dragging her back here with me so maybe she can get her eyes fixed... she's miserable Renji... she's such a sweet, fun, person and she... it kills me that she had to quit writing and reading manga and doing wat she loves, if I can fix that.... then that'll be the best thing in the world to me," "Why do you care so much?" "Renji-" "I mean it's not like you've ever had a girlfreind before and it isn't like you to do this for just ANY-" "Because I LOVE HER!" he finally shouted, slamming the door open, he looked down and saw Rukia's mouth open and her face red, "R-Rukia! Wat are you doing here!?" he shouted happily, scooping her up in his arms and giving her a quick spin, "I-ICHIGO! Don't do that!" she sqweaked, Renji chuckled, "Well it's just the darndest thing, this little lady found her way into my cab tonight all on her own," he set her down, now not quite so happy, "You mean to tell me... you left the house ALONE and went out into traffic?! You could've gotten hurt or run over or something!" "In wat universe did I suddenly become a cat Ichigo?" she muttered, he sighed, "Alright... so maybe I'm over reacting a LITTLE.... but still you should atleast have called me," she blushed lightly and turned away, "S-Sorry... I wanted to surprise you and I don't have your number...." he sighed, "I guess it's alright... and by the way Ichigo," "Hm?" "I love you too,"

Rukia stayed over at Ichigo's that night and Isshin had made sure to call Byakuya and tell him about this so she wasn't reported missing, wen that didn't work Rukia took the phone and screamed that she "is an adult and can have her eyes fixed if she wanted to", she slept in Ichigo's bed that night and Ichigo opted for the couch, despite her saying that that wasn't fair and SHE should sleep on the couch, but after Isshin started begging her to let his "stupid boozoo son" sleep on the couch she couldn't exactly refuse, ofcourse Ichigo was teased relentlessly that night about his "cute little girlfreind" and how she would make a good mother for his children, Ichigo slept with one eye open that night, the next day they both got up early so that Rukia could have her eyes checked before the clinic opened, luckily, if caught in time, there was a cure for Rukia's condition, and since she wasn't completly blind yet despite that she couldn't see, a date was set for Ruka's surgery

Two months later....

"I'm so excited that I'll be able to see tommorrow," Rukia breathed, gripping Ichigo's hand, "I can't wait to see your face," she wispered, Ichigo smiled, "Me neither, but can I ask you something?" "Sure," "Wat do you THINK I look like?" she sat up in her hospital bed and motioned for him to sit next to her instead of in the chair by her bed, her fingers skimmed over his face and through his hair, down his neck and over his arms, "I think.... you're handsome, with short hair, it's a light color like blonde or orange or something.. and you have beautifull brown eyes.... and you're tall and have the most INCREDABLE smile... I think that's wat you look like... am I close?" "Wow Rukia... you're..... DEAD WRONG!" he laughed, she frowned, "Aww too bad...." she muttered, then she smirked, "Ichigo... I COULD take off my bandeges NOW... it's just a day early-" "No way, you are NOT going to cheat Rukia, I'm not letting anything happen to you and I don't want to take chances," she sighed, "Alright.... fine..." she muttered, "I look forward to being able to write again, and to read, and to be able to publish my books..." "I went on your DeviantART page last month and told everyone that you're coming back," "You mean people actually still watch me?" she laughed, "Yep, alot of people," she giggled, "Good, I'm glad about that then," she said, "Hey Rukia..." "Yeah?" "There's still something I want to do... just wile I'm allowed to take care of you," "Wat's that?" he smiled and took a stick of pocky out of the box by the bed, "Open your mouth," "Why?" "Come on don't you trust me?" she sighed and obeyed, smiling wen he fed her the treat, "Mm..." she mumbled, "Rukia am I still going to get to spoil you wen you can see?" "If you want to, but I can't see why you would, then again I can't see ANYTHING right now..." he smiled, "I just like it... being able to care for you, to protect you, it makes me feel... I don't no... it just makes me feel cool," he said, she laughed slightly and he kissed her cheek, "I'm so happy that you'll be able to see tommorrow Rukia..." he wispered, she yawned and he gently pressed her head against his shoulder, holding her close and allowing her to fall asleep on him, he smirked and took a diamond ring out of his pocket, then slipped it on her ring finger, "I love you Rukia... so much.... I hope you accept once you can see tommorrow," he wispered

Rukia woke up the next morning and took her bandeges off, she was irritated at Ichigo wen she noticed that he had lied wen he said her description of him didn't match his real appearence, but she suddenly forgot all about that wen she saw the ring on her finger, he didn't need her to say yes because the passionate kiss she gave him and the gushing over the ring was enough answer for him, even after that though he refused to let her go home and muttered something about how he would have to move her stuff to his house, but the best part about Rukia being able to see again, without a doubt, was that he could see how happy she was wen he kissed her and wen he told her he loved her