Rumours

Rumours
"Now remember Ichigo, we have to stick to our story, the LAST thing we need right now is for people to be starting rumours," "Right... and, wat would that 'story' be again?" Rukia paused in her walking and looked beside her at the orange-haired teen, "Simple," she said as they  started walking again, "I went to visit my brother out of town and a few days later I fell down the stairs and broke my leg, and since no one was home I called you, then on the way back to Karakura a week later we got in a bad car crash and we're just now getting out of the hospital, thus explaining why we still have a few bandeges," she said, he sighed slightly, "And you really think people will believe us?" "Yes," he sighed slightly, "Watever you say Rukia... watever you say..."

To their extreme delight, and Ichigo's surprise, no one seemed to have a problum with their... outlandish... excuse, atleast, not until the next day....

"No way! I think they tottally played hooky!" Rukia tilted her head as they walked into the school, the halls were filled with wispers and conversations all until Rukia and Ichigo stepped through the doors, then everything suddenly stopped, the two looked around as their classmates watched them, 'I feel like I'm in a zoo...' Rukia thought as they walked

"No way! They so wouldn't do that!" Keigo said, the boy he was talking to nodded, "Yeah-huh! I heard that they went to Vegas and eloped! And the reason they came back with all those injureries is because the mob-" "Hey Guys, wat about the mob?" Ichigo said as he sat down next to the two, the boy suddenly went pale and stood up, "Uh anyway Keigo, I'll tell you later, bye!" he said, dashing in the opposet direction, Keigo turned around and stared at Ichigo for a moment, "DUUUUUUUUUUDE why didn't you teeeeeeeeeeell meeeeeeeeeeee?" Keigo cried, Ichigo leaned against the railing of the roof, "Wat are you talking about?" "Come on you don't think we'd actually BELIEVE that BOGUSS story about the car crash right?" "Again, I don't no wat you're talking about Keigo," he muttered, "Haven't you heard all the rumours gonig around?!" "No and I don't care," he replied opening his lunchbox, "They say that you and Rukia tied the not in Vegas!!" he dropped his chop sticks, "EXCUSE ME!?" "It isn't true is it?!" "Ofcourse not!" "Just making sure Man, I mean I new you two were hitting the sheets but I didn't think you'd be hitting the alter anytime soon," "We're not hitting ANYTHING! My relationship with Rukia is STRICTLY platonic!" "Suuuuuure it is~! Anyway there's another rumour going around that you got Rukia pregnant over the summer and THAT'S why you two were missing so much school! That seems more plausable to me I mean Rukia doesn't seem like the kind of girl to be on bir-" "SHE IS NOT PREGNANT!" Ichigo shouted, Keigo blinked, "Ok Dude chill..." "Let's get one thing straight Keigo, I am NOT the kind of guy to nock a girl up got that? And I'm sure not the kind of guy who'd leave her to handel it herself if I did!" "O-O-Ok ok I get it!!" "Good," he sighed, grabbing a napkin to wipe off his chopsticks, "So then I guess the one about you two getting drunk and ending up in Mexico isn't true either?"

"Hi Guys!!" Rukia chirped in the same perky voice as usual, sitting down in the circle of girls for lunch, "Oh... Rukia hi..." Michiru muttered, "Rukia as your freinds we're going to come right out and ask you! Are you and Ichigo doing it?" Rukia then choked on her own spit, "A-A-A-Are we WAT?! NO! Absolutely not!" "And you didn't get married?" "NO!" "And you're not pregnant?" "Do I LOOK pregnant!?" "Well it's just.... sometimes women don't gain alot of weight and with all the school you've missed lately it'd be quite possible for you to have had a baby and us not no, especially if you get pregnant right before summer started, that's wen you and Ichigo were really heating up," her face was now THOROUGHLY red, "No.... we did no such thing.... my relationship with Ichigo is STRICTLY platonic," she growled out, "Well, ok, just thought we'd let you no about that rumour..." "So you and Ichigo didn't share a worm in Mexico?"

"The NERVE! I can't BELIEVE they would think something so DISGUSTING of me!" Rukia shouted as the two walked down the street, Ichigo sighed lightly as he listened to her rant on and on about the incedent from that afternoon, "So it's so disgusting of a thought to be pregnant with my child?" he asked, she wiped around and glared at him, "Since wen did THAT get into the mix?" "You keep saying how DISGUSTING you think all the rumours are," "No I mean about sharing a worm! How grosse! The very notion of a Tequila worm makes me quesy," she corrected, "So then wat they were saying about us being married and you having my kid.... that didn't bother you?" "It bothered me that they think I'd let someone nock me up," she replied vaguely, "But... not by us being together?" she looked away, "Well.... that's.... that's ...." she bit her lip, not quite noing how to respond, luckily however she didn't have to answer as they had arrived home, "IIIIIIIIIIIchiiiiiiiiiigooooooooo!!!!!" Isshin shouted as the door opened, "Old Man!! Get outta the way!" Ichigo hissed, kicking the goat-bearded man in the face, "My SON!! Such a wonderfull reflex!!!" Rukia proceeded to escape upstairs as Ichigo and Isshin fought

"You didn't answer me earlier," Ichigo stated as he turned on the faucet, "About?" Rukia asked, "About us being together, it didn't bother you?" "Did it bother you?" "I asked you first," she sighed, suddenly wishing that she HADN'T offered to help Ichigo with the dishes, "Should it bother me?" "Will you just answer already?" "Alright, no, no it doesn't bother me alright?" she replied, he nodded slowly, "It doesn't bother me either," she stared up at him for a moment, "It really doesn't?" "No, why should it?" "I'm so much OLDER than you, I mean I could be your great, great, great grandmother," "Tch, I doubt you're that old, and even if you are it doesn't matter to me," "It doesn't...?" "Nope," "Oh..." she muttered, "Rukia," "Hm?" she turned to look at him and suddenly found Ichigo placing his lips over her's, her hands slipped into the soapy water of the sink and she found herself unable to keep her eyes open, slowly, her violet eyes closed shut and she simply enjoyed the kiss, "Do you want to no, why it doesn't bother me?" he breathed, "Why?" she replied breathlessly, "Because Rukia, I'm in love with you, it's as simple as that," she smiled, "I love you too," slowly, she took her hands out of the water and wiped them on a towel before wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning in for another kiss

The next day the school was flooded with the news that Ichigo and Rukia MUST be a couple because they were seen sharing a kiss before entering the classroom, neither did anything to deny it, although once alligations that they planned on quiting school and eloping across the border things had to come to an abrupt hault for ALL rumours....