A/N Gah, I'm trying to wrap this up. xD (This probably ruins my entire story..)

If anyone is curious of what I originally had plan for this story, basically filler chapters in the middle, please tell me in a review and I'll make a simple outline of it as my last chapter. :D

Ah! Sorry, I can't remember your username and I'm too lazy too look for it, but things are getting dark.. Again, I apologize, I'm a masochist... nuff said.

Oh, and just pretend we met Renji already.. You'll see. (I planned on them meeting him at his uncle's restaurant that he was working part time at for a short while.)

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Everyday was a fun day with Rukia. It seemed as if she had change the young Strawberry's life, for the better. Though he'd never admit it, she certainly did. Slowly and slowly the two became closer. Like brother and sister. Actually no.. Could he possibly be falling in love with her, that rabbit fanatic?! Of course not! She's rude, arrogant, very un-lady-like, a bitch, and she sucks at sports. She was Rukia for crying out loud! Definitely not someone he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. So he ignored the thought and wanted to have more fun day with her. Because those days would never end.. Right?

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"Okay! Raffle!" their teacher said, "I will draw someone's name and they'll get a super cool special prize!"

"I'm going to win!" Ichigo gloated.

"You wish!" Rukia teased.

"And the winner is.." she trailed off rummaging through the box. "Kuchiki, Rukia!"

"In your face Ichigo! ...Kurosaki, Ichigo!" she screamed pointing at his face. Good thing she caught herself calling him by his given name. Clearly she would have been questioned by, well, just about everyone if she let that slip again.

"You win the prize of cleaning the room! Yay! Go you!"

"Awe, darn.. I wanted to clean the room. In my face ahhh...!" he dryly said sarcastically.

"You have to stay after school to clean it. And no Keigo, you cannot stay after school to help. Class is dismissed."

The student all got up to leave. Ichigo said goodbye Rukia and left the door. She thought it was strange that he didn't offer to help her clean or even make fun of her even more. So she looked through the door to see why. She noted that Ichigo was looking at a piece of paper, but who was it from. And why was it more important than making fun of her?!

"You know.. I just realized that this room doesn't need cleaning afte rall!" her teacher hollered to Rukia, "You can leave as soon as you dump those boxes on the roof."

Rukia nodded, grabbed the boxes, and made her way to the door. She approached the door, but she heard voices. Familiar voices. She was curious. So she put the boxes down and opened the door slightly to listen to the conversation.

"Y-you're probably wondering why I'm here..." the girl said.

"Inoue?" Rukia questioned, "and Ichigo?! This is like one of the weird perfect timing that the plot in an anime."

"Yeah.. Kind of.." the boy answered.

"Well, I'm the one who put that note in your desk Kurosaki-kun. because I wanted to tell you that.." she paused for a while, "I l-love you..."

"Inoue..."

The embonyed haired girl was shocked and close the door, silently, but immediately. She should have known. Also, seeing how pretty she is, he'd probably rather have Inoue than her. Wait, why is she so concerned about this. He didn't like her. He had never done anything to make it seem like he did. So why would she be concerned about him not liking her. She could tell that he didn't. So she concluded, but why was she still crying. Why was she crying to begin with? Too many thoughts. She had to get away.

She ran down the stairs, but then ran into someone. Someone was around her?! No! She didn't want anyone to see her crying. She didn't want anyone seeing her so.. so weak. The person she ran into.. Was so.. so comforting and embraced her with a hug.

"Rukia.. Why are you crying..?"

"Renji?!" she gasped, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm leaving tomorrow and wanted to say good-bye. I didn't know where you lived. So I decided to go to your school, but tell me. Why are you crying..?"

"I'm not crying.."

"Don't lie to me. I can see you're crying. You're so beautiful. You shouldn't be crying."

"That was so cheesy.."

"So it was.. I don't like it when you cry though. Tell me why. It'll make you feel better."

She sighed and started crying even more. "I don't know!"

"Rukia.."

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There was a silence and an awkward tension between the two. Ichigo didn't know what to say in reply. He didn't like her, Inoue. What was he supposed to say? He knew that she was fragile and didn't want her to cry, but he didn't want to tell her a lie. What could a guy do in this situation?

"There's someone else isn't there..?" Orihime finally said.

"Inoue.. Uh.."

"No really.. It's okay... I can tell that you like her."

Ichigo was completely confused. "Her?!" Who was this "her" that she's talking about?

"I see how you involuntarily look at her all the time and blush when she catches you. You always help her, laugh with her, argue with her, hang out with her. She's perfect. She's fearless. I envy her really.."

"Inoue who.."

"No it's okay Kurosaki-kun. You don't have to say anything... I'm glad that I fell in love with you. And I just wanted to let you know that you are a great guy. Even if you, or other people don't think so. You really do have many many positives about you. And you deserve the best. Which would be her. Good bye" she concluded and walked down the stairs. She walked in the opposite hallway from where Rukia and Renji were.

Ichigo felt terrible. He saw her, crying as she felt. There was nothing he could do though. He sighed and walked down the stairs.

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"Please don't crying Rukia because... because.."

Ichigo recongized that voice. "Renji?!" he thought in his head and followed the voice.

"I love you, Rukia."

So many emotions were going on in Ichigo's mind. Anger, sadness, envy? What was it? He felt like beating the crap out of Renji, but why? No he couldn't though. Not in front of Rukia. He had to stay calm and decided to run home. Run off his.. emotions.

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The was a heavy atmosphere. All that could be heard were pages turning, pencils writing, and the clocking, ticking. Rukia was at Ichigo's house. Studying for the Physical Science test. She really didn't want to go, but decided to anyways. He didn't know that she say him and Orihime on the roof. So she went to not make anything seem a little off. After all, he was the one who invited her -before what happened- over to study.

"So Rukia.. How was cleaning the classroom?"

"It was all right. The room didn't really need cleaning. So all I had to do was dispose of a few boxes."

"Oh cool."

"Yeah."

"Sorry I didn't offer to help you clean."

"It's okay.."

The two went back to studying.

"I saw Renji at the school. Before I was about to leave. Did you see him?" Ichigo suddenly said.

"Yeah. He came to visit me. He said that he was leaving tomorrow."

"Are you going to miss him?"

"Yeah. I mean, he's my friend. It's natural to miss a friend when they leave."

"Did you two talk at school?"

"Yeah.."

"What did you talk about?"

"Nothing important.."

"Is that so?" he asked and she confirmed it. "Really?" he didn't know why, but he had to keep pestering her to make her tell him.

"Yes! I'm certain! Why are you concerned about it anyways?! It's not like it's any of your business to know what we talked about!"

"Well, I saw you with him after school! Are you two going out?! When were you planning on telling me this, huh?!"

"Who said we were going out?!"

"Don't give me any shit! I can handle to truth!"

"We're not going out!"

"You two were hugging and he told you that he loved you. Yeah! That spells 'going out' to me! Wouldn't you think so?!"

"Oh what about you and Inoue?! You two on the roof. She told you that she loved you. On the roof! Sounds romantic. And you two passing notes to meet at the roof. Sounds cute! I wish you a happy--"

"Shut up!"

"You shut up! I don't love Renji! Okay?! He's just a friend. He saw me at school cr-- carrying the boxes. I-I tripped and he caught me. Afterward, he told me something that he's been meaning to tell me, but I don't feel the same way about him! Got it?!" Keep it together now. Don't cry.. Don't cry.. She thought to herself, holding back her tears.

"Well, that goes the same for me! I don't like Inoue back either! We're just friends! She's not the one I like!"

"Well, who do you like then?!"

"You!" he covered his mouth quickly after answering. "I need to get back to studying..." he ended sitting in his chair.

There was an awkward silence.

"Here..!" Rukia suddenly said handing him an envelope, "a friend forced me to write this.. It took me a while to figure out the right time to give it to you. I guess now is the time. Good-bye Ichigo."

She walked out of the door leaving him with a blank expression and an envelope.

He was dying to open the envelope. But he was scared. What was there to be scared of? She just confirmed that she liked him in return, in a sense. He was unsure of himself, but opened it anyways. Just what did the future have in stored fir him?

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See above A/N if you're wondering about Renji.