Chapter 5: Rukia's First day, and problems at home (Reupload)
Slamming the desk in shock, Tatsuki gasped "WHAATTT!? Is his family okay?? Is he okay!? Or maybe he's de-" She was interrupted as a bag hit the back of her head.
She turned around in anger as she glared at the nonchalant Ichigo who now stood in front of her, unscathed.
"I'm not dead, idiot. And me and my family were, fortunately, fine" Ichigo said as he sat down in his seat behind Mizuiro, "I'm only late coz I was helping with repairs"
Suddenly, surprising Ichigo, a familiar voice filled his ears
"Hello, you're... Kurosaki-Kun, right?"
Looking to his right, Ichigo could see Rukia dressed in the Kurosaki High uniform, catching him off guard as he pointed at her and said
"Y-you...why?"
Tatsuki and Orihime noticed his odd behaviour, so Tatsuki voiced out her thoughts and said "What's wrong, Ichigo?"
"Kurosaki-Kun... I don't have a textbook, May I..." She put her hand out and showed Ichigo her palm, "Share yours?"
Ichigo looked at her palm and read "Say anything and I will kill you", sending shivers down his spine.
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"What are you up to!? And Mizuiro, did you know about this?!" Ichigo raised his voice as he dragged Rukia and Mizuiro outside.
"Of course I knew" Mizuiro shrugged it off, which fueled Ichigo's anger and confusion some more as he looked at Rukia
"And you!! Why are you still here!? Isn't your job over?? Aren't you meant to go back to the soul society or whatever?!" He shouted.
"Idiot, of course I can't go back" She huffed, crossing her arms in front of her chest, "Only shinigamis can go to the soul society" Rukia said, looking at Ichigo as if the answer was obvious.
"Huh..?"
"She's saying she can't go back because she lost her shinigami powers after giving them to you last night" Mizuiro explained.
"Oh... and that's my problem how, exactly?" Ichigo asked Rukia, who furrowed her eyebrows at his oblivious question
"It means, because of me giving you my shinigami powers, I can use barely any of my abilities. To make matters worse, I'm stuck in this artificial body" She said, waving her arms about as she still had to get use to the body.
Before coming to school, Rukia took Mizuiro to Urahara's shop as he waited there for her to get the artificial body that she was in currently.
"Artificial?" Ichigo asked with a raised brow
"It's basically a back-up human body for weakened shinigamis to enter and wait for their bodies to recover" Rukia answered
"Still, what's that gotta do with me?" Ichigo bluntly asked, frowning.
"It means you have to do my shinigami duties for me until my powers return!" Rukia answered with a smile and her fingertips touching, looking as innocent as possible as she threw her shinigami responsibilities straight at Ichigo.
"I refuse" Ichigo didn't hesitate in denying her, "I only killed that hollow coz my family was in danger. I'm not that nice of a person to do that for everybody you see" He stated
Listening to his answer, Rukia sighed as she put her hand in her pocket, "I guess I have no choice" She put on a glove and quite literally pushed Ichigo's soul out of his body.
With his physical body falling flat on the floor, Rukia looked at Mizuiro and asked politely "Could you take care of his body until we return?"
"Of course" He picked up Ichigo's body like it was nothing and put it over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
Rukia and Mizuiro ignored the screaming orange-haired shinigami next to them as they kept conversating until eventually.
"See you guys later. Call me when you come back" And with that, Mizuiro walked away with Ichigo's body.
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[Available Stat Points: 13 -> 16]
"So, how'd it go?" Mizuiro asked Rukia as they started walking back to his house.
Mizuiro had met with Ichigo and Rukia a few hours later after the interaction at school to give Ichigo his body back.
"It worked out well... he's accepted doing his shinigami duties, as much as he tries to deny it" She smirked.
"I always knew he was at least a little bit tsundere" Mizuiro chuckled, "How was your first day of school?" He asked her
"It was nice, though it got cut quite short due to the spirit world stuff" She replied with a soft smile, liking not having to do her shinigami duties and taking a break, though she wasn't going to say that out loud.
A few minutes later, they arrived at his house and entered to see two guests. Rukia looked at Mizuiro and noticed his face had changed, and not in a good way.
"Oh my~ My boy brought homez a gurl~ Iz she your girlfrend?" A black-haired lady slurred, clearly drunk if not tipsy minimum.
Next to the woman was a man that looked to be about 10 years older than her and well-mannered and rich with his expensive-looking suit and gold jewellery.
Just like her, he appeared to be in a drunken state as they sat at the kitchen table with many drinks, either empty or full, near them whether it was atop the table or all over the floor.
"Hoh~ I didn't think you're son would be quite handsome. It seems the genes run well in your family, sweetheart" He complimented as he began to oggle Mizuiro's mother up and down, licking his lips which caused Rukia and Mizuiro to shiver in disgust and cringe at his action.
"Oh my~ You flirt you~" She playfully hit him as she downed a shot of alcohol straight after, throwing it on the floor which caused the bottle to shatter, "Uh ohz... Mizuiro~ Be a good boy and clean it later, will you~?".
"Ugh, whatever" Mizuiro sighed angrily as he looked at his mother and the man with disgust and anger, "I'm going to my room, let's go" He grabbed Rukia's wrist and dragged her to his room
"Fucking slut..." He muttered as he kissed his teeth once he was out of his mother's hearing range.
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"So... care to explain what that was about?" Rukia asked. She and Mizuiro were currently laying on his bed next to each other, leaning their backs against the wall at the end of it.
"I..." Mizuiro began, but he sighed and stopped his sentence, "Sorry, I'm not in the mood right now to explain..." He apologised, hiding his face as he turned his body sideways away from Rukia.
"Oh... alright" Rukia weakly smiled, understanding Mizuiro's action and deciding to respect it by not going any further with her curiosity.
Silence filled the room for a few seconds until the door burst open, jolting both Rukia and Mizuiro as they looked to the door to see the two adults once more, much to their dissatisfaction and annoyance.
"Sorryz bout zat~ DON'T. YOU. DAREeeee... come, into my room *Hic*. Yu Gotdat? (Sorry about that, don't you dare come into my room. You got that?)" Mizuiro's mother had to hold on to the man to keep herself stabilised as she raised her voice at Mizuiro.
"You two will have to share a room. Don't have too much fun, kiddo~" The man pervertedly joked as he pulled themselves out of Mizuiro's room and slammed the door shut.
"Fucking bitch, and her new rich, walking-talking dildo for the week" He angrily groaned silently before sitting up "I'll give you some clothes to change into" He got off the bed and went over to his wardrobe and got a pair of PJs.
He threw them to Rukia and went into a corner of his room where he faced the wall closed his eyes firmly, "I won't look" He said.
She got changed in a flash, and then tapped him on the shoulder as she said, "Your turn"
He looked at her wearing his PJs, which were a little oversized on her which he found quite attractive and cute, like many guys do. He shook the thought out of his head and got changed when Rukia was in the corner. Once finished, he tapped Rukia's shoulder and let her get in the bed first.
He proceeded to grab one of his blankets on the bed, as he used two for a reason he forgot about over the years of doing so, as well as a pillow which confused Rukia.
"I'll sleep on the floor" He said, noticing her look of confusion.
"What?! No! This is your room, if anything, I should be the one sleeping on the floor" Rukia passionately argued. Whether it was her nobility side coming out or not, Rukia just couldn't allow herself to take advantage of Mizuiro's kindness.
"And as a man, I'd lose my dignity if I let a woman sleep on the floor"
"I refuse what you're saying!"
"Well I refuse your refusal!"
"Well I refuse your refusal to my refusal!"
And so on, until eventually, "How about we just share then!" Rukia blurted loudly in compromisation, but instantly blushed as she said that. What didn't help was the fact Mizuiro instantly agreed and began to get in bed with her.
"This is my side, that's your side, alright?" He kindly set a boundary between the two.
"A-Alright..." She turned to her side, still red "G-goodnight, Mizuiro"
"Goodnight, Rukia" He smiled, forgetting about the events that happened ever since they arrived. She did the same as she drifted off to sleep, having a nice dream in the process.
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I remember seeing somewhere that Mizuiro didn't like his mother and would often call her a "whore" and stuff, so I might use that to my advantage to add more to Mizuiro's plot/story.
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