Chapter 3: Grief

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IT was finally here, the end of the first college semester. Ichigo did not think he would make it, but he did and he managed to pull up his socks and improve his grades. Rukia Kuchiki recovered and managed to sneak out of the hospital and was back to bunking with Ichigo. After being knocked out, Ichigo could not remember anything and woke up in his room. It was two months since then.

Ichigo entered his room and threw himself on the bed.

      "Hey, Rukia, I'm back," Ichigo said.

There was no response. Ichigo got up from bed and looked around.

      "Rukia, relax, I'm alone here," Ichigo said as he walked up to the wardrobe.

Ichigo opened the wardrobe and looked around the room.

      "Are you invisible again?" Ichigo said, afraid to stick his head in and have another awkward incident.

Ichigo stepped back and took a deep breath. Okay, here goes. If she's asleep, I'll wake her up without touching her somewhere inappropriate. I sure hope I don't. Ichigo waved his hand around the wardrobe and his suspicions were confirmed; Rukia was not in the room.

      "Oh, crap"

Ichigo looked around the bedroom and knocked on the door of the bathroom. Ichigo covered his eyes with one hand and opened the bathroom door with the other. He expected a scream and possibly a slap, but nothing happened. Ichigo slowly removed his hand from his eyes just in case Rukia was indeed in there, but did not notice him.

As he did this, Rukia entered the room and saw Ichigo slowly entering the bathroom.

      "Ha! I knew you were a pervert," Rukia said as she closed the door.

Ichigo nearly jumped out of his skin the second he heard Rukia's voice.

      "Oh, it's you, phew ..." Ichigo was relieved ... for a few seconds, "Hey, I'm not a pervert!"

      "Oh, yeah, then why were you entering the bathroom like that? You were planning to catch me naked?" Rukia inquired.

      "No, no, I was just looking for you and wanted to find out if you were in the bathroom,"

      "Why were you looking for me?" Rukia asked.

      "Well, I was worried," Ichigo said.

      "Well, I wondered where you were since I didn't hear you answer me when I arrived,"

      "Aw, you're sweet," Rukia said to spite Ichigo.

Ichigo was infuriated.

      "I wasn't trying to be sweet," Ichigo yelled.

      "See, pervert!" Rukia yelled back.

Ichigo groaned and Rukia chuckled.

      "Well, if so, then why couldn't you just knock?"

      "I did, but there was no answer — wait a minute! I'm not the one at fault here, what were you doing out of the room? We agreed to keep you hidden," Ichigo said.

      "Well, I got bored and I wanted to stretch my legs. Besides, no one saw me, only Orihime, Tatsuki and Keigo."

Ichigo's worst fears were realized; he'd get kicked out of college in the first year. However, he didn't expect it to be this early in the year. His mind drifted to the first day of the semester, meeting Orihime and then he stared into space.

      "Um, Ichigo?" Rukia asked

      "Oh, right, right, where was I? Oh, yeah — I'm gonna get kicked out for bringing a non-student into my room," Ichigo said.

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