Ice Cream Delights

"Baka! This is all of your fault," Shouted Rukia glaring at Ichigo.

"My fault! How the heck is this my fault?" Asked Ichigo angrily.

"I was perfectly fine then you had to but your big fat orange head in and ruin every thing," yelled Rukia, pointing to her bleeding ankle. It was all his fault, it was just a regular hollow mission and he had to come along and distract her. The stupid hollow had decided to take a swipe at her and cut her ankle, it wasn't bad but it was going to take forever to heal.

Ichigo winced guilty, "I'm sorry, do you need help getting up?"

"Not to with YOUR help thank you very much," she exclaimed spitefully.

"Well how about I do you a favor," Ichigo said quietly.

"What could you do to make me feel better?"

"Have you ever had ice cream before?" Asked Ichigo looking at Rukia

"What is ice cream?" She asked looking at him suspiciously.

Ichigo grabbed her hand and pulled her hand and pulled her after him, "Come on you are going to love it, but first we have to fix up your ankle."

Rukia whined, "Aw come on it's not that bad. I want to see what that ice cream thing is."

Ichigo smiled, "Oh, so now it's not a big deal."

Rukia tried to look indifferent but Ichigo was already pulling her back towards home.

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"Ichigo are we there yet?" Whined Rukia as she and Ichigo walked down the crowded street.

"Almost midget," Replied Ichigo trying to navigate through the bustling throng of people.

"Hey! I'm not that short you are just huge," she exclaimed stamping her foot angrily.

"Rukia, you are one hundred and forty-four centimeters tall. You are short by anyone's standards," Ichigo said smirking.

"You jerk-mph!" Suddenly Rukia got quieted by Ichigo when he stopped walking.

"Will you give it a rest already we're here," said Ichigo.

Rukia studied the tiny shop, it was pretty with a little pink roof and had a little sigh that said Mrs. Smith's Ice Cream shoppe.

"Is it okay to go into," asked Rukia.

Ichigo let out a long laugh and pulled her inside, the bell rung as soon as they entered. Rukia looked around curiously, there were little pink tables and red chairs to match. Everything in the store looked like it belonged in a doll house, it was so so...cute, it surprised Rukia.

Ichigo pulled gently on Rukia's arm, "Come on let's order our ice cream."

Rukia followed Ichigo up to the counter, there were strange buckets underneath the glass. She looked up to see Ichigo looking at her expectantly, she blinked.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Aren't you going to order," Asked Ichigo.

"Huh?"

"To get the ice cream you have to pick a flavor that you like," He explained.

"Oh," Rukia peered down out the colorful buckets and saw that each one was labeled with a type of flavor, "Ummmm...I think I will take the strawberry one."

"Alright," replied Ichigo, "I'll take chocolate then."

The old woman looked at them and handed them their ice cream, she smiled, "Are you getting ice cream for girlfriend," she asked.

Ichigo started blushing, "Oh no  filled the she's not my girlfriend yet, I mean-"

Little tinkling sounds suddenly filled the room, Ichigo turned around to find Rukia giggling.

She smiled, "I'm sorry-," Rukia broke off in a fit of laughter again.

Instead of scowling Ichigo started to smile, "Come on let's get going."

Ichigo paid the women and the two walked out of the shop, Rukia looked at the ice cream, "Ichigo, how do I eat it?"

Ichigo smirked, "You lick it."

Rukia stared at him like he was the stupidest person on earth, "Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure midget."

Rukia licked the ice cream tentatively and then pulled back, "I-It's so cold!"

She licked it again excitedly, Ichigo watched her, it was sweet how she got so excited and happy about these sort of things. When she was done the two started off together towards home.

"Ichigo," said Rukia quietly.

"Yes Rukia," Asked Ichigo.

"I'm really sorry that I got so mad at you," She said.

He looked at her and smiled, "Don't worry I would have done the same thing, I'm just glad you aren't hurt."

His hand snaked around and found her hand, "Promise me you won't do it again."

Rukia smiled, "No promises."

Ichigo chuckled softly and groaned, "I thought you would say that."