**Based off of a fan art picture I saw - I'll have it up for ya on the side eventually (I hope :3), and let's take a moment to thank whoever drew that :D**

SPOILERS ABOUT THE NEWEST CHAPTERS, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

AND FOR SOME REASON NOTES LIKE THAT SCARE ME TO DEATH HEHE

    Once Rukia tried to restore her body, she was sure that she had gotten used to the freezing temperature. But instantly she was aware of the frost that covered part of her head, left shoulder, spots of her abdomen, and began to think if Sode no Shirayuki would be capable of killing her... - oh wait.

    "Wait." said her trainer (forgot the names...I'll look for them later :3). "You're raising the temperature too quickly, you'll shatter or something if it isn't done slowly.

    "Oh..." Rukia responded simply, with a little embarrassment. I've been using you all of these years, and then suddenly I wasn't, and now this man is showing me how.

    She took a deep breath and measured as the heated herself up.

    -180°...

    -130°...

    -100°...

    "Not that slow. You don't want to freeze your alive body now would ya?"

    She sighed, trying to hide her irritation and tried again.

    -100°...

    -78°...

    -32°...

    "That's better. Now we'll work on bringing yo--"

    They both looked around in confusion, yet it was hard for Rukia to decipher every corner of the cave since the waterfall nearby had frozen and the icy air was just like a thick fog. A lasting sound was far, but slowly drawing nearer; it seemed like a call.

    Rukia's eyes slightly widened, and then she furrowed her brows. A name was being called, her name, along with an all too familiar voice. "I...chi...?" before she could utter out the last syllable, the voice had become stronger and then the air to her right was sliced and wind followed, pulling her hair and cape back in the process. Right after there was a crash and the sound of broken rock falling.

    Rukia turned her head nonchalantly to see Ichigo, completely dumbfounded by either the cold or the impact, maybe both, attempting to scramble back to his feet.

    "Look at that! It's Ichi-chan!" said her trainer.

    "Yo~." she said as she turned around and faced him properly, although the frost in the air only made him look like a silhouette.

    "What in the world!?" Ichigo shouts. "Why is it so cold in here!? Is there an invisible blizzard or what!?"

    She sighed and relaxed her shoulders. "You should have been able to tell that it would be freezing in here from far away, even an idiot could tell!" Ichigo struggled to get pebbles and dirt off of his outfit, even a few specs of snow.

    "Ice. Your power had to be ice didn't it?"

    "Oh for pete's sake-- why did you even come here!?"

    "Because..! ...You..." He stopped moving for a second. "Your reiatsu vanished...All of it... shouldn't you be dead..?"

    "It would take a while to explain but, shouldn't you be heading out for the battle!?"

    "I had to check and make sure you didn't die before the battle - I wanted to know that you were safe." He said kindly, and even though she didn't see it, a smile.

    If Rukia was her normal self right now, her cheeks would have turned a light soft pink, but as of now she forgot about how dangerously cold she was until the sound of Ichigo's footsteps drew nearer, and she forgot that she was in the middle of bringing her temperature back to normal.

    "Wait Ichigo! My body is basically frozen, I suggest you not get so close-!" she took a few steps back.

    "Ichi-chan, she's right you know! Unless you'd rather your body be found like a statue..."

    "Relax, relax, they gave me a hat and cloak." He says assuringly.

    "Something like that isn't going to help at all! Are you asking for frostbite!?" Yet her face immediately relaxed when she saw the extreme difference in Ichigo's look. And it wasn't just his look, it was also his reiatsu and aurora, and something else she couldn't quite get. Maybe it was his attitude? No, that was pretty much the same...

   Ichigo was at a normal standing distance now. He brought his hands up and examined them flipping them twice. "I don't see any frostbite, so I should be good!"

    "It won't happen that quickly! Well, maybe in a few minutes..."

    "Nah, I'm just that strong!" He crossed his arms and held his head up high in joking pride.

    A few seconds passed by of Rukia staring at him with her are you kidding me? face.

    "I see you holding back a shiver!" He instantly broke the brave character.

    "Well duh!"

    Rukia sighed deeply. "So are there any other reasons why you're here? I do not want to stay at 0° forever."

    "How are you dead but alive?" He asks.

    "I've temporarily killed my body, and I can move and speak and think by controlling my reishi." she states simply.

    "Saying that like it's an everyday thing...! How would you restore yourself?"

    Rukia glanced at her waiting trainer and back at Ichigo. "I'm learning that now. I was learning it until Sleeveless showed up."

    "Huh!? You don't like the sleeveless look!?" He said like a small whining child.

    The major change in his outfit was that his Shinigami robes where sleeveless, looking like they were torn from the shoulders.

    "You could have at least made it look like they were designed like that instead of just forced with the tears and stuff."

    "Since when we're you a fashion officer!?"

    "A what..?"

    Ichigo facepalmed when he remembered that Rukia doesn't have that much experience with the real world yet.

    "Why does it bother you?"

    "A Shinigami's kimono is somethi--" she forced herself to stop so they can get back to the major point. The argument had risen the temperature sort of naturally.

    Rukia sighed and spoke like a teacher giving a lecture. "So you came her to see if I was alright. And I am. Now that you know, you should really go back to the battlefield. Okay?"

    "Okay okay, sensei. So you'll really be okay?" she simply nodded. "Thank goodness," He said as he quickly hugged her.

    Rukia was so dumbfounded by the action that she spent a few seconds thinking "Huh?". The only time when Ichigo actually embraced her was back when...

    She immediately shut her eyes before she would see those faces in her mind again...those faces dabbed with dirt and decorated with cuts and tears--

    "Ichigo." she said seriously. "Unless you've hugged a block of ice that was 15° and didn't get hurt, I suggest you," she pushed him away and he stumbled back, "stop."

    "I feel perfectly fine, Ice-san."

    "Okay, being smart to go sleeveless so it's clear that you have goosebumps from being cold fool."

    "And it never mattered how cold you were, just so you know. I would have done that anyways." He said instead of taking the insult.

    "Just... go~~~." and she pushed him towards the exit. It was really to hide the red blush on her face.

    "And make sure that you don't lose! Once this whole thing is over, we need another day of relaxing like last time. Like a date or something, I don't know."

    Rukia froze in place (pun not intended). "D-date...?"

    "Did you like that day right before you left about a year ago?"

    "Yeah, b-but--"

    "Then it's settled!"

    "Wait Ichigo, I--!"

    "Nope. Like you said, I gotta run!" And he disappeared.

    Despite the distance between him and the cave and how fast he was going, Ichigo felt a blast of freezing air actually push him forward even more. Yeah, she's either extremely made or so confused that she was frustrated.

    Never take advice on how to ask a girl out right before a major battle from Inoue ever again... He even remembered those moments when he questioned if anything that ridiculous would work.

    "Yeah!" Orihime said with confidence. "It was actually before all of this happened, but Ishida-kun did the same thing to me! And now...well...we have a date." (insert derp face -> :3)

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It's almost eleven, I'm tired like crazy - Wattpad decided to take out everything from the point of and then he disappeared so I had to re write it but I shortened it by a lot so just you either liked or did not like it there happily ever freaking after to you miss ter penguin.