Never Gonna Be Alone

Authoress: I, sadly, do not own Bleach or any if its characters.

Chap 1: Time is Going By

Yukiei Kagami had never been perfect. With her blonde hair and pale blue eyes, she never fit in anywhere in the little big island that was Japan. She remembered her first months in Tokyo, only 16 when her parents got corporation jobs that paid well, for translating English to Japanese. She had been put in a near by school in a smaller region of Japan near their apartment, while her parents lived their lives on the trains.

She had always been teased by the more catty girls, that were indeed beautiful, but not ones to admire for their sparkling personality. They made of her hair and took her glasses, hiding them in the teacher's desk where Yukiei couldn't get them. But she did have one refuge. Though she wasn't stick skinny, blame her mother, and though she wore glasses, having lost her contacts during the move, and surpassing her quiet inquisitive nature, blame her father. Yukiei still managed to snag a flirting buddy.

He seemed to notice her when the teacher had her introduce herself on the first day. Later on in the month, after she made and astounding two friends who were into the same things she was, he started talking to her. His name was Koiji Takaii and he was cute, the same age as she, and her complete opposite. While Yukiei's hair was always kept, Koiji's seemed to be never brushed and gelled slightly, and because Yukiei was shy, Koiji was engaging and intriguing. Plus since he was 16, he still had a boyish look about him, but wise beyond his years.

Her friends, Ai and Kaori, applauded her in gaining his attention, "Yea he dated before, but usually he's just friends with everyone." Kaori said one day at lunch. Ai nodded her head and replied, "And he's obviously flirting with you, why don't you go out with him to Aoyama or Shinjuku?" Yukiei shrugged, "I don't know his style, I mean I think he's into the more grungy stuff. I don't wanna take him somewhere he won't have fun at!"

Kaori laughed and waved her hand in dismissal, "Well then have fun flirting until college, then you'll be off to a university and you'll probably never see him again!" Ai joined her in the laugh and Yukiei huffed, "You're just jealous you don't have my skill." Kaori looked at her and crossed her arms, "What skill, Yuki-chan?" Yukiei pointed to her glasses and wiggled her brows, "It's all in the glasses, K-chan. It makes me look smart."

Ai rolled her eyes, "You crazy Americans and your fantasies." This time all three of them laughed and Yukiei stood slowly, stretching, "I'm going to head over to class and study a little, there's a test today, you know." Her friends nodded bid farewell to her as the blonde took off out of the cafeteria. She was shy until you got to know her, but she could always crack a joke with her friends, even about her old country.

As Yukiei strolled down the hall, she heard the loud 'tap-tap-tap' of someone running up behind her. She was going to prepare her self to be jumped by the group of girls who bully her, but was pleasantly surprised by receiving a smashing hug from behind. She still jumped, though.

Koiji's voice blew into her ear and made her shiver, "Konn-ichi-wa, Yuki-chan!" Yukiei chuckled and softly jabbed her elbow onto his stomach, in which he pretended to be hurt by. "Konnichiwa, Takaii-kun." She heard him huff and a few strands of her hair moved to his breath. "I wish you wouldn't call me that….we've know each other for a while, you don't have to be so formal anymore. I thought you knew that?" Yukiei nodded and placed her hands lightly on his arms. "Yea well, if I called you 'Koiji-kun' all the time it would seem like we were going out…"

Koiji's arms tightened slightly around her middle and when he spoke, his voice seemed a little melancholy. "Aren't we…? I thought after two months of flirting together we kinda just moved one step further, like it was silently agreed upon." Yukiei's heart started thumping louder and her grip tightened around Koiji's now almost vice-grip arms. "Ano…I didn't know you wanted us to be…together." Koiji nodded against her neck, "I would like that very much, Yuki-chan."

Yukiei nodded and smiled, "Even though I'm not the skinniest and I wear glasses?" He nodded again, "You're perfect…" Then it was so, the two were inseparable from that moment on. They went to festivals together and formed a study of just them that switched off going to Yukiei's house and Koiji's.

For the most part, the two were a normal couple. But for a while Yukiei had been getting faint, but very annoying headaches. They came and went, sometimes they lasted 10 minutes, other times, they would go on for 30 minutes or more. She never told Koiji, not wanting him to worry; instead she would pop some pain killers and go on with her day, though they never seemed to work.

This went on for the next two years, and through that time, she almost lost her self to Koiji. Her excuse was that she wanted to wait until she was married, "Well then marry me, Yuki-chan! For Christ sake we're going to be out of high school next year, I want to be with you, I love you!" Yukiei sighed, they had had this conversation many times before, and being 18, almost 19, the conversation of moving in with him was an issue as well. But the blonde had always come up with why she couldn't, either it was her parents needed her still or she didn't feel ready to get married fresh out of high school.

"Koi-kun, please let's not right now, I have finals to study for and you should be studying as well. You don't want an American beating you for the top of the class…..eh?! Koi-kun?!" Koiji had launched across the little table set up in his room and pinned her down whist straddling her hips. "Koiji…get off." The boy shook his head, "One or the other Yuki-chan, I love you and I want you to be with me. It's been two years now and I don't want to lose you to some guy who you think is better in college."

Yukiei gave him a look, "Why would you think I would do that to you, Koi-kun? I care for you as much as you do, more even. But why don't you just go to the same University as me? We would see each other everyday, but I need as much time as I can get if I'm gonna be a psychologist." Koiji looked defeated and slumped there for a moment before saying sadly, "Then can you give me one thing, just one thing is all I ask."

The blonde cocked her head to the side and asked,"What is it, Koi-kun?" Koiji bent down and planted a kiss on her lips, "You" he mumbled against her lips and kissed her collar bone. "Koi-kun, you know what I say about this, please stop." But the boy continued on, running his hands under her shirt and bra.

Yukiei wiggled under him and pushed on his shoulders, but he had built more muscle over the year and now held her to him in an unbreakable hold. He undid his pants and worked on her as well. "Koiji! I swear to god- knock it off you jerk!" Koiji stopped fore a moment, his eyes completely glazed over with lust, "Yuki-chan, I want you. I know you feel the same…please." Yukiei almost gave in as he sucked on her neck softly, but she snapped out of it as he continued on her pants and underwear.

She pushed on his shoulders once more. She notice some give as his strength was geared toward her lower regions. Yukiei found a way to wiggle and kick out of his grip and stood up, adjusting her underwear and pants. "What the hell Koiji?! Are you insane, you should know by now what I say about that!" the boy sat there for a moment looking dumbstruck and sat cross-legged. "I'm sorry Yuki-chan, I don't know what came over me." He looked at her with puppy eyes that were filling with tears. Yukiei had to fight back going over to him and hugging the hell out of him.

"Sorry?!" she shook her head and suddenly felt tears of her own form, "I gotta go now. My parents are having a celebration for the end of the year." She turned and started walking away, only stopping once and glancing back at him at his doorway. "Call me, Koi-kun..." Yukiei the walked down stairs, hugging Koiji's mother she received sweet bean dumplings. "Thank you, I'll see you hopefully soon." The woman nodded and bowed as Yukiei hurried out the door and practically ran home.

The last time she would do so in 4 years.

(Urahara's shop, Karakura)

Urahara sat quietly in the summer evening observing the garden he had recently started. He sipped on his glass of chilled tea as footsteps sounded behind him. A rather deep voice rang out as the footsteps stopped beside him, "Your garden is doing rather well these days Urahara-dono." The blonde glanced up at a very large Tessai and nodded, "Yes, one would think so; all it needs now is a rather beautiful woman standing right…there."

He pointed to a pond with lilies floating on it. "With a little lantern in a white furisode, fireflies all around her figure, right after a festival." His mind wandered to what this said female would look like and Tessai speaking broke his dreaming, "Are you hinting at something, dono?" Urahara tapped his fan once on his knee and chuckled, "Oh, I'm sorry! Did I sound too poetic? Aha, sorry Tessai-san." Tessai shook his head, "Indeed I won't argue with you dono, it would be complimenting." Then silence settled along with the continuing humidity.