Ichigo was convinced.
Actually, he had been convinced for a long, long time, but this just sealed it permanently, done deal.
He hated her. she was SO not like his mom. No way. His dad was a freaking moron, how could he even think to compare freaking Rukia to Mom?
Rukia was SO not like Mom!
Like...like her voice!
Her loud, loud, loud voice that freaking rang in his ears and ran through his head and haunted his dreams and made him just want to stuff her mouth and seal it with glue and keep it that way forever!
-But then he loved her voice; it was so comforting and kind and soft and touching whenever she-
-Her voice sometimes got really kind and nice, like the way Mom used to talk-
NO!
Ugh.
And then her bossiness.
She was so, so friggin' bossy. Like, who died and made her queen?
(NO, NOT MOM. HELL NO.)
She just barged into his room and demanded he let her copy his math homework. Hell no, he worked so hard to finish that and now she was just going to freaking take his work and make it her's? Absolutely not!
-But he owed her so much, and he knew Rukia wasn't perfect and still needed help with this kind of stuff since it's not really important in Soul Society-
SHUT UP.
On top of that, she was so friggin' clueless.
Like about the juice box. C'mon, there's one little freaking hole and a straw. It isn't that hard to put two and two together. (NO, THAT WAS TOTALLY NOT A SEXUAL...THING. ICHIGO HATES HER. HATES HERRRR. Like RAWR.)
Then he had to explain what a tv show was. Because there she was, laughing her stupid midget butt off, going BOHAHAHAHA, when she didn't even know why. She just did it.
Dumbass.
And she read the stupidest books ever, trying to make herself sound more "human". Ha, yeah right. She wished.
-But that made her who she was, and he loved her for it. Ichigo needed someone to be his backbone for the times he can't even think straight, and besides, Rukia's not perfect, and we all know Masaki would have totally loved her, and Isshin already calls her his third daughter-
NO!
And then she was just so bloody annoying.
He didn't mean it in that whole aw-I-totally-love-Rukia-who's-so-caring-that-she-berates-me kind of thing. NO.
She was totally annoying because she...she just was!
She got on his every last nerve and always had the most perfect thing to say to ruin his day and make him want to just scream and pull his hair out.
Because she was annoying.
Very annoying.
…But she was still pretty.
Yeah.
Pretty annoying!
Pft.
...But still…
She was pretty.
Really pretty.
Really, really, really pretty. Breathtaking, even. Oh, but Ichigo didn't think that- no friggin' way!
-And she was even prettier when she was yelling…
Or when she released her zanpakuto- GOD, she looked stunning when she did the first dance-
God, she's so annoying, with her always picking on him, and-
always being there for him, and helping him, and-
Well, his mom had been the center of his world-
-And Rukia had mended him back together when the thing with Grand Fisher died, I mean, her words did put him at ease-
NO. She's not like mom at all. Hell to the no.
But then he remembers his mom teasing him about being beaten up by Tatsuki way back in Karate, and he feels kind of stupid and rather dorky for that, and-
Reluctantly, he decides.
Ok. Maybe Rukia is a bit like Masaki.
(...BUT ONLY A LITTLE BIT. TOTALLY. YEAH.)