A/N: The second day story for the drabble challenge over at the IchiRuki Livejournal community. I actually had so much fun writing this one. Mainly because Ichigo and Rukia dumb!antics are very fun

Warning: This has spoilers for the recent manga arc.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Bleach or any of its characters/concepts.

After a short shower, Rukia walked out of the bathroom. It was a good way to end a long, stressful day in the real world. She continued drying her hair with her towel as she walked up the stairs and past Ichigo's room as she walked to the room she shared with the Kurosaki twins. She then doubled back to peer into Ichigo's room where Ichigo was sitting, doing his homework. Where he was sitting. Not alone. Rukia's eye twitched.

"Please tell me that's not what I think it is."

"Oh, shit!" Ichigo jumped up, sending what had been sitting in his lap tumbling to the ground. It pouted for a moment before continuing the drawing it had been doing while lying on the floor.

"Ichigo, what did we decide when we left Hueco Mundo?"

Ichigo scratched his head, blushing slightly.

"I know, I know, but-"

"BUT?! Ichigo, you can't keep that thing here!"

"Nell is a girl," the 'thing' piped up helpfully from the floor. Rukia glared at it for a moment before continuing as if the arrancar hadn't said anything. She turned her glare to Ichigo, who shrugged.

"Come on, Rukia. It's not like she's violent or anythin'."

Rukia exhaled.

"It ("She," Ichigo countered.) was not violent in Hueco Mundo because there's enough spiritrons in the air there to keep hollows from going hungry. The living world does not have as many in its atmosphere. It ("Nell," the little former hollow chirped.) will need to consume souls here."

Ichigo stared at Nell for a moment, before grinning slightly at Rukia.

"Do rats have souls?"

"What… What does that have to do with anything?"

"Well, the pet store in town's got all these rats to feed snakes with. In grade school, I used to sometimes go with this classmate to go buy them for his pet. If rats have got souls, we can just feed them to her." He smiled proudly down at Nell, who beamed back at him as if his statement was the greatest idea ever.

Rukia was not sure she could handle the stupidity in the room. She kneeled down next to the little creature on the floor and glanced at the drawing it had made. A stick figure with orange lines coming out from the top of it seemed to be swinging a large stick at another stick figure.

"Is that Ichigo?" The arrancar nodded. "How remarkable. It looks just like him. May I show it to him?" Another nod. Rukia stood up and smacked Ichigo over the head with the drawing. "You fool!"

Ichigo rubbed his head.

"Dammit, Rukia! What was that for?" She glared at him. "Fine! I'll get rid of her!" There was a gasp from the floor. "Shame though. Easter's comin' up and Nell already agreed to dress up in the bunny suit and everythin'."

"Bunny suit?"

"Yeah, just like Chappy."

Rukia inhaled through her nose sharply. She turned on her heel.

"Fine, I will visit Urahara and see if he can't think up a source of food for her." She gave Ichigo one last glare. "But she's forbidden to go in the closet! That's my place!"

She left the room. Ichigo snickered before sitting on the floor and patting the worried-looking Nell's head reassuringly. He gave the drawing another look.

"Hey, Nell?"

"Hmm?"

"You know what I think Rukia would like?"

"What?"

"A picture of her."

"Really?"

"Oh, yeah, she'd love it."