yeah yeah...so I don't own bleach...that wont stop me! it never will!! so anyway enjoy!

"Ne, Kuchiki-san who are you going to give your candy too?" Mahana asked Rukia, with an interested look on her face.

"My candy? for what?" Rukia asked in confusion, she had bought a huge bag of candy the other day for it was that time of the year again, and the fact that it was really cheap, she just couldn't resist. However at the present, her candy was in her closet in Ichigo's room.

"Kuchiki-san don't tell us you don't know what tomorrow is?!" Michiru gasped

"No, I don't"

"It's valentines day!" Inoue exasperated

"Hai?"

"You know valentines day! the day where girl's give chocolates and stuff to the guys they like and if the guy returns the gift to the girl on white day, then that means he likes her!" Tatsuki explained to the wide eyed shinigami.

"Why do I have to give my candy to a guy!?" Rukia still didn't know why human girls would give away candy to a guy they like, even if she had three years experience in the human world.

"You don't have to if you don't want to Kuchiki-san" Inoue interjected

"Well then I won't"

"Awww that's too bad Kuchiki-san, I know a lot of guys who like you" Mahana smiled at the confused face of Rukia

"Why would they like me?" the raven haired shinigami couldn't help ask.

"What!? are you serious Kuchiki-san! a lot of guys like you because your well...you" Tatsuki said

"I don't get it" Rukia put a hand under her chin and tried to ponder while the, now senior girls around her just sighed.

A small female shinigami made her way through the forest of Karukara town walking out here always gave her time to think.

'Why would humans do such a stupid thing? giving away candy to the person they like, I just don't get it! Ichigo never once tried to explain it to me! even though we've known each other for three years!' when suddenly Rukia looked up and blushed. As a white haired boy sat in front of her.

"What are you doing here Kuchiki?" Hitsugaya asked when he awoke by the petit shinigami's familiar reiatsu.

"I...I was just...umm getting fresh air!" Rukia stuttered lamely

"Right" Hitsugaya couldn't help smirk. Over the years, he and Rukia had gotten closer do to the fact that both of them had defeated a Vasco Lorde together, during the winter war that ended three years ago. He was also the one who trained her with some of her new dances, it was because of him she now knew more than forty of her one hundred dances. She had also become one of his closest friends.

"I'm sorry Hitsugaya-taichou..."

"Don't be, I wasn't doing anything" he moved over so she could sit by him in comfort.

"This place always calms me" Rukia admitted from her spot on the left side of the white haired boy

"So does it for me" he answered, oddly enough talking to Rukia was a lot easier than he had thought. She was a Kuchiki noble and there for unapproachable but when he was asked by Ukitake to train Rukia, long ago, he found the girl was not a noble at all. She was loud, talkative, childish, naive yet wise, demanding, strong, unique, she was Rukia.

"Ne, Hitsugaya-taichou...thank you"

"What?"

"I just wanted to thank you, for all you've done for me"

"Stop thanking me, you've done it so many time already" the tenth division captain turned his head to the right to prevent the girl from seeing his tinted ears 'man! I still blush around her!'.

"Right sorry" Rukia blushed, 'damn it! I'm blushing again! what keeps getting into me?' she mentally slapped herself although her blush only got darker.

After sometime both their blushes faded and they sat in sweet silence, away from the noisy world of the living. When Rukia asked

"Ne, Hitsugaya-taichou do you know why humans celebrate valentines day?"

"What!? where the hell did that come from?"

"Its just a question taichou!"

"Whatever!"

"Well do you know?"

"No, what's valentines day?"

"Its a day when girls give candy to the boy they like and if the boy returns her gift on a day called white day, then that means he likes her" Rukia repeated the same words she was told

"That's stupid" Hitsugaya scoffed at the idea

"I know! who in their right mind would give away candy for free?!"

"Why would these human girls give away something as disgusting as candy to a guy they like?" they both said in unison.

Rukia and Hitsugaya looked at each other in shock

"Candy is NOT disgusting taichou!" Rukia back talked

"Yes it is!"

"No its not!"

"Yes it is!"

"No its not!"

"I said IT IS!"

"And I said ITS NOT!" they continued to glare at each other for sometime, somehow only with this raven haired girl, no matter how many years seem to past, he still found himself being dragged into these childish fights.

"And what if I said I wanted to give you one?" Rukia asked looking at him from the corner of her eye

"I wouldn't want it, I hate sweets" he answered

"But what if I said this candy wasn't too sweet?"

"I'd say you were lying, all candy is disgusting in our world and this one" this got Rukia angry, 'if that's how he feels then!'

"Taichou only you would think candy is disgusting! and because of that I've decided I'm not going to give you any!" Rukia abruptly stood up and stomped away.

"See if I care!" Hitsugaya yelled back, 'like I care what she does!', he thought as he tried to fall back to sleep, but couldn't help feel something was wrong.