A/N: Hi! It has been a really long time since I updated something. Anyway, I found this piece of story when I was about to clean my phone and then I thought it's going to be a waste if I just deleted it and never posted it hahaha. Anyway, I am a huge fan of Rukia and I just really really adore her so maybe this is why I wrote this story back then. This is an AU story and the story is really light, so, I don't know if people are going to like it or not :D

Enjoy reading :D


"Ichi-nii has lost his mind, hasn't he?" Karin has said this for the 5th time in 5 minutes, her eyes are still glued to her iPhone. Multiple tabs of google searches stare back at her.

Kuchiki Rukia, 28, is the heiress of Kuchiki Family, the richest family in Japan with an estimated net worth of US$24.9 billion.

"Are you sure this is the one?" Karin sneers at her twin sister.

Yuzu nods sternly. "I saw her with my own eyes, Karin-chan."

"Through the CCTV monitor." Karin mumbles and corrects her. The tomboy runs her fingers through her dark folks, a little frustrated. "You saw this Kuchiki something lady made out with Ichi-nii in his living room from the CCTV monitor."

Yuzu glares at her twin. "Don't make it sound like that, will you? I was just hiding in his apartment to surprise Onii-chan at midnight for his birthday." The brown haired girl argues back.

"Thus you hid in that small room, next to his living room, in which he kept his CCTV monitor." Karin rolls her eyes. It is not like Yuzu to put herself in a silly sitution like that.

Yuzu nods again, aware of the subtle sneers Karin keeps sending her way. "That room has a comfortable chair. And a plug in to charge my phone." Karin is still going on with her eye-rolls. "And it is the room that he's least likely to go into if it is not necessary."

"I am not making things up, Karin-chan! Onii-chan is seriously dating this lady!" She points at a photo of a beautiful woman (Karin does not give compliments easily, but, this Kuchiki heiress something has the most captivating eyes, completed by really pale and fair skin, and, yeah, Karin has to admit that she is more beautiful than any other women she knows in her life), dressed in a grey turtle neck layered by high end maroon blazer on her Wikipedia page. She seems to be giving some kind of speech in a podium where Karin and Yuzu can read vaguely bold letters of "Together for Women in Africa" on the backdrop.

"But how can you be so sure that it was her?" The tomboy nudges Yuzu on the elbow. "I mean..." she is at loss for words. Ichi-nii can't be dating this lady.

Yuzu lets out an exasperated sigh. "Do you want me to go over it again? I told you, I heard Onii-chan call her Rukia and I-"

"And you went straight all detectives on Ichi-nii's instagram's followers and you found her." Karin replies. "And her instagram account is rukia, as in Rukia K. She doesn't even name her account Kuchiki." Karin holds up her phone at her twin's face, showing Yuzu a private Instagram profile with only 38 posts, 124 followers, and 69 following. Her profile picture is a candid photo of a beautiful lady with flushed cheeks and pink lips. She has pale skin in contrasted to her jet black hair. Her face is illuminated by the orange, yellow sun lights and she is wearing a scarf around her neck. Yuzu and Karin also notice that there is the famous golden gate bridge in the background.

"I am one hundred percents sure, they're the same person." Yuzu zooms in the photo of the Wikipedia page on her phone and compares it to the Instagram profile on her twin's. "See? She really, really, looks alike with the lady on Wikipedia."

Karin wants to disagree. She wants to contradict this Yuzu, who seems kind of delusional with the idea of 'It's happening! I'm going to plan for Onii-chan's wedding!' in her head. But certainly not their brother's wedding with some this billionaire heiress? Isn't it going to be troublesome and too much? Karin must admit that their family is pretty much loaded themselves, with their father being one of the most respected pediatrician in this relatively small town, Karakura, and Karin pretty much knows her brother also makes loads, but.

Really? A Kuchiki heiress, of all people? Isn't this too much? The tomboy currently goes to one of the most prestigious law schools in Japan. She does know a lot of snobby rich girls that were born with silver spoons on their mouths, and Karin does not like them. She does not want to be judgmental, but Karin must admit she is no saint, and she thinks those girls are annoying. They mostly only think about throwing ridiculously posh parties, and expensive dresses, and insanely overpriced million dollars make up, and lips fillers and nose job or boob job and ass job they actually do not need, and they're mostly obsessed to be the next Kardashians on Instagram. God, Karin does not get along with them.

"She is so pretty, Karin-chan!" Yuzu says adoringly.

Karin silently agrees with her twin. This Kuchiki Rukia represents very much of what Karin always thinks a natural beauty is.

Yuzu, the brown haired girl, snatches the phone away from her twin. "And guess who resides permanently in the USA?" she starts again, fingers busy tumbling on her twin's iPhone. "This Kuchiki Rukia lady!" Yuzu says again, and starts reading loudly, "Kuchiki Rukia currently lives in apartment in San Fransisco. The Kuchiki family is also reported to have bought a home near Silicon Valley in Woodside, California that cost the family $112 million."

Karin squints her eyes. She can totally understand Yuzu's excitement to having found out that her dearest Onii-chan is having a relationship (an affair?) With someone when all she has been doing for the last 10 years is nudging him with 'I can't wait to plan your wedding, Onii-chan! Look at all these beautiful roses and lillies! And the wedding cake! And oh my God, this dress looks so beautiful!'.

But, thinking that her Ichi-nii, who really looks like he doesn't give a care in the world about anything, walks nonchalantly with lazy scowls on his face, and thinks everything is troublesome, would date a heiress from the richest family in Japan does not really add up.

Yuzu starts again, Karin swears she can actually see her jumping around, "and guess who spent one full year, taking a fellowship in California last year?" Yuzu's eyes glint with excitement.

"Well, Ichi-nii did." Karin takes a deep breath. "Took a fellowship in Stanford."

Yuzu nods repeatedly. "And Karin-chan, I swear I accidentally heard-,"

Karin snorts. "You eavesdropped, you mean."

"No! Well, yes, well," Yuzu fidgets on her feet. "It is not like I had a choice not to hear it, they were basically talking while cuddling on the couch in the living room, who just happens to be separated only with thin walls in the CCTV room." Yuzu does not like the way Karin makes her feel bad about what she did. "And... it is not like I knew Onii-chan planned on having a visitor. I was just going along with my perfect birthday surprise plan. I baked a cake, Karin-chan! And I needed a place to hide... and I-,"

Karin snorts for God know show many times that day. "First of all, Ichi-nii does NOT cuddle. And second of all, get to the point, Yuzu, what did you hear?"

"Onii-chan asked her to stay a bit longer." Yuzu tells Karin, eyes start looking sad for no apparent reason. "Rukia-neechan said,"

"Oh, now she is Rukia-neechan?" Karin hums and rolls her eyes.

"Stop being rude and cutting off my story, Karin-chan." Yuzu frowns and pats her twin lightly on the arm. "Rukia-neechan said that her flight was tomorrow morning and Onii-chan asked her to stay. With him. He said he would introduce her to our family in his birthday dinner today. He asked her to stay in Japan."

"Are you sure this is not just some cliche drama you made up in your head, Yuzu?" Karin tries to say in in the most gentle voice she has.

Yuzu shakes her head, decides to let go of her twin's rude replies all this time. "And guess what Rukia-neechan said? She said she would be thrilled to meet our family. She said, in these exact same words that, she really wanted to meet 'Sweet Yuzu who makes the best onigiri your life' and 'Cool Karin who is the only normal one in your family'." Karin swears she can see the happy tears coming out of her dramatic twin. "She knows us, Karin-chan! She knows us!"

"Yuzu, pull yourself together, alright? Or I am done listening to your rambling." Karin feels bad, but she just has to do it. Yuzu needs some control.

"Sorry," Yuzu giggles. "Then Rukia-neechan said that she couldn't just cancel her flight, you know? But she wanted to meet us, really, to have our annual Kurosaki birthday dinner. She was sorry that she had to leave."

"She sounds nice enough," Karin mumbles. Yuzu may like someone instantly, but Karin decides it will take a lot more efforts to win her trust.

"Then Onii-chan said he was not only asking her to stay a bit longer. He was asking her to stay with him. Onii-chan asked her to move in with him. Karin-chan, this is huge!" Yuzu squeals.

"Just how long have they been dating, exactly? And how did Ichi-nii know her? California is not like Karakura, Yuzu. It is huge." Karin can't even believe that she is entertaining Yuzu with her ideas. Even though, deep down, Karin knows everything just too much to be a coincidence.

"I did my research." Yuzu smiles, her brown eyes glint with joy. "Remember when Onii-chan represented his hospital to cure the sick children in Somalia for a year?"

Karin nods. "Yeah." She tries to recall things. "That's a year before he took a fellowship in Stanford." Karin chuckles, "a young, renowned pediatrician who did volunteer work in Africa. Goat-chin was in cloud nines."

Yuzu smiles back. "Okay, here's the thing, Karin-chan." Karin can't even decide if she likes this Detective Yuzu or stalker Yuzu. "You know that Seireitei Hospital Onii-chan is working at? It is owned by the Kuchiki. Founded by this..." Yuzu starts typing on Google search and shows Karin an old antique photo of an old man named Kuchiki Ginrei.

"..this man. And..." Yuzu begins again. "The head and owner of that hospital just happens to be an obstetrician named Byakuya, the heir and now the head of the Kuchiki family," Yuzu holds up her phone to show a google image of a classy man with what must be designer suit with long and black slick hair. "Who also happens to be..."

Karin raises an eyebrow, somehow is aware of where this is leading to. "Rukia-neechan's one and only older brother!" Yuzu says in a hushed whisper to add a dramatic effect of the story.

Karin pinches the bridge of her nose. "Alright, go on."

"And if only we paid more attention to Onii-chan's instagram posts, we would have known something, Karin-chan." Yuzu's eyes widen for the dramatic effect like in Sci-Fi's movies.

"What posts? Ichi-nii can't instagram to save his life. He's got only like 15 posts in 4 years and he only follows like 15 people and has only 34 followers! And yeah, I just used instagram as a verb and you have no right to give me that look!" Karin is on a rant.

Yuzu giggles. "That's why I told you we should have paid attention to details, Karin-chan!" Yuzu begins scrolling around her brother's Instagram page. "He only follows 17 people in total. And this rukia is one of them. And then, look at this group photo of him with the medical team and others in Somalia."

It is a photo of their brother and his volunteers team. The orange haired doctor is wearing a medical safari vest. They are posing with bunch of Somalian girl teenagers with what look like to be medical camps in the background. What catches the twins' attention this time is a woman in the middle of the Somalian teenagers. The teenagers appear to hug that petite woman and they are all laughing prettily. Said woman is wearing safari hat, round glasses, and her face is bare with no make up, and she has that familiar jet black hair framing the pale white tiny face. And also, Karin specifically notices, those blue-purple something huge eyes. Their beloved brother is standing in the right side, next to the Somalian teenagers.

"No way." Karin's eyes go huge. "So, they met in Somalia?"

Yuzu can't contain her giggles. "Isn't it adorable? And guess what I found on Rukia-nee's Wikipedia page? She is the head of Kuchiki Foundation. She may have a business degree and has her share in that big corporate family business, but she is mostly only active in this foundation! She is an humanitarian activist who does all these amazing charities and volunteer works around the world, but mostly in Africa and other developing countries. I think she is just this truly amazing woman that loves to help people. She is so down to earth, Karin-chan!"

Karin can't help but to agree. She has skimmed through the google images search of the Kuchiki heiress. To be probably the richest bachelorette in Japan, we can expect images of luxurious lifestyle to come out on the page, something that we easily find on most snobby rich ladies' Instagram who are trying too hard to be what so-called social influencers, when deep down Karin thinks most of them are just for shows. Karin doesn't find those super model wannabes vibes from this Rukia lady. Instead, there are bunch of images of the Kuchiki heiress doing volunteer works, images of her with kids in the needs, young-mothers in various countries in underdeveloped countries. She is mostly doing charities to support women and kids in need. And there is this news of the Kuchiki Foundation getting an appreciation award from the UNICEF. Karin wants to be skeptical about this Kuchiki heiress, wants to think that if, indeed, her brother is dating her (or having an affair with her), it is going to bring trouble to her brother and the family. Karin loves normalcy and she slightly hopes to find the Kuchiki heiress annoying, but all these images keep proving her wrong. She really does seem down to earth.

Karin always thinks her brother is bad at romance. She still can't reason why he won't give Inoue-san, their lovely neighbor slash his ex-girlfriend who works as an artist, another chance when she is obviously still in love with him. And Inoue-san is really beautiful and as sweet as a maiden and makes men want to protect her all the time. They were dating briefly in high school. Ichi-nii never tells them why they broke up, although Tatsuki-neesan almost let it slip that it had something to do with Inoue-san and a guy named Ulquiorra-something. Yuzu and Karin never believed that Inoue-san would cheat on their brother, but, they did witness the auburn haired woman cried for like hours in front of their clinic and their brother only stood there, hands in his football outfit pockets, hair messy after football practice, and coolly told her that 'I understand and I am not mad at you, I am mad at him' and the final 'I think we're better off as friends'.

Karin and Yuzu were pretty bummed out by their break up. Yuzu cried for her loss of cooking partner and their brother told them Inoue-san would still be around since they choose to remain friends. Karin was not being so nice and she used to tell her brother that, 'you'll never impress me until you bring someone in the same levels to Inoue-san to our home again, Ichi-nii.'

And then 5 years later, her brother is breaking that levels bullshit. Kuchiki Rukia is on another whole level. And Karin has just to be impressed with her brother.

"You may think that she may be out of Onii-chan's league," Yuzu laughs a little, as if she could read Karin's thoughts. "But, let's not understate our brother, okay, Karin-chan. He, too, comes from a good family and he is super smart, and a successful and young pediatrician who is about to take doctoral degree at such a young age. And we may not notice it since we are his sisters, but Onii-chan is really, really handsome and charismatic." Yuzu grins sweetly.

Karin laughs. "Hell yeah. He probably wins her over with that bad boy persona on the outside, but turns out to be an embarrassingly huge dork inside."

Yuzu sighs dreamily. "I am so happy for him, but, I can't believe we did not know that he has been seeing someone all this time! Look at his first post, this photo of him and Sado-san back when they were in college, backpacking all around America?"

Yuzu points a photo of younger version of their brother. It is a photo of a handsome young, orange haired man wearing a red maroon t-shirt. A climbers' backpack is slung on his right arm. He is wearing blue adidas running shoes and khaki pants. The said young man smirks at the camera and an old man who looks like Mexican, 72 or 73 years old is sitting on the wheel chair next to him. On the left of the old man, a young dark skinned man with curly brown hair smiles a little at the camera. This young Mexican man is huge, compared to men his age. It is a photo of Yuzu's and Karin's brother with his best friend, Sado-san, and Sado-san's abuelo.

And it looks like this rukia also leaves something on the comment section, but it is an old post, so the Kuchiki heir must scroll to the bottom page for this. The comment says,

rukia: why can't we have this athletic Ichi these days?

abarai.r: no way? Isnt he still fit now? O wait no. This is the guy who was panting after only 1 lap at central park? And dude u r certainly getting fat

rukia: He's not getting fat abarai.r

abarai.r: yeah you would know wouldnt you rukia

rukia: abarai.r :O

ichigo_kurosaki: I will be back in form if you just let me go hiking with Chado. He's going to Himalaya, rukia

rukia yup, then, no. Chubby Ichigo is fine too

abarai.r: ichigo_kurosaki why do you NEVER reply other people's comments but hers? Whipped basterd

rukia: abarai.r shut up renji :3 :3

Karin chuckles. "Well, it is an old post, so of course we didn't notice. I don't regularly check Ichi-nii's posts' comments, anyway."

"Onii-chan is so cute." Yuzu giggles. "It is true. He always replies to Rukia-nee's comments but he really never replies others."

Karin smirks, "Heh. I won't be surprised if we open this Kuchiki Rukia's instagram page and find that Ichi-nii likes all her photos. He is one of those, Yuzu." Karin says with an emphasis on the word those.

"Those?" Yuzu raises an eyebrow questioningly.

The older twin snorts. "Those whipped bastards."

Yuzu laughs, somewhat knowing that it may as well be true. The brown haired twin starts scrolling on her brother's Instagram page again. "We really didn't pay attention to his posts, did we? Last year, when he was in USA, he posted a photo of him and this cute dog, and since he sucks at instagramming, he did not put any caption on that photo hence we did not think this post had any meaning, like, 'Oh, so, Onii-chan just posed with random cute dog and posted it on his instagram!'." Yuzu takes a breath. This one is going to be long.

There is a subtle ";)" from rukia on his comment section. "A wink!" Yuzu beams. And also another comment from abarai.r "god that cute ball of fur stinks. Tell rukia to wash him.", which their brother doesn't reply. But the orange haired man replies the ";)" with, "i think he finally starts to like me?", and rukia only replies with, "Kon never hated you. He is just jealous since his favorite person spends too much time with you :O".

"They're so cute!" Yuzu laughs again. "But, really. Look at the details, Karin-chan! This," Yuzu's eyes become so big that they start to scare her twin sister, "this is Onii-chan's messy hair in the morning. This is his bed head. This is what he looks like when he has just jumped out of bed."

Karin zooms in the picture and she just has to agree that her twin sister is right. Her brother is one of those people who are graced by good looks even when they are just out of bed, but Karin is all too familiar with this spiky bed hair. And to confirm the twins' speculation, he is also wearing a white t-shirt and pajama pants. That really is how he looks like when he goes to bed. It is a candid photo of his brother ruffling and holding a cute little dog who appears to be a pomeranian.

"It is a candid photo, meaning someone else took this photo, in what seems to be a bedroom, (pay attention to details, Karin-chan, details!), in the early morning, meaning someone was staying the night or Onii-chan was staying over at someone's. But..." Yuzu adds a dramatic pause and something clicks in Karin's mind.

"But, we have been in his apartment in San Fransisco and it doesn't look like in that photo!" Karin is also surprised that she starts going along with Yuzu.

Yuzu laughs a little, glad her twin is finally playing along.

Karin chuckles lowly. "God, I know it is not supposed to be at all strange, since he is a grownup or whatsoever, but he has never brought a girl home for like forever." Karin scratches her chin. "It's weird. Ichi-nii is actually sleeping with someone. God, Yuzu, why is it weird?"

Yuzu blushes deeply, "It's probably weird because you state it loudly like that."

Karin rolls her eyes and pokes her twin lightly on the forehead. "Yuzu, we are grown ups, too, alright. You can't possibly think they're not at this stage of relationship already."

Yuzu blushes even redder, somewhat annoyed that her twin always makes her to be the innocent little girl when they are clearly the same age. "Well, Rukia-nee did stay at his apartment until early morning today and Onii-chan has asked her to move in already..."

"But, still..." Karin mumbles again. "It's Ichi-nii. It's weird."

Yuzu hums. "It's our brother, Karin-chan. It's always going to be weird."

"I mean, there was Inoue-san in high school, but they dated for like only 4 months and Ichi-nii was only 15, and he was pretty much too focused in his football captaincy crap. I don't think they did it." Karin starts again and Yuzu gives her twin the look.

"And then there was that crazy Senna back in freshman who pretty sure traumatized him when he caught her sleeping with another girl in his dorm. And why the hell did she get crazily possessive with Ichi-nii when actually she was the one who was fooling around with another girl and boy behind his back? And sleeping in his dorm, out of all places." Karin laughs. "And that Senna girl had the audacity to humiliate Ichi-nii, saying things like 'she was just being a normal, hormonal curious young adolescent who wanted to look for adventures since it turned out the famous and hot football captain was actually a boring goody two shoes!'" she can't contain her chuckles. "God, Yuzu, Ichi-nii is terrible at relationships. His friends wouldn't shut up about him being cheated on twice in his life. And since then, for years, Ichi-nii has never, ever brought anyone home again. Goat-chin is actually worried Ichi-nii turns gay and he will never have grandchildren."

"Poor Onii-chan." Yuzu looks saddened. "So, that's maybe why he is keeping his relationship in private now. And I am pretty sure this one is different, Karin-chan! He asked her to move in with him! They must be on another level of relationship."

"Yeah, yeah." Karin teases. "I know you're just giddy to plan for his wedding already."

"Yup." Yuzu sings and hums the famous wedding chorus. She can't believe that it's actually going to happen, sooner or later. Yuzu has dreamed to plan the perfect wedding for her brother. It's going to be a beautiful wedding party with beautiful sunset, and beaches, and beautiful dress and delicious food, and beautiful songs and dances. But since her brother keeps having bad luck with his romance and never introduces anyone to the family again, Yuzu's worried her dream is not going to happen, ever.

Yuzu doesn't mind if her Onii-chan wants to take some time before introducing this Rukia-nee to the family, but when he does, and Yuzu hopes it's going to happen any time soon, she's almost sure she will welcome Rukia-nee happily (and probably she is going introduce her to her famous onigiri). For now, Yuzu doesn't really care if her birthday surprise plan for her brother was ruined, that she had to be stuck hiding in her brother's apartment until morning to escape, she thinks it was all worth it.

She just can't wait to meet her soon.


AN: Alright, that's it hahaha. I know the story has barely plot in it but I just wanted to write this to fangirl over Rukia (because I love Rukia and I can totally see her as this smart, elegant, super beautiful, and rich but really kind woman who doesn't know how to spend her money, so she will just give them to charity. She probably has tea party with other rich billionaires to raise money for charity hahaha XD).

Just in case people don't get it, Yuzu planned to hide in his brother's apartment until midnight to surprise him with confetti and a cake at midnight. Ichi lives alone in his apartment (Yuzu knows his key passcode) and he installs some CCTV in it, and there is this small room (next to his living room) in which there is a monitor for his CCTV, and Ichigo barely goes to that room, so Yuzu decided to hide in there until midnight, but then... it turns out her brother had an unexpected visitor that Yuzu had never seen in her life before *wink* ;).

And anyway, Ichi is a protegee pediatrician. He works in a hospital owned by Kuchiki family and the hospital sent doctors and healthcare professionals to do volunteer works in a medical camp in Africa for a year (which is funded and managed by Kuchiki foundation) and that's when Rukia and Ichi meet *laughs* and right after that one year in Africa, Ichi is awarded a fellowship for a year in Stanford by the hospital and Rukia lives in California too (are you sure this is not Byakuya pulling strings and playing matchmaker?!) so I guess the romance continues smoothly there hahaha. After the fellowship, Ichi has to go back to Japan, so maybe the two have long distance relationship. Oh, yeah and for another detail that is not mentioned in the story, Renji is Rukia's best friend and he's Rukia's right hand for the Kuchiki family company main branch in the USA (just let Rukia have her tea parties to raise money XD) oh, and Renji lives in the US, too, and he meets Ichigo there.

Anyway, I also found some other stories on my phone and I will try to post them online too when I have the chance (thought about sending them to the bins but, well.)

Take care! :)

(NB: SERIOUS QUESTION! Do you think I should continue this story and make it multi chaptered? Please tell me in the reviews :D)