Ichigo x Rukia... "I'll protect you"

Here're Ichigo and Rukia hugging each other!! >___< I kinda liked how this pic turned out, especially Rukia ^^ well I wanted to do some "abstract" background for them and that's all I could do X3 damn... I really suck at backgrounds xDDD
okie, we all know that Rukia hates being protected (especially by Ichigo ^^;;), but she's still a girl and we girls like to be spoiled from time to time, don't we? =3
anyways, I love them as friends and why not as something else -^^-
well, comments are welcomed as always! X3