The Temporal Extra of IchiRuki
Let me explain to you how extra Ichigo and Rukia are through the phenomenon of time:
They meet on either May 11th or 18th of 2001. Rukia is taken on July 19th. That’s either 63 or 70 days, and really subtract 1 because she showed up very late at night. So 62 or 69 days. Mind you, we do not see a whole half of this time period, from June 18th to July 17th.
They are briefly reunited for about 5 minutes on the Senzaikyuu on August 5th, and for like maybe 5 minutes on August 6th at the Soukyoku.
They have a week together from August 7th to August 13th in Soul Society. That’s 7 days.
They have a day together from September 7th to September 8th in Karakura. That’s 1 day.
They’re reunited briefly during the fight with Grimmjow on October 29th. Ichigo is injured. Let’s call it maybe 10 minutes.
They meet up again when Ukitake and Yamamoto are dishing out orders for perhaps 5 minutes on October 31st.
They once more run into each other for at most a few hours in Hueco Mundo before splitting up on November 1st. Everything happened on that one day, so let’s call it 90 minutes.
They’re reunited for all of a few seconds before Ichigo heads up to the Dome of Las Noches. Let’s call it 15 seconds.
After his return to save her from Yammy, they’re together for a few minutes. Let’s call it 5 minutes.
Later, Rukia will see Ichigo for perhaps a minute or so before he collapses from losing his powers.
When Ichigo wakes up on December 2nd, they have perhaps 10 minutes together before he loses his ability to see her.
In other words, out of between 198 and 205 days from the start of this sequence of events, they were together for between 70 and 77 days, plus about 120 minutes. And then for the last almost three months, they were together for about 110 of those minutes in total. In other words, they were only together about 1/3 of the time, and it was overwhelmingly front-loaded.
AND THEY STILL LOOKED AT EACH OTHER LIKE THIS: