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Transfer Student
Chapter 1: Breakups and The "Other" Man
Okay, so I wrote this because it's my brother's birthday today, and he loves Bleach and Ichigo x Nozomi, so, I did this for him. Happy birthday, outou-chan! (He's the Zanpaku-Ramen Pirates if you're wondering)
Pairings!
Beginning: IchiHime, IshiNemu
Ending: IchiZomi, UlquiHime, IshiNemu, RenRuki
There are probably going to be spelling errors, and frankly, I don't fucking care.
((Finished: 9/13))
Ichigo Kurosaki walked down the hallway of Tokyo University, his hands in his pocket, his bag under his left arm.
"Hi, Ichigo-senpai!"
"Ohaiyo, Ichigo-senpai!"
"Hello, Kurosaki-senpai!" The orange haired boy smiled. It wasn't too bad being the most popular kid in his school.
"KUROSAKI!" His head turned and he said,
"G'morning." Rukia Kuchiki, Renji Abari, Ulquiorra Schiffer, Uryû Ishida, Nemu Kurotsuchi, Yatsudora "Chad" Sado, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, Nelliel Tu, and Orihime Inoue were walking down the hall towards him.
"Ohaiyo, Kurosaki-kun." Orihime said with a smile, taking her place next to her boyfriend. Ulquiorra and Rukia silently ground their teeth. Ulquiorra hated Ichigo with a burning passion from hell, especially after he started going out with his high school crush.
Orihime had transferred to Las Noches High for a year and then came back to Karakura Town 1st High for the last year of high school. On the orders of Principal Aizen, who was later thrown in jail for taking bribes, Ulquiorra had been in charge of showing her around school until she got comfortable being by herself, but it had become a really great friendship until Kurosaki, Ishida, and Chad came to his school and convinced her to transfer back.
A few weeks later, Orihime texted him that she had finally asked out the "Amazing Ichigo Kurosaki", leaving Ulquiorra with absolutely no chance whatsoever of getting her to go out with him.
Rukia hated Orihime, not Ichigo, though. Rukia was head over heels for Ichigo, whether she showed it or not. Orihime had written Ichigo a note and left it in his locker, only for him to reply "yes" about five minutes before Rukia was going to muster up her courage and ask herself.
But, neither of them could be really mad, however. The two were the perfect couple after all. Ichigo opened doors for her and walked her to all of her classes, regardless of whether his class was on the other side of the campus or not, he bought her lunch almost every day, and Orihime always seemed to smile around him. It was harsh.
"So Kurosaki-kun, I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go out to dinner tonight?"
"Sounds great!" The carrot-topped boy said.
"I'm sooooo tired!" Nel wined.
"Then stop staying up until five in the morbid and waking up at seven." Grimmjow said, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"I can't do that! My favorite show, Ammonia, is on!"
"I hate that show. It's named after a cleaning product! And all that German during the part where the heroine gets kidnapped, it's retarded." Orihime said, annoyed.
"Yeah." Ulquiorra agreed, when actually, he thought the guy that took care of the heroine when she was where the took her too was fairly attractive, even for an person who was a little overly emotional, and he shipped that pairing instead of the pairing with that girl and the guy that went to save her.
"Well in any case, you don't have to stay up that late!"
"Well how else am I supposed to see it?"
"You could just record the show." Nemu said, crossing her arms. She hated the fact that her roommate did that. She would kill to be Rukia's roommate. A quiet person that didn't do much past nine thirty at night. Or Orihime's. A girl who was always off doing shit with her boyfriend, so Nemu could have a nice night watching TV with her OWN boyfriend, Uryû Ishida. A large beeping noise came from the ceiling and each person walked off to their own class.
{}{}{}The Next Day{}{}{}
Orihime Inoue sat up as Rukia's alarm blared in the next room over.
"KUCHIKI-SAN! YOUR ALARM!"
Rukia Kuchiki sat bolt upright.
"Thank you!" Rukia called to her roommate.
Ten minutes of hair-brushing and toaster pastry's later, Rukia and Orihime were out the door. They caught up with Nemu and Nel a few minutes later. The four girls caught up with Ichigo, his roommate Uryû, Ulquiorra, his roommate Grimmjow, and Renji a few more minutes later.
"Ohaiyo, Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime smiled.
"Morning!" Ichigo replied.
"So, how's about we go to a movie tonight? You and Orihime, me and Nemu-chan?"
"That sounds pretty fun. Whatdya say, Inoue?"
"Sounds great! But, what are we going to see?"
"I wanted to go see The Five Year Engagement, but that's now it theaters anymore." Nemu said with a slight pout.
"Oh, well, I think it'd be On Demand by now, so why don't we just go over to my place and the four of us can watch it there?" Ichigo suggested.
"Sounds good." Uryû said.
"I have to get to class because Professor Ichimaru said if I was late again, he'd throw me to the tigers at the zoo, so I can't walk you to class today. I'm sorry."
"I-it's okay, Kurosaki-kun. I understand. He's my next class, so I know how he is." Ichigo kissed Orihime's cheek and ran off.
"Can I walk you to class?" Ulquiorra said.
"I mean, it'll be just like high school!" He said, trying not to sound like he was trying to get in the way of her relationship.
"Haha, it would, wouldn't it?" Orihime said with a smile. She's so much more open around me. She could call me crying at three am and I'd still come, final exam the next day or not. Ulquiorra thought.
"So? Aren't you going to walk me to class?"
"Huh? Oh, right." The man smiled and the two students walked down the streets, toward Professor Byakuya Kuchiki's English class.
{}{}{}One Class Period Later{}{}{}
"Son of a bitch," Orihime said, walking out the door with a paper in her hand. "I can't believe I got another C-!" Ulquiorra looked at her C- and hesitated to show her his A+.
"So, what'd you get?"
"Umm, a B-."
"No you didn't. Show it to me!" She said.
"No." Ulquiorra moved the paper away.
"SHOW. IT. TO. ME!" Orihime said, ramming D's in Ulquiorra's shoulders as she thrust herself at him and snatched the paper away. He wiped the blood from his nose before turning back to her.
"Give. It. Back."
"No!" Orihime's eyes went to the top of the page.
"Ugh! You got an A+?! How are you so great at English?!"
"I don't know. I speak both Spanish and Japanese, so English isn't super hard."
"I guess so."
"I, erm, uhh, I could tutor you if you want me to." He said, taking his test of of Orihime's hands.
"Would you!?" Orihime said, her face lighting up.
"Sure."
{}{}{}Elsewhere{}{}{}
Rukia and Ichigo were walking next to each other on their way to the library so Rukia could tutor him in World Studies.
"I don't get why I even have to learn this shit. The only place I MIGHT go that isn't just somewhere else in Japan is the USA, so the rest of the world is completely and totally unimportant." The orange-haired boy complained.
"What if for your job you had to go to India or something?" The raven-haired girl next to him said.
"Then I'd buy a goddamn map or maybe even a tourist guide."
"You're impossible." Ichigo opened the door to the library and the two found the room they usually used was full. They both looked inside and saw Ulquiorra Schiffer and Orihime Inoue sitting inside with textbooks on their laps and laughing theirs heads off.
"You're kidding, right?"
"Nope! I've got pictures in my wallet if you want to see."
"Yes, please!" The emerald-eyed man pulled out a wallet and a picture came out of it.
"Oh my god!" On the picture, unknown to Ichigo and Rukia, was an image of a thirteen year old Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Nel and a few others Orihime didn't know.
"Who are they?"
"Oh, those are my other friends, Coyote Starrk, Tier Halibel, Starrk's little sister Lillinette, I think she's about eight, Nnoitra Gilga, Yammy Llargo, Szayel Grantz, he's gay if you couldn't already tell, and Arronerio whatever the hell his last name is." The part they were laughing at was Grimmjow. He had thick rimmed glasses and braces with headgear.
"This is priceless!"
"I've been using this as blackmail for almost 6 years." Ulquiorra said, smiling.
Ichigo and Rukia were watching and listening intently, trying to figure out what the picture had on it.
"Maybe it's government data." Ichigo said.
"I highly doubt that," Rukia replied. "It's probably just an embarrassing photo of somebody."
"But that's so lame." The two's eyes went back into the small room. Orihime was saying something in English and Ulquiorra was laughing his ass off.
"N-no! You say it like this!"
"Ooooooh. I get it now!" Orihime reached for her textbook and touched Ulquiorra's hand instead.
"S-sorry." The amber haired girl said with a slight blush.
"What the..." Ichigo said.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know. Is Inoue... cheating on me?"
"I'm sorry Ichigo." YES! Rukia thoughts screamed. This is my chance!
"Well, let's just keep looking. It might just have been an accident." Ichigo said, trying more to convince himself and not his friend.
"$92 -43 697, Ulquiorra? Is that how you say that?"
"Yes. Good job!" Orihime smiled and hugged Ulquiorra.
"Thank you!"
"I-it's nothing." Orihime pulled back from the hug and looked into Ulquiorra's emerald eyes. For the first time, she saw how incredibly amazing they were.
"Something wrong?"
"What? No!"
On the other side of the one way glass, Ichigo was hyperventilating.
"She hugged him. She fucking hugged him."
"Okay. Let's try something else. Say, "I hate my English teacher" in English."
"Umm... Okay. 8 $-53 '6 3!)"8/$ 53-,$34."
"Good!" Orihime smiled again. Gray and green eyes locked again.
"Your face is a little red. Do you want me to open a window?"
"Umm, no. I'm good. R-really, I am."
"Okay..." Ulquiorra's hand went to his textbook, flipping another few pages.
"What now?"
"Umm, let's try this."
"What?"
"Let's try statements now. Say something in English. Anything."
"Okay. 8 $-53 5)3 ,9"94 94-!(3."
"You don't like orange?"
"No, not really. I think it's tacky."
"You're kidding, right Inoue?" Ichigo asked himself.
"I found an empty room." Rukia said.
"I'm staying here." Ichigo said, pressing his face closer to the glass.
"Well then what's a color you like?"
"I like green."
"Green?"
"Yeah. Like, the color of your eyes. That's my favorite color. Ulquiorra's Eyes. It's should be a crayon!" Orihime said.
"Really?!"
"Yup!" A happy smile crossed the girl's lips.
"Thanks."
"Why do you like the color of my eyes?"
"Because they're dark and mysterious, but have a kind of warmth hidden deep down. I like that."
"So you don't really like the color, do you? You just like my eyes." Ulquiorra said, looking the girl straight in the face.
"Umm... I... Ichigo... Uh..."
"Hehe. Don't worry about it. Kurosaki won't hear a word. He's your boyfriend, and I respect that."
"Thanks."
"No problem." Orihime looked at Ulquiorra and blushed a little.
"Now what's that for?"
"You keep looking at me."
"I'm your tutor. A good teacher makes eye contact with their students." Ulquiorra said, touching his fingers to the bridge of his nose, as if he was pushing up a pair of glasses like Ishida. Orihime laughed. She scooted a few inches closer, pointed to he page and said,
"I wanna try saying that next."
" 8 "9?3 697? Really?"
"I wanna say it to Kurosaki-kun."
"Oh okay."
"Okay here goes. 8 "9?3 697. "
"Very good."
"What did she say? Did she say we're breaking up?"
"Ichigo, come on." Rukia said, grabbing the strawberry's shirt. But Ichigo simply pulled her down to look at the pair.
"Say it again so you really know."
"8 "9?3 697."
"What is it?"
"I love you."
Ichigo froze.
"She was saying I love you? To Ulquiorra?"
"Ichigo I think she meant she was going to say that to y-"
"She doesn't want to be my girlfriend anymore?"
"Ichigo..."
"Great. Let's move on."
"Wait. I want something to drink. Do you want something?"
"Just water." Orihime stood up and tripped, falling on top of the boy.
"I-I'm sorry."
"I-it's fine." Orihime looked into the eyes she liked so much and faltered. She knew Ichigo would kill her if he found out, but if he didn't know, it wouldn't matter. Right?
"Orihime?" The girls face was full of red.
"Orhime?" Ulquiorra looked into her gray eyed and felt the same pit in his stomach he felt when he first met the girl.
"Why are they just sitting there?! And like that?!" Ichigo whispered furiously.
"Ichigo, it's probably nothing."
"It's been three minutes. Inoue and I are over if it goes any further than this. This I can forgive, this I can forget, but if it goes any further, I'm going to kill both of them."
Ulquiorra and Orihime sat there, staring at each other for what felt like forever.
"Orihime?"
"What?"
"I don't remember."
"Okay." Orihime looked at him and said,
"I'm going to go get water."
"Good idea." She stood up and so did he, he packed up all of his books and put hers away too.
"Thanks." Unknowingly, Orihime laced her fingers around his.
"No problem." She looked into his eyes and leaned in, kissing him square on the mouth.
Ichigo's eyes looked about ready to pop out of his head when he saw that.
"NO!" Orihime and Ulquiorra suddenly realized they weren't alone.
"Please tell me that was one of your fangirls." Orihime said quietly.
"I'll open the door incase it is." Ulquiorra turned the knob and found Ichigo Kurosaki standing on the other side of the door, balls of fire in place of his eyes.
"K-Kurosaki-kun..."
"What did you do to Inoue?" Ichigo said behind grinding teeth.
"I didn't do anything. She kissed me." Ulquiorra said calmly.
"I'm sorry Kurosaki-kun. I... I did kiss him."
"Yeah, and you also like his eyes and you tell him you love him and you kiss him. So, what the hell was I to you?"
"You were amazing! I love you, Kurosaki-kun! I just... I like Ulquiorra better! I can be more myself around him."
"Why can't you be yourself around me?"
"Because I feel lime I have to be perfect around you, the "most popular boy in school" and with him I can be a screwed up as possible and I don't have to worry about him not liking me!"
"I'd still like you if you weren't perfect!"
"Ichigo, we're OVER." Orihime said, slapping the strawberry as hard as she could, grabbing Ulquiorra's hand and walking away.
Here's chapter 1! I'm posting the whole story today because I refuse to actually actively work on this story because I didn't both to watch the arc with Nozomi Kujo in it, so I need you to tell me in the next chapter whether she's OOC or not. Thanks! -3- Chiharu-chan!
And once again, happy birthday Outou-chan!