'The Flowers Of Forgotten Royalty'
Summary: The gate to Fairie Realm has been cut off from the mortal, Soul, Beast and Hollow worlds for several centuries. Orihime Inoue thought she was the only girl in the world with her powers, She will soon discover she is not alone.
Author: This is an Orihime themed story. A bit of a redo from the last version. Orihime will be more of the prominent character in this. And I changed alot for the OC character. The ocs power comes from two fleur de lis now. Also this story occurs right after the Quincy war crap. The beginning might seem pretty cliche but I really didn't have a choice concerning the setting and theme.
Pairings: Orihime/Ichigo, Orihime/OC, Uryū/OC, Orihime/Uryū and Ichigo/OC
Chapter One: Dinner Dates And Magical Seduction
After her brother died. Orihime felt alone and after gaining her new powers she questioned what and who she truly is. Is she the only one with these powers? After her hostage situation with Aizen. His words only made the naivety of herself grow even deeper. If she could erase events? Where did that power come from? How would she use it? So far she had to teach herself these new powers she had. Would she use it?
Who would teach her? One could never learn something they are naturally unaware of. Something that cannot be manipulated by human or a god.
She had potential, alone she could never grasp without a teacher or foreknowledge.
While Soul society was rebuilding. Orihime and her friends returned to the mortal world and continued their dayly high school lifes as juniors with the same hollow encounter or two.
On this night, She decided to go out on a nightly patrol with Ichigo Kurosaki. The both grew closer together over the last few years. It seemed as he wanted to ask her something now. Orihime knew exactly what was on Ichigo's mind but she wanted him to say it by his own will. Besides she had the capability to wait for very long periods of time.
"Hey, Orihime... You wanna-" Ichigo's face turned red as they walked upon the entrance of the park.
"Wanna what? Ichigo?" Orihime smiled kindly.
"Go on a date with me?"Ichigo asked anxiously fearing rejection. The words she wanted finally exhumed. "Like go out to dinner?"
'Ichigo asked me to go on date with him? A dinner date? To where? Oh, NO! I should make sure not to pig out or the bill will be too costly. I don't wanna burn a hole through Ichigo's wallet.' Orihime thought as she did one of her nervous ticks.
"Orihime, is something wrong?" Ichigo asked.
"Oh... Um, nothing's wrong. I could make dinner for us, Ichigo. You wouldn't have to spend any money." Orihime suggested. Sitting on a swing.
"Oh, I... planned this. I've saved up some money. So we could go to a fancy place if you want."
Ichigo had a part time job. Orihime would feel shameful if Ichigo had to spend his hard earned money on her. But she also knew that this something Ichigo would insist on and there would not be any other way. Orihime sighed, and reluctantly agreed.
In an expression of triumph, Ichigo fist pumped.
"I'll pick you up at your place at 7:30. I think we should dress up abit. School uniforms don't count." Ichigo confirmed.
Then a foreign image came into Orihime mind, Ichigo dress up as a refined dandy in fancy and gaudy clothing with a hat, cape and heeled boots to top off. She giggled to herself. 'Orihime, You fantasize about ridiculous things! Stop it!'
"Yeah, school uniforms can get smelly after a day of being worn." Orihime commented, smoothing the wrinkles on her matching pink and white poke dotted cotton pajamas. Ichigo was wearing a forest green long sleeve cotton shirt that had a blue maple leaf on it with a pair neon yellow sweat pants that didn't go together. (I think everyone has had those nights when bedtime clothes don't match in any possible sense)
"I don't think there are any hollows out tonight, Want me to walk you back home? Inoue?" Ichigo stood up from the swing.
"Okay," She followed up after him.
Place: Ishida house, two hours earlier.
She watched him as he explained to her the equation, step by step. He was indeed mesmerizing intellectually, she thought. His silky dark hair finely brushed and parted. His narrow shiny glasses. Clean complexion. Such would draw in a detail orientated girl.
"You have this whole equation wrong, Sōnoe-chan." She liked how he said her name.
"Oh?"
Sōnoe had implored Uryu to tutor her. In the beginning of the school year, even though she didn't need it. Occasionly during these tutor sessions she would intentionly make mundane mistakes. To keep Uryu on his toes so to say.
"If you're not going to make a minimum effort I advice you-"Adjusting his glasses Uryu was about to threaten. And yet the way he spoke.
"I'm soo sorry, Ishida-kun! I promise I'll pay more attention. PLEASE, don't leave me." Sōnoe gave him a most convincing look of desperation as she clutched on his white sleeve.
He re-adjusted his glasses, for a different reason alone. "When you beg like that... I see no point in saying no."
"Thank you so much! Ishida-kun." Almost impulsively, Sōnoe kissed him on the cheek. 'Ha, Uryu you are so naive. At least, this means more tutoring sessions.' She thought stepping back into her seat.
So great were her magical and unassuming seductive powers. When he looked in her glittering blue eyes; He tried but couldn't hold back a blush. She had this insatiable sparkling aura of love and glamour.
"Oh, look at the time! Obaa-san will be expecting me. I don't want her to worry." Sonoe exclaimed peering at her watch. She gathered her studying supplies into her red leather clutch book bag.
"Sayonara! Uryu-kun!" She kissed him good bye on both cheeks (eurokiss).
"Come to my grandma's house tomorrow. For our next tutoring session, of course. After school. Her house is the traditional home with a guiding Jizo shrine on the street pathway. In the south east of town. It's not easy to miss."
"Good. See you tomorrow, Sōnoe-chan." Uryu waved.
'Strange, it must be a European thing.' Uryu thought, touching both of his rosy cheeks still blushing.
His father walked in from work after Endō Sōnoe left, He gazed at her as she passed by the door.
"She has been coming over for a few months now... Who is she? Uryū?" Ryūken asked his son inquisitively his face expressionless but arrogant at the same time. "I sense something odd about her. She's not a Quincy, fullbringer nor shinigami."
"She's Asian and European."
"No, Uryū. Its not that... Her aura is strange."
When Sōnoe returned home. Her grand mother was dusting the halls. She greeted her grand daughter, when she walked in. Grandma Fuyu dressed in traditional clothes. Her hair in a bun with two unusual hair black lotus flower pins but when she spoke her words were never kind or conservative. She was frank, blunt and indecent. As she was growing old her mind did it in reverse.
"Hah, You are home late! Sōnoe! Where were you? Dear?" Her grandma spoke.
"I told you earlier, I went to the Ishida house for a tutoring session with Uryū-kun." She replied nicely to the old woman.
"Oh, Good for you dear," The old lady gave her a teasing slap on the shoulder.
"What do you mean? grams?"
"Just remember to take the birth control pills your doctor gave ya." Her grandma remarked spontaneously. Gave to her for another reason alone.
"You think we're... No, Obaasan! We are not doing that!" Her face went red. The old lady always thought of the extremes of every situation.
"Back in my day, tutoring was code for something else entirely. What we were doing was natural but what they wanted us to do was the opposite of such. Humans are sexual beings not super brains." Fuyu implied to Sōnoe. Yep, grandmother Endō grew up in the 60's listening to rock n' roll and all matter of drugs were highly available. Hey, It was the 60's! She lived quite a life until she subsided her uncouth ways (not really), married, settled down and had children.
"Today is very different from 55 years ago, Grams."
"BULLSHIT." The swearing old woman walked along into the old library. "Your dinner is in the fridge if you want it."
In contrast with her rude and direct manner. Grandma Fuyu was a great cook. She prided herself with her cooking skills and would always insist that she cook for every occasion and for guests.
Karakura high, morning after
"Geez, Uryū. What is your problem? Maybe you should just kiss her and get it over with." Ichigo sighed after listening to Ishida speak, "This magical seduction stuff sounds too natural to me."
"You can't feel it? Her reiatsu?"
"Her reiatsu is pleasant, much like Orihime's." This was true. Ichigo turned to the withdrawn burgundy haired girl in the back corner looking nonchalantly out the window on this beautiful day of fine weather.
"Umm...Yes, Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked sweetly after he spoke her name.
"Chad and Orihime? What do you think about this magical seduction?" The red head turned to his other two friends.
"You know, Ichigo... Us girls ARE magical beings." Orihimegiggled warmly.
"What Uryū is experiencing is totally natural... Maybe not for him that is." Chad in his usual calm demeanor gave his friends his best judgement on this situation.
Keigo Asano walked over to Ichigo on his way to his desk, "She can put a spell on me!"
Ichigo flicked him on the forehead, "Unlikely, Asano."
"You guys know she was on gymnastics team last year until her grades started to plummet, last year was her first year at Karakura high. Something happened to her parents from what I've heard and she had to be sent to live with her grandmother." Tatsuki Arisawa elaborated to her friends.
"Maybe she can show me some of her skills." Mizuiro winked.
Tatsuki rolled her eyes.
Endō House, After school
"Welcome, to the Endō house of five generations." Sōnoe welcomed Ishida into her family's ancient house, She joked and gave him a friendly grin, "When I was younger I thought this house was haunted. It turned out that the ghost was actually a rambunctious old woman."
From the dusty attic came down the ghost of said rambunctious old lady Fuyu, "Haha! Sōnoe! You're early... Oh, And you brought over your boyfriend... House of five generations? This house existed ever since the early Edo era when the Tokugawa were calling the shots. It houses all the spirits of the Endō clan."
"Uryū-kun and I are going to my room to study, Obāsan." She spoke respectfully to her crazy grandma.
Ishida decided to put aside the words Fuyu referred to him as. He gave the old woman a polite bow, "My name is Ishida Uryū, I am pleased to meet you, Mrs. Endō."
"And a polite young man at that," Fuyu nodded...
Sōnoe took his hand and they rushed to her room down the hall. Overlooking the garden. She closed the shoji door and sat down with Ishida at her low desk on a pillow.
"Before we begin... I found the source of your distraction from your studies and I know it's me. For the sake of your grades and future, I advise you to release me from my role as tutor." Uryū proposed for her best interest.
Sōnoe nodded and asked cockily, "Since I forbaded you to leave... What other role would you like to take up?"
"We would be better off as friends." He insisted with the same cool attitude.
"Agreed," She sat beside him. All very quiet like. Her pale hand swiped away strands of hair from the side of her face revealing a fleur de lis on one side of her teal head band. For one second, the same strange energy emitted from the flower. Uryū was about to say something when she spoke up, "Is there anything you would like to know about me?"
"What happened to your parents?"
"Kidnaped, tortured and brutally slaughtered by an entity. I do not know. Their souls visited me before moving onto the afterlife. That's how I know what happened to them but not the who of their murderer." Sōnoe gazed at a framed photo of her parents. "My father was French. My mother met him when she was studying at a college in Paris. They both were kind people... I miss them dearly."
He moved her dark hair. She grabbed his hand. "You probably don't want to touch those..." Sōnoe chortled, Trying to ulter their conversation, "You said that you distract me? Judging by your reaction yesterday, I think I distract you."
Uryu felt quite abashed. But passivity got the best of him. Changing the subject was the best decision.
"What are they?" Uryu questioned.
"Oh, these are my fleur de lis as I like to call them." Sōnoe reached into her hair and took the hair clips out of her hair. As she did this the the flowers decorated on her clips turn into four fairies. Each had different clothing, hairstyles and personalized wings. An armored warrior, one in luxurious dress with roses, an aquatic fairy with a glittering mermaid tail and fin like wings, last a gold fairy with a golden melodic harp.
Uryu was at first tense but that vanished. Sōnoe's Fleur de lis reminded him of Orihime's Kutenkesshun.(I'm probably getting this wrong.)
"Your fleur de lis is similar to one of my friend's unique power." Uryu said matter of factly.
"Oh, really? I would like to meet her-them." Sōnoe smiled softly.
"Perhaps, you will." Uryu adjusted his glasses.
After returning home from school. Orihime finished her homework, did a few chores and had a snack. Because doing chores make people sweat and when people get sweaty they get hungry so their appetite becomes a necessity to fullfil.
Orihime ate her favorite snack of bread smothered with butter. High in carbs, sodium and pasteurized.
After feeling satisfyingly full, Orihime read a shoujo manga and fell asleep on it. If it wasn't for her kutenkenshin, she would have overslept.
"Orihime! Get up! Its six, thirty!"
"Sleeping beauty, you have to get ready for your date with Ichigo!"
Orihime began to stir, her saliva bleeding out the black ink print on the pages of her manga book. Ink and her own saliva on her face. Her hair messy and matted.
"Oh, kami! I forgot!" Orihime exclaimed.
"You still have time."
"I have to take a shower! I can't go on a date with Ichigo like this!" Orihime cried.
'I look so terrible! What would Ichigo think of me? Silly, Orihime doesn't know how to take care of her self or even try to look feminine. Look at the saliva on her face. Gross." Orihime thought anxiously rambling.
"It's fine. Take a shower and leave the rest to us. Go on."
One the faeries wiped a bit of the compound of ink saliva off Orihime's face a tissue.
After taking a shower and drying her hair. Orihime styled her hair in an up-do ponytail and makeup.
The fairies picked out one of her few formal dresses of pink with roses on the v line, a pair of dark nylons and a pair of laced up heeled sandals. Of course while Orihime's fairy god mother and fathers' were at it, they casted a spell that made her dress shimmer. She dresses herself and indulges in it's beauty. Lastly the fairies wrapped a white glittery scarve around her shoulders.
"Ooh, I look so formal!" Inoue gawked at herself in the mirror. "I wonder what Kurosaki will think?"
Suddenly her door bell rings.
'Oh, Kurosaki-kun is here!' Orihime clamored, almost tripping over her own feet on her way to open the door.
She opened the door door but Ichigo wasn't there! Uryu Ishida was stand on her doorstep instead. Emotions washed over Orihime excitement, disappointment and curiousity.
"Uryū-kun! Come in!"
"I apologize for this intrusion so late in the evening. I have something important to tell you, Inoue-chan."
'Uryū-kun, you don't have to be so formal. We've known each other for so long. We're friends.' Orihime thought.
Uryū usually resorted to formality when he felt unsure and insecure. This instance, he didn't know if he should tell Orihime about Sōnoe powers. Perhaps, Sōnoe should do that herself. But he could always bring them closer together.
"Orihime-chan, There is a girl who you should meet..."
"Oh, Your girlfriend?" She cooed teasing Ishida.
"Not my girlfriend..."
"The girl with magical seduction? Right?" She guessed a second time.
Ishida sighed, "Her name is Endō Sōnoe. She has abilities similar to your own."
"The quiet girl who sits in the back in class." Orihime nodded, "Okay, I will meet her on Monday."
"Where are you going dressed like that?"
Orihime blushed the same pink color of her dress, "I'm going on a date with Ichigo-kun soon... Um, do you have any advice? About Ichigo-kun?" Orihime thought since Uryū and Ichigo were both men; Uryū could give some sound advice about dates with his gender.
"Relationship advice is where I'm lacking at the moment... Maybe you should just be yourself." That was obvious.
"Yes, Thank you." She grabbed her purse from the coat hanger beside the coat hanger.
Ishida was about to compliment her when Ichigo ran down the street and through her unlocked door. "Inoue! Forgive me for being so late!... Oh, Ishida is here as well."
Author: Hmm, the longest good chapter I've written.(my youngest sister contributed to writing this chapter, too) Do you see where this is going? Orihime and Ichigo are on a good start. As they should be. Uryū is getting himself into something he is totally unprepared for. A conflicted girl who finds him attractive which can lead to lots of trouble...Heheh, good Anakin, good. (Sorry, about that Stars Wars) Chapter two is coming soon! Kind of soon!