Theme Number: 001
Theme Name: Savings Box
Couple: IshidaXOrihime
Rating: T for a boy's wandering thoughts
Author: WhenCrazyMeetsAWriter (you may call me Briana)
Author's Note: Well, this is my first shot at a themes challenge, and I really want to become a better writer, and these theme things are always fun to read... like instant fluff! This one isn't exactly that, but close. I love IshidaxInoue, so that's what most of these will be... although YourichixUrahara and IchigoxRukia are nice to... constructive critisism allowed, flames if you must...
She is a very strange girl.
"Hmm... what's this, Inoue-san?"
"Oh, this!?" She says, holding up a small box with a slot at the top. "This is my savings box! Everyday, I put a yen in it, and when it fills up I get something special for someone special from me!" She grins, practically bounding with energy and excitement.
That was another trait about her that makes me fall for her every day. She always seems to find some ray of happiness, whether it was credible or not. Some small, ray of sunshine in the everlasting darkness that surrounds this world every day.
"Which is why I've invited you!" She's beaming at me now, a slight blush tingeing her cheeks. I look curiously at her beneath my glasses.
She runs to a closet, and she bends over and rummages around. Her behind is sticking out and her soft, smooth legs peaking underneath her light purple flower print skirt. I notice that I, myself, am now blushing. Not only is her personality endearing, but there is no doubt to any straight man that she is indeed beautiful.
"Ah! Here it is!" She comes up from her hiding place and closes the door and walks over to me with a grocery bag. She sets it on the table and sits next to me, so close that I can feel the heat from her skin as she blushes and holds a guilty look on her face. "I haven't forgotten what happened at Soul Society, about you losing your powers and all... and I really do feel thankful for rescueing me, and thinking about my welfare... so I got you something!"
She again has her radiant, smiling face on as she takes from the bag a...
"Hello... Kitty... Plushie?"
"Yeah! I heard that they're modeled after a good luck charm, and I couldn't find it spur-of-the-moment, so I got you this!" She says, her eyes closed to my questioning gaze.
"Oh... Well... Thank you!" I say, plastering a smile as I accept the gift, quickly stuffing it back in the bag.
"I'm glad you like it!" She said, her eyes still closed and smiling.
We both experience the silence. It's not uncomfortable, or comfortable... just friendly. Yes. Just... friendly...
"Well, I... really must be going... my father's expecting me home soon..." I glance at the clock, and really do realize that my curfew was a few minutes ago.
I instantly regret saying this, as her face falls. "Well, if you really must... I'll go get your coat!"
When I get my coat on for the chilly weather and have the grocery bag with the gift inside of it, she sees me to the door. "Thanks for inviting me to your lovely home, Inoue-chan, I'll see you at school."
"Yes, goodbye Ishida-kun!" She says. And, as a sort of afterthought, she kisses me on the cheek.
As the door closes to the chill, I figure out just what happened and my face seems to burn off. I walk down the stairs absently gaze into the grocery bag.
She's strangely endearing to me.
And I walk home.