Disclaimer: Nah, I don't own Bleach
A/N: I'm a really really big fan of this couple! I hope they end up together! They're totally meant for each other! It's hot and hot people! This is my first Ichigo and Orihime love story EVER!!! I plan to write many more! Ichigo and Orihime 4ever!!!!!
More Than Just Friends
Newly Best Friends
Their relationship had always been strong, since they were 12 years old. Sora, Orihimes brother had died, that's when they first met, in the waiting room of the Kurosaki clinic. Ichigo just came down for a glass of water, when he heard a little girl crying. He watched with sadness in his eyes, he saw her face buried in her hands short orange hair, about the same shade as his, going over her hands, he walked over and sat beside her.
"Who are you waiting for?" He asked after a while of thinking of what to say
She sniffled, wiped her tears and looked up at the little boy, "My Big Brother, Sora… he was in a car accident, he's hurt really bad." she replied more tears rolling down her cheeks.
He paused, not sure how to talk to a crying girl, "I know how you feel," he finally said, "I lost my Mom not too long ago"
"Well he's not dead! Are you saying my brother's going to die?! Ohhh!!" she cried loudly
"N- no! I'm just saying how hard it is to deal with this" Ichigo rephrased his sentence,
desperately trying to stop the girl from crying.
She was about to use her sweater sleeve as a tissue until Ichigo offered her a real one, which she accepted, "Thank you"
He nodded, "What's your name?"
She slowly put down her damp tissue and made eye contact, her eyes meeting his, "Orihime
Inoue"
"Ichigo Kurosaki" he extended his hand for her to shake which she took in hers, "Nice to meet
you" he smiled back
They shook hands for a while starring at each other smiling
Doctors came in sadly causing both Ichigo and Orihime to stand up
Orihime waited anxiously for a quick answer, but didn't get one. She stared at the sad looking
doctors. "How is he?" she asked. "Is he okay?" she asked trying to get an answer faster. "Is he alive?!" she raised her voice getting more and more impatient with every passing second. "Will
someone please talk to me?!" she yelled begging for an answer.
"Listen Orihime…" one of the doctors started, "We want you to be a brave little girl. He didn't make… he's past on" he finished
She stayed quiet. Silent. Not a word escaping her lips except whimpers and sounds sniffles, the sight of trails of tears coming out of her wide eyes and rolling down her cheeks.
Not quite the reaction the doctors thought they'd receive, except for the crying part. They thought she'd bawl her eyes out and scream out her grief, her shock lasted too long.
Suddenly, she felt the muscle in her knees fail go weak as she fell to them
Ichigo reacted quickly and caught her as she almost hit the ground. He brought her eyes to go against his shoulder, as he brought them to the clean floor slowly. She quietly sobbed on his shoulder, He could feel the dampness of her hot tears though his sweater.
Ichigo looked sadly at the man that broke the bad news to her, his father, Isshin, who closed his
eyes sadly as well.
They stayed like that for about, maybe 5 minutes.
"Do you have any relatives little girl?" Isshin broke the silence
She lifted her face off Ichigo's shoulder and sniffled, "No" she sniffled again, "He was all I had" she said, voice breaking.
'She can't stay by herself on her first night alone' Isshin thought, 'I'd be too scary, sad and dangerous. Up until now she'd always depended on her brother to support them both'
"Can she stay with us Dad?" Ichigo asked
Isshin looked down to his son. Orihime looked up to Ichigo, surprised that a boy she barely met
would offer her his home without any hesitation.
Isshin thought about it
"Please Dad, she has no place to go, and besides, she's my friend" he begged "please let her stay"
The answer was clear to him now, "Okay" he smiled
Ichigo smiled back then at Orihime, he lifted them up and walked with her into the house.
"Dinner is ready! Come get it before it gets co…" Yuzu walked around the corner when she
heard the door open and close, seeing Ichigo and their Dad walk in was normal but the girl was a surprise, the same age as Ichigo and a little shorter, almost the same color hair and eyes she noticed.
Orihime had stopped crying, but still felt pain of losing her big brother.
Yuzu stepped closer to her, "Hi, I'm Yuzu, Ichigo's little sister"
Tears rolled down Orihimes cheeks, "I'm Orihime, Nice to meet you" she sobbed quietly and walked with Isshin, leaving Ichigo and Yuzu alone
"I didn't mean to make her cry, was it something I said?" Yuzu asked, feeling bad about it
"Her brother just died, her big brother, meaning that she's the little sister. She cried once you mentioned little sister"
"Oh, I won't mention it again"
Karin was on the couch watching late night cartoons when she heard two separate footsteps
walking. She got up at them, she took in the same affect as Yuzu. "Who's this, Dad?"
"This is Orihime Inoue, she will be staying with us for a while" he introduced
"Hi,I'm Ichigo's little sister and Yuzu's twin sister"
"Nice to meet you" Orihime smiled
Isshin, Ichigo, Karin, and Yuzu went to sit at the dinner table. Orihime stayed where she was, she stared at them, the family.
When they looked around the table for her, they noticed she wasn't sitting down with them.
"Come join us Orihime" Ichigo invited
"No thanks, I'm really not very hungry at all" She refused
"C'mon, Yuzu made more than enough if you're afraid we'll run out"
Yuzu nodded
"No, but thank you anyway, I appreciate your offer"
"At least come sit with us" he tried one more time
She thought about refusing again, but decided against it, she went to an empty seat and sat down.
They ate but it didn't seem right if one person wasn't eating, "Have dinner with us Orihime, I can assure you it's really good" Isshin said
"The taste of the food is not what concerns me, but the recent events is what's stopping me from eating, I don't suppose you've forgotten have you? Besides, I used to have family dinners like this with my brother, if he hadn't died tonight I'd be having dinner with him right now"
"When my Mom died you know what helped me around dinner time?" Ichigo asked
"What?" She replied
"I ate" Ichigo answered shoving noodles wrapped around chop sticks in her mouth
She made struggling sounds of the sudden food in her mouth, none-the-less she swallowed, "I told you I'm not very…" she stopped as soon as she felt the pleasant taste on her tongue, "Alright, if everyone wants me to eat" she smiled as she gave in to hunger and taste
"How old are you Orihime?" Ichigo asked taking a bite himself
"12" she said
"Like me!" Ichigo said mouth full
"Cool" she said
"It's funny we haven't seen each other before"
"You sure we've never met?"
"No, I would have remembered you"
Isshin smiled at the quickly bonding kids. He thought if this continued, his son and Orihime would make a cute couple.
As conversation went on as well as dinner time, they all shared some laughs and got to know Orihime better.
After dinner they all went to watch TV for a while until, "Bed-Time" Isshin yawned as well as the other four kids, silently agreeing in unison.
After brushing teeth and letting Orihime use one that was still in it's package, it was time to go to bed.
"Where can I sleep sir?" Orihime asked
"The girls room?" Isshin thought aloud
"But there's only room for us in there" Yuzu and Karin protested
"But this is her first night alone, she can't sleep by herself, it's too scary for her"
"She can sleep with me" Ichigo suggested, "Orihime can sleep with me in my bed"
Isshin thought about this, 'Girl sleeping with Ichigo this early in his life?, ehh, why not?, they won't do anything, Ichigo's a good boy', "Okay, it's fine with me" he answered "Goodnight" he said before walking to his room
"Goodnight" they said in unison, Yuzu and Karin walked over to their room
"C'mon, this way to my room" Ichigo took Orihimes hand and led them to his room, he opened the door, switched on his light. "This is it right here, it's not too small, it's just right, well for me it is anyway, bed right there, bathroom is down the hall" Ichigo took off his shirt getting ready to put on his p.j's, Orihime turned around blushing slightly, "Oh, I'm sorry, I should have said something"
"It's alright, do you have anything I can put on to sleep with?"
"No, but I bet Yuzu or Karin do, I'll go ask" he said leaving the room
A little while later Ichigo came back with a pair of Karin's knee-length sport shorts and one of Yuzu's pink tank tops with a star on it.
Ichigo left to use the bathroom.
She thought they looked cute, first she took off the jeans she was wearing that day and slid on Karin's shorts, they fit right, comfortable. Then she took off her blue t-shirt with an orange stripe across her chest. Suddenly the door opened, Ichigo walked in and got a full view at Orihimes surprisingly well developed breasts. His eyes widened. She automatically reacted and turned her back to him, bra straps showing.
"I'm sorry!" Orihime apologized
"No I'm sorry, I should have knocked or something, I'm so sorry"
"No, this is your room I should have changed in the closet or bathroom, I'm sorry!"
"Then we're both sorry, I'll leave so you can change"
"Wait, Ichigo?"
"Yeah?" "
"Could you hand me that tank top?" she asked
"Sure" He walked over, picked it up and gave it to her, the back of his hand brushed the side of her right breast, both their blushes grew wider
"T- Thanks" she said and put it on
"(GULP) Uh-huh" he said nervously "I'll leave now"
"That's okay I'm done" she turned around
Without thinking, Ichigo checked her out from bottom to top, he noticed she had nice legs, skin, there was and inch of skin showing from her shirt to her shorts, she had a cute face and hair, little did he know, she noticed this, and she had very beautiful eyes, 'What?! Eyes?!, Oh no! we're making eye contact!' he thought, yes they had both made eye contact, once again their blushes grew.
Suddenly a loud thunderclap was heard outside and lightning to go with it as it started to rain, pouring, they heard the pitter-patter of rain on the window. It caused Orihime to jump and wrap her arms around Ichigo and it was Ichigo's reaction to wrap his arms around her waist. She was surprised to what she had done and what he had done in return, Ichigo was just as surprised as she was.
She looked up at Ichigo just as Ichigo looked down to Orihime, lips only inches apart. She let go. He did the same.
Ichigo walked to his bed, got in and held the sheets up, inviting Orihime in with him. Orihime accepted and got in along side him.
"Why'd you wrap your arms around me?" Ichigo asked
"I'm sorry" Orihime apologized
"No, I'm not angry that it happened, I'm just wondering why you did it"
"When the thunderclap and lightning came so suddenly, I got scared and so I wrapped my arms around you because, I felt, I dunno, like I was in the safest place in the world"
"Oh, thanks, you're scared of thunder and lightning?"
"A little"
The thunder and lightning went off again she got scared just as she did before
"Does this help?" Ichigo asked wrapping his arms around her and hugging her tightly to him. Her back was to his chest, his arms around her waist. He was hugging her so tightly he butt was touching his (whistles). He sniffed her pleasant smelling hair
"Yes" she said relaxing, "Yes it does"
They fell asleep together
9:00am in the Mourning
They awoke together, arms still secured around her.
"How'd you sleep?" Ichigo asked
"Very well and you?" She answered and asked
"Me too"
They dressed, Orihime put on her sweater and put her hands in her pockets, in one of them she felt two items that felt like they were the same thing. She pulled them out, she was surprised by what they were, 'Oh my god' she thought, 'these are the hairpins Sora gave me. I called them childish at first, but now I look at them and they're actually cute' she put the hairpins on her bangs just above her ears. The hair pins were small, strange blue flowers with six petals. They went downstairs had breakfast, and it was time for Orihime to say goodbye, but she'd be back to visit them very often.
"Thank you for your hospitality, friendship and kindness, Mr. Kurosaki" Orihime thanked and bowed
"You're very welcome, anytime Orihime, remember that my home is your home"
She smiled
"Thank you as well, Yuzu and Karin, it was a pleasure meeting you. Thank you for the clothes u let me borrow to sleep with, I appreciate it" she bowed again
"You're welcome, It was great meeting you too Orihime" Yuzu bowed
"Yeah, feel free to come anytime you want, even late at night" Said Karin
Orihime smiled again
"And you Ichigo, I have to thank the most, for sharing your home, food, bed with me. But most of all you're friendship"
"You're welcome, besides, you're already my best friend," Ichigo said
Words that touched Orihime's heart. "As you are mine" she smiled
"I promise I'll visit very often, tomorrow I'll come again"
"We'll be waiting for you. You're always more than welcome here Orihime" Isshin finished
Orihime swore she had never smiled so much in her life. She went out the door and headed towards her own house.
"Orihime wait!!" she heard a familiar voice behind him, she turned around and sure enough that was Ichigo, "Can I walk you home?"
"Yeah, lets go" she said as they walked together side by side.
They've Been Friends Ever Since.
A/N: More to come, what do you think of this so far? Is it good? Let me know! I'm out!