A/N: This is my 1st fanfiction so please be kind. Hopefully I get good reviews. Oh BTW this fanfiction will probably have lemon in it in the later chapters but until the lemony goodness comes in I shall keep the rating at T for kissing and all the sexual humor jokes. THIS CHAPTER HAS NO LEMON.

Chapter 1: The Burning Question

She sat there uneasily wondering if she should even ask him to come. She knew that she had to ask him but she was too embarrassed.

"Um, Kurosaki-kun? ..." she was able to mutter out.

"Yeah Inoue?" he said.

"Can you come to my house today for dinner?" she finally squeezed out. There was a long pause and the entire class was staring at Orihime with question, she swore she could have died from embarrassment.

"Uhh…" Ichigo said out of boredom, "Sure, but why?"

"Um well, it was supposed to be my brother's birthday today and I wanted to celebrate it, and Tatsuki-chan, Kuchiki-san, Ishida-san, and Chizuru-san already agreed to come." Orihime said while she looked like she was staring off into space. "I think Sado-kun said yes too but I could barely hear him talk and I…Kurosaki-kun? What's wrong?" she said as she looked at Ichigo's face. His face was burning with anger when he heard the name Chizuru.

"Chizuru is coming?" he said with great anger in his voice. He turned his head towards her seat but noticed she wasn't there and quickly swung his head back only to catch Chizuru in the act of trying to fondle Orihime. Orihime, absent-minded as even didn't notice anything, however an unusually quiet Tatsuki noticed the eye darts Ichigo was throwing at the perverted lesbian and decided to lend a hand.

She yelled with great intensity, "Chizuru!" and kicked her in the ribs so hard she flew to the other side of the room.

A calmed down Ichigo nodded a thank-you to Tatsuki and turned back to Orihime and said, "Thanks for inviting me; I would really like to come."

Orihime sighed with relief and almost jumped in happiness, "Yay, that's enough for a good party for my brother, thank you, Kurosaki-kun, it's all thanks to you!" she said as she jumped and hugged him in relief

Ichigo, who's face was turning a bright shade of red said, "Umm… Inoue?" Coming out of her ecstatic state, she finally noticed her arms around Ichigo's neck and her body was pressed up against his.

"Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, I don't know what I was thinking," she said as a bright shade of pink crossed her face. Tatsuki, who noticed Chizuru's maniacal face, held her back. Good thing too, because if she waited a second longer Ichigo's head would be spinning on the floor by now.

"Give it up, you idiot, Orihime doesn't like you, you freak."

Chizuru turned with a devilish grin on her face, "Then it looks like I'll have to kill the person she does, and I think I know who that might be…" she said while she laughed crazily.

"You won't have a chance, you psychopath," Tatsuki said with annoyance.

"Oh contraire, you forget I'm coming to Orihime's dinner party tonight, you're going to have to keep an eye on me the whole time to make sure I don't attack…him!" and as Chizuru said the last word she stared at Ichigo with a giant scowl on her face.

"You owe me big time Ichigo," Tatsuki thought to herself, " I better get ready as soon as I leave school so I can get to Inoue's house before that psycho gets there, I'll just…" but as soon as the idea crossed her mind it became impossible. She watched in shock as Ichigo bravely asked Orihime what Tatsuki was just about to.

"Inoue?"

"Yes Kurosaki-kun?" she said with increasing inquiry as Ichigo stalled as long as he could.

He then blurted out, "C-can I walk you h-home today?" he stuttered.

Inoue noticed an extremely deep red blush cross over his face, and sporting her own said, "U-um… but why?"

Noticing the sense of anguish in her voice he softly said, "I want to…" noticing everyone was staring at him in awe, or Chizuru's case, fury, added, "… and I want to be there for you early so I can help set up, I know how important your brother was to you, so I want to help," he said smiling at Orihime, his face still extremely red.

What happened completely shocked everyone, muttering a quiet, "Yes, thank you, Kurosaki-kun," she fainted . Tatsuki, Rukia, Chizuru, and Ichigo all rushed to the fainted orange-haired girl in front of them.

"Inoue, are you alright? Speak to me!" Rukia said attempting to awaken the fainted woman. "Ichigo you idiot! You can't just shock Inoue with something like that and not expect her to react as such," she said after punching him in the face. Chizuru took the chance while the others were busy to try and fondle the unconscious Orihime, however her efforts were in vain because Tatsuki noticed instantly and tripped her, kicked her in the stomach, and sat on her.

Not bothering to question why a girl was unconscious on the floor while another girl was punching a guy in the face and why one more girl was sitting on a lump of clay, oh wait, it was Chizuru, the teacher said, " Alright, I'll get a nurse for the boy with the bloody face (pointing at Ichigo), the lump of clay (pointing at Chizuru), and the unconscious girl with the huge breasts (pointing at Orihime)," she then whispered to herself, " Hey, mine aren't even that big, what the hell does she eat?"

"That's ok, sensei," said Ichigo, "me and Chizuru are fine."

"Yes, but what about Orihime?"

Right away Chizuru got up and said, "I'll handle that!"

Pushing her back down Tatsuki said, "No you won't!" and made the scariest face she could and was about to say she would but yet again Ichigo beat her to the quick.

"I will," Ichigo said as he ran over to the fainted Orihime and started shaking her, "C'mon, wake up, Inoue, wake up!"

"That won't work, you idiot," Tatsuki said with annoyance.

"I know," Ichigo admitted, "I just wanted to see if it might work, but I think I know something that will."

Tatsuki had gotten up by now and started to walk towards Orihime but was stopped by Rukia, who said, "No, let him."

Ichigo reached for Orihime and held her back, then bent down and softly set his lips upon hers. As if on cue, Orihime's eyes shot open and she regained consciousness. The first thing she did was wrap her arms around his neck, as soon as she did this his eyes shot open and he realized she regained consciousness. They broke the kiss then stoop up immediately and started to blush a color so red strawberries would be envious.

They looked around the class and saw the open jaws. Chizuru looked like she needed to go to a sanitarium, Tatsuki kept on blinking because she couldn't believe what she was seeing, and the teacher dropped her piping hot coffee on top of Keigo's head who also looked rather insane until she did.

"Well, class is over," said the stunned teacher and as soon as she said it Ichigo and Orihime bolted out of the classroom together.

"Ughh, Asano, you get detention for them as well," said a thoroughly ticked off teacher.

A little confused Keigo said, "What did I do to get detention in the first place."

"Because you're Keigo, and also, you are the one who made me spill my coffee."

"But…" Keigo tried to say out of protest.

"That's it three hours!"

A/N: Ok that's chapter 1, I'll upload chapter 2 soon, already got it written.