Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach.

Warning: Confusing feelings and little to no plot. No spoilers. Large amounts of vivid imagination, stupidity, and Hime smiles. Watch out, they're contagious. Oh, and some self-hate. Chad's not a monster!!

"o-kun? Sado-kun?"

Chad opened his eyes to see one of his female classmates looking down at him. He was sure he looked a mess, bleeding lip, black eye… What else had those boys done to him?

He'd been walking home from school and had to split up with Ichigo, something about Ichigo having to put flowers on a grave, when some neighborhood delinquents ambushed him. Without Ichigo there to fight for him, Chad had let the boys get their anger out on his face. The boys seemed frightened when Chad didn't go down after a few punches (only about 12 to the face and 19 to the gut, nothing much) and hightailed it out of there before the giant boy decided to fight back.

So Chad had wandered away, deciding to rest on the grassy river bank before going back home to his lonely apartment. There was less for him in the messy one room place then there was for him out here. At least here he got colors, the river, some birds chirping, and the random squirrel running over his feet.

He hadn't meant to fall asleep, and was actually glad the girl had woken him up. Now, if only he could remember her name… "Inoue-san."

"Oh! I'm glad you're alright Sado-kun, I thought you were hurt." It was a giggly voice, with lots of love and kindness weaved into it. Chad was a little disappointed in himself for not being able to recognize someone with a voice like that. Especially when it was directed at him. Light orange hair and wide curious eyes was what he noticed first about her. He was surprised to feel his face heat up when he looked into those eyes, and had to quickly look away.

He didn't want to stand up in front of the girl, since it usually scared people if he stood up too fast around them. Something about him being so tall and big. No one wanted to be towered over by a monster. While he was worrying over scaring her, she had been talking to him, so he stopped thinking to focus on what she was saying.

"So I thought you might have been abducted by alien robots. At first I thought just normal aliens, but then I noticed that your eye was all swollen, so I knew then it must be robots! You should go to the clinic to have all those scratches fixed up. That's what Tatsuki-chan is always telling me to do."

Chad was surprised, his eyebrows rising beneath the hair shadowing his face. "You fight Inoue-san?"

"Why yes, how did you know Sado-kun? I've only told Tatsuki-chan about my fights with wild bearasaurs in the woods. But usually the honey fairies heal me before I leave, so I don't need to go to the clinic for that. But I do get tripped by ghost strings a lot. See, like this one. Some mean old ghost tripped me today." She pointed to her harm where a large cut was hastily wrapped up in a thin gym towel. There was already blood seeping out and rolling down her arm. Chad's eyebrows rose further, and he found himself wondering where and how the small girl had gotten such a deep cut from tripping.

"But enough about me Sado-kun, we have to get you to the clinic. You seem a little pale all of the sudden. Is it because I mentioned Bearasaurs?" And she spent the next 10 minutes that it took to get to the local clinic explaining why Chad didn't need to worry about Bearasaurs because he looked so strong. It seemed Chad's face didn't know if it should be pale about all the crazy things she kept spouting or blushing at all the sweet things she said with that innocent smile.

It finally settled on a smile when he realized she was walking right next to him the whole time. She hadn't suddenly found something else to do when he stood to his full height on the riverbank, nor had she shied away when he offered her his hand to help her up the steep bank. The cute (yes, he was starting to understand that weird urge to stare at her) girl had just kept talking, smiling as she took his hand.

He was almost disappointed when they reached the clinic. It meant his time was up with the little angel at his side. Something about the sign over the clinic door caught his attention, but that very same attention was almost immediately forced back onto the girl when she tripped on the threshold and he had to catch her.

She giggled out a thank you, not seeming to notice that he hadn't let go yet. She fit perfectly in his arms. They didn't wrap all the way around her and still have forearm to spare like with most people. Chad blushed a deep red at the realization that it could be because of her very well developed upper torso. But still, she fit, like she was meant to be held by him. He shook himself out of his thoughts, removing his hands and allowing Inoue to go further into the building, ringing a little bell for service.

And before Chad fully understood what all the feelings for that one busty classmate meant, his heart broke. He didn't know how it broke, because he hadn't even known it was attached to the bouncy Inoue in the first place. But as soon as Ichigo Kurosaki, his friend, walked into the room, and he saw Inoue's face turn a light shade of crimson, he felt a twinge in his chest. And then he was gone.

Gone, gone, flown the scene. He'd backed out of that building like it was on fire. Chad wasn't even sure Ichigo had seen him yet before he'd took off down the road. His long legs carried him easily, even at the fast pace he'd set, and he reached his home in half the time it usually took for him to get there all the way from school.

He didn't understand the crushing feeling on his chest, smothering him. So it was natural that he never understood why it returned when one Inoue Orihime stood beside him on an pedestrian overpass, months later, watching the same orange haired boy as before, the same expression on her face. And he didn't understand either, why, after that, he decided to protect her even if it took his life, and not tell Ichigo about it. He planned on doing it all by himself.

The End

Or Is It?

AN: I might make this a two-shot, possibly even a series, if I really get into it. Otherwise, this's a oneshot. Made it for a friend, because both me and him were complaining that there aren't enough ChadXHime fanfics out there. So, thought I'd fill up that empty space. Personally I prefer IshiHime, but I thought ChIme would be really wicked super cute (when its not being all angsty) so… yeah. Thanks for reading, please review!