A/N First off I'm going to say I love this pairing and I hope you guys like the story Please review! I'm always looking for feedback!
Orihime sat at her desk looking out the window watching the rain fall from the sky, watching the rain made Orihime long to be outside. She hadn't been able to focus all day long which wasn't particularly new for her, but today it had been more than usual. Orihime stared at her the black board now, even though she had been listening to the teacher the problem on the board made no sense to her. The redhead racked her brain for a solution but she just came up empty handed, she turned to look outside again resting her head in her hand. 'Maybe I should go to bed early tonight.'
"Hey, Orihime you alright?" Tatsuki asked prodding the curvy girl's elbow.
"Eh?" Orihime gave her best friend a confused look. "Oh yeah I'm fine! Don't worry." Orhime laughed it off hoping Tatsuki would leave it at that, she didn't feel in the mood for talking. Luckily for her she convinced Tatsuki without any effort and continued to watch the rain.
The dull ring of the dismissal bell rung through the empty hallways echoing off the lockers. Orihime walked slowly carrying a stack of homework assigned from her teachers, she dodged various students as the hallways began to fill up with students eager to rush home. Orihime couldn't be bothered it wasn't like she had anyone to come home to. 'I've been way to depressed lately, I should have some red bean ice cream that usually does the trick.' Orihime got caught up in her thoughts about food and crashed into someone sending her books across the floor. "Oh no! I'm so sorry!" She couldn't make out who she had crashed into her, her vision was blurry and everything seemed to be spinning around redhead put a hand against a locker to steady herself letting the moment pass. Once it was over Orihime crouched down to pick up her stuff not bothering to look up figuring who she had ran into had left by now. She reached to grab her textbook when her hand was met with a much bigger hand belonging to a man. Orihime looked up to find none other than Ichigo Kurosaki. The blood rushed to her cheeks "I'm sorry Ichi-"
"Don't be. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going the least I can do is pick up your books." Ichigo smiled sheepishly scratching the back of his head. Orihime nodded slowly.
"Thank you." Orihime smiled. Orihime knew she'd be having a good day after talking to Ichigo, he had that effect on her just seeing him made her heart skip a beat.
"Want me to walk you home?" Ichigo's voice brought Orihime out of her daze.
"Uh it's okay I'm fine really!" Orihime threw on her signature smile to prove she wasn't lying
Ichigo's face softened as a small smile tugged at his lips. This made Orihime feel like her heart was melting she wanted to scream her heart was beating so fast, instead she kept her composure dusting herself off and standing up accepting the textbook from Ichigo. "Well if you change your mind about walking home with me I'll be by the main entrance." Ichigo nodded to Orihime who blushed in response. "Yeah, okay thanks." She replied awkwardly. Ichigo raised his eye brow in confusion but quickly ignored it and headed down the stairs.
Once Ichigo was gone Orihime let out a huge sigh. 'Oh my god I'm such an idiot.' Orihime's fell into her hands shaking her head. 'I need to work on being less awkward.' Orihime took a deep breath and continued to her locker, why hadn't she just said yes? Sometimes she didn't even understand herself, either way despite almost injuring herself she felt in a better mood than she had all day and she only had Ichigo to thank.
Ichigo waited at the main entrance like he said he would, he didn't understand why he was putting so much effort into making sure Orihime was okay but he liked her and it felt like the right thing to do. Or was he just being creepy? He never was super good with girls he was more worried about his image than girls. Ichigo leaned against the concrete wall ear buds in place and waited anyway. He watched the rain bounce off the pavement it reminded him of his mom the night she died. Ichigo had just about given up and gone home when he saw Orihime walking down the steps on the entrance. "Oh! You're still here!" Orihime shouted running towards him. Ichigo blushed slightly looking away from her from her big grey eyes.
"Lets go." He gestured for Orihime to walk in front.
"Right." Orihime nodded pulling her umbrella out from her bag, the umbrella was a vibrant shade of red, so red it almost hurt Ichigo's eyes. Noticing Ichigo cringing Orihime panicked "Did I hit you in the face with my umbrella? Sorry I'm really clumsy." She waved her hands in front of her face embarrassed. Ichigo laughed "No, it's nothing don't worry about it." He assured her.
The two set off home, Orihime tried to hold the umbrella high enough to cover both of them but Ichigo was too tall for her she persisted anyway.
"Don't worry about me so much Orihime." Ichigo's hazel eyes watched her pout in response. "Here I'll hold it okay?" He said compromising with the redhead. She finally gave in and handed the umbrella to Ichigo and they both walked home in comfortable silence listening to the sound of the rain pounding on the umbrella.