Feliz Navidad everybody. This fic is for Marisol aka Killer Honey Bear for the FLOL Secret Santa. I hope you enjoy it.
"Orihime, don't you think you might of went a little overboard with your gift for Ichigo?" Tatsuki asked her best friend as she took a seat besides her in her living room.
Orihime was just finishing up wrapping up the gift for her crush Tatsuki asked her that question. "What do you mean?" A little confused. "I just knitted him a scarf."
"Yeah. Twelve of them." As the martial artiest pointed to the other eleven scarves that were scatter all around Orihime's apartment.
"Oh." she laughed, now realizing how many she actually had. "Those were just some rejects I made. I just couldn't figure out what length to make it." she said, lifting two scarves that were different sizes.
"Oh, that make sense."
"So, what made you decide to make Ichigo a scarf?" Tatsuki asked, knowing full well why she did it but just wanting to tease her a bit.
"Uuuuhhh, well." While normally a persons' reason for making a scarf for someone was that because they have feelings for someone, just like Tatsuki thought. And while it was still true, Orihime didn't want to tell her best friend that the real reason why she made the scarf was because she had a dream of Ichigo dress up as a masked hero in those morning action shows. Him wearing a black tight body suit fighting monsters, defending the Earth from the evil organizations that are trying to destroy it…
"Orihime, are you aright?" Tatsuki noticing the now red faced princess.
"Yes, I'm ok. Perfectly fine. No need to worry." Orihime answered, trying to dismiss the embarrassment by laughing. The cause of it being that she was imagining Ichigo as a mask hero
"Alright. Now tell me why you made that scarf?" Not dropping her original question, much to Orihime's embarrassment.
After finally telling Tatsuki the reason why she made the scarf, and earning a good nature laugh, Orihime decide to head to Ichigo's home and give him his gift or risk the chance of chickening out to give it to him.
"I hope he likes it." Orihime told herself once she was at the front door of the Kurosaki household. After taking a deep breathe to calm the nervous butterflies in her stomach, Orihime press the door bell.
"I don't care what you say, I'm not going to kiss you just because you're under the mistletoe." Ichigo shouted to his father as he opened the door to find a shock Orihime.
"In-Inoue." Surprise to see his classmate here. "Hey." Ichigo greeted her as he stepped outside.
"Hello, Kurosaki-kun." Orihime greeted back, smiling.
"Sorry for yelling. My dad is just being an idiot."
"Don't worry about it."
There was a slight pause between the bright hair teen as they stood there doing nothing.
"So, why are you out here in the middle of the night anyway?" Ichigo finally asked after the initial shock of seeing her was gone. He really didn't like the idea of her being out at night. Especial when all alone.
"Oh, that's right, I just came here to give you your Christmas present." Orihime reach in her bag she was carrying and pulled out a green rectangular box out of it. "Merry Christmas, Kurosaki-kun." Orihime cheerfully said as she handed him his gift.
"Thanks." Shock for the second time today. "Um, I didn't really get you anything for Christmas. Sorry."
"Don't worry about. I didn't really thought you would. Now open it up."
Hesitating for a moment, Ichigo started to removed the red string and the top lid. As he was doing that, he notice Orihime's wide hopeful grey eyes and excited smile.
She actually looks like one of those children on Christmas morning. Ichigo thought happily as he finish opening his gift.
"A scarf?" he said, lifting the long cloth out of the box. It had a really soft feel to it, almost like cotton. The color was purely black with red stitches on the sides. But what he really notice was the stylish white fifteen that was etched on both sides of it. "Thanks. I like it"
"You do?" Orihime's heart starting to swell from his words of gratitude.
"Yeah." He smirked, wrapping the black scarf around his neck. "It fits perfectly." Actually liking the feel of it.
'That's a relief." Overjoyed now. "It took me the whole week to figure out the right length."
"You made this?"
"Yeah."
"Now I really feel bad for not getting you anything."
"Don't worry about that. Just seeing you happy is all the gift I need." she told him without thinking. Once she realize what she just said, her face went completely red.
"Oh, look at the time, It's getting late. I better head home or Tatsuki-chan going to get worried. Tell you family I said hello." Orihime told him as she said good bye and head off home, a big radiant smile on her .
"See you." Ichigo called out as he watch Orihime's form disappeared into the night before going inside his house, a small smile tagging at his lips.
"Come on my son, give your daddy a kiss." Isshin shouted as he leap at his son who answered him with a swift kick to the face.
This is actually part one of a two part chapter which is a little bit longer and more Ichihime interaction. Hopefully I get it up in time.
Thanks for the read, Happy Holidays, and have a nice day.
