Summary:
Everybody thought that Orihime and Uryu would become a couple it was just a matter of time. Orihime kept hearing people saying that Uryu has a thing for her and decided to confess. But what if they were wrong and Uryu turned her down? To make it worse, Ichigo Kurosaki, the school's infamous punk accidentally listened to the whole thing?
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PROLOGUE:
The Girl who Got her Heart Broken
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"He likes you. He must be in love with you."
Tatsuki Arisawa wiped the sweat on her forehead with the clean towel her auburn haired bestfriend brought her. It was during her Karate club activity when she saw her beautiful friend's pumpkin head popped at the dojo's door. Being the vice captain who was stronger than most male in their club, Tatsuki took a break from her kata practice to see her friend. From her face alone, Tatsuki could guess what she wanted to talk about.
It was not hard to read what was in Orihime Inoue's head. You didn't have to be Tatsuki to guess what she was thinking at the time. The way she chewed her own lip or hpw she avoided eye contact, Orihime could never lie, and this was one of so many reasons why the black belt karateka loves her so much and promised to protect her no matter what.
"B-but... Maybe he just thinks of me as his vice captain... We never spend much time together except for the club activities..."
Tatsuki snorted. The club she was talking about was the unpopular sewing club, and the man she mentioned was Uryu Ishida, the so called club captain. Tatsuki was also in the same class with Uryu and Orihime and she knew some girls who seemed to idolize the boy but still, the tomboy didn't understand why Orihime would fall for someone like him. In her opinion, Orihime deserved the best guy for her, but still she just wanted her to be happy and if being with the dark haired skinny guy would make her happy then she would do nothing but support her. Besides, why would anyone turn down a girl like her? Look at her. Orihime had the body, beauty, and brain. She was a little clumsy but it didn't matter because she was still so attractive no matter what. Orihime was oblivious about it but Tatsuki know that more than half of the male population in their school were crazy about her. It was not surprising though since Orihime has the body of the goddess and her clumsy behavious could be often mistaken as cute. Uryu Ishida, the smartest student in their school was lucky because the so called school idol had her eyes on him. Tatsuki couldn't find any reason why he would reject her friend.
"C'mon, you know it is not right," Tatsuki frowned, "you guys spend time together studying in the library sometime, don't you?"
Orihime's face turned red as she shook her head shyly, "but we were just studying... It shouldn't be counted..."
"Really?" Tatsuki lifted her brow, "our school library is almost always empty you know... Maybe something had happened between you two when you were studying together..."
"Tatsuki-chan!" Orihime hissed, her face was now rivalling her hair, "no such a thing happened... Ishida-kun always so concentrated on his study...""
Tatsuki couldn't believe that a guy could ignore Orihime, especially when he had her for himself in an empty library, but then again, she couldn't guess when it comes to her class representative. He was not easy to figure out.
"Well, however," Tatsuki nodded at the captain who gave a sign for her to continue her kata practice, before she turned to Orihime and gave her a serious look, "you should confess to him, okay... I believe he would give you an OK."
Before Orihime could protest Tatsuki had jogged back to her captain who scold her for ditching the practice to have a chit chat. Orihime sighed as she turned to leave. Confessing, huh? She had considered about it for some time now but somehow she had no confidence to do it. She was not stupid. She could hear how people gossiping about her and the dark haired boy. Even her girl friends was so sure that Uryu Ishida had a thing for her. It was the way he looked at her, said Mahana, though Orihime didn't know how he looked at her. She didn't want to get her head big just because people kept telling her that he definitely likes her, but she did find a little more courage to confess now, especially after she talked to Tatsuki just now. Besides, Uryu was really kind to her, so event if he turned her down, he would still act like usual with her after the confession, wouldn't he?
Orihime balled her hands, she had decided. Yes, she would confess.
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"I like you."
Ichigo Kurosaki blinked. He shifted a little from his current position. The perpetual scowl deepened in curiousity. He rubber his chin thoughtfully, he knew this girl. She was in the same class with him, though naturally, he had never talked to her. Her face was half hidden under her bang but he could see, somehow, that she was blushing.
"I..." she bit her lip as she tried to find the right word, "I have been liking you for a while now..."
Ichigo narrowed his eyes, from his position, he couldn't see the guy's face but he had an idea who it was. Black hair, tall and skinny, that gesture to fix his glass. It was zuryu Ishida, another guy from his class. Ichigo was a little surprised though, he had heard some rumor saying those two were dating, but it seemed like the rumor was not true after all.
He wasn't interested in the rumors around the school, but he couldn't help but to feel slightly interested in the situation. He was from the same Junior High school with Uryu Ishida, infact, his mother was actually Uryu's father's cousin, he knew that the boy was pretty popular amongst the girl, but he didn't understand why. He knew that Uryu was smart but he looked so boring, always obeying the rules. But he guessed, the girls liked this kind of boy? Even the school idol, Orihime Inoue, liked him.
Ichigo shifted a little from his position on the tree, careful not to make much noise. It would be awkward if those two realized that he had been there the whole time. Uryu hated Ichigo and he returned the sentiment, they knew each other for so long yet they couldn't get along well. If he knew Ichigo were eavesdropping his private moment, Ichigo was sure Uryu would do something annoying to pay back.
"Inoue-san," Ichigo tensed when finally his cousin openee his mouth. Oh well he wasn't really interested or something but for a reason, he felt nervous waiting for his answer. The girl must have been feeling even worse, he realized, "I appreciate your feeling, but I am so sorry. I cannot accept your feeling."
The girl gasped. For few seconds it looked almost like she would cry but she quickly covered it with a smile. She shook her head and laughed nervously, "Oh, it's okay, don't worry. I-i just... I want you to know. I am sorry that I have called you to this place..."
Then she bowed deeply.
Uryu returned her bow before he turned and left the still bowing girl. Ichigo couldn't see her face but he somehow saw her shaking shoulders after he was gone. Well, it couldn't be helped. Ichigo had never been confessed to but he guessed there was no better way to reject a girl's feeling. If you didn't feel the same you shouldn't agree to go out with them right?
Ichigo scratched his cheek with one finger. The girl was sobbing down there and he felt awkward up there just listening to her small sobs. He hated when girls started crying, well at least she cried because she thought that she was alone at the time.
The orange haired boy put his hand into his pocket. Suddenly he remembered that this morning his sister made him bring his kerchief with him. He wondered if this were the right thing to do for a moment but then decided that he didn't give a damn. Slowly he moved a little so he was right above the girl. He frowned when he saw her wiping her tears with the back of her hand.
With a frown on his face Ichigo dropped the handkerchief on her head.
Orihime startled when she felt something on her head and found a kerchief on her looked around nervously while clutching the plain white kerchief with both hands.
Stupid, I am up there. Ichigo thought amusedly when the girl now looked at his kerchief and sniffed it. The boy rolled his hazelnut eyes, what are you? A dog?
Orihime let out a soft giggled as she used the kerchief to wipe her tears. For a weird reason, she felt a bit better now.
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"Your eyes look red. Are you okay?"
"Ah yeah, I was crying whole night reading some manga," a giggle, "don't worry about me."
She was a terrible liar.
Ichigo Kurosaki didn't know what he was doing. He wasn't supposed to eavesdrop the girls. Lately, it had become a habit, apparently. He was using his arms as a pillow as he tried to sleep at his table. The first period was empty and he didn't want to listen to whatever his noisy friend was telling him so he pretended to sleep just so he would stop talking, but a somehow familiar feminine voice had his attention. He wonder since when had he recognized her voice.
Ichigo frowned, it seemed like her friends hadn't known about the confession. He wondered of Orihime planned to hide the fact that yesterday afterschool she had confessed to one of their classmate and got turned down right away. Well it wasn't his business but for a reason he didnt know, he was... Interested? Well that wasn't really the word but for now, maybe thats the only word he could find to describe it. Ichigo was never a busybody or nosy, nor ever had he been interested in something like this, but here he was, eavesdropping the girls conversation while trying so hard to look indifferent in his seat.
"By the way, I haven't seen Ishida since this morning," The girl named Ryo pointed out as she looked around the classroom, "yep, he isn't here. How unusual for our class representative to be this late."
Mahana shrugged, "maybe he won't go to school today?"
Ichigo tilted his head a little as he heard a soft chuckled from a certain auburn haired classmate of his. Orihime shook her head gently as she tried to explain, "Ishida-kun has a meeting this morning with the other student committee about the school festival, it's next month, remember?"
Tatsuki who was busy working on her unfinished homework grunted, "school festival is stupid. I hope our class wouldn't come out with stupid ideas."
"Our class in junior high school decided to mix maid cafe and haunted house," Orihime tried to explain, "so it became haunted cafe."
Mahana laughed, "that sounds absurd!"
Ichigo was still tilting his head when Keigo started to complained because nobody listened to him. He started to grab Ichigo's collar and shook him while whining annoyingly, "Ichigooooooo are you listening? I am talking to you!"
"Shut up!" Ichigo grunted, "You're so noisy!"
"How meaaaaniee..."
Ichigo tried to shove him away from him. Annoyed by the whining and half worried that it would attract the other's eyes to him. He was still struggling to push the annoying friend away from him when his eyes met a pair of big grey orbs.
Ichigo gulped.
The girl did have red puffy eyes. Did she really cry the whole night? Had Uryu really broken her heart that badly?
As if she could read what was in his mind, the girl smile at him. Just a simple gentle smile but Ichigo could feel his cheek burnt and, God damn it, turned red.
God. Damn. It.
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"So he turned you down?"
Orihime told her bestfriend about her confession later that day on their way home. Actually she didn't want to tell her, not yet, but her friend was smart enough to see how she had been avoiding Uryu's eyes earlier today when he talked to her about their club activity. Uryu was indifferent but he was always like that, calm and cool headed while Orihime, in the other hand, was not too goodat hiding something. It wasn't difficult for Tatsuki to understand the situation. She just needed the detail.
The girl nodded shyly, tried to smile as her friend looked somewhat furious, "I am ojay, don't worry, at least Ishida-kun doesn't ignore me and treat me like usual, isn't that good?"
Tatsuki clenched her teeth, she was so sure that the dark haired guy was in love with her best friend, "did he tell you the reason?"
Orihime shook his head, "No."
Tatsuki frowned, "did you tell him why do you like him?"
Orihime blushed at this question then quickly shook her head, "he wouldn't remember such a thing... I..." She looked at Tatsuki sheepishly, "Do you think I have to?"
The karateka sighed, her bestfriend could be really clueless sometime, "I think you should tell him. I think he deserves to know."
Orihime thought for a moment and nodded. She was right. Uryu had the right to know about the reason why she fell in love with him.
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/next chapter 1: "The Boy who Got his Heart Stolen"
AUTHOR's NOTE:
New story from me. I am working on so many new stories right now and dont know which one to update first. I feel bad because I am working on so many things at the same time, it makes me hard to focus. As you can see, I am a cosplayer and illustrator so I have other things to work on to aside from my fanfics... (you can see my works in deviantart username: recchinon (for cosplay) and recchika (for artworks)
Now talk about this story, I think it is refreshing to write a teenage love comedy once in a while. I wrote this before I finished After School but when I post this, I already finish the last chapter of After School.
I like this fic so I hope you guys would enjoy this. Slight IshiHime but dont worry because you know how I am a sucker for IchiHime. :))
