I do not own Bleach. =)
It was 8:30am on a beautiful, sunny Monday morning in Karakura town.
Today was their first day of class- Orihime Inoue and Ichigo Kurosaki. Well first day of Junior year that is. And both students were running late.
Orihime was rushing in the hallway trying to get to class as fast as possible. She's normally very punctual and is a remarkable student. Every year, on the first day of school, Orihime goes to visit her brother Sora's grave. She believes visiting him will bring her good luck. This year, she got caught up in the moment and lost track of time. This was very unlike her. Orihime is known as the Karakura High's Princess. She is beautiful, great body, really sweet and very smart (even though she doesnt sound like she is).
Just around the corner, bruised up Ichigo was also running in the halls. He's not usually punctual and doesn't always show up to class. Everyone in the school is afraid of him except his best friend Chad. But everyone is scared of Chad too. They get in fights together constantly and they're always scowling. Neither of the boys come off as approachable, so it's no surprise they're each others only friends. No one knows this, but Ichigo doesn't go around beating up random students or bystanders. He's late today because he had to show a group of thugs not to disrespect a little girls resting place. They knocked over her vase and didn't even apologize. He can't stand shit like that. Just cause she's dead doesnt mean shes gone!
As you can guess, Ichigo and Orihime run right into one another. Ichigo is small and well built. He is strong. Orihime on the other hand, is this petite and short girl. She ends up falling.
'Oh i'm sorry! Are you alright? Here-' Ichigo immediately apologized and offered her his hand to help her up.
She sat there dumbfounded for a moment, gawking at him. Orihime has a lot of friends and usually doesn't have any trouble interacting with people. But she could not, for the life of her, manage to talk to this guy let alone take his hand. She became so shy and awkward. She stood up quickly on her own and brushed off the incident.
'Oh no dont worry about it! I should've watched where I was going, sorry!' she said with a nervous laugh. 'I have to get to class' she turned around and sped walked away.
Utterly horrified at how awkward she was around him, she hopes she didn't have to run into him again. At least not anytime soon cause that was humiliating.
'Ahhhh he was so cute I didn't know what to say! He probably thinks i'm this weirdo now' she thought.
She opened the door to her classroom an spotted a lot of familiar faces there. Uryu was one of her good friends as well. They'd been in the same class since freshman year. He wasn't too social but she wanted to befriend him. He was really smart and amazing at sewing. He was also in archery. Keigo and Mizuiro were there as well. She wasn't really close with them but Keigo always went out of his way to talk to her. She only knew Mizuiro because he was friends with Keigo and would often drag him away.
Ichigo didn't go to class right away. He had to go to the bathroom to wash his face. He knew his teacher would let him have it especially if he got in a fight on the first day of class!
He stood there for a second dumbfounded and a bit irritate at the girls reaction. She didn't have to be so scared of him, he didn't mean to bump into her. He even tried to help her up. I guess his bad reputation and banged up face didn't help though. She might be pretty but she's probably just another popular girl that's too afraid and creeped out to look his way. He shrugged of the interaction.
He now stood outside the classroom, a bit nervous to enter.
