A/N:

Thank you for all of your reviews, with your encouragements I'll take the challenge to the end. However, I must warn you, I'm not good with humor, so the first chapter might look like it, but I cannot promise every chapter will be the same. I still put this story under humor just in case. Nevertheless, yes I will keep it "happy fluffy" and light hearted, so hopefully no real crying, heart breaking, emotional turmoil, evil plans, deceits, ect..

This story is dedicated to Rootali and those who read and support it.

Thank you Black Diamond07 for taking extra-time for this chapter.

Warning: Contain what some people might consider silly and nonsense jokes. This story is for pure entertainment only. Please don't take it too seriously. You have been warned so please do not blame me later if you think something is nonsense or the characters is somewhat OOC (although I do try to keep them IC as possible). Also, for entertainment purpose, please imagine all of the inner-self in this story as chibi forms of the original.

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(8/26/11) (wow, I've been writing fanfictions for almost three months, time sure flies)


Elder oak tree; fifteen feet high; five feet wide; big and sturdy; check.

Its top-Um, let's see. Probably enough for three people to lie on it. Perfect.


Inner self: Oi, Sousuke, eating lunch on the tree again? Hey, shouldn't we begin to plan our next step to win that girl's heart first?

Sousuke: This was the perfect place to plot our next plan. We always get inspired when we are at the top, remember?

Innerself: What if the others see us? It would not be good for our image. Eating on the tree... so stupid, so unprofessional, so immature.

Sousuke knocked inner-self hard on his head and scolded, "Shut your crap up. Be quiet. Just observing the surrounding and when no one can see us signal me and we will be at the top in no time. No one will see us, and no one is dumb enough to look up there, so we will be safe."

When Aizen settled down on the tree, he nodded in satisfaction as the view unfolded before his eyes. He could see the whole school, observing every one's actions, spotting some of the well-hidden secrets while still be safe and sound since the tree was in one of the most remote areas of the school.

But it seemed like there was one stupid person who didn't eat lunch and chat with friends at a normal place but insisted to look around, or more precisely look up during lunch time,

"Hey, Aizen-san," She waved her hands eagerly, "I'll come over there."

Sousuke panicked: What should we do now? She saw us, and she'll think that we are stupid and immature and not want to talk with us anymore!

Innerself: Don't include me in it. There is no us, only you. You are the one who didn't listen to me and chose this place, but we should not be worried because she is stupid too, for looking around, no looking up to be precise in such a place, at such a time!

Before Aizen could respond, Orihime had already climbed up. What is she, a cat?

"Aizen-san, so you're eating lunch here. It's so cool! This is a perfect place to eat, so quiet and refreshing."

Sousuke nodded eagerly in great satisfaction, " See, she likes it here too, and she doesn't think we're stupid. She thinks we're cool."

Innerself: Hum

Orihime pulled out her bento and asked, "Aizen-san, do you want to try some?"

"Thank you, Inoue-san."

Sousuke: Oh my god, she asked me to try her food! Isn't it lovely? She is totally in love with me. She is sending me the signal.

Inner-self: You mean us. There is no way she falls in love with you alone. Without my wit, our charm is reduced by half.

Aizen took a piece and put it in his mouth,

Inner-self: Oh Kami, help us! Inner-self fainted.

Sousuke: Hey, wake up. You have to share it with me. There is no way I will bear this*** alone.

Inner-self: I have been thinking very carefully, Sousuke. She is really no good. We should not take her as our girlfriend. Let's just return to our normal plan and our normal lifestyle, huh.

Sousuke: You have been thinking very carefully, huh? Such a liar, even if it is you. Just a minute ago, both you and I agreed that we will take her as our girlfriend. You are such a coward. Aizen Sousuke is not afraid of anything, and we certainly would not give up our goal just because of some...abnormal taste in food...You should live up to our name more.

Inner-self: If you insist to have this ****everyday, eat it all by yourselves.

With that Inner-self went to his secret base and insisted not to come out again until Sousuke finished the mental tortured process of eating the remaining piece.

"How was it, Aizen-san?" Orihime asked with such eager in her voice that it made Aizen forget all of the disgusting taste in his mouth. He smiled,

"The taste is very unique, Inoue-san."

"Really? I still have more."

Inner-self: Oi, oi, Sousuke. If you take it this time, you have to finish it yourselves.

Sousuke: It is not like you helped me much the first time.

"Thank you, Inoue-san, but I really need to finish my lunch, and it is still a lot for my little stomach."

Orihime looked at his bento with curious eyes, "Oh, I see what mean." She said ardently, "Let me help you."

Aizen looked at her bento and was surprised to see her bento was empty; she seemed to finish it quickly while he still struggled with the piece she gave him. This girl seemed to have a very big appetite.

"Um, it is so good, Aizen-san. Do you make it yourselves?"

"Well, it's nothing, Inoue-san. Practice makes perfect.

Sousuke: I'm so cool. She fell in love with my cooking already! Not long before she would fall in love with me completely.,heh heh.

Inner-self: You mean our cooking and us, respectively.

Orihime looked at Aizen with admiring eyes,

"You could do everything, couldn't you? I heard that you excel in everything you do. You really are a great person, Aizen-san."

"Oh, no, Inoue-san. Those are just rumors. I just try my best at everything I do."

Sousuke nodded in great satisfaction: Of course, I exceed at whatever I do. I'm a genius, after all. No, a person of such quality such as myself should be regarded as a god. You should be proud of yourselves that I choose you as my girlfriend, Orihime.

Innerself: You mean we and us, respectively.

Suddenly Inoue looked straight into his eyes and blushed. God, she is so cute when she blushes. Her voice trembled for some unknown reason as she began to talk,

"Actually I was trying to ask you something when I first met you. The truth is..." Her face was red like a tomato as she tried to finish the sentence,

Ask me anything, Orihime. I'll do anything for you, but as smart as I am, I know right away what do you want to ask me. Do not be afraid to ask me to be your boyfriend, Orihime. Although it could be quite bold on your part since you are a girl and all, but since I am a good person I will put aside all of the troubles and kindly agree to be your boyfriend.

"Umm..." Orihime tried hard to continue, "The truth is I want to ask you to come to the orphanage with me this Sunday. Ever since you played the piano in the orphanage last month, everyone talked about you, about how kind it was of you to give them such exquisite performance and spend so much time talking with the poor children. Everyone loves you and the children talk about you non-stop. I think they miss you and want to see you again, and since I am in the same high school...I-I hope it is not rude to ask you to go there and visit the children with me."

Aizen took Orihime's hands, trying to show care and appreciation in his eyes,

"Thank you, Orihime." He smirked inwardly at the effect of saying her first name had on her cute face, "Sorry.", he pretended to be flush about it, "I-I-I'm sorry...Inoue-san, I-I-I was so touched about what you just say that I forgot about the formality. I-I missed them too, and I also planned to visit them this Sunday. It is such a coincidence that you also want to go, and with me nonetheless. Thank you, Inoue-san. I'm sure the children love you too. You are such a kind person."

Inner-self: Such a liar, even if it is you. All you want to do is to spend more time with her. You would care less about the children.

Sousuke answered in his skeptical voice: You mean we and us, respectively. And remember, from now on, we will love the children with all of our heart.

Inner-self: Hai, hai, of course, if we don't love them with all of your heart how could we perform our flawless act. Huh, as always huh, wearing another mask and be completely absorbed in it. I wonder how long we will play with her.

Sousuke stared at the girl for awhile before answered: I told you, we will not play with her. Just this one time, I want to know what love really is.

Inner-self: Aren't you scared, Sousuke?

Souske sighed: Are you?

Inner-self: We are Aizen Sousuke, if you are not scared, neither am I. Nothing could stop Aizen Sousuke to get what we want.

Orihime smiled at Aizen as she wiped her unborn tears that welled on her eyes and squeezed his hands lightly,

"Thank you, Aizen-san. You are indeed a very kind person. I was so worried that I just bothered you with my unreasonable demand..."

"Inoue-san, please don't say that. I love the children too. I'm sure they will be very happy seeing both of us there."

"Hai."

As they continued to eat, or to be more precise, as Orihime continued to help Aizen with his lunch while Aizen himself just stared at her, engraving her image of eating happily deep into his soul, they discussed about what to bring for the children and planned the games and the schedule for Sunday. Aizen never felt so happy and content about helping others like this. Probably it was her enthusiasm and genuine smiles that made him feel this way. He wondered if helping others could bring people such joy and happiness the same way she was right now. If it made her that happy, he thought, then it could probably make him happy too since just seeing her so delightful and cheerful like this lightened his heart and made him want to smile too.

"Oh, your bento is so good, Aizen-san," she leaned her back against a huge branch, and patted her stomach lightly, "whoever becomes your girlfriend would be very lucky."

Orihime, you just need to say one word, and I will cook for you for the rest of our lives, and you don't have to be envy about any other girls. I have decided. You must be my girlfriend. I want you and you alone. So be glad about it, Orihime. There will not be any girl fighting for the food I make for you. You could have all of it for yourself.

"Thank you, Inoue-san."

"I probably should have not eaten so much, but just right now I was so afraid that the blue men would come and whisk all of the good food away."

"The blue men?" Aizen asked in excitement, "Where? Where are they?"

Inner-self clasped his hands: It is so cool, Sousuke. If we could capture all of the blue men and make a strong army out of them, we could dominate the world in no time.

Sousuke responded in equally eager: I know. It is too good to be true. First, we need to gather as many of them as possible, then we will give them special trainings to become our strongest warriors, next we will make them fight each other and collect the strongest ones among them..

But before Aizen could continue with his evil thoughts, Orihime had answered him,

"They were just here a minute ago, but I don't know why they suddenly ran away in a panic, like they just met a very evil person who threatened to kill all of them."

"Huh, that's so weird", Aizen said, looked totally innocent, "Inoue-san, could you let me know next time when they come, and introduce me to them?"

Orihime looked at him excitedly, "Sure, Aizen-san. I'm sure they will be very thrilled to meet you. But not a lot of people could see them...Hum, if I ask them, I'm sure they will reveal themselves to you. You are a very kind person. I'm sure they will love to reveal themselves to you."

"Oh," Orihime suddenly pointed to her left, "There is still one over there, he seemed to be too scared to run away."

"Where? Where is he?"

However, as Orihime tried to reach out for the imaginary blue man, she lost her balance and almost fell down. In panic, Aizen tried to reach out for her, but before he could grab her hand, there was a strong man who wrapped his arms around her waist and placed her firmly on a more sturdy branch, then he sat next to her and scowled,

"What are you doing, Inoue? You almost fell out of this tree. Do you know how dangerous this is? You could have died, or have two or three limbs broken."

Aizen looked the man in annoyance. He still kept his hand around her waist, his princess's waist. Who was he? A supper man? Did he just fly to the tree? Otherwise, Aizen could not understand how he could be at the tree that fast. Or maybe...he was spying on him and Orihime all along. However, what annoyed him most was the way Orihime blushed at the strange man. She was supposed to blush at him and him only! Also, did he just call her Inoue? How dared he called his princess with such farmalities. His anger was at its maximum when she used the gentle voice of her to answer the despicable man,

"Thank you, Kurosaki-kun."

Urh, Kurosaki-kun? Why? Why? Why? He could be more than happy for her to call him Aizen-kun or even more Sousuke-kun. Why did she call him Aizen-san and call that man Kurosaki-kun? Then a bulb suddenly lighted on his head. Oh, he got it! This must be the crush that she mentioned about, but he had to confirm it, he would not let his suspicion roam around and disturb his coolness.

"Oh, Inoue-san, is this the lucky man that you told me about?"

Her face looked ten times prettier when shades of pink decided to cross her little cute cheeks again. She nodded shyly. Oh my Kami, he just wanted to huge her tight and kiss on her reddened cheek, but then he remembered the blush was not because of him but because of the crush who sat next to her whose identity had been confirmed.

The man looked at Aizen with doubt and hostility,

"What is this man talking about Inoue? And who is he? Is he the one who asked you to climb to this tree?" Suddenly he stood up, perfectly balance on the branched and clenched his fists, turned his face toward Aizen, "How dare you ask her to do something that dangerous? Inoue would never do something that stupid if it was not because you begged her to."

STUPID? BEG? THAT DAMN *****. HOW DARE HE TALK THIS WAY TOWARD AIZEN SOUSUKE? Aizen clenched his fists, tried his best to slow down his heart race. Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath. He had to keep his cool, especially in front of her; but none of his efforts seemed to work. THAT DAMN ****. NEVER ANYONE TELLS AIZEN SOUSUKE THAT I AM STUPID. NEVER! HE JUST CALLED ME STUPID. Calm down, calm down. Look at her. You will calm down if you look at her.

So Aizen looked at Orihime. So beautiful. His rage seemed to reduce by half. He could control his breathing now, but then he remembered something. THAT DAMN LITTLE ****, HE JUST TOLD M E THAT I BEGGED HER. BEG. BEG. BEG. AIZEN SOUSUKE NEVER BEGES ANYONE. NEVER. It is others that have to do the begging.

"Oh, sorry I forget to introduce you two." Orihime's sweet voice rang into Aizen's ears and swept all of his rage away, he looked at her and smiled, "Um, Aizen-san, here is my childhood and best friend, Kurosaki Ichigo, I've known him for as long as I could remember." She smiled and looked at the Kurosaki-kun, "Kurosaki-kun, here is Aizen Sousuke, he is one of the most excellent students in our school, president of student council, he is also the one I told you about..."

Inner-self: Ichigo, huh. What a stupid name! Who would name his son a strawberry? I'm sure his father has no brain either, and like father like son. Don't worry Sousuke. During this short time, I have come up with 1387 ways to punish this detestable man. How do you want him to die? Slow and painful? Or quick and clean? Do you want to play with him first or just finish him up? Which method do you prefer? Frame him or make his important people betray him? Hey, Sousuke, Sousuke, do you listen? Hey.

But then there was a huge volcano suddenly appeared in the inner-self world and it was about to explode.

Inner-self: Hey, hey, Sousuke, what happened? Oh Kami, please help us! No, please help me!

Inner-self ran to his hidden secret base in panic, his hands covered his ears, tears welled in his eyes. The inner world was shaking with a strong earthquake.

"Hey Sousuke, calm down. What happened? Do you want to kill me? I haven't finished building my secret base yet, it could crumble at any moment. Hey, Sousuke, are you listening to me? Hey. Oh my god, our body is shaking. It is shaking, Sousuke. How many times do I have to tell you to control our temper, and never show our emotion out. And now everyone will know that you are anger. Hey, Sousuke."

Sousuke: Shut up. I will kill them. I will kill them both. How dare she? How dare she! That smile. The smile that we saw in class this morning was not for us, it was for the Strawberry. I just realized it now. The way she smiled at us every time before, it was not the same. But just now the smile she gave for the strawberry was the same smile I have been longing to see again.

Inner-self: All of this is just because of a smile. Sousuke, get your sense back. Oh, no, the volcano is erupting!

Orihime looked at Aizen with concerned eyes,

"Aizen-san, are you ok? You are shaking. Is this too cold?" She pulled out of her bag a scraft and wrapped it around Aizen's neck. She smiled again, "Is this better, Aizen-san?"

Like a work of magic, the volcano disappeared as sudden as when it emerged. The inner world was now shone with light and brightness and...Inner-self could not believe it. It began to rain, with mini hearts. This world would be filled with mini hearts. How embarrassing! Inner-self fainted.

Aizen took Orihime's hands again and looked into her eyes with appreciation,

"Inoue-san, thank you. It's indeed a little cold. Can I keep it?"

"Uhm, sure."

"So does it mean that it is a gift from you?"

"Um, yes, i guess."

"Cut it out.". Urh, now the Strawberry decides to show his ugly face just in time to interrupt the perfect moment between him and his princess. He broke Aizen and Orihime hands apart, "You, bastard. Don't hold her hands like she is your girlfriend. Don't you dare to take advantage of her just because she is innocent and oblivious to your scheme."

"Oh, Kurosaki-san, may I ask if you are her boyfriend?"

"No, but she is like my little sister, I will not let you take advantage of her." Ichigo turned to Orihime, "Let's go, Inoue. You should not affiliate yourself with the like of him."

With that, he wrapped her waist and jumped down the tree before Orihime could say goodbye to Aizen.

Inner-self: That Strawberry is really detestable. Um, should we teach him a lesson, Sousuke?

Sousuke was still absorbed in his thought: …...

Inner-self, wrapped arms together: Um...

Sousuke: Did you just see Orihime's face after the Strawberry just declared that he was not her boyfriend and he just thought of her as a sister?

Inner-self: Um, yeah, so what?

Sousuke smirked: That means it is just a one-sided love.

Inner-self: Everyone knows that. Now, we should choose what method to punish him, you know, I have thought very hard to come up with the list, at least show some courtesy and choose one.

Sousuke: And it seems like the Strawberry is very oblivious about Orihime' feelings.

Inner-self: Everyone could see that. Now, about the list...

Sousuke: And he seemed to not be interested in her one bit, not in a romantic way.

Inner-self: Again, everyone could see that. Now to the list...

Sousuke looked at inner-self with surprised eyes: If everyone could see the obvious, why can't you?

Inner-self: Of course, I can. So what about the list..

Sousuke: If you can also see the obvious, why do you still bother with the list?

Inner-self: Uh?

Sousuke sighed: Come on, you are me too. Do I need to spell out the obvious? Since he is not in the least interested in her and only thinks of her as a sister, Orihime must suffer a lot from this one-sided love. If she has to suffer too much, she could become more vulnerable and easy to fall to another if that another spends enough time with her and gives her the care and attention the Strawberry does not give her. In another word, the Strawberry will help us be together with Orihime. He is the key to Orihime's heart and if we use him well enough, we could easily win her over.

Inner-self: So, no punishment for what he did to us today?

Sousuke: Not now. Of course he has to pay later. However, now if we punish him in any way, we will divert Orihime's attention back to him, which we do not want. We want to keep the situation like it always is. Let Orihime suffer more from this one-sided love, and we will slowly and sturdily come into her life, comfort her, be with her all the time. She will slowly forget the Strawberry and pay more attention to us.

Inner-self: But hey, the Strawberry will always be there to ruin things between us and her.

Sousuke: Let's him be. The more protective he is, the more irritated Orihime will be. After all, she does not need a protective brother; and the more defending he is, the more she feels like she is weak and useless; the more she feels the lack of freedom with him beside her; and the more it will remind her that he just thinks as her as a sister. Then, she will feel the need to be with someone else, someone that interests in her romantically, someone that will give her the freedom to do what she wants, someone who believe in her ability to stand up for herself. And of course that someone will be us.

Inner-self: You seem to understand her very well, and we just met her today.

Sousuke: That is one of our abilities. After all, every human is the same. Everyone has weaknesses. If your ability is to form plans, my ability is to read others' feelings and emotion.

Inner-self: Hey, Sousuke,

Sousuke: Hum

Inner-self: We really like her, huh.

Sousuke: Of course

Inner-self: So we will take good care of her, right?

Sousuke: Of course

Inner-self: So she will be our first love?

Sousuke: I guess so

Inner-self: So will we marry her?

Sousuke: Hey, you know what, let's grab something to eat, I'm getting hungry. That girl really has a big appetite.


A/N: So...Do you like it? *puppy eyes*. For those who don't have an account, I do enable the Anonymous Review, so you can still have your say about this story if you want to. Thanks all for reading this. Chapter 3 has been sent to beta, so hopefully I can publish it after a week.