Two Turtle-doves

Embroidery help

Orihime glared down at the object of all her frustrations.

"If you didn't start cooperating real fast you would wish you had never been born." she growled under her breath.

Uryu, on the other side of the room, sensed a great and terrible power emanating from the corner. He turned around, prepared for an evil hollow or something of the like. What he saw was instead Orihime having a very intense staring contest with her embroidery. He walked over to see what could make Orihime look that scary.

"Inoue-san, is something wrong?" he asked, concerned. He had never seen her in such a state.

She looked up from trying to burn a hole through the small piece of fabric in front of her. Her face changed from one of absolute loathing to an adorable pout. Its shear cuteness almost made Uryu lose his cool.

"I can't make the stupid french knots!" she grumbled like a angry child.

"Oh, those are hard. I had trouble with them too. Would you like me to do them for you?" he offered. Her frown turned into a bright smile.

"Oh, will you? That would be so much help! I don't think I will ever be able to do them right!" she gushed, happy to be relived of her burden.

"I'm glad to help." he said as he took the embroidery hoop out of her hands. On it was a half finished design of two doves in side a wreath of holly. Each little holly berry was supposed to be a french knot. As his skilled hands set to work, Orihime began to babble on. He was concentrating hard on the knots so he wasn't really paying attention to her. When his attention did finally shift back in her direction, her one-sided conversation had taken a one way trip to Crazyland.

"..and then Tatsuki's face exploded and turned into gummy bears. and i had to try to stop Kon from eating them but Hitsugaya-kun kept freezing my feet to the ground." Uryu was momentarily stunned.

"Wait, what?" He was now completely confused. Nothing about the previous sentence had made any sense whatsoever.

"Weren't you listening Ishida-kun? I was talking about the dream I had last night." she explained like it was the most natural thing in the world.

"Oh sorry, I guess I wasn't. It sounds like it was a very strange dream."

"No, not compared to my usual dreams. They're a lot crazier." She had the most nonchalant look on her face, as if dreams like that were normal. Uryu certainly had never had dreams as crazy as those.

"Anyway, here I finished the french knots for you." Uryu said as he handed back her embroidery. "Are you making it for someone special?"

"Yes, someone very special!" she said. She looked down at the now closer to being finished design and smiled. This smile wasn't her usual smile, the one that looked too big for her face, it was a soft, gentle smile. It was the smile of a girl in love.

'Oh, it's for Ichigo. That idiot doesn't know how lucky he is to have someone like Inoue-san.' Uryu thought sadly. He stood and turned to go back to his seat on the other side of the room.

"Oh, hey, wait Ishida-kun!" He stopped and looked down at her and saw that her normal face-breaking smile had returned. "Thank you!"

Uryu really needed to stop blushing like that of his reputation as the cool, stoic guy would be gone for sure.