Ichigo sighed and continued to play with the pen he was holding. The red head had been spinning the poor object in his fingers for quite a time already. He was sitting on classroom of the school buildings B-wing, waiting for the English teacher to arrive. The teacher was late and it seemed that all the students' hadn´t arrived either. Ichigo was suddenly pulled away from his pondering when someone spoke to him.
"Hi, can I sit here?" The voice belonged to a girl, who stood beside Ichigo´s chair. The girl´s hair was black and short, she looked like a tomboy. Ichigo blinked few times before he answered.
"Ah, sure…" Ichigo followed the girl with his eyes as she sat down to the seat beside him. This had never happened before. This girl was the first person to come up to him like this, first one who didn´t avoid him. Ichigo swallowed, he was desperately hoping that the girl hadn´t taken any romantic interest on him. The girl put her bag to the floor before turning to face the red head.
"My name is Tatsuki Arisawa, what about you?" Ichigo was slightly surprised by the girl's straightforward behavior. It was unlike anything he had yet countered in this place.
"I´m Ichigo, Kurosaki Ichigo. Umm…" Ichigo was fidgeting on his seat, trying to figure out what words he should use, so he wouldn´t hurt the girl´s, Tatsuki´s feelings.
"Are you trying to ask why I came to sit beside you, when there are free seats in other places?" Tatsuki was faster in finding the words Ichigo had wanted to ask and the red head was shocked by the accuracy of her words. The raven haired girl smiled and leaned closer to Ichigo whispering her answer to the red head´s ear.
"It´s quite simple actually; I don´t know anyone else from this class and you seemed pathetic enough to not refuse my company." Before Tatsuki´s explanation, Ichigo had been merely shocked. Now he was absolutely stunned, so there were these kinds of people here too.
They were interrupted by a teacher who came in to the class. The strict looking young woman was followed by few students that barely made it inside before the door was closed. The woman didn´t tell her name. She just announced to them that the she wasn´t the teacher who was supposed to teach them and their real teacher wouldn´t be coming this time. She put a movie to play and told the class that she would be checking on them.
The movie was titled "Holiday", it was about two women, miserable in love, changing apartments for Christmas and falling in love. Tatsuki had told Ichigo that when the red head had wondered what the movie was about, so for the rest of the class Ichigo and Tatsuki weren´t really paying attention to the movie, they were too engrossed in their conversation. They talked and talked and found out that they had quite a lot of in common. When the class ended they left together. Ichigo felt that he could trust the girl, so he had told her about not having any friends. Tatsuki had said that it was weird that the red head didn´t have any friends, he was a nice guy. Ichigo had thanked her, feeling his day get better by minute. The raven haired girl stopped abruptly, falling silent for a moment, before she lifted her head up, eyes shining.
Tatsuki wanted Ichigo to meet her friends. She grabbed the red head´s hand and started to walk. Ichigo let the girl pull him with, not knowing where the girl was headed.
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It didn´t take long from them to arrive to their destination AB-hall, which had several tables and few couches where the students could relax between lessons. Tatsuki kept pulling Ichigo behind her and she headed towards a table where Ichigo counted at least 7 people to be sitting. Based on their looks Ichigo would have never placed them under the same category. One girl was like a princess and other like a little lady. One guy looked like a boxer and the other like a scientist. Ichigo was so concentrated on his own thoughts that he missed the introductions.
"Ichigo, are you listening?" A firm tug from Tatsuki returned Ichigo´s attention to the current situation.
"Sorry, I was got caught in thought." Ichigo tied to smile but it came out as a little awkward so he gave up.
"So, as I was saying. Most of our gang is here but there are few that moved to study in the neighboring city. You´ll probably meet them sometime this week." Tatsuki was almost beaming. She clearly enjoyed talking and introducing people.
"Because you seemed to miss the first introduction round I´ll do another. This is Inoue, she´s our little princess as you can see and the guy she´s sitting on top of is Ulquiorra and the only person who has seen his face show any other emotion than the one he is currently showing is Inoue and If you didn´t already draw conclusions from their position then I´ll say it just in case they´re dating." Tatsuki took a deep breath, preparing to continue her marathon.
"The big guy is Chad, he doesn´t talk a lot but his heart is as big as he is. The one with eyeglasses is Ishida and the lady beside him is Rukia and you better not critique her drawings or she´ll kick your ass…" Tatsuki kept introducing people and Ichigo felt relieved and accepted.
Today he would have a positive e-mail to send to Renji.
AN/: This is even shorter than the last one… It´s really hard for me to split this story into pieces because it is does a little time jump next.
I also noticed that I´ve failed to say that this story is actually based on a real story.
It´ll take a chapter or two before Grimm makes an appearance, bear with me.
Thank you for reading and please review!