Love no Refrain - Chapter 3: Tatsuki's Help

After a long day, school was finally over and Ichigo could only thank the heavens. Kurosaki waited in front of the school slightly waving to his normal friends which was good because instead of the creepy smile he sported not too long ago, he had his usual frown on his face. Even though the day was over he wasn't ready to go home until he saw all his friends in one piece.

'What the hell am I thinking..they're fine..' his thoughts spoke making him turn to head home.

"Hey Ichigo."

He glanced over his shoulder seeing Rukia. She stood smirking to him while her arms folded- Ichigo knew this only meant she heard something that humored her, which only had the orange haired fellow think of Uryuu's big mouth. He turned and raised a brow just waiting for the laughs and snickers that would come from her but she shook her hands making him ease.

"Uryuu told me your concerns about Tetsuya and Hajime and-"

"You came to laugh at me right?" He cut off. "Look if you're going to do that at least do it at home, I don't want hear anything about those two right now."

"Relax Ichigo I just came to say that you have nothing to worry about, those two are harmless. They're nothing but normal humans with low spiritual pressure and the works. So you can relax." Rukia let out brushing passed him and heading to the Kurosaki home.

A low growl escaped Ichigo's lip as he trudged and followed the small woman. If there was anything that he hated with a passion it was the way Rukia and the whole damn soul society used their senses to determine if something was evil or not. I mean come on- They didn't notice when Aizen went badass and tried to destroy the soul society and for the longest the squads and certain captians refused to believe it only because they had this certain pride. A pride that allowed them to hesitate and to be vulnerable.. Kurosaki knew that sometimes you just can't use your trained senses to judge something, sometimes you just had base certain facts on a gut feeling or...just blunt facts. Ichigos face strained as he thought on his bad feeling he got when he first saw them..those reborn Arrancars.. He knew if anything a threat would be coming soon and he had to find a way to stop it.

"Enough Ichigo." Rukia voiced snapping him out of his thoughts.

Ichigo looked to her seeing her put her hands on her hips and huff at him which only made the teen groan and walk off with her quick to follow.

A distance away, peering from around the schools fence Orihime stood. She couldn't help but glance at Ichigo and Rukia walking into the falling sun- heading home. She smiled knowing that they were going to their safehaven..but that smile surely flipped in a matter of seconds. The left hand of the princess twitched slightly as she began to breathe a little harder. Rukia was her friend, but the fact that she was always around Ichigo no matter what..it made her kinda jealous... The same left hand that jerked slowly rose and rested atop the princess' chest as she continued to stare at the couple that was fading into the orange glow to the east. Her face scrunched, and her breathing became harder...

A hand softly landed on her left shoulder making the strawberry blonde jerk and notice Tatsuki. "Oh Tatsuki..its only you.."

"Mhm..So what were you looking at?" the tomboy asked.

"Oh- N-Nothing!"

"Come on Orihime, Tell me!"
"The sun, it always looks pretty when school ends." she chuckled waving her right hand about.

Tatsuki could only shake her head at Orihime- No matter what she did or how she was feeling anyone was able to read it right off of her face. She sighed, she knew exactly what the princess was looking at, and it bothered her that she wouldn't just man up and admit her feelings to Kurosaki- it would be much easier than watching him from afar and only dreaming of such a moment. Tatsuki groaned as she brushed her thoughts off, she knew out of everyone in her friend circle, Orihime was the last person to summon up the courage when it came to feelings.. and you know what? The tomboy couldn't care less...kinda.

The young woman tightened her hands and brought them up to her face as a smirk formed having Orihime blink confused.

"Tell you what Orihime..Im going to help you!" she let out resting her hands on the princess' shoulders.

"Uh...with what? ...Tatsuki?"

"Don't worry about it! You just leave everything to me!" the tomboy laughed raising her hands and walking off.

Orihime blinked still confused but turned to head home in the end.


The Next Day - At School In The Library...

Uryuu sat at a round table that held mountains of books for his other classes, while he read a small black book that looked to be nothing but a pamphlet book or something of the sort. Ichigo only stared down at him as his right eye twitched madly. Uryuu only flipped a page, and continued to look through the small book, then after a minute or two he finally acknowledged Kurosaki.

"What?"

"What do you mean what! You told me to meet you in the Library at lunch!"

"Oh yes." Ishida let out slamming his book shut. "Have a seat Ichigo."

The teen hesitated but scoffed easing himself into a chair that was placed on the other side of the table. He glared at Uryuu who only grabbed a book to his right then began to skim through it, making the boy growl but the Quincy held his right hand up as a means to tell Kurosaki to calm down.
"Why don't you grab a book.."

"Why.."

"Because...we'd look less suspicious that way."

"What the hell are you talking about Ishida.."

"Just grab a freakin book Ichigo!"

The Quincy paused noticing the few students in the small library glare at him or press a finger to their lips in a means to tell to the kid to shut up which only left Ishida to fix his glasses nervously and watch Ichigo grab a book and look through it like a monkey.

"Alright now I think we're ready." Uryuu spoke looking at his book.

"What do you mean?" Ichigo wondered glancing at him.
"You see by reading these books, no one would get the idea that we're talking about something odd. Think of this as a disguise.."

"...Whatever... So what else do you want Uryuu? Im sure you didn't want to just play secret agent with me."
"To be honest, I wanted you to take a look at the table 34 degrees to my right."

Ichigo glanced to his left leaving Uryuu to facepalm himself, but then Ichigo looked to his right noticing Mizuiro. He wondered what his short friend was doing in the Library after all the boy was usually out and about picking up his female friends or leaving school early.. Either way Ichigo wasn't really bothered by it, however he wondered why Uryuu wanted him to stare at at his friend..He wasn't doing anything suspicious. As soon as he looked to the Quincy for answers the teen in glasses only shook his head and signaled him to look at the table again. Ichigo groaned but looked once more seeing the Ulquiorra looking fellow make his way over to Mizuiro and then afterwards take a seat.

"What the hell?"

"Seems Hajime takes tutoring lessons from Mizuiro.."

"When did this happen?"

"Right when the bell rang for lunch. When you ran off to ditch me again the teacher asked me to tutor him, I told her I was busy so she got Mizuiro to do it." Ishida explained. "I thought you'd like to see it."

"See what? My friend tutor a dangerous Arrancar?"

"No to see your friend tutoring a human being." Uryuu shot. "No matter what you think Ichigo, those guys are normal.. Why is it you think different?"

"Why is it you don't?" Ichigo shot back standing from the table.

He turned his stare from Uryuu back to the table Hajime was at, noticing the new student lift his head from a book only to return Ichigos stare. Kurosaki's eyes squinted and his hands began to curl up into fists as he refused to look away from the student with the soulless face. Why was everyone so trusting to the humans that looked dead on the Arrancars? Yes Ichigo knew the Arrancars were gone, he was sure of this, but he knew that there was no way that they could come back as humans..could they? He's heard stories before about Shinigami being able to remember their lifes as humans or something but could Arrancars, monsters born from-

"!..."

"Ichigo?" Uryuu spoke.

Ichigo thought back to the basics of Arrancar evolution. No matter what- Arrancars will always be powerful hollows that have removed their masks, but that being the case..that means Arrancars were once Hollows, which were creatures born from human souls..so maybe..They did come back..maybe Tetsuya and Hajime were..human.. Ichigos left hand securely held his now aching head, but he stopped feeling a nudge. He turned glancing down at Tatsuki who was smirking up at him. He didn't say anything, just raised a brow and wondered why she was smiling.

"Ichigo- How many dates have you been on lately?"

"!- What?" He let out.

"Okay let me just start from the beginning." Tatsuki said kinda laughing to herself. "I dunno if you knew this about me, but other than my sports hobbys, I'm quite skilled at holding a camera-"

"And that means?"

"Okay, so I got this project in this video club I just joined and the subject is on dating..." She spoke.

"...Tatsuki..There better be a point to this story..."

"Alright to be blunt, I need two people to act out the perfect date while I film them. I was hoping you'd help me with this."

Ichigo twitched getting pink in the face. "No way..."

"Come on Ichigo I need an A!" Tatsuki whined.

"This is for your ...'Video Club'?" Uryuu asked standing from his table.

Tatsuki nodded making the Quincy look the girl up and down having her blush. With that he shook his head and fixed his glasses saying nothing in return. He knew Tatsuki was lying. He had joined the video club before so he knew that if she was indeed in that club she'd have to carry around at least some equipment in a tacky video club bag. He wondered what the girl was up to but was interested to see her 'dating video' nevertheless.

"Go on Ichigo." Uryuu said with a push. "Be a good friend."

"I don't date."

"So!" Tatsuki whined. "Its not even a real date! You just gotta act it out!"

Ichigos stomach was curling as he heard this, he wasn't a dater nor was he an actor, but he had nothing else to do thanks to Karakuras reigning peace. He only groaned covering his face with his right hand.

"Why me.." he let out allowing Tatsuki to jump around.

"So you'll do it!"

"...Who's my partner?" he groaned getting even pinker in the face.

Tatsuki folded her arms looking to Ichigo with a wicked grin. " Orihime Inoue of course."

The nervous curl swirling in Kurosakis stomach now began to rage about like the perfect storm. He covered his face with both hands not liking what he had done..but on the other hand.. He thought that maybe the film wouldnt' be too bad..

"Fine." He let out standing straight.

"Alright thanks Ichigo!" Tatsuki snickered to herself as she turned and headed toward the exit of the library. 'That was too easy..now all I gotta do is tell Orihime and-'

The girl stopped before the library door seeing just the princess she was thinking about. Orihime looked through the doorway to the sanctuary of education seeing Tatsuki stand before her and stare at her. Immediately Tatsuki grabbed the girls hands jumping about feeling all giddy and fuzzy and Orihime did nothing but mimic the girl.

"What are we laughing about?"

"I'll tell you in just a minute." the tomboy laughed pushing her out of the Library and into the hallway. "You're gonna love me forever for th-"

"Hey well if it isn't my two favorite girls!"

Both women looked down the hall seeing Keigo skip over with Chad slowly following. The girls waved and then began to watch the brunette hop about and tell them a stupid story till Uryuu and Ichigo decided to suddenly step out of the library as well. It was the same as it always was when the group was together, Keigo telling a stupid story or crying about something, Chad standing like a statue listening, Ichigo telling Keigo all his stories were stupid, Uryuu just doing the same as Chad, and Orihime and Tatsuki just standing around to laugh.

"-Yeah Yeah whatever." Keigo scoffed. "So what're you guys doing near the Library anyway?"

"I had studying to do." Ichigo lied.

"As did I." Uryuu added.

Keigo and Chad then glanced at Tatsuki waiting for her answer which made her jerk nervously. "Uh...I just came to talk to Orihime.."

"Oh thats right." Ichigo began looking to Tatsuki. "So uh..when are we gonna do that video? Today or-"

"Video?" Keigo blinked.

Tatsuki chuckled. "Yeah uh-"

"The dating video she plans on making." Uryuu cleared up for Keigo.

"WHAT?"
"Well you see.." she uttered.

Orihime blinked. "Tatsuki..what are they talking abou-"

"Oh Hey Guys!" Mizuiro shouted running out of the library. "I knew I heard some familiar voices."

Ichigo glanced at Mizuiro noticing Hajime(Ulq) not too far behind him. Instead of glaring like he usually did he just continued to look at Keigo jump about and whine, pretending that the Arrancar look alike wasn't a nuisance.

"Mizuiro are you in on the video too!" Keigo asked beginning to tear up.

"Huh.. What video?" He blinked.

"The dating video Tatsuki is making." Uryuu cleared up for Mizuiro.

"What you're making a dating video!"

"What she didn't tell you guys?" Ichigo wondered.

"NO." Keigo and Mizuiro whined.

Orihime watched Tatsuki begin to shake as a fake smile froze on her face. This only made the princess blink and still wonder what video everyone was talking about. "Tatsuki...What dating vide-"

"Hajime!"

Everyone looked down the hall seeing Tetsuya(Grimm) slowly walking over. His hands were securely placed in the pockets of his uniform trousers, his uniform vest that had specks of dirt on it, and his trademark smirk plastered on his face which was enough to get Ichigos blood boiling. Even though he decided to get over the fact that both him and Hajime looked like Arrancars, Tetsuya still got on his nerves. The teal haired teen stopped a good inch or two away from the group and close to Hajime. His smirk widened to a grin as he glanced at all the insignificant others besides Ichigo.

"Sup Ichigo..." he let out.

"Tch.."

Hajime glanced at the animosity between both Ichigo and his cousin, then sighed. He turned to Tetsuya ready to say something but stopped noticing his cousins rather dusty vest. There were so many dots on his uniform that it was kinda distracting, however Hajimes stare dulled into a slight glare as he noticed the specks that he assumed was dirt was actually blood having the boy only close his eyes and groan in disgust. Tetsuya caught his cousin looking away with a grimmace having him only assume that he knew what he was doing before he got here. This only made the teen snicker to himself and shrug looking back to the large group before him.

"So what's up?"

No one said anything. Being that it'd only been a day since both Hajime and Tetsuya came as new students word got around that Tetsuya wasn't the guy to be around. No matter what- he always seemed to cause trouble so not many student in the school were fond of him, Keigo still thought the guy was pretty badass so he perked up ready to answer the guys question.

"We're talking about-"

"Nothing." Ichigo glared. "We don't have anything interesting to say."

"Is that so?" Tetsuya wondered raising a brow.

Ichigo stood in front of his group of friends and only smirked in return. "Yeah. What you don't believe me?"

At that moment Hajime noticed the grin on Tetsuyas face start to falter. His cousin slightly lifted his left foot in order to approach the one named Ichigo but he prevented him from doing so by gripping the vest of his uniform. Tetsuya jerked glaring at the solumn face over his shoulder.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Enough..You're making it harder for both of us to fit in this establishment.."

"Let go of me.."

"Maybe you should listen to your friend there Tetsuya." Ichigo spoke up. "Seeing as thats the only one you've got."

The cousins looked to Ichigo for a second, but the teal teen promptly jerked away from his cousin getting out of his grip and getting Ichigo in his. The strawberry blonde did nothing but smirk. Orihime clutched her right arm tightly getting nervous..when did Ichigo and the new students get off on the wrong foot?

"I've had enough of you and your damn mouth." Tetsuya hissed. "I'm about to beat that stupid smirk off your face then-"

Uryuu put and arm in between both Ichigo and Tetsuya having everyone glance over at him. He glared at the character resembling Grimmjow the lifted his hand away from him.

"...we were talking about a video. There. You have your information. Now you can go."

"Yes, you've got the answer you wanted Tetsuya. Now lets get going." Hajime spoke up.

"Not so fast..Whats this video about?" he grinned letting go of Ichigo.

Chad, Mizuiro, and Keigo only glanced at Tatsuki who jumped to their stares. She blinked a few times before catching the glare and rather cold gaze from Tetsuya and Hajime then rubbed the back of her head nervously. She never expected to get into this predicament, but the lie she formed had to go on or else she was a dead girl.

"Er...its a dating video...for my club...yeah..and uh..its just going to be about... the perfect date..."

Tetsuya stared unimpressed with the answer but it only took a few seconds for that sentence to fully process in his head for him to grin and immediately glance at the princess beside the girl. The look over his face became coy and mischievous as his plan he cooked up the other day was close to coming to fruition. He gave Ichigo a quick glance then looked to Tatsuki.

"So...do you have a cast or something?"

"Uh...Well.." the girl shook. "Yeah..Orihime and uh-"

Before the girl could finish (Grimm) had brushed passed Ichigo, shoved Keigo out of his way and grabbed the wrist of princess beside her. Orihime gasped looking at the oddly familiar teen getting a warm feeling in her stomach. Her mind was racing to try and find the face that reminded her so much of someone but she couldn't figure it out, however, before she could think hard on it Tetsuya had turned to Tatsuki lifting the wrist he had gripped as if it were a show a proof.

"Me and Orihime will do your vid no problem." he let out, his grin getting wider.

Ichigo faltered, and Hajime behind him only showed a quick blink before staring over to Tetsuya. Uryuu fixed his glasses nonchalantly looking at the mess Tatsuki had made and...enjoying it. He glanced at the now nervous Ichigo and..Hajime.. It seemed the emotionless boy had suddenly got some spark of life in his eyes at that moment which made the Quincy smirk to himself.

"Well Tatsuki?" He spoke up. "I say its a good Idea."

"What!" Ichigo spoke up. "Uryuu!"

"What? This way you dont' have to fake date Ichigo. Isn't this what you wanted?"

Ichigo jerked then looked to (Grimm) and Orihime. Orihime now red in the face and (Grimm) who only threw him a 'Ha! Fuck you' smirk then turned to Tatsuki making her jerk again.

"Well? Gimme a answer!"

Tatsuki glanced at Ichigo who didn't really object, then back at Tetsuya. "Um..alright..You and Orihime will be the stars.."

"-The Hell they are!" Ichigo objected. "Orihime are you just going to stand there? Say something! If you don't want to be apart of the film then just say so!"

She glanced away turning redder, "Its honestly fine with me Ichigo..a-after all...we'll only be acting.."

"Yeah..only acting." Tetsuya let out tugging Orihimes wrist after. "Come on- We've got some practicing to do Orihime." he spoke walking down the hall to his left.

Ichigo and the others only watched the two walk off and get further and further from them, Tatsuki with the face of guilt. She didn't want this to happen..but what was she to do? She had to go along with it..at least till she made a video of course... She looked up catching Ichigo glare at her slightly. The school bell rang and with that Hajime walked away from the group having Keigo and Mizuiro stare a little lost to what was going on around them, but that didn't stop the boys from looking at the tomboy in the end.

"If you need any background people let me know alright!" Keigo smiled.

"Me too." Mizuiro added.

With that both boys headed to class with a silent Chad behind them and an angry Ichigo trudging behind them as well.

Tatsuki sulked, "Just what the heck did I get myself into..."

"A mess." Uryuu answered fixing his glasses compulsively. "Do you need a video camera?"

"Yeah.."


A/N: So I Got this message, wondering why I named the story 'Love no Refrain'...Well Heres the answer! The original title of this story was going to be " Love no feeling that tells you- Dont." but Do you see how long that title is? Also while thinking of this story I was listening to a song called 'Ichibyou no Refrain' Which is the 2nd ending the for anime GetBackers. I loved it, and thought of Bleach as I listened to it. But anyway!- As you read, you'll see why the title is named as such.. :D