A/N: Okay-dokay! As promised, here is chapter four, complete with Orihime-ness. I think I stayed true to the personalities of the characters. It's really short though… just now realizing that. Sorry for my ignorance of the contents of red bean paste, I don't really know if it has fat in it or not, just guessing…yeah. Alright, enough of my chatter, here's the story!
Chapter 4
"Which do you think is better, Sado-kun? Regular red bean paste, or fat free?" asked Orihime, as she held up two cans in front of Chad's face. They were at the convenience store picking up a few things, Orihime had most of what she needed at her house.
"Ummm…both are okay." replied Chad. He actually didn't like either of them, but Orihime was so excited that he couldn't bare to bring down her spirits. Their cart was already chock full of ramen, chocolate, and about twenty different kinds of bean paste products. He didn't know how anyone was gonna eat… except Matsumoto-san.
"Sado-kun? Sado-kun?" apparently Orihime had been calling him while he was deep in thought.
"Wha… did you say something?"
"I said, what do you think Kurosaki-kun would like. I thought I would get him something".
"Why?"
"Just because."
"I think he likes onigiri."
"Hadigato, Sado-Kun." Orihime put some premade ones in her cart, then headed towards the check out counter, she began to hum. Chad pushing the cart behind her, glanced down and noticed that the onigiri she had picked out were filled with red bean baste.
"Ano, Inoue…"
"Hai?" said Orihime, turning her head around, causing her to run into a stack of cans, sending them toppling. "Ahh! I'm so clumsy!" she exclaimed, hurrying to pick them up before anyone noticed. Chad bent down to help her. "What were you going to say, Sado-kun?"
"…. Nevermind."
As they were walking back to Orihime's house, she tried to make conversation. Chad was carrying most of the bags, if not all of them, that's why Orihime had asked (well, demanded really) Chad to go with her.
"So…Sado-kun, are you excited?"
"A little."
"Have you ever been to the amusement park around here before?"
"Nope."
"Oh! You'll love it! There's lots of fun stuff to do, and lots of food. There's even this one thing where you put on a body suit of Velcro and then jump and stick to another wall of Velcro! It's tons of fun!"
"Sounds great."
"Oh, we're here."
Orihime took out her keys from her pocket and opened the front door. Chad was surprised at the number of keys she had on her gigantic ring, there had to be at least 30 of them! (She's such a mystery.)
"Okay, just put everything in the kitchen for me please, Sado-kun, and I'll put it away." Said Orihime as she turned on the lights.
As she did so, Chad got a good look at her house. It looked different from the last time he'd ben there… or did it? Then he saw what had been confusing him.
"Inoue, why is this still here?" questioned Chad as he set the groceries down, turning to the giant pink T.V. thing in her living room.
"Oh that…Matsumoto-san and Hitsugaya-kun left it here. They haven't come back to get it yet."
"Why haven't you told them about it?"
"I wouldn't like for them to take it from me…"
"But it's not yours."
"I know, but look what it can do!" she walked over to the giant thing as Chad took a seat on her couch. "I figured out how to work it, there are some buttons on the back. This one," she reached behind the screen, "Turns it on, and these turn the channels. The best part is… it's not a regular television, I can see into Soul Society with it! Isn't that neat? Look there's Kuchiki-san and here's Abarai-kun!"
On the screen was Rukia at the women's meeting and when Orihime changed the channel, Renji appeared, talking with Byakuya.
"Kakuii, ne?" said Orihime as she turned it off and returned to the kitchen to continue putting away groceries.
"That's kinda like spying." Called Chad from the couch.
"I know, skashi, I don't watch it all the time."
"Mmhmmm."
Suddenly, Orihime ran into her living room and yanked Chad up from the couch with surprising force. "Well, you've been really helpful, but I can handle everything else by myself!," she said in a rush, as she gently but quickly guided Chad to the door. She had just remembered something important that she had to get done. With a swift "See you in school tomorrow!" She slammed the door behind him and locked it, leaving a surprised and thoroughly confused Chad standing in the hallway, staring at the wall opposite Orihime's apartment door.
And that's it for chapter four. One of my favorite chapters is coming up next, so stay tuned! Again, please review. Criticism=love!
