Chapter 4: A Sisters Insight.
Yuzu sat with a smile as she gently hummed to herself while finishing up Riruka's paperwork. She had already put the closed sign up so that when Ichigo was finished with Riruka he wouldn't have any other unexpected patients waiting. She didn't know why Riruka had suddenly come to Ichigo for a checkup, but it wasn't her place to pry into someone's medical matters, however she was cautious of the magenta haired woman. She was in love with Ichigo after all.
Yuzu could see it in the Fullbringers eyes, the way she watched her brother from afar when she thought no one was looking. But Yuzu saw. She liked Riruka, but it just added to her own inner turmoil. She knew these feelings she harboured for her older brother were wrong and she only felt worse when the jealousy rose up in her, for as long as she could remember she loved him with all her heart.
When Yuzu was younger Karin tried to make her understand that it was just silly idolisation and she'd grow out of it, however now it was far beyond that. Karin understood that now and while the situation was awkward, her twin was the only one she could confide in about these feelings. Whenever Yuzu needed to vent or just express her emotions Karin was always willing to be there.
Ichigo was married to Orihime and Yuzu and Karin both loved Orihime as though she was a big sister. In some ways she was much more. When Karin started to develop physically, Orihime having gone through the same experience helped her go shopping for bras where their Father had failed and completely embarrassed Karin in the process. Yuzu and Orihime had spent so much time in the kitchen together finding new recipes and she finally found someone that could spend time with doing something she herself loved.
Yuzu had hoped that after the wedding and seeing Orihime and Ichigo happy together, she would finally move on and find her own happiness. But that didn't happen. In fact she believed she was even more enamoured with Ichigo now than she was before.
Funnily enough, she hadn't become sexually attracted to Ichigo until after Orihime and Ichigo were in fact married. She loved him of course more than she was supposed too, but her admiration of him hadn't led into a sexual desire, not until one night when she had stumbled out of bed late one night to find the two vigorously making love on the couch. Even now she had a vivid image of Orihime's naked body contorting to Ichigo's touch as if he was playing an instrument with expert precision.
At the time she had been in High School and had never seen such an erotic scene before. But after that night, as ashamed as she was to admit it, she snuck around and tried to spy on them as much as she could, Karin even catching her a few times and scolding her for it. After all this time that had led her to seeking out the perverse nature of Ichigo and Orihime's relationship she had to question, was it always just a coincidence that there was a perfect vantage point? It was harder to see into their bedroom without sneaking in beforehand but they almost made it a point to do the deed in more easy to catch places.
It just had to be her imagination, there was no way either Ichigo or Orihime would do such a thing, right? Right, she was just good at finding hiding spots with a good view. It's not like they sought out places in the house close to the bedrooms of the twins so that they would be caught, that'd be ridiculous. She was probably just overthinking it.
Yuzu wasn't immune to the fact that Ichigo and Orihime had taken a slight break in their nightly rituals as of late, which meant that she herself was feeling frustrated not being able to enjoy her own nightly antics. Of course she wasn't able to catch them every night but there generally wasn't a large gap between the times she caught them. Sometimes she had to wonder if the two were simple bodies of lust incarnate. Her brother more so. It had become more apparent that Orihime wasn't capable of fully satisfying Ichigo as of late.
Of course at these particular times her mind ran rampant with indecent fantasies of Ichigo coming to ravage her when Orihime hadn't been able to satisfy him. But she knew they wouldn't come true. Didn't stop her from fantasizing though. With the current moment of pause in their sexual appetite, it was no doubt pushing Ichigo over the edge, she didn't think he masturbated but that didn't mean he didn't. There was still a lot that Yuzu wasn't privy to. Just imagining Ichigo doing such a thing made her blush, could she possibly walk in on him doing something like that, how would he react? Oh, how would he react if he caught her in such an indecent state.
"Yuzu-chan." Orihime's voice snapped Yuzu out of her trance making her jump up from her chair, in frantic surprise. Orihime was simply smiling at her which made Yuzu feel nervous, it almost seemed that Orihime knew exactly what she was thinking about. "Whatcha thinkin bout?" She teased making Yuzu's face heat up extraordinarily fast, she had never been so happy for Ichigo's office door opening as she was now.
"I didn't know you'd be waiting." Riruka huffed eyeing Orihime who simply gained a massive smile as she rushed over to Riruka and wrapped her in a bone crushing hug.
"I've been waiting Riruka-chan!" Orihime laughed. "Is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine, get off." Riruka pushed herself from Orihime grasp as Orihime smiled sheepishly. "Come on, we can go get coffee, my treat." Orihime beamed happily before turning to Yuzu.
"Would you like to come Yuzu-chan?" She asked.
"I'm sorry, I've still got some work to do." Yuzu apologised, glad that Orihime's attention was now on someone else other than herself. "Everything's all filled out now Riruka-san, do you need another appointment?" She asked.
"Not right now." Riruka told, with a slightly awkward glance back at Ichigo's office.
"Then we're free to go!" Orihime laughed grabbing Riruka's hand, leading her to the door the clinic. "Yuzu-chan, make sure Ichigo gets some rest. Take care of him!"
"I will." Yuzu smiled happily as Orihime and Riruka left, the two seemed slightly suspicious if Yuzu was being honest. She had observed their rather unique friendship over the years and never once had Riruka offered to take Orihime out for coffee, it was usually Orihime dragging Riruka along. "Something's weird about all of this." Packing up her paperwork she rose from her chair and headed for Ichigo's office.
"Ichi-nii." She knocked on the door only to get a glance from Ichigo as he finished off his paperwork, he looked drained and defeated. "Is everything alright Ichi-nii?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?" He questioned in return, unsure of the sudden question. "Far as I know, everything is fine." It was clear to Yuzu that everything was not fine. She offered a smile and nodded, it his current state he probably wouldn't notice the falseness of it.
"Alright, I'm all finished up. I'm going to head out for a bit."
"Ah, sure thanks for all the help today." Ichigo told her as Yuzu left the room, heading through the waiting room of the clinic and into the house, closing the door to the clinic behind her. Karin who was in the kitchen spotted her and rose an eyebrow at the sudden entrance of her twin sister.
"Yuzu, what's wrong?" Karin asked sceptically. "Why do you have that look on your face that says you're doing something you shouldn't be?"
"Something's up with Ichi-nii, Orihime-nee and Riruka-san." Karin blinked at the sudden confession. "Keep Ichi-nii busy, I'm going to follow the other two." Before Karin could even ask what was the reasoning behind this, Yuzu was already out the front door leaving Karin to process this information dumped on her.
"What the hell is that girl up to now?" Karin groaned mentally.
