Author's Note: Okay guys, I've finally re-arranged all the chapters and corrected them. But, I decided to post this "SPECIAL" because I wanted to put a new character in the story….I also was wondering, after I had re-read my story, what happened at the Arcade?? Lol…..but another thing I have to tell you is in Japan, their arcades are very different. Their arcades are really tall buildings and are nothing like our American arcades. I went online and a guy posted pics of an arcade he went to in Tokyo. It was 6 floors and that's the arcade, example, scenery, or whatever you wanna call it I'll use here. So just so you aren't confused, I just want you to understand, their arcades have many floors and I'll explain what floor and everything they're on in the story kk? Uhh, thanx for reading and I hope I didn't confuse you!

TiffanY


--Chapter 3: The LIVE, Arcade, and Rukia?!--

Orihime woke up to a beautiful sight. She saw an angry faced, orange-haired young man sitting on the couch, flipping channels. Ahhh…she somewhat sighed at the unusually wonderful figure. Ichigo turned to Orihime with a warm smile…

"Morning Orihime! I hope you had a good sleep. I tried to pick you up but then I saw how peaceful you looked and didn't want to wake you, so I left you on the bed while I slept on the couch."

The Kurosaki family could never leave the three-bedroom house they had so they made Ichigo his own little apartment in the basement. The walls and floor were finished and Ichigo had a bed, desk, TV, couch, Lay-Z-Boy, small counter, refrigerator, microwave, and a king-sized bed set all to himself. Orihime always hung out in his "apartment" when the two were home. It just so happened last night she fell asleep on the bed while they were studying.

Orihime got up from the bed, kissed Ichigo on the cheek as a thank you for his sweetness and went upstairs to go bathe for school. When she came back down to get Ichigo, in her uniform, she saw a confused look on his face. She thought for a second and laughed, embarrassed, she'd forgotten it was Saturday.

"I'm 15 years old and can't even remember what day it is," She laughed scratching her head. She ran upstairs to go and change into some clean pajamas. She returned to see Ichigo dressed in the kitchen…

"Orihime? Why did you change back into your pajamas? I thought you wanted to go out today…" Ichigo said confused.

"When did I say that?" Orihime said even more confused than Ichigo.

"Last week! Orihime what are you going crazy? Why are you acting so weird? Don't you remember we got tickets to go to the LIVE tonight? We were going to get breakfast today too. After we did that we'd planned to go to the…" Icihgo's voice lingered quizzing Orihime to see if she remembered.

"ARCADE! Now I remember…sometimes my mind drifts off I guess. Sorry!" Orihime now had the heart-lightening smile she always wore

'What a woman' Ichigo thought to himself. They soon went off to a breakfast restaurant.

As always, Orihime and Ichigo gorged their food. Although Orihime looked pretty doing it, in some odd way…Icihgo looked like a man-eating vulture. It always seemed to awe people how the two acted around each other. If with anyone else, they would have been embarrassed. But, of course, the two secret-lovebirds knew each other like the back of their hands and were NEVER afraid to show their true colors.

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After they finished eating, they went to the arcade. They went straight to the second floor because the first floor was full of boring typing games and computer geeks. The second floor was full of Cool Gunman games. Although Ichigo usually played them with Keigo, Chad, or Uryuu, he followed Orihime to the third floor. On this floor, there were Taiko no Tatsujin games. These are drum games. Orihime played one but quickly failed because she didn't beat the drum hard enough. As Orihime tried several times to win these drum games, Ichigo watched the Derby Mark games. He was clearly uninterested so lead Orihime to the fourth floor where all the Crane games were. He asked Orihime to pick a machine for him to win something for her from. She immediately chose the machine full of fucshia and green bloated frogs. Ichigo walked over, and immediately clutched one and dropped it in the prize hole. Expecting Orihime to be cheering him on when he turned around, he was dumbfounded when he saw her trying to help a short, black-haired girl get a chappy bunny. She looked about his age but was the height of a 12 year old. Once Orihime saw him with a big pink frog, she gave him a kiss on the cheek, and pointed towards Rukia, meaning she wanted him to get her a chappy bunny now. He was so determined to impress Orihime he got two by an accident. Rukia jumped with glee as she clapped her hands together in amazement. Rukia and Orihime had immediately took to each other and through the whole time they were at the arcade, Ichigo was stuck tagging along behind them.

When the three went to the fifth floor, they saw nothing but miniature hooker spies and group Mah-jong games. They headed straight for the sixth floor without a word. When they saw all the musical games on this floor, they had smiles as they all seperated to play the different games. Of course, Orihime went straight to the drum games, she'd been attracted to drums for some reason lately. Ichigo went to the guitar game where he met back up with Rukia and battled her. It was a long game and soon everyone was crowded around Rukia and Ichigo, waiting for one of them to hit the wrong cord. When Ichigo did first, Rukia was praised for winning.

Orhime led the two of them to play am exploding barrel pirate game. This was a game where the first person had to choose a hole to stick a sword in. The second person has to chose 2 holes to put two swords in. The third person has to choose three holes to put three swords in. So on and so forth until one of the players sticks a sword in a hole that makes the pirate head on top of the barrel pop off. Only one of the holes can make this happen. The person who picks that hole loses the game. Lots of those same people crowded around the guitar game were crowded around this barrel game. The three of them played this game and there was only one hole left and it was Ichigo's turn. He didn't want to put it in because that meant he lost the game. He finally put it in and everybody shouted and laughed because he lost. Everyone, including the watchers, had fun.

After Ichigo and Orihime left the arcade with Rukia, Orihime asked Rukia for her phone number so that they could keep in touch. When it was time for them to go their seperate ways, Orihime asked Rukia did she want to go to the LIVE.

"Of course! My ex-boyfriend's in a band. He used to take me all the time. But I guess I stopped going when we broke up." Rukia replied.

"Oh, that makes me so happy. I don't have many girlfriends, ya know. It's that I'm always hanging out with Ichigo so people just assume that we're only into each other and not the whole friends thing. But whatever,"

"Orihime, who's playing at the LIVE tonight?"

"I'm so happy it's gonna be my favorite band, BLAST! You know them right? Their real name is Black Stones, but everyone says BLAST for short because, ya know, Black Stones is just re-" Orihime was cut off by Rukia.

"I know...that's the same band my ex-boyfriend's in. A friend of mine told me he cheated with the lead singer."

"Oh," Orihime's voice trailed off, not knowing what to say.

They still went to the LIVE concert and sure enough, Rukia's ex-boyfriend, Renji, was the bass player. Although Ichigo and Orihime paid attention the the amazing vocalist, Nana. Rukia had her eyes set on Renji.

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After the LIVE, Orihime and Ichigo didn't stick around like they usually do. They went straight home, parting with Rukia on the way. Orihime and Rukia agreed to hang out again sometime. Ichigo agreed to accompany them and meet some of Rukia's guy friends too.

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They came home exhausted but still managed to get to bed. Orihime went upstairs and Ichigo down. They both fell into a deep slumber in the comfort of their beds. However, unusually, Orihime awoke in the middle of the night. She had no way to thank Ichigo. Although she knew he was aware of her gratitude, she still felt the obligation to show it in some way. She woke up early and made him a wonderful breakfast. The only thing was... Orhime didn't know how to cook. Therefore, what she did was put tasty things together to make more tasty things. Every time she added and ingredient, she tasted it to make sure it was good. If the new ingredient was bad, she put more for it to taste good. She ended up with fugu omelets, rice with unagi and wasabi served on the side, natto, tamagoyaki, tsumago, grilled fish, and miso soup and tako one the side, with a glass of pocari sweat. She was very happy with the wonderful meal she'd made and when she went to go wake up Ichigo she'd noticed he'd already awakened to the weird scent and was in the kitchen looking at Orihime's concoctions on the table. When Orihime saw his twisted face, she thought it was too much so she called down the whole family and asked them if they wanted breakfast. Isshin chowed down, Karin dared Yuzu to do it and Masaki was just being polite as she smiled and ate. All had on at least fake smiles except for Ichigo. He didn't move from the spot. After Orihime went to the bathroom, he thought 'if I eat it now and my face doesn't change if it's disgusting, I'll be able to keep her at least a little happy.' so he took a shot and was surprisingly pleasured by this tang in his mouth. He moaned in pleasure as he chowed down the delicious food.

Orihime felt embarrassed despite the face she had managed to keep straight. She wanted to cry because of how disgusted Ichigo looked. She got quiet…waiting to hear his footsteps go down into the basement\. She thought of it, as her punishment for thinking such a disgusting breakfast would please Ichigo. However, once she got quiet, she heard several voices savoring the flavor of the wonderful food she had made. She heard Icihgo the most. She felt relieved and decided to come out of the bathroom and enjoy the food before it was gone.