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Chapter 4

Ishida sat at his kitchen table and started at the phone setting in front of him. It had been about 2 weeks since he had gotten their phone number and he had finally built up the courage to call them. He picked up the phone and dialed the number, and instantly someone picked up. His mind suddenly forgot the name of the room mate he had talked to.

"Hello," Daisy said again into the phone.

"Hello, um, is Inoue there?" He asked not knowing who else to ask for.

"No she is gone for the weekend, who may I ask is calling?" Daisy said casually like she wasn't really interested.

"Ishida Uryu," he started but the girl on the other line cut him off, was this the girl he had talked to before.

"You are that guy that Keiko is obsessed with. She talks about you all the time and Inoue pretty much hates it, I think they both have crushes on you," Daisy said and Ishida was very taken back. "Well they are both gone this weekend but I can give you Inoue's cell number, get a pen."

Ishida grabbed a pen and paper and told her to continue, after he wrote the number down he thanked her and said good-bye. He hung up and called Inoue's cell phone, he wasn't sure why he was so excited, but he felt like he was in a race.

"Hello?" a voice that wasn't Inoue's said on the other line and Ishida froze yet again. "Hello?"

"Hello, who is this?"

"Keiko, who is this?" the voice didn't sound so happy.

"Ishida, I thought this was Inoue's phone?" he said finally remembering that Keiko was the other girl he had met.

"Oh well it is, I'm watching her get ready for her photo shoot. Would you like to talk to her?" She said sounding friendlier.

"No, I'm not even sure why I called," he said feeling like a complete idiot.

"Hey, how would like to come and meet with us for dinner," She said not acting like she wanted to hang the phone up.

"Um, sure," he said and she told him what restaurant and they said good-bye and hung up.

"Who was that?" Inoue asked after Keiko came back into the room.

"No one, you are interested in," Keiko said sitting in the chair next to her, "Can I get my hair done too?"

A free stylist came over and looked at her, "I could, I'm very bored," he said walking behind her and staring to play with her long black hair.

"Oh well thank you, me and Inoue have a date tonight and I want to look good," she smiled at Inoue who gave her a nervous look. "Don't worry, it will be okay."

"I don't trust you," Inoue said getting out of her chair and making her way over to the set.

After the photo shoot they went back to hotel room and got ready and Inoue really did not want to go. They headed out an hour later they walked to the restaurant across the street and sat down at a table. Keiko was very anxious and couldn't wait to start talking to Ishida about everything, she had wished that he would have called sooner, but at least he called.

After ten minutes Keiko spotted him at the front door and waved him over and Inoue felt like throwing up. "KEIKO," she tried hard not to scream at her friend. Keiko turned to look at her, and Inoue stopped because Ishida was already there. He sat down next to Keiko and the waiter came over and took their drink orders. And they got sake for the table and Inoue order a kettle one on the rocks on the side. Keiko looked at her again but Inoue just shrugged and Keiko started to talk to Ishida.

Almost the whole entire dinner Ishida and Keiko were talking about politics and stuff Inoue didn't really care about. She drank pretty much the whole sake by herself and had 3 more drinks on the side. After a while she didn't really know what was going on and she just decided to pick at her food and not eat it. She watched Ishida talk the whole entire time and he kept glancing at her and then looking back to Keiko.

"I think I'm going to go," she said standing up and taking money out of her back pocket and laying it on the table. Keiko looked up at her and gave her a nasty look and Ishida stood up as well. "No don't stand, it's alright, I think I'm just going to go to bed." She walked off and Ishida sat back down and watched her stumble out.

"She shouldn't be going back alone," he said concerned about her but Keiko didn't really seem to care.

"Whatever," she said standing up, "I'm going to go to the club would you like to come?"

"No, I should be heading home, thank you though, I hope to talk to you soon," he said hurriedly and rushed after Inoue. As soon as he walked out he saw that she was crossing the street and there was a car coming. He flash stepped over to her and pulled her out of the way. "Are you alright?" He asked looking down at her and she was crying.

"No," she said through tears, "I just want to go to bed."

He looked down at her and he hadn't realized how much she had drank until he was looking at her now. "Where is your hotel room?"

"I don't want to go there," she said pulling away from him and started to pace around.

"Okay would you like me to take you back to your dorm?" He was very worried about her, she was acting so different then he remembered her.

"No," she cried biting her thumb nail and she sat down on the side walk. He knelt down beside her, and she didn't look up at him.

"What is wrong?" He asked and she finally looked at him.

"You told me to forget everything; you told me they were never coming back. They did and then they think I'm the one that left them, you lied to me. Now Ichigo and Rukia are married and I'm alone, and ugh," she didn't want to see any of them ever again. Now that she was tricked into leaving them, now they were trying to come back into her life?

"I'm sorry, at the time it was true. They told me that I had to get out of the picture because you were in danger. But I never thought that you would totally disappear off the face of the earth," he said slowly trying not to upset her more.

"I didn't drop off the face of the earth! I've been in ads that are run on the subway, and around the center of Tokyo, my pictures are every where!" She flung her arms out and Ishida looked up at a billboard that had her picture on it. Then he looked around at all the people watching them. "Look, let's go somewhere safe to talk."

"I don't want to talk to you any more," she said spitting on the ground next to him.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her attention to him, "Stop acting ridiculous, nobody wants to see their role model drunk sitting on the ground fight with some unknown guy." He pulled her up to her feet and dragged her to the nearest subway stairs. He bought them tickets and they got on the subway and she remained quiet the whole time. Once they were moving he let her go, and looked at her. "I can't believe that you would really act that stupid in public," he whispered in her ear, she was being so childish and she reminded him of a Hollywood celebrity.

"I can't believe you would kidnap a woman in public," she shot back and he looked away. "Where are your glasses?" She had just noticed that he wasn't wearing any, had he been wearing them earlier?

"I'm wearing contacts," he said still angry, anything she said right now was just going to annoy him more.

"Since when?"

He looked at her in disbelief, was she really trying to change the subject? "A long time now, I only wear my glasses when I'm studying. Now shut up," he said and she looked away and looked at the people on the subway. He rubbed his temples and hoped she would stay quiet the rest of the trip.

The subway slowed and then stopped and they got out and walked back to the streets. He led her back to his apartment and she didn't resist. Once they were inside and the door was shut she started to yell at him again. "You lied to me; you made me go and start a new life, because none of you liked me. You all wanted me gone because I couldn't help you do anything. I was a danger because I willfully gave myself to Aizen."

Ishida didn't feel like dealing with this so soon, but he had too. He grabbed her shoulders and she stopped shouting. "When we got back Yamamoto still wanted you murdered for being a traitor, you never went to explain yourself to him so he just assumed. Urahara told me you were in danger and we needed to hide you somewhere. So I figured that the best place to hide you would be somewhere we didn't know. So I made you hide yourself, and then I figured a few years later after all this passed it would be safe to find you and have you come back into our lives, but no one could find you."

She looked at him blank faced, was this all true? Was she really in danger, and they were just trying to protect her? No it was a lie, "If that is true then why didn't you come look for me after a year or 2?"

"We couldn't find you, we looked for your reaitsu all over the place but could never locate you," he said letting go of her shoulders. "Were you masking it?"

"No, I mean, I don't know, I hid my hair pins, I haven't wore them in years," she said thinking maybe it was all her fault they couldn't find you.

"You see, we thought you just didn't want to be found, so we left you to live your life," he said relieved she had finally calmed down and that he was able to confess it. He had been holding it in for so long, "But if you asked me now I regret the whole thing, we could have found a better way to protect you."

Now Inoue felt like shit, she had been accusing him of lying to her all this time and he had a very good explanation and he was even sorry for doing it in the first place. "I'm sorry for yelling at you," she said and he smiled at her, now she was acting like herself.

"It's alright, I bet you are tired, you can stay here for the night if you'd like, I can find you some clothes to wear to bed," he said and walked towards his room to find some of comfy clothes for her. When he came out he found her laying on the couch looking at the Zeus statue. "I hope these are okay," he said handing them to her and she took them her eyes never moving.

"Thank you," she said sitting up and letting him sit down next to her. "I guess you kind of think I'm a mess don't you?"

"No, you had your reasons to be mad. I'm sorry that I made you talk to Ichigo, I guess it was probably a bad idea," he said watching her look at the clothes he picked out. She held up a t-shirt and looked at it, "I hope it's okay."

"Yeah it's perfect, thank you, where can I change?" She asked and he got up and showed her the guest room. "Wow," she said looking at the king sized bed with a black feather down comforter. It looked so soft, she looked around the rest of the room it was all black and white, even the art in the room was and the night stand was glass. "This room is beautiful," she said running and jumping up on the huge bed.

He laughed a little and said good night and shut the door behind him. He made his way back to his own room and shut the door. He undressed down to his boxers and dove into his own king sized bed.

The next morning he got up and got dressed and wandered into the kitchen where he smelled coffee. When he walked in Inoue was sitting at the table staring off into space sipping on a cup of coffee. "Good morning," he said groggily pouring him self a cup.

Inoue came back from space and watched him walk over and sit across from her at the small glass table. "Thank you for everything. I got really out of hand last night, I never act like that," she apologized; she now had another reason to feel embarrassed around him. She looked out his large kitchen window at the city below them, "what floor is this?"

"The 6th," he said looking down at the traffic below them and the kids walking to school. "Today is Monday isn't it?" He looked over at his calendar he had hanging on the wall, he hadn't realized that yesterday was Sunday, for some reason he was thinking it was Saturday. He had classes today, but he really didn't want to go. "Do you have classes today?"

"I had one at noon but it's already half over, it's the only one I have on Mondays," she smiled at him and his eyes widened and he looked at the clock and it read 1:02 pm. "Do you have classes today?"

"Yeah, but I really do not feel like going," he said finishing of his coffee and getting up to pour some more, "Want a refill?" She gave him her mug and he walked over to fill them.

"What classes do you have today?" She asked when he came back.

"I have American History, Advanced Calculus, and Biology," he said and he watched her face light up.

"I have Advanced Calculus too, every one thinks I'm major smart but I just like math it is very hard," she smiled at him and he nodded in agreement. "That was the class I would be in right now. When does your semester end?"

"My last exam is May 23," he said looking back at the calendar and seeing that it was May 12th. He only had a week left, maybe today was not a good day to be skipping class, seeing as how it was his second to last. He really didn't feel like going, he would be fine, he had A's in all of those classes. Plus Inoue was at his place, it was a very good reason to be missing American History.

"Wow you only have a week left, my last exam is the 27th, its Public Speaking 101," she smiled finishing her third cup of coffee. "Thank you for letting me stay here, I love this place, it is so nice and neat. And all the art is amazing, like a museum," she stood up and took her empty cup to the sink and rinsed it out and put it in the dishwasher. "You even have a dishwasher, I put your dishes away earlier, I hope you don't mind."

"No it's alright you really didn't have too do that thank you," he said walking over and pouring himself the last of the pot. He quickly downed it and walked over to the sink where Inoue still stood and she took it from him and rinsed it and put it in the dishwasher, "Thank you," he said. He was inches away from her and he felt like he should move away but he couldn't do it.

After she closed the dishwasher door she turned back to face him and realized how close they were. "I'm glad that you finally found me," she said innocently, she really was glad to have him back in her life. She didn't realize how much she had actually missed him until the night before; they had always been close back in the day. She smiled at him and he didn't know what to do or say. "And I'm glad to find out that you were all trying to protect me and not just trying to get rid of me."

"Trust me, we never intended to be parted from you for such a long time," he said finally thinking of something to say. "To tell you the truth, I'm extremely glad to of finally found you, and I'm glad it was me."

"Why is that?" She said finding it was hard for her to take a step away from him, it was comforting listening to him talk and be able to feel his warm breath on her skin.

"I've felt so guilty for so many years now, it was devastating loosing you from our team," he said truthfully, it had hurt him the most out of everybody. Every one thought Ichigo was the most depressed, but in fact it was Ishida who had the crush on her. It was him who was so mad at himself for doing such a horrible thing that he decided he wanted nothing more to do with the soul society. He was the one who went out by himself and tried to find her while everyone else was still fighting; he transferred from school to school, hoping he would meet up with her again. He was most happy that he had finally given up his search and she had found her way to him.

"Are you all still fighting hollows?" She asked after a moment of silence.

"I'm not, I haven't in about 4 years now, I don't know about the others though," he said trying to see her face but it was still blurry because he didn't have his contacts in.

"Oh," she said looking down and finding she was looking at his chest, embarrassed she turned so she was facing the sink. She put her hands on the counter and kept her eyes down.

Ishida was trying to remember where he had set his glasses down. He walked into the living room and found them sitting on his closed laptop. He picked them up and put them on, he walked back into the kitchen and she was still at the sink. She turned around to look at him; she liked him better with the glasses.

"Do you mind if I stay here for the day? I really don't feel like having to deal with my room mates," she said not looking him directly in the eye.

"Sure, I don't really blame you, they both annoy me," he said and now she was looking him in the eye from across the room.

"How do you know Daisy?" She asked curiously.

"Is that her name? I just called the number Keiko gave me yesterday and she picked up and gave me your cell number," he said hoping she wouldn't get upset at him for calling or her room mate for giving out her cell number.

"Oh, I'm sorry if she said anything inappropriate, she is American," she apologized and walked to the large kitchen window. She was still looking at him and he was getting a little nervous.

"Figures," he said quickly as he walked back into the living room and pulled his laptop on his lap.

Yes, I realize that Inoue was a little out of character for a moment there, but she was drunk what do you expect? I tried really hard to keep Ishida in character, I hope I atleast accomplished that. Thank you for the reviews, this chapter was for all of you who like me and for Nightfall2525, here is your chapter!