The reasons why we are thankful: THANKSGIVING
DISCLAIMER: FOR THIS STORY I MADE IT WHERE IT'S ORIHIME'S POV, ALSO SOME SEPICAL GUESTS WLL BE IN THIS STORY OR MENTIONED. AS ALWAYS I DO NOT OWN BLEACH OR THE SEPICAL CHRACRERS ENJOY! :)
When we say "we are thankful" do we really mean it? with everything that has happened in our past and what's happening now. I know form my own experience, I am truly thankful. Even though I lost everything, my parents and my brother...I can still say I'm thankful because I have my friends, to be there for me.
Whenever I need them, they will be there. Every year for thanksgiving, it gets very lonely. How I make the traditional dinner, prepare it all by myself and yet no one to share it with. No one to be around me on the table to exchange funny conversations. But this year it all changed. Ichigo invited me to his house, along with rukia ,renji ,chad, kurodo,ririn,noba,jinta, Ururu and all our other friends. it was going to be held kisuke's training grounds.
As I left the apartment locking it up, i walked to kisuke's house. Along the way I met up with rukia and tatsuki who were on their way to kisuke's as well. While we were talking, we stopped by a supermarket and bought drinks since it was kind of a long walk to his place. "what kind of drinks should we buy?" I asked.
"how about we stick with water. Water is always good for you" said Rukia. "or we can get energy drinks look it has our favorite flavors" said tatsuki. "I know lets get all three each of us get three different types and we can share" I said smiling. "that's a great idea orihime, lets buy it also we should get some snacks to munch on" said rukia. "sounds like a plan!" tatsuki and I said at the same time.
As we roamed around the store to find snacks we saw a kid that was lost. "look that kid is lost" I said. "lets help her out" said rukia. As we approach the girl she looked scared thinking we would hurt her. "don't be frightened little one, we want to help you" said rukia. "I-I cant find my mommy" said the scared and sad child. "don't worry we'll help you find her" I said with a smile. I've always loved helping people. As the little girl wiped her tears, she stood up and followed us around the store until we found her mother.
"Is that your mother over there?" I asked her. "yup that's her" the child said in her happy tone. "MOMMY!" she yelled happily running to her. "angelica! sweetie where have you been?" the mother asked her daughter. "I was following you but i got distracted looking at the cute stuffed animals in isle 7. Luckily these girls helped me find you" angelica explained. The mother looked at me, rukia and tatsuki. "thank you girls for helping her." she said a nice tone. "your welcome" we said in unison.
As we paid for our drinks and snacks, we headed out the door and continued our walk. Rukia got a text form renji asking where they were, she responded back saying that they stopped by at the super market and they are arriving shortly. "this is the first time for me to celebrate thanksgiving with you guys" said rukia.
"really? don't they celebrate thanksgiving in the soul society?" asked tatsuki. "well, no. in the soul society we usually have get to together, festivals and parties. A normal day for me is doing paper work all day and in between paper work is doing missions. its really rare to have parties especially ones that happen here." rukia explained. I walked there quietly thinking about ulquiorra. and how things could have gone differently, I guess you cant change someone about who there they are.
As we approached kisuke's shop, we saw jinta and Ururu outside cleaning. "hi jinta, hi Ururu" I said delighted to see them again. "oh hey orihime, rukia and their friend" said jinta. "hi everyone. Its nice to finally meet you tatsuki" said Ururu in her raspy/ nice like voice. "where's everyone?" asked rukia. "the boss is inside with the moocher and your friends." said jinta as he was cleaning with a broom. "so you are the trouble maker to Ururu huh?" said tatsuki.
"yea what of it" jinta said in a jerky tone. "if you want you to be able to kiss your own butt i suggest you be nicer to her and especially towards me" tatsuki said threatening him. "ok,ok jeez no need to be all sassy about it" said jinta. "man she's worse than tessai" jinta said under his breath. As they all entered the shop they saw kurodo, ririn, and noba helping out to set up the table. in the training room.
"oh hello miss orihime, miss rukia and miss tatsuki. its a pleasure to see you. dinner will be ready in about 5 hours form now . so just relax and enjoy yourselves" said kurodo. as we went to the training room we saw ichigo and renji doing a sparing practice. "i have to say I'm a bit jealous that this old man has a giant training room hidden in his shop" said tatsuki. "ha-ha, yea, but sometimes it reeks in here due to the sweaty guys" said rukia.
"ah, orihime and friends welcome. please make yourselves at home" said kisuke as he greets his guests. "is it only us that's going to be here?" asked tatsuki. "no more will be arriving soon" said kisuke. "ok boys enough fighting time to take a hot shower and relax" said yoruichi acting like their mother. "five more minutes" said renji still in the zone. "NOW!" said yoruichi in a stern tone.
As they stopped fighting they dragged themselves like six year olds. as they went up the stairs they went to take a shower then rejoined with everyone back in the training room. "so orihime how's ulquiorra?" asked ichigo. "he's fine, unfortunately he wont be joining us to dinner." i said in somewhat of a sad tone. "but he's your boyfriend, he should spend time with you especially on this event orihime" said tatsuki making a point.
"what could he be possibly doing in order to not be here?" asked senna. "i have no idea. my guess would be training or doing tasks for lord aizen" i said. and speaking of the devil, ulquiorra shows up in his gigai walking down the stairs. "evening everyone..." ulquiorra said having a serious look on his face. "ulquiorra i thought you had other plans?" i said to him while giving him a hug. "that is correct, but i decided to attend to this event. i was wrong to leave you here." he said admitting his mistakes.
As more guests arrive the amount of food is done ready to be served. "yay i get to sit with orihime!" yelled kon in excitement. " no you don't, you are sitting with me and senna" said ichigo ruining his plans. Once everyone took their seats, they stared helping themselves with the food. Kon on the other hand was stuffing his face. " kon stop eating like an animal" said ririn snickering, because kon was in his stuffed animal form.
"lay off ririn, I'm hungry this the first real food i get to eat since i have to pretend to be quiet most of the time." said kon. "this food is delicious. you have quite in act in cooking kurodo" i said. "well i wouldn't take all the credit ririn and noba helped out as well." said kurodo. "and there's the fact that we were watching cooking shows too" said ririn. "well, you guys did an excellent job" said rukia with a smile.
"what shall we do after dinner?" asked yoruichi. "how about we play some board games?" suggested hanataro. "board games are for little kids, how about we play video games?" said renji. "no way, every time you guys play video games someone becomes a sore loser and breaks everything." said jinta. "we can try karaoke" i suggested to everyone. "that's something different" said ichigo. "i agree, lets do that" said ulquiorra. "yay!" i said every excited. Ururu was scared about karaoke, because if she sang it would reveal her secret passion. and she's also afraid that jinta would taunt her even more.
"you guys have absolutely no idea how much this means to me" i said with a smile " well enjoy yourself orihime. this our night to hang out with everyone." said ichigo being nice. As jinta and tessai set up the karaoke machine everyone sat around and drank their drinks that they had brought with them. "ok so who's going first?" asked tessai. "'I'll go first" i said volunteering myself. as i went up to the front i choose my favorite song which was a gift of a friend by demi lovato.
Once the song was playing, everyone was amazed that i had a fantastic singing voice. i had fun with it and danced around. i love that song because i can always count of my friends to help me out when i need them. after i was done rukia went up next to sing girlfriend. she liked that song because that's how she expressed her love towards renji when he was being forcefully in a relationship with a stalker girl.
everyone was having a great time. "with all these amazing talents here, you guys should start a band" said kisuke. "i guess that's a good idea. but what about school? how will we managed time for it?" i asked. "don't worry i can handle it" he said. " are you saying that if we do decided to go through with it, you are going to be our manager?" asked ichigo. " that is correct ichigo, since it was my idea." said kisuke. "why don't i let you guys think about it and get back to me ok?" he asked. "sure, we can do that" said rukia.
forming a band? that seems like a good idea, but i don't know if I'm cut out for it. I'd rather be the quiet type, just hang out with my close friends. but if the others are in to it, then i guess i can go along with it too. but what would ulquiorra think? i don't want him to be jealous or disagree with this. i just need to think about what i want, as what my brother would say. sometimes i need to be independent, even when its making decisions like this. I need to think this through.
only then I can make my final choice about this matter. but overall today has been the greatest day of my life. I will no longer be alone on thanksgiving day, because I have friends who care, and want to have fun together. I know in the future we will not have these special moments ever again. so it is time to enjoy it while we still can, I hope someday I can relive these moments. especially when I have my own family to share it with. I'm so excited that I want to this every year! in fact I cant wait til next year.