Enjoy chapter 10
"Time to wake up my son! You've got a busy day ahead of you! Orihime is downstairs, don't keep her waiting!" Isshin screamed at the birthday boy.
"It's 6 30 in the morning! SHUT THE FU-…Who's here!?"
"Hi, Ichigo! Happy birthday!" Orihime happily surprised her boyfriend, popping up from behind Isshin.
"Hey….how long have you been here!?" Ichigo asked.
"Hmm…a few hours! Yuzu and I made the cake! Isn't that right!?" Orihime turned to Yuzu and slapped hands with her.
"Yeah! Hurry up so we can eat it!" Yuzu had a huge grin on her face as she and Orihime went on about what they did while Ichigo was asleep. Oddly enough…Isshin was also fully engaged into the conversation. Hands tightly clasped together.
"She even gets along with my family. Look at Karin, she's as stubborn as a fuckin mule, but she's in a good mood for once ."
He was right. Karin had a tiny smirk on her face as she leaned on the wall behind everyone.
Ichigo walked downstairs and was astounded by the detail of the decorations, which were littered all around the living room. There was even a life-size cardboard cut out of Ichigo in a tuxedo and top hat, holding a tommy gun in his hand. Orihime had known for a fact that one of Ichigo's idols just so happened to be Al Pacino.
"You made that..for me!?" Ichigo was amazed at the cut out. "Yeah! When I got home yesterday I made it. It took a few hours though. Do you like it!?"
"It's…amazing" Ichigo picked it up and stared at it, like he was looking into a mirror made out of card board. Nobody had ever done anything like this for him. "That's not all either!" Orihime picked up a small box and handed it to him.
Ichigo opened the box and took out a framed picture. It was a picture that Rukia had took of the two at the skating rink. Ichigo was holding Orihime from behind, and they both were smiling. It was their first night as a couple.
"Aww, it's so cute! I really like your hair Orihime!" As Yuzu went on about her envy of Orihime's long locks of hair, Isshin slyly walked over to Ichigo and handed him a medium sized plastic bag. The contents of the bag were wrapped in blue plastic, and there were more than one of them. A lot more.
"Hah! Are those what I think they are!?"
"What the hell you perv!! What do I need these for!?" Ichigo threw the bag of condoms at his now confused father. "The hell do you think!? It's protection!! You don't want any Ichigo Jr.'s running around this place do you!? HUH!? YOU BETTER NOT! NOW THINK SMART AND PUT THESE TO GOOD USE!"
"WELL RIGHT NOW I'M THINKIN ABOUT PUTTIN MY FISTS TO GOOD USE! I'LL FUCKIN KILL YOU!"
"WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE IN MY HOUSE!"
"WATCH YOUR PERVERTEDNESS IN FRONT OF GUESTS!!"
Orihime suddenly felt as if she were sitting front row at a wrestling match. She imagined Ichigo and his father in tight spandex with hundreds of different colors, with matching masks. The two men threw each other across the room with reckless abandon.
"A-…are they always like this!?" Orihime asked a bored looking Karin, who was sitting with her arms folded on the couch.
"Ahh, it's nothin'. You'll get use to it."
After the father-son brawl came to a halt, the group enjoyed the cake that Orihime and Yuzu had made together, and then wished Ichigo another happy birthday as he and Orihime left to start their day.
"So what do you have planned for today!?" Ichigo asked, holding Orihime's hand. "Um, well I was thinking-"
A loud crash was heard behind the two.
Ichigo quickly turned around and stared down the Menos Grande that had just appeared. "Shit! Of all times to come, this thing had to come now!" Ichigo quickly took his soul reaper badge out and threw it against his chest, releasing his spirit form from his body.
"Orihime, step back!" Ichigo yelled as Zangetsu unraveled from it's white threads.
"Wait Ichigo! I'll handle this! Don't worry!" Orihime stepped in front of him and got in her fighting stance.
"What the fuck!? Is she crazy!? That thing is gonna smash her little ass!".He was right, Orihime had no chance against a hollow that size. "Orihime, get out of the way!" He tried to move her out of the way, but it was too late.
"Koten Zanshun, I reject!" Orihime screamed as Tsubaki was summoned from a corner of one of her hairpins. Her reiatsu flared as her attack sliced through the hollow like it wasn't a problem. The hollow quickly landed on the ground and disappeared in mid air.
This was the first time that Ichigo had seen her defeat a hollow so easily.
"Orihime…wow." Ichigo placed Zangetsu on his back and jumped back into his body. "You've gotten a lot stronger." he stared in astonishment as Tsubaki made his way back to one of her hairpins.
"D-do you think so!?"
"Yeah! I mean, You're an outstanding healer and all, but I've never actually seen you're offensive powers much."
"I-I've been wanting to get stronger, ever since Tsubaki was shattered to pieces by that arrancar." Ichigo had remembered how Yami completely destroyed Tsubaki, and a few months later when on his way to Aizen, Ichigo had did the same to the décimo espada.
"B-but…" Orihime had her head down as she spoke. "I really wanted to get stronger…so I could protect you, Ichigo".
"You don't have to do that. I'll protect you, I don't want you to put yourself in anymore situations like this. I promise you, I will protect you with everything I have." Ichigo placed his hands on Orihime's shoulders.
"But if something were to happen…I want to be strong enough to make things better."
"Believe me, just with you being here makes everything better for me." Ichigo smirked, bent down and kissed the smiling girl, whose hands were latched onto his shirt collar.
"What's with you two and the corny lines!?"
"Shut up. At least I don't have to sleep with a guy"
"Tha fuck!? We don't sleep together you fuckin simpleton! In fact, there's nowhere TO sleep in this god-forsaken place!"
"Sure, keep forcing yourself to believe that you AREN'T attracted to the old man."
"Fuck you!!"
Not having any idea what she was doing, Orihime decided that she and Ichigo would walk to her apartment and plan out the rest of the day.
That's what it seemed like at the time.
Orihime had her real present for Ichigo waiting inside of her closet. With the Victoria's Secret tags hanging off the black, silk bra strap.
"Wait here, I'll be back!" Orihime said as she hurried into her room. Ichigo sat on the couch and turned the TV on.
"You know what she's doing, right!? You better hope that you saved one of those condoms that your pops gave you!"
"Oh shut the fuck up! How would you know anything like that!?"
"Well she's not back there baking cookies!!…unless that's her secret way of saying "I'm going to get butt ass naked and I want you to do me!"
"Look, dipshit. This is ORIHIME, not some porn star. She doesn't do stuff like-"
"Ahh! Ichigo, come quick!" Orihime screamed from her bedroom. Ichigo ended the conversation with his hollow and rushed to Orihime.
"What's wrong!?-…hooooly shit" Ichigo face turned beet red at the sight of Orihime in the skimpiest piece of lingerie she could possibly find. (It was actually Tatsuki who had forced her to buy it). "Orihime…you're-"
"Do you like it!?" She said in a low, seductive voice. The way she was acting all of a sudden was entirely out of the ordinary.
"I…I…wow" Ichigo slightly chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "I really thought something was wrong when you yelled…b-but I guess not r-right!?" It was a rare occasion when Ichigo stumbled over his words the way he was doing right now.
"You don't like it!? I knew I shouldn't have let Tatsuki talk me into buying this! I mean for crying out loud, I wanted to have a surprise party with party hats and a cake and ice cream and pin the tail on the donkey and-…mhmmm" Orihime had suddenly been thrown on her bed and hounded by Ichigo's eager lips.
"I like it…it's just…you would do this for me?!"
"I would do absolutely anything for you." she replied with.
"Again with the corny shit!! Aren't kids you're age supposed to be hip to new lingo??"
"What do you mean kids!? you and I are practically the same age!"
"Are not! I don't have a fuckin age! I'm ageless!!"
Ichigo decided to ignore his hollow and continue with Orihime. He had discarded his shirt as he argued with his "inner half". He was exploring every crevice of Orihime's body, while she did the same to him.
While the two love birds continued to frisk each other, a few "Peeping Shinigami" watched outside of Orihime's window.
"Damn, look at em go. I didn't know Orihime was like that" Renji said as he sat on a steel bar in front of Orihime's bedroom window. He even had a small bag of popcorn in his hand. "Why are you looking at her!? Ichigo's the one you should have your eyes on!" Rukia slapped Renji on the back of the neck and snatched the popcorn bag away from the pineapple head. "What!? I don't get down like that!! What are you? Some sort of freak!? That's gross!"
"All I know is you shouldn't be looking at another woman's body while your damn fiance is sitting right next to you!!" Rukia had ignited another one of many screaming matches with her baby's father. "Well what am I supposed to do Rukia!? She half fuckin naked! You really think I would want to stare at some dude with his shirt off!? Fuck that!"
"You stare at yourself shirtless in the mirror every fucking day!!"
"That's totally different!!"
"My ass it is!!"
As Ichigo and Orihime were on the verge of going "all the way", Ichigo suddenly stopped and freaked out at the image from outside of the window.
He was staring at Rukia, who was choking the life out of Renji, who had been staring at Orihime, who was confused by what was going on, so she decided to stare at Ichigo.
"THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS DOING!? SHIT LIKE THAT IS ILLEGAL YOU KNOW!"
"Since when!? Calm down, dumb ass!" Renji screamed back.
"Calm down!?. There's two people with a bag of fuckin popcorn peeping in on my girlfriend and I! I didn't watch when you knocked her up, now did I!?"
"Well...that wasn't very smart to say…" Renji chuckled and stepped back as Rukia launched herself through the window and went straight for Ichigo's neck.
"SCREW YOU, ASSHOLE! AS IF I DON'T GET ENOUGH INSULTS BECAUSE OF THIS PUDGY FUCKING STOMACH, NOW I HAVE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT ME, IN FRONT OF ME!! AS IF I WASN'T STANDING HERE!! YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW HARD THIS IS!!" Rukia repeatedly slammed Ichigo's head into the hard wood floor in Orihime's bedroom, making the whole in the ground created by his head wider and wider.
Rukia finally got up and dusted herself off.
"Oh yeah…happy birthday Ichigo!" she quickly swapped her enraged expression with a happy one and helped Ichigo off of the ground.
"So you have NO idea what you're doing today!? It's your birthday! You can't think of anywhere that you'd like to go!? I know there's something fun to do around here!" Rukia babbled as the gang sat in the living room.
"We could always go to….the arcade!?" The arcade was the only place Ichigo could think of. In fact, it was the was the only remotely fun thing to do in the city.
"That sounds great! I heard the new Dance Dance Revolution game is in!!" Orihime jumped up in pure joy.
"The hell is that!?" Renji asked. "Oh it's great! You'll see when we get there!" Orihime said as she quickly grabbed her purse and walked out of the door, with everyone else following.
Kids of all ages ran around the two story arcade. Ichigo and Renji stood clueless as Orihime and Rukia gasped at the variety of games and fun booths their were. "Rukia! Let's try this one first!" Orihime pulled Rukia towards a fancy looking car racing game. "You two go on ahead, I've got something to talk about with Ichigo" Renji said.
"What is it!?"
"What's wrong with you!?"
"The hell do you mean!? Nothin!"
"There's something very wrong with you! You still haven't gone all the way with Orihime yet!? Why is that!?"
"…I don't know! It's just something that hasn't happened yet! I don't really care, I'm ready when she is."
"Well by the looks of what you two were up to at her apartment, she seems ready"
"How!?"
"I mean, come on. You really think ORIHIME of all females, would wear something as revealing as what she had on, for no reason!? What do you think all of the kissing you two were doing was going to lead to!?"
"…I DON'T KNOW!"
"SERIOUSLY!? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!"
The gang spend the rest of the day at the arcade, playing almost every game possible before calling it quits. As they waved goodbye to their friends, Ichigo turned to Orihime.
"About earlier…"
"Oh, don't worry about it! I don't think it was the right time to be doing things like that anyway! I was being selfish."
"I just want you to know…I'm ready when you are" Ichigo said as he kissed Orihime lightly on the cheek.
"Okay…call me?"
"I'll call you"
"Okay! Bye Ichigo! Thanks for letting me spend the day with you!"
"You know for a fact that I wouldn't have it any other way!" he yelled as he walked home.
"Damn. It looks like those dreams of yours are really of the future."
"Eh, I don't know about that."
"Just take today for example. You guys almost fucked! You don't have a condom on you! She probably would have gotten pregnant and BAM, Ichigo Jr.!"
"Okay, first of all, fuck you. Second, there's no way I'd name it Ichigo Jr."
"Anyway, all I'm saying is, the pieces to the puzzle are starting to fall together."
Ichigo layed in his bed and thought of what his hollow had told him earlier.
"the pieces of the puzzle are falling together" was a true statement. They were a few minutes away from going all the way, and he knew it. He knew that eventually they would, and that she would be pregnant. He had a feeling that these dreams he was having were all too real.
The next day, Ichigo woke up and walked to a small thrift store a few minutes away from downtown Karakura. He didn't know who else to talk to about the dreams he was having. He slid the store door open and was greeted by a man wearing a green bucket hat, wooden sandals, and had what seemed like a cane in his right hand.
"Long time no see, Urahara"