DISCLAIMER: THIS STORY IS A POV OF ICHIGO AND ORIHIME. BOTH ARE SEPERATE BUT IT'S ROLLED IN TO ONE FOR THIS THEME. ENJOY!
The greatest day/ the most bitter day part 2: Father's day
Ichigo's pov: This morning I got up, again something was way off about today. My goofy father, didn't come bursting through the door, jumping through the window or popping out of the ceiling. I looked at my calendar and I saw that today was father's day. And I remembered what he had said to me about taking it easy on surprise training beatings
he usually does to me.
I looked to my computer desk, saw that my gift to my dad is all set and ready to go. But I also knew that since rukia is part of the family now, she didn't buy a gift for dad. When I saw rukia in the hallway, I called her over to talk to her. "Hey rukia, take this" I said to her. "Twenty dollars?, why are giving me money?" she asked me.
"Because its father's day and its tradition on this day that the kids buy stuff and do stuff for their father. You are apart of the family now" I said to her with a smile. "Why cant you do it, you know your father better than me." She said backing out on the plan.
"Like I said, its tradition. Yuzu is making him his favorite breakfast, Karin bought him a watch and I got him his favorite CD to play in the car." I said to her on how things are done on this special day. "Fine, I'll buy something. But you need to come with me, since I know nothing about dads." Rukia said.
"ok it's deal, dad is probably still sleeping so lets sneak out the front and try not to make any noise" I said whispering. Rukia nodded and as we left my room, we could hear him snoring. We quietly went down the stairs, we saw yuzu making the breakfast and when she turned around to see. we told her not to tell dad what we are doing until dinner. She nodded at us, and I slowly opened the door as rukia quietly closed it behind her.
I got in to my car, as rukia went in the passenger's seat. I started the car and we drove to the mall. "ichigo, listen, I'm sorry for snapping at you like that. It's just since I grew up alone with no parents or a sister. my life has been pretty rough." rukia said apologizing for her actions. "it's ok rukia, I forgive you. you need to cast those thoughts away form your mind now. you have a new family, and that's mine." I said smiling while looking at the road.
"y-you mean it? I can stay with you?" she said surprised. "yup, you are apart of the family now rukia. which means my dad is your dad." I said quickly looking at her then back at the road. "thank you ichigo, this means a lot to me" she said kindly. "your welcome...sis" I said somewhat liking the idea. "sis?" she said confused. "yea, since we'll be living together. that makes us brother and sister" I explained.
"but what about byakuya? he's also my brother." she asked me. "Don't worry, its normal to have more than one sibling." I said to her. she sat there quietly and nodded. "so what does Mr. kuro- I mean dad likes?" she asked me. "to be honest, dad can be a bit picky sometimes. I would say he likes something that reminds him the good old days he spent with mom." I said.
"interesting, I think I know what to get him" she said after she got her idea. once we arrived at the mall, I parked the car and we check out the stores to see what our dad would like. "so what did you have in mind to get dad rukia" I asked her. "the idea that I have is to get him a special locket put a picture of his wife, as if wherever he goes she's right there with him" she said smiling at me.
"that a perfect gift for him" I said. we go to a jewelry store to look for a locket. "we need to find a color that's not too girly for our dad" I said thinking of him so he won't get ragged on. "ok, how about gold?" rukia suggested. when I walked over to her the it was a gold chain with a gold heart and in the front it said "#1 dad". "that's perfect rukia. now all we need to do is buy this put the picture of my mom in it and its set." I said in a happy tone.
As we walked over to the line to pay for it, I saw my goof ball friends keigo and mizuiro. "yo ichigo, what's up" said keigo happy to see me. "hey keigo, hi mizuiro. what are you guys doing here?" I asked them. "mizuiro and I are just cruzing, looking around scoping out the hot chicks. and good morning to you miss rukia" keigo said. "hi keigo, hi mizuiro.
it's a pleasure to see you as always" rukia said being polite. "so are you cheating on senna or something?" keigo is to me. "oh fuck off keigo, I'm helping rukia pick out a father's day present. since she's living with me now" is said to him a bit annoyed. "wait a minute she's living with you? when was that decided?" asked mizuiro.
"just recently, by Mr. kurosaki, instead of me being a moocher. he kindly offered me to be his adopted daughter in to the family. now my family is bigger for me. I have two brothers and two sisters. this is something new for me. since I grew up alone with no parents and my only sister abandoned me" rukia said.
"wow you are a great friend ichigo" said keigo not being annoying for once. "wait two brothers? who's the other brother rukia?" asked mizuiro. "my step brother/ brother-in-law byakuya kuchiki. you see he married my sister and he told me that before she died her last wish was for him to find me and adopt me in to the kuchiki family" said rukia. As they were in the line keigo and mizuiro talked to them, once they reach the cashier.
they paid for the chain and locket and started to head home. "we'll see you guys later, we need to get home." I said. "it was a pleasure to meet you again boys" said rukia and she curtsy and we walked away. keigo and mizuiro just waved good bye. "I didn't expect to see them here" said rukia,
"well it's the mall, everyone comes here to shop and have fun" I said to her. As we drove home, we tuned in to my favorite music station. It was great to get out and hang out with my best friend rukia. Once we got home we sneaked through the window in to my room I grabbed the picture of my mom put in the locket, put in a box and wrapped it. "ready to down stairs for dinner?" I asked rukia she looked at the present then at me and just nodded.
when we walked down the stairs, we saw yuzu and Karin preparing the dinner whereas dad was reading the newspaper. he sees me and rukia coming down the stairs, "they you are ichigo and rukia. what did you sleep the entire morning away?" he said jokingly. "we actually, went to do some quick shopping." said rukia.
"that's nice" he said smiling. After about three minutes, dinner is ready and they all go to the dinner table and start to eat. "this is great good yuzu" said rukia. "thanks, rukia" yuzu said happily. As we were eating, we talked about everyone's day. I remember when I was younger, usually father's day I was a somewhat of a trouble maker.
I didn't realize good it was to have a dad like him. Even for orihime she suffered so much through out her life. Once dinner was done yuzu and Karin did the dishes, while rukia and I set up the gifts for dad. "once the girls are done we can start opening presents" he said in a happy tone. "your dad is very happy today" said rukia.
"yes, we try not to give him a hard time. we want him to be happy on this special day" I said. After yuzu and her sister were done with the dishes, we sat in the living room together and went around giving him the presents we have. "here daddy this one is form me" said yuzu. when took it and opened it loved gift form his second child.
"thank you my dear" he said hugging her. next up was Karin, when she gave him his gift he was so moved. and gave Karin a bigger hug. I went next and when he opened the gift he was shocked to see his favorite CD. When it was Rukia's turn she gave him the present. "here you go Mr. kuro- I mean dad" she said. The moment he opened it he's heart melted.
"oh my god, rukia" he said so touched. "I hope you like it, I put the picture of your wife so that way she's always with you, wherever you go" said rukia. he put on the locket and hugged rukia only saying these words "thank you...thank you so much". "your welcome" she said smiling. Today has been the greatest day, making dad happy was a success. But it would have been more awesome if mom was around. Overall, today has been the greatest day and I can't wait until next year.
Orihime's pov: Great, another day for me to be sad. Every year, this day comes and every year I get depressed. Ichigo is lucky to have a great father. Sometimes I ever wonder why I am born. Everywhere I look, I see people and their families laughing, spending time together...and do I get? pain, suffering, loneness. I've thought about suicide so many times, but the reason why I've never gone through it is because of my boyfriend ulquiorra and my best friends.
It seems like with them on my side, I can pursue my dreams but its hard. Even when I don't have my parents nor my brother. I remember when I was little... my brother zora would always tell me, to follow my dreams, to never give up. But with all that has happened, I-I-I don't know what I'll do with out my best friends.
Instead of wallowing in sadness in my apartment, I got out and headed to the park to think. I've always wondered why my parents, decided to have me and my brother knowing that they would skip out on us like this. Everyday I ask myself that question, hoping someone with any connection to them would give me an answer. The worst days for me to be alone is my birthday, mother's day and father's day. But I seem to be getting by with my best friends helping me.
While I was at the park, sitting on the bench I saw this really cute family having a picnic. I almost wanted to cry, it's so hard for me to be so sad. But when I decided to be with ulquiorra, it seemed like my heart is slowly healing but each time it tries to heal.
More and more pain comes and reopens the wounds. I tried not to cry at the park, because I didn't want anyone coming up to me asking what was wrong. I don't need pity form others, I've always tried to put up a brave front but deep inside, I'm hurting badly. My hands were in tight fists, I couldn't bare to have any more pain. I want to kill myself so badly but I can't, my friends are like my second family to me. I can always find a great time with them. Especially when I'm with ulquiorra. When I heard my phone ring, I picked it up and it was ulquiorra.
The phone conversation with ulquiorra and orihime.
orihime: hello?
ulquiorra: hello my princess
orihime *slightly smiles* how are you?
ulquiorra: I'm good, is something wrong?
orihime: n-no...
ulquiorra: orihime
orihime: ok, ok I'm sad because I'm alone on father's day
ulquiorra: you want me to come by your house?
orihime: I'd love that, I'll see you in a bit I'm going to go shop
ulquiorra: ok sweetie love you
orihime; love you too
ulquiorra: bye
orihime: bye
*they both hang up*
Once I put away my phone I got up form the bench, and headed to the super market to buy some snacks and drinks for ulquiorra and I. It's been awhile since I last hung out with ulquiorra. I know that I shouldn't be with him because he's working for lord aizen and lord aizen is planning his revenge on the soul society but...ulquiorra is just so clam and sweet.
When I entered the super market, I got a kart and headed down the isles to get both of our favorite things to eat and drink. I looked at the time, and I saw that he was coming in fifteen minutes. So I got all the goods I could find and headed to the check out line. Luckily it wasn't that busy today. But everywhere I go and look, I see people with their families and it just makes me very depressed. That I will never have those moments ever again.
When it was my turn to go the cashier, I saw someone very familiar. I thought to myself if I remember that person. Form a distance it looked like my parents, but I could be wrong or I could be imagining things. After I paid my items, I took the bags and start walking to my apartment. Along the way I saw more and more families on their special outings. It seems like it really hard to ignore it.
I feel like I'm nobody, It's like half of my heart is missing. Because my parents abandoned me and my brother. Once I reached my home I saw ulquiorra standing outside of the front door waiting for me. "hello my princess" he said sweetly. When I saw him my eyes were filled with tears. He helped me with my groceries and we went inside. "So lay it on me, why is my princess sad?" he said to me as he put down the bags and turned to me.
I stood there silent... at first i didn't want to talk about it, but when he called me..he knew that i was sad, "you see, today is father's day and..." i said stop before finishing my sentence because my voice was cracking and i could feel my tears building up. "I see, where you are going with this.
Don't worry my dear, I'm here for you. And your not the only one who's bitter about today, I have no parents at all. so instead of being sad, why dont we eat these snacks you bought and watch some movies together" he said sweetly. I stood there silent... at first i didn't want to talk about it, but when he called me..he knew that i was sad,
"you see, today is father's day and..." i said stop before finishing my sentence because my voice was cracking and i could feel my tears building up. "I see, where you are going with this. Don't worry my dear, I'm here for you. And your not the only one who's bitter about today, I have no parents at all. so instead of being sad, why dont we eat these snacks you bought and watch some movies together" he said sweetly.
I looked at him and nodded, as i got the snacks ready he got the movies out form my box that i had and he set it up. Once i got the snacks ready, i went over to him put it on the coffee table and we cuddled together and we spent the entire day watching movies and enjoying each other's company. we spent the entire morning and half of the afternoon watching movies. the other half of the afternoon, we took a stroll to the park to burn off the food we ate.
Around two o'clock we started to get thirsty so we stopped by a lemon stand and bought ourselves some lemonade. I was having a great time with ulquiorra. "what a beautiful day" i said looking a the scenery. "it sure is, especially that i get to spend the day with you " he said so sweetly.
as i hugged him and hold his hand, we saw some street performers. This one girl played a romance song while the other girl sang it. The song they choose was sakura kiss form ouran high school host club, i smiled because this song reminded me of ulquiorra. I took out my wallet and put twenty dollars in the guitar case. "thank you ma'am" said the girl after she was done singing. "your welcome, you are very talented" i said politely.
As we headed towards the mall, we decided to stop at the cafe to relax for a bit. ulquiorra noticed that i was having a great time today, because without him i would be wallowing in sadness at home. and probably watching TV programs the entire day. "feeling better my princess?" he asked me. "a lot actually, you are the best boyfriend i could ever ask for" i said to him and when i kissed him i saw him smiling.
"do you want to start eating here for our late lunch?" he asked. "sure, then afterwards we can burn off the food by walking around the mall" i said excited. while we were sitting down our waiter came by and took our order. ulquiorra and i were so silly, i sat on his lap and we took random pictures together to kill some time before our food had arrived.
"ha-ha-ha-ha-ha I'm so posting this on that fan page" i said laughing, because we being so silly and having different expressions on our faces. The moment i went back to my seat the food had came, and started eating. what made us seem like a cute couple to everyone else was that we were sharing our food with each other. and when he would have a sauce on mouth i would just wipe it off, also when ulquiorra noticed that i had some smoothie on my lip he came forward to be he kissed off the smoothie.
i just blushed so hard because i didn't think he'd do that. "i love you so much my princess" he said to me so sweetly. "and i love you so much sweetheart" i said even more sweetly and romantically. After our late lunch we shared a banana split, and its a good thing we ordered one. because that thing is so huge . "ow-ow-ow brain freeze" i said as i was holding my head.
"oh my dear, try drinking some water" he said trying to help me. i took his advice and tried drinking water which helped a lot and i continued to eat. "wow, this desert absolutely delicious" he said amazed since he's not really used to eating like this. "i know right, i dont eat it often because i need to watch my figure" i said. "and your body is super sexy" he said getting all seductive. once we finished our banana split, we paid the bill and started to head to the mall.
"what do you want to do at the mall" he asked me. "I'm going to do some shopping i saw the most cutest outfit the last time i was there" i said excited. "sounds fun, plus i have something special for you" he said, "really? what is it ? what is it ?" i said super excited. "you'll have to wait my dear princess" he said claming me down.
We had such a great time, exchanging in great conversation. the walking distance to the mall was very great especially when we ate so much. once we arrived to the mall, i went to the forever 21 clothing store. Where as ulquiorra went to the jewelry store to buy something. I search for my cute outfit, once i found it i go try it on and it fits me perfectly.
well duh because I've been walking around all afternoon, once i done at forever 21. i bought my outfit and i checked out a few more stores and bought some more cute outfits and accessories. "wow, this great how i got these outfits and it was on sale too." i said thinking to myself. while i was shopping i got to see senna, rangiku, nemu and rukia hanging out together. "hey orihime, who are you with?" asked rangiku.
"oh I'm here with ulquiorra, he said he has a surprise for me but i dont know what is it. he told me to meet him at star bucks at 4pm" i said happily. when it was four o' clock, i went to star bucks and i saw ulquiorra. "hey babe ready for your surprise?" he asked. "yes, yes of course!" i said very excited.
when he had the box he opened and said "orihime, this ring represents how much i love you. i want you to be mine forever, would you do me the honor of being my official heuco mundo princess girlfriend?" he said. "oh my god! ulquiorra i love it thank you and yes!" i said very happy and i hugged him so tight. i was so happy and shocked when he put the ring on my hand.
we spent the entire day walking around, we even got to see the pets at the pet store. the puppies were so adorable. when i turned around i saw ulquiorra wearing cat ears and there was a bunch of cute bunnies around him. "ha-ha-ha, wow you are so adorable and funny" i said. "please get them off me" he said not being too comfortable with animals getting this close to him.
i couldn't help but take pictures before i got the bunnies off of him. we looked around the store for a bit longer and saw some sweet birds, ulquiorra wasn't really in to birds nor fishes. once it was five thirty we left the pet store and order in for dinner. we headed back to my apartment and we watched another movie. "today has been the greatest day ever ulqui thank you" i said while hugging him. "I'm glad that i could help my darling." he said kissing my forehead.
even though mother's and father's day can be pretty depressing. i can always spend this day with my boyfriend and best friends. I love my best friends and my boyfriend, with out them i dont know what I'll do. I cant wait until next year.