11. Kiss & Tell

"In a storeroom, behind my brother's office in the 6th Squad barracks. I was pressed against a wall, naked and he was doing me with his hakama around his ankles."

"You're kidding."

Rukia placed her glass of red wine on the coffee table and shook her head, sitting back against the sofa with a delighted chuckle.

"Did you guys get caught?" Rangiku asked, pulling her feet underneath her on the sofa, scooting closer to her Shinigami colleague. "It must've been super hot…"

Yoruichi chuckled to herself at the blonde's comment and took a sip from her cup of sake, sitting cross-legged on the carpeted floor next to the one leg Orihime had dangling over the edge of the sofa she, Yuzu and Tatsuki were sharing. "If you and Renji had been caught, I would've heard about it for sure," the former Commander of the Soul Society Stealth Forces commented, grinning knowingly.

"So, you weren't caught," Karin deduced smugly, sitting across from Yoruichi on a pillow on the carpeted floor and reaching for a cheese cracker on the coffee table.

"No, we did not," Rukia smirked. "But it was the most exciting sex Renji and I ever had."

Tatsuki smiled and bit her lower lip. "So, how long has it been?"

"That was before Sachiko was born…" Rukia answered before her expression turned pensive. "Come to think of it, it might have been how she was conceived… Two years ago." She then closed her eyes and sighed. "Between Renji's ever growing responsibilities as a lieutenant and me taking care of the household and the children, we barely have time to ourselves anymore, and it's put a strain on our marriage and our intimacy. We desperately needed this getaway. It's already helped us a lot just being here and being able to relax."

"Use your last week off in the real world to discover each other again," Orihime suggested with a wink. "Ichigo and I are taking all the kids to the amusement park tomorrow, so use that time to make use of every surface of this house however you deem fit."

All the women giggled and laughed, grinning to each other when they heard their men roar with laughter on the patio.

"Their conversation must be just as interesting as ours," Rangiku commented, standing up to refill her cup with sake.

"How about you and Shuhei, Rangiku-san?" Karin wondered with a gleeful smirk. "What is the most exciting sex you two have ever had?"

Rangiku looked back at Ichigo's younger sister amusedly and shrugged. "As most of you know, Shuhei isn't the type of man who wears his passions on his sleeve. He always needs a bit of..."

"Persuasion?" Orihime added, sharing a smirk with Yuzu who was resting her head on her right shoulder.

Rangiku shook her head coyly and picked up her filled cup to return to her seat next to Rukia on the couch sheltering the living room from the income hall. "I was going to say extortion."

"You blackmail him into having sex with you?" Rukia inquired with raised eyebrows, bending over in her seat to reach for the plate of cheese crackers Karin was holding up for her.

"I find it hard to believe that you'd have to resort to something like that…" Tatsuki added, taking a sip from the red wine glass she was nursing on her lap, making herself more comfortable in her corner of the couch. "I mean, look at you."

Rangiku chuckled and tucked a strand of her shoulder length honey-blonde hair behind an ear. "I don't know," she confessed with a shrug. "It's kind of a welcome change of pace."

Karin smiled knowingly and looked down into her lap pensively. "Now you're the one doing all the chasing?"

Orihime switched her gaze from her sister in law to a now blushing Rangiku. "And you're no longer constrained by doubt either, I suppose. Now you know that the guy you like actually loves you back."

Rangiku giggled to herself. "Though sometimes I wish he'd be more direct when it comes to making love to me."

"Don't you guys have sex on the regular?" Yuzu asked softly, lifting her head from Orihime's shoulder.

"Oh no, they do. Loudly," Karin confirmed dryly, sipping from her beer and making all the other women laugh.

"He venerates the ground you step on, doesn't he?" Yoruichi reasoned, waiting for Rangiku to confirm with a nod. "And when you do get down to it, he's a complete beast, right?"

Rangiku nodded again. "When you see what kind of relationship he used to have with his Zanpakuto it makes sense."

"What a complicated man," Rukia commented. "Yet judging by the way Karin has been chiming into the conversation, it's safe to conclude that there is a good sex story lying in wait."

"Do you want to tell them, or should I?" the lieutenant of the tenth Division teased, grinning at Karin.

"Toushiro and I had returned from a recon mission near the outskirts of the 62nd Rukongai District and I was literally itching to take a bath after 3 days," Karin began, smile widening itself when she saw the anticipatory reactions of her friends. "Who do you think we found in the Captain's personal bath in the Division House, going at it all shiny and wet?"

"No way!" Rukia chuckled as Tatsuki and Yoruichi shrieked with laughter.

"What position were they in?" Orihime asked lecherously, making everyone laugh once again and Tatsuki exclaim her amused surprise at her unexpected directness.

"What has my brother done to you?" Yuzu whispered, giggling.

Orihime grinned and shrugged. "But what…? It's an important piece of information if we're to imagine it going down!" she said in her own defense.

"I completely agree!" Yoruichi chimed in, tapping Orihime's knee approvingly. "So, tell us what position you were in and do not spare the details, please!" she demanded, eyes staring intently at the tall blonde.

"Well…" Rangiku started, taking a moment to think about it. "I remember 'the girls' being out and soapy and splashing water everywhere as Shuhei was taking me from behind… all rough and fast and..." She grinned to herself at the memory, sitting back with a sigh. "God, I love it when a man is so worked up that he just takes you hard and makes your entire body just… surrender to him and do whatever he wants with it, am I right, girls?"

"There's nothing like it…" Orihime agreed, voice soft and eyes closed, teeth sinking into her lower lip as she reminisced. "Sex doesn't get much better than that…"

"Make up sex is right up there too, though," Yoruichi added gleefully, enjoying the blushing and embarrassed expressions of the Kurosaki sisters, Rukia and Tatsuki.

Rangiku leaned forward towards the 3rd seat Officer of her Division, smirking. "So now tell us, Karin-chan, what are you and our Captain up to when you think no one is watching?"

The oldest of the Kurosaki twins huffed and chuckled awkwardly, running a hand through her shoulder-length ebony locks. "I can't share stuff like that… my husband is a respected Captain, I can't just reveal what he and I do behind closed doors…"

Yoruichi grabbed a cashew nut from the mixed nuts bowl and hit Karin with it square in her forehead. "Nah uh, spill it, sister!"

"You are not getting away with that pitiful excuse," Rukia agreed with a chuckle, watching Karin rub her forehead in an annoyed manner.

"Yeah, tell us what Toushiro's like in the sack!" Orihime giggled, reaching for her glass of wine and taking a sip. "I'm sure he's telling the guys out there all kinds of things about you, too," she added teasingly.

Yuzu laughed at her sibling, sitting up and taking the mug with the green tea Orihime was offering her. "You better tell us, sis. I'm dying to know too."

"Oh my God! Alright!" Karin exclaimed, grinning and throwing her hands up in defeat. "He likes to be in control, okay?"

"As in 'fucking you senseless' every night?" Yoruichi asked, licking her lips.

"Or as in 'tying you up and using toys'?" Rangiku added excitedly, sitting up.

Tatsuki made an agreeing sound and sat up. "Do you roleplay?"

"No, I don't think he'd be the kind to be into that sort of thing," Orihime mused. "I think he's more the dominant type, but not in an S&M sort of way."

"Though I do see Karin cracking the whip now and then," Rangiku added with a sneer. "Literally."

Karin laughed with her hands pressed against her face, shaking her head. "I know that all of our minds are very deep into the gutter right now, but people come on!"

"Then tell us something good!" Yuzu giggled. "What's his favorite position?"

"Him on top," Karin said resolutely. "What's Jinta's?"

"The same," the younger Kurosaki twin answered with a shrug. "He says he likes watching me when he's… doing me."

"Is he gentle?" Orihime asked her softly, knowing that her sister in law had wished to wait until her honeymoon to have sex for the first time with her husband. "How was your first time?"

"Your advice helped me prepare," she answered with a blush, closing her eyes at the memory. "It hurt, but he was very understanding and patient and he really tried to make me feel good."

"First times are usually not that great…" Rangiku said, shaking her head with a wince.

"It really depends on who you're doing it with," Yoruichi spoke with a nod, crossing her arms over her chest. "My first time was a very long time ago, but I still remember it because Kisuke had done everything in his power to make me feel at ease. There was minimal pain too, but that's because he gave me something for it. I will say though, that having a penis inside of you feels fucking weird the first time."

They all laughed and made consenting sounds.

"I was scared that Renji wouldn't fit inside of me," Rukia said, looking awed when she recalled her first time. "He didn't really know what to do and I had no idea either. It was painful at first, but I wanted him to go on, I was too turned on to stop even when he wanted to."

Tatsuki chuckled. "He's got you fitted to him now."

"It took a few times before sex with Renji really started feeling good, yeah," the petite Shinigami laughed.

"Practice really does make perfect," Tatsuki told Yuzu, who was fidgeting nervously as she listened to the older women. "Don't believe all those books and movies, sex is supposed to be messy and feel awkward the first few times. I had the same fears Rukia had. I had no idea how I was going to fit Sado's schlong inside."

"Hold up. Honestly though," Yoruichi interrupted, halting their conversation with a raised hand, turning her head to look up at her. "How big is the man, really?"

"Oh my God, I've always wanted to know that too!" Rangiku quipped, sipping from her drink with an intrigued look on her flushed face.

"Think of the girth of an average-sized zucchini or cucumber," Tatsuki answered, grinning delightedly. "And about 8.5 inches in length."

"Wha..?" Orihime gasped, clasping her hands against her mouth with a giddy laugh.

Rangiku and Karin burst out in laughter as well. "How do you even…?" Karin asked, amazed.

"A lot of foreplay, a lot of lube," Tatsuki said, tapping her right thumb and index for emphasis. "And it helps that he's just amazingly patient and loving. We communicate with each other about the stuff we like, what feels good and what doesn't." She then turned to the youngest woman in the room and smiled reassuringly. "It's important that you communicate with each other clearly about what you like so that sex doesn't become a chore or something to dread. Have you reached orgasm with him yet?"

Yuzu nodded sheepishly, now staring into her tea mug. "But not every time."

"And that's okay," Orihime reassured her. "You've only been married 6 weeks, the both of you have plenty of time to discover what the other likes. It's like Tatsuki said, the keys to good sex are communication and practice."

"I want to bet that your first time with Ichigo was no short of perfect?" Rangiku asked, an expectant smile on her lips.

Rukia grinned to herself and shared a knowing glance with Tatsuki before looking at their friend, having heard the story of Orihime's first time the day after it happened. "They ditched the birthday party Tatsuki and I had organized for her because of it."

"You got your first time as a birthday present?" Yoruichi echoed, turning her head to Orihime now. "How was it?"

Orihime grinned and thought about it for a moment, trying to recall that night of her 19th birthday that happened almost exactly 19 years, 11 months and 3 weeks ago. "I remember ruined sheets and being very sore the morning after," she said with a smirk as the others chuckled amusedly. "Ichigo and I had been dating for a 7 months I think…" she began, expression pensive. "And I wanted it, but he didn't think we were ready. He took the time to explain his motivations for not making a move for so long."

"That sounds like Ichi-nii…" Yuzu whispered proudly.

Orihime chuckled. "Yeah, but I could really care less in that moment."

"Hime had Ichi's dick on the brain!" Rangiku kid, making all the girls laugh.

"Can you blame me?" Orihime huffed exasperatedly. "I had to wait 4 years for him to notice me the way I wanted him to and then he still wouldn't make a damn move!"

Their roaring laughter resounded throughout the entire house.

"I feel your pain, girl. That's how it usually goes with those muscle brains," Rangiku said, standing to slap her hand with Orihime's. "But you managed to get him to put out," she then stated, sitting on the arm of the couch she'd shared with Rukia to be closer to Ichigo's wife. "Was he a virgin, too?"

Orihime shook her head. "And I don't want to know who he gave his virginity to. It doesn't matter. I'm just grateful, in hindsight, that he knew what to do to my body and that he fully understood the impact that our first love making would have on our relationship."

"How so?" Karin wondered, moving onto her feet to sit on the now vacant spot next to Rukia.

"Well, for one I hadn't expected for there to be blood. It wasn't much, but I'm not going to sugarcoat it; it really hurt for me at the time," she replied with a semi-nod. "And while I didn't know what to do with my hands, my body and my hair that somehow kept getting in the way, he guided our first time into being a very pleasant experience for me. He helped me be comfortable with my own sexuality. And he was right you know? He was right to have his reservations about taking my virginity.

Those months preluding our first time were filled with so much goofiness and genuine happiness, and I know now that that was his way of helping me reclaim my confidence, my innocence… the 'me' that I had lost after Ricart…" A nostalgic smile now graced her features as she remembered. "Our relationship really became more mature and serious after that. His gentle care is what helped me become the confident woman I am today."

Yuzu grinned happily and bumped her right shoulder against Orihime's left. "You bring that caring and loving side of him to the surface, you know. Karin and I told you this many times before, but it still hold truth to this day; you really bring out the best of Ichi-nii, Orihime."

Karin nodded and smiled agreeingly. "And vice versa, of course."

Yoruichi smirked to herself and sipped from her small cup of sake, resting her right elbow on her raised right knee. "I'm just glad that you guys finally ended up together, I mean the boy was slow on the uptake and it really got kinda touch and go there for a while, didn't it?"

"Yeah… I don't know," Orihime said indecisively, shaking her head. "We were done with high school and although my feelings for Ichigo never changed, I knew that we wouldn't be spending as much time together like we did in high school. We couldn't really escape each other in school, but what with each of us pursuing different things after, I just resigned to accept the way things were."

"Why did you never make the first move?" Karin asked softly, not seeing the near identical, melancholic gazes on Rukia, Rangiku and Yoruichi's faces. "Maybe all of that nasty business with Ricart might have never happened, because you could've been together already."

She looked at her sister in law and smiled gently. "You have to understand that all I wanted from the moment I fell in love with your brother was to be with him and protect him to the best of my abilities, because he helped me overcome the pain that I've endured during my childhood and he saved my brother, too. I wanted to be with him out of gratitude, at first.

And then, I found out how much of a beautiful person he genuinely was. Inside and out and I wanted more, but I didn't see myself as someone who was worthy of being with someone so radiant. I felt selfish for wanting to have him to myself like that, when clearly his priorities lay elsewhere, so I decidedly took a step back…"

"Ichi-nii didn't even realize how you felt…?" Yuzu whispered sadly. "What an idiot…!"

"Your brother was rather oblivious to her feelings, to such a point that it bordered on stupidity," Rangiku sighed with an agreeing nod, recalling an old conversation that she'd had with Orihime decades back.

Yoruichi pursed her lips skeptically and tilted her head to the side. "He might have been oblivious to her feelings, but he also failed to recognize his own for her in time."

Tatsuki nodded, agreeing with Yoruichi's words and seeing Rukia nod too. "I can concur with that assessment, Yoruichi-san. He was in love with her long before he knew it himself."

"I agree," Rukia said, watching Orihime smile tenderly. "I've known Ichigo for almost as long as I've known you, Orihime. And the way he acted whenever he was around you, was nothing like the way he acted when he was with any other girl or woman. He always acted with so much respect for you and that didn't just come from a need to protect you. No, his demeanor changed to be gentler and more considerate each time he was around you, but he never realized it himself."

"It was blatantly obvious to some of us after a while, and despite mine and Kisuke's best efforts to help him take that step towards you, he either preferred staying a coward or he really just failed to recognize his feelings," Yoruichi concluded with a nonchalant shrug.

"But then why, when he finally confessed to having feelings for you, did you turn him down?" Yuzu asked.

"Because of the same reasons I mentioned before," Orihime answered, smiling sadly. "And because of what almost happened with Gertrude's brother…" she paused and bit her lower lip with a frown, trying to figure out how she was supposed to continue. "I come from a broken home..." she started and cleared her throat, obviously finding the topic to be a difficult one to talk about. "I was abused for a long time as a child. Tatsuki knows this, um..." she added quickly with a glance to her friend. "Up until I met her and Ichigo, I didn't know any better. I thought that abuse was all I deserved. That's why I couldn't act out on my feelings because I basically hated myself for being the way I was; weak, stupid and helpless.

And then when I went to college, I met Ricart who was a brilliant and handsome, but very complex young man. There was a kind of vulnerability to him that I recognised in myself, the kind that I believed we could learn to overcome together. He made me laugh, he made me feel like I mattered. He made me feel… visible. I got the attention I thought I wanted."

"Him trying to rape you wasn't your fault, Orihime!" Tatsuki protested.

She smiled kindly at her longtime friend and closed her eyes pensively. "The confidence I had built while being around Ichigo and the others had gone seemingly overnight when I became Ricart's girlfriend, because I thought that in exchange for the way that he made me feel, I should do whatever I could to keep him happy as well. I didn't realize it then, but he made me become very insecure about myself and the way I lived my life. When he tried to force me into having sex with him because I wouldn't put out, I thought that that was what I deserved, that it was the way things should go because I really liked Ricart, despite his shortcomings."

"Wow," Karin whispered, looking away in dismay.

"I was in a very bad place mentally… I had completely regressed," Orihime admitted, sipping from her wine. "Things in the Soul society had calmed down and Hollow attacks were sparse and far in between," she then continued, keeping her eyes closed to hide from the pressing silence her story evoked. "So I hadn't seen Ichigo in months, but him and Tatsuki were still in regular contact with each other and he'd been keeping tabs on me through her.

That night, when Ricart wanted to force himself onto me, Ichigo burst through my apartment door and saved me from him."

"He'd felt that you were in danger," Rukia said sadly. "Renji and I were with him that night, I remember. He was gone before we could do anything."

"All of us at Kisuke's felt it too," Yoruichi chimed in with a confident nod.

Orihime's woeful smile disappeared and she opened her eyes. "Ichigo beat Ricart senseless when he realized what he was about to do to me. I had never seen him in such a rage. I had to cry for him to stop and let him go. And then, when Ricart lay bloodied and unconscious on my living room floor," she stopped and sighed, scowling silently. "I got so mad at Ichigo for having done what he did, that I kicked him out. I was a sobbing, trembling, drunk, half-naked mess on my couch and all I could think about was that Ricart would hate me and that Ichigo ruined everything."

The room went silent for a few moments, the quiet only broken by the sound of Sora laughing upstairs in his room where all the younger Kurosaki and Abarai-Kuchiki children were watching a movie. The Yasutora twins and Mamoru had gone out to the theater to see a new action film.

"Ricart broke up with me the very next day and I didn't want to have anything to do with Ichigo," Orihime continued, staring into her wineglass. "Partly because I was ashamed that he'd seen me like that and because I was mad at myself for being so stupid and helpless. Again." She brought her glass to her lips and downed the rest its contents in one go. "Then there was that Hollow outbreak incident a few weeks after and it was the first time Ichigo and I had been face to face since he'd come to my apartment. He got hurt and I healed him and at some point when we were alone, he asked me out and I said no, because I couldn't understand that he would want me, after what happened. It didn't make sense and also because I was no where near ready for what he was asking me for."

"But eventually you said yes," Karin whispered softly, smiling encouragingly.

Orihime nodded, grinning blissfully. "And when I did I started to see and understand how a real relationship is supposed to be, that I am worthy of him loving me and of me loving him back. Finally."

"It was a long road, wasn't it?" Rangiku commented, eyes grown soft.

Rukia chuckled and then sighed in endearment. "But it was only the beginning, though."

"Yeah," Orihime whispered, sighing contently.

"Your love story is so inspiring," Yuzu said in agreement, leaning with the back of her head against the sofa with an excited grin. "You guys have been through so much together. I really look up to you guys." She then looked at all the women gathered around her. "All of you guys. And I know that Jinta and I only just got married-"

"After you gave him blue balls for 3 and a half years," Karin added casually before she took a swig of her beer bottle, making everyone laugh.

Yuzu giggled and threw a pillow to her sister's head. "As I was saying- Jinta and I only just got married, but I hope that our marriage is as patient and understanding as your relationship with Kisuke-san, Yoruichi-san," she said leaning over in her seat and placing a hand on the purple haired woman.

Yoruichi grinned and raised her newly filled cup of sake to her. "I'll drink to that."

Yuzu smirked and raised her tea mug in turn before looking at Rukia and Rangiku to her left. "I want it to be as sexy and passionate like Rangiku's relationship and as dependable and fearless like Rukia's."

"Aww," Rangiku cooed with a giggle while Rukia nodded in acknowledgement of the compliment.

"Tatsuki," she then said turning to her. "Your marriage to Sado is ambitious and dynamic, I want that."

Tatsuki finished her glass of red wine and raised her left hand for Yuzu to slap it.

"And what you and Toushiro have is exciting and audacious, sis," she told Karin tenderly. "The lengths you two went to be together is no short of heroic."

Karin winked at her. "Thanks, sis."

"And my brother has found a love that is kind and unconditional in you, Orihime."

Orihime looked at her gratefully and bumped her shoulder against hers. "Your marriage will be all those things you wish for, and more… I'm certain of it," she whispered, wrapping her right arm around Yuzu and pulling her close to kiss her temple. "Just remember; communication is the key."

"Thanks, sis," Yuzu replied softly, resting her head back on Orihime's shoulder.

"Hey, ladies…"

They all looked up and saw Ichigo walk up to them from the dining room with his cellphone in a hand.

"What's up?" Orihime wondered, tilting her head back to let him drop a kiss on her lips.

"Sado and I are going to pick up Mamoru and the twins, they just called," he informed her and Tatsuki. "We're picking up extra beer on our way back, do you guys need anything?"

Rangiku gasped excitedly. "Oh my God. Chocolate fudge brownie ice cream!"

"Ooh...Good choice!" Orihime exclaimed with a laugh.

"Get me some salted caramel popcorn!" Yoruichi chimed in.

"Sushi sounds awesome right about now," Karin told him with an innocent grin.

"From that place next to Sakurai Bakery!" Tatsuki said, nodding agreeingly with her. "Oh God yes!"

Ichigo smiled a little, scratching the back of his head. "Should I be writing all this down.. or-"

"Oh, and if you get the chance, could you get more wine?" Orihime asked him. "To go with dinner?"

"And sake!" Both Rangiku and Yoruichi added with a drunk giggle.

"Rice dumplings for me, thanks," Rukia told him, placing her empty glass on the table.

"I would have to go all the way across town just for those!" he protested, scowling at her uncaring shrug.

"Well, if you're going all the way over there, could you get me pan-fried dumplings, too?" Yuzu asked, holding back her chuckles when the other women giggled at the sight of Ichigo's annoyed face.

"Seriously?" he whined, sighing. "We're about to have a cook-out!"

"I would be so greatful, if you and Sado did this for us…" Orihime murmured, taking one of his hands in her left one and kissing its back.

He suppressed his smile with a cute pout. "How grateful would you be…?"

She never answered, choosing instead to give him a playfully sultry stare, wordlessly promising him all kinds of nasty and naughty fun for later.

"Then I'll be back as soon as I can," he said breathlessly, walking away quickly to join Sado who was waiting in the dining room.

"Girl, you have got that man locked down!" Rangiku stated, giving her another high-five.

Yoruichi grabbed the near empty bottle of sake from the table and emptied it in her cup. "He's getting a blow-job, later on, isn't he?"

Orihime shrugged with a cheeky smile. "It's an option."

"You guys do that…?" Yuzu said, perhaps a bit louder than she intended to because she'd quickly slapped her hands against her mouth in shame when she heard the soft chuckles from the other women, blushing furiously. "I mean… It's just that I've never… gotten Jinta's... that close… with my face..."

"We need to hold a sex-ed evening for this girl, I'm serious," Rangiku interrupted, giving the younger girl a heartbroken stare. "Her being this inexperienced and clueless is making me sad."

"I'm in, if you're up for it, Yu-chan," Orihime whispered to her encouragingly.

Karin pulled her feet onto the couch and smiled at her sister. "I'm in, too. Out of curiosity."

"I'm always up for some sex talk," Yoruichi smiled, nodding.

Rukia chuckled and showed her consent with a nod.

"The more confident you are in your sexuality, the better you'll be able to tell Jinta what you want. You'll be able to please him better, too, if you're comfortable with your own needs," Tatsuki advised Yuzu. "I'm in, just say when."

"Thanks, you guys…" Yuzu whispered, smiling bashfully. "I made Jinta wait for so long, I want to show him that it was worth it and show him, that I can love him in that way too. Help me get better?"

"How does next Wednesday sound for you guys?" Orihime asked them, wrapping her right arm around Yuzu's shoulders again. "Ichigo, Renji and Sado are taking the children camping in the morning and they'll be back Thursday afternoon, so we have Wednesday evening all to ourselves."

"And Sachiko will spend the day at the zoo with Isshin, so she won't be a problem," Rukia reassured them.

They all nodded in agreement, each one of them looking forward to another night of enticing gossip.

"So, how big is Ichigo?" Rangiku asked softly after while, biting her lower lip giddily.

"Oh, I don't want to hear this," Rukia said with a chuckle and a shake of her head.

"Don't answer, Orihime, please," Karin begged, although grinning. "I'm not drunk enough to want to know."

"I've seen him naked, so I know how big he is," Yoruichi said in an unconcerned manner, throwing her drink back. "But I'm more impressed by how well proportioned and pretty his peepee is."

"Oh my God, Yoruichi-san!" Yuzu squeaked.

Orihime laughed with the rest of them before she shook her head. "All I am going to say is that he's a perfect fit for me. And Yoruichi is right; I think my husband has a very pretty peepee too."

"What's his favorite position?" Tatsuki asked, laughing and shrugging when Yuzu looked up at her accusingly.

"Yeah... I'm out," Karin said, shaking her head stubbornly with a chuckle and standing up.

Yuzu agreed with her sister, not wanting to hear the answer to that question and stood in turn, too. "I'm going to check up on Jinta."

Orihime laughed and waited for them to be out of earshot. "He likes it when I'm on top, but we both love it when he can run his hands all over my body when he's doing me..."

"It's the best though, isn't it?" Rangiku murmured throatily, now crossing her legs with her hands wedged between her thighs. "What's the most exciting sex you two have had?"

"And when was it?" Yoruichi added.

"A month ago, on his birthday, in his office at work," Orihime answered, nodding knowingly at the excited exclamations of her friends. "It started with his head in between my legs… and ended with me holding on to his desk for dear life with my ankles on his shoulders."

"Damn, that's hot," Tatsuki commented, wetting her lips.

"I thought you were walking kind of funny at his party afterwards," Rukia remarked.

Rangiku sighed with a wanton smile and cleared her throat. "If we keep this up, I'll be the one walking funny before we even get to dinner tonight," she confessed standing up.

"You're right, we should adjourn for now," Orihime chuckled, moving onto her feet. "Let's go see if the men need any help with the grill."

They all grabbed their empty and half empty drinks and made their way to the back of the house.

"You're still here…?" Orihime wondered when they walked passed the kitchen and she saw her husband putting on his grey jacket.

"Yeah, sorry, I took the time to check our pantry again and turns out we're in need of trash bags and mushrooms," he told her, grabbing his keys from the kitchen island as she walked up to him.

She put her arms around his waist and smiled at him gratefully. "Well, it is an impromptu cookout party. Some things were bound to be missing."

He returned her smile and embraced her with a suspicious stare. "Do you need anything else added to the list?"

Orihime chuckled and shook her head. "No… I just love how you keep taking care of us."

"It comes easy to me…" he replied, dropping a kiss on her forehead. "I love to."

"I love you, Kurosaki-san," she chuckled at the ticklish sensation. "And later tonight, as promised, I'll show you just how much," she murmured, kissing him back and letting him go.

"Maybe we can do it in the bathtub, with your 'girls' all soapy and wet…" he told her with an amused eyebrow, grinning at her appalled gasp. "Or we could stop by the office and I could show you my pretty peepee again…?"

"Oh you sneaky bastard!" she said, playfully swatting his arm. "You were listening in?"

"Just a little bit," he chuckled. "Sounds like everyone is getting lucky tonight."

"So you guys were talking sex as well?" Orihime inquired, running a hand through her hair inconspicuously. "Did you happen to say stuff about me…?"

Ichigo shrugged and his expression turned neutral. "I don't know."

"You don't know?" she echoed.

"No," he confirmed, kissing her a last time on her lips. "Because we, unlike you, never kiss and tell."

"Wha…?" Orihime protested disbelievingly with an amused chuckle as he quickly opened the garage door and left with a self-satisfied smirk.

Author's note

Hi everyone,

I created a Tumblr page to go with my fanfiction writing! It will be mostly to post musings on my ongoing writings and things related to my works. You will also find previews of upcoming chapters there along with art that inspire my work. Next chapter's preview has been posted, so you can find the link in my bio.

Thank you for your ongoing support, and I shall catch you on the next one!

-BDP-