"Have a seat." Ichigo said politely as she brushed by him and made a beeline for the kitchen to grab some plates and a couple of glasses. Toshinori's hand shot out and caught her wrist, tugging her to a halt before she could get very far though.

Curious, she turned her head to look at him for a second and frowned when the man quickly retracted his hand and started stammering out an apology for grabbing her so suddenly.

"S-Sorry! I-I didn't m-mean to d-do that." He said frantically before then clearing his throat and said in a calmer tone, "I mean, you're still probably tired so why don't you sit back down. And I'll go and grab some plates and glasses for us."

She regarded him silently for an uncomfortable heartbeat or two, and then nodded her head. He smiled at her and set everything down on the coffee table and then quickly scampered off to do as he had said as she sat back down and curiously peeked into the bag full of movies to see what he had.

She was so caught up in checking out the films that she totally missed him sneaking up on her when he returned to the room.

"These are all American films," She muttered to herself as she shifted through them while trying to stay quiet enough not to let him know that she was snooping through his stuff. "Jaws, Cabin in the Woods, House on Haunted Hill, Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, Gran Torino, Die Hard, Battleship, Unstoppable, the new Star Trek movies." He also had a couple of TV series box sets too. "Star-gate SG1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer...TMNT's, and Danny Phantom- What the hell?"

Why are his TV and movie options so weird? She wondered.

"See something you like?" He asked in a soft tone close to her ear. Ichigo went completely and totally still and he had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep himself from laughing at her as her face flushed with embarrassment.

Finally after several moments, she finally moved to lean back in her seat and then shot him a small glare as she muttered, "You know, for someone so damned big- you move way too quietly."

It wasn't the first time anyone had said that about him, so he didn't bother to take any offense as he smiled at her in amusement and simply straightened his spine so that he could walk around to where she was instead of letting himself practically drape over the back of the couch.

Once he was in place, he carefully seated himself next to her and set the glasses and plates down on the coffee table and then grabbed the wine bottle and quickly removed the top as Ichigo politely waited for him to pour them both a drink before she even bothered to reach for anything.

"Did you find something that you wanted to see?" Toshinori asked again as the two of them dug into the pizza that he'd brought.

"Maybe," Ichigo said as took a small sip of her wine to see how it tasted. Luckily it tasted pretty good. Setting her glass back down on the table, she picked up her plate of pizza and then leaned back as she slowly replied, "I'd like to check out the horror movies."

"Great! I had a feeling that you'd want to watch something bloody after the day that you've had," He said cheerfully before grabbing the movies from the bag and holding them up for her to see a little bit better as he asked. "Which one do you want to see first?"

"Cabin in the Woods first. House on Haunted Hill next. Then Jaws, the first one all the way through to Revenge."

He blinked at her, slightly startled by the fact that she bothered to sort of plan ahead as far as what she wanted to see. But said nothing about it as he took the movie and put it in her DVD player and then quickly returned to the couch to grab his plate of food and tucked into it as the movie started to play.

They must have made it through to the second Jaw's movie, and drank their fair share of wine. He, himself only had two glasses since he had never been much of a drinker and Ichigo had at least four. Things were winding down a little bit, and he'd noticed earlier that Ichigo had been trying to hide the fact that she was getting sleepy from him. But he'd still caught her yawning regardless.

And now- now she was sleeping with her head resting back over the back of the couch and he was staring at her. Internally wincing as he absently took note of the lateness of the hour. He hadn't meant to stay quite so late. Especially when she had already been tired.

But he'd simply enjoyed her company so much.

Honestly he'd felt bad for staying for so long when she was clearly not up for the company. Sighing, he grabbed the remote for the TV off of the coffee table and turned it off before then setting the remote back down and then carefully collected the woman in his arms and took her to her bedroom and tucked her in.


There was a note on her bedside table when she woke up the next morning, along with a glass of water and some headache medicine. In case she had a little bit of a hangover, the note said.

Huffing softly, she took the pills and downed the water and then got up to shower and get dressed for the day. She couldn't really recall when she was supposed to go back to work at the school. But she would imagine that Nezu wouldn't let her stay home for terribly long.

She had just gotten out of the shower and gotten dressed and was heading towards the kitchen to see what there was to eat when she heard a soft knock on the door that separated her new home from All Might's and sighed as she turned and walked back and opened the door for him and then started walking back to the kitchen.

"Good morning," He greeted in a softer tone than normal as he stepped into her living space, wearing his hero uniform and quietly closed the door behind him. She took note of the unusually soft tone he was using and paused for a moment as she turned her head to give him a curious look as he moved along behind her and softly said. "I didn't expect you to be up and around so early. Did you have any thing planned for today?"

"Breakfast." Ichigo said as she started prepping the coffee machine to make her some coffee as he sat down at the island and watched her for a moment.

"And then?" He asked.

"And then nothing. I don't even recall if I'm supposed to go to work today."

"You don't. In fact neither of us do."

"Awesome. I got dressed for nothing." Ichigo said sarcastically causing him to let out a weird half snort/half choked sounding cough in an effort to hide his amusement at her statement.

"You didn't get dressed for nothing," He finally said once his tongue was finally able to function again. "I was wondering if you wanted to come with me on patrol."

"No thanks." She deadpanned automatically.

"Come on, it might be fun. And imagine all of the people that you could help." He said coaxingly.

She had to ignore the familiar burn of anger followed by the insane urge to throw a knife at his head. But if she did, she'd likely actually hit him with it so it was best to resist the temptation since she didn't want to accidentally kill him.

Why was it every time she turned around people were demanding that she do things? Why couldn't anyone take the word 'no' and just leave her alone?

"How about it?" He asked with an excited smile.

"I already said no." She said, careful not to let her anger bleed into her tone. Especially since it wasn't really him that she was still pissed with. It was goddamn Nezu.

His smile dimmed a little bit at her answer and he frowned at her. "B-But you're a hero..." Weirdly enough, his attempt at complaining was what caused her to finally snap. Whipping around, she shouted angrily.

"I'm not a hero! I'm a fucking prisoner! There is a difference!"

He stared at her wide eyed, his expression uncomprehending and his mouth opening and closing a little bit in shock as she raised a hand to rub at her eyes and then just walked off. Her bedroom door slammed shut several moments later as he silently pulled himself together and tried to think of the reason why she would think such a horrible thing.

Sure he knew that she wasn't exactly happy with her current circumstances...but that was no reason to think that she were a prisoner. After all, everything that was being done at the moment was being done to protect her- wasn't it?