Title: For the Love of Strawberries and Needles
Warnings: Shonen-ai
Pairing: Ichigo x Ishida
Rating of this Specific Chapter: T (just to be safe)
Beta-d by: babyblues15
Theme 2: Blurry
"I cant go to school looking like this!"
Ichigo let out a weary sigh, "What's wrong with the way you look?"
"Can you not tell?" Ishida waved his arms dramatically in the air, "I cant see! I'm blind! My glasses went poof! Poof, I tell ya!"
"…poof…"
"Yes, poof."
Ichigo shook his head and let out another sigh, "Sometimes you're just as bad as Inoue…maybe even worse. Come on. We're going to be late." Grabbing Ishida's wrist, Ichigo dragged the Quincy out of his doorway.
"Let go!" Struggling in vain, Ishida stumbled down the sidewalk, "Kurosaki, I really cant see a thing."
Ichigo kept walking, not sparing a moment to turn around, "It's Ichigo. How many times do I have to tell you to call me by my first name like everyone else does?"
"And you! What about you? You call me Ishida all the time," the Quincy retorted, his tone almost lending itself to petulance. He'd given up on struggling and was now sulking in defeat as he fell into step beside the shinigami.
"That's because everyone else calls you Ishida. Besides, you're first name is too hard to remember."
"Uryuu. U-ry-uu! What is so hard to remember about Uryuu?" Reaching up, Ishida gave the bridge of his nose a little poke, only to remember that he did not have glasses on. He sighed and his face took on a miserably dejected look.
Turning slightly, Ichigo returned Ishida's sigh, only more exaggerated, "Jeeze, you're really hopeless, you know that?"
The Quincy made no reply.
"Uryuu…" Ichigo smiled amusingly. He lowered his head and gave Ishida's neck a playful nip, "It doesn't fit you."
Ishida turned around, shooting Ichigo a glare, "Ku-ro-sa-ki. Ku…ro…sa…ki…"
"You idiot. Come on, we'll be late."
Ishida squinted hopelessly at the board. When he had told Ichigo that he was blind, he meant blind, as in he couldn't see, as in everything further than two inches from his nose was a blur of nothingness. Even sitting in the second seat of his row did not help. He looked around the room for a blob of orange. Once class was over he'd kill that shinigami ten times over. He didn't need glasses to know that everyone was staring at him.
Orange wasn't very hard to spot. Ishida could make out a bright blur somewhere near the windows. It was odd but now that he thought about it, never before had he made a point of finding where Ichigo sat. He was pretty sure, however, that it wasn't by the window. Ishida shook his head. It didn't matter what he was pretty sure of. It only mattered that there was an unmistakably orange blob by the window.
Turning back to face the front board, Ishida fiddled with his pencil and for once in his life, waited impatiently for the bell to ring.
"Kurosaki!" Ishida made his way clumsily through the crowd of students pushing to get out of the classroom, "I am going to kill you!" Finally getting a hold of Ichigo, Ishida shot him a glare and began angrilly, "I told you I couldn't go to school like this! I cant see a thing!"
The shinigami started to say something in a soft high-pitched voice but Ishida cut him off, not giving half a thought to the change in pitch, "And I'm not going to take your stupid way of apologizing either. You always give me a kiss or nibble my ear a bit and think that that fixes everything. When I said I was blind, I meant absolutely positively blind! I cant see anything! Even when your right in front of me, you're just an orange blur. You should be glad I didn't fall right into you or grab your hair by accident cause I swear to God I could have. And as for my name, I don't care if you think it doesn't fit me. I don't even care if you keep calling me Ishida. I only told you to call my Uryuu because you keep telling me to call you Ichigo. But you can just continue calling me Ishida because I'm going to continue calling you Kurosaki no matter what you sa-"
"Ano…Ishida-kun? I-I am Inoue. Kurosaki-kun is behind you."
"O-oh…"Ishida let go of his hold and turned a bright red, "I…I…" he gave the bridge of his nose a quick poke, "G-gomen."
"Nnn," Inoue shook her head, "I-it's ok." She gave a nervous smile and quickly walked away.
For a while there was silence.
"Uryuu," Ichigo grinned, lowering his head to whisper into Ishida's ear, "Uryuu, here…" He slipped a pair of lenses into Ishida's hand.
It took a few moments for things to register in Ishida's mind but only a few.
"Y-you! So it was you!" Putting on his glasses, Ishida shot the shinigami what he thought to be the best glare he could muster after such an awkward scene, "You had my glasses all this time and didn't say a word? You bastard!"
"Is that really any way to thank someone for finding your glasses?"
"Finding? More like stealing! Y-"
Ichigo caught the Quincy's lips and silenced him in a light, fleeting kiss.
"Don't kiss me! This is just like you, Kurosaki! Cutting me off with a kiss and thinking that it's going to fix everything."
"It's Ichigo. I-chi-go."
"Kurosaki. Ku-ro-sa-" but the shinigami cut him off with another quick kiss, "I said don't kiss me!"
Ichigo gave the Quincy's ear a little nibble and kissed him again but this time long and hard, "I'll keep on kissing you until you call me by my first name."
"Kurosaki. Kurosaki. Kurosaki."
And Ichigo gave him three long kisses.
A/N: Yes, it's random...probably more than the recommended dose of randomness but yeah... I was just raking my mind for something to write cause what kind of a theme is "Blurry"? It's like so uninspiring. Well, I finally came up with something though it's quite lame ...oh well -shrugs-. And as for the whole argument about the names... one word cliche. But you know what, I really don't care. I just noticed it when I was rewatching the shows and I felt like writing something about it. I mean, they're just so close to each other, yet they never call each other by their first names.
Well, that's that... Hope you enjoyed it and reviewplz!
- Ai