Touch
1st Title: Perfection
Word count: 400 words
Rating: K+
"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."
Sam Keen
Inoue Orihime is imperfect.
He says, "Imperfect" not because her faults overwhelm her, but because other words do not personify her at all. To simply say she was "ditzy" undermined her smarts. To say she was "crazy" undermined her goofiness. To say she was a "hot" undermined her soft prettiness.
So while others gagged and wolf whistled at the sight of her chest, Ichigo resulted in calling her imperfect from afar. Her imperfect long hair that shone beautifully in the moonlight as well as the sun, but became tricky and unnecessary during the summertime. The soft weavable threads of laughter he heard from her regularly, but made her seem unintelligent. Her imperfect eyes that where always filled with compassion and hope which sometimes produced small imperfect tears. Tears that were almost always shed because of his actions and behaviour.
Her fingers where imperfect to. Soft and long, not like pianist's which he felt were too lanky and thin but much more similar to an artists. They where much more loving when it came to healing, comforting and all in between. Her kindness was imperfect just as much as her inner-strength, which did not need to be seen, just to be known.
It wasn't until much later he'd realise her lips where imperfect too, in the way she responded to his touch and the way soft moans escaped them fluently when his fingers drifted to unspoken areas. His name would echo in through the walls and soon she'd sleep flawlessly in a ball right next to him.
Breathing in imperfectly. Loving him imperfectly.
Kurosaki Ichigo is perfect.
It is not obvious at first because Ichigo himself lives up to his name. Lots of seeds prickling the outside while the really beauty hid inside.
Ichigo is kind. He defends those who feel meek and does things for others that some may find to bothersome. His words strike the air in passion, and his hands embrace everyone with the will to protect.
When he first touches her, she is nervous but not scared. His hands are gentle in stroking because in truth he is a gentle creature. His gaze is not harmful when he listens to her off-shot comments about pirate-ninjas. His mouth which although sometimes spew unflattering words and gestures to others, is sweet and leaves her breathless as she clings to him when they embrace in the moonlight.
His eyes are always determined and full even if sometimes, when they're so over flown with sadness, her own eyes felt like crying for him. Even if no fault falls on him, he always seeks to make things better
Ichigo was flawed but loving. This is above all why she knows he is perfect.
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