A/N: This is a light and fluffy crack drabble for Gina-chan1979's prompt 'jealousy'.

As some of you already pointed out, I am playing around with different writing styles in these drabbles. For this, I tried a new 3rd person narrating style that I quite enjoyed.

(Just FYI, I totally imagine this being read by an elderly lady with a British accent, which (in my humble opinion) really adds to the experience. xD But I'm not telling you what to do, so if you want it to be read by an elderly man with a British accent that is still completely fine by me. 😉)

Have fun reading!

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Jealousy

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It was common knowledge in both the Sereitei and Karakura town that Kurosaki Ichigo, the hero of the Quincy War, was a protective man. Nomen est omen*, as they say. It also didn't escape anyone how his care pertained especially to his family and friends, with one of them acting as the pinnacle that the majority of his protectiveness focused on.

So, it really didn't come as a surprise that this protectiveness would at some point warp into possessiveness, as those emotions are universally known to be closely related. However, no one really expected this overbearing emotion to become the momentum that two silly teenagers needed to finally get together.

The two silly teenagers in question were said war hero and his gorgeous healer friend, Inoue Orihime. People in this world and the next had taken to 'shipping' the two of them together, long before the protector ever realized his feelings. The Shinigami Women's Association even went so far as to create a fan club for the couple (the idea coming from Rangiku), dedicated to 'the advancement of happiness and romance of our best human friends', and a notable number of both men and women from Soul Society and, surprisingly, the human world joined readily.

Now to get back to topic, Ichigo was not expecting that anything would happen between Inoue and him that day that he went to visit her at her job in the bakery. When asked later on if he even knew about his feelings towards her yet, he would mumble awkwardly to himself, never giving a clear answer (so obviously he did not.) But since Ichigo had always been a 'do first- think later'- type of person, it still happened that day, even without the introspection that would usually be needed for such a step.

You see, Orihime had a coworker whom she liked a lot because he was funny and sweet and just a blast to be around (although he was obviously no match for the man she had lost her heart to). The coworker in turn liked Orihime a lot more than she liked him, and he was the touchy kind of person. So when Ichigo walked into the bakery that day he was confronted with the image of his good friend in close proximity to said coworker, who had put his arm around her and was animatedly telling her a quip of some sort.

While Ichigo would later vehemently deny ever feeling anything as petty as jealousy, he walked up to the pair with danger in his step, breaching the hallowed space behind the counter uncaringly and pulled Orihime away from this guy and straight into his arms. 'Back off,' he growled at the poor unsuspecting rival, who in turn puffed out his chest, demanding to know who Ichigo was and what his claim to Orihime was. (Sexist, tch!)

This is where we get to the part that no one – Ichigo included – really expected. Because he leaned down towards his pretty friend and just planted a kiss on her mouth – a kiss that started out very innocent and quickly turned very heated, much to the shock and delight of both participating parties. When they broke away, a triumphant smirk appeared on our war hero's face and he squeezed Orihime's waist as he spoke the simple and assertive words 'She's mine!'.

Now Orihime was in a blissful daze from the fact that, holy cricket, he had kissed her, but upon hearing his possessive words she snapped out of it to say with the utmost confusion 'Wait, I am?'.
This turned out to be Ichigo's clue to break out of his 'definitely-not-jealous'- state, giving way for the realization of what he had just done. Suddenly blushing he stuttered 'I mean, if you want to, yeah…' to which the spurned coworker sweat-dropped while Orihime just squeaked a happy 'heck yes'. Now, this is as close to cursing as one can get with Inoue Orihime, so the vehemence of her words was very uncharacteristic, leading to a dorky smile to appear on Ichigo's face. It was quickly mirrored by his counterpart as they beamed at each other. They both looked very stupid.

And while the two of them tried to alter the story of how they started dating in later years, the real accounts of how it happened are safely stored away in the annals of the 'Ichihime Fan Club' in Soul Society, so if anyone is interested to read the detailed report, the archives are open to the public on every other Wednesday. Just contact Matsumoto Rangiku.

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*Nomen est omen – latin for: The name says it all

A/N: Lol, told you it's crack. But I had fun writing this. I hope you had fun reading it. Let me know what you think!

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To answer your question, BadButt94: I want to do all of your prompts, it doesn't matter if you give me one or three! I just work them in random order or well - in the order my muse wants me to do them.
So everyone, please don't feel left out if I haven't done yours yet, I'll get around to it eventually!

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