~ Chapter 3 : You,me and him ~

"Mmm... Kurosaki-kun." Orihime is trying to reach for Ichigo's chest, but she was unable to feel it. She opens her eyes just to see Ichigo entering the room.

"Look who has finally woken up." He teased her leaning for a morning kiss.

"What are you doing up so early?" She asks dragging him back to bed.

"Rukia woke me up saying that Ichika was asking about me, that it would be better to come down and drink something in order to not be interrupted up here." He drags her on top of his body while his teeth were playing with her neck.

"Let's sleep for another hour, pretty please." She likes their new development, but her stamina is still human.

"Ok, I get you." He complies letting her down on his chest. They stayed like this for a while, him caressing her hair.

"It feels like a dream." She declares while listening to his heartbeats. He pinched her cheek. "Why did you do that?"

"To check that you're not sleeping." She puffs. "I would not like my girlfriend to dream about me, while I'm standing right before her, at her disposal." He rolls over her. "Any wish, your Majesty?"

"Hm... Maybe just one tiny wish." She says rolling her hands around his neck.

"Your wish is my command." He jokes while leaning for a kiss.

"Would you... call me... Orihime." She manages to convey through his kisses.

"I do not promise I would get used to it instantly, but for you, Orihime, I would do my best."

After 3-4 rounds of love making the couple is starving so they go in the kitchen.

"Is it okay for you to not go working today?" She asks while brewing some coffee.

"Yeah." He responds while flipping the pancakes. "Being a Shinigami is not exactly as being human. You do not have specific working hours. The minimum requirement is to finish your tasks. From then on, how you train your division is your business. I'm telling you; those guys have the time of their life not having me around."

"What if something really bad happens, would you need to go there and solve the situation?" He looks at her surprised of her concerns, but glad in the same time.

"If something really bad will happen Rukia would come and fetch me, indeed. There was no emergency in so long that I'm confident that no one will destroy our day together, okay, Orihime?" He touches the tip of her nose with some batter of pancakes.

Sensing her face getting heavier, she decides to dip into the bowl so she could draw a nice moustache on Ichigo's face. He looks on the back of a spoon at his face and he could not manage his laugh.

"You were the one starting it." She explains when he took the powdered sugar from the counter.

"Are you so scared of a little sweetness in your life?" He grins, while he was chasing her in the room.

"Well, no, I'm more scared about you."

"About me?" He asks from the other side of the counter.

"Yes, having so much sweetness in your life might cause you diabetes. Kurosaki-kun." She exclaims when she feels him embracing her from behind.

"I'm a sour guy so I don't mind." He concludes kissing her.

"Pardon me." Byakuya makes her presence being felt.

"What's up? Rukia is not here." The orange haired captain says not removing an inch from Orihime.

"I know." He says nonchalantly looking at them from tip to toe.

"If you're up for a show. We're not going to amuse you." Ichigo declares turning of the stove.

"I have come to warn you."

"Warn us?" The orange man asks.

"Aizen is back. I have heard he wants to meet miss Inoue soon. I do not mind you love affairs, but at least try to be presentable if he might drop by." Hearing Byakuya's words Ichigo removes the batter from his face.

"Thank you for your advice, but you would understand that I will pass it." The men exchanged some serious glances.

"Aizen is not someone who you might take lightly, even with the Kuchiki family's support." He knows too well the origin of his Ichigo's disliking, but considering his position he should at least be concerned about the others.

"If you would be in my shoes, would you let Hisana to that bastard?" The orange haired captain enlightens a fire in the other's man eyes.

"I'm saying this just once, don't bring Hisana into discussion." His threat did not discouraged Ichigo.

"As you were protective with her, as I am with Orihime. So I'm saying this once, if you're not with us mind your own business." The girl wanted to calm down somehow the situation, but considering that she was not in knowledge of their exact position she decides to keep her silence for the moment.

"Goodbye." Byakuya exists without further words. His intention was pure, he wanted to let them have their moment as long as they could before the reality has hit him. Anyhow after he has worked so hard to be with Hisana, he was unable to protect her in the very end.

"Should we worry about this?" The beauty asks as soon as she hears the door being closed. The orange haired man bends and he kisses her forehead.

"Don't worry. Let me handle this stuff." She nods understandingly. "Good, now, let's eat before we would die of hunger." The man takes the tray of pancakes and he placed them down between the two of them. She giggles seeing some of them being overdone due to them fooling around. "I'm not a cook." He disclaims while bringing the jar of cream.

"No, no, no... Kurosaki-kun, please don't misunderstand." He raised his right eyebrow seeing her hands turning in the propeller of a helicopter motion. "It's just..." She wets her lips. "It reminds me a lot of the past." He kisses her on the forehead.

"I would not mind cooking this for you for the rest of your life, if it would made you happy, Orihime." Her eyes were sparkling each time he was using her small name. Her shine it felt somehow erotic to him, making him to press her against the counter with his body.

"Kurosaki-kun..." She pleads, before he can make his way in. "Let's eat for the moment and continue this upstairs, ok?" The growling of her stomach makes him to stop reminding him that he might overdo it.

"Ok, ok." He frees her. "But don't forget this promise when we go upstairs." He whispers biting her ear lobe. She starts blushing understanding a little of his statement.

After they have finished eating, she starts washing the plates. The air in the room felt odd considering the fact that he was nowhere around her.

"Kurosaki-kun?" She calls him, seeing that he is lost in his thoughts.

"Are you going to be ok by yourself for a while?" His voice was not as care free as before, something was bothering him.

"Where are you going?" She is curious, considering that he said they would spend the day together.

"I want to solve something in Soul Society. The sooner, the better." He scratches the back of his neck nervous. "I know I have promised to that I will be yours for the day, but..." The happiness from his eyes was removed with sorrow, she tiptoes to him and she places a kiss on his lips to calm him down.

"I trust you, Kurosaki-kun. Away or apart, I do not think you would be with someone else." He smiles, then he kisses her on the forehead.

"I love you, Orihime. I will be back in no time." He states before he's shumpo-ing away.

*Soul Society*

Rukia was doing the paperwork for both of divisions. If Renji would be still here, he would probably burst the door and ask her to go outside. He would probably joke if she would stay any minute longer she will transform in Byakuya.

"Rukia!" Ichigo interrupts her daydreaming.

"Huh... Baka... I know we need to be together at home, but even here? More importantly why are you not with Orihime?" She puts the paperwork aside to avoid that the papers will fly in the air due to his mood.

"Your brother dropped by."

"Nii-san?" She was shocked. "That's really odd, I have met him today, but he did not say anything to me." She facepalms herself. "I hope he did not catch you doing anything indecent." Even if Byakuya knew about their agreement, catching them in the 'act' it would be too much for him.

"Tsh... Aizen is back." He brushed her aside, not wanting to admit everything that did happen.

"You're kidding." She says slamming her palms on the desk. He confirms. "Dammit. He should not have finished his mission for about another 2 weeks." She thinks aloud biting her nails.

"It seems that he was motivated too much to finish his job and come here." He concludes clenching his fists.

"Did Nii-san say anything else?" She hoped that this time they will have the support from Kuchiki's house in order to help Ichigo.

"We have no support from him. He says that he doesn't mind what we do inside our house, he would mind if it would become public." She sighs, sometimes her brother is too old schooled.

"Why are you here?" She asks feeling that his presence was not just to inform her.

"If I say to you that I came to kill Aizen, would you believe me?" He admits touching his Zanpakutō. She slaps him.

"Baka, it's not like you can kill him in the broad light." Then she got it. "I swear on Ichika's life if you dare suicide, I will kill you myself." She was angry, how could he think about this, having her by his side.

"I simply cannot handle her to him, especially now." He explains messing his hair. "I have tried thinking it over these days, as well as in the past years. If the council is on Aizen's side we have no power in the end." It was hurting him more than anything to recognize that he has already lost his war. The brunette slaps him. "Rukia..."

"Baka, baka, baka, baka, baka..." She complains hitting his chest with her fists. "Don't give me the shit that there is nothing else to do. You have another 3 weeks left. You have plenty of time. So shut up with those nonsenses." She cried. He feels like an idiot hurting her.

"I'm sorry." He apologized, letting her to cool off.

"You bet you are." She concludes, wiping her face. "I would be more worried now about leaving her alone, then talking shits." Their eyes widen at the same moment. "Ichigo!" The woman screams while following him.

*back to Orihime*

Having some time alone she decided to clean herself up and to go to pick up Ichika. The sceneries were really beautiful in this small village. She can understand why Rukia and Ichigo have decided to move here.

She did not know exactly where the kindergarten was, but considering the fact that it was such a small place she figured it out that she is able to find it by herself. The wind was blowing quite hard, that it made her hat to fly. When she turned around to look for it, she has seen Aizen having it in his palm.

"I guess it belongs to you." She was shocked to see him; she knew that he should be busy for another 2 weeks. He leans to cope her chin and to whisper to her ear. "A girl like you should smile more often..." They were inches apart, his beauty was devilish, but it did not stop Orihime from turning her face. He sighs, placing gently her hat back to its original place.

"I was not expecting you so soon, Aizen-sama." She says when he is at a safe distance.

"Oh, is that so?" He wonders, taking her right palm inside his left palm. "When you're in love each second feels like eternity." He kisses the back of her hand, proving his words. "Would you mind joining me for dinner?" His brown eyes were shining with desire. She bit her lower lip. He was her fiancée after all, she could not just to refuse him without a real reason.

"Hehehe... I have already promised to Rukia that I will eat with them this evening." He's silent for a moment. She tries to keep her smiling self, but boy his energy is not helping her at all.

"Very well, I would not like you to break your promise." She breathes a sigh of relief. "I will join you then." He concludes smiling satisfied.

"Eh?!" She exclaims seeing his persistence.

"I would never wish for you, my dear, to neglect your promises, but in the same time I see no logic in why I could not enjoy a welcome back dinner with my fiancée." She knew that he was cunning, but she wished he would take her easier.

"You're right." She agrees. "How long are you going to stay this time?" She sees that his grip of her hand does not fade so she decided to walk and to make a small conversation.

"I think today, maybe tomorrow also. I have made some interesting discovery during my expedition that I wished to convey to the council in person. So, I have decided to mix the business with pleasure in order to pay you a visit." She smiles forcefully. As always Aizen has a big ego. "Is my presence uncomfortable?" His question hit her as a knife in her spine.

"No, not at all. I'm just still surprised of your presence." They were not acting as lovey-dovey prior to the engagement so he should not sense any change in her, or should he?

"Don't worry." He pats her hand. "After this mission is finished, I will devote an entire month in spending with you." He is surprised by her stopping all of sudden, but then he sees that they are in front of a kindergarten.

"Orihime-chan?" Ichika asks puzzled seeing her at the entrance.

"Ohayo, Ichika-kun." She greets him smiling. "I wanted to make you a surprise to pick you up." She says waving her hand.

"Where is mommy or daddy?" He questions taking his backpack.

"I think they are busy in Soul Society. I thought we can use this time to know better each other." She was not lying. She really wanted to get friendly with him, considering their last encounter.

"Who is this nice lady, Ichika?" The caretaker is asking the boy.

"Um... I think she's a friend of my father or my mother. She's living with us for some time, till she will marry that guy." Orihime blushes.

"Oh, that's very nice. Congratulation you two. I cannot wait to take care of your future children." The caretaker was a really sweet old lady, but she was embarrassing the beauty even further.

"There is no need for you to worry, my dear." Aizen calms down Orihime. "I do not intent to produce children." His words really calmed her down. "But..." He lowered to her ear. "I don't mind trying with you over and over again."

In the meantime, Ichigo and Rukia have managed to arrive home. He was so worried that he was looking for Orihime in every room of the house.

"Ichigo, please calm down." The brunette has finally managed to get a hold of him.

"How can I calm down when she's nowhere to be found? I swear if Aizen has placed even a finger on her in any way I will..." His energy has abruptly changed to a hollow dark energy. Rukia sticks an immobilization paper on his forehead, then she has done an incantation to seal his powers for a while. After she is done, she removes the paper. "Why the hell would you do that?" He complains feeling his power being drained out.

"It's your fault, Ichigo. If you would continue in this way, you would have demolished the entire house with that energy." She was right, he knew it. But not knowing her whereabouts it was making him mad. "I'm sure that she did not went farther away that to bring home Ichika." She tries to calm him down, even if it was just a guess.

"I wish you are right." He speaks anxious. He goes then to a drawer and he picks up a packet of cigarettes.

"You said you quitted." She looks at his displeased. After Orihime's departure he started smoking, he smoked so much that he would not stop without finishing the packet.

"I did." He lights the cigarette up. "Ichika is nowhere around so bear with it."

They move down to the living room, looking at a clock. 5 minutes passed... 10 minutes passed... 15... He was finishing so fast one after another that she was worried that he might end eating them. After 20 minutes the door is being opened.

"I'm home" Ichika announces excited, dropping his shoes in the halfway. He jumps to Rukia's lap to give her a big hug. "Daddy, you stink." The boy was complaining about the smell of the cigarette, but Ichigo paid no attention to him, because Orihime and Aizen have entered the room holding hands.

"It's been a while, Ichigo." Aizen raised his free hand in an attempt of shaking hands.

"Tsh... It's not long enough." He complains hitting Aizen's back to its original position. The older man shifts his gaze to Rukia and they exchange some bowing head salute.

"I wanted to take my beautiful fiancée to dinner, but she said that she has already promised that she will have the dinner with you. So, I decided to join along. I hope there is no issue with my presence." Aizen's words were challenging Ichigo. The orange haired man wanted to reply, but Rukia brushed between the 2.

"There is no problem at all, Aizen. I hope you do not mind, but I will be needing Orihime's help in the kitchen." Rukia hopes that taking Orihime might distract those 2 long enough to not start a fight.

"I can help you, mommy. In this way they could spend more time together." Rukia's plan was destroyed by her baby.

"That's a wonderful idea. Thank you for your consideration." Aizen smiles content dragging the beauty next to him on the sofa.

"I guess we'd better start working. Come, Ichika." Rukia makes her exist, not forgetting to elbow Ichigo.

Ichigo sits in an armchair far enough to not let himself being dominated by his instincts to kill.

"I want to thank you for your care of my fiancée." Aizen says out of blue.

"Tsh... It's none trouble at all, after all she's more family than you have ever been." Ichigo decided to distract his anger about this, on his anger about Momo.

"With or without Momo still alive, I'm still your uncle, Ichigo." The dark hair man says triumphant.

"I'm feeling more than lucky that I have not the same blood as yours in my veins. If we would be blood related, I would trade all my blood for a hollow, in this way I think I would have more feelings that you have ever felt." Aizen smirked at his remark, indeed it takes great courage to state that a hollow is more emotional than himself.

"You sure love to recall me about my dead wife as soon as we meet." Aizen acts like Ichigo's words were affecting him.

"If it would have been by my choice, I would have never let her marry you. I don't know what kind of spell did you put on her to make her so subject to you." Aizen grins about Ichigo feeling in his trap.

"Why do we not ask Orihime?" Aizen demanded at the surprise of the 2. "Darling, would you explain to my nephew what were the reasons why you accepted my proposal?" Ichigo was speechless, is he really going to force her to confess to him in from of Ichigo. "Don't be afraid, my love. Ichigo is just curious to see why any human would have feelings for me." She was exchanging glances between both of them. She could not say her initial reasons because it would upset Ichigo, she could say nothing because it would upset Aizen. "I'm waiting."

"I... I... I..." She was opening and closing her mouth looking at Ichigo.

"You can refer any time about me." Aizen's focusing his attention on Ichigo.

"I fell in love with the care that you have shown to the people around you." She resigns seeing that there is no way out.

"That's my woman." Aizen said content brushing her cheek.

"I'm going to check if Rukia needs any help." Ichigo states exiting the room.

"I think there would be an interesting evening." Aizen declares impatiently.

* Dinner time*

Ichigo has not come back to the living room, letting the 2 alone for a while. When they have gathered around the table Ichika sat in a specific position to make the 2 orange haired adults to face each other.

"Your meal taste exceptional, Rukia. No wonder that Orihime did not wanted to miss it." Aizen is trying to start a discussion, but he is ignored. "I would hope that you can teach her one thing or two before we move in together." Ichigo broke the glass on his had hearing the others man words. "My, my it seems that the glasses are not so resistant as they have been" Aizen mocks him.

"I would be glad to, Orihime is such a fast learner." Rukia tries to calm the atmosphere while helping Ichigo to cover his wound.

"Oh, is that so?" He grins amused. "I knew my fiancée was amazing, but right now I'm looking forward to have a home cooked luck by her together." Ichigo broke another glass. "I think the quality of these glasses its being doomed due to my nephew's need to buy them so often." Ichigo wanted to stand up, but Rukia jumped in his lap to stop him.

"Ichigo, you know that Aizen likes to joke, isn't it?" She was crushing his bad hand intentionally.

"I wonder how a joke of a 'thing' can joke about anything." Rukia was squeezing him so hard that he stopped his idea.

"I think it's already late. I'm deeply grateful about your meal and about your hospitality." Aizen decides to take his leave seeing that Ichigo was about to run out of blood.

"I hope you're grateful enough to not show your face ever again." Ichigo would yell since a long time ago at Rukia's behaviour, but he couldn't since Aizen was here.

"My dear, you can learn one thing or two from Rukia. She seems like she knows how to handle my nephew. It would be handily if we would cross paths after our marriage. I will see you tomorrow." He kissed the back of her hand in sign of goodbye, then he leaves.

"Daddy is acting funny." Ichika laughs amused by the situation. Seeing how much he enjoyed annoying Ichigo it was no mistake that it was Renji's son.

"I'm going to give you a long bath, you naughty boy." Rukia says dragging her son by ear to the bathroom. She did not know if these would help the 2, but she was willing to try out.

"Kurosaki-kun" She calls him seeing that he's not looking at her in the eyes.

"Yes, Inoue." He takes a bottle from the counter and he drinks it to the bottom.

"I'm sorry." She apologizes that she has upset him so much.

"It's fine." He accepts her apology looking at her in the eyes.

"Are you sure?" Something was off, she could tell it.

"Yeah, Afterall it's not your fault that you fell in love with his 'care' or what bullshit he has managed to make you think it's true." He wants to go for another bottle, but she stops his hand.

"You're unfair, Kurosaki-kun." She does not want to argue with him, but this was prior their reunion.

"Unfair?" He looks at her raising his hair. "Yeah, maybe. But how should I fell or act with him all over you and I could not have any right to remove him from the woman I love." He was angry, he should not have shouted at her. "I'm sorry, I need some time to cool off." She embraces him from behind. "Inoue..."

"I cannot change the past, but I want to fight for our future." She wants to soothe him, to let him know that she is and she is going to be by his side.

Next chapter : Chapter 4 : Jealousy

Next update : 30 April - 1 May (I started to feel bad physically today, so I'm unsure if the update will be ready for tomorrow)

A.N. Hello, my darlings. I'm so sorry for misspelling Ichika's name. I have tried to update the chapter with the correct spelling, I hope it will be visible soon.

I wanted to call him initially Isaki, since Ichika is the daughter of Renji and Rukia and I wanted the child to be a boy, but in the end I decided to go with Ichika since it was closer to Ichigo's name. Sorry again for the mess. If you see anything which confuses you I do not mind to have look over and to correct my mistakes, I'm really glad that someone was so attentive, because in my mind I couldn't read the difference :))

Ichigo is a full time Shinigami, even if he's not 100% Shinigami. They are living hybrid in the real world due to Ichigo's desire to have Ichika closer to the humans. The story of the origins of Ichigo will be told by Masaki later. At the moment I'm having a couple of scenarios when could this happen.

1) It could be in the chapter 6, when Masaki and Ichigo can have a heart-to-heart moment.

2) When Orihime and Masaki will meet and they would 'gossip' about Ichigo :))

Currently, I would like more to go with the second alternative with the plot in my head, but it will take some time for this to happen due to a lot of other interactions and events.

I think this story will have more than 6 chapters as I was initially expected, I hope you do not mind :))

I have seen the request for 'she's out of control', 'need for speed' and 'college life', with college life taking the first place so to say :)) I think depending on my time I will try to re-read college life and think about and write the next chapter 2 weeks from now. I do not want to post them alternative now, because I do not want to mix the workflow till I decide how this story would develop.

P.S In a future chapter I will ask your opinion if you would like a part 2 for this story, because I have some cute ideas for the continuation of the story.

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