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Some days passed since then. Today it was Friday, the last day of the week and the only one what started with Ichigo teaching. But something was different than always. The students beside Orihime didn't have any books or notebooks, just big smiles and shining eyes.
The beauty wanted to try to ask what the reason was of this change, but the teacher came before she could say a thing.
"Morning' class, it seems that you are pretty energetic today." He greets them when he enters.
"Of course we are, after all tomorrow is THE DAY." Keigo screams.
"The day?" Orihime repeats not knowing about what he was talking. Ichigo moved his eyes on her hearing her question.
"Tsh… Can someone explain about the next 2 days?"
"Hai!" Chizuru raised herself. "We are going at hot springs. And there it would be a big festival near too. This is our yearly class trip, but I think this year it would be the best. I heard there will be held a beauty competition."
"You should better not participate. A tomato has more chances of winning than you!" Keigo says amused, but the red haired girl punches him.
"You should better keep your mouth shut, dumbass. I was speaking about Orihime. I'm sure she would look lovely in a kimono." Chizuru keep dreaming even further till Ichigo hit his desk.
"So… As Chizuru said we are going to have a class trip. The destination is Yukari village. We are going to take the College buss at 7 a.m. so I hope all of you to be ready." Ichigo explains writing the important details on the table.
"Who will be the other teacher will what we are going?" A girl asked hoping that it will be Ishida.
"Ishida is going to be busy so the other one is Aika Fuwa." It seemed that the change make happy some boys. Orihime tried to hide the fact that she wasn't happy with the choice.
It's true that Aika and Ichigo were forming a couple, but… Ichigo and Orihime didn't talk so much lately, because Aika was back in town. The orange haired man tried to invite the beauty to eat with them or to walk with them, but she say yes.
Orihime was feeling a little guilty that she and Ichigo kissed even if he had a fiancée, but in the same time she couldn't be mad on herself because she knows that Aika cheats him.
The day had ended fast like the others. The next morning Orihime woke up a lot earlier to not be forced to reject Ichigo's invitation. It was just 6:30 am when she arrived at the meeting point.
"Hime-chan, I can't believe you were as excited as me to come in his trip." Chizuru said walking beside Oma.
"No one could be as energetic as you, Chi. After all you didn't sleep at all last night." An annoyed Oma replied to the red head.
Oma and Chizuru were cousins. Even if the 2 of them seems to not get along with each other, they were really good friends. Oma wasn't from Karakura so she was sharing Chizuru's apartment with her.
Looking at Oma's face it was more than clear that she couldn't sleep too much, too.
"Good morning, Orihime-chan. Your hair is so kawaii today." Another group came and everyone started to chat happily.
"It seems like everyone is here." Ichigo concluded after he came hand by hand with Aika.
"It's not fair that Ichigo can walk hand by had with Aika-sensei. Why can't I do the same with Orihime?" Keigo protested feeling like the earth crushed under his legs.
"Tsh… Because romantic interactions aren't permitted during school trips. Plus you would be just a pain for Inoue. Now, if no one has something to say, I ask you to take your seats."Keigo would complain more if he didn't see Orihime taking her seat near Oma.
The bus started his journey in less than 5 minutes. Ichigo was the driver while Aika staid in the seat next to him.
"It feels nice to go in a trip with you. We should do this more often." Aika says drinking some coffee that she has just bought on the way.
"This is not a 2 person trip. We are going to take care of the students." Ichigo protests feeling already what she was thinking. Since she came back, she didn't let him ago. Now, she wanted to do sex with him all the day long. They did it even in the teacher's bathroom when she knew that he was free.
It wasn't like he didn't like to do it with her, but he wasn't feeling as good as before. Maybe because he was feeling that she was pushy somehow.
"Huh… You shouldn't be so mean. We get hardly the chances to stay so much time together so it would be nice of you if you would be a little more excited than this." He moved is eyes on her for some seconds. He grinned amused seeing that she got mad on him. He uses one of his hands to poke one of her cheeks.
"Tsh… You shouldn't act so stupid. If I didn't like being for you, you wouldn't be my fiancée." He concludes focusing again of driving.
"Aika-sensei, is this right? You and Ichigo are going to marry?" One of the girls asked curious.
"Hai. We didn't choose a date yet, but that's 100% going to happen." Aika said turning around showing her engaging right. It seemed that she was very popular with the students because they started to chat over it.
"Are you ok?" Oma asked Orihime seeing that she got paler since the girls started to chat about engaging things.
"Yes. I'm fine." The beauty answers even if no one would believe her words.
"I know about you and Ichigo." Oma whispers in her ear.
"What?" The amber girl started to blush.
"It seems that's true from your reaction." Oma grinned amused.
"No, it's not. It's nothing between me and Kurosaki-kun." The brunette put a palm on her shoulder, like she supported her.
"I know. Ichigo and Aika have been through many things together so it's not likely he would dump her all of sudden, even if he will start to like another girl, but… he seemed a lot happier since he met you again." The beauty's eyes started to shine when she heard that. "To be honest, I had never liked Aika. I can't deny that she's a very beautiful, smart and powerful woman, but since she and him started to go out it looked like she was more hurting than loving him." Oma sighted after what she continued. "It wasn't like she was cheating on him, it was just that she needed to be left all over the time letting him alone. I had never thought that they are going to marry, I just pity him. He would be a lot happier if he chooses you over her."
"How did you know about me and Kurosaki-kun?"
"From Chizuru, then I saw Tatsuki-sensei beating Ichigo so I linked all of this." Oma concludes, before the bus stops. "This is a class tip so you should let all your emotional problems aside, and have fun."
"I will, thank you." The beauty agrees, after what all of them gathered around the bus.
"Now, we are going to check in, then you are free. We will gather for dinner at 8 p.m." Ichigo announces before he started to walk to the facility. It was a really beautiful building with very nice insides.
It took a while for them to decide who gets what room, but at the end Ichigo managed to calm all.
"If you have any problem you can go at me or Aika. We are going to stay in the room 8."
"What a nice room." Aika exclaims when she and Ichigo enter in their room.
"It should be, after all is a VIP room." He says letting their belongings on the floor. Her arms catch his body, before he could rest.
"I'm not going to let you to sit down. Let's go and check the bathroom together."
In the meantime, in Orihime, Oma and Chizuru's room it was a pretty lively atmosphere.
"Chizuru-chan, please let go of my bag." The beauty pleaded running after the read haired girl.
"No way, you are going with me and Oma at hot springs now." Chizuru says increasing the distance between them. Orihime moved her gaze on the brunette, just to see her nodding.
"Ok, I'm going with you." The beauty gives up.
When they entered in the girl's hot spring they could see that everyone was already here.
"It seems that you were not the only one excited about this, Chizuru." Oma says removing her towel.
"It may be true, but at least I can be with my beloved Hime." The red haired girl agrees starting to wash her body.
"Orihime, aren't you going to enter too?" Oma asks finishing the preparation.
"No, I'm good. I'm just going to seat here and look at you." The beauty tries to escape, but she had no chances, because Oma and Chizuru throw her in the water. "This isn't nice." The amber haired girl tried to complain without to know that her tower slipped from herself.
"Wow… I never expected you to have such a nice body." Oma says blushing.
"That's true… Even I can make myself to touch you." Chizuru agrees. The other girls started to blush too, making Orihime to want to down herself.
"Aaaa…" The scream of another girl changed everyone attention of them.
"What did happen, Dashy?" Someone asked approaching her.
"Look!" She pointed somewhere in the air. It was hard to see because of the steam, but… at a more attentive glance you could see the rooms. But that wasn't all, because they could see Ichigo's room and how he and Aika were having sex in the bathroom.
Some girls were speaking about how lucky was Aika, other ones were talking about how good Ichigo was doing it. Orihime couldn't hear any of them, because her eyes watered. She shouldn't be surprised, after all they were engaged, but… everyone seemed to be so far away now.
"Inoue! Inoue!" She could hear a voice calling her, but her eyes seemed too heavy to open them. When she felt like some air was pushing by her lips, she was finally able to open them. Her vision was blurred, but she could see something orange near her. "Inoue, are you ok?" His voiced reached her ears and soon she could understand that it was none other than Ichigo.
She tried to lift her body, to not make him worry about her, but she felt in his arms.
"Damn, Inoue. You shouldn't push yourself." He said sustaining her body with his.
"What did happen?" She asked when her vision came back. It seems like everybody was gathered around her.
"I'm not sure, but from what I understood you fainted and you hit your head by a rock. Are you feeling good? Does it hurt you?" The deep care in his voice could easily been heard by everyone. Somehow that annoyed Aika making her to leave the room.
"Kurosaki-kun, I'm ok. I'm really fine. You shouldn't worry about me, you should go after Fuwa-sensei." Orihime tried to move herself from his body, but she couldn't do it. It felt that only breathing was hard enough to deal with.
"Tsh… You are really annoying me, now. You shouldn't been worried about Aika. You are the one what got hurt here." He concludes letting her stay in his bed.
"But… I'm feeling good now." She tries to convince him, but she failed again. Seeing her trying so hard to make him to run after Aika was making him even nervous.
"I don't fucking care if she's mad or not. She shouldn't get angry over this so it's her damn problem. Now, if you try to move an inch I promise you that I will tie you to make you rest till you feel good. Do you understand me?" His words made her blush and so do for the others present.
"I had never known that Ichigo is such a big heart teacher. This is only making me to like him even more." Dashi suddenly confesses making Ichigo to be aware of the audience.
"Tsh… I'm not a big hearted teacher or whatever you say. Now, I want everyone to leave. Having so many people around, it's not going to help Inoue to recover." The words of the orange haired man didn't seem to have enough power to move the students so he ended pushing them away on the door. "Damn, it feels like students this day has nothing in their head." He concludes looking the door.
"Thank you for your concern." She says hiding her face under the sheet. She was feeling bad for making him to have a fight with the woman he loves.
Something strange happened, because in the next moment his arms were embracing her body.
"Damn, Inoue. You scared me like hell. Don't ever do this to me!" Maybe it was because now there were just the two of them, but she could now feel the fear in his voice.
"I'm sorry, Kurosaki-kun." She says hugging him back.
"You had better be!" His answer surprised her because in the next moment he was kissing her. It was so intense, more that she had ever experienced before.
"Kurosaki-kun…" She whispers when his lips parted of hers.
"Don't even try to stop me." It was all what he said before he started to kiss her again. He didn't know why, but right now he wasn't feeling like he was cheating on Aika, it had just felt like the most natural thing to do. He may be addicted to her now, because Aika's body didn't felt as great as simple fact of kissing her.
When his palm started to massage her lower lips, it made Orihime to wake up at reality and to push him away. Her gesture made him sad.
"Kurosaki-kun, we shouldn't do this. You have a fiancée and this is not right for her." When he tried to open his mouth to say that Aika wasn't matter to him anymore the doors opened revealing her.
She didn't seem to be angry anymore. She was carrying a bag of medicine and some hot tea.
"Here you go, Orihime-chan. You should drink as many hot liquids you can. I bought some painkillers so you shouldn't be concerned about headaches. Did something happen?" None of the two orange haired would admit, but she was way too different since she had left that they were thinking a bad vibe about.
"Thank you very much for your concern." Orihime was the first one what made the courage to speak. "I'm sorry that I made you to worry and made Kurosaki-kun to take care of me. I'll take my leave."
He wanted to stop the amber haired girl to leave, but Aika put herself between them.
"Feel free to come at us whenever you need something, sweetie." Orihime had just nodded, before she left the room. He was looking annoyed at Aika.
"You shouldn't have done that!" It was the first time when he raised her voice at her, what made her to feel really confused.
"I don't know what you are speaking about." Her act was as good as a professional actress.
"You know very well about what I'm talking about. You have just made Inoue to leave when she wasn't feeling ok." He wasn't eager to go with her act.
"Did I?" She asked so innocent that he would really say more to her. She knew him too well and she stopped going further. "It's just… You are spending so much time with her lately that it makes me fell jealous… It's not like I have something against her, it's just… I want to spend more time with you." Aika lifted herself on her tiptoes to plant a kiss on his lips, but he put his hands on her shoulders stopping her.
"I would really want to believe you." He then exited the room, letting a confused Aika behind.
When Orihime entered in her room she was welcomed by Oma.
"Are you fine?" The brunette asks when she saw her walking on her feet.
"I don't know, Oma. I really don't know. Why is so hard to do the right thing?" The beauty asked pressing her heart.
"Geez… I'm not such a good romance adviser. What is it in the bag you are carrying?" Oma pointed at the medicine bag. After Orihime took a closer look at it, she could see a piece of paper put inside of it.
When she took it and started to read it she remained speechless.
"Dear Orihime-chan, I officially hate you. I wouldn't take the trouble to write you this, but… It seems that you and Ichigo became really close lately and this annoys me. I will say you this only once so I really hope that your cute little head gets it. If you are getting any closer to him, I will kill him."
When Orihime finished reading the latter, the bag felt on the floor. From the inside of it there came lots of bullets.
"I knew that something was stinking about her, but coming so far away… I think you need more than ever to let Ichigo go." Even if the amber haired girl knew that her friend was right she couldn't stop her tears.
