Orihime stood there shocked, " HIV positive? I don't understand. "
" Positive means that you are infected with the disease."
" Yea I know, but how could he have gotten it? The only person that he's been having sex with is me…and her," Orihime could not even bring herself to say the name of her husbands mistress. Could it really be her that gave him HIV? But would that mean that Renji has it too?
" Ma'am, are you still there?"
Shaken out of her trance, Orihime responds, " Yes, but I must go now . I have some important business to attend to."
" That's fine, but I seriously recommend that you come in and get tested. HIV is nothing to play around with."
" I understand, I'll make an appointment as soon as I can, goodbye." With that she hung up the phone and picked up her bag readying herself to leave. The market was going to have to wait, telling Renji about this was way more important.
Two men sat on a couch in complete silence, neither one of them daring to break it for fear of another fight. However, the thoughts in their minds just wouldn't stop swirling around. Neither one of them couldn't figure out how to begin the conversation of how one was sleeping with the others wife.
Renji was currently thinking of possible defenses to say if by chance he was asked why he slept with Orihime. Saying that Ichigo treated her like shit was the only reason that he had come up with so far. It was true, but no man wants to hear about how badly he treats his wife. But now that he thought about it, saying that he just felt like sexing her up whenever he saw her didn't sound any better. Although that was true too. Orihime was a sexy woman.
Ichigo on the other hand was thinking of how to handle it when he did get the answers to his questions. He wanted to know why, but he also wanted to know who. As in who started the affair? Was it Renji or was it Orihime? If it be Renji, then understanding would befall on him for he knows how a man thinks and feels. But if the advancer in the situation was Orihime, then his world would just shatter. That would mean that Orihime no longer thought of him as her one and only love. He couldn't live with that. Before he knew it he found himself speaking,
" Renji. Who initiated the affair?"
Shocked by the question but not unprepared, Renji quickly replied saying " she kissed me, and I didn't stop her. All of our other meetings after were my idea though."
Still calm, Ichigo asked another question, " What attracted you to her?"
Renji had a thousand answers to this question. What didn't attract him to her? He loved every thing about her, from her smile to her crazy meal ideas. But something that he just couldn't ignore was :
" The fact the she could see the good in everyone, no matter how bad they are."
Ichigo smiled at this, " That's what I like about her too, answer me one more question, do you love her?"
Renji knew the answer to this, he knew it very well. Of course he loved her. But before he could express these feelings he heard a knock on the door.
" Renji it's Orihime, open up, I gotta tell you something. It's about us and the baby."
Ichigo's eyes widened. What does she mean baby? And who is us. Is it me and her. Or her and him? That doesn't matter right now . What I wanna know is
" Whose baby is it? "
Renji, just as shocked as ichigo, but for different reasons, could only bring himself to say,
" Sorry dude, I thought she told you when she confessed the affair."
Then he went to get the door.
As soon as he opened the door Orihime came rushing into his arms crying, unaware of her husband being in the same room.
" Oh Renji, I got the most horrible call of my life today."
Not knowing what to say in such an awkward situation, Renji just responded with what he thought was a general question, " What's wrong Orihime?"
" Its about ichigo. He's got…he's got- oh, I cant even bring myself to say it."
" What do I have Orihime?"
A dark atmosphere visited the room, bringing with it gloom, hate, disgust and discomfort. Orihime was the one most effected by the new mood. At this moment she felt like taking a gun and shooting her brains out. This was not the way she wanted ichigo to find out about his new disease. She had something better planed for that. But since he was here, and she was here, she might as well get it over with and speak the truth.
" Ichigo, earlier today I received a call from Dr. Ikazawa, do you know her?"
Ichigo swallowed hard. He knew the news wasn't going to be good, " Yeah I know her, what did she say?"
Still trying to control her cries from earlier, Orihime pulls it together enough to tell him the news.
" Ichigo, you have HIV. "
Just as everyone thought that it could get no worse than it already was, Orihime says something that would further devastate the mood.
" And the baby is not yours. Renji and I planned to have it," then taking a deep breath she finished, " We're going to run away and get married."
Ichigo's face held deep pain and sorrow. He couldn't believe what was coming out of Orihime's mouth. does she really hate me that much?
" why? What makes you want to leave me so desperately."
After what seemed like an eternity, the dreaded truth came out.
" Because he loves me and I love him."
Ichigo and Renji both wore looks of distraught . Renji was the first one to speak.
" Orihime, baby, I thought we we're gonna wait 'til we left to tell him all this stuff."
" I know, but it needed to come out now. Its better this way. Now we can leave be together sooner than we thought… You do want to be with me don't you?"
" You know I do," Renji stepped closer to Orihime and whispered in her ear, " Do you want to stay with me tonight?"
Orihime nodded her head.
" Ahem"
Renji and Orihime then looked at Ichigo. Neither one of them new what to say. What could they say? They had obviously just expressed their feelings about each other and to make the matters worse, they showed no remorse about it.
Ichigo new that he had no chance of making Orihime come home with him today. So he just stared at the two of them and waited for one of them to say something.
Renji was the brave one, " Ichigo, I'm sorry, I fell in love with your wife, I got her pregnant, and I plan to marry her."
" how are you going to marry her, when she is still married to me?"
" There is a small island of the coast that allows people to be joined in more than one marriage."
" We don't need your permission Ichigo." Orihime spoke boldly.
" Baby, I got this. You should be resting anyways, you being up for so long isn't good for the baby, go lay down. Later we'll go shopping for some clothes," Renji led orihime to his bed and then turned his attention back towards the man across the room, " You probably hate me right now."
" I don't hate you. I know that if I was still the person I was a few years back, I would do the same damn thing," he then took one last look at the girl lying on the bed, she was already on her way to dreamland, he gave his final words of the day, " I love you orihime, I know that you may think differently after all we've been through, but I'm determined to make you love me again. I wont let you go that easily." Then he turned on his heels and exited the room.
Renji went to lay on the bed next to Orihime. She looked so peaceful. He took his fingers and ran them through her hair before planting a kiss on her forehead. He then whispered in her ear, " Orihime baby, you don't have to worry anymore. I'll take care of you and our baby."
A/N: Don't you just love reading the authors note? I do. I love the fact that the authors think that they're actually famous like Stephany Meyer( twilight) or something. I mean, if you just actually took the time to read the authors notes, you'd probably notice that most of them usually have a sentence that looks like this:
" So, I wanted this character to realize his feelings for this character so I just pulled a chapter out my ass made of complete bullshit! leave a review!"
I can joke about that because I do it in my stories too. Another thing I just love about some the authors of fanfiction is their ability to force you into leaving a review:
" Leave a review or I'll kill myself waah!" or " If you dont leave a review, I'll never write on fanfiction again!" and then there is my all time favorite " Leave a review if you want a cookie!"
Those are just some of the things that I "love" about fanfiction authors. (If you didnt understand the quotes i was being sarcastic. Idiot)
But you know who's not an idiot? the people who read this note and agreed. Yep you guys are the smartest people in the entire world, and I love you. ( As you can see there are no quotes around the love so i show no sarcasm here.)
If anybody was offended by this little rant, dont be, I'm basically describing myself and a few other people I know who write fanfiction.
Well I'm done.
p.s. " If you dont review I'm going to shoot my hands, that way I'll never be able to write fanfiction again!"
LMFAO! Okay, now I'm done.