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Note: this fanfic is inspired from a J-Dorama, Long Vacation starred by Kimura Takuya of SMAP. Enjoy!
Thought/Past
Present.
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This one is for Nypsy
-Love Story-
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"Uh, may I live here?" She said suddenly.
He jumped from his seat and glared at her with a disbelieving look. Did he really hear what he thought he did? She looked back into his eyes. God, she looked serious.
No, I must have been crazy…
He moaned and suddenly he felt so tired. He sat back and massaged his temples with one hand. He scowled at her. He needed to confirm this. Maybe she didn't say that. Maybe he heard her wrong, hey maybe she was asking where the toilet was.
"E-excuse me?" He cleared his throat. "Once again?"
She pouted. She knew he heard her but however she repeated herself, "Can I live here for a little while?"
That was crazy.
"I'm a man!"
She laughed at that statement and nodded, "Of course we all know that…" Suddenly she frowned, "And so what?"
He shook his head. This girl…. This girl was… he couldn't find the right word for the auburn haired girl who sat in front of him. This was just too crazy. He barely knew this girl and she… what was it again? She wanted to live there with him. He hoped she was joking but when he looked into her eyes he knew that she was serious.
He sighed, "No."
To his shock, she looked at him with a disbelieving look. Why would she look like she couldn't believe that?
"What?" She protested with a scowl mirroring his on her pretty face, "Why?"
He opened his mouth to say something but then shook his head, he couldn't believe this girl. "Do you even need me to answer that?" He was frustrated now, it wouldn't be easy to explain it to her. "Listen, I am a man, you are a woman. We don't know each other." He shook his head when he saw her lips were now forming a thin line. "How could you ask me that? I'm sorry but the answer is no." He sounded tired, "Besides, what would your family think? Your friends? And why me?"
Yes, why me?
She sighed. She had been practicing before this, in case he'd ask her something like this. Well, she knew he'd say something similar like to this and she was ready with her answer.
"Well, Kurosagi-kun…"
"Kurosaki." He growled. This is so frustrating!
"What?"
He sighed, "My name's Kurosaki, Kuro-Saki. I'm not a swindler!" He tried to control himself not to shout at her. He had a feeling that if he shouted at her there was a big chance that she'd cry. The last thing he needed now was a crying woman in his room.
He eyed the woman, expecting her to get offended or get upset. But she didn't, if anything she didn't show him any sign that she was offended by his rude words. Instead, she giggled. This woman is crazy, he told himself. Yeah that must be it.
"Well… Actually, I have no family. Only a relative and she lives with her fiancé." She looked at him with her big eyes. She reminded him of those innocent does if only he didn't know that she wasn't innocent at all. "Just because I ruined my wedding doesn't mean I have to ruin hers too, right?" she said.
He didn't get this woman. She couldn't be serious–why would she blame herself when it was clear that it was that bastard, Grimmjow, who was at fault?
"And my friends…" she bit her lower lip with a light blush on her face. "Well, let's just say that I don't really want to meet them anytime soon. It's not that they'll laugh at me or anything…" she added quickly when he gave her that look. "It's just that I don't want to be pitied… Besides Tatsuki-chan is currently in China and Rukia-chan has just moved in with her boyfriend and I can't always bother them with my problems…"
And that means you can bother ME with your problems?
Ichigo wanted to clear the things up when she cut him with another explanation.
"As for money, well… when we got engaged I gave all of my cash to Grimmjow. I gave him all of my money because we needed it to buy a new apartment for us and since we were getting married we opened a new account in the bank and moved all of our balances into this new account." She sighed and looked slightly embarrassed, "I quit my job when he proposed to me because he wanted me to be a housewife… Right now, I have nothing left. The new account was under his name and I don't know where he is right now… I am broke." She rubbed the tip of her nose with her index finger and laughed sheepishly, "I am over the edge. That's why I came here…"
Those beautiful innocent eyes looked into his brown eyes. She waited for his reaction patiently.
Despite the fact that Ichigo was not a warm and friendly person, and that he didn't really like to be around women, somehow he became a little bit concerned about this girl's fate. He wasn't a nice guy but he wasn't a cruel man either. He never met anyone with such bad luck as this girl.
He sighed.
He wondered if she knew he'd do this.
"Okay," he murmured, feeling defeated by those big orbs of hers.
Her face perked up.
A wide smile spread on her face.
"You will let me stay?" She squealed, "Thank you! I can pay half of the rent!"
He nodded his head and stood up to stretch his body. "Well you can have Grimmjow's room. And don't worry about the rent fee, I will pay it fully. You can pay your share when you've found a permanent job. For now, I'll pay for everything."
She smiled oh so beautifully.
He didn't know how he could feel that way about her smile. This wasn't the time to admire her smile. This was serious.
"Don't worry! I'll pay you back once I get some money!"
He wanted to say no to that offer but somehow, he knew that this woman wouldn't accept 'no'. That was just the way she was, he realized.
"So how about your things?" he asked, kneading the back of his neck., "When are you moving?"
She giggled happily and tilted her pointy chin to the window, signaling the orange haired man to look outside his window. He frowned. He got a bad feeling about this. He did as she instructed him and immediately his eyes widened.
"I'll just go and tell them to start moving my things here, alright? They've been waiting all day long in the parking lot" she said as she happily and cheerfully bounced off through the door, leaving the dumbfounded strawberry alone in his room.
Ichigo closed his eyes and he let himself slowly fall onto his couch.
He growled.
What now?
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"So you let her move in?"
The orange head nodded his head at his friend and self-proclaimed rival as he leaned over the wall. The other men looked at him with different expressions on their faces. The black haired man with glasses, who had just asked him the question, looked at him as if he was the most idiotic human walking in this world while the other man, a tall man with tanned skin and brown hair, looked at him with a little pitying expression on his poker face.
The dark haired, pale faced man looked amused., "You do realize that perhaps this girl is in a confused state and maybe she doesn't know what she is doing, don't you?"
"Oh, come on, Ishida." He spat, "You think I was that stupid?"
He smirked as if telling him that he did think of him just like that. Ichigo gritted his teeth–he didn't know why he told this man in the first place.
"So, why did you let her in?" This time it was the tallest man who asked him.
"Honestly, it's because I felt guilty."
Both of his friends looked at him.
Ishida furrowed his brows, "And why would you feel that way? You barely know the girl."
Ichigo sighed.
"Well, the actually, it was me who introduced the other girl to Grimmjow. She kept bothering me about him and I didn't know that he was engaged at that moment." He scowled at the thought, "I'd never expected it'd go well either, actually…"
His tall friend didn't make any expression he could read but the skinny pale man snickered. Ichigo glared daggers at the amused man but he just returned the gaze with a smirk.
The tall man rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Well then you did the right thing to let her in."
Ichigo smiled tiredly, "Thanks, Chad."
"Well, but what you did was really horrible, Kurosaki." Ishida said in a superior tone. "You should have asked the man first about his relationship status before just setting him up with some random girl."
He opened his mouth to shout back at the annoying man when suddenly, someone opened the door without bothering to knock first. Ichigo barely hid his irritation when he turned his back and scowled at the older woman who stood at the door.
"Kurosaki-sensei, your student's here."
He sighed.
He didn't hate his job but lately he just thought that it was just too plain boring.
He nodded at his friends before he walked, following the lady to one of the classrooms. Another boring lesson awaited him.
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Author's Note:
I don't know what to say, do you have anything to say? :)