MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! (Happy Chanukah & Kwanza too) Again sorry for the wait but I'm really excited about this Chapter! This is the set up to the date! And don't worry you will get complete date detail in the next chapter AND you will be getting more Fox Ichigo!!

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Ichigo's POV

Before Ichigo knew it he was back home.

He flew through the front door, yelled to his startled family, "No food! Going out soon! Bye!" He leapt up the steps and slammed the door to his room.

*SIGH* Ichigo closed his eyes and leaned his head against the back of his door. For one blissful moment he thought he was home free; free to be alone with his thoughts and process all that had happened on this horribly strange day -- but he was wrong.

Opening his eyes, Ichigo was now looking at another unusual sight -- The blond Vizzard Shinji and obnoxious plushy Kon in the middle of a heated argument on top of HIS bed!

"No, Orihime was my first love and she always will be!" Shinji proclaimed dramatically.

"How dare you! She was mine!" Kon yelled back shaking his little fists.

The yelling went back and forth a few times before Ichigo came to his senses.

"She was neither of yours!" Ichigo yelled causing to two fighting idiots to shut up and look at him. "Now get the hell out of my room!" He growled.

Kon and Shinji blinked a few times and then both crossed their arms and gave an annoyed 'hmph'.

"My, my so rude." Kon chastised, "I shouldn't expect anything more. Here we are your dear friends waiting for you to return...'

"Whatever." Ichigo grumbled as he moved to the closet to pull out some clothes...

"I'm here with a message from Yoruichi," Said Shinji still crossing his arms. "She says if you want to live the rest of your life without a tail you better meet her for practice tomorrow morning bright and early."

Ichigo groaned. Crap, for Yoruichi that probably means 5am! I'm going to have to go straight home after the movie...grumble grumble...

Meanwhile, Kon began to snigger.

"I don't think our Hime-chan would mind if he had a tail so much..." Kon said laughingly.

A vein began to pulse in Ichigo's forehead as he tried to ignore Kon and find his favorite pants that he wanted to wear tonight.

"...after all she does love adorable soft things. Our Ichigo probably spent a good amount of time in her heavenly valley while he was a furry little fox!"

A second vein began to pulse on Ichigo's head, not to mention he began to sweat from the effort it was taking to keep himself from tearing Kon into little pieces.

"Although after seeing his pathetic penis she may never come around ever again...ekch!" Kon gagged as Ichigo wrapped his long fingers around his little neck!

"SHUT THE HELL UP!! WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT ANYWAYS?!"

"Come on Kurosaki let him go!" Shinji yelled as he pried the fuming death god off of the plushy.

Kon managed to slip away and latch on to the lightbulb on the ceiling - but that didn't stop him ranting on! This time imitating Orihime's voice!

"Oh Kurosaki-kun! Kurosaki-kun kiss me please!! Oh no, what a weird little pecker!! Stay away from me forever!!!"

SNATCH!!! Ichigo grabbed him again and the three fell down into an all out, knock down brawl! BAM, POW, KICK, SMACK!!!

After a minute of screaming and fighting, the bedroom door flew open!

Ichigo's father had come to investigate!

"What is this ruccus?" He cried looking in.

The three idiots on the floor froze for a second.

"Oh a free for all!? What a great idea son! You really are the fruit of my loins! Geronimo!!!" He yelled as he dived into the fray which continued to shake the house even more violently.

Orihime POV

Meanwhile... Orihime was having a much more peaceful time getting ready for the movie.

She literally ran into Tatsuki as she was sprinting home from Urahara's shop. Tatsuki decided to follow her nervous friend home and see what the big fuss was about.

Once there she got the whole story about the dream (minus the naked part) and about Ichigo asking her to go to the movies with him and Sado and Mizuiro.

"So let me see if I have this strait. You mean to say that our dense, meat-headed, numbskull Ichigo, with his own mouth, in his own voice asked you to meet him at the movies??" Tatsuki asked pretty damn surprised.

"Yes!" Orihime said out of breath.

"This is fantastic!! We have to dress you up then!"

"No Tatsuki... I think it's just a friend thing, it's not a date or anything like that…" Orihime said weakly but it was no use. Tatsuki was in the zone.

Finally these two hopeless cases might have a shot of getting through to one another; this was no time to go about things in a cautious way!

Thirty minutes later Orihime was wearing a lovely white knee length spaghetti strap sun dress, with a sunflower clip holding her hair into a ponytail.

"Are you sure this isn't too much Tatsuki-chan?"

"Are you kidding, you look amazing and it's not too much at all. Look it's logical, try to read Ichigo's reaction after he sees you in this dress. Only a dead man wouldn't react!"

Hmmm. Orihime considered this. It sounded like pretty sound logical to her and Tatsuki did know Ichigo really well - since they were children.

"Alright Tatsuki, whatever you say!" Orihime smiled one of her famous shiny smiles.

Yeah maybe the knucklehead will finally take notice. Tatsuki thought.

At 8 o'clock Orihime waved goodbye to Tatsuki and made her way down the street. She was a few blocks away from the movie theater when she heard someone mumbling to themselves angrily up ahead.

She tip-toed forward and peaked around a tall brown fence at the corner, then nearly fell down when she saw Ichigo pacing there!

He was too occupied in his thoughts to notice her at first.

He had arrived here a few minutes ago after escaping the complete fucking chaos of his house! It really had been a hell of a day. He was sporting some fresh bruises from his psycho violent father, but he somehow managed to get away wearing something half decent. A nice t-shirt, his favorite pants and a sports jacket.

It was still early and he figured he would come wait for Orihime here. He didn't feel like seeing the guys right away, especially Keigo who was overly excited about the crappy movie.

There was something that Kon had said just before he finally managed to escape that was really bothering him.

"What is wrong with you, don't you see how beautiful she is, and the girl is crazy for you for reasons unknown to mankind..."

Of course I know how beautiful she is, you'd have to be blind not to notice! Doesn't mean I want to throw myself on her. And what's so crazy about a girl liking me, it's not like I'm unlikeable… grrr And it's not like she's in love with me or anything, just maybe slightly attracted to me... I think... Who cares anyways! It's not like this is a date! It's not like I'm hoping for anything to happen... Definately not a date...

Even though he was telling himself that it wasn't a date, Ichigo was feeling a little funny waiting here on the corner waiting for Orihime. He felt nervous and the words running through his head weren't helping. Why was he feeling this way? Obviously a lot had happened and some realizations had been made but he didn't have to feel this way.

He remembered Yuzu talking about the feeling of getting butterflies in your stomach when you really like someone. For some reason remembering that really pissed him off!

"I don't get fucking butterflies!" He mumbled out loud.

The next second he heard a girl giggling.

…

In reality, at the point that Orihime had come around the corner all she heard him say was "fucking butterflies" and she thought it was the cutest thing on the face of the earth!

Ichigo spun around!

If he was feeling butterflies before, they suddenly turned into dragons when he got a look at what Orihime was wearing.

A beautiful knee length spring dress that hugged her in all the right places… Oh my God, she gorgeous…

"You really should be nicer to butterflies Kurosaki-kun. They are lovely and cute and make the spring so nice! They never did anything bad to you!" She said laughing and smiling, making Ichigo go a little redder in the cheeks. "Are you on your way to the movie Kurosaki-kun?" she asked in her sing-song voice.

A nod was all he managed to muster.

A few seconds later he realized he was staring and looked down. He figured he should at least let her know that he thought she looked good, seeing that it looked like she had put some effort into getting dressed. He looked up at her.

"You look really nice." He said quietly.

Orihime's heart swelled and began beating really fast. There was the reaction Tatski was talking about! But did it really mean anything? She knew the other boys would say the same but somehow, coming from Ichigo who didn't normally notice such thing, it felt like a really big deal. Not to mention he said it with his beautiful sincere amber eyes that she was having trouble looking away from at the moment. Even if he only meant it in a friendly way, it made her love him just a little bit more. She hadn't completely forgotten about the "dream" yet either and looking at him was still a little more nerve-wracking than normal.

"Arigato," she whispered back, tearing her eyes away and looking to the side.

With a flick of the head Ichigo indicated that they should get going. And so the two redheaded teens, each just as nervous as the other, walked side by side the remaining few blocks to the movie theater towards a waving Keigo and smiling Mizuiro, unaware of all the excitement and embarrassment the next few days would bring.

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UP NEXT: They survive the movie & will Orihime discover it wasn't a dream??