Chapter 9
Tied Up & Helpless
Ichigo had no idea he would be kept so busy before he and Rukia went away. The wedding is planned for the day before they leave town, not only that, Rukia has asked his input on the design of their house, and some of his choices in decoration, not that she agreed with very many of his ideas.
More often than not she would decide against what he'd chosen. His father had warned him not to complain, and to be happy that she'd taken any ideas of his at all. The one thing they'd agreed on wholeheartedly was the intricate bathroom attached to the master bedroom. It was going to be luxurious to the max and Ichigo can't wait to get in there with his future wife.
The thing that has him the most concerned is the meeting with her brother. Rukia practically dragged him to the store and forced him to buy a suit for the occasion. His entire family is supposed to take Rukia to a ritzy hotel where her brother has planned a celebration in honor of his sister's engagement. It's in this setting that he'll have to make his first impression with the man.
His sisters and father have seemed excited enough, buying new dresses for the occasion for the girls, and Isshin did the same as Ichigo, purchasing a new suit, claiming he could wear it for the wedding too.
The one thing that keeps him going every day is knowing that at night, Rukia and he will cuddle up close and make out until she feels it's getting too strenuous for him.
God how I've come to hate that fucking word! I'll be happy if I don't hear it again the rest of my life after hearing it this much in just the past two weeks!
Rukia already chose her wedding dress, but alterations had to be made, and she's off with his sisters checking them now, making Ichigo's mind run like crazy. His father told him to wait in the family room, and Ichigo is starting to get annoyed wondering where the old man went. Then a smile plays on his face when he remembers Rukia's most favorite game to get to him has become.
I love it when she grabs my ass…turns me on.
"Ichigo!" Isshin's voice booms, right when Ichigo was remembering the last time she grabbed his ass. (When she kissed him goodbye before leaving to check on the dress)
"What?" Ichigo asks in an annoyed voice since he wanted to remember Rukia grabbing him some more.
"I bet you didn't know I had this." Isshin says as he pulls a small box out of his pocket.
"What's that?" Ichigo asks, even though he can see as his father opens the box, it's obvious it's a diamond ring.
"This belonged to Masaki's mother. Your mother's ring from me will go to my first grandson for his wife." Isshin claims, and Ichigo gingerly takes the box from his father.
It's an oval shaped diamond with diamond studs surrounding it, with an intricate pattern of wavy raised gold on either side of the studs with a gold band.
"This will look good on Rukia." Ichigo says quietly, and Isshin nods his head enthusiastically.
"I figured you should have a proper ring on her finger before we attend this fancy engagement party. The CEO of the Kuchiki Group? That's a big fish right there." Isshin warns his son, and Ichigo nods his head distractedly.
"It's hard to believe it's all happening so fast." Ichigo mutters, and Isshin nods his head in happy agreement.
"It's the right move, since she makes you happy." Isshin says, but their conversation is cut short by a knock on the front door.
"Who in the hell could that be?" Ichigo asks, since he knows Sado as his best man should be out picking up his altered suit as they speak right now. Nobody is expected over right now.
Ichigo goes to the door and when he opens it, he's stunned at who he sees.
"Tatsuki…Inoue!" Ichigo breathes out, not realizing that he's still holding the ring.
"Is it true, Kurosaki-kun?" Inoue asks, and Ichigo raises an eyebrow at her.
"What?" He asks casually, but then Tatsuki brings a paper out from behind her back and whacks him upside the head with it.
"This wedding announcement! You're engaged?" Tatsuki roars, hoping Ichigo will tell them it's a big joke, but the ring he's holding in his hand seems to suggest the opposite. Ichigo quickly sticks the ring in pants pocket to keep them from staring at it.
"It's true ladies!" Isshin sings out, and Ichigo turns around with a right hook that catches his father off guard sending him flying to the floor.
Ichigo steps outside and closes the door behind him, and then he faces the two young women he went to school with.
"Yes it's true." Ichigo says calmly, and Tatsuki looks ready to kick him in the head, but Inoue steps in front of her, effectively stopping the unnecessary brutal bloodshed. It doesn't stop Tatsuki's mouth however.
"Ichigo! You just met that girl! How can you be engaged already? Is it all that money?" Tatsuki snaps loudly, and that makes her childhood friend angry.
"Is that what you think of me? Of course it's not her money, I wouldn't care if she didn't have anything but the clothes on her back, I fell for her the first time I laid eyes on her, and I'm not letting her go!" Ichigo argues in a firm voice, but Tatsuki doesn't accept it.
"This has got to be the most idiotic thing you've ever done! Orihime is probably the nicest most sweetest girl we know! I can't believe you wouldn't even give her a chance, and you're jumping into marriage with this rich and famous heiress who you can't possibly know all that much about!" Tatsuki's voice gets louder and louder and Ichigo puts his hand in the air watching her face get red in anger.
"Rukia and I stay up late every night, talking and cuddling. I know her much better than I know Inoue here and I've known her for years." Ichigo objects, and his words clearly hurt Inoue, since her eyes well up in tears.
Ichigo sighs regrettably, but Tatsuki takes it as a sign of annoyance.
"You have some nerve Ichigo! If you're so certain about this heiress, why not spend at least one afternoon, or one evening with Orihime who has loved you for years, just to be sure you aren't making a mistake?" Tatsuki challenges him, and Ichigo crosses his arms while shrugging off her suggestion.
"How would that be fair to Inoue? To be hanging out with a guy she likes, only to have him thinking of another woman? It would hurt Rukia and there's no point! I know what I want, I'm sure of it." Ichigo says firmly, but he doesn't expect Tatsuki to shove Inoue right into his arms.
Her body presses full against his own and he's so startled he shoves her away fairly roughly.
"Years Ichigo. I'm not kidding you, if you can't even take one measly hour out of your life to spend it with this girl before you enter this joke of a marriage then you're going to hurt her beyond belief. Is that what you want?" Tatsuki asks, and Ichigo quickly shakes his head.
"Of course not, but I'm engaged. I shouldn't be hanging out with her when I know how she feels about me, in fact the whole thing is making me really uncomfortable." Ichigo tells Tatsuki honestly, but he doesn't expect her to grab his arm.
"Come with me." Tatsuki orders him before dragging him off with Inoue trotting close behind him.
"Tatsuki-chan!" Inoue whispers, but Tatsuki ignores her.
"We'll bring Ichigo back later!" Tatsuki yells loud enough by the front door for Isshin to hear and the old man leans against the door in dismay.
"I hope that idiot doesn't go and ruin things with Rukia-chan." Isshin mutters, but he peeks outside and sees Tatsuki is physically forcing Ichigo to join her and he sighs.
"If Rukia-chan saw this right now there'd be a cat fight in my front yard." Isshin scratches his head for a few moments with a silly grin on his face.
"…should I call her?"
I want to run away. This is ridiculous, I don't know what Tatsuki's planning, but she's not acting like herself and why in the hell am I letting her push me around anyways? …It's because I don't want to hurt her. I've known her forever and I can't even imagine hurting Tatsuki. This is bad.
"Ichigo stop acting like you're walking to the executioner's block. We've been friends a long time, and I'm here as your friend to make sure you're not making a big mistake." Tatsuki says through gritted teeth, and Inoue is wide eyed as she follows along.
"Where are you taking me?" Ichigo asks suspiciously, and Tatsuki chuckles just enough to make the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
Damn she can be scary!
"To Orihime's apartment." Tatsuki tells him in a low voice and Ichigo starts to struggle a bit more.
"Why? Nothing good can come of us going there! You know I'm still injured, right Tatsuki? I don't want to hurt you-" Ichigo realizes he shouldn't have told her his plan because she twists his arm behind his neck and hisses in his ear.
"I'll kick you so hard you won't be able to reproduce…" Tatsuki's threat hits home, and Ichigo lets her drag him along for several blocks until they reach Inoue's apartment building.
"This is stupid." Ichigo grumbles, as they head up the steps, but at the door, Tatsuki leans over to whisper in her best friend's ear.
"Go ahead of us and wait for him inside naked. I'll send him in and guard the door," Tatsuki says, and Inoue looks horrified.
"Tatsuki-chan that's a little-" Inoue protests but her friend squeezes her arm.
"Fight for your love, all is fair in love and war, and this may be your last chance!" Tatsuki's words have the desired effect and Inoue nods her head resolutely.
"Okay, wait just a minute for me then." Inoue says under her breath and then she dashes inside and up the steps.
"What were you two whispering about?" Ichigo asks with an irritated look on his face, and Tatsuki twists his arm just a little bit more.
"Listen here, Ichigo. For just a very short while I want you to pretend that heiress never came into your life. Not for long, just a little while. She's dreamed so long of you finally noticing her and if it's never going to happen, for god's sake please give her a tiny bit of closure and don't be mean to her! Please Ichigo, I'll owe you a zillion favors if you can just pretend you don't know Kuchiki Rukia!" Tatsuki pleads with him, but Ichigo raises an eyebrow.
"She isn't a woman so easily forgotten," Ichigo tells her, and then a new voice surprises them all.
"I'm happy you think so, considering we're supposed to get married in two weeks... What in the world is going on here?" Rukia's voice makes Tatsuki grip Ichigo harder and he sucks in a pained breath.
"Rukia…" Ichigo breathes out, but his future wife shakes her head at him.
"I heard her you know. I have a childhood friend too. If he were as concerned for me marrying you as she seems to be about you marrying me, maybe there's merit in what she says. Ichigo, I won't hold it against her if you do as she asks. I just want you to find me when it's all over and tell me what you've learned about how you truly feel about me." Rukia tells him, but Ichigo immediately protests.
"I don't even want this Rukia, she's twisting my arm to make me go in there." Ichigo tells her as though she can't see that for herself, and Rukia lifts her eyes up to his.
"Do you want me to remove her from you?"
"If you can do it without hurting her or getting hurt yourself then I'd be glad, but she is an old friend." Ichigo tells her, and Rukia grins at him.
"Then I'm afraid I can't intervene, because I'd definitely hurt her right now…but…I do trust you. So do as your friend asks, spend a bit of time with that girl, and then later you can make it up to me, okay?" Rukia tells him, but Ichigo isn't done speaking with her so he plants himself to the spot, not letting Tatsuki drag him inside, not even if she rips off his arm.
"Rukia…I wouldn't be so understanding if the situation were reversed…if your childhood friend wanted to make you hang out with some other guy, I'd beat him to a pulp!" Ichigo warns her, and Rukia gives him a charming smile.
"That's the difference between men and women my sweet, men are less evolved you know…but still I'm trusting you. See you later." Rukia says, and then Tatsuki drags him inside.
"Wait! Rukia-!"
"You even have permission from her to make sure this is right Ichigo so you can stop protesting. Give it two hours, okay? I'm not letting you out the door, so you may as well get used to the idea." Tatsuki warns him, and suddenly Ichigo wishes he'd have yelled something different to Rukia…
Like kick her idiotic ass! How in the hell is this happening to me!
Tatsuki opens the door and pushes him inside. This is the moment when things go from bad to worse. A completely nude Inoue Orihime is throwing herself into his arms, and all he can think about is whether a fall from a second story window will kill him or not.
"What in the hell are you doing?" Ichigo growls at her, attempting to break free of her, but only managing to separate long enough to see her breasts completely.
Inoue has the kind of body most guys long for, but for Ichigo, Inoue is a bit of…overkill.
"Kurosaki-kun…touch me." Inoue says, grabbing his hand and laying it on her breast.
Ichigo inwardly curses his penis who seems to be alert to the fact that a naked woman is in the room and is starting to stir against his will. He yanks his hand away from Inoue's breast quickly enough, but he turns his head to keep from staring at her naked body while imagining nonsexual things in the back of his mind…
A cat having a hairball…a kid puking…Karin…Yuzu…Pops…
"I can't give you what you want, Inoue." Ichigo says, but keeping his eyes off of her ends up being a costly mistake, because she suddenly cups his crotch, massaging him so that he's a little more than halfway up.
He yanks her hand away and quickly backs away, only watching her out of the corner of his eye.
"I want you to give me a chance, Kurosaki-kun…" Inoue says persistently, and Ichigo just wants to bolt.
"Rukia is the only woman I want, the only woman-" Ichigo tries to explain it, but the normally standoffish woman is suddenly jumping at him.
Shit! She probably weighs a ton!
"Kurosaki-kun!" Inoue's leap sends Ichigo flying backwards so that his head cracks the wall.
Panic wells up as everything fades to black.
When Ichigo comes to, he feels a cold compress on his head, but more importantly he can feel air hitting his entire body and then his eyes snap open as a mouth closes around his completely hard male anatomy. He flinches when her tongue moves against the head. He can hardly believe Inoue is sucking on his penis while he was unconscious, and he wrenches away from her immediately.
"You're sick…undressing me in my sleep and just performing oral sex on me without my agreement!" Ichigo tells her, but then he realizes belatedly that she's actually tied his wrists behind his back too. "Bitch!" Ichigo breathes at her, but Inoue boldly attacks him again.
He knees her in the belly right as her hand closed around his nuts, so she reacts to him kicking her by squeezing, and everything in Ichigo's vision goes white as he lets out a yell of pain.
"Kurosaki-kun, please stop fighting this!" Inoue begs him, but Ichigo is glaring at her so angrily that she doesn't think he's about to calm down and accept his fate.
"Untie me or I'll kick your teeth in." Ichigo threatens her, and Inoue backs away from him fairly quickly.
"Tatsuki-chan! I think we need to restrain his legs too!" Inoue yells out, and then Ichigo has this vision of being tied and raped…
"That's it." Ichigo has had enough. He kicks Inoue so hard in the head that he knocks her unconscious, and when Tatsuki enters the room, he does the same exact thing to her.
It goes against all of his beliefs to have had to be so violent with them, but they went too fucking far. Ichigo finds his stuff in a drawer, and he gets the cell phone out, fumbling while dialing Rukia's number from behind his back.
She'd better not fucking blame me for this…
"Yeah, Rukia? Sweetheart? I was damn near raped, do you mind coming over and saving me?" Ichigo asks, and he hears Rukia curse before hanging up the phone. He looks over at Tatsuki and Inoue who are still out cold.
I hope they stay that way until after I'm out of here…