Ichigo came back into the room after a few minutes of being in the kitchen. I took that to be a good sign, that Orihime had answered, and judging from the satisfied expression on his face, that confirmed my suspicion.

"She'll be coming in about an hour. You don't have money though, do you?"

I shook my head; all the money I had was gone, it had been in my home when the hollow went and destroyed it looking for me. I assumed that the money was completely destroyed as well. Money didn't really matter to me anyways, I just figured I wouldn't need to buy anything, although I knew how bad it was to be relying on others. It wasn't my fault though; it was the whole Hollow issue that put me in this position. I realized that I hated not contributing to anything where I had to stay, but again, that wasn't something that I brought on myself.

Ichigo sighed. "I see."

I nodded and I started to feel bad because I was being so dependent on others lately. I was justifying it by telling myself that it wasn't my fault I was in this mess where I couldn't support myself, but it wasn't right to keep doing that. I didn't want to keep having my thoughts cloud up in my mind, and bring me down, so I shoved them into the recesses of my mind where I could think about them later.

Ichigo suddenly reached into his pocket, pulled out his wallet, and handed me some money. At first, I just stared at it because I didn't want to take it. But then Ichigo shoved it into my handed and closed my hand over it, shoving his wallet back into his pocket before I could say anything.

He stood up. "I'm going to go get cleaned up, and ready for the day. Orihime might be here before I get done." He leaned in and kissed my forehead. "Have a good time alright?"

I nodded and he went up the stairs and was gone. I just sat there, with the money in my hands, wishing I would have thanked him. For some reason though I couldn't get the words to come out of my mouth. I just sat on the couch quietly for a while, waiting for the time to pass. It ticked by slowly, but then after a while I heard a knock on the door and I stood up. I went and opened the door and that girl that had healed me once was standing there, her reddish-orange hair pulled back into a ponytail, wearing black converse jeans and a plain white tee.

"Are you ready to go?" She asked me.

I nodded, shoving the money into my pocket, I walked out the door. We were walking in silence for the first few minutes, which was awkward since I didn't really know Orihime all that well, before we started talking.

"I'm glad that Kurosaki-kun asked me to take you shopping. I don't usually do that, because my friend Tatsuki hates it." She said.

I felt a little awkward, but I responded. "I'm glad you could go. I don't have anything."

"Not even any school uniforms?"

"Nope, because I haven't been going…" I trailed off.

"You guys are going to start going again right?" She looked at me.

"Yeah, Ichigo I think kinda got in trouble with his dad. I guess you could say it like that."

Orihime smiled. "His dad isn't one that normally gets angry."

"He didn't really seem angry." I shrugged. "I just don't think he liked that we kept skipping."

The half-truth flowed through my lips effortlessly, and my stomach twisted, as if it were a lie. It was true that we'd been skipping, but it wasn't intentional, and there was a lot more to it.

"You should see him when it comes to Yuzu and Karin though. He gets all sorts of huffy with them." She laughed.

I smirked. "That makes sense."

We fell into silence again, and my smile slowly faded from my face. I wished I could tell her everything we had been doing, but I didn't know if I was allowed to, despite her knowing about Soul Reapers and Hollows. So I just kept my mouth shut. It was a little annoying, not being able to really freely talk about it, but at the same time it might be better that way. I didn't really know.

We walked for a while in this silence. We came to downtown, with the cluster of buildings, high and low, and cars running up and down the street, and sidewalks cluttered with people shopping. I felt a little claustrophobic, as I wasn't really a fan of overcrowded cities.

"It's not normally like this but since it's Saturday it might be a little busy." Orihime shrugged.

"It's alright." I said.

We walked until we found a store that sold school uniforms, and once we found my correct size, we bought some of those. After that, we went to a normal store and got me pajamas, extra shoes, several outfits, socks, and everything else I would need. We got it all done at around 2 pm. By then my stomach was snarling, as I was starving. But we had both spent all the money we had, so we had no choice but to walk back to Ichigo's so I could eat there.

We took a little longer to walk back, mostly because it was hard to walk very fast with all of the bags we had, and I was hungry so I didn't have much energy to be walking. Once we did get to his house, Orihime helped me up to the spare room, which was next to Ichigo's and helped me pack all of the clothes and things away into drawers and the closet. Then, after a brief thank you and a hug she left. Ichigo entered the room not too long after Orihime left, and I was sitting on the edge of my bed, staring out the window.

"All settled in now?" He asked, sitting next to me.

I turned to look at him. "Yep."

He smiled. "Good."

My hand found his and I held it for a while, being quiet, as I didn't have much to say to him. He didn't seem to mind and after a bit I rested my head on his shoulder, content with just sitting like that forever. It wasn't going to last long though, as Isshin had opened the door and peeked his head in.

"Lunch is ready." He said.

"Alright." Ichigo responded and the door closed.

We got up and headed downstairs to eat.