Chapter 6: "The storm is coming soon."

"Orihime, can you do me a favor?" Ichigo asked deeply in his thoughts.

"Hai! (Yes)" Orihime answered from the kitchen. The tone of his voice worried her so she moved her look on him.

"I don't want you to talk to me today, or follow me around or ask me anything." Despite the fact that he was caught with his problems, Orihime understood that he's serious. But she was curious what could make him to become so different? "I'm going out." He concludes before he left the apartment. She looked at him leaving the room, but she couldn't believe that. A strange feeling of coldness embraced her body. Looking on the window she realized that it started to rain. Today it should be a stormy day, but Ichigo left without any umbrella so… She put her shoes, took an umbrella, looked the apartment and ran after him. After she descended the stairs she understood that she couldn't see him anywhere. It was like he disappeared with no trace. There was no one around besides her what was making her to worry even harder.

"Miss, you'd better go back to your apartment." An old lady tried to warn her, but Orihime couldn't hear her because she started to run. She tried to search him at Urahara's shop, but he wasn't around. Orihime tried to remember all the ways they walk together, but she couldn't find him either. She suddenly stopped at a road intersection. It felt like a dead end for her, till… She looked in front of her to see a sign "The white cemetery". Suddenly she realized that this was the place where she first met him, after she visited her brother's grave. It was a strange place to meet a person, even considering his condition. So… maybe she will be lucky and she will find him here.

The gates were open. Even the porter wasn't around, probably because he was scared of the weather. She entered in without second thoughts and she started to search for him. The cemetery's a big place so even if he's here it doesn't guarantee her that she will be able to find him so… she started from the place she knew too well, Sora's grave.

Her legs become weak when she saw that he was here, at the grave next to her brother's.

"I told you to not follow me." Ichigo said with a harsh voice. His voice scared her making her to escape the umbrella what felt next to him. He moved his gaze on it, but he didn't say a word.

"I remembered that today it's going to be a stormy day so… I thought an umbrella might be useful to you, but… I was probably wrong. Probably the little blue man played again with my thoughts. He loves to mess up with me." Orihime said laughing embarrassed.

"You should think of yourself." Ichigo said moving back his look back on the grave. Orihime examined herself for a little while. Indeed, her clothes were wet and she wasn't even dressed for such weather. She was in a hurry so she couldn't think right on it. 'Dummy me.' She thinks.

"I'm sorry. I was just worried about you." She said sitting next to him.

"You should better listen to what people say to you."

"Hahaha…. You're right. I'm just too distracted when I'm thinking about something that I can't think over other the small details. I'm sorry. I start to speak too much when I'm nervous." Orihime said, but he just ignored her. She looked at the grave and he read there "Masaki and Ishin Kurosaki" Orihime covered her mouth when she realized that she read that aloud making Ichigo to look at her.

"Damn! You really don't know when you should let someone alone!" Ichigo yelled at her. He was nervous. It passed so many years since that incident and he wasn't still able to obtain his revenge and having her reading so easily the names of his parents weren't ease the pain buried in his heart. Something strange for him happened in the next moment. She started to cry and embraced his body.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." It was all she said, but somehow he understood that maybe for the first time she understood what he said to her and that was making him to feel a little better. "Ichigo?" She called him after a while sensing that he's not rejecting her touch.

"What?" He asked calmer than the last time.

"I know it may sound strange, but… It's ok if you cry. The tears are capable to ease your heart in the moments like this. So… I'll be here." Her voice was capable to reach him.

"I'd never cried since the day they were murdered and even then I cried for myself." The burden seems to become easier after he confessed it. It was strange for him considering that he never talked about it with anyone before, not even with Rukia.

"It's ok. I had the same feeling about my brother. He was killed in a car accident and I couldn't stop crying at the thought that he left me alone. I hated him for a little while till I discover that I did that because I was scared of loneliness. It's a burden easier to carry when you decide to hate a person rather than to accept their death. Even now I came since time to time at his grave to talk with him, isn't it big brother?" Ichigo looked in the direction where her eyes were and he discovered that she talked with the funeral stone next to them. It was scary for him to see that even their past are linked somehow but still… That made him to remember about the day of his parents funeral, it was the same day with her brother's one. That memory was still a little blurry, but he could remember the little girl with orange hair what seemed to be as old as him. Her presence managed to make him to relax even back then.

"Today it's the day when your brother was killed?" Ichigo asked looking at her.

"Hai. I didn't want to be a burden to ask you to come here with me so… I'm glad that I could visit him today and I'm sure he's happy to meet you." Orihime said resting her head on his shoulder. Despite her frail appearance she's a strong person, maybe stronger than him.

"Orihime?" He called her, making her to raise a little her head in his direction when… she was surprised by the fact that he suddenly kissed her. Their lips met shy, after what they started to search for the other taste. It seemed maybe like a normal kiss, but it was a kiss what merged two souls.

Chapter 7: "The temperature"