Fandom: Bleach

Pairing: Ichigo Kurosaki and Orihime Inoue

Theme set: Beta

Title: Scar Tissue

Rating: From G to T

Warning[s]: Not all are rated Teen, but some are so read at your own discretion. There are some spoilers to the current series (manga updates).

Notes: This is for 1sentence. The prompt will be listed before the sentence, etc. Enjoy.

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01. Walking

The soft shuffling and padding of her footsteps behind his were all the reassurance in the world that he needed; each step confirmed just how much she trusted him.

02. Waltz

Every time she bore audience to a fight between Ichigo and an enemy, Orihime found that the whole ordeal looked like a strange waltz that banked dangerously close between life and death.

03. Wishes

He was too mature to believe in wishes, but the day he found her blowing an eyelash from her fingertips and out towards the setting sun, he realized that such childish whims were rather beautiful.

04. Wonder

Even when he was aware that she knew he was staring at her from his spot in the classroom, he couldn’t help but wonder why she continued to pretend like she didn’t know; like she was perfectly happy with being unnoticed.

05. Worry

They always told each other not to worry about their well-being, but the more they said it, the more they grew apart.

06. Whimsy

When he had extended his hand towards her after his fight with the sixth espada, he hadn’t really expected much; it had been more of a passing fancy; a whimsical dream that it would be nice to feel the warmth of the person he had fought so hard to save; he was left rather surprised when that small palm slid into his, shaking and thankful.

07. Waste/Wasteland

Hueco Mundo was littered with grains of sand that enveloped despair and hatred; but Orihime was the other end of the spectrum, a walking heaven; and he could not allow breaths of tomorrow and smiles of retribution to wither away in this nothingness; he had to save her and bring her back to grace his sorry excuse for a world with her gift of life.

08. Whiskey

Day to day life did nothing to numb him; and whiskey only heightened his awareness of her long absence and abandoned bones far beneath the earth‘s surface.

09. War

Orihime, he recognized early on, was a woman he’d fight endless wars for, if need be.

10. Weddings

She often had dreamed up her fantasy wedding day filled with lace and frills, but the day he died, her feverish fairytales did too.

11. Birthday

Typically she had a small celebration with only Tatsuki in tow, but the day a loud knock sounded against her door and she found Kurosaki on the other side, was the day she decided that birthdays were really wonderful things indeed.

12. Blessing

As he laid underneath the orange halo of her powers, brown eyes staring into gray, he realized just how lucky he was to have such a special person to cry over him.

13. Biased

“You’re biased!” Keigo yelled, dramatic tears streaming down his face as Ichigo took a seat next to a very flustered Inoue.

14. Burning

The burning of the sun against his skin did nothing to diminish the inferno spreading through his limbs internally as Ishida wrapped Inoue’s fingertips with his own.

15. Breathing

He’d sit beside her unmoving form until he could hear the soft hum of air as it bounced inside her lungs and filled her soul with ambition; until then-

16. Breaking

The soft, bell-like sound of shattering glass, her hairpins, mirrored the sound of his breaking heart as she fell to the ground in a beautiful free-fall.

17. Belief

“You’ll come back to me,” She told him as he took a step towards the Senkaimon; not a command and not a question, but a statement of fact and understanding.

18. Balloon

Renji had nearly fallen over from laughter the day Ichigo had been walking around school with a bright orange balloon to match his hair; a gift that, had it been from anyone except her, would have been popped the moment he had set eyes on it.

19. Balcony

The strange places her mind went during the most inopportune moments always seemed to amaze her, but for once, she was thankful that she had been so obsessed with Romeo and Juliet because he looked just like the man of Shakespeare’s fiction as he held his hand out to her with a smile that, for the first time, didn’t seem out of place.

20. Bane

“It tickles!” She exclaimed through kiss-marked lips; Ichigo frowned in annoyance and kissed her again, determined to make her breathless and not amused by his sporadic nibbles.

21. Quiet

When life returned to normal and school was back in session, Ichigo found her silence and lack of smiles deafening; had his Orihime been left in the deserts of Hueco Mundo after all?

22. Quirks

He hated the strange foods she ate, but he absolutely adored her eccentricities the most.

23. Question

“Will you love me?” He asked her through clenched teeth and fisted fingers, embarrassment flooding his cheeks; Orihime’s watery eyes only softened at his naiveté.

24. Quarrel

Rukia and Renji stared in awe the first time they ever heard the golden couple argue; and over aliens of all things.

25. Quitting

The day she stormed out with tears falling in her wake, telling him that she was done, was the day he understood just how very much he had to stop her.

26. Jump

Holding onto her hand tightly, he glanced out the sides of his eyes and smirked, “It’ll be cold,” he told her; Orihime surprised him further as she led their leap into the night-cooled water with nothing but a flush to cover their skin.

27. Jester

“Ishida is going to ask Orihime out todayyyyyyyy!” Keigo said in a sing-song voice; later when Tatsuki found Asano slumped against his desk with a busted lip and bruised eye, she realized just how much Ichigo couldn’t take a joke.

28. Jousting

Often times Rukia listened to Renji and Ichigo banter with one another until the other lost his cool and demanded a fight, but the day Renji brought Orihime’s name into the conversation was the one time Ichigo simply walked away and left the shinigamis staring at his retreating back.

29. Jewel

He was rough, rowdy, vulgar, insensitive, clueless, demanding, hard-headed, and selfish; Orihime, however, couldn’t see anything but the rarest of treasures whenever she looked at him.

30. Just

“We’re just friends!” Orihime said, her arms waving in front of her face as she tried to discourage mocking from Rukia, who in turn noticed the slight flinch from the orange-headed boy sitting close by.

31. Smirk

The only signs that the two had done anything indecent in the school hallway were the balled pink panties in his pocket and the large smirk on his proud face.

32. Sorrow

When he found her in the rain with tears to match the downpour, he silently thought she was beautiful when sadness dressed her skin.

33. Stupidity

“I’m happy for you; really, I am,” She murmured in a passing breath as she quickly exited the classroom, leaving the stoic Ichigo to drown in the monsoon of the lie she had told in order to spare him of his demons.

34. Serenade

She never sang, but the way she spoke against his neck each night in the dark of their shared room coaxed him into a sleep like the gentlest of lullabies.

35. Sarcasm

Since the death of his mother, Ichigo Kurosaki had been a poster-child for the definition of sarcasm, but the day his ironic sense of humor made those orchid-colored lips part in a gasp of torment, he quickly threw his hateful characteristic to the ground and drenched it with a vulgar curse of regret.

36. Sordid

White-hot anger and repulsion shot down his spine the moment Ulquiorra Schiffer reached for her, like his lover, and said his farewell; from then on he would be the only one reaching for her with that same longing expression.

37. Soliloquy

Shaking hands formed together in a make-shift prayer as she bowed her head and whispered his name over and over to the abandoned room, hoping beyond all hope that her mantra would deliver her one love, “Ichigo-Ichigo-Ichigo-Ichigo-Ichi-”

38. Sojourn

As he fell from the sky, wind whistling through his hair and past his ears, he looked over his shoulder, his eyes connecting with hers; and time ceased to exist.

39. Share

When they had moved into the small apartment together, Ichigo had been thrilled at the idea of sharing a bed with her; now he was more than educated on just how much the edge of the bed wasn’t exactly comfortable.

40.Solitary

She was used to being alone and never once did she speak to the surrounding walls out of anger for her predicament, but the day he didn’t come home, she clawed at the counter and screamed his name for all of Japan to hear.

41. Nowhere

Once she was home, safe and sound inside his arms, he made the resolution to never go anywhere that he couldn’t have her follow.

42. Neutral

“You are to remain in the world of the living and help the Soul Society in the coming winter,” the Head Captain told him; Ichigo bowed his head and smiled a bit to himself as he mentally laughed at the idea of remaining in an unmoving spot when she had been taken from him.

43. Nuance

He watched shadows cascade over her slimming and surrendering frame, and her dead eyes reminded him so very much of the hollows he had slaughtered in order to see her just one more time.

44. Near

She was close enough for him to see the column in her throat rise and fall with strangled swallows and her lips buzz with anxiousness as he tilted his head and cancelled out any space between their mouths in one, two, three labored breaths.

45. Natural

The way people flocked to her seemed like a magnetic pull, and he couldn’t but congregate with the rest of them.

46. Horizon

While he was busy looking behind at his past and what could have been, she was always looking at the setting sun as if trying to decide what was the quickest way to catch it.

47. Valiant

“Ichigo is so brave,” Orihime would quietly whisper to Rukia, who in turn smiled and thought it ironic that if he was so very brave as Inoue was convinced, why was he so terrified to be alone with the copper-haired girl?

48. Virtuous

Orihime always tried to live her life right and she always gave, gave, gave to everyone; Ichigo wanted her to be selfish for once.

49. Victory

All the battles and wars that he had fought and won and bragged about were nothing in comparison to the day she said, “I do.”

50. Defeat

He knew he should have cried for her the moment he saw the light leave her eyes, but instead, he cried for himself and for all the times he hadn’t told her what she meant; never for all the life he would be forced to live without her would he bury this regret.