Fandom: Bleach
Title: Forbidden Fruit
Word Count: 209
Pairings: Orihime/Ichigo
Rating: PG-13
Written for:
prpl_pen Forbidden Fruit
For Ichigo, the fruits of youth were forbidden to him. If not for his Eye, he would not be in such messes all the time. He would not wake up every morning to the residue of memory, the memory of a mother taken away from him in the most unnatural way.
If not for his fate, if not for his Gift - as some would call it - he could very well be a normal boy. Would he delight in the fruits of youth if he could?
But he could not dwell on such things; they shouldn’t even matter.
He had more important things to do, and everything he wanted - all those forbidden fruits that any man should have - had to wait.
And vibrant red hair, curves, and the sweet candy voice of a woman would move any breathing man. She did move him, but he had to keep her out of his mind.
He had to wait for her; even if she made it hard for him - even if everything else made it impossible for him - he had to wait. And as she stayed with him, Ichigo knew it would be worth the wait.
As long as Orihime stayed by his side he thought it was enough - for now.