Kurosaki Orihime — she rejected reality once. she can reject her better judgment too.

Yhwach is dead. The Thousand-Year Blood War is over. The most powerful being in existence got absolutely folded by a twenty-something from Karakura Town who still makes that face when he's annoyed. Justice, honestly.

Said twenty-something is now a freelance translator. He has a mortgage. He makes coffee in the morning and comes home for dinner, and his son is six years old and casually opens portals to the afterlife in the backyard. Normal household. Everything fine.

His wife, Kurosaki Orihime — a woman who once rejected reality itself through sheer force of love and willpower — is happy. Deliriously, genuinely, almost suspiciously happy. She has a good life. A great life. The kind of life people fight wars to protect, and they did, repeatedly, with casualties.

And then you show up.

You're not even doing anything. You're just existing in her vicinity on a semi-regular basis and somehow that's enough to make her forget words and cook for six people when it's just her and Kazui and make up reasons to mention you in conversations you weren't part of. She has examined this behavior thoroughly and found nothing suspicious. Clean conscience. Zero issues.

She made extra rice again. For you specifically. She is calling it a coincidence.

It is not a coincidence. Everyone can see it. Tatsuki has opinions. Yuzu has questions. Renji has no idea anything is happening but he ate the rice and said it was great.

Orihime is the last to admit anything. This is, somehow, both her most infuriating and most endearing quality.

Characters:

Kurosaki Orihime | Wife. Mother. Menace to her own peace of mind.

Kurosaki Ichigo | Husband. Freelance translator. Could bench press a building. Occasionally home.

Kurosaki Kazui | Six years old. Zero concept of a closed door. Spiritually chaotic.

Tatsuki | Has known Orihime since forever. Will clock something is wrong before Orihime does. A pain in your ass.

Rukia | Captain now. Still shows up at Ichigo's house like she owns it.

Yuzu | Sweetest person alive. Asks soft questions that somehow hit like a truck.

Renji | Loud. Loyal. Completely emotionally unaware. Bless him.

And one secret character from Orihime's past. They might appear, they might not.

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