Beauty+the Beast-IchigoxChad 1

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any of its characters. All I own is the plot(though this might not count seeing as I'm kind of using the plot from the 'Beauty and the Beast') and any OCs I think up.

Chapter 1

"I'll be back later abuelo." Chad called out before he closed the door behind him. The outside was bright from the rays of the morning sun. He took a breath of fresh air and started to walk. He and his grandfather lived in a quant and cozy little home that was big enough for the both of them. He had gone to live with his grandfather Oscar Joaquin De La Rosa at a young age because of the death of his parents. He wasn't all that happy to be some place new, but with the help of his grandfather Chad not only got used to, but he soon came to love it. Their home was on the outskirts of town. They were surrounded by the beauty or nature, and even though it's boring sometimes he didn't care. It was his home and he loved it. Boring it might be, but it was calming, peaceful, and breath taking.

It was a good lengthy walk to town from his home. He could see some the shops starting to open, and some of the people of the town waking up and greeting the new day. "Good Morning Chad." The shop keeper of the bakery greeted as she opened the door to her shop. Chad waved to her in greeting with a small smile. Just about everyone in town knew him, but that wasn't too surprising. The town was one of nice little towns where everyone knew just about everybody. Not to mention that just about everyone in town liked Chad. Chad was big and strong, but he was a gentle giant. He was nice and kind to everyone, and he help out anyone who needed it.

"So where are you off to dear?" The baker asked him curious. "The book store. I just finished this book on fairy tails." Chad explained as he showed her the book that he was carrying. "That's nice dear." The bakery owner said politely as she slightly waved him off. "Honey are you done setting up the shop?" She called as turned her attention to the inside of the bakery where her husband was. At seeing that he was being dismissed Chad continued his walk to the book store with a roll of his eyes. The owner of the bakery was a nice and polite woman, but she was also a busy woman as well. And as he continued his walk more people greeted him. And within a few more minutes he had reached his destination.

"Well hello Chad, how are you?" The book store owner Ukitake asked as Chad entered the store. "I'm good, and I've come to return the book you let me borrow." Chad held out the book that he borrowed for Ukitake to take back. "Done already?" Ukitake asked amused as he took the book from Chad. Chad simply nodded. "Did you get any new books?" He asked as he looked at the selections of books that were displayed on the bookshelves. "Sorry, not since yesterday." Chad made 'hmm' sound as he continued to look through the books. "Then I'll borrow this one." He said as he pulled the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing' from the middle shelf. Ukitake raised an eyebrow at the book that was shown to him. "Haven't you already read this book at least twice?" "But its one of my favorites." Chad did like 'Much Ado About Nothing,' though that was mostly because of the bickering between Beatrice and Benedict that go one through out most of the play. "Then how about you just keep it." Ukitake offered as a grin play across his lips. Chad gave him a hope look that plainly said 'really?' "Now, now Chad no need to give me that look. Of course you can keep it. Since you like so much its yours." Ukitake reassured with a kind smile. Chad instantly brightened as he gave Ukitake a grateful smile.

With his new book in hand Chand waved goodbye to Ukitake as he left. And as soon as he left Chad Started to read the book he just got. It might not have been wise to read while walking, but he knew the town as well as he knew the back of his hand. Though as he walked and read he accidentally bumped into someone. "Hey watch where you're going you-Oh Chad it's you!" Whatever insult that was on Lirin's tongue died when she saw that it was Chad that bump into her. "Sorry." Chad apologized as he glanced down at Lirin. "You don't need to apologize Chad, in fact you were just the person I was looking for." Lirin purred as she batted her lashes at him. "Though is that another book?" She soon asked as she plucked it from his grasp. "What's with this book? there's no pictures in it." She said annoyed as she flipped through the book. "You just have use your imagination when you read it." Chad explained as he made to reach for his book. "Whatever." Lirin said in a huff as she tossed the book. That said book ended up landing in a mud puddle.

"Instead of reading some stupid book you should be spending time with me as my lover. And after that we could get married." She gushed as a wishful look came to her face. Meanwhile Chad gone over to his fallen book and picked it up and brushed the mud off of it. And when Lirin saw what he was doing she puffed out her cheeks in annoyance, but that didn't deter her. She sauntered up to him and batted her lashed again. "Come one Chad what do ya say. I know that you like cute things and I'm as cute as they come." She said pridefully. Chad looked down at her again. It was true that he had a weakness for cute things and Lirin was pretty cute, but he didn't like her that way. She may be his age, but she looked kind of young and he only saw her a potential friend, nothing more. "I'm flattered, but no thank you." Chad declined politely and gently. "if would please excuse me, I promised abuelo that I would help him some of his inventions." He said with the same politeness. After that he walked off as Lirin became flabbergasted. 'No one turns me down. I'll get you somehow Chad.' Lirin thought determined.

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"Abuelo I'm home." Chad called out as he entered his home. But instead of his grandfather answering him a loud bang did instead. Chad quickly rushed to the basement where the noise came from. As soon as he entered he started to cough from some of the smoke that filled the room. "Abuelo are you alright?"  He called out worried. "I'm fine Yasutora. The invention that I'm working on just had a hiccup is all." His grandfather Oscar reassured him as the smoke cleared. His grandfather was one of the very few who used his given name. You see a few months ofter he moved in with his grandfather some found his name to hard to remember and starting calling him Chad. It had caught one and soon everyone else was calling him Chad. He had tried to fix the problem by reminding everyone that his name was Yasutora, but it didn't work. After awhile he gave up and just let other's call him Chad.

"You know Yasutora I'm beginning to think that I might not be able to finish this darn contraption in time for the fair." Oscar said a bit dishearten as he glared at his invention annoyed. "Don't say that abuelo. It's true that you have trouble sometimes with your inventions, but you always manage to get them finished. I'm sure that you'll be able to finish your invention in time for the fair." Chad reassured. "You are right, besides I'm not one that gives up so easily." Oscar said wit ha chuckle. He then went back under his invention to work the bugs out. "Yasutora could you please hand me a wrench?" He asked as he was still under. Chad nodded his head as he grabbed the wrench and then handed it to his grandfather. "By the way Yasutora how was visit into town?" Oscar asked as began to tinker with his invention. "Good, I got a new book." Chad replied, but there was something about his tone. Oscar knew what that tone was, his grandson wasn't telling him something.

"Anything else?" He inquired. Chad hesitated for a moment unsure. "Well..." Oscar made sound for him to continue. "I ran into Lirin." "And what did Lirin want thins time?" Oscar knew that Lirin had a crush on his grandson. "She wanted me to marry her." Chad answered bluntly. Oscar paused and then slipped out from under his invention. "She want's you to marry her?" He asked disbelieving as he raised an eyebrow. Chad simply nodded. "And what was your answer?" Oscar asked curious. "I politely declined." Chad replied simply. "I see." Oscar said thoughtfully. "Though I wonder when you'll bring home a nice girl...or boy." He said with a sigh. Chad slightly blushed at his grandfather's words.

You see most people didn't know that Chad was bisexual. He believed that such a think as love goes beyond gender, so he didn't care about the gender of the person that he would love. As for his grandfather, Oscar really didn't his grandson's sexual preference. As long as his grandson was happy with the person he was with, Oscar could care less about their gender also.

Oscar softly chuckled at his grandson blush before he went back under his invention. And within a few moments later he came back out. "Well that should do it." he replied as he put his wrench away. "Well let's cross our fingers." And then he turned it on. Both he and Chad tensed as it sputtered, but then it started to do what it was made to do. It started to chop the wood. "It works." Oscar exclaimed both surprised and relieved. "See I told you could do it abuelo." Chad graduated. "Well I guess it looks like I'm of to the fair." Oscar said proudly as he gave his grandson a thankful smile. "Think you can help me ready the wagon Yasutora?" Chad eagerly nodded his head.

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Everything was loaded into the wagon, especially Oscar's invention. Oscar himself mounted his horse that was strapped to the wagon. He then started the wagon forward "Bye abuelo, be careful." Chad call out as he waved his grandfather farewell. "Don't worry, I'll be fine." Oscar reassured. "Now take of yourself Yasutora. I'll be back within a few days." He added. "Alright, I will." Chad called back just before his grandfather faded from view as he turned a corner.

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Oscar looked about as his horse trudged forward. The woods that they had entered was dense and dark, giving it a spooky feel. "This doesn't look right. Did we take a wrong turn?" He muttered to himself. He was starting to feel a bit anxious. Then up ahead he spotted a fork in the road. As they got closer there was some signs right in front of the fork. When they reached it Oscar lifted his lantern up to get a better look at the signs. Unfortunately that didn't help. The signs were old and letters were faded. With no idea on which way to go Oscar looked between the two roads that were in front of him. And after some debate he decided to go down the left road. The horse on the other hand didn't agree with him. Instead the horse went to right. Oscar frowned at the horse's actions. "Sorry boy, but were going to the left." Oscar's voice left no room for argument as he made the horse go to the left. The horse grudgingly let him go left.

They continued down the left road. And the horse was starting to become weary of its surroundings. As they went down further the left road Oscar himself was starting to get a little weary of his surroundings. "Maybe we should go back and go the other way." But before he could even do that a howl rang out. Both Oscar and the horse tensed. Then they heard growling behind them. Oscar looked to the back and his eyes widen in horror when he saw that a small pack of wolves was right behind them. Quickly, before the wolves could pounce, he urged the horse forward. And the wolves chased after them.

It seemed like were gaining space between the wolves, that is till  one wolf jumped in front of the horse. The horse reared back out of fright. Oscar tried to calm the horse down, but didn't work. In the horse's panic it accidentally bucks Oscar off. Oscar let out a pained grunt as he body met the ground. He looked up in time to see the horse run off, and then the wolves moved in believing him to be easier prey. Oscar slowly got up as he eyed the wolves wearily. His eyes roamed over possible escape routes, but before he formulate a plan one of the wolves lunged at him. He dodged to the side and then took off running. The wolves quickly followed and nipped his heels. He ran what felt like hours and when he was starting to outrun the wolves he tripped. He hurriedly got up and saw a gate in front of him. Without a second thought Oscar ran to gate and tried to open it. But it wouldn't open, apparently the gate had rusted so much that it was almost sealed. There was no way for him turn back, the wolves were minutes away from. So desperation he slammed into the gate with everything he had. On the third try it finally gave way. Oscar rushed inside and then put all of his weight into closing it. It took him some effort, but he was able to close the gate in time. He then quickly jumped away just in time, if he had stayed a few seconds longer one of the wolves would have been able to sink their fangs into him.

Now that he safe Oscar turned around. He saw that the gate led to a huge and old castle. He stared at the old castle in awe, that is till he was snapped out of it by a clash of thunder that was soon followed by a down pour. Hesitantly he walked up to castle and knocked on the wooden door. By the third knock the door creaked open. Carefully he peaked his head inside. He studied the inside for a moment before he walked in. "Hello, is anyone here?" He called out as he closed the behind him. No one answer him so he trudged further in.

"Hey look someone wonder in. I bet ya he's lost his way." Someone whispered softly so that Oscar couldn't hear him. "Shhhh, stay quiet and he just might go away." Another voice whispered back annoyed. "Is anyone there?" Oscar called out again. "Stay quiet." The second voice whispered threateningly to the owner of the first voice. "I don't mean to intrude or be rude, but I lost my horse. If it's not too much trouble is it possible if I could stay the night?" Oscar inquired loudly. "Oh come on Uryu, ya heard 'im. I know ya got a heart." The first voice begged the owner of the second voice who was a clock. The clock Uryu glared at the owner of the first voice who was a candelabra. He then covered the candelabra's mouth in oder to keep him quiet. The candelabra returned Uryu's glare with one of his own before he brought his candle arm under the hand that on his mouth. Uryu slightly yelped in pain and quickly pulled his hand away.

"Hey man don' worry, of course you can stay th' night." The candelabra called out loud enough for Oscar to hear. "Who's there?" Oscar called out as he looked around. He couldn't see anyone. He spotted the candelabra and picked it up and brought up to shed more light. "Who said that? Who's there?" He questioned as he looked around with the candelabra still in hand. "Hey o'er here." The candelabra said which caused Oscar turned to left since he was holding the candelabra in his left hand. "Where?" At Oscar's question the candelabra rolled his eyes before he tapped the elder man on the head. Oscar looked at the candelabra. "Hi there." It exclaimed cheerfully now that he had the older man's attention. Oscar's eye widen in surprise as he tossed the candelabra in shock.

The candelabra let out a pain-filled grunt when he hit the floor, his flames going out in process. A few seconds later he got back up and relit his flames. And as he did so some of Oscar's shock and surprise faded as he studied the candelabra curious. "How fascinating." He said quietly thoughtful. As for Uryu he hopped down and went over to the candelabra annoyed a little bit miffed. "Nice going Renji, this just wonderful." He said sarcastically his irritation plainly showing through. But before he could carry on Oscar carefully picked him up. "Hey put me down." Uryu exclaimed as he wiggled about in the older man's grip. "How does this work? How was accomplished?" Oscar muttered to himself as he studied Uryu, ignoring the clock's words. And the candelabra Renji couldn't help but laugh at his friend's predicament.

"If you don't mind could please close that." Uryu growled as he closed the little door that he had. Oscar barely was able to pull his finger away in time. "Sorry I've never seen anything like you before." He apologized. "It's not every day that you see a talking clo...cloc..." he was interupted as he sneezed. Luckily he pulled pulled Uryu away from his face when he did so. "Jeez man you must really be soaked to let lose a sneeze like that." Renji said concerned. "Come one, you can warm yer'self by the fire." He instructed and led the way as Oscar put Uryu down. Since he had he didn't a different choose Oscar followed him. Besides it would be to get warm up, the cold from the rain was starting to seep into his bones.

"No Renji what are you thinking? What if Kurasaki finds out?" Uryu said a bit panicked as he chased after them. He stumbled down the small flight of stairs and fell flat on his face. When he got back up he saw that Renji had Oscar sit in a big comfy red chair. "Not Kurasaki's chair." He muttered a little mortified. A moment later he ducked as a dog like foot rest jumped over his head. "This can not be happening, it just can't." Uryu muttered again this time in both mortified and panicked. Meanwhile the dog like foot rest had rushed over to Oscar excited. The older man was surprised, but still pet it anyway. "Well hello there." he greeted with a small amused smile. The foot rest gave a happy yelp and then went under his feet do its job, it had Oscar rest his feet on it. A few seconds later a coat rack came and draped a thick blanket over him. "Oh...thank you." He thanked still in some shock.

"That's it! I'm the one that's in charge and-" Unfortunately Uryu's angry rant was cut off when he was run over by a tea cart. Said tea cart was now at Oscar's side. "Hi mister, would you like some tea? It'll help warm you up." A tea pot asked cheerfully. Its voice was female and bubbly. The tea pot then poured some tea into a pink tea cup that was next to her. "There will be no tea." Uryu mumbled angrily since his face was still panted in the carpet. But he then tore his face away and repeated again still angry, "I said that there will be no tea." But apparently Oscar was ignoring him because the elder man picked up the tea cup and took a sip from it.

"His mustache tickles Orihime." The tea cup said wit ha giggle. Oscar pulled the tea cup away surprised. "Well hello there." He greeted pleasantly. But the slamming of a door then made him jump. Even Renji worried as his flames and the fire in the fireplace were blown out. he looked to the slammed open door in panic. Even the tea pot Orihime was really worried. "a oh." The pink tea cup whispered as she hid behind Orihime. And with everyone's reaction even Oscar himself became worried. He became even more worried and even a little scared as he heard growling coming from now open door that was behind him.

Ichigo came walking down. He growled again as he sniffed the air. "There's a stranger here." He growled out, it was more of a demand then a question. "Well ya see Ichigo I can explain tha.' Ya see this guy got lost in the woods and he was cold and wet from the rain, so-" Renji started to explain panicked, but he was cut off as Ichigo roared at him and once again blowing out the candelabra's flames. As for Uryu he came out of his hiding place and timidly came forward. "Umm....Kurosaki I would like to say that....I was aganst this from the stat! I tried to get them to listen, I told them no. But would they, no did no-" His panicked rant was also interrupted when Ichigo roared at him.

Oscar who was becoming even more scared and panicked looked to his right. When he saw nothing he hesitantly turned his head to the left. He felt fear over take him as he gazed into the beast's face. Ichigo growled at him before demanding angrily, "Who that hell are you?" Oscar quickly jumped out of the seat as the beast advanced. "Why the hell are you here?" Ichigo demanded once again in a growl as he continued to slowly advance. "I...I-I was lost in the woods...and...an-and..." Oscar sturted out both panicked and scared as he continued to back away. "You're not welcomed here old man." Ichigo growled still very mush angry. "I...I'm...I'm s...s-s-s-sorry..." Oscar continued to stutter as he tried to get out an apology. "What the hell are you staring at?" Ichigo demanded as he towered over Oscar. "N-nothing..." The elder man defended. "So you've come to stare at the beast!?" Ichigo accused furious.

Fear took a strong hold of him and Oscar made a run for the door. But Ichigo quickly stood in his way, blocking him from the door. "Please I meant no harm, I just needed a place to stay." Oscar quickly defended as he began to back up again. "Then I'll give you a place to stay." Ichigo said angrily as he grabbed the elder man. "No...no, no...please no." Oscar begged as the beast dragged him away. Renji, Uryu, Orihime, the little tea cup winced as the door slammed behind Ichigo and Oscar. As much as they wanted to help the elder man, they couldn't. They were powerless to help, all they could do was look on and hope for the best.