A Bleach Story. Chapter 3 Orihime's Soul

I walked up to my room, finding someone there! He was a shinigami. Shaggy dark, almost black, green hair and yellow eyes.

“Who... are you?” I said. But he looked down at me, he was taller, but only by a bit.

“Kisshu...” He said like I should know that, then something changed about him, like he just remembered something. “I’m a shinigami. Former member of the 11th Division. But how can you see me?” Oh s**t. Well it won’t really harm anyone if I tell him what happened. What will it matter anyways?

“Well, I’m Kairi. I’m ... uh kind of a shinigami...” I stammered, not wanting Rukia to get in trouble for what happened. He just stared down at me holding in a... a laugh?

“And how are you, Miss Kairi, kind of a shinigami?” He said, sounding like he was mocking me! And what the hell is it with the miss?

“Well, it’s a long story. I bet you don’t have the time. And you shouldn’t have broken into Sally’s house.” I said trying to get him to leave.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m here or not. She won’t care, she can’t even see me. And I have time.” He said lying down on my bed. I sat down in my chair next to my desk, and started to tell him what happened.

“Rukia’s here? That’s probably why I haven’t seen her for a while. But I can’t believe what she did this, her brother sure is a big one for the rules.” RUKIA HAS A BROTHER!?

“Rukia has a--.” But I got cut off by a beeping sound. Kisshu got out his cell phone.

“Hollow around, wanna go kill it?” It said looking up at me.

“Don’t we have to? Isn’t it your job as a shinigami?” I questioned him.

“Former shinigami.” He said laughing. “So I don’t have to go. Neither do you.” He said matter as fact like. Lying down on my bed looking out the window near it.

“But... it isn’t right, it might harm someone.” I said looking down. But kind of I wanted to blow it off too.

He laugh and got up, moving right in front of me. “Fine.” He said, his breath was blowing down one my head. I looked anyway annoyed, how could he be so... naturally to me when we meet only like 5 minutes ago?

“If you don’t want to then you don’t have to.” I mumbled, still staring away from him. Then I suddenly felt being lifted up from my chair. He had picked me up. Somehow I had left my body since I was a sprit, I had the shinigami outfit on. I looked over to the chair seeing my body lying there, dead like. “M-My body!!” I screamed, I guess this is what it felt like being forced out of your body for the first time.

“Oh shut up. It’ll be fine. That woman downstairs will just think you’re sleeping.” He said putting me down on my feet.

“Let’s just go kill that damn hollow.” I said, totally annoyed now, but had the feeling to laugh.

I followed him out of the house, and as we ran long the streets, I felt like I’ve known him from somewhere else. But... how would I? And he seemed to know me from somewhere too. He acted way to friendly to me then a stranger would.

Kisshu stopped and I banged into him, I was just following him not paying attention to things around me. Wait a minute, I looked around, noticing the street we were at and the building Kisshu was staring at, looked familiar... But where? Orihime! This is where she lives! This is her street! Oh no... Oh god no!

A scream came from the building where Orihime had walked into when I last saw her. Kisshu ran in. I followed him quickly, worrying about Orihime.

Once we got into the room where the scream had come from, I saw Tatsuki. She was lying on the ground, bleeding. I didn’t really know her too well, but I’ve seen her in the halls tones of times with Orihime. The hollow was standing near Tatsuki, looking like it was going to attack her.

“Stop stressing.” Kisshu had been watching me, but I had been too busy looking at Tatsuki to notice him. “You just stay back here. I’ll take care of this hollow.” He said getting out his sword, he was going to attach the hollow but Orihime had gotten up and pushed the hollow. Kisshu stopped before he could hit Orihime. The hollow was going to go attack Orihime but, thankfully, Ichigo appeared, stopping the hollow from attacking.

“Who’s that?” Kisshu said, talking about Ichigo.

“That’s Ichigo.” I said. “The one who got stabbed by Rukia.”

Just then the hollow talked. “You interfere?” Talking to Ichigo. It had a cut on its hand.

“Sorry, but that’s my job. If you want to kill Orihime then you’ll have to kill me first!” He said. I rushed over behind Ichigo, before Kisshu could stop me, which he did try to do.

“Me too!” I said, now behind Ichigo and in front of Orihime.

I looked over to see Tatsuki Ariawa, her shoulder was cut and she was passed out on the ground. There was Orihime father away from Tatsuki passed out on the ground, there was a chain going to her. Wait a minute, isn’t Orihime behind me? Does that mean... there’s two Orihime’s! Or she has a twin, but I don’t think she does... Wait, she could see Ichigo! She shouldn’t be able to see him unless...

“Isn’t it obvious? It’s because that’s her soul!” The hollow said behind Ichigo. I was too wrapped up in my thoughts to notice that Ichigo had turned around to face Orihime, and had asked her something. “Too bad for you, Orihime is already dead!” The hollow hit me with its tail, then hit Ichigo who blocked, but couldn’t cut through the tail, so he got pushed through the wall.

Before I could hit a wall, Kisshu caught me then put me on the ground. “You okay?” He said as I got up. It felt like some superhuman had punched me in the stomach a dozen times.

“Yeah...” I said, looking around for Ichigo and Orihime. The hollow was looking through the hole in the wall, carrying Orihime. I started to reach for my sword when Kisshu stopped me.

“That Ichigo guy can handle it, let’s heal that girl.” He said walking towards Tatsuki. I followed. “Do you know how to heal?” He asked me as I sat down and looked at Tatsuki’s shoulder. It looked bad, and it was very bloodily.

“No... How could I know?” I asked him, still looking at Tatsuki. She was just a bystander, why did she have to get hurt?

“Just focus of healing her, gather your reiatsu and focus on healing.” He said, it sounded easily, but I was wrong. I had no idea how to gather it!

“Uh... how do I gather reiatsu?” I asked.

“Just focus!”

I pictured Tatsuki wound healing, and it was easier that way. I put my hands over her shoulder, and it just started to heal. But... it seemed like I’ve done this before... healed someone like this.

After Ichigo had done fighting the hollow, it took a shorter period of time to kill the hollow then to heal Tatsuki, Orihime had fainted on the ground and Rukia was healing her.

“We healed the girl over there.” Kisshu said to Rukia. We? More like I did.

“Kisshu? What are you doing here?” Rukia said a little shocked.

“I just came down to see a friend. Oh, can I talk to you? Kairi can take over healing everyone.” Kisshu and Rukia walked outside, leaving me and Ichigo alone with a fainted Orihime and Tatsuki.

I sat down next to Orihime and started to heal her.

“When did you learn how to heal people Kairi?” Ichigo asked, he had some cuts himself. I’ll have to heal him after.

“Just now. It’s pretty easy for me. How did killing that hollow go?”

“Turns out the hollow was Orihime’s brother, and I didn’t kill him, he killed himself.” Ichigo said sitting near me.

“Wah!? Hollows are humans!?” I said shocked! I had thought they had been monsters all this time...

Ichigo explained to me how Hollow’s were humans, but I couldn’t help but wonder what Kisshu wanted to talk to Rukia about, even though I had only know him for, around an hour now it feels like he’s been my friend for years.

Kisshu’s Prov(sp?) (this is going to be in third person style):

Kisshu stood beside Rukia, they were far enough from the house so that Kairi or Ichigo couldn’t hear them. “She’s going to start remembering things Rukia. About her life as a shinigami.” Kisshu said, he was scared for his long time friend Kairi, they grew up into shinigami’s together, meeting after death and becoming best friends. It had been so painful for him when Kairi was sent to the human world with her memories gone.

“I know. I never meant for her to get caught up into what happened. Do you think her hollow will come out?” Rukia said, she never really knew Kairi, but she had been friends with Kisshu, and saw her around sometimes. They had all gone to the shinigami school together.

“I don’t think it will.” Of course it won’t, Kisshu thought. Aizen had made it so that it would be hard for it to come up. But he would only be able to fix her completely in till he gets what he wants from the former 12th division’s Captain.

“What should we do?” Rukia’s question had caught him by surprise. Rukia was probably going to get punished for what she did, especially since it had given shinigami powers to Kairi.

“They probably already know. I did.” Yes, Kisshu did know when Kairi had gotten her powers back. He felt it happen, he had spent all the time from the moment he felt Kairi’s reiatsu to come here to see her, hopeing her memories were back, but just seeing her was nice. “I guess we should just let things go on. I’ll think of something. Let’s get back before Kairi and that Ichigo guy come out looking for us.” Kisshu started to walk about to the building they had been in when Rukia spoke something that made him freeze.

“Will you kill her if it comes out?” Rukia held her head high, but she felt low. She knew that Kisshu would do anything to protect Kairi, and it would kill him if she died.

“I guess I’ll have to.” Kisshu said and used shunpo to leave Rukia there. He could never kill Kairi, never. He ended up in the room where Kairi and Ichigo were, Kairi had healed Orihime, and Ichigo. She always had a knack for healing people, Kisshu thought.

“Kisshu!? When did you get here?” Kairi’s voice reminded Kisshu of the good old days, when they would go out and defeat hollows, how they would go out drinking till the sun came up, and how much fun they had always had together. It was the Soul Society’s fault that she was sent here.

“I used shunpo. You two should be getting home, it’s late.”

“Who are you?” Ichigo asked Kisshu, this being the first time he had noticed him other when he said he wanted to talk to Rukia.

“I’m Kisshu, a shinigami. You should go out to Rukia and both of you should go home.” Kisshu said and with that Ichigo went outside, looking for Rukia. And Kairi started to walk home with Kisshu. He stayed at Sally’s house for the night, sleeping on the couch were Sally had been sleeping on.

How long will it be till we get found? Kisshu thought. He was thinking about this till he finally feel asleep.