Disclaimer: I wish I own Bleach. I really do.
Inoue Orihime sometimes wondered about things. She'd ponder on it all day until before she sleeps. She wondered, what if Aizen hadn't betrayed Soul Society?
What if Shiba Kaien hadn't died because of one of Aizen's experiments?
What if Kaien's soul hadn't become reincarnated in the form of Kurosaki Ichigo?
What if a different shinigami had been assigned to Karakura that night?
What if Kuchiki Rukia hadn't passed her powers to Kurosaki-kun?
What if Kurosaki-kun hadn't been able to save Kuchiki-san from the Soukyoku?
What if Kuchiki-san hadn't been able to pull Kurosaki-kun out of his depression?
What if… What if Kurosaki-kun had been in love with me, not Kuchiki-san?
Will Aizen be in Hueco Mundo, ruling over the Arrancar and battling Soul Society?
Will Kuchiki-san still be bearing the guilt of killing someone she loved and the fear of it repeating in Kurosaki-kun?
Will Kurosaki-kun still look so much like Kaien-san?
Will Kurosaki-kun and Kuchiki-san still meet and be close to each other?
Will Kurosaki-kun still be Kurosaki Ichigo, captain-level ryoka, protector of his friends and the whole Soul Society, and the man I love?
Will Kurosaki-kun go back to the boy he was before Kuchiki-san came, forever haunted by his failure to protect a loved one?
Will Kurosaki-kun still be here in Hueco Mundo, fighting to find me and at the same time to protect Kuchiki-san?
Will I even be here in the first place?
And as she closes her eyes, a single though lingers.
Would thing have gone the same way if everything real became mere what ifs?
A/N: Came up with this while searching for things for the third chap of my other story. Since I had nothing to do, why not write it? P
I'm sorry for any mistakes you see. Please review and thanks for reading. 8D