Chapter 1
Ichigo awoke to the sound of tapping on glass. He sat up in bed and noticed what it was. There was Rukia, outside his window. By the look on her face he could tell she was impatient. Ichigo slid the window open and let her in.
"Hey." said Ichigo, "What's up?" Ichigo had no idea why Rukia was here, she was supposed to be in the Soul Society.
"Have you seen Orihime?" Rukia seemed very serious, much more than she usually was. There was definitely something wrong. "I was just about to pass through the senkaimon to the Soul Society and I stopped by her house to say goodbye. She wasn't there, so I checked at Urahara's shop and then came here."
"Wait, you weren't gonna say goodbye to me?"
"I was gonna but, um, uh... That's not important right now! Have you seen her or not?"
"How would I? I was sleeping, because it was NIGHTTIME!" Could Orihime have gone missing? Where was she?
Ichigo grabbed his Substitute Soul Reaper badge off of his desk and held it to his chest. A flash of light, then he was out of his human body and into his shinigami. His human body was lying on the floor, so he moved it to the bed. He taped a note to his bedroom door telling his family not to bother him because he was sleeping in late.
"Let's go!" Ichigo had no idea where to look, but they had to start somewhere.
They leaped out of Ichigo's bedroom window and started heading in the direction of Orihime's house. We might be able to find some clues as to where she's disappeared to at her house, thought Ichigo. They might lead us to where she really is, and if she's okay.
They stepped down onto Orihime's front porch. The door was ajar, the hinges appeared bent. They walked inside and started looking around. Everything else seemed completely unharmed and ordinary.
"Rukia, was the door like that when you came before?" Ichigo couldn't understand how Rukia could have missed it when she came earlier.
"No, I looked all over the house and it wasn't like that before."
They walked back to the door to investigate. Rukia tried to track sources of Spiritual Pressure, but it was hard to find. Whoever it was came after Rukia, but not recently enough to trace Spiritual Pressure.
"How do we find her now? It doesn't make sense that someone would come after she was gone." said Rukia, "At least we know that someone's after her and that she's not just somewhere of her own accord."
"Yeah." said Ichigo, "But who's after her?"