Hello! This is my first fanfics I've typed, but I have this story in my head that I just need to get off my chest and out of my mind. I really hope you enjoy it, and tell me what you think about it! Also in my story Ichigo keeps his soul-reaper powers, so he doesn't lose them when he preforms the Final Getsuga Tenshou, sorry if you don't like it that I made Ichigo keep his shinigami powers, I ~ I do not own Bleach. I'm simply borrowing Tite Kubo's characters. Though I do own the plot of the story.

It has been two weeks after the battle with Aizen, and peace has been restored to Karakura town. The lives of our fellow hero's who helped in the battle with Aizen have returned home, safe and sound with the safe rescue of Inoue Orihime. whom was captured by Cifer Ulquiorra; one of Aizen's Espada. Whom soon enough was rescues by her friends; Ishida Uryu, Kuchki Rukia, Abarai Renji, Sado Yasutora, and Kurosaki Ichigo. Aizen has been taken back to the Soul Society and has been locked up. Leaving peace in Karakura Town, without any dangers... Or so they think...

Ichigo's alarm clock began ringing, as he gets up to turn it off his door is broken down by, none other than Ichigo's father, Kurosaki Isshin. As the elder Kurosaki barges into the room if the orange-haired shinigami, and jumps at him preparing a kick for his son.

"GOOD MORNING! ICHI-!" Isshin was cut off by Ichigo as he punched his father in the gut, preventing him from finishing his sentence.

"What the hell is wrong you old man?" said Ichigo raising his voice a bit in annoyance to his father.

"Ugh!" grunted the elder Kurosaki. "W-Well done.. My son. I see you haven't let your guard down for even a bit. I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!" Isshin said about to pull his son into an embrace, but Ichigo smashed his foot in his fathers face, before his father could touch him.

"Get a grip on yourself!" Ichigo growled, "When am I ever going to have a day when you don't come busting through my door trying to attack me? It that really too much to ask for?" Ichigo finished giving a deep sigh in annoyance, as he began to get off his bed and head towards his door when his father interrupted him.

"Ichigo."

"Yeah, what is it dad?" Ichigo said as he turned his head to his father.

"How are you feeling? You know, after your battle with Aizen, I know I haven't had enough time to talk to you about it, but I just wanted to know how you're holding up." Isshin said changing his expression from his cheery happy face into a very serious fatherly face.

Ichigo got a bit surprised with his father, Ichigo didn't expect his father to ask how he was after his battle with Aizen.

"I'm doing fine, why are you asking me this? Not that I don't want answer you, but why are you curious about it?" the orange-haired shinigami said in a curious way.

"Well Ichigo, you did you use your Final Getsuga and didn't lose your power, but I still want to know as your father how you're doing." he finished giving a small but meaningful smile to his son.

"I'm fine dad, you don't need to worry about me. I'm relieved that the battle is over and I was lucky enough to keep my powers. I'm just glad that everyone came back safe and well." Ichigo finished giving his old man a small yet sincere smile.

"Are you sure Ichigo?" Isshin said with a bit of concern on his face.

"Of course I'm sure, why wouldn't I, be Ishida is fine and so is Sado."

"What about that Orihime girl that was kidnapped by Aizen?"

"Inoue? Now that I think about it... I haven't talked to her in a while, but I'm sure she's fine." Ichigo said brushing it off his shoulder and not concerning himself with it. He knew Inoue was alright, at least he thought she was.

"You don't know that Ichigo. Like you said you haven't talked to her since the battle ended. She was kidnapped, you never know the things they did to her while she was there Ichigo." Isshin said to his son.

Ichigo got a glimpse of what his father was trying to tell him, but if anything happened to Inoue she would have told him and everyone else by now, right?

"I suppose you have you a fair point. Alright I'll talk to her today, since we return to school. Speaking of school I should hurry I wouldn't want to be late on my first day back, tell Yuzu I'll be down in a few minutes." Ichigo said waving his hand and heads in his bathroom. Ichigo manages to brush his teeth and change into his school uniform in less than 30 minutes. He heads down to the kitchen ton eat his breakfast with Yuzu, Karin, and his father.

"Morning Ichi-nee! Here's your breakfast, make sure you eat fast, you don't want to be late to school. Now do you?" said Yuzu placing his breakfast in front of him.

"Morning Yuzu, you're right I don't want to be late, morning Karin." Ichigo said with a small smile beginning to eat his breakfast.

"Morning Ichi-nee, so I see you're in a good mood. Why is that?" Karin said while she rose her eyebrow at Ichigo.

"I'm happy because I can be. Also because all that battle stuff is over, and things are back to normal, though there are still hollows, but I'm glad that Aizen is locked up." Ichigo said with relief in his voice. Ichigo finished his food and excused himself from the table and went towards the front door to leave.

"Bye guys have a nice day, Yuzu, Karin have a good day at school. Well I'm off, later." With those parting words Ichigo gave a wave and left for school.

Orihime had been tossing and turning all night and couldn't get any rest. She had been having nightmares, and seem to always panic whenever she sensed a hollows reiatsu, but she it was just a hollow so why was she worrying and panicking. Whenever she panicked she would become very lightheaded and would become as pale as a ghost; her breathing became very difficult to control, she also became shaky. Could it have been that her kidnapping in Hueco Mundo took a big toll on her?

"Ahh!" screamed the auburn-princess, as she was awoken a fifth time that night from her nightmare she had been having,

"Ha...Ha...Ha.." She was breathing very heavily, as she sat on her bad she had some sweat on her forehead and her hands were trembling from fear. She couldn't take it anymore. For two weeks now, every night she never got more than 3 hours of sleep, all because of her nightmares...

"Again... Another nightmare..."the red-orange-haired girl said to herself above a whisper. She looked at her clock only to see she had woken up 5 minutes before her alarm went off. So, she decided to get up and get ready for school. The auburn-princess wasn't ready to go back to school with everything she was going through and she knew she had giant bags under her eyes from not getting enough, or rather any sleep at all.

"Oh well... I have to deal with it. I wonder how everyone else is doing. I have to be strong and put my brave face on, if Kurosaki-kun sees me like this he's bound to worry for me, so will Sado-kun and Ishida-kun also. I can do this." with those words Orihime got up and headed to her bathroom to shower and brush her teeth, so she could get to school.

Orihime had finished changing into her uniform when her phone started vibrating. It was Tatsuki calling her, immediately she answered her best friend.

"Hi Tatsuki, what's up?" said the auburn-princess trying to sound happy and cheerful.

"Hey Orihime, I just called you to tell you that I'm not going to be able to make it to school today I'm really sorry." Tatsuki said with a low voice, Orihime could obviously tell that the second strongest girl in Japan had lost her voice.

"Tatsuki-chan you're sick, there is no need for you to apologize to me. Now, you stay home in bed get some rest and get better, don't worry I'll stop by after school to give you what we did today, there's nothing to worry about, you just focus on getting better." the girl said, trying her very best to sound as happy and bubbly as she was before.

"Oh.. Uh... Thanks Orihime I really appreciate it. Hey um.. Are you okay Orihime? said Tatsuki with a bit of concern in her voice though it was low.

Oh great just what she needed Tatsuki worrying about her,s he needed to make up an excuse, pronto.

"Huh? What are you talking about Tatsuki-chan? I'm fine, I'm just really tired I woke up before my alarm went off, I'm fine just really sleepy, but it will pass." Orihime said hoping that her best friend would believe her.

"Oh, okay I just wanted to make sure. Well I'll leave you so you can get to school in time, bye Orihime have a good day at school I'll talk to you later." with those words Tatsuki hung up the phone. Orihime didn't realize she was holding her breath until she let all her breath she was holding out in a huge sigh.

The auburn-princess looked at her clock realizing her had wasted too much time.

"AH! Oh no I 'm going to be late if I don't go now." she bowed at her brothers picture and said, " Oh Onii-chan, please don't let anyone realize what's happening to me I don't want to be a burden to anyone. bye Onii-chan." with that she left her apartment rushing to her school.

"Please, please don't let anyone notice how terrible I look. Please just don't ask mean anything I hate lying to everyone, but I don't want to become a burden toe everyone and make them worry about me." she ran to her school hoping she would make it on time. 'Come on Orihime you can do this' she thought 'Put on your brave face and smile. smile you need to smile.' but she just couldn't smile the way she wanted to. She knew today was going to be long day for her...

Hello! Well this is the end of chapter one. I really hope you all enjoyed this first chapter, please tell me what at you think about it. I'll try to have the next chapter up soon, I love you guys stay awesome and I hope I can have then next chapter up soon, bye!

Note~ again I not own Bleach it rightfully belongs to Tite Kubo. all I own is the plot and I was planning that later on in the story I would use some of my own characters in the story, I really don't know, but tell me if you like this idea or not bye.