He knows he daren't touch her. Her smile isn't his. From afar he watches her, sees her careless happiness and knows he would destroy it if he gets closer. He longs to, for that is how immutable darkness is to light. It wishes for it, longs for the purifying aura that only those whom are truly pure of heart can give. The other, her friend, the one whom had once been under his guardianship is not one such person.
For he knows what she really feels under that fake smile she gives her friends in particular the object of his longing and the orange-haired boy to whom both girls were fond of. Oh yes, he sees what Orihime Inoue hides under the concealing veneer of purity and the falsity of her smile. Once, he saw it slip and he knew she wished to harm the girl who had stolen Kurosaki-kun away from her. But nothing happened, her mask slipped back into place and their lives went on.
Her life goes on now.
In the world of the Soul reapers, he knows she lives. He wishes to see her but cannot go there. He even wishes she'd come visit that ignorant trash Kurosaki if only to be close by, for then he could glimpse her if only for a moment...
~~~Finis~~~
A/N: don't own Bleach. Meh, another short one :P easiest to do...ahem please review.