Chapter 1
It was Orihime's first day at a new school, it would be a lie to say she wasn't anxious, but then again, who wouldn't be? new people and new classes with different teachers and different learning methods.
She stood in front of the full length mirror in her bedroom. She lived alone, brother and parents long deceased. It wasn't a difficult lifestyle, she simply had to make sure to make her own meals and take proper care of herself. Back at her old school she'd had friends who were constantly watching over her, but they lived far away now.
She smoothed her uniform skirt and slipped her blue flower pins from her brother into her hair, still dazzled by their beauty. Her hair flowed softly in the breeze of the open window and her eyes shone bright and expectantly.
On her way out, she locked up the door to her one bedroom apartment. Walking happily to school, it was close, about a ten minute walk and to top things off it was the perfect sunny day. The beginning of a great school year, thought Orihime excitedly.
She observed as kids began appearing from around street corners and filled the sidewalk, what had originally been a walk alone was now filled with happily chatting students. The front of the school itself was even more crowded, kids were flinging themselves at each others, cries of glee coming from their mouth. Surely, they were happy to see each other again after the long summer break.
Orihime found herself struggling to make it through the crowds of students and she made her way to the schools entrance. She'd been nearly caught in the middle of three hugs before she reached the front doors.
Amazingly the school was even more populated with kids. It was massive, from what Orihime could see, the hallway extended far, branching off several times before ending with a set of stairs.
Thankfully the office was directly to her right, she didn't need to worry about getting lost before her classes would even start. Orihime opened the door and stepped inside. The secretary greeted her warily from her seat, clearly already annoyed with the students.
'Hi, my name is Orihime Inoue, I just transferred here.' She'd told the lady with a small smile.
She nodded and grabbed some papers from a basket on her desk handing them to Orihime, 'Fill these out and return them to me.' She said shortly.
Bright gray eyes scanned the pages, filling them in with the corresponding information. Name, previous school, address, phone number...
Once completed, Orihime handed the pages back to the secretary, who in return handed her a map of the school, a list of her classes and her locker information.
Leaving the office, the orange haired girl read the papers, and discovered that her locker would be on the second floor, Locker 451, she thought.
Following the directions of the map closely, she followed a hall to her left, then a staircase until she looked up to find her locker directly ahead of her.
Unlocking it, she pulled her bag off of her shoulder and slowly filled the locker with her various school books. All perfectly lined up, she pulled a mirror from her bag and stuck it to the door of the locker, smiling at her reflection, noting vaguely the girl opening the locker next to hers in the background.
Her arms were filled with books and she seemed to be having a difficult time opening the lock at the same time. 'Do you want me to hold those for you?' The orange haired girl asked the strawberry blond.
Bright blue eyes lit up, 'That would be great!' Replied the girl happily. Free of books, she opened her locker and took her things back to put them away. 'Thank you.' She finally added.
She was truly beautiful, her hair flowed out long behind her in long waves of strawberry blond and her blue eyes shone brightly even in the terrible school lighting. A beauty mark lay to one side beneath her lip and her bust was beyond comparison to most. She was surely popular.
'I'm Rangiku Matsumoto,' She said with a flash of her white teeth, a smile. 'Are you new here?'
I nodded, 'Yeah, I just transferred here. I'm Orihime Inoue.'
'It's nice to meet you,' She continued distractedly. She seemed to have noticed someone in the distance, because she continued by saying 'But, I've got to go, maybe I'll see you around.' She then took off a smile on her lips.
Gray eyes watched as the strawberry blond hair flowed behind Rangiku while she ran off. She met with two other girls, both equally beautiful. One had long green locks of hair and golden eyes, while the other had blond hair and the perfect complexion of tanned skin and blue eyes.
Orihime watched as the girls laughed joyfully together, it reminded her of her old friends. She suddenly missed them terribly. She'd hope to have a relationship with the kids at this school of equal calibre to that of those three girls. Not only did they look completely happy, they were stunning and surely had a vast expanse of friends. This school was, after all, a lot bigger than her old one.
Checking the time, Orihime noted that class would begin shortly. She headed towards her new homeroom class, 2-D. She squeezed by a group of students blocking the door unnoticed and found herself a seat by the window.
To occupy herself while she waited for the class to begin she allowed her grey eyes to survey the students around her. She took immediate notice of two boys chatting animatedly in their seats across the class from her. From what she could hear, it was not a conversation, but an argument, a science related one at that. The boy closest to her had a head of luscious pink hair and wore white glasses over his golden eyes, while next to him sat a another boy with similarly coloured eyes and blue hair.
Orihime vaguely noted that her hair color would not be out of place in this school, within the first hour she's already seen a wide array of hair colors, all more out of place than her own. In fact, in that moment Orihime even noticed another with a shade of orange on his head similar to her own. He'd walked in at that very second, warm brown eyes and bright white smile announcing his presence.
He was followed by a laughing friends, together the two made for an extremely handsome group. They seemed to have captured the attention of many classmates. Many eyes turned towards the sound of their voices as they greeted others. The messy blue haired boy of the two, had a rough voice, it was very alluring, equally were his aqua eyes.
Orihime followed the gaze of the two towards a small boy with spiky white hair, and amazingly blue eyes. He sat alone, just ahead of Orihime watching someone else from the corner of his eye. However, before long, he'd turned away upon hearing the two boys from previous call out to him in delight.
Orange hair turned towards the other end of class to see where the boy had been looking before, only to find a small group of girls sitting at desks in the corner. Among them could be found a raven haired, grey eyed girl and another with purple eyes. Between them sat another brown haired girl with her hair pulled up into a small bun, they were adorable.
Only moments later Rangiku ran into the class and was pulled immediately towards the group of three boys by their calls. She held a wide smile upon setting sight on them and then, as if on purpose, gave the tinniest boy a bone crushing hug while sticking his face directly into her boobs. Orihime was almost embarrassed for the boy by simply watching, but quickly noted the wink Rangiku gave to the two boys alongside her, who followed suit in laughter.
Unfortunately, or more luckily for the short white haired boy, the teacher arrived at this moment. 'Take your seats.' He commanded. Immediately everyone scrambled to find seats with their friends before they'd all be taken.
Orihime watched as Rangiku spotted her, bouncing towards the vacant desk beside her. 'Orihime!' She called out with a wave a filled the spot.
Behind Rangiku followed the three boys who seated themselves around her. Orange hair and Blue sat side by side just ahead of the strawberry blond, while white sat behind.
'I'm glad we have a class together,' Whispered Rangiku to Orihime. At this grey eyes lit up, Orihime had already begun making friends and the blue eyed girls words seemed completely honest.
Before Orihime could reply the teacher spoke up yet again, 'My name is Barragan Luisenbarn. You may call me professor Barragan.' He was old and had white hair, but that did not seem to affect his overall presence among the students. He was obviously a very strict teacher.
Shortly after his introduction the teacher told the students to head to the auditorium for the entrance ceremony.
As Orihime stood, Rangiku spoke, 'Do you want to have lunch with me and my friends?' She asked suddenly.
Shocked by her immediate invitation Orihime accepted gratefully and followed the strawberry blond to the gym.
The ceremony passed quickly, it lasted until just a little before lunch and the students were allowed to have an early start at it. Orihime walked happily to her locker with Rangiku and took out her lunch. 'My friends and I agreed to meet on the roof to eat.' She said.
Together the two girls waved through mazes of hallways and up countless flights of stairs (more light a couple) until they reached an exit to the roof. It was surprisingly nice beyond the door, the sun gave a warm glow and plants and benches were placed around the surface.
Orihime noticed Rangiku's friends right away, they were unmistakable. The shinning green haired girl waved excitedly to Rangiku, while the blond haired girl ate quietly alongside the other.
Rangiku grabbed Orihime's hand and ran over to her friends, smiling brightly. 'This is Orihime Inoue, she's in my homeroom class and her locker is next to mine.' She told them happily.
'Hi, I'm Nel,' The golden eyes beauty introduced herself, 'and this is Halibel, don't mind her, she's just quiet is all.' she concluded.
Lunch proceeded nicely, everyone was equally friendly to Orihime, well, with the exception of a quiet Halibel. She seemed to fit in perfectly and chatted happily with everyone.
Before long, the conversation hit its peek when Nel asked, 'So who do you have in your homeroom class, Rangiku?'
'A nice turnout this year, as a matter of fact.' She said with a laugh, 'Get ready to be jealous Nel, because guess who we've got in our class?' She asked gesturing towards Orihime and she.
Nel's face scrunched up in a kind of look that suggested she was thinking very hard. And as soon as it appeared it was gone again. Her mouth opening slightly, realization etching itself onto her features and gold eyes opening in shock, she spoke suddenly, 'Grimmjow?'
Rangiku simply nodded and Nel looked completely taken over by jealousy. I couldn't suppress the laughter that escaped my mouth, the girl with the childish voice had gone through a amazing amount of facial expressions all within the last few seconds and even Halibel laughed a little.
'Not only Grimmjow though, Ichigo and Hitsugaya, too.' Rangiku confessed smugly.
'Sorry to interrupt, but who exactly are these people?' The orange haired girl asked suddenly, realizing she had no idea to whom Rangiku was referring, though she had a fairly good idea.
'Well, Ichigo is the orange haired boy, and Hitsugaya is the White haired one. And Grimmjow is, let's just say Nel's love, he's got blue hair.' The strawberry blond told Orihime.
'Are you guys dating?' Orihime then asked Nel.
'No, no, no.' She spluttered. 'I just, well, I-'
'She's liked him for about ever.' Rangiku completed the sentence, cutting Nel off amidst her loss for words.
After a few minutes of teasing and joking Nel continued the previous conversation by naming off some of her own classmates. 'Well, we've got Renji and Shuhei, that should be funny,' She began. Followed by various other names to which Rangiku nodded.
However, when Nel finally mentioned a few names among others, a frown sprung forth on the strawberry blonds face. 'That sucks, Ulquiorra and Byakuya can be so depressing to have around. And well, that Gin guy is just straight up creepy. ' She said before turning to Orihime, 'Don't get me wrong, they're not all that bad, but they don't talk, except Gin, he talks too much.'
Orihime understood what Rangiku was trying to tell her, she'd had students with similar qualities at her old school and had found it difficult to get along with them as well.
Nel continued, 'There's almost different groups at this school, you know?' She stood suddenly and motioned for Orihime to follow as she walked towards the edge of the roof. She pointed down towards a group of four before continuing, 'Like see, over there? those would be your stereotypical bullies, and there are the "gangsters".' She concluded pointing towards another group bellow.
'But look how cute that one's dog is!'Orihime exclaimed suddenly, still looking at the so called "gangsters".
Rangiku had joined the two and laughed suddenly, 'You mean the dog with Tosen? he brings it everywhere with him. No joke. what was its name again?' She asked the green haired girl.
'Komaumura, I think.' Nel replied, unsure. 'Anyways,' She continued, while walking back to their spot. 'It's not only them, I mean, you've also got your science geeks and game club nerds.'
'You'll learn them all soon enough, don't worry.' Rangiku told Orihime in suit. 'But lunch is almost over, we should head back to get our stuff.' She then said, standing and dusting herself off. 'What class do you have next Orihime?'
'English, I think.' She said replied.
And for the first time, Halibel spoke up. 'So do I.' It was surprising, but nice. Her voice was very calm and smooth and Orihime couldn't help but smile at the blonds recognition of her.
It had been fun spending lunch with the three other girls, Orihime couldn't help but to be reminded of her old school again. Her old best friend was not like these three, but it did not change her opinion of them. Despite their beauty and popularity, the three girls seemed genuinely nice. She truly appreciated their kindness towards her.
Hope everyone enjoys this, i will try to update regularly :) let me know what you think! ulquihime soon to come in future chapters too, i promise ;)