'I could never compete with Kuchiki-san' Orihime thought as she took a look at the small shinigami that was her friend.

'Please don't let me have a break down here' Orihime thought as she held back the tears.

She blinked her tears back as she watched Ichigo push Rukia back and forth in a swing.

"Hey, Inoue, are you alright?" The dark haired shinigami asked.

"I'm fine, Kuchiki-san!" Orihime blurted out while waving her hands back and forth.

"Okay, just making sure." Rukia stated.

"I think I am going to head home." Orihime said forcing a smile.

"Okay, I will see you at school Monday." Rukia said with a smile.

"Alright bye Kuchiki-san and bye Kurosaki-kun." Orihime said as she reached and grabbed her bag off of the ground.

"Bye, Inoue." Ichigo said.

Orihime forced another smile at them and turned and began to walk in the direction of her apartment. 'I am far to weak for someone as strong as Kurosaki-kun. I can see why he would love someone like Kuchiki-san, she's brave and strong willed and-and everything that I am not. Why am I so useless? Why can't I protect Kurosaki-kun the way that Kuchiki-san does?'

Orihime was so lost in her own thoughts that she hadn't even realized that she had already made it home and was now standing in front of her apartment door. She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before unlocking and entering her apartment. As soon as she walked in she let her school bag fall from her hand and slowly walked to her bedroom.

"I just want to sleep." Orihime said as she walked to her night stand and took some sleeping medication. She pulled her clothes off and took the pills in her hand and walked into her kitchen and filled up a glass of water. She took the pills and returned to bed and that's when the tears came. She let out a sigh and shed one last tear as sleep overcame her.

Morning came fast, but for some odd reason her surroundings were different, they consisted of white wallsand furniture. The only thing that she recognized was the orange blanket that was wrapped around her naked body.

"Welcome back Miss Inoue. I am a clone of Syazel. Lord Aizen has been been defeated, so that means that Hueco Mundo is now under the control of the remaining espadas."

Orihime's eyes grew wide with fear. "What do you want with me now?" She questioned.

"We just want to run some simple tests on you, that's all." The Syazel clone stated.

"Please don't." Orihime said as her eyes began to tear up at the aweful memories that were flooding back to her all at once.

"Goodnight Miss Inoue." After having said that the Syazel clone pressed a button that filled the room with anesthetic.

"No-plea-" Her head fell down onto the table that she had been placed on.

The testing went on as she slept.

Monday came around fast and the small shinigami was shocked that she had not seen her friend all weekend and now she wasn't even at school.

"Hey, Ichigo."

"What, Rukia, can't you see that I am trying to do my homework from Friday?"

"Forget your homework, I think something might have happened to Inoue." Rukia whispered to Ichigo.

"I'm sure she's fine, she seemed a little sick Friday." Ichigo said as he worked the problem from the book.

"Ugh, fine, but you know that this is not like her. I guess we can go and check on her after school." The small shinigami said.

"Yeah and then you will see that she is perfectly fine." Ichigo said sounding rather annoyed seeing as though he could not remember how to work the problem.

"The day sure did go by fast." Rukia said as she followed Ichigo in the direction of Orihime's apartment.

"Yeah, I guess." Ichigo said as he continued to walk.

"I hope you're right, that she just has a cold or something." Rukia said as she climbed the stairs to Orihime's apartment.

"She's fine." Ichigo said as he stood infront of Orihime's door and began to knock.

No one came.

Ichigo raised an eyebrow "Maybe she's asleep." he said as he took a look at Rukia.

"Rukia what are you doing?" Ichigo asked as he saw that Rukia was trying to open Orihime's window.

With a sigh Ichigo took out a mod soul and placed it in his mouth.

"Everything the hard way." Ichigo said as he walked through the wall.

"Smartass." Rukia said as she waited for Ichigo to return.

Moments passed by and Ichigo returned "She's not here!"

"I knew it, I knew something was wrong!" Rukia exclaimed.

"Let's go ask around and see if anyone has seen her."

"Yeah maybe she went to the soul society to train." Rukia said trying not to panic.

'Ichigo, I promise that I will get stronger, I will protect you the same way that you have protected me all of this time.'

'Tap'

Orihime clenched her fist.

'Tap'

'Someone's walking'

'Tap'

She clenched her eyes.

'Tap'

Orihime's eyes shot open. Her vision was blurry, all she could see were the lights above her.

'Why am I moving?' She questioned.

'Someone's carrying me. Is it Ichigo? It feels like him. She thought as she tried to raise her hand, but it refused to move.

"..." Ichigo? She tried to ask, buther lips wouldn't move.

She blinked several times and tried to focus on the person who was carrying her.

'There's something blue, but what is it?' She questioned.

"Don't strain yourself." A manly voice said.

'Ichi-?" She tried to ask, but she could not complete the name of the man that she loved.

"No." The voice stated.

'Then who?' She wondered.

She tried to focus more, but the image was just not becoming any clearer.

Her eyes grew wide 'I remember now. I must still be Hueco Mundo. If blue hair and a manly voice... that means th-that the person who is carrying me is-is-is

"...A Blueberry." Orihime said before she passed out once again.

"The fuck it a blueberry?" Grimmjow questioned.

"Urahara, have you seen Orihime?" Rukia asked.

"No. Why is something wrong?" The hat wearing shinigami said.

"She's missing." Ichigo said.

"Have you checked her apartment?"

"We have checked everywhere!" Rukia exclaimed.

Urahara let out a sigh and said "Maybe she'll show up here soon."

"We can only hope." Rukia said as she walked outside and stared up at the moon and began wonder if her best friend was staring back somehow, somwhere.

Orihime missing? That's strange, she never goes anywhere without telling someone especially Ichigo. Urahara thought as he casted a glance at Ichigo who seemed to be pondering the same thing.