Lost and Alone
Bleach
Chapter 1: Happy Ending
A/N: Ok, I had trouble figuring out how to end this one so here's chapter one with one of the endings and chapter two will have the second ending.
My name is Orihime Inoue, and I am alone. For as long as I can remember, it was just me and my brother. We ran away from home when I was just an infant. We had each other, and that was all that mattered.
But then, one day, I lost my brother, and I had nothing.
I now live alone, in a small apartment, just me and the quiet. I am only 16 and yet I fell so vacant, so secluded, so lost.
I have friends, a few of them actually, but at the end of the day, when I go home, and I enter the silence of my home, I realize that not even they're enough to save me from the darkness.
A few months ago, my friends rescued me from a place called Hueco Mundo. When we got home, no one asked me why I went with them and I'm glad they didn't. I don't think I could lie to them.
Originally I had gone, because Ulquorria threatened to kill my friends. But somewhere, deep inside me I couldn't help but wonder if maybe I went because I didn't want to alone. They needed me, and as sick and twisted as their plan was, I felt…..well I really can't describe how I felt, but in some way I guess I was happy to be needed.
And then everything just seemed to get worse when I realized what a burden I had become to the people I had tried to save.
Perhaps I do not belong here, in this place, in this time.
In this existence.
"Deep breath, you can do this." Ichigo thought to himself as he stood in front of Orihime's door.
Ever since they had returned from Hueco Mundo, she had seemed so depressed.
She hardly seemed to smile anymore and it was a great rarity that she would even speak more then two words.
And to top it all off, she seemed to be missing a lot of school lately, including today.
He just needed to talk to her, figure out going on with her, what really happened in Hueco Mundo.
Ichigo raised his fist to knock on the door, and as his hand made contact with the door it opened.
"Orihime?" he questioned as he stepped inside and removed his shoes. He could feel her reitsu, but it was weak. "Orihime?" he called again.
The floor boards creaked in the room farthest from him, so he made his way there first. As he reached it, he noticed that it was a jar, so he pushed it open completely and peered inside.
"Orihime?" he called. His voice echoing through the darkness of her bedroom.
A faint whimper sounded on the other side of her bed. Ichigo walked forward and peered over the side.
What he saw brought him close to tears.
"Orihime!" he yelled, as he ran to her side.
The faint light in the room lent him the glow of red liquid pooling around her as she lay out on the floor barely breathing.
"What did you do?" he asked quietly as he grabbed the nearest piece of fabric and held it over the wound on her wrist. He propped her head up on his lap as he pulled his cell phone out. "Come on Orihime, stay with me."
He dialed 911, replied when the dispatcher answered, waited and prayed for a miracle.
At the hospital
Rukia, Renji, Chad, Uryu, and Tatski rushed into the ER, searching frantically for a familiar face.
"Ichigo." Tatski yelled, finally finding that familiar face. Ichigo looked up as the small group rushed over. His face was riddled with worry and plagued with sadness.
"Ichigo, what happened?" Rukia asked.
Ichigo just starred out in front of him.
"Ichigo?" Tatski questioned.
"She……she tried to kill herself." He replied not looking at any of them.
"But……why?" Chad asked
No one could answer him.
An hour later and the small group was still sitting in the waiting room. With every second that passed, they each seemed to fall deeper into disparity.
They were all so high strung, that when the doctor finally came out to talk to them, they nearly all suffocated him with questions.
"She's weak, but stable." He explained. "You can see her, but please make sure she stays calm."
In Orihime's room
The small group of friends all stood around Orihime's bed, looking down at the pale skinned, and exhausted young woman.
They all watched over her for a few minutes before finding a place to get comfortable and settling down for a long and restless night.
Later that night
Orihime stirred. Opening her eyes, she looked up at the ceiling confused.
"Where am I?" she thought.
She closed her eyes again.
"Was it all just a dream?" she asked herself.
Beep…..beep……beep…..
Orihime opened her eyes again. Turning her head to the side she saw the hospital equipment next to her.
Her eyes widened with realization.
She lifted her head to look around her.
She smiled for the first time, in a long while, as she watched her friends all spread out around her.
A/N: Please review
-RED
