Bleach does not belong to me but rather unfortunately to Kubo Tite who has ruined a potentially entertaining manga.
"Let go off me! I have to help Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime cried out as the hollow had her in one of his arms.
"Orihime…have you really forgotten about me?" The hollow asked.
"W…what do you mean? Who are you?" Orihime asked.
"It's me Orihime….Sora, you big brother." The hollow said as it made the upper left side of its mask vanish, revealing it to be the face of Sora, Orihime's big brother.
Bleach Rebirth
Chapter 3: Ease the pain in your heart
"Is…is it really you, big brother?" Orihime asked as her big brother puts her down.
"Yes, it is me Orihime. So you haven't forgo…" Sora began to say when Orihime interrupted him
"Why? Why did you do those horrible things to Tatsuki-chan and Kurosaki-kun? Why?" Orihime asked.
"Why? Isn't it obvious? It's because those two tried to tear you and I apart!" Sora said.
"Huh?" Orihime said, confused.
"After I died, you used to pray everyday for me and it made me feel so happy. But then a year after, you became friends with that girl and ever since then, I watched you pray less and less for me and then when you entered high school, you met that Kurosaki Ichigo and you finally stopped praying altogether for me!" Sora explained.
"Before you would leave for school, all you would talk about was that Kurosaki boy! It was so painful and I felt as if I was leaving your heart more and more…" Sora added.
"That's not true brother! I just…" Orihime tried to say but was cut off by Sora
"I was so sad, Orihime! All alone, so lonely. All those times, I wanted to…" Sora said but was then interrupted by Ichigo who kicked him in the head and sent him flying into a wall.
"K…Kurosaki-kun!" Orihime exclaimed, completely shocked at what the boy just did.
"DAMN YOU! Why do you always interfere?" Sora yelled.
"It's because it's my job, jackass. Besides, I don't appreciate people picking on beautiful women and I seriously don't appreciate people picking on their own siblings. Let me ask you a question, buddy. Do you know why older siblings are born first?" Ichigo asked Sora, and when the latter did not answer he continued, "It's so that they can protect their younger siblings, NOT KILL THEM!" Ichigo said, glaring at Sora.
"SHUT UP! What do you know about us? Our mother was a whore and our father was a devil. I took care of Orihime like she was my own daughter and as soon as I turned 18, I ran away with my three-year old sister and took care of her in our apartment and since then, we've always been together and I intend to make it that way forever! I will not let interfere, especially you Kurosaki Ichigo!" Sora yelled as he then dashed toward Ichigo and tried to bite him but Ichigo dodged to his right to avoid and then grab Sora by the tail and ran out of the hole dragging him before slamming him hard to the ground.
"You make me sick, you hollow scum. I don't care if you're Orihime's brother but no one owns Orihime and no one has the right to kill her!" Ichigo said as he walked up to Sora, "Now, die you hollow scum!" Ichigo said and was about to exterminate Sora when his blade stopped inches from the hollow as Orihime was in front of the blade, shielding her brother, O…Orihime?" Ichigo exclaimed.
"Please stop it, both of you! It's all my fault!" Orihime yelled. She then turned to face her brother with a smile and tears coming from her eyes.
"O…Orihime." Sora said.
"It's just that I wanted you to hear…all the fun things that happened at school…all the people I like…all the things that I like. At the beginning, all I did was pray everyday but I thought that wasn't good, that I shouldn't show you me being sad. I thought that it would only make you worry more if that's all you ever saw. That's why I wanted to show you! That I'm happy and that you don't have to worry about me anymore!" Orihime explained to her big brother, "But that that would make you sad, I didn't even realize brother… and for that I am so sorry. I love you…big brother." Orihime added before falling to the ground unconscious.
"Ori…" Sora began to say as he saw his sister on the ground.
"Inoue!" Ichigo yelled.
"Stay cool! She can still be saved!" Rukia said in order to calm the boy down.
"What do you mean?" Ichigo asked.
"Remember, her chain of fate is still attached onto her soul and as long as it is, her spirit isn't dead yet which means I can revive her using my kidou!" Rukia explained and then ran toward Orihime and started to heal her.
"I should have known that you stopped praying in order to not make me worry anymore but I was too blind by my loneliness and sadness to even realize. Maybe it's because it was only when you were praying that your heart was all mine." Sora said as he talked to his sister's body.
"There's something I remembered. Her hairpins, they were a present you gave her right?" Ichigo asked Sora as he saw the hairpins on Orihime.
"Inoue told me that they were the first present from her brother and thus why she wears them everyday. So basically, it's the same in that those that die and those that survive are both as sad as the other. So stop being selfish in thinking you're the only one who's sad." Ichigo said to Sora.
"Oh my god, those hairpins! I thought she threw them away." Sora said and then broke his mask before turning to Ichigo, "Please Ichigo, I want to disappear." Sora said.
"Is that what you really want?" Ichigo asked as he pointed his zanpunkto toward Sora.
"Yes, it is. If I stay here, I'll only keep on harming her if I stay here any longer. Please, cut me now!" Sora pleaded.
"Sure." Ichigo said.
"Goodbye…Orihime." Sora said as he looked as his sister before Ichigo stabbed him in the back with his zanpunkto
"Goodbye…big brother." Orihime said as she slowly regained consciousness so that she could see her big brother disappear.
The next day…
"You won't believe what happened! My house was attacked by a giant wrestler who then shot a bazooka at my wall!" Orihime said in class to her friends who looked at her quizzically.
"You and your imagination again." One of them said.
"But it was true, right Tatsuki-chan?" Orihime asked her best friend
"Y…yeah." Tatsuki said, not too sure of what else to say
"You see, Tatsuki does believe me!" Orihime said and then the friends continued to bicker.
"A sumo wrestler, Rukia? Is that the best you could come up with? My god, you suck." Ichigo sighed as he and Rukia were sitting near the windows.
"Why are you getting on me for? That thing is random, you should know about that too considering you used on your family!" Rukia replied.
"Yes but mine at least sounded much better." Ichigo replied.
"Oh and what was the excuse they came up with?" Rukia asked, intrigued.
"That a truck came and struck our house." Ichigo replied.
"A truck? And you have the nerves to get on me when yours sucks as bad!" Rukia exclaimed.
"Let's see here? When's the last time a sumo wrester ever used a bazooka?! At least mine has a 50 chance of happening while yours has negative 50 of happening!" Ichigo yelled back.
"This is ridiculous, there's no point in arguing about this! All this is supposed to do is make sure they don't remember what happened last night and they didn't, okay?" Rukia said as she gave up on the argument.
"I win again." Ichigo grinned with a thumbs-up and stars around his head.
"You're hopeless." Rukia sighed with a sweat drop behind her head.
Later that night…
"A cursed parakeet? Get the fuck out of here with that crap!" The voice of a young man said. There were three young men sitting around a white-feathered parakeet in a red cage. One had blond medium hair wearing a yellow jacket, red shirt, and white pants with a drink in its hand. The second one had buzzcut black hair, a white shirt with some writings on it, black pants, and white shoes, and the last one was darker-skinned, tall, and muscular and wore a red shirt with black pants and also had a drink in his hand.
"I heard that all of its owners met horrible deaths so it quickly gets passed around." The one with the buzzcut said.
"So it's now come around to you?" The blond haired one asked.
"Yeah and I'm really scared. So, do you want it Shego?" The buzzcut haired one asked nervously.
"After telling me all that? Hell no!" Shego replied.
"What about you, Chad-san? It's really kawaii (cute)!" He asked the one named Chad.
"Baka! Don't do that to Chad, you know he's weak against cute things like…" Shego started to say when suddenly a noise was head. Then, a steel beam fell down and headed toward them but Chad reacted quickly and put himself over his friends and blocked the beam from landing on them, making it land on his back and head instead.
"Holy crap, Chad!" The nameless one exclaimed.
"Are you alright, Chad?" Shego exclaimed, 'He's a freak.' Shego thought.
"It's nothing, guys." Chad replied.
"What are you talking about? You're bleeding!" Shego exclaimed.
"Thank you for saving me, my name is Shibata Yuuichi. What's your name, mister?" The bird asked.
"Is this bird doing what I think it's doing?" Shego asked.
"It's as if this bird understands the situation." The other said.
"My name is Sado Yasutora and I'm fifteen years old." Chad said.
"Wow! Chad is really responding to it!" Shego said.
"Hey Ichigo, how do we open this?" Rukia asked as she showed Ichigo a carton of juice as they were on the rooftop of the school, eating lunch.
"Are you stupid or something? You put a straw in it, duh." Ichigo replied.
"Straw?" Rukia asked.
"You guys are together again? You two sure get along well." Kojima said as he arrived with his lunch.
"Mizuiro, you dumbass. Does it look like we're getting along well?" Ichigo asked.
"Well, people do get ideas and you should always pay attention to what people think of you, Ichigo." Mizuiro said as he sat down next to Ichigo.
"Like I care what people think of me. If I did, then I would have dyed my hair black a long time ago, wouldn't I?" Ichigo said.
"That's true." Muzuiro laughed.
"Hello, Kuchiki-san." Mizuiro said, greeting Rukia.
"Oh, hello Kojima-san." Rukia said, greeting the young man.
"I see you remembered, even though we haven't been properly introduced. My name is Kojima Mizuiro and I'm 15. My hobby includes…" Mizuiro started to say before being interrupted by Ichigo.
"Womanizing." Ichigo said.
"N…No it isn't! How horrible of a thing to say." Mizuiro said, embarrassed.
"You wouldn't think with that face of his but trust me, he's worse than me." Ichigo said.
"I am not. At least I don't grope other girls' breasts. Besides, I only go after girls older than me, none near my age." Mizuiro replied.
"Still makes you a womanizer." Ichigo said.
"Hey, can I join you guys?" A brown haired boy asked as he arrived.
"'Sup, Keigo." Ichigo said as he greeted his friend.
"Chad's not here yet?" Keigo asked.
"Nope." Ichigo replied.
"Oh yeah, I haven't seen him around yet." Mizuiro said.
"That's weird. Where'd he go?" Keigo asked. He then saw Rukia and his eyes widened, "Oh, if isn't the beautiful transfer student Kuchiki Rukia! Why are you here?!" Keigo asked.
"Beautiful? What the hell are you smoking, Keigo?" Ichigo asked only to get punched upside the head by Rukia.
"Ichigo asked her out." Mizuiro said.
"Ask her out? I'd rather ask myself out than ask her! Guah!" Ichigo retorted before getting by Rukia again.
"Is that true, Ichigo? GOOD JOB!" Keigo said as he congratulated his friend with fake tears flowing down his eyes.
"Okay, whatever." Ichigo said with a sweatdrop behind his head.
"Hello! My name is Asano and I welcome you to this place of men!!!!" Keigo said as he greeted Rukia formally.
"Hmm, hello." Rukia replied, a bit perturbed by the young man's outburst.
"NOW TODAY'S A LUNCH PARTY!" Keigo yelled.
"SHUT UP!" Ichigo yelled.
'When will I get to drink this juice thing?' Rukia thought as she struggled to poke a hole in the juice carton.
Suddenly, Keigo was kicked in the back and he turned around to see two thug-looking students.
"Yo, Kurosaki." One of them said.
"Hey look everyone, it's dumb and dumber, back for more ass-kicking." Ichigo said.
"What did you just say to me? And by the way Kurosaki, I thought I told you to get rid of that damn hair color!" The same thug growled.
"It's my natural hair color, you retard. Seriously, why are you here instead of a school for mentally-challenged? Didn't they tell your parents about your superhuman stupidity a long time ago? Seriously, you're a waste of space here." Ichigo replied nonchalantly.
"Is he always that disrespectful to whoever he talks to, Asano-san?" Rukia asked Keigo.
"Yep, that's Ichigo for ya; the school's number one smart-ass." Keigo answered.
"That's it, I'm going to kick yur arse!" The thug said as he put on some iron knuckles on both fists.
"Yur arse? Did you just really say that? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, you're so freaking stupid!" Ichigo said as he fell to the floor laughing.
The thug growled and was about to swing at Ichigo when he was suddenly lifted into the air and sent flying into the entrance to the rooftop.
"And this is why I told you not to do that, Rei-chan." The other thug said as he followed his friend.
"C…Chad." Keigo said.
"Geez Chad, do you have to be such a buzzkill?" Ichigo asked with a grin.
"I'm sorry Ichigo but if I didn't interfere, he would have been in a worse shape than he is right now." Chad said as both he and Ichigo shook hands.
"So, how did you get injured?" Ichigo asked as he saw the bandages on Chad's forehead and hands.
"I hurt my head yesterday as a steel beam fell on it and the hands were today as I was buying bread; A motorcycle collided with me. The guy on the motorcycle was injured so I had to take him to the hospital and hence why I was so late." Chad explained.
"Holy crap, Chad! What kind of body do you have?" Ichigo exclaimed as he was shocked by what his friend told him.
"Hey, is that a white-feathered parakeet you got there Chad?" Keigo asked as Chad puts down the cage with the bird on the floor.
"Hello! My name is Shibata Yuuichi. What are your names?" The bird spoke, shocking Ichigo.
"Wow, it can talk! My name is Asano Keigo. Say it? Asano!" Keigo exclaimed as he went up close to the bird.
"So Chad, where did you get that parakeet from?" Ichigo asked
"Yesterday…" Chad began to say but then paused for a while, "I got it." Chad said, ending his answer.
"There you go again, shortening your explanation! That's a bad habit you know!" Keigo exclaimed.
"Don't worry about it, it's probably nothing more than just a lonely spirit. However, it would be best to perform a soul burial tonight or else it could turn into a hollow due to the loneliness." Rukia told Ichigo when she saw his facial expression.
"Great, another night ruined because of work." Ichigo said.
"Like you had anything planned to do!" Rukia smirked.
"Actually, I was thinking of…" Ichigo began to say before whispering the rest to Rukia. Rukia's face then turned red and made her smack Ichigo upside the head with her right hand.
"Pervert." Rukia said, with her face still red, 'But at least he's starting to worry about the soul of others, like a shinigami would.' Rukia thought.
Kurosaki Residence
"Move out of the way, big brother!" Yuzu said as she was in a nurse outfit and carrying some heavy medical equipment.
"What's the rush, Yuzu?" Ichigo asked as he was entering his home from school.
"Move it, move it!" Karin, also in a nurse outfit, said as she was carrying a young man in a stretcher.
"Can someone tell me what's going on here?" Ichigo asked.
"There was a car accident near the intersection!" Yuzu answered.
"Car accident…" Ichigo said.
"I SAID I NEED 4 BEDS! What do you mean you can't accept that many? Do something, damn it! We don't have the equipment necessary to handle this many people. Listen, tell your manager it's a request from Kurosaki. Tons of beds will open up, you got it?!" Ichigo's dad said to someone over the phone as Ichigo was entering the building.
"Damn those lower-level fools!" Ichigo's dad yelled angrily as he slammed down the phone.
"Hmm, dad…Can I help with anything?" Ichigo asked nicely.
"Just shut up and stay out of our way!" Ichigo's dad replied, brushing off his son and causing Ichigo to go sulk in a corner. But that would not last for long as he heard someone scream.
"Woah! We got a big one here!" Ichigo's dad said as he arrived on the scene, "Ichigo, we got a job for you! Help me carry him!" Ichigo's dad said.
"Sure…Chad?" Ichigo said as he recognized his classmate.
"I…Ichigo?" Chad said as he recognized his classmate.
Karin was looking at the parakeet when her eyes suddenly widened as she saw something.
"Yikes! Those are horrible wounds!" Karin said as there was a huge mark on Chad's back.
'This feeling!' Ichigo thought as he felt a strange session.
'This is terrible. Looks like a burn plus it's bleeding all over." Ichigo's dad said as he examined the wound, "You'll have to remain…" Ichigo's dad started to say but was interrupted by Chad.
"No…" Chad said as he started to get back up, "I'm fine now." Chad said as he finished his sentence.
"Are you insane? There's no way you could be fine with this much blood loss?" Ichigo's dad said and as it was the case, Chad fell to the ground unconscious, "Told you. Yuzu! Karin! Get a bed ready!" Ichigo's dad said.
They later put Chad in a room with the parakeet near him.
"You sense that?" Ichigo asked as he was in his room with Rukia.
"Yes, of course I felt it. I even felt all the way up here. However, it didn't come from the parakeet at all." Rukia said.
"This means that wound I saw on him was definitely caused by a hollow!" Ichigo said.
In Chad's room, both Chad and the bird were gone, with the window open.
To be Continued…
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Author's Note: Even though it is under the pairing of Ichigo/Orihime, there won't be any strong romance since I am making this story action-oriented. However, Orihime will be Ichigo's girl by the end of the story.
