To Catch A Firefly
Chapter 3
"It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget."
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
XI.
''Trash.''
She did not immediately notice him, her attention stolen by his brute-like companion and her own ailing friends. But somehow, that one word, spoken by a deep and yet soft male voice, managed to capture Orihime's entire being and force her gaze to meet his own.
Familiar emerald orbs starred back at her and Inoue Orihime realized how cruel the world truly was.
A hollow. Her soul mate was a hollow.
XII.
He told the brute to kill her and her friends.
Though she wished for all of this to be nightmare, Orihime knew that the man, unlike how the tear tracks on his cheeks belied, did not feel anything at all. Not when both of them realized who the other truly was, nor when his companion slapped her so hard that she almost bit off her tongue.
But none of that made her actually cry. The cause of her tears was the fact that while leaving he did not turn to look back even once.
For him she was nothing but trash.
XIII.
''Inoue-san...''
Urahara Kisuke was the only one who noticed the truth and that was reason enough for her to avoid him for the following months. She ran away before he could have said anything else and made sure that none of her friends found out about the enemy that turned out to be her other half.
And what did that say about her?
XIV.
Malicious green eyes haunted all of her dreams and made her fear falling asleep.
XV.
He came back for her. Handled with none of the care she had wished for and robbed her of the only home she had ever had.
The sad thing was that Orihime did not mind the way he treated her at all. He could have killed her and she would have been happy to die at his hands.
Ulquiorra Cifer was her soul mate and such her most precious person of all.