Chapter two
"I can't believe that Urahara won't even help us." Ichigo nearly screamed in the hallway by his classroom.
"You aren't the only one that's mad Ichigo." Chad said, trying to calm Ichigo down just a little bit.
"He has to remain in contact with the soul society and without him here, we'll be useless in fighting the Arancar and the Espada…and the soul society know that so they banned him from helping…even if it meant that we lose one person." Uriyu acknowledged.
"This just fucking pisses me off." Ichigo growled, his hands making fists. "She must think that we don't even care about her if we don't go there and save her from those bastards."
"I know, she might even help them win this war if they think she's good enough." Uriyu sighed sadly.
"We must be the worst friends on the face of the fucking earth." Ichigo grumbled and slammed his head into the wall next to him as someone walked up.
"Is something wrong Ichigo?" The familiar voice asked.
"Rukia?" They all asked.
"I thought you couldn't come back?" Ichigo asked.
"They let me come back to watch over the district." She answered. "Any sign that Orihime is still around?"
"No, I can't feel her spiritual pressure from here, I'd have to be in the same dimension as her in order to feel her." Uriyu answered. "And no one can go to Hueco Mundo without being noted as a deserter."
"I know, I was banned from even talking about this when I came back but, the General isn't even allowing anyone to try and contact her through Hueco Mundo, even if they're there in the Menos Grandes Forest." Rukia sighed. "I don't know how much longer I can take without trying to go and help her…"
"I know, we're all on edge too, even Tatsuki is after me because she hasn't been around." Ichigo sighed.
"Well all we can do for now is pray that she makes it and that nothing happens to her, and try to come up with a way for us to try and save her if they let her back with them in their next attack." Uriyu said, trying to give them all some confidence.
"Yea, they're bound to show up sometime to attack anyway and try to lower our numbers before the big battle." Ichigo said as his spirit rose a little bit.
The others' nodded and walked into the classroom before the bell rang.
"Orihime's still not here…I hope she's going to be alright." The teacher said as she took attendance and then went on with the lesson.
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"You'll be working with me and Espada number 8, he's the one that came up with the training plans you'll be working off of." Ulquiorra told me as we were walking up to where I was to train today.
"Alright." Was all I said, I didn't know what else to say anyway.
When we got there, the doors opened and we walked in, meeting the Espada 8 in the middle of the room.
"Hello Ulquiorra and Orihime." He said, he always creeped me out, especially since he was a man with hot pink hair.
"Hello, Ms. Orihime's to start her training today as you well know, she just needs a briefing on what she has to work on and you know everything else I take it." Ulquiorra said.
"Yes, you wanna stay and watch or do you want to go and take care of some other business?" He asked Ulquiorra.
"I'm going to stay here, I have no other business to take care of for now." Ulquiorra said, I was happy that he was going to stay here and at least watch me…I don't feel safe here in Hueco Mundo without him, especially around the other Espada and Arancar.
"Alright Orihime, what I'm going to have you train on today is your regeneration abilities." Espada 8 told me.
"They look like they could be worked on a little bit more, then tomorrow we'll work on your shields and attacking abilities." He added.
All I did was nod, showing him that I was paying attention as I noticed that Ulquiorra took a seat against the back wall away from us.
"You'll also be working with the healers while we work on this so we're going to move to the healers ward, they always have someone to heal and what not in there since our Espada's can't stop fighting each other." He said and Ulquiorra must have heard him since he stood up and walked up to us before we left the room to the healers ward.
