A/N: I bet my loyal readers weren't expecting me to update two things today... enjoy the chapter...
Edit: Sorry... I put the chapter of the story I updated today in it's place... sorry... here's the real chapter.
Chapter 4: An Older Brother's Duty
Ichigo raced to Orihime's apartment with Rukia on his back.
"Why would her brother go after her?" asked Ichigo.
"Have you ever hear of cases where a husband dies and then the wife dies shortly after?" asked Rukia, "It happens because of Hollows. They kill the people they care about in life first."
"And Sora is after Orihime." Said Ichigo.
"That's right." Said Rukia.
"Then we have to get there fast." Said Ichigo, "But there's something I'm going to have to say."
"What?" asked Rukia.
"Unless you tell me that these swords can someone to the Soul Society. This is going to be the last time I'm going after an innocent person." Said Ichigo.
Rukia blinked, "How did you know?" she asked.
"Because I'm genre savvy said Ichigo.
Rukia couldn't help getting the feeling that it wasn't going to be the last time she heard that.
In Orihime's apartment, she saw that the teddy had a big rip in it.
"Oh no!" cried Orihime, "Enraku! Hold on!"
"Enraku?" sighed Tatsuki.
"What happened?" cried Orihime.
That was when there was thumping, loud thumping.
"What's that?" asked Orihime.
That was when something happened to her. Something that would be difficult to explain in normal words…
The next thing she knew she was outside of her body.
"What's going on?" she thought.
She saw her body and froze, not only that but she saw the Hollow attacking Tatsuki. She could barely move and it was hard to breathe. But she got and put all of her weight in pushing the hollow away from Tatsuki. She over to see if Tatsuki was okay, however Tatsuki couldn't see her and yelled "Get away from me!"
"She can't see you Orihime." Said the hollow.
"How do you know my name" asked Orihime.
"You don't remember me Orihime? I'm hurt." Said the Hollow, "How could you forget my voice!"
He was about to slam Orihime into the floor. However Ichigo came in and blocked with Zanpakuto (the sword he uses).
"You…" growled the hollow, "You're the one that made her dress like a maid."
"She only wore the maid costume once, most of the time it's in the school uniform." Muttered Ichigo, "And besides she chooses the costumes she wants to wear, and she wants to do something else!"
"Ichigo!" said Orihime, "Why are you dressed like that?"
Ichigo pushed away the Hollow and turned to Orihime.
"You can see me?" asked Ichigo remembered what Rukia has told him, that normal people couldn't see him.
"Yes I can." Said Orihime, "What's going on?"
"You know how I can see spirits?" asked Ichigo.
Orihime was the one few people who knew and nodded.
"Well… it's finally happened!" said Ichigo giving a smile, "I finally became a Shonen Hero because of it!"
"That's wonderful!" said Orihime.
"But…" said Ichigo looking at her chest seeing the chain, he became concerned, then noticed Tatsuki nearby, still breathing which meant she wasn't dead.
"Orihime is dead!" yelled the Hollow, "There's no way you can save her!"
The Hollow slammed it tail into Ichigo.
"Bessie" yelled the Hollow, "You made Orihime dress in ridiculous outfits!"
"She chose to on her own!" yelled Ichigo
The Hollow once again slammed Ichigo this out of the building. Then he spat out acid at him.
"Acid!" yelled Ichigo in shock while dropping his sword.
"Stop it!" cried Orihime.
"Have you forgotten me?" asked the Hollow he lifted his hair reveled an unexposed eye.
Orihime gasped as she realized who it was.
"Sora…" she whispered.
"Yes Orihime. When I first died, you would pray to me everyday, but as time went on, you would pray less everyday. All because you met that boy, and his family steered you away from then… then that girl over there as well. All of them made you forget me!" yelled Sora the Hollow.
"I didn't forget you." Whispered Orihime, "Please…"
"The pain became s unbearable, that I wanted to kill…" said Sora the Hollow.
"Stop it!" yelled Ichigo running back into the room, "How can you kill your own little sister!"
Sora the Hollow growled, "You know nothing about me!" he yelled.
"I know the story about your parents!" yelled Ichigo, "You've protected her then, but now you're nothing but a monster!"
"I don't need to listen to you!" yelled the Sora Hollow.
He was about to slap Ichigo but Ichigo cut off his hand.
"She's your sister an older brother must protect their younger siblings!" yelled Ichigo.
"She's still mine!" yelled the Sora Hollow, "If I can't have her, then I won't let anyone have esspeiclly not some nerdy otaku who spends all of his time read manga and having a crush on some flat chest girl who doesn't even exists."
Ichigo reached and took off his glasses.
"You can insult me… you can insult my glasses… you can even insult my hair… but what I will not handle is your insulting my way of life!" yelled Ichigo.
"Um… Ichigo… aren't you supposed to be fighting for my sake?" asked Orihime with a sweat drop.
"Now's not the time." Said Ichigo.
"You are very pathetic." Said the Sora Hollow.
The began to fight, Ichigo managed to cut off a few parts of his body while the Sora Hollow spat acid at him. The Sora Hollow decided to finish of Ichigo by trying to eat him. But Orihime got in the way.
"Orihime…" said Sora the Hollow realizing what he had done.
Rukia came into the room and shouted, "Don't worry, she's still alive, as long as the chain of fate is attached to her body she can be saved."
"Where have you been?" asked Ichigo.
"Outside." Answered Rukia.
Ichigo sweat dropped as Rukia went over to Orihime who laid on the ground with a horrible wound. The Hollow that was once Orihime's brother looked at her hair, other rather what in her hair.
Two hair pins, they were blue and flower shaped.
"Those hair pins." Said the Sora Hollow.
"She told me about them." Said Ichigo, "She wears them everyday, even when she goes cosplaying."
"Even when cosplaying?" asked the Sora Hollow.
"It screws it up a bit, but those that know the story don't complain." Explained Ichigo.
The hair pins were gift that Sora gave to Orihime one day, Orihime didn't like them because they weren't grown up enough. Of all days, it was the day he died.
"I didn't know…" whispered the Sora hollow.
Sora ripped off his mask and grabbed Ichigo's Zanpakuto.
"Please kill me" he said.
"It's not so much killing as it sending you heaven." Said Ichigo.
"How can you figure that out quickly?" asked Rukia with a sweat drop.
"I'm genre savvy!" he said putting his glasses back on.
Sora began to disappear just as Orihime regain consciousness.
"Sora… there's something I want to say before you go…" whispered Orihime, "Have a nice day."
And so Sora's soul was put to rest, free of his hate and anger.
"Where did he go?" asked Orihime.
"In heaven." Answered Ichigo.
Orihime smiled when he said that.
Rukia took something out of her pocket and almost put into Orihime's face. But Ichigo grabbed her arm.
"What?" asked Rukia.
"I want Orihime to remember." Said Ichigo.
"What? Why?" asked Rukia.
"Because… if I'm going to be a Shonen hero who goes to school. I'm going to need a secret keeper!" said Ichigo.
"A what?" asked Rukia.
"Someone who knows what's going on." Said Ichigo, "I mean, I need someone to help whenever I go fight a Hollow and my body is left as school. If you're coming with me, I need someone to make sure I don't get into trouble."
After explaining it to Orihime she agreed to be Ichigo's secret keeper as long as she kept out of the fights.
They did have alter Tatsuki's memories though, which was altered that she remember a large gas explosion cause that caused a large hole in Orihime's apartment.
With that Orihime became Ichigo's secret keeper. Which was a good thing, why? Because things were only just beginning and thing were going to get weirder…
Next Time: One of Ichigo's friends has a strange talking bird. Ichigo comes with the natural concision... It's a Magical girl mascot! While Rukia comes with the real conclusion, it's possessed! However there's something more going on.