Author Notes: I always liked Orihime- though I do understand her critcisms, especially after the events of Hueco Mundo and how she gradually faded into the background. Also, I'm making it very clear that the Arrancar Army is going to be the Big Bad of the first prequel- Aizen does play an major antagonist role, but he's significantly less prominent. Also I'm changing the date of Sora Inoue's death to match up with Ichigo's mom to make their connection stronger.

Also I felt that Yammy was severely underappreciated as an Espada. So I'm revamping him to be more of a threat.

P.S. this chapter was added to make the pacing flow better since prior to its addition- the revival of Ichigo did not get explained thoroughly. I apologize for my actions for my chapter deleting and reposting them with new content. By chapter 9, things should be going smoother.

Chapter 6: Broken Masks, Octopuppet, Six Faeries


Hello, my name is Orihime. People say I'm weird and unusual...that's just half of it. My brother told me that our parents were horrible people so he took me away from them when he turned 18. I had a hard time in school due to my hair, but my brother always cheered me up...until he died on the same day Ichigo lost his most important person, it was the day I first met him- a lot of it is still fuzzy, but I remember at least meeting Ichigo. As I was being picked on, Tatsuki saved me and that's how we met. She took me to the dojo to train- Ichigo left shortly after I joined because the sensei said there wasn't any more he could teach him. I continue to go there..., but I don't practice what I've learned...just remaining still as things happen to me while others protect me. I really want to stand by them- by Tatsuki...and especially Ichigo," the burnt-orange haired girl thought herself as she grieved over Ichigo's loss.


As Chad was about to faint, Rukia continued to fight Grand Fisher, with the latter being able to swerve the First Dance of Rukia's Zanpakuto's techniques shooting from the ground.

"Tsugi no Mai: Hakuren (Next Dance: White Ripple)," the Soul Reaper declared as she went into the ritual for her next technique.

Rukia punctured the ground once, creating a large ice circle, before puncturing the ground in front of her four times in a semi-circle. As the ice particles began to flow up from the punctures she made in the ground, Rukia takes the zanpakuto and turns into the preparation of a thrusting stance. Building up at the tip of Sode no Shirayuki, the ice particles were released as a powerful large avalanche of cold air, which flash froze whatever it comes into contact with, encasing it in ice.

Grand Fisher flattened his body to avoid the impact of the attack and then returned to his original form. Rukia prepared to attack again.

"Down to only one of you. Average level Hollows certainly are trash," said a voice in the sky.


Suddenly, the sky drew a line, bent downwards as if it were a mouth and opened up to squared tooth maw. Within them, there were four individuals-

The first was typical of a Hollow, an octopus like creature with a mask having the appearance of a jellyfish with six appendages at the bottom and three circles of protrusions at the top. Her body was composed of twelve tentacles light blue or lavender in color. Her Hollow hole was above her mask, at the meeting point of her tentacles. This was not what surprised Rukia- it was the three other beings with her- or rather, how un-Hollow like they were.

A young, teenage girl with long, black hair with two pigtails that reached down her back, a slender build, and her visible right eye is pink. The remnants of her mask covered her left eye, which was shaped around her eye with teeth dotted along the bottom of the mask, and there was an extension from her mask into her hair which resembles a hair tie. She wore a short, frilled skirt, white half-sleeves worn from the elbows down to the wrists, and what appeared to be thigh-length black-colored, white-outlined boots. She wore white bracelets on her arms, and she also wore a white-colored, black-outlined material that ties around her neck, which revealed a fair portion of her stomach as well as her chest. She looked with snide conceit at the people below her.

Beside her was a teenage-looking girl with tomboyish features. She had short, slicked blonde hair with a slight fringe over her right eye. In addition, her eyes were green and she had a mask. mask positioned around her right eye, completely obscured it from view, with teeth dotted around the bottom. Her attire consisted of a white dress with short sleeves, which were slit and run slightly past her elbows, and an upturned collar, unzipped at the front revealing her cleavage. Her dress also exposed her waist and part of her thighs on both sides of her body. A black sash was worn loosely around her hips. She wore black socks and low-heel sandals. She completes her outfit with a white, segmented choker and a series of white bracelets on her arms. She looked with stoic callousness towards the people below her.

And the fourth was a giant man that towered over his group with tan skin, a powerful build, and a ridge-lined cranium. He had brown eyes, black hair in his long, bushy sideburns and the thin ponytail reaching his upper-back. Aside from this, he is bald with orange eyebrows, and red markings under his eyes. He wore a open jacket that showed his chest and baggy pants with black shoes to his sandals, he sneered at Grand Fisher from his noticeable lips. He had a small brown dog with a white face with two empty eye sockets on his shoulder that barked at the wooly Hollow.

Rukia noticed something already odd with the group, their largest member had large hole at the center of his chest and a eight toothed jawbone resting on his chin, the two girl's eye masks were bone-like and their outfits...seemed like an inverted version of Soul Reapers.


"L-lord Yammy, Fishbone D and Shrieker have fallen," Grand Fisher fearfully spoke aloud as he kneed towards him. Rukia was perplexed at the gesture he was displaying

Why would Grand Fisher, a murderer of Soul Reapers of 54 years be bowing to this man, Rukia thought to herself at the sight of Grand Fisher bowing to another being.

"Was it at the Soul Reaper?," the large man asked disinterested at the Hollow.

"No, it was one of the students. He punched him...straight to hell," Grand Reaper explained nervously.

The dog then leapt from the giant man and onto Grand Fisher, biting the hair on his body.

"Are you here to punish me," Grand Fisher asked as the dog annoyingly bit him.

"Nah, it's a change in strategy. Now with that orange haired shit dead, we can get what we really came for," said the large man in an irritated voice.

The giant man then pointed his left index finger to Orihime still tending to Ichigo, unaware of the incoming danger.

"Numb Chandelier, hey bitch- get yer ass down there," the ridged headed man ordered the octopus like Hollow with annoyance.

"Lord Yammy, I hear and obey. I don't like conflicts so I'll end this quickly," answered the feminine sounding octopus Hollow with a politeness oozing with repulsiveness, as she floated out of the portal.

Rukia prepared her battle stance, prepared for anything that the Hollow would use to attack.

Suddenly, the protrusions on her head shot out of her head in showers of projectiles that penetrated both buildings as glass began to shatter from every floor of the building. Yammy looked disinterested and annoyed, while the pigtailed girl smirked sadistically. The tomboy was little troubled at the sight of the white rain objects.

Rukia avoided each of the projectiles with her Shunpo, while Uryu grabbed the unconscious Chad and got to a distance within the classroom the furthest distance from the shards. Grand Fisher burrowed underground in order to avoid getting hit with the dog following behind him.

Reiichi's eyes widened as he looked around to see his classmates and teacher falling unconscious for seemingly no reason.

"My god, it must be enemy soldiers from the other countries- They've come to take over Ja-," he theorized as one of the protrusions pierced his tailbone, causing him to fall unconscious.


As the dust cleared, Orihime looked around to see that she, the limp Ichigo and the Ichigo that was lying on the side of the ground a feet away from them were completely unharmed.

"Orihime, are you okay, I have Chad with me- he wasn't struck by the attack just now," Uryu's voice was heard from the parts of the classroom still covered by dust shrouds.

"I'm good...I wonder what shot it at us? And why was it with two girls and a giant? Maybe she's like a pet or something...a octopet," Orihime hypothesized the reasons for the sudden change to the fight. Suddenly, two arms emerged from the mist, reaching for Orihime.

Orihime gently put down Ichigo, then as the arms drew nearer, her eyes flashed and grasped the limbs behind her.

"I'm sorry, Chizuru. I don't think it's the time to be doing this," she said with a preemptive apology as she threw the body apart of the arms into one of the desks.

"A-are you hurt, I went to martial arts school and got a black belt- are you ok- any blood, Oh gosh, if I hurt you, I'll never forgive myself," she hurried towards the individual she had just tossed.

It was not Chizuru, but Mahana...except she had one of the Hollow's protrusions in her chest that oozed green liquid and she had a white-eyed exposed teeth expression on her face.

"Mahana...I didn't know you were into girls, come to think of it...I don't know much about you," Orihime said with a mix of ditziness and confusion.

To her surprise as the dust cloud cleared, the students including Tatsuki, Ryo, Mizuiro, Michiru, Chizuru and Keigo had one of the protrusions piercing a section of their bodies.

"Damn her, her strategy never gets her hands dirty," said the blonde, trembling with disgust.

"Don't start, Szayel would yell my ear off for getting rid of one of his favorites," Yammy retorted with an upturned upper lip.

"What's wrong with that, she's just an ignorant bitch that's about to get a taste of cruel reality," the pig-tailed girl laughed in a twisted manner with her hands on her hips.


Orihime looked in horror as the students moved towards her, similar to zombies, walking in a stumbling manner.

A hand then grabbed hers, which caused her to turn to her right.


Uryu with Chad over his left shoulder as he barely was able to keep on his feet from his injuries from Shrieker's attack.

"I think it's best that we get away as far away from here as we can. The Soul Reaper can handle this," Uryu said with a cold tone, but he was trembling from his inability to do more to help with the situation.

"What about Ichigo, I can't just leave him there," Orihime responded with intense guilt of her belief that she couldn't protect Ichigo.

"Three things, one- he's dead because no one could survive a stab through the chest, two- he'd want his friends safe because I saw him pushing you two away so you wouldn't get caught in the explosion that led to his death and three, Uryu explained to the orange haired girl.

Uryu let go of her arm to the Ichigo laying next to the cold, lifeless corpse. Half of a forward pointed horned mask had formed on his face and a low growl came from the inside of the mask half of the face.

"If he turns into a Hollow, we will be even more of a hindrance to the Soul Reaper if he decides to strike us. We don't know the extent of the cephalopod Hollow's powers, Grand Fisher is a veteran Hollow it seems and the most dangerous of all- (looking towards the three people within the dark portal) if those three decide to attack us- we're dead. That includes the Soul Reaper as she is now. We're cornered by 6 potential enemies," Uryu summarized with self loathing.

"I don't agree...," Orihime responded to his exposition.

"What," Uryu asked with the need to clarify that statement.

"I know Ichigo wouldn't do that...even as a Hollow," she said with a smile.

"Hollows are evils needed to be destroyed, what makes you believe he'll turn out to be an ally," Uryu responded angrily with an insistent pride.

"I trust in this and he's not a ally- he's the man I've given this to. And I think the Soul Reaper-y lady is our friend too because she's protecting us.," Orihime said as she touched the place of her heart, smiling gently.

Uryu looked downwards with widened shock as he recalled the words of his grandfather.

"Be it Human or Soul Reaper, seeing a sad face is unbearable to me," he would say to a young Uryu.

Uryu then put down Chad gently and prepared his energy bow.


"So you're a Quincy, one of the descendants of that man Old Geezer Majesty told us about. Always with the long range weapons and fancy tools- since your people are all nearly extinct- guess they were all trash," said Yammy's voice, which prompted an angered expression on Uryu's face.

Uryu looked back at the portal and turned his head to behind him. Yammy stared down with a widened, arrogant look to his face, he had somehow managed to close the distance between the portal and the classroom without them noticing.

"Bala," he proclaimed as he charged his right fist with a gravitated dark red aura and punched Uryu with such a concussive force, that he rocketed into the other building like a bullet with a large bullet like projectile propelling his chest.

"It's not as strong as my Cero, but its speed is 20 times faster, meaning I can use this as much as I want- and it packs a damn lot of friggin' toughness," Yammy gloated with his right arm raised high.

Orihime looked in horror, but was soon grabbed by the zombie like students behind her.

Rukia seeing Uryu collapsed against the side of the building, tried to go towards him to rescue him. However, two zanpakuto blocked her path.

"Reinforcements, good we need as much help as- why aren't you-" she inquired the wielders of the blades until she saw the faces of the wielders.

It was the stern faced tomboy and the pigtailed haired girl with a maddened expression on her face. The latter with her free hand waved her index from side to side.

"S-orry, but you're gonna all die here by the old Geezer God King's orders," she said in a lyrical and deliberately sweet tone to annoy her.

Rukia gritted her teeth in frustration.


"Oi, don't kill her- Old Geezer Majesty doesn't want her dead," Yammy snarked at Numb Chandelier as he ignored Orihime being restrained by Tatsuki, Ryo, Mahana, Michiru and Chizuru holding her four limbs and groping her breasts respectively.

Numb Chandelier floated menacingly in the sky.

"Tch, he'll become a Hollow, bet he'll try to eat everybody...what the hell, I'll just crush his skull," Yammy said to himself with a disinterested expression that he initially showed before taking the arrogant face of when he hurt Uryu. He then charged his Bala technique slowly as he prepared to smash the slowly Hollow-fying Ichigo's head with.


With the words he uttered, Orihime managed to break free from her captors and rush towards the other Ichigo.

Somebody help him...no, I've depended on others to help me. Brother is gone, Tatsuki's being used by that octopus and Ichigo...what he do, Orihime thought as she panicky ran to stop Yammy from destroying the other Ichigo.

Ichigo, we never really interacted much since that day. Always moving further away..., but You and Tatsuki have protected me when bullies tried to hurt me...so I do what Ichigo want if we're in danger- though he doesn't want to admit it, Orihime thought with a shadowed expression.

Yammy turned around in annoyance to see an odd sight that made him do a "huh" face- Orihime was doing Ichigo's trademark pouty frown on her expression.

I want to get strong enough to save everyone (changing back to her usual expression) So I'll do anything to save you- even use myself as a shield to soften the blow,"

Suddenly, something on head glowed, causing Orihime to remember something


Several years back...

"Here Orihime, this will look adorable," said Sora, a young man with chin length brown hair

"No, that looks silly," said a younger, short haired Orihime.

"I'm sure people will like it," He replied with a smile as he tried to convince

"Ok," as she put them on with a pout on her face.

Sora smiled causing Orihime to smile slightly.


Six small lights emerged from her hairpins as they solidified into small faery like entities; three of them became became triangular shield of orange color to protect the slowly Hollow-fying Ichigo.


Chapter 7: The Masked Hero