Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, they all belong to the wonderful Tite Kubo.

Author notes: Voices written Like thisbelong to otherworldly beings

Dream Vs. Reality

Orihime laid in her bed staring out of the window near the far side of the room. She silently cursed at the moon which reminded her so much of the time she spent held captive in Hueco Mundo. Aizen had to be the reason why she was having these nightmares every night. They scared the shit out of her! Every night since the day Aizen died, she'd wake up too scared to fall back asleep no matter how exhausted she was. Her dream would start out all normal and beyond calm and then out of nowhere all hell would break loose.

'Orihime ran towards her brother Sora who was laying in the shade reading a book. She didn't know why but she felt like bothering him. It angered her that on such a nice beautiful day like this, he'd chose to read a book. A book! Orihime snatched the book out of Sora's hands and ran as fast as she could through the park. "Orihime give it back!" He stood up and began chasing her. She looked back and seen the huge smile he had on his face. That made her day, she was happy to see her brother enjoying himself for once. She stumbled over a branch that was on the ground and dropped the book in the grass. As she reached down to get it, her brother grabbed her arm stopping her from doing so.

She looked up ready to apologize for her childish antics, but instead she froze. Her brother's eyes turned black and blood poured out of his mouth. The blue sky turned pitch black and the water from the sea stopped moving. The park that was once filled with luscious green grass and wild children running everywhere, was now a dead barren wasteland. Her brother fell to his knees and crawled towards her reaching out for her to grab his hand. "Orihime help me!"

She backed away and quickly stood to her feet as she began to hear laughter in the direction she was running from. She kept running until she heard a feminine voice call for her to come to it. "Orihime come here! I promise you I won't hurt you...oh who am I kidding I will hurt you! I'll slit your throat and watch you bleed to death!" The voice giggled as Orihime ran faster to get away. Orihime felt drawn to the voice and her soul ached to get a closer look, but she was too afraid. 'What am I afraid of? This is just a dream right?'

Orihime was too caught up in her thoughts to notice the hollow standing in front of her. She screamed as it launched itself at her. "Please Orihime don't scream!"

The hollow grabbed her leg with its claws digging deep into her flesh. She screamed louder and fell to the ground using her arms to try and get away.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid girl I told you to come to me!" The feminine voice spoke louder this time with more venom in her voice.

Orihime closed her eyes and screamed as loud as she could hoping that someone, anyone would come to her rescue.

That's when she woke up sweating profusely and extremely scared to close her eyes again. Too afraid to move or get out of bed, she just stared out the window watching as the moon went down and the sun came up. She was extremely exhausted and if she was near a mirror she was sure that she would see heavy bags under her eyes.

Orihime pulled the sheets off of her and got out of bed with what little energy she had. 'I need a shower, a nice cold shower.' She stood to her feet ready to make her way to the bathroom, when she felt an excruciating pain in her left leg. She looked down and couldn't believe what she saw. There were deep claw marks covering the lower half of her leg...