It had been three years now. Three painful years since she last saw him. Three years since she had seen his face, since she had felt his warming touch, since she had heard his voice. Now she walked down the sidewalk to the graveyard inwhich his body was buried in. She walked under the metal gate and down five rows until she reached it. It was the eighth grave from the right where she placed the flower she had brought for him. She stared at the grave that held the man she had and always will love, thinking as she always did when she came here. Thinking about his last words to her before disspearing forever,
"No matter what, I will protect you. All you have to do is say my name and I will be there for you."
She thought about his words and what he meant. How could he be there for her is he was gone forever? There must be something that made him say that. Maybe he had thought that he would always be here, or maybe he- Never mind. It didn't matter now that he wasn't here. She would have to accept that sonner or later, and besides. She and the others would be going to Soul Society soon to visit their friends and catch up on each others lives. Then they would all be able to pay their repects at the memorial. As they had done on this day for the past two years.
After she recited her prayer, Orihime Inoue left the graveyard, leaving Ichigo Kurosaki's grave behind.