It was past the middle of the day when a knock troubled her sleep.
"Yes?" The beauty says sleepy, making the door to open highlighting Rukia.
"I apologize for my intrusion, but I wanted to see if you are fine ..." The brunette's words are a mystery to her until she makes the connection with all the events what happened.
"How long has he gone?" The beautiful woman responds in a single breath, hurrying to her visitor.
"Last night. It's not like I would have followed him, except Renji was late. I know I'm not able to mix ... But did something happen to you?" The seriousness on Rukia's face, as well as the fact that she could not look at Orihime, directly in her eye, makes her understand that something is wrong.
"Not. What do you mean by that? "At the hearing of the amber haired girl uncertainty, the brunette bites her lower lip. At that moment Orihime has no doubt. "Can you tell me?" Her prayer was so honest that it made Rukia to look her in her eyes, destroying any impulse to keep her from what had happened.
"Ichigo ... He seemed destroyed ..." Her words shook the girl, but the brunette continued. "I wanted to ask him more about his sudden departure and the fact that he asked me to take care of you, but ... He said goodbye." The girl falls from her feet at that moment, the weight of reality overwhelming body.
"Kuchiki-san, please, can you take me to him?" The woman wanted to refuse her initially, she did not know what Ichigo was going to do and even wanted to honor her promise to take care of Orihime, but ...
"I will lead you personally." Despite her internal protests, she could not oppose a possible of a future in which everyone would be happy.
"It is not necessary." The beauty rose up, giving her a warm smile. "I know you want to help Ichigo, but you have to take care of yourself." The baby in Rukia's stomach kicked her hearing the statement. "An address is sufficient. I can handle it."
A strange sound is heard suddenly, making the two look up in its direction. A few feet away was Kuchiki Byakuya, dressed in an elegant suit.
"I will not allow a guest to leave the house without my protection. Rukia, please tell me the details. Inoue-san, I would like you to make the necessary preparations until I find Kurosaki's location."
Without waiting for the answer, the two brothers leave the room. Orihime remains in the same position examining the room, just to realize that she was already ready for the road, her clothes being her only available clothes.
She goes down after 5 minutes, wanting to give the brothers the time to find the location details.
"In conclusion you mean you do not know Kurosaki's location." Byakuya's voice echoed when the beautiful girl left the room.
"He did not tell me the location, but I know the place where he could see them." The brunette protests holding her head bent, respecting her brother too much to want to hurt him.
"Is everything all right?" The girl asks to change the atmosphere.
"It seems that Rukia does not know accurately the location and she wants to move us towards a possible location." His explanation clarified the situation, apparently Byakuya was not the type of person to tolerate the inaccuracy.
"Um ... I'm sure Kuchiki-san knows Kurosaki-kun best and she'll be safe as long as you're around. Whatever you are her brother. "Her replica arouses a small laugh from the brother, while his sister is blushing.
"You are indeed a unique person, Inoue-san. I will listen to your suggestion for the moment. "The girl begins to smile enjoying the trust, making even Byakuya to smile.
Rukia was surprised. She has not seen her brother for so long in such a good state, or to react like this to someone. Could it be that? ... It's not time to think of such things, she has to think about Ichigo's location. Normally the man had to come back, which makes her worry even worse.
More than half an hour they are ahead of an immense building. Orihime does not have much time to analyze the surroundings because she sees Ichigo's body full of blood while he is beating an individual.
By reflex she ran to him calling his name. The man looked in the direction of the sound, only to confirm that she had just come after him. Ichigo is administering to the individual another knee in the stomach, ensuring that he had lost his consciences, then he looked at the girl. Her eyes were wet and puffy, staring at the blood on his body.
"Tsh ... I'm fine. You do not have to dramatize. Geez, Rukia. I told you to take care of her, not to come here. I can not teleport to protect you, you just know. " The brunette's eyes start to red, threatening the fall of some tears.
"It is not appropriate to address such words to my sister, Kurosaki. I've been present all the time, and I'm more than qualified to protect them. "Her brother's words give Rukia the power to wipe her tears and to jump in front of Ichigo.
"Good of nothing, I came to save your ass and that's what you're gonna tell me? Do you expect us to accept that you're going to die that easy?" The brunette had become very nervous, striking his body firmly and not worrying about her clothes will dirty with blood. The criminal stops her, holding her palms with one of his.
"What the hell are you talking about?" He asks her nervously.
"What the hell am I talking about? I'm talking about the fact that you've said goodbye, that I have to take care of Orihime in your place with that stupid expression on your face. That's what I'm talking about! "After the woman finishes her monologue, Ichigo lets her hands go and he laughs.
"Do not tell me that you were watching that stupid serial as long as we were talking."
"It's not stupid. It's brilliant. "Rukia replied. Orihime and Byakuya looked confused at the 2.
"Tsh ... In brief, Rukia looks at a romantic stupid serial and she exaggerates things while she's looking at it. I was not going to suicide midget, I just came to gather some information. "The criminal sighs and he caress by reflex the brunette's hair.
"Why are you informers in a place so open? Do you want to be caught by the police? "Byakuya intervenes seeing the sadness on the beauty's face.
"As stupid as it may seem, this is the safest place. Aizen has access to the city's video surveillance system, and you can hardly find areas that are not monitored by him. This is one of them, and given that it's near his headquarters, a normal person would not dare to do this. "Ichigo smirks. "Do you have other question?"
"Why do not we all go back now that everything has been solved?" Orihime intervenes, making the criminal's attitude to improve.
"Tsh ... It does not matter. I need to make a hot shower after all." The girl smiles, and in the next second an informant suddenly rises with a knife in his hand. Not having much time to react, Ichigo pushes Orihime, the knife stabbing him in his left shoulder. The killer's face suddenly darkens and he catches the guilty guy's collar. "What do we have here? Do you have the power to move? Idiot. If you stayed still like your friend I would have left you alive, but ... "The informant begins to nervously tremble. "Eye for eyes and tooth for tooth, was it?" Ichigo did not wait for a reply before he broke his arm. "Did it hurt you? Do not worry because in a little while you will not feel anything. "With that being said, Ichigo's hand holds his neck crushing it in a second. "You, the bottom one." The criminal bends over to the other.
"Yesss?" The informant says, fearing for his life.
"If you have more brain than your partner, I advise you to never come closer to me, especially to her. Do you understand? "Ichigo did not wait for an answer from him, because in the next second he removed the knife from his arm and stab the informant in the foot." Let's go, Orihime ." The criminal helps her get up and the girl accepts his help.
The body of the beautiful still shivers from the scene, but at the same time she did not feel able to let go of his hand.
"Do not worry, I'll always protect you." Ichigo whispers before he faints.
The next day
The criminal is awakened by one foot in his stomach.
"What the hell is wrong with you, midget?" He says while he's spitting blood.
"Aizen is here and Orihime, and my brother is with him." She confesses to him, feeling a little guilty about the way she woke him up.
"What the hell!" Ichigo cursed and then he went down the hall.
"Good morning, Ichigo. Uncle Sosuke came to visit me. Is not that nice of him? "Despite Orihime's words, Ichigo's gaze moves between her and Aizen, and then pulls her in the kitchen. "Ichiiiiii" It's all the beauty manage to say until the kitchen door isolates them from the rest of the world.
A.N. Hello everybody. I know this chapter is small, but the next one will be longer. I wanted to express here the promise that Ichigo made to Orihime, that he will always protect her and a little about her relationship with Aizen.
I will be a little busy for now. I got a kind of job, so I expect the next update of this story will be on 24 September (or sooner depending on my time)
I'll write the update of the story Need for speed tomorrow, and probably till Saturday the update for Dr. Orihime.
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P.S. I will be glad to read what you are thinking about this story so far and how it is going to develop.