Orihime sighed as she carried back water to where she was staying with the recovering Jiriaya. Sure she had saved his life by healing his injuries but according to him his charka, which she was guessing was something similar to reiatsu, would take some time before that could be restore to what he consider normal levels.

To prove herself as helpful this him and not just standing around waiting for him to recover she had been taking care of him and doing their various task for the both of them so he could focus solely one recovering his charka. He worried about his home as according to him old students of his that he thought were dead apparently were not and they had become the leaders of a group after his latest student.

So while she was on her way back to the decent size shack (it was large enough for four people stay in and had two rooms) she overheard some talk of his village and how despite being basically destroyed. One guy managed to take down six of the attackers, convince one to give his life to revive everyone that died, and get the remain one to side with them.

Orihime then began to rush back as quickly as she could to inform Jiriaya of this news she had overheard hoping that this would cause him to stop worrying so much. While his home might be in bad shape at least the people of it were just fine.

Though what she saw as she was making her way back left her speechless as standing there leaning against a tree was Tatsuki. She was sure this was her this time around as there might be something slightly off about her but the orange hair girl just played that off as result of however she had gotten to this dimension. Even she felt that her own reiatsu was a little off at time probably because this place was so rich in residual charkra from the countless years of its usage in this dimension.

Of course the orange hair girl had no idea about what had happened to Tatsuki yet. Normally if they were back in their own dimension Orihime probably would have picked up on what was different about her old friend almost instantly. However thanks to the works of Orochimaru she had no idea that Tatsuki was now an arrancar currently using a gigai. It was something that the Snake Sanin had brought up early on during his team up with Aizen was that gigai he had were not really going to cut here in this dimension. A standard gigai would be discovered all to easy so he altered them. Now no one not even most skilled ninja or in this case people like Orihime could tell the different between them and natural living body.

"So you are here as well Tatsuki? Do you know how we might have gotten here?" Orihime asked confused as this place was unlike any world she knew of(which happen to be four).

"From what I managed figure out we are in a completely different dimension then where we are from" her friend told her.

"I kind of guess something like that as the map that I saw of this place. Its completely different then what I knew the world to look like" Orihime replied.

"Anyway come on lets go. Momo is here as well and together the three of us can find a way back to our own dimension" her old friend told her

Though she wanted to go with her friend there was still Jiriaya to deal with and she could not just leave the guy there alone without telling him where she was going so she told her that she at least had to tell him where she was going and drop off this water she had gotten for him. He had recovered enough to take care of himself it was just that his recovery was sped up the more he rested.

After walking for awhile Orihime placed down the water that she was carrying as the came to field that she had offer come to in order to train on her own. Just because she did not know where in the world she was at the moment did not mean she would stop trying to get stronger. The whole reason she had even been brought to this place was because she was with Restu when that strange circle appeared, trying to find a way to offensive during a fight rather then only defensive because of her nature.

"Who are you?" the Inoue girl demand.

"What are you talking about, Orihime. Its me Tatsuki" the Arisawa girl said.

"You might look like her but there something off about you. Where is my Tatsuki and what have you done with her" Orihime asked.

At this Tatsuki realized that she had not discover that she was an arrancar yet just that she seem to think she was this dimension version of herself. Though this was going south quickly as she had come out her planning to get Orihime to safe place as Momo was covering for her back at the base. It was not that she trusted the former shinigami turned arrancar but she trust her more then pretty much anyone else since becoming one herself.

Though as she trying to talk her way out of this idea that Orihime had that was some dimensional counterpart of herself since Orihime might seem like a airhead but she could be very perceptive of her friend when something wrong especially when came to those she felt closest too. This meaning those like Ichigo and herself fell into her range.

This when a thought ran through her head as the residual hollow instincts were surfacing in her mind. She wanted to keep Orihime safe so what better place to keep her best friend safe then within herself. If she ate and absorbed Orihime's soul then she would always have her friend with her and no one could harm her be it in body or mind ever again. A grin then appeared on her face as left the gigai used and used sonido behind her old friend.

In moment that mirrored something she experienced once before Tatsuki clapped down on Orihime's right side body. Then somehow realizing that black hair friend turned arrancar somehow was clapping onto her soul she pushed back using Tsubaki try and free herself. Unlike the last time her soul had been bitten she was pretty sure that Tatsuki was not going to willingly let go like her brother did.

In forcefully freeing herself from the transformed friend's grip Orihime her something ripping and quickly realized that Tatsuki literally bite through her soul as she crashed to the ground. Orihime could not feel her right side of her face as her right eye left utterly dead nor could feel her entire right arm and shoulder.

As she laid there unable to move as she missing a part of her soul, she wonder what would things have been like if she had more of offensive power. Sure she like what she had now but there was nothing written that said a healer could only have defensive abilities. They could have decent attacks as well just look at Retsu as she was one of the best healers she knew and had personality somewhat her own where she did not like fight but could if she had too.

"Hey you know the one that did this to your friend was Aizen" a voice said as Tatsuki was finishing absorbing what she had taken from Orihime's soul

"Aizen but he disappeared" Orihime replied back.

"Just where did you think that he disappeared to, huh? You think that you were just randomly brought to this dimension. It was no accident that you, Retsu, and many other were brought here to this dimension. The accident was that you remaining human as you see your friend over that what you would have ended up as if things had gone according to plan" the voice told.

Lying there on the ground missing a part of her soul because Aizen had transformed her friend into an arrancar probably to try and find her here. She was not going to stand for it this time as the last time he underestimated her thinking he knew he what she was capable of and taunting her.

"Angry? Want get back at the bastard for what he has done to you? Listen your missing part of your soul and so I am. How about we join up as together we can get that bastard and more importantly survive at this moment" the voice suggested.

"Thinking it over" Orihime agreed and felt that void that was left from the Tatstuki's devouring that part of her soul filling up again.

She quickly realized that what felt like a couple of minute had only been a couple of seconds as Tatsuki was about to take the rest of Orihime's soul when she used sonido herself to get away. Looked at herself she felt a power that she had before as she had not been able to do something like that before.

Just want to get a grip on everything that was happened she then used sonido to get away losing Tatsuki who realized she too had to be getting back as it was Momo's excuse for her to be out would last much longer.

"Are you okay?" Jiraiya asked as Orihime arrived back at the shack they were staying at.

"Not entirely" Orihime said as she noticed her right eye was now pink and there behind appear a one girl that claiming herself to be Lilynette Gingerback.

Apparently when Coyote Starrk was cut down by Shunsui Kyoraku during the final battle of the Epsada. Starrk split Lilynette from himself and gave him all the live he had left as he may have failed to protect all the others that he consider comrades but he could at least save her. Lilynette did not know how but she somehow ended up getting dragged to the dimension where she only became aware just recently from aimless wondering.

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