Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten ❯ Departure ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

This is my first fan fic, hope you enjoy. Read and write a review please!

Disclaimer: I do not own bleach.

Chapter 1-Departure

How long had it been since she came to this place??

Two, three years?? Or maybe it was a few short months.

She looked older, her hair had grown.

How long had it been since she “discovered” this power, this power that haunted her??

She looked down at her bandaged hand.

So long, so very, very long.

She still remembers very clearly what happened, how it went. Maybe too clearly.

Orihime had been feeling strange lately, since coming to Hueco Mundo. It only took Hougyoku 4 months to awaken and they were surely past that point. Aizen told her that he still had to make preparations to attack the world of the living and that he wanted her and the Espada to improve in their abilities.

Aizen. He made her stomach churn, his spiritual energy was extremely thick and dense and it was difficult to just be in the same room as him. She hated him with every fiber of her being.

Kurosaki and the others had tried to rescue her from Hueco Mundo a few days after her departure from the living world, but she could not allow it. She could not allow them to die for her sake; she would not allow such atrocities to take place.

And that was the first time she felt it.

A surge of power went through her and she suddenly had strength that was not there moments ago. She could sense it, Kuchiki-san and Sado-kun was hurt, and they were on the brink of death. She could feel their reiatsu's fading every second.

She had to do something she just couldn't let them die!! And then suddenly she disappeared from her room and she was standing in front of Chad. She had no time to think about how she got there she had to save him before he died.

“Ayame, Shun'o, I reject.” She spoke monotonously.

As they shot from her hairpins Chad's wounds started to dissipate and it was as if he never was staring death in the face.

As if it was as easy as picking a flower in a field, Orihime grabbed his collar and picked up the 6'5 with ease and thought about her next location. She focused in on Kuchiki's fading reiatsu and was there seconds later. She repeated the same actions as before and disappeared with Kuchiki and Chad in tow.

“Ha, ha, ha”

“This guy aint no joke” Renji said with exhaustion tingeing his voice

“If he was a joke we would have been done with him long before” Ishida smartly said.

“HA HAHAHA, do you really think you can defeat me??? It was a mistake for you weaklings to come in the first place, did you really think you had a chance???” hysterically laughed Zaelporro. “And now, you weaklings die!”

Renji and Ishida were in for it now. He was gathering up a cero that not even Yourichi could avoid. They knew what they were in for. He disappeared and reappeared with amazing speed and shot the cero at point blank range.

No time to run, no time to escape. He blasted the cero at point blank range, surely killing both Ishida and Renji in the process.

“Tch serves you bastards right for thinking your skills were on par with the Espada!” he caustically spoke.

And as the smoke cleared he saw something that made him stutter in amazement. “w-what the fu-” he couldn't even finish his sentence before he was sliced clean in half.

As the smoke finally dissipated the boys stood in amazement at who their savior was.

“I-Inoue!!!” Renji and Ishida said in unison.

In a spilt second she had managed to deflect his cero with her shield and send Tsubaki at him which sliced the octavo Espada in two.

She had Chad and Rukia down at her sides holding on to them by the backs of their clothing.

“I feel really silly being rescued by the person that was supposed to be rescued in the first place.” Renji said lightheartedly after he recovered from the ordeal.

“Ah, well since Inoue-san is free now we can high tail it out of here” Ishida said while pushing up his glasses.

During this whole conversation, Orihime said nothing.

“Come on Inoue, lets go find Kurosaki” said Renji, tugging on her sleeve. And in a spilt second so fast that even Renji and Ishida couldn't see they were both mysteriously standing where Ichigo was.

Orihime was there and was still holding on to the unconscious Rukia and Chad. She dropped them both and they started to stir in their slumber and awoke.

“What's going on here...And why we all are united…Have we defeated all of the Espada??” Rukia asked in a groggy voice, still rubbing at her eyes and not realizing her wounds were completely gone. Chad silently sat up and was surprised that his wounds were healed and why he was still alive for that fact.

Orihime paid no attention to Rukia. She quietly walked over to Ichigo, and knelt to partially heal Ichigo's wounds after his fight with Ulquiorra and then asked was he well enough to turn on his back; he replied with turning over as she asked.

“Good” she said, and then she did the unthinkable.

She stabbed Ichigo in the stomach to the shock and dismay of everyone.

“I-Inoue-san?” Ichigo managed to choke out.

“Kurosaki-kun, Ishida-kun, Kuchiki-san, Abarai-kun, Sado-kun, please go home, if you stay any longer you will surely die.” She said calmly looking away from Ichigo's confused eyes and the others. Everyone stood in shock around her, at her actions and the words she just said. “We are NOT going anywhere without you Inoue-san!!” replied Rukia. “We worked hard to get here to you and we damn sure aint going nowhere with you not in tow!”

“Yea!” they spoke in unison with the exception of Ichigo.

“You just don't understand do you??!!!” shouted Orihime, tears now streaming down her face as she looked up at them, “they'll kill you; they'll kill you so fast you wouldn't know what hit you if you take me with you! Leave this place now! Save your lives and get stronger!!! Don't throw your lives away on me!! Please, I'm just a spec in the scheme of things you all are too important to too many to die here…and over me for that matter!!” she said crying uncontrollably “please just leave”

Ichigo was glued to the floor, astonished and amazed at Orihime's actions, strength, and her sudden words to leave her behind. He hadn't said anything since she had stabbed in the stomach. His brown eye's turned sad realizing that she just wanted to save them all.

“Inoue-san…” Ichigo sadly spoke.

Suddenly she stood up and started motioning something with her hands.

“Tsubaki!!” she shouted and suddenly a rip in the air appeared.

With a sad voice she closed her teary eyes and said “you must go back now, they are on their way to this place and they will kill you all without a moment's hesitation” a moment later she added “if you don't go back on your own then I will have to make you go back by force, and that is something I wish not to do.”

They all understood. Loud and clear. Ichigo was a stubborn and headstrong person but even he knew when he was outmatched. And this time, he was by a long shot. He knew if they stayed any longer each one of them would die. Inoue saying what she said was just his thoughts being confirmed. He knew, they had to leave.

He got up off the ground, leaned on his sword, and in a defeated voice Ichigo agreed to go to everyone's dismay. “Ichigo we just can't leave, Inoue is right here in our grasp and were gonna let her slip through our hands?!?” yelled Ishida.

“What do you think I wanna leave her here!!? They will just come back to our world and surely kill us all!! They won't harm her, they obviously need her, we need to regroup and lick our wounds!!” Ichigo angrily said.

“I can't believe I'm hearing such words from you Ichigo” Rukia said, her anger rising. “Inoue is our friend and we just can't leave friends behind, isn't that something you taught me?!? ICHIGO!” yelled Rukia, her hands clenching into fist.

“Ru-” before Ichigo could finish his word they all felt a strong spiritual pressure. It wasn't that of an Arrancar but that of a human, a human that was standing a few feet away.

“STOP arguing!!” bellowed Orihime releasing enough spiritual pressure that would even scare Urahara. She sighed and took a deep breath, once again regaining her composure.

“Go,” she said calmly.

“But Orihime!” cried Rukia.

“Go,”

“Inoue-san” begged Renji.

“Go,”

“We can't leave...” pleaded Ishida.

“GO!!”

They all understood very, very clearly by that point, she wasn't going anywhere, and they were just going to have to accept it.

“Thank you for the attempted effort for trying to rescue me, but please get stronger, I know you all can, you will all fight when the real time for fighting is needed, and this is not the time. They will not harm me here, they need me, so please, get stronger.” She said, flashing one of her famous smiles she was known for.

And one by one, they piled through the rip in space saying their goodbyes and promising to return and rescue her, and it closed behind them but not before Orihime got to sneak one last look at Ichigo.

It made her happy that they all tried to save her, it really did. It made her feel like she was an important cell to their group, it made her feel like she was wanted and furthermore needed by her comrades; it really did make her happy.

Suddenly her smile turned sad as she thought `that's the last time I'll see him, and I didn't even have the courage to tell him how I felt.' Seconds later Espada members were there and she knew it was time to go…