Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ She called him Ichigo ❯ Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or I would be stinking rich. : )

Title: She called him Ichigo

Rating: PG (death-fic)

Pairing: RukixIchixOrih weirdness

 

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The rain was falling harder now, but it did nothing to drown out the sobs of the man cradling the shinigami. The people surrounding the couple did their best to offer privacy by turning away, but Orihime's eyes were glued on Ichigo. She could feel his sorrow in waves and her own tears cascading down her cheeks.

 

Things were not supposed to have happened this way. Rukia was suppose to live and come back eventually to their world. But now all hope of recovering their friend was lost.

 

Rukia was dead.

 

Orihime had done all that she could to heal her gaping wound but the petite shinigami had been dead before she landed in Ichigo's arms. Thunder rumbled in the sky as if joining in the mourning of their lost one.

 

After the rain died away hours later and he showed no sign of letting go, she stepped forward to let him know that it was time to take get to some shelter but he felt her coming and gripped her tighter the white of his knuckles standing out against his now pale skin.

 

She backed away, willing to let him to have more time and noticed that she was now the only one there. The others had probably gone back some time ago but she had been too focused on the two before her. Fisting her hands, she turned to walk back, suddenly feeling like an intruder.

 

`Kurosaki-kun will be okay,' she told herself, `He won't do anything stupid. He just needs time.' Her thoughts sounded like lies even to herself but she kept on walking.

 

Somehow, he seemed further away from her now than ever. Rukia's haunting last words only added to the rift, forcing her to realize the truth. Although she had only been with them for two months, she and Ichigo had formed an indestructible bond. There had never been any false titles of politeness between them. Perhaps in public they referred to each other by last name with appropriate suffixes but Orihime had heard them talk in private plenty of times before to know the truth.

 

While they put up a front in school, she knew that they were really good friends and now she wondered if she had meant more to him than he let on. She was a big enough person to admit that she was a bit jealous of their causality with each other. Even now after years of knowing him, she couldn't bring herself to call him more than Kurosaki-kun, and even then sometimes it felt uncomfortable.

 

Walking away made her chest clench but she did not stop. A gentle breeze moved her hair slightly and Orihime could have sworn she heard Rukia's words again.

 

`Thank you……..Ichigo…”

 

Orihime knew that Rukia's death would be hard on Ichigo and she also knew that she could never replace her.

 

Because she called him Ichigo.

 

 

 

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I don't know how in the heck I managed to write such a sob fest but I did. FYI: I'm a huge IchigoxRukia fan so this is disturbing even to myself.

 

Anyway, comment if you like or don't like : )