The Capture

[rukia2]

Story from Ulquiorra's POV, he is sent to capture Orihime

Disclaimer: All Bleach chars are not owned by me, whatsoever. Additional, I have not read the manga, I only watch the anime, I have heard rumours that Orihime gets captured, I don't know how though.

Originally posted by myself on fanfiction.net

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"I belong to him apparently." I stared at myself in the mirror and the 4th Espada stared back. I took a deep breath and sighed. It looked like today had got off to a really bad start, and all this had come about because Grimmjow had made a pass at me. Then Aizen had stepped in and made his statement. Grimmjow stood and laughed then walked off leaving me and Aizen in the same room. I just stared at him as he extended his arms towards me. "No", I turned on my heel and left. Now I find myself staring into the mirror wondering what to do. Why does he want me anyways? When he has the girl. Yeah, that reminds me I have to go collect the idiots and find her. If he wants her that badly why can't he go and get her himself?
"Hey Ulq!" Oh look, one of the aforementioned idiots. Nevermind Aizen's Army, perhaps it should be renamed as Aizen's Idiot Army, myself not included in this.
"ULQ... Hurry it up!"
I looked through the mirror, I could see the figure leaning against the doorframe waving. It wasn't even worth turning round to speak to him.
"I thought you'd gone" I hoped, more like.
"Yeah I came back" mores the pity.
"Hurry it up Ulq" Give me a reason not to kill him in the most painful way possible.
"I have a name, use it properly or don't talk to me at all." really hope its the latter. Hey he shut up - it worked!
"Are you coming or not?" wishful thinking, I spoke too soon.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him, not really wanting to know the answer
"I'm bored, I thought I'd come with you." no, i don't want to be stuck with him either, I have an idea "Grimmjow, you fetch the girl whilst I get some sleep." hopefully he'll go and leave me in peace
"Aizen - your loverboy is looking for you." ah, time for a change of plan
"He's not my loverboy and I'm not his either" perhaps I will go, it might be safer, but I'll still be stuck with annoying idiots. Oh well the girl might provide some amusement, but if she's as weak as she was last time we met, my boredom is going to set in quite quickly.
"Hey Ulq, stop staring at yourself and lets get moving!" give me time and I really will kill him. Him, and the rest of the idiots.
So with Yammy (big dumb idiot that likes hitting things) and Grimmjow (annoying idiot) in tow we travelled to the real world to find the girl. By the time we got there I just wanted to strangle everyone for bickering. I'm getting a headache!
I can sense her aura, she's by herself in a shop. this SHOULD be easy, however, if the idiots weren't stood around leering over her then it owuld be better. I watch her from afar, happilly going about her life, blissfully unaware of us. For a moment I wanted to grab her and take her somewhere safe, where no-one could find either of us. What the hell was I thinking? I could probalby escape the idiots, but Aizen was another matter, especially as he seemed to want me so badly. Would he track me down and kill the girl? No, he needs her so badly for his plans.
I looked up, the idiots were walking away from me. I strolled after them "Hey!" I called, "She left, we're following" was the reply. I was bored, I really didn't want to be here. My brain reverted back to my previous thought, I still hadn't thought about what (if anything) Aizen would do to me, if (rather when) he caught me. maybe it would be possible to blame it on the idiots, let them take the brunt of his wrath. Was it insanity that materialised in that brief moment? Or did I just want something to cure my boredom? Who knows, but I decided to try it out. I could still feel her aura, and the idiots were nowhere near her. I plane-shifted to her location, grabbed her and planeshifted out again. Her shopping basket dropping with a crash to the floor, the contents bouncing out everywhere.

I masked my reiatsu from the moment I grabbed her. It would make it difficult for the others to follow. She was stunned, and didn't know what hit her. She never struggled or cried out. i took her to a place only I knew of. I was exploring once and found it, and sometimes I'd come here and reflect.
"Let go of me!" she cried out. I obliged.
"Why did you take me in the first place?" she was angry, it was understandable.
"Aizen was going to take you, I didn't want that to happen." Was I feeling compassion?
"I don't need your sympathy, take me home"
"The rest of the Arrancar will kill your friends to get to you"
"I'll heal them, I won't let them die"
"Like you did in our last battle?"
She stopped and looked at me, as if remembering "I...I've grown stronger since then"
"You'll need it, there's no escaping his grasp"
"So are you taking me to him now?"
Well was I? I didn't know, my orders were to grab her and take her to Aizen, but I was never one for rules.
"So what happens now? Will you take me home? or will you keep me here? You talk about Aizen and me trying to escape him, but you've not said how you'll escape him when he finds out what you've done. Now its obvious that you've taken me without his knowing." I quickly looked round, something was drawing near. I put my hand on her arm
"HEY!" she tried to pull away
"No, I'm not going to harm you, I'm trying to hide your aura, so no-one can find you."
She stopped and looked at me, "why are you doing this for me?"
Yes, why? Love was a human emotion, why was I caring for her this much?
"I don't know, I just didn't want Aizen to get his hands on you. He would force you to heal the Arrancar whilst we fought in Soul Society"
"But now?"
"I will kill anyone who tries to harm you." What was I saying?
"Will you let me heal my friends?"
"Yes if they are close by"
She considered this, "Ok, I'll stay then, but will you take me home please"
I lowered my head, "I cannot - there are Shinigami there, you must understand, the time is not right for this battle"
She seemed to accept this.

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This is interesting. Ulquiorra is so mysterious, nice to see his point of view lol. Hope to see more.

[rukia2]

Chapter 2:

I have now read the manga upto current episode, as I decided I wanted to know about the capture. Therefore there might be a bit in this chapter that is a spoiler.

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God knows how he found us, but he did. Such is the will of the human heart.

Ichigo arrived with 'all guns blazing', torn and bloodied he crashed through the wall and into the room that we were in. She stood behind me to shield herself from flying debris. We stood there watching him as he regained his breath and composure. Eventually he stood up and looked at me sternly. "I've come for Orihime."

I kept my gaze on Ichigo, not trusting him for a moment, but I was aware of her stepping out to one side, into his view. "I'm here," she said softly.

"Come, I'm taking you home." He turned to leave, and walked towards the hole in the wall. As he was aware that no-one was following him, he stopped and turned his head back towards her. "Come on, we have to go now."

"I'm not going," she said firmly.

"What???" Ichigo swung round, and stormed back to face us. "What do you mean you're not leaving?"

I looked at her. She had grown alot stronger in herself. "I'm staying here!"

"With him??" Ichigo looked shocked and pointed his sword at me.

"Yes" her words were strong, her voice didn't falter.

"But he's... You can't stay here. Not like this." Ichigo was trying to get her to move.

"Say it. I'm what?" I growled at him.

Ichigo looked at me a scowl on his face. "He's evil. He's an Arancarr. You can't stay here, this place will kill you."

"Ichigo, I can't go. I can't leave here" she said to him

"But why? Do you love him?" he asked.

She was silent for a moment, deep in thought. "I... I... don't know" she turned and looked at me. I looked into her eyes, the pits of her soul, and from there I knew that she did. The moment was broken by Ichigo, storming around. He pushed between the two of us, and addressed me. "You can't love her. Arancarr's don't have feelings. You're just a glorified hollow."

I really didn't want to answer him, and was glad that I didn't as Ichigo started talking again.

"Heal him." Ichigo asked Orihime but pointed at me.

"But he's not injured." she was confused

"No, I mean heal him back to what he was before. I know you can do it. Take him back before he loved you."

"I cannot" she refused him.

"That's not a good idea." I said.

"Who asked your opinion?" Ichigo snapped at me.

"Before I loved her, I wanted to kill her. You really want me like that?" I was angry now. She grabbed my arm and held me back and she turned back to him, "That's why I cannot do it Ichigo."

I put my arm around her and pulled her closer. "Leave, Ichigo, your business here is finished." I know I should've struck him down by now. Was I getting complacent in my old age? Age? Ha! Time had no meaning in this place. My real age was in thousands, yet it was never spoken. Again I repeated myself. "Leave Ichigo, or I may have to force you to go." I put my hand on my sword hilt, readying myself to attack.

"No," she said and held my arm tightly. She looked at Ichigo and pleaded "Please go." There were tears in her eyes. I didn't want to upset her or make her cry but sometimes words are never enough.

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The Capture Part 3
I was mindful of some attack from Ichigo, but how it all panned out amazed even me. Ichigo turned to leave, flash-stepped, grabbed Orihime and made for the exit. I stood there watching him, not really that impressed with his technique. But you would've thought what with such a daring plan of rescue, the rescuer would have checked to see if he'd been followed. This fool, however, hadn't.

"That was very well done", a voice said, slowly applauding.

"Hey Ulq, wtf are you doing?" Dammit, the idiots are back. Trust them to find me now. I sighed.

The owner of the first voice sauntered up to me. "And what will your next move be, Ulquiorra? Save the girl? Kill the bad guy? ... Oh wait, you ARE the bad guy! Ignoring Aizen's orders and running off with her. He was so angry he just HAD to send me." Gin smiled at me.

Again, typical, Aizen never does anything himself. So now I had three little problems to deal with and Gin. I could see her face from where I stood, she was in tears, but even though she was with Ichigo (one of the little problems) she was best out of this fight. However, Ichigo wasn't going anywhere either. Between him and his way out was Grimmjow and Yammy (the other two little problems). And Orihime was attempting to struggle out of his grasp in order to get to me. This of course made it more difficult to escape. There was no way he could fight them and hold her at the same time, so he let go. She ran towards me, seemingly unawares of Gin, up until the point where he smacked her across the face as she ran past him. I grabbed her and held her close to me, blood dripping from her nose, down the whiteness of my outfit.

"Heal yourself", I said quietly to her, which she did.

"Well. Well. Well... The lovers are back together, but their future doesn't look very good. I see death for both of them." Gin said happily.

Hmmmm... perhaps today could be interesting after all. I was just in the mood for a good fight... and I was certain she wouldn't hold me back on this one.

I could see Ichigo being involved with the idiots at the back of the room, he was putting up a good fight, with it being two on one. She just stood close behind me. This was good, I needed her close, I knew Gin's techniques and I would prefer her being nearby than me having to chase to the other side of the room to get to her before he did.

"Stay with me." I whispered to her. She nodded.

"Well then, shall we?" Gin was eager for this fight too, and who was I to deny him such pleasures?

She stayed away from the fight as much as she could, her shield protecting her from the point of Gin's vicious blade.

"What are you playing at Ulquiorra? Don't you want to win this fight?" He teased me, trying to make me snap. But he failed, I wasn't giving this fight my all, I was holding back, determined to beat him, if I could. A chance blow knocked me off my feet, and as Gin advanced I wish I hadn't've held back.

"Its not looking good for the brave knight and his princess." Gin said sarcastically.

I dragged myself up off the floor as another hit knocked me back down, blood splattering around as I came into contact with the floor rather suddenly.

"Well, Princess, you've got two choice." Gin walked past me towards her. He obviously felt I was no longer a threat. True, in his eyes, I was so weary I couldn't withstand any more blows. He continued talking, "You can stay here and die with this pathetic fool or you can come back with me and live... for the time being." She looked at me her eyes wide with fright as she saw all the blood; then steadying herself, she looked back at Gin, "I'm staying."

"Sorry, that's not a valid option - I lied." He advanced towards her, she cast shield on herself and attacked him.

"CERO"

For a microsecond the room went silent. Everything stopped. Then all hell erupted all at once. The blast hit him full in the back, he wasn't expecting it, he let his guard down. The fool. Turquiose light absorbed into his body then ate him up from the inside. The picture of torment; a screaming skull, arms flailing attempting to grab the nearest person and take them down with him, before its disintegration into ashes.

I collapsed back down onto the floor, in my weakened state, it had sapped the remainder of my strength. He wrongly assumed that I was finished. That was his big mistake.

She ran over to me and put her arms around me. We stayed there for what seemed like ages. I was glad she was unharmed.

"Hey! A little help over here???" called Ichigo and the moment between us was broken once again. She healed me up and kissed my cheek smiling at me. A kind of 'go-get-em' smile. I was just in the mood to kick Grimmjow into place. And that place was one far away from here.

I approached him, he looked at me, then looked passed me. "Woah, that's Gin?"

I smirked, "Yes. He's there, there and probably another bit right over there." I was thoroughly enjoying this.

"But he's one of Aizen's right hand men." Grimmjow was panicking a bit.

"Not anymore, he's feeling a bit dehydrated at the moment, shall we say." I smiled, "Want to join him?" I said sternly.

"Ummm... not really."

"Then go, leave us be." I was giving him the opportunity to let us go. I really hoped he didn't take it, I wanted to crush him like the fool he was.

However, this fool decided that leaving was his best option. Grimmjow grabbed Yammy and left shouting... "You can't hide forever Ulq, Aizen's gonna be pissed and we'll be back sometime later to reclaim the girl for him, and then you'll wish you'd given her up willingly."

"In your dreams" I called after them.

"Orihime!" Ichigo advanced towards us.
Damn, I'd forgotten about him.

She smiled at him, "thanks Ichigo, for coming to save me. I'd like to go home now." He took her hand and I stood there speechless. In that brief moment I lost a big part of myself, which suddenly returned as she grabbed my hand and pulled me along too.

Ichigo stopped, "You're taking him?"

"Yes, And?" I was annoyed at his comment.

"Look Ichigo," she explained, "You either take us both back or none at all."

He pondered this, "Okay, but I'm not happy about it."

"Point noted, neither am I", I added.

She stopped and looked at me, "come back with me, stay with me, I need you." I held her gaze again and looking into her soul there was no way I could refuse such an offer.

"Your house guests?" I questioned.

"Don't worry, we'll sort it." she smiled at me, and at that moment, I felt that the world had become a brighter place.

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Chapter 4

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On the way back Ichigo ignored me, whilst she clung to me like a frightened child. i had said that it would be easier for me to open a portal, but Ichigo was being a stubborn fool and wanted to do things his own way. i wasn't happy about travelling through Hueco Mondo, the possiblity of attack was now greater tha usual. So I did what I should've done in the first place, made a portal.
"Ichigo, we are leaving now." we stood next to the opening waiting for him.
"Why?" He looked annoyed. Good I like to annoy idiots.
"The risk of attack is too high at the moment." I decided this was enough of an answer, and I really didn't need to elaborate, he just wasn't worth it.
"I can fight them - they won't stand in our way for long."
I sighed, Ichigo was still the annoying idiot. Again. As usual. I turned back to face him, "Look I know you feel you have to proved yourself, but frankly we don't care. Now you can either swallow your pride and come with us now, or we'll meet you sometime later when you've come through your own portal. Assuming your not dead, that is."
Sullenly Ichigo followed us. I dismantled the portal as soon as we were through, I didn't want all and sundry following us.
"Wow, its such a long way down." It was the first time she'd spoken in ages. Her voice was a light in my darkness "Look, there's my house." she pointed downwards. Well that made it easier to find. I looked round, we were on our own, Ichigo had gone. Good, I really can't stand him. But he was just a child, soon he'd grow up and learn that the universe didn't revolve just around him.
We were stood on the roof of her apartment. "They're not here" I said outloud. "Who?" she looked at me questioningly. "The Shinigami". I was right, the place was empty, but they hadn't gone for good, traces of their existance still remained, an excessive amount of empty food wrappers in the bin and the large communications screen in one of the rooms. I stared at it warily, even though the screen was in darkness, were they still watching?
She was rooting in a cupboard in her bedroom, looking for things. "Can you take the mask off?" she asked me. I walked up to her "No, its a part of me, its who I am , to remove it would be like somepeople cutting off their own arm."
She looked up at me, "Oh, okay, I was trying to make you less obvious, sorry, I didn't mean anything by it." She rummaged some more. "Oh, I still have some of my brothers clothes, they may fit you." She passed the items over to me, a black shirt and a pair of jeans. I removed my sword, placed it on the bed, and took off my coat.
"Your brother, where is he?" I enquired to her. She stopped and sunk down to her knees. "He's... .he's dead."
"Who did this to him?"
"Ichigo...." she said through her tears.
"That bastard, I should've killed him earlier."
"No, its not like that, it wasn't Ichigo's fault, Sora turned into a hollow and tried to kill me, Ichigo saved me from him."
"Even still, I don't trust Ichigo."
She got up and walked towards me, she just stood and stared at me, then spoke.
"Your hollow hole, does it go right through?" I nodded, she looked at it in wonderment. "Can I?" she asked. Again I nodded, unsure of what she was going to do. She ran her fingers around the outside of the hole and I shivered at her touch. "Can you not feel it?" I reached up and grabbed her hand and kissed her fingers. "I feel nothing in the hollow hole, as far as I know none of us do."
I was suddenly aware of a noise in the flat, I quickly redressed in my clothes and put my hand up motioning her to be silent. They had returned. I knew there would be confrontation, there had to be, it was unavoidable. So I walked out into the lounge, she followed behind me.
"You! What are you doing here? Go! You are not wanted here!" I sighed this was becoming repetative. What is it with these Shinigami captains? They think they can walk into any situation and take over.
"Do what you want I quite like it here, I think I'll stay." I sat down on the sofa and put my feet up, but the white haired kid was going at it again.
"STOP!" Orihime stood between the kid and me, her arms stretched wide creating a block. "He's staying here with me," she said firmly.
"But he captured you on Aizen's orders."
She turned her head and looked at me "true.... but he did kill Gin to keep me safe."
Hitsugaya stared open mouthed, "Gin's dead?"
"Yeah, he was annoying me, just as you are now." I didn't even look at them as I spoke, "and therefore, I'm here to make sure she's safe. Do you have a problem with that?" I taunted them.
"You can't be here - you're too much of a target, they'll come for you first."
I stood up, "Look you white-haired brat, they'll come for both of us, thats why we're safer together."
Hitsugaya's face was red with rage. "Brat??!!"
I continued, ignoring him "Now you have two choices - aren't I generous? You can either stay around and assist in the fight when they come, and they will come, in force too. OR you can piss off back to Soul Society and stop bloody annoying me."

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CHAPTER 5

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Days passed and we saw no-one, the Shinigami lodgers did their level best to ignore me. That was good, I didn't want them in my face. Even the suspected entrance from Aizen and the rest of the Espadas was lacking. And Orihime grew more beautiful the longer I spent with her. She didn't want to leave my side, and I must admit the feeling was mutual.
The times I looked into her eyes, the times I ran my fingers through her hair and the times I touched her soft warm lips with mine. i was enamoured, bewitched, a spell I did not wish to break.

A knock on the door brought me back to my senses. Who could it be? It has been so quiet recently. I was wary until I reminded myself bad guys don't knock on doors, they usually barge in take what they want and leave. I admit I have done similiar myself in the past.

I opened the door to see Ichigo stoof at the other side.

"What do you want?" I growled at him.. He just stood there not reacting to my mood. "Well?" I was growing impatient.

"I've brought you a present."
Now he was taking the piss.

"And why would I want a present from you? The idea is absurd!"

"Its not just for you, you're so vain." He took a breath. "Its an ally, someone who will help us in our fight, plus she needs somewhere to stay."

This was getting unbelieveable. "Does it look like we're running a doss house here?" I snapped at him.

"Well... yes, you're here, Hitsugaya and Matsumoto stay here too, and I'm sure Orihime would like her."

"HER?" It had suddenly occurred to me that he was palming off another woman into this household. Not another giggly one like that Shinigami bitch, that would be too much to take. "Who is it?" I questioned.

"Well, she needs to stay somewhere to get stronger, and I figured that this would be the safest place."

"I said WHO IS IT?" at times, especially when Ichigo is around, patience is not my best virtue.

Ichigo turned round and grabbed the figure behind him and gently pushed her forward. She looked at me and I looked (or rather stared in shock) back.

"YOU!!!!!!"

Orihime had heard all the commotion and come to investigate. She saw the new guest, ran towards her and hugged her "Awwwwww..... she's so cute!!" Looking up at Ichigo she asked. "Who is she?"

Ichigo smiled at Orihime's expected reaction. "This is Ne......" he never had chance to finish as I interrupted him.

"Neliel Tu Oderschvank. Yes I know her"

"Herro Uwqwiorra" She still stared at me. I turned back to Ichigo, "You do know she's an arancarr, an Espada, like me. She is number 3 - or was until that position was removed from her."

"Yes, I know. I've seen her numbers, its on her back." he responded.

"Really? then you've seen her adult form." I looked deep into his soul, "and I see you are quite taken by her form - is this why you want to help her?" I smiled knowingly at him.

"Ithigo's my fweind. Ithigo's gonna hewp me." Nell spoke up.

"Yes Neliel, he will." I turned to leave the room, "She can say but I don't want anymore waifs and strays joining her." I suddenly had a thought and turned back to Ichigo. "Why doesn't she stay at your house?"

"No she can't do that. I had enough trouble with Rukia staying there, my family wouldn't leave her alone. Nell's got a mask on - how would I explain that?"

I sighed, Ichigo was being thick again. "Hallowe'en's coming up, that's an easy explaination. By the way, how's your Shinigami girlfriend?"

"Rukia? She's not my girlfriend."

"Ha, she ditched you? After you went out of your way to save her too!"

"I never saved her cos she was my girlfriend, I saved her cos she was my friend. Anywya how do you know about that?"

"Orihime told me, she tells me alot of things."

"Ah", Ichigo said knowingly, "...so that's what you do at night."

"Never you mind what we get up to at night, its none of your concern." I glared at him, "I could ask you the same, but your hand's probably tired from lack of female intervention!"

Ichigo snarled at me, "that was low. I haven't time for girlfriends, I have to get stronger, to save the world!"

This was getting amusing, I laughed loudly, "What are you - some kind of Hero?"

"If I have to be I will. No one will stand in my way!"

I stood before the annoying little kid and laughed. I laughed so loudly and for such a long time, that the Shinigami ran in to see what the commotion was.

The anger in Ichigo's face was visible. "Why are you laughing? I WILL DO IT! I'll prove to you?"

"To me?" I laughed at him again, "You think I really care? I only care about myself and Orihime, everyone else is worthless." I was aware of something tugging on my robes, I looked down.

"Uwqwiorra, is Nell uthleth too?"

"Yes Neliel, in that form you are worthless as well. Return to your adult form and then we'll talk." I kissed Orihime on the cheek, then took my leave of the room leaving the stunned occupants staring after me.

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CHAPTER 6

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"I'm an Arancarr. I exist between worlds. Only humans with high spirit energy can see me" and on this basis, when Orihime's school returned from Autumn break, I decided to attend with her. Aizen could strike at anytime, and it would be typical if she were at school away from me when it happened. Apart from Orihime, Ichigo and his friends and the Shinigami (who Orihime had told me had enrolled for surveillance pruposes) I should be fine.

No problems walking to school, we didn't see anyone I knew. However, in one of the corridors of the school a problem arose. Orihime turned a corner, with me following her "Tatsuki-chan" she grinned and waved, "did you enjoy your break?"

A black haired girl turned her head, smiled and came over. However on her way towards Orihime, that smile turned to a scowl, pointing at me she shouted.... "Hey Freakshow what are you doing here?"

I said nothing, Orihime looked shocked. "Tatsuki-chan why are you calling me a freak?"

"Oh not you, Orihime, 'Clown-features' stood behind you!"

Just then two lads walked passed. "Hey Tatsuki - you been hitting the bottle? You're talking to invisible people!" They laughed at her and walked on. She turned to Orihime "You don't see him?"

Orihime nervously laughed and shook her head "Maybe I have a guardian angel" and started walking towards class.
"He's a freakish looking one" Tatsuki mumbled but followed her and I tagged along behind them all.

At Class, we walked in. I took an empty desk at the back of the room, Orihime's desk was a way infront of me. Tatsuki sat near Orihime, but kept a close eye on me. We were there early so not many students had arrived. I saw Ichigo's friend - the tall one who doesn't say much, walk in. He saw me and stared for a bit whilst walking in, he sat down and said nothing.

Five minutes later Ichigo rushed in. I stood up, for the expected confrontation and walked over to Orihime, standing behind her with my hands on her shoulders. Ichigo's face was like thunder. He dropped his bag onto his desk then strode purposefully towards us.

"Hi Ichigo," Orihime smiled nervously.

"What's he doing here?" Ichigo whispered angrily.

"I'm keeping an eye on my girlfriend, to make sure she's safe." I responded.

Tatsuki got up and said angrily to Ichigo... "You can see him too?"
Ichigo almost jumped out of his skin, "Woah Tatsuki, didn't realise you were there.... See who?"
"Come off it Ichigo, I can see Freakshow stood behind Orhime. Orihime tell me you can see him?"

Orihime put her head in her desk and pretended to be busy looking for something, things were getting out of hand.

"HIME!!!!!!!!"

I was suddenly aware of a human body taking up the same space as I was, and hugging/squeezing Orhime's breasts. Rage built up inside me. I took a couple of paces backwards, held out my hand close to the back of this annoying girl's head "You will not touch her like that again. Ce......" but that was as far as I got, as Ichigo grabbed me and pulled me out of the classroom, and pushing me harshly into the corridor wall.

"Look Arancarr. You do NOT Cero my classmates."

"It was unacceptable behaviour."

"I DON'T CARE!! You have to ignore her, Chizuru is like this 24/7, she has a thing for Orihime, and however much you tell her to leave her alone she still does it."

I wrestled myself out of Ichigo's grasp and smoothed down the creases in my clothes. "My way would have worked. She wouldn't've bothered Orihime ever again."

Ichigo threw his hands up in rage "Are you even listening to me? A class full of students... you let a Cero off. Someone; if not all; die. There's gonna be hysteria."

I pushed past him, "I don't want to talk to you anymore - it was a controlled Cero - the blast would have only been big enough to hit this Chizuru person. No-one else would have been injured."

I walked back into the classroom, there were more people in there now. One kid sat on a table, fell off as I walked passed him, he pointed at me "Woah a monster!" The tall kid - Ichigo's friend - picked him up "Sit down Keigo, we'll tell you later." Keigo did as he was told.

Ichigo came back in and sat a desk near the window, he too watching me. I sat at an empty desk at the back of the room. The teacher arrived and class began.

Half way through the lesson, the door opened and a scruffily dressed student, carrying his bag slung over his shoulder wandered in "Sorry I'm late, Miss, slept in" He walked towards an empty desk next to Ichigo, he said in a low voice directed at me. "I can see you. What are you doing here?"

I got up and sat on his desk "I'm with Orihime. Have you got a problem with that?"

The blond haired kid quietly said, "the problem I have is that you're here in the school."

"Shinji, we'll tell you about it at break" Ichigo whispered across the desk. Shinji scowled at me and I returned to my position at the back of the class.

Break time arrived and I followed Orihime and Ichigo and the rest of the crowd to roof. Keigo was the first to speak, "Ichigo, who's the little kid?"

"Huh?" Ichigo looked round, "Nell.... what are you doing here?"

"nell was bored, nell wath mithing Ithigo." She clung to him.

Ichigo sighed. "Okay everyone, sit down, its going to be a long story."


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TBC