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Orihime: Inner Spirit Rise to Power Re-Write	By : Kisuke.LikeABoss Category: Bleach > Het - Male/Female Views: 4177 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: I'm trying to get through Ichigo's fight scenes quickly. But this one just has a lot of information I needed to get out. Since this story focuses on Orihime, it's her scenes that I want to flesh out.

Just to give you an idea of my feelings about Orihime's attitude for this story, her theme song is, Headstrong (Explicit Version) by Trapt. I do not own this song nor do I make any money for its mention.

Chapter 5: Pride and Candor

The entire sequence of events seemed surreal to Orihime. The thing that angered her the most was her sudden feelings of guilt. For a short time she felt as if she had betrayed Ulquiorra, in leaving her room and subsequent healing of Ichigo. 'WHAT?!' she scolded herself. While she was unsure of her feelings toward the Espada at the moment, there is no way she should feel guilt for assisting her team member. Whatever their relationship is, never once did she believe herself to be on any one side, save for Ichigo's.

Curiosity getting the better of her she asks, "What did you do?"

Landing to the ground in front of her Grimmjow explains the, Caja Negación. It was a powerful tool, which could seal regular Hollows away in a different dimension.

"We use it to punish our subordinates, but for an Espada his reiatsu is too high, it will only hold him for a couple of hours," he answered. Gradually making his way to stand before Orihime he then demands, "Got it?! Now hurry up and heal him!"

When she hears Grimmjow order her to finish healing Ichigo, she grows angry again. "No," she responds, balling her hands into fists at her sides, "If I heal him you will fight him again."

Grimmjow makes a move to grab her, "Santen Kesshun!" she yells and her barrier is quickly brought up preventing him from gaining access to her. She begins to walk forward with her shield still raised, pushing the Sexta Espada backward.

"What the fu-," the surprised Grimmjow laments. Before she could do more, she hears Ichigo speak to her.

"Inoue, heal me," he states. "And… heal him as well."

"Bad idea," Grimmjow remarks, "I don't need your pity."

"It's not pity," Ichigo goes on. "You want us to fight on equal footing, right? Or, do you want to use that burn as an excuse when you lose?"

Angered, Grimmjow raises his sword and lashes out at Ichigo. He is blocked by Ichigo's own Zanpakutō. "Good stuff! Let's have us a fair fight!"

"You're on!" Ichigo counters, as they break away from each other.

"But Kurosaki-kun," she begins but stops herself, when she sees the look on his face. Now she is reminded of Rukia's words, when they trained with Yoruichi. Orihime, there is just one other thing I want you know. She told her, as they sat during a break from training. It's something my captain taught me. There are two types of battles and as long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always be aware of the difference between the two. There are battles to protect life, and then there are battles to protect pride.This is a battle for pride, Orihime concludes to herself. Snapping out of her memory she gathers her mettle to encourage her friend, and does as he asks.

"Inoue, don't worry. I'll definitely win," Ichigo reassures her.

The two fighters fly off into the distance and Ichigo releases his Bankai, to stand before Grimmjow. There they stayed for long moments staring each other down.

Finally Grimmjow speaks, "Let's rock!" They approach each other swords raging.

Orihime watches the clash of fighters, while Nel trembles in fear. She argues with Orihime over her letting Ichigo fight alone. She assures the little Arrancar, that Ichigo would never say anything he didn't mean.

"He told us, he would win," she affirms. "For Kurosaki-kun, he doesn't just say he will win to make others feel better. When he says it, it's like a promise he makes to himself. So if Ichigo says he will win, then he will. We just need to encourage him," she informs the child.

The battle between the two incredible creatures seethes on. Grimmjow does a back flip and shoots a cero at Ichigo. He stops it, exploding the nearby tower.

"Come on Kurosaki, you feel it right? You want to crush me don't you?!" The Sexta badgers.

"I don't want to crush you," was Ichigo's cool reply.

"Don't bullshit me! Say it! You wanna murder me, for ravaging your friends and city. You wanna tear me apart," fumed the blue haired soul. "Let's go, I'm gonna choke the life outta you, and prove who's stronger!" Grimmjow swings around with his sword in hand. Ichigo makes no move to attack him.

"You don't look like you want to fight me at all," exclaims Grimmjow. "You're so pathetic." He rushes toward Ichigo, fist outstretched. Ichigo dodges out of the way and flips over, just in time to block Grimmjow's Zanpakutō. He asks Ichigo why he's here. When Ichigo tells him it was to save Orihime, the Sexta Espada laughs and tells Ichigo if he wanted to do that he could have grabbed her and left when she healed him. "Were you relieved to see her unhurt … or at least looked like it? Heh, you're so naïve."

At this Ichigo is riled, "What did you guys do to her!"

"Maybe she got hurt … on the … 'inside'," he insinuates. Ichigo explodes. "That's more like it Kurosaki!" he laughs, "You came here to fight me."

They come together with a flail of sword swings, ceros and counters. "You're not at the level I want you at yet," Grimmjow complains. "Eat this!"

Ichigo raises his sword for another swing powered with Getsuga Tenshō as Grimmjow charges another cero. This one is different than the others he's used. He sliced his fingers along his sword drawing his own blood. He calls out, "Gran Rey Cero!" He fires it at Ichigo.

Ichigo notices if he dodges it, it will head straight toward Orihime and Nel. "Grimmjow wait!" They collide.

After the blast and the smoke clears, Orihime could see Ichigo's back to her. He stopped it from hitting them. He turns slowly to face her. What she saw, she never expected. There in front of her eyes was Ichigo, with a Hollow Mask.

Knowing she has never seen him before while he wore this, his eyes turn up to hers. They are pleading with her to accept him. Though taken aback by this development, Orihime understands and slightly nods with determination. With relief Ichigo assembles his resolve.

"It's about damn time," Grimmjow remarks. Laughing enthusiastically, Grimmjow folds his Zanpakutō towards his body. Placing one hand atop it and creasing his fingers, he calls, "Suri Pantera!" A wind kicks up, encircling the Espada, when he emerges from it, his body is transformed. He resembles a panther, with elongated ears, teeth and hair, black paws, and a skeletal white body with tail. He screams.

Their fight continues now, with renewed vigor. Grimmjow brings a new set of barrages upon Ichigo. He jumps up high and with both feet kicks him square in his chest, sending Ichigo flying backwards. As they rage on between punches, kicks, blocks and counters, Ichigo sets off another wave of Getsuga Tenshō. In the distance, Espada Tia Halibel and her three Fracciónes are watching the fight. Her Fracciónes are frightened. Halibel tells them that it is natural that they are afraid. To herself she ponders the spiritual pressure and concludes that it is more like a fight between two Espada. Ichigo is slowly worn down by Grimmjow despite the fact that he is able to use his hollow mask longer than before. Trying to take advantage of Ichigo's pace, he reaches for his mask, only to have Ichigo slash him across the chest. The contest takes flight again and Ichigo is punched down towards to the sand below. Grimmjow searches for him, but Ichigo flashes behind him and cuts him again, this time along his arm and side.

From his elbow Grimmjow shoots off small dagger-like blades, which Ichigo dodges at first. When he sees them headed for Orihime, he flashes in front of them and takes the hit. He flies back down and attacks Grimmjow again, but Grimmjow swings his leg in a roundhouse kick. Ichigo is slammed into a pillar and the rubble crashes down around him. Arising from it he puffs heavily.

"Looks like you're really done now, Kurosaki," the blue eyed panther admonishes.

Above the fighting Orihime watches with concern, finally she reprimands Ichigo. "Don't die!" and for the first time in her life she says his first name, "Ichigo! I order you NOT to die!"

Ichigo glances up when he hears her. His eyes widen at catching his name come from her. Behind him, the Espada charges a paw thrust forward to plunge into Ichigo's back. Catching it in his hand, he turns to face Grimmjow once more.

"Sorry Grimmjow, I can't afford to take any more injuries," with that Ichigo promptly strikes him down. "I have orders," was his final reply as he shrugged his shoulders upward.

Ichigo glances up at Orihime, and prepares to leave. He looks at her and lifts one side of his lip up in a half sided grin. From behind a voice yells, "Desgarrón!" Grimmjow had yet to give up the fight. He strikes at Ichigo once more with his Resurrección. Hitting Ichigo's sword it pushed him backwards. Ichigo is able to stop it, and push across the sandy dunes to impale Grimmjow. The body begins to fall, but Ichigo grabs Grimmjow by the wrist, and gracefully lowers him to the sand.

He turns his back on the panther, and coasts up to Orihime. He looks at her for a time, and then asks, "Are you hurt, Inoue?" She gives him a small smile and a wispy laugh. "I'm glad you're not hurt," he says walking closer to her. He placed a hand to her cheek, and stroked it gently. Before Orihime could remark on it Ichigo grabs her by the waist, pulls her in close … and lifts her over his shoulder intent on carrying her like a sack of rice.

"Hey wait a minute, Kurosaki!" she yelps.

"What? It's no problem to carry you. You're not as heavy as I thought you'd be," he says nonchalantly as he begins to walk off with her.

"Say WHAT!?" she exclaims. Banging her hands against his back, and kicking her feet into his gut he lets her go. "I'll have you know that I can take care of myself!" she wrinkles her brow giving him a stern look.

"Woah, careful there Inoue," he grunts as he holds his stomach. They grab Nel and Jump down from the pillar. "I've got to get out of here and go save Chad and Rukia." Nel hollers up at Ichigo, complaining that he can't leave them here. "No way! You're coming with me. It'd be too dang-." Before he could finish a bloody, exhausted Grimmjow confronts them. His Resurrección is sealed again. He screams he will not lose. Ichigo drops Tensa Zangetsu in the sand and grabs his wrist. "Enough Grimmjow, you lost." Grimmjow pulls his hand away and charges again for Ichigo. Grimmjow never reached him. He was slashed in the side by Nnoitra, making his presence know.

"Geez, what a loser!" remarks Nnoitra. "Just die already, he's mine."

Ichigo, Orihime and Nel watch in shocked awe, as the new opponent made his way towards them. "Who are you?" Ichigo demands.

"Nnoitra … you son of a bitch," Grimmjow's answered, as he choked and gasped on the blood soaked sand.

"What? … You're still alive?!" commented Nnoitra. He raises his weapon above his head and brings it crashing down to put an end to the Sexta Espada. The blow was blocked by Ichigo's Zanpakutō. "What the hell are you doing?" Nnoitra screeched. Ichigo asks why he is attacking someone who can't even fight back. Nnoitra twists his body back at Grimmjow. "What the hell is this shit, Grimmjow? First you let him beat you, then you let him save you?!" Not waiting for a response, he asked for his name. With his sword raised Ichigo gives it. "Kurosaki, huh? I'll remember it for the rest of your life!" Nnoitra flares his reiatsu, overwhelming the group. Then he swings at Ichigo yelling for Tesra to grab and hold onto Orihime. Ichigo demands they let her go. "Oh so your one of those … you think as long as your woman is safe you can win, well I've got news for ya," he sticks his long pointed tongue out to reveal his rank. Espada Number 5! "You got your ass pounded on by that piece of shit, HA! Well guess what … I'm stronger!" Looking out through beady eyes he points at Ichigo, "You're dead." Nnoitra concludes his lecture, and engages Ichigo.

Ichigo strikes back but he's not recovered from his previous fight, and has trouble keeping up with the lanky hollow. Nnoitra wails on him, while Ichigo does his best to block and counter. Nnoitra wastes no time and strikes Ichigo down. He lay there drifting in and out of consciousness. Nnoitra walks deliberately over to Ichigo's fallen body and prepares to perform a final strike.

A flash of orange light blinds the Espada for a second and when he is able to see again, his stoke is blocked. He looks up to find his Fracción ripped open and crying in pain, reaching for his master. Walking towards him is the girl. Her white uniform is sprayed with blood and in her eyes is a fierceness he's not seen for some time.

Being distracted Orihime wasn't ready for the shorter man when he grabbed her. All she was thinking of was she had to get to Ichigo so she could heal him, before Nnoitra fights him. So when the arms surrounded her she was surprised and tackled to the ground.

"I'd prefer we not have a problem, Inoue Orihime," came the unexpectedly gentle voice. There he stayed bend over her.

Orihime gave a soft laugh. "If you didn't want trouble, you should never have followed your master's order," she retorted. Then she grabbed the soft spoken Fracción by the collar of his white lab coat looking covering. Using her own body weight she rocked herself forward, then back and flipped him over her head. He landed with a thud on the ground behind her. Lifting herself up, Orihime knew by sensing his reiatsu, she only had about ten minutes before Ichigo would be out of commission. She would have to end this as quickly as possible.

Tesra picked himself up. "Really, I've seen your fairies Inoue Orihime. Even though they can perform unbelievable deeds, it's preposterous to think they are enough to defeat me," he said smoothly. "The only reason I haven't destroyed them yet, is that Aizen-sama wants them.

Without waiting another second she called, "Ruko Kotan Hana's Combine!" in her hands once again was her katana. "Koten Zanshun," she called then began to commence her assault on Tesra.

"What?" Tesra uttered before he was bombarded with slashes from the orange katana. Urgently blocking them he made an upward swipe slashing her forearm, when her fierce warrior fairy plunged itself though the front of his right arm and out the back. She lacerated the back of his shoulder from left to right when he turned in pain.

He let go of his rapier, but caught it in his left hand. Using Sonído he moves to the side quickly. "Cero Córnea," he said hastily. From his left eye the beam of his cero streamed out.

"Santen Kesshun," She shouts as she dropped to the ground rolling forward. The blast hit her shield being deflected in the process. She then jumped up at his side kicking up as she did. Her foot connected with the side of his head, knocking him over. Using the spiked handle of his sword he punched her waist when she landed.

Doubled over from the pain, Orihime grunted and slipped to her knees. He stalked towards her again and with his sword he lunges for the girl. Orihime rises and flash-steps backwards away from the sharp blade, and swings her arm up and around knocking his Zanpakutō out of his hand for the moment. She takes this opportunity to release Tsubaki again on him. "Koten Zanshun!" Tsubaki rocketed at the Fracción, piercing through his left leg.

Angry now Tesra hobbles to his feet. "You're craftier then Aizen-sama knows aren't you?" he chokes out. "But this is where it ends, Inoue Orihime!"

"Ha, you're a joke!" she jeered. "Sōten Kisshun," within a few minutes Orihime would be whole again. She lectured her opponent to give her healing the time it needed. "Despite what you think you know I have not used my ultimate attack yet. But my sword does allow me to use all my abilities, so I can heal, shield, and attack you simultaneously. So maybe you need to rethink your decision to challenge me, huh? "

"We'll see about that," he replied. As he raises his sword across his chest he speaks, "Fukitobasu Verruga." Suddenly a swirl of wind surrounds and engulfs the Fracción. From the cyclone of wind, arises Tesra's Resurrección. Tesra became a gigantic bipedal, muscular wart-hog. The beast before her no longer speaks.

The two fighters charged each other in a blunt, aggressive confrontation, even though Tesra was overly large, fierce and brutal. Orihime was faster, more flexible, and more agile allowing her to dodge, recoil, and attack from any angle. Tesra swung his fierce arms and body in every direction, in an effort to strike her down. But Orihime postponed her time, waiting for an opening.

After a lengthy battle, both fighters were bruised and exhausted. The creature that is Tesra grunts and snorts, as if saying, 'You're done now.'

"You think it's over?!" Orihime protests and ready's her final attack. She shouts, "Koten Zanshun Obliterate!" with a swing of her sword she released a massive spiritual attack in the shape of flaming an orange phoenix. The attack hit Tesra with full force. He tried to repel it but he was too weak and his efforts were futile. He screamed in terrible pain as Orihime's attack slashed and burned him straight down his middle. When the light diminished and the screaming faded there was Tesra bruised, broken, bleeding, and paralyzed from the waist down. He could no longer hold his Resurrección.

"Ahh … I can't move!" he moaned.

Orihime stepped forward, "Rule number 1: NEVER underestimate your opponent."

"So what will you do now?" Tesra asked.

Without saying anything Orihime ran her blade straight through Tesra's chest severing his soul chain causing him to lose his powers, then she said, "I will let you live with the humiliation of being defeated at my hands, after all you thought you could win with brute force, but you thought wrong, Maybe next time." Orihime left Tesra there to moan in agony.

Now she ran to the other fighters, to find that Ichigo was laid out near unconsciousness with Nnoitra rallying for his final blow. "Santen Kesshun!" she called before Nnoitra's strike could hit home. She strolled into position, preparing herself for another intense battle.

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