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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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Chapter 7: What Dreams May Come

As Starrk ran with the small woman in his arms, to the fortress of Las Noches, she began to glow. He felt warmth emit from her. He slowed his pace for a moment to look down at her. On her face and arms he could see the cuts and bruises begin to disappear. 'She must be healing herself,' Starrk thought. Judging from Orihime's expression, she seemed troubled.

From on his back, his partner crawled and curled herself over his shoulder. "This is the chick?" Lilynette balked. "She doesn't look that special to me!"

Starrk sighed heavily, "It doesn't matter Lilynette. We just have to bring her back, that's all." Starrk glanced quickly at the woman. 'Hmm… pretty,' he thought to himself as the wolf's sad eyes take in her elegant features.

"What!?" screeched Lilynette, as she placed her hands on either side of his face, turning it toward hers and butting her brow to his. "You know well and good, we don't need this Starrk!" she bellowed at her partner.

"Yea, yea, I wasn't thinking anything Lilynette," he assures the girl. "Besides she belongs to Aizen-sama."

Beating her fists over Starrk's head she replies, "That's right, now let's move!" And off they went as they continued their journey back to Aizen's palace.

Starrk arrives with the slumbering Orihime, at Aizen's throne room. As he walks the long hall, many Arrancar currently present, simply stare at the Primera Espada. It's not often they get a chance to see number 1, as Coyote Starrk is a notorious loner and usually can be found asleep in a corner somewhere around the fortress.

In the middle of the room sits a long stone slab. Starrk is told to place the young beauty there. Gently laying her down, the Primera smoothed away a stray lock of hair, which had fallen across her face. Orihime never stirred.

"Welcome back, Orihime," said a calm baritone voice. Standing atop a long staircase in the rear center portion of the room, was Sōsuke Aizen.

He glided down the stairs to the body of the girl laid out before his court. Coming to stand at her side, he leans over her. "What's the matter? You look troubled," he responds to the corpse-like woman. Leaning in closer, his breath caresses the flesh near her ear, "Please smile. When the sun isn't shining everyone gets depressed," he whispered and brought his hand across her cheek to stroke her soft skin.

Suddenly Orihime's protective prism leaps up, forming an impenetrable barrier between the healer and the narcissistic former Gotei 13 captain. However Aizen, unmoved, merely places his hand on the prism and states, "All you have to do is smile and wait here for a while." Walking over to Kaname Tōsen, he says "Tenteikuura."

The Inner World…

Inside her world again Orihime is at a loss as to what to do. She needed to think. She walks through her jeweled grass, across the silver stream to her titanium hut. Inside once again she came upon Horou Hanahime.

"How am I here again?" Orihime asked.

"When you are defenseless and in immediate danger your reiatsu flares to extreme temperatures, causing the prism to form around you. However, it uses an immense amount of spiritual pressure to maintain so it won't last long," the fire eyed princess explained. "But we're effectively in a time bubble; 1 minute out there is 8 hours here. I'd say we have about 6 minutes on the outside of this prism. That will give us 48 hours here." Orihime's eyes widened in surprise, the hollow woman took her by the hands, "Come, we have much to discuss."

Staring blankly into the dark space, Ulquiorra roams the area. He reaches his hand out to find a cold rugged surface beside him. It's wet and he hears a dripping sound in the distance. Calculating that the best and only course of action is to walk to the sound, he proceeds. He uses his Pesquisa, to sense for any reiatsu, but finds he is alone. Nothing new to him, he simple walks on.

"Are you really just going to walk aimlessly?" a voice echoes in the cavern. "I thought you evolved."

Ulquiorra halts his pace and senses the abyss once again. He doesn't feel or see anyone. After listening there for a few moments he continues to walk on. Something moved to his right, making shuffling noises as if running around in circles. Ulquiorra stops walking yet again and trains his ears to the sound.

"Hahahaha," the voice mocked. It sounded almost child-like. "You're not going to find me that way, Cifer."

At that Ulquiorra became frustrated and annoyed. From the corner of his eyes he sees something move forward. Simply watching it, he waits. It draws up close, within arm's reach. He flings his hand up to grab it, but he missed it. His eyes widen for a minute, in surprise. Ulquiorra rarely missed a target. Still able to view the shape he noticed it dematerialized and reappeared at his side. No, now it was at his back. Wait! Ulquiorra stopped twisting and turning his body to collect himself.

"Still can't understand, can you Cifer?!" the Specter chided. It was in front of him now. It was humanoid shaped. Protruding from the top sides of its head were two long bat ear-like horns. It kept its pace slow as it made its way to stand within two feet of him. As he watched its shape it seemed to become more defined, as if he himself were clearing his vision. When it was no longer blurry, Ulquiorra's eyes widened slightly, but his stony faced façade was put back in place quickly. The specter raised its hands to its bat-like skull face, lifting it off its head. Now Ulquiorra's eyes widened and stayed that way. He was looking into his own eyes.

Orihime and Horou Hanahime stood by the stream. Orihime listens intently to what Horou Hanahime had to say.

"Have you ever wondered what this place means Orihime?" the raven haired soul asked her. She then turned her eyes to her counter-part. Orihime gazed over the landscape and tried to understand what the princess meant. With a puzzled look she turned back to Horou Hanahime.

"You gained your power from your desire to not feel helpless, and so emerged your Shun Shun Rikka," Horou Hanahime paused to ensure Orihime understood her. When she gave a swift nod of understanding, Horou Hanahime took Orihime's hand, walking downstream she continued.

"Upon entering Hueco Mundo, the strength you desired and achieved grew through your trials. You essentially became strong emotionally and physically. The fauna is your heart. The cabin once made only of rotting wood became the hardest metal. That is your body. And this stream of silver is your desire, which connects it all," she finished.

Orihime looked across her world, and admired its beauty for a while. She then turned back to follow the princess. Horou Hanahime continued to walk along the stream. It was flowing lazily for some time, and then there seemed to be rocks which hindered the flow. As they walked on, the stream became smaller and smaller, until it came to a trickle. The obstruction blocking the flow was a large barren white tree. It looked to have many sharp dangerous spines. As Orihime looked over the landscape now, she noticed that gone was the lush green grass with jeweled flowers. To be replaced with grainy white sand. The sky that was bright and blue was now dark and grey.

"Wha... What is this? Where are we now?" Orihime asked worried.

"This is where I used to reside before you showed me your light," Horou Hanahime told her. She walked up to the tree, lowering herself to sit on her heels. Her hand pressed forward to a white rock at the base. Her alabaster fingers gliding over it affectionately. "At first there was nothing but blackness. When you first came to Hueco Mundo this place appeared and I used to sit here and hold this for days at a time." She told Orihime. Because of the time bubble, Orihime's two months in Hueco Mundo, amounted to 79 years for Horou Hanahime. Picking up the rock, she handed it to Orihime.

"Hahahahahahaha…," the Ulquiorra clone laughed. "Your face… haha… your face… It's priceless!"

"What is this?!" Ulquiorra demanded, slightly irate.

"Uh, oh… look out sounds like someone's expressing a pointless emotion~," the clone teased.

A growl began to form in his throat. They circled each other. Then Ulquiorra leaped for his clone, this time they connected. Ulquiorra charged his Bala and fired it. But the clone smiled wickedly and ducked under Ulquiorra's arms. He grabbed the Cuatro in a head lock. Ulquiorra was surprised to find that his clone was stronger than himself and couldn't escape his hold.

"Now, now, now bro… is that anyway to treat family?" the clone looked down into twin emerald eyes. Snapping the fingers of his other hand, he gained Ulquiorra's full attention. "We need to have ourselves a little reunion," he told him, then reached up into his own face and pulled his left eye out, and shoved it into the mouth and throat of Ulquiorra. He used Solita Vista to protect the imagery. "I will enlighten you to my experience, since you locked me in here!" He raged.

Orihime reached out to grasp it. She took it in her hands, and examined it. It looked like a shell, not a rock at all. Her hand felt something on the underside of it, she turned it over. Orihime gasped out loud; on the other side was a long ear-like horn. In her hands was half the mask of an Arrancar.

Gripping the mask firmly in her hands, she pulled it close to her chest. She knew this mask. She touched this mask. It was the right side of Ulquiorra's helmet! Orihime stared long into the fiery eyes of the hollow flower princess. She listened to her story.

"About a year and a half ago, someone was talking inside here," Horou Hanahime pointed to the tree. "He was very mad," she went on…

The Beginning…

"IMA TEAR HIS EYES OUT!" the furious voice said. Horou jumped from her seated position. All these years, no sound had ever come from the tree. She turned her body to it. She reached her hand out and for the first time touched the white spiky bark.

"HEY!" the voice called. "HEY! I KNOW THERE'S SOMEONE THERE!"

Horou pulled her hand away; if she had a face she would probably look astonished. 'He's so angry.' Horou stood there for some time and listened to the voice curse, and berate someone.

"C'mon I know someone was there, I haven't had someone to talk to for centuries," the voice called out, seeming less infuriated. Horou touched the tree again, 'I'm sorry for you, but I don't have a way to communicate with you,' she said in her head. She was stepping away to leave when he spoke again.

"Then how did you just say that to me, Onna?!" yelled the voice.

Horou stood back pulling her hand away again from the tree. 'You can hear me!?' she thought in her mind excitedly.

"HEY! WADAFAQ!? First you lie to me, and then you run away! What kinda shit is that!?" the voice screamed at her.

'Huh?' she thought, walking back towards the tree repeating, 'Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hell-'

"There you are! Why'd you leave like that, it's not like I can eat you, ya know!" the voice said irritated.

Horou could feel the spiny tree branch beneath her hands. 'Hmm, so that's how you can hear me,' she said.

"Huh, whatcha talking 'bout?" he asked less vicious now.

'Everything your hearing are my thoughts, but only when I am touching this tree,' she informed him.

'THAT SONOFAVBITCH LEFT ME IN THE FAQIN TREE!?" he questioned Horou, furious once again.

'Sir, this tree arrived here only a few days ago,' she informed him.

"I don't get it," he said, no longer angry but sad. "I've been here for centuries, ever since my… brother… sank in here and I lost contact with him," he told her. 'Onna… what's your name?' he asked softly.

'You can just call me Horou; my full name is still unclear to my soul's body and I can't speak my full name yet.' She told the voice.

"Ha! What a very generic name!" he laughed. "Then again, mine is not really any better. It's Kanzen."

They spoke for a time and then she left. While she walked back through the flowery field, she noticed it started to sparkle. Reaching down she picked a flower. Along the edges she found jewels that were never there before. She walked over to her new home and saw that the wood of her hut had stopped rotting. Thinking about Kanzen and all that transpired, she concluded that her soul's heart and body were getting stronger very fast. She returned to him later to tell him her thoughts.

'Hey, are you there?' she asked as she placed her hand on the tree.

"Where else would I go? ... hahaha." He laughed.

It was odd to hear him laugh, after being so angry. If she had lips she'd smile.

'You sound happy today,' she stated.

"Well for the first time in a long time, I felt my bro search for me," he told her.

'The one who trapped you here?' she asked. 'I thought you were angry with him.

"I'm Faqin pissed at him, even more now than before." Kanzen expressed. "But I can't help my feelings… I feel whatever my brother feels. I think that's why he repressed me."

She told him her ideas about why he was there, about her home and the changes that happened in her world. Since he seemed the more capable of the two who understood emotion she asked him, 'What do you think about it?'

"That makes sense," he tells her. "She's strengthened the walls of her heart, which would explain the metals and minerals popping up. I can only assume the reason for nothing changing inside here, is that my bro likes this place void of anything. That kinda clears up things too"

'What things?' she was curious.

He told her all these years, no matter what, his brother could never really suppress him. As his brother grew stronger, so did he. He told her all the things he could see because he was still connected to him. Even though his brother didn't acknowledge him he could experience everything, but his brother couldn't hear him. "Since he refused my presence, he's not as strong as he could be."

That was how they stayed for a long time, she would visit him every day telling him about the things happening in her world and he would tell her what he saw and felt through his brother's eyes.

Then one day she ran to the tree after Shun Shun Rikka arrived and the cabin's exterior change. Grabbing the tree she frantically told him about them. He seemed amused and told her the amazing thing that happened to his brother that day. When she heard it, it made her slightly embarrassed, the same thing happened to Orihime today. 20 days later, he told her something she would never forget.

"You know your full name now don't you?" he asked her

'Yes, it's Horou Hanahime. How did you know that?' she asked him.

"I know your counter-parts name. She's Inoue Orihime, the weaver princess," as he said this he was euphoric.

'How do you know that?' she asked again, not denying he was right.

"My full name is Kanzen na Cifer," he declared.

'Kanzen na!?' She shouted at him. 'Then that would mean…' she stopped herself.

"Yeup! Kanzen na," he confirmed. "And it looks like I have a visitor." His voice started to fade. She could hear him bellowing as he walked off, "PAY BACK TIME BITCH!"

Up to date…

"He's hasn't returned yet, it's been 20 days,' Horou Hanahime told the shocked girl.

"Wait a minute, so you mean to tell me, this tree is a void. And my meadow grew around it?" Orihime was dumbfounded.

"When you first met Ulquiorra, I came out of my blackness. On the day you were brought to Hueco Mundo the world around here bloomed and I could speak with Kanzen. The landscape changed and started to become bejeweled. On the day you tried to escape, the hut's wood stopped rotting," the hollow princess informed Orihime. "The day Shun Shun Rikka arrived and the hut turned to titanium… was the time you and Ulquiorra,-"

"Yea! Ok I get it," Orihime interjected.

Horou Hanahime smiled wide, knowingly and sweetly.

"So that means, when Grimmjow trapped him in the Caja Negación…" Orihime's voice trailed off.

"Ulquiorra's been here for the last 20 days," she told her. Pointing to the tree she continued, "With Kanzen."

Orihime's eyes watered and she felt tightness in her chest, in the distance a storm brewed. Holding the mask in her hands tighter, she came to one resolution. She placed the mask on the ground, stood tall and said, "Roku Koten Hana's Combine!" Horou Hanahime sucked in a breath, as Orihime sliced open the tree.

Ulquiorra was immobilized on the ground. He didn't know how long he was there. But his mind was never at rest. The clone, he still referred to him as such because he refused to call him what he really was, had taunted him since he used the Solita Vista. The images never left his mind. Centuries of Ulquiorra's repressed emotions flooded him in one shot. He revisited his past. The black hollows he'd cut down, so as not to be eaten by them. His contentment in finding the void. Then he felt all the pain and anger from the clone. He is the one that trapped him there. It was there in the void, he learned to better suppress his emotions. 'If you didn't have anything, you wouldn't lose anything,' was his theory upon entering the barren tree. This was his kanzen. His completion.

"You ready to do it yet, Cifer?" Kanzen spoke to him again, "He dangled something in front of Ulquiorra's face.

Turning his head, "No," he repeated the same answer as always.

Kanzen got pissed again. "You already accepted a small part of me ya know." He informed Ulquiorra, "We need to complete it."

Ulquiorra simply looked up and away from Kanzen.

"Don't you know I'm doing this for you too?" he said dejectedly.

"You forced it on me to begin with, THERE WAS A REASON I LEFT YOU HERE!" Ulquiorra finally yelled.

Now Kanzen tilted his head to the side in defeated lamentation. Nothing he had done these last 20 days could make him be accepted by the cold bastard. Ulquiorra just didn't get he was trying to help him. Then he thought of something.

"Cifer," he began. "Don't you want to know, what it was you were feeling when you were with the girl." At this Ulquiorra glanced at him. "I can help you understand them."

This gave Ulquiorra pause. He closed his eyes and remembered. The softness. The sounds. He suddenly wanted that again, but he knew if he did as Kanzen asked, it would bring him misery.

"I neither want, nor need your help understanding," he replied.

"If you don't let me help you, your lack of understanding will drive you insane!" his completed form told him earnestly. There was sadness in his eyes. 'It's been too long,' he concluded to himself. 'He can't remember my usefulness to him.

Suddenly a light slashed through the top of their enclosure. Both men looked up as a typhoon raged above them. Amongst the rain and wind stood two figures, one flung itself into the cavern.

Orihime dropped to her knee upon impact with the floor of the tree. She stood cautiously to find two Ulquiorra's before her. With her sword at the ready, she braced herself for an upcoming assault. What happened next surprised her. She had no defense for it.

"Or~i~hi~me~!" the standing Ulquiorra sang as he jumped to the startled healer with a wide smile, tackling her to the ground.

Orihime expected to be cut in two when he jumped her. She didn't expect him to squeeze her for all she was worth. As fast as he was on her, he was ripped away from her.

"Geeez bro, I was just showing her how excited you were to see her again," Kanzen teased.

"I do not care who you are. You do not touch that which is MINE!" Ulquiorra declared.

A/N: What do you guys think? Have you guys figured out who Kanzen is?

For those of you who might not know, the tree is a real element of Ulquiorra's Past. You can find it in 'Bleach DATABOOK 3: Unmasked

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