And I will keep walking till the day I die.
Sunday, November 27, 2005 Episode 3 - The Older Brother's Wish, The Younger Sister's Wish
Ichigo, having cracked the Hollow’s mask, realizes the true identity of the Hollow. The Hollow, its mask regenerated, lets out a lion-like roar. Ichigo wonders why Orihime’s brother is after him, and Rukia tells him that most probably, a separate and powerful Hollow that is hidden from them wants to eat his spirit power. Several other Hollows would be puppeteered by him. Ichigo does not wish to kill Orihime’s brother, but Rukia states that if he is not killed, he won’t be saved. Rukia initially thinks that the Hollow will be back for Ichigo, then changes her mind – Orihime is in danger.
The subject of their worry has finished her meal, and Tatsuki asks her if she would like dessert. Orihime replies that she has her green onions and sweetbean jelly, and though Tatsuki does not approve of her chosen dessert, she adds that it’s delicious to eat with friends. The pink teddy bear, Enraku, sitting on the shelf suddenly tears on the face, spilling cotton out. It falls to the floor, and Orihime crawls over to pick it up. As she wonders why it has ripped, she and Tatsuki hear a “boom” sound.
Meanwhile, Ichigo, Rukia sitting on his back, jumps from roof to roof, shocked by what Rukia tells him. Hollows, fallen souls without hearts that were not buried by Shinigami nor protected from other Hollows, attack their relatives. Orihime’s brother’s soul turned into a Hollow after failing to eat Ichigo’s, so he would seek out his most-loved person to bury its lost heart. The large bruise on Orihime’s leg that afternoon was the touch of a Hollow, so the accident was probably the handiwork of her brother.
Tatsuki and Orihime continue to look around in search of the source of the sound they had heard earlier. Now, they hear scraping noises, as though someone were sweeping with a broom with hard bristles. Blood drips onto the floor at Orihime’s knees. Orihime is stunned to see blood on her hand, seemingly seeming from Enraku. There is a louder boom and the hand of the Hollow bursts out of Enraku and through Orihime’s body. All Tatsuki sees is her friend suddenly collapsing, a look of shock on her face. A shadow passes over hers, and she is pushed back by a large, invisible force. Her shoulder begins to bleed, and to her, there seems to be no explanation. She is suddenly pushed aside yet again by the force, and goes flying. She gets up again, but is once more knocked back onto the floor. The Hollow is now over her, and she desperately uses her hand to block it.
Orihime watches from the corner, where she is shivering in fear. Her Chain of Fate is attached to her chest, and leads to her body, which lies motionless on the floor nearby. She wonders what the monster-like thing is, and why she (herself) is lying there. She also tries to pull on the Chain. The Hollow tries to strangle Tatsuki, and Orihime calls out to her. She gets up and, uses her whole body to knock away the Hollows arm. She crawls over to the coughing Tatsuki, glad that she is okay. Instead of uttering thanks or whatnot, she stares at the handprint on her sleeve and quickly moves away, shouting for Orihime to keep away. Orihime, surprised by her reaction, asks her what is wrong. The Hollow tells her that it is useless, because Tatsuki cannot hear nor see them. Tatsuki collapses, and Orihime asks the Hollow how he knows her name.
The Hollow tells her that he is sad that she has forgotten his voice. Orihime asks him instead to keep away, instigating an attack from him. However, Ichigo arrives in time and stops the attack, asking the Hollow if he was supposed to be after him. The Hollow, its hand cut, retreats with a roar. Ichigo looks around, annoyed that Tatsuki got caught in the crossfire. Orihime asks him if he is Kurosaki-kun, and when he turns around, she sees that it really is him, and asks now why he is here. Ichigo asks how she can see him, and then notices that it is her spirit he is talking to, as her body is elsewhere attached by the Chain. As only spirits can see Shinigami, normal people should not be able to see him.
The Hollow reappears, saying that Orihime is now dead. Ichigo rushes at him, his Zanpakutou poised and ready. The Hollow evades the attack and picks up Orihime’s chain of fate as it flies away, dragging Orihime along with him. Ichigo tries to attack its tail, but is flicked away easily out of the house. The Hollow orders Ichigo not to move, and tightens his grip on Orihime’s body, causing her to gasp. With his tail, he flicks Ichigo to the road below, and Rukia runs to him, asking if he is okay. Orihime, seeing Ichigo, struggles against her brother’s grip, shouting at him to let go of her. She stops suddenly as the Hollow asks if she has forgotten him, and rotates her body to look at him. She stares for a while then asks if he is her brother.
Ichigo gets up, his forehead bleeding slightly. Rukia reminds him, after assuring herself that he has no serious injuries, that even if the Hollow was once Orihime’s brother, he is now a heartless monster they have to eliminate. The Hollow puts Orihime down, as she asks him if it really is him. He affirms so, but Orihime says that it cannot be him – her brother would never do such a thing. He replies that he was lonely, seeing her gradually forget about him. Initially, she prayed at his shrine daily, and he, who was attaching, was happy. However, a year later, after befriending Tatsuki, the number of prayers she made dropped drastically. Finally, the prayers stopped altogether when she entered High School. Orihime tries to state her reasons, but he butts in and grabs her, saying that if she loves him, not to betray him anymore and to be obedient. It will not be long before he ends this by eating Ichigo. Orihime tries to plead with her brother that Ichigo is not a part of this, and not to hurt him anymore.
Her brother, enraged, grabs her once again, shouting at her, saying that it is her fault that it has come to this. He squeezes her, making her gasp, as he tells her to listen to him or be killed first. Ichigo returns, plunging his Zanpakutou multiple times into the Hollow’s tail. The Hollow drops Orihime, then tries to pick her up again. Ichigo cuts off its forearm, asking him if he knows why older brothers are born first. It is to protect the younger sisters and brothers who come after. Rukia rushes in, just in time to hear the end of his gallant speech. A big brother, therefore, can never tell his little sister that he will kill her, even if it costs him his life. The Hollow tells him to shut up, as Orihime belongs to him – he had raised and protected her in place of their parents who had abandoned them when she was three. He extends his hand to Orihime, telling her to come, and if she does listen to him, he will not hurt the others. Orihime starts towards him, but Rukia stops her, explaining that he no longer has her brother’s heart.
The Hollow notices her glinting hairpins, and memories of Orihime as a young child flood his mind. He begins to bang his head against the wall, then charges at Ichigo, declaring that Orihime belongs to him. Ichigo blocks his attack, forcing his mouth open as he says vehemently that Orihime is Orihime, not anyone’s possession. Pushing the Hollow back hard enough such that it flies out of the earlier hole made when the tables hadn’t yet been turned, he dashes to the hole, his Zanpakutou positioned above his head. He hesitates for a long while as the Hollow flies past, Rukia’s order to slay him coming too late. The Hollow spits poison from its mouth onto Ichigo’s hands, causing him to drop his Zanpakutou and fall down to the road. Ichigo, now unarmed, gets to his feet, as the Hollow flies towards him at high-speed, his mouth open wide.
The one who blocks the attack this time is Orihime, her arms around his neck as she apologizes for saying “Don’t leave me alone” that night, as that was why he could not go to heaven. She always knew that he was nearby, like the day before, when she was about to be hit by the car, it was he who pulled her leg, saving her. However, if she continued to rely on him, he would never rest peacefully. Therefore, she wanted to show him that she was happy, so that he would not worry. Instead, it had made him lonely.
She crumples and falls in front of him, her shoulder bleeding. He tells her it is not her fault, and his face begins to change back and forth between the Hollow’s mask and his original face as he screams. Rukia explains that he is struggling against the Hollow within, as he had not become one of his own volition, but was taken by other Hollows against his will. This was probably because they wanted to eat Ichigo, and purposely chose a soul he would find hard to fight, and after manipulating him, sent it after Ichigo. However, for his sister’s sake, the Hollow is now fighting against that Hollow.
With a cry of his sister’s name, the Hollow’s mask suddenly shatters, revealing the shocked face beneath. Orihime watches, tears in her eyes, before collapsing to the floor once again. Ichigo rushes to her side, but Rukia tells him and the Hollow to calm down, as she is not dead – the Chain of Fate on her chest is not yet broken. She then tells them to get back, as they are in her way. She says that she can still save Orihime with her demon magic.
As she puts her hand over Orihime’s shoulder and it (her hand) begins to glow. In the light of Rukia’s demon magic, Orihime’s hairpins wink at her brother. Noticing his reaction, Ichigo says that she wore them everyday as they were a present from him (brother). The Hollow stares a while more at Orihime, then turns around at picks up Ichigo’s Zanpakutou. He tells Ichigo that if he stays around like this, he will eventually return to being a monster. For that reason, while his mind is clear, he wants to disappear. He puts the tip of the Zanpakutou to his neck, and Ichigo tries to stop him. Rukia instead tells him that he has made the right choice, as Hollows cannot return to what they once were. Also, slaying a Hollow does not mean you kill it, but rather, that you wash away its sins, allowing it to go to Soul Society. That is why Shinigami exist.
Ichigo looks up at Orihime’s brother, who smiles and nods his head. Before he can kill himself, however, Orihime stops him. She tells him that on the day he bought the hairpins, she fought with him as she thought them childish. She did not say anything as he went to work, and by some stroke of luck, that was their goodbye. As her hairpins shine again, she adds that this time, she wants to say it properly, and sits up, tears rolling down her cheeks. “Brother, see you later.”
Her brother smiles once more, and returns the farewell before thrusting the Zanpakutou into himself and dissipating. The Zanpakutou falls to the floor and Orihime begins to weep on Rukia.
The next day, Orihime seems to believe that the previous night, a Sumo champion had come to her home and blasted a hole in the wall with a gun. Her friends find the story unrealistic, and ask her to come up with something else. Orihime insists that the story is 100% true, and surprisingly, Tatsuki confirms the truth of the story. Ichigo and Rukia stand at a distance, Rukia in particular “admiring” her deed. Ichigo asks her if this is what she did that night, when she put a lighter-like device in front of Orihime’s face and pressed a button, making a puff of smoke go up in her face, as well as the head of a duck on a spring. Orihime collapses as Rukia explains to the astounded Ichigo that the device is a memory modifier. Using that, she had erased Orihime’s memories of that night and put in a replacement, as she had done with Ichigo’s family previously. As already revealed, the one downside is that the replacement memory is random.
Ichigo is silent, then he says that as of yet, he cannot say he is prepared, as he is not a saint who can say he will risk his life to protect strangers. Neither is he scum that sits quietly by while people are hurt before his eyes. He extends his hand for Rukia to shake, saying that he would like to help her with Shinigami work. Rukia smiles, then takes his hand, and says that she looks forward to it.
End.
Acknowledgements: Bleachportal.com
By the way, I've added pictures into episodes 1 & 2 to facillitate ur imagination haha..
Sunday, November 27, 2005 Episode 3 - The Older Brother's Wish, The Younger Sister's Wish
Ichigo, having cracked the Hollow’s mask, realizes the true identity of the Hollow. The Hollow, its mask regenerated, lets out a lion-like roar. Ichigo wonders why Orihime’s brother is after him, and Rukia tells him that most probably, a separate and powerful Hollow that is hidden from them wants to eat his spirit power. Several other Hollows would be puppeteered by him. Ichigo does not wish to kill Orihime’s brother, but Rukia states that if he is not killed, he won’t be saved. Rukia initially thinks that the Hollow will be back for Ichigo, then changes her mind – Orihime is in danger.The subject of their worry has finished her meal, and Tatsuki asks her if she would like dessert. Orihime replies that she has her green onions and sweetbean jelly, and though Tatsuki does not approve of her chosen dessert, she adds that it’s delicious to eat with friends. The pink teddy bear, Enraku, sitting on the shelf suddenly tears on the face, spilling cotton out. It falls to the floor, and Orihime crawls over to pick it up. As she wonders why it has ripped, she and Tatsuki hear a “boom” sound.
Meanwhile, Ichigo, Rukia sitting on his back, jumps from roof to roof, shocked by what Rukia tells him. Hollows, fallen souls without hearts that were not buried by Shinigami nor protected from other Hollows, attack their relatives. Orihime’s brother’s soul turned into a Hollow after failing to eat Ichigo’s, so he would seek out his most-loved person to bury its lost heart. The large bruise on Orihime’s leg that afternoon was the touch of a Hollow, so the accident was probably the handiwork of her brother.
Tatsuki and Orihime continue to look around in search of the source of the sound they had heard earlier. Now, they hear scraping noises, as though someone were sweeping with a broom with hard bristles. Blood drips onto the floor at Orihime’s knees. Orihime is stunned to see blood on her hand, seemingly seeming from Enraku. There is a louder boom and the hand of the Hollow bursts out of Enraku and through Orihime’s body. All Tatsuki sees is her friend suddenly collapsing, a look of shock on her face. A shadow passes over hers, and she is pushed back by a large, invisible force. Her shoulder begins to bleed, and to her, there seems to be no explanation. She is suddenly pushed aside yet again by the force, and goes flying. She gets up again, but is once more knocked back onto the floor. The Hollow is now over her, and she desperately uses her hand to block it.
Orihime watches from the corner, where she is shivering in fear. Her Chain of Fate is attached to her chest, and leads to her body, which lies motionless on the floor nearby. She wonders what the monster-like thing is, and why she (herself) is lying there. She also tries to pull on the Chain. The Hollow tries to strangle Tatsuki, and Orihime calls out to her. She gets up and, uses her whole body to knock away the Hollows arm. She crawls over to the coughing Tatsuki, glad that she is okay. Instead of uttering thanks or whatnot, she stares at the handprint on her sleeve and quickly moves away, shouting for Orihime to keep away. Orihime, surprised by her reaction, asks her what is wrong. The Hollow tells her that it is useless, because Tatsuki cannot hear nor see them. Tatsuki collapses, and Orihime asks the Hollow how he knows her name.
The Hollow tells her that he is sad that she has forgotten his voice. Orihime asks him instead to keep away, instigating an attack from him. However, Ichigo arrives in time and stops the attack, asking the Hollow if he was supposed to be after him. The Hollow, its hand cut, retreats with a roar. Ichigo looks around, annoyed that Tatsuki got caught in the crossfire. Orihime asks him if he is Kurosaki-kun, and when he turns around, she sees that it really is him, and asks now why he is here. Ichigo asks how she can see him, and then notices that it is her spirit he is talking to, as her body is elsewhere attached by the Chain. As only spirits can see Shinigami, normal people should not be able to see him.The Hollow reappears, saying that Orihime is now dead. Ichigo rushes at him, his Zanpakutou poised and ready. The Hollow evades the attack and picks up Orihime’s chain of fate as it flies away, dragging Orihime along with him. Ichigo tries to attack its tail, but is flicked away easily out of the house. The Hollow orders Ichigo not to move, and tightens his grip on Orihime’s body, causing her to gasp. With his tail, he flicks Ichigo to the road below, and Rukia runs to him, asking if he is okay. Orihime, seeing Ichigo, struggles against her brother’s grip, shouting at him to let go of her. She stops suddenly as the Hollow asks if she has forgotten him, and rotates her body to look at him. She stares for a while then asks if he is her brother.
Ichigo gets up, his forehead bleeding slightly. Rukia reminds him, after assuring herself that he has no serious injuries, that even if the Hollow was once Orihime’s brother, he is now a heartless monster they have to eliminate. The Hollow puts Orihime down, as she asks him if it really is him. He affirms so, but Orihime says that it cannot be him – her brother would never do such a thing. He replies that he was lonely, seeing her gradually forget about him. Initially, she prayed at his shrine daily, and he, who was attaching, was happy. However, a year later, after befriending Tatsuki, the number of prayers she made dropped drastically. Finally, the prayers stopped altogether when she entered High School. Orihime tries to state her reasons, but he butts in and grabs her, saying that if she loves him, not to betray him anymore and to be obedient. It will not be long before he ends this by eating Ichigo. Orihime tries to plead with her brother that Ichigo is not a part of this, and not to hurt him anymore.
Her brother, enraged, grabs her once again, shouting at her, saying that it is her fault that it has come to this. He squeezes her, making her gasp, as he tells her to listen to him or be killed first. Ichigo returns, plunging his Zanpakutou multiple times into the Hollow’s tail. The Hollow drops Orihime, then tries to pick her up again. Ichigo cuts off its forearm, asking him if he knows why older brothers are born first. It is to protect the younger sisters and brothers who come after. Rukia rushes in, just in time to hear the end of his gallant speech. A big brother, therefore, can never tell his little sister that he will kill her, even if it costs him his life. The Hollow tells him to shut up, as Orihime belongs to him – he had raised and protected her in place of their parents who had abandoned them when she was three. He extends his hand to Orihime, telling her to come, and if she does listen to him, he will not hurt the others. Orihime starts towards him, but Rukia stops her, explaining that he no longer has her brother’s heart.
The Hollow notices her glinting hairpins, and memories of Orihime as a young child flood his mind. He begins to bang his head against the wall, then charges at Ichigo, declaring that Orihime belongs to him. Ichigo blocks his attack, forcing his mouth open as he says vehemently that Orihime is Orihime, not anyone’s possession. Pushing the Hollow back hard enough such that it flies out of the earlier hole made when the tables hadn’t yet been turned, he dashes to the hole, his Zanpakutou positioned above his head. He hesitates for a long while as the Hollow flies past, Rukia’s order to slay him coming too late. The Hollow spits poison from its mouth onto Ichigo’s hands, causing him to drop his Zanpakutou and fall down to the road. Ichigo, now unarmed, gets to his feet, as the Hollow flies towards him at high-speed, his mouth open wide.
The one who blocks the attack this time is Orihime, her arms around his neck as she apologizes for saying “Don’t leave me alone” that night, as that was why he could not go to heaven. She always knew that he was nearby, like the day before, when she was about to be hit by the car, it was he who pulled her leg, saving her. However, if she continued to rely on him, he would never rest peacefully. Therefore, she wanted to show him that she was happy, so that he would not worry. Instead, it had made him lonely.She crumples and falls in front of him, her shoulder bleeding. He tells her it is not her fault, and his face begins to change back and forth between the Hollow’s mask and his original face as he screams. Rukia explains that he is struggling against the Hollow within, as he had not become one of his own volition, but was taken by other Hollows against his will. This was probably because they wanted to eat Ichigo, and purposely chose a soul he would find hard to fight, and after manipulating him, sent it after Ichigo. However, for his sister’s sake, the Hollow is now fighting against that Hollow.
With a cry of his sister’s name, the Hollow’s mask suddenly shatters, revealing the shocked face beneath. Orihime watches, tears in her eyes, before collapsing to the floor once again. Ichigo rushes to her side, but Rukia tells him and the Hollow to calm down, as she is not dead – the Chain of Fate on her chest is not yet broken. She then tells them to get back, as they are in her way. She says that she can still save Orihime with her demon magic.
As she puts her hand over Orihime’s shoulder and it (her hand) begins to glow. In the light of Rukia’s demon magic, Orihime’s hairpins wink at her brother. Noticing his reaction, Ichigo says that she wore them everyday as they were a present from him (brother). The Hollow stares a while more at Orihime, then turns around at picks up Ichigo’s Zanpakutou. He tells Ichigo that if he stays around like this, he will eventually return to being a monster. For that reason, while his mind is clear, he wants to disappear. He puts the tip of the Zanpakutou to his neck, and Ichigo tries to stop him. Rukia instead tells him that he has made the right choice, as Hollows cannot return to what they once were. Also, slaying a Hollow does not mean you kill it, but rather, that you wash away its sins, allowing it to go to Soul Society. That is why Shinigami exist.
Ichigo looks up at Orihime’s brother, who smiles and nods his head. Before he can kill himself, however, Orihime stops him. She tells him that on the day he bought the hairpins, she fought with him as she thought them childish. She did not say anything as he went to work, and by some stroke of luck, that was their goodbye. As her hairpins shine again, she adds that this time, she wants to say it properly, and sits up, tears rolling down her cheeks. “Brother, see you later.”
Her brother smiles once more, and returns the farewell before thrusting the Zanpakutou into himself and dissipating. The Zanpakutou falls to the floor and Orihime begins to weep on Rukia.
The next day, Orihime seems to believe that the previous night, a Sumo champion had come to her home and blasted a hole in the wall with a gun. Her friends find the story unrealistic, and ask her to come up with something else. Orihime insists that the story is 100% true, and surprisingly, Tatsuki confirms the truth of the story. Ichigo and Rukia stand at a distance, Rukia in particular “admiring” her deed. Ichigo asks her if this is what she did that night, when she put a lighter-like device in front of Orihime’s face and pressed a button, making a puff of smoke go up in her face, as well as the head of a duck on a spring. Orihime collapses as Rukia explains to the astounded Ichigo that the device is a memory modifier. Using that, she had erased Orihime’s memories of that night and put in a replacement, as she had done with Ichigo’s family previously. As already revealed, the one downside is that the replacement memory is random.
Ichigo is silent, then he says that as of yet, he cannot say he is prepared, as he is not a saint who can say he will risk his life to protect strangers. Neither is he scum that sits quietly by while people are hurt before his eyes. He extends his hand for Rukia to shake, saying that he would like to help her with Shinigami work. Rukia smiles, then takes his hand, and says that she looks forward to it.
End.
Acknowledgements: Bleachportal.com
By the way, I've added pictures into episodes 1 & 2 to facillitate ur imagination haha..
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