Él se dio la vuelta y le sonrió.
No era una sonrisa amplia,
sin embargo tenía cierta
alegría en ella. —Las reinas
siempre deben sonreír, no
importa cuan destrozado
estén las esperanzas, no
importa cuan perdida este la
situación, la sonrisa de una
reina siempre le llevará
confianza a su pueblo y a sus
soldados, quienes sentirán
más valor para defender su
tierra o morir en el intento.
Las reinas no lloran, Orihime,
las reinas gritan su apoyo a
sus soldados con la sonrisa.
Esa es la recompensa por
todas las muertes y heridas.
Las reinas comandan sus
ejércitos y contribuyen a que
su pueblo sobreviva a...

Chapter 4.
Pretending to be someone else wasn't easy. I knew it after all of this time I'd pretended to be someone else—someone who was not me.

I knew that por doing thing like this, it would be just like fooling my own self. I always knew that even por pretending like this, it would never change me. Deep inside, I would be always the same Ichigo. I would always be the scary punk who was good for nothing but fighting. No matter how hard I'd tried, I could never run away from who I really am.

I didn't even know why I did it. Did I really do this only to impress Akayama? It hurt me when she said...

Chapter 3.
It has become a habit.

I never thought that one día this would actually happen to me. Now, every día after school I would have a fecha with Kurosaki-kun. Not really a date, not a proper fecha which I used to imagine but since the real Kurosaki-kun was not exactly like what was in my mind, this kind of fecha was más than enough for me. I was grateful enough that I could spend my time with him in a game centre after school. I never saw Kurosaki-kun looked so excited like this before.

I laughed as I watched Kurosaki-kun spent his money on UFO catcher game. He spent 800 yen already but he...

Chapter 15

Temporary Truce

Orihime stared at the doorway, composing herself. She needed to get over her anger quickly but it was hard. Years of nurturing her emotions and hiding them in the dark – what was left of her now?

But she couldn't let her son be hurt again. She knew that Daisuke hungered to know más about his father. And she couldn't deprive her son of that joy. She already deprived him for seven years.

And then there was Ichigo. Was it completely fair for her to hide Daisuke's existence just because she was hurt when he apologized for their little encounter? She thought so. Her ego...

Chapter 13

Doubts and Fears

Tatsuki grabbed her mobile phone from her jeans' pocket and dialed Ishida's number as quickly as she could. She didn't know what was going on with Orihime right now, but she was sure it wasn't good.

Everything was so twisted up in so many knots that Tatsuki didn't know where to untangle them first. Orihime made everything so darn complicated. It was those secrets and lies that began it all. And now, she didn't know where and how to help her best friend.

Then again, Ichigo was also her best friend. Long before she met Orihime. If she was in Ichigo's condition, she'd be...

Chapter 12

Boiling Water

"What kind of answer was that?" Daisuke complained, pouting.

Ichigo looked at Daisuke for a moment and sighed. This was one trait that the boy didn't get from him – the ability to plead and look like a very innocent and pitiful child who didn't know any better. This was what Orihime looked like. Until he had to find out the hard way that she wasn't as truthful as she seemed to be.

"Maybe is the answer of people who are uncertain of their answers," Ichigo responded, giving the boy the full force of his scrutinizing stare.

"You know, tu look really scary," Daisuke said,...

Chapter 9

Delusional

I've always wanted to be rich.

Grade School.

"I'm Hikaru Morisato, I come from a struggling family. I'm pure Japanese and my parents migrated here in US so that we can be successful," she dicho ambitiously, speaking in pure, accented English.

"With the way tu speak English, I doubt tu can ever go ANYWHERE!" a rude boy shouted.

Hikaru cried.

The siguiente morning, the boy ran out of class because of a bad stomach and a headache.

Junior High.

"Yo, Hikaru, want a treat?" Scott said, smiling.

"Sure, hot, rich boyfriend," she teased.

"Let's go."

The siguiente morning, Hikaru lost her virginity.

High...

Chapter 8

Sneaky Snake

"Hurry up, tu moron! He's gonna find us!" Hikaru whispered urgently.

Tsumoya Haru bolted upright and grinned. "Not yet," he mumbled, leaning in for a torrid kiss.

"Get off!" she threw back. "You don't know Ichigo! He drives like a maniac with that sports car. I swear I'm gonna blow that thing up if he doesn't get rid of it!"

"Okay, okay," Haru replied and scrambled out of the bed, putting on his clothes hastily.

Haru knew Kurosaki Ichigo alright. As he wore his polo camisa, camiseta over his modest body, he knew he was nothing against the prominent and dynamic doctor and businessman...

Chapter 6

Slight Confrontation

Never in her life had she been affected this much. She was really crying her corazón out, running aimlessly back to her home.

That bastard! Who does he think he is?! She thought furiously, tears blurring her vision. She didn't bother to call Uryuu. The man would be worried and he would probably do something to Ichigo. She just expected a normal party, but all she got was sadness and a feeling of guiltiness.

It was as if some part of the ironic universe was playing a trick on her. It was a very beautiful night and everyone should have gone well. In fact, it was going...

Chapter 4
Frivolity and Gravity

"What else do tu need?" Tatsuki asked, staring at Orihime's back.

"Uhm… two kilos of pork, lettuce, más ketchup, and pepper," Orihime responded, wiping sweat off her brow.

She had been cooking for two hours and she was through with the appetizers and soup. She was currently working on the main dishes of Italian and Spanish courses. She didn't really need to cook so much but she thought of making it unforgettable somehow. It was as if she wanted to prove to a certain someone how much she was worth now.

"Okay," Tatsuki said. "I'll go now. I called Rukia to come...

Chapter 3
Reluctance

There were several times in Inoue Orihime's life where she felt her gut being turned up in such terror and hatred that she felt like killing herself. The first time was when her brother died. Then when her brother became a hollow and Kuchiki-san was brought back to Soul Society to be executed. siguiente was the time when she was kidnapped and brought to Hueco Mundo. The fifth was when she saw Ichigo nearly die in front of her and the whole incident of the Winter War. The final ones? Well, when she lost her virginity and had to raise a child alone.

Now there she was, feeling...