9 Ch. 9 Good Day for Rain

Jotaro and Rukia get to his house. Jotaro enters first and finds Ichigo and Orihime sitting at the table with his mom. They were catching up.

"You're here! Are you sure you're ok?! Ichigo and Orihime told me what happened! Take your jacket off so I can make sure" Saiko put her hands on his cheeks and moved his head side to side to make sure he was ok.

"I'm fine. And get off me" Jotaro moved her hands away from his face.

"Jacket. Off" She puts her foot down.

"Yare Yare" Jotaro takes his modified school uniform blazer off. Everyone can see his muscles. He turns around and shows his back.

"*Sigh of relief*. Good. You look just like your grandfather…." She remembers having to worry about her dad always coming home from his adventures with bruises or new scars. It wasn't great. But he always came home. No matter what he went through. He even has a mechanical prosthetic left hand. The Joestar and Kujo boys make her worry so much. Even if she doesn't talk with her father anymore.

"Is that so…" Jotaro hadn't seen a photo of him in this life and she rarely talk about him.

"Who is your grandfather Jotaro?" Rukia asked.

"He's none of your damned business" Jotaro puts his blazer back on.

"What did you just say?" Rukia shakes in anger as she raises her right fist.

"Your Ichigos problem now" Jotaro walks back towards the front door.

"Be careful honey! Look both ways before you cross the street even if you have the green light!" Saiko shouts after him.

As soon as she finished talking they heard the door shut.

"So who are you?! Jotaro doesn't usually bring anyone over?!" Saiko grabs Rukia's hands and asks her excitedly.

"Ohh~! I'm his new classmate~. Ichigo was showing me around town when we came across Orihime and Jotaro getting nearly hit by the car~. Ichigo helped carry the groceries back and Jotaro wanted to talk for a minute with me about his job so the group split up~!l Rukia put on her good girl act. Ichigo was facepalming.

"Really? Jotaro, my son, talked with you about his job?! That's amazing! So what is it? What does he do?!" Saiko started asking question after question not giving Rukia time to answer one. Saiko sat her down at the table on the 4th and last seat.

"Uhm. Ma'am-"

"Oh please, no need to be so formal. I like to be calle Saiko, but if that's to awkward for you, you can call me Mrs. Kujo" Saiko didn't like being called ma'am, made her seem too old. She was proud of her youthful appearance.

"Mrs. Kujo. I don't really know Jotaro that well. I only met him yesterday and sit next to him in class. That's really it. And he didn't tell me much about his job. Just that he helps people" Rukia was trying to think of an excuse.

"I knew my Jotaro would do good things. He's always so….stubborn and harsh with his words" Saiko reminisces.

"That's putting it lightly…" Rukia mutters in her normal tone.

"He may say rude or harsh things. And he may appear to not care about those close to him, but he's just a fluffball under that. He used to chase cats all around town you know~. And then when he caught one or it didn't run away he would pet it for a few minutes. Then he would leave it. And recently, when he became independent a few years ago he started feeding the cats around town. He still does it, just not as often. He's so kind and sweet. He just needs to warm up to you. But it seems he already has" Saiko puts a hand over Rukia's hand and she gives her the famous 'Joestar motherly smile'.

"I'll take your words on it then~" Rukia awkwardly smiles back. She doesn't know how to respond to this. It's a lot for her to try and deal with. But she envy's Jotaro for having such a caring mother here for him.

Ichigo and Orihime get dragged into the conversation.

An hour later Rukia and Ichigo excuse themselves. They are walking along a path with nothing really around them. Ichigo tells Rukia about Orihime's brother and how he died due a traffic accident and how Jotaro took him on his back to the hospital. On his own two feet. He got to the hospital fast enough to give Sora, Orihime's brother, and extra hour or so to say goodbye to her.

Rukia now understands why he didn't make a big deal of his injuries. It was so Orihime didn't freak out or worry about him. It also would have. Fought back some not so nice memories to her. She didn't think Jotaro would go that far or even think that much.

"Why all these questions all of a sudden?" Ichigo asks in annoyance.

"No reason" Rukia keeps walking while Ichigo stops. "I'm going home"

"Where is that exactly?" Ichigo puts his hands on his hips.

Rukia turns to face Ichigo. "Curious?" Rukia smirks.

"Not really" Ichigo looks to the side.

"Then don't ask" Rukia says as she turns around.

Ichigo let's his arms hang at his sides as he glares at the back of Rukia's head. "Damnit….she's spending too much time with Jotaro, she's acting more like him. Tch!" He clicks his tongue. Rukia may be rude, but she learned that one from Jotaro for sure. 'Damn those two'. Ichigo thinks to himself and then turns around to walk back home.

-Back at the Kujo residence-

"Are you sure you two won't need any help?" Saiko asks Orihime and Tatsuki.

"We're sure. Thank you though. We're just stopping by my old apartment so I can grab a few things. It's also about time I completely leave the apartment, it's just a few extra items and my secondary memorial shrine to my late brother. We will be back later tonight" Orihime says and walks out the front door.

"I'll make sure she gets some dinner as well. We will stop by my house and eat it at her old apartment Mrs. Kujo" Tatsuki walks out and Saiko goes to the front door.

"You two be careful! And thanks for looking after her Tatsuki!" Saiko sees them wave back and she closes the door. It's moments like this that the house seems so big and empty. Maybe she should go see what the Kurosakis are doing. "That's it! I'll go say hello to Yuzu and Karin!"

Saiko puts her shoes on and heads over to the Kurosaki Clinic. Jotaro was on the other side of the street, he saw Orihime and Tatsuki leave and then his mother left. He wonders where she is going but figures she's going to the Clinic to pick up her medication. It's almost time for her refill. She's having to take more medicine faster. He can't cure whatever she has, but he will be able to soon.

He tails Orihime and Tatsuki. He's wearing his black school uniform and hat with a purple undershirt now.

He gets ahead of them after they stop at Tatsuki's house for whatever reason. He waits at the corner of the street.

No. Not like that. But yes, people are looking like they would 100% take him up on that if he did so that. It was mostly the mothers in the neighborhood and the highschool girls. He was jailbait for the older women. He was technically 15 but definitely looked older.

Jotaro wished that he had some of the music from his last life. It's cool to listen to these hits from his past, but man does it suck not having his modern music. 2004 was a wild time. And the 1990 were something else entirely. It really messed with his mind. But he's kept busy enough.

As Jotaro was lost I thought looking up at the starry night sky others around him stopped and couldn't look away from him for a few seconds.

"Jotaro?" Orihime calls out.

Jotaro moves his gaze from the sky above him to his right and sees Orihime and Tatsuki.

"Hey" His hands in his pockets and his back against the wall he looks at the two ladies.

"What are you doin? And is that you're middle scho-" Orihime wonders but is cut off.

"I wasn't doing anything. And I like the black color better than the gray"

Tatsuki looks at him and compares his gray and black outfits from memory. "Black does look better on you, but gray is ok too…"

"Thanks. I think you should grow your hair out. Would make you look more feminine" Jotaro looks at her.

"I'm going to take that as a compliment from you" Tatsuki was mad, but knew it was futile. Better just to take the compliment. Then she slightly blushes. She hadn't meant to say what she said about him out loud.

"Hey Jotaro!" Orihime walks infront of him. "We're going to my old place and grabbing a few things, wanna tag along?!" She has a huge smile and her hands behind her back.

"Cmon Orihime. There's no wa-" Tatsuki knew that Jotaro denied hanging out with them every time after the incident when they were younger.

"Sure" Jotaro stands up from leaning on the wall.

Tatsuki is left shocked.

"Yay! Let's get going!" Orihime grabs Tatsuki's hand and marches to their destination. Jotaro walks in front of them.

Tatsuki whispers to Orihime. "Hey. Isnt Jotaro acting....differently lately?"

"Really?" She taps her chin with her index finger as she thinks. "Maybe, but I think it's a good thing if he has. He still seems to be the same to me!"

Tatsuki looks at Jotaros back and his hair. It's changed over the years, and so has he. But he's not actually that mean, is he? Guess she will find out over the next few hours.

They get to her apartment and they climb the steps, it's on the second floor. Orihime unlocks it and walks inside and flips the lights on.

The room is pretty dusty for the most part. The only thing clean is the home shrine for her brother.

"Oh. It's been a while since I've had other people over…" Orihime scratches her cheek.

"Don't worry about it Orihime. It's fine" Tatsuki reassures her

"Move" Jotaro doesn't want to wait outside and wants to see the home shrine for Sora.

Orihime laughs a little and drags Tatsuki inside. Tatsuki was getting angry at Jotaro again.

Jotaro closes the door behind him. He walks in and sees Tatsuki cleaning the short table and Orihime praying at the home shrine.

He looks around the room and it looks like it did in the anime, just dustier.

He goes and kneels on both knees next to Orihime. He sits back on his calfs and heels. He puts his right hand on his thigh with his elbow pointing out to the side. And his left hand is infront of his chest flat and fingers together. He lowers his head and closes his eyes.

Tatsuki sees Orihime in front of the shrine and Jotaro to her right. He was actually showing his respect to Orihime's brother. She heard that he was the one who ran him to the hospital. But it was only recently that she found out.

After she cleans the table off and sets the food down she joins them on Orihime's left side.

Orihime opens her eyes after a few minutes and realizes that she forgot about Tatsuki and Jotaro.

"A-ah. Sorry about that you two" She moves to the table and sets the table.

"You don't need to apologize" Tatsuki says and also moves over to the table.

"Have you eaten Jotaro?" Tatsuki asked.

Jotaro doesn't respond and seems very focused.

"I'm not sure we can finish all this anyway Tatsuki. Let's eat what we can and ask when he's done" Orihime cheerfully says.

Jotaro was thinking about that day when he took Soras body from Orihime. He wasn't sure he would make it to the hospital. And if he died on his back he wouldn't know what to do. He would have basically stopped Sora from saying good bye to her brother. He would live on. But he would owe so much to Orihime if he failed. And he still does owe Orihime a lot. He knows he hasn't been the greatest person. And she still calls him a friend. He doesn't want her to face hardships alone, especially the Arrancars. He remembers that Sora was turned into a Hollow with arms and his lower half became a tail. He was also quite powerful. He just had to protect Tatsuki and Orihime. And also see Sora pass on and apologize to home for not doing it.

He opens his eyes and notices his surroundings again. His internal-monologuing is getting worse.

He sees Tatsuki and Orihime eating. Orihime compliments Tatsuki's mom on her cooking.

Tatsuki says that she's glad that Mrs. Kujo cooks for Orihime so she doesn't eat those weird dishes that she likes. Jotaro doesn't tell her that she taught his mom some new recipes that are weird, but actually decent. He won't tell her that though.

Orihime then tells Tatsuki about her afternoon. Like when Jotaro saved her from the car and her bruise. Even about Ichigo being with Rukia and how Ichigo helped carry the groceries back to the Kujo residence.

"It's home"

Tatsuki and Orihime turn to Jotaro who stands up and walks to the window. His back to them. "What do you mean 'it's home?'" Tatsuki questions him.

"It's not the Kujo residence for Orihime. It's her home. Just as it has been for the past three years" Jotaro looks at the moon in the sky outside. He feels a hollow in town and then it disappears. Apparently Ichigo cracked his mask and saw Sora as the Hollow.

Orihime starts crying. "T-thank you. Jotaro"

"Idiot" Is all Jotaro says.

Tatsuki ribs Orihime's back. She wonders why Ichigo and Jotaro are hanging around with Rukia so much. It seems that they are trying to work on her fast to beat the other one.

Just then there was a small earthquake that shook the room.

"What was that" Tatsuki looks around the room. Jotaro walks to the table and stands there looking around the room while the two girls are sitting on the ground still.

Then the pink stuffed animal bear thing falls from a cabinet. It's head has been cut open and stuffing is coming out.

"Not good" Jotaro says.

"What does that mean?!" Tatsuki looks at Jotaro to see his face deadly serious. She hadn't seen him like this before. He kinda looks cool, ok really cool.

"Nothing" Jotaro says to try and calm her down. And shut her up. It did not work.

"Nothing? Sure. Y'known, you could just say you don't know" Tatsuki relaxes a bit.

"Oh no, Enraku…!" Orihime notices her old stuffed animal bear on the ground. She crawls over to it and picks it up to see the cut. "This is horrible!"

Tatsuki stands up and walks over to Orihime who is sitting on the ground. "Why is it ripped like this?" Orihime shows Tatsuki the rip.

Then the three hear a bang from somewhere.

"Nani?" Tatsuki looks around.

And then there are two more bangs.

Jotaro has a realization. What if this Hollow went to their home first. And not this apartment. He looked out the window and moved his cap to cover his eyes. He needs to talk to it. And it's not like he can leave right this moment to go check on his mother. And Ichigo might go to their home first as well. "Shiiit!" He curses to himself.

As Jotaro was looking out the window he turns around and lunges towards Orihime. But he is too late. The Hollow pushes its hand through Orihime's chest. Ripping her soul out and it also knocks Tatsuki into the wall. Jotaro sees the hollow and reels his right arm back. The arm glows a dull red. He uses chantless altered Hado number 2: Heki.

Heki is a Hado art that allows the user to generate a force from their palm and knock the opponent back. Jotaro changed it to come out of his fist instead of the palm and increase its strength a few folds.

Jotaro with his arm glowing, punches the arm of the Hollow. "Ora!!"

There is a sickening crack as the Hollow's right arm is bending in the wrong direction. The Hollow cries out in pain and goes back to wherever it disappears to.

Jotaro's arm stops glowing and he looks at Orihime's body. Her eyes are open and she looks dead. He kneels next to her and checks her pulse. She's alive, so he closes her eyes. He doesn't know why her eyes were like that.

"What is this?!" Tatsuki cries out. She grabs her shoulder that is bleeding.

Jotaro sees a chain leading from Orihime's chest over to the other side of the room. He quickly jumps to her soul that is outside her human body. He picks her up and lays her next to her real body.

"Tatsuki!" Jotaro shouts.

Tatsuki flinches. She can tell that Jotaro isn't happy. She looks over to him and sees he's crouching beside Orihime's body that isn't moving. "I-Is sh-"

"Orihime is fine. Just knocked out. You ne-" Jotaro was going to tell her to go back to his house. But was stopped.

Jotaro is sent flying over to Tatsuki and was about to crush her. But he catches himself on the wall with his hands.

"Ggghh" Jotaro stifles a grunt.

The hollow had flicked him with its tail without fully entering this world. He couldn't move or else it would have crushed Orihime.

"Jotaro!" Tatsuki is between the wall and his body. She saw him get sent towards her by nothing.

Then Jotaro is sent flying to the side. And yet again. He couldn't dodge or else Tatsuki would have taken the hit. He could have dodged, but not countered while protecting Tatsuki.

The Hollow was focused on Jotaro. Orihime woke up and saw what was going on. She was so scared. She moved to the corner of the room and just saw the Hollow on top of Jotaro now. She sees the tail of the hollow and then her human body. It was at this moment she saw the chain attached to her chest. She tries to get it off by pulling on it.

"Don't pull on that!!" Jotaro shouts as loud as he can. This causes Tatsuki and Orihime to stop moving. They just watch as he struggles with something on top of him. For Orihime it was the Hollow. But for Tatsuki it was thin air.

Then the Hollow grabs Jotaros throat and squeezes. Orihime attempts to get up but stops when she sees Jotarobend one of its fingers around his throat back quickly. There was a sickening 'pop' sound and the Hollow let's him go and then punches him with its other hand.

Jotaro is hit into the floor and bounces off the ground a few inches. He lands back to the ground with a thud. "Ow" he says and doesn't move.

The Hollow cries out as it's fixes it's finger.

Tatsuki faints and Orihime runs to her side. Then the Hollow begins talking to her about how she can't hear them. Orihime talks with the Hollow until it gets fed up with her not recognizing him. He tries to grab Orihime.

But there is a clash instead of a stab with the hollows nails.

Jotaro looks over to Orihime and sees Ichigo blocking Hollowfied Soras attack.

"I thought you were….after ME!" Ichigo shouts as he pushes the Hollow back, cutting its hand.

It retreats to its other world.

There's an eerie silence through the room.

Ichigo looks at his surroundings and sees Tatsuki and Jotaro.

"Shit….Tatsuki got hurt in the crossfire. Jotaro as well" Ichigo is in a stance waiting for the Hollow to come back.

Jotaro stands up slowly.

"Ichigo?" Orihime asks. Ichigo turns to face her. "It is you. But how?"

"She is int in her body Ichigo. She's a soul right now" Jotaro stands up fully and points at her body on the ground.

Then the Holow appears and taunts Ichigo, saying Orihime is dead.

Ichigo charges without a plan at the Hollow.

"Ichigo you fool". Jotaro watches as Sora dodges Ichigos telegraphed swing and counter him with his tail. Sora send Ichigo out the window, breaking it.

Hollow Sora then tries to grab Orihime's chain but Jotaro just tackles it out the apartment through the hole in the wall from Ichigo breaking though it.

Jotaro lands on top of the Hollow on the ground and is thrown off against the building hard. Jotaro slides down the wall of the building and lands on his feet. He holds his ribs with his right arm and supports himself with his left.

Orihime is looking out the hole in the wall now. "Jotaro!!" She cries out.

"Orihime~" The Hollow says and tries to get to her.

Ichigo charges the Hollow but yet again gets countered by its tail.

"Why does he never learn" Jotaro pushes himself off the wall.

"Ichigo! Wake up!" Rukia appears.

"Fuckin hell, seriously?" Jotaro walks over to Ichigo.

"What are you still doing in your human body?! Can't you do something?!" Rukia is confused by his actions.

"I'm just-" Jotaro gets next to Ichigo's unconscious soul reaper form. "Keeping it interesting!"

Jotaro kicks Ichigo hard in the ribs. Ichigo flips over and gasps, but he's not able to get air into his lungs.

Ichigo coughs and holds his ribs. Then he gets up and grabs his Zanpakuto. "You bastard!" He looks to Jotaro to see he isn't looking that great.

Jotaro is standing tall but his clothes are dirty and look to be torn in places. His hat is crooked revealing his face. His eyes are still bright green and haven't changed. He's holding his ribs and there's blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"You dumb-Fuck. Pay attention to the Hollow. It's strong but not unkillable. Just dodge an attack and counter. You don't always need to attack first. Especially if it's proven to not work twice"

"4 time actually" Rukia tosses her two cents in.

"Yare Yare"

"Fine! I get it, fight smarter not harder! Ok!"

Rukia then gives her speech about him being a monster now, not Orihime's brother.

Ichigo listens to Rukia while Jotaro goes over to the stairs leading to the second floor.

He doesn't want to make this too easy for himself. Otherwise he won't grow either. Sure he could kill the Hollow in one swift swing of his Zanpakuto, but that's too easy. And he could pull a final trump card out of things get derailed too much.

He gets to the door and hears Sora talking with Orihime. Same as the anime, it's frickin weird to be on the other side of a door for this speech.

Sora talks about how she gradually forgot about him. How she used to orsy for him every day, but as she got older she started to hang out with her friends more.

Jotaro kicks the door open and sees Sora about to grab her.

"Orihime, you moved away and forgot about me. How could you. I know you still love me but you still left. It hurts…..I am so lonely….why don't you come with me…Orihime" Sora grabs Orihime by her shoulders.

Then he lets her go and says he will go eat the soul reaper and turns around. Orihime grabs his attention again but Jotaro speaks up and draws his aggro.

"Hey Sora! Don't you remember me?! The guy who took you to the hospital?! The one who let you say goodbye to Orihime?!" Jotaro walks into the room.

"And I was the one that was friends with her, Tatsuki and Ichigo when we were kids. Then after Ichigos moms death, I left them alone. I left your sister alone. She tried to be friends with me but I ignored her, and I still do. Doesn't tha-" Jotaro was at the entrance and walked closer as he talked. It seemed to bring memories back. But when he started to be rude it drove Sora mad. Sora charged Jotaro and tried to stab him with his nails.

The hall was narrow. But it was tall enough for Jotaro to jump above the initial strike.

Just as Sora was about to whip his hand up towards Jotaro, Ichigo entered the room and stabbed its tail. Repeatedly.

It tries to hit Ichigo into the ceiling but fails. It then tries to grab for Orihime but Ichigo gets in front of its arm and cut its hand off.

"Don't worry about her Ichigo! Focus on the damn hollow you moron" Jotaro lands on the ground solidly. Ichigo was about to turn his back to Sora. Rookie mistake. Better to correct that bad behavior now.

"Listen you. Do you know why big brothers are born first?" Ichigo asks the Sora Hollow.

The Hollow actually stops moving and listens.

Stupid ass talk-no-jutsu. Or whatever it's called.

"To protect the little brothers and sisters being born later, damnit"

Ichigo gives his speech about how Sora is trying to kill his little sister and how it's bad. And how the older brother should protect their siblings even if it costs their own life.

Sora then begins his own monologue. How he saved Orihime from their drunk of a father and prostitute mother. When he was eighteen he raised Orihime by himself since she was three.

Then he tries to convince Orihime that if she goes with him he will spare the others. Rukia appears and stops Orihime from falling into the obvious trap.

That's when Sora sees the hairpin in Orihime's hair. He remembers her growing up and how he gifted it to her.

His red Hollow eyes fade away to reveal his true gray eyes beneath the mask.

He screams in agony and rams his head into the wall as he resists the Hollow. But then the red eyes come back and tries to devour Orihime. But Ichigo uses his huge blade to stop Sora and holds its mouth/mask open as they struggle to overpower the other.

Ichigo pushes harder and sends Hollow Sora out of the hole in the wall. Sora then goes into the air. Ichigo jumps after him and is about to slay him, but he hesitates and gets acid spat on his hands making him drop his Zanpakuto. Sora hits Ochigo with his tail downwards to the street below.

Ichigo tanks the blow and lands on his feet but doesn't have his Zanpakuto. He turns around to see the gaping maw of the Hollowified Sora.

Just as Sora bites down Orihime wraps her arms around the back of Sora's head. But she doesn't feel any pain. That's when she notices a shadow is cast over her and she looks behind her to see Jotaro.

Jotaro is using his hands and shoulder to keep Soras mouth from closing on her. His right shoulder is stoping the top from coming down and his hands are stopping the bottom from going up. His shoulder is bleeding and his hands are gripping the mask hard.

Orihime turns back to her brother.

"Ori-hime…." The red eyes are gone and Sora's eyes can be seen once again.

"I'm sorry, brother. It's my fault. Because I said 'Don't leave me alone' that day…." Orihime remembers sitting beside her brother on the bed.

He was in and out of consciousness. And when he was conscious he talked with her about taking care of herself while he was gone. How he wished for her to make great friends. When he was out of consciousness she would beg her brother to come back. To not leave her alone.

Sora remembers this. And how he was given the chance to have that talk with her because of the guy he was trying to bite. He stops trying to close his mouth but Jotaro doesn't move.

Sora wasn't in and out of consciousness, he was in his soul form and in his body. He was dying, but didn't want to leave to heaven yet. And so when he died he became a spirit/pluse.

"I knew…that you were always nearby. Even when I was almost ran over by that car. You pulled me and saved me, right? And that also made you save Jotaro? You protected us…"

Jotaro wasn't going to say shit about that. Sora did save her a bit, but definitely not him. But he wasn't gonna say shit.

"But I can't rely on you forever. You deserve to rest peacefully. So I wanted you to know.."

Jotaro let him go and stepped back. He folded his arms across his chest and turned to the side.

Sora close his mouth and looked down at Orihime who was crying

"….I wanted to show you…..that I was happy…..that you didn't need to worry"

Orihime started to sniffle and cry harder as she fell to the ground in a sitting position. "But that…..made you…..lonely" Orihime then collapses to the ground completely.

Sora's Hollow mask starts to fade away. "No…it…it isn't your…"

Sora shouts out as he fights his Hollow side.

Rukia explains that he was forced to become a Hollow and not by his own volition. She then tells Ichigo that there was a Hollow trying to target him. And that it specifically chose Sora because Ichigo would hesitate when fighting Sora. And that might get himself killed.

"Orihime!!!" Sora shouts. Then his mask shatters and his human/soul face is shown.

Orihime sees her brothers face and cries more. And her hairpins glow a little. That's when she passes out.

"Orihime!" Ichigo shouts.

Rukia tells everyone to calm down since the chain on her chest hasn't broken yet so she can still return to her body.

Rukia goes to Orihime and heals her with Kaido. Ichigo talks with Sora about the hairpins. And how she always wears them every day.

"She has pictures of you" Jotaro says not turning to face them. "Not only in her room at the house. But there are photos on the fridge and on the walls. She NEVER forgot about you. Not a single day" Jotaro fixes his visor of his hat.

Sora closes his eyes and gets up. He then moves to Ichigos Zanpakuto and picks it up. He tells Ichigo he wants to die while he is himself.

Rukia explains that when a soul reaper slays a Hollow they are merely washing away its sin, letting it pass on to the SoulSociety. And that's why Soul Reapers exist.

Sora was about to stab himself through, but Orihime asks for some more time. She tells him that she was sorry for fighting with him about the hairpins, and that they aren't childish.

Orihime sits up with the help of Rukia. "Brother, see you later."

She cries while looking into her big brothers eyes.

Sora looks down at his little sister who isn't so little anymore. He sees her and feels his heart swell with emotion. Happiness and love that she is alive, and that she has such great friends. And so many other things that he can't put into words.

With a satisfied and contempt face he whispers. "Yeah, see you later"

He then closes his eyes and raises his head as he runs the Zanpakuto through his chest.

He starts to fade away into light particles. With a smile on his face.

Ichigo's Zanpakuto falls to the ground and clatters.

Orihime watches the light from her brothers soul disappear into the clear and starry night sky.

Then she can't hold back the tears anymore. She shudders as tears well up in her eyes. Then she can't hold them back and they come rushing out. She turns to Rukia and starts weeping in her arms. She can't hold back her cries.

Jotaro knows he made the choices he had to. But that didn't make the choices easy. The pain his body felt paled in comparison to what he felt on the inside. It was bad enough when Sora initially passed away. But this was something that was so much worse. Nothing could have prepared him for something like this.

Ichigo looks to Jotaro who has his hat off looking at the clear and starry night sky, the moon hanging high in the sky.

"Ah, it looks like it's beginning to rain" Jotaro says looking down as he puts his hat on, covering his eyes.

Ichigo looks up to the night sky. "No, I don't think it will"

Ichigo then looks back over to Jotaro.

Jotaro is looking back up at the sky, eyes covered by the visor. "No.." Tears stream down the either side of his face. "…It's raining alright…"

"Ah.." Ichigo looks back to the sky. "You're right"

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