Please do not read this part unless you have finished the rest of the book, it will be far more powerful if you read the rest first. Your only doing yourself favour by holding back.

Please forgive me.

I'm, I'm not?

"U...AHHHHHHHH!" I scream, my eyes widen as full as the moon, struck with grief. is that, no! Please!

I fall to my knees, this my fault! I can't believe one the people I love most... "UGGGH!" I sob, the hollow only laughs as it's friend joins it.

"Me eat this one, you that one."

This is all my fault, if only I could protect myself, then...

Then.....

"RUKIA! AARRGHH!" I scream her name, I sob it, the salt from eyes gathers, blissful of my pain. My best friend is dead. I can't do it... I can't bring the dead back to life! A shadow looms like a hawk above me, threatening to swoop down at any moment.

"Pathetic little human, I thought you were more then just trash, but the truth is you are ugly, and weak. Die now miserable fool."

I cry, my tears fall from my cheeks like rain. Rain that trespasses through gates of happiness bringing hell in its wake. A rain thick like blood.

"Tsuabki!" With a single slice, the hollow's leg is gone. It screams in agony, "YOU KILLED MY BEST FRIEND!"

I really am going to die, this is it. I don't care though, Rukia gave her life for me, now I must give mine for hers. I won't let her get eaten!

Both hollows growl and hiss, they rake their sharp dagger like claws across my floor leaving huge scratches. I am not afraid. The pale one pounces, leaping a great distance.

"For Rukia!"

Tsubaki sores, my trusted weapon. The hollow lifts up its claws mid jump, forming a defensive wall that my flying solider can't breach.

A wave of pain befalls my head, I rub my temple but the headache only increases. "Not... yet! Tsubaki!" I weakly lift my hand and Tsubaki flies, slower this time. The hollow easily dodges and charges like a bull towards me.

"I.. I reject!" A faint shield materialises before me, blocking the hollow's first attack. The shield shatters, and with my strength.

"Rukia..." I weakly whisper. The hollow raises a clawed hand, more then ready to strike. I'm dizzy, so dizzy I can't see straight. I can't let it end here... not like this!

"Tsubaki... please!"

The hollow rips it's claws down, though they never hit me. What? How?!

Tsubaki, as tiny as he is, blocks the full attack with his back, "Come on human! I know your still alive, don't be so pathetic! I trust you okay, I trust you with my life."

"Thank you.." I sob.

Tsubaki shatters.

The hollow glares at me, angered.

"Die. Now!"

"I reject."

The hollow vanishes, into thin air it breaks apart. I get up. Walk. Kill other hollow. Find it. Kill it. There.

"Reject... I reject."

Gone too now. Rukia safe. Can't think. Can't see anymore. Feel weak. Dizzy. But okay, Rukia okay. Everything. Be fine... now...

??? POV

Orihime falls, her hair flowing freely behind her back. She too, has died.

Love is a very dangerous game. Love, with all irony, breaks hearts more often then mending them. In the end, friendship won.