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[Inoue Orihime] [kaeru_chan]
Title: Ducks and Dragonflies: Twenty Random Facts About Inoue Orihime
Author: kaeru_chan
Character/Pairing/Group: Inoue Orihime
Rating: PG (I suck at rating, I really have no clue XD)
Disclaimer/Notes/Whatever: If I owned Bleach, I'd use it for more than to wash my clothing. x.x Spoilers for... a lot? If you haven't read up to 201 or so, then yeah. Spoilers. One fact is solely based on a drabble I wrote that I had to stick in. >.>


1. Orihime has always hated those movies where a man and a woman fall in love, but one of them is about to be married; nevertheless, the movie ALWAYS ends with afore-mentioned person realizing this is a mistake and leaving their former partner standing at the altar. Orihime thinks this is quite unfair to the poor person who had no clue that their fiancee was so fickle and hopes they wind up far happier than the other couple.

2. When she was five years old, Orihime wanted a little brother. Unfortunately, she had yet to learn how babies came about, and badgered her big brother for hours, asking him to get pregnant, and even adding a "pretty please" at the end.

Sora purchased a "Where Do Babies Come From?" book that same day and spent all night reading to her until she understood that boys, indeed, did NOT get pregnant.

Explaining to her that she couldn't have babies yet, even though she came with the right parts, was another story altogether.

3. She once had normal tastes in food, until she was eight. Sora started working later hours, and Orihime took it upon herself to make dinner. Two jars of honey, a bread loaf, a box of raisins, and an avocado later, she proclaimed herself a culinary genius and discovered she could never turn back to the path of normal food.

4. Orihime has developed a theory about carrots: they are out to control your mind. The baby ones are the safest, preferably with Ranch dressing, Italian, or French, but there's still a risk. She has now made it her personal crusade to rid everyone's bento of carrots. She's also managed to convince Rukia to join her as Vice-Commander of CRAC (Crusaders Raging Against Carrots). Ichigo suspects Rukia only did it because Orihime let her draw the posters and the biggest enemy of carrots happens to be bunnies.

5. Ever since her brother first took her to the summer festival and showed her how he could call down dragonflies from the sky to perch on his finger, Orihime's been trying to follow in his footsteps.

The first time she does it, it's been three years and he isn't there to smile proudly at her. She thanks the dragonfly anyway.

6. Orihime likes to compare laughter to laundry scents. Tatsuki's laughter, for example, is like Morning Rain, while Ichigo's is more like Ocean Breeze (because he scowls like Enraku, and that's the scent she washes him with). It took her a little longer to figure out Ishida's and Chad's, since they rarely laughed.

Unfortunately, Tatsuki wasn't there to dissuade her from leaping at them one day and screaming "ATTACK OF THE TICKLE NINJA" in an attempt to find out.

Well, at least she now knows that Ishida's laugh is like Meadow Sunshine and Chad's is like Lilies and Roses.

7. Orihime didn't shed a tear when she carried her brother to Kurosaki clinic. She didn't weep when they pronounced him dead. She didn't flinch at the stares her classmates gave her the next day when she went to school.

When Tatsuki silently handed her a blue flower hairpin and told her she dropped it, Orihime's defenses shattered and she clung to her friend and sobbed until her throat was raw and her eyes were blurry.

8. She was the first to introduce herself to Ishida Uryuu when they both joined Handicrafts Club, and she liked him almost immediately when she first watched him sew. He was the only male, aside from her brother (who had been the one to teach her), who she had ever seen sew with such a peaceful expression on his face.

9. Ever since the night of the incident with her Hollow brother and Ichigo fighting him, Orihime has been deathly afraid of ducks. She knows it all stemmed from that night, and yet she can't exactly state why or how. Rukia isn't saying anything.

10. Orihime really doesn't understand why so many people have a fixation with her chest. It's a hindrance most of the time, and she doesn't think it's all that interesting-- unless it suddenly grew fangs and snapped at those who got too near. She entertains herself with thoughts of her killer rabid breasts whenever she gets bored.

11. She greatly respects the Shun Shun Rikka. Out of fear of suffocating Tsubaki or Ayame in her sleep, Orihime doesn't sleep with her hairpins in, unless she's in a situation that requires she wear them at all times. She also calls them out when she eats alone, just so she has someone to talk to. It's worth the abuse Tsubaki gives her hair after he's finished his takoyaki.

12. Orihime harbors a fear that she might wind up like her brother. After all, if the nicest, sweetest, most caring brother ever could turn into a Hollow, what's to keep the same thing from happening to her? Would Ichigo have to kill her? These thoughts disturb her, and she doesn't dwell on them long.

13. Despite the reassurances she often gets from Shunou, she still doubts that her powers are really HERS. Their personalities are so vivid that it really feels like they're six separate entities, who do all the work for her. She frequently apologizes to them for this, until Tsubaki plows into the back of her head and tells her to stop fussing about it; she's their wielder and they're her powers, whether she likes it or not.

Orihime sometimes thinks Tsubaki is wiser than he lets on.

14. Unbeknownst to Ishida, Mayuri found Orihime at the 11th Division headquarters the day after his battle with the Quincy. After he gloated over his apparent victory, Orihime grabbed a bucket of water, splashed it on the annoying green puddle, and mopped it up to wring into the drain later. Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Yachiru cheered her on the entire time.

15. During their recuperation period in Soul Society, Yumichika asked Orihime to train with him, being a fan of the beauty of her attacks. Orihime tentatively agreed. The two spent most of the day complimenting each other on the other's attacks and defense. When night fell, both were panting, bloody, and exhausted, but grinning from ear to ear. When Orihime told Yumichika how to get bloodstains from his robes without bleaching the fabric, he dragged her to Kenpachi and insisted she be made an Honorary 11th Division member.

Kenpachi insists he only did it because if he didn't, then Unohana would nab her, and that would "suck like hell". Everyone else who saw Orihime play with Yachiru without screaming and running for shelter knows better.

16. Orihime had never known a mother's touch until she met Unohana Retsu. She sat down with the 4th Division captain to discuss her healing powers and, within minutes, she was being held on Unohana's lap and rocked gently. Neither of them said a word while Orihime silently cried out her frustration at not being able to help the others as much as she'd wanted to. Gradually, she fell asleep and Ishida came to carry her back to their quarters.

17. She actually woke up when Ishida first picked her up, but she pretended to be asleep so she could see how it felt to be cradled.

She suspects Ishida knew she was awake, but is grateful that he never spoke of it and simply indulged her.

18. Orihime is all too aware of her Quincy friend's absence, but she doesn't remark on it. She noticed his glove was gone when she saw him again, and suspects it has to do with his disappearance. She figures Ishida has his reasons, and keeping her silence is all she can do to help. So she says nothing, and just glances at his empty seat every day, wondering if he's ever going to come back.

19. At least once a week, Orihime is jarred awake by her nightmares of all those people writhing and dying in the street as she and Chad sprint to help Tatsuki. Their anguished screams and cries for help echo in her mind until she wants to whimper and clap her hands over her ears. However, Rangiku lives with her now and so, rather than wake her up, Orihime sits there and hugs Enraku tightly to her chest until her shuddery breathing evens out and she can sleep again.

20. Orihime thinks that if she ever meets Aizen, she would most likely break his nose. And then heal it, so she could break it again, and keep on breaking it until all the people he hurt all feel better.

Or maybe she would just kick him below the belt and be thankful that he's not an allankar, because his hole might be there, and then her foot would get stuck and that would be terribly awkward.

She decides to stick with her original plan... just in case.

Thank you~!