Aaaaay, This here is my first story. A masterpiece. Just kidding, don't get your hopes up too high. I know I have to say that I am the proud owner of NOTHING as cool as Bleach or Inu Yasha, so there. I said it. And, I want yall to know that the Orihime I am using in my story doesn't have her powers yet, and the whole soul reaper stuff in her world isn't...actually there. (pretty much all I'm stealing from Bleach is Orihime, Tatsuki and Orihimes awesome powers.) Plus, you should know that she's the 17 year old Orihime. That's because I like her new look the best. And don't worry, She will gain her powers eventually. ON TO THE STOREH!

6:30; MUAHAHAHAHA!

Her Don Kanonji alarm bursted into laughter. Stirring underneath her covers, Orihime rubbed her eyes.

"Muuuuuhhh…"

She sat up and proceeded to blink the sleep from her eyes, the whole time, Don Kanonji's signature laugh filling the room. Finally getting up, she walked over to the other side of the room to turn off her alarm. Yes, it was completely necessary to put it at the other side of the room. If she had not placed it there, she knew she would only continue hitting the snooze button. She definitely could not risk that today. Today would be the day she went on her long awaited trip to the Higurashi Shrine for her senior art class. The thought of sight-seeing in such an old historic place thrilled her, but what thrilled her the most was the legends she heard of demons and priestesses. Her best friend Tatsuki always mocked her for her childish belief in such things, but she always stood her ground and insisted they were real.

With a zombie-like expression on her face, she droned through her morning routine.

Lucky for her, she had spent the previous night taking preparations, which included a very large lunch containing all her favorite unusual foods and her digital camera. Humming to herself with camera and lunch in hand, she was confident that her day at the Higurashi Shrine would be one of the best days yet. Her class would be touring the shrine, taking pictures for the project that would determine their final grade, so of course she planned to give it her best. She took one last look at her clean appartment before closing the door behind her and leaving for Karakura High School.

-x-

She approached the entrance of Karakura's school grounds with a smile from ear to ear. The air was filled with the chatter of all those who were joining the trip. Finally, she noticed a familiar silhouette.

"Tatsuki-chaaaannnn!" she yelled waving at her best friend as she ran. Tatsuki couldn't help but to gasp when she watched her hit the ground. Once again, Orihime had gotten too excited and forgot to watch where she walked. It was truly hard to believe that the invincible Tatsuki was best friends with this clumsy girl…

"Itaaaaaaiii," Orihime sputtered holding her head. Tatsuki ran to her side.

"Are you okay Orihime?" She asked worriedly.

"daijoubu" she smiled as she attempted to stand

"Good, BAKA!" Tatsuki yelled and followed it with a swift punch on top of Orihime's head.

"OWOWOW! You're going to crack my head Tatsuki-chaaaaan!" Orihime pouted.

"Not with that thick skull" she huffed.

"That's so mean!..."

"Whatever, I'm just glad you're fine, now let's go, we'll be late for the bus"

Ahh! That's right, they had to get to the Higurashi Shrine somehow. And their ride there was just about to leave them behind!

"AHHH!"

3_3

-x-

Panting, Orihime and Tatsuki took their seats. What a great way to start off the day. Orihime was sure it should have started out better than this, she even made her lucky breakfast of chocolate-bacon and egg pancakes! She silently wondered to herself why it hadn't worked. Maybe it was because she hadn't fully digested it yet for, or maybe it was because she washed it down with orange juice instead of apple juice. She knew the lucky breakfast had a delicate balance and mysterious ways, but she couldn't quite figure out why it hadn't taken effect… Little did she know that her special breakfast couldn't save her from what awaited her later in the day.

After that horribly long bus ride, Orihime was glad to get out and stretch her legs.

"Ahhhh, my butt is so numb," she complained quietly.

"My, my, your poor butt has been through a lot this morning. First you flash it to everyone when you fall and now it's numb…"

"EHHH?"

3_3

Tatsuki tuned a distressed Orihime out to listen to the teachers directions.

"Alright now, hopefully everyone had a nice bus ride, but the real fun's about to start. First, let's say hi to our guide, Higurashi jii-san." (Kagome's grandpa)

"Hiiiiiii…" the whole class droned in a monotone voice. Except for Orihime, who happened to be very enthusiastic.

"Ehhh, good..." The teacher responded in an awkward tone. It was hard to tell whether or not this was her reaction to the bored tone from the majority of the class, or to the overly excited Orihime. Either way, she simply cleared her throat and proceeded with the introduction.

"He is very old and wise, so he can tell you everything you need to know about the sites. As you should see on your pamphlets, we will begin at the Sacred Tree, so let's follow our guide"

The class shuffled along after the old man, who was happily chatting about priestesses and exorcisms the whole way. He didn't even seem fatigued after the long climb of stairs that made up the entrance to the shrine. When they finally reached the majestic tree, Orihime let out a gasp. She had never thought the ancient tree would be so beautiful. Just being near it gave her goose bumps and butterflies. With numb fingers she snapped a picture with her camera.

"Whoooaaaaa…"

"It's only a tree, Orihime," Tatsuki chimed in.

"It's not only a tree…." Orihime whined.

"Right you are young lady!" The old man added.

"They say that hundreds of years ago, in Feudal Japan, a demon boy was sealed to this tree…"

Upon mentioning this, the old man got a very serious look on his face.

Orihime listened and watched with shining eyes as the old man wove his tale. Tatsuki just watched the look on Orihime's face change as the story reached different points. To her, it was much more entertaining than the fairy tale crap the man was loading all their heads' with. And she continued to watch Orihime's ever-changing expressions for the majority of the day as countless stories were told by the jii-san.

The day had been speeding by Orihime, and before she knew it, her digital camera was already near full!

"Uuuwaahhhhh! My camera is almost full! What will I do Tatsuki-chan?"

"Geez, how many pictures can you take in a day? And at a shrine?"

"Well, my camera holds 2000 pictures, and I had a couple hundred before…but"

Tatsuki was thoroughly amazed and it showed, which made Orihime blush at herself. Perhaps it was a little bit of overkill.

Still, she had to face the problem at hand. Her camera was running out of space and there was still one last site to visit! The most important one as far as she was concerned. The famous Bone Eater's Well. As the class grouped near the outside of the Bone Eater's Well, Orihime couldn't help but to notice a sad looking woman hanging her clean linens outside the Higurashi house. Before Orihime realized she was staring, the woman glanced over and gave her a weak smile, which Orihime returned before quickly rejoining the group.

Why did she look so sad? Orihime pondered. She hated seeing others in pain, but soon reached the conclusion that it was not her place to ask and that she should mind her own business.

Orihime then remembered that she didn't get the time to stop and delete pictures, so all she could do was come along and take the few pictures she had left. This, she thought, probably wouldn't give her the best of grades. However, when they approached the Bone Eater's Well, Orihime wasted no time taking those last few pictures –of only the outside of the small shrine. When she got inside and tried to take more pictures she was quickly disappointed to see her camera was completely full. So, she attempted to delete pictures, but found each of them to be too good to be deleted. Now she was lagging behind. The class was filing out to go to lunch, but so motivated to take some pictures of the actual well itself, she told Tatsuki to go ahead without her.

And so, there stood Orihime, in a flurry to make some room for more pictures when finally, she found a few blurry pictures to delete.

"Yada!"

Now she could get to taking some real pictures.

Click, click!

Click, click! Click, click! Click, click!

And in no time at all, she had filled her camera, again.

Grinning as she looked over her new pictures, she realized that each one had a strange white smudge in the middle of them…

dun dunnnn DUUUNNNN! End of chapter unooo! I know it's not the greatest thing ever, but I had alotta fun writing it. The story has been festering in my head forever, I had to do something. Aka, get the story in your head so that it may fester in there too. I hope it's not too bad. I want me some reviews before that brain a yours 'festers' -Oh, and if anyone has any good ideas, that would be nice. I already know it's gonna involve alot of that hottie sesshomaru, but he comes later. Now all we have to do is laugh at Orihime bing a silly head XD welp, TTFN, Ta-Ta's For Now! pleeeaaaase...review...gasp...wheeze...