The sun and moon

One: two kingdoms

I claim no rights or anything associated with the Bleach series and/or its characters. As they are owned by Tite Kubo. This story is completely my own idea as it will be an IchiHime love story. Some of the characters maybe a bit OC so please don't hate. Please leave me your comments and reviews telling me what you think. Thanks!

Key Guide: "regular speech", 'thinking to ones self', *mental speech*, (author notes/translations), bold - hollows/demons speaking, italics - attacks

One:  two kingdoms

No one knows how it truly began.  But there were two kingdoms that were as opposite as day and night.  The people of the earth kingdom always feared those from the moon kingdom.  It was no shared secret that the people from the moon kingdom possessed strange and unusual powers.  That they may look human but, they could transform into demonic looking creatures.  As a result the people from the earth cut their ties with the moon kingdom.  But that didn't stop the people from the moon kingdom from looking over and protecting the people of the earth kingdom.  The truth was that soulless beings came out at night to feast upon those of the earth kingdom.  The people from the earth kingdom didn't learn about these creatures existence until they had cut their ties with the moon kingdom.  Since then the earth kingdom had set up rules to protect themselves from these soulless beings.  Creatures they called Hollows.  The rules were easy enough to understand.  NO one was allowed out after dark.  If you were out after dark, no one could come to your rescue as no modern weapons seemed to phase these Hollows.

The years have gone and passed as the moon kingdom kept a silent vigil over the earth kingdom.  The ruler over the moon kingdom was a young man named Ichigo Kurosaki.  He may look to be sixteen years old but his true age was impossible to determine.  He longed to bring peace between the two kingdoms.  Only a few other beings existed upon the moon with him as most of their people died because they couldn't find their mates.  The strongest still remained as they hadn't lost hope yet of finding their mates.  They all knew that if their king, Ichigo Kurosaki could find his mate, that they would be saved.  Ichigo was their ruler, their king and he had the power to save his people only if he had his life mate by his side as their light would balance out his darkness.  So Ichigo continued his vigil hoping to find his mate in order to save his people.

Then one day the impossible happened.  The king and queen of the earth kingdom had a baby girl.  The minute that she came out into the world, Ichigo knew that she was the one that he had been waiting for.  His life mate a part other part of his soul.  He knew because he felt his inner demon stir.

*So she has finally come.  I was starting to wonder how much longer we were going to have to wait.* stated a dark voice in the back of Ichigo's mind.  Ichigo recognized the voice to be to his other half.  A being who Ichigo called Shirosaki Ogichi or Shiro for short.  Ichigo had meet his other half when he was just a child.  Ichigo was a bit surprised to see how much his demonic half looked like him.  According to Shiro, his human-like appearance is not his true form.  But he felt that his human half would be more comfortable seeing a human appearance.  Even though Shiro was void of all color.  Shiro had no name to speak of until Ichigo had named him.  Most of the people within the moon kingdom knew of their inner demon or demonic half but they couldn't talk to them the way Ichigo could.

*But this makes things a bit tougher as I can't mate with her until she comes of age.  Let alone.......  She part of the earth kingdom.  I just hope that as she grows up, she desires peace between our two worlds.* Ichigo replied back mentally.  

*Let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.* stated Shiro.  Ichigo just resumed his watch as he listened to hear his mate's name.  Orihime Inoue.  She became the sun balancing out Ichigo's darkness.  Ichigo could feel himself smiling as he watched over and protected his princess without her realizing it.

The years came and went quickly as Orihime grew into a beautiful young woman.  Ichigo found himself often snarling at the men who saught her hand in marriage.  But Orihime politely declined them as she didn't feel the spark with any of them.   She wanted someone to love her for her and not her title or appearance.  She wanted to find someone that caused her heart to flutter and form butterflies in her stomach.  Both of her parents passed away when she was very young as she was raised by her older brother Sora until he was killed by a Hollow when Orihime was ten years old.  Orihime was then raised by her guardian and advisor Jushiro Ukitake until she reached the legal age of sixteen.  Orihime was loved by her people as she seemed to light up the room with her smile.  Orihime had learned growing up about the moon kingdom and the Hollows.  She couldn't understand why people saw the moon kingdom as a threat or even dangerous.  Much like Ichigo, Orihime desired peace between the earth kingdom and the moon kingdom.