The sun and moon

Nine: finding soul mates

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), hollows/demons speaking, italics attacks

Nine: finding soul mates

Ichigo discovered that the remaining moon people had a soul mate who happened to be the rebirthed souls of the sun people. Their princess who just happened to be Ichigo's mate, Orihime Inoue had used her powers to save her people when the hollow's attacked her and her people. Now their souls reside on earth with no recollection of their past lives. Ichigo had to bring Toshiro up to the moon to have him find out information he could about the sun princess seeing how the hollows attacked her twice calling Orihime the sun princess. So far they had confirmed some of the moon people's mates. Orihime Inoue was Ichigo Kurosaki's mate, Toshiro Hitsuguya was Tier Harribel's mate, Nnoritora Gilga was Nelliel TuOdelschwanck's mate, and Retsu Unohana was Szayelaporro Granz's mate. That only left to find Coyote Starrk's, Ulquiorra Schiffer, and Grimmjow Jaegerjaques mate. Toshiro came up with a proposal that all of the sun people worked in or around the palace close to Orhime as they had some kind of close interaction with the princess. Ichigo decided to spend the evening at Orihime's palace trying to find the rest of the sun people. Ichigo had this gut feeling that something terrible was about to happen.

*I don't like this feeling of this king.* Shiro stated.

*I know Shiro. I have a feeling that I will be bound to reveal myself to the earth realm.* Ichigo replied. While teaching Orihime and Toshiro how to use their newfound powers, Ichigo and Tier taught them how to communicate telepathically. This way if they are ever in trouble, they could call for help mentally. Besides it was easier for Ichigo to sneak around without being noticed and connect to Orihime mentally to find out more information about that person. Then Ichigo would contact the remaining people to find out who was their mate.

Ichigo walked with Orihime as the moon prince stated that she needed to learn to defend herself. Granted that her barrier gave her protection but, it could only remain intact for so long as stronger hollow's would be able to break through the barrier. So Orihime brought Ichigo over to the martial arts studio known as the Defense Core. Ichigo could feel and sense three more of the sun people in the Defense Core's room.

*They are all here gathered within this room.* Ichigo told his people as he was going to find out which three. Ichigo looked at Orihime nodding his head slightly indicating that the people he was looking for was inside. Ichigo and Orihime entered the room to find three women dressed in work out clothing. One wore a black suit as she had long purple hair that was tied up into a ponytail. She had dark colored skin similar to Tier and golden hazel cat-like eyes.

*Mine.......* Grimmjow growled through the mental path. The other was a female with a bright lime green bob style hair and light brown eyes. She wore a white suit with an orange scarf around her neck. Ichigo could feel and sense Ulquiorra take an interest in the woman. The last wore a white two piece suit as she had long light pale green hair. She had an eye patch covering one of her eyes exposing a single pale lavender eye. Ichigo could hear Coyote whistle among the mental path.

"Princess Orihime welcome to the Defense Core. How can we help you?" asked the dark skinned woman.

"Well....... I would like to learn some defense moves. Ichigo had pointed out that I shouldn't always rely on my guards to help me out." replied Orihime.