(Beauty and the Beast AU)
In the little town of Karakura, there lived two sisters: Inoue Akemi and Orihime. The sisters where the resident oddballs of Karakura--one being a huntress, the other being creative to the point of being viewed a "funny girl", and both being knowledgeable women and fond reading--yet easily the most beautiful girls in town. The two have even managed to catch the eye of the town's hero, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, with Akemi, unfortunately, the one he courted.
Subconsciously, both girls yearned for so much more than the life they have in Karakura; a place just like in the books they've read. A place filled with freedom and adventure and love, where they would never have to worry about criticisms or creepy stalkers.
Both girls wished that, and both got it soon.
One day, due to Orihime getting lost in the woods (and a few more other complications) she stumbles upon a gate. Beyond those gates, a large castle as black as the night rose from the ground. Curious, she ventures inside and touched something she shouldn't have... and sees a nightmarish creature as a result. With her sister suddenly missing, Akemi rides into the woods and, being chased by wolves, finds the castle herself. There, she finds her sister trapped in a dungeon and the nightmarish creature itself... and strikes a bargain with him.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, its characters, or Beauty and the Beast. All I own is the fanfic.
Inoue Orihime had always been a lonely girl ever sense her brother died. Sure she had her friends that loved her like family but she wanted more. She wanted to love and to be loved back in return. So when a war breaks out between the Soul Society and Sosuke Aizen and a group of his espada all hell breaks lose and Orihime is in the middle of it. When Orihime is taken prisoner by one of the espada she can't help but to be memorized by his green eyes. During the time of her imprisonment she falls for the green eyed espada but can't tell him for fear that Aizen would use her feelings against her. When the time for her to finally tell her feelings to him she is forced to watch her friend destroy her only love and watch him die. Now the Orihime everyone knows and loves is grieving and is in depression.
Schiffer Ulquiorra the fourth espada to fight in Aizen's army has ever only known true despair. He doesn't remember his life as a human nor does he remember any of the other feelings he use to have like love and happiness. He used to think that only what he could see with his all seeing eye's was true. But that was before the women with long fiery red hair and stormy grey eyes. For a while he thought her nothing but trash that was beneath him but then he saw more. He saw a kind gentle being and began to remember what love was. Ulquiorra fell in love with a human and wasn't ashamed. He couldn't tell her knowing Aizen would use it against him and possibly order him to kill her. The one time came for him to tell her and she was taken away by the orange haired shimigami.