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Ability: Orihime’s continued encounters with Ichigo in his shinigami form unsealed her own natural powers – the Shun Shun Rika, or Shield of Six Dancing Flowers. Six little creatures that come from her hairpins have the ability to shield, heal, and attack. Their standard appearance is as tiny flying objects. However, when Orihime needs to, they revert to a more human form. Their names are Tsubaki, Hinagiku, Baigon, Lily, Shonou, and Ayame. Hinagiku, Baigon, and Lily create an “outer shield” to repel attacks, and Shonou and Ayame create an “inner shield” that repels damage done in a limited area, and Tsubaki breaks into the enemy to set up a shield inside and split them in two.

Orihime needs to call the names of the ones she needs and yell “I reject!” after yelling the incantation “Santen Kesshun” for the outer shield, “Souten Kishun” for the inner shield, and “Koten Zanshun” for the attack. Her real strength lies in using the inner and outer shields. She lacks the heart to truly use Tsubaki to his full potential.

Biography:
Inoue Orihime is introduced as a quirky, large breasted classmate of Kurosaki Ichigo. She has long reddish-brown hair held back from her face with two flower clips. We first see her in chapter two, when she notices that Ichigo isn’t in school. It is quickly discovered that Orihime has a serious crush on Ichigo, and her best friend Arisawa Tatsuki encourages her to pursue him, despite the fact that it is suspected that Tatsuki has feelings for Ichigo as well.

Almost immediately after Orihime’s introduction, she becomes sucked into Ichigo’s newly complicated world of ghosts and hollows. Her brother, who died several years ago at Ichigo’s family’s clinic, has remained on this plane watching Orihime. When he was alive, he was more of a father to her than anything else. The first three years of Orihime’s life were spent under her older brother’s watchful eye in their abusive parents’ home. As soon as Kakei turned eighteen, he took Orihime with him and they lived together. They almost never argued, but the day that they did, Orihime didn’t say goodbye to him when he left for work, and that was the day he died. She was twelve years old and she dragged him to the Kurosaki Clinic. Ichigo was the one who opened the door for her.

Kakei became a hollow after Orihime slowly stopped praying for him and just jabbered on about Tatsuki and Ichigo. He was jealous of them, and missed the time when her heart belonged to him. He tried to kill her, but Ichigo saved her. However, her soul had been forced from her body, and she saw Ichigo in his shinigami form. Once Kakei’s hollow form was defeated, Rukia healed Orihime and Tatsuki and used her memory replacement device to make them forget the incident.

However, Ichigo’s constant presence in Orihime’s life has had profound effects on her spiritual energy. This is first revealed in the Don Kanonji episode, when she hears the cry of the demi-hollow attached to the hospital Kanonji is “exorcising.”

Later, when Ishida attracts the hollows, Orihime, Chizuru, and Tatsuki are hanging out and a window breaks mysteriously. The three of them are assigned to clean up the glass, when Orihime notices a hollow on top of a building. She realizes there’s something weird about it, and urges them to hurry. However, the hollow attacks them. Chizuru is the first victim, and through the hollow’s power, she is forced attack Orihime. Tatsuki saves her, only to become the second victim. Orihime is overwhelmed with the desire to protect Tatsuki, because Tatsuki was the first one to protect her after her brother died, and the Shun Shun Rika are released.

When Rukia disappears to the Soul Society, the only people to notice her disappearance are Ichigo, Chad, Ishida, and Orihime. When Ichigo decides he’s going to save Rukia, Orihime looks sad, but she knows she can’t talk him out of it, and instead offers to help in any way she can. Not long after that, Orihime and Chad are offered to be trained by Yoruichi, a black cat who can talk.

Before she leaves for Soul Society, she changes her bangs. Tatsuki notices and asks her why. Orihime just says she felt it was time for change. After ten days of training, the Orihime and Chad are ready to go, and are sent notes by Urahara to meet up at the Shoten. Ichigo meets the two of them, along with Ishida, who has undergone his own training.

Orihime saves them all in the passage to Soul Society by using her shield, though she is scolded by Yoruichi for the act because she could’ve died, Ichigo defends her because she saved them all. When Jidanbou’s arm is cut off by Third Division Captain Ichimaru Gin, Orihime works for several hours straight in order to reattach the arm. At Shiba Kuukaku’s, she is the only one who can create a perfect cannon ball. While in Soul Society, Orihime is the only one to not get injured or imprisoned. At the beginning she is with Ishida, and gets the idea to steal shinigami robes to blend in after they are attacked by Jiroubo the Kamaitachi. In that battle, she tries to use Tsubaki, but her will to fight isn’t strong enough, and Tsubaki is repelled and injured. He returns to her hair pin, but his section is cracked.

She continues to look for Rukia with Ishida until he is confronted with Twelfth Division Captain Kurotshuchi Mayuri. He tells her to run, but she refuses. He then tells the Eleventh Division grunt shinigami saved by Orihime to take her no matter what. She bites him, and as a result he knocks her out by accident. He winds up running into his captain, Zaraki Kenpachi. Kenpachi wants to find Ichigo, so he has her ride on his back with Yachiru and the three of them, along with Aramaki Makizou, Madarame Ikkaku, and Ayasegawa Yumichika, free Shiba Ganju, Ishida, and Chad, and head towards Soukyoku Hill.

Orihime is the one who heals Ichigo after the mess with Aizen. The Fourth Division has appeared on the scene to heal the others who need it, and the third seat is the one who notices that Orihime’s power isn’t really healing, but manipulating time so that it’s as if the injuries were never there at all. When Ishida makes new clothes for all of them, including Rukia, Orihime misinterprets Ishida’s feelings and assumes that he likes Rukia, when it appears that he has a crush on Orihime. Back in the material world, when she and Chad are confronted with the Arrankar, Chad’s arm is cut off and Orihime tries to hold them off until Ichigo arrives, and Tsubaki is crushed. His condition is yet unknown. After they are all rescued by Yoruichi and Urahara, she sends Shonou and Ayame to reattach Chad’s arm.

In the aftermath of that incident, she refuses Ichigo’s apology because she can’t stand to see him so sad. When Rukia returns, Orihime thanks her for bringing Ichigo’s confidence back, but later that night she admits to Matsumoto, who is crashing at her apartment, that she is insanely jealous of the effect Rukia’s presence has on Ichigo and feels horrible for it. Matsumoto tells her it’s natural to be jealous, and to not worry about it.

Orihime is one of the most innocent characters of Bleach, along with one of the ones with the biggest breasts. This gains her a lot of unwanted attention that she doesn’t recognize, but Tatsuki does, and works her hardest to protect Orihime.

Orihime realizes the debt she owes to so many people and wants to get stronger to protect them. She knows what it’s like to feel alone, and she doesn’t want anyone to ever feel like that. She’s loving and nurturing, and wants the best for everyone.