Aries

Warning: all of these are drabbles. That means they will not have a very high word count. Also, the characters may come across as OOC (somewhat) because they are being based after zodiac signs. I chose ones that I felt fit the characters best, which means they do not match the official birthdays that they were given. If you are okay with all of the above, then I hope you enjoy the story.

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She'd lived in the village her whole life, surrounded by the same people she had known since she was born. She had never left, her brother not even allowing her to leave when he went into the nearby town to get supplies and necessities. He claimed it was too dangerous for a girl like her to go into such a busy city. She never complained though, she enjoyed the village and the jungle around it. All her herbs for healing were in the jungle, all her friends were in the village, and her brother (who was more of a father) bought her everything she could ever desire.

Content, that's how she would describe her life. She was content with her life.

Their house was small, most of it dedicated to storing medicines and a large table used to heal people on. Some people called her a witch, the ones that Sora would bring in for her to heal, but she just ignored them, or at least she tried. She just wanted to be helpful, to save them, but they only looked at her with fear.

The village people didn't mind her though; they had always said she was a goddess. It wasn't true; but, she couldn't deny that despite her tendency to be clumsy, and the amount of dangerous situations she had found herself in, she had always turned out okay. Maybe she was just protected by the gods and goddesses because of what she did to help people.

Or maybe she was just lucky.

She opened the door at the sound of a horse carriage approaching the house. Through the trees, she could see her brother speeding ahead as fast as the horses would run down the path. Other villagers had stepped out of their houses, always curious as to whether or not the healing girl would use her magic on another outsider.

It looked like she would be healing someone today.

She walked back inside, clearing a pathway for her brother to walk through, assuming he would have to carry the person as well. He only brought people to her when there was no one else to save them. They made good money from it, usually. The wealthy would pay large sums for her to heal members of their family (though it was only pocket change to them). Even without payment though, Sora pitied a lot of poor people who couldn't afford any medical care, and he'd sometimes bring them along free of charge.

She never minded.

"Orihime!" she heard him shout, his voice sounding desperate and urgent. "This one's really bad," he opened the door with his free hand, the other one looped under the arm of a man. A different villager was holding the injured man's feet up, helping Sora carry him inside. "I don't know if he'll make it."

He always said that, but no one had died under her care yet.

She waited patiently for them to set the man on the table, her fingers fiddling with her burnt orange locks as she assessed the damage the man had taken. He had large gashes everywhere from what seemed to be the claws of a jungle cat. His clothes were soaked in blood, another large gash going down the entire side of his leg.

"He's lost a lot of blood. A large panther attacked him; he killed it and then walked to the nearest town for help. Luckily I was there… no one would have been able to heal him."

"He'll make it," Orihime said confidently, pulling out some different herbs from different jars. "We've seen worse. He wasn't with anyone?"

"Not that I saw."

She leaned over, reaching up to remove a cloth that covered his face before a hand shot up and grabbed her wrist. She looked over to see him awake, his eyes almost as black as his spiked hair.

"Don't touch it," he ordered, releasing her wrist as his hand fell back against his side.

All she could do was nod in response, the shock still not worn off, before she continued working.

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Well, I've never seen an OrihimexTsubaki pairing before, so this will be interesting. In case you didn't get it, he's the injured man. This didn't really turn out as I hoped it would, but now I can actually start developing a plot (the major part was getting him into the village)! Please review :)