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In a world where Ishihime was built up to be canon, I think it would’ve been a pretty cool storyline in TYBW to have Orihime and Rangiku bond over their significant other betraying them.

Imagine: Orihime and Rangiku sticking together in the Seireitei. Orihime sticking with the shinigami and utilizing her powers where it’s needed. She could help with harsher injuries and aid the shinigami in fighting the Sternritter.

(With Unohana gone, having another strong healer would be very beneficial. Plus, it would help Orihime to get a better perspective of war)

Once that whole sequence happens where the Karakura gang watch Uryuu head off to the Royal Palace, it’s decided for the upcoming battles Orihime and Chad’s strengths would be more useful down in the Soul Society while Ichigo goes with Yoruichi to storm the Royal Palace.

Sometime later, Orihime starts getting emotional about the war raging on and how many people are getting hurt. When Rangiku confronts her about it, Orihime explains that she can’t stand conflict and last time she’d been an active participant in a “war” she’d had Uryuu by her side.

Rangiku uses that moment to explain that she understands how Orihime is feeling. Gin’s betrayal hadn’t been him actually aligning his beliefs with Aizen but rather seeking out to end him. (It is mentioned in a novel that Rangiku & Izuru found out that Gin had tried to kill Aizen) She suggests to Orihime that Uryuu may be doing something similar.

Orihime explains that she never once doubted that Uryuu wasn’t still on Ichigo’s side but she wants to know why he felt he needed to defect to the quincies.

This would show a difference in the way Rangiku and Orihime think cause while Rangiku is a trained shinigami who is conditioned to assume the worst of her enemies, Orihime is still just a human girl and she holds great faith in her companions.

Where Rangiku doubted Gin, Orihime doesn’t doubt Uryuu.

Solo ellos saben lo que sienten; ambos se necesitan y es lo único que importa.

you’ve heard of shikaino

and you know all about saiino

but have you considered

chouino

1. ino spends most of the series being pretty shallow and closed-minded when it comes to looks and who she is attracted to; even her interest in sai is initially based around him being attractive like sasuke

2. chouji’s backstory is full of being bullied for his weight/appearance; his father tells him that one day someone will love him for his kind and caring heart. throughout the series chouji demonstrates this caring nature, particularly for ino (who also cares for chouji)

3. maybe it’s just me, but karui ending up with chouji seems like kishimoto threw them together at the last minute, or as an afterthought just to try to wrap up their characters’ stories

4. ^in the same vein, sai just seems too weird for ino. i don’t buy it that their personalities clicked at all and their entire attraction seems forced

5. they are both slated to become the next heads of their respective clans, making them a super duper power couple

6. they just look damn good together, tbh. much better than sai and ino or even shika and ino in my opinion considering all these factors, wouldn’t it be great if ino matured past her hang-ups on physical appearances to be with a truly caring, awesome guy? in turn, wouldn’t it be sweet for chouji to end up with a girl (his teammate) who he’s cared for all along?

just imagine that moment when they realize their feelings for each other and how perfect it would be!

Like, I am sorry, when I learned that Choji ended up with a girl that, compared to the others, had basically ZERO screentime, and came out of left-field when it comes to their romance… At this rate, you might as well have left it at, Choji remained a bachelor, but a big womanizer too.

But naturally, Ino isn’t meant to be understood as “shallow”, only in the earlier stages of the story, making her a product of her perfectionist and toxic environment. Choji could have easily shown her: You don’t need to be perfect in order to like yourself. And there is nothing wrong with eating some junk food every now and then, because he knows, she practically tortures herself to stay healthy.

Imagine him just finding her, during Part 1, at her absolute lowest, because she fell into that starvation phase again, because she was told, “she was getting fat again”, despite already being as thin as a carrot. And he finds her at a restaurant, stuffing her face, sitting right next to her, before she runs to the bathroom to throw up, because, you can already guess the gist of it.

And he asks her, the all-defining question: …Is it even worth it, trying to please someone, who doesn’t even care about you, even at your worst? Because, y'know, that is a theme in general that can be applied to all of Naruto.

“If they don’t accept you at your worst, then they don’t deserve you at your best.”

Their romance can be a golden life lesson too, in that, you shouldn’t set ultimatums to relationships, just let them happen. And if those weirdos find you “strange” for liking someone, that doesn’t exactly fit into the overarching mold of a pre-conceived societal notion, in the case of Naruto, that being, the “ideal shinobi / kunoichi”, then that is a THEY problem, not a YOU problem. When you think about it, Choji and Ino really are the biggest victims of their own environments:

Choji is overweight, pretty slow and too easy-going, not exactly attributes you would associate with the stereotypical male shinobi, who are usually fast, agile and always on-duty, and he got bullied for something he couldn’t help, because his genetics practically FORCE him to overeat, otherwise, he might become more vulnerable in battle.

Ino is obsessing over the most meaningless details, because she is a perfectionist, driven by the downright insulting and hypocritical standards of what the “ideal kunoichi” is supposed to be, feminine, submissive and always soft-spoken, and, oh, flowers and men are always the talking points, because girls be girls, I guess. Not fighters.

So yeah, these two truly deserve each other. Choji can help Ino lighten up, as he may even find her attractive all… plumpy. And well, Ino can teach Choji how to be more confident in himself, not allowing the negative comments about his weight to get to him. And well, once they are adults, well… he can impress her with his Super Expansion ability, in…

…different ways, KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING?