Fighting against the time
Summary: The war with Aizen apparently produced more sacrifices than anyone would believe. Each one paid a big price for the defeat of the villainous Captain. But what will be the consequences?
Ichigo still was not awake from his unconscious state. Inside of his word he was fighting with his hollow and demons who were trying to dominate his body since the disappearance of Zangetsu.
Rukia has lost the ability to communicate with her zampakutou and she was locked in the Kuchiki residence and guarded by some of the ablest officers of the Seireitrei till she will recover her abilities. Her brother did not want to take any chances for his sister to get hurt.
Sado / Chad became a semi-man semi-arrancar and he was currently in the jail waiting for his fate to be decided.
Ishida became an interesting research material for Mayuri captain. Apparently his Quincy powers began to act crazy prompting him terrible pain what could not be cured with any form of kidou. So the strange captain was one of his only chances to return to normal.
Orihime was in a very horrible state. Her body was pale and she could not move herself at all. Since she was released under Aizen's possession she could not contact her fairies and she completely blamed herself for the condition of her friends. Once again it proved that she is just a burden, or at least that that was what she was thinking.
Unohana entered in one of the division 4 private salons to check on her preferred patient. Orihime looked increasingly worse, but the captain was not going to tell her that.
She sat next to her bed as usual and she started to check her vitals. But it was nothing good. Despite her horrible condition Orihime surprised the capitan to see her rising out of the bed and heading to the door.
The captain succeeded to catch her before her body could hit the floor, after which she helped her to sit herself again on the horrible bed.
"Inoue-san, I told you that you should not push yourself too hard. Your body is not recovered completely yet. You need time until you could walk alone." The woman said trying to give her a warm smile, but that did not prevent the girl to rise again.
"Unohana-san, thank you for your concern, but I can not stay here. I have to go to Ichigo and the rest of my friends as I still have time. They need me." she said looking seriously at the captain. Unohana is surprised, but also touched by the girl's words. She was thinking about others even when she was in suck a shape. Her altruism truly has no limit. She really wanted to help her, but she also knew that if she will overwork this will be probably to be her end. Feeling the captain's concerd Orihime squeezed her hands together trying to tell her that she would be fine, although she doubted herself of her words.
"Okay. I'll let you, but I will accompany you. When your condition will worsen we will be back and you need to promise me that you will stay quiet until you are healed. Do you find it agreeable?"
"More than that."
The two women exchange a few glances after that they start in their little trip.
Their first stop was in the jail. Orihime felt a chill when all prisoner's gazes rested on her and the atmosphere was definitely not improved by the Soi Fong's presence.
Orihime did not know why the captain Division 2 chose to accompany them, but she was grateful for the fact that it was not as difficult as usual.
After a few minutes of walking while Orihime was fighting to control her heavy breathing they finally ended up in the room where it was kept her good friend.
The long bars, the big wounds on his body and especially the dirt around him made him look like a real monster. The girl tried to approach him, but giant raised himself with the intention to hit his new visitor.
Fortunately Soi Fong was careful and she stopped the attack before the orange haired girl could be hurt. Orihime was looking shocked at the terrible state in which her friend is and felt she like the heart was hurting herself more thinking about the suffering what he must to endure.
"Do you think you can repair him ?" Soi Fong said maintaining her firm position.
"I'm not sure, but I'm going to try. I will not stand idly watching how dear friend of mine is about to be killed." she said becoming increasingly more serious and preparing to call her fairies.
Soi Fong looked admiringly at her. The former captain never thought that she could be so strong. She was always thought of her like as a weak link and that she was part of the group only because of hers special healing abilities.
But it seems that the girl was really a fighter.
After several attempts she succeded to hor her reject shield around the boy. Sado began to behave aggressively and he was trying to escape from under the gold shield.
"Sado-kun, do not worry. Everything will be fine. I'm here. Just sit quietly for several minutes after which you will be free. I promise." She said giving him a warm smile.
The beast seemed to start calm and he repeated several times her name.
"Arigato, Sado-kun. I knew I could count on you."
With that last words being said the beast settled down completely and the girl started the process to eliminate his hollow of him. Maybe the idea sounds pretty simplistic, but it was far from being so easily. The process required a lot of energy and concentration. If she would do something wrong she could have permanently delete his soul.
A few drops of blood poured from her nose in the process, but she does not stop to clear them. Sado deserves her full attention so she will not let herself influenced by something so minor.
Unohana wanted to stop her, but it looks like it will help her. The flow of her spiritual energy it had never been so stable since her return for Hueco Mundo and it seems that her efforts had even results. The giant was becoming increasingly more human.
"I must admit that Inoue-san is really impressive. I did not think she would be capable of it and especially after the traumatic experience that she had lived and if you consider the fact that her body is so weak it made you to remain simply speechless. " Unohana said carefully examining her body. A feeling of sadness was being emanated with her reyatsu and Soi Fong remained silent pretending to ignore the words of her colleague. Unohana-san had never been a talkative person, and her words were usually to relieve the sick or to intimidate the world. That was the first time she ever heard her to praise someone what made her wonder more about her true abilities.
Shortly before Orihime succeded to heal him or at least that seemed so, she passed out from lack of energy. The captain of the division 4 was hurrying to reach her and to offer to her the first aid. But she was so lost that she was not able to respond at the captain's to attempts to resuscitate her.
Her pulse felt sharply and apparently irremediable. Was this to be her end?