Desolate…a world with no hope or joy. A world for neither the living nor the dead of soul society. Not even the hollows of heco medo or people of hell dwell in this forsaken land. No this was a place for those that fell to the darkness in their hearts. This was a place for the corrupt, wicked and emotionless. This was the dimension of those that sold their souls for power and greed and were repaid with that very soul being stripped and replaced with nothing more than darkness.
The land was barren and dry not a single tree, crop or flower grew here. The soil was as tough and dry as cement it too resembled it grey lifelessness. Here and there were a few remnants of buildings that now laid destroyed and toppled mending to the ground. The sky itself looked like a never ending cloud of smoke drifting with the wind to its next position but never disappearing. Even the water that was a gift to a dying dimension was black as midnight. The only light were the flames that burned in certain areas flames that never died or extinguished no matter how cold the wind that blew was.
Life…yes there was life here but not what you would classify as life. No there were great and powerful creatures, predators of pure destruction and chaos and then there were their masters…the emotionless.
Today was different though for the empty silence was suddenly cut off when two large beams of light one red one blue shot to the sky and then dimly faded as if nothing even happened.
"yes,yes I have succeed!" a clocked figure shouted for joy. Behind him a shadow danced of a large boulder and the form of serpent could be seen. The tails shadow gilded over the rough terrain as if on ice and slowly stopped behind the figure.
"Masssster?" the hiss of the serpent sounded. The cloaked man turned to face his pet, his once most prized possession. This being a large serpent man, meaning that this hideous creature was a combination of a human and a snake. It had the tail of a serpent yet the torso of a man. It had long black hair braided running down its back side hanging above its black scales. It had yellow slit eyes and the fangs and tongue of a snake and its hands had sharp nails almost claw like that were covered in blood.
"Do you see them my pet… our future." The man asked. The snake lowered and sniffed the two squirming bundles. "I do not underssstand." It finally said. "These creaturesss are too sssmall to be of any sssignificance." The man smirked as he kneeled and lifted the bundle and began to remove the cloth surrounding the face. "Yes, you are quite right my dear pet now they are useless. But they will grow and we will train them and then when the time is right they will be able to break us out of this hell hole."
"I do not sssee how thessse thingsss can do that." The snake hissed in annoyance. "It simple Nagara you now are staring at the very souls of the great waters and fire gifted to use by the great sprit king" the man said sarcastically "they my pet are not trapped here, they are free to exit and when they are fully trained they will take us with them."
The serpent lowered its head and was surprised to see to large teal eyes with a puff of white hair staring back at him from the one bundle and two red eyes with black hair that began to tear up.
Yes this day the silence of the emotionless was overpowered by the wails of future generation.
The winter war was finally over and peace had once more returned to the occupants of Soul Society. The 13 court guard squads had received only minimal damage with the only death being of the once traitors Kaname Tōsen and Gin Ichimaru who was later found only to be part or Aizen's plans in order to attain revenge for Rangiku, thus was silently forgiven by most. Captain commander although losing his arm was at the top of his game sending orders to all captains that if their harios were ever purposely destroyed in battle they would receive the sentence of assisting captain of squad 12 with anything necessary. Ichigo Kurosaki hero of the day was thanked multiple times and requested to become half time captain of squad 9... Well that was after the efforts of Unohana Urahara and Hachigen were successful in restoring the connection with his zampakuto. Rukia Kuchiki was made vice captain of squad 13 after much protest from the noble head of the Kuchikiclan. Even Abarai Renji was promoted to captain of squad 5. The Vizard were finally declared innocent and asked to rejoin the ranks but respectfully declined saying "the human world has to many perks you know" to Lisa Yadōmaru fully agreed.
Yes all was going well except for one person. Captain Hitsugaya of squad 10 had not come out of his shell ever since the battle where he unfortunately was tricked into stabbing his beloved sister. He had since his return trained endlessly in order to try perfect his Bankai. Though the result was a very overworked, over stressed and sometimes injured Taichou that refused to listen to anyone about taking a break. And to add to more negativity rumors of the young geniuses emotional state had began to circle all over the place including outside the walls of seriti too one house in the woods were distress slowly ate away at its occupant. With no more options the black haired girl packed her stuff and was about to answer the much needed request of the great seireitei.
"Taichou!" Rangiku shouted as entered the office only to be glared at by the small white haired boy behind the desk. The once happy smile on Matsumoto's face disappeared as she noticed the shape of her captain. The small male had large black bags under his eyes his once gravity defying hair white hair seemed limp and lifeless and he sat uncomfortable with his left arm in a sling due to his recent training with Hyourinmaru.
"Taichou." Matsumoto whispered to herself in despair. As much as the busty vice captain tried she just could not get her captain to rest for even a moment. This resulted in the young captain having many episodes were he would fall asleep doing paper work or even passing out due to exhaustion. Thus Matsumoto attempted to make her young captains life easier and to most people's horror she began to do her fair share of the paper work and even went as far as doing her captains when he was out of commission.
"What do you want Matsumoto as you can see I am busy?" The irritable captain asked with a glare. Suddenly feeling on the spot Matsumoto pursed her lips and stepped forward. "You know Taichou the Captain Commander is arranging a festival to celebrate the end of the winter war and I was wondering if you knew any talent acts that could perform." There was an odd silence in the room "No I don't know any." The captain sighed eventually. "You sure?" Matsumoto asked. "Yes! Now please let me finish my work." Hitsugaya snapped and the busty vice slowly turned and left.
Walking outside the blond vice was too distracted by her thoughts to notice the person walking towards her until she literally bumped into him.
"Oh Ukitake Taichou I am s sorry!" Matsumoto exclaimed as she helped the sickly man to his feet.
"No need to apologies Matsumoto…but it is unlike you to not notice others around you what were you thinking off." Ukitake asked in concern.
Matsumoto sighed "Taichou." A grim look planted itself onto Ukitake's face he was not blind as to what the small captain was up too and was very concerned for his young Shiro's health.
"What happened" he asked.
"Well I just asked if he knew some talent acts to perform and he snapped at me." Matsumoto said as she turned and looked longingly at the office building.
"He is either training or doing paper work. I am so worried that something really bad could happen to him other than a busted shoulder if he carries on. I doubt he will even come to the festival." Matsumoto said with a heavy heart.
" Well then I guess we will just have to drag him out then wont we there is no way he can miss what we have in store." Ukitake said trying to cheer Matsumoto up.
"You found a act.?" Matsumoto asked in shock. "Yes, well more like the act found us she is a young girl with the voice of a song bird she saw the posters we set up and came for an audition. Captain commander and Byakuya didn't even hesitate to give the position to her."
"Wow then she should be really good." Matsumoto smiled in hope that the song brid could cause her captain to come out even just for a day.
Festival day
The whole off seireitei was in a buzz many people ran up and down in order to get everything ready. Food, banners, decorations etc were prepared and set up for this afternoon's big show.
All were happy expect one captain that was right in the middle of training in the depths of a cave that he believed was unknown to anyone else.
Standing in Bankai Hitsugaya summoned forth a large wave of ice that he hit the cavern spikes with. This cased the whole cave to shake and all the spikes came plummeting down at him. Spreading his wings Hitsugaya flew up dodging and cutting the spikes into small pieces before landing on the ground again. This is when one of his flower petals snapped and disappeared. "Shit that is just not good enough." Hitsugaya said to himself and prepared himself for another go when a familiar voice echoed through the cavern.
"Taichou!" Matsumoto shouted and entered
"Matsumoto leave now I am busy." Hitsugaya said as he released his bankai. "Sorry Taichou not this time you are coming to the festival if you like it or not." Matsumoto said with one hand on her hip. "Matsssummoto!" Hitsugaya growled "I already said no!" Not content with the answer Matsumoto turned and simply said, "I leave it to you then."
Before Hitsugaya could comprehend what was happening Ichigo, Renji, Ukitake all had him In a strong hold. "Let go!" The small boy shouted.
"Sorry Hitsugaya but its time for a break." Ichigo said and preceded to hand his sword to Matsumoto.
"Look Hitsugaya all we ask is that you attend the concert then we will leave you to whatever you want to do okay." Ichigo said when he saw the venoms glare on Hitsugaya's face.
"Master please go you know they are only trying to help you…they are all worried." Hyourinmaru said from within Hitsugaya.
Looking at each person's face and clearly seeing the worry etched there Hitsugaya could not help but sigh and nod in the defeat.
The stage was large with nothing but two pairs of large red curtains obscuring the view of the many people surrounding it. Hitsugaya had to give credit to squad 6 for the lovely decoration that surrounded and that they somehow had enough chairs for every occupant there.
Yet Hitsugaya much to the dismay of the others stood on the small grass hill in the back of the audience. Not one to leave their friends Renji, Matsumoto, Hisagi, Ukitake, Ichigo, Chad, Orihime and Uryū sat there as well.
Soon the show began and the captain commander welcomed all with a short speech and then introduced the acts. First to perform was magician, and then a small play was put on by squad 13 that was all about their captain. Followed by a pair of twins juggling fire and so it continued for some time. Hitsugaya slowly felt himself becoming either really bored or really irritated or both as nothing interesting had yet to happen. "So much for a celebration." Hitsugaya muttered to himself and was about to leave when Yamamoto introduced the next act.
"The next act will be a vocal performance by the lovely Miss Zenith Raykiush." His deep voice boomed. Hitsugaya turned around eyes wide not unnoticed by his friends to stare at the stage as the curtains rose.
There on the stage stood seemly young 14 year old girl. Her head was down but one could she her long black her clipped into a bun. She wore a very details red Kimono that had patterns of sakura trees and flowers all around it. The odd thing for all those waiting for the girl to begin was the fact that she wore a pair of black boots with the lovely kimono.
"This song is dedicated to the most special and important people I know. He is currently going through a hard time and I hope this will cheer him up." The voice said into the microphone. Slowly the head rose and the audience was shocked to see piercing red eyes that somehow still had a sense of gentleness to them look up. These eyes looked up and meet instantly with a pair of teal orbs.
Tsumetai yokaze ga me ni sasari
Kudaranai kioku ga afure dasu
Togatta serifu o sora ni hanachi
Chi no aji no nokoru tsuba o haita
The cold night breeze gets caught in my eyes
As meaningless memories flow over me
Shouting harsh words to the sky
I still have the taste of blood on my tongue
"Minna shinjae" tte kuchiguse o
Aitsu wa kokoro kara kanashinda
Mamorou toshite kizutsukeru chikara de
Nani o te ni shite yuku?
The one who had a habit of saying "Believe in everyone"
Is saddened from the depths of her heart
Having power that should protect her can hurt her
What should I do with these hands?
I'm believing, this light I see
Tashika na hikari yo
Sakebi dasu ore o machibiite kure I
'm believing this light I see
Unwavering light,
Please guide me as I call out to you
Tsuyosa dake o shinjite kita hibi
Munashisa o katsu tabi ni shitta
Chippoke na kokoro de warau kara
Mou sukoshi tsuyogatte isasete kure
Gradually believing in a daily life founded only on strength
I know that this time the only thing I win is emptiness
From my tiny heart I laugh aloud
Please let me get a little stronger
"Hitori de ikiru" tte kuchiguse ni
Aitsu wa sashisou ni hohoenda
Wakarou toshite tsuki hanasu chikara de
Nani o te ni shite yuku?
When I had a habit of saying "I'll live alone"
She smiled at me with a lonely looking smile
Having power to understand her can forsake her
What should I do with these hands?
I'm believing, this light I see
Kodoku na hikari yo
Kurui dasu ore o daki shimete kure
I'm believing this light I see
Lonely light,
Please embrace me in my confusion
Ore no naka no ichiban yowai kakera ga
Ten no hate e ichiban tsuyoi inori o hanatsu
The weakest part of me releases the most powerful prayer
Up to the place where the heavens end
Ore no naka no ichiban yowai kakera ga
Yami no saki e ichiban tsuyoi omoi o hanatsu
Kokoro o hanatsu
Hikari o hanatsu
I'm believing...
The weakest part of me releases the most powerful emotions
To the place before the darkness
I release my heart
I release this light
I'm believing
Believing, this light I see
Tashika na hikari yo
Sakebi dasu ore o machibiite kure Believing this light I see
Unwavering light,
Please guide me as I call out to you
I'm believing, this light I see
Kodoku na hikari yo
Kurui dasu ore o kaki shimete kure
Her voice floated over the crowd like a siren that pulled in ships and there men from the seas. All to focused on the gorgeous voice that surrounded them no one saw the faint smile that made its way onto the lips of the boy that did not once turn from thr gaze of the phoenixes' eyes.
Authors note: yes yes I know I have two other stories that haven't been completed yet but I just had to get this idea down it was bugging me toooo much. The song Zenith sings is actually Hitsugaya character song for those of you that didn't know. So please tell me what you think remember the more reviews the happier thee author the quicker the next chappie