Chapter Four: Eyes of Rage and Fury
Ichigo slowly opens his eyes to find himself resting in a room. Beside him was Tessai, a tall and muscular man working for the Urahara Shop. He was putting some bandages on Ichigo's injured arm.
"Don't move." He looked at Ichigo with his usual stern look.
"Eh… How did I get here?" Ichigo asked while staring at the ceiling.
Tessai told Ichigo that he found him beat up to a pulp beside the Karakura River. He was half past dead if it weren't for him who immediately healed some of his minor injuries.
"Inoue!" He got up from the bed but Tessai grabbed his arm and forced him back to lie down.
"She's been captured by them." He said as Ichigo resisted against his grasp.
"Idiot! How can I rest knowing that Inoue's been captured again... who knows what they'll do to her! I need to go –" Ichigo struggled to break free but Tessie knocked him off cold.
"You're annoying…" Ichigo fell unconscious again.
"You don't know what you're up against, Ichigo." Tessai left the room leaving Ichigo drooling in his sleep.
Meanwhile…
In an abandoned warehouse that eventually became the Moon Clan's official headquarters. Inoue was tied up and was on her knees. In front of her was a man cloaked in black with a moon symbol, the hood was covering his face. Behind them were Scarlet and Saphira, and two more members of the moon clan who was hidden in the shadows.
"Stand up, human!" Saphira ordered Inoue.
"Saphira, there's no need to be rude to our guest." The cloaked man said as he walked towards a trembling Inoue.
"Don't be afraid. I heard that you've got an amazing ability, am I right my child?" He said as his burnt hand stretched out to reach Inoue's soft cheek but she shrugged off.
She refuses to speak. Saphira was annoyed with Inoue's faint expression and then slaps her.
"Did I tell you to lay a hand on her?!" The cloaked man let them sense his murderous riatsu which terrified them all.
"Sorry, master." Saphria and the rest of them bowed down to him.
"Where were we? Yes… let me show myself to you, my child." He takes off his cloak and reveals his burnt and disfigured body. An image of a painful and suffering man that was about to die with such burden. Inoue was surprised to see him in such condition. She was even more frightened by this.
"You see… this is the curse brought upon by the wrath and rage of Soul Society against our Clan! Do you see the monstrosity they've done to me?!" He grabbed Inoue's arm.
"Look at me." He said but she refused to look at him.
"Look into my eyes!!" He growled. Inoue slowly looks into his bleeding crimson eyes.
She was brought to a world of fighting and deaths. Many shinigami that battled each other in the dead of night and numerous slaughters were shown before her very eyes. It was a glimpse of the fall of the moon clan and how they were banished to suffer in Tierra de Exilios for hundreds of years. Inoue snaps out of the vision that she saw from that man's eyes and then falling on her knees, crying.
"Stop it, please. I'll do as you wish." She cried as if empathizing the hurting of the man that stood before her.
"I want you… to restore me again." He said calmly.
Inoue was trembling in fear. She looks at Scarlet and got back to her feet.
"Sōten Kisshun" She raised her hands toward him and lets out a yellow barrier that surrounded him. The barrier was slowly restoring him to his old form. Saphira and the rest of the Moon clan were shaken to witness such power.
Scarlet was the one who sensed Inoue's power from when they first battled the other night. She sensed that Inoue was capable of negating events inflicted upon anyone thus restoring it to the time before the damage was caused.
The leader of the moon clan couldn't help but to laugh horrifyingly through out the night. He knew that his plans were about to take place and his revenge against Soul Society has just begun.
To Be Continued…